The Trish Regan Show - CATFIGHT! Rumors of 'The View' BEING CANCELLED Lead to Whoopi, Sunny SHOWDOWN

Episode Date: November 21, 2024

It’s getting ugly. In this video version of her podcast, Trish Regan has the details on the tough reality facing ABC News as Disney is expected to take a page out of Comcast NBC’s book and sell off the network. Meanwhile, new developments on the Trump cabinet front: Matt Gaetz is officially out. What about Hegseth? It all comes as media bosses try to take a more neutral tone towards the next administration. Join Trish Regan for more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You got to go to high school. Because nobody can figure out what's being said here right now. Woopee Goldberg getting a little testy there on the set at the view. I'll tell you, tempers are flaring and you got to understand why. ABC News very likely will be sold. Disney's looking to take a page out of Comcast NBC's book and people are getting a little stressed over there on the view. We've got all that going on. We've got to get to today.

Plus, Mack Gates is out. Does this mean Pete Hegseth will be too? We're going to talk about who's in, lots of talk about the Treasury Secretary, and of course Linda McMahon, who, by the way, that fight was all over. Linda McMahon was coming in as the head of the Department of Education. That's why they're so upset. We're going to get to those stories. Plus, how you're starting to see this shift right now in media.

I mean, HBO coming out and defending J.K. Rowling, did you ever think you'd see that day? I'm telling you this is happening. There's a groundswell. There's a shift. We've got more on Nancy Mace, who is demanding, utterly demanding, that there be no sort of crossover with strangers in the Capitol restrooms. They're on Capitol Hill. More on that.

Meantime, quick shout-up for the shop. It's open. Trish Regan dot shop there for all your Christmas merch, if you would, help promote the show. It is great to have you here. Thank you for being here on the Trish Regan show. Unbelievable what's going down. I'm telling you, they're getting really scared and really nervous. over there on the view, so much so that little things like this.

You got to go to type of this. Because nobody can figure out what being said here right now. Little things like that are happening. But you get it, right? Because people are worried about losing their jobs. They're really worried about it. And that little cat fight, which I want to play in full, by the way, it all started because they were having some disagreement over Linda McMahon.

Linda McMahon, who used to run the Small Business Administration there and the Trump administration, she's coming in and she's going to be running the Department of Education. Apparently, there's some disagreement between the ladies on set about whether or not we should have school vouchers, whether or not Pell Grant should go to things like vocational schools. But this is the woman. Let me show you. By the way, she's dynamite. She is a dynamo.

Linda McMahon who started the WWF, now known as WWE, she means business. Take look. Like you told me when I was a little girl. This is her daughter with her. This is going to hurt me. a lot worse than it hurts you. Get her. Okay, you get the picture.

Anyway. Who's the what's now, mom? Who's the worst now? She's no joke. She's actually a really smart woman. She's the self-made entrepreneur, a billionaire, and she really cares about small business. I know this because I've spoken to her over years about small business,

and I know she cares about education, and she wants to make sure that everybody gets a shot. Everybody gets a shot at this opportunity. Well, there's some tension, you see, on the set. at the view. And the tension actually has nothing to do with how worried they are about school vouchers and everything to do with how worried they are about their jobs as they should be, and I will explain. But let's watch this now infamous little catfight happening at ABC in New York City. That they fund students who are already attending private schools. So people with money get those

vouchers, use the vouchers to pay less for their private schools, and their kids go on to do well. Where do you get the money from vouchers? You pull those money from those poor schools, those poor schools. Let me just finish this. So wealthy families are overwhelmingly the recipients of school voucher tax credits. I'm not making this up. This has been studied in 2020. A 2020 study found that only about half of states with voucher programs require teachers to have a bachelor's degree, require teachers to have training, require teachers to have licensing, require participating private schools. If I may get in, just to make it a conversation. Wait, but because I have children and because I look at, look to the private schools. I went to

public school. I believe you got to go to private school. There is zero statistical significance. You got to go to private school. Because nobody can figure out what's being said here right now. No, there is no last thing right now. We're going to go to break. And then we're going to come back. Yes. Because you can't. What's happening is no one can hear anything anyone is saying.

So everybody has to. Yes. We can talk. Well, you know. Well, that goes for you too. My dear. I haven't gotten a word and she's been talking for three minutes. We'll be right back.

Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Okay, so Whoopie has to get in. And now she's really angry and she's really mad that the cat fight's happening because, of course, she's struggling because her job is on things. and ice, mind you. And so she's getting her anger out. Why? Why is this happening now? Trust me. It's not over vouchers. It's over something else. Did you see the headline? If you watch this show, you sure did. By the way, if you watch this show, you would have known that this was

coming. It was inevitable. Comcast, NBC, is spinning off its cable networks, which includes none other than MSNBC, CNBC, Oxygen owned by Oprah, or started by Oprah. And so it goes. in there too. And they're doing this because ladies and gentlemen, this is bad business. Like a really bad, hey, we're all over here, right? Reminders to subscribe, share, like, comment, all that good stuff. We're here. Streaming is where it is at. So what is NBC doing? It is keeping its streaming unit. It's keeping its peacock unit. It's keeping its broadcast unit. And it's getting rid of the headache. You see, these companies, these cable companies, they don't make a ton of money for them. In fact, all in, they made about $7 billion.

there for Comcast last year compared with the company, which is making over 100. So it's a small fraction of their business, but it's a heck of a lot of headache. Think about it. You're going to manage the likes of Rachel Maddo and Joy Behar. Forgive me, Joy Reed over on MSNBC. They get to manage Joy Behar over at the View. So all of this is just too much, really, for a company that wants to focus on what actually makes money.

So it was inevitable. It had to happen. Now we know it has been confirmed. NBC is spinning off MSNBC. It's cable units and, hey, they're kind of worried over there on MSNBC that they may all be gone sooner than you think, right? We could all be fired a year from now. We'll hear what if this happens.

You never know what's going to happen. Well, you know what? I actually have more to say on this. I have a feeling those two will be able to hang on. I have a feeling morning Joe will still be there. it'll be Joy Rita goes first because she's a serious liability and then you know maybe rachel mattow will wind down and she can just do her podcast off over and wherever it is that she does it but they know at nbc what actually the folks at abc know as well and that's it there's really

no future in that business so why do you hang on to it they're done they're done a seven billion dollar business is not worth it for them i know it sounds like a lot of money but they're like 110 over at Comcast. So why do they want this store in their side? All the headlines came out. MSNBC is like shocked, totally shocked because they're coming to this realization that they no longer matter,

that they're no longer relevant, something ABC is coming to the conclusion of as well. But take a look at the, you know, disdain in their faces, certainly in Mika's and the shock in their voices is they realize that guess what, the 20 seconds on Twitter, or just the streaming live show like we're doing right here, it means a whole lot more.

more than there's three, four hour-long catastrophe over there and I'm NBC every morning. But again, here, 20% of adults who actually get influencers on social media. I don't know how they, maybe somebody who makes baskets. And while they're making baskets, they look up and say vote for Canada acts. I don't know how they make themselves, how we make ourselves relevant again, because we can't compete with 20-second snippets on an iPhone walking up. Marples.

Getting your entire news digest of the day. in less than a minute on your phone as you're walking in the crowd with coffee in one hand and your phone on the other. I don't know how we catch up to that. Yeah, so Gene Robinson, do you agree with Mike?

Because I find this hard to believe that younger voters would be more interested in getting an entertaining 20-second news snippet than watching a cable news show for four hours. Okay, that's funny.

In fact that you find it hard to believe that you think that people have three, four hours to sit around and watch your show all day long. I'm sorry, Joe. That's really not how it works. In fact, you know what we're going to do with this show when it's all said in them? We're going to put it into little clips, and we're going to put them out there for all of you guys to be able to consume because we understand and we get how you consume your news these days. The ladies on the view don't quite seem to get it, but they see the handwriting on the wall.

They see the headlines. They know that MSNBC is being spun off and they know they are next. They know what Bob Eager said at Sun Valley two years ago. to David Faber on CNBC, they know that their business is doomed in terms of both its profitability, its longevity, and the network's willingness to put up with them. Well, you're going through all the things that we want to talk about in the time that we have here. But, I mean, just to sort of wrap up why you're staying. I mean, you said in a memo to employees, you've made important and sometimes difficult decisions. you're proud of what you've accomplished, but there's more to accomplish before this transformative

work is complete. So what, again, what is what's transformative here, and what is the work that is going to take another perhaps two years or even more, even after you do leave, that needs to get done? Well, the transformative work, of course, is making sure that our cost structure reflects the economic realities of the business, and that includes disruption. Transformative work is dealing with businesses that are no-growth businesses and what to do about them, and particularly the linear business, which we are expansive in our thinking about, and we're going to look expansively about opportunities there, because clearly it's a business that is going to continue to struggle. Well, let's stop there for a second then, and just let me ask you about it. We're talking,

I guess, ABC, the network, the stations, but then the cable networks as well. Yes, correct. FX, NatGeo. Is it possible you would look to sell them? We're going to be expansive. I think if you can interpret what that word means. You know, we're just getting at that work, but we have to be open-minded and objective about the future of those businesses, yes.

Meaning that they're not core to Disney? That they may not be core to Disney, yeah. Now there's clearly creativity and content that they create that is core to Disney, but the distribution model, the business model that forms the underpinning of that business and that has delivered great profits over the years is definitely broken. And we have to call it,

like it is, and that's part of the transformed of work we're doing. Right. Well, we've been having this conversation for a very long time now. Well, I think what I'm saying is it's time. In terms of the erosion of the linear business, and now it's kind of closer to obsolescence? Well, as I said, when I came back, one of the things I discovered was that the disruptive forces that have been preying on that business for a while greater than I thought. Disruptive forces.

Ooh, Elon, he's looking at you. He's looking at you. A lot has changed in the media business. and Bob Eager is a realist, he's a businessman, and he needs to make money off of these entities, and he cannot make money off of ABC News at this point or off of the view, and it's a heck of a lot of headache. And so if you don't see a path forward, even though they may be creating content that maybe Disney wants, it's the mechanism by which it's delivered, right? That really has become less and less relevant. How many cord cutters do we have out there? There's a whole bunch of

right? I'm one myself. I literally cut, and you know how much money I save? So people want to save money. You think about the economic environment we have been in. They've been looking for cost savings and they've found it in that they don't have to pay these gigantic cable bills anymore. So streaming, that's worth something. Content itself is of course worth something, but the mechanism, whether it be via broadcast or via cable, is no longer relevant. So the ladies on the view know this. upset about it. You heard all of them at MSNBC saying, how the heck is it that we're not relevant anymore? Some YouTuber with 20-second clips that they show is more relevant than us? I mean, how could that possibly be? And Joy's coming to the same conclusion. Why is it that anybody

watches Joe Rogan, she's asking, all while simultaneously saying, we have the backing of ABC News. Hey, hate to tell you this, Joy, but no one watches ABC News either, and nobody respects ABC News either. I do you recall a three-on-one debate with President Trump, Kamala Harris, and David Muir and a woman who I had never seen before, and hopefully won't be watching much more of in the future, ganging up on Donald Trump. It was a three against one. Here's Joy. That's why people like our show, because they know that we are checked by ABC News. We're checked by everybody. Yeah, I mean, if we're wrong, we have, you know, the legal note here.

The human legal? But we went from Walter Cronkite, basically to this guy, Joe Rogan, who believes in dragons. I checked it. He believes in dragons? He believes in dragons. Did you triple source that? Yes, I did. And he also thinks that dragons, I guess like dinosaur-type of animals, roam the earth when people did.

So this is the type of really, really bad information that's going out there. Well, in defense, there are some really good news. It's possible that Donald Trump did roam the earth when dinosaurs were here. Wow. Okay, the poor, like, lone conservative, Alyssa Fara, who's pretty anti-Trump, but nonetheless, you know, she's supposed to play the role of conservative on the show. She just keeps getting trounced. But you hear that? They're like, oh, we're okay. We're okay because we're ABC News. Good luck with that one. Good luck with that one. The other problem here is the total arrogance, the fact that they're going to look down on Joe Rogan, who has built an empire.

I mean, it's unbelievable how many people are watching him. Quick reminder, make sure you subscribe, share like, it's unbelievable how many people are watching this. I mean, I just started it like a year and a half ago. We started going live and what do you know? You build it. They will come. Thank you guys for all that you do to make this show a success. We are coming up on 500,000. So fingers crossed, we get there very soon. But it's this kind of arrogance. The media is so damn arrogant. They think that they know it all. And the politicians that rule the world, they're so arrogant too because they get the media in their back pocket. And the media is just supposed to do what they tell the media to do. And that way you can prevent any of this,

quote-unquote, fake news from getting out there, right? Seems to me, they were the ones with all the fake news, more on that in a moment. But first here's Bill Clinton, a little snobbery himself, just saying, you know, these people, they're not that bright. They're just not that bright. They'll believe anything you tell them. Politics is the only business in which you can prove your authenticity by not knowing anything. You know, And I think that's a problem, and we'll pay for it unless we get over it. But that's the problem for the Democrats, too. We have to learn to talk to people in ways that they can relate to that explains that.

That's why, you know, when I did my best help this time, I don't want to go to any big rallies and big television things I just wanted to get in the country. Let's go out and talk to people. because I think that we're behind in the sense that a lot of the small town and rural people are now highly sophisticated and how they get their information. And there are billions of new websites now, all trying to advance their sort of conservative to right-wing radical cause. and that can't happen, right? God forbid, you might actually get some information from another source

other than the mainstream legacy media that was on speed dial with every government agency. That's what's alarming. I mean, you think about the lack of trust people have now in the media and in the government as a result of them, right? They broke it. They're the ones that sat there and say, oh, no, no, no. Russia, Russia, Russia.

Oh, and that laptop. Hunter Biden's laptop, that's just Russian disinformation, misinformation, misinformation fed to you courtesy of Rudy Giuliani. And then they told us that that virus that knocked out the country for 2020 could never have possibly come from Wuhan, China. No, no, no, no. You weren't allowed to say that. And now they all agree, yep, that's where it came for,

except for the CIA, which remains evenly divided. But every other three-letter agency admits it now. So you understand that people get a lot of. a little bit sick and tired. It's like a little boy who cried wolf. And then they sat there and they told us over and over and over again. You know this, how Donald Trump was a total threat, an existential threat. Apparently he's not anymore.

KJP, getting this question from a reporter just moments ago saying, why is it that there's no more talk of this existential threat? Here we go. It's been, you know, more than two weeks since the election. and this was an election that elected a man that President Biden has repeatedly referred to as an existential threat. So why is it that the American people

have not heard President Biden talk about this threat since the election? Because there was an election and the American people spoke. The will of the American people were very clear. And so the president is now in a situation where we have to deal with a peaceful transfer of power. We have to respect the will of the American people.

And that's what you have to have. seeing from this president, trying to lead by example to make sure that that happens. And that's what the American people deserve. That's what the president deserve. And that's what I think he was very clear about in Rose Garden when he delivered his remarks two days after the election. And he said, he was very honest. He said, these, you know, and again, I'm not quoting him exactly, but these were not the results that we had wanted, right? And that's just being honest. They weren't. But we are now in a position where he believes he has to leave. example and show what a peaceful transfer of power looks like. And so that's what you're seeing

from this president. And, you know, to the points that you made, you know, I've been asked about existential threat. I've been asked about threat to our democracy. The president is always going to be honest with the American people. He feels like he is obligated. What he said still stands. But we are now in a different place. We are. The American people spoke. They deserve a peaceful transfer of power. That's what this president wants to do. on what they did you do about? Oh, just politics as usual? You go around and compare people to Hitler, like, for fun?

That was unbelievable, guys. I mean, we went through a lot. They told us a lot. They said, this is, you know, game over. And then they make the conclusion on the view where they're terrified they're going to lose their job that somehow it's, again, just stupid people that voted for Donald Trump.

I mean, it's like Bill Clinton, say, oh, those rural voters, you know, where they get their information, Because you're supposed to take it from the ladies at the view. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. You know what? People are smarter and better than that. You're underestimating Americans.

You really are. And Sonny continues to do it. Watch. It's very difficult for people to believe that racism and misogyny, they're just alive and well. I think that we don't want to think that about ourselves, our neighbors, our friends. but it's my lived experience tells me that it does still exist, even if your lived experience doesn't tell you that it exists. And, you know, the facts support that.

I think we have a graph. If you look at there's a clear racial divide in who voted for the Trump as opposed to who voted for Kamala Harris. It's very clear. It's not only clear by race, but it's also clear by education. And so the notion somehow that that is not true, this is by education. Those who attended college voted for her at a higher degree than those that didn't. But I think you're missing his point.

Let me just finish. And so I've said that before and there was so much backlash because I think it's an uncomfortable, inconvenient truth about this country. But his whole point is they didn't vote. All right. So you see she's doubling down on this narrative that somehow you're just not smart enough, you're not bright enough, you're not educated. enough, you're not educated enough. Maybe that's why she's making such a stink about Linda McMahon. How dare Linda McMahon actually say maybe you should go to vocational school instead of getting a PhD in gender studies. I mean, wow. These people are so far off in left field. They still don't

understand why it is that they didn't win. They still don't understand why anybody would possibly vote for Donald Trump. Of course, they still didn't understand what everybody was complaining about with inflation because they don't live in the real world. But I'll tell you this, they're about to. Because Disney is very seriously looking at selling off its broadcast and cable assets. And now NBC just beat them to it. So they're looking at this and saying, my gosh, what did they do over at Comcast? They created more shareholder value by spinning off the stuff that nobody wants, MSNBC,

They are creating more shareholder value for Comcast. Well, what could Disney do? Isn't the onus on Bob Eiger, the CEO of Disney, to create more value for her shareholders? Well, the answer is, you get rid of the dead weight. And that's why they're so antsy over there. I'm telling you, I told you this would happen. I told you it would happen with NBC. And, of course, now we're looking at it in real time here with ABC.

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All of them, Sunny is so clueless. You got joy that's pretty clueless. They're all sort of out and left field, and they don't totally, they're nervous, but they don't fully get the game that needs to be played right now. Unlike some people over at MSNBC that are playing the game, big time. Joe and I went to Mar-a-Lago to meet personally with President-elect Trump.

It was the first time we have seen him in seven years. She goes on and on and on. I mean, you'd think she'd be, you know, trying to channel some kind of great diplomacy effort with North Korea, by the way. She speaks about this. Mika Przinski and Joe's Carbo going

to Mar-A-Lago hat in hand and effectively sort of begging for forgiveness. Here's a deal. They knew what was happening. They knew what was going down. They knew that their company was going to get spun off. And they knew that, you know, maybe it's not so great to be the joy read figure in all of this, doubling down on hate in a moment like this, which is why, day after the election,

this guy, Joe Scarborough shows up in a suit and tie trying to channel Tucker Carlson, talking about how he's a white, southern male conservative. It's like, where did that come from? I'll tell you where it came from. One guy won the election, and he knew his company was going to. be up for sale. He knew it. So he's a survivor. He's trying to hang in there, unlike poor Sonny. Look, the bottom line is that America needs a free press that is willing to speak truth to power right now, more than ever. I think that we have to be very clear-eyed when we think about the

president-elect and cover the president-elect. And I I don't think you need to sit down for 90 minutes at Mar-a-Lago and kiss his ring to be able to speak truth and to be able to cover a story. So maybe they're not journalists in the true sense. Maybe they're saying that their opinion journalists. But we have to remember that Trump is the guy who ushered in the era of fake news. He is the guy who ushered in alternative facts. he is the guy who attacked three black female journalists. He's the guy that revoked Jim Ocasters' press credentials for asking him a question.

And so I think that this president-elect, I hate to say it, would like nothing more than to have only Fox News cover him, would like nothing more than a state-sponsored media. and I don't think he can be trusted in the way that other presidents can be trusted. This is an aberration. But the reality is he doesn't just have Fox News. He didn't do a lot of mainstream media this election, but he went on Joe Rogan and reached 50 million people. Yeah, they all hate Joe Rogan, by the way, right?

Joy Behar says, oh, Joe Rogan, he's terrible. He believes in dragons. Why does anybody ever watch Joe Rogan? Everything's taken out of context, of course, when you listen to the ladies on the view. They just come up with this nonsense. I mean, it's been a pretty hateful show. I've been astonished by the rhetoric coming out of their mouth,

specifically one Whoopi Goldberg. And what I'm amazed at, again, I would just say she's a little smarter than some of the other ladies there. It's like Sonny is trying to take over that spot because Whoopi can't do it because whoopi knows she's on thin ice. She really will get fired before they even get a chance to spin off the company at this point. So maybe that's why they were so obsessed. Oh my gosh, Donald Trump can't win. He can't win, he can't win, because if he wins, we're really in trouble then.

And they are in that they have to go back to some kind of more measured, even coverage. It has not been measured. It has not been even. It has been anything. But anyway, we'll want to get to some of the other big news, but listen to her here. I mean, she's talking about Matt Gates, who by the way just bowed out. We'll get to that. Sonny Houston, she said some things that were concerning enough that she actually had to read this little legal note on set.

Like, you know, in real time, the producers are like, oh my God, oh, my God, what did she do? Because I guess some of these allegations have been disproven or they were thrown out, et cetera. Apparently another allegation surface today, which may have something to do with why he bowed out. But let's listen to Sunny, getting in a little trouble along the way. She's not too happy about getting this so-called legal note. How could you nominate someone with allegations of child trafficking across or trafficking across state lines and having sex with a 17-year-old? My understanding further on in the interview, they discussed the fact that once he finds out that she's 17, he stops having sex with her.

Sonny, you have a legal note. I do have a legal note. Thank you, Whoopi. Matt Gates has long denied all allegations, calling the claims, quote, invented, and saying in a statement to ABC News that this false smear following a three-year criminal investigation should be viewed with great skepticism, that DOJ investigation was closed with no charges being brought. We'll be right back. Okay, so she looked real happy there, didn't she? she might be happy right now because Matt's out of the picture. But the reality is, yes, lawsuits are a factor in all of this. Donald Trump is already in the midst of suing ABC News and actually George

Stephanopoulos personally, so the company's trying to protect itself. And he's suing because of libel issues. In other words, he's saying just because I ran for president doesn't mean I'm completely not able to go after you guys when you actually say false things on the air. And there's something to that, right? If there's such a bias that's so entrenched in a news organization, it doesn't seem right. It doesn't seem fair that that news organization can do hit job after hit job after

hit job on somebody just to take them out and make sure that the American public does not vote for them. God forbid the American public have these alternatives like right here on the Trish Regan show where hopefully we are always bringing you the truth. I do my darndest to make sure that you have all sides. But you know what? You also know my opinion because I definitely have one. Anyway, make sure you subscribe, share, like all that good stuff. We've got breaking news to get to on the cabinet front.

It seems that Matt Gates is going to be out of the running. Here he is just a short time ago before the news broke. Congressman Gates, what's your reaction to House of the House of the not releasing the report? How have your meetings been today, sir? Well, can we ask what you missed? They've been going great. Center's been giving me a lot of good advice. I'm looking forward to a hearing.

Folks have been very supportive. They've been saying we're going to get a fair process. So it's a great day of momentum for the Trump-Bance administration. Any reaction to the ethics committee? They said they're not going to release the report after their meeting today, at least at this point. Any response? I'll be honest with you. I've been focused on what we've got to do to reform the Department of Justice.

I've been meeting with senators. I haven't been paying much attention to that. Did you brief President Trump at all? I haven't talked to the President today, but had great time with the Vice President-elect talking about how we're going to end weaponization at the Department of Justice. We're going to tackle fentanyl. We're going to ensure that we don't have the DOJ involved in censorship anymore and make sure that we get the country back on track and are there for President Trump's total fulfillment of his promises on an immigration agenda. Are you confident you could get confirmed by the Senate?

Do you feel like... It was a great day. Okay. So you wonder what he knew at that point in time. Here's the headline coming to us from the Wall Street Journal. from the Wall Street Journal. Matt Gates withdrawals from consideration as Attorney General, former Florida lawmaker, has been facing sexual misconduct allegations, and Republicans were ready to reject his nomination. Very interesting because we just got a real big public endorsement

out of Lindsay Graham last night. So it kind of seemed like the train had left the station and that everybody was on board. Here's Senator Ron Johnson, who also was a proponent of Matt Gates getting the job reacting to the news just a short time ago and seems to be okay. with it praising Matt Gates for bowing out. What? But you had been supportive of this nomination. So what is your reaction? Are you disappointed that he dropped out?

Well, what I've said is I'm generally supportive of President Trump being able to select and staff his administration. So I'll give all the nominees benefit of the doubt. And we have a confirmation process. This process obviously was truncated early. Can't disagree with the decision Matt Gates made. He was controversial. He understood that.

I actually appreciate the fact that he withdrew so that President Trump can put somebody else in place, maybe less controversial. But let's face it, this is going to be a pitch battle. I've been a target of the corruption within the FBI. So I know exactly why President Trump wants to have somebody who's incredibly loyal, who's going to be aggressive, who's not going to wilt under pressure. This isn't going to be an easy job. So Matt Gates, obviously, is going to be a strong advocate.

And I understand why President Trump wanted somebody like him. He's going to have to find somebody like him to do that. Yeah, and that's the tough thing. I think that Matt was seen as somebody who was very much a pit bull, for lack of a better word, and Donald Trump wants a pit bull. But there are others that hopefully don't have the same kind of baggage that the left can attack in that way. And so some of those names will start coming forward here again as Matt Gates bows out. One of the things that I would ask the question for right now is whether or not he will go back to the hill. This is something that actually Politico has is the lead on the website as we speak. The question is, could he go back to the House in January? Don't forget he resigned, right? He left that position. He resigned from both his current term and preemptively from his term in the next Congress, which he just won. So I don't know what that means entirely. Let me just share with you what he wrote to Mike Johnson about the resignation. Quote, I do not intend to take

the oath of office for the same office in the 119th Congress. Now, apparently he can't come back to Congress. That's what's being discussed. But if he wants to come back to Capitol Hill in January, there are other seats that are open, and this is where it starts to get interesting because there are rumors floating around that maybe he could go back as senator. Don't forget, the Senate seat is open there. Lara Trump was eyeing it in the state of Florida. But maybe Matt Gates goes in and takes over for Rubio who is becoming Secretary of State. It could be something that DeSantis might consider. So Matt Gates may be still having a big political future there.

We'll see how this all shakes out. Another one in question right now that would be, of course, and this is the, this is the potentially the nail in the coffin, right? Matt Gates, because there was a second allegation that comes out. But another one, another person that is very much subject to a lot of media fire right now would be one Pete Hedgeseth, who I used to work with actually at Fox, and I've always thought it was just a terrific guy, but some really uncomfortable things emerging about an alleged allegation,

an alleged sexual assault allegation, this is coming forward, something that allegedly transpired in California. The whole police report is out at some 22 pages. This is not very pretty stuff. And it's sort of a he said, she said, environment. Apparently the charges were dropped. This was never something that came up. And Fox News has admitted as such.

They weren't even aware of this. It was settled privately. Now it's all coming to ahead. As you can imagine, they're looking for any dirt they can find on these guys. And they don't want Pete over at Department of Defense. Because despite his Princeton undergrad and the public policy masters from Harvard, he isn't one of them, so to speak, despite his record and bronze medals in the Army, again, he's not one of them, and he hasn't come from a defense company or run big sections

of the government. So there's a lot of animosity there towards Pete Hegsess. So it's going to be a rough road. I mean, I'm not going to kid you. Linda McMahon also, you know, her husband had faced some pretty tough allegations. We won't get into that over at WWE. But Linda McMahon has already worked in the administration for the SBA. She is very committed to small business.

This is her. This is her and her daughter. Her daughter was a little girl. Her daughter was a performer. This is going to hurt me a lot worse than it hurts you. Get her. You're simply a conniving. Anyway.

She's now going to be, one would think, confirmed as the Department of Education Secretary, she's got some interesting ideas. She's talking about, say, maybe letting the Pell Grants, instead of having them used exclusively for university study, maybe allowing them to be used for vocational study. In other words, let's focus on vocational work. You know, we need the plumbers, for goodness sakes. We need plumbers, we need electricians.

And I've known some super wealthy plumbers and electricians in my life. Let me just say, okay? Like, those are things that you need, HVAC, all that good stuff. So we can't discount that just because everybody wants to go get a degree in gender studies from some, ridiculous college in some ridiculous place. I'm sorry, not to poo-poo it too much, but we've lost our way. We have totally lost our way when we're sitting around and debating what

gender we want to be today. We've lost our way. I'll tell you, I have not lost my way, not on this show. It's great to have you here as we get to more news and we've got lots of it right now. There's talk, believe it or not, of maybe Kamala Harris pulling off some kind of coup. I get to get to that because Nate Silver is out with a very, very interesting tweet. But first, award from one of our great sponsors over at Balance in Nature. 1-800-246-8751. 1-800-246-8751. I take Balance in Nature every day, my fruits and veggies.

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He has come out with, well, this is the headline, by the way. This is the headline that you need to know about. Putin, of course, firing a rocket. America was made aware of this ahead of time, which is good, but this is kind of a problem. Nate Silver making this recommendation or thought, I should say, online, He's relevant here because it was Nate that effectively put in place the dismantling of the candidacy of Joe Biden because he started questioning it. When he was looking at polls, he was like, look, I don't think this guy's going to win. Anyway, Nate said, quote, is there any particular reason to assume Biden is competent to be president right now?

It's a very difficult job. It's a dangerous world, extremely high stakes decisions in Ukraine. He should resign and let Harris serve out the last. last two months. It's worth just note in because, you know, you can say this and a lot of people say things like this, but when Nate says it, a lot of Democrats take note. They certainly did last time. When Nate said, you know, maybe Biden ought to go and Kamala maybe should take over. That's exactly what happened. So you do have a lot of conflict going on right now. Of course, this situation heating up in Ukraine and Zelensky giving an interview a short time ago to Fox News.

I want to share a clip where he says, basically, it's all going to come down to America and he needs more money and more weapons, et cetera. Here we go. What if the US government cuts military funding to Ukraine? If they will cut, I think we will lose. Of course, anyway, we will stay, we will fight. We have our production, but it's not enough to prevail, and I think it's not enough to survive. But it will be if such choice will...

be American choice. So we will decide what we will have. Okay, so a pretty blatant attempt there to say, hey, you know what, America, it's all up to you. We survive or don't survive based on you. So, as I said, very agitated situation, regardless of how you feel about this particular situation, you do want to make sure that you get some smart people in charge. And so a lot of people are saying, well, do we have that? I mean, here's Biden down the Amazon. Actually, this is Biden getting onto the plane. He doesn't seem to hear the reporter.

Let's take a listen again. I'm using me, or does she sound like kind of desperate? Mr. President! Mr. President! I realize she's trying to talk over the plane engines, but wow. Okay? And he just completely ignores her, totally ignores her. She's like, we haven't heard from you.

We haven't heard from you. And there's kind of like some big stuff going on in the world. Is there not? So there's that. And then there's the issue of Biden making people. So this is one of these photo offs, such of 20. These leaders had to wait for five full minutes before Biden finally came, and then look at where they put him. He's like way over in the corner, for goodness sakes.

But, you know, at least he made it. At least they waited for him this time, unlike the other day. Oh, my God. Do you see him to go far left? Left to the left of the palm tree. Oh, my God. Didn't even wait. Times are changing.

Okay, sorry, that was from my short speed. If you're not looking at the short speed, subscribe to that as well on YouTube. So anyway, look, they're not into them. Like at G20. Now, there's various reasons for that, but it is a little bit weird that we seem to be lacking so much in influence.

He did do a little Q&A with reporters earlier in the week there in the Amazon. He's actually in Rio de Janeiro, but let's listen in. It's no secret, but I'm leaving an office in January. I will leave my successor and my country and a strong foundation to build on if they choose to do so. It's true. Some may seek to deny or delay

the clean energy revolution that's underway in America. But nobody, nobody. can reverse it. Nobody. So clean energy revolution, that's still his signature thing. Of course, we may be on the precipice of some kind of World War III, but he's not getting into that, which again brings us back to the issue of, does he stay in the seat? I think it's very interesting that Nate Silver is putting this out at this particular time. So does Biden stay in the seat?

Nate's asking, is there any particular reason why we're going to keep him there? I mean, I would say you wouldn't want to jump it, getting rid of them. I mean, for goodness sakes consider the alternative. But there's somebody who would very much like to have that position, one Kamala Harris. She must be very excited that Nate is tweeting out something like this at a time like this, with the thought being that she's the only one, I guess, who can come and deliver some kind of normalcy. I would just say I almost would rather have a very ill, very old, mentally unstable Biden than I would, Kamal Harris. Is that fair to say?

I mean, I really don't think she's capable of dealing with this. And it worries me in different ways if she were to come in. But there's talk now that she could potentially invoke the 25th Amendment. Imagine that. In other words, is he so bad that she would actually invoke the 25th Amendment? they want him to step down. That's being discussed over and over and over again. And Nate was meant to, I think, agitate or excite those rumors even more.

So what Kamala gets in and she's there for a few weeks so the Democrats can do what? I ask you. I guess they get their photo op and they get to say, hey, you know what? We had the first female president. Like, I guess if you want to claim that because you shoved her in, I mean, Biden wouldn't have picked her honestly, he would never have picked her after what she did to him in 2020, the Democrat debate, upside one and down the other saying, Biden, I really don't think you're a racist. Yeah, I mean, that was brutal. That was ugly. And he chose her anyway. Why? The party wanted her there.

And then what happened? He got a little bit older. They thought he couldn't run and win. So they shoved him to the side and they put her at the top of the ticket and she lost spectacular. I mean, he's got to kind of love it, right? Because he completely. on a winner either way. Either way in that scenario. And he gets to say, look, I'm the only one who beat Trump. Hillary couldn't do it. Kamala couldn't do it. Guess who could Joe Biden? So now they're going to try and muscle her in and put her at the top and give her the presidency of the United States. I don't think Americans are going to take that so well. I'm just saying. But Joe's up there, and we are in a difficult time. A reminder, make sure you subscribe to our Invest in Maga Guide.

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Go to investinata.com. All these celebrities are talking about leaving the United States of America. Well, one of them apparently is put in her mouth or money where her mouth is, and that would be one Ellen DeGeneres. It's come out that Ellen DeGeneres and her significant other, Portia deRosie, are leaving. leaving the country because, of course, Donald Trump. You know, she was a big common supporter. I don't know if she got paid for this interview.

It came out recently that Oprah didn't just make a million dollars, as the Washington examiner had reported, but allegedly, her sources at the New York Times made actually $2.5 million on that interview that she did with Kamala Harris. Now, she says, no, no, I didn't get paid a penny, but the speculation is that the production company, Harper Productions, is what made the money. Anyway, I don't know if Ellen's production company made money,

but she does have some other worries, perhaps connected to Diddy. Here she is with Kamala Harris on her show, just lapping it up. And let me remind you, this is exactly why I don't think it would take six weeks of Kamala's president. You're really bad. If you had to be stuck in an elevator with either President Trump, Mike Pence, or Jeff Sessions, who would it be? Does one of us have to come out alive? Yeah, you definitely don't want to deal with that for the next six weeks. Trust me, trust me, trust me.

The laugh alone, like somebody should have, some consultant should have gotten in there and said, you know what, Kamala, we got to work on this. We get to work on the laugh, okay? Let's get this one under control first. Anyway, Ellen is going to be leaving the country, and she's taking her girlfriend or wife or significant other, Portia de Rossi, with her. They're going to move to the UK because they hate Donald Trump. much. Imagine you hate the president so much that you're going to leave the country. Is that really

it or is there something else? Maybe there's something else connected potentially to Sean P. Diddy. I think we're going to get to that quick shout out for the store. Make sure you can get all your merch for the Trish Regan shop. Trish Regan dot shop there. Everything's up there for Christmas if you want to get some merch. I keep wanting to say like paraphernalia and stuff, but it's merch. It's March. It's March or swag. Ellen DeGeneres has this connection, you see, to Diddy, apparently, and this could be problematic for the comedian. So this is a story on the Internet right now.

They're basically saying she can't hide from this. She can't hide from this so-called Diddy List. The Internet's reacting to Ellen DeGeneres, reportedly moving to the U.K., amid this speculation that she just can't take it with Donald Trump. You know, we can't have a president like that. I can't live in a country like that. She's effectively saying, is it that or is it that, you know, things could get a little bit ugly. Legally speaking.

You see, she's like a good friend of P. Diddy's, P. Ditties, Puff Daddy, Sean Combs. Here's a tweet from her back in 2016, 11, 4, 16. Happy Birthday, P. Diddy, Puff Daddy, Sean Combs, or as I call him, Cuddle, McSnuff Stuff. Then she writes, you don't need to know why. Oh, I don't know why. I mean, given what we've heard about those rather infamous parties, which she apparently went to. Yeah, they were apparently parties that Ellen DeGeneres got invited to

and allegedly attended with the rapper. So, you know, if I'm her, I want to get out of town too, you know. It's tough to leave this behind there, right? This is their house, some $96 million. It's reportedly worth. This is her Montecito home, and she's high-tailing it out of the country over to the UK because she just doesn't like Chomp. Or maybe she's worried about something else.

I'm just asking. I'm not saying. I'm just asking. There's some strange friendships that Diddy had. Very, very strange friendships. In the meantime, the media companies, as we started the show, they're starting to change their tune. Or if not the talent at the media companies,

you have the executives at the media companies, all changing their tune, one being perhaps the CEO of Disney. So ABC's Disney, or Disney's ABC, the view is very much in trouble. And then, of course, there's this actress that they have on this new Snow White that's supposed to be a big deal that's been recklessly spending money on, who's also a little bit of a problem.

So Rachel Zegler came out with a new apology, reportedly, that's making the rounds online, and people are just dying at this thing. So she was like on thin ice. She may still be on thin ice right now as they try and decide what to do with her. I mean, I think a lot of the shooting is done. So what do you do? You got this big blockbuster film that you spent all this money on. I mean, you got rid of Gina Carana for a whole lot less.

She just wouldn't put her pronouns on Twitter. And suddenly she's gone. And now Rachel Zegler is calling Trump supporters horrible. names with tons of F-bombs says they should never know peace and she gets to hang on to her gig? I don't know. Like I really don't know. So apparently there's another apology that's in the circulation of the media right now and online.

And I just got to say, for somebody who's an actress, so bad. Like couldn't she have done better? Couldn't she have pretended to be a little bit more humble? This is bad. Watch. And to everyone who hates when I win, the winged victory came to the Louvre in pieces, and people still line up to see her. And I can only hope that despite my flaws and despite my cracks and my bricks and there are many of them, that at every premiere and everything I do, people will wait in line to see. a little full of ourselves, aren't we?

Rachel Ziegler from New Jersey. Very full of ourselves. It's really all about you, you see. And you're comparing yourself to the Mona Lisa to boot. It's all about you. You want to say, oh, no matter what I do, everybody's going to still come to see me. And then, Kaching, I get to cash the paycheck.

I mean, she's young, she's immature. Can we forgive her for that, perhaps? But if I'm Disney, I'm not looking too fondly on the situation because I don't need the headache. You understand? We know the tides have turned. America elected Donald Trump, in part because of little torps like this girl. They're sick of it. America rejected Hollywood.

They saw through what was really going down with Megan the Staliener's being paid millions and millions and millions of dollars to show up in pretend she liked Kamala Harris. I mean, heck, nobody watched the Oprah thing. We got more people watching this right now than they watched the Oprah clip with Kamala Harris in real time on YouTube. Unbelievable. No one believes what they're pitching, what they're selling. They're sick of it.

Eminem getting paid $1.something million to pretend he likes Kamala Harris. Lizzo getting paid to show up and say, hey, American be just like Detroit? That was great. I mean, and then this girl saying, well, you know what? I may have some flaws, but you're still going to come and watch my movies now, aren't you? It's too much. Look, the tides have changed. Bob Iger, CEO of Disney is looking at this little girl and saying, I don't need it.

I definitely don't need it. He's looking at Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg and the rest of them on the view and saying, I don't need it. Let me do what NBC did. Let me spin this thing off and get rid of it today. at CNN. They're having similar conversations. In fact, this is great. This is insider intel from Puck.

Puck Media, they cover media. And there was apparently this really tense call where Mark Thompson, who came from the New York Times and now runs the newsroom there at CNN is saying, look, there's tough times ahead. And would you guys just stop hating on Trump? Like, you've got to go out and cover more stories. You've got to find more things to talk about.

You can't just hate on him all the time. And guess what? We're hemorrhaging viewers. We're at the lowest we've been at 25 years. That's what they're saying over at CNN, and we're going to have to make cuts. Chris Wallace was already the first to go. Next up, Jake Tapper, I don't know.

He may have to take a pay cut. $20 million man, Anderson Cooper, according to the Daily Mail. They're the ones saying he makes $20 million. There's some stuff that's going to change because now there's a diversification in the ad strategy. Guess what? If you're an advertiser, you don't have to worry about all this DEI nonsense

anymore. If you're a network, you don't have to worry about the DEI nonsense. All you have to worry about is creating great programming that people want to watch. And you can advertise now, wherever you want to advertise. Heck, you get advertisers coming back to X in spades. Oh, look, there's Rachel, the little ingenue. The little ingenue, let's watch it again, who has to wear a mask while performing in Broadway. This is from a couple of weeks ago, because, you know, she can't get that close to her fans. I don't think there is that big a line outside to see her, by the way. And they're all recognizing what the handwriting on the wall is. In other words, a lot of these top stars that a lot of top networks are going to be taking pay cuts. So why shouldn't

Rachel Zegler also pay the price? Why is it that she's going to continue to just be propped up? I don't think she will be. I don't think anybody who's going to go see the movie. Or you're going to go see Snow White? I'll see Brett Cooper's version. Thank you very much. There's a ground shift happening. It's monumental. You're seeing it at CNN. You're seeing it at MSNBC. You're seeing it ABC, everywhere this is happening, including even, believe it or not, at HBO. So you know Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling, you know this woman, and she's come under so much fire, of course, because she dared to stand up for women's rights and say, you know, it's not really fair that a guy gets to compete a naturally born male, I should say, gets to

compete in the swimming pool, say, against a naturally born female and take the trophy. And if that naturally born male takes the trophy away from the woman, then that is an injustice. Well, that was not tolerated, not at all. They really just, I mean, they kind of crucified J.K. Rowling. Ever since she went public with this belief that, you know, transgender women are not really women, as it relates to sports, et cetera. And by saying that, she got just hammered by. all these people in Harry Potter like Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson,

all of these people that were furious. Well, it became kind of an issue because you see HBO is doing this spinoff. And they wanted to bring her in for her expertise. After all, she is the woman that wrote the entire series, right? And there was this pushback from the Mughal community. They didn't want this. And now HBO is saying, you know, know what? Tough luck. Get over yourselves. The Harry Potter series will benefit from the author,

the creator's involvement. So do you see what I'm talking about? Big shift. Apparently they have not gotten the message over at Jaguar now. So this one got my eye. Jaguar is out with a new commercial. Mind you, Jaguar is a luxury car company. They also run Range Rover. So I'm not sure what all these people dressed in colorful little costumes have to do with a car, but you know, in the new world in which they're living, and like only they are living. Cars, speed, safety, none of that matters anymore, just your pretty little costume. Honestly, I don't know who they made this for other than maybe the woke executives in the advertising business. Or maybe for Oprah, since she drives a Jaguar-owned Ranger.

Thank you, Oprah. I mean, it's crazy, right? I mean, Jaguar, I guess they're a little behind the curve there, but their head of marketing wants you to know. It's all about DEI at this car company. And at Jaguar, we're passionate about our people, and we're committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive, and unified culture that is representative not only of the people who use our products,

but in a society in which we all live, a culture where our employees can bring their authentic selves to work. And we're on a transformative journey of our own, driven by a belief in diversity, inclusion, creativity, policy, and most importantly, action. We've established over 15 DEI groups such as five who are here tonight. Okay, okay, okay, I got you, buddy. Apparently, you didn't see what happened to Bud Light. and the head of marketing there, and I did you.

Nigel Farage, you know Nigel. He's having a field day with this. I mean, he's just disgusting because, you know, it was a British company, Jaguar, Range Rover. It did get bought by, I think it was Tata Motors out of India, but it's not stopping Nigel from having a little fun. Let's take a look. What is it with the modern advertising industry and big corporate companies? Think Jaguar.

Think of the E-type. Think of the powerful logo on the front of the... of the car of Inspector Moore, so of a really great British brand. Well, okay, it may now be owned by the Indians. But have a look at what the modern advertising industry have done. This is the new logo. I don't know what it stands for, do you? And the advert, showing some sort of almost non-human figures

walking through a door without even showing cars. I'm not quite sure what they're saying or what they want to do strikes me as being another bud-like moment. Jaguar will now go bust. And do you know what they deserve to? Yeah, they do, right? I mean, this is why we started 76 Research. Rob was so sick of the DEI nonsense.

Go over to invest in MAGA or 76research.com for more. You know, we've done incredibly well, not to. Not toot my own horn too much. But let's shift gears and take a look at what's going on on Capitol Hill at this moment with Nancy Mace. Nancy Mace, wow, like this woman's got some fire, right? Nancy Mace is like, I'm just not doing it. I'm not going to share my restroom with somebody who's not a naturally born female. And she's kind of augmented this issue and it's taken on a life of its own.

Here she is speaking with an ABC news reporter just yesterday afternoon. I want you to take a look. The question is, with your piece of legislation about banning women from using... My question to you is... It doesn't go far enough. You have said that it was created. in response to Congresswoman-elect McRoyne. Absolutely 100%.

But should legislation be created, targeted at one specific person? It doesn't mention anyone in the legislation, but I'm not going to... No, I have said it's a result of this. I'm not going to allow biological men into women's private spaces. I will stand in the brink and stand in the way of anyone on the radical left who thinks that it's okay for a penis to be in a women's locker room or a bathroom or a changing room. Hell, no. I am not going to stand for it.

And the speaker said it would be in the House Rules package. If it's not, I'll be ready with a privilege motion to force a vote on this. This is not okay. I'm a survivor of rape. I'm a survivor of sexual abuse. And I'm not going to allow any man in any female private spaces. Now, Speaker... End of story.

And by the way, I'm getting death threats from men pretending to be women. Why is it that these crazy people, the insanity, the radical left, are willing to kill women over a man's right to be in a women's restroom? Speaker Johnson has said, Speaker Johnson has said he wants to treat every new member. with the words dignity and respect. Forcing this congressperson to go into a male restroom, is that dignity and respect? Forcing women to share private spaces with men is not dignity and not respect. I'm absolutely going to stand in the way of anyone who thinks it's okay for a man to be in our locker room, and our changing rooms, in our dressing rooms, and women's bathrooms.

And in fact, if you agree with that, you're crazy, because that's not okay. It's not okay. Congresswoman, win... Thank you, Congress, we're going to peel away from this conversation. Do you agree with her? I mean, I have a lot of thoughts on this. In part because it's been so abused, right? There's this idea that, well, if you feel like a guy today,

you can go into the ladies' room. If there's, you know, too big a line at the men's room, not that there ever is. There's always a line at the ladies' room. But you can go into the women's room. Today, you just say, I feel like a guy. So, you know, you're just kind of a jerk at planet fitness or you're somebody who's struggling with this, that, and the other.

and it's just more convenient for you, you get to use that. Well, what about little girls in there? What about women who feel uncomfortable in there? I guess what I'm really struck by is there's no respect or understanding for the women themselves at all. And you're just considered a bully if you're like, hey, you know, I don't really like this. I'm not there. And so Nancy Mace, Congresswoman Mace, is taking this on with like a vengeance. but it's not just restrooms keep in mind.

I mean, it's much bigger than that. It's opportunity. You consider sports programs, for example. The idea that we're going to kind of just sacrifice an entire gender so that I guess men can really, really take over the world. I have a problem with that. Take a look at Jen Saki, trying to double down on this nonsense. There's obviously a lot of soul searching right now going on within the Democratic Party,

and that's a good thing. But what I worry about is that in the course of all that soul searching, some Democrats might reach the wrong sweeping conclusions. And there are a lot of issues that fall into that bucket. But one in particular that stuck out to me is transgender rights. Republicans spend hundreds of millions of dollars on anti-trans ads this election cycle, including one that showed Vice President Harris talking about government funding for gender reaffirming care. She did. For prisoners and detainees. If that sounds like a particularly obscure issue, it is because it applies to a tiny group of people.

And it's also a policy that, by the way, was in place during the first Trump presidency. So just because it's a small group of people, it therefore shouldn't matter. Like we're just going to throw the principal out the window. The idea is they're in prison. And somehow now the taxpayer is responsible for gender affirming care. One of the lines that ran over and over again in those ads and throughout right-wing media is this idea that America is faced with a crisis. of boys playing in girls' sports. Now, these ads created this perception

that the issues of trans kids playing sports was dominating schools across the country, which is completely false. But Jen, if you're the girl that gets smacked in the head with the volleyball from the naturally born male because he was playing your sport, does that really matter? You're going to reduce this to numbers? This is about fairness, or I'll use your term.

Equity. It's about equity. It's about fair. and sticking up for girls. I mean, aren't you won yourself? Some people got pulled into that argument. I mean, immediately after the election, Congressman Seth Moulton told the New York Times that, quote, Democrats spend way too much time trying not to offend anyone rather than being brutally honest about the challenges many Americans face. I have two little girls. I don't want them getting run over on a playing field by a male or formerly male athlete, but as a Democrat, I'm supposed to be afraid to say that. And then last week in Congressman Moulton came on this network to discuss those

comments. I was just speaking authentically as a dad about one of many issues where I think we're just out of touch with the majority of voters. And I stand my because you are by my position. You know, maybe I didn't get all the words exactly right. But the point is that the backlash I foresee you proves my point that we can't even have these discussions as a party. And now she's going to pile on and create more backlash. Reflection is good. But if that were actually an issue at thousands of schools across the country, it would be worthy of a debate. But there are just incredibly few examples of transgender girls. So in other words, she's trying to say that because it's not happening everywhere,

it may just be in this community or that community, somehow it makes it right. You think it makes it right? If you're the girl that loses a scholarship or loses out on a medal or an opportunity, how is that right? We're just going to ignore it? I said this yesterday. I mean, are you just going to, you know, look, murder is very rare. Thank goodness.

But it's wrong. And therefore, in the spirit of what's just, we correct for that wrongness. And yet we're not willing to stand up for girls right here because Jen Saki says it's not an issue? It is an issue. If you're the girl that loses the opportunity, and for Nancy Mace right now, it's an issue for her because she doesn't want to have to worry about sharing the restroom.

Now, I should point out that the transgender that was elected from South Carolina has said, fine, don't worry about it. I'll use the men's room. So that's good. I come at it and say, much like the sports situation and swimming, you can have your own lane.

Right? We can have like unisex bathrooms for everyone who doesn't know what gender they are or thinks they're one thing and they're not. That's fine. But you know, you do have to actually think about half the population and their needs and their considerations. Some good news to report today, I guess. I mean, if you like Bitcoin, I do. I've been following this stuff since it was 10 bucks, so I like it. Did you see this guy? Whoa, wow. 97,912, it's probably changed since then because this thing is traded 24-7.

I mean, really amazing. Donald Trump is all over this, and this is why I told you, did I not? I told you we would probably see a lot of upside if Donald Trump won the election. In fact, I looked at kind of like, you know, insurance, if you would, a little bit of an insurance policy in my own portfolio because I thought, hey, you know, if he wins this thing, it's going to go through the roof. We had Michael Saylor on the show. Michael Saylor is the world's largest Bitcoin.

holder. He runs micro strategies, ticker symbol, MSTR, and he thinks it's going to $13 million a coin by 2046. Anyway, Donald Trump wants to incorporate Bitcoin increasingly into our economy. I want to play you a clip of him talking about it here, which helps to justify and explain why you're seeing Bitcoin on its way to 100,000. People are talking about 100,000 a coin by inauguration. It's going to be a big time. party, of course. I will ensure that the future of crypto and the future of Bitcoin will be made in the USA, not driven overseas. I will support the right to self-custody to the nation's 50 million crypto holders. I say this with your vote. I will keep Elizabeth Warren and her goons away from

your Bitcoin. And I will never allow the creation of a central bank digital currency. Wow. Okay, so Donald Trump, given a big plug there for Bitcoin, which helps to explain, I think, why there's this anticipation and this excitement. The thinking being that it is a form of currency where you can sort of store value in a way that's efficient. Of course, we like gold here, too, and I talk a lot about gold. I mean, a lot of assets I like right now, especially given what's happening. We're waiting on Treasury Secretary. That's sort of the one that's hand. out there. I'm wondering if we're going to hear this before the end of the week. A lot of talk had been about whether or not Howard Lutnik would get it. Howard Lutnik's CEO of Kenner Fitzgerald.

Now we're hearing from the Financial Times that Mark Rowan is very much in the mix. Mark Rowan, of course, a hedge fund guy who is also, I guess, he's sorry, private equity guy, a billionaire, and he's now emerging as a top contender. He runs the Apollo Global Management Fund. of course, very, very big deal. He is reportedly flying back from Hong Kong. He just flew back from Hong Kong to meet with Donald Trump in Florida. Scott Bassett, of course, has been in the mix as well. I think you can't go wrong. Honestly, with either of these guys, Mark is terrific. Scott is terrific, and you're getting sophisticated financiers who are really going to be able to do a lot of good there. Quick reminder, you can go over to 76research.com and look at all of our portfolios. If you want to

get Founders Club. We have all the portfolios, 10 to 15 names in each one of those. Also, make sure to go check out the shop, Trishregan.com. And don't forget your fruits and veggies, okay? Balance of Nature. Our friends over at Balance and Nature, you can just use code word Trish or call them at 1-800-246-8751. Balance of Nature, code word Trish. It is good to see you guys. I mean, really, really good to see you guys. Again, we have so much going on. And this channel has been grown and grown and grown and growing. Thanks to all of you. look at your comments. Mike Costa wants to know how many likes did we get today. I think we got a lot, Mike. I think we got somewhere around 3,776. So it's up to you guys to get it to 4,000 really fast.

Yeah, Don's filling them in. Billy, good to see you again back on the show. Mark Johnson. Welcome. Great to have you. Mike Costa, what goes up to come down. You think Bitcoin will come down? I don't know. I mean, again, I thought it was crazy when it was at 10. I thought it was crazy when it was 100 and then a thousand. And at some point, you know, look, it has gone up to the 60s and then gone down to the 30s. If you listen to my interview with Michael Saylor, he talks about volatility actually being your friend. And there's reasons why some people appreciate the volatility from a tax perspective. There's also reasons why the volatility is there. I mean, he would argue where else can you get money on a Sunday night at, you know, 10.30 p.m.

All the markets are closed, et cetera. piece of my, I hear you, it's volatile. So, you know, you've got to buckle up if that's your thing. Anyway, Cat Crazy is saying 98,000 is kind of crazy, but Donald Trump likes it. Listen, and I think he recognizes that there's an important future that we as Americans really need to be part of, because we don't want to, we don't want to give that position to China or anyone else. I think we need to make sure that we're on the cutting edge of technology, and that means money technology, that means technology, technology, AI, et cetera. Look, the good news is we got Mag 7, right? All the big tech companies, they're on the cutting edge. They're all in the U.S. here. That is good, good news.

We want our financial markets, et cetera, to continue, continue being way, way up. Don making the point, which is a fair one, that we're actually up, what, 10% per year since January 20, 21. But we are Don up something like, I want to say 35% in Bitcoin alone, since what? I guess, you know, maybe about six weeks ago or maybe late September. When I really started getting more and more heavily interested in this, I just thought, you know what, if Donald Trump wins and he's so out front on the tech curve. And, you know, look, Elon likes it too, Doge being his thing, I think you've got to think about some allocation, teeny, tiny, because it's volatile.

You get to basically know that it's kind of like schmuck insurance, if you were. That's what I've said. You basically, if the thing goes to 13 million, as Michael thinks, then you want to be positioned. Oh, peace of my mind. I did have like an eight-hour show. I actually think it was like nine hours. Rob joined me in studio for that.

It was a long show. I was honestly like the most exhausted. I think all week I was feeling the pain from that. afterwards because I went to bed at like, you know, because I finished the show at three something. And then, of course, somehow my husband was up and I'm talking to him. And before you know it, it's like 5.30 and I had to get some sleep because kids had to be at school at 8.30 the next morning. You know, it was one of those nights. And then it turned into basically a week of no sleep. So I'm still recovering, if you would. It is lovely to see

all you guys here. You know, so many familiar faces, so many new ones. Make sure, guys, make sure that you subscribe, like, share, comment. If you have some thoughts, Here's a question for you. Is Nancy Mace doing the right thing? Tell me what you think in the comments below. Let me know. I think she's really sticking her neck out in a big, huge way. What do you think is it the right thing to do? And I'll see you here tomorrow.