The Trish Regan Show - BREAKING: Kash Patel SUES MSNBC for Defamation in Explosive Legal Showdown

Episode Date: June 13, 2025

Kash Patel has filed a major defamation lawsuit against MSNBC, accusing the network of spreading false claims tied to his work with the FBI. This is a CLIP from the LIVE Trish Regan Show episode 124 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Major, major blow to MSNBC, ladies and gentlemen, the head of the FBI is suing MSNBC. Uh-huh. Cash Patel. He's not messing around. Do you remember a few weeks ago? They had this guy that came on. He was like an MSNBC analyst. I was like, this is a bizarre thing to say.

Like, this is really, really mean. It was just sort of like going to, you know, for the jugular in a way that was weird. It was like gossipy. They started talking about how Cash Patel is always a nice. nightclubs and he's never in the Hoover building. He was always out in the nightclub. And I'm like, what? Like, you know, I run in these circles. I've never heard that about cash. Like, that was kind of just a weird thing to say. And I was like, wow, what do you have like, lots of sourcing on that? Have you seen them out at nightclubs? It was just one of those random things that somebody said.

And not even with like a sense of humor. They said it as though it was really serious. And then they put up an article on it. And so that started getting around everywhere. I don't think we covered this story. I actually didn't because I, how do I know? I just know. I just know. I just know when things are wrong, right? Like, you just have a feeling like that is just not right. So we didn't do anything on it. But MSNBC is a little bit of trouble right now because the head of the FBI is now suing the network for liable. He's saying, you can't say that about me. You had no proof about that. That's totally an untrue story. You're just making stuff up and you're putting it in print and you get a columnist that goes on television and starts talking about it. So then they had to issue this,

Little apology. And now let's circle back to a segment from Friday show. Frank Fuglusey was on that morning during this hour discussing the work of administration officials. At the end of that segment, Fuglusey said that FBI director Cash Patel has reportedly been more visible at nightclubs than at his office at FBI headquarters. This was a misstatement. We have not verified that claim. We will be right back. He didn't verify the claim.

He said it. Apparently he didn't verify it. Those will be interesting discovery, right? in this process, now MSM, he says, oh, my God, like our ratings are bad enough, and now we get a deal with this. They're going to have to defend himself from Wong Cash Patel, who is going after Frank. I think he's suing Frank as well. He's suing the network.

Frank better hope he's got some kind of protection clause in the network because that was an outlandish claim that was made about the nightclub, they're saying. So he's suing Frank for fabricating a specific lie about him, according to court documents, namely that reportedly Patel has been visible at nightclub. far more than he has been in the seventh floor of the Hoover Building. And what they're saying is, look, he knew it was a lie when he said it. And yet, since becoming director of the FBI, Director Patel, he went on to say, has not spent a single night.

Okay, so they're saying he has not spent a single night in a nightclub. So he has not been in a nightclub, ladies and gentlemen. And yet this reporter decided to go forward with that story anyway. And so now MSNBC is looking at yet another lawsuit. By the way, they're facing an investigation by the FCC because of their DEI stuff. Now they're getting sued by the head of the FBI for liable defamation. Are they still being sued? Are they still in something with Donald Trump?

I mean, I know CBS is. I know that ABC decided to settle. This is like a nightmare for MSNBC. It really, really is. And it comes at a time when, you know, they really can't afford it because they're trying to figure out their way forward in this very challenging and different kind of media. landscape, a media landscape in which they are clearly suffering, clearly suffering. I mean, you look at the ratings there, you look at the ratings there, and it's just abysmal.

Here's poor Jen, Saki. I mean, her numbers are like cut in half from what Rachel was doing, and Rachel was not doing that well, right? So that tells you quite a bit. She's been on this new show. She takes over for Tuesday through Friday. So Rachel comes in for a guest appearance to which she's apparently being paid $25 million a year, a pay cut of a five, million bucks. She's like, good work if you can get it, right? Wow. So she's not getting any kind of ratings to justify that. So I would not be surprised if they're looking long and hard at the Rachel Maddow deal and saying, really, can we keep this up, especially once they go public, don't forget, they're spinning off in the Spinko thing to become Versaunt, some fancy French name.

They think that'll give them some air of dignity, I guess, when they go public. And there's a tax incentive for Comcast to do this. But once they go public, You know what, they really have to stand on their own because you're not going to have Mommy and Daddy Comcast, the parent company, standing there to prop you up when you're doing as bad as you're doing. And the ratings suck as badly as they suck, right? So she is down significantly. The numbers are, okay, Saki ranked in just 971 million viewers over the course of the month, down from Mado's $1.89 million that she earned throughout 2025. It was a 47% drop. So that is a big, big deal.

Lots of love from Australia today. Thank you so much, Adriano. It's really remarkable, right, to see how quickly, how quickly they have disintegrated there at one MSNBC. And it's in part because they just don't have any good talent, right? I mean, this is this is the tradeout. So they had a woman who looks like Chris Hayes, but technically she came first. Chris was her. protege. You know, she picks guys that look just like her. Guys are girls, I guess. I mean, sometimes you can't really even tell. But she picked out Chris, and Chris is doing okay. Like, he survived that round of layoffs. Joy Reid did not. A few others did not. Rachel was really upset about it. And they put in Jenzaki, aka Pepperman Patty, who used to be the Biden spokesperson, who very few people actually trust. And you know why they don't trust her? Because she sat up there with a straight face and told us all day long that you know this is the greatest joe biden ever too i mean that was a that was a signature line was it not from joe scarborough over on the morning show there but jensaki

also was quite good at trying to defend and stand up for joe biden at any turn and so i think that she's lost a lot of stature a lot of respect she's probably kind of frightened because there's an investigation going in into the auto pen scandal so we'll see what comes out of that but she's an excellent liar, which is what you have to be. Okay, ladies and gentlemen, I'd be the worst press person ever. People have said that before would you do it. I have had offers to do it. And I'm like, no. Like, my problem is I really can't tell a lie. Like, and so you may have a spin, but I have my own thoughts. And it's just very, very hard for me. So like, I'm much, much better doing what I do because I can call it all, right? Like, as I see fit.

But Jen Saki is very good at spinning. And when she took over this job, Rachel Mato did an interview. I believe it was with Us Weekly, where she was touting her and she's going on and on. Oh, Saki's going to be so great. But it was total shade because she's going to be so great because, you know, Jen is so connected. And she's going to be able to have all these guests on and really, you know, get inside the Beltway in D.C. Well, don't you understand? That's what people don't want.

They don't want inside the Beltway. And then she said it was like complimenting herself, on the back, you know, nice little pat on the back for Rachel's saying, you know, I just, I'm just with my team. I get along great with my team, but I'm not really out and about in that circle. And so that was a veiled way of saying, you know what? I'm the real deal. I'm the authentic one. She's the cheap whatever who's going to sell whatever. Okay, that was what that was. And let's face it, she doesn't have the glasses. or the haircut. So she's struggling, and it makes me wonder, kind of makes me wonder, what their next move is, because they could swap her out, you know, maybe for somebody even cheaper, maybe for somebody that Rachel might like,

maybe for somebody who even looks, dare I say, who just looks a little bit like one Rachel Mato, because, you know, it was going so well with Rachel and then seem to be going okay enough, right, with the other Rachel, Chris A's. So why not bring in a third Rachel? And guess what, guys? I found one. Well, actually, they found one. They found one themselves. And this particular person, who I had not seen in the past, is actually on MSNBC already. So I'm thinking, you know what? You got your new replacement, and hopefully he doesn't.

and cost you 25 mil. Los Angeles is a so-called majority minority city and a majority minority state. There are more people of color that live in Los Angeles than white people at this point. And many of those people are undocumented. By some counts, 10% of the population of L.A. County, one of the largest counties, the largest county by population in the United States, is undocumented. Maybe as many as a million people. Those people are our neighbors, our coworkers, our classmates,

our friends, our parishioners, fellow parishioners, and churches, they are part of the fabric of the city of Los Angeles. There you go. Okay, mission accomplished. You can get another Rachel Matto to take over. Tuesday through Friday, you're all set. You know, she was on Monday, and it was pretty wild. She was going on, she's excellent at these conspiracy theories. I've got to tell you, like, I've never seen anybody quite as good as her

at floating these conspiracy theories. I remember it so well during the Russia, Russia, Russia thing, and I'm like, you got to be kidding me. Like, how does nobody call this out? She's on Monday, and she's, like, trying to say that these immigration riots and protests are all about taking Trump down and that he's scared and that this is the end of it. And I would just say that's really wrong. Again, if you look at the new poll data that just came out, I mean, even CNN is kind of shocked by this one, guys, because the new poll data shows overwhelmingly that, you know what? People do not want people that are here in this country illegally, especially, especially if they have been convicted of a crime. This should not be like crazy to understand, right?

So a new poll came out, and there's basically this 40-point swing showing that legal immigrants, people who have just come to this country have actually swung by 40 points to the right, and they are very much in favor. of Trump's immigration policy. So that doesn't fly for Rachel to be there saying all that Rachel is saying. And I would just get back to, they're going to have to fix this situation at some point because you can't go off and spin off MSNBC and have such dismal ratings. You can't just be such a headache where you're getting sued at every turn and investigated at every turn. It's not going to fly.