Pam Bondi was fired as Attorney General by President Trump for alleged incompetence regarding the Letitia James and James Comey cases, missing the September 30, 2025, statute of limitations deadline. The host criticizes her for tipping off Eric Swalwell about FBI files and failing to prosecute Ilhan Omar's citizenship fraud or recover $250 million from Feeding Our Future amidst a $700 million cash operation through Somalia. With Todd Blanche named interim AG, the episode argues Lee Zeldin must lead a new "A team" to tackle fraud while addressing NATO's fragility after France denied US flights over its territory. Ultimately, this purge signals a shift toward aggressive domestic prosecution and renewed assertiveness in international affairs. [Automatically generated summary]
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Pam Bondi Finally Fired00:05:13
Well, this one had to happen.
I mean, I guess it's better now than never.
It should have happened months ago.
Pam Bondi officially got fired from the DOJ.
And I know a lot of people here like her.
I like her too.
She's a lovely woman.
She looks great on camera.
She does have a lot of loyalty to the president.
And I think he back at her.
But you know what?
When someone just can't do the job, they can't do the job.
And that's when you have to cut the cord.
And that's when you have to say, sorry, honey.
You know what?
It's been nice.
We tried.
It's just not working for us.
Or the country.
All right, for that matter.
Well, Pam Bondi, see you later.
See you later.
She's out.
Yeah, the president does want out of NATO too.
And we're going to get to that in just a little bit.
But I need to stay on Pam right now.
Pam Bondi, ladies and gentlemen, is now out at the DOJ.
The president trying to find another job for her, another gig for her.
He wants to do this in a nice, you know, respectable manner.
But, you know, I'm telling you, he's given her more than she deserves at this point because in my estimation, she failed at every single possible turn.
every single possible opportunity to have done what she needed to do.
She failed it to the point where I'm like starting to think, wait, whose side are you on?
And there's more to that because we need to talk about what some are alleging that she may have tipped one Eric Swallow off that the Fang Fang FBI files were coming his way.
And that is why he then launched a lawsuit preemptively to try to prevent that.
So a lot of fears that maybe she wasn't fully on the president's side.
Of course, this goes back to the Epstein stuff, right?
Like what was going on then?
Oh, my personal favorite, the Comey stuff.
I mean, that was a layup that she had right in front of her.
And she made a decision not to move forward with that.
And I have a lot of reason to suspect that that was, well, you know, at best incompetence and at worst deliberate.
So it looks like Lee Zeldin is going to go in at this point.
We can talk about Lee.
I think Lee is going to be really good because Lee is also very, very much in touch with sort of the financial fraud that may have gone on.
especially vis-a-vis Biden's EPA.
Don't forget he went after Stacey Abrams and the $2 billion that she was getting.
All kinds of stuff, right?
You know, the Democrats had a good thing going, I guess.
Donald Trump putting out this statement moments ago.
And I just want to say to all of you tuning in right now, I appreciate your patience.
I was working the phones and getting some additional intel on this story because I want to make sure everything's right.
And we're a little bit ahead of our showtime compared to when we normally are.
But with this breaking news event, I wanted to come directly as fast as I could to you with this.
The president putting this one out on two social moments ago, Pam Bondi is a great patriot and a loyal friend who faithfully served as my U.S. Attorney General over the past year.
Pam did a tremendous job.
Well, he's generous.
Overseeing a massive crackdown in crime across our country with murders plummeting to the lowest level since 1900.
We love Pam and she will be transitioning to a much needed and important new job in the private sector.
Out of government.
Bye-bye.
Okay.
To be announced at a date in the near future and our deputy attorney general and a very talented and respected legal mind, Todd Blanch, is going to be stepping in to serve as acting attorney general.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
President Donald J. Trump.
Again, I think this should have happened months ago.
I think she was in over her head and she really screwed up.
Or maybe that was deliberate.
I don't know.
I'm leaving that out there for you guys to decide.
I know there are some people in Washington, D.C. that think that she was effectively working against this administration, maybe because she was working for the private gig that she was going to get one day.
Here is what the president sent to her in September of 2025.
He called her out and this was mistakenly sent out on social media.
is believed to have just wanted to communicate this to her personally.
But nonetheless, it was good for us to see it, right?
All in the interest of transparency.
Pam, he writes, I have reviewed over 30 statements and posts saying that essentially same old story as last time.
All talk, no action.
Hello, right?
That's exactly what we were all saying.
Nothing is being done.
What about Comey, Adam Shifty Shift, Letitia?
They're all guilty as hell that nothing's being done.
We can't delay any longer.
We can't delay any longer.
He wrote, it's killing our reputation and credibility.
They impeached me twice and indicted me five times.
over nothing in all caps justice must be served now exclamation point exclamation point exclamation point okay three of them.
And this wound up making its way out onto social media.
And then he took it down and he said something nice about her.
But you know what?
Message heard loud and clear.
She wasn't doing squat.
Why?
She's too busy going onto Fox News.
And I'm sorry.
You know what?
I've been on TV with her in the past.
She's been on my show.
I've been on Newsmax together with her.
And I just have to say, give it up.
All right.
You want to go be a TV person?
Go be a TV person.
I don't mean to be cruel, but she's actually not good enough to host her own show.
Anywhere.
Why She Wasn't Enough00:12:11
She is what you call a contributor and she doesn't contribute frankly, that much in terms of meaningful additions to the conversation.
Ever right like, try going on and talking the economy with Pam Bondy.
Good luck, all right, i'm just I.
I don't mean to be mean and I don't mean to stomp on her when she's down, but this should have happened ages ago.
And this should have happened because guess what James Comer Comer was guilty of in my Comey in in my?
I'm talking about Comer.
Next we get another James James Comer, he's with me on this.
He's like, this lady should have been gone ages ago.
I mean, he's maybe more polite than me, but he's got his own views on this too.
But James Comey was guilty in my estimation of 18 USC, 1001 false statements to the US government.
Remember when he was testifying?
Rand Paul had him right in the corner.
I mean, this was a layup for goodness sakes.
18 USC 1505 obstruction of Congress.
He was not telling Congress the truth.
He lied, okay?
And you had five years, five years. to deal with this.
The statute of limitations was coming up on September 30th, 2025.
And so Pam had every opportunity to move forward with this.
And guess what?
She didn't.
And you got to ask yourself why.
Okay, Eric Sieper, he was the district attorney that was there in Virginia that was in charge of bringing the case forward.
And for whatever reason, he sat on his hands and didn't bring it forward.
But you're Pam Bondi.
Okay, you're his boss.
So why aren't you noticing that September 30th, 2025 is like fast approaching.
Like, why don't you have like a whiteboard in your office that says, okay, we got a statute of limitations here.
I mean, it's like the woman can't even turn her homework in on time, for goodness sakes.
That was my takeaway.
And that, again, is being generous because there are people that feel very strongly that she was deliberately letting Comey get off the hook.
And there are people that feel very strongly that Eric Siepert was letting Comey get off the hook and that Siepert was, you know, somehow in touch with the son-in-law, the son-in-law that was working for Siepert in the office.
So Pam Bondi had comey's son-in-law working on her team in the very office that is supposed to be prosecuting him.
Like, how does that happen?
Really?
I mean, how does that happen?
Federal law generally gives prosecutors five years from the date of the offense to bring charges for these non-capital felonies.
Remember that.
Comey's relevant 2020 testimony occurred on September 30th, 2020.
This is what they were going after him for.
So the statute of limitations applies.
It was set to expire on September 30th, 2025, exactly.
Five years later.
So he just wanted to run out the clock.
Now let's go through the timing here.
January 21st, 2025, this is when mr Eric Siebert is sworn in as the interim U.S attorney.
Now, remember this word, interim U.S attorney.
Okay, so Eric Siebert gets the gig.
He's the interim.
He's got 120 days until he gets officially officially, the gig, because everybody's going to sign off on it.
February 5th a couple weeks later 2025, miss Pambondi comes in as attorney general.
She's been Siebert.
She became Siebert's boss at the DOJ DOJ.
So she comes in a few weeks later.
Now it's February.
You've got until September.
Remember, he's got 120 days.
So as of May 2025, Seabert's interim term gets extended by the court judges.
Trump nominates him for the full role.
So then, woo, you know, voila, he's the big guy.
But the big guy wasn't going to do squat.
And for some reason, the big gal, one Pam Bondi, didn't seem to know this.
Because let's just say.
If you're the attorney general for Donald Trump and you know or you believe that James Comey lied under oath and you got five years to prove it, you don't think that you'd go knocking on the door of Eric Siebert and say, hey, how's this going?
And if he tells you it's going nowhere and he's not going to bring an indictment, you don't think that you might decide, you just might decide to fire him?
He works for you.
Yet you should have fired his you know what, fired him, and then gotten someone else in so that you wouldn't be in the position that you were in with Lindsey Halligan eventually being invalidated.
Because guess what?
By then, the clock had already been run out.
So September 2025, Siebert gets pushed out.
Why?
Because of the note that you just saw the president gave to one Pam Bondi.
This happened like days before.
Pam, quote, I have reviewed over 30 statements in post saying that essentially same old story as last time I'll talk no action.
This is not okay, right?
All right.
Justice must be served and it must be served now.
So he tells her this.
And then finally, we get.
Lindsey Halligan in the slot.
Actually, he said, okay, we're going to put Lindsey Halligan in.
But if she had been watching what Eric was doing, we wouldn't have had to bring it to that, which is why she screwed up royally.
And I'm sorry, I can't forgive the woman, okay?
I can't forgive her because Comey's laughing all the way back.
You fools, right?
He's like, you fools.
Totally.
Attorney General Bondi could have legally replaced Eric Siepert.
She absolutely could have during his 120-day interim appointment.
Right under 20.
He had this you know there's a law that governs it and it's 28 Usc 546 for those of you that care by having him resign or be removed, and then Bondy could have actually gone in and put Lindsey Halligan there and had a fresh 120 day term.
But Pan Bondy is either not smart enough, not organized enough or perhaps, if you're really somebody who believes in the conspiracy theory aspect of this, she never wanted Comey to go down to begin with, And so therefore, it was all fine and dandy to run out the clock and tell everybody what they wanted to hear, including the one president, the United States.
Yeah, she's, you know, singing sweet, sweet love songs to him, you know, whispering in his ear.
I don't mean that like literally, but you know what I'm saying.
Oh, yes, we're going to do it.
We're going to do it.
We're going to do it.
And then doesn't.
And not only that, it really bugged me when she was not familiar enough, the Letitia James case to the point where she goes on Fox, you know, because that's what she was doing every day, going on Fox as much as she could, not doing her job, just going on Fox.
You know what?
You really want to be a Fox contributor?
Go be a Fox contributor.
Okay, or go get yourself a little podcast, but do not be the head of the DOJ and not do your job.
So here is Fox.
I want to show you this.
Letitia James is like, let's just say very deserving of a lot in more ways than one.
And there are multiple angles that you can be going after her with.
They've already gotten one indictment.
It was thrown out because Lindsay was deemed to be irrelevant.
Same as the James Comey indictment.
They couldn't go forward with that because Lindsay Halligan didn't have the proper qualifications.
For the job.
And so Pam gets on.
She's all upset about that.
But I'm like, sorry, Pam, you didn't turn in your lousy homework on time.
There are rules, okay?
And the law is the law.
And they're not changing it, even for you, pretty little thing that you are.
Not changing it.
Not changing it.
So do your job.
But she went on to Fox.
She didn't even know the story that they started asking her about.
It is so typical of this woman.
James tried to prosecute the now president, Trump, in his second term.
I just want to read a couple things.
Criminal referral, then a response from James's office here.
In New York.
James, for both properties listed above, this deals with real estate now, going back decades really, appears to have falsified records in order to meet certain lending requirements and receive favorable loan terms.
All right.
Her office responded by saying the AG James is focused every single day on protecting New Yorkers.
Specialist administration weaponizes the federal government against the rule of law and the Constitution.
She will not be intimidated by bullies, no matter who they are.
The issue here is what property she owned and whether or not she owned it, whether or not she was married, and whether or not her father was involved in all this.
Without going into the weeds of the details, this stems from a case in 1983 and the year 2000.
That's a minimum of 25 years.
Someone had to do some digging to find this.
Am I right about that?
Yeah.
Bill, the most I know about the case, I just learned from you.
I saw it on Breaking News this morning.
This case was sent to us from Bill Pulte.
We have not seen it.
I inquired right before I walked out here.
No one in my office has read it yet.
We haven't looked at it.
Of course, we'll be reviewing it.
You just told me more than I've heard about it so far.
Hey, we ate the news with some breaking news on our own.
She's so clueless.
You know, she goes on talks and she learns from the hosts, from the anchors, more than she knows about it herself.
She couldn't have picked up the phone and maybe called Bill Pulte and said, fill me in on this.
I got a TV appearance.
The woman couldn't do her job.
She didn't do her job.
And you know what?
Donald Trump was not well served by her, nor was the country.
I mean, to think that she let James Comey get away with what he got away with.
Because Because she didn't have the decency to note on her calendar when September 30th, 2025 was fast approaching.
And she didn't have the common sense to go and check on her employee, Eric Siebert, to see where he was on that case.
They got to go back.
I know that they've gone back twice already on Letitia James, but I think that they should go back a fourth time.
It is not hard to get an indictment.
What this has turned into is a political hot potato.
And now juries don't want to indict because they're like, oh, well, this one didn't and that one didn't.
But that one was dismissed without prejudice.
And if you can ever get yourself a decent prosecutor in there, that one should come back because Letitia James deserves to be prosecuted for this.
But this woman has just punted on everything.
She has not done her job and we're sick and tired of it.
And James Comer was saying this right around the end of the year.
You know, I came right out.
We did a whole show on this.
I'm like, Pam's going to go.
Pam's going to go.
Pam's going to go.
And okay, it's April.
Like December, January, February.
I mean, I think I was saying this even earlier than this.
I'm just not impressed with her.
I think she'd be a fine contributor in cable.
And that's about it.
I'm not sure what else she can do.
I don't think she's skilled enough or smart enough as an attorney.
I don't think she has the executive functioning chops to manage a large team.
I think she makes sure she looks nice for her television appearance where she tells you, oh, yeah, I got the files.
They're sitting on my desk.
Except they're not.
And then she brings in, remember that one?
She brought in all those social media influencers, some of whom I know that felt really burned by all that.
Oh, guess what?
We're going to have a big reveal.
We're going to give you all this stuff and there was nothing there.
I mean, come on.
She's all show.
We don't want just all show.
It reminds me, I hate to say this, I got a text from a liberal friend who's like, oh, wow, this is interesting.
Two women are the first two out.
And I'm like, I'm sorry.
But you know what?
I like Christy.
But Christy clearly, in light of what we've learned, and I feel very bad.
And I'm not doing this story because that's just not my scene.
I feel very bad for her and her family.
That all you've probably seen.
That is what it is.
But, you know, Christy, was also not really capable because she was too interested in doing the the Barbie shows right, and she was a gorgeous.
You know, gorgeous is a gorgeous woman.
But like, that's not the job, like again, go be a television reporter, go do that somewhere else.
You've got to get the job done.
And same deal with Pam.
And so this doesn't have anything to do with being female.
It has to do with two very important, valuable spots, with two people that were not capable of doing the job.
And even worse, if you listen to the Daily Mail's reporting and we're going to get into this And I have some background information I can share with you from sources on this as well.
Justice Department Needs Competence00:04:07
There are some people that feel that Pam was deliberately undermining this administration.
Deliberately.
Perhaps looking for her next gig, perhaps trying to keep everybody happy, perhaps even doing it in the interest of who knows what, maybe deep state.
Call it whatever you want.
But James Comer, he was on to her as well.
Let's listen to this sound from just around the end of the year.
At the end of the day, I've been disappointed in some of the criminal referrals that are collecting dust on Attorney General Bondi's desk.
I've made that very clear with the White House.
I'm hopeful that we'll see some action soon on the criminal referrals that range everywhere from Dr. Fauci to the Biden family influence peddling scheme.
So we've got that.
But now with respect to Minnesota, I'm very confident the Department of Justice is going to make several more requests.
They've already made several arrests, dozens of arrests down there, and they're working on dozens of prosecutions.
But that's the tip of the iceberg, and the Department of Justice knows it.
Homeland Security obviously is down there.
You've got the Department of Ag looking at some of these food programs.
So I think everyone in the Trump administration, HUD, all the different agencies, are serious about apprehending these fraudsters.
So you're confident there will be arrests and criminal charges brought in Minnesota in 2026?
Absolutely.
Back to the Justice Department.
Has the Justice Department done enough?
Well, I would like to see more.
I'm an optimistic person.
I believe that they're working very hard.
And I know the president has a lot of confidence in Pam Bondi.
So.
Hopefully, they will be more successful in prosecuting some of these people that we've provided as congressional avenues.
He's trying to be polite.
Some scandals that are very important to.
Did you hear that, guys?
I mean, he's really, really trying to be.
Oh, well, I know the president has confidence in Pam Bondi.
So he's trying to be polite there.
But you know what?
I'm just not polite.
I'm really not.
And so.
If the president has confidence in Pam Bondi, that's a mistake.
Let's continue on listening to Catherine Herridge.
On X, it says zero arrests for some scandals that are very important to Republicans.
Is that what accountability looks like?
That's the biggest complaint of every Republican on the House Oversight Committee there haven't been enough arrests.
Now, some of these issues, I don't know, it's going to be hard to arrest people.
With the Biden AutoPid scandal, what we produced in our investigation is evidence that the pardons and executive orders that were signed with the Auto Pen in the last year of the Biden administration should be declared null and void.
Now, President Trump tweeted after we issued our report that he was going to declare them null and void, but I don't believe the paperwork's ever been done and you're still going to have to go to court for that.
But our congressional investigation will serve as basis to uphold the declaration of those pardons and executive orders being declared null and void.
Someone from the Department of Justice just has to take it to court.
Okay, so someone from the Justice Department has not picked up the ball yet.
It appears that way.
Okay, well, that must be frustrating.
Very frustrating.
Very frustrating.
Tell me about it.
Super frustrating.
All right.
She just dropped the ball over and over and over and over and over again.
And so she had to go.
I mean, it's cost us guys in the interim, but here's the thing.
You got more coming.
Okay.
You got Ilhan Omar and all the crapola that she was doing and all the stealing that's been alleged.
All right.
And so that's got to come out and that's got to get prosecuted.
And I told you right around the start of the new year.
I told you, I said, you know what?
The president does not trust her to prosecute any of this.
He simply doesn't, which is why he's got a three-throng approach, right?
He's got Treasury.
He's got JD.
He announced that task force.
I'll tell you, Stephen Miller didn't think she could prosecute it either.
Betrayal And Hidden Funds00:15:28
Why?
Because he's on the task force alongside JD.
And then you've also got Comer with his own task force.
Nobody believes she could get the job done.
And they said that they were putting in somebody.
In this case, it turned out to be JD.
They were putting in somebody that would report directly to the president that would oversee the entire fraud investigation.
Why?
Because Pammy Baby couldn't do it.
Not capable of it.
And I told you that when it happened.
And I was like, you know, he really needs to part ways with her.
I know that he's got a soft spot for her.
He likes her.
And I know that she, in theory, is loyal to him.
But this is a woman who comes from politics, who comes from Florida politics.
She is not an attorney like we know an attorney to be.
And she doesn't have the sophistication to oversee. all of the district attorneys all across the country that are all trying to prosecute these things.
So get rid of her.
Enough already, right?
At least he's got some diversity in his prosecution efforts right now.
Of course, it's all eventually going to have to get funneled to DOJ, which is why you need somebody smart in the position.
Meanwhile, one question that's being circulated right now is whether or not Pam Bondi tipped off Eric Swalwell About those Fang Fang files that are coming his way.
The president's not too happy that somehow Eric Swalwell found out that the Fang Fang stuff was going to be hitting him hard.
Not too happy.
And so the Daily Mail is reporting right now Pam Bondi was fired in part because President Trump believes she had tipped off Eric Swalwell, according to the Daily Mail.
Trump reportedly believes Bondi had tipped off Swalwell about the FBI's effort to share investigative documents about his relationship. with the alleged Chinese spy named Christine Fangfang.
I like saying that.
That's almost as good as La Monica Fangfang.
The FBI was preparing a cache of documents on Swahwa's relationship with Christine Fangfang.
She's interviewing or intervening rather in those matters.
White House wasn't pleased that she was intervening due to her personal friendship with Swalwell.
I mean, okay, you have me at that.
She's friends with Swalwell?
She's friends with Swalwell.
You gotta be kidding me.
Okay, that's not okay because, you know, Fang Fang and Swalwell, that's actually a big problem.
You cannot have him be the next California governor given that he was already compromised by one Chinese spy.
I mean, clearly the guy's getting no judgment.
I mean, I know she's cute and everything, but Eric, you know, put your head on right.
She's too cute for you, all right?
Nancy, too cute for you too.
I mean, look at the access she was getting.
And then Swallow decided he's going to come out and sue the administration and sue Kash Patel and prevent the FBI from revealing what is in those investigative files.
We call them the FANG files.
Did nothing, there's nothing here.
The case is closed on this decade-old file during Barack Obama's presidency.
I mean, that's how old this is.
And every finding was that when we were approached by the FBI, we helped them.
We cooperated.
We wanted them to be able to do their job.
And now, in who knows what way, they're accused now in this reporting of working with the Chinese government to try and have the individual that they thought was spying.
They want to work with the government to try and smear a political opponent.
I mean, it's just absurd.
It's absolutely absurd.
But is my One of our lawyers told me today, and this really kind of stops you right in your tracks.
He said if they do this, it'll be the greatest abuse of power by an FBI director since J. Edgar Hoover.
And so those are the stakes that we would allow the FBI to just go after the president's political enemies at a time that we see the president equally trying to get rid of mail-in voting, preventing women from being able to vote.
We can lose these freedoms like that.
Michael, and it's coming if enough of us, particularly those inside the building right now who are being asked to do this dirty work, if they don't step up.
And for those who are doing the dirty work, you will be in front of congressional committees in no time.
And those that speak out, you will be protected.
Well, yeah, you just laid it out there very clearly, and it's important for people to understand.
So he decided to file suit, okay, and this is the lawsuit that he was bringing forward.
Dear Director Patel, he writes, And this came out just this week, in fact, just two days ago.
And again, I mean, the timing is very interesting on this.
We write on behalf of Congressman Eric Swalwell to demand that you immediately cease and desist from any effort to publicly disclose or otherwise disseminate investigative records related to the Congressman.
According to recent media reports, you have directed the FBI to release a decade old investigative file concerning a counterintelligence matter in which Congressman Swawal provided critical assistance to the FBI.
The Congressman has never been accused of wrongdoing in this matter, and your attempt to release the file is a transparent attempt to smear him and undermine his campaign for governor of California.
So here's what I can tell you my sources close to both Kash Patel and Pambandi have said.
She's a little leaky and there were some concerns about how she handled things regarding all the Epstein files, promises she made, sort of willingness to throw other people under the bus.
And that was a real concern that she was always looking out for numero uno and in looking out for numero uno was, you know, maneuvering.
And this is why I said from the beginning, she's a politician, she's not a lawyer.
She's a politician.
She's not an executive.
She's a politician.
She's not a manager.
She's a politician.
She's not good on the dotting the I's and crossing the T's.
She is good at working the room.
Okay.
Well, we don't need anybody to work the room right now.
We need somebody to get the job done.
And right now, the stakes are just as high.
I mean, they were high with Comey, obviously.
Right now, you're talking about $19 billion worth of fraud out in Minnesota.
You're talking about the Fang Fang files and Chinese espionage.
You're talking about $80 billion in fraud in California.
And if you believe that Pam Bondi, as the Daily Mail is alleging, was somehow tipping Eric Swabo, who could possibly be, we hope not, the next California governor, my money's on Steve Hilton, one of my former colleagues at Fox and Fox Business.
Well, listen, if you believe that this guy's going to be the next California governor and she's out there feeding him information, we got a problem.
We got a problem.
And I'm sorry, like, She's friends with Eric Swalwell.
I should tell you, enough.
He likes his friends, okay?
So he's coming out, he's suing, and this is the guy, just to keep it in perspective, okay?
Remember who he is and what he did to the President of the United States.
Pam should have watched this clip.
Remember, Judiciary, do you believe the President right now has been an agent of the Russians?
Yes.
I think there's more evidence than he is.
Yes.
And I think all the arrows point in that direction.
I haven't seen a single piece of evidence that he's not.
An agent like in the 1940s where he had people who were red.
To use an alternative, like that.
In other words, working for a foreign power.
He's working on behalf of the Russians, yeah.
Okay.
The question has shifted from whether the president is working with the Russians to what evidence exists that the president is not working with the Russians.
At what point do you draw the line and not accuse the president of the United States without any evidence of being an agent of Russia?
Yeah, he's betrayed our country, and I don't say that lightly.
I worked as a prosecutor for seven years, and I. Betraying the country, by the way, we want evidence before you say that, but you said an agent of Russia.
Yeah, he works.
On their behalf.
I'm not hearing the evidence that he's an agent of Russia.
Yeah, I think it's pretty clear.
It's almost hiding in plain sight.
Yeah.
Just like you betrayed the country by having an affair with a Chinese spy, right?
So if she, in fact, was tipping him off, yeah, we got a problem.
Again, Daily Mail reporting this.
I can tell you what my sources are saying, which is that they never trusted her.
Never, ever, ever trusted her.
She was a political animal and political animal only.
And I've told you from the beginning, like, look, the woman didn't get her job done.
But maybe this was the idea.
I mean, if you're really the conspiracy theorist that thinks that, you know, somebody was trying to hold things up on everything from the Epstein files to James Comey to Letitia James, then that would kind of fit with that thesis.
And it's like she couldn't get out of her own way for whatever reason.
So who's going to take over now?
Lee Zeldin from New York is expected to take over now as let's fix the shot and get this in better shape, guys.
Yeah, I think we can do that.
Yep, You know, it's a live show.
Lee Zeldin expected to take over for one Pam Bondi.
Lee Zeldin.
former congressman from New York who's now in charge of the EPA.
Now, does he have the chops?
I mean, we've got to be asking these questions.
I can tell you he was on my show all the time, on my set when I used to have the Fox show, and he's a terrific guy.
What I like about Lee Zeldin is how willing he was to go after one Stacey Abrams.
Remember Stacey Abrams with all her ridiculous plans to get everybody gas stoves?
Yeah, she had like $2 billion that she got from the Biden administration so that everybody could become more energy efficient?
Well, Lee Zeldin took this one on big time.
I bet you Pammy was a little bit jealous because, you know, Lee was getting a little attention, I noticed.
And then where did it go?
Okay.
Where's the prosecution for Stacey Abrams?
Thank you very much.
Stacey Abrams deserves to be looked at very, very, very hard because Stacey Abrams, Stacey Abrams got $2 billion, which we, you know, I'd like to know where that money went.
and it seemed to be churning through her organization.
We've reported on that.
I reported on that last spring, I believe it was.
Anyway, here is Lee Zeldin.
You don't see him on camera just yet.
I'm going to show you him on camera just to jog your memory so you know exactly who he is.
But here is Lee Zeldin telling the president, watch Pam's face as this is all going down, that he has discovered $20 billion that was getting sent to all kinds of people, Democrats, of course, including one Stacey Abrams, $2 billion to her organization.
It was all getting funneled through Citibank and it's just the tip of the iceberg.
I mean, we got all kinds of fraud going on and it's got to get prosecuted.
I repeat, it has got to get prosecuted.
I'm going to get to Ilhan in a second.
She's scared now because, you know, somebody who actually wants to see her pay the price is going to come into office.
Watts Lee.
The CA has now canceled over $20 billion worth of contracts.
The CA has now canceled over $22 billion worth of contracts.
$2 billion going to this NGO that Stacey Abrams was tied to.
They received only $100 in 2023.
And then the Biden administration gave them $2 billion.
The director of the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund saw his former employer get $5 billion.
So $20 billion went to just $2 billion.
Eight NGOs, and they're all pass throughs.
And then they were giving it to other entities.
Many of them were pass throughs.
And what you have is all these extra middlemen.
They're taking their cut.
And the taxpayer ends up getting screwed.
They're losing out on all this hard earned money.
They can't afford to have the federal government waste.
The partnership with Doge and Elon Musk has been incredible at EPA.
Their team is very talented.
We wouldn't have been able to do it without them.
And of course, this mandate from President Trump.
To make sure that we identify every last penny, whether we're saving $50,000, $5 million, or $22 billion.
We will not rest until every last penny is saved.
Thank you, Mr. President, for the opportunity to do this for the American public.
Look at that.
He's not even on camera.
Pam's on camera.
He's not even on camera.
He's not as much of a camera hog, okay?
I like that about him.
He's very modest.
He's got a very good sense of, I think, being center, and he's motivated to do the right thing.
He's more sophisticated than her.
He's actually a former paratrooper, by the way.
So a former military guy.
All of this is going to come in handy.
And, you know, he was all out to get Stacey Abrams.
But, you know, here he is turning over the information to her and it goes nowhere.
I mean, can you imagine the frustration?
It's like you're the whistleblower out in Minnesota, right?
And you're like, hey, I got $19 billion worth of fraud.
And Timmy Waltz like looks at you and then looks away.
And, you know, Keith Elson, same thing, looks at you and looks away.
And, well, we don't know what Ilhan Omar was doing, but we're going to get to that in a second.
So this woman, who, by the way, was out there telling the New York Times back in 2019 that she won.
She won in Georgia as governor.
Somehow she never faced any kind of consequence for that.
No, she got herself all full spread in the New York Times a week.
Magazine, Stacy Abrams got the cover of that thing, just saying, I won.
You know Donald Trump, on the other hand well j6, going down in uh history, right in infamy.
We won't go there right now because you've heard me before.
I have a lot to say on that, but what i'd say, the bottom line here, is that you know Stacy Abrams who, by the way, had to pay fines, her new Georgia project hadn't disclosed various contributions they were making.
It was like some kind of I don't know like circle of trust.
Right, you give us money And we give you money to put back in your campaigns, maybe after taking a little bit something for themselves.
So they hadn't disclosed contributions in the spending after it advocated for Abrams in the 2018 governor's race.
So she was using it as a little money pot to then help her own governor's race.
She's mad about this.
She's like, oh, you know, how dare you say this about me?
But I think that now Stacey Abrams and her case could be back front and center because this guy, Who's chasing down all the money, including, I guess, some money that was going to some Canadian companies with some Democrat ties?
They're all going to be fair game.
I'll give you one more really quickly.
There was $160 million that went to a Canadian electric vehicle bus manufacturer.
The Biden administration sent all of the money.
Now, you might say, hey, just produce the school bus and then we'll pay you.
Or if you need some partial payments along the way, we'll give some money that makes sense.
They gave all the money up front.
Well, guess what?
They just declared bankruptcy.
They still haven't declared, they still haven't provided $95 million worth of school buses to 55 school districts.
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It's the American taxpayer that gets screwed.
Yeah, this is that.
Yeah, it is the American taxpayer.
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I mean, guys, this is, I think this is a long time coming.
I think this had to happen for whatever reason.
He was maybe pushed over the edge with some of the swallow stuff, thinking perhaps she was loyal to him.
rather than loyal to the president.
But you know what?
At the end of the day, you've got to be loyal to the country and you've got to be loyal to your job and you've got to do what's right.
Now, I do think that Lee Zeldin would do an excellent job.
I mean, I happen to like Jeanine Pirro a lot too.
You all know that.
And she's like a complete pistol and she's motivated and she's got, you know, a real clear head when it comes to basically understanding what's what, right?
And the importance, if you would.
I want to play you some sound from Jeanine Pirro of following the law because the law is all that matters.
So as we think about who might be next, I have certain preferences.
I would love to see somebody who's got some executive functioning capability and management capability.
I want a CEO, if you would, of the DOJ, just like I want a CEO of the country.
I got a CEO in Donald Trump.
We have that as Americans.
And I'll tell you, having reported on Business my entire career, there is a difference, a vast difference between a business person and a politician.
And I've seen it.
I told you guys this story, right?
When Donald Trump was first on the scene and I was sitting in my office, you know, trying to get interviews with this and then the other and all the candidates, who were the two people who called me back right away, whose teams called me back right away?
Get a load of this.
Carly Fiorina, CEO.
Okay.
I know we're not necessarily Carly Fiorina fans here.
And I don't think she had the je ne sais quoi, right?
To be able to make it as the president.
But She knew enough to return a lousy phone call, okay?
And President Trump.
And everybody else.
I mean, Ted Cruz, it was like pulling teeth to get him on.
I mean, I had to go through, I think the guy was like, had a friend who was like friends with the head of the finance committee.
I mean, it was just, ugh, because you had a bunch of political operators running their show.
Whereas with Carly, she took people from the business world.
With Donald Trump, he had people from the business world.
And there is a significant difference, okay?
Say what you want, but the business reporters are always smarter and better than the political reporters.
Full on.
Okay, that's just the way it is.
I don't know why, maybe because some people just don't operate in the real world.
I would love to see somebody that comes from a very large firm who has managed hundreds of attorneys and taken on big cases, because this is what this is, you've got to be able to manage people, you've got to be a good sort of inspirer of people and you've got to think about deadlines and getting you know what sh and you know what done.
All right, it's just got to get done.
You can't pull a Pan Bondy and not turn in the homework, so That's what I would like to see.
I'd like to see someone really competent.
I think Lee Zeldin is super competent.
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I think Jeanine Pirro is super competent.
Now, neither of these people have had sort of the big law firm jobs, and we kind of have to poke around and find someone for that.
You know, I don't need somebody who's been on TV either.
Being on TV is not all that big a deal.
And, you know, a communicator, I don't need a communicator to the people.
The president's the communicator to the people.
What I need is somebody who can manage these district attorneys all around the nation so that they are doing things that they need to do, and they're not going to miss something like that.
Comey statute of limitations.
I'm never going to get over that one.
Anyway, I appreciate Jeanine Pirro because she's actually really good at this.
Listen to her here.
I mean, she's not going to walk from the Jerome Powell stuff, no matter what they throw at her, no matter what they say, no matter if they try and hold up Kevin Warsh's appointment.
And she's like, Listen, I got a job and I'm going to do it.
I am in a legal lane.
All of the rest is white noise.
I don't care what they say.
I have a job.
I have the ability to go into a grand jury.
There are questions that the American public and people in D.C. are entitled to know where a billion dollars has gone.
And that's my focus.
Good.
You see, she's focused.
She has a plan.
I don't think that Pam ever, ever, ever had a plan for anything.
I mean, when she's on Fox and they're telling her about the Letitia James case and she's like, well, this is the first I've heard of it.
I'm like, well, then what are you doing on TV?
Go back to your office and do a little bit of studying and do a little bit of phone calling and find out from Bill Pulte what he's actually putting forward because you shouldn't be hearing about it first from the mainstream media.
Here's another one.
Jean Pirro, Judge Jeanine.
For an assurance that the investigation into Powell has ended it.
Are you willing to concede?
Did you hear what I just said?
I just said that this decision will be appealed by the United States Department of Justice.
That's the answer to your question.
We're looking at 1001, and we're also looking at a statute having to do with fraud, but it's up to the grand jury to make that decision.
We're a billion dollars in cost overruns.
Are you kidding?
A billion dollars.
We're not talking about huge buildings here.
Go ahead.
How much is Trump's pick, though, President Trump?
I don't even know who he is.
Isn't this just essentially holding up President Trump's pick or any forthcoming picks since Senator Cattell has said he will not vote?
Okay.
I don't know how to explain this, but I'm going to try.
I've been a prosecutor, a judge, a DA, and now a United States attorney for well over three decades.
Politics is not the lane I'm in right now.
And I have a charge and an oath to the Constitution.
And my job is to present evidence, and I can do so when I can merely on the suspicion that the law is being violated or even just because I want assurance that it's not.
Okay, that was Janine's phone, not mine.
I want to make it clear.
Anyway, she's got the right kind of attitude, the right kind of focus.
And I think that she wouldn't have missed simple deadlines.
And that's my concern.
It looks like we have some sound coming into us.
And I want to bring this to you.
If in fact this is coming into us right now about Pam Bondi, let's go to this because the president, of course, saying some very nice things about her.
He's a class act.
And he's, I know not everybody agrees with that, but I think he is because I'll tell you.
If she were my employee, I would have been a lot angrier, a lot angrier, and I think that he's affording her a lot of rope here.
I think he kind of knew that he had to get rid of her and I think that the handwriting was on the wall as far back as we were reporting on this, you know, back in december.
Um, but let me, let me share with you some of the sound that i'm seeing out there right now on one, miss Pambondi, as she reacts apparently to news that she is out, that she has been fired.
Um again, kind of not necessarily a surprise, but a surprise that it came today.
I'm also hearing, I should point out, that this decision was actually made last night.
So this decision being made last night on Pambandi because the thinking was that she had to, okay, no, this is not sound from her, so forgive me.
But the thinking was, you know, it was time, and he made the decision as early as last night before he went on television to talk about what's going on in Iran.
So again, why is this so important right now?
I mean, Pam Bondi had to go at this moment in time in part because of the seriousness of what we're looking at.
It's not just that she dropped the ball on Comey and Leticia.
Leticia could come back, by the way.
I would encourage them to actually move forward with another indictment on that one because let's let the dust settle.
Let's get a new head of the DOJ in there.
And then that new attorney general can work with that office in Virginia to bring forward another indictment.
for one Letitia James.
I don't think that that's completely put to bed, but the other thing that's out there and outstanding right now is Ilhan Omar.
And Ilhan Omar is alleged to have been involved perhaps in some kind of money laundering operation with the $250 million for Feeding Our Future that just was stolen.
I mean, there's no other way to explain that one other than it was stolen.
And we've seen now in recent reports that some of these people are getting off.
One of the people just this week got off with only six months in jail.
Another person getting off with only a year in jail.
And I think we're all looking at this. with suspicion.
The judge that actually let these people off with six months and a year is a judge that was appointed by a Democrat.
And so I think you don't have much of a choice right now than to play hardball.
The Dems play hardball.
Look at what they indicted him over and over and over and over again, right?
They went after Donald Trump with everything they could.
They tried to bankrupt him.
Letitia James tried to bankrupt him.
And you're going to sit there.
and pussyfoot around and not turn in your homework on time and allow for the statute of limitations to expire?
I don't think so.
We're in the big leagues, okay?
And when someone's stealing what we believe that they may have stolen, when you've got a whole operation going on, apparently coast to coast, with money laundering for everything from daycares to hospices to food programs, and we're talking billions of dollars, then you know what?
You can't.
Have your B team.
You got to get rid of the B team and put the A team in.
Otherwise, the B team is going to allow for these schmo's to continue robbing us blind.
Again, just allegations thus far that Ilhan Omar had something to do with it.
But I imagine right now in Ilhan and Timmy Meinet's household, they are pretty damn scared.
You know why?
They know someone's coming in that's going to get to the bottom of it.
Yeah, that's why she was sounding so all scared over the weekend, right?
Oh, this is good.
I could have never imagined the day would come when we were staring down at this kind of creeping authoritarianism.
Woo!
Strange, to say the least.
In the United States of America, we pledge allegiance to the Constitution and the flag.
That doesn't make sense.
Because in Minnesota, we are.
Build difference.
Operation Metro Surge was just the tip of the icing bird.
It's not right to laugh right, I shouldn't laugh.
I mean it was funny when I saw it, but you know what?
I'm in a state today and i'm not in a laughing mood because you know I and it's fine, you know she can't speak English, whatever.
Maybe we shouldn't laugh at that.
But right now I think we've got to figure out what role she played in all of this and we got a couple things going on.
We got the immigration stuff And that's going to take a lot more than one Pam Bondi.
I mean, I said it, you know, Harmeet.
I mean, put Harmeet in.
Although, you know, Harmeet, who's running the civil rights division, Harmeet Dillon has come out and confirmed to us that, in fact, yes, they are investigating her citizenship.
But where is it going?
That's not even Harmeet's division, by the way.
That's somebody else's division.
She's in civil rights, but she's like, yeah, I can confirm that this is.
And then we heard from the vice president who fully confirmed.
He said, yes, we know that she committed immigration fraud.
Okay, so what?
Pammy baby doing about it?
Pammy's doing nothing.
Okay.
Pammy's going on Fox and pretending she's doing something.
I don't want any more pretenders.
I don't want any more TV people.
I love TV people.
I'm one of them.
But you know what?
I don't need a TV person running my DOJ.
So Ilhan and this fraud ring, I mean, there's some serious, serious, serious suspicions about all of this and the $700 million that left the Minneapolis airport in suitcases, in cash, and made its way to Somalia and Dubai and Kenya and a few other places along the way.
We need to get to the bottom of that.
And once we get to the bottom of that, who's going to prosecute it?
I don't think you can trust Pammy to do it.
So, this is what the president's realizing.
We need the A team because there's a lot coming forward.
I'm worried about the immigration fraud.
I'm also worried about what did Ilhan Omar know about what was happening in the Somali community and why was nobody looking into it until, frankly, Donald Trump came along?
Yeah.
Right?
Again, Pam, where were you on that one?
Two.
I mean, we had to wait for Nick Shirley to go out and do something over Christmas, for goodness sakes.
Enough, right?
So this is now getting sophisticated and this is getting a little more challenging, which means therefore it's a little bit out of one Pam Bondi's wheelhouse.
And so we need somebody smarter.
Again, Lee Zeldin might be the guy.
He might be the pick.
He might be able to do the job.
I've made suggestions, of course, about Jeanine Pirro.
I don't know if this is necessarily her forte with money laundering, but we need somebody who at least can manage those.
for whom it is a forte.
And we need somebody who can make sure that it's getting done.
All right.
Just getting done.
And I see peace in my mind is laughing at me.
It's like, yeah, you can tell Trisha's kids, do your homework, do your homework, right?
But I got two of them that are fantastic.
They turn their homework in like ahead of schedule.
And then I got one that I got to ride a little bit.
All right.
So if it sounds like I've said this before, I have.
All right.
And the one that I got to ride a little bit, she's brilliant.
But you know what?
I'm like, you got to create a system.
You got to create a system because you cannot let little things go.
In the real world, those little things add up and those little things will cost you big.
All right.
So Pam, I don't think you're brilliant, but I do think you let the little things go and it cost the country as a result.
And now we got a real, we got the big kahuna.
Okay.
We got Ilhan Omar that is believed to have been making out like a bandit.
I mean, I'm not just talking about the money she was paying her husband.
Who the heck?
pays their campaign manager nearly $3 million.
No one.
Okay, no one.
That's why it was front page news when the New York Times found out that Biden was going to pay his campaign manager $4 million if he won.
I mean, he wasn't getting that unless they actually got him to the finish line, which one might argue he deserved, right?
If you had gotten Joe Biden to win, like $4 million might have been in order, but that's outrageous.
It's not even heard of.
So you think a little teeny little Minneapolis campaign is paying $3 million to the campaign manager?
Short answer, no.
That's a complete ethics violation, especially when the campaign manager just happens to be your hubby.
You know, he got a big pay raise after they got married, right?
He went from making maybe like three, 400 and change, which is a lot even for that job.
It's a lot.
But that's when he was the BF.
I mean, when he went to the hubby, he got a big upgrade and suddenly he's making nearly three million.
But you know what?
That means she's making three million.
She's putting nearly three million bucks right in her own pocket.
It's wrong, okay?
So you donate to Ilhan Omar's campaign?
And you're really donating to Ilhan Omar's bank account.
And it's believed it went so much further than that.
And this is why the probe has gone international to Kenya, which has crazy, ridiculous, easy banking laws, to Somalia, to Dubai.
I will say this.
It's not hard to get any information that we need on any of these guys because we are still the world's hegemonic power that controls King Dollar.
And so all these banks at some point have to do transactions with us if they actually want to be transacting in dollars, which If you're a bank, you need to transact in at some point along the way, which means, yeah, they're going to turn it over.
She's an American citizen, at least for now.
Her husband is an American citizen.
They have to turn all this information over.
And so this is coming in the door, too.
And you can't have people leaking.
You can't have people.
I mean, again, I've heard a lot of things about her in the Epstein files and the way she was leaking.
And I've heard a lot of things about, you know, remember Dan Bongino?
Very good source tells me Dan was like, it's me or her.
I don't want to deal with this woman.
Think about that, okay?
And there was talk that cash was going to leave as well.
They don't want to deal with a woman who's leaking.
They don't want to deal with a woman who's stupid.
They don't want to deal with a man, by the way, who's stupid or leaking either, okay?
So this is not a male-female thing for those that want to make it that.
I'm just saying, she's not good at her job.
And so now the job is getting harder and harder and harder.
And so you want somebody that is going to be able to literally follow the money.
Lee Zeldin.
I hope you're the guy and I hope you can get to the bottom of this because I care passionately that we see justice for Ilhan Omar, for Letitia James.
I realize that ship has sailed on James Comey, but let's fix the rest of it.
What about Stacey Abrams and whatever she did or did not do?
Let's find out.
So this thing is now international.
And as you well know, Ilhan Omar has gone from negative $50,000 in the span of, oh, I don't know what, 16 months to $30 million.
And that is not making any sense to me.
So now you need good people that can go after what is believed to be an entirely money laundering operation.
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And when I tell you this is the big leagues, I mean it because look at what you're up against.
You're up against a woman with a crazed version of TDS.
But we are here because Donald Trump just has not chipped away at our democracy.
He has taken a wrecking ball to the very foundation of what makes America great.
He has tried to intimidate Minnesotans.
He has tried to make us afraid.
He has tried to divide us.
But we stood strong.
We have had each other's back.
And we have never bent the knee.
Because in Minnesota, we are billed difference.
We do not cower to bullies.
We are Minnesota strong.
Okay.
So the pressure's on.
And you know what?
It's going to get good.
It's going to get good because they got up to 30% in rewards.
If you watch this show, you know this.
But for those of you that are new to the Trish Regan Show and you've just found out that Pam Bondi's out and you're listening to me go on about why this is so important right now, think about this.
They're getting all these informants that are coming in the door because, as Besson said, the rats will rat out each other.
It's very exciting.
I think it's up to 10 to 30%.
It's exciting.
I think it's going to be a great way to ferret out waste, fraud, and abuse, starting in Minneapolis, which has been ground zero.
So we are encouraging whistleblowers who know about fraud, people who are stealing from the American taxpayer, to come forward.
At Treasury, we're setting up a website, and we will be giving rewards up to 10 to 30 percent of the fines that we levy.
There you go.
So they've got a lot of people coming forward as we speak.
You've got Comer targeting California as well as Minnesota.
You've got Treasury targeting California, Minnesota, and other places where you're seeing this fraud.
Massachusetts is in there too.
And so, as a result of this, you're going to need people that you can trust.
And if somebody like Pam Bondi was possibly leaking to Eric Swalwell about the Fang Fang files, you understand what's coming up now is that the FBI is saying, I can't trust Pam.
And by the way, that's not new.
This is why sources tell me Bongino said, you know what, to H-E-L-L with this, because you've got to know that the FBI and DOJ have to be able to work together on this stuff.
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And it wasn't happening that way, not happening that way at all.
So at this moment in time, we know Pam Bondi's out.
We also know Donald Trump wants out, of NATO.
Did you hear him speak last night?
So I thought he did a really good job.
The President of the United States making it clear on the international stage with a primetime national address that we're going to do what we have to do.
And I believe that the quote was, we're going to bomb them back to the Stone Ages, back to the Stone Ages.
And we're going to make sure that they have no ability to function militarily whatsoever.
We've taken out regime one.
We've taken out regime two.
We'll see what happens with regime three.
But we're going to keep on bombing them and bombing them and bombing them.
And it's going to go on for another two to three weeks.
It depends.
It's all on them whether or not we decide to go after some big, big resources like Karg Island, for example.
We can take out all of their electrical infrastructure.
We can even take out all their oil infrastructure.
He hesitates to do that.
He said, because, you know, then they'll really be left with nothing.
I can add some more color to that and tell you another reason why he hesitates to do that is because once you take out their oil infrastructure, it means that there's even less oil in the global supply.
And so he doesn't want to dent the global supply anymore because then that would result.
in higher oil prices worldwide.
But one of the things that I think you can take away from what's going on is that when it's all said and done, and he said it last night, hey, you know what?
The Europeans can deal with it.
The Europeans can deal with the Strait of Hormuz.
They want their oil?
Let them go get their oil.
You can just go and take it.
We've wiped out their military, the army, the navy, the nuclear capability.
And so voila, presto.
You want oil?
We don't get any oil from the Strait of Hormuz.
You go get it.
Okay.
So that was the upshot.
of what we were hearing last night.
And listen, he's made it clear and he made it clear last night, we will continue to blow you to smithereens.
You got the media getting it all wrong over and over and over again.
But I will say that when I look at the markets, and let's see, we've got the market that just closed, actually, the market closing out the day.
It started off a little bit in negative territory, but I think that basically the market's saying, hey, you know, it's not all the end of the world.
What do you know?
The S&P ending up the day about a tenth of a percent with the NASDAQ up.
Also about, well, two-tenths of a percent in the Dow ending out flat.
So in other words, people do see that we're doing the right thing here.
And he's willing, as he said, to blow them to smithereens and to make sure that they're going back to the Stone Ages so that we take out all military capability.
But then you say to yourself, well, where's Europe in all of this?
Where's Europe?
Well, Europe's nowhere to be found.
Nowhere at all.
And they've made it really clear they don't want to be found.
Here's Steiner telling us just yesterday nope, nope, not our problem.
It is now clear that the impact of this war will affect the future of our country.
So today I want to reassure the British people that no matter how fierce this storm, we are well placed to weather it and that we have a long term plan to emerge from it a stronger and more secure nation.
First, let me say once again.
This is not our war.
We will not be drawn into the conflict.
That is not in our national interest.
And the most effective way we can support the cost of living in Britain is to push for de escalation in the Middle East and a reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, which is such a vital route for energy.
Okay, so guess what?
Dear, go get it.
Go, go, go, go.
All right.
Like, you know, we're going to de-escalate once we make sure that it's safe for you to go get it because apparently you can't go get it because apparently you got no, and I mean no capability whatsoever.
Take a look.
Amazing.
Do you know that at the start of this whole thing, the UK had only six destroyers, four of which were being serviced?
I mean, come on.
You're supposed to be in NATO.
In order to like meet your NATO obligations, you had to go borrow one from Germany.
Sounds to me like you don't really care about your NATO obligations.
Sounds to me like you don't really care about this alliance.
And so if it's only a one-way street and basically we do for you and give to you over and over and over and over again and you do nothing, I mean squat, zip for us, then we're not going to really have a choice now, are we?
So you have no Navy.
So wait a second.
What's in this for us?
Let me just ask again.
Pete Hegseth admitting they got zilts.
I think the president was clear this morning in his truth that there are countries around the world who ought to be prepared to step up on this critical waterway as well.
It's not just the United States Navy.
Last time I checked, there was supposed to be a big bad Royal Navy that could be prepared to do things like that as well.
So he's pointing out this is an international waterway that we use less than most, in fact, dramatically less than most.
So the world ought to pay attention to be prepared to stand up.
President Trump's been willing to do the heavy lifting on behalf of the free world to address this threat of Iran.
It's not just the United States Navy.
Our problem set, going forward, even though we have done the lion's share of preparation to ensure that that strait will be will be open, which is an outcome.
Uh, the the president's been very clear on yeah okay well, the Uk can't do anything because the Uk has no capability, because the Uk has not done the proper investments in its own navy.
So that's a little bit concerning uh, you know, but you know you get all kinds of people out there saying they just can't imagine.
They can't imagine that we are going to live in a world.
Can you imagine a world where you don't have the U.S. In NATO?
Can you guys?
I can.
You know why?
It doesn't seem like, you know, we get anything from NATO.
It just seems like every time we turn around, they get their hand out looking for more money to go to Ukraine.
We don't need to do that.
Wouldn't that be nice?
Here is somebody saying, though, this would be a bad, sorry day.
This is actually the guy who ran the Pentagon press office under Biden.
Let's watch.
Well, in the president's anger, his frustration with NATO, which, as you well know, started from the very first time that he was and before the first time he was elected president, the U.K. gathered 35 countries to meet virtually today.
They're talking about ways to get traffic moving again through the Strait of Hormuz.
Important to note, the U.S. is not among them.
Are they setting themselves up for a NATO, an alliance that does not include the United States?
And if that is the case, Case, is that an irretrievable change?
Boy, it's hard for me to even comprehend a NATO without the United States in it, without United States leadership.
And frankly, nor should we want to look at a NATO that doesn't have the United States as part of it and a leader in it.
I mean, it is not just some burden sharing club here.
When the United States, yes, we contribute more than others, and the Europeans ought to do more, clearly, even President Obama believed that.
But American leadership in the alliance means that we have a vote and we get to steer and guide where the alliance goes and what it prioritizes and what it doesn't.
And I'd hate to see the United States not be a part of that.
I don't see the imminent demise of NATO, the alliance.
I do think that it will look differently here probably in the next year or so.
And I worry that that look will mean a diminished, maybe not a completely vacant, but a diminished American leadership, which I don't think is in our best interests.
Okay.
But here's the problem.
All right.
Let me just say, we're here leading and yet nobody listens to us.
Okay.
So like, what good is it to be the quote unquote leader when literally nobody listens to us?
And we say, hey, you know, you might want to, you might want to spiff up that Navy UK because you got nothing.
You only have six destroyers and four of them are out of service.
And so this came up as well.
In fact, the president was asked, well, what do you say to Kier?
Like, should he be working on it?
And he said, well, I don't want to tell them what to do.
But, you know, come on.
I mean, the country of France wouldn't even let us fly over the country.
I mean, it's like they're an enemy.
We couldn't even fly over to go over to Iran.
Look, the president's sending this one out.
Just a couple days ago, the country of France wouldn't let planes headed to Israel, this was yesterday, the day before yesterday, loaded up with military supplies, fly over French territory.
France has been very unhelpful.
I mean, here we are doing the dirty work, getting rid of the bad guys in Iran, and they can't even let us fly over?
That doesn't seem to be a very efficient or loyal relationship now, does it?
It doesn't seem to be working for us.
Does it diminish our world power?
No.
Not at all.
Not if we continue to be the world's strongest military.
And by the way, we don't want to do a ton over there.
We don't really want to be doing a ton over in Ukraine and Russia either now, do we?
I mean, maybe Europe needs to stand on its own two feet.
Maybe if it has an issue with Putin, maybe it needs to deal with that.
Maybe they'd have a better military, for goodness sakes, if they got the chance to actually have to defend themselves once in a while.
Isn't that the thinking, right?
Yeah, he told the UK, hey, you want that oil?
Go and take it.
It's yours.
Just go take it.
I mean, we got rid of the Navy.
We got rid of the Army.
It's all looking good.
So, hey, either buy from us, because we got plenty.
Or just go and get your oil.
It's like we're just pushing them out of the nest, right?
You got to kind of give them a little bit of a prompt.
You guys have let your military rot.
UK, I'm looking at you.
Only six destroyers, four of which are in service, and you got to borrow one from Germany in order to meet your NATO obligations.
So you guys got to like ramp it up, all right?
And maybe if you were responsible for yourself and not living off of Uncle Sam.
You might actually have a Navy that could do its job.
So you understand this is about also making all of these countries more powerful in their own right.
And if you're going to be our ally and our friend, we want you to be powerful in your own right.
We want you to be able to stand up for yourself.
We don't want to have to be sending more money for the gay opera.
Or was it the trans opera?
I can't remember.
In Ireland or wherever it was.
All right.
And I love Ireland.
I'm very Irish.
And I love opera.
Right.
So, but that shouldn't be on the U.S. taxpayer's dime.
No siree.
So we got to back away from this, whether it be U.S. global aid, AID, whether it be.
NATO commitments?
Enough is enough.
And so it's come to a head.
What has happened?
Fraud, waste, and abuse.
Overseas, with Europe, and by the way, in all these blue states all over the United States of America, because Ilhan Omar and her cronies, or conies, or croonies, or whatever she calls them, she went to the leering school, don't forget, they're making out like bandits.
Now, who's that other squad member out in Massachusetts?
Ayanna Presley.
Yeah, concerns about her and her hubby.
Apparently, everybody's got a hubby who works like the agent, right?
The agent who's getting the deals, the lobbyist out in front.
You know, you pay me, I'll make sure my wife advances this legislation.
I see how this works.
That's the thinking, right?
They got to get to the bottom of all these allegations with all this fraud because it's not okay.
It's not acceptable.
There shouldn't be any money in politics, and yet there is.
Obviously, clearly, they're all making a killing.
Not okay.
So, Europe, I'm sorry.
He wants out.
We want out.
You're not doing what you're going to do.
They have said they're going to have to revisit this relationship in a pretty big way because it's not going to look the way it currently looks.
Marco Rubio, who's been a big proponent, by the way, of NATO, saying his whole view on the place has changed.
And I've been a big supporter of NATO.
And one of the reasons why I've been a supporter of NATO is because I believe that these basing rights give us leverage and give us flexibility and operational capability all over the world.
But if NATO is just about us defending Europe, if they're attacked, But them denying us basing rights when we need them, that's not a very good arrangement.
That's a hard one to stay engaged in and say this is good for the United States.
So all of that is going to have to be reexamined.
All of it's going to have to be reexamined.
And by reexamined, it means, okay, you guys are probably going to have to pay more if we're going to stay in this.
You guys are going to have to meet certain obligations.
Britain, you can't have all your destroyers, like, out getting serviced.
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No, no.
We need them ready, willing, and able to go.
And by the way, when we say, hey, go, you got to go.
You know, Uncle Sam's calling.
You got to go.
That's what the whole agreement's about.
You're completely actually in violation, if you think about it, of the NATO agreement and the NATO accord.
We don't have a, an accord.
No, that that's.
That's not in existence, because when we ask for help, you're not there.
When you ask for help, we are there.
You understand the fundamental flaw in this entire process right, gosh?
I see a lot of you still commenting on poor Pam Bondy.
I know, you know what.
She just blew it, though she was totally clueless in this job.
Interim attorney general.
Todd forgive me, Todd Blanche, what is this?
I've got a little too many generals in uh, military on my mind.
We're going to fix that.
This is what you call lower third.
And believe it or not, I can do it right here on the fly myself.
So Todd Blanche is taking over in the interim.
It's expected.
There are reports out that Lee Zeldin is going to get the gig.
Whoever gets the gig has got to have a head for finance and a head for management.
And I say finance because we're talking about money laundering.
We're talking about fraud.
And we've got to get to the bottom of all of this and make sure that we lock up these crooks.
We also got to get to the immigration fraud issue.
I'm thinking about Ilhan Omar.
I want Letitia James back on the table because Letitia James, in my estimation, did commit bank fraud.
And that has to be examined.
They're also looking at possible insurance fraud for her as well.
But the bank fraud is the one I'm most concerned about.
You don't go out there and say, hey, I'm going to use this as my main home when in fact it's going to be your vacation home because you see there's two different mortgage rates.
That is flat out wrong.
It's fraudulent.
And she got the better mortgage rate as I understand it.
So again, this should be an indictment.
This should be a layup.
They should have gotten that and they can go back and get her again.
But we don't need any more mistakes.
I would have gotten her after, I would have gotten rid of her right after she screwed up on James Comey.
That told me. everything I needed to know about Pam Bondi.
And again, I like her, okay?
Perfectly nice person, very political, but not cut out for that job.
This is not a political job.
We need a badass attorney in there, okay?
Somebody who can really get the job done and manage all of his or her deputies all over the nation.
And now the stakes are really high because we're talking about possibly $600 billion.
Marsha Blackberg, senator from Tennessee, has estimated $700 billion in fraud.
Think of the money we can recover, guys.
I mean, we're going to have to pay off a lot of people right up to 30% rewards that the Treasury Department's offering, but this is a biggie.
This is a step in the right direction.
We are moving forward.
I'm sick of having to sit here and tell you about all the bad stuff that's going on without the penalties coming forth.