The Trish Regan Show - BREAKING: Could Maddow & Psaki be FIRED in Brutal MSNBC Rebrand?!

Episode Date: September 5, 2025

🚨 In today’s Trish Regan Show:MSNBC insiders are in panic mode. With plunging ratings and a shaky new spinoff in the works, big names like Rachel Maddow and Jen Psaki may soon be on the chopping block. Trish has the inside scoop on who’s safe—and who could be sent packing as the network faces a changing media landscape.And MSNBC isn’t alone—CNN just logged some of its worst numbers in years. Is the network’s relentless bias against Trump and MAGA finally driving viewers away? Trish breaks down what’s behind the collapse.Meanwhile, Pete Hegseth and Marco Rubio send a powerful message to Venezuela’s dictator Nicolás Maduro. But will this confrontation turn into an unnecessary battle—or is there a path to a more strategic, friendly relationship with this crucial nation?Plus—President Trump is bringing top tech leaders straight to the White House, signaling that America’s future will be driven by innovation. This comes as new jobs numbers reveal a more challenging labor market—but Trish explains why there just might be a silver lining in the August report.JOIN TRISH LIVE! 🔔 SUBSCRIBE to support independent journalism:▶️ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBlMo25WDUKJNQ7G8sAk4Zw/join 📈 For Trish’s financial insights, subscribe to her newsletter The 76 Report: ▶️ https://76research.com — Use CODE: DOLLAR for a special offeR Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The cable companies are going down, especially the super, uber-duber liberal cable companies. Just as Donald Trump, it's a new all-time high in the polling. All is right with the world on this Friday. Welcome to the show, everyone. I am Trish Riegan. It's wonderful to have you here. We get a lot going on. We are packed.

I hope you're subscribed. I hope you're sharing. I hope you're liking. I hope you're making comments. Again, I can see your comments because the show is live and I enjoy all of your comments. So keep them coming, everyone. First off, we begin with. MSNBC because they're going to be making some changes, like some really big changes.

Don't forget, just in about eight weeks or so, they are spinning off this Versant, or Versant. I guess that's how they say it. I was trying to give them a little extra something, you know, a little French in there to kind of go with their socialist mentality. Anyway, Versant is going to be this new spin-off from Comcast, and they're going to take all the cable companies that they've got that they don't want any more over at NBC, and they are are going to sell them to the public separately. Now, who's gonna buy that stock?

What do you think? Anyone? Anyone? No, no one, no one is gonna buy it. So what does that mean? They've gotta come up with a brand new way to be relevant and to be profitable. And I'm not so sure that MSNBC is gonna get them there.

I mean, they get some good players right over at CNBC and they have maybe, you know, some other networks, lifestyle type networks and the sci-fi network and this, that and the other that they might be able to salvage. But what's gonna actually happen to the likes of Rachel Maddow, who allegedly is demanding $25 million a year. That's down from apparently 30, for one show a week, mind you, and the likes of Jen Saki, who took over her spot and has managed to take it to new lows overnight.

All right, she was supposed to be the next greatest thing. They thought that somehow she was going to solve their problems instead. She's digging them in deeper. Listen, I'll tell you, overall, to be fair to MSNBC, like, it is brutal. It is brutal out there in Cableland. I am thankful. Can I just say that again? I'm very thankful that I'm no longer in the cable news business because it is a dying business. I used to be in the network news business, having worked for a network,

right? Because when I was a little kid, I was growing up and like we would watch the ABC evening news or NBC evening news or CBS evening news and I thought, oh, well, I want to be a reporter and I want to be on TV. So that'll be just great. But not, not, not. Unfortunately, I should have gone straight to cable, but I was at network and I thought, well, this is it, right? Until I realized, you know, every, Everything is so tightly controlled and tightly wound and you're lucky if you get 12 seconds on the air for your live tag and God help you make it at 13, 13, and you're getting a call from the executive producer saying you went one second over because they time it all out. They have to. They get 22 minutes of programming and so it's scripted, it's

tightly wound and you can feel it right as a viewer on the air. So forget network, that's over. Then along came cable. By the time I got to cable, I was like, well, this is great. You know, we actually have a little bit more freedom here. Granted, even that is very, very strict and very, very scripted and very, very layered with lots and lots and lots of management. And people that think they're very important and they're going to tell you what to say and how to say it. Well, that's no good either. Let me tell you. Having survived all of this.

And this is what we're about to see happen with network news and cable news outlets. This is the product of it because all of a sudden what comes on the scene, but streaming, streaming. and this is basically taking huge numbers and huge share away from the cable companies. So it might have worked five years ago to pay Rachel Maddo $25 million. It doesn't work now. It doesn't work the profitability. And let me tell you, when they become versent and they get spun off and they have to actually stand on their own two feet, it's really, really not going to work.

And again, all the ratings are bad. I mean, like even Fox is not looking great. And Fox is by far the best of the bunch. But then you get to MSNBC. And you're looking at, gosh, a really brutal month in August. Okay? Compared to July, MSNBC was down 9% in total viewers, down 11% in the key demo in prime time. I mean, if you compare it with June, it was even worse because they were down 57% in total

viewers, down 71% in demo. I mean, like, I don't know how you do that, right? If these were earnings, you'd be in a little bit. lot of trouble. And like, this is going to matter, right? Because this controls ad rates. And if you factor in the reality that one, you don't have the ratings anymore. And two, the viewers don't trust you anymore. Of course, they kind of go hand in hand. And three, the industry has changed so massively, then I don't know how you're going to be able to command much of a premium to pay these talents. So you got a couple different scenarios in

front of you, right? You get rid of the costly ones like the Rachel Matas of the world. And maybe you double down on some wallflowers. I mean, they've got that woman that I can never remember on at 4 o'clock, right, with the long, drapey blonde hair. That's one option. And you probably need to do something different with your primetime lineup. I don't think that Jen Saki, by any stretch of the imagination, is going to cut it. You know why?

Nobody wants to watch Jen Saki. Nobody wanted to watch her when she was stumping for Biden day in and day out. lying for Biden day in and day out. And you look at the new numbers and my gosh, they're definitely not watching now. These are brutal. These are absolutely brutal numbers. I mean, I shouldn't laugh, right? It's no better at CNN. CNN is a total disaster too. And there's a reason for that. We're going to talk about the bias at CNN coming up. Media Research Center did a study and it's unbelievable. Their most successful show, which is the one that puts Scott Jennings on the air because he actually has a backbone and like we'll fight back. The host on the,

that particular program, she's interrupting every conservative she can left and right. I mean, there's actually a study that was done on it. It's unbelievable. I'm going to show you. But anyway, take a look at these numbers. This is why it's so sad over there in Cableville. Again, Fox is king here. Maybe because people are like, okay, you know what? I like Donald Trump. I actually feel like Fox is clued in. They're plugged in. They know what's going on. You also had some breakouts and some new networks like News Nation is doing okay. My old employer Fox business seems to be doing Okay, beating CNBC, by the way, but the top three dogs here for the news business are really suffering. And you look at those numbers and heck, I got to tell you, we're doing more here right on the little Trish Regan channel on the Trish Regan show than these guys are doing any given day over on cable.

It's not amazing? It's just like amazing. And by the way, like recently, this has just sort of started to pick up within the last six months. I'll go somewhere and somebody will say to me, hey, I know you. I listen to your podcast. I watch your podcast every day, right? And I'm like, wow. Like, do you know me from cable?

Because, you know, I did work at CNBC and Bloomberg and Fox and all this. And they're like, no, never saw you on cable. I'm like, yes, yes. We are triumphing here. Please make sure you subscribe, share, like all that good stuff. Be part of this as we grow to a million subs. We're getting really, really close. They don't make it easy, though.

I'll tell you. The closer we get to a million, the heart it feels like it is. So much for compound returns on our subscribers. anyway. The point on this network is it is a disaster and there's going to be some survivors. I'll give you a clue as to who will survive this ordeal. Here we go. We will become MS now, which stands from my source for news, opinion, and the world. And look, Andrew, they even have a graphic up. I like it. There it is. The new logo. It looks very sporty.

Survivor, as is the wifie. Okay. So the morning, Joe show, if you know, notice they've really started to change their tune. Their numbers still aren't there, but they've started to be less, less anti-Trump. They're trying to, like, offer a path forward for the Democrat Party. So, you know, they know which way the wind is blowing. They're the ones that went down there in Mar-a-Lago right after Donald Trump won. I mean, Joe Scarborough showed up in a suit and tie for the first time in, like, years at work the next day. So, you know, it's a new day. It's a new on and they get it. But then you've got the others, like the one that used to work for one Joe Biden, who's just never, ever going to be able to figure this out, Jen Saki, because she does not,

dare I say, have talent. You see, you actually do need to have just a little bit of talent to get on there on camera and actually tell a story and have people be interested and want to watch. They kind of have to like you. Or if they don't have to like you, they have to hate you. They have to have something. But when you put somebody on who doesn't, command any kind of presence and there's plenty of them on MSNBC, then you're not going to get the ratings. It's actually not that hard, but apparently this new person in charge, Rebecca, so-and-so, who got rid of Joy Reid, good move for her.

That was smart. Don't get me wrong. That was good move. But she's then sort of tried to rebrand it with a whole host of other characters, none of whom are commanding enough to really be worth tuning into, not to mention, let's be honest. I mean, these people lied to you. And I think that that starts to catch up with them, shall we say. Really and truly, I mean, this woman especially, okay, so a little pepper and Patty there

who used to be on the stump every day, you know, just shilling for Biden, carrying his water, lying for him over and over and over again. Do you really think the public is going to trust her? After everything we went through, I mean, the Democrat Party itself had to get rid of Biden. He was no longer a candidate. They had to put poor Kamala Harris, a sorry. excuse for a politician, you know, forgive me. It has nothing to do with her being black. It has nothing to do with her being a woman and everything to do with. Again, not somebody I'd put on TV,

let alone run as a candidate. She can't even string a sentence together. For goodness sake, she needs CBS to edit the heck out of her in order for her to make sense. Well, they got Jensaki in there, who I'll give her this was a heck of a liar. I mean, she did a really good job lying for Biden over and over and over again. But I don't think that that's what the public wants. Even Democrats, even liberals, they actually do want some truth. And so right now she's out there continuing to lie, or if she's not lying, she just doesn't understand the direction the country's going in, for example, the other night. What did she say about Trump's polls?

I mean, this expired within 12 hours. We may never know why Donald Trump suddenly spent a week hiding entirely from the American public, but you don't actually need baseless online conspiracies to explain why he might not want to show his face in public right now. I mean, for starters, there's the polling, and boy, is it brutal. Brutal. Well, sorry, Jen. Donald Trump just had the highest polling numbers he's ever had. Like, by the next morning, your little monologue was obsolete. Because again, you just can't really, I guess, for whatever reason, get a feel of which way the wind is blowing or what direction we're going in. I give your morning show hosts credit for that. Now, they may not be the most truthful, right?

Because I do believe that it was one Joe Scarborough who told us this was the best Biden ever. So they all have kind of a lying problem. But they do kind of have a feel for the direction of where things are heading and where the country is. And the reason why nobody likes Democrats anymore or anyone in the Democrat Party. I mean, like, look, I mean, anyway you slice it. You get a Democrat party that looks like it's going extinct. You ask that hairy guy, you know, one that actually does that. personality over on CNN. And his words were, the Democrat Party brand is now garbage. Okay, garbage. Like no one wants to be a Democrat. You look at all the new numbers of registrations, everybody's registering as a Republican. And here we go. No sooner did Jen say that than, Dant-da-da-da-da, Daily Mail comes out with its poll with a partnership of JL partners,

which showed us that Donald Trump has now the highest approval ratings ever. for him in history. Like, this is historic. It's like, you know what? If she were a business reporter, people often say this about Jim Kramer, my former colleague over at CNBC. Like, if Jim tells you to buy a stock, sell it. If Jim tells you to sell a stock, buy it. Because he's always wrong. It's kind of like that with Jen Saki. If Jen is telling you the polls are the worst you've ever seen, she's probably wrong. And sure enough, here she is, totally wrong. The president is now tracking at a 55% approval rating per this new poll, 45% disapproving, but quote, James Johnson, who did the poll, says,

this is the highest approval figure we have ever shown for Donald Trump. I mean, that's a big deal, okay? It's a really, really, really big deal. And people are excited because why? Well, he cares about being tough on crime. It's really not that hard to figure out, guys. I mean, the Democrats are so foolish. They get themselves boxed into a corner where they're trying to sit there and tell you,

Oh, but it's really not that bad in D.C. And it's really not that bad in Chicago. I'm sorry, have you seen the murder rates in any of these cities? You guys want to look a gift horse in the mouth. You don't want to actually accept federal help. And federal dollars, by the way, to have more police officers there, National Guard on your street? Well, then it doesn't really seem like you're on the side of the people now does it very much.

Here is the Trump approval rating. Interestingly, this also kind of tracks with what we saw on tariffs. Right? Remember, you know, the day that he announced the tariffs and the markets went crazy. and everybody was kind of freaking out. And you see a huge decline in his poll numbers. And then all of a sudden, this has been a upward trajectory. And you can tie this to two things. One, of course, the markets have been doing very well. The economy has stabilized. Look, in the second quarter, we grew 3.3%. I know today's jobs report wasn't ideal. We'll talk a little bit more about that

later. I think it has a lot to do with AI and productivity gains, etc. But look at this sweeping upward curve and that's directly attributable to one thing. People like how tough he is on crime. So when Jen Saki sits there and says his poles are bad and people don't agree with this crime thing, she's just lying through her teeth again. And people know she's a really, really, really good liar. And that is why Jen Saki is likely going to be gone. I mean, I think they'll keep her on in some way, shape, or form because she's got a valuable Rolodex for them. But you don't want this kind of dead weight. You don't want to be paying someone big bucks to run a prime time show when they can't deliver the numbers. And believe me, she can't deliver the numbers. She's going from bad to worse.

These ratings are so bad. New York Post recently did a story. Here is the headline. She was dipping 47% in ratings last month compared to Alex Wagner. Again, not somebody who you'd remember, right? They just love their wallflowers over there. Rachel, you'd remember. For better or for worse. She actually packs some punch. And I'm going to say this without any kind of us. Look, I think she takes you down crazy rabbit holes, and I think she also lies through her teeth and presents a lot of misinformation that is borderline crazy conspiracy theory type stuff, right? But it's entertaining. She's entertaining. I mean, she's no glamour girl. She wears the same outfit, I think, every single day. It's like that Seinfeld episode. Remember when he was dating that girl, though? Obviously, a guy would not be dating Rachel Maddo, nor would she be dating him if there was that episode. where he's like, she wears the same thing every day. Maybe she's like superwoman, right? The same costume.

So Rachel has the same black blazer on with the same black undershirt and the same haircut every single episode. But she's compelling. She does tell a story. She weaves together a narrative quite well. And that's why she was successful. Can she be successful in this new climate? Not at 25 mil, if that's indeed what they're paying her. Anyway, here's Jen Saki's.

massive dip, 47% dip in ratings last month compared to poor Alex Wagner and Rachel Maddow. And it goes on to say this drop off is really, really pronounced, especially within the demo area. You know why? Because nobody in the demo is actually watching cable television. They're all watching this. I mean, like my kids, have I told you guys this story before when they were like, I first started doing YouTube and they were like, oh, few, mom, like finally. like, you know, you've made it. And I'm like, again, former network correspondent, cable show host, the whole bit, you know, multi- Emmy nominations, the whole thing.

And I'm like, I think they're like kidding me or teasing me. And like, really, you're going to kick me when I'm down? No, mom, we're serious. I mean, we never really knew or understood where you worked before. But now we know, you know why? They don't actually turn on the television and go to a network. No, no, no, no, no. They watch on their computer.

They watch on their phones. I wish they wouldn't watch so much, right? That's on mom. But the point is, this is the change. And so what they're seeing at MSNBC is nobody's watching in that critical demo. I mean, staggering just 78,000 viewers of 52% decline. You can't continue that way. But here's the thing.

You got a woman in the seat who's got Zippo personality. In fact, if you read the whole article, I'm trying to see if it's actually the quote is in here, Somebody actually says an insider there at MSNBC that she's boring. I'm like, well, yeah. I mean, I could have told you that. She's born as all hell. She was born when she was the press secretary too, but she did a good job at lying, which was part of that gig.

And here's the deal. On TV, you really shouldn't be lying, right? Number one. Like, she's an operative for the Democrat Party, and people know that. I mean, she sat there and lied to us about Biden, and she's still lying about Biden yet says this about Trump. I think cover up is such a loaded phrase. I never saw that person, not a single time. And I was in the Oval Office every day.

That was on that debate stage. I'm not a doctor. He was a person who told a very long story in the Oval Office, but that was the case 30 years earlier, right? So how do you differentiate? I don't know. Coverup is a very loaded term. It's a bit of a dangerous term. He had been basically absent from the public eye since last Tuesday.

And that absence, and you may have seen this over the weekend, if you looked at any social media platform, prompted quite a wave of online speculation about the president's health and well-being. We may never know why Donald Trump suddenly spent a week hiding entirely from the American public. And she goes on to cite the polls, which again, as I explained to you, within 12 hours, were obsolete. I think people are just not excited by her. There's nothing to look at. I mean, it doesn't have to be looks. Trust me. It really doesn't.

Rachel Maddow is compelling on television, and she's nothing to look at. So it's not that it's looks. I mean, looks can help on the margin. But there's no looks, and there is a lisp, and she's reading a teleprompter, and you can tell. And so there's no excitement. There's no energy. There's no nothing.

And she's the woman who lied for this guy. America is a nation that can be defined in a single word. I was in a foot him, excuse me. America is a nation that can be defined in a single word. I was in a foot him, excuse me. Okay. America is a nation.

It's worth watching, right? Okay, so poor Jen. I don't believe that Jen will actually make it through this. I think she'll be fine as a contributor, but I think that they're going to have to do some kind of switcher room. And they do have talent there. You know what? I'll give you an example of somebody who I don't think on a personal level is necessarily

all that, you know, without disclosing too much, all that wonderful. But she's a little more exciting on TV. You probably don't even know her because I think they bury her at like 11 or 12 o'clock, but Stephanie Rule, who actually used to work in finance and has an okay head on her shoulder and has some spunk and has some personality. And you need that. You want spunk. You want personality.

You want intelligence. And you want somebody who's compelling. So you don't have that in Jen Saki. You don't have that in, I remembered her name, Nicole Wallace, not there. Chris Hayes? Okay, you know, it's like the inverse of Rachel Maddow a little bit. Lawrence O'Donnell, maybe, I guess, as long as you're not paying them too much. But this is a prime gig that Jen now has.

And so she's in the big leagues. And in the big leagues, you've got to be able to deliver. And if you can't deliver, then why are we putting you there? It is time to make a change. So my sense is they'll keep her on as some kind of contributor, but she's not going to have a show. Which brings you to what happens then to one Rachel Maddow, right? Because it's not just Jen Saki that's going to be disappearing.

Again, look at this. We've got a whole thing going on. August was miserable. Granted, it was August. A lot of people go away in August, but they're still watching. I mean, we had a great August. Heck, we were in the top 100 on the YouTube podcast list last week. Number 85 and climbing, okay? Do your part. Share, like, subscribe to the podcast playlist, download them, all, everything you can do, tell your friends. But the reality is, and Gary, thank you for your generosity. I'm going to get to your comments to everyone here in today's show.

Why not? Right. It's Friday. But I would just say that the entire industry is really, struggling. And so it makes it all the more important to be really thoughtful about how you're spending your money as a network and who you're spending it on and 25 mil. I'm sorry for Rachel Mattel. It's not going to fly. Think about it. I mean, they allowed this to happen. This woman Cutler, Rebecca Cutler is her name. And she thought the answer was to get rid of Joy Reid's program. Okay, thumbs up. I told you you had to get rid of that program. Did I not? I mean, Joy is interesting to watch, albeit she comes across as, suffice it to say, not the most intellectual, really.

I mean, at least Rachel kind of comes across like she maybe knows a thing or two. And the other woman I mentioned has a background in markets and the economy, and I think is on television anyway, a fairly straight shooter with some personality. So, again, these are options that you have. I'm trying to help management. I don't know why. I don't need to help them. But it's just so obvious.

I mean, clearly, they get people in manager that don't know how to pick talent. I'll tell you, talent could pick talent. Talent would know who is threatening and who was not. It's actually hard for me. Like, think about it. If you're me and you're in a cable network, like the reality is it's hard for somebody who's really good. And I am, dare I say, without tuning my heart too much.

I'm pretty good at what I do. and, you know, you're a woman. Like, it's pow, pow, pow, right? Claw, claw, claw. So, a Jen Saki is perfectly fine because nobody feels threatened. Nobody really, you know, thinks she's any good. So why would you bother? Rachel's got a whole other thing going on, right?

She's not necessarily trying to score in the looks department. And so I think that, you know, sometimes it's like just go along to get along, and that's why they keep these people there. And I'm telling you it's not going to work. So Rebecca Cutler, I get some advice for you. Find yourself. somebody on the left with some personality. You know, I've seen some. They tend to like be more populist in nature, right? Some of the Democrats, they're, oh, God, there's this guy. Is it Chuck Rocha? I think he is a,

I think he's a liberal. And I used to put him on my show because like, he was interesting. Again, you know, you want interesting people there. They canceled the readout, which was smart, because it was just a very sort of dumbed-down show that was very, obviously, lots of race-baiting, lots of hate that would come through on the screen, and nothing to back it up. I mean, at least Rachel tries, right, to back it up with statistics and stuff. So Joy Reid was a smart decision. But I'm telling you, this woman, Rachel, cannot continue to collect $25 million. Shareholders aren't going to stand for it when there are no numbers to support it.

I mean, how is she going to earn her keep? Let me ask you. I think we just learned over at CBS that, you know, if you're losing $40, 50 million a year on a show, you're probably not going to keep it going, which is what Stephen Colbert was doing. You're losing at least 25 mil and a whole lot more or whatever it costs for the staff for Rachel Maddo. So you've got to actually, you got to pull the court or cut the court or do something because this woman is not doing it. The bottom line of this dossier, the bottom line allegation, the point of it is that the Trump campaign didn't just benefit from Russia interfering in our presidential campaign. The point of this is they colluded. They helped. They were in on it. This is kind of a real

story. The connections between the Trump servers and the Alpha Bank servers were real. They were covert communications that someone was trying to hide, that the Trump organization and Alpha Bank appear to have been trying to hide. Now we know that the vaccines work well enough, that the virus stops with every vaccinated person. A vaccinated person gets exposed to the virus. The virus does not infect them. The virus cannot then use that person to go anywhere else. It cannot use a vaccinated person as a host to go get more people.

We and other news organizations have generally stopped giving an unfiltered live platform to remarks by former President Trump. It is not out of spite. It is not a decision that we relish. It is a decision that we regularly revisit. And honestly, earnestly, it is not an easy decision. But there is a cost to us as a news organization of knowingly broadcasting untrue things. That is a fundamental truth of our business and who we are.

Yeah. Like, oh, gosh, darn it. That's Russian misinformation that Hunter Biden, laptop. Fed to you courtesy of the rations and Rudy Giuliani, who, by the way, I understand, is recovering. Prayers for Rudy right now. America's mayor, he did a wonderful job on New York. Why? Oh, because he cared about law and order. It seems that, you know, people do actually want to be safe. Another reason why Donald Trump's climbing in the polls? Why? Oh, he's cracking down on crime and it's going well in D.C. And people like it. They're begging for him in Chicago. You see,

all those lies? They weren't being told by Trump. He was actually being very forthright. right and sometimes too truthful. Do you remember in spring of 2020? It was May of 2020. I had been hearing from sources in February of 2020 before we shut down the whole nation, right? I had heard that the virus had come from Wuhan, China, that there was this lab in Wuhan, China, that there were people that had gotten sick in Wuhan China. I mean, this story was out there, right? Certainly among people in the know that had contacts within the administration, et cetera. So clearly Donald Trump had heard this intelligence as well. And so finally, a Fox reporter asked about it in May of 2020, and they came right out and said,

hey, have you heard anything that this could have come from this Wuhan lab? And he said something to the effect of, yeah, I've heard that. I've heard it could come. And they lost it on him. I mean, all of a sudden, he wasn't allowed to be on the air anymore. And I'll tell you, full disclosure, when I worked at Fox, same deal. Like, they'd be like, you can or cannot take Trump with this, you know, rally he has tonight. They really would, they were, they were so afraid.

And it's like, guys, like, who's telling the truth here? Turns out, Donald Trump was telling the truth. And it was the media and the deep state that were lying. And so there's this tremendous bias. People are over it. And I'm just telling you that this network is going to have to reinvent itself. All these networks are going to have to reinvent themselves. Again, Fox's the best of the bunch here.

Maybe they'll continue to print money for a little while, but I'm not sure what happens to the rest. I'm really not. Like CNN, disaster. Disaster. We're going to get to it. Okay, MSNBC clearly a disaster. They don't have anybody there.

They can deliver, they can report, and they're caught in the middle of this changing landscape where they're getting the competition, you know, with their legs cut out from under them by the likes of all these podcasts where it's a very different environment, obviously, and there's no teleprompter. And there's, gosh, darn it, I don't even get like a commercial break. So you may see me putting on my lipstick and drinking my water mid-show, but it is what it is, right? And I wouldn't trade it for the world. So Rachel Maddow, she's likely gone.

And I think the entire industry is going to have to figure this out. I don't think they can afford her. I don't think shareholders are going to go for it unless she's back on the air, five nights a week, delivering ratings. It's lights out. And she'll be fine. She'll go off and do a podcast somewhere. and then she won't have to go into the office and it will probably be better for her and her lifestyle. But I'm just saying for the network itself, if I were management, I'd be nervous and I would definitely,

definitely be looking to change the entire lineup because I need people to watch. And if they're not going to watch, I better make sure I got darn cheapos in the slots, right? Really, really cheap talent because I can't afford to be paying these big salaries if, in fact, Rachel's scoring 25 mil, 25 mil, too much. right? My gosh. All right, CNN. Same sort of deal here on CNN. We're we looking at their numbers earlier? You saw this guys. This is no good. CNN. Whoa. Okay. So during primetime in July, CNN had 444,000 total viewers and 78,000 in the demo. That's not really very good, okay? Because again, we're doing more than that on any given day right here on the Trishrigan channel. I'm very proud of it. Like 100 and some on million views a month. It's incredible. Really. And you know what else is interesting for advertisers?

they actually can really pinpoint. It's like if you're a fan of the show, they know a whole lot about you, you know, whether we like that or not, because of the data footprint online. Whereas if you're tuning into MSNBC, maybe you're going to watch the commercial, maybe you're not, but, you know, they have no idea. They also don't really know who they're getting. They have these very broad categories that Nielsen ratings will deliver for them. And so nobody's watching. And you can't pinpoint exactly who is watching. And let me. me just ask you, has anybody, let me ask this question to the group right now, let me know on the live chat. Have you ever, ever? I want to know if anyone has ever been contacted by

Nielsen ratings. Have you ever gotten anything? I'm just looking off camera so I can see some of your comments and reactions. I have no, I mean like, does Nielsen ratings, it's kind of a mystery. They used to have these diaries where you were supposed to write down exactly what you were watching and apparently now they have certain remotes for your household and they, say that they can track all this stuff? I'm not so sure. Really and truly, I'm not so sure. How would they come up with this data? Let me know. If you've ever gotten a Nielsen remote in your house. I've asked everyone, like no, I don't know a single soul, a single soul that's ever had a Nielsen box or remote or diary or anything. So I don't even know how they come up

with this data. But let's just say whatever data it is, it's pretty bad. Okay, over at CNN, they're the worst of the bunch here. They dropped 11% in total viewers, 15% in the demo during prime time, decreased 10% in total viewers, 15% in demo during the day. And if you look at the performance over the same month in 2024, this is one gets really ugly. It's down 59% in total viewers, 68% in the demo. I mean, they are just hemorrhaging. They are hemorrhaging viewers. And why is it? well, one, again, it's because of what we're doing over here, but two, it's also because people don't trust them because the bias is like off the charts. For goodness sakes, they just did a study on this over at Media Research Center. My friends there said, one of the worst offenders,

Abby Phillips, have you ever seen this show? You might have seen it because sometimes I actually play the clips of Scott Jennings because he's just so darn good. And I'm like, poor Scott, you know what, this guy deserves a gold star, a big trophy, a medal, a metal of a on her, right? Because he goes in there every night and it's like nine against one. And this woman like cuts him off every chance she gets. She's got the most successful show. I attribute this actually to Scott being on it because you hear a different viewpoint. And so it's thus, therefore, more interesting, right? He's got some spunk. He's got some personality. She just interrupts him. Since last summer, they write when CNN Newsnight shifted to a panel discussion only format host Abby Phillip has been

praised for consistently inviting prominent conservatives. Oh, gosh, she's actually willing to go there and sit at the same table with them. Wow, we've got to give her praise for inviting prominent conservatives onto an otherwise lopsidingly left-wing network. But with how rarely Philip actually permits said conservative guests, they write, to finish a point without interrupting them, news night is more akin to a televised television struggle session than the beacon of ideologians. diversity as which it sometimes is portrayed. Case in point, just in case you're doubting, our friends at Media Research Center,

they put together this little clip, and we're going to watch it together because Abby loves to interrupt, only conservatives. Obama is the IRS against his political enemies. That did happen. But he did. He is not a citizen.

If he were a citizen, I might feel differently. He's a guest in this country. It's my view. So in other words, you don't have proof, but it doesn't matter. Can I finish my freaking mistake? No, no, no, no. We just interject.

I want to conclude my thought process. After the Floyd riot, policemen in fear of their jobs many times and political coverage, pull back from your jobs, resulting in an increased level of common size. You can get that for the country. Hold on.

You can look at the Washington Post numbers on this. You got to stop you there because you're literally making a connection out of your own conjecture. No. It's a real thing. Look up the Ferguson effect. Look up the Floyd effect. It is a real term.

It's a real term. You cannot just. invent a connection between two things. Harry Enton's own numbers last week said 51% of people are supportive ICE in their communities. There was a poll today reported on by Politico, Big Stack saying 50% support Trump's immigration laws. Hold on. Kamala Harris addressed the American Federation of Teachers and joined them in opposing banning

of books. And here's the book that was in question. Are we talking in favor of banning books now? OBJ actually flew the chief down to Texas to his ranch and berated him because he was pissed off about some of his decisions. And then why? Let's remember. And then why?

No, no, no. And then what happened? I want to make my point. I want to finish your point. Then George H.W. Bush. But, Chair Michael, I'm going to pause you there. He's a resident alien. He can be deported under U.S. law for if the Secretary of State has any reasonable

ground to believe he would have a potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequence. And you mentioned the student organization. The student organization put out and retreat. Well, let me finish. No, but before you move on. Unbelievable, right? So they did their homework. These guys are actually really good at deciphering all this bias out there.

They're the ones that concluded. I think it was 92% of all coverage of Donald Trump was negative. Well, like 99% of the coverage of Kamala Harris was positive. I mean, the bias is so excessive and wrong. And this is why some of the networks are finding themselves in a situation where they're at risk of losing their FCC licenses. They're flipping out over at NBC, right? That's in part why they had to do this spin-off. Comcast is getting rid of the cable networks because it doesn't want anything to do with MSNBC

because it wants to preserve its NBC affiliate stations and the affiliate licenses, which are granted by the federal government. And those are all at risk right now. ABC, same kind of thing, which is why I'm telling you, the view is at risk right now. I mean, you don't even have to listen to me. I think Rosie O'Donnell, who was on the show twice, said absolutely, it's at risk right now. And the host would be smart to recognize that. I think they have.

I think that's why Joy Behar was selling her house out in Sag Harbor, right? She sees the handwriting on the wall. She's also 82. So I may have something to do with it as well. But it's all changing. It's changing so fast. And I'm amazed by it. I love it.

It's happening in real time and it's exciting. I want to get to RFK. RFK Jr. I mean, this was wild. What we saw with Elizabeth Warren, for example, and he took her to task. And the media is piling on him. him. They want to take him out like you wouldn't believe, but it's not working. And I'll tell you why. But first, quick shout-out is my company, 76 research. Listen, if you're trying to invest in the markets, let us help

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good one. Okay, RFK, he's turning out to be the most popular guy in town, indeed. But no wonder, right? The media is trying to take him down. so they're making them into a little bit of a martyr, I guess, in the process, all while he goes for the jugular as Elizabeth Warren tries to beat him up. Did you see this in the hearings? I mean, this is pretty fantastic TV.

Let me just say, quick soundbite from RFK giving it to Elizabeth Warren. I never promised that I was going to recommend products with which there is no indication. When you said, and I know you've taken $855,000 from pharmaceutical companies, You see, I told you you would catch me. I told you. I don't have a commercial break. It's hot under these lights. What can I say? Little powder. All right. So look at this. This is what's going viral online right now. You're seeing all these different politicians with how much money they've taken from Big Pharma. That was his point to Elizabeth Warren that you're not as clean as one would think because you know, who pays for your campaign? Big Pharma. Well, this message, I think in part because he's been

consistent on it and he hasn't wavered and he really kind of seems to be speaking the truth in at least as he sees it, right? That's not hopefully polluted by the likes of the money, right, that some of these other people are getting from Big Pharma. And I think that this helps explain why he is now the most popular member of Donald Trump's cabinet. Most popular of all the key officials that we have recent polling on, Pete Hickset, his net, favorable minus 14 points. J.D. Vance. Minus 11. Marco Rubio minus 10. R.K. Jr. is at minus

7, but minus 7 beats minus 10, beats minus 11, beats minus 14. So, no, R.K. Jr. is not a drag on President Trump. He's not the most em battled. In fact, he is the most popular official in Trump's cabinet, at least according to the poll. It is interesting,

though there have been calls for his resignation among some people in the CDC, but I was, this was surprising to me to see these poll numbers here, which is why I welcomed the fact check from you. Another thing in the news has to do with Florida where they're trying to overturn all vaccine mandates, including vaccine mandates in school for children. What do the polls tell us about that? Okay, this to me is one of the most interesting, and in my opinion, most troubling trend lines that we have seen. Okay, Vax kids against infectious diseases, the government should

require it. You go back to 1991. It was 81%. Okay. Then we go to 2019 at 62%. Look at where that number fell to by 2024. It was just 51%. That is a 30-point drop from 34 years ago. My goodness gracious, now a bare majority say that the government should, in fact, require kids to be vaccinated against infectious diseases amongst Republicans. It's the opposite. The majority say the government shouldn't require it. Now, I should point out this does depend a little bit on question wording. The polling out this morning says that the government should encourage it, but encourage it is very different from requiring it. And when it comes to require it, the American public has become increasingly skeptical of the idea that, in fact, the government

should require kids to be vaccinated against infectious diseases. And I want you here to talk about the political environment surrounding the health apparatus in this country right now, because I'm about to talk to Dr. David Urban, our friend David Urban, a Republican. I guarantee you is going to say something to the effect of that there's no trust anymore or the trust has fallen among public officials when it comes to health. Yeah, this to me, if you're a public health official, this is perhaps the most worrying statistic that you should see. Look at this. Look at this. How well masked in vaccines limit COVID? Public health officials lied. They lied. In 2022, it was 45%. Look at where that number is now. Wow. So I think that, you know, what you're kind of feeling and seeing here is that there's a very

libertarian streak that has come out in the American population. And that's perhaps in part because they really feel like we got dumped on, right, during March 2020, and people are still bruised from that. And as a result, they're less willing to trust the government who's saying, do this, that, and the other. And there's this pushback. Plus, let's face it, there's more information out there that you can see. I think people also haven't recovered from the reality that information was hidden. I'll give you an example. I used to work at Marketwatch way back one in my career, marketwatch.com. And so I remember the reporters, a friend of mine that had done a story. I was a on an Oxford study that had come out about one of the vaccines,

I think it was Pfizer actually, and some side effects minimal that had been reported in some people. And this was all during the height of everything. And so I saw that story and I was like, wow, it was at the top of Market Watch, like as a lead. And I took my computer downstairs because everybody was home back then. Remember, we were all working from home. And I went into my husband's office and I was going to show it to him.

And I was like, wow, look at this. And I went to go back to the website and it was gone. And so I'm like pouring through the website, gone, gone, gone. I can't find this study. And I'm like, so finally I do a search and I'm still not finding it. So I knew the reporter's name. I put in his name. I put in that it was Oxford.

I put in it was Pfizer. And finally the story comes up. It had been like buried within minutes. So like we're not over that. Okay. Like I kept saying at the time, you're running the risk of destroying the trust and faith of the American people, the little that they're. have in government. You're going to totally ruin it. And that's in fact what they did. And so now,

you're seeing some states like Florida getting praised by residents there with DeSantis saying, what's the heck with this. We don't want any part of it. Regardless of where you come down on this, I think you have to recognize that a lot of the trust, a lot of the equity that may have been built up was just depleted. People no longer trust the government as a result of what went down. And so that's the spot we find ourselves in now. So they look at RFK Jr. And they're like, hey, you don't trust the government. I don't trust the government.

So I trust you. And that hence is why he's climbing in terms of popularity. And he's now the most popular cabinet member in the Trump administration. We'll have to see whether or not Marco or Pete might start to rise. I mean, they're on the front burner these days, thanks to Venezuela. Venezuela very much in the crosshairs with the, Trump administration at this moment in time. I have been pretty familiar with this story for quite a while, know a lot of people on all sides of this. And let me just tell you, let me start from the premise that

we want what's best from America. Do we not? We don't really want an adversary two and a half or two and three quarters of an hour away from the coast of Miami. Thank you very much. We don't want a communist state that is actually hurting its people. I mean, the stories that I've, personally heard are just horrific, right, about the poverty, etc. There and we certainly don't want people trafficking bad stuff here to the US of A. So there are a lot of reasons that they want to get rid of this particular regime. They wanted to get rid of Chavez. It didn't happen.

They tried to get rid of Maduro before it didn't happen. So now they're looking at it straight on. I think that the handwriting is actually on the wall for Nicholas Maduro. I don't think he's going to be able to survive this time in this administration because I think think that they really recognize, and don't forget, Marco Rubio has a big history, you know, and he's got a lot of support from the Cuban Americans in Florida. Marco Rubio has no interest in communism, socialism, a Venezuela style. So he's going to want to see somebody else that Maria Carino Machata is somebody who has

been educated here in the U.S. She's a capitalist. She's a conservative. She's waiting ready and willing in the wings. So could there be a resubilant? regime change there. It seems like things are escalating. I mean, you know the other day what happened in terms of the boat that they took out the alleged narco traffickers, right, that were trying to come into the U.S. They took those guys out, 11 of them. And then somehow Maduro thought it was wise

to retaliate. Like, are you kidding me? Yeah. So according to DOD, they put this statement out yesterday afternoon. Today, two Maduro regime military aircraft flew near a U.S. Navy vessel in international waters. This highly provocative move was designed to interfere with our counter-narco-terror operations. The cartel running Venezuela is strongly advised not to pursue any further effort to obstruct, deter, or interfere with counter-narcotics and counter-terror operations carried out by the U.S. military. So they're basically saying, hey, hey, guess why? You know what? We're going to keep doing what we're doing. If you try to send these things here to the U.S., you're going to escalate this problem. I think the message was made loud and clear on Fox this morning. I want to go to our

Secretary of Defense, I guess soon to be also Secretary of War in the Department of War. It's a secondary title that they're trying to get through. Here is, in an executive order, by the way, Pete Hagseth, my former colleague, actually, at Fox talking about what this means and putting Maduro on notice. The only person that should be worried is Nicholas Maduro. who's running effectively as a kingpin of a drug narco state, not actually elected, and indicted for $50 million by the United States. And we know he's involved in the types of drug running that has affected the American people directly.

So China and other countries are going to say certain things, and that's their prerogative. What we have there in the Caribbean is a clear demonstration of military might. President Trump has shown, whether it's the southwest border, whether it's a the Houthis in freedom of navigation, whether it's Midnight Hammer in Iran, that the precise application of American power can have incredible impacts and reshape dynamics around the world and in the region. So Nicholas Maduro, as he considers whether or not he wants to continue to be a narco-trafficer, has some decisions to make.

And that's all I'll say about that. In other words, if you're going to continue doing that, then there may be a price to pay. Now, there's been some sort of debate about whether or not Venezuela is a hotbed of narco activity. I mean, for sure, Colombia, Mexico, we know that. There, of course, have been reports. And by the way, the administration has been connected. The regime in Venezuela has been indeed connected to that. I wouldn't say it's necessarily the biggest, you know, the hotspots, again, being, if you look at the hot map from the DEA,

you're going to see, for example, Colombia, you're going to see Mexico. But like I said, I think there's something else going on here. I think there are other reasons why this is a particular concern to this administration. And part of it actually, well, you know, I want to save this sort of for the end, but it has to do with oil, really. I mean, because they're sitting on a heck of a lot of oil. Why the heck do you want somebody who's close to China and to Russia and to Iran running things down there? Wouldn't it be good if we had somebody that was sort of sympathico with our interests, right? Look, all that said, you know, there should be no drugs of any kind being trafficked into the U.S.

And Marco Rubio made this very, very clear in a statement just yesterday. No, no, for your wrong in your question. Number one, Venezuela is a major source. And the reason why is the following. And I've seen a lot of this reporting, and it's fake reporting, and I'll tell you why. It says that somehow Venezuela is not involved in the drug trade because the U.N. says they're not involved in the U.S. I don't care what the U.N. says. The U.N. doesn't know what they're talking about.

Maduro is indicted by a grand jury in the Southern District of New York. That means the Southern District of New York presented the evidence to a grand jury, and a grand jury indicted him. And then a superseding indictment came out that was unsealed about a year and a half ago that specifically detailed Maduro's actions. So, number one, let there be no doubt. Nicolas Maduro is an indicted drug trafficker in the United States, and he's a fugitive of American justice.

You know, and don't forget, his stepson, also got trapped up in that. I believe the woman he's married to, her sons wound up at one point in jail in the U.S. because of these allegations. So there is a history there, and I'm only saying, I think that there's a lot of incentive

for this administration to be more aggressive, however they can. I'm not saying that Donald Trump's going to go with troops into Venezuela. He's had that opportunity before, and I told you he didn't want it, he didn't take it. But he does recognize, the importance of the region from a strategic sense in that you don't want China there,

right, for national security reasons, like think Monroe Doctrine, you don't want China there, you don't want Iran there, you don't want Russia there, but we do have all that oil there. And I know it would take a while to get out of the ground and we don't really, you know, we were all kicked out by Chavez. Don't forget, I've been to the Orinoco region. It is massive and the potential is extraordinary. It could rival Saudi Arabia, really and truly. And it would be right here, like two and a half hours away, maybe two and three quarters,

from Miami. So there's a lot of opportunity. If you could get this stuff out of the ground, we get the technology, they got the oil, and you're going to need it, right? In this new world where we are welcoming AI. I look at what's going on right now. I mean, wow, did you ever think you'd see the day where you would have Mark Zuckerberg and Donald Trump sitting down breaking right together? Or Bill Gates, for goodness sakes? I mean, this was a little surreal, was it not? last night, did you catch any of this? All the tech leaders getting summoned to the White House, grateful to be there, heaping the, Donald Trump heaped praise on them, and they heaped praise back. I want you to watch this one with Tim Cook, head of Apple.

Tim Cook, you've done an incredible job with Apple, a little company called Apple. Thank you, Mr. President. Very, very few people have been able to do what you've done. Congratulations. Thank you, sir. That means a lot to me. I want to thank you for, including me this evening. It's incredible to be among everyone here, particularly you and the First Lady. I've always enjoyed having dinner and interacting.

I want to thank you for setting the tone such that we could make a major investment in the United States and have some key manufacturing, advanced manufacturing here. I think that says a lot about your focus and your leadership and your focus on I also want to thank you for helping American companies around the world. This is a very key, key thing, and I really enjoy working with your administration on those

topics as well, because I think they're so important to the country. I want to thank the First Lady for focusing on education. There's nothing more important than education. It is the great equalizer and always will be. And so thank you so much for including me. We are all different in some ways, but we all believe in the power of technology to improve people's lives. And that is the thing that binds us all together.

And Tim, how much money will Apple be investing in the United States? Because I know it's a very lot. And it's, you know, you were elsewhere and now you're really coming. home in a big way. How much money would you be investing? 600 billion. Wow. 600 billion. It's a lot of jobs. We're very proud to do it. That's great. Thank you very much. Thank you. Appreciate it. Thank you, sir.

Investing in the U.S. of A. Apple. It's pretty great, right? I mean, and look, from, again, a national security standpoint, from a national economic standpoint, you want these jobs happening here. It's too easy to outsource some of this stuff, but what are you risking when you outsource it. Think about to China. Who demands that, well, they don't even demand. Well, they kind of demand or they just steal it. The technology that makes this stuff so that they can copy, right? So all the intellectual property effectively gets surrendered to China and a lot of CEOs are just willing to do it anyway because it keeps costs down. And I do think, like people would pay up a little bit more for an iPhone if it meant it was being made here at home and you had good,

high paying, high tech jobs. This is the future. I mean, manufacturing. I know everybody talks about manufacturing and they're worried about manufacturing. And the president echoes this a lot, right? It's been a big part of his campaign. But also what he's focused on is high tech manufacturing and making sure that we can transition into the future because let's face it, AI has left the station. All right? It just has. And you don't want China owning that space. You want us owning that space. Melania Trump having her own AI summit there to talk about the importance of how it affects education. This is a big deal, you guys, because this is the one present. Can you imagine Joe Biden doing this? I just can't.

I mean, this president gets it. You know, I know that people want to make fun of him on the crypto front and say, oh, you know, he's lining his pockets. He's no fool. He gets that things are happening. We're going to reach a point in time. I'm telling you, I am telling you, we're going to get to a point in time where guess what? The New York Stock Exchange, as you know it, it's not going to exist like that.

When I was a little kid, my parents took me to a field trip for the New York Stock Exchange, and it was jam-packed. It was crazy, right? Did you ever see that movie? you know, with Dan Aykroyd switching places. Like back in the day, well, those were actually the pits there at the, you know, they're trading orange juice futures. But think about the New York Stock Exchange. It was mobbed. Remember when CNBC first started broadcasting, Maria Bardo, I mean, she would just get pushed around, right? By the time I was broadcasting there,

guess what? I used to broadcast my show, the 11 a.m. show on CNBC every morning from the New York Stock Exchange. And you know what? But it was basically a set. No one was there. Things had changed. It all went to computers. So what is the next generation of this? I suspect it's going to be trading on the blockchain.

So whether it's Ethereum or something else, the blockchain that's supporting all these trades and all those meme coins right now that everybody talks about and I call them stickers. Like people are trading stickers. They're really not worth that much. It's the blockchain that's more compelling and interesting. Those meme coins, those one day very well might be the actual. the actual tickers for these stocks. So everything's going to change. And who's going to be with that?

Who's going to embrace that change? Look, we are the financial capital of the world here in the United States of America because why our financial markets are the most solvent. They are the most liquid. You don't want China taking over that liquidity, not that I think they can. But this is a big reason to be behind the tech boom. And the president gets that. He gets it. And I, I got to show you this one. This is great because it's a little disturbing, actually. Given what we know about what has transpired in the past with Facebook and Donald Trump, I mean, he got his account shut down, remember all that? Like, it was bad. It was really bad. It's like when we were watching Rachel Maddo earlier saying,

we have decided not to broadcast the President of the United States because, or think about Twitter back when it was Twitter, shutting down his account. You know, the Adetola could have one, but not President Trump. No, no, no. because he dared to say, yeah, maybe the virus came from China. Duh, because the guy doesn't actually want to lie to the people, the way you want them to lie. Anyway, it was wonderful to see the two of them breaking bread and, you know, putting the past behind them. Mark's like a new man, right? If you believe it.

Well, thanks for hosting us. And this is quite a group to get together. And, you know, I think, you know, all of the companies here are building, just making huge investments in the country in order to build out data centers and infrastructure. to power the next wave of innovation. So we don't often get together as the CEOs of the different companies, but it's good to see if all. How much are you spending, would you say, over the next few years? Oh, gosh.

I mean, I think it's probably going to be something like, I don't know, at least $600 billion through 28. Good answer, Mark, good answer, because, you know, Tim Cook just said $600 billion. It's like, what are you doing for me? What are you doing for the U.S. of A? How much are you going to spend here, here, here, here, not overseas, here? In the U.S.?

Yeah. It's a lot. No, it's significant. That's a lot. Thank you, Mark. It's great to have you. Thank you. That's great.

You know what? I'm willing to let bygones be bygones. I mean, as long as this is for real. And the one concern I have about all of this, full disclosure, is that we run a risk. if we don't keep up this momentum, if we don't see, if we don't see Congress stay conservative, if we don't see another conservative in the White House in the next cycle, we run the risk that it all gets reversed and that that was just a bunch of mumbo-jumbo, and maybe Mark believes it, maybe he doesn't,

I hope he believes it, I mean, he seems like he believes it, but I know what went down, and you know what went down, and we've all been there, and we don't want to go back to that. We want the world to be normalized. we need people to be able to stand on their own two feet and succeed because of who they are, because of their work ethic, because we have the most beautiful meritocracy in the world. We're only in America you can succeed if you're willing to put in the work. And you've got some creativity and, yes, you make right decisions and yeah, I get it. There's a little bit of luck.

But get away from this nonsense about it's your skin collar, it's your, you know, it's your, you know, it's your gender, it's your, it's your ethnic, look, I'm a woman, okay, here I am. We're coming up on a million subs. It's great. Make sure you subscribe. And we have built, I have built, but I consider you part of that here together with me a business where we're doing more in views on a daily basis than the networks I used to work for. Like, where does that happen. Only in America, okay? It's because of these technological changes. So I want to keep embracing this technology, and I want to make sure that we have an even fair playing field so everyone can participate. And that's why it is so critical, that we keep this momentum going.

We need more conservatives to keep winning and winning and winning, because I can't go back. I don't know about you, but I can't go back to those days, for goodness sakes, where you were scared to even speak because, God forbid, it might be a microaggression. I was like, what is a microaggression? I'll never forget hearing that term. Somebody was like, oh, you know, they were talking about their kids' school, and I looked at that particular school, but I thought there were too many microaggressions. And I'm like, are you kidding me? Like, so you basically would have to walk around in a total state of guilt all the time.

I'm going to apologize. I'm going to apologize. I'm going to apologize. I promise you, you know. I mean, no, I don't think so. We can't go back to that. We can't. And I'm telling you we're not going to.

I know people are freaking out. about the jobs report today, 22,000. When we go up to 4.5% on inflation? Listen, there's a lot of good stuff happening. It's August. Here's the good news. It means the Federal Reserve is actually going to have to think about cutting interest rates sooner rather than later, okay?

So think about that. It also means that there are productivity gains that are happening, whether you like it or not. It's part of the reason why I keep saying, be invested in this new economy. right, be invested in the magab boom. It's one of the reasons why I do want you to subscribe to my research over at 76 report, but it's code or dollar. It is a big part because things are changing and, and you know, Donald Trump is doing what he can to make sure that we're all part of this. We need everybody to be part of it. I'm laughing. I'm just looking at some of your comments here

because we've, we've had quite a show today on this Friday. And I asked a few of you, Have you ever, ever known anyone or have you yourself ever gotten a Nielsen box or a diary? And, you know, actually one of you said, this is cracking me up. You used to actually do the sales. You used to get people, used to recruit people to do that. That's fascinating. So I guess it really does exist. Somebody else talking about, okay, so this is Desert Eden Bloom's says,

I meant I was a recruiter for the fame Nielsen ratings box. So Desert Eden Blooms, if you are still watching right now, I'm curious, like, who would do that? Well, David did. David Ostrander said he got five bucks out of it. They paid you $5, right, so that they could monitor your viewing habits. It's a good thing to do, you know, if you're ever asked to do it, because then you can just turn the TV off and say, I'm not watching any of it. And then you know that you really count. Anyway, it's good to have all you here. A peace of my mind. Thank you for your kind words and so many familiar faces.

I see some new ones here too, so make sure you subscribe and share and like and Leslie. Hello, Bill Gates spare you. Oh, you know, he was there too. Yeah, he was. Did you see him? He got some pretty good seating, some pretty good placement. I'll tell you. It was sort of weird to watch it all unfold.

And, you know, I will say this. I'm going to say this about Donald Trump. And I think this is a good quality to have. He does not hold a grudge. Really? He does not hold a grudge. Look at the people that have been so critical of him. And he moves on, which by the way is a nice way to be in life.

If you're somebody who's always carrying around a grudge, I mean, you're basically Elizabeth Warren. He's like, hey, you want to do a deal? You want to invest $600 billion in the USA? I'll take it. And there's something to be said for that, guys. You know what? I get it. We all feel like we were burned.

I'm just saying, let's not get burned again. And let's be willing to take the ball and run with it, which is exactly what he's doing. He's going to go down, work my words, as a pretty tremendous president. Certainly one of the most influential for sure. Don't take my word. CNN actually said that. The hairy guy again, who's really growing on me. It's like the only reason to watch CNN.

He's the only, his clips are some of the few I can show, and people are not, like, completely appalled. It's great to have you. Thank you for what you do. Let's keep building this together. Make sure you subscribe, share, like, my mother's 80th birthday is this weekend. So I'm going to be seeing her up in New Hampshire.

We've got the kids coming in my husband, everybody. We've got a big party for her. Happy 80th mom. It's a big number. she probably wouldn't appreciate me saying that. She doesn't look at, she really doesn't. I mean, it gets kind of annoying because, like, we'll go out and people are like, are you guys sisters? And I'm like, hello? Like, really? You think we're sisters, huh? But I think that means I got some good jeans. So I'm going to go with it. I'm going to look at glass half full. Again, like the president,

glass half full. I wish Chicago could learn that. Don't look a gift horse in the mouth, for goodness sakes. Anyway, happy birthday mom. I'm going to see you up for the big, big party tomorrow. Thank you to all of you for watching. Do make sure you subscribe and hit the bell so you know when I'm live. Have a good one.