The Trish Regan Show - BREAKING: Mamdani Facing FULL-SCALE Federal Probe -- NY DONE With Woke Mayor?! Plus, Maria Bartiromo's NEXT MOVE After Fox

0:00The DOJ is on to Mammdami and this could actually be quite bad for him. They are launching a full-fledged probe, a civil rights probe amid allegations that he is discriminating against various groups. We're going to talk all about that. Plus, oh my gosh, this news. It was so sorry to see this. This is a woman I have tremendous respect for one of the nicest people in the business. And we're talking about the TV business here. But that's not an easy, easy thing to do. But my friend Maria Bordeaux-Romot is going to be leaving Fox and it's not entirely clear why. But I have some thoughts. So we'll get into that today. Welcome to The Trish Weekend Show. I'm Trish. Please make sure you subscribe. Make a comment. Mammdami is going to be in a whole lot of trouble. The feds are launching a probe. A DOJ probe and investigation into Mr. Mammdami and what he may be up to because this is not exactly a crowd that's very hospitable to one.

1:01Zahran Mammdami right about now. He actually decided to go down to Brooklyn into a woman's neighborhood who really didn't appreciate having him here or there. Under the circumstances, let me show you the tape. Come here. Open it up, please. Come here. Hi, Mr. Mammdani. How are you? It's me, Stephanie Benchimulli. You remember me? Remember last year when Trump read the hostages? Sorry, guys. We've got to move. It's all because of you. We have so much anti-semitism. We've got to move. We've got to move. You can't believe you're in it. Don't push me. Don't push me. I can't believe that you're in a Jewish store before us, Shana. You're causing all the anti-semitism. You're not the ambassador for America. Shame on you for coming to Barra Park where my Bubby Cave after the Holocaust. My Bubby and Zahran came to Barra Park. You have such hoods for coming here. Your moms are shame on you. Stop the anti-semitism. You have all the power. Okay, so she's confronting him to his face here. Some of the people in the store seem a little embarrassed by this.

2:04They're trying to calm her down. But you get why she's so upset. I mean, this is a guy who's trying to jail that in the ongoing violation of the ICC. Or rather, invalidation, I should say, the ICC in violation of the state department. Shame on you, mom. Don't push me. I made a purchase here. I'm a customer. I'll tell the owner. I'll tell the owner. I'll tell the owner. I'll tell the owner. Tell me to step outside. Why is he here? Why? All he wants to do is arrest people in Tanyajo. Shame on you. Remember, we're all watching you. We're watching. You're nonsense. You're in Barra Park. Don't push me. I'm not violent. And I have no weapons on me. Mamdani is in Barra Park. Do you see that? They brought Zohran Mamdani. The biggest anti-semitism in the ICC is in Barra Park. They want to kiss to the hater of all Jewish people. She's a dynamo. OK? Mamdani, you've met her, Matt.

3:05You're Matt. And there's more where she came from. And you see, you get a problem right now, because you're talking about 10% of the population that's experiencing more than half of all hate crimes right now. And so there's a concern there in the DOJ that he is actually encouraging this by much of his rhetoric and not just against Jews, but also against whites, because he has been very vocal in his mistrust, shall we say, of the quote-unquote class elites, et cetera. But not in the same way that we talk about it, right? Like we talk about, OK, you get the 1% or is up there that kind of something. This is very different. This is very like racially charged, very religiously charged. And then you're seeing this pour out and over and over into what's happening in the streets in New York right now. And this is why this lady's so upset. New report out today saying that hate crimes have actually surged up 16% under Mamdani. So he's telling, oh, you know, our police are doing so great. This, that and the other. No, the hate crimes are up. 367 incidents in 2025.

4:07Now, 425, so far this year. And if you look at those numbers, as I mentioned, the Jewish population in New York only accounts for 10% of the population yet, they're experiencing more than half. Of all of those hate crimes. So this is where the DOJ steps in. OK, this is where Harmeet Dylan is like, OK, enough is enough is enough. In fact, she made a statement to the New York Post in which she's saying the Justice Department's civil rights division is actively investigating and prosecuting hate crimes, including anti-Semitism in New York City and nationwide. The Civil Rights Division has an extensive and active portfolio of anti-Semitism enforcement, including a diamond's prosecution settlements and investigations across the country. And she has also said that there is indeed an investigation going on into Mamdame's office there in New York. So in other words, they're going to be looking very closely at whatever's happening within the mayor's office, I hope, to try and get to the bottom of this. What does that mean for him?

5:07It could actually, in theory, if we take this forward and he is found to have been an agitator for this, it could cost him his job. Here's Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, calling out Mamdame saying that the man they arrested for attacking in synagogue was, remember that incident that happened? I think it was back in April, was motivated by social media propaganda. You're saying that. Law enforcement says the man they arrested for attacking a synagogue in Sarasota, Florida, was motivated by social media propaganda. The man reportedly reposted your video, Mamdame, demonizing the Jewish State Awards of Consequences, your inflammatory rhetoric can lead to violence, and really taking him down. And I will say that it's telling the mayor's office apparently did not respond to the post for any kind of comment on that. And yet we just keep hearing sort of similar rhetoric from him as recently as today. There's a new interview. I'm going to show you a clip from it on Al Jazeera, where he is condemning the war with Iran.

6:10He seems to be on Iran's side. We know, of course, that he was trying to set up a meeting with the Iranians when they were in New York. You know, we're going to arrest that. And Yahoo, we're going to set up a meeting with the Iranians. Like, right, OK, yeah. Federman, who increasingly I keep saying I'd come over to the other side and maybe think about becoming a Republican because his party has gotten so well, and so crazy, and so not. He has come out in defense of everyone else in New York and really slammed Mamdami. I'll tell you, he wants no Mamdami, no El Saeed, no Omar. It's like the party is in the middle of the civil war, really and truly. And you got all these crazy sort of socialist Islamic nut jobs that are pushing one version of things. And then everybody else has got their heads screwed on straight. And Federman's one of them saying stuff like this. And when now you have the mayor of a city, you are a mayor, dude. You're a mayor.

7:12You can fix a pothole. You can take out the trash. But you can order people to arrest anybody. Any more than I could have him arrested if he goes to Pennsylvania. That's a joke and he's a clown. And now he also said that Yahoo is not welcome in New York. And you can't say that any more than I could say, mayor, you're not welcome in Pennsylvania. So sit down, you know you're a clown. And you are just going to pander to the fringe. And that's part of your base. And I know you're angry at Nanyahu because he killed a lot of people you admire, whether like at Sin War or Nazrallah or El Comanian, Iran. That's the guy that will only criticize the prime minister or Israel, but he never criticizes Hamas. He's never criticizing his blah or Iran. I've never heard the mayor say and condemn my ran

8:13for killing 30, 40,000 of its young people just asking for democracy in their nation. Wow, wow, wow. Well, thank you, Senator Federman for that. And to everyone brave out there calling this out. I mean, I know that we can sit here and we can say how the heck did they ever elect him? And you know, I don't really know the answer to that. I do hope that people are waking up to the nightmare that has become New York. And hopefully whatever the feds can do to crystallize that would be, of course, very well received by some of us because the hipsters from Brooklyn, that's only going to get you so far. And the Democrats, Socialists of America, which is banked by the way by the likes of Neville Singhman over there in China, I mean, you've got to really start questioning people's loyalties under these circumstances and question them big. And it's not just the Jewish population per se that he's going after. If you were born in this country, forget about it, right? Because if you are here illegally, somehow you have more rights, I guess, in Memdame's New York City than you would have anywhere else.

9:15And perhaps more rights than those who have been here legally and were born here legally. But on top of that, it's just basically, I'm sorry, but it's anybody who is not brown, right? Like that's his whole thing. That's his whole mantra. So this is expanding. And now the DOJ is going to be able to look at this with a very sort of wide swap. I mean, you think about what the DOJ has discovered. These, if he's some of these Ivy League universities, Harvard in particular, that one went all the way to the Supreme Court and the decision was made. Now, you can't discriminate against people because they're white. And by the way, ABC is learning this the hard way too with Disney, right? Because the FCC is now opening a full investigation into Disney and ABC that the judge has refused. Biden, error judge, has refused to throw out. And why are they doing that again? Because they are discriminating. You can't discriminate against anyone, okay? Period. Full stop. And yet, Memdami is absolutely going full on

10:18with his DEI bogus nonsense. And I would argue this is actually against the law as they are about to prove with the FCC in Disney. And so when you find out that he's putting 10 million bucks aside for all this nonsense, you have to start scratching your head. He got it. He got all this money in his budget. Equity, 4.6 million, Commission on racial equity, 835,000, Commission on Gender Equity, 260,000 for Department of Education, Chief Diversity Officer, 301,000 for 3FDNY, Civilian Chief Diversity Inclusion Officers. There's a title for you. In 118,000 for an FDNY Chief Diversity Inclusion Officers. Is that necessary stuff? You can't cut that back? Obviously you can. But Memdami would say, no, no, no, no, no. Like that's like the whole sort of base of what he's doing, right? Like this is his appeal. This is what he, you know, he's dangerous.

11:19I'm just going to say it. Like he's a dangerous guy. And so it's important that you actually do get the feds in there watching over him here. Don't forget, back in April, his whole plan was to basically take away property rights. He wants a racial equity plan. New York City, this is Brandon Stracke, who put this on X, said New York City Mayor Zorhan Memdami unveils a racial equity plan, directing resources towards black and brown New Yorkers across city agencies. There you go. What I tell you, critics argue the policy raises concerns of a race-based treatment. You think? And so this is back when first her meat kind of tuned into this. And she said, geez, sounds fishy. Illegal will review. And so this is part of, you know, it's not just what's happening in terms of the hate crimes. It's also what's happening in terms of property rights. They don't want you to have any value in your property. I mean, don't forget who these people are. They are full on communists. And he had this to say about how there's all this racial inequity. And this is what he's determined to fix in housing.

12:22And while today's true cost of living measure confirms that the affordability crisis touches every corner of our city, we know that these effects are not applied evenly. So often it is black and brown New Yorkers who are hit the hardest. This preliminary racial equity plan is the first step in developing a whole of government approach to tackling that reality. It is a plan that lays out these first steps to solve decades of neglect and discrimination. And it places the work of 45 city agencies within a singular framework. OK. He wants to take your property. And he's going to make sure he gets his hands on it somehow some way because he's forcing everybody to sell because he's going to make it so unlivable to be there, not to mention your taxes. I mean, for goodness sakes, now everybody, no matter what color their skin is, they're upset about this because I can't believe this. I've been misquoting this. If we hear this correctly, I think something like 900,000 people

13:22have had their records released. This is outrageous. It's basically like a hit list. I got property come and get me unbelievable. So how the administration published more than 900,000 names and addresses showed me that this is how the administration feels about it. OK. So I was right. So she's saying 900,000 names and addresses. So nearly a million. He put these all out there. And now you get even the Democrats in the city council meeting, most recently saying, what the heck are you doing? Well, he's a socialist, guys. And that's a fancy word for communist. Names and addresses showed me that this is how the administration feels about homeowners in this great city, that this is something that we need to be ashamed of, a hit list of the haves and the have-nots, a scarlet letter. They should show up and answer basic questions about the rollout. Somehow, today, the administration couldn't find its way within the same building to city hall to answer questions about it.

14:25I find that to be totally unacceptable. I think New Yorkers are entitled to ask a very simple question. What are they hiding? So residents taking issue with a city posting a public list. I mean, he was in that one. What are they hiding? He's hiding because he knows everybody's going to be upset. You don't just publish a list of 900,000 names and their addresses and say, here you go. I mean, they could, people could sue over that one, too. I mean, absolutely. I mean, this guy is a disaster. So we haven't even talked about Ms. Weaver. See, weaver, the housings are who's a full-blown communist and wants more communists to be elected. And she said some wild stuff. I mean, she's OK. She's the tenant advocate, if you would. She is calling for the seizure of private property. She doesn't want anybody to have private property. Nope. Blasted home ownership as a, quote, weapon of white supremacy

15:27in a series of pro-communist social media posts that she has now taken down. But fortunately, the New York Post found. See, weaver, Mamdame's new director of the city office to protect tenants, made the statements and urged her followers to elect more communists and several lecturing posts on her now-deleted ex-account that were just unearthed by internet slurs. OK, maybe internet slurs. I get a power to the internet, not to the New York Post there. See's private property. She was riding back in June 2018. So of course, he found his girl. He found his girl. Private property, she wrote, including any kind of especially home ownership is a weapon of white supremacy. And then she also said in December 2017, and apparently a communist was elected there in her area, quote, elect more communists. I mean, this is who you've got, OK? So this is why the feds need to get in there, and they need to be really serious about this civil rights

16:27probe. I want to go to see a weaver, because some of you have seen this before, just crystallize the hate, frankly, that is filling this administration in New York City and so that you can understand when you see statistics like this and the rise in hate crimes. It's coming from someplace. OK, it's coming from someplace. It's coming from M. Dami and the rest of his crew. I think the reality is, is that for centuries, we've really treated property as an individualized good and not a collective good. And we are going to transition into treating it as a collective good towards the model of shared equity. We'll require that we think about it differently. And it will mean that families, especially white families, but some POC family, two or homeowners as well, are going to have a different relationship to property than the one that we currently have. Wow.

17:28Dream on, Sia. Dream on, dream on, dream on. Did you hear the sound by? I played this on my short's feed, where Scott Besen, the Treasury Secretary, was like all of these woke hipster socialists. There are a whole bunch of overeducated, under-employed people. And they're very like work-resistant. They don't want to go out there and actually work for a living. They want to just be organizers. Allah, Obama, I guess, organizers in their effort. And they're really mad right now because their effort has been kind of demonetized because, once we got rid of USA, I.D., and a few of those little programs along the way, all these non-profits that would have helped sponsor them don't have quite the same budgets maybe that they used to. So they get a turn to China. I mean, they were always involved with China anyway. They're China, Iran. Who knows? I mean, there's a big, big campaign against America going on right now. And I consider Mamdami and his entire crew over there

18:29to be part of it. You have only to look back again at another little gem from Ms. Sia Weaver. Democrats, we control public housing is really important. And that's why when Rathal is talking about the communities that she's describing, that, you know, that's as a creative community where the people who are living there are like setting the agenda. And so, you know, people like home ownership but has they like control? And that's been perverted by like deep racism and deep classes in our society. So like, we have to not have a racist in class of society. And so that's like something we need to think about, like, deeply. But, you know, we, it's about, to me, it's about control. And why rent control is really important is because rent control alters the power of the dynamic between renters and who owns the building. And OK, I'm just trying to follow her logic here. So if she doesn't want people, she's just all about control, right? So she doesn't want the actual landowner to have any control.

19:31I guess the control would have to go all to her and to her cronies in government. And somehow she thinks that's going to be a better solution because, you know, her cronies in government are going to make sure that the grass gets cut once a week. I don't think so. I actually think it's the person who has some kind of stake in the game, right? Who's got skin in the game that actually would care about making sure that the place is in good condition? It's really, it's kind of sickening what's going on. It really is. And this is why, you know, you saw the news. Maybe you saw the news when you didn't. I'll tell you about the news. Pete Heggs said, oh, gosh, in New York Times, all over him today, they just have this big, you know, expose, he's done this and he's done this and he's done this. And I'm reading. I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah, what's the problem here, folks? What is the problem? But one of the things that he's done is he said, listen, I don't want military members going on to higher educations that are going to come back in the military. So the military is paying for your education. You're going to go say, get a law degree on the military.

20:32I don't want you going to an Ivy League school for that because his concern is that these Ivy League schools have been so corrupted by some of this cultural nonsense that, you know, if taxpayer dollars are going to go to a good cause here, let's try to make you go to a decent enough school as opposed to some of these, you know, woke institutions. And then you look at another headline that came out today. And basically, the IRS is tackling the issue of these woke institutions because they're given a lot of money once again to very specific groups. You just can't do it. Like it's actually against the law and they already decided that. And yet they're trying to find all their workarounds. And so this is all coming from the same place. It's coming from this group of underachievers, okay? As Scott Bessent referred to them underachievers. They go to school and they go to school and they go to school and they go to school and they get a zillion degrees. And they've been wokified and they buy this socialist nonsense. They drink it like cool aid and they spit it back out and the only thing they wanna do is work in these, you know, community organizer event type things

21:35because they can't actually work as a real job. Think about the guy, what's his name? Gordillo, I keep thinking of that. It's like fat, even though he's skinny. Gustavo Gordillo, is that him? The guy, remember, we talked about this last week who has a pad in Brooklyn, of course. $1.5 million he paid, his parents got it for him. You went to Yale, he's got a one and a half million dollar pad. And he's doing $1.4 million worth of renovations. He couldn't show up to work on time as an electrician. So they had to kick him out of the electrician's union. This is the problem we have, okay? You get too many of these idiots and it's time to clamp down. It's time to clamp down because they're doing some real damage. I mean, you get the hate crimes that are rising and Memdame is out there saying, here's the list. Here's 900,000 people for you all to go after and here's their addresses. So it's pretty sick stuff. On top of which, Memdame's loyalties to the United States are really being questioned right now as they should. He just did a brand new interview with El Jazeera and boy, did he go all in on attacking this war?

22:37You know, of course, this is the guy that wanted to have a meeting with Iran, he wanted his staff to sit down with the Iranian diplomats when they came to the UN, meeting mine, gosh, all wall saying he was going to arrest Netanyahu. Here we go, hot off the presses, El Jazeera and Zahran Memdame. I've made clear my very deep opposition to this war in Iran. It is an opposition not just of a procedural nature or a political nature, but frankly, of a moral nature. We are speaking about a war that has killed thousands of civilians, a war that is deeply unpopular across the city and across this country, not just because of what we are seeing at Resultan, but also because it is utilizing tens of billions of dollars to kill people, money that could otherwise be spent on making life easier for people across the city and this country. And the very things that I often speak about that are necessary for working class New Yorkers that we are told are impossible or unrealistic, they would cost a fraction of this tens of billions that we're seeing. And this is our first right you, that you're watching this money,

23:39$900 million a day being spent on the war, where you have projects which cost much less that could make a huge difference. Is that first right you? I think it should frustrate all of us. I mean, two pucks that decades ago, it continues to be true about the fact that we always seem to have money for war but not to feed the poor. And that is not the way that politics should be. That is not what Americans want politics to be. Okay, buddy boy. So of course it frustrates him. It frustrates him because he's sitting there saying, but wait a second, we want to run to succeed, right? I mean, clearly he does. We know where his biases are, right? You know, you can go back and look at this over and over and over again. Think about what he has said on Palestine. Think about what he has said on Hamas. Think about the lyrics, right? The lyrics of his rap song that should have disqualified him from ever even getting citizenship all but, you know, yesterday, seven years ago. Great. We've got a guy who comes here seven years ago

24:39becomes an American so he can then ruin the financial capital of the world, New York City. So this was a big story obviously. And we talked about this a lot. Still have a lot of questions. Stopman, dummy, official trying to arrange a meeting with Iran until Marco got a hold of her and him and said, no, no, no, no, no, no, that's not happening. So he's out there trying to arrange a meeting with Iran. His wife takes off on the 250th anniversary of this country so that she can go do an Islamic retreat in Spain, one of the most anti-Semitic countries in the world. They've got all kinds of other problems, though. Little Pedro Sánchez, you know, that's what you call karma, I guess. He's got all kinds of problems right now in Spain, I mean, the protester, filling the streets in Madrid. But she went over to Spain and now we get word that she has actually taken off for Europe and then she's going to where else is she going? Oh, she is going to the Islamic sanctuary in Porto, Portugal.

25:44Let me tell you, I was just in Porto, Portugal. It is a dump. Sorry to anyone from Porto. Unfortunately for me, I was in the port of Porto. I have never seen so many seagulls in my life and that comes from a girl from New England who's very, very used to seagulls anyway. I digress. She's going to Porto for this journey through Islamic calligraphy. Woo, it's a spiritual wellness gathering set to take place in two sessions over the course of two weeks, of course, and then she is going on to Lebanon and to Syria. So here's a little bit more on this. Apparently they've got pretty high price rooms. You can 4,300 for a shared room or 5,260 for a private room with a private bath. You're going to be in a manor house and you can sit there and you can just talk about how great Islam is the entire time. I mean, forgetting about some of the core things like, you know, convert by the sword or issues like, you know, who Muhammad decided to marry and then consummate

26:44his marriage with, that would be a nine-year-old girl. So, you know, there's a lot of Islam that, you know, you really shouldn't be celebrating. And yet she's going over there because this is what she does, right? This is the Syrian-American animator, illustrator. Community organizer. I mean, she's the one that all these Islamic retreats. She's getting paid for those. I mean, ah, okay, now I'm onto something. I wouldn't be surprised if she's getting paid to speak. And is that some kind of transfer payment from Mr. Mehmed Ami to keep doing what he's doing? I mean, just connect the dots, okay, people. I'm asking these questions because they should be examined. And the State Department and the Treasury Department ought to be looking very hard at her accounts because this would be foreign money that she would be accepting overseas. And I believe it was a speaking event. I think she was actually one of the featured speakers at the one she did in Spain on the 250th anniversary of America.

27:45And so this is more of I hate America. I hate Israel. Don't forget. I mean, all the nonsense she was posting after the unfortunate October event, horrific October event there in Israel. So she and he together are truly bad news. And so think about what that poor woman who was a Holocaust survivor was saying in the beginning of the show as we started, she's like, how dare you? How dare you come and share your face here? How dare any Jewish New Yorker actually accept you and treat you nicely because you are a bad dude. And that bad dude is not loyal to the US and not loyal to 10% of New York for sure. Maria Bartolomau is stepping down at Fox. At Fox Business and Fox News, she's leaving. And I gotta tell you, this really comes you by surprise, you know Maria. And that truth is the best way to create wealth over the long term is investing in US equities. Bottom line boom. Bottom line boom indeed.

28:46She is right on. She's right on about most everything. She is a really wonderful person. I'll tell you that too. And that's like a rare thing in television, okay? Yeah, I mean, I'll tell you, you can count on one hand. How many nice people there are in television. So she's one of the good ones. And I'm disappointed to see her leave because she was actually a big reason to watch Fox these days. But this news crossed and it started surprised me. Maria Bartolomau out at Fox News after almost 13 years hosting on the network. And she is one of the hardest working people I know. She hosts a show six days a week. Think about that. She only has Saturdays off. And Saturdays, she's prepping the entire time for her Sunday show. So she hosts a big Sunday show, Sunday morning futures on Fox News and then five days a week, three hours a day. Okay, three hours a day. She's on from like what, five or maybe six, six in the morning until nine in the morning. And she is, I'm telling you, one of the hardest working people I really know. So I'm so disappointed to see this. And I'm sort of surprised by it.

29:48Now, think about the wording on this. So they put out a press release and listen, I've been there, okay? Just the characterization of how they went out with this report is to me anyway somewhat telling. All the headlines are reading that she is out. Okay, out, out, out. You see that in the Daily Mail. I think that's the first place that may have broken this. So what happens in these situations is the press person for Fox calls up one of her favorite reporters over at the Daily Mail or New York Post or whatever. And they issue the news. And so they turn it there before Maria gets to say, boo, now she may still be under contract. I'll give you an example of what happened to me. So when I left Fox, they called me up and they said, okay, we're gonna part ways. And I was like, what? Like, I was just on vacation. They told me to have a nice vacation. I think she was on vacation too. And I'm like, what? And they're like, yeah, we're coming out with the press release now.

30:49Would you like to say something about, you know, how you want to stay at home with your family? And I'm like, no, like, you know me, I can't lie. I mean, I love my family, don't get me wrong. And it was a tricky time with COVID and everything. It all happened for the best. I mean, forget to say, look at what I've been able to do over here. I love it. Please remember to subscribe if you haven't. But it all worked out for the best. But I remember just being in the state of shock and being like, what? Yeah. And so that was that. And they put out the press release and it was Trisha again out. And it was very kind of cryptic. And everybody's like, what is going on? I'm like, I don't know. I don't know. Maria was one of the people that reached out to me at that time. As lovely as she is. Along with the president of the United States, by the way, and a few others. So I appreciated that loyalty. And I show her the same. I am confident that no matter what Maria decides to do, she will be a success because she's the most driven person I know. Listen, the media landscape has changed. You don't need to work for anyone anymore. You just don't.

31:49OK? Like, you can have a fantastic career. And never have to go into the studio. How about that? I mean, your own studio, right? But you don't have to deal with all the nonsense and the middle management and this one and that one. You can do it on your own. And she's talented enough and connected enough and charming enough. And I'll tell you, rabid enough. And I say that in a good way because I want to show you a clip of her in Rokana. I mean, this is fantastic. I'll tell you, this probably made some people at Fox a little bit upset because sometimes, how do I say, at these networks? It's a network thing, right? Like, unless you're doing your own thing, you're working for somebody else. And somebody else is always offended about something. And I'm sure somebody was offended about this. The cases of some people who are married, that you want them if they've changed their name to go and have to prove that with their birth certificate to a registrar, that they change the name of them. What's the, yes, yes, that's the law. You can't vote if you're not an American.

32:51Yes, get your birth certificate. Yes, that's exactly right. No problem. I know what you just before. I wanted a copy of my birth certificate. I went online. I got the birth certificate. I got it. It took a week. No problem. I love her. Here, she's just very matter of fact. And she let them have it. But again, they kind of like kicked her on the way out, like putting this one out. Maria Bartow-Roma out at Fox News. After more than a decade at the cable giant, and this is the New York Post, I like the New York Post a lot. Look, I still like Fox a lot. Don't get me wrong. I mean, there's no hard feelings. The best thing that ever happened to me was to get the ATWL out of there, right? And I think that this is just a far better medium, where I don't have to read a prompt or have somebody approve my scripts and make changes. Like, three minutes before air. Gee, I really used to appreciate that. So from Maria, she's going to have a lot more freedom in whatever she's doing. Hey, more power to her. And we need to support people going totally independent.

33:51Do we not guys, again, shameless reminder for you to make sure that you subscribe to my content? She is very bright. She understands the economy. This is a rare thing in my business. One of the most frustrating things that I run into all the time is that nobody seems to understand economics in reporting. I mean, yes, at Bloomberg and CNBC, the people on air there have a far better grasp of it than you would get in any of this mainstream media outlets and Fox Business as well. But for the most part, when it comes to the reporting crowd, they don't like economics. They don't like business. I mean, they really don't like business. They ought to join Mamdami for goodness sakes. And those that are in the political news space tend to like the sort of drama of the White House as opposed to anything of substance. And so I will tell you, Maria has substance in spades. And so that substance is going to be what carries her through. I found that that substance is what carried me through. Because every time I look at a story, I'm looking at it through a different kind of lens

34:54than perhaps you're going to see in most places. And it's through what is best for the economy? Because to me, the economy is everything. You get that freedom derived from that economic independence and that economic success. And she loves the president. And she's a big believer in his economic agenda. Here's an idea. Could Maria Bartolomoe be going to the White House? I'm just going to throw this out there because Maria would be a phenomenal ambassador, especially on the economic front for this president. And I just don't know if she would have the patience to put up with some of these reporter idiots that she would have to deal with there as a White House press secretary. But that is something that is being discussed. In fact, JD Vance was asked about this. News week. News week. Can you tell me, Maria Bartolomoe just left in Fox News, is she going to be the next White House

35:55press secretary? I don't know, man. No, I don't think so. I just saw the news literally as I walked out before. I love Maria. I think she's an amazing person, an amazing talent. I don't get involved in the personal drama of media stations. In fact, I'd like to invite Peter Newsy to come up here and ask an answer question about what happened to Maria. But I think whatever she does, look, she's going to do great. And I wish her all the best. She's a very, very dear friend. I haven't even talked to her. So I don't know the backstory about why she's decided to leave Fox News. That's my story. I'm going to. So could she go to the White House? Absolutely. She'd be a fabulous ambassador. And I think she'd be great. She'd be great for the president. She'd be great for the press. And she would actually be able to really explain the economy in ways that is so needed right now, right? Nothing against Caroline or Scott for that matter. But that's Maria's bread and butter. And she's, she understands markets in a very, very unique

36:57and special way having had a front row seat to so much of our economic history. So she could certainly do that really, really well. She may be thinking, she wants to help people invest. I have my financial newsletter, by the way, 76research.com. And that was something that was actually very important to me on a personal level to help people get started investing. And we have three portfolios over there. So long as I'm talking, I'll just show you. Three portfolios there at 76research.com. So go check them out when you can. So maybe she wants to do something in that spirit. I don't know, but I would say the White House would be lucky to get her. But she also has enormous potential to do anything anywhere. And I'd love to see her do something on her own, only because I know what this can be. And I know how much more fun it is. And I know she'd be great at it. She used to hosting three hours a day and just talking, right? Just kind of like I'm here with you. So I'm a big fan. I wish her all the well. Look, it's a space I'm very familiar with, shall we say.

38:01I've been there, I've been there, I've been there, I've been there with that press release. Not fun to see. At least, you know, hers is on Thursday, mine was on a Friday. 76research.com. Go check out my newsletter there. Oh, I've got to show you DeSantis. Did you guys see what happened with DeSantis yesterday? This was fantastic. Florida Governor really, really knocking it out of the park on this one. He just started heckling the heckler. How do you like that? I mean, to be showing somebody who's boss, if you would, Governor Honda Santos for the win on this. We have three or four million more residents than New York State does and New York State. Hey, Soros isn't paying you enough, because you're not very good at this. You should try again. He needs to pay some better talent instead of having people like you show up. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The same my first rodeo lady. I've seen it all. And you ain't very good at it.

39:01Woo. That is fantastic. You're very good at it. So one of the frustrations with these hecklers, if you would, is the belief that they are effectively these community organizers. I love maimdami, right? These types that go out there. And they have backing from very specific groups. You heard, Ronda Santos mentioned in this case, Soros. And Soros has become sort of the overall name for all of them, if you would. I'm going to go back to the Democrat Socialists of America, because they might have something to do with it too. And so a lot of this is manufactured. And so he's bringing on. I'm not going to be deterred. I'm not going to be upset. You're just one of these paid people. And by the way, you're not very good in. There's only one of you. So you ought to ask for a raise. Maybe get some more people. So here's my question to you guys. DeSantis for president. Again, I'm just starting this out there. We were just talking about JD. We were just talking about Marco. Look, Florida has been killing it. Florida is doing great.

40:01I mean, their economy is on fire. And it's a big part of this is because of his policies. I mean, he's put forward the right policies. So going back to Polymarket right now, I know it's early. We got a lot of time between now and 28. But take a look. JD Vance still very much in the lead, guys. Marco Rubio, though, nip in it, his heels. A lot of people don't think that Marco will run only because Marco tends to be a little bit, how do I say this? As a politician, some have claimed that he's risk averse. And if you think about going into 28, it could be kind of a risky scenario. Why? Because if you don't win, it makes it harder to come back four years later. And so maybe Marco will make a decision like, hey, let me sit this one out because I could go in and be the VP or against Secretary of State to JD Vance if he wins. And if he doesn't win, and you think about this groundswell that's building, maybe that's why JD is still staying close to Tucker, right? Because this groundswell that's building on the left with the commies, et cetera, which some people in MAGA

41:03have these influencers sort of also become, right? I always say when things get so crazy, right? You have the left and the right, and at some point, it just becomes so nutty that they merge. And I think there's the risk of that right now. And so maybe JD is keeping his powder dry and for that reason is not willing to denounce his friend Tucker, et cetera. I don't know. But Marco Rubio is climbing, and the question becomes, can he get to a high enough percentage that he really represents a formidable option and alternative to JD Vance? I think he probably could, if he puts his mind to it, if he wants to do it. He has a june se qua that's very specific to him. He doesn't have, I'll just roll on his tear, right? He doesn't have the charisma of Donald Trump. But who has the charisma of Donald Trump? I don't think you're gonna get that. That's like a once in a generation thing. No one has quite that humor, self-deprecation, and also intelligence, all kind of packaged up into one.

42:07And so now when you go through the list, I mean, look, I like Ted Cruz, but no, I'm sorry. He's not gonna do it. Like the june se qua there is somewhat lacking. Donald Trump Jr., I don't see him doing this. This is not exactly his cup of tea. I think he wants to be a businessman and earn some money. Ron DeSantis, maybe, like Ron DeSantis, maybe. I didn't see it last time around. I thought, you know, there's no way in H2DVL, this guy has a shot against Donald Trump. And I was right, the view, they thought he had a shot. They started attacking him like nobody's business. That's what you should watch for. Watch to see who the view starts attacking next. And that'll give you some indication of who's actually going to be the 28 Democrat, forgive me, Republican nominee, because they'll try to go after whoever that might be early on. That's why they were going after Ron DeSantis, because they thought maybe, well, Donald Trump doesn't run. And so they were out in front of Don DeSantis, all they could be, will they go after Marco Rubio,

43:09will they go after JD Vance? Maybe JD Vance is keeping that allegiance with Tucker and sort of this crazy wing of things because he wants the view to go softer on him. Remember, we watched some of his appearances there on the view recently together? And I thought he really could have been a little tougher. Marco is, like Marco is no, you know, the lady that's tried to talk about his shoes that one day when he was in the hearing on Capitol Hill. And he's like, does he have better things to do than like, ask me about my shoes? Like, he was really, it was very dry. It was very funny, but he was just like matter of fact. And I got the sense that he wasn't putting on any airs. And he was just like, what you see is what you get. I can tell you, JD Vance in person is far more charming than Marco Rubio. Nothing against Marco. Again, I love Marco and I love his policies. I mean, he's been hitting home runs out of the park. But Marco in person is very different and very like on message. So I'd have Marco on the show a lot, back when I was at Fox, and like every single time,

44:09like he's just on message and you can't get him off. He's very tenacious with his message. But that's good, right? That's good. And Ron isn't necessarily the biggest people person. We had him on a couple of times and like, we'd go to commercial break and he didn't say boo. That's why I'm like, all right. Whereas here again, this is why Donald Trump is a politician of a generation. Just like, I've never seen anything like it. He loves people. Like, loves people. Really genuinely loves people. Care is what people think. I mean, you know that. And actually a lot of people think that that's one of his downsides, right? He cares too much of people think. But he cares. He cares. And I actually see this a good thing. I love that he loves people. I love that about him because when the cameras went off, and I've interviewed him a few times, and I'll tell you the camera goes off, and he's like, party on, right? He still wants to talk. He still wants, you know, he's engaged in a way that you don't always see in politics. Because oftentimes these people are very programmed.

45:09They go on TV. And then that's it. You know, the cameras are off, and they don't want to keep talking anymore. That is the opposite of Donald Trump. So when I look at these numbers, I think it still is someone of an open field. Yes, JD Vance is in the lead. And I think in fairness to JD, he is somebody who does like people, and he does like to talk, and he is charming in all of those things. Marco is very much, you know, let's get our work done. And Ron DeSantis, I think, is probably kind of shy. Like kind of shy, but he's got great policies. So there's a lot of opportunity in this field, and I am excited for the next couple of years, right? Thank you for being here. Make sure you subscribe to the show. Make sure you do that for me. Let me know what you think. Who is your money on? In all seriousness, I'm very curious. And I do look at all of these comments after the fact. Even if I don't respond to all of them, even if I don't heart all of them, I always make sure every single night before I go to bed, I look at all of the comments. So anything you say is not going to fall on deaf ears, tell me who your money is on.

46:10Who do you want? Maybe and who do you think is going to get it? And then don't forget to go to 76 Research. Again, 76research.com. See you then.