Todd Blanch leads an aggressive DOJ fraud probe targeting Ilhan Omar, alleging $19 billion in Somali theft and her marriage fraud, while simultaneously investigating ActBlue for foreign donations. Trish Regan critiques media consolidation under Trump's influence, citing CBS layoffs and CNN's acquisition, before celebrating a 178,000-job gain linked to reduced illegal immigration. The episode concludes by warning of Iran's 60% uranium enrichment threatening U.S. energy dominance and calling for Blanch to investigate alleged foreign campaign interference against Kamala Harris. [Automatically generated summary]
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Investigating Omar's Fraud00:14:45
And we are live.
Boy, things are getting really ugly for Ilhan Omar.
She should have wished that Pam Bondi stayed in the slot, right?
The new guy, the interim guy, one Todd Blanch is promising to go after her and go after her heart.
And not just Ilhan Omar, but all fraudsters everywhere.
So watch out.
The administration is turning up the heat as we speak right now, going after one Ilhan Omar as promised.
This is in part because, you know, the president has made this a very big issue as recently as in the last 24 hours, coming out and slamming.
the Somalian fraudsters, as he refers to them, out of Minnesota, the people that are alleged to have taken as much as $19 billion from American taxpayers' watch.
How about in Minnesota?
They come from Somalia, but they come from all over.
They're all crooked in Minnesota.
The governor's crooked.
The attorney general's a crook.
He's a thief.
Terrible guy.
All stupid, crooked people, and they came in from, in this case, Somalia is just terrible.
A lot of people say it's the worst country anywhere in the world.
They have no money, no nothing.
They have no government.
They have no police.
They just shoot each other all day long.
It's just pure bedlam.
Probably the worst, most dangerous country.
We have some beauties.
They go to Minnesota, and they stole $19 billion.
$19 billion.
And they're low IQ.
I can generalize.
They're low IQ people.
They're bad people.
They have 94% unemployment.
In other words, they don't want to work.
A lot of jobs available, right, with the economy.
They don't want to work.
Why would they work?
And they sell more Mercedes-Benzes than any state in the Union.
Because they come here with no money.
And they go out, they love a Mercedes-Benz, and they go out and buy Mercedes-Benzes.
And I think you're going to get to the bottom of it real easy.
And every one of them should be.
And Ilhan Omar, who married her husband to married her brother, her brother became her husband.
When she has to check a book, she's and that is under investigation, too.
We're going to get back to that in just a second.
But first, the promised crackdown.
on all of this fraud that it's alleged to have come out of the Minnesota community.
We're finding more of it now as we speak in California, an estimated $80 billion there in California.
Everybody's like, how does this happen?
Why would Timmy Walsh look the other way?
Why would Keith Ellison look the other way?
And why would Ilhan Omar somehow be involved in this, having so many people directly from her district?
This is what Todd Blanch is taking on.
Here he is on Fox News saying he promises he's going after this.
Listen, I'm just going to tell you, I'm leveling with you, okay?
I wasn't happy with Pam.
You know that.
I made that very clear.
I kept saying over and over and over again.
for months.
We like her.
She's a lovely person, really and truly.
And she loves the president.
However, however, nothing was getting done.
Zilch.
Nada.
Like nothing was getting done.
And I don't know if that was a lack of organization, maybe in part, a lack of intelligence.
I don't know, maybe in part.
I mean, she looked cute.
She was good on TV, but that was about it.
And we need somebody who's a good lawyer, a smart lawyer, who can manage an entire team of lawyers because this is serious now, guys.
We're talking about massive fraud on a massive scale.
Todd Blanch stepping into the gig temporarily.
We'll see if it goes to Lee Zeldin.
You know, we've talked about Judge Jeanine as well.
Lee Zeldin seems to be the top pick.
But right now, all eyes on Todd Blanch as he moves ahead in a pretty serious crackdown on fraud.
Watch.
This includes leadership and state governments, our investigations do, because guess what?
They are, in many ways, the actual conduit.
They're letting it happen by not doing anything to stop these individuals stealing from the American people.
And so you're going to see this Department of Justice pour all of our heart and soul into.
Into fraud cases all over this country for the foreseeable future.
Yeah.
Okay.
So they're going to put their heart and soul into all of these fraud cases for the foreseeable future.
So you wonder why Ilhan Omar is so freaked out right about now.
I mean, aside from the fact that the president is attacking her community, which I get she's getting kind of sensitive to that as well.
But gosh darn it, how, why was there $700 million leaving the city of Minneapolis over a two year time span, more than like 90% more than any other airport?
In the country, including JFK, for goodness sakes.
Why?
Why was it all going to Somalia and Kenya and Dubai?
Why?
Okay.
I'm sorry, but you go down the list.
Nick Shirley did.
And every single one of these people happens to be somehow, in some way, shape, or form, related to her, for goodness sakes.
I mean, I don't mean directly, but you get where I'm going.
Anyway, here is Ilhan Omar Singh.
Don't you dare.
That's not very American of you.
Here we go.
We do not blame the lawlessness of an individual on a whole community.
What we also know is that there is not a single evidence that the president or his coolies have put forth that there is any single resource from taxpayers in Minnesota that has gone to aid and abate terrorism.
That language is dangerous.
That language puts the lives of Somalis not only in Minnesota, but across the country in danger.
And if the president believed that and he had evidence, he would take people to court.
Well, so we are sick and tired.
Come on, he and his coonies, they're about to take you to court, okay?
And by the way, I'm just going to point out that a lot of people have already gone to court.
I think the tally is somewhere around 84 right now that have been convicted out there in your.
hometown, if we can call it that, of Minneapolis.
All right, Ilhan.
So let's be really clear.
Let me also be really clear that typically whenever the Hawala network, and you know what that is, right, is involved, well, Ilhan does, maybe you don't.
That's the sort of hand to hand, man to man financing transactions.
They don't use banks in the Middle Eastern community, specifically within the Somalian community.
They're putting it back and forth to Somalia vis a vis what's known as the Hawala network.
So I give you cash, you give so and so cash, so and so gives somebody cash, and then it goes all the way back over to Somalia.
You'll wonder where there was $700 million, right?
In the suitcases in cash actually being declared to the TSA, leaving the city of Minneapolis.
I mean, clearly they got money.
They got money from somewhere.
This is why Scott Besant has said, you know what?
You guys clearly have money from somewhere.
So if you actually are taking all this money out of the country, then guess what?
You're not going to qualify for any of those programs.
No, all those special, special programs that we have, we're not going to give you access to those anymore.
You know why?
You clearly have enough.
You can send some home.
And believe me, they're sending a lot home.
They're sending $700 million home.
I'm just blown away by that figure.
And, you know, you got to ask yourself, what did she know?
What did she know?
And this is what they're trying to investigate as we speak, guys.
And I have a feeling they're going to come up with something because they are not circling this over and over and over.
There's something else interesting I just want to share with you.
You know, you listen to the president right there and he's talking a little bit differently than he's said this before.
Sometimes he said alleged.
Now he's like right out and just he's coming out swinging.
So he allegedly had had it with Pam Bondi.
He apparently rode with her to the Supreme Court the other day when they were going to listen to the hearings on birthright citizenship.
And he turned to her and he said, I think it's time.
I think it's time.
Four words.
She was done.
Apparently, she had already felt it, seen it, heard the or recognized the handwriting on the wall.
She knew that her days were limited there.
But it's not that hard to figure out when you're not coming forward with the prosecutions that one would think, whether it be Leticia James, whether it be James Comey, which, you know, they basically forgot to turn in the homework on that one because they missed the statute of limitations, which I just don't get.
But back to Besant and this terrorist financing aspect to it, this is what the Treasury is looking into right now.
Ilhan cannot come right out and say.
There's no way, no how that none of that happened because we know that Al-Shabaab does actually take a cut of any money that's going back and forth in the Hawala network, which means that in some way, shape, or form, it had to have gone into the hands of very illicit people.
Let's go to Bess, and here he is with Laura Ingram on Fox.
So we're lowering that to 3,000.
And we're also targeting the two counties here, and we're going to do enhanced surveillance.
And from now on, anyone who wires money out from one of these money service businesses has to check a box saying whether they are on public assistance.
And if you are on public assistance, we are going to start pushing that you cannot wire money out of the country.
Oh, gosh.
And what if they lie and they don't tell us about public assistance?
Well, then.
That's a crime, lying on a federal form.
We're going to follow it up and we are going to push that you can no longer do that.
The American people, our generosity, Has been taken advantage of.
Our generosity is funding Al Shabaab in Iranian interests.
It could be.
Well, the money.
This is really bad.
The money is supposed to go for alleged asylum seekers and their families and children.
And if you were wiring the money out of the country, one of two things must be true.
You were getting too much money and your benefits should be cut, or you were part of this conspiracy.
Where did that money come from?
We're going to find it out.
That's what Treasury does.
IRS has a group called Criminal Investigations.
criminal investigations was the group.
We got a little gremlin hitting us there, a little sticky video, but I think you got the gist of what he was saying.
In other words, he's got the IRS and he's going in and he's got a team that can investigate terrorist financing and they're going in on that as well.
And every single transaction above $3,000 is being examined as we speak.
I can confirm for you that they are soliciting all this documentation from the banks right now.
They are looking at anybody that was connected to this fraud ring and they are looking at all transactions above $3,000.
more, by the way, I think with the fraudsters, they're actually going in deep and they're looking at all transactions, every single one of them for anybody that was connected to this alleged, not alleged at this point, this fraud, okay?
Maybe it's alleged $19 billion.
I think it could be even more when it's all said and done.
So she's panicked.
She's naturally really, really, really frightened right now because it's not looking good.
I mean, we already know that they have been investigating her internationally.
It's going global, guys.
They're looking at banks in Kenya.
They're looking at banks in Dubai and Somalia.
All because she volunteered on that, filing there for Congress that she and her husband were now worth a whopping 30 million bucks.
You go from negative 50,000 to a whopping 30 million.
I'm sorry.
People are going to start to raise a few eyebrows, including the president of the United States.
The president of the United States also saying, we got to hit this woman with marriage fraud.
For goodness sakes, i'm pretty darn sure she married her brother.
His words, not mine.
Let's go to the president calling out Ilhan Omar On her marriage.
Ilhan Omar, who married her husband to married her brother, her brother became her husband.
When she has to check a book, she says, any brothers, one.
Any husband, one.
She checks two people.
So on top of everything else, she gets a double income tax cut.
She's a stone cold crook, and everybody knows it.
And the papers, they have one paper out in particular.
The guy made a living writing about her, and I spoke to him.
He said, but nobody does anything about it, sir.
All you have to do is get his writings from the Indianapolis Star or whatever paper he works for.
You don't even have to do any.
This guy spent 10 years investigating that crook.
And you've got to do something about it.
Or our people are going to get very, they're already upset.
It takes too long.
So JD, you go do it.
And Russell, you better do it.
Yeah, you guys better do it, right?
He's making it pretty clear.
And Todd Blanch also getting the edict there to go ahead and do it because we have.
also heard from the Department of Justice's Hamid Dillon that indeed they are investigating this, on top of which the Vice President of the United States just came out and told our friend Benny here, hey, you know what?
She's guilty.
She's guilty.
We've got it and we're going to prove it.
Ileana Omar definitely committed immigration fraud against the United States of America.
And I talked to Stephen Miller about this actually recently.
We're trying to look at what the remedies are.
That's the thing that we're trying to figure out what are the legal remedies now that we know that she's committed immigration fraud?
How do you go after her?
How do you investigate her?
How do you actually do the thing?
How do you build the case necessary to get some justice for the American people?
There's a related issue, Benny, which is she has been at the center.
Of a lot of the worst fraudsters in the Somali community.
So, do I know that Ilyan Omar was aware that the quality Learning Center was defrauding the American people?
I'm not certain of it, but we at least need to investigate it because if people can commit wrongdoing without even the fear that they're going to be found out, that's a fundamental problem.
So, I'm worried about the immigration fraud.
I'm also worried about what did Ilyan Omar know about what was happening in the Somali community and why was nobody looking into it until, frankly, Donald Trump came along.
You know, I'm actually also worried that it goes a little bit further than that.
Not that she just knew and looked the other way, but that she was somehow involved in it.
That's what I would be investigating right now.
Because, again, when I go back to the documentation and I look at how her net worth has just ballooned so extravagantly, you get the E Street crew, right?
The Easy Street crew winery that didn't exist, that has no website, that has no phone number, that has no vineyard, that has no grapes, that has no wine, okay?
When you have things like that, And she's estimating it at $5 million.
Something fishy's going on.
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And so they've got to like just peel back all of this, ask for what they can do in terms of if she in fact committed, and they believe very strongly she committed marriage fraud, which would be immigration fraud, then that qualifies her for denaturalization.
At that point, you can say, okay, you know what?
It's kind of over, honey.
We're done here.
We're done because you did something that's beyond like anything that we would have ever anticipated people would do.
This is like one of those things that really, really bugs the government.
That's why you are immediately denaturalized if indeed it's been found out you have committed marriage fraud.
And there's some thought that, well, you heard from the president, right?
That the brother was somehow involved.
Didn't even have to be the brother.
It could have just been, you know, some other family relation that she was trying to get some kind of benefit for or not even a relation, maybe just a family friend.
If it was fraud and they believe it's fraud, then yes, they have the ability to deport her.
And I mean that, okay?
Deport her.
I know that sounds extreme, but if she committed marriage fraud, that's it.
Game over, Ilhan.
And so that's the biggie that they're trying to go for.
And of course, she's freaking out as we speak, saying, you know, don't look at me.
You're trying to tarnish the entire population of Somalian Americans.
And this is not right.
Yada, yada, yada.
Ilhan Omar definitely committed immigration fraud against the United States of America.
Okay.
So there you have it.
I rest my case.
They know something.
And now as they look to prove it, as they look to penalize her, that's what's going to get really interesting.
And now, fortunately, hopefully, they have the right guy in the place, right?
Todd Blanch, to do the job.
Because you need somebody that's a good lawyer, that's good at management, that understands this and is going to be able to expose it all.
I mean, I'll tell you.
Look, you know, the president said that the Democrats went after him five times with impeachment, impeachment, impeachment.
I mean, they kept doing it.
And then they tried to bankrupt him.
Heck, they got their lawyers.
They get their ducks in a row.
So we need the exact same thing.
We can't have somebody that is not strong, period, no matter how lovely they are.
And she is lovely.
And she's a nice person.
And she liked the president.
But I'm sorry.
It's time to move on.
And we're moving on right now, at least at this moment in time with one Todd Blanche.
Todd Blanche taking over in the interim for one Pambondi.
And he's ready.
and willing to expose what has just come out about Act Blue.
So we got Ilhan Omar, we've got the Minnesota fraudsters, we've got the Minnesota Dems, we've got California that he's working on, and we've also got what's known as Act Blue, very, very big platform, the main platform for Democrats to raise money on.
And it turns out they may have been getting money from a lot of foreign services.
I mean, it wasn't everyday Americans that were chipping in for Kamala Harris.
No, no, no.
I think it may have been China.
Oh, don't take my word for it.
That's their lawyers, their own lawyers.
Huge expose in the New York Times this week, just coming out saying it is the belief of the lawyers for ActBlue that there were all kinds of foreign donations that could have come through the doors that ActBlue was not properly equipped to deny.
Here is the new head of the DOJ promising he's going after them too.
New York Times is saying the Democrats were taking millions of dollars in foreign donations and may have been lying about it.
Are you looking into this?
I can tell you that that is a priority of this administration and this Department of Justice.
And it's something that a lot of people have been very worried about for a very long time.
And you should rest assured that it includes the Department of Justice and it includes me.
You better believe we're worried about it.
So here's the article, okay?
The New York Times saying Axe Blue may have misled Congress on vetting foreign donations.
Its own lawyers are warning about it.
It's kind of interesting that it's the New York Times reporting this.
They're kind of going easy there on the headline.
What's my headline?
Axe Blue accused my own lawyers of taking foreign cash.
You know, I'm a little more straight to the point.
But then again, I'm not trying to work a certain angle like they are.
Here is the New York Times continuing to write.
You see on the screen a picture of Regina Wallace Jones.
This is the chief executive for this liberal fundraising organization known as AXE.
BLUE and apparently in early 2025, a law firm was commissioned by the company to come and take a look at any kind of vulnerabilities they might have vis-a-vis foreign cash that might be coming in, and the firm concluded.
The law firm concluded that ActBlue's chief executive had given quote potentially misleading responses to a congressional Republican investigator or investigators plural in a 2023 letter explaining how the organization vetted donations to ensure that they were not illegally, because you know you can't get foreign cash, coming from foreign Citizens.
The letter from the chief executive, Regina Wallace Jones, again, you see her picture on the screen, said ActBlue carried out, quote, multi-layered screenings of contributions that helped to root out from those overseas.
In fact, the law firm found that that wasn't actually the case.
Some of the steps that she had described were not always followed.
No, not followed.
This presents, quote, a substantial risk for ActBlue, the law firm Covington AND Burling wrote in two of its memos.
To the company expressing all their legal concerns.
Because again, I just want to repeat the obvious, you can't be getting money from China, you can't be getting money from Russia.
And this is a Democrat okay, or as a Republican or any politician.
You can't do it, it's called illegal.
So if you don't have a system in place to bar those contributions from coming in through the door and you're just collecting money and telling everybody, oh, it's grassroots, it's grassroots.
We got every Tom Dick and Harry and Susie Mary and in Josephine in all of America that's donating to Kamala's campaign.
But it turns out it's everybody in China, it's everybody in Russia, and you have foreign actors involved, well then that would actually be big time illegal, big time illegal.
So they may have been getting these foreign contributions and they now think that the company was exposing itself and its executives, specifically the CEO whom you see, to the potential for prison because the penalty is pretty significant.
It's a criminal investigation.
If prosecutors believe that ActBlue had tried to conceal certain facts about its efforts to prevent foreign contributions, that would elevate and escalate it to a criminal investigation.
So again, the law firm here trying to say, look, We're trying to protect you, lady.
Well, what'd she do?
She fired him.
She's like, you're out of here.
And now they're like, well, you know, we kind of have a duty to say something because we don't want to be on the hook and look like we were involved in this somehow.
Federal election law prohibits, writes the New York Times, foreign citizens or people who are not permanent residents from donating directly to federal candidates or political action committees.
Lying or obstructing to Congress is a crime.
And they're suggesting that she was somehow lying and obstructing.
Congress.
The memos instigated a total meltdown at the highest echelons of Act Blue.
They had a whole bunch of people leaving, a series of top officials resigning, and the New York Times kept digging in until they got some context there at the law firm that said, yeah, this is a big deal.
This is a very big deal.
I want to go to Miranda Devine in the New York Post.
She's terrific.
And here she is on with my very good friend, David Asman at Fox Business, another place I used to work.
And they're talking about just how significant this is.
I mean, this is a big deal, guys.
Foreign money coming in through the Democrat money machine, and then possibly the money machine lying about it.
And then when the law firm says, Hey, you better correct the record, they're like, See ya.
I mean, this is scandalous, okay?
We knew that many people weren't donating to Kamala, right?
Not only was ActBlue accepting these donations that could easily have been from foreign actors because they weren't verifying.
That three digit identification code on the back of your credit card.
They weren't even asking for it.
But also, they uncovered several straw donor situations where you had large contributions, large donations being divided up in small amounts that would not raise the attention of authorities and parceled out to unknowing victims.
And so, these are very important discoveries and very sinister because remember.
ActBlue is the largest online platform for the Democrats to bring in oodles of money, which they pretend is all from grassroots Americans.
And it was one of the biggest funders for Kamala Harris in her presidential campaign.
And the DOJ's been looking at it, but I mean, it's been a couple of years and nothing's happened.
That's the problem, right?
And so that was the problem with Pammy.
Again, lovely person.
And there's a lot of things she could probably do fantastically well.
She's apparently going to the private sector, but.
She wasn't a great AG, all right?
She just wasn't because here we are and the Act Blue situation is still sitting here.
But now we got more information.
We know that the law firm itself is running scared and doesn't want to be somehow tainted with this and is coming out and blowing the whistle on Regina, Regina Wallace Jones, really decked out in blue sunglasses and a blue glittery hat, the whole shebang.
And it turns out, you know, they're kind of scared, I guess.
Maybe the law firm or maybe they just want to do the right thing because you can't have foreign cash infiltrating our elections.
Well, Donald Trump.
Had already directed the Justice Department a whole year ago to investigate ACT BLUE.
And here we are a year later and we got nothing.
So it was time.
Yeah, Donald Trump made the right call on getting rid of Pammy.
It can be alleged that ACT BLUE, the NEW YORK Times writes, or rather this is from the memo.
I want to go back to the law firm.
This is the Covington memo.
It can be alleged that ACT BLUE accepted or and or facilitated the acceptance of foreign national contributions into American elections Woo.
Okay.
In addition, because ActBlue's staff was aware that its system was not as robust as necessary, it could be alleged that these violations were knowing and willful, a standard that both increases the penalties that the FEC, Federal Elections Commission, might seek and gives the Justice Department jurisdiction for a potential criminal investigation.
And then they told this woman, Regina, hey, you know, you better lawyer up.
This is the blonde lady on the bottom.
She's like a very well-known Democrat lawyer named Dana.
Remus and Dana was telling this lady, you know, you got to go get yourself an attorney because you might actually be heading to prison because this is serious stuff.
And Wallace Jones, what'd she do?
She fired her.
Okay.
Seems that way because next thing you knew, Covington was out of a gig.
So in this tense video conference, apparently that they had, there were a couple of people that were on the call and then reported back to the New York Times what was going on.
They said that Ms. Wallace Jones was being warned here by Ms. Ramis that you are going to be in trouble.
You're going to have some legal liability.
and that she probably needed her own personal lawyer.
And then, well, the next thing you know, they're gone, but they're coming back and they're blowing the lid on everything.
So Dana trying to warn Regina she was in trouble.
And then Dana goes, bye-bye.
So Regina didn't want any help.
But apparently donors who paid through Apple Pay, PayPal, or Venmo were not asked for any passport information.
According to Miranda Devine, they weren't even asked for the last three digits on their credit card.
The Covington memos indicated that ActBlue did not have the rigor in its review of overseas donations that was required or that it had described to congressional investigators.
So they're like, yeah, we got it covered.
We got it covered.
Don't worry.
And it turns out they didn't have it covered.
As a result, one memo said there was, quote, a substantial risk that some of the funds received were impermissible contributions from foreign nationals.
Like I said, we knew darn well not that many people really liked Kamala or were willing to turn over 10 or 20 bucks for her, right?
It actually went so far as to outline the ramifications for what ActBlue might be facing, saying, you know, you got three choices here.
You can provide new information without explicitly stating that ActBlue is correcting the record.
You can explicitly correct the record, or you can not provide any additional information, clarifying the prior statements.
For each option, the Covington then told them what are the problems, the advantages, the risks, and what the penalties were.
ActBlue would eventually change its vetting processes, so it made things better going forward.
and somehow informed Congress that it was changing the vetting processes, but not before this whole internal uproar and not before they actually took the money.
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You see, guys?
And therein lies the problem.
So that suggests that, by the way, Donald Trump won this last time around in spite of foreign money.
I mean, it tells you, boy, the American people, we can really rally when we need to, right?
And boy, we're rallying right now.
Really sad news.
We've gotten reports of the helicopter down overseas.
We have had some communication, I guess, with the pilot.
That's all ongoing.
A lot of Congress has left.
The president right now is in the Oval Office.
In the Dining room section of the Oval Office working and staying very attuned to everything that's going on not continuing there with easter holidays because of the severity of the situation we're going to get to, what this means for our relationship with the Europeans, because new information today suggests he's really out like he's had it.
He's pulling out troops, you name it.
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And NATO coming to an end, the Trump administration making it really clear with Marco Rubio saying, we're out of here.
You know what?
You guys wouldn't even let us fly over your airspace there in France.
What good are you?
I mean, why do we have all these bases everywhere, for goodness sakes, if we can't even use your lousy airspace, let alone the base?
No, I don't think this is working out for us.
So here he is.
This is a new development in this.
We told you it was escalating.
Now saying he's going to pull 100,000 troops right out of Europe.
Sorry, Europe.
Allow us to use their military bases.
Their answer is no.
Then why are we in NATO?
You have to ask that question.
Why do we have billions and billions of dollars, hundreds of billions of dollars over the years, trillions of dollars, and all these American forces stationed in the region if we can only use it?
In our time of need, we're not going to be allowed to use those bases.
So I think there's no doubt, unfortunately, after this conflict is concluded, we are going to have to re examine that relationship.
We're going to have to re examine the value of NATO and that alliance for our country.
Ultimately, that's a decision for the president to make, and he'll have to make it.
We're going to finish the job here.
As I said, we're very, very close to achieving our objectives on all of these things that I've outlined.
But I do think, unfortunately, we are going to have to re examine whether or not this alliance that has served this country well for a while is still serving that purpose, or is it now become a one way street where America is simply in a position to defend Europe, but when we need the help of our allies, they're going to deny us basing rights and they're going to deny us overflight?
I think these are very legitimate questions that we need to be asking.
And this is going to have to be very carefully examined after this conflict is over.
And we're going to examine it.
And we're going to have to reassess.
Because it's become all too apparent that we're the moneybags.
And we're there, ready, willing, and able to shell out whenever we're asked.
But they're not willing to return the favor.
And that's a real problem.
A serious, serious, serious problem.
Because, you know, this has got to be a two-way street, guys.
It can't work this way.
The president's been communicating this over and over and over again over the last several days.
I mean, here is something, an interview that he did with the Telegraph, which is a big newspaper over there.
And he's telling the Telegraph, quote, I am strongly considering pulling out of NATO.
Now we're hearing from Marco Rubio that they're looking at pulling out 100,000 troops, 100,000 troops out of Europe because guess what?
What's the point in having them there?
We're just there to protect you.
Now, don't get me wrong.
I mean, think about why NATO is there.
It's to prevent some kind of escalation.
of a global scale.
In the old days, the way it worked was everybody had various alliances.
You know, this little European country was tight with this little European country, which was, you know, tight with this little European country.
And then this little European country, this little piggy went to market, this little piggy went home, right?
All these little European countries, and they all had these little alliances.
And it was like, oh my gosh.
And this is why you wound up in big world wars, right?
Because it was like a domino effect.
This little one offends this little one, and then all of a sudden you get a big uproar.
And then, well, this one's got to get involved in this one because they have all these treaties.
And so at some point people said, you know what?
We need one big giant treaty and we're going to all be in on the game.
Okay.
So we've got NATO and we're all going to work together.
I guess until we don't, because we're now at a tipping point where Europe is not working together with us.
We've got a threat in the Middle East and they don't want to recognize it.
And so the president is saying, well, you know what?
Enough is enough.
You know, you can go get your own darn oil.
I don't care.
You're on your own.
You guys ought to be able to do it.
Aren't you supposed to have a navy of some sort?
Yeah, like a navy.
Right?
They don't have a Navy.
More on that in a second.
John Kirby, who used to run the PR shop for the Pentagon under Biden, which tells everything you need to know, saying to CNN or MSNBC, I don't know, I get these ones confused these days.
They're kind of all one and the same.
They just hate Trump.
They all suffer from TDS.
And he's on there saying, I cannot imagine a NATO without the U.S.
Well, by the way, neither can NATO because they don't have any money.
They have nothing.
It's zip, zero, nada.
They're already on the brink of insolvency.
They said it themselves.
I'm going to play you that one too.
But first, John Kirby.
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, 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, and yes, 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.
Well, you know what's not in our best interest either?
I mean, just to be perfectly honest here, pulling all the stops out to help them in Ukraine, shelling out all kinds of American taxpayer dollars, much of which, by the way, goes to fraud, waste, and abuse.
I mean, it's not just here in the USA, by the way.
It's also over there in Ukraine.
Just look at how many defense ministers they had to axe and their deputies, right?
Because they were stealing.
Anyway, we can't do it.
Like, we just can't do it.
You guys aren't there for us.
Then what the heck?
I mean, Keir Steiner proudly telling us he's not ever going to be there for this war, that this is ours.
We're on our own.
What the heck?
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.
I'm sorry.
Buddy boy, didn't you just say that?
You know, maybe I've just heard you speak too much.
They want you to know it's not our war.
Well, guess what?
I guess it couldn't be your war even if you wanted it to be because you don't have any military might.
You don't have any Navy.
You're supposed to be the British Navy, but you got six destroyers, four of which are in the process of being repaired.
You couldn't even meet your NATO obligations.
You had to go borrow a vessel from Germany.
I mean, what's going on?
Seriously, what is going on?
I keep making this.
comparison to like the little kids, right?
Like the little kids who need to get pushed into the proper place because they don't seem to kind of understand what their own obligations are.
And we've got a bunch of children that are mouthing off to their parents, mouthing off.
I mean, you look at France, they're like, nope, you cannot come through our airspace.
The president said, hey, can we just fly over France to get some supplies over to Israel?
And they're like, nope, not happening.
I mean, what is that, guys?
What is that about?
Well, I'll tell you.
you're going to be on your own sooner rather than later.
And maybe it's just as well.
Maybe it's just as well that you learn to protect yourself and fight for yourself, right?
This is what the president's saying in another true social post this week, saying, hey, you guys can kind of deal with it.
Number one, you can either buy your oil from us, right?
We got plenty of it over here.
Or number two, show some delayed courage.
Would you go to the straight?
Just take it.
You have to learn to fight for yourself.
He sounds like a dad getting on them.
And listen, they need to be gotten on, if you would.
They need to because NATO is on the brink of going away totally.
In part because they don't pay their bills.
You got a bunch of deadbeats over there in Europe.
We face a real danger of running out of money.
Okay, you get it?
They're in a danger zone right now of just running out of money entirely.
Let's go back.
This is deputy spokesperson for the UN telling the world, you know what?
Without the US.
We don't have any cash.
We just don't have any cash.
Let's listen to him here.
The Secretary General has, as you know, repeatedly made clear the problem both of non-payment of Jews by member states and the related problem of the UN being forced to repay member states for budget expenses that it does not spend.
Those two factors have put us on an unsustainable trajectory.
We ended 2025 with a record $1.56 billion in outstanding dues, which is more than double that of the previous year.
So, unless either the payments come in or we're not compelled to return the monies that we are not able to spend because we didn't receive the budget, unless one of those two things happen, we face a real danger of running out of money.
Okay.
You know, maybe you ought to plan ahead, maybe out of budget.
Maybe you ought to think about your own finances.
Maybe you actually ought to meet your obligations.
And when the US of A says, hey, gee, we need to fly over your airspace, France, to be able to get some supplies to Israel, maybe you ought to say, yeah, because we got this thing called a treaty.
We got this thing called NATO, and we all agreed to look out for one another.
But, you know, clearly it's not worth its weight, right?
Like it's not, it's not because they're just not doing what they need to do.
And they seem somehow rather proud that they're not doing what they need to do, which I consider kind of alarming.
And by the way, I'm not the only one.
Take a look at the President of the United States, who is now looking at pulling out 100,000 troops out of Europe.
We don't need our 100,000 troops in those bases there, given what we have seen.
They showed their hand.
All of the NATO allies agreed with us, but they don't want to, you know, despite the fact that we help them so much, we have thousands of soldiers in different countries all over the world, and they don't want to help us.
We don't need help, you know, that war is has been long prosecuted as far as I'm concerned.
Almost from day one, we knocked out many of these things.
We knocked out the Navy essentially in a couple of days.
But I was surprised to see that NATO, while they agreed that it was a very important thing to do, they agree fully.
Nobody said, oh, you shouldn't do it.
They would have had a nuclear weapon within one month of when we had the B 2 bombers bomb the nuclear potential, I call it the nuclear dust.
NATO's making a very foolish mistake.
And I've long said that, you know, I wonder whether or not.
NATO would ever be there for us.
So this was a great test because we don't need them, but they should have been there.
We now know they're not there for us.
Well, guess what?
They don't get any money without us.
You know, that allowance is meaningful because they don't do anything on their own.
They haven't really learned to, you know, fly out of the nest.
So they need our money.
They need our support.
And we're done.
Now, what do I really think is going to happen?
I think they're going to come to some kind of agreement.
I don't think that it's going to be decimated the way, you know, maybe perhaps the president would like to see it decimated.
I don't think ultimately that's entirely what he wants.
I think he wants out of our financial obligations or some kind of new system where we're compensated for being there to protect them.
Because again, What's in it for us?
They're not going to help when we need help.
Well, then why are we over there in the first place?
Why are we sending our troops over there?
We don't need to send our troops.
And so I think this is going to be reworked and relooked at.
But again, the thinking is because you've got one little European country that might have an alliance with another little European country that has an alliance with another little European country.
You want to kind of manage all these little European countries so they don't go wacko and just start fighting with each other.
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And then, you know, the whole thing turns into a you know what sooner than you know.
I mean, it's kind of like the Middle East, right?
There was a time when that was the concern about Europe.
And so that's partly why you have NATO there to begin with.
And now NATO is seen as the offense, perhaps, against Russia.
So when Russia's creeping into Ukraine, but don't forget, Ukraine was creeping into Russia, right?
Like that was one of the, it'd be like if suddenly you had China saying, hey, Mexico, we want a little bit of your space.
Or if Mexico, forget China, just said, we're going to keep creeping into your space.
Well, by the way, you can't creep into our space anymore, Mexico.
Now, can you?
Because that's become a big issue as well.
We're going to have more on that because the jobs report was pretty darn good.
Hey, what do you know?
178,000 jobs being added to the economy.
That's great news, guys.
And one of the reasons for that is, believe it or not, that we don't have any more people coming in here illegally.
Oh, the CNN, former CNN host, I should say, a fired CNN host, is getting all up in arms about the idea of a big media company, Paramount, coming in and owning the likes of CNN, his old employer.
I'm sorry, buddy, you're not there anymore.
Like, let it go.
Let it go.
Let it go.
He can't.
He can't.
Poor Jimmy.
Poor Jimmy Acosta, who's increasingly looking a whole lot like Rosie O'Donnell.
Sometimes I can't quite tell them apart.
He went on some podcast and started ranting about how he's so worried that you're going to have conservatives at CNN.
Oh, gosh darn.
Last time I checked, you know, the media should be filled with lots of different viewpoints.
I realize they're all supposed to be agnostic, but none of them are.
So why not just have more viewpoints?
That way, at least maybe.
In the end, you'll come out with some semblance of fairness.
But they don't want fairness.
Don't forget, they don't want fairness.
They only want left-wing propaganda.
Here he is, little Jimmy.
It seems to me, you know, when Donald Trump put out that Truth Social post the other day and he showed all of these anchors that he was able to, you know, oust from their positions at various networks, including Stephen Colbert as the host of the late show.
I mean, it does seem as though the White House has, you know, adopted this pressure campaign on the networks to force people out that they don't like.
And I guess the networks have gone along with this.
To me, that's kind of a story there that hasn't really been explored.
You know, what's that all about?
I was told these were all programming decisions by the various networks.
Maybe not so much.
Maybe there was some other stuff going on.
But the more menacing part of this was if you went down that True Social Post, you saw Trump bragging about new ownership at CNN and a new news ombudsman over at CBS, referring to Barry Weiss.
And even the new ownership over at TikTok, which obviously is the Ellisons, and they own CBS and they're trying to take over CNN.
And, you know, as I talked about in my testimony, I mean, this has the potential for.
Forming a sort of consolidated media giant that would have influence.
And you guys have been writing about this at length.
I don't have to tell this to you guys, but I mean, they have the potential to form a conglomerate here, a media giant that has influence in this country that we've never seen before.
Woo!
Yeah, you know, you might actually have some conservatives out there.
So what Jimmy Acosta is upset about is the idea that this company is going to become so big and it seems to be more aligned with Donald Trump than aligned with Kamala Harris.
And we do know, right, that every.
single big media company that exists today is definitely aligned with Kamala Harris.
I mean, maybe outside of Fox and Newsmax and Newsmax isn't quite as big, but you've got all kinds of all the studio houses out in Hollywood.
You got Disney, for goodness sakes.
Heck, they had all their Disney stars out there campaigning for Kamala Harris.
It is very much one in one.
Woke Hollywood is symbiotic with the Democrat Party.
And so all of these media companies are super duper left.
And so what do you know?
You might have a company that comes along that is not as super duper left.
And like you're gonna break down over the whole thing.
I mean gosh, darn it, that couple weeks he was ranting and raving about how he couldn't believe it.
Like gosh, Scott Jennings, you know, Scott Jennings right, Scott Jennings might get.
Might get Anderson Cooper's show, or or any other my old show on CNN.
How can that be?
I'll tell you how it can be.
The audience has spoken.
Americans have spoken.
They don't like your trashy little news network anymore.
They're actually seeking something more interesting.
The only show that actually does anything in the ratings is the one that that You know, she's not very good, but it's the one that Scott Jennings is on, the Abbey lady host, right?
And she's got Scott Jennings on it.
And it's the only one that's pulling a number.
Why?
Because people are looking for something different or at least a little bit of controversy.
Mix it up.
Show me both sides.
Let me make the decision.
Night, you and Rosie O'Donnell, who you are definitely looking more and more alike.
I'm so sorry.
I used to know him when he was young.
Do we want Scott Jennings anchoring the CBS Evening News or anchoring AC 360 and talking about what a great president Donald Trump is?
and how he's the best president since George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.
I mean, what kind of crazy, stranger things, upside down world are we going to become if that's the kind of news and information that we have pumping out over the airwaves in this country?
It sounds to me that that's exactly what Donald Trump wants.
All you have to do is go inside his twisted mind.
I mean, just the other day, he was tweeting about sending a hospital boat to Greenland.
He can't even stay awake at his own events.
And this is the guy who's going to cow these giant media properties into combining into one another and becoming propaganda arms of his administration.
I mean, what kind of crazy 1984 shit is this?
Okay.
I'm sorry.
You know, I actually had to take out his little swear because he thought he would rough it up and just get a little aggressive.
He really, he reminds me of Rosie O'Donnell, even in tonality, even in the pacing of how he speaks now, he gets quiet.
And what kind of 1984 thing is this?
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I mean, it does.
I see Dahi saying it's, it kind of feels like an SNL moment.
I get it.
You know, it's, it's something else.
But look, here's what he's worried about.
He's worried about that the media as he knew it is gone and possibly gone forever.
I don't know.
I, I do think that the media in terms of mainstream media.
itself.
I don't think like the lefties are gone forever.
I think like the lefties and the media are still here to stay and we'll get to, you know, live another day.
I do think that the media as we know it is completely decimated.
It's why none of these networks have any appeal.
I look at what we're doing here.
It was 156 million views on the Trish Regan YouTube channel earlier this year.
And I'm like, wow.
I mean, we're doing 200 million over on Facebook.
It's just incredible, guys.
And that actually is beating what the networks are doing.
So this is massive and it's unthinkable, really.
I'm just one person, right?
You know, it's it shows you, I think, that people are responding to authenticity, to truth, to realness, and to, you know, they don't need all the sophistication.
And we have a few little graphics here and there and a little bit of sound and all that stuff, but it shows you that media is changing.
And what actually is more valuable in this day and age is the connection that I think we all have with each other.
And that's becoming increasingly apparent.
Now, the networks don't have that, and the networks have all this built-in bias.
Sometimes I wonder, is it money?
I mean, were they getting paid by China?
Why?
Like, why did they have so much bias?
For whatever reason, I think they saw their business interests and their whatever moral interests, you know, aligned with the left.
And they made their bed and they're laying in it and it's not working out so well.
Just ask the folks over at CBS News.
CBS News engaging in more firings.
I mean, it's like firing round after firing round after firing round there at another one of my former employers.
CBS News also probably seeing the likes of 60 Minutes getting hit.
In part because of this merger, in part because it's just not doing that well, in part because times have just changed and you can do a whole lot more with less.
Barry Weiss preps major shakeup at 60 minutes that would reshuffle top talent producers.
And this is according to sources, it's being reported by the likes of the New York Post.
So according to the Post, they're going to see lots of shakeup.
A lot of the talent may be gone.
They get some big salaries over there still that they got to get rid of as they try and cope in this new day.
CNN, meanwhile, they've been struggling.
And now you've got the two things that are going to merge.
Why?
Because there's a 110.
Billion dollar merger.
Paramount, okay, it bought CBS and Paramount bought Warner Brothers, Discovery.
And so now you've got all of CNN getting merged into Paramount.
Paramount.
So you get two newsrooms and Barry Weiss in charge.
Barry Weiss, if you don't know Barry, she is the one that started the FREE Press and she's always been a big believer in opinion and having lots of different opinions and she's more.
You know, I wouldn't say she's like super right, but she's certainly right of center, which is helpful to have somebody out there that's right of center.
So she's come in and she's trying to remake CBS NEWS but it's not going so well.
It's not going so well because you know what I?
I think that that audience for one thing Is set in its ways.
And I think the newsroom is set in its ways.
And so when you look at all these numbers coming in, here's the New York Post reporting on what she saw for the first quarter.
Oh gosh, it was not good.
I mean, you had, for example, the evening news, they switched out the anchor.
They had that duo, those two guys that were doing it.
Now Tony's doing it.
And they're down to 4.3 million views.
I mean, when I was there, I want to say we were still in last place because it was Dan Rather, followed by Katie Couric.
And she bled more viewers too.
Well, you know where she stood.
And you know where Dan Rather stood, right?
So again, very, very left and not even offering to kind of bring it down the middle of the fairway.
And as a result, we were getting like 7 million viewers while ABC was getting 11 million viewers.
And now look at it, 4.3 million viewers there on CBS Evening News while the likes of ABC are getting like 7 million viewers.
So it shows you that you're just eroding in real time.
She's trying to fix it, but it's not easy.
Like I said, you've got a staid newsroom with a lot of people that are very set in their ways.
And you've got viewers that are also really set in their ways.
The problem is she's not bringing any new viewers in.
And that's what she's trying to fix.
It's not easy.
One of the problems is a lot of people have tried to do centrist news.
I know this because I am like the target audience for those things.
And the reason that they have all failed is it's like trying to force feed spinach down someone's throat, right?
It's felt very like tofu, oatmeal.
It's like centrist news is choosing the midpoint between every single topic.
It's felt like an absence of charisma and identity in a moment of unbelievably low trust in all of our public institutions, especially the mainstream press.
I don't think it's by Pretending like we can go back to having a view from nowhere.
I think it's about who's in the room, right?
I think it's about redrawing the lines of what falls in the 40 yard lines of acceptable debate and acceptable American politics and culture.
In other words, it's a fancy way of saying you need both sides, okay?
You need both sides.
And she tried to get both sides in one 60 Minutes report by a pretty good reporter, but apparently the reporter, she went to the White House and they wouldn't give her a comment.
I would have said, hey, you know, if you're a really good reporter, you would have called in some chips.
with some of your Republican friends, if you have any.
Hey, maybe the new boss could have helped you out, Barry Weiss, because she knows a few people in the White House.
She was like, why is this report, which was on CCOT, remember the El Salvadorian prison, which everybody had already seen.
My own, one of my team members, he was down there at the CCOT prison, and he went around and saw it all firsthand himself, probably about a month and a half before 60 Minutes ever went.
So everybody had been there.
Everybody had seen that, done that.
It was a little late to the party, right?
But they thought, ooh, we got this footage, and we're going to run it.
And they never bothered to show the administration side of things.
They never showed the other side.
They just said, well, we tried.
You know, we called them and they didn't respond.
And Barry's like, no, you can't go on the air with that.
Like, that's just not okay.
And they had a total conniption fit.
Don't you dare try to produce or manage me.
Lady, who do you think you are?
Well, this got kind of funny.
60 Minutes correspondent Sharon Alfonsi criticized the decision in an email to colleagues yesterday that was obtained by several news organizations.
She said her team had reached out to the administration for comment several times and said the call to hold the story was, quote, not an editorial decision.
It is a political one.
Weiss responded in a statement, writing in part, holding stories that aren't ready for whatever reason.
That they lack sufficient context, say, or that they are missing critical voices happens every day in every newsroom.
I look forward to airing this important piece when it's ready.
Yeah.
You know what?
That was the right approach.
I'm sorry.
You know, I realize, you know, there's some sensitive egos there.
You got a newsroom, but she did the right thing.
And now, I don't know.
I mean, look, if the troops don't like you and you're coming in and you're running the show, just ask Pete Hegseth what you do, right?
Pete's getting rid of them left and right.
In fact, the top ARMY guy just went just last night.
You're running a team and everybody's on the team, and if they're not on the team, well then I think that you're gonna have to part way.
So this is why the NEW YORK POST is reporting that a bloodbath is coming for june.
That you know.
They already slashed six percent just a couple weeks ago, 60 to 70 people.
They shuttered the 99 year old radio division.
That makes so much sense to me.
I'll tell you, when I left FOX and I decided I wanted to start a podcast, the team that was initially selling my show and still sells part of the show Salem Media And they're great.
They're great.
And they've really tried to adopt to new media.
But one of the things that they said to me was, do you want to have a radio show?
And I'm like, no.
No.
And they tell the story with much love now.
They're like, you know, Trish, she saw the future.
She saw the future.
Look, you can still make money in radio.
Don't get me wrong.
And I'm sure CBS could have made a little bit of money because those things are still around and Salem does well with it.
But the reality is to me, I want to be part of the future, right?
I wish I had come here like 10 years ago.
I just want to keep my eyes on what's next.
And this.
is what is next.
And so, yes, she's making the right decision.
You know, you get rid of the 99-year-old radio division.
It's better than making it to 100, for goodness sakes.
If it had gotten to 100, it would have felt even harder, right?
And insiders are now saying that more and more layoffs are coming next month.
The expectation is it could be some bigger names.
She's sick of the program.
She says, according to the post, that she thought it made sense to get rid of some of the fat, effectively.
My words, not hers, because you have too much soft programming there.
I mean, get a load of this one.
I couldn't believe it.
60 Minutes apparently ran a story with, you know, nobody knows about these stories.
It used to be in the old days.
Everybody watched 60 Minutes on Sunday and then they'd talk about it on Monday and nobody talks about it.
It goes nowhere.
It goes like into the ether, right?
Like nobody's talking about it.
And she wants to change that.
The most exciting report they had was an interview with a mentalist named Oz Perlman who showcased his mind reading abilities by guessing the name of the reporter when Cecilia Vegas third grade teacher.
Woo!
Real hard hitting journalism you're doing there.
Boy, oh boy.
So she needs to get rid of this.
She needs to change it.
She needs to do something because it's not working out so well and it's costing a whole lot of money.
They also, just so we're clear, they've done segments on chess boxing.
I don't even know what that is.
Dog aging research.
Oh, and why handmade Swiss watches are so expensive.
I got one here because they're handmade and they're really good quality.
Anyway, so she wants to rehaul the entire show.
We wish her well.
I think this guy could probably find himself out.
I don't know if you're familiar with him.
He's, you know, you've also got Leslie Stahl over there, who I'm sort of surprised has not retired by now.
But, you know, this guy probably needs to retire.
You're looking at a picture of Scott Pelly there.
He's made his concerns about his new management team very, very vocal.
He didn't like that the merger was going through.
And I think all of that probably, probably in any kind of normal world would actually qualify you for a firing.
Yeah.
So get ready.
60 minutes.
It may just be over.
You know, the network does have a lot of potential, though.
CNN actually has a lot of potential.
I mean, all those bureaus all over the world, if you think about where we're going in a new media environment, if you can harness those assets and make something of that, you might be on to something.
And I think that's what the Ellisons are thinking.
Kathy Holkle, meanwhile, is just freaking out.
Kathy Okal, the governor of New York, doesn't know what to do because she has no money.
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You see, Ma'am Dami wants to do this, that, and the other.
Oh, this, he wants daycare.
He wants, he wants, he wants your check.
He wants your check and then some.
And it's kind of causing a lot of people to leave.
Like there's a mass exodus out of Manhattan, if you haven't noticed by now.
And Kathy's out there begging people to come back one after another.
Well, Jamie Dimon just came out today and said, yeah, hey, look, lady, my word's not his.
They're not coming back.
Here's Kathy on her knees.
New Yorkers are exasperated.
They feel that everything's stacked against them.
They're not getting ahead.
Their rents are too damn high.
Their child care costs are high.
Their utility bills, and thank you to Washington, we're going to have higher prices at the pump.
We already do.
Everything just seems so hard for people.
So I understand that frustration.
You should join me in the North Country yesterday in Ogdensburg and Watertown, and people are so upset about the tariffs.
Raising the cost of everything.
So there is this anxiety, which is real, and we're continuing to address the affordability crisis, which I believe should be the number one priority of this legislative session.
What can we do to take off some of that pain that New Yorkers are feeling that I hear about literally every day?
What I want to make sure we are smart about is having a system in place where it's not just taxing for the sake of taxing and being conscious of the facts that I need people who are.
High net worth to support the generous social programs that we want to have in our state.
Right?
Now, there are some patriotic millionaires who stepped up.
Okay, cut me the checks.
I mean, just if you want to be supportive, but maybe the first step should be to go down to Palm Beach and see who you can bring back home because our tax base has been eroded.
So I philosophically don't have a problem.
It is like I have to look at the fact that we are in competition with other states who have less of a tax burden on their corporations and their individuals.
And I would say remote work changed everything.
There were people who could only work in an office in Manhattan or work in New York State, and they were captives to our state, they were going to stay.
We saw that that's not the case.
I mean, you know, Wall Street businesses looking at Texas, they're not going there because they have a nicer governor, I know that for sure.
But they're going there because of the tax rate.
We have to be smart about this.
But we can fund what we want to fund with what we already are taking in.
It's amazing that she's finally like.
Coming to her senses, right?
It's taken a while, but I think that the reality of what's out there right now is very, very apparent.
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They're talking with their feet.
Who has, right?
So look what Elon Musk did.
You know, he moved Tesla, SpaceX, everything from California to Texas.
Why?
Because Texas doesn't have a state income tax.
It's a much lower corporate taxes.
Companies like Palantir, companies like Amazon, where are they going?
They're going to Tennessee.
Why?
Tennessee doesn't have a state income tax.
Right, you look at the massive growth that Florida has had, you know, economically.
Why?
It's not just because, um, DeSantis might be viewed as a good governor.
No, it's because they don't have a state income tax in Florida, right?
So, companies are leaving.
When companies leave, they're going to bring more job growth to those kind of states.
So, so people, we also vote not just with our feet, we could do the same thing.
People vote with their wallets, right?
In the sense of, They're going to vote for whatever politician can either give them the most money out of the government treasury or for the politician that can actually increase their bottom line the most, which means lowering taxes.
Okay.
So, and that's why you have free stuff, free stuff, free stuff, right?
You know, we're just going to give you free stuff.
And, and, and that's how, that's how you're going to elect me.
I mean, this is what Ma'am Dami campaigned on.
Free stuff, free stuff.
Well, at some point, somebody's got to pay for the free stuff.
And so this is this tension, right?
Because the businesses are like, well, I'm out of here.
And people that have money are like, I'm out of here because we don't have any police.
We don't have any schools.
You can't send your kid to a New York City school.
Think about that.
That's how bad the schools are there.
So they keep throwing money at it and nothing happens.
It's kind of like in Minnesota.
You're throwing money at the daycares, but there's nobody in the daycares, right?
Because somebody is pocketing that money.
Enough is enough.
I mean, Jamie Dimon, CEO of the world's largest bank, calling out all this BS in New York saying, guys, everybody's leaving for Texas.
This is exactly what Kathy's saying.
This is exactly what Dr. Kirk Elliott's saying.
And Jamie Dimon here today saying, yeah, enough is enough.
Sorry.
Here's a lesson.
This lesson is true for companies, cities, states, and countries.
You've got to compete.
There's no divine right to success.
Just read the history books.
So, our headcount in Manhattan, when I got to JP Morgan, was 35,000, and now it's 26,000.
Our headcount in Texas started at 11,000, now it's 33,000.
That's what happens.
And, you know, PARV is the highest individual taxes, highest estate taxes, highest corporate taxes.
anti-business sentiment.
You could be any ideologue you want, but that's the real world, and people vote with their feet, and you can't get mad at them.
If you believe in a free country, if someone wants to move to Florida, that's their right.
And so, yeah, if they make too many mistakes, mayors, including Mayor Mandami, should worry about police, hospitals, subways, sanitation, storms, health care, schools.
It's got nothing to do with Democrats or Republicans, and ideology distorts reality when it comes to something like that.
Thank you, Jamie.
You know, a little common sense here goes a whole long way.
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Okay.
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Woo!
We got some good jobs news, and don't tell CNN.
CNN stunned, stunned by this new jobs report.
I mean, they don't know what to make out of it.
It's like you can just see.
They're jaws on the floor as they're reporting this 178,000 jobs being added to the economy.
And part of that is because, guess what?
We don't have any migrants coming in over the border.
Wall Street Journal admitting this in the top of today's paper.
But I think it's kind of funny when you see the reaction from CNN.
I want you to see it.
Watch.
I mean, the expectation was what, 60,000 jobs?
And it's 178?
Wow.
Yeah.
Look, the job market bounced back in a big way in March.
And that is good news.
Really blowing away expectations.
Oh, yeah, blown away, guys.
I mean, they don't know what to think of that.
They're blue.
I mean, this was actually a really good jobs report.
In all seriousness, this was really, really good news.
And when you look at the intricacies of it, one of the reasons that kept getting cited was actually the change in the immigration landscape.
So what does that mean?
It's something that, you know, historically, Democrats have campaigned forever.
I mean, go back to Bernie Sanders.
I think we have this coming up on my shorts feed this weekend.
A great clip from Bernie Sanders saying he doesn't believe in open borders.
That's like a right wing thing.
That's like you know, high money elitist thing, these open borders, because they just, you know, want people to do their gardening work.
And that's bad because, you know what, there are plenty of Americans that could do the gardening work, but they're not going to get those jobs if they're all going to illegals.
And so historically, this has always been their argument, right?
And now, all of a sudden, for whatever reason, because everybody's suffering from a severe case of TDS that apparently is somewhat incurable, is switching the other way.
I mean, they're talking a whole new book, even Bernie.
Like, suddenly they like open borders.
Well, Open borders don't get you very far economically speaking.
And, you know, just ask Stephen Miller, who has a word or two to say about this one.
Here he is.
Radical, dangerous, crazy explodes the national debt.
Crazy and extreme the Democrat Party has become.
They believe that every single illegal alien they imported into this country has a civil right to stay in this country.
Their position is they get to import 20 million new illegal aliens into the nation, and that Americans are unable and disabled from being able to hold an election to reverse the migration that they imported here.
And what do those illegal aliens bring with them?
Well, we know most of them are on welfare, so it massively explodes the national debt.
We know that it cripples our public education and our school system.
You can just walk across the border and demand $20,000 a year in free education for your children from a property tax system that you have never paid into a day in your life.
We know that it destroys our health care system.
Not just the wait times in the ER, not just the uncompensated care, but also the strain and stress that it puts across the entire social safety net.
We know its impact on workers, on taxpayers, but of course, most heartbreaking of all, the impact on public safety.
Since President Trump has been in office, we have arrested or removed 500,000, half a million illegal alien criminals.
Wow.
I mean, it's really, it's pretty amazing, right?
And what has that resulted in?
A safer country, a more economically prosperous country.
Just look at the latest jobs report.
And again, Wall Street Journal putting that loud and clear that that is a major, major, major reason.
So, good things happening.
And I know it's a little scary over there in the Middle East and the markets have been a little bit volatile.
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Listen, they could have been a whole lot more volatile.
I think that the markets are saying, you know what, this thing is going to get resolved and it's going to get resolved in our favor.
Our hearts go out to the families tonight.
We're still getting information coming in about the pilots that have apparently gone down there in the Middle East.
And unfortunately, these are one of the very, very bad hazards, right, of being in these conflicts.
But think about the alternative, guys.
I'll leave you with this because if they were at 60% enrichment, For uranium, and this is what they said, and they even went on MSNBC and they bragged about it.
They said, Oh, we're not bragging, but we got 60% enrichment for our uranium.
Then it would have just been a matter of weeks, and then they would have been in control.
And think about this for just one second.
Would you think about what we had the left trying to get us to do?
The left wanted us to basically get rid of all fossil fuels.
We didn't want to be in that business.
So, what was going to happen if you actually got closer to a nuclear Iran?
I just want you to game this out for a minute.
Let's play a little chess as opposed to checkers.
If, in fact, we're in a position where we had No ability to really produce our own energy.
we had already, you know, we had gone under previous presidents from being energy self-sufficient and a net exporter to under Biden, the opposite.
If we were struggling and saying, hey, please, please, please, please, pretty please, we need energy, we need oil, all well simultaneously, you've got this massive increase in AI, all right?
And the productivity gains that are massive coming from there.
And all those GPUs got to be turned around the clock.
So you get all the AI stuff coming on board.
And China's like, thank you very much.
You know, we want to dominate AI.
We want to dominate the world.
And so we got energy, we got AI, and bye-bye, USA.
So it brings me back to why it's so important that we have somebody really strong in the position of Attorney General there, Todd Blanch, coming in, taking over for Pam Bondi and looking at cases, not just Ilhan Omar and all the fraud that is alleged to have gone on with whether it be Ilhan and her husband's company or anything that was going on out in Minnesota, California, other states as well.
That, but also fraud that's happening in terms of other nations possibly have making big donations.
to Kamala Harris's campaign vis-a-vis Act Blue.
So that thing's sitting out there.
And now Todd's going to take that one on and run with it because we can't have that.
You've got foreign nations that were likely contributing.
I mean, what do you think TikTok was run by China for?
I mean, China had a vested interest in making sure that we never upset the apple cart in the Middle East and that they pushed Iran closer and closer to a nuclear weapon because then they would have been sitting pretty.
Their ally would have been a major player.
We would have been highly obviously intimidated because you get a bunch of religious fanatics out there with a nuclear weapon, and where would we have been?
That's a pretty darn scary thought, right?
There may have been a method to their madness, to wanting to put us down on our heels, to wanting us to have the gender confusion, the energy confusion, the we don't know what day it is confusion.
There was a method to the madness.
They wanted to destroy us from within, but you know what?
We're better than that.
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And as we go into this Easter Sunday, you know there was one person that was definitely better than that.
Right?
So living on in his image and footsteps, think about how we too can rise up to be stronger together as a nation.
And all of you do your little part, even just listening to this show and sharing it with your friends.
friends and telling them about Trish Regan and coming here and being live.
This is part of it.
We've got to make sure that we understand reality and truth and that we're not going to be manipulated by any lefty nutjobs that have been manipulated by the likes of China and others.
So I thank you for your dedication.
I thank you for being here.
I hope you have a wonderful Easter Sunday.
We've got more content coming your way and I'll see you right back here live on the show on Monday.