The Trish Regan Show - BREAKING: Letitia James INDICTED by Trump's DOJ For Mortgage Fraud | Trish Regan Show

Episode Date: October 9, 2025

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Boom, I told you it would happen. Don't ever doubt me. I told you this would happen. Did I not say, Comey first. Letitia next. Letitia James, everyone, just being indicted moments ago, minutes ago, by the DOJ of the Donald J. Trump administration. What do you know on mortgage fraud allegations?

You know, because she had that property in Virginia that she said was not her primary residence? Apparently, it was just an oversight according to Letitia, not according to the DOJ, not according to the grand jury that just indicted one attorney general of the state of New York, one Ms. Latisha James, and we are all over the story. Welcome to the program, everyone, big, big show. This, as Hamas surrenders to Donald Trump. Here's the tape.

Happy to announce that we have reached a deal for ceasefire to put an end to the agreement. and also to proceed to a permanent ceasefire and the withdrawal of the army and to allow the aides to enter to Gaza. Okay, amazing news. Boy, the media is going to have to e-crow. You know, who else is going to have to e-crow? President Trump, were the architect of that? I'd nominate him for a Nobel Peace Prize.

That may just be happening, Hillary Clinton. Meanwhile, we're getting a lot more news on this bigger than Watergate story that nobody's covering, it seems, in the mainstream media. Yeah, they don't want to. They don't want to cover this, but it's a big freaking deal. Trust me. We now know the secrets out. Everything Joe Biden told us that it was a conspiracy to think his family was a conspiracy theory.

I think his family's doing anything wrong. His own government knew that his son was involved with a corrupt company. You better believe they did. And they lied to us and they lied to us again and again and again. Plus, it turns out that Biden actually stopped a CIA memo that would have put a lot of this stuff forward. And of course, we've got to talk about Democrats behaving badly, not just Letitia James with her. allegations, but somebody that you may or may not have heard of one, Katie Porter out in California trying to replace Gavin Newsom.

You're out of my fucking shot. I wanted to tell you that that's actually incorrect. It's not that. Woohoo! Okay, and that's just the beginning. Welcome to the program. Make sure you subscribe, share, like, guess what? Latisha James has just been indicted for alleged mortgage fraud.

Grand jury indictment getting handed out of Virginia. We told you this was coming. Lindsay Halligan, remember getting put into the slot? Because apparently some of the James Comey cronies weren't willing to go forward with his indictment. It's a small town, small world. Heck, you got the son-in-law of one James Comey that was actually working in that particular U.S. Attorney's Office. So guess what? Things are different now. You got Lindsay Halligan in there. And she not only came forward with the James Comey indictment that we saw the other day, he's pleading not guilty, but you also now have Letitia James pleading. Well, she hasn't pled yet. That'll be

interesting. Leticia James, we have to assume she's going to plead not guilty because that's what she's been telling us in the media all along that she's somehow not guilty, that this is just somehow a clerical error. Well, clerical error or not. Latisha, you know, the fact that you went after him as badly as you did for an inverted version of this very issue, it's kind of a weird, sweet poetic justice, don't you think? I mean, don't forget what she did with Donald Trump going after him for falsely documenting things like square footage and possible value of his Mar-a-Lago property, because according to Letitia James, it was only worth $18 billion. I told you, we'd all get together. We'd buy it for that, right? We'd put a Go-FundMe together if it was only worth it, forgive me, million,

million, $18 million. It's worth a lot of money. Definitely not $18 million. I mean, anybody could tell you that. You don't have to go to a real estate agent. You don't have to go to a fancy consultant. Letitia James shouldn't be making those kind of calls. And you don't want to be in an environment where the state is actually intervening like that with a private company. In this case, it was Deutsche Bank that was making the call to lend him the money. But what's amazing about this is then the table's turn, right? They tried to bankrupt him.

They didn't want him ever, ever being back in the Oval Office. Well, now he is. And his DOJ is prosecuting one, Letitia James, because of what is believed to have been mortgage fraud. Again, these are the allegations, enough allegations, that the jury came forward with the indictment. I realize, okay, I know it's easy to get an indictment. You know what they say?

You can indict a ham sandwich. But the point is an independent jury in an area that actually is not exactly conservative. We're not talking Trump country here. That jury came forward and said, yes, there's enough to indict her. So she is now going to have to have her day in court. And you know what? It couldn't happen to a nicer person. Now could it?

I mean, she was ready for this, though, right? Didn't she tell us? She was ready. I mean, she's like, quote, she's quoting scripture and this, that, and the other. She seemed a little unhinged a couple months ago. I don't know about you. It's that stone of hope that inspires me each and every day. And listen, faith and fear can never share the same space.

And so I'm covered by the blood. And I'm not afraid of Donald Trump. You can come after me. But no enemy, nothing formed against me will perish. Nothing formed against me. Nothing formed against me. Nothing formed against me. Except maybe.

Van Bondi. Lindsay Halligan. Donald Trump's DOJ. You got a tough road. A whole one, Leticia James. My gosh, big news crossing moments ago. just bringing you up to speed here. I told you this would happen. We've been covering it for months. Have we not? And everybody's like, when is it happening? When is it happening? Tish. I told you,

remember what Dan Bongino said the other day? There was a lot more on the way. And he said, sit tight, everyone, sit tight. I mean, we're learning all kinds of things. Are we not considering what Cash and Bongino just revealed about all those senators that had their phones wiretapped? We're going to have more on that story because that's a biggie. But Leticia James, I'm telling you, she is in trouble. Big, big trouble. Here's her. defense and it's not a good one. Watch. No, not at all. And let me just say to all New Yorkers and to all Americans, the allegations are baseless. The allegations are nothing more than a revenge tour. And as you mentioned, my office was successful in securing a $454 million judgment against

Donald Trump and others for exaggerating the value of his assets. engaged in a pattern and practice of fraud. And the interest is accruing each and every day while the case is on appeal in the first department. Okay. Well, you weren't that successful because I do recall Letitia. Actually, that thing getting thrown out? Was it not thrown out? It was thrown out because you see it was a violation of the Eighth Amendment. You can't have these kind of egregious, nonsensical, $500 million penalties. I mean, the crime and punishment kind of need to be somewhat similar, right? That whole thing was thrown out, remember? Fox News Alert, a New York appeals court just this morning has thrown out President Donald Trump's

massive civil fraud penalty. The decision from a five-panel group in New York's appellate division changed the original decision that stood to cost Trump over $500 million. One appeals judge calling the lower court's penalty an excessive fine that violates the Eighth Amendment of the United States Constitution. You might remember that New York attorney General Letitia James' office says, despite this decision, they will not be dropping the case. Yeah. Well, you know what? You've got a whole other set of worries right about now. One, Latisha James, and I'm sorry, I don't feel very bad for you. I don't feel bad at all. Because you know what? I think you might have had it just common to you. You know, those in glass

houses should not throw stones. Isn't that the expression, right? So just to back up for a second. And again, if you are a regular here on the Trish Regan show, you know this story inside and out, right? Because we have covered it at length. But there's a few things going on. In particular, what this case is related to is that property that she had in Virginia. Okay? So the one in Virginia where she bought it and she actually said, per her power of attorney, she's saying this was my power of attorney.

It was a clerical era, blah, blah, blah. for her power of attorney that this was going to be her primary residence. Now, the reason you can't actually do that, you know, if you get two homes, one has to be your primary residence, one has to be your vacation home. The reason you can't do that is because people typically will pay off the primary residence first, right? If you have a mortgage, you're always going to pay your mortgage on your primary residence. You may not pay the mortgage if things are tight on the vacation home.

And so thus you typically will get a lower rate. And she had, you know, FHFA backing, etc. And this is what the FHA, FHFA, William Pulte, was actually the original one to point this out because he's like, wait a second, what is she doing? And so it's really threatening the entire system in a way that is very different, frankly, than what you saw with Donald Trump. She was alleging back then that he was threatening the entire system. If Deutsche Bank went down because of their loan to Donald Trump, then everything was going to

crater. I'll tell you way back when those judges weren't buying it. Remember this? when the judge that was representing Letitia in the appellate court, because that's how it works, you get somebody who's hopefully a little bit smarter, hopefully a little bit less political on the appellate level. I mean, the judges just shot her down as soon as she approached. Judith Vale approaching the bench.

Bye, bye, honey. May it please the court, Judith Vale for the New York Attorney General's office. All of the defendants repeatedly violated. Ms. Vale, can you identify any previous case which the Attorney General sued under Executive Law, to upset a private business transaction that was between equally sophisticated partners, where the supposed victim had the ability and legal obligation to discover the allegedly misrepresented matters by conducting its own due diligence, where the supposed wrongdoer advised the supposed victim through written disclaimers to conduct its own due diligence and

to draw its own conclusions, where the alleged misrepresentation almost entirely concerned inherently subjective valuations of properties and businesses. Yes. And where the victim never complained about any fraud of the transactional losses from it. Because I've gone through the cases which you've cited, and all of them always involved the consumer protection aspect. It involved protection of the market.

And I want to add to his question, and little to no impact on the public marketplace. Boom, okay? Very different case. here with Letitia James and the allegations that are being leveled against her because it would have an impact on the public marketplace. By the way, you also had the Brownstone in Brooklyn where she apparently said she only had four units instead of five because it meant a different set of circumstances in terms of what you could qualify for. And then if you really want to go back in time,

guess what we can find? The father. She went and got a mortgage with her dad and actually said that she was his wife. I mean, so we got a pattern of repeat behavior if you ask me, for goodness sakes, right? I mean, wow. So you know that this actually carries a rather significant jail sentence and she could find herself in jail. We do know that Letitia has been so worried about all of this that she has engaged the services of one Abby Lull. Now, Abby Lolle is the attorney that represented none other than Hunter Biden. Yes, Hunter Biden because, you know, Hunter Biden was in all that trouble over the Hunter Biden laptop. And so he represented him during that time. He's now representing Letitia James. And I'll tell you guys, this is unbelievable. She's getting money from

this legal defense fund. Let me show you who's paying Abby Lull's bills right now. Okay, so she's out of cash, she's out of money, she's pretty much desperate right now. She has officially been indicted, and she doesn't have any way to pay the bills, right? Because, because she can't use taxpayer dollars. She tried. Kathy Hochle, her buddy was like, okay, well, we'll give you 10 million bucks to be able to put towards your legal funds. Well, you see, this is a personal case. It's a personal matter. And it's her personal home out there in Virginia, so it's not flying. As a result, she's got to turn to this legal aid fund. Now, here's where it gets tricky, okay,

because a lot of people can make a lot of contributions to the legal aid fund. Let me go to the fine print. This was first reported in Gothamist. They said that the legal defense fund allows for donors to be subject to state laws that limit campaign contributions and require public that won't be, I should say,

key difference there won't be subject to state laws and will not require limits on campaign contributions. contributions, right? So that means, hey, you know, the guy over at LinkedIn, read, I think she's going to be calling on you. Hey, Soros, I think she's going to be calling. She needs some deep pockets right now because, you know, Abby Lowell doesn't come cheap. Money from the fund will cover fees incurred by Lowell's firm. A spokesperson for the attorney general's office when this piece came out last week was declining, said that they were declining to tap a $10 million appropriation included for the state budget officials that were basically dealing with, quote,

retaliatory investigations because that's what she says, that this is just retaliation of Donald Trump. I got news for you, Letitia, you're in a lot of trouble. You don't have the $10 million. Hopefully you get some friends with deep pockets there in New York City to help bail you out. But, you know, there's not a lot of love lost here, shall we say. I'm just going to go forward and put it out there that, you know, taxpayers, New York, voters in New York, if you look at her polling, like she's doing worse than Schumer, which is saying something, okay, she's got a hard time here because people are like, wait a second,

this was your like personal home and how are you trapped up in this? And hey, if it is a clerical error, guess what? We'll find that out. Then she won't actually be facing a jail sentence. But if it's not a clerical error and there was intention there, then that's what the law is for, right, to protect against this kind of thing. You know what just discussed me about all of it, though, how vicious she was. You know she was vicious. I mean, what a lady, right? I mean, just I shouldn't call her a lady.

There's no sort of conceivable way or a prayer of this woman being a lady. But you know what? She's getting her coming up and come up and, as it said. Remember this? This is an attorney general, Leticia, that went out and campaigned on, I will get drunk. I will get Trump, no matter what I'll get Trump, I promise I'll get it. We have two tapes on her now that I've come out since the trial because people took tapes of her because they couldn't believe

for ranting and raping like a lunatic. But this is the Attorney General of New York State, Patricia James, and she shouldn't be allowed to be Attorney General. She's defrauded the public with this trial. She said that Mar-Lago, she convinced the judge at Mar-a-Lago, which were in Pompuy-Tuar, the most expensive land in the world, I guess,

that and the most expensive houses definitely in the world. In Marla Lago, the biggest house, the most spectacular place in Paula, Florida, was worth $18 million when it's worth approximately, could be close to 100 times that amount. And based on that testimony, and based on her convincing the judge at Marlago was worth $18 million instead of a billion to a billion five, which we sell very easily, which we've already proven, but we'll have people come up and say that.

and proven the most important people, the brokers that make the sales. But based on that, he ruled against me. He ruled fraud. I mean, he said, they are the fraudulent people. Because they ruled the house that was worth 18. They put down as worth 18 billion and it's worth maybe close to 100 times that amount. Yeah. It was surreal.

I mean, I can't believe what we've all been through. Can you? In the last few years, I mean, he's amazing. I'm going to tell you. a word for our president, who, by the way, is having a glorious day. The world is having a glorious day because of the peace deal that he negotiated. The media having to eat crow right now, having to say, okay, credit where credit is due. We're going to get to all of that and we're going to get to the new stuff coming out about the FBI agents, all of whom were just

fired. But look back at the last few years, guys. I mean, we've been through, you know what and back. But he and his family most definitely have been. It has been a travesty what they have been put through and I think the real thing that you've got to remember here, guys, is that we can't live in a world. We cannot live in a world where if you choose to run for political office and you don't win, if your side loses that somehow you are then victim to the entire system. And that's what he was, something like 31 indictment counts right against him. You had Fannie Willis down in Georgia with her infamous mugshot, which now hangs right outside the Oval Office, and you had Letitia James trying to bankrupt him.

I very clearly remember, and we've played it here many times, the ABC News Soundby, ABC News again, interesting, where she said, if he doesn't have the money to cover his debts, right, because she sued him and the judge was going along for the ride and say, okay, 500 million bucks, we're going to slap on you, buddy. Then we will simply have to confiscate his assets. She was chomping at the bit to sit there right outside, talking about a ribbon-cutting ceremony, right? right outside Trump Tower and say, this is ours. New York City, guess what I got you? New York State, guess what I got you? All kinds of real estate. We're confiscating his assets one thing after another.

That was wrong, okay? Everybody knew it was wrong. That was the case that perhaps me as a business reporter with my financial background bugged me more than anything, right? Where was the victim? Oh, wow, Letitia, you messed with the wrong. wrong team, lady. You better be doing some extra super duper praying right about now because you are looking at a jail sentence. This is a very, very serious thing. Latisha James being indicted by the DOJ, Pam Bondi's DOJ, Donald Trump's DOJ on allegations of mortgage fraud. And there could be more coming because the New York office is looking at violation of civil rights. The things keep piling up for good old Tishy Baby.

Yeah, yeah, she's going to be in a lot of trouble, a lot of trouble. But you know what? Don't feel sorry for her. Wasn't it her line too male, too pale, to stale, to male, to pale, to stale, to male, to pale, too stale? Well, what are we going to say about you right now? Tishy, baby, it's over. You are in a lot of trouble and no one, and I mean no one feels bad for you at all.

FBI right now in a whole lot of trouble. Meanwhile, looks like they're firing all the agents that were involved in this so-called Arctic Frost scandal. This is worse than Watergate, but do you hear a peep out of the mainstream media? Nope, nope, nope, nothing, nothing. Jack Smith, he is possibly going down as well. Letitia, you thought you had it bad. Watch out for Jack Smith. Jackie is going to be in trouble because you see Jackie seems to have moved forward on this tracking of communications of nearly a dozen GOP senators during that J6 probe.

So they had wiretapping on eight of them right here that are listed in the FBI report, including Lindsay Graham. You get some big names in here, Cynthia Loomis, you have Ron Johnson, you got Marsha Blackburn, and now Ron Johnson, and a few others are like, wait a second, Grassley, and Johnson. sent a letter to the DOJ demanding more. I want to show you. Let's go to John Solomon and his reporting on this. It's a major development. You're taking a look at a letter right there that was just sent to the FBI Director Cash Patel

and the Attorney General Pambani. What does it say? It says that Congress has obtained evidence that shows that the Biden White House was directly involved in trying to help start Jack Smith's investigation on the January 6th probe against President Trump, specifically that the White House Counsel's Office

secretly obtained President Trump's and Vice President Mike Pence's former phones in giving them to the prosecutors. Basically, sicking the Justice Department on his future competitor, there's future rival in the 2020 for election so that they could look for dirt for possible crimes. There's a lot more coming in. There's a lot of other evidence as well of the White House involvement. Remember, two years ago, we were the first news agency, Radio Real American's Voice, Justice News,

to report that a White House counsel was directly involved with this investigation. Now more details, including getting, can imagine this, you're the Democrat president and you go get the old Republicans phone for your prior president and send it to the Justice Department. That's what Senator Johnson and Grousey were able to confirm tonight. I mean, this is like, this is crazy stuff. I mean, this is like the Cointel program, right? Back in, he started under Hoover's FBI and continuing on through the 60s, you know, where they were going after people like Martin Luther King that they deemed to be threats to the country. It is unbelievable. So here's my question right now. I mean, what exactly did they have in terms of authorization? I mean, do you just go to the phone company? You're Jack Smith. You're like,

yeah, I want all that. Bring it on. We're going to find out exactly where they were. Their location, who they were talking to. Give me all the records. Give me, give me, give me. What do you have for, was there a FISA warrant? Was there a subpoena? Like, what kind of justification do you have for this because you need some? And by the way, I'm not the only one saying that's John Kennedy, forgive me, you know, Senator Kennedy there from Kentucky, there in the hearings with one Pam Bondi there just yesterday saying, we need to know, did they just turn this over? He had a rather eloquent, yes, very eloquent way of saying this as he always does.

But the phone company and the general counsel for the phone company, are companies, if there were more than one involved, could say, you know, This is serious as an aneurysm. This is serious as fore-hot attacks and a stroke. This is a sitting United States senator. So General Counsel would likely advise the CEO, you need to file a motion to quash. Senator, typically phone companies follow a subpoena from a United States attorney.

No, they do, but they don't have to. They could challenge it, Senator. Yeah. Or maybe they should have gone to Amazon and buy some testicles online. I told you. Like only he can. Sure. I'll just show you the phone records of a sitting United States senator on the basis of an administrative subpoena.

Yeah. It's pretty wild indeed. So he's like, why are they doing this? So just to like back up for a second. And you heard Pam Bondi say that typically you would need something like a court order, you'd need a subpoena, a national security. security letter under the U.S. Patriot Act, or you'd need a FISA warrant. In other words, for foreign intelligence purposes, you were looking into this. And so what they're likely to argue,

and this is what they used the whole time, like J6 was their excuse for everything, right? That was the excuse. And so you had one guy at the FBI that was investigating all of this, and then Jack Smith took this all over and apparently continued it on. And I think that Kennedy's bringing up some important questions, just exactly what did the phone companies have? Because if they went forward with this and they didn't have the proper authorization, then you know what? That would actually be really and truly illegal and you're going to have more people going down, not just Jack Smith, not just the FBI agents, not just maybe Christopher Ray as he was overseeing all this, but possibly the phone companies being liable for some of this? Watch.

Now, do you have copies of the subpoena applications for these eight? Senator, I can't discuss anything regarding this case with you. You can't even tell me if you have copies? I can't discuss any of this. All right, when are you going to, General, when are you going to be able to discuss it? I can't discuss whether there is or is not a pending investigation. I understand. But let's just say.

If there is a pending investigation, I don't want this to get swept under the rug. No. Okay? Because I think you're going to get pushed back from all quarters. I think the telecommunication companies are going to be all over you like a bad rash. Because they've got liability here. for just turning over these records. When they knew what was going on,

I think some FBI agents may have some liability here. I think a special counsel might have some liability here. If I were your special counsel, and you had appointed me, and I wanted to get the records of a sitting United States senator, is that something you would expect me to tell you as Attorney General of the United States? They better have. Yeah. Do we know in this instance of the eight-sitting United States senators if they told Attorney General Garland?

Senator, I just learned about this very recently, as did Director Patel, and we cannot discuss the detail. I don't know many of the details. Well, maybe we ought to get Attorney General Garland here. Wow. Do you know? Yes. And so that's where this is going, okay, Garland. Goes back to Garland, Merrick Garland, here's the question. What did Merrick Garland really know about

what was going down? Did he have the proper authorization? Did the FBI have the proper authorization to be going out there and collecting this intel on eight sitting U.S. senators? I mean, wild, right? Like, this is wild stuff. But again, go back to J6, the fact that they used that and they manipulated that as they did. And now, you know, look, I'm not condoning things. Like, we can leave that all aside, but I will tell you this. The story as it was reported was very, very one-sided. Heck, I mean, you got Alexandra Pelosi, the daughter of one Nancy Pelosi in there with her little camera quarters doing all the documentation on everything. Yeah, she's a documentary filmmaker. Okay, she uses music and this and that to try and, you know, sway you with her documentary style. I'm telling you, there's no way that

that could be fair reporting. And that is what they put on TV. Oh, you know, prime time special. where they hired a whole bunch of ABC news reporters. Producers. The former producer from Good Morning America was the one in charge of all that. I mean, they tried to make it into a live television special for goodness sakes. That was intentional. Okay, it was all intentional. They were going to use J6 for everything going forward.

They went to the tech companies. Okay, you can't do this, you can't do that. First they had March 2020, COVID to use as a reason. We're going to shut this down. We're going to shut that down. We're going to shut this down. We're going to shut this down. then they had J6 as their reason to wiretap. By the way, Pence is well. I mean, this is a big

freaking deal, you guys. And nobody in the mainstream media is reporting it. I can't find it in the New York Times. No. I mean, Josh Hawley, a sitting U.S. Senator brings it up, as does Kennedy, right? On Capitol Hill, you would think that that would deserve a little bit of airtime on the evening news shows, maybe a little bit of print space in the New York Times, but yet nobody can cover this. They don't want to. Listen. to Holly. Manor of things and the current president, I've also heard them said, and I just wrote it down because I wanted to be sure I heard it correctly.

I've heard them say that Joe Biden never targeted his political enemies. Joe Biden never directed his attorney general to target his political opponents. Huh. That's interesting because I could have sworn that yesterday we learned that the FBI tap my phone. Let's look at it. We've got a list. Tap my phone. Tap Lindsey Graham's phone.

tapped Marsha Blackburn's phone, tapped five other phones of United States senators. Gee, it sure looks like targeting political opponents to me, and yet I haven't heard a word from that side of the dais about any concern whatsoever. We've got nothing but concerns today, but no concern at all for a Justice Department that is tapping the phones of sitting United States Senators because who knows why? They don't like them. They're members of the opposition party. They're Republicans. They're conservatives. You've seen this document, Attorney General Bonnie. What was going on here? Who ordered this? Who ordered the tapping of the phones of United States Senators? Senator Holly, I cannot discuss the details of that right now for very good

reason. You're going to do a thorough investigation into this, I trust. Is that correct? We will be looking at all aspects of this. And I have talked to Director Patel at Link. And you're going to figure out who was involved in this. Who signed off? It's time for cleanup, okay? Because when you look at this one, you got the Wiretap Act, 18 U.S.C. Prohibiting Intercepting Communications Without Consent. You've got the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, 18 USC 1030, if hacking or unauthorized access was involved.

You got more. You got state privacy and eavesdropping laws, often carrying civil and criminal penalties. and you have people like Senator Cynthia Loomis who's looking to sue on a personal level, all of the FBI agents that engaged in this because she believes, and rightly so, that her civil rights were violated. So what exactly did you have in terms of, you know, qualifications to get a court order or to get a subpoena or a FISA warrant or anything else? I mean, this is a really, really bad scenario.

It is a bad set of facts. And you know, you think back to good old Comey, who was out there stomp and non-stop for Biden and then for Kamala. Why? Because he knew his, you know what was on the line. He's the guy that helped come up with all of this. That Jimmy Carter, like a former president of the United States. I'm sitting here like, this is just bizarre old land. I mean, you had Jimmy Carter pushing this narrative because they hated Trump that much. There's no doubt that the Russians did interfere in the election, and I think the interference, although not yet quantified, if fully an investigative, would show that Trump didn't actually win the election in 2016. He lost the election, and he was put in the office because the Russians interfere on his behalf. So do you believe President Trump is an illegitimate president? Face it on what I just said, which I can't retract.

Oh, yeah, laugh, laugh, laugh, laugh. Boy, that's really funny. Okay, this is Comey's FBI. Let's go back, a little bit back, okay? 2016, Donald Trump wins. We've learned through Tulsi Gaggart that they were sitting around the Oval Office. He called a meeting. You had all the big wigs there. And they made a decision after knowing and hearing that the intelligence about the Russians showed that there was no effect on the election, they made the decision to say, we're going to tie this somehow to Donald Trump. We're going to paint him as illegitimate. I mean, how much more un-American can you get? Did Barack Obama never play sports? Probably never played sports, right? He was probably in the debate club instead,

in the theater club or who knows what else. He doesn't know how to play as a good sportsman. Because in sports, they're the best man win, right? You know, and everybody's friends after. You move on. Well, that's how it's supposed to be in American politics. You have an election. One side wins. One side doesn't win. But guess what? In the interest of the United States of America and preservation of this great country,

our wonderful republic, what do you do? You're supposed to help the incoming team so that there's a smooth transfer of power. And instead of doing that, Biden, well, Obama back then, made the decision. to taint Donald Trump's presidency, so he couldn't get out from under. But you know what? Donald Trump's coming back and you know it. This is 2.0, which means Comey, bye-bye. Hi, director, James Comey, in front of a judge moments ago in a hearing that we did not think would last long. And apparently that is the case.

He has entered a plea of not guilty to two charges, federal level now. Our producers inside the courtroom say the former director accused of lying to Congress, instructing congressional proceeding, end of the plea moments ago in front of the judge, Michael Nachmanoff, appointed by Joe Biden, not guilty on both federal charges. He's accused of lying in front of Congress back in 2020. So that is the update inside the courtroom. And while that's happening... Okay, while that's happening, while that's happening, basically we are looking at Leticia James

being indicted by... Donald Trump's DOJ. I mean, sweet justice, guys. So, Comey first, Letitia next. I told you this would happen. And you know what? For all of those that may be out there saying, you know, two wrongs don't make a right. The problem we now have is that the train has left the station, okay?

And I've told you this story before. I've talked to Donald Trump, the president, about this before. I said, Mr. President, after he won. Why didn't you go after Hillary Clinton? And he said, Trish, I didn't do it because, one, she was the wife of a former president, and two, she's my former opponent. And this is the United States of America. It's not a banana Republican.

We don't do that kind of stuff. Except that they didn't play the same game, right? This is not sportsmanship like you and I would think about it or that he thought about it. He thought, okay, you know, we're all on the same day. We're all American. Don't we want the same kind of goals? Good economy for all. No, no, no, no, no, no.

because to them, they couldn't believe that he won over the precious Hillary Clinton, who was supposed to be the first female president in history, right? So this was something, a wound that hurt deeply. So they dug in, and they had the apparatus and the power and the ability to do it. And he was naive at that point in time, again, assuming that people want the best for the country and that we're all on the same team. So naively, he became. victim of their system.

And it didn't end when he left the Oval Office, right? I mean, because they used J6 to keep going after him. And then they used Letitia James to keep going after him. She was going to bankrupt him. Fannie was going to put him in jail until she had that little fling with the guy who was working for her that she was giving taxpayer dollars to, Nathan Wade. I mean, this is serious stuff. And then you have Alvin Bragg in New York City, you had Jack Smith.

I mean, the whole thing's a frickin' mess, okay? So you have to actually go back and clean it up. You know, I heard one argument about mutual assured destruction. Like, we have to know that, like, you guys, you're going to do that. We're going to do it too. So maybe nobody should do it. How about that? I mean, Donald Trump is very forthcoming.

He makes it very clear how he feels, you know, rightly or wrongly. You know where you stand, right, with him. Whereas Biden and Obama, they were all behind. the scenes doing all this funny stuff and it's all coming back to bite them in the you know what. I mean, we're talking really funny stuff, really, really funny stuff because we had, well, I mean, for goodness sakes, I mean, you had things like, you know, people not being able to access bank accounts. I mean, that was a common one, right?

That was a common one. You know what's funny? I'm looking at the lower third here and it can be confusing because we got Letitia James, We've got James Comey. We got a couple of Jameses here on the screen. So we got Comey, he's going down, right? We've got Letitia James, she's going down. And basically, the entire FBI is being exposed along with the DOJ,

Leticia James, indicted on mortgage fraud allegations. Whoa! Okay, I told you it would happen. I told you it would happen. And I have very good sources. So I really knew that it was going to happen. And I encourage you, if you haven't subscribed to the show, make sure you do. This is a big story, you guys, and we're going to continue covering it. I'll tell you, Comey did not want this. Comey was so terrified. This is why we saw him on MSNBC out there begging and pleading for somebody to make sure that Donald Trump didn't get elected again, because then it was all going to come out. Well, thank God it came out, right?

Like, what would we be doing if it hadn't come out? You're going to just sweep all this under the rug, and then you're going to really turn into a totalitarian fascist government overnight, for goodness sake. All the things that you warned us about with Trump, you basically did. I mean, it's wild. Paul and Cattle. I mean, Letitia is a great example, right? Trying to say, and Donald Trump had some funny business going on with the mortgages,

and then it turns out was she's got some real funny business, allegedly going on with her mortgages. she's going to have to pay up. High-priced attorney trying to get her out of this mess. I'll tell you, listen, it was a rough road. I think we've all sort of got a little bit of PTSD from the last. It's like eight years now, right? I mean, nine years, because ever since he was elected and then on,

they have been brutal to one side. Do you think about people who couldn't even get bank accounts? That was a big deal. There were people who literally could not get bank accounts because they were conservative. I mean, there was a great interview. I think this was one on, well, I think it was my friend Maria Bartaroma that had Jamie Diamond on from Chase. And Jamie Diamond was saying that it had gotten to be a little bit ridiculous because apparently if you were said to have had some bank transactions

at bank transactions at Dick Sporting's goods, they were going to, they were coming after you. They wanted to see your bank records. And they were requesting bank records. And apparently some banks actually turned over the records. And that is, that's really bad. So we need to actually improve some of the legislation there on that front. Don't you think it's partly why I've partnered with the good folks at Americans for free markets because we had so much this debanking going on and it can't happen again. It just can't happen. I mean, I'm sorry. Like we're over it and we've got to actually make sure that there's legislation that's put in, put in place that's actually going to afford for all Americans to have freedom when it comes to their own financial prospect.

So Donald Trump has taken pretty decisive action. You know, he's come out with the executive order saying you can't do this anymore in terms of the debanking. We're going to end it once and for all. You can't debank somebody because of their political beliefs come on. But we need more than that. And that's where Americans for Free Markets comes in. They are thanking, together with me, thanking Donald Trump for all that he's doing here, standing up for Freedom, urging Congress to lead forward this effort together so we can

establish a national fair access standard to prevent our. services from being denied, whether it's based on your political, social, or religious views. I can't believe we even have to ask for this, but, you know, it should be guaranteed in the Constitution. It's not. So we need something more. This will bring clarity, consistency, and long overdue accountability, accountability to this financial regulation.

So go check them out. F-O-R-F-F-F-F-F-F-E-Markets.com and find out what you can do to get involved to help preserve financial prosperity and opportunity for everyone. It matters, right? It matters. Meanwhile, wow, do we have some good news, right? This is, I mean, I can tell you the Letitia stuff. That was a long time coming, right? But here's something else. It was a long time coming. It looks like the hostages are due to return, wow, to their families. This is a big deal. Donald Trump revealing the news on my former colleague, Sean Hannity's show last night. Let's listen in. I think you're going to see people getting along and you'll see Gaza being rebuilt. We're forming a campaign. council that the Council of Peace, we think it's going to be called and it's going to be very powerful. And it's going to really, I think to a large extent, it's going to have a lot to do with the whole Gaza situation. People are going to be taken care of. It's going to be

a different world. I think really the Middle East came together. Amazingly, they came together. You know, they have some countries with extraordinary wealth and just spending a small portion that wealth can do so much for that area. So he did it. We'll be involved in it, but the big thing is hostages are going to be released. It's probably our time would be probably Monday. Boom! They're terribly a terrible situation.

Horrible. But you know what? He did it, okay? He put this announcement out. I'm very proud to announce that Israel and Hamas have both signed off on the first phase of our peace plan. That means that all the hostages will be released very soon, and Israel will withdraw their troops to an agreed-upon line as the first steps towards a strong, durable, and everlasting peace.

All parties will be treated fairly. This is a great day for the Arab and Muslim world, Israel, and all surrounding nations and the United States of America. And I've got to say, you know what? Thank you, President Trump. It's a great day for you. It really is because here's the reality, guys. Like, this could not have happened.

It could not have happened without Donald Trump. All right, it took a very unique person to get this one done. And I'm just saying, Hillary Clinton, I think you're going to have to owe him an apology and perhaps a Nobel Peace Prize nomination. President Trump were the architect of that. I'd nominate him for a Nobel Peace Prize. So we're waiting. We're waiting.

Is it going to happen? I will tell you this. You look at the media right now. And they're like in shock. I mean, they just can't believe what's happened. I mean, even CNN can't spin it. They got Goldman on, you know, the rep from New York. And he's sitting there like, I mean, they don't, they don't know quite how to react to this other than to say, yeah, you know, gosh, this is good, you think?

That this was not doable when President Biden was in office. I think the biggest problem that the President Biden had is there was no pressure from Qatar, from Turkey, from Egypt. They were actually facilitating in many ways what was going on. And that is really ultimately how it all came together. But I think by saying that, it's sort of an acknowledgement. Trump has changed that dynamic. Yeah, no, I think that – I mean, he's clearly – I don't know how he – you know.

And I think there's a lot that remains to learn about what prompted that change. But I do agree, yes. Somehow, some way that changed. What I – And yeah, here we are. something changed. How did that change? It's called negotiation people. You know, they do this in business all the time. They just don't know how to do it in politics because you see, they see it as a zero-sum game. Only one sign wins. And Donald Trump understands something that's fundamental to the business community.

And I say this as someone who comes from the business community, who is still in the business community. Quick shout out for 76 research. Go to 76research.com. Use code word dollar, my gift to you, dollar for the first two months. That's my financial research firm. I am telling you that, you know what we get in business, that they don't get in politics, we get that it's not a zero-sum game and that everybody has to win a little something along the way and we have to give in order to get. And wow, they're standing by in the media on MSNBC this morning. This was great. David Ignatius from the Washington Post. Watch. The deal that President Trump is announcing played a key part in negotiating is a significant change. This war was blocked for two years. President Biden,

who proceeded in was unable to find a way to stop it. President Trump found that way by being tough on both sides. And you'll take a victory lap for sure over the next few days. But it's deserved. There's no way that I can see that this would have been done without Trump's pressure in the final hours. Boom. Okay. Wow.

I mean, it takes a lot for them to admit this kind of thing, right? It really, really does. But it's wonderful news. One of the things about honesty and citizenship and a sense of, I would say maturity about what people in a democracy should do is even if someone with whom you disagree about 99 things, does the 100 really well, you should say so. Yes, you can. Okay, John McKeacham. This is the guy, by the way, who you just saw interviewing. Carter back in the day when Carter came out with the big revelation that Donald Trump wasn't a

legitimate president because the election had been stolen by the Russians, right? He has a very clear bias. He's very much in Biden's camp. He's one of the guys that Biden called in. Initially, when Biden had his, you know, reporter gathering there at the Oval Office to say, what is it that I can do to go down in the history books to be more like FDR? This is one of the guys, right? So he's a presidential historian. There he is on MSNBC, having to eat crow effectively. Yeah, we got to give credit where credit is due. Because that's what intellectual honesty is. And so all credit to President Trump and his, as you say,

unconventional team, but if he takes an unconventional team, that's fine, right? I remember once asking the senior President Bush after something terrible, what happened, the sign of something that I can't remember what it was after he'd been president. Something had happened with police. And I said, you know, the man who spent a decade dealing with this, I said, Mr. President, do you think this ever gets resolved? And he said, God, I don't know. That's what one of the most experienced diplomatic presidents in American history. I bet it was an unknowable thing.

So imagine that. Unknowable. In other words, other presidents couldn't even get close. And here he is. I mean, we're not even in a year in. And you get a peace deal. Phase one. I mean, it's unbelievable.

You know, it shows you the power of America and all the good that can come when you have the right people in charge, right? This is a wonderful country with a wonderful history. We go back 250 years. We're celebrating our birthday this year. A pretty big birthday, right? We are standing tall and we are standing strong. And don't forget, one of the reasons we have been here,

as the leader of the free world, as the greatest example of capitalism and opportunity and meritocracy in the world is because of our founding fathers who are willing to take one small step, one small step at a time, all right, to get us to something bigger. It's amazing, you know, I was a student of American history at Columbia University, back in the day when Columbia was actually Columbia, and I grew up in New Hampshire. and I was actually just telling one of my kids last night where I went to high school was actually in a small town called Exeter, New Hampshire. And Exeter, New Hampshire was, obviously, New Hampshire was very, very involved, of course,

in the Revolutionary War and the sort of belief in freedom and opportunity and patriotism. It's in our core, right? Like, you're just everywhere you go, you're surrounded by it growing up. Heck, it says, live for your dies, like the first words that I learned to read when I was a little kid on the back of every license plate in the parking lots, right? So live free or die, New Hampshire, where we have this wonderful tradition in history of believing in opportunity for everyone, even going back to the 1850s in a little town, like Exeter, New Hampshire, where I went to high school, where you had people like Amos Tuck

and people like hail from ports with New Hampshire that came together along with Reverend Beecher Stowe, the brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe. Beecher, forgive me, not Stowe, Reverend Beecher, and they got together and they came up with the intellectual might to create a new Republican Party that was different from the Whig Party, right, the Whig Party, they don't forget the Democrats, they had the South all locked up, but the Whig Party actually stood for industrialization and a diversified economy, and they stood for an anti-slavery movement. And so they're in that little town of Exeter, in 1853, these guys all got together and they took

one small step, one small step towards establishing something big and new and grand. And that would be, of course, the United States of America. They were instrumental in getting Lincoln there into the Oval Office. And you know the rest. It's history. But I'm just saying, all it takes is one small step. whether it be the founding fathers daring to rebel against England, or it be, you know, the 1850s, the creation of the Republican Party that still stands today.

Listen, it just takes a little. And this is a challenge that AFP, Americans for Prosperity, is offering forward together with you and with me, to just take one small step. Invite a neighbor over. Have tea. Talk about the beginnings of this country, this country. I mean, it's 250 years. We've got a lot to celebrate and talk about.

You can get some ideas. You can be part of this. They want to take 250,000 small steps. So go to one small step. Take one small step.com today. I got a funny story for you. I mean, it's not just Leticia James behaving badly. We know that, right? Again, breaking news. If you're just joining us right now, Latisha James has been indicted. But another day, another tape, it seems, of one Ms. Katie Porter, who wants to be the next governor of California. But I'm telling you, she's going to have. a hard time living down her very, very bad reputation. And like every day it gets worse. So there's a new tape. It's like the sombrero tapes, right? We had Uno Dos Trace. We got Uno Dos Trace on one Katie Porter out of California. Unbelievable stuff. But let me back up to the tape that came out about 48 hours ago. You see, she did this interview with CBS News in Sacramento and she got presented with a whole bunch of questions that, you know, everybody else is answering. But Katie doesn't want to watch. What do you say to the 40% of California voters who you'll need in order to win who voted for Trump?

How would I need them in order to win, man? Well, unless you think you're going to get 60% of the vote. You think you'll get 60%? Everybody who did not vote for Trump will vote for you. That's what you're thinking. In a general election? Yes. If it is me versus a Republican, I think that I will win the people who did not vote for Trump.

What if it's you versus another Democrat? I don't intend that to be the case. So how do you not intend that to be the case? Are you going to ask them not to run? No, no, I'm saying I'm going to build the support. I have the support already in terms of name recognition. And so I'm going to do the very best I can to make sure that we get through this primary in a really strong position.

But let me be clear with you. I represented Orange County. I represented a purple area. I have stood on my own two feet and won Republican votes before. That's not something every candidate in this race can say. If you're from a deep blue area, if you're from L.A. or you're from Oakland. You don't have an experience.

But you just said you don't need those Trump voters. Well, you asked me if I needed them to win. So you don't think you need to them. I feel like this is unnecessarily argumentative. What is your question? The question is the same thing I asked everybody, that this is being called the empowering voters to stop Trump's power grab. Every other candidate has answered this question. And I said, I support it.

So, and the question is, what do you say to the 40% of voters who voted for Trump? Oh, I'm happy to say that. It's the do you need them to win part that I don't understand. I'm happy to answer the question as you haven't written. as you haven't written and I'll answer it. And we've also asked the other candidates, do you think you need any of those 40% of California voters to win? And you're saying, no, you don't. No, I'm saying I'm going to try to win every vote I can. And what I'm saying to you is that well, to those voters. Okay, so you, I don't want to keep doing this. I'm going to call it.

Thank you. Oh. You're not going to do the interview with us. Nope, not like this. I'm not, not with seven followers to every single question you ask. Every other candidate has answered our I don't care. I don't care. I want to have a pleasant, positive conversation which you ask. Because you see, I'm a Democrat. And we Democrats, we always have pleasant, positive conversations. It's just Donald Trump who gets the hard questions. You're not supposed to ask me a hard question. I'm Ms. Katie Porter. I'm going to be the next governor of California. Gavin, watch out. About every issue on this list. And if every question, you're going to make up a follow-up question, then we're never going to get there. And we're just going to circle around.

I have never had to do this before, ever. You've never had to have a conversation with an interview. Okay, but every other candidate has done this. What part of, I'm me, I'm reading for governor because I'm a leader. So I am going to make... So you're not going to answer questions from reporters? Okay, why don't we go through? I will continue to ask follow-up questions because that's my job as a journalist,

but I will go through and ask these. And if you don't want to answer, you don't want to answer. So nearly every legislative... I don't want to have an unhappy experience with you. And I don't want this all on camera. I don't want to have an unhappy experience with you either. Sorry, that ship sales. So that we can show our viewers what every candidate feels about every one of these issues that they care about.

And redistricting is a massive issue. We're going to do an entire story just on the responses to that question. And I've asked everybody the same follow-up questions. Sorry, lady. You know what? The whole thing was on camera. Gosh, darn it. Wow, what a miserable, miserable.

person. She is. And you see, today there's a new tape. There's a new tape of her screaming and her poor staffer. I mean, why would anybody work for her as, you know, she's trying to do this on-camera interview. I mean, I can't make it up. I mean, it really does not present Democrats in a very good light. I'm not saying they're all like this, but this is not a good look. It's dying prematurely to air pollution and other problems, and the state could lose, Just, get out of my fucking shot. Whoa. It's not that it's electric vehicles.

It's that if we don't need the commitments, I knew the Paris climate accord. Okay, it does, okay. You also were in my shop before that. Stay out of my shot. Okay, I'm going to start again with electric vehicle saving us money. Is she for real? Like, is she for real?

Yes, peace of my mind, it's live for your die. You know it right here on the mug. I'm looking at your comments in real time. time, you guys. I mean, she is. And, you know, Gavin can't run anymore. So he's looking to move on to the presidency. God help us. And Katie Porter, God help California, is trying to move on to elected office in California and seems to think that she's got a lock on the whole thing. She'll just intimidate everybody off the stage. I'm sorry, Katie. I don't think you're going to be able to pull this one off. I really don't. I want to get to Chicago. But first, a quick shout

out to my own company, 76 research.com, go check it out. That's my financial newsletter. We actually have a new piece coming out. Oh, we're just writing it earlier today. So I think it's either later today or tomorrow. You can sign up for the 76 report. Just use code word dollar, D-O-L-L-A-R at 76 Research.com. I'm including the links in the show notes as well. Speaking of which, if you're looking at the show notes, go over to Spotify for me. I could use some little love over there, guys. We're at like 12,000 subs. It's getting embarrassing. So please go check out my channel on Spotify. Again, it is in the show links for you right now. Boy, oh, boy, oh boy, oh boy. What a day. Chicago still things heating up in the streets of Chicago, Donald Trump, as you know,

calling for the arrest of the mayor and the arrest of Governor Pritzker because he's like, what the heck is going on? I mean, you have actual real evidence of ICE agents being attacked. And yet they're trying to turn this around and say, oh, no, ice is totally in fine condition. It's the ICE agents that are attacking the people. Therefore, we have to establish ice-free zones in order to protect our residents. Here he is. This is Brandon Johnson saying this is not the first time Trump has tried to have a black man unjustly arrested. I'm not going anywhere. So somehow now this is turning into a black-white thing. I think Donald Trump would tell you, has nothing to do with black or white. Nothing to do with black or white and everything to do, everything in the world

to do with preserving the safety for all Americans. And actually, we don't have to go to Donald Trump to hear that. Let's go to Stephen Miller. He said this recently on CNN. It's a good explanation. Here we go. Is it the case that as Pritzker frames it, you are profiling brown people, that this immigration crackdown is designed to go after people of color. That is the, it's such a, oh, what a dumb question. The illegal aliens who are here are taking jobs away from blacks. They're taking jobs away from whites. They're taking jobs away from Latinos.

They're taking their health benefits away. They're taking their school slots away. And, of course, in many cases, they're committing heinous crimes. We cannot have a system of law in this country that privileges illegal aliens over American citizens. And that's what they're doing. You know it and I know it. So that's not exactly a no, Stephen. Can you just unequivocally state that the immigration policy?

Okay. No, and there's a dumb question. So no, this policy is not designed to... I thought when I said it was a dumb question, it meant no. Well, I just want to be clear and precise. I appreciate you trying to qualify my questions, but nevertheless, I think it's a fair one. that a lot of people have. My full answer is no.

That is a lie and it's a dumb question. Oh, dumb question, indeed. You know, he doesn't mince words. It's one of the things I like about. I'm a really, really bright guy. And he gets kind of a bad rap because he doesn't really have the, you know, I don't know, the softness that some people are looking for. And so he just kind of, you know, calls it like it is.

And when it comes to Chicago, he's really calling it like it is big time, saying it's not fair. it's not right what's going on. And so, yes, at this moment in time, we have a situation where it's heating up because the Chicago mayor is now going forward and establishing these ice-free zones, which I just got to tell you, you've heard me say this on the show before. This is kind of akin to 1963, Alabama, George Wallace. And as I said before, it gets a little confusing because we're talking different skin colors here, but you've got the federal government, right, which is making a decision because it feels that it's in the best interest of the citizens in the city of Chicago.

It's making a decision to arrest people that are in the country illegally that have committed crimes. And yes, sometimes it means going into an apartment building where Trendalagua is in the middle of the night to arrest them. But it's all in the interest of trying to clean up and secure the city for the Americans that live there. And Brandon Johnson, he wants to make it about color. It's not. It's about federal government having the right via the supremacy clause, via the migration clause, via the commerce clause, to say, hey, we're in control of who's in this country.

And if someone's here illegally and they've committed a crime, we have every right to go and arrest them. But Brendan Johnson fires back with this. I mean, this is, we were just talking about the 1850s and the 1860s. For goodness sakes, why are you trying to invoke, I don't know, some kind of really deep division between local and federal law on this one? Because you're not going to win. And today we are signing an executive order aimed at reigning in this out of control administration.

The order establishes ice free zones. That means that city property and unwilling private businesses will no longer serve as staging grounds for these raids. Oh, wow. So that's going to be a big legal battle. Very, very big legal battle. So, gear up, get ready. It's coming. I want to go back to Letitia James.

I want to go back because she's actually speaking out. But before I do, you know, considering that so much of this controversy, whether it be in Chicago or whether it be over the shutdown, is actually coming to the cost of illegal health care to the tune of $1.6 trillion that American taxpayers would be on the hook for, that's a pretty big deal. Is it not you guys? That's a very, very big deal. And with that in mind, you know, we can't afford it. And that is what the president has been saying over and over and over again. We can't afford it. And that is why, that is why he is making the call to say, enough is enough. Enough is enough. If it means a shutdown, unfortunately, the shutdown is coming because I'm not going to okay, $1.5 trillion.

We learned that there was $6.4 billion just in the state of California that has been allocated to hospitals for the care of illegal migrants. And so, again, it's money we don't have. And when you open the floodgates and you say, hey, come one, come all, you run into a lot of trouble. With that in mind, look, you know, the president is doing a lot of things, a lot of things, even via not just the shutdown

and what it means for health care spending, but also taking on big pharma in a way that would hold them hopefully accountable, right? And this is a big deal. I just want to give a shout out to our friends over at Conservatives for lower health care costs because, you know, They know what's going on.

And you got Big Farmer with an RB of lobbyists out there that are working overtime to keep Americans paying the highest prescription drug costs. You probably know this. I know this. It's amazing. You know, they've got all these commercials on TV all the time that you can't watch with their kids. You know which ones I'm talking about.

Anyway, they get all these commercials and they've already hiked prices on hundreds of medicines this year while flooding us with billions of misleading ads that we may, well, we definitely don't need, okay? Worse yet, Big Pharma pushes government, big government mandates designed to stack the deck in their favor. I mean, none of that is good, okay? None of that is good and none of us want that. But worse yet, Big Pharma pushes mandates with the simple goal of escaping accountability, blocking free market competition, and jacking up outrageous prices so that they can make more money.

And, you know, they pay lobbyists big time to try and do this so that they get the windfall. Well, President Trump's not back and down. administration is cracking down on these drug companies that gouge Americans and mislead patients nonstop. And he's introducing reforms. So find out more about the reforms. Find out more about Big Pharma's games that block all these generics and that work to keep prices high. You can join us in rejecting, if you would, big pharma's agenda. It's why I've partnered with the good folks at Conservatives for Lower healthcare costs. Go to pharma windfall.com to help lower drug prices today. It's important, right? You know, you've got to stay healthy. I'll tell you that.

Leticia James, big, big news coming for Leticia James. Latisha James has been indicted by Pam Bondi's DOJ and it's for mortgage fraud allegations which she claims are not true. The allegation is that she signed up for a better mortgage rate by saying that she had a vacation home as her primary residence. And you can't have two primary residences. Okay, if you live in the state of New York, that would theoretically be your primary residence. Would it not? Letitia James coming out and speaking moments ago, let's go to her arguing her side, saying it's baseless. This is nothing more than a continuation of the president's desperate weaponization of our justice system. He is forcing federal law enforcement agencies to do his bidding, all because I did my job as the New York State Attorney General.

These charges are baseless, and the president's own public statements make clear that his only goal is political retribution at any cost. Was it really just you doing your job? I'm curious. Like, that was really your job? I mean, I do believe. that you came to work every day and you went on the campaign trail saying, we're going to get them, we're going to get them, we're going to get them. I mean, that was nonstop. I played the clips nonstop. Sorry. But you know, you're going to know where you're dealing with here.

Here on the Trish Riegan show, so you guys know the story inside and out. That was Letitia James. She was quite venomous and quite aggressive and extremely litigious, right? Like, this is, she had a mission and she was going after him. And the irony of it all, because I said at the time was it was just this bizarre case where you had no victim and She was really making a stretch and you want to talk about stretch. I mean for the judge to come up with the $500 million fine. That was a massive stretch for a case where there was no victim. I mean that was a violation frankly the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution And so that's why the case got thrown out at least the penalty got thrown out because the judges were like what are you doing? I mean this is this is out of control, but we know what they were doing?

They were after Donald Trump. Why? For one reason, and one reason only, because he was Donald Trump. And they didn't want him running again. And they thought, hey, if we just bankrupt the guy, maybe he will stop. But he didn't. It's like he was Teflon. Whatever you threw at him, it just made him stronger.

Let's go to Jake Tapper talking about this. For what it's worth, I realize it's Tapper. I know. He's looking for a job at Fox, I think. Here he is speaking about it on CNN. Welcome to the lead. I'm Jake Tapper, and we start with some shocking, breaking news in our law and justice, Lee. Just moments ago, two sources telling CNN that the Justice Department indicted yet another one of President Trump's perceived political opponents. This time it was New York Democratic Attorney General Letitia James.

She was charged in a federal court in a grand jury in Alexandria of Virginia today. You will remember James brought civil fraud charges alleging financial fraud against. Trump and his adult sons and his real estate business in New York back in 2022. A judge found them liable and ordered a $355 million fine, which Trump appealed. And this obviously comes in the context of President Trump demanding that the Eastern District of Virginia, the U.S. attorney there, carry out orders to go after his political opponents, James Comey, who has been indicted, Leticia James, who as of today has been indicted. Democratic Senator Adam Schiff is the third that he mentioned in that public truth social post

that the Wall Street Journal reports was accidentally posted publicly was meant to be a private message to his Attorney General, Pam Bondi. With me here in New York, CNN's Kerasa. We're going to start with CNN's Kristen Holmes, who's live at the White House. Kristen, you broke the story. What can you tell us? Yeah, so earlier today, Lindsay Halligan, the U.S. attorney who was handpicked by Donald Trump to lead the Eastern District of Virginia after Eric Siebert stepped down. That was a man who had been in place and felt hesitant to bring certain cases against Letitia James,

as well as James Comey. Lindsay Halligan, well, yeah, I mean, he's friends with the son-in-law who's working in James Combe. James Comey's son-in-law was working in that very same office with Eric. I mean, a little too close for comfort. It's like, you know, James Comey had his own spy right in the ranks where they were bringing charges against him. So, yeah, you had to get somebody new in there. Lindsay came in. The case against Letitia James to a grand jury, and they did vote to indict.

Now, we are still waiting to hear what those charges are, but as you noted, this is part of a pattern, and part of the reason that President Trump put Halligan into that role. He wanted a loyalist, and he wanted a loyalist who would follow through on some of these cases against his political opponents. Again, we spoke to number of sources in and around conversations within that U.S. Attorney's Office in Virginia, who said the case wasn't strong enough to bring before a grand journey. Obviously, Halligan felt differently and did so, which led to an indictment. So we're still waiting on a lot of those details to come in.

But as you noted, this is yet another person on a long list of political enemies that President Trump has that has wanted. He has wanted to bring to court. Okay, so that's what they're going to say. I guess he's not auditioning for the Fox job today. That was just the book, right? You know, he was the guy who was sitting there saying, how dare you say Biden is in any way, shape, or form, not at full capacity. But, you know, as soon as Trump wins, he's out with a book, blaming the media, which he was part of, right? It was just a certain irony there, trying to save his hide, I guess.

And like I said, I do have a feeling he's trying to look around for a new opportunity. But I digress, because who's next? I mean, you got Letitia, you got Comey, and you heard CNN mention one, Adam Schiff. Oh, I don't feel bad about this one. And Donald Trump mentioned it recently, maybe about a month ago in the Oval Office. Listen.

Adam Schiff, Director Pulte reports that Adam Schiff claims he lived in a one-bedroom apartment. How is a family of four, and you're a developer, very successful developer? How's a family of four to live in a one-bedroom apartment? Now it looks like Adam Schiff really did a bad thing. They have them. Now let's see what happens.

It's not up to me. It's not up to, I stay out of it purposely. But it's mortgage loan fraud. It's a big deal. He defrauded banks and insurance companies and the federal government. But it's very simple. It's mortgage loan fraud. And you're right, that's a lot of people to live in a one-bedroom apartment, right?

But he put it down. But he has a lot of other things. far worse than that. So, no, Adam Schiff, they have him 100% on mortgage fraud. Now, if there's anybody else in this room except you, you would have no problem. But anybody else in this room, you'd have a problem. I'd have a problem. Hmm. So, do down one more to go. I think you can probably anticipate that sometime within the next couple of weeks and again my sourcing is pretty good on this and I've been proven right over and over and over again here I do think that Adam Schiff is going to find himself in

some new kinds of trouble now the question will be the statute of limitations is he able to say okay that that that didn't fly I've heard some talk that there are additional documents for refinancing that may suggest that statute of limitations actually is not acceptable. and they can go after him. So that's perhaps next on the list. Let me share with you this memorable moment. This is William Pulte who runs FHFA talking with my good friend Maria Barta Romar on her show just exactly about what Letitia did that he views as wrong. One more thing on Adam Schiff, Director Pulte reports that Adam Schiff claim. Forgive me. We're going to try that again because I want to show you

what he was saying this is an important sound bite and he explains it he explains it quite well um basically saying that mortgage fraud is a very serious crime and something that the jury will likely um will likely weigh in on as they did today with the indictment here we go doj investigate new york attorney general latisha james over alleged mortgage fraud the a g uh letitia james has responded we don't have the video of the video but here's the quote, this investigation into me is nothing more than retribution. It's baseless. It has to do with the fact that on a power of attorney, I mistakenly indicated that I was a state of Virginia resident.

And prior to that, I indicated to the mortgage broker that, in fact, in bold cap letters that I am not a resident of Virginia and never will be, they just took the power of attorney and they're using that as a basis for enforcement of their investigation. Bill, do you know why she said she was a. resident of Virginia on the power of attorney if in fact she wasn't well i know that we are mortgage experts and we only refer things that we think are mortgage fraud and we stand a hundred percent behind the letter i'll let the letter speak for itself i do know and i have seen some reports from that subject uh from that subject's criminal defense lawyer uh saying certain things i'll leave it to the doj to correct various things but again when we see mortgage fraud we are going to report it

when we see mortgage fraud we are going to prosecute it within the confines of our duties and we are not going to be intimidated by a subject's criminal defense lawyer we are not going to be intimidated by a politician or just because you have an esquire behind your name we are not going to be intimidated by people if we see mortgage fraud we're going to do something about it and i think that you're going to see us be taking this on in a big way mortgage fraud is a big problem these companies are safe and sound but where we see it we are going to do something about it and that subject's case is no different well what are the ramifications of this now that you've referred this for criminality to the DOJ? Well, I would refer that to the DOJ. Again, as I say,

we spend our days. We are mortgage experts. We are not politicians. I view this as an economic job. Obviously, the president can fire me at any time. So I guess in that way. But look, I look at this as an independent agency. We found the mortgage fraud, whether it be that particular subject or other subjects. And we work actively with the DOJ and different law enforcement. To make sure the they see this through. I mean, wow. Okay, so it's not just Letitia James, though. At this moment in time, if I were Adam Schiff, I'd be really nervous, right? Because they went for Comey, they went for Leticia. They went for Letitia on the same thing that they're trying to go after you for Adam Schiff. And they're claiming that they got something there. You know, I don't have a lot of sort of

Love Lost for Adam Schiff, you know, head of the Schiff show. He had his starring role during those impeachment trials, remember? And he really kind of seemed pretty, I'll just say it, scummy. Okay, which is why I kind of enjoyed the other day when Pam called him out, right? Right there, to his face. Peace of my mind, I see you recognizing this in the chat. So, you know, I had to bring this one just for you. Watch. So let me start with an easy truth that you could speak to the president, can you tell us, can you tell him that Donald Trump lost the 2020 election? Can you say that? Do you have the independence to say that?

Do you have the gravitas, the stature, the intestinal fortitude to say, Donald Trump, you lost the 2020 election? Can you tell us that here today? Senator, what I can tell you is I will never play politics. You're trying to engage me in a gotcha. I won't do it. I won't play politics. With any ongoing investigation.

So let me ask you another. Like you did, leaving your colleague, Devin Nunes' memo. If you can't. Department, it's important that individuals know that this is nothing more than the continuation of the tour. He went after law firms, universities, immigrants, women, thousands of federal employees right now are unemployed. Our government is in chaos and in disarray. Medicaid, Social Security, CFPB. And the list goes on and on and on.

And as you know, as you mentioned, each and every day, my office is leading the fight against these executive orders, which have no legal import at all. I'm just curious, how do you have any time to do that? I mean, aren't you meeting with Abby Lull your defense attorney? I mean, you must be pretty busy, right? You're going to defend yourself against going to jail for alleged mortgage fraud. You got Adam Schiff out there, Shifty Shift, who's also getting kind of nervous. This is his song and dance. He's twirling around with his baton right about now.

Watch. He can't do the job. He won't protect the public. He will misuse the resources of the Bureau. He will weaponize it against the president's political opponents rather than the protecting the safety, the public safety of the American people. Yeah, I'm not so sure about that. I think he actually really does care about the safety of the American people.

I mean, look at what's going on in Washington, D.C. They've got the National Guard there. They're absolutely thrilled. The mayor actually has spoken very positively about it because she needs the resources. So he is just kind of going after the bad guys, literally. I mean, I, for one, kind of consider Letitia James and Adam Schiff to be the bad guys, right? And Comey, what a slime ball, right? I mean, hey, do I, I'll prove to you what a slime ball Comey is.

Because Comey's the one who decided he wanted a story out there. He wanted a story so he just like leaked it to his friend. Do we have this one? Maybe, may, oh, we do, right? This is Comey deciding he's just going to leak something. Maybe I don't. Well, we'll do. Uh, uh, maybe.

Impeachment trials of our lifetime. So, we know, forgive me. That's another story I wanted to get to. Anyway, James Comey, James Comey was really pretty awful the way he went about leaking a story because he wanted to have a special investigation. So he gave it to a Columbia professor friend who then leaked it to a member of the mainstream media. And of course, the media is so idiotic that they don't think, gee, where's this coming from and why?

They're just spoon-fed, whatever narrative. They're supposed to, like, you know, a little dog and pony show, deliver. Meanwhile, other big stuff happening yet again today. The CIA apparently hit a memo because Biden didn't want it out there. Biden, his son was getting a plum gig. You know the drill and the deal from Burisma. Like nobody has a board job anywhere for $600,000 a year or whatever crazy amount of money it was, except for Joe Biden's son, whose dad was actually head of Ukraine,

policy at the time. I mean, think about the obvious conflict of interest. And by the way, people in the administration were very upset about this, including allegedly President Obama. And then the CIA put a memo together and he squashed it. Biden squashed it because he didn't want anybody knowing about that insane conflict of interest. So again, everything we believe to be true, it's coming out right now. I want to go back to John Solomon on Hannity last night. Impeachment trials of our lifetime. So we now know the secrets out. Everything Joe Biden told us that it was a conspiracy to think his family was a conspiracy theory, to think his family is doing anything wrong.

His own government knew that his son was involved with a corrupt company, and it was hurting the American public and American policy. Boom. Okay? Like, you really shouldn't do that, right? I mean, again, go back in time. Joe Biden is vice president of the United States. He's got this screw-up son who can't hold down a job who's got all kinds of problems.

You know, it's sad. I'm sorry for them that he has all those problems. but then somehow lands this gig for Burisma Energy and now defunct energy company that was believed to be really corrupt. According to the CIA memo, they were getting intel and feedback from Ukrainians. Ukrainians in the government that were like, this isn't good. This feels a little conspicuous, shall we say? I mean, we got Joe Biden over here lecturing us about corruption all while his son is on the take with a corrupt energy company. Add that one up. Oh, and by the way, just so you're going to be, You have no doubt.

Go back in time to one Joe Biden talking about how he had all this influence and was shorn up corruption in Ukraine while visiting Richard Haas at the Council on Foreign Relations, something that I actually used to be part of. Let's watch. For loan guarantees, and I went over, I guess the 12th, 13th time to Kiev, and I was supposed to announce that there was another billion dollar loan guarantee. and I had gotten a commitment from Poroshenko and from Yotsynuk that they would take action against the state prosecutor, and they didn't.

So they said, they were walking out to press conference and said, no, I said, I'm not going to, we're not going to give you the billion dollars. They said, you have no authority, you're not the president. The president said, I said, call him. I said, I'm telling you, you're not getting the billion dollars. I said, you're not getting the billion. I'm going to be leaving here, and I think it was what, six hours. I look, I said, I'm leaving it six hours.

If the prosecutor's not fired, you're not getting the money. Oh, son of a bitch. Got fired. And they put in place someone who was solid at the time. Well, there's still, so they made some genuine, substantial changes institutionally. Okay. So here's the punchline. The guy that he got fired, he was actually investigating Burisma,

the sketchy energy company that doesn't exist. anymore, whose board Joe Biden's son Hunter was on to the tune of nearly 600,000 crazy amount of money a year. I mean, no one makes that for a board job except Hunter, because apparently he had the ability, courtesy of pops, to get the big guy. That would be the investigator looking into Burisma, fired. Simple enough. So the CIA had all this info.

They had a memo on it. And now we've learned that Joe Biden squashed it. I mean, and then, you know, to think that they had the audacity, to tell us that that Hunter Biden laptop wasn't real, I'm never going to get over that one, guys. Like, you know, you burn me over and over and over again, and you burn the American public, and now we have no faith in any of these institutions.

The faith is now with Donald Trump. And by the way, it should be because, wow, I mean, all kinds of, of good news. We've just learned moments ago that Israel has also agreed to this peace accord. So Israel's cabinet approved the first phase of a ceasefire deal with Hamas, which includes the release of all hostages, and includes a military ceasefire. So this is a very, very, very big deal. And this is one President Donald J. Trump that's getting it done. going where nobody else could go before. I mean, wow, right?

Like, wow. You know, he's going to go down in history. It's like one of the greatest presidents ever. I really think so. He pulls this one off. My gosh, talking about a rabbit out of the hat. So, Letitia, Adam, Jimmy, call me,

and there will be more. And there will be more, Brennan, others. I'm sorry, but if you did, what is alleged to have been done, then you should pay the price. Wasn't it Letitia James who said, no one is above the law? Remember that. Good to have you all here. Make sure you subscribe, share, like, go to Spotify, would you please?

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