The Trish Regan Show - BREAKING: CNN Fire Sale!?! Warner Bros Discovery to DITCH Cable News Outlet in Sale of Company

Episode Date: October 21, 2025

Warner Bros Discovery — the owner of CNN — is officially moving forward with selling the company after interest from multiple buyers. But there’s one big problem: no one wants CNN. Trish Regan exposes what this means for the failing network, its expensive on-air talent, and the possible outcomes if CNN is spun off or shut down.Plus — what this sale signals for MSNBC’s rumored spin-off… and major new developments on the looming government shutdown.🔥 Don’t miss today’s live Trish Regan Show.👉 SUBSCRIBE & FOLLOW:🎧 Spotify: Trish Regan Show📺 YouTube: Trish Regan Channel💼 Support independent journalism — become a Team Member:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBlMo25WDUKJNQ7G8sAk4Zw/join Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Well, we knew this one was just a matter of time. Was it not, ladies and gentlemen, what I've been saying over and over again, that anchor guy, the one that wrote that book on how, oh, the media had this big cover-up of Joe Biden. I told you he's been looking for a job at Fox forever. Like he saw the handwriting on the wall just like I did, just like we collectively together did. CNN is going bye-bye in one shape or form.

We got lots of news on this Discovery Warner Brothers deal that kind of leaves CNN and all the cable assets out in the cold because you see, that whole medium is done and over finito, as they would say. I like to throw a little Italian in there, all that opera training, you know. CNN, it's up for sale, big time, lots of news going on here. I don't know is this company going to make it. I really don't know because nobody wants CNN. You see, when they're actually trying to sell off Warner Brothers Discovery, then they're stuck

with this little dangling CNN thing and they're like, what do we do with that one? Nobody wants it, understandably, because it is like a noose around any company's neck. The chances are it either gets folded into maybe a deal with CBS Paramount. We're going to get into that or it gets spun off all together, kind of like MSNBC is, right? Comcast. They are spinning off MSNBC and I would just say all of these guys are looking at the slow disintegration of their news networks. So who are the top talents, if we can call them talent, that are going to be by-bye. There's going to be quite a few of them there. We have lots of news on that. Plus, oh, we can talk about the court that is ruling to allow for National Guard in Portland. This is making the Dems absolutely apoplectic. I mean, they can not

believe that two of the three justices there on the Ninth Circuit Appeals court said, yep, you can go on and bring the National Guard into Portland. It may go to the Supreme Court, but so be it, ladies and gentlemen, goes to the Supreme Court and then guess what? He's going to be able to go into San Francisco. He's going to be able to continue going into Chicago, into D.C., anywhere he wants to go to New York City, who Kathy Hokel won't like that, Letitia James won't like that. And, oh, Lord knows the new about to be mayor, Comrade Mam Dami won't like it.

Welcome to the program, everyone. I am Trish Riegan. This is Trish Rican show. Thank you for being here. Make sure you subscribe, share like, and watching your comments. in real time. Great to have you all here, but we begin, ladies and gentlemen, on none other than CNN, CNN, which has had a rather challenging existence for the last, oh, I don't know, you want to call it 10 years, 15 years, maybe even 20 years. It is now kind of scratching the

bottom of the barrel. And if you were Warner Brothers discovery, you don't really know what to do with it, right? Because you've got this really expensive thing that probably is not getting any more money from USA, at least for now, and you can't make it profitable. It's extremely expensive to have with all of these bureaus all over the world. You've got high-price talent that probably shouldn't be making what they're making. Anderson Cooper, I'm looking at you. And as a result, you're not able to sort of recoup your investment. The company overall, by the way, I should point out that the parent company, it's not like there any walk in the park because Warner Brothers, Time Warner. We almost had a Leticia story there. We almost did. We'll have to get to her later.

But if you look at Warner Brothers Discovery, what you actually see there is a company that's riddled with something like $40 billion in debt. I believe they've been able to get some of that down in recent years. And they're relying on things like their Harry Potter franchise. But they really don't have a lot of innovation within that company. And so that's costing it. That's costing the company a lot in the way. of not being able to really come up with any innovation that makes people want to go and watch their product or to, you know, really be able to dominate that streaming space. So what's going on? Maybe there will be a suitor. They're claiming that they've got more suitors. This is the big

article in Hollywood Reporter today. Warner Brothers Discovery is for sale. After all, there had been some to talk, oh, you know, maybe they weren't going to do this because remember they said, we're going to just spin off CNN, you know, kind of like MSNBC. They were. going to separate things into like the streaming side of the business and then the cable side of the business. And obviously one side of the business was going to have the value. That would be the streaming and then the other side of the business. Well, they could let it, you know, die slowly on the vine. But by separating the streaming side, they hoped that they would be able to capture more value for shareholders. Well, now all of a sudden, they're insisting that they've

got more suitors than we originally thought. You see, one of the suitors that was talked about at right in length and still being talked about is none other than Skydance Paramount. Okay, so remember the deal, right? Skydance Paramount. This is Larry Ellison's kid, right? He came in and he bought Paramount, which owns CBS and CBS News. And so that was, you know, it's not going over so well at CBS. They're like flipping out because Barry Weiss, who has a conservative background and is like actually willing to call balls and strikes. They're like, wait a second. She's running our newsroom. now, so we wish her luck. That's not going to be a fun newsroom to run, I'm sure. But now they're looking at maybe acquiring CNN too, and I'm like, gosh, you guys just gluttons for punishment?

Like, why would you want to do that? Seriously. Like, why, why? But I think they're actually, if they acquire the whole thing, the reason they're really going in there is because again, they want the streaming assets and they want to keep them away from, say, Netflix or other competitors. So this is the headline with Warner Brothers Discover. You see David Zazlov, he is the CEO, talented media executive. It's just that, you know, you got to keep up with the times. You got to keep up with the times. And the times they are changing, as Bob Dylan said.

Okay? They're changing. Because, hey, we're over here on YouTube. It's pretty damn fun, may I just say, right? You know, no scripts, no middle management, just you and me. I watch your comments in real time. a whole different ballgame. So how does that affect the news industry?

We know in terms of the entertainment industry, the entertainment industry has been really shaken up. I mean, when was the last time you saw a good movie anywhere? I can't actually name one. Like, I'm not seeing any good movies lately. And you know what? I'm not even going to the movies lately. So the entertainment divisions, they've all been suffering.

They can't come up with anything. They have no creativity. I blame that all on DEI, by the way, because they were so obsessed with DEI in all of the halls of these great entertainment giants. I'm thinking Disney, for example, that they don't have a creative bone left in their body. They just had a formula of let's put on someone who represents a minority and reinvent an already popular movie. Well, that doesn't fly. And so they really haven't had any big successes. And then you look at, okay, Warner Brothers Discovery, they get the Harry Potter thing.

but how much can you keep relying on that? I'm looking at peace of my mind. I see your comments, peace of my mind. I always love seeing you here. Thank you for all your loyalty and everything you do. So yes, you guys better be good today. I do watch them. Sometimes it's a little distracting, so be careful. Anyway, Warner Brothers, discovery is for sale. And what are they going to do with CNN? How can they, because nobody wants it. Maybe, maybe. And the shares are up today, by the way, everybody's like, who, finally, you know, somebody else is going to take on this liability. We can get out as shareholders. I think that they're going to have to figure out the cable component of this.

Again, what is of value? It's the streaming assets. One other thing I should point out, they have said that they're going to move forward, no matter what, with their spin-off if, in fact, this thing doesn't happen. So they've allegedly got a few suitors in the room. One is, as I mentioned, Paramount Skydance. That would be David Ellison. They've also got allegedly, reportedly, Comcast.

I'm like, Comcast, again, what are you thinking? You're trying to get rid of MSNBC. But I think Comcast would just be there for the streaming assets. They're not as interested in the cable properties, naturally. And then you have Netflix that's possibly interested. Netflix is trying to really make a run at things. And, you know, you've got HBO, you've got Discovery. So, like, there may be some synergies there.

but so and again, this is an article, this is quoting actually AP, which is saying the exact same thing I am, that the Skydance owned Paramount, again, remember that CBS, okay, is looking to make a bid. And the Wall Street Journal is reporting that Paramount had approached Warner about a potential majority cash offer share in late September and that Warner Brothers chief executive David Zazlov has rebuffed those first overtures, David's out of a job, by the way, if this deal happens, I mean, he should be happy because share prices should go up, et cetera. So he's like, looking. Now he's like, okay, let's do an auction.

I need a beauty page in here. Okay, who else? Who? Step one, step one, step all, you know, whatever they say. They are looking for more suitors. The problem for this company, again, is that, and they were smart to try and do these two different things, just like Comcast is doing with MSNBC getting rid of the Rachel Maddows of the world, letting them go way over there and be in a totally different entity because you want to preserve what you can from the streaming side. The cable stuff is a dead business. That is the legacy media business that you're trying to get rid of. So again, David Zazloff, not necessarily thrilled about this, but looking at all things. He is a duty, of course, to shareholders to look at all offers and get the most attractive offer.

This is quoting Business Insider. They're saying the primary theory is that the very biggest companies, only the very biggest companies are going to survive in the streaming error. And this is, why a Paramount Skydance, again, Paramount being CBS, Skyd, WBD, Warner Brothers, Discovery mashup would be a possible challenger to the likes of Netflix or Disney or Amazon. I am only going to say that, you know, like Netflix hasn't been so hot lately. Disney has not been so hot lately. I think the real game it down, frankly, is YouTube. But, you know, they all want their chance and shot at the table.

So basically, bottom line, you're really. looking at a tough environment for all of these companies and they are all trying to compete and they are all challenged and then you're going to have, for example, the antitrust issues, what happens there? Like for example, if Comcast says, hey, we want to go ahead and acquire this, then does it become like, well, wait a second, you have NBC, do you really need all these other networks in addition to that? This is one thing that may give Paramount Skydance that upper hand because the Ellison's have a relationship. You know, Daddy, Larry Ellison has been a long time Donald Trump supporter. So maybe they can cut through some of that red tape. I don't know.

I'd like to think that that doesn't really matter, but it's one of the things that they're trying to sell to the investing public. As I mentioned, Harry Potter, Game of Thrones, spinoffs, those are things that Warner Brothers Media and Discovery have really been trying to push and they've restructured their business to try and deal with some of this heavy debt. But then you've got, look at the bottom of this paragraph. I think this is, I think this is the Hollywood reporter that wrote this, though the company has made some progress in debt reduction. Investors have remained skeptical in part, because of the company's cable network portfolio as consumers move towards streaming. You guessed it. That's why you're here. Make sure you like, subscribe, share, all that kind of

stuff. Hey, it's catching up with everyone. It's even catching up with John Miko over at MSNBC. some of the other stories making headlines this morning. Comcast, which owns our parent company NBC Universal plans to spin off. It's cable TV networks. That's according to the Wall Street Journal and people familiar with the situation. The company will separate off entertainment and news channels including MSNBC, CNBC, USA, Oxygen E, Sci-Fi, and the Golf Channel. So it's been enough. The new cable venture will reportedly have an ownership structure that mirrors Comcasts, a Comcast spokesperson,

decline to comment. So, Willie, as you look at the screen right there, the big concern that stockholders right now on Wall Street are wondering about before they decide what to do with Comcast shares is whether Mika is going to have to give up her penthouse perched atop the Comcast bill. Since I never had it. When are we going to get invited to the pen? Never. They never let's up. I will say really quickly on this, you know, a drudge at the top said, oh, like news meltdown all this other stuff. I mean, I could be completely wrong.

We could all be fired a year from now. When this happens, you never know what's going to happen. Or tomorrow. Yeah, but in this case, though, Willie, what they're doing is what other media firms are doing. You spend off the cable channels, which seven years ago, we're making a ton of money. now they've got to figure out how to make them profitable. Disney, by the way, huge media news. Disney has figured out now how to make streaming profitable.

Peacock had an extraordinary success in the Olympics. So they're talking about spinning this off. Comcast still owns. Because you guys aren't profitable. I think Brian Roberts still owns a third of that. And because Comcast didn't jump into the bidding war like everybody else, throwing stupid money at streaming services and then watch it thought. Comcast has a ton of cash.

So now they spin this off and they're in a position to what do you all say? To get a lot of chance, to get a lot of different. To get rid of you. Consolidate, but also to just ramp up. And so you get a lot of people, a lot of different channels together. And so whatever that entity is going to be, there will probably be a lot of cable channels and be in a much better position to scale. You keep telling yourself that.

I took one business class at the university. You didn't go out of. Yeah, you know. I didn't get up. The only thing that makes sense here is you, you spin it off, and then you scale it up, and then you figure out how to make it more profitable. Yeah, this is to keep these networks like this network healthy and to keep Comcast thriving the way it is.

And this is just the way it's going. People are cutting the court, right? The cable subscribers are down across the board. This is something Bob Eiger talked about last year doing with ABC and Disney and spinning off some of those. They're all trying to console themselves as well. As they deal with the reality, right? That their network, their medium, the cable TV legacy media business is going away.

It is dying a slow death. In this case, it's actually dying a rather fast death, I think we could say. That Rassant spinoff is coming within the next server. several weeks because it's supposed to be coming towards year end. And hey, we're at the end of October right now. So that's in the works right now. And I don't think they're going to get a big cash infusion. I don't think it's actually going to be very meaningful at all. I think what they're trying to do at NBC and at Comcast is preserve the part of the business that has the future. And that's the Peacock Streaming Network. They're trying to make sure that the news network, NBC doesn't get in a whole

bunch of trouble with FCC violations because of their headaches over at MSNBC. Don't forget MSNBC, you can say whatever you want on there. That's cable. But it becomes a problem when the cable is infecting the network. And that's what you've seen a lot of, right? So they want to get away from that. They got rid of Joy Reid. They got rid of that. It was Mendie Hassan or something. He's been saying some really crazy things lately. You see that CNN got rid of Don Lemon and Jim Acosta, people that were really considered very toxic. And so they're trying to kind of brace themselves for this new future. But I just, you know, the idea that Comcast would be interested in purchasing Warner Brothers discovery, I don't see it happening unless they just get one section of the business.

But the only way they get one section of the business is if they wait for this spinoff to happen, right? And the spinoff is supposed to happen sometime later this year. And so from a tax perspective and from sort of a streamlining perspective, you don't want CNN. You don't want anything to do with it. So you would just want to try and go after those assets like the Harry Potter stuff and all of that that might represent some kind of revenue stream for you there to compete against the likes of Netflix with Peacock. So that's what's of interest. Meanwhile, oh, if you're CNN talent right now, you are freaking out. What did I tell you all along that? Poor Jake Tapper, you know, the guy with the like frog voice, like super nasal, I don't mean to be mean, but it's, it's my operatic

background. I can't help it when people's voices sound like nails on a chalkboard. It kind of gets to me. A little tism in there. I don't know. But his voice gets to me. This is the guy in Kesa, you can't jog your memory, who tried to take down Lara Trump saying, how dare you, how dare you suggest that Joe Biden be a lot of him? anything other than perfect, right? Because he's like the second coming of Jesus Christ if he listened to Jake Tapper. Well, that was until Jake realized that maybe they were getting rid of his network after Donald Trump won or after he really realized that there was no chance that Joe Biden could ever win this thing. Suddenly he was out there stumping for Kamala. Let's watch him try and take down Lara.

Just remember this guy, his days are certainly numbered, which is why he's scrambling so hard to get a job at fucks. Every time he comes on stage or they turn to him, I'm like, Joe, can you get it out? Let's get the words out, Joe. You kind of feel bad for him. How do you think it makes little kids with stutters feel when they see you make a comment like that? First and foremost, I had no idea that Joe Biden ever suffered from a stutter. I think what we see on stage with Joe Biden, Jake, is very clearly a cognitive decline. That's what I'm referring to.

It makes me uncomfortable to watch the money on stage shirts for questions. It's so amazing to me that. and try and figure out an answer. A cognitive decline. When you're trying to tell me that what I was suggesting was a stuttering. I think that you were mocking his stutter. Yeah, I think you were mocking his stutter. And I think you have absolutely no standing to diagnose somebody's cognitive decline.

I would think that somebody in the Trump family would be more sensitive to people who do not have medical licenses, diagnosing politicians from afar. Plenty of people have diagnosed your father from afar. I'm sure it offends you. your father-in-law from afar. I'm sure it defends you. You don't have any standing to say... I'm not diagnosing him. What I'm saying, Jake, is that we can clearly see that Joe Biden is struggling...

I'm saying... I have one last question for you, Laura. You can't... ...and it's very concerning to a lot of people that this could be the leader of the free world. That is all I'm saying. I genuinely feel sorry for Joe Biden in it. I appreciate it. I'm sure...

Okay, all this trick in the book, I've told you about that one, right? You're like, bye, see ya. I got the last word. Thank you. And he calls her Laura instead of Lara. So that's a deliberate kind of, you know, I can't even bother to learn your name. And now he comes out with a big new book, doing the rounds on conservative media, saying how nasty and mean those liberals are.

My gosh, I mean, heck, we saw him the other day trying to take down Hakeem Jeffries, saying, hey, but you guys, you put all this stuff into the bill that would allow for $1.5 million, trillion, forgive me, trillion, billion, trillion, trillion. to go to illegal migrants. That's Jake Tapper calling out Hakeem Jeffries. Hakeem's like, what happened? Aren't I on CNN? Anyway, they're all going to go by-bye.

I mean, you saw him with Lara. And then, like, what? A couple months later, we got this version of Jake. It's like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. There is a pattern, discernible pattern of Democratic officials. With a very nasal voice. Seemingly trying to convince you the public to not believe

what you saw and what you heard with your eyes and with your ears on Thursday night. What I've been able to do with the COVID, excuse me, with dealing with everything we have to do with look

if we finally beat Medicare. The total initiative relative to what we're going to do with more border patrol and more asylum officers. President Trump? I really don't know what he said at the end of this. I don't think he knows what he said either.

Democratic officials have tried to spin this in many ways. They said President Biden just had a cold. They said it was just one off night akin to when President Obama in 2000. I love this. I mean, I just love this guy. There is like no ounce of integrity whatsoever. Here he is up on his high horse trying to, well, at this time he was taken down. By the way, hey, no King's protesters?

Think about that. Think about that. They took your candidate right out from under you. How do you like that one? There's democracy for you. Courtesy of the Democrats. Anyway, this guy was part of the op. Twelve was rusty and seemed a little huffy.

But behind the scenes, make no mistake, most Democratic officials witnessed the same shocking spectacle that you did. The difficulty that the presumptive Democratic nominee... Jake, we were telling you for months and months. and, well, years. I mean, how many times did I play the video and I didn't play selective video? I played the whole raw tape where you saw poor Joe not being able to sit down at one event in France and Normandy. Or then he wanders off at the G8 summit, thank goodness for Georgia Maloney, the Prime Minister of Italy, who's so kind as to bring him back and then he can barely

put on his sunglasses. I mean, look, unfortunately, we've seen it before, some of us and loved ones and you know what you're looking at. But Jake was trying to tell us, we were the crazy ones. They were doing the same thing over on MSNBC, right? Until like this guy suddenly realizes his job's going to be on the line because there's no way. There's no way that Biden can be, can win this thing. He will be beaten by Trump.

And that's when he just throws up his hands and goes for Kamala. The current president of the United States had just articulating his basic thoughts during the 90 minutes of the debate. The spinning is all very reminiscent of the George Orwell quote from the book 1984 that I invoked five years ago for a different situation and a different president. It's relevant again today, quote, The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears.

It was their final most essential command. We're not going to do that today on the lead. We're going to talk honestly and frankly about all of this with a number of individuals who see it for what it is. We're going to talk to some journalists and some Democrats, None of whom wish President Biden ill, all of whom apparently are more willing to speak freely, honestly, and candidly about the candidate than the people running the Biden campaign, the people close to President Biden, and frankly, most Democratic officials across the country. Oh, aren't you a stand-up guy suddenly coming out saying, I'm going to call it like it is, and not only are we going to call it like it is, I'm going to actually write a book on it and see how I can profit and maybe get a job on Fox because we know it's over from my network. I mean, look, I've been telling you guys that forever.

I actually think that CNN is enormously challenged in so many ways. And I don't see an exit path there for the network nor for the talent. I mean, Anderson Cooper costs reported. I mean, I've seen estimates between $10 and $15 million a year, which I would say would be, frankly, if it's $10, $8 million too much. I'd pay them to and say, you know, good luck, buddy, right? That's like it, because they're not getting. any ratings, it's not making any money, and you've got to actually make some hard decisions.

I don't know how much this guy's making. And again, I'm taking sort of a stab. These are estimates that have been reported in the media. I think he makes less, and he's looking for a higher payday. He, I believe, came from print, which again, back to the voice, you can kind of tell. I don't think any of these people really have much of a future because CNN does not have a future. And that's not just because of its bias and its sort of state media-esque aspect when you're dealing with the Democrat administration, but rather because the medium has changed so, so quickly,

so fast. So who's nimble enough to keep up with that? Fox, to a certain extent, is in a better position in part because, well, it's a conservative network and a conservative one. And so I think that there's more faith and more trust, but like, don't kid yourself, even over there. I mean, you know who, right? It was in all kinds of trouble. And fortunately, over here as a result, because I was willing to say something that nobody was willing to say in March 2020, which was that we should not be shut down the country, thank you very much.

You know, there's ways to do this and there's ways to do this. And we don't need to pay attention to the plane crash type atmosphere that they were creating. And believe me, they were creating on CNN because that was only going to be a bad political outcome for Donald Trump and a bad economic outcome for. the United States of America. And look, I, you know, I didn't know what I didn't know at that time. And looking back on it, though, I'd say I was, I was right, right? But the point being that at a network, that's still not going to be tolerated. You know, you think they get your back. They

even actually approve your commentaries over there. But when Bush came to shove, good luck. Okay, fine. I'm over here now. And guess what? I mean, not to brag too much. But do you know that I have about five times the monthly views as the entire Fox business network right here on the Trish Regan channel? So look, it's win-win for me. But what I'm pointing out is that all of these businesses, even the best of the bunch, which would be Fox in this case, they are all challenged. They are all struggling because the medium has changed.

So Tapper, you know, you can go get your little gig at Fox, but it's never. going to, you know, maybe you survive five years. I don't know what the timetable is, but I think what's going to happen is you're going to see, you're going to see that all of these things, all of these businesses get smaller and smaller and smaller and smaller. The shrinkage is happening because the viewers aren't there and the money isn't there. I mean, if you're an advertiser, wouldn't you rather be over here? Because they actually, sorry, guys, they know a lot about you, right? If you're watching this show, they kind of know, well, you probably have to have a conservative view of the world. You're probably fiscally conservative. Maybe you have some

interest in investing. You're interested in politics, et cetera. So they kind of know who you are. And I think there's just more for advertisers to pinpoint. And as a result, this is the future. Okay. So I don't know what to tell you over at CNN. I think that all of you would be kind of smart to blow out of the join as fast as you could. But you won't, right? Because it's nice to have 40 people. around you. It's nice to have the hair and makeup team, okay? Like, I get it. Um, but my advice to all of you is that it's actually much more nice to be your own boss and to know that you are accountable to the audience only, not to middle managers, not to some CEO, not to shareholders, but to yourself and to your audience. And that's the beauty of this business. But, uh, you know, MSNBC,

is going to be facing the same thing itself. You know, you get CNN going by, bye, bye. You got MSNBC dealing with the spin-off. And by the way, again, CNN either goes to one of these entities that effectively just squashes it or tries to shut it down or rolls it in, say, to CBS or something like that. Or CNN gets spun off just like MSNBC is being spun off. And then they're going to face the same set of challenges.

I mean, there's no way they can escape this in parts just because of the fundamental structures of the companies. The way that these deals are set up with cable companies. Meanwhile, wow, did you see what happened over the weekend? So the no kings thing. Oh, Lordy, Lordy, Lordy, Lordy. I mean, that just, I was so sick of it. And by the way, I apologize to all the boomers out there because I was kind of making fun of boomers. I mean, I'm nearly a boomer myself. I just, there's a certain typecasting, right? Can we, can we, can we admit that there was a certain there was a certain type that was out there in full force over the weekend and it was just sort of embarrassing to see I got one great video this this idiot this guy was dressed up as a king himself and he was just stumped on some of this logic let's take a look

protester now we'll try that again protester gets stumped voter ID is racist yeah like should you need an ID to vote no I don't think so now is it racist that CVS asked you for an ID to buy Sudafed? Well, I think that there are certain people that should not be allowed to buy Sudafed, so I think it's a good idea. So it's more important that you use an ID to buy Sudafed, but not to vote for the person that runs this country. I'm not exactly sure.

He's got to think about that one. They have no logic. Not really. I mean, so that whole thing that we saw throughout the weekend of all those no king protests, I think they were actually embarrassing themselves, all of these people trying to relive, you know, the Vietnam War all over again. Well, CNN, forgive me, MSNBC, and sometimes they seem interchangeable these days,

MSNBC actually got really confused, and it started showing some archive from 2017 of the last sort of anti-Trump rally in Boston. The only problem is, like, the crowds were nothing like that this time around, and, well, this stuff was from 2017. Look at this. millions of people across the country marching as we speak against the policies of President Trump. This is Boston. Look at that. We'll continue to follow these rallies throughout the day here on MSNBC. No, it was Boston in 2017, buddy. We can't plan the anchor for that. That was actually probably just some production assistant getting all confused.

But the point is they don't know what they're doing over there. And they try and present these things. If it weren't for the likes of Twitter, et cetera, you wouldn't even probably know. somebody called that out. I think actually it was discovered on X where they're like, wait a second. I think that's video that we saw back in 2017. So this company, MSNBC, which is now going to be Ms. Now, MS now, Ms. Now? I think Rachel doesn't even know how to say it. I mean, she's another one that costs way too much money. It reported $25 million, $25 million, $25 million for Rachel Matto, which is a show that's not getting any ratings either. So if you're actually in the ratings business, and you need to actually get ad revenue based on ratings.

Why do you have your most expensive anchor working once a week, Monday nights only, one night only, standing room only, Rachel Maddow, tune in it, Monday night. I don't even know what time she's on. I think it used to be 9 o'clock. I remember because she would come on as I would get off the air at 8 o'clock on Fox. I get off. I was on from 8 to 9 and then somehow I'd see her, I think, or maybe she was actually,

yeah, I think that's what it was. Anyway, I don't even know when she's on, but I don't think anybody knows when she's on. And management is so dumb that they're allegedly paying her $25 million for one show a week. And so this is when accountability kicks in because you're now spinning off the company, meaning Daddy Comcast is not there to bankroll Ms. Mado anymore. Ms. Mado is going to have to stand on her own two feet. and if she's worth 25 million, then so be it. Okay, but if she's not, then shareholders are going to come knocking and they're going to say

enough is enough. We need a profitable company. So what are they going to do? It's like the radio business. They're just going to squeeze it and they're going to eat every little last dime. They can get out of that company. They're not even going to care about ratings at some point. I used to work at CBS Evening News.

I kind of used to wonder why we were even in business because, and I worked on the morning show too, which was just a joke, right? I've told you guys the story. I called people to be on the show with me and I'm like, so I work on CBS. The, the morning show, you know, it's like the Today Show, but it's not. It's like Good Morning America, but it's not. People didn't even know what it was. So CBS Evening News, I mean, you go back to the Cronkite era, they had quite a business, right? I mean, the cameramen were all flying first class. Like, it was a big, big deal. At some point, things just started getting really,

really tough. But they kept it on the air and they keep it in business. They don't care if they're rated number three. They don't care if they're in last place. because all they have to do is squeeze the salaries of everybody there, squeeze the budget, and before you know it, they can turn a little bit of a profit. That's what's happening in MSNBC. That's what's going to happen when it spins off. And so who's vulnerable in that situation? For sure, it's Rachel Maddo.

I believe she's probably, I don't know what Joe and Mika are making. They're a little bit more, dare I say, street smart, perhaps than Rachel. I think Rachel is earnest in what she's doing, but she's not necessarily. perhaps as political. So she's going to run against some of the higher-ups as they try to make changes. And you can see evidence of that already. When Mika and Joe announced, of course, that things were changing, they actually had something to say about it.

They knew how to pronounce the name. I think they called it MS now. But Rachel Maddow, on the other hand, she doesn't even know how the new network's name is supposed to be pronounced, meaning a lot of it. of this was not even communicated to her. She's the same person who went on air, losing it over her good, good friend Joy Reid getting kicked off. I mean, Joy Reid deserved to be kicked off. Joy Reid was incredibly divisive and really not a very good person with the divisive things that she said, including, you know, don't go to Thanksgiving with your relatives if they voted for Trump.

I mean, who does that? I mean, it's like so, I'm over it. I'm over it. I'm over it. Anyway, and by the way, I have family members, my parents that are not Trump supporters. I mean, they were out there. Maybe that's why I'll keep going on about boomers with their signs over the weekend. I mean, I'm like, okay, guys, great. You know what? You get to like relive your 1960s Vietnam. I adore my parents, by the way. But, you know, we have certain rules. We don't talk politics. And you can have family members that you disagree with. You just don't talk politics. And Joy Reid wants you to hate on your family members. She was like encouraging my family to not have Thanksgiving with me because of my politics? Do you understand that that's not the right tenor for the country right now? That is the

wrong, wrong direction. So Rachel now is in a situation where she's out there defending all these people that get fired. She seems to be on the wrong side with bosses. They're paying her 25 mil. And I'm just saying, once the company gets spun off, the company that she doesn't even know how to say, because apparently nobody's communicated it to her, Rachel Maddow is going to possibly be one of the sacrificial lambs in all this and don't feel bad for her. She should have banked enough money by now. And maybe she'll do fine, right? She's got that little podcast.

She can continue doing that and she doesn't even have to go on air on Monday nights. Meanwhile, these two. We could all be fired a year from now. We'll be able to this happens. You never know what's going to happen. They may just make it. They really may. Have you noticed the pivot?

The little pivot. I mean, he's like Jake Tapper. He does it a little better, I will say. I'm going to give him credit. He does it a little bit better than Jake Tapper, and he doesn't have the nasal voice, so he's got that going for him. But he's totally pivoted. I mean, he was going on.

He showed up in a suit and tie the next day to work after the election was won by Donald Trump, popular vote and the electoral college. And he showed up for the first time in a suit and tie, and he started talking about how it was Reagan-esque. I mean, he knows which way the women. blows and he hided, tailed it down to Mar-a-Lago. Joe Rosie O'Donnell, absolutely positively crazy. But again, you know, if we talk about survivors in this landscape, I think that there may be some people that can kind of manage through this, but it's going to be a very different industry,

a very changed industry, and I welcome it. Of course, you know, I'm already out. So I was saying to somebody the other night, it's like amazing how God works in mysterious ways because at the time that that all happened to me, it was shocking and devastating. And I remember just being hurt, hurt, because, again, they spent a lot of time, like, editing a lot of my commentaries. It used to drive me crazy. I was like, really? Can you, can you just leave them alone? But to think that you work so hard on something and you have a point of view, which you believe to be right and you're told, have a point of view, they are okay it. And then the next thing you know, you're like, so it was a, it was a difficult thing from

that standpoint. But the beauty of it is it introduced me to this whole new world of streaming, which I'll be honest, guys, I wish I had discovered years before. Like, I never understood it. And when I started, like, it was a little disheartening. Leslie, I hope you're here. Let me look, because Leslie was like one of the first people in the chat. And she's like, Trish, your mic's not working. It still happens now on them, by the way. But you guys were like awesome. Like so many of you have been here from the very, very beginning. And I appreciate everything that you do to make this a success. And I love that I can do it this way. I just, because I love my job. And I love, telling the truth and I love having an opinion. I mean, I just, and I wear it on my sleeve. And,

you know, as you've seen, it's gotten me in trouble. But I get to do that. But I get to do that. that here. And that's pretty meaningful and pretty exciting. And I also am lucky to have sponsors like Balance of Nature who make this all possible, right? So I can bring you my news daily with no middle management or teleprompters in the way. Go check out Balance of Nature. You know, one of the things I like about this company is when you look at the back of supplement bottles, like if you're like me, you're like, wait, what is that? What is that? I'm not familiar with that ingredient. That doesn't make any sense. But when you look at the back of a Balance of Nature bottle, fruits and veggies, like, it's understandable. It's English because you're like, oh yeah,

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appeals court lifts block on Trump's Oregon troop deployment. Deployment can now move forward in Oregon under preliminary rules. ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Now, the Ninth Circuit was traditionally super lefty, you know, like out there in San Francisco, what you would expect. But Donald Trump has managed to make a couple of appointments on that court. And so it's become more, how do I say, grounded, sensible, less, you know, pie in the sky, lefty nonsense. And so the Ninth Circuit just came through and they said, you know what? Portland is under siege. Donald Trump has the right to go in there with the National Guard because if a state can't protect its people,

if it can't enforce the law, in this case, you know, some of the immigration challenges and issues, then guess what? The federal government has the right to do that. So this is a big win for Trump. And it's almost like he knew this was coming. He knew this was coming because he's been picking on Illinois nonstop, as he should, because Pritzker is being a complete, well, that's too easy. We'll go with it. jerk. Pritzker's being a jerk and Brandon Johnson is like, I don't want your help. I don't want your help. We can do this just fine. Clearly you guys can't. You look at the murder rate in Chicago. I mean, how's that fair? Growing up on the south side of Chicago, you think any kid has a fair

shot at anything given the crime that's so rampant there. So Donald Trump's offering to help you guys out like he helped out in D.C. He's got a solution for you. He wants to actually spend money on Yeah. And you turn it away? Well, he's not taking that for an answer. He's taking it all the way to the Supreme Court. And San Francisco is next. But the governor, who got thrown out of his business by his family because he's a dope. That would be the governor, Pritzker, he doesn't want us in. You know, if I were him, if I were a Democrat and I were him, I'd say, come on in. What do you have to lose? Come on in. And you're going to go to San Francisco next. We're going to go to San Francisco. The difference is I think they want us in. San Francisco. San Francisco was truly one of the great cities of the world. And then 15 years ago,

it went wrong. It went woke. Remember my statement? Anything woke is, and I used a filthy, well, broke is another word. I used a filthy word. I took enough heat on that. I won't say it again. But what is that word? Nothing changes, right? Okay, I'm not going to, I don't need you guys saying bad words in my commentary, but I have to think about that. I say, go woke, go broke. I say, go broke. I'm not sure what he means, but anyway. But we're going to go to San Francisco, and we're going to make it great. We're going to make it great. It'll be great.

Again, San Francisco is a great city. It won't be great if it keeps going like this. Aha. No, he's totally, totally, totally right. It won't be great if it keeps. I mean, if you go to Market Street, it's awful. I mean, I can't actually, I even debated showing you the video, but YouTube gets a little funny about this.

Sometimes they don't really like some of this video. But just imagine sort of the zombie people and you know why they're like that. And so this is like being traced back to Honduras drug gangs that are coming through Venezuela. So when you look at what the Pentagon's doing, trying to take out the drug boats, like it all, it all fits together, right? And Donald Trump, like, he cares about this very passionately, not just because it's political or it's good politics or good optics. Like he really wants safe cities.

And he really detests drugs. And he, I mean, he detests alcohol, right? Because of what it did to his brother. So he's a teetolder and he really doesn't like what these things have done to our nation. And he was one of the first to kind of put this first front and center. And now he's back for 2.0. And he's going to do everything he can to clean up everything he can. I love this. Did you guys see Dan Bongina?

I want to show you. If you've seen it before, watch it again because Dan is so good. walking you through the steps that they are taking as he describes how the president got them together. He's like, hey, Dan, hey, cash. Come on in. We need to fix us. Okay, guys, go do your thing. And they got together a supreme group of individuals that were able to analyze just exactly what the best routes to fighting crimes in these cities. And look it, they're having success. You can't argue with success. Here's Dan. With regards to this crushing violent crime, whether it's in San Francisco, Chicago, any other major city.

Early on, this is kind of the untold story of this op. I get appointed, announced in February, coming in in March, cash is there a little bit earlier. President brings this in early, and in essence, this is kind of the behind the scenes, guys. He says to us, you know, listen, I'm a builder. I'm in a lot of these big cities. He has just zero tolerance for violent crime. He just does. He drives around Washington, D.C. on the OTHRs, off the record movements.

He sees homelessness crime. He can't stand it. He says, what do we got to do to fix this? And we basically lay out a bunch of things. And his answer is very simple. President's like, go get them, boys. Go get him. That was it.

Like, you do what you have to do. So we got in there, Cash and I, and we brought in the best SAC special agents in charge across the country, guys who had forgotten more about crime and enforcing you the most people ever know. They've done this their whole lives. One of them we pulled in from Phoenix. He had an amazing job out there.

We said, hey, name's Joe. I said, Joe, you tell me what we need to do to go get these demon savages off the street. Tell me what we need to do. Demon savages. We brought in a violent crime roundtable of the best crime agents in the country. We figured out a battle plan, how to kind of water balloon. You know, when you squeeze the water balloon, you get a bowl. How do we bulge agents here and embalge agents there?

And we cleaned up at the president's direction, the director and I with the SACs and the agents in the field. we water ballooned around the country. I love Dan. Demon Savage is off the street. I love the water balloon around the country. I mean, I like his descriptions. I like him as a person, as a friend, and certainly as a podcaster, certainly at the FBI.

I miss his show, though, full disclosure, because of things like that when he talks about, you know, the water ballooning. But he's very serious about this. And, you know, I still talk to him from time to time. And he's committed. I will tell you this. You know what?

he's not making any money doing this. And he was making a lot of money, a lot of money on his show. He had won the top podcast in America. And he gave it all up because he's a patriot that cares, that cares about this country. That's a crime agents in the country.

We figured out a battle plan, how to kind of water balloon. You know, when you squeeze a water balloon, you get a ball. How do we bulge agents here and then bulge agents there? And we cleaned up at the president's direction, the director and I with the SACs

and the agents in the field, We water ballooned around the country and made, get a load of this, guys. This is going to trip you out. 28,000 violent crime arrests in 2025 in the year's not even over. You say, well, what does that mean? Put it in comparison. Prior three, four years, the FBI under prior leadership, but average about 15, 16,000. We're at 28,000.

28,000. We're not even done with the year. We haven't even hit Thanksgiving or Christmas yet. Shows when you get a president, an attorney general, a deputy attorney general, and an FBI leadership team that lets the FBI do FBI work, instead of getting into other nonsense in the past, look what happens. Your cities get cleaner. Yeah, and he's absolutely right.

And just to add to that, let's be clear, what was the FBI doing before? A lot of work that it shouldn't have been involved in, I mean, including going after people who were parents showing up at school board meetings or going after Catholics that attended mass and Latin. I mean, it was crazy stuff. But that all goes back to Operation Arctic Frost, right? In the meantime, let me see if I can show you what Molly Hemingway was saying on one of my former networks with my former colleague, Stuart Varney, great guy.

She's making the point that, you know what, a lot has been accomplished. And to Dan's point about the 28,000 arrests, she's also pointing out the number of people that have been deported because they've been forced to be deported or they voluntarily deported themselves, but that it's still a lot of work that needs. to be done. I mean, as wonderful as this is, like, we need to be realists about it, too. Let's go to her. Now, take a look at this. More than 515,000 illegal migrants have been deported since Trump's inauguration. 1.6 million have voluntarily self-deported. Another 485,000 have been arrested. Molly Hemingway with me this morning. This is exactly what Trump promised on the campaign trail.

I simply didn't realize, Molly, that the numbers were so big, so fast. What say you? Well, they are big, but it is also worth remembering that under the Biden administration, each year, two to three million people were coming here illegally. And so they're good numbers, but it's still only a dent in what has been done to the country because of having an open border during the Biden administration. But yes, it's a good start. I mean, it's an important thing to remember. Two to three million. Like, what the heck was going on? Well, we know what was going on.

And I hate to be so crass and so political about it, but they saw it as an opportunity. I mean, when you look at New York State, trying to make sure that illegals are people who were not in this country with any legal status could vote in school board elections. You saw the same thing going on in Oakland, California. In the case of New York, they actually were going to allow for 800,000 people to be able to vote in some of these local elections. And what happened was it went all the way to the appellate court in New York and they struck it down. But you can see a pattern of behavior where they were like, okay, just get them in, get them in. get them in, give them this, that, and the other. Let them eat cake, as, you know, Marie Antoinette would say, or as Nancy Pelosi would say, let them eat ice cream. Remember that infamous scene when she was

pulling up her freezer with like the Talenti or the Hagen-Daz? I don't know. It's like eight bucks a container for the ice cream. Oh, just, you know, hunker down at home. Eat your super expensive ice cream. There's this feeling that you could just keep bringing people here and that they would then be therefore grateful to the Democrat Party and that they would then be able to have more votes. They also were looking at basically the redistricting efforts and, you know, the gerrymandering that they've engaged in before. And if you have that many more people in your district, even if they're not there legally, they were arguing that they could get more representation in Congress. So there was a method to the madness and it was horribly political

and really truly awful. And now, you know, they're having to pay the price. They're having to pay the price because Americans woke up and said, we don't want any of that. We're done with it. And now we're shutting down the government over it. Well, we're not. They are. Okay, so to be very, very clear, the Democrats chose to stomp their feet and block their ears and just throw a complete temper tantrum because they didn't want to offer up a clean CR. Instead, they wanted that $1.5 trillion going for health care.

It would have gone to illegals. And Trump's like, no, not happening. Not my fault. You guys brought two to three million people in here. a year. That was your mistake, but we're not going to make that mistake by having to bank roll everybody going forward. We don't have the money. We're not going to do it. Period. End of story. And now they're livid because guess what the polls show? It was like the one guy I like at CNN. Harry Enton. Watch. That's exactly right. Turns out shutdowns are different the second

time around when it comes to Donald Trump. Take a look here. You know, we speak about Donald Trump shutdowns, net approval rate, and we're talking 20 days into it. In 2018 slash 2019, Donald Trump's that appropriate was already falling. The shutdown was eating in and it was popular sport. It was down three points already at this particular point and would fall considerably more. It was very much on the decline. You come over to this side of the screen,

this shutdown hasn't eaten in the Donald Trump's support at all. Isn't that approval rating? Is actually up a point in in terms of his popular support. So the bottom line is this. The first shutdown during Trump's first term, 2018, 2019 was hurting Donald Trump. This one is not hurting him at all. there's no real reason Donald Trump might say,

at least when it comes to popular support, I want to get out of the shutdown. What about the question of blame? Yeah, okay, what about the question of blame? Okay, you see here, you see Donald Trump's net approval rating was down 2018 to 2019. You talk about 2025 as net approval rating is up. It comes down to the blame game,

a game I love to play when I was younger. Blame Trump for the shutdown, a great deal. In 2018-19, 2019, 61% more than three and five Americans. Blame Trump, a great deal for that particular shutdown. You come over to this side of the screen, Look at this. It's a different world. It's a different world.

48% of Americans blame Trump a great deal for this particular shutdown. So it's more than three and five back in 2018 slash 2019. It's less than half a drop of 13 points. Again, it's no real wonder that Donald Trump at this point looking at the shutdown says, you know what, it's not actually harming me politically, in large part because he's getting less of the blame. And he's doing things differently during this shutdown. Yes, exactly right.

You know, we talk about Donald Trump and you say, Okay, he wants to be a consequential, influential, influential president. Well, if the legislative process is basically freezed up, you know, on Capitol Hill, you may say, well, then he can't actually get legislation through. But that's not how Trump is governing in this term. We've spoken about this over and over and over again.

He's using his pen. He's using executive orders. Trump executive orders at this point of presidency. In 2017, it was just 50. Look at this, already 210 executive orders signed by Donald Trump during this presidency. That is the most in a year. You have to go all the way back since Franklin Delano Roosevelt to find a president who signed more executive orders in a year than Donald Trump has already signed this time around.

And remember, John Berman, we still have two months to go in this year. So it wouldn't be surprising to me if he signs even more. Yeah, he's saying Congress, you don't want to do something? Yeah, I'm going to do something for you. And so here's the reality. I mean, even CNN's, right, admitting that Democrats are taking the blame. They are taking the blame. There's really nothing to negotiate at this point because they're unwilling to open the government back.

up, which is pretty darn disturbing, I'd say. And then I just want to show you how Senator Elizabeth Warren, I know, because we can barely watch her, but here she is out there trying to say that all of this is illegal. I mean, clearly the woman doesn't understand her ass from her elbow, so to speak. I mean, what is she saying? Like, you're supposed to keep this going? Like, the OMB has a responsibility to make decisions. They have to decide what stays open, what gets closed. And that means if some people are going to get fired and lose their jobs and they have to shutter certain departments. Well, sorry Elizabeth Warren.

You're the one who put us in this situation to begin with. And that's just the way the cookie crumbles. Okay, here she is with a, is this, that's MSNBC, Elizabeth Warren, together. Oh, this will be fun. So let me just say two things. First, these firings are illegal. They were illegal before the shutdown and they are illegal after the shutdown.

Wrong. The shutdown gives Donald Trump. No more power to lay people, off in mass like this than he had before. He had no power to do this. Wrong. But the second is, please observe the cruelty of what they're doing. You know, I was a special ed teacher long before I ever got into this job. And understanding what access to opportunities for those kids need and how those kids can't wait. Is she going to start crying? They need their help so they can be in a classroom. They need that wheelchair. They need that wheelchair. They need.

that extra teachers aid, they need the additional speech therapy, they need those extra opportunities so that they will also have a chance to succeed alongside the other kids in the classroom. And Donald Trump wants to just take that away and the Republicans are willing to just stand by and watch him do that. That is a form of cruelty that no leader of a nation anywhere should impose on the people that he supposedly represents. You know, she's just so, I have to be careful. I have to be careful what I say. But I get why Trump always goes to the nickname because, you know,

you just get so annoyed with people like that when they're trying to misrepresent everything. Look, Elizabeth Warren, you have an opportunity right now to open the government. You guys are choosing not to over one and a half trillion dollars that gets distributed to illegal migrants that Joe Biden brought in in his administration to the tune of two or three million a year. Okay? One and a half trillion that we don't have. Just look at California. California put $6.5 billion towards hospitals for the treatment of illegals.

Like we can't live in a society like this. We've got some serious economic, fundamental problems. And look, the president is trying to do new things. He's actually doing all kinds of new things, really innovatively thinking about how we need to approach our economy from a different. standpoint, whether it means taking a 10% stake in Intel. Gosh, you better hope the Republicans take charge for the foreseeable future. I wouldn't like to see a world where Elizabeth Warren or AOC actually has anything to do with a private company. But nonetheless, he's trying to think about this,

more like a sovereign wealth fund. How do we make money in the United States? Tariffs are one example of this. But again, he goes back to this is so impossible to deal with these people because they're just like a bunch of screaming kids struck with TDS. have a deal. We have a deal. We just want an extension. And the reason we want an extension is because you can't make a deal with these people. They're lunatics. They've gone crazy. They're crazed people. Trump derangement syndrome. There really is that disease. At first I found it to be amusing. Now I find it it really is. They want $1.5 trillion for health care for illegal aliens. They come into our country. If we do that, it will jeopardize the health care of the citizens.

of our country. So we're not going to do that. No, he's not going to do that. And that's what he said to Maria on Sunday. Let me take you live to just outside the ballroom. The ballroom that's getting built, by the way, we can talk about that. He's very excited about it. Anyway, you know, despite all the things that you may have seen online, some people aren't so excited about it. But anyway, here he is talking about the importance of, yeah, getting the government back up and running, but these people have to be willing to negotiate. People of our country. Unfortunately, in a craven and pointless act of partisan spite, Chuck Schumer, who have known for a long time and the radical left Democrats are holding the entire federal government hostage to appease the extremists in their party. And they are extreme.

I mean, I've never seen anything like it. They're extreme, and you know what? We had a landslide election. We won the popular vote by a lot. We won the swing states, all seven. Remember, they said, oh, if Trump could get three swing states, it'd be. And, well, I didn't get three, I got seven. We got all seven by a lot, by record numbers.

We won the electoral college, 312 votes. They said, it's very hard for a Republican. It's harder for a Republican. Although now I think we've swapped it. I think it's now harder for a Democrat. Because if you see what we've done with the Hispanics, with the black workers and black men, and recently a poll came out with black men and women were doing so well,

You know, they want security. They don't want to have their city destroyed. Women in Chicago, beautiful black women walking around with red mega hats, because they don't want to be mugged and shot and everything else. And then you see a Democrat get up and tell you how safe it is in Chicago. Do you know they've had in a fairly short period of time, 4,000 murders. This is over a short period of time. Four thousand murders. and they had a holiday where they had 28 people killed and almost a hundred shot.

And then you listen to this guy, Pritzker. I've known the family for a long time. They threw him out because he was no good. And he became governor. He's got money through the family. And he didn't make. He's got money through the family. But they threw him out.

He became governor. I said, I wonder how he's going to do. It's a crime palace. It's a shame. And you know what we did in D.C. is unbelievable. You people, you can walk down the middle of this street, Mr. Senator. You can walk down. You can have your wife meet you at the restaurant that she's not going to be a costage shot, beat up, raped.

It's unbelievable how bad it was. It was one of the worst in the country. And now it's stone, cold. I don't say the word perfect, but it's pretty damn close. And, you know, they used to have, they would average more than a murder a week in Washington, D.C. this is just before we got here a murder awake think of that the capital of in my opinion

the capital of the world they come from Iowa they come from Indiana they come from Florida you call up the parents I'm sorry sir your son has been shot and killed he can't take it like I actually and I've had conversations with him about this he's different than a lot of

politicians in that he really does value human life I mean that was evident even when you saw anything that we were doing vis-a-v-r troops. He values human life dearly. And the idea that Washington, D.C. can be a place of crime or Chicago or anywhere else, that's got to end. And he's going to do everything in his power to try to make that end. So different than, you know, what we've seen before. A lot of times, you know, politicians are like, ah, you know, we can't, we can't manage it. We can't do anything

about it. And they let it go. But Trump is Trump is Trump. And he's there in 2.0. And he's, he's there in 2.0. He's not willing to change things. I want to look at what he's also suggesting about some of the terrorists because there's some money coming in before that. But before I do, I just want to give a shout out to our friends over at conservatives for lower health care costs, whom I partnered with on this campaign, because I'll tell you, healthcare costs, they do need to come down. The $1.5 trillion, I'll tell you, you give government money, it doesn't end up in good hands,

right? Like, we know that. Like, you give them money and somehow you get more inflation. You look at health care. Look at all the inflation in the health care sector. Look at education, college costs. That's because, oh, there's all this government money thrown at it and government loans. And sure enough, now, it totally outpaces any other kind of inflation.

So that is kind of a given. But I just want to say, you know, President Trump is doing a lot in terms of trying to bring down these health care costs. And part of that, by the way, is dealing with big pharma. He's taking on big pharma. Like, you don't typically see politicians take on big pharma. But big pharma, you know, they have their army of lobbyists. And if you look at what was going on, even just before President Trump got into office, we saw drug prices spike.

They don't want to give you generics. They don't want to give you access to this. They want to hike prices on hundreds of medicines. They've been doing that this year. And even early in this year, still doing some of this while flooding us with, oh, all kinds of ads on network television. Boy, oh, boy, what are they going to do if RFK Jr. is successful with getting them off network television.

Well, also, what would MSNBC? what would NBC? CBS do? They're all going to be up a creek without a paddle. Anyway, they've been spending hundreds of billions of dollars on all of this marketing or hundreds of millions. No, I think it's, it's, you know, all kinds of money. I don't know if it's in the, it's probably in the billions. I should actually look that up in terms of the actual dollar amount. But they're spending money, marketing drugs nonstop to the point where you can't even watch the evening news if you wanted to with your children because of these ads. You know which ones I'm talking about. Worse yet, Big Pharma pushes government mandates designed to stack the deck in their favor, and their goal in Washington is simple.

You know what? They want to escape a clonability. They want to block free market competition. They want to jack up all these already outrageous prices, which means the government intrusion that's coming into your life is really unnecessary bad and results in only bigger profit margins for them, of course. So conservatives for lower health care. You know, we love business. As conservatives, we love business and we see nothing wrong with making money. But you know what? Like, enough is enough, people, okay? We are warning the big pharma agenda is about to stick Americans and employers with billions and higher premiums and drug costs, and President Trump is not backing down from any of this. His administration is cracking down on drug companies that gouge Americans and mislead patients with obnoxious. You know what I'm talking about advertising. Meanwhile, conservatives in Congress are introducing reforms to stop Big Pharma's games that block generics

and keep prices high. So I want to put this up on the screen. Farmaw,windfall.com is where you need to go. If you want to get some more information, it is, again, Conservatives for Lower Health Care, but you can visit them at pharmawindfall.com. Just get some more information. You know, pester your congressperson about it, honestly, because it just can't keep going this way. It is not a good solution for any of us.

As for the shutdown, Trump is being very, very, very clear. I want to go back to him talking about not just the shutdown, but also he's talking about the importance of what we're doing. doing as a nation to try and find other means of economic activity and success. And by the way, this goes out to one of our viewers who sent, thank you for the generosity. I'll put your name up on the screen, but saying, hey, Trish, with your economic background, would you talk some more about economics? I'm always happy to talk about economics. You know that, guys. By the way, 76research.com, go there, use dollar, code dollar. But here is the president speaking about a little bit on the

ballroom as well as what these tariffs are going to mean for our economy. Here we go. Nations got together. We made a deal. And it was all based without the tariffs. You could have never made the deal. I'll tell you what. Tariffs equal national security. Remember that. Tariffs equal national security. You got to remember that. And they also equal wealth for our nation because we've taken in hundreds of billions of dollars in a very friendly manner, given to us, by nations that used to take it from us. And they used tariffs on us. We never used it on them because we were foolish.

We were led by people that weren't business people. But it really does. It equals national security. And I wouldn't have put out, I mentioned eight wars and uncoming. Of the eight, five were based solely on trade and tariffs. India, Pakistan were going at it. Two nuclear powers. And serious nuclear.

Seven planes shot down. They were ready to go. And I called them up. I said, you go to war. and we're not doing a trade deal. And they said, well, what does one thing have to do with the other? It said, it has a lot. Your nuclear powers.

And if you do it, we're not doing a trade deal. And 24 hours later, they called me, we have decided not to do it. We stopped the war. We stopped the potential disaster, a nuclear disaster because of trade. And it's been really amazing. But the tariffs have made us a wealthy country. They've given us tremendous defense. They've given us things that we can do.

do for other countries, very positive. But again, really, it's national security, it's national defense, and they are so important, and it's incredible that presidents, for the most part, didn't know how to use them, when to use them. If you go back, you'll see some of the presidents that were the most successful were believers in tariffs. And I even see foreign countries now that we are doing very well with. Taking ads. Don't go with tariffs. They're taking ads. I saw an ad last night from Canada. If I was Canada, I'd take that same ad also. But they're actually on television taking ads.

But I do believe that everybody's too smart for that. We have a very, very big and important case coming up. We should win the case based on the legal merit. We should also win the case based on all of the things I just said. But we're a wealthy country again. Last week, as you know, they found $31 billion. They came to see me. Sir, we found $31 billion.

They said, we don't know why. I said, was this a good find or a bad find? It was a good find. It was a plus 31. We're used to finding negative 3 ones, right, for the last 30 years. I said, check the tariff shelf. Well, those tariffs haven't kicked in. Yes, they did.

They kicked in two months ago. Check it. He comes back two hours later. Sir, you were right. We have an additional $31 billion, billion. $10 billion, not million, Lindsey, billion that we just found from tariffs. They kicked in earlier than we thought. You were right.

We're a wealthy nation again, and we're a nation that can be secure. We're a nation that can start paying down our debt. And with tariffs, we're the wealthiest nation ever in the history of the world. Without them, we've got a slog. We've got a slog. But remember this. Other nations, including China, Japan, European nations. they used tariffs against us for many years.

That's why we owe $37 trillion. That's why. But they used tariffs very successfully against us, and we had presidents that never fought it. But now you have a president that does fight it. So I just want to welcome you to... Oh, that's great. So, you know, a lot from him there in the Rose Garden today.

It is wonderful that he's able to make these tariffs work. He's thinking about it in different ways. We actually wrote a piece on this. It came out this week in 76 research. I encourage you to go over there. 76researcharch.com. You can learn more at 76 portfolios.com because you see there, these are our key portfolios, American Resilience,

inflation protection, income builder. These are three portfolios that we run 10 to 15 stocks in each one of these, and they've seen enormous success. We're pretty good. We're pretty good at what we do. What can I say? If you just want to tiptoe into it, I would encourage you to get the 76 report with code work.

dollar do that today. But wow, I mean, lots of good things to celebrate, right? Lots of good things to celebrate. We get some tariff income. Hey, who knew, right? We've got the Democrats being blamed for the shutdown. Hopefully we can get through this. But I'd say that the plus side is, despite what Elizabeth Warren is saying, you know what? We are going to be able to slim down that government. Thank you. Russ vote over there at OMB. He's been chomping at the bit to be able to do this for years. and the Democrats handed it to him on a silver platter. So a smaller government will likely be the result of this, but you know what?

There's worse things that could happen, right? Seven agencies. Seven agencies are being affected as we speak with those layoffs hitting. I'll tell you, look, you know, you can't keep going down a path of spending, spending, spending, with no accountability and no ability to pay back your bills in the future. So it's nice to see this sort of business approach. I do worry about future administrations for a variety of reasons, including, hey, basic stuff, like our freedom of speech.

But you know what? We'll save that for another day because I have more coming to you tomorrow in terms of what's going on with cash and dance investigation, in terms of Arctic Frost, and in terms of the 30 million phone records that were, in my view, illegally obtained. We don't have any evidence yet that they got the proper work. warrants or had the proper sign-offs because it appears that one Tim Tebalt, who was running the investigation, was the guy who both initiated it and okayed it. That is not allowed under FBI code. So we will have more on that story, developing, breaking for you tomorrow. I love that you

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