Trish Regan and a co-host dissect MSNBC's demotion of Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski due to Versant Media Group's financial struggles, then pivot to Tulsi Gabbard's Capitol Hill testimony regarding 2020 ballots and Joe Kent's controversial resignation from the National Counterterrorism Center. They analyze the 89% MAGA approval for potential Iranian strikes, contrasting intelligence claims about nuclear enrichment with President Trump's assertions, while discussing succession fears within Iran's leadership and concluding that shifting media trust and geopolitical instability define the current political landscape. [Automatically generated summary]
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The Cost of Big Egos00:12:21
Well, I predicted this would happen, did I not?
I told you, you know what?
They're not going to be able to pay all those big salaries for all those egos over there at MSNBC or whatever it's called right now, MS Now or something.
You know, the whole thing is just wrong.
But, you know, the industry is just wrong.
And now you see some anchors feeling the effects of that.
We're going to talk about the shakeup at MSNBC today.
Plus, does Donald Trump have a Tulsi problem?
I'm just going to throw this out there.
Maybe not a Tulsi problem, maybe just a Tulsi staff.
problem.
But then again, isn't she responsible for her stuff?
This Joe Kent thing.
Oh my gosh.
My sources are telling me some things that, well, you know, we don't even want to think.
Okay.
But we have to have that conversation right now because I'm really wondering about this guy, really wondering about this guy and his wife, the new one.
You know, I know he's widowed and everything, but the new one, I'll fill you in.
Plus, Ilhan decided to take on the Pentagon.
Maybe not the best idea when everybody's clamoring for you to be deported.
I hope you guys had a fantastic St. Patrick's Day.
I most definitely did.
I'm out of the green today, but still in the, you know, New England wintry sweater look.
It's great to have you here.
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All that good stuff.
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Turning to Morning Joe getting demoted here.
Mika and Joe Scarborough, I guess that's Mr. and Mrs. Scarborough, they are going back to like three hours instead of four.
They're losing an entire hour of programming.
Now, before you say, oh, yeah, that's not such a big deal, I'm going to tell you, yeah, it's a big deal.
Because in television, you never want to go down, right?
You only want to go up.
It is never actually a good thing to do less work because it actually signals that probably the network did not want to pay you what they were paying you before.
And, you know, it makes sense, right?
Where are they going to go?
I guess they could try and do a podcast.
I'm not sure they have the je ne sais quoi for a podcast.
Let me tell you, this is real talent over here, right?
How many people could sustain an entire hour and a half all by their lonesomes?
I don't know.
You know, maybe they are talkers.
Who knows?
They do have a lot of people on set, though.
And think about all those people on set.
They cost money, too.
So, before it's all said and done, this new network that's just been spun out, whose stock price has just been massacred.
I'm going to get to that.
Versant.
I like to give it a little French flair.
Versant.
as the New Yorkers would call it.
So Versant is not doing so well.
So Versant has to look for some budget cuts wherever they can get them.
And it looks as though The Morning Show is first on the list.
They have some other people too.
They're like moving other people around and some people are losing their shows and being moved to other positions, etc.
This is new management's opportunity to remake this network as MS Now.
Don't forget.
Rachel Maddow, I think she's gone.
They've got that Chris Hayes, who's basically Rachel Maddow on Monday nights for an hour.
They cut one of their shows that I don't even know what it's called, but there's like a zillion people on it.
It's like 50 people on it.
And they're on now just for an hour on Monday nights because Chris Hayes is going to be there.
It's not looking good.
But you know what?
As I've said before, it's a really declining industry and it's not a great industry to be in right now unless maybe you're Fox or Newsmax because there's not a lot. of viewership.
I think people have felt very, very burned by the liberal media.
And you're seeing that reflected in all the ratings right now.
The ratings are very challenged.
And by the way, even if they aren't challenged, because I think morning and Joe would say, no, no, we're doing okay.
I mean, we're no fox, right?
But we're doing okay.
I think the reality of the situation is so many other people are able to do more with less.
And so your margins are getting compressed.
And when your talent wants more and more and more, as I'm sure these two do, As a network, you don't have that ability to pay them more when the advertising dollars are down.
And advertising dollars are down in network television and cable television.
Why?
Because, dun-da-da, you can come right over here and there's all this ability for advertisers to know whether or not you're really here, number one.
And two, if you really like Trish Regan, you're probably going to be here and they know how to find you.
And we'll get to some advertisements later in the show.
We thank them for all their support.
But it's just a completely different model nowadays.
And these cable networks are sort of scrambling, right?
Trying to play catch-up.
It's sort of funny to watch.
Boy, am I glad I got out.
Boy, am I glad I got out.
By the way, the president is very, he can add this as one of his trophies because he's been very proud of all these changes that have been coming in the media business.
He actually sent this out on Truth Social last night, and he's making the point that all kinds of things have happened winning.
The Guardian says Donald Trump is waging war against the media and winning.
So he's just asking the media, really, when you think about it, to offer both sides.
And they don't want to offer both sides, right?
They've been so indoctrinated and they're part of this liberal nutjob camp that they only offer one side.
And if you ask me, if you offer both sides, you might actually have more people watching.
Like it's kind of entertaining to see both sides.
What do you think is the best rated show on CNN right now?
The one with Scott Jennings, right?
Because Scott Jennings is like, pow, pow, pow.
He takes everybody out really quickly, really elegantly.
And the poor anchor, whatever her name is, she's just standing there with her mouth gasping open like she doesn't know what hit her as she tries to tell us that there's no relation between the Muslim extremism faith of some of these people that have committed these horrific attacks and the four terror attacks that happened in the U.S. over the last couple of weeks.
So you've got Colbert leaving CBS.
You've got a big decline in MSM ratings.
You've got Joy Reid out at MSNBC.
She was one of the first ones they got rid of, don't forget, at MSNBC.
I remember Joe Scarborough.
Coming in the next day.
I saw some footage of him in a shirt and tie after Donald Trump had won the election.
I said, well, you know, things have changed over there.
We can't be wearing our hoodies anymore.
We got a real president.
We got PBS being defunded, NPR being defunded, Terry Moran out at ABC.
And boy, did he show his true colors as soon as he left, right?
One foot out the door and he starts his little Substack newsletter and tells us all how he's really a liberal.
Okay.
Chuck Todd out at NBC, John Dickerson out at CBS.
So the list goes on and on.
And he can say, you know what?
I reduced Mika and Joe's show.
By an hour.
Now they're going to say, oh, it's fine.
We wanted to work less.
But remember what I told you in television.
You don't actually want to work less.
You want to work more.
You want them to need you more and more and more.
You want to take over the entire network, don't you?
Hey, if you could be on the air eight hours a day and they'd pay you for it, I bet these two would.
So they're getting, my suspicion here is that they wanted more money and the network's like, oh my gosh, we're bleeding cash.
We can't actually do this.
Again, I'll get to the stock price momentarily, but they don't have the.
They don't have the bandwidth to be able to pay these two any more money.
And don't forget, as I said, the public is done.
The public is over it.
The public already feels cheated.
You go all the way back to, I think this was 2017, you had Mika Brzezinski trying to say that it was our job, as in the media's job, to shape public opinion.
Not the president's.
How dare he, right?
This is great.
Watch.
Exactly.
That's exactly what I hear.
What Yemish just said is what I hear from all the Trump supporters that I talked to who were Trump voters and are still Trump supporters.
They go, Yeah, you guys are going crazy.
He's doing, what are you so surprised about?
He's doing exactly what he said he's going to do.
Well, and I think that the dangerous edges here are that he's trying to undermine the media, trying to make up his own facts, and it could be that.
While unemployment and the economy worsens, he could have undermined the messaging so much that he can actually control exactly what people think.
And that is our job.
Yeah, if you look at the issues.
He's trying to help out the wifey there, jumping in, trying to save her from herself, as she says.
That is our job because we're going to control what you think.
I don't think so.
I think the American public knows better.
And you know what?
This is one of the reasons why he was elected.
So you look at this massive decline, right?
In the industry as a whole, people don't trust it anymore.
They're looking at things like X.
He puts that on there.
X, because you have free speech on X.
And so, hey, if you actually want to find the truth out on something, guess what you got to do?
You got to do a little bit of research, but I think people are okay with it.
They want to do their due diligence as long as they get access to it.
They didn't get access before.
And all of a sudden, it's a whole new world out there, right?
With podcasts, with X, with obviously what we're doing here on YouTube.
And please check us out on Spotify as well.
It's just an incredibly different world.
And it's changing so quickly.
I say this all the time.
I mean, back in the days when I worked at some of those big networks, we would spend thousands and thousands and thousands of dollars on a live truck just to have somebody standing outside, you know, the corner store.
And now we're here.
I'm able to do this from my studio, bringing this live to you.
It's actually really incredible.
Sometimes you get to pinch me.
Just thank goodness I'm not back in those mainstream media networks.
And, you know, I wish them all the best.
I mean, they got Rosie O'Donnell against them, right?
So we have to wish them well.
I wish them all the best.
Honestly, you know what?
If you're good, you're good.
And if you're good, you will rise to the occasion.
And frankly, the occasion is not MSNBC, nor CNN, nor even, dare I say, Fox News, one of my former employers.
None of these guys matter anymore because it's only you and me and basically this whole new medium that truly counts.
And so the smart ones and Rachel Maddow, you know, we never said she wasn't smart as a fox, right?
She's getting out.
She got herself out of there.
And maybe these two will figure out a way as well.
They don't have a choice.
Here we are looking at Versant.
This is, I think, in the Hollywood Reporter the other day, that spinoff Versant from NBC Universal that owns CNBC.
That actually is a good network.
MS Now.
It's been forced to be a good network.
You know why?
Because when you have just stock.
Tickers on.
You could put any monkey on the screen and people used to be able to watch it or would watch it just because of the ticker that would go across, and what they figured out is they had to have more value add and they had to be more neutral, because it's money and I always say this like one of the benefits of being a business reporter is you're only caring about the, the final outcome here.
You have to have the ability to cut through the noise and none of the political reporters have that ability.
Sometimes they think they're just not as smart.
It will be what it will be, but CNBC is a better network, golf channel also kind of a good network because they have that monopoly on golf.
But they have MSNet now, they have USA Golf Channel, CNBC, some other assets.
And they had their first earnings report just a couple of weeks ago.
All right, a couple of weeks ago.
And it turns out that they had revenue of $6.69 billion, which was down 3.3% from 2024.
So revenue's going down.
Okay, and a lot of that, remember, is distribution revenue.
And we've talked about this before.
The distribution revenue, it's going to dry up at some point because nobody needs to have cable anymore.
And so nobody's going to be paying these cable networks.
These distribution fees, that's how they make their money.
Think about that.
They've got the majority of the revenue coming from distribution as opposed to advertising dollars.
It's the opposite of what we see over here in podcast world where it's all coming from advertising dollars, whether it be programmatic advertising dollars or individual ads that we have on the show.
It's all coming from advertising.
This is all coming from distribution revenue.
Insurance vs Advertising Revenue00:02:57
And once that's gone, you have no business.
You have absolutely no business at all.
And so this is why, what did I tell you?
Don't buy the stock.
I think I've said that.
Like I rarely come out and really.
You know, like I wouldn't, I don't like short positions because, you know, I'm just, I'm bullish on America.
I'm long.
But this is one that I just would have been like, whoa, stay away from Versant Media Group.
Look at that stock price down 23% since its debut, which was in mid-December.
Okay, so this one's brutal.
This one's lousy.
This is down 23% today, you know, looking like it's losing another 5%.
So there you go.
Mika and Joe, you can feel better about yourselves.
Investors are like, oh, Mika and Joe are going.
Maybe we should trade the stock down even more.
No, that's not actually it.
What it really is about is that the cutback in the Mika and Joe time is symptomatic of what's happening within the industry.
This is about a total industry decline.
And so investors are realizing that and saying, gee, I better hightail it out of this thing while I still can, right?
All right, I want to get to Tulsi Yabbard.
I want to get to the hearings on Capitol Hill today.
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Fulton County Scandal Details00:14:49
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All right.
I want to turn to a sensitive issue.
Does Donald Trump have a Tulsi problem?
I want to talk about what happened there on Capitol Hill today.
You know, I'm looking at the lower third right there.
And yes, she did smoke the Democrats on some of what she talked about, especially as it relates to. what apparently may or may not have happened down in Fulton County, as you recall.
So we'll start with the good news, okay?
So Tulsi Gabbard on Capitol Hill today, and she was asked some questions about why it was that she was there in Tulsi, Fulton County, forgive me, Tulsi, Tulsi, Tulsi, Fulton County.
And so she had this answer.
I want to go to Tulsi Gabbard with Senator Warren on the The FBI's presence there in Fulton County, and why it is that she, as head of DNI, was there as well.
I want to correct one of your statements that you've made multiple times, which is false.
I did not participate in a law enforcement activity, nor would I, because that does not exist within my authorities.
I was present on the scene.
Are the photos of you all seen?
I was at Fulton County, sir, at the request of the president, and to work with the FBI to observe this action.
That had long been awaited.
I was not aware of what was in the warrant or was not in the warrant.
And what was the President's specific request for you to go to?
What was the specific request that was made by the President for you to show up in Fulton County?
To go and observe the FBI's activities on this issue.
So why?
Did you look at the fort?
Your question, sir.
Do you have the answer why the President was knowing about this affidavit before it was even served?
I'm not aware that the President knew about an affidavit before it was served.
Then why was he sending you to Fulton County?
Had it approved, their warrant approved by a local judge, and they began to execute this.
To address your question, sir, about the foreign nexus question.
In order for us.
Okay, so you remember that day well.
Remember when we found out that the FBI was down in Georgia and they were in Fulton County to get 700 boxes of ballots?
And Rudy Giuliani actually at the time tweeted out these pictures, and you could see that the deputy director of the FBI was on the scene.
Tulsi Gabbard apparently there as well.
And so that's what that question was about, just exactly why was Tulsi Gabbard there at that moment.
And there are a lot of questions as to what may or may not have gone down there in Georgia in 2020.
There are also new questions that have come up in Arizona about what went down in 2024.
And by the way, Donald Trump won Arizona.
The thinking is that, you know, it does relate back to the Save America Act because you want to make sure that everybody who's voting in these elections should be eligible to vote in these elections.
And so this is perhaps what they're trying to get at.
With the Fulton County stuff, and that's what she was asked about.
Just to jog your memory again, let's go back to the Fox report that day.
Agents retrieved documents, phones, computers, ballot boxes after a judge signed a warrant.
President Trump has long made Georgia and Fulton County a target of his complaints regarding the 2020 election.
It was kind of disbelief.
It's been a long time in coming, I think, and getting a lot of the answers that need to be given.
This is an order from on high to try to disrupt Fulton County's election administration just because Donald Trump is still mad that he lost the 2020 elections.
Okay.
So they think that's what it's about.
And granted, to a certain extent, like maybe it's stemmed from a little bit of that, right?
But I think it's taken on a new life of its own and that they're trying to get to the bottom of this.
And it's now a full-fledged investigation with 700 boxes being carried out by the FBI as they try and figure out just exactly what's going on.
And the Democrats are coming apart at the seams, right?
Which is why you saw that kind of questioning from Warner, et cetera, today.
Some people saying, gosh, Warner sounds like he's got something to hide.
He sounds like he's nervous.
What is the big deal like to do an audit on this stuff?
I'm not entirely sure I get that, but look at this woman hyperventilating.
Let me take you back to Fulton County, Georgia, where they just got hit over the head with all of this as the FBI swooped in.
Hey, everybody.
So, here's an update.
We're at the elections hub right here off Fairbank Road, and they did correct the warrant, and they are now in there getting the documents.
700 boxes of 2020 ballots and accompanying things that go with it absentee ballots, all the things, right?
So, our clerk of Superior Court, Che Alexander, is in there making a log of everything that they're taking, but this is like all wrong.
So, we're trying to figure out a legal plan, and we should have one, whether that's an injunction, whether a motion to quash.
I mean, whatever it is, we're trying to figure it out right now because this is an attack on our elections.
Meant to keep you from trying to go to the polls in November, being too afraid to change what's going on in our nation.
So, instead of worrying about people dying in Minnesota, here we are at the Fulton County Elections Hub.
So, let me go find out what the legal plan is.
Okay, that's Mo Ivory.
She's in charge of the election.
Hi, everybody.
Listen, and she's back really fast.
You're watching the news, you're saying a lot of stuff about this FBI raid.
at the Fulton County elections and registrations.
I'm on the inside right now.
So I just want you to be like real discerning about all that you're hearing from people who are on the outside of what's going on.
I'm going to give you the truth about what's happening.
So they served a warrant, the FBI, this is Trump, serving a warrant to go pick up the 2020 ballots, which are in a secure location inside of here, 700 boxes.
The first warrant that they gave was incorrect legally, like they didn't follow the right procedure.
They went back and they fixed it.
And they came back and now they are actually collecting the boxes.
Oh my gosh.
So now they're going to actually be looking at this and now they're like, oh, well, we can't guarantee that the the ballots are secure and the safety and what they're going to do with it.
So gosh, darn it.
Huh, this is a paranoia on a whole other scale.
So that's going on in Fulton County Georgia, but let's talk about Dc, let's talk about Washington Dc and whether or not the president is having some issues, as it relates to one, Tulsi Gabbard.
Tulsi Gabbard being asked about Iran today, being asked about Joe Kent.
Remember, he was her deputy effectively and why it is that he resigned in such a huff, by the way, such a huff.
His letter was like blaming Israel in the second sentence, for goodness sakes.
And this is causing me, and you know, I'm fully transparent with you all the time.
What you see is what you get.
This is causing me to kind of wonder a little bit about Tulsi and certainly maybe not about her entirely, but gosh darn it, the people she's employing because what We now know, and what is coming out about this guy is very problematic.
Let's listen to her in today's hearings.
But first, keep in mind what the president has been saying.
The president of the United States has been very, very bullish, very happy about how things are going in Iran, pointing out, you know, we've taken out one, two, three leadership teams.
And just remember this as we think about what Tulsi is now telling us.
And ask yourself the question whether these two things gel.
Here we go.
The President of the United States on Iran speaking last night.
I have Marco here.
We have a lot of our great people.
JD is here.
They're all here.
I say, let's do this.
We've got to do it right.
It should have been done by many presidents.
It should have been done long before 47 years.
It's 40 years of living in terror.
They're called the bully of the Middle East, but they're really the bully of the world because he used oil to bribe, right?
And to, you know, gain power.
I don't know what they gained.
What did they gain?
What the hell?
How are they doing?
Not so good.
They're all gone now.
Every one of them.
They're all gone.
They're all gone now, every one of them.
They're all gone.
Now let's go to Tulsi Gabbard speaking on Capitol Hill today.
The ICSS's regime in Iran appears to be intact but largely degraded due to attacks on its leadership and military capabilities.
Its conventional military power projection capabilities have largely been destroyed, leaving limited options.
Iran's strategic position has been significantly degraded.
Okay, I'm hearing a different story, right?
From what the president told us and what Tulsi Gabbard is telling us.
And she's saying, look, you know, they've suffered some issues, but, you know, they're still largely intact, which makes me think she sounds a little bit like a CNN anchor right about now.
I just look at this and I say, okay, you know, you got the three top people that had taken over, you got one of them apparently in a coma, if that.
And I kind of consider that a pretty decent thing, right?
But no, she doesn't really have a very grand assessment of this.
She doesn't seem to think we're doing all that well just yet.
And on top of that, she really doesn't give the kind of answer you would expect when being asked about the president making the decision himself on Iran.
Listen.
Was it the assessment of the intelligence community that there was an imminent nuclear threat posed by the Iranian regime?
The intelligence community assessed that Iran maintained the intention to rebuild and to continue to grow their nuclear enrichment capability.
Was it the assessment of the intelligence community that there was a quote, imminent nuclear threat posed by the Iranian regime, yes or no?
Senator, the only person who can determine what is and is not an imminent threat is the president.
False.
This is the worldwide threats hearing where you present to Congress national intelligence, timely, objective, and independent of political considerations.
You've stated today.
That the intelligence community's assessment is that Iran's nuclear enrichment program was obliterated and that, quote, there had been no efforts since then to try to rebuild their enrichment capability.
Was it the intelligence community's assessment that, nevertheless, despite this obliteration, there was a, quote, imminent nuclear threat posed by the Iranian regime?
Yes or no?
It is not the intelligence community's responsibility to determine what is and is not an imminent threat.
Okay.
That is up to the government to focus on a volume of information that he received.
It is precisely your responsibility to determine what constitutes a threat to the United States.
This is the worldwide threats hearing.
Hmm.
Okay.
So, again, I'm just saying that, you know, she could have been maybe just a little teeny bit more emphatic.
Here she is on Twitter last night.
Donald Trump was overwhelmingly elected by the American people to be our president and commander in chief.
As our commander, In chief, he is responsible for determining what is and is not an imminent threat.
Okay, I agree with that.
Yeah, it's the president's decision, which is, by the way, why I'd say everybody should just take a deep breath.
You elected the guy, like, have a little bit of faith.
Thank you very much.
And whether or not to take action he deems necessary to protect the safety and security of our troops, the American people, and our country.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence is responsible for helping coordinate and integrate all intelligence to provide the president and commander-in-chief with the best possible information available to inform his decisions.
All right, well, just given what just went down with Joe Kent, like maybe you could have offered a little bit more of an emphatic endorsement, right?
Maybe just a little bit more.
So think about who was working first.
So this guy, Joey Kent, he resigned yesterday with a big hoopla.
I mean, this guy had to go out with some fireworks, man, oh man.
I mean, and a little anti-Semitism thrown in, just sprinkled on top.
He actually threw it into like the second sentence in his entire thing.
He blames Israel.
Okay, short answer, he blames Israel.
But wait till I tell you about his wife and the place that she works because they totally blame Israel for everything.
All right, I cannot, quote, in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran, Joe Kent, director of the National Counterterrorism Center, said in a social media post on X. By the way, like when I first reported this, it was kind of coming in in live time yesterday and I gave you the letter and I presented it first as a letter and then I'm looking at it and I'm like, no, no, wait, it's not a letter.
The guy tweeted it because we're living in such a crazy world where you tweet stuff like this because these tweets have power, these tweets have ammunition.
And if you're a Joey Kent who wants to get a podcast and maybe a little spot on Tucker's show from here and here and there along the way, then guess what?
You're going out with a bang.
I mean, he already booked his first speaking assignment.
No joke.
Like this guy seems like a grifter.
I'm just going to say, like seems like a grifter.
You're entitled to your opinion, but his opinion has shifted so dramatically, I guess since he married the new one, that it causes me to have some serious concerns about who's actually working at DNI, right?
Which, by the way, is on Tulsi's shoulders, whether you like it or not.
It's like Pammy, right?
She can't get away with like blaming everyone else.
You're the one who didn't get Letitia at the end of the day.
I mean, although there's still time.
I'm waiting on Trump's lawyers and that whole Michael, you know, the fixer thing.
We'll talk about that maybe tomorrow.
But on this one, Tulsi, you got to have better people working it for you.
So in this letter, he said he didn't support never-ending wars.
He said that I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran.
He went on to say Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation.
And it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful.
American lobby.
Bumpa da!
Okay, this website that his wife works for, they're all about blaming the powerful American lobbyists and all the money and, oh, all the neocons and the Israelis that want to do this, that, and the other.
So it kind of makes sense when you add it all up.
Let's go to the White House talking about whether or not this guy is basically a traitor here on Fox this morning.
Here is Caroline Levitt outlining the situation ahead of Tulsi's testimony.
Watch.
Iran Threat Intelligence Leaks00:09:52
It's been a while.
It's been a while since the president has seen him here at the White House.
It's been a while since he's been involved in the process of the presidential daily briefs, and he's been actually present for the president's intelligence briefings.
This was an individual who was not involved in any of the discussions pre-operation and throughout this operation.
I think the president views it as deeply unfortunate that this individual who the president gave the privilege of working for the administration put out this Resignation on government letterhead with many falsehoods throughout, essentially accusing the president of being manipulated by foreign governments.
That's laughable and it's insulting.
President Trump has been remarkably consistent on this issue of Iran for many, many years.
Long before he ever entered politics, he has always said Iran can never possess a nuclear weapon.
So anyone who works here should be well aware of the president's intentions and his peace through strength agenda and his willingness to use the United States military. to achieve peace if and when necessary, as we have seen throughout Operation Epic Fury.
Okay.
Thank you, Caroline.
So this guy was not in any of the briefings.
You think maybe he got a little offended.
He wasn't being included in any of the briefings.
You know, one of the reasons I hear he was not included in the briefings is because people believed he was a leaker.
You know, they've had some problems with some leakers over there in the White House.
And the thought is he was leaking.
He was leaking to his little friends.
Back to why I'm worried about Tulsi.
A story in the Gateway Pundit today says that former Pete Hegseth advisor who was ousted in the leak investigation just found a new home in Tulsi Gabbard's DNI.
Woo!
Okay, so if that's the case, why do we have the Department of National Intelligence perhaps scheming against hiring the fired leftovers of Pete Hegseth's Pentagon?
Like that doesn't make any sense to me.
Aren't we all on the same team here?
Team USA?
Like what's going on?
Why are there these competing interests?
Why is it that it's Tulsi versus Pete?
And who's Tulsi closest to?
Well, this Kent guy is really close to Tucker.
Just saying.
And I don't think Tucker liked Pete very much.
I'm pretty darn sure he didn't like Pete very much.
You know why?
Because a lot of these men in television, they have very thin egos.
And, you know, Pete was really good looking and up and coming and had a lot of energy.
And by the way, had a way better pedigree in terms of educational background.
Not that I'm a snob about those things, but I think Tucker is.
And I think when it's all said and done, Tucker's not really on Pete's side.
Hmm.
Think about that.
Okay?
Because it's a very small circle.
Oddly, I know them all.
Which gives me a very peculiar kind of insight into this.
Donald Trump is seemingly caught off guard saying some very lovely things about Joe Kent after he resigned yesterday.
Here is the President of the United States speaking about this guy who may in fact be a real traitor.
I mean, you don't leak.
Not in a job like that.
Here we go.
Well, I read his statement.
I always thought he was a nice guy, but I always thought he was weak on security, very weak on security.
I didn't know him well, but I thought he seemed like a pretty nice guy.
But when I read his statement, I realized that it's a good thing that he's out because he said that Iran was not a threat.
Iran was a threat.
Every country realized what a threat Iran was.
The question is whether or not they wanted to do something about it.
And many people, many of the greatest military scholars, are saying for years that presidents should have taken out Iran because they wanted a nuclear weapon.
They were, if we didn't do the attack, or if I'll go a step further, if I didn't terminate the Iran nuclear deal given to us, one of the worst deals ever made by Barack Hussein Obama, remember when they sent Boeing 757s over there, loaded with cash?
Hundreds of millions of dollars.
You would have been very happy.
This was a wonderful.
They sent hundreds of millions.
People forget that.
Does anybody remember?
Right?
You remember.
Hundreds of millions of dollars in a Boeing 757.
I think there are two of them.
Loaded.
They took the seats out and they put cash.
And it was so much that there wasn't a bank in Virginia, Maryland, or D.C. that had any money left.
They stripped them of all their money, put it into place, sent it to Iran, almost as ransom.
That's not going to happen with Trump.
And nobody ever did anything about it.
Nobody ever said anything about it.
Can you imagine if I did that?
So they've been a threat for a long time.
But they've really been a threat.
If I didn't terminate Obama's horrible deal that he made, the Iran nuclear deal, you would have had a nuclear war four years ago.
You would have had nuclear holocaust.
And you would have had it again if we didn't bomb the site.
So when somebody is working with us that says they didn't think Iran was a threat, we don't want those people.
No, we don't want those people, do we?
We definitely don't want those people.
Good riddance, right?
Good thing he's out.
By the way, that was a beautiful weave.
You know how he says he does the weave?
He came right back to the point.
We knew he would, right?
But we went around the mulberry bush a little bit because he had some important things to get in there.
Like, look what Biden did.
Look what Obama did.
I'm actually taking action on this.
And he's totally right.
And here's the deal.
The intelligence has been out there, ladies and gentlemen, for a while.
And you know who knows this?
My friend Dan, Dan Bongino, who was number two at the FBI.
And he's like, wait a second.
Like I'm looking at the same intelligence this Joey guy's looking at.
And guess what?
I know how to read.
Apparently Joey doesn't.
Or Joey is working for someone else.
Again, we'll get back to that.
I throw that out there.
We're going to get back to it.
But first, let's go to Dan Bongino erupting.
Here he is with my former colleague Laura Ingram there on Fox last night.
And just fantastic points.
From Dan, watch.
On a plaque in a facility I can't really talk about.
And when you read the story there, it's a tough story to read.
But, you know, again, as I've said with other, yeah, the sacrifice is beyond reproach.
That doesn't mean that this current opinion is any more fact based because it's not.
I'm really sorry, Laura.
I mean, I read probably a lot more intelligence than he did because they don't have a law enforcement function, the National Counterterrorism Center.
They're an analytical clearinghouse.
They're valuable.
However, I've had access to just about everything.
And how you could come to the conclusion that the Israelis did it and there was no imminent threat here?
Really?
What about the anti ship ballistic missiles, the drone program, 440 kilograms of 60% enriched nuclear material, their constant death to America chance?
I mean, you know, that's called evidence.
In some limited circles, we call that, you know, a clue.
I mean, I don't know at what point you thought this wasn't an imminent threat after you've read a lot of the stuff I read.
And by the way, that's just the open source stuff we can talk about.
On the air, I promise you, the president, I promise you, has a bevy of material that if he could do the men in black thing and erase your mind tomorrow, if he told you right now, you would come to the imminent threat conclusion in a snap.
Yeah.
Well, a senior U.S.
Yeah.
Okay.
And you think about this guy, Joey Kent.
He comes out with this gigantic public letter, books his next appearance.
I couldn't believe this.
all this last night on Twitter, Catholic prayer for America.
I'm all for the Catholics, okay?
Go Catholic.
But this is a little weird.
Just confirmed they're very proud they got Joey Kent, who's going to be speaking with them.
I'm like, how do you get a speaking gig right away unless maybe this was all planned?
Maybe it was all lined up.
Maybe he worked with his wife on getting this whole thing together.
Because I'll tell you, if you go back in time and you look at Mr. Joey Kent's previous tweets and previous conversations, I'm going to show you one with another podcaster, Joe, forgive me.
Sean Ryan.
And it really sounds to me like Joey recognized Iran as a threat all along.
All along, all along.
It's just lately he decided to shift, maybe because, you know, the Catholics were calling.
They needed him to do the speaking gig.
And his buddy Tucker had an opportunity for him to do a podcast.
I mean, there's a lot of attractive reasons, I guess, why Joey Kent suddenly decides to not just resign, But, like, whoa, second sentence out completely blame Israel.
It was just a wildly sort of anti Semitic thing to say.
Anyway, let's go to Joey when he was on another podcast talking about how Iran was a threat.
This was not too long ago.
They're still registering for the draft, aren't they?
Like, that's the logical conclusion to the direction that we're heading in right now, unless we make some serious changes.
I mean, it's already, I've already heard rumors that Fifth Group is going to be sending guys to Iraq because of the escalated situation with Iran now.
Yeah.
I mean, most Americans aren't aware of it.
Our troops in Iraq and Syria have been attacked 150 plus times by Iranian proxies.
Hmm.
But now suddenly, now suddenly Iran's not a threat.
No, no, not a threat.
Gray Zone Military Escalation00:05:50
It's just an Israel thing.
That's what the letter says.
Here we go.
All these 2021 tweets talking about any discussion of Hamas and Israel without addressing the Iran and the Biden administration.
administration's desire to get back to the JCPOA is not a serious discussion.
He said, like Bush and Obama, Gates fails to address Iran's role in funding every bad actor in the Middle East, including Hamas.
Why?
Quote, because they failed to hold Iran accountable as Iran killed Americans.
Trump changed that when we killed Soleimani.
Then he goes on, many of the leftists that defend terrorists in the West Bank and Gaza simply hate Israel and are anti-Semites.
We have seen this play out in both the United Kingdom and here in the US.
The left is riddled with anti-Semites.
And yet, what is the first thing he does when he resigns?
So let's back up a little.
What do we know about Joey Kent?
Well, he lost his wife in 2018, 2019 in Syria.
He makes that clear as well in the letter.
And gosh darn it, I sort of still thought he was a widow until I found out, no, no, he married this lovely lady, Heather Kaiser from The Gray Zone.
Let's go to our website.
The Gray Zone back in 2023.
So the tweets I just showed you from 2021 were pre.
Heather Kaiser from the Gray Zone.
Gray Zone is run by a guy who actually is quite friendly with Tucker Carlson and some of these other people that really seem to question a lot of our international policy.
I leave you with that little tidbit.
You're welcome to look at the site yourself to get a feel for it.
So they try and present themselves as like the be-all, end-all.
Let's put it this way.
They were on Maduro's side, okay?
They're still on Maduro's side.
So that's all you need to know about the Gray Zone.
There's a lot of horse you-know-what there.
And this lady this lovely, lovely little looker that she is, she works for the gray zone.
And somehow, we can't call this a honey trap, right?
Because that's not a whole lot of honey pot.
That's not a whole lot of honey.
But nonetheless, the guy with the great hair, Joey Kent, hooks up with this one, marries her.
Now, you know, who am I to judge?
Love is love.
But the next thing you know, he's turning against the president at a really critical time.
And this woman is writing for an organization that is always against the president at critical times, regardless of who the president is, which makes you wonder about that organization.
So the administration was onto him.
That's what's interesting.
A Fox reporter sending this out.
Senior officials tell me that Joe Kent was a known leaker and was cut out of POTUS intelligence briefings, President of the United States, intelligence briefings months ago.
He has not been part of any Iran planning discussions or briefings at all.
Official also says the White House told Told Gabbard, so they told Tulsi Gabbard that Kent should be fired for suspected leaks, but she didn't do anything.
Laura Loomer, who I want to make head of HR at the White House, because Laura's like, you know, they got to pass a litmus test here.
Laura Loomer tweeted this out like, I don't know, a year ago, quote, wife of the director of National Counterterrorism Center retweets attacks on President Trump's Iran strikes while U.S. service members, so sorry, this was one of the first strikes, with U.S. service members overseas.
So she's like, what's going on?
Like she was one of the first to notice this connection between the new wife and Joey Kent.
So I'm just saying, like you put out a letter like that at a time like this and your wife works for the Gray Zone, which like I said, you're welcome to check it out.
And Max, you can thank me later.
I'm sending people to your site.
But let me just say, like I've looked at it.
I'm amused by it.
It's extremely conspiratorial.
And again, always on someone else's side, never the U.S.
And so, you know, Max and Tucker are buddy buddies.
And next thing you know, Joey Kent's leaving.
He sends out this wild, wild tweet accusing Israel of everything.
And suddenly he's booked on Tucker's show and at the Catholic Assembly.
I mean, guys, this is not Donald Trump's first rodeo.
This is his second time around, okay?
And he's going to see through all this.
He already does.
And I realize they're being polite and they're not saying anything about Joey Kent.
But there's a reason he was not included in the intelligence briefings.
Oh, go ask Mark Levin.
Mark, who's just figured out that when he met with the president, he wondered who leaked it.
It turns out it was Joey Kent who leaked it to Tucker.
I mean, these people are nuts.
Listen, Laura Loomer for head of HR.
Laura Loomer, get her in there.
Make sure that she knows who's coming in.
And I'd put her in charge of Tulsi's office, too.
And I'm just saying, Tulsi.
You know, you're out there hiring the leftovers that Pete Hexett doesn't want anymore.
Tucker might have a little bit of, you know, a thing with Pete because Pete was an up-and-comer at Fox and better looking and went to better schools.
Watch this, guys.
Watch this very carefully.
I'll tell you this.
Hiring the Political Leftovers00:02:48
The American people are on the side of the President of the United States all day long.
And CNN had to admit it.
Brand new poll out.
Let's go to my friend Harry Anson.
I love it.
Take it away, Harry.
Okay.
MAGA GOP on the U.S. military action in Iran.
Look at this.
Nearly nine in ten, 89% approve of the U.S. military action in Iran.
That is the MAGA GOP base.
Just nine percent disapprove of it.
This is tremendously popular among the Republican base.
And of course, Marco Rubio, Secretary of State, overseeing the effort.
It seems to me that a lot of people are taking that into account, including President Donald Trump, who has been smiling an awful lot at Marco Rubio lately.
You better believe it.
Of course, he's smiling because things are going well.
Again, back to the president explaining where we are right now.
Not a bad place to be.
I have Marco here.
We have a lot of our great people.
JD is here.
They're all here.
I say, let's do this.
We've got to do it right.
Should have been done by many presidents.
Should have been done long before 47 years.
It's 40 years of living in terror.
You know, they're called the bully of the Middle East, but they're really the bully of the world because they used oil to bribe, right?
They used oil to bribe.
And to gain power.
I don't know what they gained.
What did they gain?
What the hell?
How are they doing?
Not so good.
They're all gone now.
Every one of them.
They're all gone.
They're all gone.
Well done.
Well done indeed.
And I'll tell you, as I said, the American people are on his side.
And look, it's going to be harder and harder.
I mean, you get six young men that we lost.
I get it.
But, you know, I know the president, and I've had this conversation with him in the past.
When we were pulling out of Syria, I pushed him on and I was asking and he got a little bit mad with me.
He's like, and this was an off-record conversation, but he wouldn't care that I told you this.
And he said, listen, like you look at these parents in the eye.
You live with yourself knowing that you've lost these lives.
So he is not choosing to do this.
This is not like the first, you know, go-to move.
He was pushed to this point.
You saw what Steve Witkoff said.
I've played you that sound.
Steve Witkoff said, look, we sat down and the first thing they told us was they had all this uranium and they had enhanced it by 60% and they were months away from having a bunch of nuclear weapons.
And don't take Steve's word for it or my word for it.
You can go back and I've played you this too, the MSNBC tape or MSNow, whatever the heck it is they call themselves these days.
And you had the Iranian guy on there, the spokesperson saying, yep, we got all of this and we're enriching it.
So this is their starting place, okay, ladies and gentlemen?
Are you really going to live in a world where you're going to allow for Iran to have a nuclear weapon?
No, thank you, okay?
No, thank you.
Keeping the American Dream Alive00:03:34
I don't care if you've got 50 zillion Tucker Carlson's out there.
And all of his cronies begging to stop this war.
If you have an Iran that is a nuclear threat, that is a threat to a whole lot more than, and it's awful.
I really, you know, I love our military and I thank our military, and they're incredible.
And they know what they're signing up for.
No one deserves to lose their child, their spouse, their brother, their sister in a conflict like this.
But what is the alternative?
We're going to allow for more October 7ths to happen.
We're going to allow for Iran to have a nuclear weapon and direct the thing at us or take over all of Europe and the Middle East while they're at it?
No way, Jose.
I'm not okay with that.
I'm not.
And anybody who is, question them.
We are a great, great nation because we have freedoms.
We're not about to squander it and give in to Islamic extremism as they try to promote themselves throughout the world.
That is not who we are.
It is never who we will be.
We were founded 250 years ago with the promise of freedom, including the freedom of speech, the freedom of religion, and the freedom to prosper.
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Iran seems to be rather embarrassed, shall we say?
Um, they should be embarrassed.
I mean they're, you know the, the regime, whatever's left of it, is definitely embarrassed because apparently they got a cardboard cutout that they're walking around with, that they got to worship now.
He can't even get on TV in the moment of crisis to say, hey, everything's going to be okay.
It's, you know, kill the infidel, but we'll do it via a transcribed message that we'll have the woman in the hijib read on live television because he's not been seen.
So at this point, a lot of people think he's dead, which might actually be a better outcome for him at this point because his dad never wanted him to have the job.
Isn't this interesting?
New intelligence by way of CBS being reported on Fox that I want to share with you here.
Regime Embarrassment and Irony00:01:52
Bill, CBS News is citing a U.S. intelligence report that says the supreme leader who was killed on the first day of the U.S. and Israeli strikes never wanted his son to follow in his footsteps as leader.
That report says the elder Khamenei was wary of his son ever taking power because he was perceived as not very bright and was viewed as unqualified to be leader, according to sources.
President Trump, in speaking to NBC News, raised the possibility that the younger Supreme Leader could already be dead, saying, I don't know if he's even alive.
So far, nobody's been able to show him.
Iran's foreign minister, however, says all is well with the new Supreme Leader.
Hmm.
So apparently he's not that bright, according to his dad.
He also allegedly suffers from impotence, according to our intelligence that we have on him.
He's made multiple trips to London to try to cure this, but the problem may actually be. rooted in something else, which is that another set of intel documents suggests that he's really not so interested in women, shall we say.
No, no, no.
That's the word on the street.
Just check the New York Post.
Anyway, I digress.
That's neither here nor there, except there's a special kind of irony, if you would, that he's now running a country that would kill him if they knew of his sexual persuasion.
Three leaders down, though, these all being killed this week, and this comes on the heels of the first two rounds of Ayatollahs, round one, round two, all.
down, bad guys down.
Donald Trump speaking about this in the Oval Office Watch.
The man that was responsible for the killing of 32,000 people over the last two weeks, he was in charge of the killing of protesters.
It's an evil group.
I mean, they've killed much more than 32,000 people.
And the man who was responsible for that was also killed yesterday.