The Trish Regan Show - BREAKING: ABC READY to FIRE WHOOPI from ‘The View’ After Stephen Colbert Ousted at CBS

Episode Date: July 22, 2025

‘The View’ on the Chopping Block as Media Execs Panic! Disney’s ABC is reportedly preparing to pull the plug on Whoopi Goldberg — and possibly cancel ‘The View’ altogether — in the wake of Stephen Colbert’s ousting at CBS. Trish Regan breaks down the explosive rumors and explains why network execs may be bracing for a total shakeup in daytime TV. Don’t forget: With FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr launching an investigation into Disney, CEO Bob Iger is under major pressure to clean house. Meanwhile, over at MSNBC, Jen Psaki’s ratings have tanked. Will the newly formed Comcast cable spinoff really allow numbers to suffer? Might they pay Rachel Maddow even more to bring her back full-time — or will the spin-off 'Versant' keep doubling down on budget-friendly, no-name replacements like Psaki? PLUS: ✅Hunter Biden’s bizarre turn on the podcast circuit ✅Tulsi Gabbard’s latest revelations ✅Is this why Ellen DeGeneres fled to the UK? Kash Patel may have the answer. It’s a media bloodbath — and The Trish Regan Show is covering it all LIVE. Don’t miss today’s deep dive into the media meltdown, politics, and power moves shaping the news cycle.👀 Watch now and SUBSCRIBE as we near 1 MILLION!▶️ https://Youtube.com/TrishReganChannel ✅ JOIN the Team for exclusive content and perks: ▶️ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBlMo25WDUKJNQ7G8sAk4Zw/join 📈 For financial insights, subscribe to The 76 Report: ▶️ https://76research.com — Use CODE: DOLLAR for a special offer.Today’s Sponsors: 🟢 Balance of Nature – 35% off + FREE shipping with code TRISH ▶️ https://balanceofnature.com or call 1-800-246-8751 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

And we're live. I'm still in Ireland. No, I have not seen Rosie O'Donnell yet, but I'll be very, very honest. I'm not looking. Welcome to the Trish Rigan show, everyone. I am Trish Rigan. Good to have you here. We are seeing, well, some rumors once again start to surface, and they may be more than rumors at this point in time, judging by the way the business is going right now at Disney and at ABC. You see, Colbert may have provided an entry point, Paramount, CBS, getting rid of one Colbert. And now all of a sudden, a few others might be up for grabs, including the ladies at the view, including one whoopi-goldberg. I know you guys are like, wait a second. We've been hearing this for a while. We've been hearing it for a while. Well, finally, you see, Disney has its entry point. We're going to get into all of that.

And it would make sense. It would make sense for Disney right now, given how expensive that show is to run. For goodness sakes, I mean, Colbert had the same situation going on. Did he not? that was an expensive show to run. By some estimates, possibly, losing as much as $100 million a year, I saw $30, I saw $40 million. And for some reason, some people in the industry actually think that this thing should stay in business still. Are you kidding me? No, no, because you see, we're not communist. You don't have a show that loses tens of millions of dollars a year on the air to continue losing

tens of millions of dollars a year. I mean, if there's anything that the streaming industry should have taught you, it's that. So, Stephen Colbert and his firing has now opened the way for some additional firings. We're going to talk about what that means, specifically vis-a-vis the ABC landscape as well as MSNBC. Don't forget Jen Saki over there. She's really tanking. I mean, the ratings are down some 44% from where Rachel Maddo and Alex, whatever her name was. I mean, this is not good news for MSNBC, especially as they get ready to roll out the Comcast cable offering Versont or whatever fantastic.

little name they've got for themselves to be traded separately because, for goodness sakes, Comcast wants to get as far away from their cable entities as they possibly can. It's what you would call a dead business. Anyway, we've got Hunter Biden who's suddenly opening up on podcasts, and wow. Can we send them back to, like, grammar school to learn how to speak or something? I'm in the F-bomb. Skip coming and coming and coming and coming. Poor Sal, one of the guys on our team. My gosh, he had to spend like forever. editing these sound bites just so I can play them for you. Anyway, we're going to take a look at

Hunter Biden and what he has to say. And there are still questions about Ellen DeGeneres. She's come out with another big stint in the media saying I'm never coming back to the U.S. Portia and I are in the UK for good. And a lot of people think there may be a reason for that. And they think that Cash Patel might know the reason for that. We're going to get into all of it. Welcome again to the program. Make sure you subscribe, share like we are coming up on $1 million. Isn't that amazing? million subs. I can't wait. It's a glorious thing, a glorious thing. Anyway, we begin today on The View. The View may actually finally be seeing its final days and Whoopi Goldberg may be shown the exit door and why. You see Stephen Colbert has just given ABC and Disney and Bob Iger,

the CEO of Disney, reason to do something. In other words, there's a little cover here. Because, you know, once you get rid of one, all of a sudden, everybody else can look around and say, yeah, it doesn't really make sense to have a business that's losing money on our hands. Now, in defense of the view, much like Colbert, they have okay enough ratings. So if the ratings are okay enough, is that enough to keep something solvent? No, I don't think so. In the case of Colbert, they were losing something like, oh, 30, 40 million dollars a year. Some estimates as high as $100 million. That's pretty embarrassing, don't you think? I mean, how can you have the highest ratings? be losing that much money. It tells me you don't know how to run a business, like at all.

Is that Colbert's fault? Is it Paramount's fault? I don't know, but I think that the new and improved Colbert should he come out and decide to do something very, very different, is not going to have so many people on the staff. And, well, you know, he won't have deep pockets paying him some 25, 15 million. We don't know quite what he was making, but clearly it was too much. Anyway, Donald Trump mentioning that he's really thrilled that this whole thing happened. He's really, really thrilled that Colbert got fired. And now he's thinking that Jimmy Kimmel might be next. Jimmy Kimmel might be next.

He's the late guy at ABC could quite possibly be next. But, you know, as he said, he has even less talent than Colbert. He does like the guy over on Fox as opposed to the moron on NBC. words. I can't even tell you what the guy's name is on NBC. We're having this problem yesterday. I think I came up with the late, late show guy. I don't know. But the point is none of these guys are relevant anymore. And part of it is because of what we're doing over here. And you see, they don't actually want their stuff going viral. No, no, no. They hoard it. They hold on to it. It's their intellectual property. So on the one hand, where if you wanted to take a clip of the

Trisha Regan show, I'd say, sure, go for it. You know what? Go for it. Use it. Have fun, right? Most people online streamers would do exactly that. But then you have the holdouts like Stephen Colbert and like the guy over the Tonight Show and then the one Jimmy Kimmel. All of them. They're all the same. They hold on to that content and they won't let you touch it. So I can't actually even run anything for you, which I know you're really sad about, right? I can't even run those clips for you here because he'd hit me with what they call a copyright

Right, strike. Well, this is part of how he has just managed to put himself into nothingness, into oblivion. So nobody actually talks about these shows because nobody sees the clips online, and they're still living in a world where actually people tune into live television. Let me tell you, that doesn't happen anymore. Maybe you're tuning in live, watching me right now, streaming live. And yeah, you know what? Careful, I can see all the comments, every single one of them, and I do watch them. And by the way, sometimes even though you think that I don't see them, I do. So it is very good to see all of you.

Lots of familiar faces. As always, we've got my Costa in the house and David Lango and peace in my mind, of course. Good to see all of you guys. I'm on a little bit earlier today. I am again broadcasting live from Ireland here doing a little bit of reporting, and we'll talk about that later in the week. But I can tell you that perhaps as a result of that I've had all day to work on this show, and it means I'm here live at 1230 Eastern Time back on the east coast of New York. the view, as I said, its time has come. And we can get into the financial reasons in just a second.

But I think that the other reasons are kind of obvious. And you're going to feel the same kind of emotional reaction, I think, that I do, of disdain, of disgust when you see these hosts and what they're trying to do on the air on a regular basis every single day. Watch. Groups is a dangerous escalation. It's not about public safety. There's clearly no plan and there is clearly no policy. Yeah, the Defense Department has the U.S. Marines on high alert right now. Now, you know, is it warranted or does this sort of escalate the situation? I mean, whatever happened to the state's rights, I thought that was what you do, because

you tell the state, this is what we're thinking of doing. You know, you don't just send people in. You don't just send troops in, but what do I know? I never run a state. But I don't really, you know, when you come in and everyone is, when you go into the donut shop to look for people and you're dressed in tactical gear, you're creating an issue. You're creating a problem. You want people to come. You've scared them.

Even when people are supposed to be there, when they come to talk to the judge, you're arresting them right after. What is going on here? I think what really matters from sort of a. A long view here is the fact that he is militarizing and deploying the guard for the purpose of policing Americans' protests activity, right? Our freedom of speech, our freedom of assembly. And there's a very big, stark demarcation between military troops and law enforcement, public law enforcement, civilian law enforcement. And you are an army turned inside to police that citizens can cause chaos. fascism and fascism.

And so I think that's the way... And civil war. I think that's the way we need to look at it because deploying the National Guard is supposed to be a last resort. But what this president is doing is that he is... He's saying he's going to deploy them

anywhere in this country where there is protests. So that is certainly not a last resort use of, you know, military troops. So they said that a couple of weeks ago and they were effectively in my estimation, trying to go to us into some kind of civil war type of scenario. I've been pretty clear on this and I'm going to continue to be super duper clear on this. You know, when it comes to the

Constitution, you get the migration clause, you get the supremacy clause, you get the commerce clause, you've got the foreign affairs and national sovereignty clause. You get a whole lot of clauses in there that makes sure that the one thing the federal government can do is control who is in this country. So there's a lot of power that the federal government doesn't have and I don't believe should have. I'm a very much big, big states rights, you know, live free or die, small, small, small government kind of gal. But when it comes to who's actually in the country, that is entirely controllable by the federal government. And so they're way out over their skis trying to suggest otherwise. I mean, that one that you just heard from Sonny something. I mean, she's supposed to

be a lawyer. What kind of law school did she go to? What kind of scholar is she? It's just amazing to me. But, you know, this is who they are. So they either want to send us straight into some kind of civil war. You know, you get the likes of Brandon Johnson out there in Chicago. I played to his sound yesterday. He said he doesn't care about the Constitution. He's not going to cooperate with ice period. Nope, DHS, forget it. You want to arrest people that are criminals that are in the city of Chicago? He's not going to allow it? Come on. Well, on top of that, they're always the victim, right? So, you know, on the one hand, they hate the federal government only because it's Donald Trump. I mean, if this were Biden doing something would be entirely different. Don't forget it was Democrats.

For years and years and years that told us, we couldn't be the welfare state for Mexico. Direct quote, by the way, from Diane Feinstein, the late Diane Feinstein, Senator Allen of California. this was their mantra. They hated illegal immigration, and for some reason, they suddenly, I don't know, decided it clicked. They could have 20-some-on million people come in here because why not? Gerrymander everything. Suddenly you're going to have more people in one district, and what does that mean? Oh, we get more congressional seats.

I mean, it's sick, it's twisted, but there was a method to the madness. At least, you know, I kept saying, like, what is this about? What is this about? and you're not supposed to say what it's really about, but let's not kid each other. I mean, they wanted 800,000 non-citizens to vote in the state of New York, and it was not until the court, the appellate court, the second court of appeals, actually said, no way, this is not happening. You're not going to have 800,000 non-citizens voting in the state of New York that they stopped

that one, but don't think that they have fully stopped. They still want this. Don't kid yourself. Meanwhile, the view. Oh, ever the victim, ever the victim, right? here. He will be present. So you agree with the Crockett? He's black. That you can't have a

woman. You can't have a woman. Oh, no but the thing is that I don't look at people first by he's the woman, a black man, a gay person of this. I look at the best candidate and then they happen to have all these other things they bring you. Maybe a little different for most of the country. I don't know. I would say that we've got to stop

telling the American public what they're ready for. And we've elected a black man before. We lost twice when women ran. I mean, I did there no just be wishing factors to each woman and why they might have lost? Is there no nuance Hillary Clinton was one of the most qualified candidate in president

He carried a lot of Clinton baggage, but she was totally But you know what? He lost to a failed game show host. Yes. I loved her. I voted for her, but the number one thing I heard from people that didn't like her was there was this mystery around the Clinton baggage they took.

I just don't trust it. They weaponized her husband against Hillary Clinton And the bottom line is, this country is a misogynistic country, and this country is a country that out of all of the First World countries hasn't been able to elect a female president. That's just factual. Okay. Misogyny, racism. These are the themes that they were promoting on a daily basis. This is not going to continue.

Again, when we get to the financials, you'll understand why. Who the heck wants to advertise on this show? You're right next to all of that? I don't think so. By the way, that is not a very American message. shall we say? Because America is about one thing and one thing only, and that is a meritocracy. We are a capitalist meritocracy. So if they had had the right candidate, they might have had a shot. I mean, but I'm sorry when you just go with Bill Clinton's wife and you say she's the most qualified we got,

I'm sorry, I don't buy it. When you go with Kamala Harris, who was handpicked by Obama because she checked a bunch of boxes, and you realize that the other guy is too damn old to run and can barely stream a sentence together. I'm sorry, you're not picking the best women. And then you want to sit there and say, oh, it's because America is sexist, America is racist? Come on. We're over it. By the way, we did elect Barack Obama twice, okay? Not once, twice.

I'm not buying that argument from any of them anymore. But this is what they're spouting. every single day to the point where Whoopi Goldberg, who is on her last legs, believe me, they don't want to pay her salary, especially when she is saying

misinformed CRAP like this. Somehow she thinks, in all seriousness ladies and gentlemen, that you're better off living in Iran as a woman than being

a black woman in the United States of America. Kid you not. This is shameful. Yeah. I think it's very different to live in the United States in 2025 than it is to live in Iraq. Not if you're black. Not for everybody. Not if you're black. Let me tell you about being in this country. This is the greatest country in the world. But every day, we are worried. Nobody wants to diminish the very real problems we have in this country. That is no one's intent. But I think it's important we remember there are places much darker than this country and people who deserve right. Listen, not everybody feels that. that way. You know what, I had to actually clean that one up because she was so, so gross in her

commentary. Like, I know. And like one of the things that I've actually said to my team members is the algorithm knows, like they hear it when you say words that you really shouldn't say, right? And they're like, oh, you know, whoopie says this all the time and she says this, that and the other. And how does she get away with it? Why is there some kind of double standard? I'm like, it's not really. I'm sure somebody said something because if you're not. If you're an advertiser, do you think you want to be on the commercial break coming out of what she just said? And believe me, I didn't even play the worst of it. And the difference is over here, right?

The algorithm hears it and a commercial might not actually run that would have otherwise run. But the commercials that run on that show, those advertisers are increasingly skittish to the point where you had Bob Eiger sit them all down and say, hey, can we start doing a little entertainment news? Can we do some other things? Do we have to keep doing politics all the time? because you guys, you guys are just turning into who knows what. Did you see this cat fight? I mean, you can't even understand these people. You got to go to high of this school.

Because nobody can figure out what's being said here right now. Yeah, nobody can figure it. You're talking over each other all the time. And you're just yelling about nonsense and nothing. And this is not very representative, frankly, of America or American women. And at the same time, boy, are they bitter? They don't understand why it is. that everything over on YouTube is suddenly successful or Spotify or Apple Podcasts or any of this.

They're like, who is this guy? Joe Rogan, who is he? What is he? Like, why would anybody believe him over us? Because, you know, we're ABC News. We're the bomb, right? We've got Sonny what's her face who's got the legal note she has to read all the time. And believe me, she has to read a lot of them because she's wrong all the time on the air. Well, Joy Behar can't understand what or who Joe Rogan is. This one. was great, this moment in television that you can't forget and Joe had a great comeback watch.

And he also thinks that dragons, I guess like dinosaur-type of animals, roam the earth when people did. So this is the type of really, really bad information that's going out there. She's like, in defense. Well, he was at the time

trying to actually talk about why is it that throughout history, we've seen artistic representations of things like dragons. Like why is America's, or not just America's, the entire world's imagination been captured by this? It was a discussion he was having, which Joy turned into, oh, he believes in dragons. So the next thing you know, yeah, he came out with T-shirts. He believes in dragons. Listen to his response. It was pretty good. Here's Joe Rogan talking about Joy Behar and the view. And he says it. He says exactly what I'm saying. She's worried about losing her job

because she's going to lose it very soon. Watch. worried about losing your job, and you're worried about podcasts taken over, and who's the source of news. And we said Donald Trump was Hitler, but half the country disagreed with us and he won. And Joe Rogge believes in dragons. Yeah. So while Donald Trump thinks that Jimmy Kimmel might be next, I have some good news for him and for you. I actually think it might be the view. think about how much this costs to produce. I mean, Stephen Colbert is a great example.

The show tapes in the afternoon, they have a huge staff, like a huge, huge staff with lots of, lots of camera people, lots of union people, lots of producers, lots of handlers, lots of people just to manage the live studio audience and tell them when to clap and when to laugh and all that good stuff, right? And to book them, because you've got to book the audience

on top of it all. security, et cetera. This is a big operation. It's a big show. It's so big that somehow, even though they had the best ratings, they couldn't manage to survive. Apparently they were still losing tens of millions of dollars a year. Well, if they were losing tens of millions of dollars of a year, how much money do you think the view is losing? Again, similar operation. Now, they don't have one big star. In this case, they've got, what, five or six on any given day because, you know, they change them out now and then, and maybe some are making, more than others, my hunch would be that Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar are eating up the bulk of the salaries. Maybe Sonny's making a little bit less. And a Navarra's making a little bit less. You got the woman that was some kind of GOP person, probably making a little less. And then the blonde that came from ABC, also making a little bit less. So if that helps you, right, because you're diversifying the salary base, et cetera. But if you're paying a lot to the likes of Joy and Whoopie, then you start getting into territory that you are probably in with somebody like Stephen Colbert.

So your salary costs are very high. On top of that, your production costs are really, really high. And you get the live studio audience that you get to tell to laugh all the time. You get to book the live studio audience. You get where I'm going. So is it worth it? Even if the ratings are decent, a lot of advertisers still don't want to be involved. Because look, I mean, you look at Stephen Colbert and how political

he had gotten. And a lot of advertisers were pulling away from that. They just didn't want to be associated with it. This was his nonstop, you know, delivery, constant criticism of the political atmosphere specifically vis-à-vis Donald Trump. But, you know, he got what was coming to him, right? Donald Trump has been sworn in as president of the United States. I know, I know, I know, listen, listen, we're just as confused as you are. Joe Biden did it. I sat down and just started crying with relief. And Evie said you never have to talk about him again. And then I cried with joy. After a bizarre and vicious campaign fueled by a desperate need not to go to jail, Donald Trump has won the 2024 election. Next year will be our last season. The network

will be ending the late show in May. I said. You know, they're all rallying to the side. Jimmy Kimball's coming out and blasting him. The Atlantic coming out and blasting him. He had a whole bunch of comedians there on his show with him last night. I was disappointed to see Adam Sandler, another live for your die New Hampshire guy there. But, you know, these comedians, these liberal comedians, they stick together. One of the things he did say, and I'll put this up, this is the AP write through, AP writing a nice little story on him. They said, you know what? Here's the thing. They talked about his sharp comic. down so the president, I don't know, as they were that sharp, frankly. They were, frankly,

kind of just mundane and boring and typical, typical, because it's all you ever hear. I mean, I can turn into MSNBC to hear what I'm going to hear on Colbert. He said, over the weekend, it's sunken that they killed off our show, but they made one mistake. They left me alive. Now, he said, I can say what I really think about Donald Trump starting right now. And he had the audience cheering him on, and he said, I don't care for him. Doesn't seem like he has the skill set to be. the president. And then, you know, because he just can't help himself, he then had what he called a personal message to Donald Trump, which was basically a giant F.U. Like I said, he's not that clever. He's not that good. And we could go listen to that on MSNBC any night of the week.

Could we not? I mean, Joy Reid found out the hard way, just exactly where that was getting her. I suspect that you're going to see now the ladies at the view find out the hard way exactly what it's going to mean for them. You know, they, they, they're in a tough situation, right? They're in a medium that's dying. They don't like it. They don't understand it. You've got a network that's in trouble. Don't forget they just had to fire that guy who decided to have a late night Twitter rant on X, all about how much he hated. The president's top advisor, Stephen Miller. Well, he went by-bye.

But for some reason, the ladies on the viewer afforded a little more latitude, just a little, though, because that's wearing out. And it's wearing out in part one because of the economics of the show. And two, because it, guess what? The FCC and Donald Trump's branding car who's coming in for the kill. I mean, he's made it very clear to Bob Eiger. He's not going to put up with any of this anymore. He sent a letter. before Donald Trump even became president.

And then in March, he opened up an investigation into ABC's DEI practices. Right around the same time, they laid off a couple of hundred people at ABC and at Disney. So they've been going through rounds of layoffs and rounds of layoffs. And so at what point does the company say, you know what, we don't need this headache anymore? If you want to believe it's a political headache, it's a political headache, but it's also an economic headache, right? in the case of Colbert, clearly, an economic headache because they're losing tens of millions of dollars, even though they don't want to admit that, they don't want to think that. And what do you know?

They're trying to get Leticia James involved in all seriousness, guys, Latisha James involved in suing Paramount CBS for unfair firing. That's the Writers Guild. We'll get to it in the second. But first, keep in mind what's going on with Brendan. So Brendan's like, okay, I'm opening an investigation into DEI at the company because it seems that you were engaging in this. And I'm not just going to have like you change it now.

I'm actually going to go back in time because constitutionally you couldn't have and shouldn't have been doing this. And yet they did it anyway. And we kind of know they did. We know that from, well, the woman who, what was her name? She was the fighter, Gina. Gina Carrano, we know that through her lawsuit. And then, well, we know it from Bob Iger himself because wait to you see.

I'm going to play you. He was literally caught on tape talking about this, but this was the letter that was sent at the end of March. And he said, look, you know, this was a great American iconic company. And somehow you ruined it because of the last, you know, several years, you've been obsessed with this DEI stuff, which, you know, technically is against the law because it's a form of discrimination. It was a three-page letter. And he's like, buddy boy, you know what? I'm going back in time and I'm going to look at this because you're depriving Americans of their rights to free and equal treatment under the law. And obviously at the FCC, we cannot stand for that. So Bob Eiger, Disney, they got a problem on their hands. Kind of similar in different ways to what CBS was looking at, right? CBS was looking at a situation with 60 minutes because they edited Kamala Harris's interview to actually make her sound coherent, which is a very tricky thing to do. And I credit that editor, my gosh, he deserves his own little Emmy Award just for being able to edit that thing. But it wasn't the right thing to do because it was misrepresenting Kamala Harris to the American people.

But somehow they thought that was all fine. They didn't want to apologize. They didn't want to do anything. You had the next thing, you know, the president of the news division resigning. You get the executive producer of 60 minutes resigning. And now Colbert's out of a gig. So Bob Eiger's increasingly finding himself in a similar situation. One, he had to pay $16 million to Donald Trump and his attorneys. He had to fire that guy who really let loose on Twitter late, late at night. And, well, this little piece of video just surfaced of him back in 2021, talking about how fantastic DEI is and how he's not doing enough. Watch. You know, I'm very proud of a lot of the work we've done in terms of diversity and inclusion on screen. When we did Coco, for instance, at Pixar, a great example of that, or Tiana, or, of course, Black Panther is one of the great examples.

that. I allow those things to make me feel a bit complacent in a sense. It's not that I wanted to be that way, but I thought, wow, we did Black Panther. How great are we? And it caused me to not focus as much as I should have on the culture of the company in the environment and in the voices that were telling those stories as opposed to just how they were being portrayed on the screen. Ah. So he's not doing enough because he just put some diverse actors on the screen and what you really need to do is make sure you had diversity behind the screen in order to actually really have diversity. Look, I'm not against diversity. Heck, you know, you want real diversity. Diversity of opinion. And diversity of opinion is actually a really important thing because it helps you come to a better conclusion. It helps you tell a better story. Part of the problem at Disney is they have no diversity

of anything. They all are just woke-minded thinkers that think alike. And then they completely lack creativity. And because they lack creativity, they can't even come up with a decent storyline. Heck, they just keep doing sequel after sequel after sequel after sequel. And you look at the stock price and it's paid the price. I mean, down significantly from where it was five years ago. That's dead money. you consider where inflation is, and the stock price isn't even keeping pace with inflation. I think it's around 121 right now. But this is a company that granted is legendary, is massive. And you know what?

YouTube is dwarfing them. YouTube's content is so much bigger and better than anything Disney can imagine right now. And Disney is increasingly finding itself up a creek without a paddle. And if you ask me, at some point push comes to shove and they're going to say, okay, we get to make more cuts. and who the heck needs the view. Okay? Not additive to the conversation at all. Just like Colbert was not additive in any way, shape, or form to the conversation

while simultaneously losing a whole lot of money. I don't have the specifics on the numbers for the view, but knowing what I know about television, knowing how many people actually work on that show. And friends of mine have been hosts on that show. so I know a little bit about behind the scenes. I know what it takes to put on a television show network style. I've worked it enough of them, okay?

It's a lot of money. Plus, you get all those salaries. At least for Colbert, you only had his. But the crazy thing is, the crazy thing, you guys, is that a lot of these people on the left, they think these shows should stay in business anyway, even if they're losing tons of money. Oh, because it's the brand.

It's the brand. We need whoopee. We need the view. That's the brand of ABC. I'm sorry, if that's your brand. I don't even know what to tell you. CBS, you're better off not having Stephen Colbert as your brand. But the Writers Guild, boy, are they mad? Stephen Colbert himself is mad. He's saying, well, this doesn't make any sense. I mean, we had the best ratings. So why would we be out of the lineup? Here's his quote. How can it purely be a financial decision if the show is number one in the rating? It's confusing. No, it's not confusing, you moron. You spent more money than you made. It's not that hard. Typical dem, right? Anyway, it wants this insane clip of the Writers Guild lawyer. This guy's representing the writers on the Colbert Show, and they all want their jobs to stay, and they don't care how much money that show loses. Take a peek on CNN, of course. Work is saying this was financial. This was financial. CBS has a hell of a lot of problems. Okay, we know that. Most of media has.

has a lot of problems. They're saying, they didn't say this, but reportedly the show lost up to $40 million last year. Okay, so that's a lot of money. But as I said, it is the top-rated show. I mean, when you hear, this is financial, this is financial, there's nothing else to see here. Do you think that's right?

No, I don't. And I don't for a couple of reasons. I mean, first, this show has not taken any of the steps that other late-night shows have taken to cut costs to stay on the air. And also, you know, profit and lost reports don't account for a lot of ways in which a show like the late show of Stephen Colbert brings value to CBS and the Paramount. The Late Show is referenced in almost every quarterly Paramount investor call that we could find.

Right. Oh, wow. And I think that the right, and that's because of the tremendous brand value that this has for the company. When you think about CBS, one of the first people you think about is Stephen Colbert. And so I think that the right, the wrong question is was this, was their financial problems? I think the question is why was this canceled? Was it because of a... Well, and as you point out, if you have the top-rated show with something that is part of pop culture

and, you know, ubiquitous in American culture, then would you try to do everything you could to keep it? As opposed to jettisoning it so quickly. Now, this brings... Is she speaking for herself there? CNN, please keep us all. She's actually really smart. I actually like Erin and I worked with her at CNBC.

She's one of the better ones, but I'm just laughing about it because it's like, please, keep us, keep us, keep us, even though our ratings are terrible, even though we're losing so much money, we still want to stay in business because somehow we are the face of the network. Let me tell you, they can get a new face of the network. That's called building a brand. And you can build a brand that hopefully won't cost you as much money. And then you've got to show that actually might be a success that isn't as costly,

and I'm going to tell you something. They're going to have to learn this the hard way over at MSNBC. But before that happens, you get these writers actually looking to Letitia James. I mean, it's like six degrees of separation guys. It all kind of comes back, meshes together in some weird way. The fact that Latisha is now involved, I'm like, are you kidding me? Latisha James, they're actually turning to Letitia in hopes that Latisha James might actually be able to investigate and figure out whether there was any kind of bribe between CBS

and Donald Trump that actually wound up getting rid of one Stephen Colbert. Now, I find that a little bit hard to believe, just a little, because if I'm Trump, Stephen Colbert's not my first pick. That's like the last. I'm going for 60, okay? Like, I'm going for the news division. Like, who cares about Stephen Colbert, for goodness sakes? Nobody's even up to watch the show anymore.

and because he doesn't allow anybody to use his clips. He hasn't been able to permeate the online world. Therefore, he lacks significance. He's irrelevant. Who the heck cares about Stephen Colbert? It's a financial decision. Plus, maybe a little bit political. I mean, do you really want this guy sticking it to the president nonstop?

I think they came to that decision a little bit with one Joy Reid over on MSNBC. I mean, she was a nightmare. She was blatantly irresponsible, much like, dare I say, Goldberg, Sonny Hauston, Annavaro, and Joy Behar. You see, you don't need it. The bosses don't need it. The advertisers don't need it. And unless you're raking in the big bucks for your network, I don't think the network needs it. Understood? So, Letitia, you can go digging. I don't think you're going to find much. But that's never stopped you before. I'll tell you, we need to do a little more digging on you, Honey Bunny.

because you seem to have done some funny things, calling your dad, your husband back in 1989 in order to get a mortgage. Or in 2023, trying to say that somehow the house in Virginia that you were getting for your niece was actually your permanent residence. Oh, and that was just a mistake, just a clerical mistake. You know, power of attorney, someone screwed up. I mean, you are an attorney, we should hold you to a higher standard. You're a bad attorney. You're a malicious attorney and you're a political animal. So sure, take this case, see where that gets you. Good luck. You know, Jen Saki, I get to tell you also, you know, MSNBC and Rachel Maddo, they're going to suffer a similar kind of fate as long as we're on this media thing right now. Remember to subscribe,

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Comment, like, share, all that good stuff. Jen Saki is, do you know her? Probably you don't. Well, maybe you know her. You know, Pepperman Patty. She's the one that used to be the press person. Before KJP, she wasn't a bad press person. Actually, I thought she was better than KJP.

KJP didn't quite have all the wires, connecting upstairs. Jen Socky, on the other hand, was pretty darn good. I mean, you've got to be a hell of a liar, right, in order to do that gig and do it well, especially if you're working for Biden, and she knew how to lie, right through her teeth. And so Jen somehow had bigger aspirations. This cracks me up. Why? Why? Do these people that are in politics all want to be on TV? I mean, they all want to be us, right? I'm always, you know, I've never understood this, frankly. really and truly never understood this. I mean, you stay in your lane and I'll stay in mine.

The performers are the performers and the, you know, political lackeys and, you know, people don't want to carry somebody's water. That's what they are. And that's all they should do because they're never going to be fully truthful. They're always trying to sell and spin. That's what they do. That's what her job is. That's what she's talented at doing.

And people see three or in two seconds. That's why her show is totally bombing. Not to mention she can't hold a show. And when I say hold, I mean, you get to have presents. You get to have style. You want to say what you want about Rachel Maddo. I know she's nothing to look at. I know she's conspiratorial. I know we don't like her, but I'm going to tell you this. On-air presence to on-air presence, she's got it going on. I mean, I don't like what she has to say, but she's actually decent at her job and she leads you down a very, very long, narrow rabbit hole half the time.

But she keeps you interested. This one, I'm not surprised. She's flopping big time in MSNBC. crime time. Gosh, it probably sounded so good. I'm going to take over for Rachel Maddo. Let me see how I can do. And then she goes, voop, like a rock straight to the bottom. Granted, she doesn't exactly have the wind at her back because, well, I think everybody in the Democrat Party is pretty frustrated. Do you look at the polling numbers? What are they down to 28% approval? This is unbelievable. Donald Trump keeps on climbing, no matter what they throw at them, he keeps on climbing. And then you look at what's going on there with the Democrats. And they're a total disaster. Here, CNN will tell you. It's their own poll. There's this new CNN polling out today that says quite a bit. Just 28% of Americans view the

Democratic Party favorably. And the context of that is that is the lowest mark for Democrats in the history of CNN's polling going back to 1992. And for Democrats, they have a lot more work to do to win back favorability within their ranks within the party than Republicans do. Yeah, you think? So, in other words, Trump is soaring, Trump's doing great, the Democrats are tanking, and so it's a tough time, I get it.

You know, if you're Jen Saki, you got no personality. Nobody trusts you to begin with because you sat and lied through your teeth about Biden the entire time, and now you're taking over for the big leagues, Rachel Maddow,

who only wants to work once a week. And somehow has worked out of deal where she's allegedly getting 25 mil just to work once a week. Good work if you're not. if you can get it, right? So Jen is plunging. Free Beacon just had a story on this. Her ratings are down something like 44 percent. Take a look at this. Wow, she's lost 44% of that audience. I used to tune in for Rachel Maddow. And they've all gone, bye-bye. Her show is called The Briefing. Well,

the show name enough is just enough to, you know, that'll make you pretty tired and eyes glaze over. It sounds like it might as well be NPR. The briefing, average 1.1 million total viewers from its May day-six debut through July 3rd, down 44% from the $1.8 million that Maddow, and actually the temporary host, Alex Wagner, managed to pull in during the 9 p.m. slots. Wow. Okay, you compare and contrast with Hannity, which is on at 9 p.m. They're getting 2.9 million. I mean, she doesn't even have a fighting chance. I could have told you that. MSNBC. I mean, it's like, how do these people pick down? I don't know. Anyway, she's a former press secretary, as you know. that lackluster performance, Free Beacon Rights, has added to MSNBC's financial woes,

as the network already faced plummeting ratings and viewership for months amid mounting scrutiny over its left-wing reporting bias. MSNBC's parent company Comcast announced in November that it was cutting ties with the failing network. It wants nothing to do with anything over at MSNBC. Now, Saki, for her part, has faced some backlash, they said, over her role in covering up former President Biden's mental decline while she served as White House Press Secretary from January 21 until May of 22 until she could get that prime TV gig. That's all she ever wanted to do is be on TV. Gosh, lady, you should have started as a reporter. Maybe you'd actually have some ethnic. Oh, maybe not. You know, ethics are a rare thing in this reporting industry. Here's Jen Saki, proving that, trying to say, don't you dare say it was some kind of cover up. That might actually suggest that it was like Watergate level stuff. You better believe it was watergate level stuff. Even Jake Tapper.

And he's not exactly any kind of person with any kind of moral high ground. Even he admits it was water gate level stuff. Here's Jen. I left in May of 2022 just for the facts here. And I have seen Biden once since then when I took my daughter to the holiday party this last December after he had lost. And so I hadn't seen him in person during that period of time. I never saw that person, not a single time, and I was in the Oval Office every day, that was on that debate stage. I'm not a doctor.

Aging happens quite quickly. Were things that people saw during that period of time that were similar to that or would have been in a category of that? I don't know, possibly, right? And all these books are going to tell us. Do you think that they were, were they actively covering it up? Were they sort of in denial? Or was that or was that just a bad debate? Like, what is your read on that?

Well, this is what I mean about cover-up is a very low-end. term, I think. Well, it means you knew that it was really bad and you're pretending otherwise, versus you're diluting yourself, which I think is what people do a lot. Well, I understand, but I still think it's like cover up is often like a crime, right? We're talking, what people use that term. They say it's worse than the crime. People use that term as they relate to Watergate or the covering up of not sharing public information about a war.

Yeah, I'm not accusing anybody of a crime here. I understand, but other people have used that term, and I think it's a bit of a dangerous term. touchee woohoo right pepperman patty didn't like that line of question and she was going to shut that one down pretty fast but let's face it there's a reason people don't tune into her it's very funny i think it was people magazine or us weekly one of those that quoted rachel maddo talking about how she was turning over the reins to one jensaki and rachel had a very underhanded way of complimenting jen which wasn't really a compliment she said something to the effective and i don't have the exact quote in front of me but she said oh jennie Zensaki will just kill it in this job. She's going to be so great. I can tell you why she's going to be so great, because, you know, she's right inside the Beltway. And she's like friends with all these people and she's going to get them all on the show. Whereas me, I'm way over there, you know, doing my own thing. And I kind of just, you know, I have a good relationship with my team, but I'm not out sort of winding and dining. And again, these are my words, not hers exactly. But this is the gist of it. I'm not whining and dining all these, you know, go-getters in Washington, D.C., therefore I'm not as plugged into that little click. And Jen is so that that's it'll be great. And I'm like, wow, credit. Rachel, like, I got to get, you know, credit where credits do that was like, ow. That was like a knife right in the back of one Jen Saki. Her point was Jen Saki is part of the establishment. And when you say that, when you're part of the establishment, guess what? Nobody wants to watch it. Nobody wants to see it because they know that you're just

part of the lying machine that's going to lie to them some more. And that is in part. Ladies and gentlemen, why? Her ratings are down. What? Forty-four percent from where. they were during Rachel Maddows days. So she never stood a shot. And now the question becomes, you know, if Jen Saki can't hack it, then do they bring Rachel back? Here you are, your Comcast. You're spinning this thing off.

Good tax advantage to do that. You're going to spin it off. If you're a new shareholder and you're buying into this, it's all the cable entities. First of all, why would you buy it? I mean, seriously, why would you buy it? Because it's cable. And cable's dead and over. And unless you really come up with some clever.

way to reinvent it. I don't think you get a lot going on there. So just as an investor, I would not be that interested. This is not a gross stock, okay? This is not Invidia that we're talking about. This is going to be the dregs of what Comcast has that it no longer wants that they are going to spin off into a company called Versaunt, trying to make it sound kind of spiffy, kind of French. And if you're an investor in that, I'd say, hey, Rachel, you better high tail it back. You're taking over for Jen. You want that 25 mil? Guess what? You're going to have to work for it. Five nights a week. I expect to see you. And you got to stop dissing the bosses. I mean, for goodness sakes, they fired everybody, including a bunch of members of her team. She didn't really

complain about her team getting fired, but she complained about everybody else suggested it was racism of all things. I mean, talking about biting the hand that feed you, right? I wouldn't allow this. Here, remember? And even bigger programming change is at 7 p.m. 7 p.m. Eastern, where Joy Reads show, the readout, ended tonight. And Joy is not taking a different job in the network. She is leaving the network altogether. And that is very, very, very hard to take. I am 51 years old. I have been gainfully employed since I was 12. And I have had so many different kinds of jobs. You wouldn't believe me if I told you. But in all of the jobs I have had, in all of the years I have been alive, there is no colleague for whom I have had more affection and more respect than Joy Reid. I love everything about her. I have learned so much from her.

I have so much more to learn from her. I do not want to lose her as a colleague here at MSNBC. And personally, I think it is a bad mistake to let her walk out the door. It is not my call, and I understand that. But that's what I think. I will tell you, it is also unnerving to see that on a network where we've got two, count them two non-white hosts in primetime, both of our non-white hosts in primetime are losing their shows, as is Katie Fang on the weekend. And that feels worse than bad, no matter who replaces them. That feels indefensible, and I do not defend it.

Of course, they were replaced by a very diverse group of people, but whatever. don't let that ruin a good story, right? It's wild. So I think she's actually at risk herself. Well, one of two things. They either bring her back and they say, bye-bye, Jen Saki, or Jen, you know, you can become like a contributor, which is really all she should be, right? She gets this in the beltway kind of knowledge. Let her come on and be a contributor. Do not let her woman host a show, for goodness sakes. I need some possess. I need some personality. At least Rachel's got that going for her. I know you guys don't like her. But, you know what? Again, credit where credits do. So you bring Rachel back and you say, okay, you're going to earn that 25 mil.

Or you say, Rachel, if you don't want to do this, we don't want you. Okay? You're gone. Go do your little podcast. I'm sure you'll be successful at it in your own way, shape, or form and leave us alone because we're not going to pay you 25 mil. And so I think there's going to be renewed financial pressure and renewed scrutiny on this company, as there should be, as it goes off and spins off and becomes

public. As for the morning show, you know what, those people are survivors. They're real survivors. They just keep coming back and coming back. I don't think they believe anything. I mean, they really don't. On the one hand, you had Joe Scarborough equating Donald Trump with Hitler while telling us it was the best Biden ever, remember that one? And then the next day after the election, he's like, oh my gosh, this was a landslide. No, we haven't seen this thing since Reagan, and they hightailed it down to Mar-a-Lago on a plane. All I'm saying is Joe and Mika are survivors. They'll find a way to get through it some way somehow. Maybe they'll take a pay cut. They'll probably have to take a pay cut. But they'll figure it out. Rachel, it's going to be one or the other. You either come back and you

lead prime time and you earn that 25 mil or you go. And then they can just populate the network with a whole bunch of has-bens or nobody's like Jen's. Pepper and Batty. You can barely remember who she is, but she gets the job done and she reads the prompter and the lights stay on. that's what it's come down to. Reminder, if you guys haven't subscribed to 76 research, just my financial research company, I started it because it was so important to me that you get honest, legit financial research that isn't tainted by anything that, you know, Wall Street wants you to believe because they get some DEI agenda or ESG agenda. I just want you to make money, okay? It's pretty darn simple. So does my colleague and co-founder Rob Horton. We put this together

for you guys. Use code word dollar. We've got a market that has been on fire. I mean, stock market is just doing great. It's incredible, right? I mean, you wouldn't know it necessarily if you were to talk to some of the people over on CNN. It's amazing to me. We were talking about the egg thing yesterday, right? Remember the eggs and how one of their contributors just didn't understand how the price of eggs over the last year? She kept saying it was up 27 percent. The anchor kept saying that too. And the guy was like, it was Scott Jennings. He's like, but wait a second, in the last six months, it's plummeted. Absolutely plummeted. It's why wouldn't you look at it for the last six months?

Why do you have to look at it for the whole year? Well, we know why they have to look at it for the whole year. Yeah, they're not that bright, but they're also very politically biased. Same sort of thing. Kevin O'Leary is trying to tell him, hey, we've got a great stock market, but you wouldn't know it at CNN. Three years from now. I think Trump has eroded global trust in the American economy and American dealmaking.

The all-time high market ever in history? It's high because they don't believe. The all-time high? They think Trump is going to chicken out. been high, never been worth more, never been more successful, never. When the illiberal is eroded more trust, all time high today at 430 in history, never worth more. What are you talking about? Well, look, let's see what happens in August 1st when he announces the

American people are. It's like, look, you know what, you can't argue with reality, but some of these people, I get it, they don't really understand markets, they don't really understand the economy. It's like the Colbert people that think they can keep the show on the air just because, oh, it's good for branding. Yeah, that's their idea. It's good for branding. You know, egg prices, like I said, in the last six months. Look at that plummet.

They've come way down. That's wonderful, wonderful news, right? Just don't tell CNN. I do think the panic over this report today is unwarranted, but I do think data is worth watching every month. But it's not. It seems like a lot of panic for no reason. You're getting matched reports every month. It's not panic when we were promised on August 15th of last year that the price of eggs,

that the price of bacon and the price of apple. Actually, eggs, eggs year over year, sorry, year over year or up 20. Yeah, or up 27%. They're down. I'm sorry. Because they took office, they're down. But year over year. All right.

You promised when you took office they would go down. Hold on. Let's not fight about statistics here. She's right. These people are not only stupid, but highly irresponsible. Okay, so again, look at the chart and they're down. I guess Scott was saying some 67%. You can't sit there and tell me year over year. They're up 27%. You're going to hold him responsible for all the mess that Joe Biden created. I'm sorry, that's not how it works, okay?

This is why we need more transparency in the media. This is why these media entities are failing as badly as they are. This is why MSNBC is nowhere. This is why the view is about to be canceled. This is why Stephen Colbert was canceled. And he's not even, that's not even journalism. But frankly, the guy's not even funny. Not one bit funny. And heck, he gets his scripts like written for him, his jokes written and everything. But you know who kind of is striking me as a little bit funny? Just because he's insane.

Did you guys see any of this Hunter Biden stuff? I mean, he's clearly losing it. Hunter Biden going on a few podcasts over the last 24 hours and he's kind of mad. He's kind of mad at all his dad's hand. I mean, I'd be mad to, right? know they forced his dad out. His dad clearly had an ego that wouldn't quit, which is why he was in there to begin with. Also, the wife had an ego that wouldn't quit, which is why she kept her husband there going. Anthony Bernal, the chief of staff, for one, Jill, Dr. Jill, Biden must have

also had a heck of an ego because he realized he suddenly had the keys to the kingdom. He's controlling access to one Joe Biden. Anyway, Hunter Biden now. He's out doing an interview, and I want to show you this. Guys, he's just, I mean, poor Sal. Sal had to like just bleep, bleep, bleep, bleep, bleep, but you'll get the picture. There's something going on. Maybe some things that we shouldn't be talking about going on. But anyway, here he is.

Opinions. But the, fuck him. F*** him. F*** him. And everybody around him. Oh, not to be nice. Number one, I agree with Quentin Tarantino. George Clooney is not a fucking actor.

He is a fucking... Like, I don't know what he is. He's a brand. And by the way, and God bless him. You know what? He supposedly treats his friends really well. You know what I mean? Bies them things.

And he's got a really great place in Lake Como. And he's great friends with Barack Obama. Fuck you. What do you have to do with fucking anything? Why do I have to fucking listen to you? What right do you have to step on a man who's given 52 years of his life to the service of this country and decide that you, George Clooney,

are going to take out basically a full page ad in the fucking New York Times to me and James Carville, who hasn't run a race in 40 fucking years. And David Axelrod, who had one success in his political life, and that was Barack Obama. And that was because of Barack Obama, not because of David Axelrod. And David Pluff, in all of these guys, in the Pod Save America guys, who were junior speechwriters on Barack Obama's Senate staff who have been dining out on the relationship with him for years, making millions of dollars. The Anita Duns of the world, who's made 40, 50, 50.

million dollars off the Democratic Party. They're all going to insert their judgment over a man who has figured out, unlike anybody else, how to get elected to the United States Senate over seven times, how to pass more legislation than any president in history, how to have a better midterm election than anybody in history, and how to garner more votes than any president that has ever run, and they're going to replace their judgment for his. Not to mention who's Jake Tapper's audience? My mom or something? I don't know. I don't know. For real, though. I don't even think it's your mom anymore. No, no, no, no.

By the numbers, what influence does Jake Tapper have over anything? He has the smallest audience on cable news. And beyond that, I think that the book is right now on Amazon that he put out. I mean, his ratings just went to shit after he put the book out. You know, they did a two-week infomercial for it. I mean, it was such a money grab, such a disservice to everybody that he serves with. How is it that I'm agreeing with Hunter Biden? I mean, but he's darn right.

Right? I mean, he's darn right. Of course, the White House had some funny things to say about this. They went on to say, you know, a lot of things going on, a lot of tragedy in the country right now, but Hunter's more concerned about who's going to clean up his hotel room after his vendors. This was in one of the clips also referenced how he was willing to go have some kind of war in El Salvador over illegal migrants. So he's all about open borders, et cetera. and so they had kind of a funny response to that. It was a pointed response.

But I would say, I don't totally disagree with everything Hunter's saying. In other words, we've talked about this before. That was a money-grabbing move from Jake Tapper, who clearly has no soul. Clearly has no soul. Because you've seen him. I mean, the guy just tore Lara Trump up one side and down the other trying to suggest that she was making fun of little kids with stutters when she said, Joe can't quite get it out.

Well, Joe couldn't quite get it out. Joe had a lot of problems. and still has a lot of problems, and that was pretty darn obvious. So, no, I agree with him. Jake Tapper. He suddenly flipped on a dime because his buddy George Clooney and David Pluff and David Axelrod apparently told him to do so. And I agree. No one's watching Jake. Like he said, it's not even your mom. No one's watching CNN unless you happen to catch it in the airport, okay? And they're not even showing it in the airport half the dime anymore. So he's not wrong in that what they did to his dad was pretty unbelievable. and pretty darn bad. And maybe, maybe Biden would have had a better shot than Kamala Harris. Kamala was about the worst candidate you could pick. And they're not even willing to do the autopsy

after the fact and look at all the reasons why. This actually came out in a New York Times article this week. They said, okay, we're going to do an autopsy and figure out how do we spend so much money, the most money in history, and have literally nothing to show for it. And they don't want to talk about any of the obvious things that they should be talking about. You know why they picked a lousy candidate? Guys, you got to have a good candidate. They have to have a Geneseecois. They have to have some appeal.

They have to have some likability. They have to have a sense of humor. These are things that, frankly, Kamala, didn't have. Also, Hillary didn't have. You know what? Barack Obama had them. Mm-hmm. Barack Obama had them.

Reagan had them. Clinton had them. Bill Clinton. I mean, I can tell you what makes a good politician. It's often what makes a good broadcaster. There's got to be some pizzazz. There's got to be some moral fiber. And there's got to be some self-deprecation and some humor.

And the people that they keep choosing, they don't have any of it. I mean, Joe Biden technically, aside from the fact that he was really ailing and really failing and really old, he was actually a pretty decent candidate. They had the right strategy the first time around just keep him in the basement, keep him on the prompt. don't let him out, don't let anybody see just exactly how bad he really can be, and you'll be fine. But clearly, Hunter's pretty angry. Understandably so. And he's right, you know, all these networks that were making the decisions, the media that was involved in this decision-making, including the likes of CNN and Jake Tapper, what did they know?

They didn't know, well, I'm going to keep it clean. I'll tell you one thing, though. Tulsi Gabbard knows a few things, and Tulsi is coming out with more and more and more. Have you guys been following this? If you haven't, I want you to start following it. I want you to get read in. I know it's from 10 years ago. I know people are saying, well, what about statute of limitations? What about the fact that you can't really sue the president? But I will say this. There are a lot of people there that were part of this team that got auto pardons that may not be, shall we say, pardoned anymore, and that those pardons could be null and void. And this means everything that Tulsi is discovering

is going to come back to haunt them big time. This is the biggest scandal in modern history. I mean, it was bad enough that they kept Joe under wraps and they didn't really tell us what was going on with his health. But when you think about what they tried to do to Donald Trump to hurt him in his first presidency, it's unthinkable. Watch Tulsi. An issue, and I just want to start by saying that this is an issue

that is important to every single one of us as Americans. This is not a partisan issue. it has to do with the integrity and the strength of our Democratic Republic. And it lays out this over 100 documents that you're referencing that I've released, declassified and released, spells out in great detail exactly what happens when you have some of the most powerful people in our country, directly leading at the helm, President Obama and his senior most national security cabinet, James Comey, John Brennan, James Clapman, and Susan Rice and others, essentially making a very intentional decision to create this manufactured

politicized piece of intelligence with the objective of subverting the will of the American people who in November of 2016 delivered a historic victory to President Trump, defeating Hillary Clinton, and President Obama and his team, their goal was to essentially not accept the decision of the American people and to use this this manufactured politicized intelligence as a means to enact what would become essentially a years-long coup against President Trump. You have gone into great detail over these years of what the effects of this document and this decision have resulted in. Obviously, a years-long Mueller investigation that cost taxpayers almost $40 million to congressional impeachments.

Endless smears and attacks against not only President Trump, but his family. He had senior members of his team who were investigated, some arrested and jailed. We had heightened and increased tensions between the United States and Russia. The list goes on and on about the consequences of President

Obama and his senior cabinet members politicizing intelligence. Once again, and I say these words very clearly, to enact what was essentially a years-long coup subverting the will of the American people in that election in November. I always said it was a coup. She's absolutely right. I always said it was a kind of coup. It was insane to me what they were doing. Absolutely insane. And I mean, the dossier itself,

we've talked about that at length, guys. I mean, Perkins Coy being the law firm that paid for it on behalf of Hillary Clinton's campaign. And then they took that and they used that as a reason to expose him, to investigate him. You go through all of this information, and we went through this yesterday. If you didn't see yesterday's show, I encourage you to go back and watch it. The title of the entire show

was all about what Tulsi was finding. But effectively, what came out of this was Crossfire Hurricane documents show you that they were planning this as far back as September 5th, 2016. And what they had discovered was that, no, Russia wasn't necessarily trying to pitch the election one way or another. They didn't really care who won. They just wanted to

actually create a sense of distrust and some division. And wow, heck, they really, they got that accomplished, right? Because who needs Putin when you've got Obama, for goodness sakes? I mean, this was the December 7th thing that they were about to put out, and they chose not to. They were going to say that basically there was no cyber manipulation, no manipulation whatsoever. It didn't have any effect on things. And then they decided, okay, well, we're not going to say that. We're not going to say that because they wanted to have something that they could go with. And what they decided to go with was to instruct the entire intelligence operation, division, to invest.

This is the meeting where it all went down. You can see this December 9, 2016, in the Situation Room. And they had John Brennan there. They had Andrew McCabe. They had James Clapper. They had everybody there. And Susan Rice, who sent herself an email after her, it's called a CYA email. saying the president was very clear. He wanted to make sure that we followed all the protocol,

all the protocol, all the protocol, C-Y-A, C-Y-A, C-Y-A, C-Y-A, anyway, long story short, they decided that they were going to request the entire intelligence community, put all of its efforts into figuring out just one went down between 2008 and 2012. Those were the reference points. They could go as far back as that into 2016 to figure out how the Russians somehow stole the election, which they didn't. But You wouldn't know it, right, if you listen to the TV because all we heard from the likes of Hillary Clinton, Jimmy Carter, everyone, every time you turn on the TV on CNN, the Russians did it. The Russians did it. My God, it was like, you know, Marsha, Marsha, Marcia from the Brady Bunch.

It was Russia, Russia, Russia, constantly. Trump then actually win the election in 2016. He lost the election and he was put in the office because of the Russians interfere. Trump knows he's an illegitimate president. The president-elect, although legally elected, is not legitimate. I don't see this president-elect as a legitimate president. You said you believe that Russia's interference altered the outcome of the election. I do.

We have a president, who, in fact, it is proven, has been assisted by the Russians and may, in fact, not be a legitimate president. The one thing that Trump is fearful of when it comes to his being president is that finally we will see how illegitimate his victory act. actually was. I have an objection. I object to the 15 votes from the state of North Carolina. I object because people are horrified. He's an illegitimate president. Do you believe Trump is a legitimate president? What I believe is that there's no question that the outcome of this election was affected by, like there's, there's a full 10 minute clip that you can find online of that. Unbelievable. I mean, they're just blatantly lying and they made everything up and Tulsi's got the receipts now. So we got to see action. It's really important that there be charges brought. And that's

the question on the top of everyone's mind. I know you guys are asking the question. Very dear friend, some of you may have seen them on the show. My friend Neil Grossman was texting me yesterday, do you really think something's going to happen? And I guess the fair answer is I don't know, but I sure is heck hope. And I think that's why it's so important that we're together on this and we stay united and we stay focused, and we keep talking about this because the pressure needs to be there. And even if, shall I go on a limb and say, even if nobody does anything, and that would be really tragic,

but even if they don't do anything, let the record show what these people did, what Hillary Clinton said on all the view nonetheless. There is no denying that the Russians interfered in the election. Right. Whether or not they had willing or unwitting help from the Trump team, they interfered, and they did so to help him and hurt me, and they did so to destabilize our democracy, and they have not stopped.

I mean, there's been enough public testimony before Congress now by very distinguished, experienced intelligence professionals who all say the same thing. This is a clear and present danger to our country. No, Hillary, you are the clear and present danger. And so was Brennan and so was Comey and so was McCabe and so was Rice and so was Obama and so was everyone. Okay? That's the reality of what went down and we do want to see consequences. Tulsi was asked us directly this weekend.

So do we can, as voters, can we feel confident that we will actually see charges? Do you think out of this? I'm not a lawyer. We're referring all of this to the Department of Justice. I know that Attorney General Pambondi is committed to bringing about justice to those who have broken the law. And in this case, again, what these documents detail, to me, in my view, cannot be explained as anything but a treasonous conspiracy. This is not so different from what we saw under George W. Bush, when we saw that manufactured intelligence, claiming there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq that kicked off a war that changed

our country, that changed the lives of so many people like myself who went and served in those wars, the implications of manufactured intelligence are real. I would even say that what we are seeing here has an even greater impact than what we've seen in the past because it speaks, again, to the foundation of our Constitution and our Democratic Republic, which is why accountability is so critical. Yeah. We need that accountability. She's absolutely positively right. Absolutely. I can't stress that enough. Ellen DeGeneres has moved to the UK. You guys may have heard, and she's making a big stink about why she's not moving back. The question is, is there more to this story? Does Cash Patel know a little bit more about what's going on? I'm going to get to that in a second.

But first, you know what? I'm eating really healthy because I'm overseas in Ireland right now where they take ingredients very, very seriously. I actually said this. I had a piece of chicken the other night, okay? Full disclosure in the restaurant. And I said to the waitress, I'm like, it's really good. Like this is like the best piece of chicken I've ever had. And she said, well, it comes from like the farm nearby and everything's like super locally sourced.

And, you know, they don't have any preservatives or additives. They're very, very particular about that. The butter, the milk, everything. It's really good. and you know we just learned today that Coca-Cola is going to actually put sugar cane and Donald Trump said this was at his urging and RFK's urging sugar cane into their beverage Coca-Cola instead of corn syrup because it's healthier it's better isn't that amazing I mean like you have it my son likes to drink ginger ale but he doesn't really like it over here because it's kind

of a fancy ginger ale right it's not as sweet and tasty as the ginger ale that you get back in the US but I'm just got to say, hey, Gary, thank you. It's good to see you here again today on the show. I got to say it's very nice to have all these healthy ingredients. And it made me think of balance in nature, one of the great sponsors on the Trish Regan show, because they too have very, very healthy ingredients. If you look down the list at all the stuff, all the junk that can be in some of these, even in health products, right? Even in vitamins and stuff, you'll see all kinds of fillers, this, that, and the other. None of that exists. And as far as I know, has never existed, at least as long as I've known the company in Balance and Nature.

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So go check it out, balance of nature.com. And think about that. Coca-Cola. Unbelievable, right? Okay, Ellen DeGeneres. She moved to the U.K. Right around the time of the election. And she kind of made us think about it at the time saying,

oh, you know, we love it over here and we don't like Trump. And then once Trump won, she decided we're going to stay over here. And a lot of people were saying, you know, maybe there's more to this story than you think. And why are we talking about it right now? Well, she just did another interview overseas with the U.K. reporter. And she made a big thing about this. she said, I moved to the UK because of Trump. And she confirmed that the election result influenced her move to the UK where she says life is just better.

So she and her wife, Portia DeRossey, they said, we got here the day before the election and woke up lots of text from our friends with crying emojis, of course, you know, crying, crying, crying. You know, I got to say, it's amazing. because people on the right don't do that and don't act like that. No way. That actually doesn't happen. No, we actually hold our heads high and we move on. But, you know, they like to cry and that's their stick. And they've got their crying emojis.

She couldn't believe it. He got in. And she said, we're like, you know what? We're staying here. So now she's got her little farmhouse in the UK with her sheep and this, that, and the other. She likes to walk us around and show us the sheep. this is what's happening now they're in hey that's not your food i don't really care but anyway she's very proud of the chickens and the sheep and the whole farm life that she and portia have created

one out lovely um but it leaves everybody with more questions because you see she had a special kind of friendship with P. Diddy? In fact, I went back and I looked at a whole bunch of clips. I didn't really want to show you any of them because it just kind of gives you the creeps because in some cases there were kids and they were on her set and she's introducing them to Diddy and you're like, you know, knowing what we've heard, et cetera. But it just kind of was a little bit unsettling. And you've seen some of the texts. I've showed you guys actually some of those texts where she was wishing him a happy birthday. And it was kind of just awkward and weird. And she had a whole bunch of weird little nicknames for him. They were really good friends. Like, what is that about?

And she talked about his parties. So she was at the parties, which just kind of means like, okay, did she go to the UK because she's trying to avoid extradition? I mean, God forbid, like somehow she gets entangled in any of this. It's something that came up on an Australian TV show around the time that it happened. I want to share with you what the commentator said. She really has no love lost for Ellen, who she thinks is a very miserable person on top of it all. I think she also said a fat cow. I love the Australians.

Here we go. The best one for me is Ellen DeGeneres, who is, by the way, a very nasty person. I've had dealings with her in Australia. Oh, a bit of nice. Could I tell you some stories about this? that cow. But anyway, good riddance to her. But, you know, she was quite friendly with that P. Diddy bloke, wasn't she? Well, this is why I say, release the Diddy File. Yeah. So, you know. Come on, Donald Trump. We want to know whose name. So maybe she's hightailing out of

there before all that. Right. All right. Well, let her say that rather than me. But that's the question. Is she high-tailing it out? Because, you know, she could at least fight. extradition a little bit, right? They wouldn't have to cough her up right away. I mean, we do have certain treaties and stuff, but she might have a leg to stand on, especially the way that actually works is if you feel for some reason that you might be politically vulnerable or vulnerable maybe because you're gay. And if you're gay, like, you can't go back to the U.S. because you're worried that, like, Donald Trump's going to do something. That's actually one of the things she's been planting in the media as well, which really kind of cracks me up because I'm

I'm like, wow, she really doesn't want to go back. Like really, really doesn't want to go back to the point where she's now floating these ideas that maybe gay marriage is going to be canceled, et cetera, and that's why she can't go back. This is their house. I mean, this is probably, this is amazing in Montecito, and I guess they're trying to sell it. They sold their other property for $96 million. Here's one of my questions. Has she renounced her citizenship?

Because if she did, she'd have to fork over half of that to the U.S. government. You can check in, but you can't check out. All those people that want to come and live here, if they make any money, they got a fork over 50% before they exit to Uncle Sam. It's all your real estate, all your equity holdings, everything. If you're very, very wealthy, it makes it kind of tough. And guess what?

If you're American, you still have to pay taxes when you're over there in the UK, Ellen. So it's not a tax thing. She's choosing to live there while simultaneously planting it in the media that she can't come back because she might be vulnerable. Her marriage might be null and void. Think about that. And then think about the relationship she had with Diddy. And again, I'll play it again.

It's a short clip, just 15 seconds. I want you to hear what the Australian TV reporter is saying. The best one for me is Ellen DeGeneres, who is, by the way, a very nasty person. I've had dealings with her in Australia. Oh, a bit of nice. Could I tell you some stories about that cow? But anyway, good riddance to her.

But, you know, she was quite friendly with that P. Diddy bloke, wasn't she? Well, this is why I say, release the Diddy File. Yes. So, you know. Come on, Donald Trump. We want to know whose name. So maybe she's hightailing out of there before all that. Maybe.

You know, she was kind of friendly with him. And she, you know, I've showed you guys some of the tweets when she would wish him a happy birthday. He made multiple appearances on her show. And even Elon Musk has actually weighed in on this. And people have criticized him saying, oh, you're just fueling this whole conspiracy theory about the two of them. And, you know, maybe it is. But I would say that it's a bit bizarre that she's gone to the UK,

said she's not going back and has now planted the seed that maybe she couldn't go back because she would be vulnerable as a gay person. So Elon Musk actually took a few jibes at her, especially around the time that it came out about Diddy and his, you know, freak off parties and this, that, and the other. One of the things that she wrote was Happy Birthday, P. Diddy, P. Diddy, Puff Daddy, Sean Combs, or as I call him, cuddle, McSnuggle stuff. You don't need to know why. That was her post to him. and you know people are like well what the heck did that mean like cuddle mick do we have it let me show it to you because this is just this is weird okay it's just weird and again some people are saying

well maybe this is an extradition treaty type thing if she comes to the UK she could be safer I mean there might have been other places that would be even more safer for her more safe I should say, but this is the tweet, happy birthday, P. Diddy, Puff Daddy, Sean Combs, or as I call him, Cuddle McSnuggle stuff, and you don't need to know why. And like I said, he was on her show a lot, including some clips with kids that have resurfaced and people are, you know, concerned about that, upset about that. I don't really know what to think about any of this, but I bring this up. And, you know, we've thought about Cash Patel and what he may or may not know in this particular situation and I think he probably has the answer somehow, some way. Don't you think it's weird?

I'm just going to throw this out there. Don't you think it's weird that James Comey's daughter was the lead investigator on Diddy and on Epstein? Like how does that happen? Did she have a little special niche? Like people that had tapes in their house? I find it very strange. you probably find a strange too. I'm just looking at the comments here right now because that is, you know, and a lot of people believe that maybe she had to high tail it out right before the election. So I don't know. But again, cash might know a little bit more.

And at some point, I know he's got a lot on his plate, a lot on his plate. At some point, we might want to be asking those questions. I'm just reading. You guys, you don't like either one of those. Neither do I. Either of those characters. But it is interesting. You know, Tom Bailey, Thomas Bailey writing that perhaps one of the reasons he didn't get convicted was because of Comey's daughter.

Now that's interesting. They did fire her, by the way, the other day. And that didn't surprise me entirely that they fired her. They also fired somebody else in the administration who was married to the guy that started the Ice Busters app. Because, you know, the Ice Busters app is basically tracking ice and tracking all the people that work for ice and the DHS and therefore putting them in jeopardy. And so that one kind of made sense to me too. But, wow, very, very, very, very strange stuff. You know who else is running scared right now?

One Adam Schiff in serious trouble because it looks like he pulled a good old Latisha James. Adam Schiffy Schiff is in big trouble. Donald Trump writing over the weekend, it turns out, and he put this thing out. Let me see if I can show you. Oh, yeah. This is the mortgage document. The mortgage document where he actually said, sorry, I'm going to lean in really close here.

He said that the property was his principal residence. Look at that. Number two, it's highlighted in yellow. What was Adam Schiff thinking so you can save a lousy, you know, three-tenths of a percent on your mortgage rate? I get it all adds up over time. Believe me, I'm not one to ever leave money on the table, but for goodness sakes you've got to be legal on how you do this adam what was that about he actually

seems kind of nervous too he he issued this statement over the weekend that was to me a little bit bizarre he went off on how dare the president say all these things but he didn't actually say what he was saying i guess because he didn't want to talk about oh i don't know that he might have been saying he had a primary residence in maryland when his real primary residence was in california because he was the representative from california at the time all to save a few box? Here he is. He looks nervous. Oops. Here he is. So I literally just got off the plane and, of course, read all the clips about what just took place in the Oval Office. I can't think of a more shameful display by President of the United States in my lifetime. And when I

think about all that the greatest generation did, the values that it fought for, when I think of what the country has stood for since, how we have defended democracy around the world, how we have come to the aid of our allies and friends. To see that all so shamefully betrayed is just heartbreaking. What will it take to awake the conscience of this country? Is this now what America is? We are reduced to some kind of an extortionary protectionist racket where a leader of a country whose citizens have fought and died valiantly standing up to a Kremlin dictator is so abused, where we stand for nothing but using our might to extort the weak or the vulnerable. Is this where we are right now? Because this is what we witnessed in the Oval Office

today. Okay. Does this make you mad? It makes me a little bit mad. Because I'm feeling I'm feeling pretty gaslit by now. I'm sitting there going, wait a second. Did you not see what Tulsi just uncovered? Okay, so Donald Trump's got some mean tweets out there. You know, you knew this one was coming. Everybody said, well, I'll take a few mean tweets so I can have lower gas prices, lower egg prices, and a safer economy and a safer country, et cetera. But it's like, Adam, what are you talking about? You're upset because you just got allegedly caught in a bit of a jam. Looking for a lower mortgage rate. You said that Maryland was your primary residence, even though you were the congressman at the time from California. Unbelievable. It's like he pulled a Leticia,

a Leticia James, Letitia who also has it coming to her one way or another. I'll tell you, look at the polls. She's suffering. You look at those numbers, my gosh, the unfavorable and the do not know or have no opinion. That actually adds up to more than the favorable. I think Latisha's going to be out of a gig pretty soon, and I think she feels the heat, which is why she's getting And really, really, really. She's like scripted. She's learned her lines and she's taking coaching lessons from Rev Sharpton who's sitting there. Yes, sister, right there in the background.

She's learning something along the way. She's repetitive, though. It's always the same stuff. Just take a good look. You can come in, but you elected me to stand up. You elected me to use the law. Continue to challenge this administration. You elected me to stand up for the least of God's children.

You elected me to continue fighting on. Maybe, or maybe, you'll get voted out because I've seen the polls and you're not doing so well. I mean, maybe if you somehow come to Colbert's rescue, that'll help? Not. I don't think so. You see, Americans have made their decision. And New Yorkers aren't that different from the rest of Americans. I mean, maybe Manhattan is a little thing onto itself.

But you know what, the rest in New York has no use for Letitia James. The rest in New York has no use for the view. or Colbert or CNN or any of these things. The rest of the state, the rest of the country, wants honesty and truth. And they expect that in their leaders and they expect that in their media. And that's what you will always get right here from me on the Trish Regan show. Make sure you like, subscribe, share, do your part. Make sure you tell everybody we are here.

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