Trish Regan alleges President Trump ends NATO due to European inaction during Iran's decimated military leadership, while simultaneously attacking Congresswoman Sheila Sherfilis-McCormick for $5 million FEMA fraud and Ilhan Omar for alleged terror ties. The segment critiques Governor Gavin Newsom over an $80 billion scandal and inappropriate comments, then proposes repealing the 1920 Jones Act to lower oil costs amid Strait of Hormuz tensions. Ultimately, Regan frames these events as systemic Democratic corruption undermining national security and economic stability. [Automatically generated summary]
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Bye-Bye NATO00:12:50
Bye-bye, NATO.
It's been nice knowing you.
This is a historic moment.
At this moment in time, it is not clear that we're really going to stick with NATO.
The president, it's been evident for some time that he has not felt NATO was willing to help us under any circumstances, yet we still continue to give and to give and to give.
And he's now drawn a line.
This was the test, and NATO failed quite clearly.
And so this is going to actually change a whole bunch of stuff, guys.
If in fact we decide to pull the cord, so to speak, and if NATO goes bye-bye, then we're going to be living in a very, very different world.
And that's going to have ramifications everywhere.
Welcome to the program.
I am Trish Regan.
It's the Trish Regan Show.
Please make sure you subscribe, share, like, all of that.
The president today speaking and saying the quiet part out loud right here.
I want to go to the president of the United States speaking about NATO.
I said 25 years ago that NATO's a paper tiger, but more importantly that we'll come to their rescue, but they will never come to ours.
And I want you to remember that we said this.
They didn't come to our rescue.
Now they all want to help when they're annihilated.
The other side is annihilated.
They said, we'd love to send ships.
They actually made a statement, a couple of them, that we want to get involved when the war's over.
No, it's supposed to get involved when the war's beginning or even before it begins.
We had the UK say that we'll send, this is three weeks ago, we'll send our aircraft carriers, which aren't the best aircraft carriers, by the way.
They're toys compared to what we have.
But we'll send our aircraft carrier when the war is over.
I said, oh, that's wonderful.
Thank you very much.
Don't bother.
We don't need it.
And we don't need it.
And we don't need them.
You hear that?
So in other words, we could go it alone.
And that's effectively what he wants to make very clear at this moment in time.
So this has ramifications in terms of what's happening in the Middle East.
It has ramifications in terms of what's happening.
any negotiations that are happening with Iran.
So if Iran's thinking, oh, well, you know, we got France in our back pocket, we got Spain, we got the UK, don't bet on it.
All bets literally are off.
He sent this out early, early this morning.
First thing I woke up to, NATO nations have absolutely done absolutely nothing to help with the lunatic nation now militarily decimated of Iran.
The USA needs nothing from NATO, but never forget this very important moment in time.
President Donald J. Trump, again, history in the making right now.
Do not forget, they have done nothing.
They have indicated they don't want to do anything over and over again.
We have heard members of NATO say, well, this is Trump's war.
This is the U.S.'s war.
This is not our Spain.
I'm looking at you.
And others, the U.K. Everyone has made it very clear they don't want to help.
And now all of a sudden, when things seem to be turning, when we've decimated all of their military members in terms of, oh, the head of the Navy that was just killed.
That has been confirmed.
We have gotten rid of their army.
We have gotten rid of leadership group number one, leadership group number two.
They're on their third round.
And now all of a sudden NATO is coming in at this moment.
The president is like, see ya.
I don't think so.
And Marco Rubio, Secretary of State, doubled down on that moments ago.
Let's see him outside the tarmac speaking with reporters saying, yeah, you know what?
The president's stating the obvious here.
You guys exactly have shown no love for the United States of America.
And as a result, we have the ability to question everything going forward, including all that money that we're spending in Ukraine.
Watch.
It's in their interest.
It's in their national interest.
Do you think President Trump criticizing NATO this morning, that sentiment?
I think he just made an observation, and the observation is that the United States is constantly being asked to help in a war, and we have more than any other country in the world on a war that's happening in another continent, in Ukraine.
But when the U.S. had a need, He didn't get proper positive responses.
So right now he's just making the observation that, you know, I think it was a couple of the leaders in Europe who said that this was not Europe's war.
Well, Ukraine is not America's war, and yet we've contributed more to that fight than any other country in the world.
So it'll be something to examine.
The president will have to take into account down the road.
Boom.
You see that?
That's exactly what I was saying.
And you know what?
You don't have to go to Trump camp to see this or hear this.
The handwriting is on the wall.
And again, I want to reiterate, it's going to have massive implications.
I don't think this is just him threatening.
I don't think that this is him dangling.
He has said this repeatedly over the years.
You can go back 10 years ago, he was saying this.
You can go back 25 years ago, as he pointed out.
He's been saying this for a while.
NATO is never going to be there for us.
So why are we continuing to be there for NATO?
John Bolton, not exactly the president's most favorite person, making this point the other night on CNN saying, hey, you know what?
Europe, you might want to be careful here.
Just a little bit careful.
Because now this gives the president every reason in the world to back off of all that Ukraine funding.
You say you're not there for him?
He's not going to be there for you because what kind of relationship are we in?
Thank you very much.
Watch Bolton.
But I will say, I think the Europeans make a mistake by responding to that kind of juvenile behavior with juvenile behavior of their own.
A number of European leaders, including Kaya Kalis, the European Union's chief foreign policy official, have said expressly, Iran is not our war.
That's a very dangerous way to put it because it invites Donald Trump.
Teases him to come back and say, Well, okay, Iran is not your war, Ukraine is not our war.
It's very dangerous to approach Trump in the same way he behaves.
Wow.
Okay.
So I disagree with Bolton in terms of that characterization of how the president is behaving.
I actually think he's behaved pretty transparently and pretty well throughout all of this.
And I'm sorry.
He's just admitting to the elephant in the room.
You guys don't help.
You've indicated over and over again, you're not going to help.
You don't want to help.
It's not your war, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
What do you think he's going to do?
Say, okay, well, fine.
You know, we're going to continue to pay our portion, our fees to NATO.
We're going to continue to defend you guys at every last.
corner and then you're never going to be there for us?
I don't think so.
Look at the money we're spending.
Amazingly, actually, we're now second on the list.
I credit Trump with that, but this is the defense spending as of most recently, 23, and you see that we're still at 3.5%.
Greece is stepping up.
Estonia is stepping up.
Lithuania is stepping up.
Finland, and then you keep going down the list and some of those bigger countries that could pay a little bit more, say like the UK, say like France, you see they're just at 1.9%.
I thought we worked this out already.
I thought we already did this.
This is like deja vu.
We're going back and repeating the same damn stuff because you guys still aren't paying enough.
You expect us and apparently poor Poland to take it all on?
I mean, this is not, this is going to be a two-way street.
This relationship just isn't working because it's like, gimme, And we're like, okay, okay, okay, okay.
And then we turn around and say, gee, could you just do a little something, just a little something to ease the pain?
And you tell us no.
Well, the president's like, I don't need it.
I don't need it, baby.
And you know what?
We got other friends out there, better friends than you.
Thank you very much.
We've got friends, for example, like in Japan.
I mean, he called out NATO right in front of the Japanese prime minister to all of the Japanese press, to all the U.S. press.
This is a moment.
And this, by the way, it's been brewing.
I just got to say, and he's irked and he's ticked.
And I'm telling you, it's going to give.
Watch.
We've had tremendous support and relationship with Japan on everything.
And I believe that based on statements that were given to us yesterday, the day before yesterday, having to do with Japan, they are really stepping up to the plate.
Yes.
Wait for it.
Unlike NATO.
You know, it's almost as though he understood what she was saying there in Japanese.
You know, unlike NATO, he punctuates there at the end.
And this is the problem.
And this really does start to change.
everything, including what's going on in terms of negotiations with the Middle East.
Because if the Middle East thinks that it can talk to France or it can talk to Spain or it can talk to the UK and have any kind of in with Donald Trump, the short answer is forget about it.
Okay.
You're not going to have any in because as far as France and Spain and the UK are concerned, he really has no use for any of them right now.
I would actually advise staying away at a moment like this.
It's not right.
It's not right that we spend so much and get so little in return.
And so this is a relationship that's got to change at this moment.
I mean, he's out there negotiating on his own.
And I do not believe we can rely on Europe, nor, you know what, like we never have been able to.
I mean, maybe there was a point in time, but we certainly haven't in recent memory.
And so as this escalates, as we see this challenge with Iran continue, and it's in my estimation. getting better given that we've decimated so much of their military.
But nonetheless, as it continues, you know what?
They're not there for us.
The president is going solo.
He has just given them 10 more days.
He published this just a short time ago on True Social and then admitted to it and elaborated on it in an interview moments ago with Fox News.
I want to go to the five where he was speaking with the co-hosts of the five telling them why he decided to do 10 More days because it seems there's a part of him that actually believes Iran is negotiating in good faith somehow, somewhere.
Again, remember, he's flying blind and solo.
He's got the U.S. on his side and our wonderful military and our wonderful diplomats that are trying to get this thing done.
But Europe is nowhere.
Nowhere.
Might even be working against us.
Sometimes it feels that way.
Here we go.
The President of the United States, you guys.
The Iranians asked me to do that, and I was not happy with them because I made a statement that we're.
Having productive negotiations.
I don't know that they get there.
Maybe they do, maybe they won't.
I mean, look, in a certain sense, we've already won because we've knocked out their Navy, we've knocked out their Air Force, completely knocked out their Air Force, just about completely knocked out.
We knocked out 154 ships and pretty good ships.
In fact, I said, why don't we just take them instead of sinking them?
We could have used them ourselves, right?
But they like showing how tough they are.
They like them at the bottom of the sea probably a little bit better.
But think of it.
We knocked out their Navy.
We knocked out their Air Force.
We knocked out most of their missiles.
They're down to about 9%.
We knocked out their missile launchers, which is a big deal because without the missile launchers, the missiles don't do very well.
You can't go to your window and say, let's throw a missile out of the air.
And we knocked out all of their communications, their telecommunications.
And very importantly, we knocked out their anti aircraft apparatus, which was very good, but it didn't last long because we.
We hit it the second night.
And we're just free flying right over the middle of Tehran, do whatever we want.
And one other thing we knocked out was their leaders.
So we knocked out the supreme leader, as they called him, Khomeini.
We then knocked out, they then named another one.
We knocked them out, and we knocked out part of the third group.
And we're just holding for the rest.
We know where they all are.
And it's one country that does not want to be.
You have very few people who want to be the leader.
You know, everyone wants to be president of the United States.
States, everyone wants to be president or whatever, prime minister of a certain country.
There are not a lot of takers to be the head of Iran right now.
I will tell you, they're all fighting not to.
We don't want that position.
But they asked me if they would, Kaylee, importantly, they said to me very nicely through my people, could we have more time?
Because we're talking about tomorrow night, which is pretty quick.
And if they don't do what they have to do, I will knock out their power plants.
The Leader's Dilemma00:08:02
And he said, does that include nuclear?
Because they have nuclear, you know, plenty of money.
They have a lot of money.
And they built nuclear and they built regular power plants, but they're massive and very expensive, billions of dollars.
And so I gave them.
A 10 day period.
They asked for seven.
You're going to say, oh, Trump's a terrible negotiator.
They asked for seven.
And I said, I'm going to give you ten because they gave me ships.
We talked about the eight ships, you know, the president that I talked about the other day.
But they asked for seven and I gave them ten.
You got ten days.
And they were very thankful about that.
Now they may say, oh, we're not speaking.
I don't like that because that wasn't true the last time, as you found out.
But we are speaking and it's going fairly well.
And so I gave them ten days.
Okay.
generous guy that he is.
So let's think through this for just a minute.
It seems quite possible at this moment in time that the president has figured there is some window of opportunity here.
I want to give this a chance.
Before I actually blow them all to smithereens, I need to give this a chance.
I'm just going to tell you, before you believe all the rhetoric that you're seeing on all the left-wing media sites, and I include the business news sites in this.
I thought CNBC's done a little bit better of a job, but you got Reuters, you got Bloomberg.
Mike Bloomberg hates them.
I know that.
for a fact.
I used to work there.
Reuters, Wall Street Journal.
I mean, this is an interesting one for me to see because that's actually owned by the same guy, right, who owns Fox News.
But you see the Wall Street Journal taking in a super, super negative approach.
CNN, that's a given.
MSNBC, you know that.
New York Times is going to be there.
You know that rhetoric that's going to come from them.
But what's fascinating to me is seeing the business press be so extraordinarily negative.
I mean, still in spite of it all, you have a market that was only off.
And I say only, you know, I know it's tough, but 1.7%.
If the market was really that worried about what was going on, it would be down 6%.
Okay, guys?
So 1.7%.
I think we can handle it.
The president has actually made this point as well.
He's like, you know, I thought it was actually going to be worse.
I mean, here we are striking Iran.
And you'd think, given what the media is trying to gin up, given what the media wants everybody to think, you would think that, you know, here we are at this moment in time, that it could be so much worse.
And yet it's not.
Okay?
Down, we can handle it.
Down 1.7%.
You're looking at oil roughly around 100 bucks a barrel.
It's all manageable.
So if we can make it through this, does 10 days help the Iranians?
I mean, they can't rebuild what they've lost in 10 days.
Let's be fair on that, right?
I think that would be incredibly difficult.
So if we feel that they are neutralized, right, from a weaponry standpoint, then maybe that makes sense.
I want to go back to the president who's giving this synopsis, if you would, earlier today, saying, here we are 26 days in.
And really, you know, it could have been a whole lot worse, but we're doing okay, and we've made the progress that we need.
so much so that he's willing to give them this extension.
Here's the president in the cabinet meeting.
We estimate it would take approximately four to six weeks to achieve our mission.
26 days in, we're extremely, really a lot ahead of schedule.
The Iranian regime is now admitting to itself that they have been decisively defeated.
They're saying to people, this is a disaster.
They know it.
That's why they're talking to us.
They wouldn't talk otherwise.
But they're talking to us because they've got a disaster on their hands.
They're defeated.
They can't make a comeback.
We're free to roam over their cities and towns and destroy all of their crazy nuclear weapons and missiles and drones that they're building.
Oh, we're doing that.
They now have a chance to make a deal, but that's up to them.
And they'll tell you, we're not negotiating.
We will not negotiate.
Of course, they're negotiating.
They've been obliterated.
Who wouldn't negotiate?
They are begging to make a deal.
We'll see if we can make the right deal.
And if they make the right deal, then they.
Then the Strait will open up, Hormuz Strait will open up.
And even now, we don't know if there are any mines.
You know, they have 22 mine, they call them mine droppers.
Think of it, who would have 22 mine droppers?
This is a boat that drops mines.
Who has 22 mine droppers?
Except for people with very evil intention.
Wow.
Wow, wow.
We're going to get to the Florida Congresswoman in the ethics hearing.
That's quite a story that I want to tell you about today.
And by the way, it's all related, right?
Because for whatever reason, these Democrats really love to spend our money.
They love to spend it on NATO and Ukraine.
They love to spend it on FEMA.
And then apparently, according to these allegations, they just line their own pockets with the money.
And then they love to spend it on daycares.
Heck, you got Mam Dami who wants to put a whole slew of daycares into New York City on your taxpayer dime, right?
Well, we got to get into some of the accusations against one Ilhan Omar.
New stuff today to tell you about as well.
But you see, all of this stuff is related.
It's all about let's take your money and let's spend it.
Let's spend it all over the world.
Spend it on ourselves.
Spend it on our trips.
Spend it on, you know, the fancy cars.
Spend it, spend it, spend it.
And you have only to look even at what happened in Ukraine, guys.
I mean, we had to see through the firing of multiple defense secretaries over there, assistance to the defense secretary in Ukraine, because what happened?
They kept siphoning off the money and sending it to sketchy places.
It's kind of like what was going down in the state of Minnesota.
So the president at this point has made the decision to offer up 10 more days.
He's negotiating entirely, completely on his own without the aiding or any help diplomatically otherwise of NATO, the organization that theoretically we should be able to turn to in a moment like this.
And yet, you know, here we are with the Democrats doing everything they can to to fight him because they're struggling with such a severe case of TDS, TDS on steroids, that they can't remember which side of the aisle they're on on anything.
I mean, you know, Chuck Schumer, Chucky Schumer, who suddenly sounds like he's a Palestinian, right?
This is what the president keeps saying.
Here he is speaking with a little bit of humor.
But think about this, I mean, because it's actually not so funny.
It's not so funny that the guy who theoretically was standing for Israel, who's Jewish himself, is now pro-Palestine.
What has happened?
What has happened to the Democrat Party?
You mean to tell me you hate Trump so much that you're willing to just turn over all of your beliefs, everything you've stood for, Chucky?
Here we go.
Poor Chuck.
I mean, Chuck Schumer is a great Palestinian, represents the Palestinian nation right now.
He's no longer Jewish, I guess.
What he's done to the Jewish people is incredible.
They hate him.
Yeah, they hate him.
They hate him because he has sold them out.
And when people look, At the MAGA movement, and they look at what Donald Trump is doing, they still say one thing and one thing only over and over and over again, that this is my president, that this president is standing up for me.
This president isn't standing up for Ukraine, isn't standing up for Europe, isn't standing up for the illegals that are here.
No, this is a president that's standing up for me.
And this is what's resonating.
This is what's resonating, okay?
And we'll talk about the polls because I know there were some sketchy polls out there.
The president has no use for Fox.
Fox's pollster.
I know her.
We'll talk about that a little bit later on because he's blasting those Fox polls and he's saying, hey, I don't understand.
Rupert told me he's going to get rid of this lady and he doesn't get rid of her.
Fox Polls Backfire00:09:07
You know, how is it that she's still there?
She doesn't have very good polls because, hey, look, gosh darn it, I won.
I won, right?
Even despite what the media kept saying about me, 99.9999% negative coverage and he still won the day.
And it's because, I'll tell you, people are sick and tired of Democrats stealing our money.
whether it be to go to USAID and all these ridiculous programs abroad, whether it be to go to Minnesota and help with the daycares and the hospices.
California, $80 billion they're predicting was lost from U.S. taxpayers, stolen, I shouldn't say lost, stolen from U.S. taxpayers.
And now today, a Florida congresswoman who's actually still in Congress, kind of amazingly enough, even though she's been indicted for stealing FEMA funds.
This is a first.
They got a trial going on as we speak.
My friend Chad Pergam, take a look at him.
walk in the halls of Congress there and pointing out that this is something that has not happened in some time.
But it has to happen, ladies and gentlemen, because they cannot keep stealing.
This woman is alleged to have done exactly that with your taxpayer money.
I look forward to my day in court so I can prove myself and actually state the truth.
But if this is what Congress is becoming, where they're always trying to intimidate you, scare tactics, especially attacking minorities, black and brown people, then we're going to have to keep fighting for the district.
And everybody has been giving me so much support, and we're going to keep fighting until the district gets what it needs, which is fair prices, housing, and fair representation to Congress.
Okay, that's Sheila McCormick you're looking at.
Sheila McCormick out of Florida, who allegedly made off with a whole bunch of FEMA funds.
And as I said, this hasn't happened.
We actually haven't seen a trial.
I think we're going to see one with Ilhan if she even gets to that stage because my sense, and we'll get to this a little bit later in the program, this is coming up, my sense is they're going to find a whole bunch of stuff tying back to her husband's venture capital firm and a whole money trail that is highly problematic for one Ilhan Omar.
But this is kind of a rare thing these days.
This room here in the Longworth House office building will be the site of something not seen in Congress in 16 years, a House Ethics Committee trial.
On trial today is Sheila Sherfilis McCormick.
She is a Democrat from Florida.
She's been charged with embezzling $5 million in COVID money.
And there's been criticism by some House Democrats that their leaders have not been as forceful as they should be asking for her to resign.
If there's a Republican effort to censure or expel Sherfilis McCormick this week, are Democrats going to oppose that?
Next question.
What could be the penalty for the Congresswoman?
Well, one of her Sunshine State colleagues already has an idea.
Regardless, whatever comes out of the hearing, I'll move on expulsion.
Now, the Congresswoman says that she's innocent, and she's frustrated that the committee is moving ahead with this hearing as she awaits a criminal trial.
Yeah, she's innocent.
She's innocent, right?
The only reason anybody's going after her is because of the color of her skin.
That's what we just heard from her.
That's what she keeps saying.
How dare you?
I mean, I'm sorry.
We've heard that one before.
We've heard that with Ilhan Omar, have we not?
Over and over and over again.
So much so that the original Ethics Committee investigation into just exactly why her husband was getting paid.
nearly three million bucks to run her campaign, an outrageous amount of money that should never be paid to any campaign manager, has never been paid to any campaign manager, let alone a little lowly one from Minneapolis.
I'm telling you, they didn't move forward on that.
Why didn't they move forward?
They didn't move forward because they were afraid she was going to say, this is racist.
This is unfair.
You don't want a black woman from Somalia to be able to succeed in the United States of America.
I'm living the American dream.
Why do you want to take that away from me?
That was her line.
That was her MO.
And she said it over and over and over and over again.
And so they backed off because you know why?
They need Minnesota.
And because we've invited every Tom, Dick, and Harry or Muhammad, Ahmed, or whatever else, you know, into the country.
I mean, she married two Ahmeds.
I'm just saying.
Because we invited them all in, they now have a hold on Minnesota.
And that hold on Minnesota means if you go after Ilhan Omar, you're going after us.
And so the pure and simple, easy reason why the Ethics Committee did not pursue that with her was because she was too important to the state of Minnesota and to the Democrat Party in Minnesota.
But this is big news.
I mean, even NBC covered it for a quick 15 seconds, so you know it's got to be big.
Tonight, a congresswoman is facing calls to resign after she was charged with stealing FEMA funds.
Democratic Florida Congresswoman Sheila Sherfulis-McCormick was indicted by a federal grand jury on charges she stole more than $5 million of taxpayer money meant for disaster relief.
She denied the charges, calling them intimidation taxes, and said she won't resign.
No, she won't resign.
Thank you to MRC for pulling that clip.
She won't resign.
And by the way, she's got the backing.
I'm not going to bore you with his statement because we've run it a few times before.
Hakeem Jeffries is all in.
You see, they're protecting their own.
They're corralling all around themselves.
And I don't get it because, look, we got a lot going on, right?
We got a DHS that needs funding.
We got people who can't get through airport lines.
And we got strikes on Iran with NATO just leaving us high and dry.
So we got NATO leaving us high and dry and we got the Democrats leaving us high and dry.
So you got MAGA?
Which, by the way, plenty in MAGA are leaving us high and dry too.
Let's be really clear.
Okay, so you get some splintering there, this president again having to go this thing solo and taking on the risk because I've looked at the polls too, and again we'll talk about it, but that's what a president does.
Okay guys, if you are confronted with intelligence that leads you to believe you're going to do something to keep the world safe and to keep the United States Of America safe and to keep the future safe, you're willing to take and make those very, very hard decisions.
And sometimes they're just not popular, but sometimes you just got to say, I'm going to do what I need to do.
Because this is the right thing for the country, for the world, and for the people that sent me here to office.
As for Sheila, Sheila was doing the right thing for Sheila.
Sheila was apparently, according to these allegations, doing everything she could to line her own pockets, including getting herself a $100,000 plus diamond ring.
Did you see this?
So she was kind of unhappy.
Somebody posted this on Twitter, and I thought this was great.
She was kind of unhappy because it turns out that that big giant ring that you see in one of the pictures was then not there in the other ring.
They're calling it her FEMA ring because she's got like a giant, beautiful yellow diamond.
I mean, this thing is gorgeous, right?
And she was very proudly showing it off.
If we slow this down, let me see here.
Do you see this ring?
This is, they call it the FEMA ring because, you know, to have a, well, there, now you see it, now you don't, okay?
Voila, look at that thing.
Absolutely gorgeous, right?
And it ran roughly a hundred and some odd thousand dollars.
And according to authorities, this is part $109,000.
There we go.
And according to authorities, gosh, this is unbelievable.
This is part of what she spent.
You see the New York, is this the New Times?
I thought it was the New York Post, but I've seen other headlines like this.
So the representative allegedly stole this money and then spent it on all kinds of things, including a $109,000 gorgeous yellow diamond and then edited it out.
I mean, like she didn't, like who's not going to see that?
Okay.
Like we're all looking at it.
Nice diamond.
Okay.
Nice rock, lady.
And then you edit it out and you post another picture and you think that nobody's going to see the missing diamond.
I mean, how stupid do they think we are?
Clearly very, very stupid, but I got news for them.
We're not so stupid, all right?
And the president's not so stupid.
And his team is not so stupid.
The treasury secretary, the secretary of state, the vice president of the United States, They're not stupid.
And this is coming back to haunt all of these Democrats in real time.
Ilhan Omar, she thought we were really stupid.
Sometimes you look at her and you're like, is she a plant from Iran?
I mean, she and Rashida?
Remember what they pulled?
The night of the State of the Union?
You're sitting there, again, whose side are you on?
We're now striking another nation.
Whose side are you on?
Because it sure doesn't seem like ours.
But of course it's not ours.
I mean, not if you did what is alleged you did.
How could you ever be on the side of America when you were allegedly taking all that money, maybe wiping it clean through the hubby's VC firm?
Ilhan Omar Scandal00:14:38
Trust me, it doesn't have $60 billion asset under management.
My you-know-what, okay?
Total lie.
He's still got that up on his site, for goodness sakes.
And then this Kristen Robbins, who's a politician, a representative, state representative in the state of Minnesota, came to testify, and she's telling you where that money's going.
And we're going to find it.
Watch.
Who led these prosecutions for years stated that the estimated fraud is $9 billion.
And this doesn't count fraud in SNAP or child care programs.
So, where's the money going?
Minnesotans pay their taxes and they expect their money to go to things that help their communities roads, schools, health care, and not to be taken by criminals to buy resorts in Kenya, apartments in Nairobi, property in Turkey, or luxury homes and cars in the U.S. Worse yet, Minnesota taxpayers have allegedly found their ways into the hands of terrorist organizations like Al Shabaab, both directly and indirectly.
The money is walking out the door at the Minnesota Minneapolis St. Paul Airport.
Back in 2017, the estimate was about $100 million in cash was going out annually from our airport.
According to TSA, in 2024, there were $340 million in cash outbound, and in 2025, it was $350 million.
This is astonishing.
Not only because of the amount, but because it is so out of proportion to other airports.
The cash out of Minneapolis is 99% higher than cash going out of Dallas, Atlanta, and JFK in New York.
It's 90% higher than what's going out of Seattle.
Minnesotans are incredibly frustrated that their hard earned money is being siphoned off by criminals while their taxes keep going up and vulnerable citizens don't get the services they need.
Unbelievable that that happened.
And yeah, I guarantee you there's a terror component.
I'm going to go into some dicey territory, okay?
So just hear me out.
Nobody wants to talk about this.
I realize this is not politically correct.
But I've done a ton of reporting on terror finance networks over the course of my career.
I was nominated for an Emmy twice for the connection between Hamas and Hezbollah and a group of Middle Easterners living in Paraguay, Asuncion, Paraguay, Ciudad del Este, as it's known.
No man's land.
Jungle town, okay, bordering Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay.
Paraguay looked the other way.
It didn't care.
The place was running wild.
And so it became the largest source of fundraising for Hezbollah and Hamas outside of, wait for it, Iran.
I worked with the Treasury Department.
I worked with Morgenthau.
Remember Robert Morgenthau in New York, his office?
They were tracking the financing.
This was back in a time when you could actually do this, okay?
Because you wouldn't be said, it wouldn't be said, you know, you're racist because you're tracking Middle Eastern funds that were coming through New York, okay?
We're like the clearinghouse of the world, okay?
So everything comes through New York, usually, typically.
And if you got a good one there, like Morgenthau was, they're going to go after it.
And sure enough, all this money is going back to fund terror groups throughout the world, okay?
That was in Asuncion, Paraguay.
Think about what was happening in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
So anytime you send money home through the Hawala network to Somalia, guess who gets a cut?
Al-Shabaab, terror organization.
Every single time.
So even if you are not deliberately sending money to Al-Shabaab, they're taking a cut.
It's how it works.
Again, I've done a lot of reporting on it.
This is going all the way back to 2006, 2007.
I've known about this for a while.
So even if you assume that these were hardworking people just earning an honest living, okay, you know, they had a job at McDonald's and they cashed their paycheck for minimum wage and they were sending it back via the Hawala network to family members in Somalia.
Let's go with that just for a minute.
Guess what?
Al-Shabaab takes a cut.
So you want to know why the Treasury Secretary is all over this?
Do you want to know why they're now offering rewards for anybody that can report on the Hawala network?
It's because it is challenging, yes, number one.
At some point it clears through a bank, though.
And that's what Besant, Treasury Secretary Besant, is looking for.
He needs to have the leads.
They've sent over 100 people from JD Vance's office and that team and Miller out there on the ground in Minneapolis, in Minnesota, tracking this all down.
But you have Treasury and the IRS doing the exact same thing.
So they're coming at this from multiple angles, on top of which you've got comer's team and the ethics committee also trying to figure this out.
But when you think about what we're up against with Iran right now, and you think about how NATO doesn't have our back, and then you look around and you say, gee, we got Rashida and we got Ilhan, we got other members of the squad that clearly don't like us very much.
And by us, I mean all of us in the United States of America.
You are a representative for Congress.
You're going to take Iran's side over us?
Well, why don't you just go move to the UK or better yet Spain?
Okay, go go move to Spain and and and call us, you know From your your vacation territory because you're not acting like much of a U.S. citizen But when Kristen Robbins whom you just heard from there the representative from Minnesota says they're sending all this money all around the world These are the new questions that Ilhan Omar aside from her allegiance to the U.S. Which is clearly in my estimation clearly in doubt.
This is what they're starting to ask for There is an investigation, by the way, going on into her marriage, her second marriage to the second Ahmed, who apparently disappeared, took off shortly after they were married, and she wound up back with the first guy, the first Ahmed.
So yes, that in and of itself, and you've heard the president say, I hope they're looking into that.
We can confirm that the DOJ has said, yeah, they're looking into it.
And it doesn't need to even have been her brother.
It could have just been a false marriage.
Let's go with that, okay?
Because we don't really want to think about the other stuff.
But let's go with that.
It was just a paid-for arranged marriage in order to help somebody get citizenship.
Let's assume that.
Well, guess what?
Da-da-da!
She's done.
And she's getting deported.
And she's getting denaturalized.
The whole shebang.
Because that is not allowed.
There was a guy just down in Florida recently, an immigrant from Haiti, who wound up stealing a whole bunch of stuff during 2020.
Boy, that was a free-for-all, huh?
2020.
Boy, it wasn't just the congresswoman from Florida that's alleged to have stolen.
There's all kinds of people.
So you had the Haiti guy, and he was stealing.
And so guess what they did?
Because his citizenship was going on at that particular time, they were able to go back in time and say, hey, you committed this fraud.
And so we are going to come after you.
We are going to denaturalize you because you can't have been committing fraud around the time before you became a U.S. citizen here in this country.
So was she committing fraud?
These are the questions they're going to want to know answers to.
You know, there's local publications out in Minneapolis saying that she has not yet turned over everything that she needs to turn over.
That Timmy, the hubby, is dragging his feet.
Well, no wonder he's dragging his feet, right?
But he can drag his feet all he wants.
At some point, push comes to shove, we're going to get the records from everywhere.
You heard Robbins talking about the importance of Somalia, the importance of Dubai, Kenya, in all of this.
Kenya, for example, is one where, you know, anything goes as far as finances go.
But, but, lucky for us, as an American citizen, if we say, hey, we want the rap on this American citizen, we want to know if Timmy Minot has any bank accounts or Ilhan Omar has any bank accounts or anybody associated with him has any bank accounts over there, guess what?
Kenya has to turn it over.
And they will turn it over because what did I tell you earlier?
We are the clearinghouse for the world.
Like it or not, hegemonic power comes with a little bit of status.
And we use that status when we have to.
That's why we can turn it off, right?
You know, that's why everybody was upset.
You know, Iran didn't get its $56 billion until what's his name came around?
Barack Hussein Obama.
And he thought that, you know, if you just give him money, that that'll be the answer to the solution.
Didn't seem to think.
He just didn't get that they might actually decide to continue enriching uranium during that time.
No.
So Barack Obama gave them money.
Look what happened.
Joe Biden gave them money, $6 billion.
And they're all saying, well, technically it's theirs, right?
It's over here in U.S. accounts.
What did I tell you?
U.S. hegemonic power?
We are the clearinghouse for the world.
We control the bank accounts of everyone.
We do, okay?
So we can just shut it off.
We don't give them their money.
Oil's priced in dollars, which means they all clear through the US of A, typically through New York.
We've reported on Letitia's very lax standards.
We may have to get back to that soon because I'm curious to know why she keeps looking the other way on certain deals and certain things that do actually have to do with Iran.
I think it's all connected.
All of this is connected and it all leads back to a very bad place that the president is finally coming down on.
Because somebody finally had the ability, the wherewithal, and the nerve to do something about a nation that wants to hurt America, Americans, and anybody with Western values and Western sensibilities.
So this investigation into Ilhan Omar's funding now fully global, we need to know how the heck did a woman go from having negative $50,000 to $50,000 to suddenly being worth $30 million.
That's not normal.
Like, I don't care how good an investor you are, and I'm a pretty good investor.
I'm a very good investor, and my colleague at 76 Research is also a very, very good investor.
How good are we?
Well, take a look at this.
These are some of our stock portfolios.
A quick shout out to 76 Research, the other company I own.
And look at those three portfolios.
They're doing great.
A lot of great, great names in those portfolios.
Go check it out.
when you can, 76research.com.
I would just say, you know what, even us, as good as we are, and I've been fortunate and successful and made the right calls and been willing to stick it out, but even I can't tell you I'm going to go from negative 50 to 30 million in less than two years.
I mean, that just doesn't happen unless you're doing something funny.
And by funny, I mean probably illegal.
All right.
This is the allegation.
I think there's a lot there.
So she's upset.
She's having, I put on the screen a new.
good, very bad day.
It's a kid's book, as I recall.
Ilhan Omar's Every Day is like a no good, very bad day.
But again, let's go back to why this is being allowed to happen.
Why did they continue allowing this woman to just continue on?
Clearly as an alleged enemy to the United States.
I mean, she's really not on our side ever.
And now apparently all the cool kids are deciding, let's not be on America's side.
I'm sorry.
You know, when push comes to shove and you're up against an enemy and you're at war, I think there's one side and one side only.
I don't care how much you hate Trump.
Randy Fine, the representative from Florida, speaking out on the House floor today because he's over it.
He's sick of it.
He wants Ilhan Omar deported as of yesterday.
Let's watch him.
What I have learned in this debate is Democrats care about three things Muslim terrorists, Somali pirates, and illegal immigrants.
And what's clear to me, if we want to fund the Department of Homeland Security and get them on board, there's one simple solution.
Have all of those TSA agents declare they are illegal immigrants because then they'll rush to get the money over to them to get them funded.
It is not right to keep the government closed.
If you want changes in policy, let's have those debates.
But the same people who demand these folks not be masked spent years demanding the rest of us get arrested if we weren't willing to wear them.
The hypocrisy is stunning, and the American people are not being served.
We need the job to get done.
We need to get the whole thing funded, and I support the resolution fully.
So if you haven't heard by now, we still don't have any money.
We still don't have any money to pay the TSA workers.
And you do have I see one of you guys is pointing out maybe Ilhan can come to the rescue.
We ran that yesterday.
There's a soundbite of the president saying, yeah, you know, he's trying to work with Ilhan because Ilhan is willing to pay the salaries of those DHS workers that are not getting paid at TSA right now to try and alleviate the burden so that Americans can travel.
But I will say this.
You know what?
It's all going back to the same thing.
You have a team of people that are constantly working against us, both domestically and it feels like internationally.
I want to go to Randy Fine speaking recently on Newsmax saying something else about Ilhan Omar specifically.
Why?
Well, I agree with the president 100%.
Ilhan Omar is a walking example of everything that is wrong with our legal immigration policy.
We imported tens of thousands of people who hate America, add no value to it, rob and steal from us, and we're supposed to be okay with it.
I don't think Ilhan Omar should be expelled from Congress.
I think she should be expelled from the United States.
And that's something that I'm working on.
But what prompted me to take this position is she decided to send around fundraising emails saying I should be expelled from Congress.
Well, if that's her view, she should go for it.
And so what I've said is if I'm going to try to expel her, it won't be in a fundraising email.
She'll deal with it on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives.
Yeah.
So he's trying.
He's trying.
Again, this would relate back to Emmer's bill as well.
Bill Emmer, who's actually made the point that, look, you know, anybody who has done anything illegal in terms of defrauding U.S. taxpayers of their hard-earned money, they should, forgive me, Tom Emmer, they should be sent packing.
It does not make any sense that this woman could have made this much money.
Deportation Bill Passes00:04:39
So increasingly now we're seeing a call, a movement to deport people that are here.
On this vote, the yeas are 231, the nays are 186.
The bill is passed.
Without objection, a motion to reconsider is laid on the table.
Boom.
So this is the deportation bill.
This was just passed yesterday.
And this goes a long way towards trying to crack down on this fraud.
If you are here illegally as a non-citizen in this country and you do something that defrauds U.S. taxpayers, it could be as simple as your SNAP benefits or Social Security benefits, anything related to taxpayer fraud, fraudulently taking, using our money, then guess what?
That's going to trigger your deportation.
However, it's only applying to non-citizens.
Tom Emmer wants to take it further.
Randy Fine wants to take it further.
Marshall Blackburn in the Senate wants to take this further.
They want legislation that would say, hey, you know what?
If you became a naturalized U.S. citizen at any point during your life, but you defrauded the U.S. taxpayer, we have the ability to go back and claw back your citizenship, throw you in jail, and throw you out of the country.
Here he is.
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.
That was directed at you know who.
I love that soundbite.
I really do.
I think Tom is doing a phenomenal job at trying to get some recognition for this.
So if you've seen it before, forgive me.
You'll probably see it again.
Like, I really, really like that soundbite because he's standing up for all us everyday folks in America that do not deserve to have been ripped off by the likes of Ilhan Omar or anybody out there in California doing what it's alleged those folks in California are doing.
The President of the United States taking on Gavin Newsom in a mega way.
All right, a huge, huge way.
I mean, this guy, Gavin, he's really looking like a loser.
Did you see what he did with Nick Shirley the other day?
He went after attacking Nick Shirley.
Nick Shirley, who's been exposing all this fraud.
He's mad because Nick's out in California and exposing more of it.
They're talking about $80 billion that potentially just went up in smoke courtesy of Gavin.
It's a lack of oversight.
Well, you saw what happened to Timmy Walz.
Timmy Walz can't run for governor anymore.
That's going to be a problem for one Gavin Newsom because you see he wants to run for the presidency of the United States of America.
Do not laugh.
He wants to get that gig and that job.
And so now with Nick Shirley out there, it's a problem.
You also had Benny Johnson going on, I think, Jesse Waters show last night.
And Benny was making the point that, look, it's all coming out.
It's all getting exposed.
So what did Gavin do?
He accused him of being gay.
Okay, Benny, by the way, who's like married with a slew of kids.
And I'm like, wait a second.
Gavin, that really isn't appropriate.
Like for you, Mr. Gay Champion, right?
Like that wasn't that your legislation you were so proud about in San Francisco?
Like you're Mr. Gay, right?
Like you're all about like, why would you say something like this?
Are we like in third grade and we're like calling somebody a gay lord?
I mean, Gavin is losing it.
And the president took him on in a pretty big way today.
I mean, I hate to elevate him that way in some ways.
You know, I'd rather the president not even bother because this guy just doesn't deserve it if you ask me.
He really just doesn't deserve it.
And yet, you know what?
I think the president just gets sick and tired of all of this rhetoric.
Let me see if I have for you what Benny put out, because this is just unbelievable.
And it's kind of par for the course, par for the course with this Gavin Newsom who thinks it's somehow appropriate to look the other way.
I mean, is this a Tim Walz kind of move?
You're just going to look the other way.
People are stealing.
Wouldn't you be happy?
This was Nick Shirley's response.
I mean, like, would you not be happy?
Woodrow Wilson Maritime Law00:08:04
Would you not be happy if, in fact, you found out that this is going down?
And yet he's clearly not.
He's clearly not.
He's clearly angry.
All right, we're going to get to that in a second.
I'll come back to that for you.
But it tells you they're all part of the same cabal if you would.
And look, we got a problem here because we've got to sort of mitigate all this and we've got to make sure that people still can put food on the table and inflation doesn't kill them.
And, you know, how do you deal with that in the meantime, right?
How do you deal with that as you struggle in the polls?
We'll get to those in a little bit.
I asked my friend Kent Strang from AFP.
He's terrific.
And he came on the show a little earlier with me today.
We just did a little interview, a quick one.
And I want to present this to you because he has some good ideas.
Let's take a look.
Kent Strang here from AFP.
Back on the show by Popular Demand.
Kent Strang from AFP.
Kent, good to see you again.
Great to be with you again, Trish.
Thanks for having me.
We got a present, right?
From Iran, after all, 10 ships were allowed to go through.
10 oil ships through the Strait of Hormuz, the president says.
Ultimately, I am of the belief, curious to get your thoughts on this.
I think this is going to be okay.
And I think we are actually going to have I mean, maybe it's not the Strait of America.
Maybe that's rubbing their face in it a little bit too much, but we're going to have a lot of control and say over what's going on there.
And isn't that ultimately what we need to see?
Well, you're right.
It's a good sign to see some ships go through.
I believe there are 800 ships waiting to go through the Strait of Hormuz.
And as you mentioned, it makes up 20% of the global oil supply.
30% of fertilizer goes through the straight.
And as it's been closed, it's created a lot of uncertainty.
And our markets hate uncertainty.
And what do we see at home?
That leads to gas prices reaching around $4 per gallon throughout the country.
And it's going to make potentially food costs go up.
When fertilizer goes up, diesel prices go up.
That makes inputs for farmers increase.
Okay.
So we need to get this under control.
We also need safety and security.
for the Middle East and for the world, frankly, including us.
Thank you very much.
So that's a big part of what all of this is.
And of course, the president's concerns with some of the intelligence he saw that suggested Iran was really, really close to having that nuclear weapon and being able to fire it onto Europe.
So knowing all that, knowing that it could be rough, right, for the foreseeable future, are there other things that we can be doing, should be doing to mitigate these oil prices?
I mean, for starters, right, you know, Gavin, I'm sorry, but I think that the drilling is going to happen off the coast of California there.
That's really something that's getting under his skin, among other things, shall we say, out there in California.
California, but there are other things that we should be approaching.
Well, there are a few things that we have done and more that we can't do.
What have we done?
One, President Trump has gone away from the Biden era Green New Energy Deal policies.
He repealed a lot of those executive orders that Biden had.
In the working families tax cuts, they expanded offshore drilling in the United States.
That's a great sign.
Then recently, President Trump has put a 60 day temporary halt on something that's called the Jones Act.
You might be asking yourself, what Is the Jones Act?
It is a law from 1920 that President Woodrow Wilson put in place that says that any product shipped from port to port in the U.S. have to be on a ship that is U.S. built, U.S. owned, and U.S. crude.
Well, the problem with that when it comes to oil prices and moving oil is that only 54 oil tankers fall within that criteria, and it can cost more to ship oil from Texas to New York.
Than it does shipping it from overseas.
And so that means.
Oh, okay.
We got it.
Sorry.
It's only Thursday.
We're going to slow down a little bit.
So you're talking about in order to get oil from A to B in the United States of America.
So suppose you're pumping in Texas and you need to get it to New York City.
The only way to do it, you know, and you're going to send it by boat, you only have how many ships to do that?
54 meet that Jones Act criteria.
That's certainly not going to be the case.
I mean, I'm sorry, but you can't have 54 ships with the amount of output we've got coming out of Texas and other places in the U.S. That's right.
And so what happens is that it's cheaper to move it from overseas.
And that's a problem when we have situations like Iran or when we have natural disasters like hurricanes.
And presidents previously have put a pause on the Jones Act during hurricane season or natural disasters or things like Iran.
And it might ask the question if we pause it during times of crises, shouldn't we just get rid of it?
And so it would be a big time.
Heck yeah.
Either that or build a whole lot more ships.
Right.
But it's incredibly expensive to do so.
It's more expensive to build a ship in the United States than it is elsewhere in the world due to prices and due to labor costs.
And so this is what maybe sounds patriotic that, hey, American made, American ships, but it's a protectionist policy that drives up.
Cost and when cost is at the top of mind for American families, especially with four dollar gasoline, we want some relief.
And so, let's get rid of this antiquated law, not just pause it temporarily for 60 days.
But how about Congress serves one up for the American people and for affordability and says, Hey, this law from 1920?
I mean, so okay, let's go back to 1920.
So, who was it?
Was this a Woodrow Wilson move?
This is a Woodrow Wilson.
This is a Woodrow Wilson special, huh?
Yeah, Woodrow Wilson special from World War I for a maritime law where they probably wanted more U.S. ships in the event that we needed them to build more ships in the United States.
But it's an antiquated law.
The other problem with the Jones Act is the U.S. is the number one producer of LNG, liquid natural gas.
We pump a lot of that and distribute that through pipelines.
But in order to get that to places like Hawaii or to Puerto Rico, for instance, We don't have any tankers that can move LNG.
So, places like Hawaii or Puerto Rico have much higher costs to cook food, for instance, because they have a lot harder access to get LNG.
And so, it makes some of our territories and things harder to get natural gas, makes it more expensive for them and their areas where we could lower prices if we just didn't have ridiculous protectionist laws like this.
Okay, Eric, I gotta say, I don't see where the upset would come from.
Why wouldn't people want to get rid of this?
Because I'm sorry, you just don't have enough boats.
It's not economically efficient enough to keep making boats.
So, why not say, hey, you know, we're going to get rid of this thing for good because long term we should have the lowest energy possible prices that you can imagine, especially when we make this stuff ourselves.
It seems like a no brainer to me.
And I also think we could go further than that.
We can also look at our permitting system in America.
There are hundreds of projects that are stopped due to our permitting process.
We could put Shovels into the ground.
Sometimes it takes longer to get a permit in America than it does to build the project itself, to have the infrastructure we need to be successful.
And there are all these barriers that stop us from producing.
Look, energy security is national security.
And when we have conflicts throughout the world, like we do with Iran right now, I think it should be a really good reminder to the president and to Congress, all members of Congress, regardless of political affiliation.
That we need to be competitive in this space.
Okay, why haven't we?
Yeah, look, I hear you, right?
Eliminate The Jones Act00:03:57
You had me at hello with this one.
How many?
54 ships?
You said?
That's all we have.
That's right, 54.
It's nuts.
Okay, so we only have 54 ships, so get rid of the thing.
What's the holdup?
I don't know.
Let's call our members of Congress and urge them to eliminate the Jones Act.
We can do it right here, Trish.
Okay.
Everybody watching online, call your member of Congress before they go to recess and say, hey, first, let's open the government and get rid of pay TSA workers.
Let's do that first.
I know we got a lot of work here to do.
Yeah.
How about we make sure DHS is funded?
We get rid of the brinksmanship and the games that we're playing with American families that are traveling in a time of heightened security, and we actually open up TSA.
Why don't we start there and end these silly shutdowns?
Then, two, let's get rid of the Jones Act.
How about we do those two things before we end the weekend?
That would be a good idea.
Look, I love what you guys are doing.
I love how much you're promoting the 250th anniversary of this country.
I want to show everybody what's on your site.
This is a site I'm thrilled to partner with all of you in this.
I'm going to put it up.
Okay.
So for all the viewers right now, if you're watching, this is where you need to go because we all got to get on board right now with this constitution.
And, you know, I'm going to put it up A250, because 250th year, A250toolkit.com forward slash Trish, T R I S H.
And if you go there, this is what you're going to see.
I don't know if you can see it right now, Kent, on your screen, but I have it right in between us.
Freedom.
Fighter bracket.
Is this a play on March Madness?
Oh, it is.
And it is so much fun.
We have taken 64 of America's greatest freedom fighters and we have put them in a bracket.
And we want to see who you think is the best American freedom fighter.
Some great first round matchups are Paul Revere versus Alexander Hamilton.
Hamilton has not always been strong in a duel, but he's not going to throw away a shot in this one.
I think he advances.
We're going to have some really tough matchups.
But look, I don't think anybody can bet against.
George Washington, the father of our country, taking this down in a one seat.
Patricia, I think you should go call on Rocket League.
I would play this with the kids.
No joke.
Friday night, my house is going to be, we're going to have quite the party.
But this is the idea, right?
This is what you guys are trying to do.
Like, it's the 250th anniversary of this great, incredible nation.
And so let's celebrate it all year long and let's do it with friends and family and find like fun, patriotic things that we can do.
I think this is a great play on it.
You know, I don't really like basketball anyway.
I don't say that around my husband much.
He actually was a professional basketball player, believe it or not.
In Europe, in Europe, we have to qualify it.
So the kids get their height from him.
From him, but this is cool.
Uh, since I don't really get into the March Madness the way you think maybe I would, uh, this one I could kind of get into, and I'll play this with the kids for sure.
It's a lot of fun, it's great, and you can debate.
There are a lot of really tough matchups that really make you think about who had the biggest impact.
Look, I gotta argue with some of my co workers who made this bracket.
The Wright brothers are a 10 seed, I don't know how you put them so low in this bracket.
I mean, we wouldn't.
I don't know where we'd be without the Wright brothers, but it's a lot of fun.
A lot of great Americans are on this, and it's fun to debate who maybe is the best.
This is so cool.
I'm looking at it.
I'm going to have to show some video of this.
We'll get this popped up.
You've got Abraham Lincoln and James Madison and Ben Franklin and Paul Revere, and wow.
Okay, so the Freedom Fighters, and you have Liberty League.
You've got an Eagle Eight, a Sentinel 16.
I love it.
All right, good stuff.
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So join me as we put together our freedom fighter brackets.
Kent, good to see you.
I think we're going to work on this.
To heck with the Jones Act, for goodness sakes.
It's been more than 100 years.
Let's move on already, right?
Right.
Thanks so much for having me, Trish.
Always a pleasure.
Good to see you.
Again, my thanks to Kent Strang.
We're going to have to try that freedom bracket, right?
Ilhan Omar, back to her right now because the Ilhan Omar investigation, it's full on, okay?
She's getting hit by treasury.
She's getting hit by.
IRS.
She's getting hit by Comer and the Ethics Committee, and she's getting hit by the White House and JD Vance.
She's also getting hit on the citizenship front by DOJ.
So this is widening.
It's getting bigger.
They're now looking for documents from bank records in other countries.
But you got to think about what's also happening in California, right?
Because in California, Gavin Newsom thinks that it's cool to get mad at a reporter who's trying to report on the $80 billion that is believed to have just gone missing.
And I'll tell you, People are over it.
Like they're just getting kind of sick of it.
And his comebacks are just getting lamer and lamer and lamer.
All right.
So the president had it up to here.
And understandably so.
As for Gavin Newsom, I don't know who he's trying to be right now.
Again, going after Benny Johnson, going after Nick Shirley.
I don't know how this is going to work.
I mean, do you remember Wayne's World?
Dana Carvey?
Dana Carvey's like going after Gavin and David Spade.
Comedian.
He's going after Gavin like Hollywood's turning on him because it's getting kind of ridiculous, all this money that you can't account for.
Here is the president of the United States calling out Gavin Newsom, saying he's basically declalified himself from running because of his challenges.
I don't care about the Democrats.
The Democrats hate our country.
The Democrats are in chaos right now and they have no common sense.
Gavin Newsom, who is one of the candidates, I believe he took himself out of the running when he says he suffers from mental disability.
And a reporter said it was terrible that I talked that way about somebody with mental disability.
I said, I have no problem with it, but I don't want a person with mental disability to be my president.
I mean, you don't want to have a person with mental disability being your president.
And Gavin Newsom said that he can't read a speech, he can't do almost anything.
And then he said he's as dumb as all the people in the room.
accused of being a racist, which was an amazing thing.
I thought it was the worst interview I've ever seen anybody give.
He's actually a very stupid person.
So I believe he's out of the running.
I think that that statement, that interview, he admitted that he's a stupid person.
I don't want a stupid person being president.
He did actually volunteer over and over again that, you know, he's not that bright and that he can't read and that there's a reason he never, like, reads from a piece of paper with a speech.
Nothing that, you know, like dyslexia, you can be brilliant and have dyslexia, don't get me wrong.
It's that he really tried to say like, look, I'm not smart.
I can't do well on a test.
My SAT, I barely got by.
By the way, simultaneously insulting a room of African-American individuals who had come to listen to him speak.
So you're sitting there going, great, right?
Like this is how he identifies with me.
I'm black.
And so he's like, I'm stupid, just as stupid as you.
That's really, that was stupid, okay?
That was a stupid, asinine move.
And then this was also pretty stupid.
So, Benny Johnson, he's got a good show, a good channel.
He went on with my former colleague, Jesse Waters.
They were having a good time talking about Gavin last night.
Watch this because you're going to see Gavin's response.
Benny, so I'm doing it wrong.
I should have just listed my house as a daycare center, and I would have been living with no mortgage.
I think it's incredible what's happening to Gavin Newsom.
He's Turning into Cruella Deville before our very eyes with that hairstyle and color.
He is really getting spooked.
You're watching The Man Age in real time.
Between what Nick Shirley is exposing and between what your show is exposing and what we were able to find with the homeless fraud, it's really left to wonder what's real in California.
It's certainly not Ilhan Omar's fake winery.
Is there anything in California that is left that actually Will serve the people living there.
And I don't think there is.
That's why voter ID has just got one on the ballot.
It's going to be on the ballot in November.
It's why two Republicans are polling number one and number two far away in large margins, Jesse, for the next governor of the state.
I think that people are sick of it.
And I think more importantly, you're going to see some massive changes.
And it's not just the changes to the people who will be working inside of those hospice centers.
I think that's my main question to you, Jesse who are those people?
Who are the.
What's the poor guy that has to sit there on the white plastic chair all day faking to be a daycare worker or a hospice worker?
What are they leering?
Where do they train?
I don't know, but I really feel sorry for those people.
They're faking to be naked.
She was like, I'm naked.
And Shirley's like, No, you're not.
I know what a naked woman looks like, and you're not naked.
Yeah.
You remember that when he knocked on her door and she's like, I can't come out, I'm naked?
What kind of daycare are you running, lady?
Anyway, so.
A cute segment, right.
Benny tweets it out and the next thing you know, this pops up.
Take a look guys, take a look.
I mean i'm telling you Gavin Newsome, this is not a good look for you, buddy Boy.
His press office sent this out after he said I got a, Benny said I got a call from the White House after this hit on Jesse Waters show last night about the fraud in California.
There's a reason Gavin Newsome looks so terrified right now.
He should be.
And Gavin's press office sends this back.
We got a call from Grindr.
It's a gay meetup app.
So, you know, like Bumble or something or, you know, any of these, Match.com.
I don't know.
You guys probably know these apps better than I do.
Maybe you do.
Maybe you don't.
Anyway, gosh, I'm really lucky I'm not dating nowadays.
I don't think I'd know what to do.
Grindr is an app for people that are of homosexual persuasion.
So that's kind of a really weird thing for Gavin Newsom to say.
Like, it's a lousy thing for him to say.
Like, you're going to go in on the gay jokes, buddy.
I'm going back to the president who says, you just took yourself out of the running because you're so stupid.
You are clearly so stupid.
And you know what?
I'm not the only one who says they're tired of you.
And Benny's not the only one.
And Jesse, no, a lot of people are getting tired of you, including your own crew out there.
And by your own crew, I mean Hollywood.
David Spade, okay?
David Spade.
Do you remember when he was a comedian?
There used to be some show that he was on.
Maybe it was with Brooke Shields.
I can't remember.
A sitcom back in the day.
And then he goes on with, A name I haven't heard in a while, or a guy I haven't seen.
I almost fell off my chair when I saw this because all of a sudden you're watching David Spade, and along comes the guy from Wayne's World, okay, Dana Carvey.
It's unbelievable.
Watch, they're over, Gavin, as much as we all are.
The same broader problem with people paying taxes in California when they're building a hundred billion dollar train to Sacramento, San Francisco area.
That I don't know if everyone's clamoring for it when you could take 10 billion and probably fix a lot of problems in California.
But they keep pushing this 10 year thing about the train.
That's just one of the crazy things.
The homeless, they lose 20 billion, but they want more money for it.
That's why people get tired of paying taxes and going, What are you doing?
Gavin Newsom just vetoed.
A bill asking for an audit of where the money for homeless goes.
He said, Not a chance.
You're not going to see that.
That's well, I don't think anyone could disagree with this.
There are states, I don't have them offhand, who basically you go to their website and they tell you where all the money's going.
Yeah, line by line.
Maybe it's thousands of pages a year, but you can see where it's going.
So when there's he's behind the curtain, don't pay attention to Gavin Newsom, you know.
It's a little bit frustrating because you go, you can't ask for more.
I mean, if someone's, if you're in a household and someone's blowing all the money, you go, what are you spending it on?
Don't worry about it.
Just give us more money.
You go, well, I'd like to see something.
And if it's fixing homeless, great.
But don't just take it and then be like, homeless has gotten worse.
You go, it's like, excuse me, Kevin, excuse me.
Could we ask where the 20 billion went?
That's a great question, but no.
Garth, I'm sorry.
That was Garth asking?
It was Garth, a little bit of Garth.
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Oh my goodness.
I mean, that takes me back, right?
Like, those are some interesting faces to see, but like, they've had it.
So, Gavin, I don't know what to tell you.
You know, you can go on and on with your stupid little gay jokes, literally, and you can keep spending money, but we're going to find out where it's all going.
And if it's going to more pirates and if it's going overseas, oh, you're going to be in a lot of trouble too, I think.
And this is why you're getting so nervous, right?
This is why you're nervous.
I want to turn to polls because I think there's some interesting things we can take from this new poll stuff that came out.
And, you know, CNN is saying the president's not doing great.
But the president, he said, well, you know, these polls aren't so great themselves, right?
And we know we've been down that path before.
So I think you got to take it with a grain of salt.
But the other thing I wanted to talk about was the market sell-off that we saw today, okay?
The market ending the day down.
It's okay.
Like, it's not the end of the world, guys.
I want to stress that because this has been a trying time.
And Secretary Besant's a smart guy.
He's on it.
He's trying to come up with policies that are going to help us through this challenge right now.
But what happens on the other side?
Eventually, in my estimation, if they're successful on this, you're going to have oil fall like a rock.
And so he was asked, Scott Besant, the Treasury Secretary, was asked about this on CNBC by a guy that I used to work with at Bloomberg.
I feel like the world's getting really small.
Either that or I've just worked at too many media places by now.
Very nice guy, Brian Sullivan.
We were at his wedding many, many years ago to his beautiful bride.
Anyway, Brian sitting down on CNBC with Scott Besant for a look at what's happening with oil.
And I want to point out, this is brought to you in part thanks to our wonderful friends at KirkElliottPreciousMetals, K-E-P-M.com forward slash Trish, my name.
So big shout out to them.
Thank you.
Let's listen here to Brian and Besson.
I asked this to wrap it up.
Expectation of timeline on this because with every passing day, with every passing week, in our 103rd week, markets going up, fertilizers, gas, everything.
And the world is really worried about shortages and also the inflationary effect here and abroad.
Brent, can we just be clear here?
It's two weeks.
It's two weeks.
And I know the media likes to move things along.
We see these headlines.
And that's part of the Iranian strategy.
And it's very unfortunate.
That because of a dislike for President Trump, not you, but a lot of mainstream media are trying to speed this up, trying to make it into some crisis that it's not.
And on the other side of this, if you look at longer dated crude, you look at future inflation expectations, they're both very well anchored.
And this will end.
And I don't know how many weeks it will be.
But on the other side of this, the world will be safer and we will be better supplied.
So the backwardation of the market, you think, is correct?
$80 oil in a couple months.
I think probably much lower.
Wow.
Okay.
Much lower.
You know, this is what traders are afraid of.
This is why you see some traders, as soon as they get some good news about something easing there and it looks like things are going to be solved immediately, what do they do?
They sell the oil so, so, so fast.
So you see it all over the place.
And we get a lot of volatility right now.
What do you do when you have this volatility?
My idea is you stay diversified.
You don't get out.
You don't run for the hills, right?
I mean, you can't.
You can't.
I mean, hopefully you don't need the money tomorrow.
But you look for these opportunities.
I mean, a little inside baseball.
When oil was trading down yesterday, what did I do?
I bought a little bit of oil.
Gold was trading down today.
I bought a little bit of gold.
I mean, so again, if you're committed to a diversified portfolio, you've got to think these things through.
The big question now, and we asked Kirk Elliott, Dr. Kirk Elliott, PhD at Kirk Elliott Precious Metals.com forward slash Trish.
We asked him, What do you think?
What do you think of what Besson's saying?
And he's very fair and he's very forthright.
And he's saying, Look, Besson's got to talk his book to a certain extent.
Look who he's working for.
Let's watch.
Kirk Elliott, guys.
He is optimistic by nature, and B, he is speaking for his president, right?
Because it's both.
I mean, he is the Secretary of Treasury because he's a very accomplished individual.
And he thinks that his policies are going to be effective.
Of course, you would have an optimistic tone.
I have a slightly less optimistic tone on it because I don't know if this conflict is going to end tomorrow.
I think it might have some legs.
I pray that I'm wrong.
But whenever you have conflict that's embroiled in political, economic, religious views, this is really bad.
And I don't know if it's going to.
And anytime real soon.
So he's expressing some concern that's a fair concern right now.
And while I'm hopeful that this is not going to be really prolonged, and I don't think the president wants it to be prolonged, I think as an investor, you need to be prepared for all different scenarios, right?
It's why I often talk about look, if you're going to invest in a stock, you really better like that stock.
You really better believe in that stock because when the going gets tough, and it will, like it will, you better know that you want to keep hanging on to it.
I mean, for me, on a personal level, I always say that about my gold, right?
Because I'm not going to sell my gold.
You know, my gold hopefully is there like for a long time.
Hopefully I never need my gold.
Hopefully I can pass on my gold.
But all that said, you know, look, you need to be understanding what you're investing in.
I want to go back to Dr. Kirk Elliott, PhD.
Again, we thank him for his patronage and his support of this show.
You should go check out his site, Kirk Elliott Precious Metals, K-E-P-M dot com forward slash Trish.
But back to the doctor.
Secretary Besant was talking about the supply chain disruptions.
To me, the duration is everything that matters, right?
If it stops tomorrow, we're not going to see much of a long term effect because then he's right, the price probably comes down to 80.
If this is more of a longer term disruption because of the Strait of Hormuz being shut down, we have to ask ourselves okay, what is this going to mean to the world economy?
And what is this going to mean to America's domestic economy, right?
Because oil is used in everything.
Everything.
True.
It's, you know, probably without a doubt, the number one used commodity on earth.
And I would say silver is probably number two with all the electronics.
But when you have the most used commodity on earth, used in manufacturing, transportation, everything else, and the price goes up, it's going to have a broad effect on inflation overall.
The policy implications of inflation are how do you slow it down?
You either slow down the printing of money or you raise interest rates.
They're not going to slow down the printing of money because they never do.
So, therefore, this violates what Trump wants to do to stimulate the economy, which is lower interest rates, because you can't lower interest rates in the face of inflationary prices because it makes the inflation worse.
So, this is going to have an effect on Trump's domestic economic policy as well.
Yeah, look, again, our thanks to KEPM forward slash Trish.
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I mean, it's really, I spent a lot of time before deciding to partner with him on this and really like him and the organization and what they stand for.
But I do think that, you know, it's uncertain right now, but you have to be committed really long term as an investor.
If Don Back is in the house, he probably disagrees because I know he's in and out and everything within the span of an hour.
You know, good old-fashioned Trish Reagan from New Hampshire likes to hold her stuff for a while.
And gold is actually part of that.
I want to go back to what the president's saying.
He did an interview earlier this afternoon on Fox, and he was pretty outspoken about a number of things, including he got, the president got quite a question from Jesse Waters, who had heard the intel, like the rest of us, that this third Ayatollah, isn't necessarily the brightest bulb.
His father didn't want him to have this gig, but also there was some concern from the father about just exactly what the persuasion of the particular sort of bent was.
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Don't forget, like some of the intel had said that this particular Ayatollah was struggling with impotence.
You may have seen that.
I think we reported on that at some point.
And it turns out that it may not have just been impotence, but it might have been something else.
Uh, that interfered, shall we say, with his desire to have children with a woman.
And Jesse just came right out and said it, gotta love him for this.
Listen, the president's answer.
But let me ask you about Iran.
You kind of suggested that we'd knocked out Ayatollah Jr.
Have we?
And did the CIA tell you that Ayatollah Jr. is gay?
Well, they did say that, but I don't know if it was only them.
I think a lot of people are saying that, which puts them off to a bad start in that particular country, you know.
Just saying.
I sort of have to smile to myself when.
I see people trying to defend the Palestinian regime for women, women for Palestine, but they kill women if you don't wear a certain group of.
If you don't wear certain cloth all over your face, you have no chance of living.
And, you know, when I look at gays for Palestine, but they kill gays, they kill them instantly, they throw them off buildings, and I'm saying, who are the gays for Palestine?
Gays for Palestine.
Now, I think when, you know, I did very well with the gay vote, okay?
I even played the gay national anthem as my walk off, okay?
And I think it probably helped me, but I did great with no Republicans ever gotten the gay vote like I did, and I'm very proud of it.
I think it's great.
Perhaps it's because I'm from New York City.
I don't know.
But the gay national anthem was my walk off, and I think it probably helped.
But think of it gays for Palestine, but they kill gays in Palestine.
So, When they hear that, I think probably we can talk about it, but it shouldn't be too hard.
So, yeah, he had heard that intel.
We had gotten reports that when he was told that, he actually laughed pretty hard.
And it was because of the irony, right, of the situation.
Much like you see Gays for Palestine, you know, look, you wouldn't be able to do that in Palestine, let me tell you that.
So, another thing that has come up, and that is some concern over some recent poll numbers.
This was something that the president was pushed on today.
Basically, the president's view. on these polls is that the polls are not all there and that they're actually pretty biased in and of themselves.
And there's something to that.
There's something to that because the way they ask the questions, the way the questions are awarded can actually have a big influence, believe it or not, on things.
And don't forget, right before the election, remember the Iowa pollster that just came up with this total abomination?
And I think she wound up resigning after all of that.
Anyway, somebody else might be resigning after some of her polls.
And that would be the woman who's apparently in charge of all the polls.
I think she's still there.
She was there when I was there at Fox.
And the president called her out on Fox.
I mean, you get the irony of that, right?
Like, that's not easy.
He's calling out their pollster on their air.
So, this is good.
I actually haven't seen this yet.
We're watching it in real time together, ladies and gentlemen.
Here we go.
Well, we are a very powerful military.
We're the most powerful military nation in the world, and we did a big number on them.
And our people like it because they don't want to see us 100%.
Think of it 100%.
In a CNN poll, CNN poll, which are the worst polls, almost as bad as Fox polls.
I hate Fox polls.
Honestly, whoever does your polls, they're terrible.
Rupert Murdoch has promised me for years he's going to get rid of your pollster, but he doesn't do it.
I don't get it.
But your Fox polls are terrible.
They didn't have much to say on that one.
Good thing the camera was not on them.
Good thing, because I can tell you that that was an awkward moment in the control room.
I know, I've been in that position, not exactly that kind of position, but in that position where all of a sudden.
He starts going there, right?
And you think he's, I think her name is Dana.
He's going to start just taking apart Dana, the pollster, not Dana, the anchor, on their air.
And they're like, oh my God, what do we do now?
What do we do now?
And somebody in the control room is shouting, like, change the conversation, change the conversation, because they don't want to have to get out of the interview.
I just thought that was kind of funny and had to show you.
Look, he's saying 100% of the base is with me.
And he's right.
The base is with him.
I would say, look, 100% of the MAGA base, because now there's this question, like, are you really MAGA?
Because if you're abandoning the president at a time like this, I think that this, you know, Dan Bongino said this the other day on his show, and I thought this was really smart.
He was like, look, we're only, you know, so many days into this.
And if you're just willing to jump ship and you're like, okay, I don't like this president anymore because I don't like what he did in Iran and he promised we weren't going to have any more wars, et cetera, et cetera.
But you don't know what the intel is that he has.
And you're just, you know, you voted for him, right?
Now you're just first foot out the door.
As soon as things don't go perfectly your way, like maybe you should give him a little bit of room.
and a little bit of rope.
You don't think the guys like afforded that?
I mean, after everything he went through, including nearly dying on the campaign trail, you're not going to afford him that.
Give me a break.
Come on.
Like we're better than that.
So I would say if you're MAGA, yeah, you're behind this and you're going to continue to be behind him.
I mean, we're not reckless, right?
You know, if multiple years later, you know, you're in another Vietnam situation, for goodness sakes, that's a whole other story, but we're not there yet.
We're like a month, a month into it, guys.
All right.
So take a deep breath.
I think that when it's all said and done, we're going to be in a better position.
And you know what?
We got to work hard to root out the bad stuff in the country and in the party and in the world, frankly.
I mean, this is all interconnected.
We began talking about NATO and the fact that our friends have abandoned us.
And that's not acceptable.
So why are we supposed to be there for them?
Just to shell out more cash over and over and over again.
Is it going to good places?
Is it getting put to good use?
I don't think so.
I mean, this thing shouldn't be still going on with Ukraine right now if it was actually being executed properly.
But I don't think it does get executed properly.
I think that there's a lot of graft.
I think there's a lot of Minnesota stuff.
We can use that as a euphemism for fraud, right?
Minnesota style stuff going on and that's not okay.
No way.
Quick reminder, you know, the get rich quick thing with Ilhan Omar, that's not admirable.
It's not who we are.
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