The Trish Regan Show - BREAKING: Ilhan Omar OUSTED From Congress?! Voter REVOLT Over MN Fraud--NEW Dem Set to REPLACE Her!

Episode Date: March 14, 2026

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And we're live. I'm getting a head start on St. Patrick's Day, all decked out in my green. Lots going on here today. You know, never a day when there's not, it seems like. But we get a lot of news right now, and I want to get to all of it. I want to welcome you to the Trish Riegan show. I am Trish. Good to have you guys here. Make sure you subscribe, share, like, all that good stuff. Some of the headlines we're going to touch on today. Ilhan Omar is seemingly out there in Congress. You know, we knew this was going to come one day, but now she's got a real challenge that she's got a face. Pentagon is shaming CNN so much so that CNN actually issued a correction. I think they're calling it a clarification, but I would call that a correction.

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Remember to subscribe to the Trish Regan show. Make a comment. Join us in the commentary if you're live or therefore after the fact. If you watch the replay, bye-bye. Bye-bye, bye-bye. Ilhan Omar. I'm sorry. But you know what? I think your time is up. They're coming for you. The Democrats have figured out they can't actually run you because you see the people in the state of Minnesota are exploding with fury over all of that money that's like, poof, gone. The estimate now at $19 billion, and people don't forget stuff like that. Here now we have, look at this woman, Julie Lay, Lee, Lee. It doesn't matter. Let's go by Julie for today, okay, because this woman's going to give her a room for money.

is the woman that actually, remember, quit. She was working as a prosecutor there on behalf of the administration, and she was in Minnesota, and she couldn't handle the number of sort of migrants that she was having to, you know, go up against, and she got so mad one day that she said to the judge, I have no resources, I haven't slept in how many days, and went on and on, and the judge was like, what's going on? And then the administration fired her. So now she's the one who's going up as a Democrat against Ilhan Omar. Well, think about it for just a second. Yeah, the Somali community, I get that they're powerful in Minneapolis, but they're not everything. There's plenty of other people there. And, you know, maybe the whole district leans really, really left.

Well, here's a woman who wants to stand up against ICE, and she also probably wants to stand up against fraud. And Ilhan, that's a really, really bad combo, let's just say for you. Plus, you know, she's smart, she's educated, she's a lawyer. So, you know, she didn't go to the Learing Center for her education. So I do think that Ilhan Omar is going to have a bit of a problem. She made national headlines, they said back in February, February 3rd for her outburst before the U.S. District Judge Jerry Blackwell, who was demanding answers as to why the federal government missed deadlines to release five immigrants from custody. And Lay, who was working then at the U.S. attorney's office at the time, explained that she and her co-workers were dying, right? They

have been working around the clock to address a wave of immigration cases in Minnesota since the start of Operation Metro Search. And she said to the judge, what do you want me to do? The system sucks. This job sucks, according to the court transcript. And that's, you know, of course, when she got canned. But think about what she's saying. She's worked for the administration. in terms of fighting the, you know, immigration issues. So she's not necessarily on the side of the Somali immigrants and the Somali fraudsters. She's a different kind of them that they're offering up. And I think that the whole city, while it leans left, is going to be very interested in a kind of different candidate,

especially given all that we've learned about Ilhan Omar and the alleged money laundering and the sudden wealth going from negative $50,000 to $30 million. in like two years. I mean, it's unbelievable, not to mention what she was paying her husband. We're going to get to all of that. But this Julie Lay looks quite promising. She said she had stupidly volunteered to join the U.S. Attorney's Office in Minnesota, and she had started on January 5th.

Well, she didn't make it very long, right? About four weeks to help handle petitions challenging immigration detentions. And she said, quote, sometimes I wish you would just hold me in contempt, your honor, so that I can have a full 24 hours of sleep. So now she's going to be on the campaign. paint trail and that is going to be one heck of a match for Ms. Wilhelm. On why the fraud got so out of control in Minnesota? I think what happened is that, you know, when you have these kind of new programs that are

designed to help people, you're oftentimes relying on third parties to be able to facilitate. And I just think that a lot of the COVID programs that were set up, they were set up. so quickly that a lot of the guardrails did not get created. In other words, it's your fault. You stupid government people, it's your fault. I mean, what's a Somali immigrant to do other than to steal from the system, $19 billion later? And keep in mind, after this unfolded and it started to make news, Ilhan was still at it. And this is, I'm giving Julie here some material.

Okay, Julia, you've got to tune into the show because you need your ammese. This is not going to be a hard race to win. Joni Ernst was furious because she found out, Senator Ernst, that Ilhan Omar was still trying to get money through. Even after all this was said and done, for a Somali restaurant owner that claimed he had a mental health clinic above the kitchen. She wanted a million bucks for that one. Joni stopped it. And by the way, this new representative has a real shot because she's going to offer to stop all this stuff. too. Let's go to Joni.

Covered the other day and one of our spending bills making its way through Congress was an one million dollar earmark from Representative Ilan Omar of Minnesota, which was an earmark that was supposedly going to a substance abuse clinic, which actually happened to be housed in a restaurant and run by three individuals that share the same residential address according to their IRS paperwork. Tons of red flags. So this is what we saw with the fraud involving the daycare centers. Now we see other earmarks coming directly from members of Congress where it seems fraud is being perpetrated as well. So I raised the issue and fortunately the House has now stripped that earmark out of that spending bill.

But again, this is how easy money has been flowing. to bad actors in Minnesota. It's unbelievable, unbelievable stuff. But again, this bodes well for the new girl, right? For the new kid on the block, this Julie Lay, who I think is really going to have a very decent shot because people are furious. And they're not just furious enough to voter out. I mean, there's other stuff going on too. Let's not forget.

Don't forget, you get the House Ethics Committee looking into Ilhan Omar and the sudden surge in wealth. Like, how the heck did that happen? Well, part of it was because, because the hubby got a giant payday. Remember I've told you about this one? Tim Minette, that's the guy she married. He's got a firm, quote-unquote, venture capital firm, but he also is her campaign manager.

And Timmy Minet, he actually was making big bucks, big bucks right before he married her. I guess while they were dating $8,000,000 between 2018 and 2020. And guess what? That swelled nearly $3 million during the campaign season because, you know, Ilhan's got to treat her staff well. You got to get paid big money, if you happen to be the hubby, you understand the conflict with that, right? And this is why Biden was

actually his team initially investigating her until they were told they can't because that was racist because they were Somali immigrants, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, you know the drill. But you can't pay yourself that kind of money. It's crazy, crazy money. Nobody makes that much running a campaign number one and number two. It's going to her. It's like all in the family, literally, right? She's paying her husband, 2.8 million bucks. And you got money coming in from the fraudsters donating to her campaign. And then it's like full circle around her family. No, I don't think so. So that's a big problem. On top of which the money laundering thing going on, because we've looked at her financial records. And I'm sorry, but you do not, you do not go from making negative 50,000, having net worth

negative to 30 million bucks in the span of a year or two. Like I don't care how talented an investor he is. And you know what? I'm a pretty talented investor. My colleague at 76 research, he's a pretty talented investor. We told you about the stock in two portfolios, up 91% in two weeks. Amazing, right? But that's not typical, okay? It's not. And there's no way that Timmy Minet is suddenly in his little venture capital firm making that much money. No way, Jose. So how did they have a winery that was worth on paper, according to him, $5 million, when they don't even have any grapes, when they don't even have any grapes, when they don't even have. have any offices, when they don't even have a lousy stinking website. This is a guy, mind you, who has previously been implicated in fraud schemes. So, Julie, hey, you know, I think you got a good shot at things. I really, really do. Money laundering is on the table. This is what Comer and his

team want to get to the bottom of. This is what the Ethics Committee is looking at. The other thing that's on the table is the pay situation, because if nothing else, that's beyond unethical. I mean, you do not pay your hubby nearly $3 million to run the campaign. I've told you before. Listen, what Biden, people were outraged. New York Times had a whole thing on it because he was going to pay his campaign advisor $4 million, a million dollars more. I mean, this is a little teen Minneapolis congressional campaign.

It's not worth $2.8 million, except, you see, to ill-habilization. Han, ladies and gentlemen, to Ilhan, Omar, it is. And therein lies the problem, for sure. Oh my gosh, do you see Pete Hagseth today? Pete Hegseth, my buddy, my former colleague, on fire at the Pentagon. And he was going after CNN. And I'm glad that he did. You know why? I told you yesterday, the media is out of control. I cannot believe it. I haven't seen anything like this since March 20, 20, right, when they figured, okay, we can take them out now. And they sure did, right? they really made it miserable for Donald Trump. And I'm seeing the same kind of feverish pitch, this crescendo of activity in the mainstream

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He owned the room. And rightly sell, listen, it started this morning. I think Donald Trump was the first to go at it. Take a look here. I love this. You know, he put out this little thing on social media. Let's just say, the president has a way with words, right? He issued a new threat about Iran and he said, quote, watch what happens to these deranged

stumbags today. Tell us how you really feel. Oh, and then there was this one. Okay, so, well, this is the entire quote. I'm going to get this in there for you. We are totally destroying the terrorist regime of Iran, militarily, economically, and otherwise. Yet if you read the failing New York Times,

you would incorrectly think we're not winning. Iran's navy is gone. Their air force is no longer. Missiles, drones, and everything else are being decimated, and their leaders have been white from the face of the earth. We have unparalleled, Firepower, unlimited ammunition, that's true, and plenty of time. Watch what happens to these deranged scumbags today. They've been killing innocent people all over the world for 47 years.

And now I, as the 47th President of the United States of America, notice that, am killing them. What a great honor it is to do. So, oh, my goodness, thank you for your attention to this matter. So, yeah, he's annoyed because he's taking this on. No other president has dared to. He's going for it. And you know what? when you read the media coverage, I am telling you it's like 2020 all over again.

They are hysterical. And so Pete just owned the room when he opened up early this morning. Take a listen. I'll start as we often do here at the Department of War with the bottom line up front. For the world to hear and the press to actually admit that the United States is decimating the radical Iranian regime's military in a way the world has never seen before. Never before has a modern, capable military, which Iran used to have been so quickly destroyed and made combat ineffective, devastated. We said it would not be a fair fight, and it has not been.

As I stated during our first press conference on day two, that was 10 short days ago, the combination of the world's two most powerful air forces is unprecedented and unbeatable. between our Air Force and that of the Israelis, over 15,000 enemy targets have been struck. That's well over 1,000 a day. No other combination of countries in the world can do that. So today, as we speak, we fly over the top of Iran and Tehran, fighters and bombers all day picking targets as they choose. as our intelligence gets better and better and more refined. Looking up, the IRGC and Iranian regime sees only two things on the side of aircraft,

the stars and stripes and the star of David. The evil regime's worst nightmare. Wow, right? I told you, he just owned the room. We haven't even gotten to the best part, okay? But this is what he's waking up to. And we talked about this yesterday. I just added on a few more headlines from today.

I'm like, you've got to be kidding me, guys. Like, it's nauseating. It's the same old, same old every single day. I mean, they're really taking aid to him at him. In New York Times, can't wait to go after him, how Heggsath came to see moral purpose and war as weakness. That was yesterday. But they got more on him today.

They're just so angry that any of this is happening. And I have this theory that maybe it's because, gosh, darn it, you know, if Donald Trump actually succeeds on this, think about it. Ladies and gentlemen, if we actually have peace in the Middle East and were able to contain Iran, then that means they really were quite wrong about Donald Trump all along because he's able to do what no one could possibly do before. U.S. economy was vulnerable before the war with Iran.

Oh, and now it's really in the, you know what, economic. We'll get to GDP a little bit later. I would just brush this one off. I actually am not that worried about the economy, and I've told you that multiple times. But they're going on and on about oil. Oil shock gripping the world. There's this fallout. It's Israel.

It's the U.S. We got this. We got that. Non-stop, right? So this is what Pete's waking up to, what the president's waking up to every morning, this constant barrage. And then there was this little one. Okay?

So CNN decided to take upon itself to go find three sources. And apparently three people worked on this story, four people, in addition to this Zach Cohen, who I guess had the main byline on it. I know Phil Mattingly, he used to work with me at Bloomberg. He's actually a decent report. and a pretty nice person, so I'm a little surprised his byline was on this. I don't know.

Oh, and Kylie Atwood, actually, she used to work with me at CBS, so I'm a little surprised by that one, too. I don't know Kevin, and I don't know Zach, but I know that Zach is the one that put out this tweet, and people are really annoyed by this. I will tell you, as a reporter, you can get anybody to say anything you want, okay? And in the White House, in the administration, you got people that love the president, that are loyal to the president, you've got people that are not so loyal to the president, all right? So you want somebody to say a certain quote, to fit a certain narrative. You can find it. There's plenty of them out there. There always is. So I have a feeling. They went out. They said they spoke with three sources that said, oh, the Trump administration did not plan for the possibility of Iran closing the street in response to the strikes. That's nuts. I mean, as long as I have been a reporter, which is a lot longer than Kylie or Phil, not to give away my age or anything, but a lot longer than both of them.

As long as I've been a reporter, and remember, I've been a business reporter my entire career, we're dealing with the straight of her moves. I mean, this is always the issue, always, always, always. And what do you think every single administration has been dealing with for the last 47 years? But the straight of hermuse, everyone knows that the straight of her moves is the main issue. I don't know who the three idiots they were talking to in the administration that said, oh, no, nobody actually thought of this. Of course they thought of it.

It's all they think of. Hello, that's why we care about Iran, right? Do you think Iran has any other power other than the fact that they sit there right next to the Strait of Hormuz? Absolutely positively not. So Pete took them on, specifically this stupid story that CNN had to eat Kroon again. More fake news from CNN reports that the Trump administration underestimated the Iran war's impact on the Strait of Hormuz. Patently ridiculous, of course. For decades, Iran has threatened shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.

this is always what they do, hold the straight hostage. CNN doesn't think we thought of that. It's a fundamentally unsurious report. The sooner David Ellison takes over that network, the better. Okay, that was quite a jab. I gave the same job yesterday. I mean, great minds think alike, right? Did I not say?

David Ellison, boy, he's going to get in there and he's going to have to clean house, just like he's doing at CBS right now, because the place is a frickin' mess. So what did they do? They issued, quote, unquote, a clarification. They didn't take it down, apparently, but they just got two more reporters

to go out and issue a clarification. And I quote, this story has been updated to reflect additional developments and clarify that top Trump administration officials briefed lawmakers on longstanding military plans to address a major disruption to the straight, according to one official.

But the multiple sources familiar with the session said there was no indication that there were any near-term solutions. All right, no, there's not a near-term solution. Of course. You know, the president has said this is probably going to go on for about a month or so. And so you're going to cut down on 20% of the world's oil supply for about a month, which is why they've come up with other innovative ways to deal with this.

For example, right, relieving the sanctions on Russia right now temporarily with natural gas so that we can get more natural gas to other people that need it. They're coming up with ideas. Believe me, they thought of this. That's all they think about. Because the only reason in the world that Iran matters, is because they sit right next to the Strait of Hormuz, and that's where Asia and India, China,

they all get their oil from. So CNN has been exposed in real time. In real time, ladies and gentlemen. I mean, for one thing, you got this idiot anchor on it, and I'm sorry, but she's just not that bright. She's really not. And it's being proven over and over and over again. She's already had to issue a correction.

an apology on air for somehow believing that the ISIS-inspired terrorists that were going after protesters were actually really trying to go after Mamdami, right? So that was just the other day. Well, here's the latest and greatest. CNN, I'm telling you, like the place is coming apart at the seams. I don't know what's going on, but they've hired so many lib idiots that they're seeing an effect in the ratings and also with their reputation, which is, again, why people, Hegeseth is smart to say, David Ellison better get in there fast.

It's exactly what I said yesterday. He better get in there fast because the erosion in trust in CNN, which, you know, is a pretty big media organization spanning the globe, is rapid. And this anchor, I'm about to show you, isn't helping things. In this moment, there's no indication that the regime has been weakened or that they have changed. You don't think Iran's been weakened? Okay. All of the reporting out there from within the administration is that they recognize that the regime has not,

they have not shifted away from the, from the Islamic. Of course not. They're religious fanatics. They personally never changed, but to say they haven't been weakened, I think, is not true. I mean, listen, I'm talking about, I'm talking about how much control do they have over their own country. And I'm not saying that people. She did just say they haven't been weakened. I mean, we took out their Supreme Leader.

We took out the next Supreme Leader. And the third Supreme Leader is reportedly in a coma. I'm going to have more on that in just a second. I mean, for goodness sakes, Abby, what do you want? Yeah, we've weakened them all right. 15,000 targets later, 1,000 targets a day, basically, is what we've taken out. And you think they're not weak enough? Let's continue.

I'm not saying the people weren't killed in the regime. I'm just saying are they in less control? And the answer is no. They're not. What's your evidence from the every single first-hand account from Iran? Yeah, I mean, what's your evidence that their control has been weakened? Because, well, the current supposed head of the country is basically just a cardboard cutout that they claim is alive somewhere. So it's pretty obvious we could get the regime.

Yeah, but what does that have to do with whether or not they have control over the kind of? They wouldn't be using AI images of the supreme leader if they thought they had some control of the guy. No, seriously. It's a serious question. No, no talking points. I'm just asking. Seriously, where, what is the evidence that? I just want to say, please, Abby, quit while you're ahead. I mean, she's doubling down and just making such a fool out of herself. Listen to me, you know what? You've taken out two regimes. It looks like the third isn't really much of a regime. We believe him to be actually in a coma right now. On top of which, you've taken out the entire Navy, the entire military. I mean, How can she say that they have not been weakened? In all seriousness. And she's doubling down. It's embarrassing.

The Iranian regime has loosened its grip over the country in a way that is what do you mean by grip? Their capacity to do what? They have far less capacity to fire missiles in Iran. Because you're telling me that the regime has changed. I don't see any evidence of that. I'm asking you. I said they were weakened.

What evidence is there that civilians in Iran are orchestrated? that civilians in Iran are orchestrating attacks on regime forces in different roadblocks and areas like that. That shows a coordinated effort from Iranians or someone else, perhaps, on the ground in Iran. That shows that the regime has lost some grip on the country. But again, you don't have to put up a cardboard cutout and an AI image of the Supreme Leader if you're not trying desperately to keep up the illusion that the regime is still solidly in control. Honestly, listen, I would say, we've done a pretty decent job.

I'm going to go out on a limb and say it's going well so far. We've weakened the regime by taking out the first round of regime members. We took them all out. And then we took out the entire second round. And now we're on three, right? Third times a charm. So this Ayatollah is allegedly in a coma. We talked about this yesterday, and I pointed out that Daily Mail was the only one who had this story.

so I want to at least qualify it by telling you it has not been confirmed by any of my sources or independent sources. I mean, people are being very, very quiet on this. However, they do say that he lost a leg that is believed to be the case and that he may have been hit in the airstrikes alongside his dad. So the president was asked by Brian Kilmead, one of my former colleagues over at Fox about this on his podcast or his radio show, whatever it is yesterday. And it's very interesting when you hear the president's answer because he doesn't deny this.

Brian just comes right out and he says, hey, do you think he's still alive and listen to what President Trump says? Watch. I think he probably is alive in some form, yeah. Okay, so he's alive in some form, yeah. So where is he? Okay, he's alive in some form.

I think that probably, you know, it points back to this idea that he's in a coma. because you don't go and issue a statement when all the U.T.S. in their first public speech addressing the great nation of Iran and the brave fighters of Iran. This woman read a statement from the new Ayatollah on air because he couldn't actually appear on air. So what is going on? Again, I do want to point out. The Daily Mail is reporting says,

it is believed he's in intensive care, in a coma, in Tehran, in a hospital, in the Sina University hospital there in Tehran. And so the president's like, well, I think he's probably alive, but he's not in very good shape. And then he didn't elaborate more from there. But whatever it is, like, he's certainly been weakened. So you've got the Iranian National Guard, right? They're the problems right now, the Revolutionary Iranian Guard, whatever, you know, IRGC.

And I think that they're the ones that are sort of going around and enforcing whatever they're trying to enforce right about now. What you've got to have happen is one of these alternatives. You've got the former M.E.K really, really highly organized. They are no longer designated as a terror organization. They had been at one point by us, but no longer. And they actually have a tremendous amount of support, tremendous amount of support here in the United States. And around the globe, they've been. stationed in Alberia because the resistance movement for a, you know, non-religious government there in Iran,

it's actually run, the entire organization, and I know it well, is run by a woman. And so that would be sort of amazing, right, to have a woman come in and be president of Iran. So that's one alternative. The other alternative is to go back to the Shah. But, you know, you've got to have, you've got to have these groups step up and take control. And right now, I believe that they've been a little too nervous to do so because, it's still rough with the Iranian guard out there. I'm going to play you something of one of the Iranian guard members saying that they intended to actually kill anybody, right, that's out there

protesting. And so they have no problem doing that. And so you still don't really have a handle on the country as long as this is going on. Let's see if we can pull this up. Well, in a moment, we'll get to that. But here's the reality, right? They have been weakened, regardless of what CNN is saying, without a doubt. And this is why the president is frustrated. Pete Hegseth is frustrated. Yours truly is frustrated. Because, you know, why are you feeding America all of these lies?

I'd like to know. One other thing that came up, actually, in Brian's exchange with the president, was whether or not the war would end soon. He asked him, when do you think this war will end? I want to share with you the president's answer. Well, this will bounce right back. When it's over, it's over, and I don't think it's going to be long. When it's over, this is going to bounce right back so fast.

When are you going to know when it's over? When I feel it. Okay. I feel it in my bones. Will you ask anybody in particular? Would that be some of the joint decision? Well, I deal with people. I have great people.

Yeah. Yeah. He's got great people. He's got Marco Rubio. He's got Pete Hagst. He's got very, very good people. He's got Bessent as well, helping from the economic perspective. So it doesn't get too brutal for us.

But I'll tell you, you know, the markets ended lower today, but not by much. I mean, you think about what we're going through here. If you read the headlines, as I just showed you, you think that it's really bad, like really, really, really bad. And yet, you know, the markets are hanging in there. Again, this is my other company, 76 research, and we are always looking for opportunities. We found a really good one about four weeks ago. It's up 91% in two of the portfolios. Check it out when you can.

But listen, I'm telling you. Like, we'll get through it. We'll get through it just fine. Just don't tell CNN. If you ask me, you know what? If you ask me, this network, CNN is done. CNN is over. They have been so humiliated by all of their coverage within this particular story.

I mean, it started from the beginning when they were so excited because guess what? They managed to get some reporter into Iran. Well, let me just tell you, you're not in Iran. As a reporter, unless Iran wants you to be in Iran as a reporter. So you can sit there and tell us, oh, you know, there's no strings attached. We're totally independent. And I don't buy any of it. Not for one second.

Here, listen to this. He's out front live in Tehran. He and his photojournalist partner in this incredible reporting they have been doing. Claudia Otto, they've been the first U.S. journalists for an American network to be on the ground in Tehran. CNN is operating in Iran with the permission of the government, but with no editorial restrictions. They have full editorial control over what we report. So, Fred, you know, you are there. I understand under full assault that you have been getting in these past hours,

as you did have a conversation with a top Iranian official who talked to you about where this war is, how long it's going to go. What can you tell us? I would just say that if you're sending a reporter in and you hope for him to stay alive, you're going to have to report what the regime wants you to report. I mean, you're there at the good graces of the whole regime, right? Like, they allowed you in. So don't think that somehow this is unbiased reporting that's awfully naive of CNN.

Or maybe it's not naive because Aaron's pretty smart. I think she knows what's up, but I would say that they're doing this to try and sort of pull the wool over our eyes. They think that we're going to be like, oh, yeah, you know, great, CNN's there. And they think that we have no clue. They think that the public doesn't know. They're dumping on the public all over again. And the public's going to see through it. The public always, always, always sees through it.

I told you I was going to bring you this Iranian Guard member. Let's go to this and I'll speak. announced this before and I repeated here he is he's saying Iranian street protests will be treated as enemies this is the police chief we will no longer consider them protesters or anything of the sword we will regard them as the enemy and we will treat them as the enemy I mean all of the all our team have our fingers on the trigger ready to defend the revolution and support our people and our homeland so in other words guys this is very clear that

It's a regime that's willing to do some pretty brutal and awful stuff. And they still have some police members that are willing to kill their own people. So, sure, you've got that going on. But I don't think that that takes away from the success thus far that we've already had because it has been an enormous amount of success. And it's only going to get better as time goes on, because things are getting worse and worse for Iran as we speak. In terms of CNN, however, as I said, you know, they got this reporter and they're all proud of it,

but I'm just going to remind you that that reporter is there at the good graces of that guard member that you just saw, right? So there's no neutrality. There's no independence there. Don't kid yourself, CNN. On top of which, you saw what they had to do. I mean, you want to talk about insane reporting. They actually, CNN, put on the Aya,

The leader of the Islamic Republic in their language. You know, his statement saying how bad the whole world is with this woman reading it for four and a half minutes. For four and a half minutes. This is the same network that wouldn't take the president's rally. Remember at Madison Square Garden? No, they can't have the president's rally, but they can put the Ayatollah on with his statement for four and a half minutes,

maybe because they have to. Right? I mean, they want to keep their reporter there in Tehran. They're going to have to do what the police there on the ground, the Iranian IRCG, want them to do. So David Ellison, yes, you got your work cut out for you. I'll play you again, his soundbite on CNBC, another place I used to work. They've done a better job than the other networks. I've got to tell you on this coverage, but, you know, it's a low bar.

It's not that hard. David, me again, you know, unfortunately the world we live and has a political overlay on almost everything going on in the corporate world, certainly when it comes to news organizations. And there is certainly a perception and or a fear perhaps that once you take control of CNN and given the changes you've made at CBS, that you will be more beholden to the Trump administration. Can you address that potential fear, at least on the part of many? Yeah, no, David. So look, I've said this since the beginning, which is, you know, when it really comes to, editorial independence will absolutely be maintained. It's maintained at CBS.

It'll be maintained at CNN. And really who we want to talk to is the 70% of Americans and really around the world that identify a center left, that's center right. And we want to be in the truth business. We want to be in the trust business. And that's not going to change. Okay. Well, I think you're going to need to get some new management.

and you may have to replace Abby, although I got to tell you, it's very entertaining watching Scott Jennings just completely destroy her every night. He needs a pay raise, okay? That guy needs his own show. All right, the Biden Pentagon is actually admitting that this might have been the right move.

Can you believe this? The guy who was the Pentagon spokesperson for Joe Biden, John Kirby, former naval officer, went on to Fox and actually seemed to be telling us that he was on the side of the military and on the side of America. And, you know, this is kind of okay. What's going on? I mean, it reminds me of, I think Hillary Clinton actually said, like, this is sort of good?

I mean, you know, they always kind of like disguise it. Condoleezza Rice, but she's a conservative. She came right out and said, hey, you know, finish the job. Here's John Kirby, who is a Democrat who worked for Biden, actually admitting. on Fox that, yeah, you know, this is pretty good. And we need to stand behind our military and stand behind our country at a time like this. Someone had to say it. I've heard a lot of individuals, you know, Condoleezza Rice comes to mind, General Petraeus comes to mind,

say that they think that President Trump had a lot of guts to make this bold move and that it was the right thing to do to launch this attack in conjunction with Israel. Do you agree? I think there's a lot of questions the American people. are rightly asking about the why now and the impetus to go this. And I'm sorry that there wasn't more of a public debate and discussion about these decisions going forward. But you know what? We're in it now. And the military has been very consistent. Secretary Higseth, the General Kane, Secretary Rubio, been very consistent about the limited objectives that they're going after.

And now we're in it. And now I think it's really important that the nation unite behind the military and make sure that the military has the tools, the equipment, the weapons they need to accomplish these limited objectives and degrade Iran's military. And I think that's what we ought to be focused on right now. So you think it was the right thing to do or you don't think it was the right thing to do? And what that looks like. Do you think it was the right thing to do? I wish we had more, I wish we had more of a, I wish we had more of a public discussion

and a debate about the timing that was in his house or would have gone to that morning meeting that day if we had had a lot more discussion about it, John? Martha, nobody's in front of me in line and hating this regime and what they've done to the Iranian people or to our troops in the region or to their long history of supporting terrorism, I think the Iranian people deserve better. They deserve a government that is not a state sponsor of terrorism and that is not posing a threat to the United States

and our interests around the world. But I think we need to be thinking about this. That's exactly what we need to be thinking about is what post-conflict governance can possibly look like because I don't see any indication that the regime is going anywhere anytime soon. Well, you know, I think we're closer to that than we have been in a long time.

Wow. So you get it, right? He has to give the party line. He can't completely come out and say, you know, this is good. But he's saying, hey, we got to support our military. Military is doing a good job there. I wish we had had a public debate. Gosh, don't sound like Ilhan Omar on me. I mean, she would have called somebody over there. They would have told the Ayatollah. Don't worry. You know, or Rashida, for goodness sakes. I truly question sometimes their loyalty. I'm not kidding to the United States. And we've talked about that. I really feel uncomfortable with it, as well as Mamdami and a few others right about now. So I don't think you could possibly have had that debate and have protected our troops over there. We already lost some, including the ones whose lives were lost. They're refueling, you know, about that story, and the initial troops that we lost. Truly sad, but you know what? The president made it very clear that their families had a message for him, and this is important for everyone to understand and appreciate, because think about if you lost a loved one in this conflict,

how you would feel right about now. Let me go to him. An important message from the president. How many American deaths are you willing to have in this war? Well, as I said before, when you have conflicts like this, you always have death. And I was at Dover yesterday. I met the parents, and they were unbelievable people. They were unbelievable people, but they all had one thing in common.

and they said to me one thing, every single one, finish the job, sir. Please finish the job. And I'll leave you at that. Thank you very much, everybody. Thank you. And he will. He will.

He will finish the job. I mean, look, the Democrats, we're like in the touchdown lane, and we're, you know, we're ready to win the game. And they're like, no, give it up. I played you sound yesterday from Senator Coons. You can go back and watch that on yesterday's show if you'd like in yesterday's podcast.

I think the lead was about Mamdami. No, it was, boy, the days are really running into me, aren't they? We're going to get to Mamdami in a little bit. It was actually about Leticia James. But, you know, I encourage you to go back and look at that. Senator Coons was saying, hey, you know, we should be negotiating a new nuclear deal right now. And I'm like, who are these people? You really want a new nuclear deal? I mean, when you're about to win this thing and you're saying stuff like this, it doesn't make any sense. But listen, none of them make any sense. We have had. four terror attacks in the last two weeks. They've all been related to Muslim extremists. And Senator Slokkin, Alyssa Slotkin of Michigan,

whose own temple that she used to visit as a young person in Detroit was, I mean, it could have been a disaster. Thank God. Thank God. They were prepared and they had good security and no one died. in that other than the crazy fool that was trying to light the place on fire and do a lot of damage and hurt people. Alyssa Slotkin is now sounding like she wants to fund DHS.

Don't forget, this is the woman that did that big narrative, you know, that big ad campaign where, you know, as a former CIA analyst, she came out and said, oh, you know, you don't have to follow orders from Donald Trump, and they were trying to effectively. get the military to turn on the president was bizarre, bizarre, bizarre stuff. Well, just as bizarre, now all of a sudden, she wants support for DHS. Listen. So they are on the call and they are doing their jobs. Certainly, we need to fund the Department of Homeland Security. And we need, in my view, to cut away all the conversation on ICE,

which is its own conversation from all the core missions of the Department of Homeland Security. But they're essential. They're on the job. They're working today. Hmm. Okay. Well, let me just state for the record. First of all, the ICE funding already is separate than overall DHS funding. And the other big thing that you get to keep in mind is this woman, just hours earlier, had voted to not allow for any DHS spending. I mean, she's talking out of two sides of her mouth. You had 46 Democrats voting yesterday to not allow. any DHS spending. They want to keep it closed. Four attacks in two weeks and they want to keep it closed. 46 out of the 47, she was one of the 46 and then has the audacity. This is disgusting, frankly, has the audacity to get up there and like grandstand in Detroit, Michigan, because of what just went down and say, oh, well, we need funding for DHS. Well, then why didn't you vote that way? By the way, the attack had happened before she registered her vote. So it's not like she could say, well, I didn't

know. These people are disgustingly political, disgustingly political. Let's get some adults in the room. So let's go to Obama's former DHS secretary. This is Jay Johnson, speaking to Fox News, telling them what he thinks should happen. Like I said, let's get some adults in the room because the politicians make me sick. The last couple of weeks alone, two just yesterday. We were talking about this earlier. Does it feel to you that, like, something has changed in these last couple weeks. Like you can feel it. What is it? Yes, it does. I believe we are in a heightened threat environment.

Most likely because of events in the Middle East. Iran is a state sponsor of terrorism. We can decapitate the leadership there, but that does not decapitate the ability to be a state sponsor of terrorists. It does not decapitate the ability to inspire acts of terrorism, including acts of terrorism here in the homeland. And so bottom line to all of this, we need to fund, Congress needs to fund,

the department that exists to ensure homeland security. Duh, duh. And yet, oh, the media, the good old media, the New York Times taking the side of the terrorists there, trying to get everybody to feel all sympathetic because apparently he had lost his family, members of his family in an attack, just last week in Lebanon.

So coming up, apologists that they are for excuses for the guy who's trying to kill everyone in Detroit, for goodness sakes. And, you know, look, there's this anti-Semitism that, frankly, is unbelievably disgusting and rampant, and you've heard it from some people even in the podcast business, okay? Some of the crazies out there. It's really appalling. And then they're even broadcasting this. I'm going to show you on Great Britain's News, GBN.

This poor guy who went on with this woman was like, what are you talking about? I happen to see him on Twitter post this clip, and I wanted to show you. I mean, it's just disgusting the way the entire media establishment is behaving right now. In America, that they're not doing. Stephen, I can feel you're sat there,

slightly like a coiled spring ready to go on that. A coiled spring? Did you hear? I would never. Did you hear then it's the fault of, the FBI is the fault of American foreign policy over the past few years? Angelina's being polite. I don't believe she said it is the fault of American policy. You do not have to give people involved with radical Islam an excuse to attack Westerners,

whether it be the great Satan or the little Satan of Israel. That's baked into their belief system. Now it is actually a true statement, right, that American foreign policy and meddling in the Middle East, when you cause harm to families, when you kill people, often their choice. Often their children are going to fall down radicalization pipelines just out of pure bitterness and a desire for revenge. That's a proven fact. But I find it to be disgusting, jarring, telling that the first thing that we're going to talk about is the guy's motivation. His tragic story was why he needed to be pushed in order to do this attack on a synagogue. A lot of people endure tragedy in their lives, and they don't immediately drive to a synagogue where there is a daycare with explosives in their car to kill.

Jews, which is what this was. It is what it was about, and the internet works fast. This guy's brothers are Qasim and Ibrahim Ghazali. They are members of Hezbollah's Imam al-Madi Scouts. So Stephen Kent, we thank him for that. I actually meant to show you a different clip, so we'll get that one for you tomorrow. But he did a very good takedown of what has transpired, for example, the, you know, the, oh, you know, poor guy, you know, given what happened in Lebanon attitude, but he had also done a very good takedown of that particular woman who I nicknamed. I actually find these soundbites and I called her the crazy lady. You know, I have to list them right out for myself.

And somehow I thought I was playing you the crazy lady soundbite, but actually that was the smart guy who was taking on the crazy lady. find a crazy lady tomorrow, but suffice it to say you can go listen to some other people on the internet and get a ton of crazy because there's lots of that out there and the anti-Semitism is extraordinary and it's bad. And for whatever reason, the mainstream media and the likes of that Abbey woman, right, even over on CNN and other CNN types seem to be giving it oxygen. So you have the real crazies, whether it's, you know them, the typical podcasters, they're totally nuts. And then you have mainstream media kind of sanctioning it, which just, I find unbelievable and really disturbing and totally disgusting.

I mean, heck, darn it. You know, it's like everybody's forgotten what happened on 9-11. The idea that Mamdami is the mayor of New York. Are you kidding me? The city that lived through 9-11 and now has this going on in City Hall? Yeah. Well, make some of that? This is City Hall today in New York City.

I guess you get what you vote for there. I don't know how he won. I don't really know how he won, and I can't wait for him. You know what? I will say this. I think the guy is in for some real trouble. And not just because he wants to raise taxes, the estate tax to 50%, and he wants it to kick in for, you know, people who have $750,000 in assets instead of $7 million.

That just came out today. No, no. This is going to kick in because this guy should never have gotten citizenship in the first place. I don't know what he told people on his application or didn't tell people, but here's what I'm going to show you. In 2015, he was out there pleading the case of a known terrorist. somebody who had been a big religious bigwig at one of these mosques where they were training people to attack the United States. He actually was at a Virginia mosque. He presided over it with three of the hijackers for 9-11 where they worshipped.

And he was also linked to somebody who was known as the underwear bomber who tried to blow up a plane in Detroit on Christmas Day in 2009. And Dami supported this guy and in 2015 was out there questioning the FBI's tactics for going after him. Quote, why no proper interrogation of what it means for FBI to have conducted extensive survey into Al-Locky's private life? Yeah, they were investigating him. He was eventually killed by us in a drone strike in Yemen in 2011. Seven years after he moved back to Yemen because I guess the FBI was on to him here. And the guy who's now mayor in New York City is defending the terrorists. Are you kidding me?

Are you kidding me? I mean, this is really gross, disgusting stuff. So, yeah, Andy Ogles is right. You know, we got to do something about this. And he cites actually a bunch of the rap lyrics, which is sympathizing with terror groups, and he gave this letter to Pam Bondi. I'm telling you, I wait until you see Jeanine Piro's sound today.

She's on fire. She's a total pit bull. She's so amped up and she's going after Jerome Powell. I don't know too much about her case or whether she even has a case, but I admire the Hutzpah. I really do. And I'm kind of thinking we need Janine to take over for one Pam Bondi. I think Jeanine is pretty good at her job.

Anyway, I digress. Here we go. Back to Andy Ogles. He's saying, listen, guys, hey, Pammy, the federal government must uphold public trust by ensuring that citizenship is not granted under false pretenses. I respectfully urge the Department of Justice to determine whether Mr. Madame Domi's conduct prior to naturalization warns formal review under applicable law. Heck yeah, all right?

Heck yeah, because we don't want this guy in our country, let alone as the mayor of New York, given where his sympathies are. All right, I'm sorry. Like, you're in the United States of America now, buddy, and you're not going to change how we feel or who our allies are. We help create Israel. Thank you very much. And if you're on Iran's side, you really shouldn't. be here. Here is the U.S. citizenship and immigration services form N-400 that he would have filled

out. Do you see the big question there? We talked about this. You are asked specifically by the government, have you ever been a member of a group or associated with a group, a foundational party club society organization that basically is against the U.S. And if you say yes, then guess what? You have to then say what it was. You're certainly allowed to protest. Here he is going after Tom Hulman. This is up in Albany. I mean, I think the guy's got to go.

So does Randy find. Do you have words to respond to this, sir? Well, I have one word. It's deport. I mean, the fact of the matter is Mondami hates America, hates the Judeo-Christian civilization that we have here. You know, we're allowed to protest whatever we want. We hear this all the time from the left.

When they were doing all this ridiculous stuff on our college campuses, people like this jerk mayor talked about how they had a First Amendment right to say whatever they want. That's not the issue. The issue is two Muslim terrorists who were inspired by ISIS, who traveled to the Middle East through bombs at people. That is the issue. You're allowed to say whatever you want in this country. You're not allowed to throw bombs. But Mondami is covering for the Muslim. terrorists that he supports, whether it's in the Middle East or whether it's in America,

he should be stripped of his citizenship and he should be deported. Yeah, and I would like to also mention, you know, his wife liking dozens of posts celebrating what happened on October 7th. These people, they are who they are. They've never hidden it. But go ahead, sir. Well, they rub it in your face. I mean, he wanted to say his wife's a private person. She's irrelevant. But then he had to bring her up. I would note in that little statement that you played, they're laughingness is part of the core tenant of their faith, the idea of Tekeh, the idea of lying and being manipulative to push the faith on us.

Mamdami is a bad person. He is an evil person, and he is not someone who should be a citizen of the United States, let alone the mayor of New York. Two members of Congress now calling on deportation. And when he says, like, they're flaunting it, I go back to what we had to see the other day, really. I mean, they're so proud of that, taking pictures of it. You had the picture of George Washington looking down on them. It does feel almost deliberate in a way, but I would just say, hey, you know, we're going to actually pay attention to this.

I wish the media would. You know, I feel like a lone person sometimes out here saying, hey, you've got to watch this. You've got to pay attention to this. But think of where the media is, right? Just remember what they're saying on CNN. They don't understand the connection, if you would, between the four recent terror attacks we've had and the Muslim faith. I would say we've had two terrorist attacks here in the last 10 days.

And can we condemn those? Why are we? Of course. What does that have to do with Muslims? Okay. I rest my case. So I would just say, listen, the DOJ should be paying a lot of attention to this right now. If Mamdami did not follow the proper procedure did not disclose that he was part of an organization,

a particular organization that is believed to be funded heavily by China. We've talked about Neville Singman in the past. New York Times actually has done multiple stories on him and the influence campaign that he's running out of China. This is called the DSA, the Democratic Socialist Association. it's basically the Communist Party, then we have an issue and it needs to be pursued, period. Full stop, right? Did I not tell you that Judge Janine was a pit bull? Believe me, you should see her. She was on fire today.

I am in a legal lane. All of the rest is white noise. I don't care what they say. I have a job. I have the ability to go into a grand jury. There are questions that the American public and people in D.C. are entitled to know where a billion dollars has gone. And that's my focus.

You better believe it. Welcome to our market maker segment sponsored by K.E.P.M. Kirk Elliott, precious metals.com forward slash Trish. Listen, GDP came in a little lighter than expected. fourth quarter print, a little bit lighter than people expected, up 0.7%. Don't tell the New York Times, they think we've, they think we dove into negative territory if you read their headlines. But anyway, you know, not great. It's a little bit enemic. But these things get revised and it will get revised again. It's already a revision. So we'll see when it all shakes out where we are.

But yes, I get it, you know, given where oil prices are, given some concerns about AI jobs, etc. and perceived weakness in the labor markets, a lot of people are saying, hey, you know, what's the Fed going to do? And the president has been very clear. He's like, cut, cut, cut, would you please? Would you please cut? And, you know, Jerome, you're going to be gone anyway. And Janine's following up on you big time. And hey, Kevin Warsh is going to take over. And eventually we will get those cuts. I want to go to Mary Daley. She is our market maker today. They're at the Federal Reserve in San Francisco talking about what it all. means for the economy. What? The oil price shock, depending on how long it lasts, is a real

thing. Consumers will feel that. That can be injurious to, are challenging for firms because they've got to find workarounds, but it also can cause consumers to pull back on other spending. And if they pull back on other spending, consumers spending has been a strength of the economy. So I just want to monitor both, and I think it's important that we keep our eye on both. The labor market, of course, gives me some concern, but again, strikes, snow, and some population re-bench markings that just make it a harder report to interpret. So there are reasons, right, for us to be thinking about, hey, we probably need lower rates. I mean, she's thinking about all these different things at once.

I want to go to our segment sponsor. This is Kirk Elliott, who's the CEO of Kirk Elliott, Precious Metals, and get his response. This is an exclusive interview that he did with us here on the Trish Regan show reacting, if you would, to Mary Daly's comments. Well, when Mary Daly is talking about the price of oil, you have to ask one question. What is oil used for? Everything. Everything.

It's the most important commodity on earth because it's used in manufacturing and transportation. I mean, it's oil, right? So if this war in Iran, this conflict, whatever you want to call it, is short-lived, this will just be a temporary spike, right? Because what's going to happen is they will reopen the Strait of Hormuz. The supply chains are going to be reestablished and it's back to normal. Yeah. See, this is what I can imagine that Trump is betting on is that this was going to be just a multi-day. thing. What if it goes for weeks? What if it goes for months? What if it goes for a decade plus

like Afghanistan? We don't know, right? The longer that this goes on, the higher oil prices go. The higher oil prices go, the greater the effect is on inflation globally because oil is used in everything. Okay. So here we go. Straight of Hermuz. Boy, you've never seen so much straight of Hormuz, have you? I keep showing you these maps. This is 20% of the world's oil supply. It's coming right out of this area right here, right? And look where it is, right next to Iran. And so this is what they have to lock down. This is what they have to secure. And I have every confidence that they will. I really do. I mean, I, you know, that we have such enormous innovation in military technology right now. And you have Anthropic to thank for that and cloud and

Claude and all the innovation, think about Palantir and what they're doing, I mean, tremendous innovation, and it's all coming from us, right, here in the US of A. We are creating all of this AI that is contributing to the strength that we have in terms of going after. Who do you think? Maduro, right in Venezuela, just plucking him right out of his bed in the middle of the night, taking him right to New York City. You've got Maduro, we did that. We were able to take out the Ayatollah one and take out the Ayatollah two, and now it looks like the other Ayatollah, is seriously wounded. So we have tremendous capability. I have no doubt that eventually this will fix itself. I really do. And I have only to look at the markets too. If you look at the markets

right now and you see the buoyancy in the markets, I keep waiting for everybody to throw in the towel because you know that's how you make money. Just think March 2020. We have one of those episodes again. And you want to be buying because when everybody freaks out that much, you got to keep your common sense about you. You know? And, And they're jumping on the bandwagon over and over and over again. And listen, we did get a weaker than expected GDP print 0.7%, but you had some weather in there. I think Mary mentioned that. You had some weather in there.

You had the holidays in there. And so you've got to take that one with a grain of salt as well. Let's go back to Kirk Elliott on the importance, though, of the consumer in terms of the GDP number. And if the consumer pulls back because of weather, because they're getting together with family for the holidays, then yeah, that affects things. So if we still see a continuation of escalating oil prices, it'll have a little effect on things. I think we can handle it, though. I mean, when you look at our gross domestic product, 70% of that is from consumer spending. 70%.

So it's a big deal. So America thrives because we are the consumption engine of the world when people are making money. This is why these labor numbers that Mary Daly has been talking about are. so important because when we are the consumption engine, we're not the manufacturing engine, China still is. But when we are the consumption engine, we need to spend money for our economy to grow because it's still 70% of our gross domestic product. Yeah, that makes sense to me, right? Again, you can, if you're interested in investing in gold, I realize when we're talking about gold, we're talking about oil and GDP and all that kind of stuff. But go check them out.

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I mean, she is out for some blood, right? Judge Janine, not messing around here, guys, and I'm not surprised. Let me see if I can pull this back up for you. She is in a bit of a war here with Jerome Powell. You see, Jerome Powell spent a lot of money. I mean, a lot of money on this effort to make the Federal Reserve building a little bit better looking. and she is not happy about how much money was spent, and she's launching an investigation into all of this.

And I get to tell you, look, I knew her at Fox. She's a pistol. Judge Janine is a whirlwind, all right? She just comes into a room, and she just, boom. And I'm telling you, she's also a tremendous attorney, and she has a background, obviously, as a judge, et cetera, but she's a tremendous background as a district attorney, and she knows what she's doing.

I actually, I look at this, and I loved her on TV, right? We loved her because she was tremendous energy and lots of opinion and all that good stuff. But I actually think that she's better at this. Like I've watched her in so many press conferences. I mean, if you can imagine, because she was obviously one of the most successful people they had at Fox. But she's truly talented and she's not messing around to the point that I'm like, gosh darn it. You know, I mean, should we be looking at her as possibly a replacement for Pammy? You're going to see what I mean, okay?

So Judge Janine unleashed. Take a look. I am in a legal lane. All of the rest is white noise. I don't care what they say. I have a job. I have the ability to go into a grand jury. There are questions that the American public

and people in D.C. are entitled to know where a billion dollars has gone. And that's my folks. It is her focus. And she, let me put this little subscribe over here. This is to remind you, it's a little teeny one. Let me put that right there. Okay. Remember, subscribe, share, like, comment. What do you think? Judge Janine for Pam's spot. I got more. I got more. So somebody said to her, just to give you a sort of insight into the backdrop in that room, somebody said to her, hey, but wait a second, the belief is that you're not going to get the Fed pick

through. You're not going to get Kevin Warsh through as Fed Chief if this case against Powell continues. And her point is like, that's not my problem. Like the law is the law, and I'm here to defend the law, I'm here to defend the Constitution. The politicians be damned.

I'm not doing any backroom deals with anyone. I want to know where the billion dollars is. Apparently he wouldn't give her all the information that she needed, so she felt like she had to actually make this kind of stink about it. And then a federal judge came out and said, no, you're not going to advance this case. And she said, hell yeah, I am. In fact, I'm now going to appeal this. Let's go back to Judge Janine.

Total pitfall unleashed. But he is asking for an assurance that the investigation in DePaul has, this has ended it. Are you willing to concede? Did you hear what I just said? I just said that this decision will be appealed by the United States Department of Justice. That's the answer to your question. We're looking at a thank you. And we're also looking at a statute having to do with fraud, but it's up to the grand jury to make that decision.

We're a billion dollars in cost overruns. Are you kidding? A billion dollars? We're not talking about huge buildings here. Go ahead. How many more is Trump's pick, though, President Trump? I don't even know who he is. So isn't this just essentially holding up President Trump's pick or any forthcoming picks since

Senator Coutill has said he will not vote. Okay. I don't know how to explain this, but I'm going to try. I've been a prosecutor, a judge, a DA, and now a United States attorney for well over three decades. Politics is not the lane I'm in right now. And I have a charge and an oath to the Constitution. And my job is to present evidence, and I can do so.

when I can merely on the suspicion that the law is being violated, or even just because I want assurance that it's not. Woo! Okay. So good luck Jerome, wishing you all the best. I don't know. I don't know the exact circumstances of this. My thought is, like, he is the Fed chairman, and he's probably not watching the construction budget.

So I don't know. But, you know, eventually the buck stops with him, I guess. Whatever it is, my understanding, the background on this is she asked her a whole bunch of information from Jerome and from the Fed, and he ignored it, and he blew it off, and he blew it off, and she was like, oh, and so finally, she's like, hey, you're going to answer these questions, and when he totally refused to, that's when she launched her case. And so now the federal judge is like, yeah, you can't do this, and she's like, hell yeah, you want to bet, I'm going back, and I'm going to appeal this,

and I'm going to keep moving forward. Politics, by the way, be damned. She doesn't care whether somebody's going to threaten to not approve the appointment, Donald Trump's newest appointment of Kevin Warsh. I mean, she'll have to duke that one out, I guess, with the president at some point if his push comes to shove. But what I admire, what I respect is her tenaciousness. And that's what we need, guys, okay? We need a tenacious head of the DOJ.

And I say that because we've got Ilhan Omar sitting there. We've got Mamdami that, you know, I think Andy Ogles and Representative Randy Fine in Florida, they're right. Like we need to be looking into his background because there's really some very, very suss, to quote the kids, stuff, suspicious stuff there. And I don't know is he really deserved to get citizenship. And you can look at denaturalization. So Pam has got to assign somebody to that.

And what's going on with Leticia James? You know, Trump's attorneys may have the best shot at bringing something forward there because it appears as though, we talked about this in yesterday's show, I encourage you to go and watch this week. This would have been Thursday, March 12th. We did that entire segment because they've just been handed a little bit of gift by none other than Michael Cohen, who said he was coerced by Letitia James and Alvin Bragg. So now the Trump attorneys are doing that, and I'm still like, hey, Pammy, where are you?

Where are you? I'm waiting. I'm looking at some of your comments here as this is a live show, and I see everything in real time. It's good to have my friend Alphonse back in the house, noting that I used to. to be an opera singer, yes, I studied many, many, many years. I mean, I actually, for those that care, I could play piano and read piano as a little little kid before I could actually read. So, I mean, I was four years old.

I was studying piano and I could actually read all the notes, A, B, C, D, EFG, that was as far as my alphabet went. And I, of course, loved to sing, and I was singing from the time I was five or six years old all the way through. And then in high school started doubling down on classical music, opera specifically, I love Puccini. I love all music. I actually love all music, not kidding, except maybe rap. I'm not such a huge fan of rap, but I love jazz. I love classical. I love opera, all kinds of opera, whether it's Bacchini, I sing a lot of more Italian opera. I am a heat. I love country music. I mean,

I love Irish. We're coming up on St. Patrick's Day. I'm already in green. And I love Irish folk music. I absolutely love it. And I grew up on that actually. So, you know, there's very little music that I don't love. I mean, I love flamenco music too. There you go. So it's, it's, I'm a huge music fan. So I appreciate the commentary on my voice. I really do, Alphonse. Thank you for that. And thank you for all being here. Let me know what you think. Does Pam need to get, you know, I, I'm sorry, but I like Pam. I really do. I like her a lot. But I'm just looking at reality here. And we don't have a lot of time. Time's running out. And I think Judge Janine is doing a really good job. What do you think?

I think she needs a bigger portfolio. What do you think? I'll see you right back here live on Monday. Thanks for being here. Don't forget to subscribe. I'll see you soon.