The Trish Regan Show - BREAKING: Trump DOJ To DEPORT & DENATURALIZE NON-U.S. Citizens That Voted ILLEGALLY In NEW JERSEY!

Episode Date: July 23, 2026

Trump’s DOJ just sounded the alarm! The 400 non-citizens who voted in New Jersey will face deportation and denaturalization. Meanwhile, new questions surface concerning HOW the 6,600 non-citizens came to be registered: the NJ Governor says it was a mixup with the software. The software company says there was no glitch. A DOJ investigation is now initiated, and heads are expected to roll. Plus, Mamdani’s star is sure fading fast. After the Netanhayhu arrest threats blew up in his face, a growing number of Dems are finally coming out against him and his policies. Is it because they’re finally realizing - no one, even libs, wants communism? Americans For Prosperity’s Kent Strang joins Trish Regan with a look at why Americans will never accept Mamdani and his cronies. Join Trish Regan LIVE for those stories and more! SPONSORS:INVEST IN GOLD & SILVER WITH FRIENDS OF TRISH AT KEPM-- https://TrishLovesGoldandSilver.comSIGN THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE & CELEBRATE AMERICAN HISTORY: https://A250Toolkit.com/Trish Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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And we're live. Welcome back to the program. I'm Trish Rigan. This is the Trish Rigan show. We get a DOJ that isn't messing around. A DOJ that is taking these concerns, these revelations, very, very seriously, 6,600 people getting the opportunity to register to vote in the state of New Jersey. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, the state of New Jersey, registering 6,600 non-citizens, 400 of whom voted. And now, Hermit Dillon from the DOJ is saying, hey, you know what? They're all going to be deported. they're all going to be denaturalized, and this is never, ever going to happen again. Welcome to the program, everyone, as I said, I'm Trish.

I am remote on location across the pond all this week, doing a little bit of research and reporting and getting a little bit of sun too here in Italy for you. Anyway, the DOJ is opening a big investigation as we speak. The DOJ intends to denaturalize and to deport. any people who voted illegally in New Jersey's elections. Harmeet Dillon, who runs the Civil Rights Division there at the DOJ, sat down with our friend Benny Johnson on his YouTube program just yesterday, and let's go to her comments. These are important to hear.

This is facilitating a felony, a federal felony. So what are you going to do about the illegals that voted? Of course, know that they're not American citizens. They went into rig elections. They know they're not allowed to vote. Nobody stopped them. I guess there's a problem there. But those individuals made a choice and they committed a crime in America.

Well, I'm not going to call them illegals. They may be green card holders. It's still illegal for them to have voted, to be very clear, though. And so what I want to say about that is that we have been doing prosecutions here throughout the United States quietly. It's, you know, you find them one at a time and then you prosecute them one at a time. you have to go send either Homeland Security investigators or FBI to go take statements and then check. I mean, I just checked some lists that some activists sent me recently.

And, you know, we're very careful before we accuse somebody of illegally voting. So first step, demand those names. Second step, verify that they voted. I don't trust anything New Jersey is telling me at this point. So, and then, yeah, they are subject to both prosecution as well as removal from the United States. And certainly, you know, when people come up for citizenship, they're asked that question, have you voted? And some people proudly say, well, yes, I did. I've been voting for years.

That makes you ineligible to become a United States citizen. So we are going after this all over the country. So, yes, so you're saying, I mean, because this is something that I constantly ask, there needs to be a warning sign effectively printed out. I think this is happening really, really nicely with the fraud issue, where people are seeing that there are actually consequences to engaging in hundreds of millions of dollars of fraud against these people of the United States of America. The wheels of justice are grinding slowly, but it's nice to see. You know, there have been some big, big stories that we've been able to cover that, like, this guy committed fraud and now they're going to prison. This person, this woman committed fraud, now she's going to jail. It'd be really nice to see, like, hey, these 400 people voted illegally.

they stole the votes of American citizens to paraphrase J.D. Vance. Like, they neutralized the votes of actual legal Americans. And now they're all going to be deported. Like, that'd be nice, you know. Well, you're preaching to the choir here. I mean, just understand that we've already been doing this at DOJ. We want to amplify it.

I think it's also important that we actually have some public service announcements out there and stay tuned. You should be seeing those coming as well. Like I said, I was mocked for warning public officials that they needed to stop this. And in fact, it's very necessary. And so we are drawing attention to this issue, and everyone watching this should tell their neighbors

who are maybe here legally, but not American citizens, the consequences of voting when you're not allowed to in a federal election can mean removal to your home country and worse. Okay. In other words, this is no joke. You cannot vote as a non-citizen in a U.S. election. Dant-da. Okay, surprise, surprise.

I mean, this should be pretty obvious, but it should be obvious that you shouldn't be registering 6,600 non-citizens to vote in the first place. So again, consequences are important here, if nothing else then to show why something shouldn't and cannot be done. If there are no consequences, you understand the ramifications of that mean, hey, you know, why not? Why not go and wing it? I mean, just like there were no consequences for coming to the United States.

of America in the first place. If you don't have borders, hey, come one, come all. Every Tom Dick and Harry and Juan, Jesus, and I don't know, I'm running out of names. Tomas, come on in. Why not? Because there's no consequences. And if there are no consequences, then you have every incentive. You understand the perversion here in the incentives. And that affected kids, too, because parents would say, well, you know, I'll send up my kids with Juan. Jesus and Thomas, and Juan Jesus and Thomas may not have had, let's say, the best of intentions. I mean, we know there's this child traffickers, et cetera. And so it basically incentivize people in very perverse wrong ways to be sending their kids in the first place with these coyotes into the U.S.

I mean, it is so important that you have law and order in order to have structure and fairness within a society. And so this is partly what the DOJ is going to have to be tasked with doing. Now, what's happening at present? You got a New Jersey governor who's digging in her heels, who somehow is trying to blame the software company. The software company is saying, no, no, it wasn't a glitch. You guys like, let's just, let's call it what it is. You were the ones that registered these 6,600 people. More on that in a second. But you've got Mickey Cheryl there, governor of New Jersey, who's like, I'm not going to turn over these names. So we've got 6,600 names.

We've got 400 of whom actually voted. You understand, again, we need some consequences here. I'll tell you, if nothing else, it certainly highlights in broad daylight the need for the Save America Act. I mean, when Olive Garden, okay, when Olive Garden is demanding that you produce federal identification in order to get the all you can eat pasta bar because it's non-transferable. So if you're not who you say you are, you're not going to be eating from the pasta bar at Olive Garden. And yet our own federal government can't do a darn thing. You got a problem. Liz Warren, they caught up with her.

Well, Mike Lindell's reporter, Allison in the nose, her Twitter, handle. I just love this woman because she goes and she gets all these answers out of these people who ought to go running from her fast. But anyway, she confronted Liz Warren in the lobby, and here's what we got. Hi, just a quick question for you. I know you're vehemently opposed to the Save America Act. Does the recent revelation in New Jersey with the aliens who are actually registered to vote change your opinion on getting that legislation passed? It is already illegal for someone who's not an American citizen to vote, period. But there's at least 400 aliens that did There are already laws to prevent that.

And if people have violated the law, then they should be prosecuted. Easy. Anything is actually going to happen. I thought Democrats always said that there's no evidence. I don't understand why you want laws that are already there. That makes no sense. I thought Democrats said illegals never vote, but obviously they do, right? Thank you, Senator.

Yeah, apparently, obviously they do. And if they do, then there's got to be consequences. for that you see. So the 400 illegals that voted or non-citizens that voted should be penalized for that. Otherwise, why the heck do you have the laws in the first place? Here's Liz Warren saying, well, there's laws. You can't do it. You can't do it. Well, they just did.

All right? They just did. And now New Jersey doesn't want to turn over their names. They want to protect them. You understand how twisted and messed up all of this is? The New Jersey is currently refusing to turn over these names. The DOJ is going to have to fight that refusal. And believe me, Harmeet Dillon will. And ultimately, we should expect the court will force them to comply. And if they don't comply, they're going to be held in contempt. And you know what? You could actually find New Jersey politicians going to jail over all of this because there's a criminal liability here. I mean, the bar is higher, of course, but there's

criminal liability because federal law does make it, as Liz Warren just articulated for us, thank you Lizzie, a crime for a non-citizen to vote. And so they're going to have to impose duties on the states in order to maintain those accurate voter records. And if they're not willing to maintain accurate voting records and if they're not willing to tell the federal government who the 400 people are, well, then you're going to have a real mess on your hands. And it's actually, in my perspective, going to result in some criminal liability for

the lawmakers that are refusing to do what they need. need to do here. And that's what we're seeing. They're really refusing to do what is needed. But I'll tell you, back to what the DOJ is saying. They are willing to deport. They are willing to denaturalize anybody who voted illegally. And let's just say the fact that if you were here illegally, that in and of itself is a crime. If you were here legally, but then went out and voted in an election, well, that's a crime. And by the way, here's the triple whammy, if you were here into the country illegally and then you went and voted illegally. Well, they got you on all of it, right?

And Tom Homan just told us about a week ago. He was on Laura Ingram's show on Fox, and he said, hey, we're not messing around. We're going to go get everyone. Every last person. Listen. I've said from day one, everybody's on the table. And if you looked at the numbers, what I looked at yesterday, just over half of everybody were arresting is a criminal.

So about half are non-criminal. So everybody's on the table. You know, when President Trump wants to prioritize public safety threats, yeah, we may prioritize. We've got a list. We've got four criminals and four non-criminals. Try to get the child predator first. But bottom line is everybody's on the table. The numbers show it's about half and half now. So, you know, and with the additional resources we got from the reconciliation bill, you wait to see what the numbers are this year. I'm not going to say in the last week, ICE has broken historic records every single day. And we're not going to stop. We're going to add more resources. We want to add more targeting. We've got to get millions of people we need to find in the next couple of years. And that's exactly what we're going to do.

ago. Yeah, that's about 30 million people. Wow. Okay. So New Jersey, watch out. Seriously, New Jersey watch out. Listen, you get the New Jersey governor out there trying to say, well, this is, this is the software company's fault. How dare they release software that was not, you know, somehow glitch proof? It's their fault in the software company. We're going to get to that in a second and say, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, that's not actually the situation. But before we do, you know, I've been seeing some of you guys in the chat say, gosh, I can't hear you. I can't hear you, Trish. Sometimes that is entirely our fault on our audio end. But if you're somebody who struggles with hearing in general, I want to tell you about a company called audienhearing.com.

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make sure you go to audiencehearing.com. Use code R-E-G-A-N for that special discount and tell me what you think. They're really kind of cool looking at. I mean, I'll tell you, technology. We're coming a long way. This was not. This, I repeat, this was not a software glitch. according to the software company that manufactured the software for the voting in New Jersey. No, no, no, no. They didn't do anything wrong, they're saying. In fact, they've worked for decades in New Jersey and never had a problem. And now it wasn't until Mickey Sherrill came out and blame then that they had to turn around and say,

no, this wasn't us. I want to go to John Solomon, just the news.com reporting this just yesterday. Listen to Solomon. He contacted the company. Here's what they said. When we told you that last night, the governor said, not our fault it was a software glitch no big deal well overnight and we reached out to the software company that runs New Jersey's system and you know

what they said there's no software glitch at all the state of New Jersey knew they were putting non-citizens i.e. foreigners onto the voter rolls it is the state's responsibility to determine who is a eligible vote and who's not the software had it marked right that is a major contradiction and just a little while ago the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights and the just Justice Department, Harvey Dillon announced that there is a investigation of New Jersey now into whether they knowingly were allowing non-citizens to vote and to get on the voter rolls. Remember, a week ago, she sent the letter out saying, if you let non-citizens vote knowingly,

you're in trouble. Well, now the vendor's comments raised a very strong possibility that one of the blue states in America may have acceded to allowing non-citizens to vote. You understand, right? And this is, well, my suspicion. I think this is the president's suspicion. I think this is one of the reasons why they're working so hard and why it's so special to him to get the Save America Act through.

We need identification for all the voters. And we also need some kind of checks and balance system so that you don't have 6,600 people being registered to vote. I mean, 400 people that are not citizens in the United States of America voting in an election. That is more than we have ever seen. This is historic, you guys. So before they try and poo-poo it, and believe me,

that's all they're doing is poo-pooing it. Oh, you know, no big deal. CNN. We ran that clip yesterday and you got the anchor trying to say, it doesn't really matter. It's like, hello, 6,600 people were registered. And if they got away with 6,600 this time around, how many, how many more are they going to register next time around? If 400 voted this time, that's the most ever that we know of, most definitely, how many are going to vote next time? I mean, you shouldn't be okay with one, let alone 400. Here's the company itself saying, you know what? Idemia works with the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission and has for more than

40 years worked with them. I mean, amazing. It's actually a French company to support the process through which eligible individuals may indicate their interest in registering to vote when applying for renewing a driver's license or state issued identification card. Ademio's role is to transmit information through the motor vehicle system. The voter registration information is transmitted to the New Jersey Department of State Division of Elections, which is ultimately responsible for verifying eligibility to vote. Information submitted by the company must be still validated and basically signed off on, right, by the division of elections. So the company is also saying that 6,600 records submitted contain the correct information as designed by the state. Okay,

so the state is the one, according to the company, that is out there saying, yeah, register them. Wow. I mean, again, this speaks to why I think some heads are really going to roll. And if New Jersey continues to dig its heels in, you're going to have a judge say, listen, hey, Mickey, Cheryl, you're going to have to turn all this information over for the 400 people. And there's a full-on investigation going on because we want to know who at the DMV decided it was okay to check the wrong box. Do we think this was completely innocent? I don't think so. Because I think, that there's a school of thought out there that says, now you can do anything, you must do anything to win, win, win, win against Donald Trump. It's called TDS. A lot of people have it, and it's causing

them to have some very poor judgment. Here is the governor of New Jersey, full on blaming the software company. Initial analysis shows that fewer than 400 newly registered individuals voted in an election due to this software error. They were registered as Democrats, Republicans, and the majority unaffiliated, and were scattered across the state. But let me be clear, this entire situation is unacceptable. It's unacceptable that the vendor released software with such a glaring error. It's unacceptable that the MVC took a year to get this issue fixed.

It's unacceptable. That you guys won't turn over the names. it is unacceptable that you're not fully cooperating with federal authorities to let them know who is involved in this entire process. I think it's fully unacceptable that you have said for so long that we ought to have open borders. And I think that basically what this is showing you is that there has been a method to the madness, a method to the madness, because they want to ensure that they continue to get elected. And so that was part of why they were bringing millions and millions of millions of people into the country that we couldn't afford, right? Because one, it would hit you on the

census. So if you got more people in New Jersey, it doesn't matter. They're illegal. They're not citizens. You get more representation in Congress. Uh-huh. It's that simple. And then, of course, if you can just sneak them in and they get to vote somehow, some way, and you keep offering free stuff, and you keep teaching them, oh, this country's a bad country. because it's not communist, well, then maybe you might actually have a pathway forward to win because currently you don't. I mean, let's face it, you guys just don't. You're never going to win because, you know, you're obsessed with all the wrong things. You've backed yourself into a corner or Donald Trump has forced you into that corner because everything that he is for, somehow you're against,

even if it's just really common sense stuff like a man is a man, a woman is a woman. And by the way, you know, men really shouldn't be competing against women in college sports. Like, or, or, or, or, I mean, like, they don't even know what a man or a woman is, right? Oh, there was a great moment. Boy, I'll tell you, Brandon Gill, he is fantastic, right? Is he not, guys, he's the, the, he's Dinesh D'Souza's son-in-law, by the way. Some of you may or may not know that Dinesh is a friend and I've known his daughter for a while. I was just thrilled when I found out they were getting married.

So Brendan is terrific, and he brought up some of these crazy issues. And it really speaks to, I think, how insane, really and truly insane. All this DEI stuff has gotten, all of this nonsense about, you know, look, I mean, even little things like politeness, politeness according to some of these DEI nut jobs is really about white supremacy. Did you see this one? This was the Smithsonian. I mean, you've got to be kidding me. You just got to be kidding me. And yet they're not. I mean, this was actually something that was in one of their toolkits or their handouts. And I'm like, how does this happen? I mean, really and truly, how does it happen? It happens because somehow we have allowed this to creep in. Let me go to

Brennan Gill here, calling out the Smithsonian director full on. And it is fantastic. I mean, really and truly fantastic. Let's go. Is it important to be polite? Excuse me, sir. Is it important to be polite? Yes, sir. It's also interesting because the same mass action toolkit that your organization has been promoting references, politeness as a defining characteristic of white supremacy culture.

Ma'am, are you a white supremacist? No, sir. You're not. Can you help me square? why your organization says that being polite is part of being a white supremacist? I'm not exactly familiar with that passage of the mass action toolkit, which is not one that we developed. I don't, pardon me? I just read you the passage from it.

I mean, really. I mean, things have just gotten to out of control, out of control, because it's like a slippery slope. They just kept going down. it and down it and down it and down it. And they suddenly, you know, they don't know what day it is. They don't know if it's night or day. They don't know if it's cloudy or rainy outside. They just, they don't know what a man or a woman is. They think that men can get pregnant. Here's the American Bar Association saying that the Supreme Court should reflect the demographics of America. And so, well, let's just, let's point out how ridiculous this statement is, again, if you're not putting merit front and center, if you're only about, well, we've got to have quotas and we've got to have someone from this and someone from that and et cetera.

et cetera. And so Brandon Gill got this lady from the American Bar Association on this one pretty darn good. I point this out, guys, because it's actually relevant when we consider what went down in New Jersey and our concerns about somebody just saying, well, I'm going to check off a box that registers 6,600 people. It's not implausible or impossible to think that somebody would do that because of the TDS that has infected so many minds, including the woman who runs the Smithsonian, including, in my estimation, the woman who's, head of the American Bar Association. Take a look at this one. He got her good. So would you say that it's helpful, it's beneficial if our Supreme Court resembles the racial diversity of America? The ABA believes that diversity in all of its forms is important.

We want people to bring all of who they are, whether they be from small practice or large practice. Can you define diversity here? You want it to, should the Supreme Court resemble America's racial makeup roughly? It's a yes or no question. The ABA does not support quotas. I'm not asking about quotas. I'm asking if it should roughly resemble America's racial makeup. It should represent all of what people are. Of what people are.

Okay. So right now there's about two of nine of Supreme Court justices are black. That's about 22% of the Supreme Court. According to your testimony, about 13% of America's population is black. if the Supreme Court should roughly resemble America's demographic makeup, as the ABA states is proper. In your opinion, regardless of qualifications, should the Senate refuse to confirm a third black Supreme Court justice? The ABA supports and encourages diversity in all of its forms. That wasn't my question.

My question was if a Supreme Court vacancy opens up, should the Senate refuse to confirm a third black Supreme court nominee based on his race or her race. The ABA does not support quotas and so. The ABA does support some sort of and we're going to hopefully we'll get into that. The ABA does support making sure the ethnic makeup has a specific amount. That was great, right? He's really, I mean, I'll tell you, I see a lot of clips all the time and I'll come across Brandon's and I'm like, oh my gosh, it's so good. He's a smart, he's a smart guy. And all of these people

just get trapped by their own words, their own words over and over and over again. But it's important to understand that, right, in light of everything that's happening right now, because they've gotten so far out and left field that they have no more common sense. Like there's no grounding in any kind of reality. And you can actually very easily use their words against them. But think about it. If you have no common sense, if you don't really seem to grasp basics, then you're willing to do crazy things like register non-citizens. And I suspect that, you know what, the company is right. It wasn't a software glitch. Somebody in the New Jersey state system made an executive decision, perhaps all on their own, to register these people. And that's really alarming. All the more reason, not just why we

need the Save Act, but also a reason for us to have some kind of better kind of checks and balances. I mean, nobody's like looking. So if nobody's mining the store, Liz Warren can sit there and tell you all you want. Well, it doesn't matter. We don't need to save America Act because it's illegal for non-citizens to vote. But if nobody's actually penalizing them for that and nobody's checking in on it, then you got yourself a good old-fashioned, grand old problem. And what are they trying to do right now? They're trying to take control. they are trying to take over the great capitalist country that we are and turn it into something else. I mean, Marco Rubio has been telling us, look, we're never going to become a communist nation.

But gosh, they're sure bent on it. You think about Mamdami out there calling for the arrest of one of our key allies and saying, well, the ICC wants it. Well, guess what? We don't care about the ICC. We don't recognize the ICC, and we're never going to recognize the ICC. It's a two-bit little kangaroo court thing that really and truly doesn't represent our values. And so we have never signed on to it.

And yet you've got a guy who's the mayor of New York City. He's a little mayor out there trying to do big things, right? He thinks he's a big cheese. He wants to somehow get involved in international affairs. I mean, heck darn it, he's even got his staff trying to set up meetings with Iran in the middle of a war. I mean, a lot of people wonder if he's some kind of Iranian asset, myself included. So think about that and what he's saying vis-a-vis putting the ICC above the United States of America, the country that he joined seven years ago from Uganda.

And I think that that one, by the way, is still up for grabs. I'd like a real investigation going into that because I don't think he told us all the groups that he was affiliated. with, including the rap lyrics he had in support of terror organizations. Yes, he had a song that supported those. So we've got a lot of reasons to doubt whether or not he should have ever been made a citizen to begin with. And now he's trying to twist it all and turn us against each other? What, with the help of China and Iran, for goodness sakes?

Let me go to Rubio, who's over in Asia speaking. Well, here's how I reconcile it. We're not members of the ICC. We never signed that treaty. We never joined it. and they somehow claim that they have a right nonetheless to go after non-treaty members and put heads of state and others in jail. We've long had quarrels with them, and we have lunatics and crazies involved in the ICC

that are talking about charging members of the U.S. military, maybe even the president or a future president with crimes. It's not going to happen. It's just not going to happen. We are not members of that court. We never signed on to that treaty. They need to understand that. If people want to sign and be a part of that stupid organization, they can.

But we're not going to be a part of it, and they're not going to apply their jurisdiction to Americans. That's just not going to happen. We're not going to tolerate it now or in the future. And we've warned them about it repeatedly. And now they're going to see the consequences of ignoring us. I mean, seems to me to be a violation of Logan Act, seems to me to be, frankly, a treasonous act. I'm looking at some of your comments. I think you guys would agree with me. Mamdami, you can't be out courting the Iranians at a time like this. You can't be out calling for the imprisonment and the arrest of an American ally. You're supposed to fix the streets and pick up the garbage for goodness sakes.

What happened to your free buses? Oh, it turns out prices. Prices, fares are going up. What happened to the free rent? Oh yeah, that's not working out either. Yeah, they were freezing the rents, okay? Freezing the rents and what happened? Rent prices went up. This guy needs a basic econ 101 class and he, by the way, also could use a class in the horrors that have transpired as a result of communist dictatorships, which they always, always are. But, you know, look, I would say this. The party is starting to turn against him. Just consider what John Federman said on Fox.

I like Federman. Gosh, I'm kind of thinking that maybe he should switch parties there in Pennsylvania. I mean, he's like a very sensible Democrat, and he's got to deal with the crazies and the crappola from the likes of Mam Dani and all his backup singers who won't even recognize the horror of 9-11, who go on someone's podcast, that Twitch streamer who actually celebrates 9-11 and puts the picture of the Twin Towers, right behind him in his shot? I mean, this is disgusting behavior from disgusting people.

And one of them happens to be the mayor of New York City. Listen to Senator Federman. He just goes off. And when now you have the mayor of a city, you are a mayor, dude. You're a mayor. You can fix a pothole. You can take out the trash. but you can't order people to arrest anybody any more than I could.

You know, I could have him arrested if he goes to Pennsylvania. That's a joke and he's a clown. And now he also said that Netanyahu is not welcome in New York. You know, you can't say that any more than I could say, Mayor, you're not, you're not welcome in Pennsylvania. So sit down, you know you're a clown, and you are just going to pander to the fringe, and that's part of your base.

And I know you're angry at Nanyahu because he killed a lot of people you admire, whether like that Sinwar or Nasrallah or Al-Kamania in Iran. You know, that's the guy that will only criticize the prime minister or Israel, but he never criticizes Hamas. He's never criticizing Hezbollah or Iran. I've never heard the mayor say and condemn Iran for killing 30, 40,000 of its young people just asking for democracy in their nation? No, because he's on the side of Iran.

That's why he's trying to have meetings with Iran. You see, until he gets caught. And then what did he do? He didn't fire the woman who was setting up the meeting. He didn't even seem that upset about it. Oh, just some kind of little mistake. Yeah, nothing to see here. Meanwhile, his backup singers from New York to Colorado

are getting even crazier, saying it's up to them in these third world emerging market countries to take over the U.S. government and make sure that the U.S. is no longer a threat to the rest of the world. Whoa! I think it's particularly important, not just for our community in Tigray, but communities of the global South period, right? There's a certain reckoning that we are going to have to have with the global world order as it exists today and the way that it fundamentally will have to shift going forward,

right? The responsibility that we have as Americans, the recognition that is going to be required of us, of the exploitative and extractive nature that we play on the global scale and the global stage is only going to be challenged if we are getting represented by people who understand that on a fundamental level, right? And that means getting more immigrants into office. That means getting more people who have heritage in the global south into office, because that's where those decisions are made specifically. So this is a woman by the name of Milat Kinos, and she is running for Congress there out in Colorado, expected to get it in the first district. And she said it right there. I mean, so

Ms. Kuros thinks, and by the way, she was born in Ethiopia, that you need a bunch of people coming from these third world countries changing American government, not for the better, but for the worse, right? Because they don't like America. And this is kind of disturbing. I mean, if you don't like America, then what on earth are you doing running for office in America? I think that it kind of comes down to that. Like maybe we need to get people to actually sign a and know saying that they love this country and they want to protect this country because they effectively are becoming those foreign threats. And look, the Supreme Court, court, they decided what they did. You can still come here, be born here, and get citizenship here.

And how do we know that you're not actually working for the other team? I mean, if you have multiple citizenships, passport from here, there, and everywhere, and you're somehow in Congress, how do we know that you care about us and our best interest? And now you aren't lobbying on behalf of, oh, dare I say Somalia, like Ilhan Omar is accused of doing because the president of Somalia comes over here and tells the entire Minnesota community, you've got to vote for Ilhan because she doesn't care about Ilhan. She doesn't care about Minnesota. She cares about Somalia.

Well, then why is she in Congress? Why? I mean, this is really disturbing. Here's a Michigan Democrat, Hillary Schlachen, who said she will not be supporting the candidate of choice out there. El-Said, Abdul, al-Said, who also hates America. who also is a communist, socialist. They're trying to, like, put a nice little wrapper on this,

like a, you know, shiny red bow. We are Democrat socialists of America. Now, they are a communist. Don't kid yourself, okay? They are full-blown communists who hate this country and want to change things. And they go on the Sasan Piker show, a guy, as I stated, who celebrates 9-11,

who, like so many of Mamdami's disciples, blames the U.S. for 9-11, and then actually puts up a big giant picture, the New York Times, a cover of it from the day after because he likes to celebrate that moment. I mean, this is sick, sick stuff. Again, sick people, but this Michigan Democrat, she's turning on him, El Saeed.

And I'll tell you, then we need more of them doing the exact same thing. Choosing to campaign with Hassan Piker, who said America deserved September 11. Sure, he went on to disavow those comments, but I'm telling you, nobody on my team would ever become even close to making a comment like that. So will you not back him if he wins the primary? Will you not support him? You know, Jake, I think that it's really important to make a clear distance from yourself and these comments. And that's exactly what I've been doing in this race.

I cannot, I will not even come close to being associated with comments like America. deserved September 11? Well, he would say, Dr. Sayyad would say, well, I didn't say that, and I don't think that Hassan Piker said it, and I don't agree with everything everybody I campaign with, it says. But here's the critical point on that take, is that he might say that, right? And sure, I give him credit for disavowing it after the fact. But the reality is he also didn't have to choose to campaign with Hassan Piker.

To me, that's a non-starter. Saying something like America deserved September 11. that's what he said. And that's what all of Mamdami's disciples are saying. And so when Rubio tells you, you got a real threat out there, as he did, he articulated that. I think we played some of the sound. I may play it from my friend Kent coming up, but he articulated that just yesterday. You've got bad actors, bad actors coming from foreign places that are actually trying to disturb and change the American system and they want to get rid of what has made us the success that we are today. And we are the number one economic power in the world thanks to capitalism. Okay, thanks to the beauty of capitalism,

period. So this is an important thing to understand. I was just talking about my friend, you know, I just sat down with him just moments before I came live to you here. And we got into this in greater detail because I'm trying to understand like what is happening. And really, is this actually catching on, does anybody actually like these total commies like the Mamdamis of the world? Am I missing something? Am I just too plain vanilla and too regular old American? Like what is going on with all these young people that are being indoctrinated into this nonsense? Listen to Kent here. Joining me right now with the insanity of the Democrat Party in this rise in socialism nonsense. Our good friend Kent Strang back from Americans for Prosperity. Good to see you.

Great to be back. Thanks for having me, Trish. So I'm over here in Europe, as I told you, and there's a lot of sort of enthusiasm, dare I say, for socialism. Because, right, socialism has basically been what's governing the place for how many years now ever since World War II. Hasn't worked out so well, frankly, for them, because the standard of living, let's just say, is not what we see in the U.S. of A. Now you've got all these Brooklyn hipsters, Mam Dami leading the charge. He's got its backup singers with all these, you know, crazy pants from New York, these people who are like, 9-11 deniers and the whole bit, somehow it's America's fault in their estimation. They want to change it all. They want, frankly, if you ask me, it's not even socialism. It's full-on communism,

the way that they talk. I mean, Kent, you know this. You've been a student of American history, as have I, and it's never worked out. Forgive me, not even, you can be a student of world history, right? You don't even have to be a student of it. You just have to have, like, done a chat GPT search, and you'll know this never works. No, it never, ever works. And some of the proposals that the Democratic Socialists of America are proposing are just absolutely wild. They want to eliminate the United States Senate. They're talking about eliminating the presidency. They're talking about eliminating the Supreme Court. They're talking about completely reshaping the United States of America. Last time I just want to eliminate the Department of

War. Like no spending on security. They want to get rid of the police. They want to get rid of jails. I mean, we have complete bedlam. These things are pretty fundamental to the United States of America enshrined in our Constitution, which has done pretty well for us for 250 years. Well, the Constitution isn't 250 years old, but the United States of America has been rolling along pretty well. And I think about what has socialism delivered the world. It's typically pain and suffering and not what the United States has delivered. The United States has delivered innovations that the world has ever, this world has never seen.

We've delivered more people out of poverty than any other system in the world. I think about the life-saving medicines. I think about the internet and computer chips and the gas-powered tractor. And I think of when you have an idea that leads to profit and leads to incentives, when you have incentives, people go out and they create and they make life easier. They make life affordable and they make life better. What they want to do is they want to remove all of the incentives. And you know what? Everybody gets to live under socialism. Everybody gets to be equal, so to speak.

And there's no incentive anymore. And they keep wanting thus to live and be in a world of command and control. And so it's funny that they argued that it's going to be this world of liberation and freedom, yet it comes with a price. And that price for government-owned grocery stores means long lines and higher prices and shortages. They talk about a world of rent controls. What does that actually mean? It means that there will be fewer houses because we can't build houses or we don't have

people that want to invest in building new buildings. So there will be fewer opportunities to live in those houses. They talk about all of these things that they're going to deliver free health care. Well, what incentive is there for a person to become a doctor when their work is mandated? Why would you want to be a doctor in that system? And when we travel around the world. It's like they're ignoring human nature, right? They think that they can reinvent who human beings are.

I mean, look, you know, I love us, like flaws in all, right? Like, and if you can find a system that actually embraces those flaws and turns them into positives for society, I mean, that system is capitalism. And there's nothing else like it. And the reason why we're not Europe, where I am right now, and, you know, it's sad because I look around. There's, like, a lot of people here who are very well educated, and they speak a lot of language. You'll parlo a bit of Italian. now I speak a little bit of Italian, but, you know, their English is by far better than my Italian,

but yet they're not able to go as far because they don't even have the jobs. Like I was talking to a woman who works at the hotel who, you know, told me, gee, nobody's even getting married because we all still live at home because we're making very little money. You can't actually buy your own house. You can't start your own household. And this is the effect, frankly, of bureaucracy and socialism and taxation. And like, you just got to let it go because you, beings know what to do if government gets out of the way. Well, that's exactly right. And let's even look at the United States where we have higher taxes and higher regulatory burdens and you have less freedom. What do people do? They leave because we're able to be more mobile in the United

States. So states like New York where Mamdami is ruling with an iron fist, right, they leave. States like New Jersey where property taxes are through the roof. They leave. My whole state of Illinois, which I love and for some reason I haven't left, where we have incredibly high taxes. People vote with their feet and they move to places and where do they move? They move to places that have lower tax barriers. They move to places where they have more freedom. And we see that and we see that all across the world too. People are fleeing states that have been destroyed by socialism. I can assure you if you visit Venezuela or you visit Cuba, you do not want to live under those conditions and we keep hearing oh well if you just try it our way it will work except

i haven't found a place where it's worked and that's not what normal everyday americans want normal everyday americans want to be left alone they want more liberty they want more freedom and americans for prosperity we talk to them every single day and we're doing that right now with an effort that we're running called camp prosperity and we're going out in an airstream the most American thing you can possibly do. And we're talking to average, ordinary, everyday Americans and saying, hey, what are they telling you? Do you hear like, oh, gee, I want to be like, Mam Dami and his backup singers? Or do you hear, I want America that allows for the freedom to prosper? We are not hearing that they want to live under socialist rule. We're not hearing that they want

to eliminate the United States Senate. We're hearing that they want more freedom. We talked to Vicky and she talks about how much the one big beautiful bill impacted her life. And she bought more machinery because of the tax provision that allows her to appreciate machinery. She opened up a second location and she wants to thrive. We talked to a gentleman who owns at a store that he sells Pokemon cards, which my kids would just love. And he's like, I just want the government to leave me alone and I want to sell Pokemon cards. And I'm like, I don't think a truer thing has been said in the entire world.

And we just find people who want to pursue their American. American dream. They don't want to be told what to do. They're not buying socialism. They want the regulatory burdens to get out of the way. They want to prosper. They want to thrive. They want to live their life. And this nonsense. They don't want the socialism and the communism. I mean, look, I think that there's a group of young people that have been fed this nonsense in school, unfortunately, which is why it's time for a reckoning on Linda's part, right? Linda McMahon, who's now running education on a federal level, but like they get to square this away because they've been feeding these kids a lot of brainwashing, really, and they're not being taught to think for themselves.

I think eventually once they grow up, like maybe they'll get it. But Marco Rubio said something really important yesterday. I want to play it for you and get your reaction because he's basically like, look, we're never going to be socialist. We're never going to be communist. Like it's just not happening. I took it as a little bit of shade it. Mr. Memdami, here we go. Well, again, what the president put out on Thursday, that was the declassification, documents from our intelligence community. That's what he put out. He declassified intelligence assessments from our intelligence community. But your question was about communist influence. Yeah, the United States doesn't want to be a communist country. We're never going to be a communist country,

and we're not going to allow communist influences to undermine our politics or our society. So I don't know what the inconsistency you're referring to is. It's very clear. Obviously, we understand the Chinese system and other systems, but I can tell you our system doesn't want communism. And we're certainly not going to allow communist efforts to undermine American society and drive wedges into our country, and that's what we're seeing. And by the way, one of the leading culprits of that for many years, the intellectual authors, particularly in our hemisphere, is the Cuban regime, which our report on Monday outlined. Okay, so, you know, if you think about what he's getting at, I said he was throwing some shade there

at Rubio because we're never going to be communist, no matter how much some of these crazy pants try and carry on about it. And he also said something interesting about it. China, and this is partly what I realized the mainstream media wanted to poo last Thursday when the president came out with, hey, guess what? You know, China's been trying to undermine us, and then, of course, we learn about New Jersey, et cetera. So there are a lot of reasons to be, I think, very concerned about foreign influence when I see Mamdami trying to orchestrate a meeting with Iran, right in the middle of us being at war with Iran. I mean, that kind of doesn't sit well. Marco Rubio, fortunately, putting a stop to that, too. But, you know, look, I guess they can

keep pursuing this. Maybe they're dividing the Democrat Party. Perhaps we should look at that as a, you know, don't look a gift horse in the mouth. I mean, after all, given what you're hearing out on the road from everyday Americans, it's not, woo-hoo, we want socialism. Well, I think that it's a great point. I think Senator or Senator, maybe I'm a couple years behind. It's okay. Secretary of State, Rubia brings up a great point. He does wear a lot of hats. He does wear a lot of hats. I've seen the memes that he's exactly right. We're not going to be a communist nation, but I think something that is so critical that we need to point to. And he certainly knows what his family went through coming from Cuba and immigrating the United States. And we see the pain and suffering of what

communism, socialism leads to. And it's not a good outcome. But I think I think about Ronald Reagan, who is my dad's hero. And that his quote says that, you know, freedom has never passed through in the bloodstream. something that you have to preserve and that you have to protect. And when I hear a lot of their ideas and a lot of their rhetoric, they are not clearly tied to what were the debates of our constitutional convention? What were the reasons that we declared independence from the British? What are the words and the meaning enshrined in the Declaration of Independence? Why does freedom matter?

Why do our liberties matter? And why do we see efforts and governments our command and control lead to worse outcomes for human beings. And why is it that when we have liberty and freedom, people thrive for almost all of human history. People have been put down by kings and by governments who have stolen your property and not allowed you to live your dream and live the way you want to live. The great thing and the beauty of America is we turned that on its head. We protected private property. We wanted you to pursue an American dream. We wanted to protect your rights from the government. The government did not give you your rights.

And we need to be very careful in the United States that we don't get a toehold on, hey, maybe these are crazy ideas today, that they don't become mainstream. And so everyday Americans need to stand up. They need to exercise that these are bad ideas. We need to put those bad, ideas in their place. And we need to win the idea that freedom always will beat control. Because while they sound like their liberation ideas, they're not. And we should look at all these ideas. They're extremely oppressive. Extremely. And this won't come out the right way. But you think about, he comes from Uganda. He's got another one of his disciples, you know, who's basically, I keep calling them the backup singers, because I'm just envisioning like this little band. You and I both have a

music background so we can relate to that, right? And he's like the star attraction and he's got like this whole chorus behind him. And this other woman out in Colorado is now talking about, she's originally born in Ethiopia. And again, there's, I mean, I actually see that as the embodiment, right, of an American dream. You come here from another place and you come to America because this is the only place where you can pursue that prosperity. And instead she's saying, no, no, America's oppressive. America is extremist. America is an imperialist. Like the only way we can fix America is if we get more migrants coming here from these third world countries that are going to change it. And I'm like, no, no, the whole point of coming here from the third world is so that you can

have a better shot, because this is the only place that's going to give you the freedom that you so want, deserve, and need as a human being. And so this, you know, he's from Uganda. He just became an American citizen like yesterday, right, seven years ago, and now wants to change the whole place. Again, I'm not, nothing against immigration. I mean, we want people coming to America for the right reasons. But if you're coming here because you want to turn it into something else like Uganda. No, thank you. No, thank you. And, you know, I can say that. Maybe you don't want to. But again, it doesn't come out wrong to somebody, but no, thank you. But to your point, America has always been the beacon of hope, the shining city on the hill for people who begged for freedom and opportunity, not for more oppression. And we always

need to be able to be that for immigrants who are coming here. What are all the refugees who come to America for freedom and opportunity? And I think about this great meme that's going around on the internet right now, Trish, that is when the Berlin wall fell, nobody ran to the communist side. And we need to remember those pieces of history that it is the communism and the socialism, whether you want to label it democratic socialism or not, it is oppressive. And it hurts families. And it destroys institutions.

and that's not what America is founded on. It's not who we're going to be. And so everyday Americans need to stand up. Make sure that we vote. Make sure that we're active citizens. Make sure that we read the Declaration of Independence. Make sure we understand our Constitution. And you can't sit on the sidelines and hope that your country is going to remain a great

place to be. And read it, read it and teach it to your kids. And on that note, I'll just remind everybody, A250 Toolkit.com forward slash Trish. I'm going to put the links in the show notes because you should. go, Americans for Prosperity, has a great. Kent and his team put this together for you. So you can go and read the Declaration of Independence again. You can go and sign it again. My own son did. That was like very, very fun. We did that together at a big AFP event. And you can sign it and you can really,

you know, they have this whole toolkit so you can like take the time to look through it and appreciate the history that's there. So I encourage you 8250t toolkit.com forward slash Trish. Hey, we got all year to celebrate. Kent, it is good to see you. Great to be here. Thanks, Trish. appreciate you. Have a great trip. Thank you. It was good to see him. And I appreciate everything that he's saying. I imagine you guys do too, right? Because it's really kind of alarming. Here we are, 250 years in, and we get all kinds of crazies popping out of the woodwork. And I think it's by design. I think that there is a foreign influence at work. And I think it's been at work for a long time. I mean, not to sound too conspiratorial, but listen, I mean, we do it too, right?

like, you know, again, I like to say we're all big boys and girls here on the show. We're all realists. And if we weren't doing it, that probably wouldn't be a good thing because we do actually want to influence people with ideas. And the American idea is a great one. And that has led to a lot of freedom and democracy all over the world. And so we promote that because it's in our interest to do so. And we really heavily promote it, especially in regimes that we know are oppressive

and that are not working out so well, either for their people or for us. And so you think about Iran. about Venezuela. And sure, there's an idea factory that we try and generate and that we influence there in those local communities, but they're doing the same thing to us. And if we're not smart enough to actually understand the good stuff from the bad stuff, and unfortunately we've got plenty of people, you know, his disciples, Mandami disciples that are not smart enough, frankly, to understand what's good, what's bad, or understand just Econ 101 or just the reality of, you know, being a human being, or the reality of history, then we run into these troubles. So it's an

important time. If you haven't subscribed to the show, please do. Important to kind of, I think, hear the right ideas and spread the word. Oil back up over 100 today, big news in the markets, because you get the Houthis now involved and they're trying to lock down the Red Sea. And that's never going to happen. But nonetheless, just not a pretty sight, shall we say. We have some, you know, I think we have some video coming to us from Sankham that I want to get to. But before we do, Marco Rubio, again, making it very clear that Iran is desperate to get a deal, but it's not clear at this point. We're willing to do anything.

In fact, we're just going to keep hitting him and hitting him and hitting him and hitting him. Here's Marco. Iran is begging us, okay, both directly and indirectly. Let's do a deal. Let's talk. Iran is begging every day. The problem with Iran is every time they make a deal. The people that are in charge there, they either break it or they want to change it. So it looks like they're not ready to make a deal.

So they're going to continue to pay a price. And every night the price gets higher and higher and higher. And that's what's happening now. And maybe in a few days they'll be ready to make a deal once they realize that this is not a winning proposition for them. And that's what the president is outlining. The idea that this is going to continue, it's not going to continue this way. the price will continue to get higher every single night until they come to their senses. Right now, apparently they haven't come to their senses,

and so the president doesn't see a lot of utility in responding to their overtures at this point, because frankly, Iran is clearly not ready to make a deal, at least not when they're willing to live by. I don't know what that is at the end. Sorry, I guess this maybe perhaps someone on the Israeli side put that clip out. But anyway, that was Marco Rubio speaking there, and saying some important stuff. So it looks like we're not that close to a deal. Look, I don't think you're going to get one, okay? I just don't think you're going to get one. And so it makes sense to me that the oil markets are kind of going crazy here.

I think, you know, we get to double down on some other stuff. Again, being a realist, I'm looking at it and saying, what is our work around here? If we're going to have to deal with the Houthis in the Red Sea, and we're going to have to deal with the straight of Hormuz, possibly being off limits because Iran is acting up. How do we counter that? And we counter it by having other avenues by which to get the oil.

You need oil. Okay, I'm not going to become a green, you know, energy activist overnight. Listen, I'll take all the oil I can get. I'll take all the energy I can get. I'll take solar. I'll take windmills. Hey, whatever you get for energy, send my way. All that said, as a realist, I know we need oil.

So we got Venezuela. That's good. We're getting more oil drilling in the U.S. of A. We'd like the UK to start drilling because they've got some sources that they can target. And look, you've got to take it from wherever you can. In the meantime, we do have all this, a wonderful oil. that we can get out of Kuwait and the UAE. So how are we going to get it?

Transport it to the rest of the world. That's where the pipelines are coming in. It's going to take three to five years. And so maybe we need to buy it a little bit of time here so that we can get these things made and built so as to have a workaround. And then I just say, cut them off. Just cut them off, be done with it. And don't even bother because they're only relevance in the world. And this is why they're playing this card right now. Their only relevance in the world is that they can throw a fit over the straight of her moves. Well, guess what? We can throw a fit too. And by the way, we've been throwing one. You look at the new video that just came out of CENTCOM today, and I think it explains a lot. We are hitting them hard every single day now. And it's just kind of a shame,

right? It's a shame because you think about where we were and what that opportunity was, and this president was willing to make a deal. And yet you got a bunch of, I don't know, zealots. In the IRGC, it seems like this team is not that different than the first team or the second team. I mean, maybe they won't be long for the world either. I don't know. But look at what just happened with CentiCon releasing this unclassified footage of U.S. forces striking key assets there. So they're going after power centers. They're going after bridges. And they're going to go after a whole lot more. A whole lot more there in Iran. This is from just last night in Iran. take a peek and this is courtesy of Fox I think that's narrating and forgive me it looks like it's a

centcom video just a centcom video there um so yeah they are they are heavily uh involved in trying to pull this video or forgive me pull um target target target target target all of these these you know again bridges they're going after power plant centers this is a big deal and so this is why you have oil hitting $100 a barrel again. And I don't see that really ending anytime soon. I think, you know, look, I've said all along, we can we can actually stomach a lot, believe it or not, in terms of the oil markets. It's not great. And, you know, it's wonderful to see oil prices coming down. But I think you have to be prepared for this reality. I really do. I think that it's not going to be over soon. And I don't think you want to be in a position where we're saying, okay, we're going to end it all

soon because this is what Iran wants from us, right? They want the president to feel the pressure of midterms. I would just say, you know what? Maybe you may win midterms, you may lose midterms. Who knows? But you cannot be beholden to Iran for any reason whatsoever. I mean, this is, this is just how I think we have to play in this moment in time. Otherwise, you're going to, you're going to, you're going to be stuck, like really, really, really stuck. Again, taking another look at this. video here. Just unbelievable. Okay. So again, unclassified, courtesy of the Pentagon. And they've given us a lot of this video, a lot of this video to see it's really quite something. And we are just decimating. There's one of their infrastructures. I mean, it looks like it's a dock, right,

that's housing all those little boats that they have. Those little boats that are causing so much damage, that's one of the challenges right now. You think about the changes in warfare. They're quite significant. You can take those little speed boats out. and you can launch these drones that can cause all kinds of havoc on us and on our bases elsewhere. And so as a result of that, we need to come back with quite a bit of force. You heard from the general yesterday. We were talking with General John Tykirt, and he was saying, look, we need to go all in. We just need to be really tough.

We heard from General Jack Keene recently as well who said, hey, it's time to man up. That was actually a sound bite from Fox that I played you. And General Tykirt was speaking with me directly. and he said he'd go after Kargai Island, right? You want to go after Karg Island and get all their assets there because then you're basically throttling them and you're throttling the economy, and that's an important thing to be thinking about right now. Amid all of this, we're watching gold prices, and I told you recently about a report about how China's been buying the most gold that they have been buying in years, and I was joking. I guess I feel a little bit better, right? Because when gold goes down, I tend to buy it. You all do you, right? You know, everybody has their own tolerance for risk. I like gold in my own

portfolio because I consider it one of those things that I want to hold on to for the long haul, and I'm probably going to be looking at more inflation and more uncertainty in the world over the years. It's just, you know, as much good as we see happening. We also see these challenges. We've got the ECB now indicating that they are going to, they left them flat today, rates flat, but they've indicated that they're going to be raising them in the future. So you're seeing that happen. where I am right now in Europe, the expectation at home is, look, if you're looking at $100 barrel on oil, cost on oil, you're going to be seeing higher prices, which makes it harder for the Federal Reserve to cut rates. And so as a result, one would think that those inflationary pressures would

lead to higher gold prices eventually. Here's the article I told you about China. PBOC, this is People's Bank of China buying the most gold since 2023 with all these bullion swings, all the volatility that you see. I want to go back to one of our great show sponsors, Dr. Kirk Elliott, who's talking here about the reality of inflation, okay? Inflation and its effect on gold. Here we go. If the war in Iran continues to go on, well, then oil prices are going to continue to go up. That's very inflationary. What is the public policy mechanism to slow down inflation? You have to raise interest rates, not lower them. So there's going to be an initial impulse to lower interest rates right now because of the election year, it is going to be very, very difficult to keep

them low if oil prices keep going up because oil is used in everything. And at that point, the inflationary pressures are so much that you're going to have to raise rates to slow down that inflation train. Hmm. Hmm. Um, a peace of my mind is laughing. Tricia's buying cold like the Chinese government. Like that's the only time like probably me and China are sort of in sync. Well, you know, I buy a lot of things, and I like to go in and buy when things are low. And you know the expression, right? Buy low, sell high, although I don't actually sell that often. In reality, I'm playing for a long game. Ooh, I guess that makes me kind of like China, too. I'm just joking around. Anyway, it's good to have you guys all here. I'm looking at all your comments, and it's terrific that you're

able to join me earlier. Again, I'm going to be earlier for the next couple of weeks. It is actually, I'm coming up on my 25th wedding anniversary, and this location in Italy is actually where we got married that many years ago. So it's nice to be back here, and I've got my whole family, so really good stuff. And I'm able to report as well at the same time. So I've been talking to a lot of people here in Italy, and I'll continue talking to folks throughout Europe, because I'm very fascinated with sort of the challenges that they're facing right now in terms of their economic weakness. And what I'm hearing a lot is a lot of blame on the U.S., on Israel. They seem to be taking Georgia Maloney's side and all of this. Don't forget when we were talking about it, I was on the other side back in my

studio, and I, you know, I don't have a lot of faith in Georgia Maloney. I think she's kind of been all over the place and very, very fickle. But now being here and talking to people on this side, what I can see is she's playing to her core audience, right? She's playing to her base. And she knows that she's not going to be able to survive this because people are fed up with prices. They're going up every day because of the inflation that we see in oil prices. And, of course, they weren't very smart over here. They decided to rely on Russia for cheap natural gas, probably not the best idea in the world. Just saying, okay, especially in light of the sanctions, et cetera, that eventually had to come about.

I mean, Russia, their enemy, why would you rely on your enemy? In all seriousness, like sometimes I just don't get them. I just don't get people. And so that has, as a result, really been kind of a big old issue. Look at this. Do I see a phone going? I do. I was wondering where that was coming from. But anyway, so Georgia Maloney is playing to her core audience and she's got to get elected, right? She's trying to live another day. And so now what is popular? It's popular to lob these attacks on Trump and lob these attacks on the U.S. and to blame the U.S., to blame Israel because it's not their fault. It's not their fault. I mean, I would argue it is their fault. I would argue that you guys never should have gone to Russia,

whom you consider the boogeyman, to be your natural gas supplier. I mean, if he's so bad, if Putin's so bad that you've got to have a whole NATO army to defend you against Putin, then why the heck are you buying his natural gas? I mean, again, I hate to be the realist in the room. but that never should have happened. You should have been diversified. But they could diversify, no, because, you know, they were green, green, green, green, green, green, green. But you're greening yourself right out of existence, for goodness sakes, people. So if the guy you're terrified of is your energy supplier,

and you just want to hold your nose and be like, okay, we'll take a little bit of energy, but not too much because we don't want to help him. And then you never try and find any other source if you're not allowing people have air conditioning because, oh, that air conditioning means that, you know, the energy industry is going to benefit from it, then I'm sorry, that's not a good long-term play. And so she's got to come out against Trump. The people are coming out against Trump. The people are coming out against Israel. And everybody, for some reason, seems to be more in favor of Iran, which is sort of wild, right but you know i think you probably have a long history of anti-semitism etc in europe certainly in

spain in spain for goodness sakes where they have the iatollah's tv station in spanish yeah and so pedro sanchise he's like a little hero over there in spain to some people not to all certainly not to me certainly not to the make spain great again crowd um we'll talk a little bit more about that next week just to give you a little preview. Anyway, great to have you here, as I said. Great to see all your comments. And I'm glad you guys. I'm glad you like Europe.

And I agree. We need to stop the communists in their tracks. Great to have you here. Thank you for the anniversary wishes, and I'll see you back here live tomorrow.