CNN faces $110B CBS merger pressure amid 300 layoffs, with CEO Mark Thompson cutting costs while Kara Swisher threatens departure over David Ellison's ties. Hosts critique anchors like Jake Tapper and Abby Johnson, noting profit drops from $1B to $600M. The FCC reviews The View for equal time violations under Section 315, empowering local broadcasters per the 1934 Communications Act. Investigations target Ilhan Omar's alleged Somali fraud, while Pete Hegseth praises Iran campaign victories contrasting media skepticism. Ultimately, these shifts signal a media landscape reshaped by corporate consolidation, regulatory enforcement, and intense political scrutiny. [Automatically generated summary]
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CNN Layoffs and Profit Pressures00:08:29
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We get a lot of headlines to get to today because, yeah, it still looks like, gosh darn it, we may get peace in the Middle East.
Hey, don't take my word for it.
Look at the markets today, okay?
The markets really, really liked that.
We're going to talk about it.
Plus CNN getting hit with some pretty bad layoffs and there's more to come, okay?
So it's been bad.
It is bad this week.
And now we're getting word that there's even more on the way.
There may also be more on the way at The View.
We'll talk about that because the FCC is finally clamping down.
They have initiated that formal review of that show.
We will discuss new Ilhan Omar troubles.
The IRS is digging in woo.
And the Circuit Court, what do you know, is ending catch and release.
And that would include for states like Minnesota.
Oh, you know who's freaking out over that?
AOC.
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Even if you're not live.
So even if you're watching this, I like.
Call it the West Coast repeat.
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All right, CNN is looking like it's gonna have to slash some more and slash some more and slash some more.
I mean it's been slashing right.
Okay, let's be really clear.
They've already had multiple rounds of layoffs not a good place to work, shall we say, right about now.
And now we're hearing that this week they got many more on the way, so they're cutting employees at the network this week.
Mark Thompson is the guy who's now running the place.
He's the ceo.
I think he came from the NEW YORK Times.
He's kind of a print guy.
So you got a print guy running the TV newsroom.
That's never a good recipe.
It's been my experience.
Never a good recipe because, you know, we TV people, we're a little funny.
We're a little different.
And we make those print reporters look like a day in the park any day of the week.
This is my whole theory on Barry Weiss, right?
Like that's why it's so hard for her to do anything there because she's dealing with all these crazy TV people.
She's got the anchors and they're a very, very special breed, right?
Onto themselves.
And then you get all the producers and then you get the cameraman and woo, like before it's all said and done, you're dealing with a lot of egos.
What do you know?
And you don't have to deal with that as much.
At least, again, this has been my experience.
The print people, if you can imagine, are like totally normal compared to the TV people.
So poor Mark Thompson, the print guy's over there going, what do I do with this thing?
I got to make it into some kind of digital behemoth.
I got lots of ideas.
I know exactly what you could do with the place.
David Ellison, I hope you're listening.
He's a smart guy, and I think he's going to be on to this.
But anyway, they've got to kind of double down on things like digital, which is where the future's at, right?
You know it's over here, baby.
I'm so glad.
I just wish I'd figured it out sooner, much sooner.
But they're, you know, they've got to actually take this entire newsroom and make it into something.
They had 200 layoffs just like in January.
Okay.
Like I was like, wait a second.
I feel like I've got deja vu because here I am reporting on more layoffs.
And I'm like, wait a second.
Didn't we just have that headline on the show?
But, you know, it is what it is.
Like we said, this is a dying media industry.
Legacy media is over, ladies and gentlemen.
They're just going to keep chopping away and chopping away and chopping away until there's nothing left or until they completely.
reinvent the genre.
The only thing I have as a little bit of sticking point is I don't think you can reinvent this genre with the current setup or in a big newsroom.
I think the genre is actually going to give way to a whole new kind of entity which is going to be very independent and independently driven, hence what we're doing over here.
It's just a different medium and I don't know as you can do it with these big corporate structures because they had 200 layoffs, 200 layoffs just in January.
So, I mean, we're, look, you know.
Six weeks ago or so, eight weeks ago, they had layoffs then at the end of January.
And now they, you know, this was on the heels of 100 layoffs that they had already had last summer.
So again, I'm feeling like Groundhog Day.
I'm like, layoff, layoff, layoff, layoff.
I mean, if you're working there, I'd get out.
Get out while you still can, fast.
But now the question becomes, like, who's going to go?
It's incredible.
When you look at the revenue of this, and gosh, I thought I had a graphic.
Let's see if I can pull one up for you.
But the revenue is startling.
So I went all the way back to 2016 and I looked at the revenue and the profitability.
And I guess what's even more concerning is the profitability, right?
Because they're not able to do as much with the revenue that they have coming in.
In fact, they should be more profitable.
They should be more nimble because things are easier, right?
You get all kinds of technological advances in the last 10 years, including even what you pay for, say, satellites, et cetera.
So all these advances should make it easier for CNN to become more profitable.
And yet they get weaker and weaker and weaker.
The profitability back in 2016, they were making a heck of a lot more.
A heck of a lot more.
Let me see if I can pull up these numbers for you, because they got all the way to a billion dollars.
Believe it or not?
A billion dollars that they were making a year in profit amazing, right.
And now that's been whittled down and whittled down, they're looking at maybe 600 million dollars in profit, which I know is still big.
But let's face it, like that's not the trajectory you want to be on as a corporation, right?
It tells me that you're probably paying your anchors too much, that your overhead is too much, and so somebody's got to come along and say okay, i'm going to take a big red pen and i'm going to slash it all.
And when I slash it all well, you know what it means.
A lot of people are going to have to go, and it's not just going to be, for example, who here we go.
Here's a nice graphic, let me.
Let me pull this one up for you and you can see this profitability plunge, which is just absolutely extraordinary.
See, doing more with less.
Right, bet they couldn't do that one on the fly.
All right, profitability plunge.
Take a look at these numbers, And this is gathered from a variety of sources.
We don't actually have every year, but you see basically the trajectory over a decade, guys.
I'll make it even bigger so we can look at it on the screen together.
And what you're seeing there is they actually got up to a million bucks in profitability.
Wow, in 2016.
I was right on that.
And then again in 2020, they made it back, I guess, election years.
Hmm.
Hmm.
Very interesting, right?
They didn't get near that in 2022, though, which is rather telling, or forgive me, 2024.
But the number I had that I wanted to share with you is the $600 million that they're doing in profitability right now.
So CNN does not have much of a future when you're looking at a graphic like that.
And so this guy Thompson's coming along and he's saying, hey, you know, we did all this at the New York Times, which is another suffering news organization.
You know, why can't we squeeze a little bit more out of this company?
And part of the problem is because you've got big overhead.
You've got expensive anchors.
You've got all these bureaus all over the world, and you don't know how to actually make this into a profitable industry, on top of which nobody's watching anymore.
Like think about CNN since 2016.
Think about Don Lemon.
Think about Jim Acosta.
Think about, I mean, all kinds of personalities, right, that are no longer there anymore.
Half of them I can't even remember, but I even think about MSNBC and Joy Reid, et cetera.
None of these shows were making any money, and yet the anchors were cost centers.
So they've got to figure out a way to do more with less, which means you probably can't pay up for these big, big personalities.
And you probably actually need to have people that are a little bit less biased, dare I say, like a little bit less lefty, a little bit more fair.
And that has me looking at, you know, I know that on some particular media sites, they're gunning for this one, Caitlin Collins, who has her own sort of lefty bent for the most part.
But I would say if you're going to start picking people apart and figure out who's got to go, you've got some low-hanging fruit there.
You've got Jake Tapper, who, is basically which?
Whichever way the wind blows, you know wherever he can make profit, he's going to sell a book.
He'll tell you that he was on to, he was on to Biden all along, even though we have the tape, you know he wasn't, I know he wasn't uh I, I guess he doesn't know he wasn't, or maybe does, underneath it all.
So there's Jakey Boy.
And then you've got Anderson, who already turned down a deal at CBS because apparently they couldn't pay him enough.
So they're probably not going to be able to pay him enough at CNN either.
And you have Kaitlyn, who has everybody like throwing daggers at her.
There was a big piece in Daily MAIL over the weekend saying, you know, she's too obsessed with her Hollywood-ness and her dating and this, that, and the other.
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And then you get this one.
Then you get this one who doesn't seem to know what day it is.
She really strikes me as not very smart.
I want to go to the one who's doing the evening show that Scott Jennings like puts down in two seconds like every day of the week.
But here you see her with a New York Post reporter, Lydia Monaghan.
She actually used to work, I think, for Charlie Gasparino when I was at Fox Business.
She's smart.
She's good.
Again, business reporter.
Trust those business reporters.
She's got a good background.
And this Abby woman.
Like, just doesn't get it when she states something that, well, to you and me would be quite obvious.
So, when you're looking for some low hanging fruit, David Ellison, I would recommend you take a good hard look right here.
So, I can't speak for Mike Johnson, but I would say we've had two terrorist attacks here in the last 10 days.
And so, can we condemn those?
Why are we absolutely wrong?
What does that have to do with Muslims?
Okay, poor Lydia's like, that was back before we had the Four.
Attacks, that was when we had two attacks and she's like, hey, you know, two in 10 days.
We got to actually recognize that we have this threat of Muslim extremism here in the U.s.
And yet this woman actually couldn't seem to get that.
She, she doesn't get a lot right like she doesn't get the idea that there's evidence that the president has seen that has led him to the position we're now in, where we are striking Iran and trying to come up with some kind of feasible future there.
Going back to one miss Abby I think her last name is Johnson here we go.
Isn't the American Project supposed to be about treating people as individuals?
not as representatives of where they came from?
Forgive me.
This is actually, we got the stuff on Iran coming your way, but this is actually her with Betsy McCoy, who's running for governor in Connecticut.
Betsy's terrific, great conservative.
And she's mad because the president's been going after Ilhan Omar.
And so she's making this point to Betsy.
And once again, not knowing her facts, she actually had to issue a a public apology recently because she didn't know her facts vis-a-vis ma'am Dami trying to claim that he was the victim when he was hardly the victim anyway.
Let's go back to one miss Abby, whatever her name is, um again, not knowing her stuff, their parents were, or whatever but about who they are and what they can individually contribute to this country.
However, what Trump is doing there is basically saying you are worthless if you come from a part of the world that he doesn't think has value.
Is that really what we're doing in the United States?
That's not true in America.
No, we in America, we do treat people as individuals and appreciate them as individuals.
It's one of the greatest things about this country.
On the other hand, and I am no fan of Ilan Omar, and she is in a lot of deep doo-doo now because she is very tangled in this billion-dollar Somali Medicaid fraud scandal in Minneapolis, and she may be touched by this.
And of course.
I haven't seen any evidence of her being condemned except for her being Somali.
Let me tell you why that's so bad.
And then Betsy's like, no, no, Abby, there's evidence.
There's plenty of evidence.
I mean, at that particular night, that particular time, because I think I remember running this for you guys, do you know that the evidence was so significant that they actually had numerous members of her district, right, that were involved with this, on top of which you had already, and this had been out there for quite some time, people that were profiting off of Feeding Our Future and had gone to jail for Feeding Our Future.
They had been donating money to Ilhan's campaign.
So yeah, there was some connectivity there, a lot of connectivity, and we're still uncovering.
Additional aspects of connectivity there.
But again, this anchor just doesn't want to believe it.
And she's pretending like she's a journalist with a capital J.
I mean, give me a break.
Oh, and then somehow doesn't think Iran was ever a threat?
He's been talking to the press.
He has not suggested that there was an imminent threat.
He absolutely has said that there's an imminent threat of them having ballistic missiles that they were, A, possibly planning to shoot at U.S. military installations, B, and in the short and medium term, Continuing to manufacture ballistic missiles that would allow them to shield a nuclear program that they would not give up.
This is a pretty clear rationale.
Let me play.
The bottom line is they don't want them to have ballistic missiles.
They don't want them to have a nuclear program.
They don't like that their Navy makes trouble for everybody in the Gulf.
And that is the stated rationale.
You could throw on other things for the last 47 years.
They have killed American troops.
They've maimed American personnel.
They've exported and funded terror around the world and around the region.
And you seem to be suggesting we have no allies in this.
I watched the president with the Chancellor of Germany today.
He strongly supports what we're doing.
The UK is feckless.
Spain is feckless.
But we have plenty of allies in the region and around the world who know we have done the right thing.
Just to be clear, I just want to just read you just listed a bunch of things.
None of them were an imminent attack.
But Rina's question is actually about ballistic missiles, Abby.
No.
Drones.
These are imminent attack weapons.
What proof is there that there were ballistic missiles, that they actually had ballistic missiles that could reach the United States?
Reach U.S. bases.
What?
Look at your television.
They're falling right now.
Iran has been attacked.
Look at your television.
Look at your television lady.
Do you not see what they're trying to do?
Go after U.S. bases?
And she's sitting there in a state of denial.
So, okay, again, as these layoffs are coming, I'd say save yourself a few producers that you might be able to make into talent along the way and get rid of this lady on the screen.
Through their proxies, U.S. military bases for some time now, okay?
You want to get that going?
The argument that the administration may be making sometimes is that they might have had capabilities to attack the United States about that time.
Oh, my goodness, my goodness, my goodness, my goodness.
Right now, I wonder what she's costing now.
Really, because whatever she's costing them, it is too much.
The one thing that that network has going for it though, is Scott Scott all day long like he actually makes that network entertaining and he helps her show a lot.
It's better rated than some of the other shows, but that's not her.
Okay, that is not her.
That is one Scott Jennings.
So when you're looking at the allocation of capital there and you're figuring out how do I become a more profitable network CNN, Mark Thompson, I got some advice, double down on Scott, get rid of the lady that doesn't know her facts, and actually, you know, start to do more with less, which means you need a few less Jake Tappery types, maybe a few less Anderson Cooper, you know, because those guys are not exciting.
Who the heck wants to watch them?
And double down on digital and get your young reporters out there, your young producers that can actually do more than just read a teleprompter and you might be onto something.
But again, I'm, you know, they're the stupid idiots that keep putting people like this in very prominent positions.
This one who said, you know, she doesn't think the regime has been weakened.
Now, mind you.
Ladies and gentlemen, we have taken out regime number one in Iran.
We have taken out regime number two in Iran.
We seem to have done some serious damage to Ayatollah number three in Iran.
And yet she says this.
At this moment, there's no indication that the regime has been weakened or that they have changed.
You don't think Iran's been weakened?
Okay.
All of the reporting out there from within the administration is that they recognize that the regime has not, they have not shifted away from the Islamic religion.
Of course not.
They're religious fanatics.
They personally never changed.
But to say they haven't been weakened, I think is not correct.
Well, Scott, I mean, listen, I'm talking about.
How much control do they have over their own country?
And I'm not saying that people weren't killed in the regime.
I'm just saying, are they in less control?
And the answer is no.
How do you know what's your evidence of every single person?
What's your evidence that there were thousands and thousands of people in Iran?
Because, well, the current supposed head of the country is basically just a cardboard cutout that they claim is alive somewhere.
It's pretty obvious we get to reduce this.
But what does that have to do with?
with whether or not they have a show.
I mean, it's hard to take.
I can only watch in snippets, right?
Because you're sitting there and you just want to throw things at the screen.
You're like, oh my gosh, how can they actually be paying someone?
And I'm sure it's well into the seven figures that much money to be that dumb on the air every single night.
But I guess maybe you have to be paid that kind of money to just be made to look like a fool over and over again because Scott just humiliates her every single night.
It's like, you know, I don't think that they'd even have a show, right?
Without Scott, I think you could always find someone to humiliate, though.
honestly, because the left is so, I mean, if that's your shtick, CNN, you got that going on.
You got that going on.
But again, I don't think I'd be doubling down on people like that right about now.
I want to go to David Ellison is the going to be, I should say, the proud new owner of one CNN and CBS.
He is the guy from Paramount, the son of Larry Ellison, brilliant tech entrepreneur.
And David brings to the table a lot of interest in technology and a belief that he can actually really transform the entertainment industry.
because this is a big purchase, right?
He's got a $110 billion merger.
Warner Brothers, Discovery coming in, getting bought by the likes of Paramount.
This thing is massive.
It's huge.
The deal is going to go through, even though the Democrats are going to try and stop it.
I'm telling you, it's going through.
And actually, it's going to be the one thing that saves CNN, believe it or not.
And he was asked about layoffs recently on another one of my former employers.
Gosh, it's good to be over here and not there.
But anyway, CNBC wasn't that bad.
Anyway, and David Faber is a smart guy.
Let's listen to his conversation there with LSM Watch.
David Mee 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 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.
Okay.
Well, I'll tell you, if you want to be in the truth business, if you want to be in the trust business, you probably don't need anchors like the one we saw having to issue apologies because she just automatically assumes, right, that Mam Dami must be getting picked on because he must be the minority that's getting picked on by the horrible protester.
I mean, as opposed to the actual protesters getting like bombs thrown at them.
I mean, it was the other way around, but God forbid she actually like make that connection.
No, because they're always kind of programming.
for something that they believe to be the outcome.
They think they know the story already.
That is the problem with journalism today and these mainstream media outlets.
So David, I hear you.
You want that trust.
You're going to have to work hard to restore it.
Very, very hard.
You're going to have to work hard to restore it at CBS.
Every time I see a CBS story now, I keep laughing because like you'll see there's a reporter trying to do what Nick Shirley was doing.
I said all along, you guys got to hire a Nick Shirley, right?
For 60 Minutes.
Nick Shirley is doing the work that 60 Minutes used to do decades and decades ago.
And they've now got some reporter at CBS going door to door and trying to find the hospices in California.
Okay, good.
All right, good.
I'll take it.
But it's just sort of ironic.
Like they've figured out that we over here know what's going on.
We know how to do it.
We know how to have a more authentic, original product.
And they're out there, you know, just giving you the same old sample.
And yet Donald Trump was elected anyway.
That's what's so incredible, right?
I will tell you this.
They got one good personality over there in addition to one, Mr. Scott Jennings, and that would be Harry Anson.
I love the personality.
Love it.
Okay, MAGA GOP on the U.S. military action in Iran.
Look at this.
Nearly 9 in 10, 89% approve of the U.S. military action in Iran.
That is the MAGA GOP base.
Just 9% 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.
Yeah.
Yeah, Marco Rubio's stock has been going way up.
Just look at, you know, all the betting markets, Polymarket, Calci, everybody's saying, hey, it might be Marco.
It might be Marco.
But I'll tell you this, it might be Harry getting a gig at CNN when this whole merger actually happens, because you do need to do something to reinsure the public that you actually have their back.
And I don't think that the anchors there, sorry, have America's back.
They got their own little, you know, political life, their little political bubble that they're living in, but it's not in sync. with the rest of the country.
And therein lies, once again, one of the biggest problems with mainstream media today.
Which is why it's good to be over here.
Oh, they got this woke tech guru.
Have you ever heard of this woman?
Probably not.
But her name is Kara Swisher.
And I always want to say Fisher, but her name is Kara Swisher.
And let me see if you recognize her.
She's actually threatening to leave.
I didn't even know she worked for CNN.
I mean, I knew she was a tech person.
Like she was out in San Francisco.
I used to actually believe it or not be kind of a techie.
I mean, i'm still kind of techie, but I I did a lot of tech reporting when I was out in San Francisco working for CBS Market Watch many years ago, Market Watch which was eventually owned then by CBS, which eventually then was owned by the WALL Street Journal.
Um, that's how these uh, these these big, you know acquisitions work.
Anyway, when I was out in San Francisco reporting on tech, Kara Swisher was out there.
She wound up starting this Recode thing and, I guess, sold it to VOX and now she has a podcast That theoretically is supposed to be about tech, but has morphed into a complete political podcast.
So she's a political podcaster, not a tech person anymore.
No, I mean, I don't see her ever talking about tech.
She goes to tech conferences and talks about politics.
And then they're funny, they're at Daily Beast, they're like, CNN star threatens to go to rival network over MAGA makeover.
And I'm like, star?
Like, I hadn't seen her in years, and I didn't even know she worked for CNN.
Do you even know who she is?
I mean, maybe if you're into tech.
Maybe you watch her podcast, but again, I had no idea the podcast was produced by CNN or had anything to do with it.
But she's like all worked up and she's like I can't believe David Ellison is coming in and buying this thing.
I'm not going to work for Paramount.
No way Jose, i'm out of here.
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And she said this at some kind of journalist event, I guess in New York State, and I just think it's kind of funny because i'm sure they're like yeah, bye.
I mean, maybe her podcast makes a lot of money, maybe they get a lot of tech advertisers advertising on it, I don't know.
But i'll tell you she hates the president and anybody associated with the president my perspective on her anyway and thus She really doesn't like David Ellison or his dad Larry, because they are close to the president.
So here we go.
Kara Swisher, take it away.
She's threatening to go.
Speaking of business, we've been talking about what political reporters might adjust the way they cover the beat to meet the moment in terms of technology.
There's also the business of journalism, which is quite impacted by technology, by AI, by the splintering because of social media, but also by the purchasing of media structure.
By the purchasing of technology, billionaires.
Do you understand what they're doing?
I do.
Right.
Scott.
Good move.
You'll love it out here.
It's much better.
You don't want to work for the Allisons.
I've spent a lot of time with Larry Allison.
He's a terrible person.
Okay, so you recently okay, that in and of itself might be a good reason to get rid of her right about now.
You know, Mark Thompson, you're looking for heads to cut.
I don't know how expensive she is.
I imagine she's a pretty penny.
So that might be one to consider.
After all, she's knocking the boss already.
You said that you would leave CNN if Paramount won the biggest for Warner Brothers, perhaps as soon as the new series airs.
We want to hear about the series for you.
They haven't bought it yet.
It's not finished yet.
So, is that a for sure thing?
Is there a scenario in which you would stay anyway?
I don't see how.
Why?
Tell us.
Well, it's interesting because they've been calling me.
They've been very nice.
They'll, hey, Kara, good show with Matt Bellamy.
They're doing a lot of friendly, friendly with me right now, which is like too bad.
It's not going to work.
It's not going to happen for you, as I say.
I don't think they'll be good owners.
I don't.
I think they've already shown several times, including editorial choices, which Scott knows more about than I know.
That they have no interest in journalism.
And I refuse to work for an organization that doesn't respect journalists.
And I don't mean not cutting.
Listen, I got out of journalism because I understood the costs were too high and I could make a lot more money if I did it in a more efficient, more digital way.
And I think a lot of the legacy organizations have been really stubborn in terms of understanding what's going on.
That's not my issue.
There has to be cuts.
The costs are out of line with the audience, right?
That's just the way it is.
That's not how you do it.
It's a basic disdain for it as anything useful, that there's not a way to reform it except for hiring someone who isn't a journalist.
I'm sorry.
I just don't.
There's no reason.
Oh, you know, we got to hire the journalist.
You only want the journalist.
I'm sorry.
I'm so over that.
I would never actually just hire a journalist.
I'd like to actually have more people from diverse backgrounds that come from, you know, kids come to me and say, hey, you know, I want to go into journalism.
I'm thinking about taking broadcast journalism at school.
What do I tell them?
Don't.
Don't, please don't.
Go study English.
Go study economics.
Go study medicine.
Go study the weather.
I don't care.
Have a specialty.
Bring something else to the equation, to the table, other than your journalism career.
All right.
Because nobody really cares about that.
All they're going to do is indoctrinate you.
At least if you study history or economics, you're coming to the table with something more than what these liberal journalism schools are just trying to point, spit out.
Right.
Because they want to just keep it going.
for the long haul, right?
We're just going to keep woke-ifying everyone.
We just make all these woke students come out even woker and we're all set.
No, I don't.
She's threatened maybe because the idea that you could actually hire a producer to do a lot of stuff or even the idea that you can have citizen journalists.
I mean, I wonder what she thinks of Nick Shirley, right?
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Like, he's not a journalist.
He's not a journalist.
He didn't go to journalism school and get his capital J degree.
I'm sorry, but like that whole genre, it's over.
It's done.
I never believed in it to begin with because I always thought a journalist should be something more than just something that a university spits out and teaches them how to cut tape.
No, We come with more perspective.
And you know what?
A lot of these citizen journalists, that's exactly what they're doing.
And I'm proud to see it, right?
It's great to be over here.
I will say this.
I'm laughing at the whole CNN thing because it's like they've had this epiphany.
They're like, oh my gosh, we are getting bought.
Our ratings suck.
And we need to actually maybe offer a little bit more diversity in what we're showing the viewer.
Oh, and how about this?
Maybe even, I'm going to go out on a limb and say maybe even a little bit of truth, which is why this CNN reporter almost couldn't believe it himself when he was broadcasting this story yesterday morning from Atlanta Airport.
It kind of made Trump and Ice look rather good.
Well, there may be a celebration here at the airport before it's all said and done, especially for the folks who've been working nonstop extra shifts.
If you look right here, you can see this is the main checkpoint.
Almost no lines, no waiting, Sarah.
And it's unbelievable at this point this morning.
Started briskly with a lot of people showing up here at the airport.
Lines were long.
People were waiting about an hour.
But when that rush hour went away pretty quickly this morning, we ended up with this.
And there seems to be more lines open than normal right now with the TSA workers here breezing people through.
In fact, a lot of folks have been showing up shocked at how short the lines are.
Take a listen to some of the folks we talked to this morning.
I don't see how extra security could be bad, you know?
I mean, they're going to help out.
And, you know, make things move a little faster.
But whether they're doing that or not, we don't know.
But extra security is always good to me.
I mean, you think it's not going to be that bad, but then you get here and you know, you think, oh man, it's it really is as bad as they say it is.
So there's a bit of a mix here.
So when people were showing up and going right into the TSA pre check line, a lot of them weren't even checking the main checkpoint line.
That line has been open and moving pretty quickly.
Some folks just get so used to going to the line they go to, they didn't even check to see what that's like.
We've also seen those ICE agents moving through today.
A lot of folks are saying they're very pleasant.
Look, they're not wearing masks.
In fact, on this line right here, you can see two of them standing behind the TSA agents.
I'm not sure we can get complete focus on that, but just wanted to show you that they've been walking around the perimeter.
Atlanta police have also been added to this equation in terms of showing up extra patrols.
But the story point being, the ice thing is working at the airports, and gosh darn it, CNN reported it.
All right?
Mark your calendar, all right?
This is a moment.
This is a moment.
But it tells me, you know, I think they're reading the tea leaves, and they're seeing what's going on.
And what I can tell you is the Democrats are actually trying really, really hard to change things.
And this woke tech reporter is kind of hoping that maybe the Democrats will and that they'll stall this deal.
The latest and greatest on that is that the Democrats have all gotten together and they said, wait a second, we would like to maybe have some more review of this because we see that Ellison has some investment from some foreign sources.
And because of the foreign sources, then we should have the FCC weigh in.
Well, the FCC, Brennan Carr, has said, well, I don't need to weigh in on this one because it's a domestic deal.
And if it were foreign sources.
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then it should actually be CIFIUS.
CIFIUS is the entity that oversees any kind of foreign merger.
But the sort of threshold, if you would, of how much foreign money is there, it's not high enough to actually bring in something like CIFIUS.
So the Democrats are just going to have to deal.
It looks like their little baby there that used to be run by their definite little baby, you know, Zucker, who used to be over at NBC, it's all going up in smoke, okay?
It's all going up in smoke.
And things are going to change.
And guess what?
David Ellison is going to come in there and David is going to figure out he's got to make this thing work.
And how do you make this thing work?
You change it all.
Okay, Barry, I hope you're ready because you're over at CBS and you may get a bigger gig having to change all of this.
And what it's going to mean is you need to empower more people to go out and be citizen journalists and to use all of the technology available to them to help bring these stories straight to the people or even the people straight to the stories.
You know my whole theory on the goggles, right?
Those goggles that you can put on at Apple.
That take you right into the metaverse if you would the metaverse 3.0 That's like it's gonna be great and it's gonna be amazing and There's a lot that can be done, but they got to get there and I don't think they're gonna get there with their current team their current team that's so resistant to change We were just talking about the FCC Well,
the FCC is hard at work very very busy at work They have fully initiated that investigation and enforcement operation the crackdown at the view over equal time Remember this was a big deal because of Jasmine Kronka God bless Jasmine.
What am I gonna do without Jazzy?
Jazzy Jazz.
Oh, gosh, she was a fun one to talk about, wasn't she?
I'm sure she'll come back in some shape or form.
Anyway, Jazzy is out of the picture, but she made a last-ditch effort right before her Senate primary campaign to go on The View.
And they brought her on, and then they brought on her competitor, and that launched a whole you-know-what storm because that's against the law.
Mm-hmm.
Yes, it is.
Anyway, The View not doing themselves any favor as Brandon Carr breathes down their back.
Whoopi Goldberg saying this this morning.
As regardless of what Iran is saying about whether the president's spoken to them or not, I don't trust the feedback of President Trump.
I really don't trust Iran either because the kind of regimes over there, they send out propaganda, they manipulate numbers of what's happening.
Like we've been doing.
Yeah, well, you exaggerate.
Kind of.
Success while hiding the failure.
So I actually don't have a lot of faith.
Me nervous right now that now we have troops on the ground because when it was first this campaign and you thought, okay, let's see what happens, it's the exit, and that's why, huh?
Our thanks to Media Research Center, they go and get all those clips so we don't have to watch the whole thing.
They're great and they have their tab, their finger on just the insanity that was going there.
But if you heard, it will be saying underneath her breath that we are lying about the casualties.
So, again, there's this sense that Donald Trump is so bad.
That we're going to believe anyone over him and and that's something that's being um echoed throughout the media right now, including.
I'm not going to show you this, but I saw it on MS NOW Msnbc, or whatever the heck you call the place.
MS, MS NOW, you know the one that had Rachel Matto, do they still?
I don't even know the one that looks like her.
They got that guy on there that looks just like her, Chris Hayes.
Anyway, that network ran John Brennan on their program last night, and John Brennan, the disgraced former Intel guy from Obama.
I mean, remember him who was putting out stuff about the 51 spooks that said, oh, no, this laptop that Rudy Giuliani found is nothing but a bunch of misinformation fed to you courtesy of the Russians by way of Giuliani.
It turned out, oh, no, that laptop did belong to Hunter.
It was actually totally legit.
And so when you want to talk about people lying, he's saying that the president's lying on Iran.
And I'm like, Brennan, I don't think you're my first go-to source on any of this.
You hack.
You total schmucky hack.
Well, there are hacks on the view, too.
It's coming back to haunt them.
We're going to get to Brendan in a second, but another little clip from today.
This would be one Joy Behar.
Like, I don't want to take away from what our men and women have been doing over there because what they've accomplished is incredible.
And if we can deter Iran at all over the last few years.
What have they accomplished over there?
Excellent, man.
Our military?
Well, I think we've got the best military in the world.
I think they do what they're told.
No, we can't.
What have they accomplished so far in Iran?
What have they accomplished?
Well, I think.
Anytime we can deter Iran, whether it's for another year, whether it's for two years, I think that's a win for this country.
Obama had a deal and he tore it up.
Yeah.
Try.
Yeah.
Cue the applause, the very expensive applause.
You have to have a lot of producers to book that audience, to manage that audience, and then to tell them when to applaud.
Another reason to get rid of this show.
The new CEO from Disney is coming in.
And I'm telling you, This is one headache he doesn't need, not to mention what the FCC is doing.
We're going to get to that.
But back to Ms. Joy Behar complaining about how much she hates Donald Trump and he should have just gone with whatever plan for billions of dollars one Barack Obama put together.
I mean, it just instantly.
And what's the gift besides herpes?
No, I think it's.
Look.
I mean, like.
I think it's.
Honestly, how was she ever a comedian?
Really?
I mean, how was she a comedian?
That's her claim to fame.
Really easy to sit here and say, what has our military accomplished?
It's because of our military that we're able to sit here and have these conversations and do a show like this.
So, whenever our military's out there fighting for our freedom.
Don't make it sound like I'm against the military.
I'm not.
All my uncles, my father, they all fought.
So, don't make it sound like that.
I'm talking about this particular, as he calls it, excursion into Iran.
What have they accomplished?
We don't know what the intelligence is.
He got was that's the problem.
They haven't communicated that.
What I do know the word intelligence and him in the same sentence should not go together.
What about wiping out their entire leadership?
What they got rid of one Ayatollah, they have another one who's just as bad.
We don't know who that one is.
No, we actually don't know a lot.
The president has been pretty cryptic in terms of talking about who the leaders are that he happens to be negotiating with.
It is my understanding that Pakistan is playing a role behind the scenes.
And there's some thought that it might actually be the mayor of Tehran that is the one that might be emerging as the possibility to be sort of like the Delcy Rodriguez, but of Iran, right?
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Delcy Rodriguez being from Venezuela.
But back to what's going on here with the FCC, because we're going to get to the war in a second.
But Brandon Carr, who runs Trump's FCC, he's basically said, you know what?
All those rules that everybody was ignoring for way too long, the media just kind of ran wild, right?
Mainstream media, broadcast media got really out over its skis and no longer felt any kind of duty.
To report both sides.
I mean, you know, not that they ever did, but they at least tried to pretend a little bit better, and now they're clearly not even pretending.
Well, Brennan Carr is like, hang on, you know, we got to deal with this and and we will, and we have the capability and the ability and the jurisdiction that's important to oversee shows like the view, not this show, not FOX NEWS, not Msnbc or Msnbc or MS whatever they call it.
Now, not those, But certainly broadcast networks, and that's an important distinction.
It goes all the way back to the 1934 Communications Act, guys.
Let's listen to Brandon.
Here he is speaking at a recent event by Breitbart.
On the one hand, you have what we call the national programmers.
So that's Comcast, Disney, Fox, Paramount.
Those are national programmers.
Those are the ones that create most of the daytime and nighttime shows that you're used to seeing, but they're not actually in that capacity.
But they're not in that capacity licensed by the FCC as programmers, just creating the programmers.
That's one bucket of actors.
On the other hand, you've got thousands of individual TV stations that are licensed by the FCC.
And they're the ones that actually broadcast or disseminate the national programmer's content.
Okay.
Over the years, there's been a pretty good balance of power between local TV stations and national programs.
So, for instance, if a national programmer had a program that was really not a good fit for a particular local community, the local TV station could preempt, they could not run it.
Sometimes in years past, local TV stations would not run entire seasons of particular programs that they didn't think was a good fit for their community.
But over the years, that balance of power has shifted.
Really dramatically in the hands of those national programmers, such that your local TV station, in too many cases, is simply just a mouthpiece for programming being created in Hollywood in New York.
And so we've lost that balance of actual local news stations connected to the communities, licensed by the FCC with an obligation to serve the community where their antenna is.
And so we've been taking a number of steps at the FCC to try to reinvigorate and re empower local broadcasters.
The local.
So I've worked at local stations, I worked at a station called KPIX.
And that's out in San Francisco and it was a CBS Owned station.
So a little different, because some of these networks actually own some of these stations.
So they may own like seven or eight affiliates.
They don't own a ton of them again, because the FCC doesn't allow for it.
The whole way this was set up initially was that you would have the programmer right, the Hollywood programmer, the New York programmer that would program everything and then send it out to all of these affiliates and the airwaves were controlled by the FCC.
So they extended the licenses to these little affiliates in Timbuktu and they wanted to make sure that all these affiliates were everywhere and had all these licenses, because you needed to be able to communicate with the entire country in case of emergency and they wanted to make sure that all of these communities all over the country had access to information.
But with that access to information and that license goes a certain kind of duty right, an expectation that you're going to be showing programming that is beneficial for the community.
So what has happened over the years is that affiliates you know they've lost some of their mojo, they've lost some of their power.
I know that the network is concerned.
At least you know we're dating myself a little bit, because I haven't worked at a network network since 2005, really 2006 but um, i've been in cable ever since then and now over here, but anyway, way better.
But I I would say that at least when I was at Network Television and And even, you know, if I think about NBC, because I was a CNBC anchor, but would do a lot of reporting, economic reporting for NBC, we were always very concerned about the affiliates and we wanted the affiliates to be happy.
But something I think just changed over the years and it was like affiliates, here you go, take it or leave it, right?
And the way the contracts worked, the affiliates didn't have a choice but to run all this stuff that the networks were giving them, including shows like The View.
And what Brennan Carr is doing is, okay, I'm going to give people back, I'm going to give power back to the people.
I'm going to say, hey, all you little affiliates.
Those contracts that you signed where you know you basically signed your life away and you told the network you would run all their program all the time and you'd even pay them for the program on top of it.
I'm going to actually give you some power back and you can do this because you know, remember you're still under the threat of losing your license.
If you keep running all this garbage, you might just lose your license.
You might just pay some fees, and this is where it gets complicated, because you have a show like THE VIEW which ran Jazzy, You know, in her big, you know Senatorial debut campaign against James Tallarico.
And then they put James on the next day or like three days later, and they never put anybody on from the other side.
That is what is considered an abuse of the contracts that they have there.
It goes back to Section 315.
Okay.
FCC's Communication Act of 1934 has a thing called Section 13, forgive me, 315.
And it reads, quote, if any license shall permit any person who is a legally qualified candidate for any public office, license would be, you know, the the station to use a broadcast station, he shall afford equal opportunities to all other such candidates for that office in the use of such broadcasting station, provided that such license shall have the power no power of censorship over the material broadcast under the provisions of this section.
So that's kind of important.
It's been amended over the years.
It's been amended basically to say, hey, you know what appearance by a legally qualified candidate on any one bonus bonafide newscast, bonafide news interview, bonafide news documentary on the spot coverage of news shall not be deemed to be use of a broadcasting station license within the meaning of this subsection.
So basically what it means is, hey, if you've got breaking news coverage and you happen to have Jazzy out there in the field and James out there in the field and nobody else is around and you're doing breaking news coverage and you need, you know, you want to comment from Jazzy and you want to comment from James, you can get both of them and there would be no penalty.
But the difference here is that, you know, You got to think through that wording and understand whether or not these guys are actually qualified.
So let's go back to Brennan explaining this equal time rule.
Broadcast television is fundamentally different than any other means of distributing programming because they are licensed fundamentally by the FCC.
You have to operate in the public interest.
And when the FCC licenses a broadcast television station, again, different from cable, different from streaming, different from YouTube, different than newspapers, you're licensed by the FCC.
That means the government has picked a winner and the people denied the microphone are effectively losers.
And so the FCC uses.
What's been referred to over the years as a public trustee model.
When you are a broadcaster, you're not just looking out for your own narrow partisan interest.
You're supposed to represent and serve the needs of the entire community around you.
There's lots of different rules and regulations that come out of that basic concept.
One of them is this concept called equal time, which is Congress passed a law that said if a broadcaster is going to have a legally qualified candidate for office on, they have to provide comparable time and placement to all other legally qualified candidates.
This has been a rule on the books for decades and decades.
And the problem is nobody's enforced it.
Okay, so nobody's enforced it.
And now Brennan's like coming along.
He's like, you know what?
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We're going to enforce it.
And they have started the enforcement proceedings on The View.
So that could mean fines.
It could mean stations having to maybe not run the program for a certain amount of time.
We'll see where this goes.
But I wouldn't be very happy if I were Whoopi Goldberg right now or Joy Behar right now or any of the producers on that show right now because it's going to mean one of a few things.
One, the show has to change.
Two, possibly the show needs to pay some fines and therefore have a lower budget.
Or three, let's just pull it off the air altogether.
Can we just like rip the band-aid off?
Because I don't think it's doing anybody any favors, right?
Ilhan Omar.
Oh boy, oh boy.
We can't go a day without talking about Ilhan, right?
Ilhan Omar, we're asking, where's the money?
Okay.
So there's a big article this week in two of the local papers where they're saying, hey, she hasn't actually come forward with any of the things that they've requested from her.
So she's just like blatantly ignoring the law.
Can we hold her in contempt or something?
Because I don't think you can do that.
James Comer is like, I need this.
I need this.
I need this.
He's going, by the way, international.
He's going to Somalia.
He's going to Kenya.
He's going to South Africa.
He's going to Dubai looking for more bank records and business records of Ilhan Omar's hubby.
And yet Ilhan Omar's hubby doesn't think he has to say anything.
And the answer is, oh, it's the GOP turning up the heat.
You better believe it, baby.
We're going to turn up the heat all day long, every single day of the week on this lady and her husband, because I have a feeling these two did some funny stuff.
You can't tell me that you have negative $50,000 and then two years later, you're suddenly worth, according to her filing, $30 million.
I don't buy it.
I don't buy any of it.
And what this tells me and not just me.
I had a long conversation a couple of weeks ago with Steve Forbes on the show, and we talked all about how this money laundering works.
Well, how does it work?
What do you do?
What is the IRS looking for right now?
Because the IRS is looking into Ilhan Omar as we speak, as is the White House, as is Treasury, as is Comer.
What they're looking for is whether or not he overly inflated the valuation on his company, which is called Rose Lake Capital.
Did he overly inflate the valuation on this particular document that you're looking at, as well as the winery?
Obviously, it couldn't be worth $5 million, for goodness sakes.
What do you think?
$5 million for the winery that doesn't have any vineyards or any offices or any website.
No, I don't think so.
So that thing's not worth $5, nor is the other thing worth $25 million.
And if he were smart, maybe he shouldn't have actually put this into her filing because everybody's like, wait, what?
But he may have had to because of the money he's taking in.
In fact, this is the money laundering operation that some are alleging it to be.
How would this work?
It would work in such a way that he has to value those shares higher.
So this Rose Lake Capital thing that he's got, okay, that she and he have, Rose Lake Capital, they're exclusive partnerships for global operators.
Hmm, global operators.
Wow.
Well, that's interesting.
Global operators operating where?
I mean, we know you were looking at those solar systems, the solar power in South Africa.
I believe that was part of it.
I mean, nobody can make sense of this.
How could you suddenly be worth $30 million after being worth basically nothing?
All because your hubby's got this Rose Lake Capital firm?
No, So here's what they're looking for, just to kind of spell it out for you guys.
They're trying to figure out if Ilhan and the hubby had people, this is what's being alleged, okay?
So we're not like saying she's guilty of this, but this is what they're looking into.
So they've got to figure out whether Ilhan and the hubby inflated the valuation of the venture capital firm so as to have people that wanted to possibly launder money.
Again, this is the allegation.
They could come to Ilhan's husband and they could put money into this venture capital firm, which would then go and invest it in something over it, like in Kenya, where there's very, very loose restrictions.
So in Kenya or Somalia or in South Africa, right?
Where you could do that solar investment opportunity.
And then you take it back out, even though really no money's quite going in there.
And you take it back out and it's worth a little bit less.
But, you know, Timmy's got to get his thing off the top, theoretically.
And suddenly it's clean again.
And why do you need to clean it in the first place?
Maybe you need to clean it because maybe this is money from U.S. taxpayers that came to you courtesy of the $250 million.
feeding our future scam.
So this is what they're trying to prove.
And this is what Ilhan's husband does not want to give them any access to.
This is why, as of yesterday, nothing had been turned in.
But that doesn't matter in some ways because you know what?
We do have the IRS and we do have Treasury and we do have the White House, all of whom are looking into this.
I mean, let me show you something from last night.
JD Vance actually sat down with Jesse Waters and they talked about Minnesota.
He didn't focus on her, but I can promise you, I can guarantee you, this is the big kahuna because, I mean, it is right out there.
I mean, Timmy Walsh doesn't have net worth of $30 million he can brag about.
I mean, maybe he does somewhere that we don't know about, but I have a feeling that feeding our future was about feeding their future.
Just a feeling, just a hunch, just an allegation at this point, but this is the information that they're looking for.
Okay, they've got to connect the bank records of the fraudsters somehow back to maybe Somalia or Kenya or South Africa, and then possibly back to this company right here, Rose Lake Capital, which claims, I mean, this is one big giant lie in and of itself.
It claims it's got $60 billion in assets under management.
I mean, if that's not a red flag, I don't know what is.
Let's go to JD.
If there's a massive fraud ring, there's a cover up going on.
In Minnesota, they were just caught forging documents, trying to cover their tracks.
Should Tim Walz resign?
Well, I think Tim Walz should resign.
But look, I've beaten up on Tim Walz enough.
I don't want to do it anymore in your program.
I almost feel bad for the guy, except for the fact that he should have seen this.
And whether there was something criminal, whether he was aware of the fraud, which would be criminal, or whether he simply looked the other way, it's a massive, massive failure of government.
Look, you have to ask yourself if you're in Minneapolis and you have a person who came to the United States impoverished two months ago, and all of a sudden they're driving a Mercedes or a Lamborghini, it is your job as a public official to ask, how did that person get so rich so quickly when they're also collecting a welfare check?
The fact that that's failed so often in Minnesota, but frankly, it failed in California and other states as well, means that we have political, I would say, political corruption, welfare corruption at a very massive scale.
The Trump administration, by the way, we've already sent Hundreds and hundreds of additional people of resources that are starting to investigate this stuff, get to the bottom of it.
Stephen Miller sent people who are literally going door to door at some of these fraudulent daycare centers and trying to understand just how deep the rabbit hole goes.
But this is going to be a long term effort from the Trump administration to root out corruption and actually look after Americans for a change in their heart.
Okay.
Did you hear that he mentioned Stephen Miller?
Stephen Miller and Stephen Miller's team?
Oh boy, Ilhan, this is not good for you.
She really hates Stephen Miller.
So now it's like kind of personal.
Remember?
what she had to say about Stephen Miller.
Now, Stephen Miller's team is there in Minnesota on the ground, hundreds of people looking into all of these bank records.
They've already requested all of the bank records.
They are getting every transaction above $3,000, you guys, that went through any of these fraudsters.
And there's like 80 some odd of them right now that are already in jail, that are doing time, that have been convicted.
So they're getting their bank records.
And the question is, does it lead back to her?
Stephen Miller wants to know.
And of course, well, she's going to say what she always says.
Nobody should ever have hired Stephen Miller, who basically is a copycat of the Nazis.
And that's kind of the cruelty that he wants to inflict on people.
Yeah, you see where she goes.
She goes back to the well all the time.
But you know what?
People are tired of it.
It's over, Ilhan.
I don't think that that's going to fly anymore.
America is.
Is on to at least that shtick.
All right.
The question now becomes, what do we find out about the financial documentation?
I realize you know they could have hidden a lot right the Hawala system.
But even in the Hawala system there are codes that are used, there is money that heads somewhere and the thing that they're going to be checking for when they try to clean it.
If they tried to clean it through Timmy's company, Timmy Minot there's a lot of Timmy's in the Timmy Waltz, Timmy Minot, You know, lots of Timmies, lots of Ahmeds, too.
She was married to two of them Ahmed number one, Ahmed number two.
That was the second husband.
Then she went for the Timmy.
Third time around.
Third time's a charm.
I'll tell you this the House has just approved a deportation bill for anybody that is convicted of fraud.
They want you out of the country.
Take a look.
Here's the news crossing.
You can see this one went through Republicans.
The yeas are 231, the nays are 186.
The bill is passed.
Without a doubt, the bill to reconsider is laid on the table.
Okay.
All right.
So here it is.
Deportation bill for fraud.
Basically, if you benefited from SNAP, Social Security illegally, that's going to trigger deportation for you.
If you reenter the country after your conviction, you were barred.
You were barred absolutely for good.
I mean, I thought you would have been, but, you know, under Biden, anything goes, right?
Under him.
The whole goal here is to protect U.S. taxpayers.
It applies to people that are not citizens of this country.
So if you have committed fraud and you are a non-citizen, bye-bye, sayonara, see you later.
That was just passed.
So that should go a long way towards helping in some of the Minnesota stuff.
There's something else I'm going to get to in a moment, the catch and release stuff with the Eighth Circuit Court having approved that today.
So that's basically, again, another thing that's going to affect Minnesota.
They're going to be able to work to get some of these fraudsters out, but it's not necessarily going, far enough for some people because you are seeing still a movement in both the House and in the Senate to take it even further.
I want to go back to Representative Emmer, who's championing a bill called the Scam Act.
He doesn't just want to deport.
He wants to make sure there's denaturalization.
So he wants to take this a step further.
This particular bill that was just passed only applies to non-citizens.
What Emmer would like to see, as well as Blackburn in the Senate, they want something that actually would strip people of their citizenship.
if they are found to have committed fraud after becoming U.S. citizens.
He explains it.
We're expanding and clarifying existing law to include anyone who comes to this country and defrauds the generosity of Americans and our government.
And in this case, you know, the Feeding Our Future scandal is one of the many in Minnesota, but that's the largest pandemic fraud case in the country.
It was $250 million.
Over 90 people were charged, and 85 of them are from the Somali community.
If you come to this country, and I understand that in Somalia, you got to lie, cheat, and steal just to survive.
But if you come to this country and you continue to lie, cheat, and steal, you should not be allowed to maintain your citizenship.
You should be denaturalized and shipped back to where you came from.
And by the way, that would include marriage fraud.
A little bit of a zinger there at the end.
You know the allegation there.
Well, you've heard it multiple times, including from the president most recently in the Oval Office when he was talking about launching this entire effort to get rid of fraudsters and to discover the fraud.
JD Vance, as you know, leading that.
Program Miller's involved too.
But listen, the president said hey yeah, I think she married her brother right, like like that, that in and of itself that actually will.
You don't even need a bill for that, guys.
If that were the case and there was marriage fraud, boom presto, you're done.
And it doesn't even have to be the brother, believe it or not, it just would have to be fraud in and of itself.
So this was not a real marriage.
And I'm kind of wondering.
It doesn't seem like it was a real marriage, right?
Didn't he move shortly after marrying her And didn't she actually go back with the other guy and have like another kid, the first, Ahmed, during the alleged marriage to the second one?
So I imagine that you could find something there.
It is our understanding.
We have confirmed via the DOJ that they are investigating her marriage as we speak.
So I know it's painful and we're like, okay, when are we going to get something?
I know it's hard, but look, they're working on it and they at least got this whole thing on fraud deportation through today.
I want to go back to Emmer.
By the way, he's also from Minnesota.
Right?
So he's like the Republican from Minnesota who's looking at this going, gee, talking about putting Minnesota on the map in a really horrible, infamous way, $19 billion later with a bunch of Somalis that ran a giant fraudster ring.
Fraud, fraud, and more fraud.
It seems like every day there is a new discovery of stolen taxpayer dollars in my home state of Minnesota.
And who is smack dab in the middle of it?
The self-acknowledged liar, incompetent failed governor, and failed vice presidential candidate, Tim Walz.
But with the world now watching, Walz can no longer hide from accountability.
I want to thank walz is no longer going to be running for governor because, yeah, it doesn't really look good.
I mean, when you're the guy running the show and there's that much fraud, you know who else it doesn't look good for?
I saw you guys talking about Gavin Newsom.
And Gavin Newsom, by the way, petty little guy that he is, starts tacking Nick Shirley.
It's like Nick's actually exposing this, right?
In your state, wouldn't you be kind of happy?
Like, don't you want to get rid of the fraud?
You guys have a budget disaster out there in California.
Maybe you'd actually want to find some of this fraud, but nope, nope, nope, because it makes him look bad.
Of course, it makes him look bad.
Just like it makes Timmy Walsh look bad.
Just like it makes Ilhan Omar not only look bad, but possibly, you know, when it comes to her, she runs the risk of looking connected.
Not good.
Immigration Court Appeals00:04:08
Quick question What's your message to undocumented Americans who are thinking about maybe traveling?
Maybe we're going to get to that soundbite in a moment.
because AOC has something to say on all of this.
Catch and release no more.
It's over, baby.
It's over.
You know what?
At least in some parts of the country, because the Eighth Circuit Court decided this one today.
You see the article in Politico.
Another appeals court backs Trump's administration's mass detention policy.
So this is the second appellate court.
I believe the first one was the fifth court that will now allow for ICE to detain the vast majority of people it is seeking to deport.
You know, before.
You couldn't.
You could let them go, right?
Because they had to have a bond hearing and they would just be let out.
And then all of a sudden they'd commit another crime and everybody's like, well, what do you think is going to happen, right?
Like, how does that make any sense?
You go through all the work of finding them and then you have to let them go again.
A second federal appeals court, the article in Politico reads, has blessed the Trump administration's policy of locking up the vast majority of people it is seeking to deport without a chance for bond, even if they have no criminal records and have resided in the country for decades.
A panel of Republican appointees, oh, it's those Republicans' fault, on the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled two to one Wednesday that the administration had properly determined the federal law doesn't only allow but requires ICE to detain the vast majority of people it's seeking to deport.
That includes millions of immigrants who have been treated as eligible for bond hearings.
So they're mad about this one, okay?
And you can just anticipate it's going to get ugly.
I mean, you got ICE at the airports.
Hakeem Jeffries thinks they're going to start shooting at everybody in the air.
I mean, he said it.
I'm not going to run the sound again, but we've played it for you before.
Yesterday's show included.
The ruling carries particularly acute implications for Minnesota.
Okay.
This is a big deal for Minnesota.
It's actually going to be a big deal in, I think, Arkansas, Nebraska, Missouri, the Dakotas.
But Minnesota is where it's at, baby, because you had ICE going crazy out in Minnesota.
And basically ICE then couldn't take the people that it rounded up in Minnesota and deport them because the law was always in the way.
Well, now this has changed because the appeals court has said, oh, yeah, you can move forward with the hearings, et cetera.
They don't get released first.
So that's the distinction.
And it's going to be a big deal in Minnesota.
Federal district judges are bound to follow it.
They have to follow it.
Hundreds of people detained during the recent ice crackdown there in Minnesota and the Twin Cities have filed petitions. for release from custody by challenging the administration's interpretation of the law.
And nearly every district judge in the state has sided with the petitioners.
Well, now they can't.
Okay, now they've got the upper court, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals saying, nope, you have to move forward with no more catch and release.
So you got to hold on to them.
So this is a really, really big deal.
And it's going to cause a you know what storm.
And maybe it's going to go to the supreme Court, but at least in the here and now, it's a pretty significant finding for all of Minnesota.
And this is in part what has everybody all worked up.
I mean, they're upset about ICE at the airports.
They're upset about this catch and release thing being no more in some pretty important states.
But again, Mag is cheering this because the court ruling is no more catch and release.
You get to hang on to them and then process them and get them out of the country.
We'll see where this goes.
In the meantime, We have our favorite little Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez coming apart at the seams, you guys.
She's so worked up about this news.
She's like, I don't even know if I can travel.
Oh, maybe just drive.
It's not that far from D.C. to New York, AOC.
Quick question.
What's your message to undocumented Americans who are thinking about maybe traveling by plane right now?
Is it safe?
Media Spin in Real Time00:09:58
Is it unsafe?
I mean, we see what's happening in these airports, right?
I think, you know, I mean, even for just U.S. citizens, I think a lot of us are reconsidering our air travel.
I represent LaGuardia Airport, and we're seeing the lines come out.
We, of course, have supported TSA funding.
Trump has rejected paying TSA, so we're in the middle of trying to sort that out right now.
But obviously, it's a very dangerous time, and I wish we weren't here, but I think we are.
Ooh, a very, very dangerous time.
I'm just wondering.
You know, maybe she might need something to calm that anxiety.
Where's that doctor when you need him?
The one that her campaign allegedly spent $19,000 on.
He's apparently a catamite.
I'm not saying it right.
You guys were all on me for that.
It shows what I know, right?
I'm not even saying it right.
But it's this really aggressive stuff that is normally used for horses.
And I guess if you buy it on the street, you take enormous risks, right?
We saw that with Matthew Perry.
But anyway, Her campaign went to this guy for, I guess, leadership training.
She had PTSD.
What can we say after J6?
And she's got PTSD after traveling through the airport with all these ICE agents, for goodness sakes.
I want to get to the latest on the war in Iran.
It's being debated by all sides in that the president's saying one thing and the media's saying another.
All right?
Here we are again.
Deja vu.
Once again.
The president says one thing and the media says another.
But, you know, I look at the stock market pretty regularly.
You know, I'm a big investor.
And when I look at the stock market and I see all of the upside in the market today, it tells me that, you know what?
The market's taking it in stride.
Therefore, I think all of us should too.
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But I mention this only because as we go into the latest on the war here and we think about how the media is saying one thing and the president's saying something else, I would just remind you that the market ended the day higher.
So clearly the market thinks things are settling down.
They believe the president.
They believe the secretary of war.
Investors do at least today.
Let's go to Hegseth.
who spoke about this actually maybe about 24 hours ago.
Pete Hegseth, guys.
Well, thank you, Mr. President.
You're spot on.
Never in history has a modern military, Iran had a modern military, a modern Navy, a modern Air Force, modern air defenses, leadership, massive bunker.
Never has a modern military been so rapidly and historically obliterated, defeated from day one with overwhelming firepower.
The air campaign that we've conducted, that Israel's conducted alongside us, was one for the history books.
Truly.
And it's because we have a president of the United States that when he sends his war fighters out to fight, he unties their hands to actually go out and close with and destroy the enemy as viciously as possible from moment one.
And that's why we see ourselves as part of this negotiation as well.
We negotiate with bombs.
You have a choice as we loiter over the top of Tehran, as the president talked about, about your future.
The president has made it clear that you will not have a nuclear weapon.
The War Department agrees.
Our job is to ensure that.
And so we're keeping our hand on that throttle.
as long and as hard as is necessary to ensure the interests of the United States of America are achieved on that battlefield.
This is not Iraq and Afghanistan.
This is not a president who's interested in vague end states.
He's been very clear with us about what we need to accomplish, creating the conditions for them never to have a nuclear capability, and that's exactly what we're doing in historic fashion.
Thank you, Mr. President.
You know, I thought that was a really good bit of sound.
I played a lot for you from that moment yesterday when Mark Mullen was sworn in as the new head of DHS.
And I thought that was just really, I missed that.
I think we're sort of in real time as some of this was happening.
And I missed that.
And I want to play that for you today because I think it is actually pretty remarkable in that you're taking out a modern military and you're kind of doing it like that, right?
And the president said it over and over again.
He's like, well, we took out regime one, two, and they're on their third.
And let's see, we've taken out their army.
We've taken out their Navy.
And well, you know, other than that, they're doing well, coach, right?
Other than that, doing just fine.
So yet you have the media saying something else entirely.
And I mean entirely.
Scott Besant just, forgive me, Scott Besant, he destroys a lot of people.
But Scott Jennings just destroying a commentator, a former Democrat congresswoman from Florida named Val Demings, who went on last night and just, You know, spouted a bunch of nonsense, clearly doesn't know her stuff, clearly didn't do enough research before she went on, and this is what happened.
And so the American people nor the troops on the ground have a clue what the president's mission is, what the way out is.
13 people, U.S. soldiers, have already died.
We need a clear mission.
Respectfully, may I ask you a question?
Do you believe that Iran has been the world's largest state sponsor of terror for the last nearly 30 years?
The president is the one, Scott, who said nine months ago that he obliterated.
Any capability that they have.
So, what is the mission now?
I'm asking you right now.
I would like to engage in a debate.
I think the president.
I'd like to ask you.
We're having a debate, so I'm asking you a question.
You believe Iran is a state supporter.
Yelling is not an issue.
Into a war.
Yelling is not an issue.
Into a war.
Where 13 people have died and you send an additional one to Iran.
Nobody's yelling right now.
Because you're not prepared for this debate.
Let me tell you what the objectives are.
Number one, they are the world's largest.
State supporter and exporter of terrorism.
Number two, they have a ballistic missile program, which we found out this past weekend can reach most of Europe.
Number three, they lie about their nuclear.
They lie about Europe at the table.
They lie about Europe at the table.
That discovery.
Why wasn't Europe at the table?
And clearly.
They lie about their.
Why weren't our allies at the table?
I see now why you don't know the objectives because you don't stop talking long enough to listen.
Number three, our allies are excluded.
They have a navy that harasses ships.
Number four, in the discussion, in the strategic plan, in the enriched uranium to 60%.
Why weren't they in charge of that whole I mean, wow.
So he kind of showed her who's boss, right?
But again, a lot of these people just don't really, really, really know their stuff.
And they're out there spouting all this nonsense.
I mean, I think I saw Christiane Amon-Poor saying, oh, the president is lying.
He doesn't have any of this right.
And it's like, again, I'm just looking at the oil markets.
And the oil markets and the stock market in general are telling us, yeah, this thing is winding down and in a good way.
And that's a positive.
Let's go to Caroline Levitt.
Trying to talk some sense into some of these reporters in the White House press briefing.
They are hit harder than they have ever been hit before.
President Trump does not bluff, and he is prepared to unleash hell.
Iran should not miscalculate again.
Their last miscalculation cost them their senior leadership, their Navy, their Air Force, and their air defense system.
Any violence beyond this point will be because the Iranian regime refused to understand they have already been defeated and refused to come to a deal.
Here at home, we are now on day four.
We are now on day what?
How many days has it been?
14?
No, it's been more than that.
You know what?
Time flies when you're having fun, right?
I mean, it's been like one thing after another, but I would say, look, bottom line, again, the markets are telling you something, so pay attention to that.
They're not always perfect.
When they freak out, that's usually a good opportunity to get in, but they're not freaking out right now.
They're actually moving higher, which is the opposite of what you would think they would do if in fact CNN was telling the truth.
No, they're believing this guy, the big one, the big guy, one Donald J. Trump.
Because they're going to make a deal.
They're going to make a deal.
They did something yesterday that was amazing, actually.
They gave us a present, and the present arrived today.
It was a very big present worth a tremendous amount of money.
And I'm not going to tell you what that present is, but it was a very significant prize, and they gave it to us, and they said they were going to give it, so that meant one thing to me would deal with the right people.
Was that nuclear related?
No, it wasn't nuclear related.
It was oil and gas related, and it was a very nice thing they did, but what it showed me is that we're dealing with the right people.
Because, you know, you don't know, because the leadership was killed, all gone.
Khomeini, all gone, as the expression goes, the past Supreme Leader.
And then the new Supreme Leader was racked up, at a minimum, racked up pretty good.
and everyone else was gone and then many of the people in the third tier hmm again check the market okay check the market when in doubt that'll tell you a lot media trump i'm going with trump all right chapel roan have you guys been following this do you do you care about her?
Hotel Security Incident00:10:25
Do you know who she is?
I may be even saying her name wrong, which shows you how much I know about her.
But I caught this story because it was really bad.
Like it's sort of like she just embodies everything that's bad about Hollywood right now.
And it's been all over the airwaves or at least the print publications.
And so I was like, okay, I got to look into this.
Just exactly what is this about?
And it's this really kind of not so nice a woman who was not very nice to a kid.
Okay, so this is chapel in the middle.
This is a little girl who just kind of wanted to see if that was really chapel, apparently, while staying at a hotel with her family, her parents, her mother, and her stepfather.
She's actually Jude Law's daughter, and the stepfather, who is a big-time soccer player, all right?
So she was at breakfast with her mom, and she thought that she saw chapel Roan, and chapel's really, really big with the kids.
I know this because, believe it or not, I know the Pink Pony Club.
I'm sad to say, I know the Pink Pony Club, all right?
Because this is her song that she sings and this is what the kids like.
And I have three of them.
So this little girl was all excited.
She was there actually to see Chapel perform at the Lallapalooza thing, whatever that is.
So Lallapalooza was going on.
Let's show you a picture of that there in Brazil, in Sao Paulo.
So the little girl was there with her parents, the footballer, and the mom, who is a lovely woman who got really upset obviously, when she saw what went down, because the security guards went after her daughter and were like giving her a hard time.
And they were giving the parents a hard time, the mother a hard time, and they were like how dare you?
Apparently the little girl just started walking back and forth because she thought it might be chapel and she was like trying to see and she's like oh mom, I'm not really sure and I think it is, and that was it.
And the security guard like lost it on this little girl and her mom at this beautiful hotel in Sao Paulo and well, it's backfiring big time on Chapel Roan, to the point where like, everybody's mad at her now and Hollywood's like, oh yeah, we really didn't like her anyway.
I'm like kick her out.
All right, you don't need people like that, you really don't need people like this.
She doesn't understand what's wrong.
She's like I didn't do this, like this, wasn't my security team doing it?
But you know, people are actually taking that not so well.
They think that.
You know she has a history of doing this, of not really liking her fans because she values her privacy just a little too much.
Here is the little girl's mom.
Unbelievable.
And she was like explaining it all out on social media.
Let's watch.
Here we go.
Her name is Catherine.
Hi, guys.
Good morning.
I wanted to say something because I'm getting so many messages about this now.
And honestly, I didn't realize it would get this crazy.
But a lot of who asked me, like, what actually happened and everything else.
And I know that Chappelle has responded saying that it wasn't.
Um, that she didn't, it wasn't her security, and that she didn't do it.
So, 100%, this security guard was not a security guard of the hotel.
That's what I can say.
Um, he looks after artists, so I don't know if it was her personal security guard, but he was with her, so that's that is all I know.
Do she send him to do it again?
I don't know.
Um, look, I would like to hope not, but at the same time.
I think that you have a responsibility when you are a celebrity to make sure, I guess, that the people that work for you and that act on your behalf are acting on your behalf.
So, would he do that if he didn't have her authority to do so?
I don't know.
If he does, then obviously that's a big problem because then he's representing her in a way that she doesn't want to be represented.
So, I think that's really.
Important for her to notice and realize that's not correct.
What happened exactly as she said, she didn't notice anything or anyone because, as I said, as my husband said, sorry, nothing happened.
Literally, we were staying in the same hotel, we were at breakfast, and we noticed a girl walk past with long red hair, very curly.
And I said to my daughter, Oh, do you think that's your Pearl Roan?
And she looked and she said, Oh my God, Mom, do you think it's her?
And so she said, I'm going to go and have a look outside.
And she was sat just outside in the garden area, which we were also free to go into.
The door was open.
And so I went back to the table to sit and eat.
And my daughter walked through the door.
And then she didn't have a phone.
She said, Yeah, Mom, I think it's her.
And all of a sudden, the security guards come over and they start yelling at the mom and the daughter and they are intimidating.
Her and her daughter, and the father gets wind of it right, and he's furious and so he makes a social media post next thing.
You know, like the mayor of Saint Paul's, like Chapel Chapel, whatever her name is Rhone, you're never gonna ever ever ever, ever going to be performing here.
We want you out right, like the whole town is against her now and she's like, how can this be?
Like, how can this be?
I think this is a video of her pleading.
She just looking pretty, if you can call it that.
I'm just going to tell my half of the story of what happened today with a mother and child who were involved with a security guard who is not my personal security.
I didn't even see a woman and a child.
Like, I did not.
No one came up to me.
No one bothered me.
I'm not buying it.
I was just sitting at breakfast in my hotel.
I think these people were saying at the hotel as well.
So, the fact that, like, okay, so she's like, you know, I'm just minding my own business.
Here's the problem with that, okay?
Here's the problem with that, guys.
There's this new tape that's emerged.
It's actually an old tape that was online, and she's telling her security guard in this tape while at an airport to, like, get rid of somebody who might be looking at her strangely.
I mean, I realize she wants her privacy and everything, but listen, lady, you're nothing without the fans, okay?
Like, you really aren't.
Taylor Swift takes a few lessons for her.
I know we don't like to tell her much, but like she gets it, right?
Like her fans are important and she knows how to be an artist and still be a decent human being, which clearly this little chica at 28 years old has no clue about.
Here she is in an airport.
I don't like the looks of this.
You tell me what you think.
Gremlins and sticky videos going back to Ms. Roan.
Red hair with bodyguard.
Okay, so somehow someone figures out who she might be and see what she does with her finger.
You see that?
She just like told the security guard that person right there.
I mean, shocking that anybody would recognize her.
I wouldn't look twice.
I mean, she gunks herself up with those ridiculous costumes and looks like a train wreck and then suddenly everybody loves her.
It reminds me of Lady Gaga in a way.
But, you know, I wouldn't look twice at that in the airport.
I wouldn't think she was anyone.
But apparently she's famous enough or thinks she's famous enough that if somebody looks at her sideways she's telling her security guard, watch what happens, okay?
So let's just take another quick look.
Look, she's telling somebody.
She's telling somebody, watch.
You go get them, buddy.
Put your camera away.
Put your camera away, Mrs. Put your camera away.
No photos.
Put your camera away.
No photos.
Welcome to Australia Chapel.
Hey guys, I'm also a nice traveler, give it a nod.
Celebrity culture that worships this woman is, let's just say, not my taste.
I think that she's actually a part of the problem.
She hates her fans.
She can't even put a smile on her face or take a picture, apparently, even for a little girl.
I don't trust her word when she said, oh, I didn't even know who these people were, in part because I just saw that video.
And I don't necessarily really.
Even care, because Chaperon just isn't, you know, on my radar.
I can barely pronounce her name.
But I would say this Hollywood has a problem.
It is so far disconnected from any sense of reality, any sense increasingly, of decency.
They've started to lose their humanity and, as a result, people are turning away more and more and more, and that's a good thing.
I don't like the Pink Pony Club song either, for a variety of reasons.
I don't think she's that talented.
And I say that as a classically trained musician who's played the piano from the time she was about three or four and was a classically trained singer.
I'm not impressed with the woman.
I'm just not.
I'm just not.
Spotify Stars Losing Humanity00:00:37
And that does it.
I'm with Brazil.
Yeah, you're not coming back.
You're not coming back to my city to perform here.
I like that mayor.
He's picking sides and he picked the right one.
Whose side are you on?
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