The Trish Regan Show - BREAKING: AOC CAUGHT? $19K in Campaign Cash to Ketamine Doctor Sparks New ETHICS Concerns

Episode Date: March 24, 2026

Oops… she did it again. AOC is facing fresh questions over suspicious campaign spending — and this latest payment may be the most outrageous yet: money tied to an alleged ketamine doctor. Plus, is Iran backing down? Is President Trump about to score a major win? Don’t tell the left. And ICE is heading to the airports, sending the usual crowd into meltdown. Join Trish Regan live for these stories and more on today’s Trish Regan Show. ✅ Help support independent journalism — become a TRISH TEAM member: ▶️ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBlMo25WDUKJNQ7G8sAk4Zw/join Get my newsletter and start investing today! Https://76research.com ✅🔔 CHECK OUT MY NEW SPOTIFY SHOW AND PLEASE SUBSCRIBE FOR FULL DAILY EDITIONS: https://open.spotify.com/show/2blgbg4OaN5dqFhkBy12ii?si=HPdSujPDRrapZWtxbsgAjQ&nd=1&dlsi=979e048c08c04e13 Sponsors--#ad: https://KEPM.com/Trish to invest in gold today.https://BalanceofNature.com USE CODE TRISH Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to the big show. Yeah, AOC in a little bit of trouble, just a little. I mean, this stuff sounds really strange, even for her. Plus, well, might we have peace in the Middle East? It's looking good, ladies and gentlemen, AOC, as I said, getting caught. We'll talk all about that. And the Democrats are losing it. I mean, losing it over the idea of ice in the airports. Hey, you know, you guys brought it on yourselves. What are we going to say? Welcome to the big show. Please make sure you subscribe, share, like, make a comment. I'm Trish Regan. This is the Trish Riegan show. We begin on AOC with, oh my goodness, nearly $19,000 on a on a ketamine doctor? Are you kidding me? I mean, this is strange. As I said, even for her, this is very, very, very strange.

I couldn't believe it when I saw this headline. If you look over my left hand shoulder, you see AOC spent $19,000 in campaign cash, campaign cash on a psychiatrist who specializes in, dun-da-da-na, ketamine therapy. I mean, we knew that she had some problems, right? Like, she'd actually talked about all the trauma that she went through after J6 and how she needed special help, et cetera. Is this related? Is she the one that actually used to this? I mean, Sandy, oh, Sandy, I don't know what to say. This is not what we would have thought.

Look at this graphic. I mean, it's unbelievable. It's been going on for a while, I guess. In March, 2025, $11, 550 on this ketamine therapy specialist. May, $2,800, May 2025 in October of 2025, 4,375, and d-da-da, the grand total is $18,700 and $25, ladies and gentlemen on ketamine therapies. So why? All right. Like, why? I mean, I don't think you can put that on the company dime, right? I mean, I'm going on a limb here. I don't think you could actually put that on the campaign. In other words, you get your problems, you deal with it,

right? That's what you have health care for. You deal with that. And then don't come near me in terms of campaign funding, right? Like if I'm actually paying for her campaign, donating to her campaign, do I really want her going and getting catamine therapy with my donations? No. Okay, short answer, no. By the way, we really don't want her to be president of the United States if she needs this stuff, just saying. So AOC went to a guy named Brian Boyle. He's got a little ad for himself here. We're giving him a plug from Stella. Stella is a practice that works on sort of different kinds of alternative therapies, alternative therapies in the mental health space. And apparently, as I said, her campaign paid him nearly $19,000. He went to Harvard, because of course, you know, if you're going

to be an interventional psychiatrist, helping to treat AOC or her campaign. campaign, getting paid by the campaign, I guess you got to work on this treatment-resistant kind of depression. This was, you know, don't forget what actually wound up killing Matthew Perry, although I think he was doing stuff off the street. That led to that tragedy, of course. And yet, you know, this gentleman claims that there's this wonderful power, right, in these particular treatments, and he loves helping patients get better. And so now our question is, was AOC, one of the patients that you had to get better? Again, I think we deserve to know in that this woman actually thinks that she may run for the

presidency someday. If you look at what she said in the past, she has been a big advocate for finding alternative treatments, things like magic mushrooms, because, you know, who doesn't want their magic mushrooms? Magic mushrooms, other things. As I look at this article, apparently she wanted to look at studying the medical effects of a drug that I can't even say. I'm not even going to try, right? I have no idea how to say that one.

Ecstasy and other things that showed some promise apparently for mental illness. She tweeted back then in 2021, quote, it's well past the time. We take drug use out of the criminal consideration and into medical consideration. Huh. So she tried a couple times to get this little amendment through so that you could study all these fancy drugs and see how they would affect people's mental health. And the third time was the charm. Eventually she got this through. So it's been kind of a passion play, shall we say, for her, for a while. Again, going back to her reasons for doing it.

This is interesting, guys. Her reasons for doing it, she claims, or did claim, I should say, that she was so traumatized by J6, that she needed to go and get all this therapy. And she told a Latino USA Public Radio show that in 2021 saying that, oh, yeah, quote, I'm doing therapy. It was such a traumatizing event. You know, she had to, like, hide and she thought they were going to attack her, and she was hiding in the bathroom, I guess, on the floor in the bathroom. Like, as the police were banging on her door, it was so, so, so, so, so, so scary.

And so now she had to go and get special treatment. She admitted that. And she had to really look into self-care because, you know, she's one of those self-care people. And I'm just asking, is this part of it? It was really funny, actually. The Fox House were hysterical laughing. They just couldn't believe it. I mean, who can?

Like, you can't even make it up, right? If you were trying to figure out how you could take the other side down, you might like, you know, put something like this, not that I'm condoning this, but this stuff happens in politics, right? In Star Magazine, right? You leak some kind of crazy, crazy story to Star Magazine and you hope that somebody will bite. Oh, no, this is actual records. I mean, again, these are federal election commission records. This is not any kind of made-up story. she actually paid $19,000 to a ketamine doctor.

Because, well, we're not really sure, but let's go to the reaction on Fox. It's pretty funny. Almost as mine. Or Sandy, as she's also known, reportedly spent close to $19,000 in campaign money on a psychiatrist. Whoa. Who specializes in ketamine therapy. The expenses were marked as, quote, Leadership training and consulting.

It's unclear whether the session consisted of, what it consisted of, or who participated in it. AOC has proposed legislation in the past to make it easier to study magic mushrooms and other psychedelic drugs. Her campaign also heavily pushed to end the federal prohibition of marijuana in 2018. Okay. You got to have your platform, right? Girls got to have her platform. She's going to have her priorities. Lord knows that she can't really talk about anything of substance for goodness six. No, no, no. I mean, we're going to talk about priorities.

You know, forget about Taiwan. Forget about Iran. Forget about the Middle East. I mean, she admitted so much. I mean, this was a thing that she did. It was a PBS with Margaret Hoover a couple years ago where she just kept digging herself in deeper, deeper, deeper, deeper, deeper. But I am, of course, the dynamic there in terms of geopolitics. and the war in the release is very different than people expressing their First Amendment right to protest. Well, yes, but I also think that what people are starting to see, at least in the occupation of Palestine, is just an increasing crisis of humanitarian condition.

And that to me is just where I tend to come from on this issue. You use the term the occupation of Palestine. What did you mean by that? Oh. I think what I meant is like the settlements that are increasing in some of these areas and places where Palestinians are experiencing difficulty and access to their housing and homes. Do you think you can expand on that? Yeah, I mean, I think I'd also just, I am not the expert on geopolitics on this issue.

No, I'm sorry. sweetie, you're just not. You're not the expert on much of anything, really, certainly not geopolitics. I mean, you know, you'd think she might just brush up a little bit before she showed up at the Munich Security Conference and maybe, you know, study just seen a little bit. Because, you know, it is the Munich Security Conference and she's being talked about for the presidency of the United States of America. Man, I bet she needed some, you know what, some extra help before this one. Maybe that was why she was so out of it? I don't know, remember? and should the U.S. actually commit U.S. troops to defend Taiwan if China were to move? You know, I think that this is such a, you know, I think that this is a, this is, of course, a very longstanding policy of the United States. Oh, honey, honey, honey. The president had to do.

just too much fun with that one. When it comes to war, you don't talk about your strategy. She could have done that very easily. She had no idea. I don't think you knew what Taiwan was. That was the problem. But you don't talk about military strategy. I'm going to take it an easy pass on that one.

No, it was not a good answer. Could be death defying because I suspect that'll be used in every campaign for the next 30 years against her. You better believe it. Plus the whole kind of mine thing, right? I think that might be used quite a bit against. understandably so. I mean, boy, oh boy, oh boy. She's not very smart. It's like Kamala on steroids. And as Senator Kennedy pointed out, you know, at least she's like Kamala, but maybe with a little touch of this thrown in. This is great. The Congresswoman is kind of like

Vice President Kamala Harris, but with more bartending experience. She has never been accused to being a policy maven. You put her in a presidential primary with Elizabeth Warren or Rahm Emanuel. They will devour her like a light snack. Yeah, just like a little teeny, yummy little snack. Okay, so she's kind of upset. She's like, oh my gosh, why is everybody picking on me? It's not fair.

I just want you to know, I'm really great at foreign policy, and my dog thinks so, too. She got all upset. I'm guessing she needed a dose of a dog. Dr. Feelgood after this one. But maybe she was so dosed out that she didn't notice that the dog kept snoring and snoring and assuming it's the dog. I mean, it could be the BF, too.

If you think that I don't understand foreign policy, because out of hours of discourse about international affairs, I pause to think about one of the most sensitive geopolitical issues that currently exist on earth, I'm afraid the... issue is not my understanding, but rather the problem is perhaps you've gotten adjusted to a president that never thinks before he speak. Sandy, Sandy, Sandy, Sandy, I think that you might need to do a little bit more homework and maybe get off the juice, the sauce, whatever it is, you may be on. If you haven't subscribed, make sure you subscribe to the Trish Regan Show. Important, let me know what you think about Sandy baby? I mean, you can't make it up, right? You just can't make it up.

Meanwhile, another member of the squad is under fire at this moment. Ilhan Omar is getting a little nervous, you see, because five more people have pled guilty in this Minnesota fraud case. I mean, this thing is massive. 250 million dollars later, right? Feeding our future, which happens to be the thing that the Ilhan introduced. I think there's more there. Okay, so this is the woman. Do you have anything to say? She doesn't have anything to say, no, of course not.

Iskram, does this mean you won't be charged in the bribe case? Ikram Yusuf Mohammed. So she was actually running this ring. Are you going to be able to pay back any of the money? I think the money has made it to say to Somalia and other places, which is why, and we'll get to this in a second, it's why the feds are actually expanding their investigation into Ilhan Omar's husband's company

to see how much was going on overseas. Anyway, five played guilty here in Minnesota, so just more concerning stuff, $14.6 million that they were stealing. So they had all these little pockets, all these little rings. You saw the woman there that is believed to be the sort of ringleader, her name Ikram Yusuf Mohammed. She claimed to be running food distribution sites across the Twin Cities, and instead of delivering the meals to kids, she was delivering lots and lots of money to herself.

I got a kick out of it because in the charges, the documents were alleging that some of the money meant for kids went to rent and personal spending, including furniture vacations, eating out and nearly daily DoorDash deliveries. So I kind of appreciate the play on words, if you would, feeding our future. Literally. Feeding our future. Feeding ourselves. eating out. Daily door dashed deliveries and of course, you know, the rest of it. I bet you. I mean,

look, there was a lot of money that left Minneapolis in a two-year time span. $700 million. That's what the TSA actually recorded. That's what they actually said, hey, we're taking this money in suitcases out in cash. Imagine how much went out that was not actually recorded. This is pretty concerning, guys, and I'll tell you, the feds are onto it. You know, look, they've had a number of people. You had, what, 79 just as of two weeks ago. So you add in another five or up to 84. But, you know, the local channel was reporting on this with the 79th. Person has been charged in connection. In court filings, a FBI special agent says Fahima Muhammad is facing one count of wire fraud. FBI investigators say Muhammad operated a food site called Future Leaders Early Learning Center.

This site was also featured in a viral video that thrust Minnesota child care centers back into the spotlight in December. According to court records, Muhammad incorporated the center in 2015. In 2018, Muhammad signed a sponsor transfer request to be underfeeding our future. Investigators say starting in December 2020 claims ballooned. And by February 2021, future leaders claimed to serve nearly 60,000 meals to children monthly. Evidence also from February 2021 shows email communications between Amy Bach, the ringleader behind the process. Okay. And so it goes.

but it's pretty astonishing. It's amazing that they had so much gall as to try and do all this. And that particular woman that you just saw that the local news was reporting on, she actually tried to flee the country. She tried to get on a plane out of the country and they stopped her from doing so.

And I'm thinking about it because I'm thinking about what Ilhan said the other day. Did you hear how she alluded to the idea that she might be leaving the country? Ilhan is under a lot of pressure and maybe she's coming to the realization that it might be smart to get out of town while she still can. Listen.

I mean, I have no worry. I don't, I don't know how they take away my citizenship and, like, deport me, but it's, but I don't even know, like, why that's, like, such a scary threat. Like, I'm not the eight-year-old who escaped war anymore. I'm grown. My kids are grown. Like, I can go live whatever I want. Okay, then. Maybe you should. All right, go for it. Nobody's stopping you. Oh, except maybe the law. You see, because your hubby and you, might be in a whole lot of trouble. That probe into your finances, or into his finances, into his quasi, you know, whatever he wants to call it, venture capital firm, that's going like global now. So big headline in the New York Post, Ilhan Omar probe goes global with demand for

info on hubby's business dealings in Kenya, Dubai, and Somalia. Now, why is this important? Because it's believed that he was running some kind of global operation and that money was being, moved all around. We talked about the Huala Network in the past, and this might be in some ways related to that. So just to jump back, I mean, remember how she married this guy, whom she was paying a fortune? Like, that in and of itself is really bizarre. I mean, it's one thing we're talking about AOC possibly going and shooting herself up with Ketmine, right? I mean, that's pretty bad. And then this one is paying her hubby nearly $3 million to run her campaign. That's also pretty bad, because that's just saying, okay, I'm going to take these campaign funds and I'm going to give them all back to me,

more and more, because that's not done. Nobody makes that much money ever running a campaign, unless you happen to be married, I guess, to the candidate, and only in the city of Minneapolis. Apparently, does that thing fly? So she's paying the hubby really well. That's one thing he's got going on, total ethics violation that needs to be addressed. And then the other biggie, the elephant room is like, how could she have suddenly gone from negative $50,000 to be, worth $30 million. It just doesn't happen. 30 million dollars on paper and she's attributing this wealth,

or he's attributing this wealth, the two of them attributing the wealth to the success of their venture capital firm. Why would the venture capital firm be worth that much unless the idea is if you're going to buy a share in the venture capital firm, they have to like you make it look like it's something on paper. They have to make all this look like something because really it's basically nothing. Unless, well, I mean, it's still not. nothing, but unless it's something to them by way of the alleged money laundering. So this is the new development that's come out. They have apparently tracked some of this money to South Africa.

It is believed that he was investing, he was involved in some kind of deal to build solar panels in South Africa. I'm kind of laughing about this because you remember the sound button, I'm not going to play it, but remember her she was like crying because USAID wasn't going to have any money going all over the world? Kind of makes me wonder, like, what was that USAID money about? Was it like, okay, I'm from one of these sketchy parts of the world, but if I go see Timmy Minet, who's married to Ilhan Omar, maybe Ilhan can help score some of that funny money for me to do

God knows what in who knows where. I mean, you know, you got to have the trans opera in Columbia and you got to have the, you know, whatever comics in Peru, for goodness sakes. And, you know, you had a funny business partner who had had his own run-ins along with Timmy himself. They both had been accused of fraud in the past in various lawsuits for their various ventures, which never really panned out. And this guy, this guy, let's see, he's Will Haler. He was the one that was involved in this, and he was somehow on record saying that that venture capital firm was worth like nothing. So it had $42 and $44 in its bank account in 2022. So how is

it that 2025 comes along and it's worth $30 million? Or $25, forgive me, the winery was worth extra five. There you go. The winery with no vineyard had no vines. This is all very, very, very peculiar. He apparently said in some of this testimony for some of these other cases where he was accused of this, that, and the other. And then apparently there was some other case that he was involved with on the sort of, on a tangent level. And he also said then that the venture capital firm was not worth anything. This is their quote unquote venture capital firm, which looks to me like a giant lobbying organization. Exclusive partnerships for global operators.

Oh boy. Oh boy. Oh boy. Look, Comer's on to him. This investigation is going on. I mean, I love it. Jesse Waters is like, gee, a winery, ha-ha. And where the money came from?

So that's going to be a since one fail to answer it. That's not a hard question. My husband has a private equity firm, and he's done exceptionally well. All right. I want to go back and listen to this again. She won't answer that question. And not accusing them of any wrongdoing. Husbands involved in the wine business?

Yeah. There's a thing called money laundering where people have businesses and they deposit, you know, lots of cash. Again, I'm not accusing them of any wrongdoing. But she should answer a simple question. If any member of Congress is asked what business their family is involved in, I've never seen one fail to answer it. That's not a hard question. My husband has a private equity firm, and he's done exceptionally well.

And everybody in America suspects foul play here. And again, we're going to find out. It's not going to be hard to figure out what business he's in and where the money came from. So that's going to be a central part of it. And I have a feeling it's not going to be good news for her, really. I mean, and that's what they're doing right now. I mean, so you have the House Ethics Committee looking into this and Comer's on that. He comes from a financial background, so he knows how to do it.

trace this stuff. You have Bessent, who's like a dog with a bone, right? He's already talking about how the rats are going to rat each other out. And he's looking to find all of the connections in the money all over the globe. So you've got Treasury, the IRS, House Ethics Committee, and now the president, right, putting J.D. Vance in charge of this fraud investigation. So it doesn't look good for you, Ilhan. I might be looking at that plane to get out of the country sooner rather than later. I wonder how that works, right? Do we have to put her in jail first and then she gets deported? I think if she's found guilty, that's exactly how it's going to go down. Quick reminder to make sure you subscribe, share, like, all that important, important stuff. Listen, you guys are key to all of this.

And I thank you for everything you're doing to make this show the success it is. Turning now to new developments in the Middle East, the president has basically said, hey, for five days, we're going to give you a shot, we're going to give you a chance, and he thinks that enough pressure has been put on Iran that things are going to change. Wouldn't that be great? I mean, gosh, I don't know what the Democrats are going to do if you actually find some kind of solution here to the Middle East. Here he is talking about it earlier today with reporters listening. What we have, we just spoke to Israel a little while ago. I think they'll be very happy. This will be peace for Israel, long-term peace, guaranteed peace. If this happens,

and I can't guarantee it, but I think it's going to, my life is a deal. That's all I do is deals my whole life. I think this is something that's going to happen. And why wouldn't it happen? So tomorrow, morning, sometime, their time, we were expected to blow up their largest electric generating plants that cost over $10 billion to build.

It's a very good one. There was no dearth of money. And one shot, it's gone. It collapses. Why would they want that? Why would they want that? So they called, I didn't call, they called, they want to make a deal. And we are very willing to make a deal. It's got to be a good deal.

And it's got to be no more wars, no more nuclear weapons. They're not going to have nuclear weapons. So he reiterated this actually earlier this morning on True Social. He put out a tweet, for lack of a better word, and actually retweeted it. So he put it up twice saying, quote, I am pleased to report that the United States of America and the country of Iran have had over the last two days, very good and productive conference. regarding a complete and total resolution of our hostilities in the Middle East. Well, based on the tenor and tone of these in-depth, detailed and constructive conversations, which will continue throughout the week, I have instructed the Department of War to postpone any and all military strikes against Iranian power plants

and energy infrastructure for a five-day period subject to the success of the ongoing meetings and discussions. Thank you for your attention to this matter. Okay. And then he added, done-da-da-piece-through strength to put it mildly. And then he added, again, now with the death of Iran, in other words, Iran done over, the greatest enemy has the greatest enemy America has the radical left, highly incompetent Democrat Party. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Again, back to the president. And we want no enrichment, but we also want the enriched uranium. If this happens, it's a great start for Iran to build its sense. back and it's everything that we want. And it's also great for Israel and it's great for the other Middle Eastern countries. Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, all of them, Kuwait and Bahrain in particular. So it's great for all of them. Wow. And it's great for him. It's great for the country. It's great for the U.S. It's great for oil prices. You saw that reflected in the market today. Market was really excited at this idea that, hey, you know, things might be winding down.

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insanely political. And there was this moment on Morning Joe today, which, by the way, like, I don't know if they're trying to be more careful because the ratings are not. so hot and now they took away an hour from the show and maybe they're trying to be more diverse in their viewpoint. I give them credit for that if that's what they're trying, but I couldn't believe it. I mean, basically, Chuck Schumer gets shut down by morning Joe. Like, this is a kind of awkward moment. And he's being pushed, Schumer is, to admit that this is actually good. If you can actually reduce the military might of Iran, that's a good thing, right? Like, let's just all be normal people. and say, yeah, is this good or bad?

The reduction in Iran's military power, good or bad? It's a trick question. I think that's what Mika said. It's a true question. No, it's not a trick question, okay? It's a really simple question. I think the obvious answer to that is, ladies and gentlemen, it's a good thing. But gosh, darn it, you try and get Chuck Schumer to say it.

It's like insane. So back, back, back, no, no, hold a second. You got to answer my question first. Is it a good thing that Iran, and I think you'd agree with me, epicenter of terrorism in the world since 1979, is it good that their military infrastructure is being degraded? Simple question, right? Is it good? They've been a thorn on our side and the whole world's side for 47 years.

Is it good that their military infrastructure is being degraded? And poor Chuckie boy, he just can't admit a good, I mean, it's really disingenuous. is what people are so disgusted by. Listen to it. I agree that it is. Yes or not? You can't because it's a premature question. What is going to happen in the next several months? No, no, I can't ask that question. Well, you can't. No, no, no, no. I can't. So you have a military side, but I can show you my chart, but I think it third away. You have the military side, you have the political side. I'm simply asking on the military side, is it good, regardless of whether

we agree with going in or not, is it good? Did you see Mika's face? I mean, Mika's is like astonished that he's asking this. They may have to get divorced over this whole deal. That Iran's military infrastructure has been seriously degraded. And again, I have to tell you, Joe, first, you can't, what's going to happen three months from now? Is it worth it? What's going to happen?

Will the world economy collapse? Will something happen even worse? Will the whole energy infrastructure of the world go up and smoke? So you have to, when they do it without planning, when they do it without undefiards, when they do it without understanding where they're going. Senator, Senator. Where they're going. I don't think it's fair.

It's a trick question. I told you. I told you she'd say it's a trick question. Of course, it's just too complicated for us, right? It's a trick question. No, it's not a trick question. The question is, are you better off with the degraded military from Iran or a nuclear Iran? Okay, because that's where they were heading.

This is not a trick question, guys, not a trick question, but, you know. It is. If you do not strategize the consequences. the action. Okay, we're going to fast forward because it's just not necessary. Okay, let's go back to Joey, who somehow is finding religion all of a sudden. Consequences. Let me answer the question for everybody in America.

The answer, yes. It's good that the terrorist regime, their military has been, and capabilities have been degraded radically. The question, Mike, though, is political. It's the political question. What is the political impact? What's the impact in the straits? What's the impact in the region? In all due respect, if you ask the American people,

if you have the choice of degrading the military structure in Iran. Okay, like I give up. He's like, yeah, we just got to talk about something else. Clearly, we should just talk about the Yankees because you're never going to concede this because you're just a politician. And this is what people are so disgusted by. I am.

I'm sure you are too. Remember, subscribe, like all that good stuff. I'm telling you. Enough is enough. You know, this is good. The Treasury Secretary of the United States of America basically had to call out this biased reporter on her NBC show because, well, let's just say she doesn't have very good researchers. Maybe she's doing the research herself. She also is not very good at math. Watch her try to take him on and listen, you don't. This guy's just going to outsmart you all day. every day of the week. He actually nearly took down, well, he did take down the Bank of England. Let's be clear, all right? He's smart. He's smart. And we are lucky to have him as Treasury Secretary Bessent versus NBC reporter. All right. Let's talk about the Russian oil, which you just raised.

The administration did use oil sanctions on Russia earlier this month. You had initially defended imposing those sanctions calling Russian exports, quote, oil that funds the Russian war machine. If the point of the sanctions was to stop funding the Russian, Russian war machine. Why is the administration effectively rewarding Russia now? Again, Kristen, you're missing the point. Which is better? Does Russia get more money if oil goes to 150 and they get 70% of that, that's 105 or if oil stays below 100? So they're getting less money. Our analysis shows, our analysis shows that the maximum extra amount the Russia could get would be $2 billion, which is one, which is one day,

of the Russian Federation's budget. But understood, but they wouldn't have gotten any of that with the sanctions in place. I don't know. But would they have done any of that in place? Whoever does your research, you should get rid of because they were getting it. It was going into China. China was buying over 90% of the Russian oil. And it was-

But what's the point of sanctions? He's like, whoever does your research, you need to get rid of them now. It's just probably like, well, I researched this one. But anyway, part of the point of this is if you have all this oil that's being traded in global markets and you take off 20% of the supply, what happens? Oh, gosh darn it, you know what? The price of oil skyrockets, right? Because you've just taken 20% of the supply off.

And so when the price skyrockets, if Russia is still sending it over to China, then Russia just gets paid more money. So they have to do a calculation here and say, okay, maybe it's better actually to allow for Russian oil to be on the market rather than to. to have it under the radar and to be contrabanded because at least if it's actually openly traded, well, then this is a good, good thing in that it reduces the pressure on prices, right? Because it's increasing the amount in the global supply. But God forbid you try and explain that to one of these MSNBC's NBC CNN hosts.

I mean, good luck. And this is what the administration is trying to do. And they keep running into these roadblocks in that I don't think everybody at CNN or NBC actually understands oil markets. As you've heard me say before, I don't think reporters are actually all that smart. They're really not. I give more credit to business reporters, of which I was one, but business reporters are at least a little bit more steeped in economic policy and numbers and, you know, actual real stuff as opposed to the political shenanigans

that the regular reporters are more obsessed with. Let's go to Mike Waltz, head of the CIA, trying to school here, Dana Bash over at CNN to try and help her understand, really, how oil markets work. Watch. The U.S. lifted sanctions on 140 million barrels of Iranian oil. The U.S. lifted sanctions on Iran. So just to be clear, the administration is now allowing Iran, the country that it is at war with, to sell its oil, make money, and almost certainly use that money in its war against the U.S.

Why? Dan, I think you have to tell the rest of that story. That's a little bit misleading. The measure is targeted towards oil that's already out there on ships, already out there in storage. And to the previous question is very temporary to allow, to basically defeat the Iranian strategy of driving energy prices so high, causing pain on consumers all the way, you know, all over the world. And money also went to their coffers? So that, well, much of that oil and that illicit oil is already out there.

It's already out there in the system. So we're going to allow it to go in a temporary basis to some of our allies, like India, Japan, and others. Again, because you've got to understand that if you don't allow this oil to go, you're actually going to cause prices to spike even more, which is hard on the American consumer. And it would obviously be hard on some of your allies like India or Japan, South Korea. Korea, and then it would be hard, of course, on, again, American consumer. It would be good for Russia, good for Russia. And so, you know, they have to like take all this into account, but these reporters don't clearly, right? They don't take any of that into account at all.

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professionals there at Kirk Elliott, Precious Mells. Go to kEPM.com forward. Trish, T-R-I-S-H. It helps me, too, because I told him I'd give him a plug right here on the show. Turning to ICE in the airports, ice in the airports. Ladies and gentlemen, the Dems don't know what to do. But ICE is there, and the president's quite proud of it. You know, he wants you to know. He came up with the idea, all on his own.

Listen to this this morning. Who's idea was that? We're dealing really... Who's idea was it? Mine. That was mine. I love that. You know the story of the paperclip?

182 years ago, a man discovered the paperclip. It was so simple. And everybody that looked at it and said, why didn't I think of that? ICE was my idea. I called, first person I called was Tom Holman. I said, what do you think? He said, I think it's great. Then I saw it today.

There was some masks on. I didn't think the masks were appropriate. I put out a statement and I asked them, would it be possible to take off the mask? because they should wear a mask when they're dealing with the murderers and the thugs left in our country. But, you know, maybe not in the airport. So he did say this morning, he said, look, on Monday, ICE will be going this Monday

one of them over the weekend to airports to help our wonderful TSA agents who have stayed on the job despite the fact that the radical left Democrats who are focused on protecting hardline criminals, I mean, they have just so lost the story, haven't they? I mean, what it? Like, they made themselves so vulnerable for political attack because they did keep protecting. the hard-line criminals who have entered our country illegally are endangering the USA by holding back the money that was long ago agreed to with sign-and-silled contracts and all. But watch, no matter how great a job ICE does, the lunatics leaving the incompetent Dems will be highly critical of their work.

They will do a fantastic job. The great Tom Holman is in charge. Okay, Tom, the pressure is on. Well, he's ready for the occasion. He went on to CNN to prep them all. Hey, it's coming on Monday. Get ready. and the CNN reporter doesn't know what to do with herself. Watch.

We put together a plane today and we'll execute tomorrow. Okay, so there are a lot of questions here. First of all, of course. Are ICE agents even remotely trained to handle security at airports? Ice agents, I've received a high level of training. And, you know, the ICE agents are assigned at many airports across the country already. They do a lot of investigation, criminal investigation on smuggling airports. but you know there's I mean there's got TSA agents covering exits you know people that enter through the exits you know certainly a highly trained ice law enforcement officer can cover an exit makes people people don't go through those exits

entering the airport through the exits and that would stuff like that relieves that TSA officer to go to screening and to reduce those lines so wherever we can provide extra security I don't see an ice agent looking at an x-ray machine because we're not trained in that. There are certain parts of security that TSA is doing, that we can move them off those jobs and put them in the specialized jobs to help move those lines. Okay, that was going to be my next question.

So what you're saying is, when you move ICE into airports, they are going to be just around the exits and the exteriors. They're not going to be helping people get through the lines and screening people's bags. Those discussions are going on now. I'm not an expert at TSA,

so that's why I'm talking to the TSA administrator and the ICE director, find out where we can fit in. We'll have a plan by the end of today, where we're sending, what airports we're starting with and we're sending them. But that's the discussion we're having right now. I ended discussion to do the show, and I'll be back having the discussions when I finish. So it's a work in progress, but we will be at the airports tomorrow. And indeed they were. So good for him.

The president, as you heard him earlier saying, look, I want you to go easy on the mask. He said, I'm a big proponent of ice wearing masks as they search for those hardened criminals. but when they're at the, you know, when they're at the airports, they don't really need the masks. They're helping our country out of a Democrat-caused mess at the airports. Thank you. So that's exactly what they're doing. And yet, Hakeem Jeffries thinks they're going to start shooting or something. In all seriousness, let's go to Hakeem Jeffries, who's panicking now at the idea of ice in the airports.

Now, mind you, they could have approved the funding for DHS. And the way this funding works, just to clarify, there is funding for ICE at present. It actually got pre-funded, and so they got the money to do this. Those guys are going to get their paychecks. Those gals are going to get their paychecks. It's the TSA officers that aren't getting paid because they can't come to any kind of agreement here. The left is like, shut them down, shut them down, shut them down. Well, what are you doing?

You're shutting down the airports. You're shutting down the economy. I guess they don't care because as long as they hurt Trump, that's all that matters. I think they're hurting themselves. Let's go to Hakeem. What's your response to what Tom Holman revealed here? Well, good morning. Great to be with you. There are three things that have been true since Donald Trump and Republicans came back into power last January. Life is more expensive, life is more chaotic, and life is more extreme.

The last thing that the American people need are for untrained ice agents to be deployed at airports all across the country, potentially to brutalize or in some instances kill them. We've already seen how ice conducts itself. These are untrained individuals when it comes to doing the current job that they have for the most part. Let alone the point. Do you notice that the reporter doesn't even bother to challenge him? I mean, like I'm flinching. I'm like, kill that.

Like, you have to react to that. And yet she's just stone face. Totally stone face, doesn't react. I kind of wonder if she even heard him. Sometimes these reporters, they go on automatic pilot and somebody puts all these, seriously, questions into the prompter. I could always tell Don Lemon was reading his questions. reading his questions from the prompter because somebody would answer something, and then he would

ask a question that literally they had already answered. And I was like, ah, your 22-year-old staffer, right, wrote that one. I never allowed questions in the prompter ever, ever, ever, ever, because to me, that's a distraction. I want to totally be engaged in whatever somebody's saying so that I can respond in kind. And when I look at her just kind of vacuous look on her face, like a robot, for goodness sakes, hey, I mean, I know AI is coming. You don't need to let it take over yet, I just have to say, like, she's either not paying attention or maybe she agrees with him and doesn't want to let that cat out of the bag. I don't know, but that is not the way to conduct an interview. He said something kind of outrageous. He went completely unchallenged, and now he's trying to

just terrify more and more Americans or maybe gin something up. I don't know. But Hakeem, try to be responsible for a change, all right? Please, it's actually really important that you're responsible for a change. We did see the markets responding pretty well. to what happened today. You saw this, right? In stock's ending the day higher amid some optimism that the Iran thing is actually coming to some kind of closure there. We'll see what tomorrow brings. I mean, you know, it's volatile. I'll tell you that. It's definitely volatile. But for the right kind of opportunist, opportunist, that volatility is a good thing. And we are opportunists all day long at 76 research. So go check out our portfolios. That's my company I created with a longtime friend named Rob Horton,

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