The Trish Regan Show - Trump ENDS ABC—Jimmy Kimmel & 'The View' in FCC Crosshairs

And we're live. Thank you for your patience today. Lots going on. The president just announced

a very big task force. This is what I call a no good, very bad ugly day for one Ilhan Omar

because they're focusing on Minnesota. They're focusing on her. They're also focusing on

California and New York and a few others. Welcome to the Trish Regan Show. ABC News is another

one I'm going to really, really bad night. They actually the entire ABC network if you would

because the president spent some time calling them out over the weekend and then some

we will get to all of that. Plus, I do want to share with you some very, very bad poll numbers

for the left. The Democrats really ought to wake up and smell the coffee on this because Americans

are not having it. You can't just shut down DHS in the middle of these Iran strikes. I mean,

talking about stupidity on steroids. There's like stupidity in spades to go around. Lots

left over. But, you know, what do you expect of them? Welcome. As I said to the program,

please make sure you share, subscribe, make a comment. I'm so glad you're here. I hope you

had a terrific weekend. I certainly did. I actually traveled all the way to Princeton University.

My daughter was in some rowing thing and it was like a three hour thing. So I'm glad to be back

at home base. Let me tell you, at least I wasn't actually out on the water though, right? It could

have been worse. Trump is blasting ABC news, ABC network, ABC, the one that had the Oscars,

the nobody watched. I mean, did you watch it? I didn't even know anybody who was in it. Like,

I was looking at the feeds that were coming in and like all the pretty dresses because honestly,

that's the only reason I ever watched. If I ever watched, which I haven't watched in like 15

years, but I'm looking at the clips, right, that they're showing on the New York Post and Daily Mail.

And I'm like, are you kidding me? I have no idea who anybody is. And like, I'm in the news

business. Thank you very much. That shows you how entertainment has really just gone sideways

and sideways fast. Okay. So because, you know, we're being dominated by all the Trump headlines.

But I would say this, we get a media established right now, establishment right now, not just

ABC. I mean, he can pick on ABC today, but I would say the entire smorgasbord of media companies,

whether it's print, whether it's TV, no matter what, they're all going after them. One, two,

three, one after another. I showed you. I feel like got a little collection here. I've got a collage.

I just keep assembling. I just keep adding new headlines to it every day. I'm blown away by this.

I tell all my friends, I cannot believe it. This is how you know it's probably a good time to,

I mean, the market went up today, but this is when you know, right? Like, when everybody's

staring in the towel, the market actually hasn't thrown in the towel yet, which is really, really,

interesting. And actually the market ended higher today, which is also not a surprise to us

at 76 research. In fact, we've been telling you for some time, 76 research. Take a look at

these portfolios at 76portfolios.com. Do me that favor because you can see their way, way up and

away. Actually, I have to update this because our recent stockpick that we added to two of these

portfolios is now well up over 200% since we added it just a couple of weeks ago. But what I'm

talking about here is bucking the trend here because the mainstream media just can't, you know,

stop trashing the president, trashing the Iran strikes. It's nonstop. An ABCES has been pretty guilty

of it to the point where he decided to call out a reporter over the weekend. That's always kind of

interesting. The reporter saying, you know, this, this, this gal is just obnoxious. She has such obnoxious

questions. I'm going to narrate through this because it was on the plane and it's a little bit hard

to hear so I will make sure that I translate. But here's the president of the United States.

It's calling out ABC News. Again, on the plane, watch.

Wow. I don't want any more questions from ABC News. ABC News, you're from ABC News. I think

that's one of the most corrupt obnoxious news. I think it was, well, he referred to hers obnoxious.

One of the most corrupt news organizations on the planet. Yeah, he really does. And this is

like echoing what he does a lot with specifically ABC. Don't forget ABC is George Stephanopoulos.

That's the network that had to pay out all that money. 15, 16 million. It's getting hard to keep

drunk, right? Because CBS had at least that. It was 20 something million. Once you added in all the

special service announcements, they're going to have to give him his causes. I mean, it's getting

to be a bit much. But we do know this. There is an investigation going on into ABC and Disney

specifically as it relates to DEI and this idea that somehow they shut other people out and they

therefore had this kind of discrimination. I'd call it reverse discrimination, but it doesn't

matter. Reverse whatever. It's discrimination. If you're actually not allowing somebody to get a

part or have a, you know, have a role on a show there at the view or whether it's in front of the

camera or behind the camera because of the color of their skin, that is discrimination. So

that's perhaps why he's alleging that they are the most corrupt of all the networks. I want to go

to him again, just slamming ABC.

Some of your own administration officials have labeled out.

Whether it is ABC fake, there's this one. She hasn't asked me. She hasn't asked me a good question

in years. I think a nice woman, but I don't really like her too much. What do you say?

Oh my gosh. And there's more, there is more where that came from. Okay. So let me go to the tweets

that he was putting out over the weekend. He's very frustrated. It was some of the Iran coverage.

This was a long one, even for him. He wrote on true social. Iran has long been known as a master

of media manipulation and public relations. They are militarily ineffective and weak, but they're

very good at feeding the very appreciative fake news media false information. Now AI has become

another disinformation weapon that Iran uses quite well considering they are being annihilated.

By the day, they showed phony kamikaze boats shooting at various ships at sea, which looks wonderful,

looks powerful and vicious, but these boats do not exist. He writes it's all false information to

show through or show how tough, quote unquote, tough. They're already defeated military is the five

US refueling planes that were supposedly struck down and badly damaged according to the Wall Street

Journal. He writes fake reporting false reporting. He writes and others are all in service and the

exception with the exception of one. So that's actually pretty significant. So the Wall Street Journal

is saying like none of these planes are in commission. He's like, wait a second, they're all working.

So in this case, he's taken out Wall Street Journal, which by the way has been awful to him.

Like I'm like, you know, it's a coin toss. Is it going to be Bloomberg today or Wall Street Journal?

It's the meanest. And often the Wall Street Journal is winning that round, which says a lot because

let me tell you, my Bloomberg does not like Donald Trump. And so they're all in, right? To get

up if you would. I've been going to CNBC for better business news. And if you want the best

investment news, you know where to go. 76research.com. Anyway, continuing on here, he said with the

exception of one, which will soon be flying in the skies, buildings and ships that are shown

to be on fire are not its fake news generated by AI. For instance, Iran, working in close coordination

with the fake news media shows our great USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier, one of the largest

and most prestigious ships in the world burning uncontrollably in the ocean. Lovely. Not only was it

not burning, it was not even shot at. Iran knows better than to do that exclamation point. The

story was not only fake. And in a certain way, you can say that the media outlets, the generated,

it should be brought up on charges for treason for the disassumination of false information.

The fact is Iran is being decimated. And the only battles they quote win are those that they

create right through AI and are distributed by corrupt media outlets. The radical he writes corrupt

media outlets, the radical left-wing press knows this full well, but continues to go forward

with false stories and lies. That's why their approval rating is so low. And I can win a

presidential election in a landslide, getting only 5% positive press. I'm surprised you got 5%

really. That would be a lot for him. I thought it was something like 0.05%. They have no credibility.

I am so thrilled to see Brennan Carr, the chairman of the FCC Federal Commission's communications

commission looking at the licenses of some of these corrupt. This is very important guys.

Corrupt and highly unpatriotic quote news organizations. He's looking at the licenses of

these news organizations. Remember that because we're going to get back to it. They give billions

of dollars of free American airways and they use it to penetrate lies, all caps, both in news

and almost all their shows, including the late night morons. Jimmy Kimmel, he's looking at you.

Stephen Colbert, he's looking at you and the other guy at NBC. I never can remember his name even

though he's from New Hampshire. He's looking at you too, including the late night morons who get

gigantic salaries for horrible ratings. And never get as I used to say in the apprentice,

fired. Thank you for your attention to this matter. Like I said, Jimmy Fallon, Stephen Colbert,

and the guy from NBC whose name I cannot remember. He is looking at all of you. He's also looking

pretty hard. It will be Goldberg and Joy Bayhara. He probably feels bad for them because they're so old.

But they're so wacky, wacky, wacky. I promise I won't do it today. I'm going to have to do it tomorrow.

But I won't do it today. We have to keep ourselves honest here on the Trish Weekend show. We have

to know how crazy the crazies really are, right? And the only way you can fully appreciate it

is if you watch it from time to time. Anyway, you know, he's out for blow with all these guys.

But let me just say, ABC, watch out right now. He's on to you.

I'm not looking for credit. But what I don't want is when I raise millions of dollars,

have people say like this sleazy guy right over here from ABC. He's a sleaze in my book.

I hear a sleaze because you know the facts and you know the facts well. Go ahead.

You might say something.

Never.

President, you said that you would have no, Mr. President, you said you would have no problem

with releasing the full video of that strike on September 2nd off the coast of Venezuela.

Secretary Hanks said downstairs, you said that. I didn't say that.

This is ABC fake news.

I don't know.

This is the IRS. Why are you stupid?

Who are you with?

I'm the ABC news.

You're a loud person.

Somebody else have a chance.

Can you answer the question?

Why are you stupid?

I already see fake news.

Oh, okay, right.

Tell us how you really feel.

Listen, I mean, I get some people are like, you know, he shouldn't say that.

That's not proper. It's not fair.

I'm just going to say this.

I am stunned by the vitriol I see coming from these news organizations.

I mean, I'm really stunned.

And I say this is someone who has devoted her entire life to journalism,

primarily financial journalism.

And then financial journalism, you know,

you just kind of have to call it like you see it, right?

Somebody may have a viewpoint on whether or not

Nvidia is going to be able to keep up its momentum.

And that's fair play, right?

But earnings are earnings.

A GDP report is a GDP report.

So from where I come, like, you know, it's just, it is what it is.

And when I look at the president and I see policy, I see policy, okay?

When I look at the president and I see poll numbers, I see poll numbers.

I'm not sitting there going, well, is he going to do this?

I mean, it's really kind of astonishing.

The way the media has reacted and the threat that he represents to them.

So when I see him putting them down, I mean, he's just kind of like,

had it and I get it because I've had it too.

And when I'm looking at headlines and I'm like, okay, you know,

am I the only not crazy person here?

Well, then I look at the market.

I see the market tired.

I'm like, okay, well, clearly, I'm not crazy because smart money

knows that this is not the end of the world.

But you would think it's the end of the world anytime you open up a newspaper

anytime you go online right now to all of these various media powers

from AP to New York Times to Wall Street Journal to all of them.

I mean, it's Bloomberg.

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The broadcast airwaves.

I'm talking radio and I'm talking ABC, NBC and CBS

and Fox network, not Fox cable, Fox network.

The thing is Fox network doesn't really have any new shows.

So apparently they were hanging out in Mar-a-Lago this weekend.

That would be one Donald Trump and Brennan Carr.

And this came up as it should.

I mean, it's just an abomination.

What you are assaulted with daily from the media and from these broadcast networks.

And so they're all getting a little ruffled about it because at some point

you just can't print lies, okay?

And I think the danger or the fear is they're going to start printing things.

You know, you saw what he said about the Wall Street Journal trying to say

that all these planes are out of commission.

He's like, that's not actually true.

There's one that's out of commission, the rest are back in.

And so you run this risk that if the narrative becomes

we're down on our heels.

At what point did the American people actually start to believe that?

I don't know.

I don't know the answers to that question.

But I think the media is a decently bit powerful.

When I say I don't know, it's in part because one, I take it all

and I just let it roll off my shoulder.

I mean, I get a little annoyed for two seconds and I tell you how annoyed I am.

But for the most part, I'm trying to get something better and bigger.

I'm trying to get to the truth.

And so I have to cut through all this noise and all this bias

and this feeling that they just want Trump going down.

It's like they're happy to lose the war.

They're happy to just roll over and play dead for Iran.

If it means Donald Trump would fail.

Now if Donald Trump succeeds in this, you understand how bad they look

because my gosh, if he's the guy that comes along and sells the Middle East.

Guys, darn it.

They look awfully foolish, right?

For hating him as much as they did.

So there's part of that.

There's some ego going into their reporting.

It's just amazing to me that that many people can all think alike.

So you have the president now saying to brand in car G,

like this is not good because you get ABC.

You get CBS.

You got NBC.

All perpetuating this narrative.

I know this is somebody who has worked actually at all of those networks.

That's an evening news correspondent at one time or another in my career.

What I can tell you is a lot of that that they get on their news.

It comes straight out of the New York Times.

Like what happens every morning?

Everybody sits around an editorial meeting and they get the first edition

in the New York Times, the print edition that they're looking at.

Now they actually have to look online.

But so they're getting all their information,

courtesy of the New York Times.

They may get some courtesy of AP.

So you know where the AP and New York Times stand.

So that's what's being fed to the broadcast media.

And then the broadcast media goes on air with that and here in lies the problem

because broadcast has a duty to be fair.

It actually has a duty to service the community.

People don't realize that.

People forget that.

I've explained it a lot on my show.

I know brand and cars gone all over the cable airways trying to explain it to people

saying, hey, like I have not, I don't have any say.

FCC has no say over what you're doing over here in cable or what we're doing

over here online right on the Shashrikin show or a podcast, any of that.

But on ABC, what do they call it?

World News Tonight on NBC nightly news on the CBS evening news.

You better believe they have some say.

And they also have some say on the late night shows.

And they also have some say on those political afternoon talk shows like the view.

So this is a problem for all of those hosts right now.

The president put this out, you know, he talks about again,

intentionally misleading headline by the fake news media about the five tanker planes

that were supposedly struck down in an airport in Saudi Arabia

and of no further use in actuality.

The base was hit a few days ago, but the planes were not struck.

The planes were not destroyed for the five actually suffered virtually no damage

and are already back in service.

So he goes on again about the Wall Street Journal getting this wrong

along with the New York Times getting this wrong.

A lot of low life papers, he says, are getting it wrong.

And the media seems to be cheering this.

And that's really, really disturbing as well.

But we'll leave that aside because we'll leave the cheering aside and just say,

hey, you got to be right, let's not be wrong.

And if you're going to be wrong, you know, maybe you're not serving public interest

because shouldn't you pick up the lousy darn phone and call over to the Pentagon

and get the PR person for headsets on the phone and say, hey, is this yay or nay true?

But if nobody's doing that and they're just trusting some wire report

that they get from AP with a bias reporter, then you got problems.

So here he is, he writes broadcasters, Brendan Carr responds to this,

broadcasters that are running hoaxes and news distortions,

also known as the fake news, have a chance now to correct course

before their license renewals come up.

The law is clear.

He writes broadcasters must operate in the public interest

or they will lose their licenses.

Exactly.

Like, why is this so hard for everybody to understand?

I actually remember a time when I worked in the news industry

and we actually did actually care about things like equal time during elections.

Yeah, I remember it was like, it makes me seem like I'm a dinosaur or something.

Like back when the news tried to be fair, not that it ever was

fair, full disclosure, totally not fair.

But like there was an effort, okay?

Like they at least tried to pretend.

Like now they don't even pretend.

At all.

So now, you know, Brendan's like, he's all in.

He's like, you guys, you know what, the laws on our side.

We're going to take away your licenses.

It's game over and so who gets all freaked out,

but none other than the woman the president calls Pocahontas.

One Elizabeth Warren says, this is constitutional law.

Whoa, one on one.

It is illegal for government to censor free speech.

It just doesn't like about trumps around war.

This threat is straight out of the authoritarian playbook.

And he writes back.

No one has a first amendment right to a license

or to monopolize a radio frequency to deny a station license

because quote, the public interest requires it is quote,

not a denial of free speech.

And then he goes on to quote the case.

Supreme Court and Red Lion quoting NBC versus US 319 US 227 1943.

Thank you very much.

Lizzy Warren.

Lizzy.

Cute little Lizzy.

I'm going to be nice and call her Lizzy instead of Pocahontas.

She thinks she's so smart.

Anyway, let's go to somebody else who thinks he is so smart,

but trust me, he's not.

He's also not so tall.

We won't hold that.

I'm against him.

And I mean, he's not so thin either.

But anyway, Sean Hardy has a great name for him.

I can't remember it.

But this is the CNN media analyst that's like coming

apart at the scene so worried that Brennan's going to do something.

Because by the way, Brennan now has power over CNN.

And why does he have that?

Because CNN is merging with CBS, which means they're going to have

the same old headaches the NBC had with MSNBC.

You remember, they couldn't wait to get rid of that thing.

Like, Hupp Tato.

They were like, whoa, bye, bye.

Don't want to have this on our hands.

And Rachel Maddell is the lead's $25 million salary.

Let's get rid of this thing as fast as we can.

So we can hopefully run a clean news organization.

Well, CNN is going to have to deal with the headaches

of being part of CBS very, very soon.

Watch this little guy.

Car was at Mar-a-Lago yesterday.

He was talking with Trump.

And then he posted this threat on X.

And here's the thing.

Cable channels like CNN are not regulated by the FCC.

But local TV stations are.

And so, cars threatening to revoke licenses

or not renew licenses for these stations in the future.

However, the threat is pretty hollow.

He has very little power to follow through.

These licenses have eight-year terms.

They're not up for renewal for years.

And it would cause a protracted legal fight

if the Trump administration actually tries

to punish stations in this way.

Yeah, I mean, there's just, yeah, there's so many layers to this.

And I guess the question is, Brian, like, how far can it go?

It can go pretty far in the courts.

It exists.

This can go on for a while.

And I've got to say,

I suspect we will see the Trump-controlled FCC

attempt to punish a station, at least one station, in this way.

We've all seen in the past year

how some media companies have actually

asked and made Trump-friendly moves

while trying to win FCC approval for various mergers.

That's why CBS has an embudment now, for example.

So if media companies are pressured into submission and self-sensorship,

car and Trump will achieve some of what they want

without actually taking explicit government action,

they'll just pressure companies into doing so.

Okay, think about what he's saying here.

Like, we're going to pressure companies

into reporting fairly.

We're going to pressure companies into, like,

actually giving fair analysis and trying to show both sides.

I mean, if it takes some pressure to actually get both sides out

of a given news organization, heck yeah, I'll take that.

Thank you very much.

By the way, as a viewer, I actually want to watch.

If you show me both sides, I'm way more interested

than if you only spoon feed me your ridiculous nonsense day in and day out.

I mean, it gets to be kind of funny after a while, right?

You can't watch it.

I'm sitting here like picking clips from this and that saying,

oh my goodness, but it's funny because I can't actually,

if I find them actually talking about the other side,

I'm so happy to play it for you because it's like,

whoa, CNN makes sense.

Whoa, CBS makes sense.

Whoa, NBC actually said something thoughtful

or they actually just tried to be fair.

I mean, that's like a miracle when that happens.

And that's news in and of itself, is it not?

So let me just say, like, if the president and the FCC

can enforce a little bit more fairness

within our broadcast industry, heck yeah, don't we want that all day long?

Mr. Is it potato head?

What is it that he calls him?

I can't remember.

I always want to say Humpty Dumpty.

We've also seen from many media outlets

a real reluctance to give into that pressure.

For example, CNN CEO Mark Thompson just said the other day,

CNN's trying to tell the truth about this war

and no amount of public pressure or threats from the White House

are going to change that posture.

Oh yeah, CNN's really trying to tell the truth about this war.

Remember, CNN is the one that sent their correspondent,

their brave little correspondent over into Iran

with the permission of Iran.

What do you think that is?

You got the permission of Iran.

That tells me you're a propagandist for Iran, CNN.

Because no one's getting into Iran from CNN

without Iran agreeing to have them there.

And the only way Iran agrees to have them there

is if they spoon feed the propaganda

to the rest of the world, pure and simple, this isn't that hard.

I was really struck last night by what the Radio Television Digital News Association said.

This is the trade group that represents TV news executives,

reporters across the country,

at a lot of these local stations that might feel vulnerable to pressure.

The group said, quote, journalists are not intimidated

by a bully with a briefcase.

They've faced far worse and kept reporting.

They will keep reporting now.

And I think that is the overall takeaway I've seen this weekend.

There's been so much criticism of cars tweet.

Democratic lawmakers calling it authoritarian and unconstitutional.

But mostly we've heard from journalists saying

they're not going to change what they're doing.

They're just going to keep covering this war

and these other topics the way we always have it.

And that seems to be the proper response

to these very aggressive,

but ultimately hollow threats coming from the Trump administration.

No, they're not hollow threats.

Let me just say they are really not hollow threats.

And the reason I know that they're not hollow threats

is because Brendan Carr, if he wants to actually take away

some of these licenses,

he absolutely can do so in all of these local stations.

Don't forget the way it's set up, right?

We've been through this before you have ABC News,

which is an ABC, which is like the big,

giant producer of content.

And then they funnel it over airwaves, right,

to these local stations.

The local stations rent or have a license

to use these local airwaves courtesy of the FCC.

So they say, okay, I'm going to be a CBS affiliate.

I'm going to be an ABC affiliate.

And I'm therefore going to get all of my big content

from the big mother ship, ABC.

Well, if ABC mother ship is spoon feeding a bunch of garbage,

guess who gets caught and held holding the bag?

It's the affiliate.

So the affiliate's like, gee, I don't want this liability.

Maybe I shouldn't be putting the view on air non-stop.

Maybe I could actually put my own 11 a.m. show on,

with my own assembly of lovely women from our community

that actually might care about issues that are relevant

to my community as opposed to the, you know what,

that you're getting fed from the likes of joy and whoopee.

And Brandon knows this.

And so this is an issue.

And this is why this show is going to have problems.

Let's go to the view, shall we?

Joy Behar yesterday said this.

Most of all, we'll try to overthrow the government on January.

And by the way, this is from a couple of weeks ago,

but it's an important thing to see.

Right, let me think.

Who wants that again?

That was not Obama.

The thing about him is that he's so jealous of Obama.

Because Obama is everything that he is not.

Yeah.

Trim.

Yeah.

Yeah, smart, handsome, happily married.

Happily married, and can sing our green song.

Let's say together better than our green.

Yeah.

And Trump cannot stand it.

It's driving him crazy.

Jealousy is not a green.

Green is not a good color.

That from yesterday, who knows what happens today?

The White House chose to respond to that.

And this is what they said.

Joy Behar is an irrelevant loser,

suffering from a severe case of Trump deranged in syndrome.

It's no surprise that the views ratings

hit an all-time low last year.

She should self-reflect on her own jealousy

of President Trump's historic popularity

before her show is the next to be pulled off air, end quote.

Is the view now in the crosshairs of this administration?

Look, it's entirely possible that there's issues over there.

I mean, again, stepping back this broader dynamic,

once President Trump has exposed these media gatekeepers

and smashed this facade, there's a lot of consequences.

I think the consequences of that aren't quite finished.

And look, the view's got a lot of challenges there.

I wasn't that long ago.

I think one episode, one show alone,

they had to stop, interrupt the show,

and reforce separate legal notices

to try to avoid legal liability.

So I'm not surprised to hear people saying

that their ratings are struggling.

Well, sir, where does this end then?

Look, I think we need a course correction.

You know, it's time for America's legacy broadcasters

to return to promoting the public interest.

And just recently, Skydance, which is looking to acquire CBS,

wrote letters to the FCC,

committing to serious change,

to trying to root out bias, to putting in place

an ombudsman that would address these issues,

to returning to unbiased, trustworthy journalism.

That's where we have to go.

And I think we're getting some wins along the way.

It's trust but verified at the end of the day.

You know, we're not where we need to go.

But I think this legacy media really needs to reorient,

or they're going to continue to run into issues like co-bear,

where it just doesn't make economic sense

to run a partisan circus.

Yeah, no, it doesn't make economic sense.

And what has happened since he was speaking there

is that, in fact, we have seen the Skydance Paramount merger.

We've also seen Paramount now look to acquire

all of the holdings of Time Warner, forgive me, Warner Brothers,

which would include one CNN.

Nobody wanted CNN.

Like David Ellison was the only brave soul out there

that said, I think I can do something,

something with CNN.

I actually think you can do a lot with it.

I think the future is going to be amazing

for the news industry.

I'm an optimist, and I love technology.

I wish I was better at technology myself,

but you know what, I am a full-on appreciator

of all the great stuff to come.

So I think that there's a huge opportunity there

if you can kind of write the ship, right?

And you have people that are really interested

in telling the truth as opposed to spending something

for their own political candidate,

which is what this has all become.

So they're all a bunch of hacks.

Frankly, they're a bunch of hacks working on behalf of the DNC.

And therein lies the problem.

But Brandon has explained this before

and I'll go back to him explaining again,

this analogy that I keep trying to make that,

you know, you get the mothership

that's providing the programming

to all the little minions down below, right?

Like all those little affiliates,

but the affiliates, they get their licenses

from the federal government.

And the federal government can just as easily take those away

if they feel that they are not well serving their community.

And they may not be well serving their community

because the mothership is feeding them garbage.

Yeah, broadcasters are different

than any other form of communication,

including here, we're on cable right now.

Fox News doesn't have an FCC license, CNN doesn't.

But ABC, CBS, NBC, those broadcast stations do.

And with that license comes a unique obligation

to operate in the public interest.

And over the years, the FCC walked away

from enforcing that public interest obligation.

I don't think we're better off as a country for it.

But look, President Trump ran directly

at these legacy broadcast outlets.

And he exposed them to these market forces.

And a lot of these affiliate groups said,

to your point, we're tired of carrying this stuff.

Late night shows,

something's gone seriously right there.

They went from going for a pause.

It's from laugh lines to a pause lines.

They went from being court gestures

that would make fun of everybody in power

to being court clerics

and enforcing a very narrow political ideology.

And next star, as you noted, stood up and said,

look, we have the license

and we don't want to run this anymore.

We don't think it serves the interest of our community.

Sinclair did the same thing.

So there's more work to go.

But I'm very glad to see that America's broadcasters

are standing up

to serve the interest of their community.

We don't just have this progressive flagra

coming out from New York and Hollywood.

Progressive flagwa.

I'm not a big fan of liver, even the fancy kind.

I think that's another word that I think he was going to go with S-H,

you know what?

But he decided to go up for one.

I'm looking at it to see if we've got the ratings in yet

from the Oscars because boy oh boy,

did anybody watch the Oscars last night?

The last time I actually watched it

and I didn't watch it live.

I just watched the clips.

Maybe I watched the feed

was when the whole dust up happened.

You know, the slap hurt around the world.

But I just don't, they're boring.

They're boring, boring, boring, boring.

And you know, you have everybody going on

with their own political nonsense

and various positions that they're trying to push.

We don't have the 2026 final ratings out just yet.

But suffice it to say, ratings have been going down,

down, down, down, down, down, down for the Oscars for some time.

And it really, if you ask me,

if you ask me, the Oscars are really at a new low point.

I'm just looking at the numbers,

how bad it was in 21.

They saw some bit of an uptick.

I guess they started including their streaming numbers

in 23, 24, 25.

I just don't think it has much of a shot.

We'll see what things look like

when the final numbers are released.

But nonetheless, without the streaming numbers,

they're nowhere.

And even with streaming, they're kind of nowhere.

Because, hey, in streaming, you got competition.

Hey, you guys could be over here.

You know, watching the Trish Regan show.

Who needs to sit there and watch a bunch of

no-name actors that have a bunch of political views

that you've never even seen or heard of?

I mean, I'd never heard of these people before.

You got me, but they made a big deal

about saying no war and free Palestine.

Of course, like, you know, they get their agenda.

They get their 26th of fame.

Twenty seconds of fame, they're on national network television.

They're trying to use it.

And you know, it's getting to be a bit much.

So all these people that we do not recognize,

I'm sorry, maybe I don't go to the movies enough anymore.

But I think if I don't recognize them,

and I'm in the news business,

like, what does that say about everybody else?

I don't know.

And then you get some of them that's like,

maybe I don't recognize them.

Maybe I know, like, of them on the periphery.

But they're like, whoo, crazy people, crazy people.

And this is who the Democrat Party is now aligned with.

Big Dems, big Hollywood.

And I thought Bill Maher really said it well over the weekend

on his show. He's got a podcast.

I know he's not everybody's cup of tea.

But listen to this sound bite because he's right.

Like, the Democrat Party, if they had any brain cells

up there upstairs, they would be runnin'

from Hollywood as fast as they possibly could.

Because these people are all just weird.

Democrats really need to cut loose the celebrities.

They're not helping.

They don't strike people as normal because they're thought.

Democrats already have a problem with people thinking

that they are not the common sense crowd.

And then when they see, you know,

the chapel rones and the Billy Eilish's of the world

who don't act like normal people.

And then whatever they're saying,

just strikes everybody in America

who's a normal person as, oh, God.

Here's more of this stuff

where you can't relate to a real life.

Right?

Because these people are so weird, weird, weird, weird.

The other thing that's going on that I think

is affecting Hollywood,

is affecting things like the Oscars,

is that you don't need to go out to the movies anymore, right?

Because you can actually be pretty well entertained at home.

And there's a lot of great series that you can watch at home.

And there's a lot of great stuff on YouTube

or Spotify that you can watch at home.

And so the whole genre has really shifted.

And I think about, well, if I'm going to invest two hours in something,

I want to know that that's like a series I can follow.

Like I get two hours in it today.

And maybe I'll watch it again two hours next weekend.

I try not to binge watch, but, you know,

I've been known to do that occasionally too.

And that's really great.

You know, that's a really good series.

If you can binge watch it.

But why watch a movie for only two hours

and have no payoff?

Like, you know, I want something that's going to last a while.

Thank you very much.

If I'm going to get that involved in it.

And so the whole genre is changing in real time.

And Hollywood's scrambling.

They can't figure out how to keep up with things

other than to keep getting weirder and weirder and weirder.

And on top of it,

you got some real competition from the likes of the actual real stuff

going on in the world.

From what's going on in Trump world for goodness sakes

and podcasters, et cetera, you know,

like all of a sudden we're fighting for our piece of the pie.

And frankly, I think we're a bit more entertaining.

Are we not?

Well, I don't know about me,

but I know that the news I'm talking about

is often quite very entertaining.

We did this in a short recently.

This guy gets it.

He's like entertainers.

They're all upset because you know what?

Entertainment kind of sucks right now

because we get something else to watch.

Thank you very much.

Makes a good point.

Donald Trump is the reason why music sucks.

Donald Trump is the reason why TV sucks.

Donald Trump is the reason why entertainment sucks.

You want to know why?

Because he's more entertaining

than all of that s**t in his real life.

When Joe Biden was president,

I knew you know we had a s**t in president.

It's not the truth.

I mean, he was sleeping all the time.

He was sleeping.

And even if he was awake,

you really didn't want to watch.

Now, did you?

So things are changing.

And there's a whole group of people

that are really resistant to this change.

And a lot of them are out in LA

and a lot of them are part of the Democrat party.

But listen, the train has left the station.

You're either on board

or you're not.

But you know what?

You're going down.

You're going down fast.

You know who else is going down fast?

Ilhan Omar is going down.

Wait, do you see what they just came out with?

Moments ago,

it's a little late coming to the show,

but it's because I was clipping something

very important that I wanted you to see.

Because this is her very, very bad day.

This is her worst nightmare.

We now have not just treasury department

and believe me,

Scott Besson is no joke.

He's a dog with a bone

and he's going to go after this hard.

He's got the IRS already on it.

But you also have a guy

who's entire political future.

JD Vance now rests in the hands of the success

of this fraud squad.

The fraud squad going up against the squad.

How do you like that one?

Okay, the president just moments ago

announcing his executive order.

Ilhan, I'm telling you,

you better watch out.

Timmy Waltz, you better watch out.

Keith Ellison, you guys are going down.

And what they've done is so, so sad.

When you look at the Minnesota scan,

a lot of it has to do with Somalia.

Nobody's calling out anybody,

but a lot of it has to do with Somalia

and plenty of others.

And I believe the governor is complicit.

I believe Ilhan Omar is complicit.

I believe that your attorney general is complicit.

And if they are,

you're going to hopefully find out about it.

And you're going to have to do what you have to do.

If we found half of the fraud

that's taking place in this country,

and I think you have a chance of doing that,

we would have much more than a balanced budget.

That's the kind of numbers you're talking about.

The theft is incredible.

And I think JD will make,

and Andrew will make a charge later on

that local states should handle nursing homes

and all of these things that the federal government

shouldn't be involved in.

That it's too big.

The federal government should handle military

and a couple of other things.

But when it comes to nursing homes,

you saw where a young gentleman was going around

and knocking on doors

and none of the nursing homes existed

and none of the nurseries existed.

The money that's being paid out

and the federal government pays for it.

When you see all these people coming in illegally

into our country,

many criminals,

many drug dealers,

murders,

11,888 murders,

and you look at California

and more and more come in.

And yet they never had money.

And yet they pay them.

You know why they pay them?

Because the federal government just charged with paying them.

We're not paying them anymore.

And I said that.

So these two...

It's so good.

He's so good.

Anyway, you've got a big problem with this whole fraud.

I think $19 billion.

I mean, think of that.

And then you go, what's going on in California?

Obviously, that's a big, big concern.

We've got reports of fraud in Ohio.

We've got reports of fraud in Maine.

We've got reports of fraud in New York.

We've got reports of fraud in Massachusetts.

It feels endless.

But this is effectively Doge 2.0, right?

The continuation.

And as I said, it's really bad for Ilhan Omar

because she's got some really sketchy stuff.

I mean, not just the fraud,

but then what happened with the money,

allegedly,

afterwards is of real concern.

We've talked about her net worth becoming 30 million.

Like, that just does not happen.

It doesn't happen.

And I found this clip.

And I can't believe I didn't show you guys this.

This is just phenomenal.

You get to see this.

She's so caught off guard by this reporter

who I think works for Mike Lindell.

She's so caught off by this reporter

that she kind of just doesn't quite know what to do.

She's trying to be humorous about this.

Clearly, the woman is not very smart.

Not very smart.

I repeat.

I do believe the president calls her low IQ.

That's another way of saying it.

Anyway, here she is.

Trying to answer some very, you know,

important questions that she should be able to answer.

Unbelievable.

So this is really going to establish

a whole of government effort to fight fraud.

Forgive me.

We'll get to that in a second.

Back to Ilhan with the reporter.

Oh, no.

All right.

We're going to bring that one to you momentarily.

Back to the White House.

Caroline Levitt saying, listen,

they're not messing around.

They're playing for keeps.

So this is really going to establish

a whole of government effort to fight fraud

at both the state and the federal level

and every state across the country.

We look at states like California and New York.

We know there's been hundreds of billions of fraudulent schemes

that have ripped off American taxpayers.

So we're going to turn every page to find

and identify this fraud to prosecute

the individuals who are engaged in it.

And they're going to get them.

So now, it won't be a slam dunk.

Like, it's not super easy,

only because you get the whole wallet system

that we've talked about before.

But I want to point out that even with the whole

of the system, you can get them.

Because money leaves a trail.

And even if you're taking $700 billion,

forgive me, $1 million, nearly a billion dollars

out of Minneapolis over the span of two years,

cash in suitcases as they were.

They actually declared this stuff for the TSA.

This is almost declared.

Just imagine how much wasn't.

Even then, we can follow where that went.

And that's what Treasury is doing as we speak.

But let me go to Ilhan Omar and this reporter

for just a dynamic back and forth

as Ilhan seems to finally be realizing.

She's out of cards.

There's nothing left to play.

She has no hand left to play right now.

Hi, Congressman Omar.

You were just talking about how Trump's economy

has failed the American people.

But I think the American people really want to know how

you went from a negative $65,000 before coming into Congress

to go over $30 million in just seven years.

My disclosure is public enough.

Yeah, it is.

And so a lot of people now are looking into that

and finding S-Crew winery, a winery

that doesn't actually seem to exist.

Is that a real winery?

Or do you all actually look at and read things?

Or do you just ask silly questions?

Well, it's listed in the financial disclosure.

So can you explain it?

Because we have a lot of questions about it.

And things just aren't adding up.

There's no real phone number.

There's no real location.

Why did you want to bite some wine?

Probably not for you to be honest.

Recently stated that the American people should be afraid

of the white man.

They should be fearful of the white man.

I've never said that.

Yeah, that you're on video saying it.

Our country should be more fearful

of white man across our country

because they are actually

causing most of the deaths within this country.

Oh, I did not.

Yes.

You.

Again, this is like what I said.

Do you need to prepare yourself

because you can't continue embarrassing yourself like this?

So I'm just a liar.

What I was quoting was an actual study done by the FBI.

Thank you.

You're working this.

All right.

Thank you, Congresswoman.

Wow.

So yeah, it's going to be tricky for Ilhan.

And you know, there's a lot to chew on.

A lot to chew on, including that she kind of is like tossing this off.

It's not her fault.

It's not anybody's fault.

You know, it's the systems fault.

You just created such an easy system.

That's the only reason why this happened.

Remember her sentence?

Can you shed any light on why the fraud got so out of control

in Minnesota?

I think what happened is that when you have these kind of new programs

that are designed to help people,

you're oftentimes relying on third parties

to be able to facilitate.

And I just think that a lot of the COVID programs that were set up,

they were set up so quickly that a lot of the guardrails did not get created.

Oh, gosh, darn it.

You know, those guardrails.

Which, you know, fortunately they weren't created,

which meant, woohoo party time.

Take a look at this.

This is her filing, okay?

We're going too fast almost for my taste.

So I'm going to slow it down a little bit

because I love this one.

Astro crew LLC.

It hit me the other day.

What is this?

E Street crew.

E Street.

E Street, E Street, E Street.

Wasn't that a song in Annie, right?

I've done that one before.

I just hit me.

I was like, this is easy street.

E Street crew LLC.

They're like flinging it in our faces, guys.

Is that what they call tequila?

Right?

They're like flinging it.

Like, it's so easy.

So easy.

We're calling it easy street.

One to five million dollars.

This winery with no vineyards and no wine and no website and no phone number

is worth.

You got to be kidding me.

And then there's Rose Lake Capital.

Gosh darn it.

What did Hunter Biden call his firm?

Do you guys remember?

Because he also had some kind of venture capital.

Private equity firm.

What was Joe Biden's sons?

Okay, so Hunter Biden.

What did he call it?

Hunter Biden had a firm.

And I feel like the name is very similar.

It sounds similar to me.

You guys climb good to see you here.

I can't let it go.

You know, I'm not going to let this long go.

I am what you call a dog with a bone.

And I am so mad and so disgusted that 19 billion dollars could have been stolen

from the state of Minnesota.

And that there are people that are doing funny,

weird, shady stuff.

And going from negative 50,000 to 30 million in the span of two years,

I'm sorry.

That's just wrong.

It's just wrong.

And it has to be found out.

And if it's not found out,

then we ought to all be up in arms because that it's Rosemont,

Seneca partners.

That's what it was.

Hunter Biden.

Thanks guys.

Yes, Rosemont, Seneca partners.

Rose Lake Capital.

You know, they got a lot.

They're all coming up roses.

What can we say?

She also was paying herself.

We've been through this before.

Because Timmy Minette's making $2.8 million

when he decides to go work for his wife.

And run his wife's campaign.

Again, this is a huge no-no.

And Biden's team should have caught this.

They did.

They brought her into the ethics committee.

And nobody did squat because she sits there and says,

it's racism.

I'm sorry.

But you can't do that.

You know, I'm over it.

I'm not over it.

Forgive me.

And neither is anyone in Minnesota.

You go to Minnesota right now and the people are living

understandably.

I mean, unless you were one of the people

making up with millions,

you're not going to be very happy about this.

Which is why Ilhan Omar is about to lose her job.

She got some really bad news on Friday

when Julie Lay announced that she would be running.

For office, she's another Democrat.

She's challenging Ilhan Omar.

And she's coming at things from a different perspective.

She's the one that really didn't like her job

working for the federal government

because she was working 24-7.

She had to keep dealing with all these migrants

that were coming into the country.

And they were about to get exported or deported.

Whatever.

And she said, I, you know, like I basically hate my job.

And she told the judge to hold her in contempt

so that she could get a little bit of sleep.

She's coming at this from a very different perspective.

And she's going to have a lot of appeal

in the state of Minnesota.

Because, well, let's just say she's got a lot to work with.

A lot to work with.

Ilhan Omar, who is recently as just about a month ago,

was still trying to get money through for some of her peeps

there in Minneapolis and her district,

their own restaurants that also somehow were

in the mental health clinic business.

Yeah.

Because, you know, they treat you, you come for dinner

and then you go upstairs to the mental health clinic

and, you know, apparently, you know,

the combo of Somali food and mental health.

Like, what do you know?

You're all better.

Much of a presto.

Joni Ernst stumbled across this.

Santa Ernst, guys.

Covered the other day.

And one of our spending bills

making its way through Congress

was an one million dollar earmark

from representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota,

which was an earmark that was supposedly going

to a substance abuse clinic,

which actually happened to be housed in a restaurant

and run by three individuals

that share the same residential address

according to their IRS paperwork.

Tons of red flags.

So this is what we saw with the fraud

involving the daycare centers.

Now we see other earmarks coming

directly from members of Congress

where it seems fraud is being perpetrated as well.

So I raised the issue.

And fortunately, the house has now stripped

that earmark out of that spending bill.

But again, this is how easy money has been

flowing to bad actors in Minnesota.

You better believe it.

So it's astonishing.

And then when you factor

and you know how upset they were

about USAID, I'll tell you,

no one was more upset than this one right here.

I am exceptionally upset about USAID.

I lived in a refugee camp.

Buh, buh, buh, buh, buh, buh.

All right, I'm sorry.

We've seen it before,

so we don't need to belabor it.

But Ilhan Omar is

exceptionally upset about USAID.

Because gosh, you know, who's going to get any money?

You're not going to be all the print as much

and send it around.

Lots of love.

It's all your friends back home for goodness sakes.

I'll tell you at Julie Lay,

keep your eye on her because she has every ability to win right now.

People are so frustrated in the state of Minnesota.

And unless you're involved in the Somali ring,

you are furious, okay?

And if you are involved,

well, 79 of them have already gone to jail.

And that number is going to go up.

Because the task force just started today.

And JD Vance is running it.

So watch out.

Watch out, Minnesota.

Watch out, California.

Watch out, New York.

Things are happening.

I want to go to the latest and greatest on Iran right now.

The president giving us a status update as only he can.

Our powerful military campaign

to end the threats posed by the Iranian regime

continued in full force over the past few days.

They have been literally obliterated.

The Air Force has gone.

The Navy has gone.

Many, many ships have been sunk.

They're war-fiving ships, but I guess I didn't know how to use them.

And anti-aircraft is decimated.

The radar has gone.

And the leaders have gone.

Other than that, they're doing quite well.

Yeah, just other than that, a little problem.

He did say the other day, remember?

Watch what happens to these deranged scumbags today.

And sure enough,

the deranged scumbags really got quite,

so we say, a come-upence.

I'm trying to frame this properly.

I do think one of the biggest things that happened was he went and got at that island,

that island that was really, really important where they have all of the oil.

Everything comes through there.

So by taking out, you didn't take out actually all the oil.

They're leaving that as a threat.

I don't think they want to,

because part of this administration doesn't want to completely wipe out all the oil in Iran.

Only because you still need it, right?

And that's going to cause oil prices to go way up

if you just completely take them out.

So they left that, but they threatened it.

And they really, going for that particular island was a big, big deal.

So when he said, just watch what happens to these deranged scumbags today,

he wasn't kidding.

I want to go back to the president,

speaking earlier this afternoon, giving us that status check

and believe me, it is bad for Iran.

The media can say whatever it wants.

Here are the facts, ladies and gentlemen.

They've been a terror for 47 years.

And now, I guess the world through the United States,

with the help of Israel is doing what should have been done many years ago,

should have been done many years ago.

Since the beginning of the conflict, we've struck more than 7,000 targets across Iran.

Amazing.

And these have been mostly commercial and military targets.

We've achieved a 90% reduction in their ballistic missile launches,

and a 95% reduction in drone attacks.

The missiles are trickling in now at a very low level,

because they don't have too many missiles left.

We've also attacked the manufacturing plants,

where the places where they manufacture the missiles and the drones.

And that's going on today.

We just hit three of them today.

And it's getting very hard for them to manufacture.

More than 100 Iranian naval vessels have been chunked or destroyed over the last week and a half.

That has to be some kind of a record.

Yeah, probably some kind of a record.

Just amazing what has been accomplished.

But you know, hey, don't doubt us.

This is the US military after all.

Again, I point out, look at all the headlines.

It's my collage.

I just keep adding to it daily.

The media doesn't quite seem to understand the success that is going on.

Fine, you know what?

Fine.

But the attempt at trying to somehow turn America against this war,

against these strikes is concerning to me only in that, you know,

what were what two weeks into this?

Didn't they say it's going to last about five, six weeks?

That's what we told us in the beginning.

It seems to me like, you know, we're two weeks in.

We're doing pretty well.

We just have taken out so much of their infrastructure and their entire military.

Like, why are you going to judge it right now?

You don't even know what else is coming.

You listen to the left.

It's Trump's war.

They don't want to fund it.

They don't even want to fund homeland security, etc, etc, etc.

I would say, you know, things are okay for us.

I mean, the Ayatollah, he may be in a coma.

Because that's the report we're hearing.

I mean, the guy is not doing so well.

They, you know, took out his dad, the wife, apparently, in the first round.

And then they went back for a second round.

They got the second guy who's going to become the Ayatollah.

And then third round, they may have landed this guy in a coma.

We've been talking about the cardboard cutout.

I mean, they haven't seen the guy anywhere.

He goes on and does a national television appearance,

except he's not there.

They're reading a statement from him.

So the IRGC seems to be like trying to have some kind of puppet

that they can spring forward, but nobody actually sees the puppet.

So what is going on?

I mean, well, the puppet they got, I'll just say, you know what?

I am not one to judge.

I am not one to judge.

And I, you know, whatever.

Okay, his sexual preference is his own thing.

But the word on the street from the intel community

is that the Ayatollah, the new Ayatollah, is gay,

which is neither here nor there in the United States of America.

But guess what?

Over there, with his own religion, that's kind of like a big deal.

That's sort of like a big no-no, right?

Because it's Iran.

And in the Muslim faith, like, you really can't be gay.

They have punishments for people that are.

I mean, that's one of the most incredible things

that, you know, you have all these gays for Palestine.

And I'm like, hey guys, you know what?

If you went to Palestine, you wouldn't be able to be holding up

those signs.

Thank you very much.

Just saying, you know, careful what you wish for.

Anyway, apparently Donald Trump was briefed

on our intelligence that suggests that the Ayatollah

who has suffered from impotency, Bill Mar had a great joke.

Actually, I played you something from Bill earlier.

So I saw this joke he had on how the Ayatollah, you know,

hates the West until things don't work right, shall we say?

And something who's been treated multiple times

for impotency in London.

I don't think they really got to first base, though.

I think it continued to be a problem.

But it may be a bigger problem, right?

Because it may just be, you know,

the lady friends aren't doing it for him.

So this is the intel that our intelligence has gathered.

The intelligence community officials believe this to be true

that the Ayatollah is in fact gay.

And apparently they told Donald Trump this

and he just burst out laughing, right?

Because you get the irony of it all, right?

You're clinging on, you're hanging on to this religion

and to this culture that, by the way, would,

when push comes to shove, be done with you in two seconds.

Let's just say.

So that was the newest out of the New York Post this morning

that the intelligence community has believed

that to be the case for some time they didn't form the president

and he burst out in hysterics laughing.

Meanwhile, we want to know where our allies are.

Hey, you know, France, where are you when we need you?

UK, I don't know, Spain, forget about you.

The president was asked what he thought about France

and what they were doing, take a listen.

If you are spoken with French president Macron

about the coalition to reopen the Strait of Hormuz,

have you been speaking with the French president?

What does that mean?

Have you been speaking with the French president Macron

about the coalition to reopen the Strait of Hormuz?

Yeah, I have spoken to him.

He's been on a scale of zero to 10.

I'd say he's been an eight.

Not perfect, but it's France.

Are you confused?

We don't expect perfect.

Are you confident that France will help

with the reopening of Strait of Hormuz?

Yeah, I mean, sure.

He's going to, I think he's going to help.

I mean, I'll let you know.

I spoke to him yesterday.

I don't do a hard sell on them because my attitude is,

we don't need anybody.

We're the strongest nation in the world.

We have the strongest military by far in the world.

We don't need them, but it's interesting.

I'm almost doing it.

In some cases, not because we need them,

but because I want to find out how they react.

Because I've been saying for years

that if we ever did need them, they won't be there.

Not all of them, but they won't be there.

I was very surprised with the United Kingdom.

Because the United Kingdom, two weeks ago,

I said, what did you send some ships over?

And he really didn't want to do it.

I said, you don't want to do it.

We've been with you.

You're our oldest ally.

And we spend a lot of money on NATO

and all of these things to protect you.

We're protecting them.

We're working with them on Ukraine.

Ukraine's thousands of miles away separated by a vast ocean.

We don't have to do that.

But we did it.

Well, Biden did it.

I mean, I have to be honest with you.

It's Biden got taken to the cleaners.

But we worked with them in Ukraine.

We don't need to work with them in Ukraine.

And then they tell us that we have a mindset around,

and they don't want to do it.

I think it's terrible.

I mean, here's the thing, who needs friends, or who needs enemies?

I think the expression is when you've got friends like that.

They needed us in Ukraine.

We came to their aid.

And then we're saying, hey, you want to help out?

You want to?

Like, he's right.

He's sort of almost doing it like a test.

Let's see who our real friends and allies are.

And then you get this guy, Starmer, UKPM, who says this.

The conflict in Iran and across the Middle East

is now entering its third week.

So I want to take a moment to set out

how we're responding to this crisis

and standing up for the British people.

Our priority is always the national interest.

And to say we have been clear and consistent

in our objectives throughout this conflict.

First, we will protect our people in the region.

Second, while taking the necessary action

to defend ourselves and our allies.

We will not be drawn into the wider war.

All right.

Well, I guess they let it be known.

So we can't count on the UK.

We can't count on France.

But we can count on ourselves.

I guess, I mean, because we can't count on the media.

And we can't even count on some members of the MAGA movement.

Yeah.

98% of MAGA actually supports this war.

And then you get a few crazies out there

in the podcasting world.

And some that used to be in the political world

that are just praying and hoping and praying

to God every night that they might actually get a job on the view.

You know who I'm talking about.

This lady?

I mean, into midterm elections.

Let's remove Donald Trump out of it.

Let's just put any president in there.

Why would an American president lead his political party

into the midterms, waging a full-scale major war,

completely unprovoked on Iran, on behalf of Israel.

And that's the way most Americans see it.

They see this as for Israel, not for America.

Why would an American president do that, which

is forcing gas prices to hike right here, going into spring break

where families are going to be driving out of town,

going into summer, declaring and waging

a major full-scale war that seems to have no end in sight?

Hmm.

So I think I may know why.

I'm going to just go out on a limb and say,

you know, why would a president do this, Marjorie?

Maybe because he's seen some intelligence, Marjorie,

that you haven't seen Marjorie.

Maybe he's seen that in fact, Iran

was this close to getting a nuclear weapon.

And even though we had gone in before and tried

to take out their capacity, they came back

and they continued at it, and they

had no intention of slowing down or stopping.

Maybe he saw that intelligence.

Or maybe it was when Iran came out,

and they told Steve Whitcough, and Jared Kushner, hey,

we got all this uranium, and we've already

enriched this stuff to 60%.

Oh, and don't take Steve's word for it.

You can go over to MSNBC where the Iranians went on to MSNBC

just a couple of weeks ago as this whole thing started out.

And they said, yeah, we didn't mean to brag, but we do have it.

They literally said that.

We're not trying to brag, but we do have it at 60% enrichment.

So maybe, Marjorie, when you're the president,

you actually need to put the country first

and your own political aspirations and that of your party

on the back burner for the time being

to do what's right for your country.

Just saying.

Just saying.

Democrats are getting positively destroyed in the newest polls.

I want to share with you the latest and greatest out of CNN.

They just can't go any lower than this one.

Are voters feeling about Democrats right now?

Yeah, I mean, Democrats in the minds of the American public

are lower than the Dead Sea.

What are we talking about here?

Well, let's take a look at the net appropriating for Democrats

in Congress.

You said it, Kate Ballin.

The lowest ever, look at this.

Overall, they are 55 points.

Underwater, their appropriating is south of 20%.

It's even worse when you look at independence.

Look at this.

Negative 61 points.

That means that their appropriating is 61 points lower.

Then their disapproval rate in Quinnipiac

has been polling this question for the better part

of the 21st century.

They have never found Democrats, at least those in Congress,

and we're shaped than they are right now.

Okay.

And that may be because they don't seem to be standing

for anything except that they are against Trump, right?

If you don't actually have any conviction,

if you seem to be for open borders,

and you know, rolling over and playing dead

when Iran's ready to take over the Middle East,

and yeah, you don't really stand for a whole lot.

Don't forget, by the way, these are the guys

that drove up inflation through the Wazoo.

I'm just saying, and on top of it,

we've had four terror attacks in the last two weeks

and guess what, they still don't want to fund DHS.

They don't want to fund TSA.

People are getting a little annoyed

by the four hour long lines in the airports these days.

They're making the rounds on the media.

At least the media is showing that and Carl Rove, okay.

I know, maybe not everybody loves Carl,

but he occasionally makes a good point now and then.

So we like to give him some props when he does.

Carl Rove making the point that the Democrats are doomed

on this because it's not a good look, not to be funding.

The Department of Homeland Security, at a time like this,

don't you think?

Again.

The obvious.

Federal officials warning that the terror threat

has risen to levels not seen in decades

after four attacks across the country,

just since March 1st alone.

Let's bring in for a White House deputy chief of staff, Carl Rove.

He's also a Fox News contributor.

Good to see you, Carl.

You look at those airport lines under this shutdown

and you say, I mean, we gotta do something about this.

The American public is extremely frustrated

with what is happening.

Yeah, absolutely.

Look, shutdowns are losers.

For anybody who is provoking a shutdown,

this is a big loser in my opinion for Democrats.

People don't like seeing those long lines.

There's been no compelling case made by the Democrats

as to why the reforms that they are suggesting

are so essential.

The public is focused on those pictures

and they're focused on the stories they're hearing

from people who are going through that process

and they're also concerned and will be increasingly concerned

about what would happen to our country

if at our borders or inside the United States Homeland Security

was not able to meet its responsibility.

Message to the Democrats, find yourself an off ramp

and events are about ready to give you a very good off ramp

that will allow you to get out of this hole

and yet even turn this argument on your behalf

into something that's durable

and might have an impact on the election.

But if they keep doing what they're doing, this is a problem.

You better believe it.

And look, I think they will keep doing what they're doing.

This is for whatever reason, how they're geared,

how they're wired, and they don't seem to have enough

self-preservation, frankly, to know better.

Today, you had the CEOs of the world's

the country's most major airlines issue a statement saying,

please get your act together.

I'm paraphrasing here.

But you gotta have TSA open and running.

You gotta pay these people.

We need to have TSA workers.

I mean, record numbers of TSA workers are now quitting

because they're not getting paid.

And it's happening when we're striking a run.

Like, how does this make any sense at all?

Why are you willing to risk the American people

because you want to dig in your heels over Donald Trump?

That's messed up.

I'm sorry.

I got no use for any of it.

And you know, they're grandstanding like you wouldn't believe.

Alyssa Slotkin.

That's the one with the little silly CIA video.

Remember, she was the former analyst in the CIA

turned to politician and she got up there with all of them.

And she just started saying, hey,

you don't need to follow orders in the military.

Lovely lady to this.

She is.

This is amazing to me.

She voted against funding DHS.

The terror attack happened in the Michigan church

in Temple.

A temple that she used to go to as a kid

that she said she was very familiar with.

That happened.

And then the vote comes.

She votes against DHS funding.

And then she high tails it out to Michigan

to show her face on camera,

despicable politician that she is to say this.

So they are on the call and they're doing their jobs.

Certainly, we need to fund the Department of Homeland Security.

And we need, in my view, to cut away all the conversation

on ICE, which is its own conversation

from all the core missions of the Department of Homeland Security.

But they're essential.

They're on the job.

They're working today.

Excuse me, Alyssa.

Did you just say we need to actually fund DHS

that the TSA workers need to get paid

and Homeland Security needs to get paid?

Excuse me.

Because you voted differently.

So don't talk out of both sides of your mouth.

We know what your record is.

All of them, except for one, voted to not fund DHS.

And this is despite what everybody is pleading with them to do.

You had Jay Johnson.

I showed you that sound on Friday.

He came out.

This is Obama's DHS chief.

And he's like, you got to do this.

You got to fund this.

And yet, no, they don't need to fund that.

And by the way, this has nothing to do

with any kind of Muslim extremism, right?

Wrong.

But that's what they want you to believe.

Consider the bogus narrative, the CNN host

who needs to be fired or go far, far away,

was saying just last week.

I would say we've had two terrorist attacks here

in the last 10 days.

There was nothing to do with pollution, though.

So can we condemn those?

Of course.

We're going to have to do Muslims.

What does that have to do with Muslims?

Can't imagine.

Can't imagine what that would possibly

have to do with Muslims or Iran that's going on right now.

Listen, this is like concerning, concerning, concerning stuff.

And I would just say that we should be

alarmed that they have politicized this as much as they

have, and that they continue to do this,

because it's not OK.

It's not OK.

We have new sound coming into us as we speak

from the White House.

Ilhan Omar is in a lot of trouble.

Things are about to get really, really bad

for one Ilhan Omar.

In fact, the president may have called her out.

If I look at this correctly, oh, Ilhan,

this is not a good situation for you.

Oh, no, oh, no, watch.

It's crazy.

And Ilhan Omar, I hope this is part of it,

but she married her brother, supposedly.

I mean, there's a lot of documentation.

That means she's illegally and she's a congresswoman.

And I hope you're going to be looking at that

or somebody else, all right?

Because she's one of the ring leaders here.

She's bad news, really bad news.

She's so bad for our country.

Anyway, J.D., please say a few words.

Oh, my gosh.

So Ilhan, getting specifically called out

for possibly have committed fraud with her second marriage.

We've gone through this at length.

I encourage you to go watch one of the chapters or one

of the shows where we covered this in great detail

because she's had numerous marriages.

The first one was not in a civil situation.

And I guess it wasn't like legal in terms

of what we would consider legal, but it was legal

within her community.

And that may have been like the first real husband.

Then she marries the second guy, the one

that some people believe to be her brother.

It doesn't even have to be her brother.

If it's a sham marriage, boom, done.

She's out, OK?

End of story.

If it was a sham marriage, and we can go back

and get that documentation, it doesn't even need

to have DNA that matches hers, OK?

So that was the second marriage.

And that happened in the town hall, all that kind of stuff.

They had their proper records, unlike the first marriage.

But then the guy moves away, and she has another kid

with hubby number one.

So that was peculiar.

And then somehow, something happened.

The guy really moved away.

And she got fully back together with hubby number one.

And then eventually took up with hubby number three.

When her net worth went suddenly to $30 million.

So there are certainly plenty of questions

that people have here.

Steven Miller talking about the fraud issue in Minnesota

as well.

It's good to him.

What we've found since President Trump came into office

is that the Democrats have set up a system to funnel hundreds

of billions and ultimately trillions of dollars

to migrants that are in our country,

oftentimes from places like Somalia.

So as an example, ICE recently asked a group of illegal immigrants

that were in detention whether or not they were receiving Medicaid.

Half of them raised their hands and volunteered

that they were on Medicaid.

Just volunteered that.

These aren't the ones who were hiding it, right?

They also asked illegal aliens how they

paid their medical bills.

And they said that if they don't have Medicaid,

they go to hospitals, they get free care there,

and they build it to the taxpayers.

So they aren't paying for any of their own health care

in this country.

It's just one example.

And we've seen this over and over and over again.

So under President Trump's leadership,

and then of course with JD, and they head of the FTC,

Andrew Ferguson, we are going to see the first ever effort

in American history to reclaim the ultimately trillions

of dollars that were stolen from taxpayers.

Wow, this is huge.

This is really huge.

You might wonder, why does anybody want to become a politician?

I've always wanted that myself because it doesn't pay very well.

If you think about it, I mean, it pays decently,

but not that well, considering what you have to go through

and all the public eye, right, attention that's on you.

So that's always been sort of one of my questions.

But Ilhan Omar was very proud to go on to become a politician.

And I think what they're really going to try and figure out

is whether there was any sort of kickback scheme

that may have been happening, a kickback scheme,

as it will see Forbes, who was on the show recently with me,

alleged saying, look, this doesn't feel right,

because it just doesn't make any sense

that she would have all this money sort of coming in,

and she would be skyrocketing in net worth the $30 million.

I mean, that just doesn't happen, no matter how good

an investor you are, like it just doesn't happen.

And so Steve laid it out.

I mean, he's like, yeah, she's living the American dream.

She's living that alcapone version of the American dream.

So let's go to the Q&A there happening,

short time ago at the White House,

or one of the reporters is saying, hey,

like, why is this being allowed?

Why would any leader allow this fraud to take place

in the first place?

And I think the president tackles this question.

I want to make sure the audio is loud enough for you to hear.

I do believe it is.

Let's listen in here to the president speaking

with this reporter.

Here we go.

Why do you suppose that the leaders of recent memory

haven't looked at the systemic amount of fraud?

Because they're crooked.

And because they're crooked, they make money,

they gain power.

They use it for power.

Like with the Samarians, they vote in a block, 100%.

They make a deal with the Samarians, they all vote,

because they're on a gravy train.

It's coming in.

It's money first, power second.

A lot of people say power first now.

It's money first, power second.

Do you ever see where like Mercedes,

people come up and turn somebody to have no money.

And now they're buying Mercedes-Benz cars.

It's more cash goes out of the Minnesota airport

than any other place in the world.

So we're going to find it.

And Minnesota is really bad.

The government has corrupt, the Attorney General's

totally corrupt.

Just like the New York State Attorney General,

the teacher James, she's a highly corrupt person.

Bragg, the DA is a corrupt person.

They're all corrupt.

These are corrupt people.

And we got too many of them in our country.

And we have to expose them.

And we have to catch them.

And if these two guys can't, these are high IQ people.

I like high, I've always liked high IQ.

These are high IQ people.

If they don't do it, we're going to go a long way

for us to find somebody else that's going to do it.

We have no choice.

If honestly, and they may not do a good job,

if they don't do a good job,

thank you sir.

It's possible.

If they don't do a good job, the country's

sort of in trouble.

Yes, God.

Yeah, he's right.

This makes me very, very happy.

It makes me very happy because we've

been pounding the table on this.

And I feel the same way.

I mean, this should be a no-brainer.

This should not be hard for them to catch.

We ought to be able to see the money laundering if, in fact,

it existed, which I hate to say this,

but I do think that there's a very high likelihood,

a high probability that people were getting kickbacks.

And by people, I would be looking very closely

at Ilhan Omar and Timmy Minette.

Timmy Minette already had multiple allegations

of fraud in his businesses before

from the cannabis company.

Well, that says it all, right?

To the winery, the winery.

Like, what is she doing in the wine business, by the way?

And she's supposed to be a good Muslim,

but I guess you know, you get married three or four times too.

Here may not be all that good a Muslim.

Here is JD Van saying how sick and twisted this is

especially when it came to the whole autism scam.

Autism, I mean, the money.

It was like a 34,000-percent increase

in what they were spending in Minnesota, just on autism.

Here we go, JD.

We saw evidence that in Minneapolis,

there were Somalis, primarily illegal immigrants,

who were defrauding a Medicaid program

that was meant to go to autistic children.

So they were taking children who were supposed to get benefits

and they were claiming that their kids were actually

autistic even though they weren't.

And what do this mean?

This meant two things.

Number one, there are a lot of people getting rich

off of the fraud while American citizens got poor.

And the second thing that it meant

is that you had autistic kids in Minneapolis,

in suburban Minneapolis, who weren't getting benefits

they needed because Somali fraudsters

were literally stealing out of their pocket.

It's got to stop.

And unfortunately, that kind of fraud is one example

of probably hundreds just within the state of Minneapolis.

And then it's repeated and replayed

all over the United States of America.

Unbelievable stuff.

Okay, Ilhan Omar, the warning is now,

I think they're gonna find you out.

You better hope it's pretty squeaky clean.

Because they're gonna have a lot of questions

and I just suspect you're really not gonna have

the right answers.

I'm with Steve Forbes on this one, guys.

I just think that there's some really sketchy stuff here.

Very sketchy stuff.

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Some bad news to tell you about on Susie Wiles.

We're going to get to that.

Her diagnosis being revealed by the president today.

I think she's going to be OK.

He was optimistic about it.

But I want to get to his sound on that

and her reaction momentarily.

But first, taking a look at these markets today.

Wow, up up in a way, right?

It's like past couple weeks.

I've never really happened.

Listen, it hasn't been that bad.

I'm just saying, it has not been that bad.

We have, actually, this is, we did get GDP coming in a little bit lower.

We did have oil coming in today.

It's kind of fair and all right.

Like, I'll take this, right?

And I think that's because there's some excitement

that this trade of hormones is being opened up, even if not to us.

It's OK, because if other people can get through,

then other countries can get their oil.

And that means it's not going to blow up oil prices

and they're not going to get too out of control.

Jeremy Siegel, do you guys know Jeremy Siegel?

He's from Wharton.

You know, you pen really, really good business school.

Jeremy, I've known a lot of years.

And Jeremy is, well, always very bullish.

And you know what, that's served him well over the years,

because Jeremy, ultimately, is always proven right.

You know, you never bet against America.

One of the things that he was talking about

on my former employer today, CNBC, and this segment, by the way,

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But Jeremy Siegel was talking about whether or not

we're going to get a rate cut out of the Fed,

because the president, boy does he ever want one, right?

That's why he's putting Kevin Warton.

He really wants a rate cut.

That would help the economy help to goose things.

But simultaneously, you get some challenges from the oil market.

So that's one of the unknowns.

Jeremy, though, making the point that maybe we will get that,

because guess what?

Surprise, surprise.

Housing prices have actually mellowed out a bit,

and that may give the Fed some room.

Listen.

We don't have that tailwind of lower oil prices that we had,

but we even have a stronger tailwind.

And that is shelter prices have really slowed down.

Rents virtually unchanged on a national level for three years.

The case show our home price index up between 1% and 2%,

which is the lowest it's been for many, many years.

That's a big component, both of the core index and the CPI.

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If the war in Iran continues to go on,

well, then oil prices are going to continue to go up.

That's very inflationary.

What is the public policy mechanism to slow down inflation?

You have to raise interest rates, not lower them.

So there's going to be an initial impulse to lower interest rates

right now because of the election year.

It is going to be very, very difficult to keep them low

if oil prices keep going up because oil is used in everything.

And at that point, the inflationary pressers are so much

that you're going to have to raise rates

to slow down that inflation trend.

OK, so that's what we want to avoid.

Remember, OK, you don't want a situation where oil goes sky high.

This is why I think the president's thinking about Iran

is sort of like a four or five week deal, maybe six if push comes to shove.

But we don't want to be in a situation where oil goes wildly crazy.

You're up at $200 a barrel and then it affects the price of everything else.

And the Fed is left in the bind because it's like,

wait a second, we get all these higher prices and all this inflation.

We can't really cut rates.

So that would be a really bad scenario.

I don't think we're going to get there.

I think actually this is going to be a lot shorter lived than some people

in the media would suggest.

I mean, I'm just looking at my phone in the Wall Street Journal.

And it's like, they're freaking out.

US allies rebuff Trump's demand to help open hormones.

But what do we care?

As long as our allies get their oil, we don't even get oil from there.

Let them take care of themselves and try and get through there.

Iran said they're not going to attack them.

Great, fine, they don't want to help us.

I'm with Trump, you know, they've shown their two colors.

Let them be, you know, I'd say this is so far a win, win, win, and more of a win.

They did admit US as it is hit more than 7,000 Iranian targets.

That's good news.

But overall, the tenor that you're seeing in the media is really, really concerning.

So what do you do right now?

And a time like this, I mean, for me, I try to keep really even keel.

Always be level headed.

Know what you want to buy.