The Trish Regan Show - 🚨Don Lemon CHARGED With TWO Felonies! Lib Media MELTS DOWN as Ex-CNN Host Is Arrested

Episode Date: January 30, 2026

BREAKING: Don Lemon is under arrest — just as we warned. Lemon claims his First Amendment rights were violated, but the Department of Justice says he was trespassing on private property and��had prior knowledge of the attack before it occurred. He now faces two felony charges, and the courts will decide his fate. Meanwhile, the legal spotlight tightens on Ilhan Omar, as courts prepare to examine serious allegations of potential money laundering tied to her husband’s business dealings. Plus — markets are a bit rattled as President Donald Trump reportedly taps Kevin Warsh to lead the Federal Reserve. Is the era of easy money over — and could that actually be good for the economy? (Hint: yes!) 🔔 SUBSCRIBE and remember to hit ALL notifications ▶️ https://Youtube.com/TrishReganChannel ✅ JOIN the Team to support independent journalism: ▶️ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBlMo25WDUKJNQ7G8sAk4Zw/join 📈 For financial insights, subscribe to Trish Regan's own research with The 76 Report: ▶️ https://76research.com — Use CODE: DOLLAR for special offer. ✅🔔  CHECK OUT MY NEW SPOTIFY SHOW AND PLEASE SUBSCRIBE FOR FULL DAILY EDITIONS:  https://open.spotify.com/show/2blgbg4OaN5dqFhkBy12ii?si=HPdSujPDRrapZWtxbsgAjQ&nd=1&dlsi=979e048c08c04e13 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is what we like to call a very busy newsday between Don Lemon getting arrested. Ilhan Omar getting called out by the likes of my friend Steve Forbes suggesting, yeah, indeed there is some money laundering, funny stuff going on. And the fact that we get a new Fed Chief, I mean, this is what I'm talking about, people, all on this Friday. Don Lemon, you know him, the fired CNN host. Yeah, he just wound up in custody of the feds out there covering the Grammys overnight. And what do you know?

boom, busted. We told you this would happen. Make no mistake. Under President Trump's leadership and this administration, you have the right to worship freely and safely. And if I haven't been clear already, if you violate that sacred right, we are coming after you. Good. Good. We got Pammy doing her job. I mean, he thinks he's just the target, of course. I said, how did I become the face of this? And my producer said, Don, you're a gay black man in America. Oh, yeah. It's all about that, right?

Sorry, Don. You actually violated a whole bunch of things, including, well, I don't know, trespassing onto private property. I don't know. Maybe the violation of the FACE Act. I mean, we know grandmas who went away for like 40 years because of that. So I don't think you're going to be immune to anything. And nor are you, one, Ilhan Omar.

30 million, I think you're going to find. I'll make a speculation and prediction. that 30 million came from sources that are illegal, period. Yeah, you think? I think. I think. I think Steve could be onto something. We're going to get into all of it. And, of course, big news, Kevin Warsh, being announced today as the new head of the Federal Reserve. We have a big note on this coming out from 76 Research.

I really encourage you guys to get the 76 report. Just a dollar a month. Use code word dollar at 76research.com. Check out the portfolios while you're there. Quite a market day. We'll be into all of these stories, but we begin with Don Lemon. He's in big trouble. He's under arrest.

He's in custody. He was out in L.A. He's covering the Grammys. You know, that's the kind of fluff stuff he likes to do. And he got met with a hard sort of dose of reality, if you would. Don Lemon being placed under arrest. He is in custody because, you see, he did a whole bunch of things wrong, including infringing on people's rights to worship.

there out in Minnesota when he decided it would be a good idea to, oh, stir up trouble. Tell us why you're doing this? This is Operation Pull Up More of a clandestine operation. We show up somewhere that is a key location. They don't expect us to come there. And then we disrupt business as usual. So that's what we're about to go do right now. This is actually kind of important.

She's talking him outside the church. She said this is what we're about to go do right now. had stayed outside the church and just shot from outside, he would have been perfectly fine. His mistake was deciding to go inside the church, thereby participating in this violation of people's right to peacefully worship there in their private church. He was, again, all on tape, because, you know, we never said he was the smartest thing in the world. Little Lemon decided it would be clever to go in and be somehow, well, he's now being accused of participating in this, but somehow he thought it was fine for him under the cover of being a journalist to be alongside this.

They're screaming ice out, ice out, scaring those church members. There were children inside that day. We went through this in detail. C demanding justice for Renee Good and letting them know that this will not stand. They cannot pretend to be a house of God while harboring someone who is directing ICE agents to wreak havoc upon our community. Enough is enough. I am a reverend on top of being a lawyer and an activist. So I come here in the power of the Almighty God.

Yeah, well, she was arrested too, by the way. That was the first arrest that came out, okay? She was going to, she clearly was not a very good lawyer. Wouldn't want her representing me. Don, I think you might have gotten some really faulty bad legal advice. Fortunately, you've moved on to, oh, Joe Biden's lawyer, Abby Loll. That would be Lettisha James's lawyer. That would be like the lawyer of choice, du jour, right, for all the Democrats that are suddenly in trouble.

he kind of is being accused of participating because listen to how he describes this protest he's won in on all of it, remember? This is the beginning of what's going to happen here. When you violate people's due process, when you pull people off the street and you start dragging them and hurting them and not abiding by the Constitution,

when you start doing all of that, people get upset and angry. And if you remember what the civil rights movement was about, the civil rights movement was about, these very kinds of protests. And for some reason, in our modern era, people think that in order to have protests, you've got to be, you know, cordoned off

to a certain area and, you know, what time you can protest. There's nothing in the Constitution that tells you what time you can protest. You can protest at any time. That's the whole point of it, is to disrupt, to make uncomfortable. And that's what they're doing.

I can't actually take it. Can you? I mean, He is such a dumb guy. I remember when he was like a little news reader on headline news. He was actually kind of nice then. I just actually remember at a book party for Piers Morgan at the Carlisle Hotel in New York. And actually Donald Trump was there, as was Melania.

That was actually the first time I met Melania. And, you know, those were the days, right? One big happy family. Everybody got along in the media business. Donald Trump was there. And Don Lemon was there. And we had a very nice chat. He seemed like a nice enough guy.

and then, I don't know, he became somewhat possessed because Donald Trump won the presidency, and Don Lemon got some prime time show and made his life's mission to try and take down the president got really wacky. We never said he was bright, right? He read headlines for 11. He read right off the prompter, and suddenly they put him into this prime time spot and they goose him up and they say, you go, buddy, and boy, did he go. Now he's out on his own and he has actually no guidance around him whatsoever, so he's out breaking the law. I mean, look, it stumped me at first. When it all happen. I was like, wait a second. Okay, you know, as a journalist, we have the First Amendment protection, et cetera. But then I thought about it. I'm like, wait a second. He went into their private

place of worship. I mean, imagine. Think about it for a second, guys. Imagine if somebody decided they want to come and protest my show here, the Trish Regan show, and they decided to come into my studio, into my place of business. That would be trespassing. That would be like breaking and entering. You can't actually come into private property and then, you know, disturb like that. Now, could you? I'm just using that we're not even getting into the face act yet because that's the second leg of this. But they couldn't do that. And if Don decided it would be fun to come and see this like whole thing unfold and video

that protest of me in my private studio or you in your home, for example, well, hey, guess what? He would be in violation of the law because he would be breaking and entering or trespassing at least. And then you fold in all this other stuff and then you're getting into some real dicey. territory and that's where the years are going to add up. I mean, this guy could go to prison for like at least a decade. Boy, that was a bad decision, bad legal advice. You were getting from that lady who was running the protest there, Donny Boy, and we got it all on tape. What do you think of it? I mean, this is unacceptable. It's shameful. It's shameful to interrupt

a public gathering of Christians in worship. But there were folks who will say, I have to take care of my flock. Listen, we live in, there's a constitution in the First Amendment to freedom of speech and freedom to assemble and protest. We're here to worship. We're here to worship Jesus because that's the hope of these cities. That's the hope of the world is Jesus Christ. I want to be very respectful.

Please don't push me, though. We're here to worship Jesus. He, you know, he kind of taunted people there and, like, literally taunted them as recently as a couple of days ago. Well, they showed one Don Lemon now, didn't they? Look, I stand proud and I stand tall. This is not a victory lap for me because it's not over. They're going to try again and they're going to try again.

And guess what? Here I am. Keep trying. That's not going to stop me from being a journalist. You're not going to diminish my voice. Go ahead. Make me into the new Jimmy Kimmel if you want. Okay.

The new Jimmy Cole. I love how he tries to elevate himself like up there, you know. Not that Jimmy's all that much. But apparently Jimmy Kimmel is, you know, who he perceives as a victim right now. Now he sees himself as a victim because, you know, he's just a gay black man, as he told us. And he's just exercising his right to the First Amendment. I'm sorry, buddy. No, you're not.

And the DOJ is going to prove it. MAGA administration and the fake news magas are losing their mind over something that's not even true. So let me just make it clear. Is this an assistant attorney general? I don't know. Gosh, what's her man? It's something. Her name is Harmeet Dylan, and by the way, you're going to get to know that name really, really well.

You actually do know it. I bet you anything you do. You're just trying to put her down your own little weird little way. Weird little guy that you are. I meant, Dylan or whatever. So I had no affiliation to that organization. I didn't even know they were going to this church until we followed them there. We were there chronicling protests.

Once the protest started in the church, we did an act of journalism, which was report on it and talk to the people who involved, which included the pastor, members of the church, and members of the organization. That's it. It's called journalism. First Amendment, all that stuff. All of you people who believe in the First Amendment, absolutist. There you go. So why don't you talk to the actual person who is in charge of the organization and whose idea it was to have the protests at the church before you start blaming me for stuff for which you have no idea. Oh, okay. So it's nice. Thank you. your attention to the snob. It kind of sounds to me

like he's trying to throw the other lady under the bus there, right? He's like, why don't you go after her? Because I'm just the journalist. I'm just the poor journalist there that's just doing my job. But, you know, that's not an argument that's going to fly, not in the courts and certainly not with this DOJ.

I want to go to what her meet, Dylan, the woman whose name he could not seem to remember nor pronounce, who's got a boltload more of intelligence. going through her head than he ever dreamt of having pretty little boy that he is. Let's listen to Harmeet. So this position of his is so stupid that I was trying to figure out how to put it in layman's

terms. Imagine you have a bank robbery that's being planned by a number of criminals. They're crossing state lines or using the wires. And then a podcaster says, well, let me embed myself in here and come along for the ride and live stream the crime. That would not be protected by the First Amendment. And so it is a crime to disrupt and harass and make people in a church or any house of worship feel unsafe in this country. And when you're part of that planning and show up and write along and laugh outside and make commentary outside about how disrupting and putting people in fear is literally part of protest and part of the plan, you know, we are not reaching conclusions now.

of course, everybody is entitled to the presumption of innocence. But if I were giving advice to a journalist about this, which I have done in the past, I would say do not participate in a crime actively. Yeah, that's good advice. Unfortunately, he was talking to the wrong lawyers. The other thing I would just say about him is that there's some concern about premeditation, and I'm going to get to that. But you did hear Harmeet mention that he was sort of saying, well, you know, hey, you know,

this is just part of what happens. And this is going to come back to haunt him. You heard her verbalize it there. Let's hear Don, in his own words, say, well, this is just part of the process, thereby making himself look as though he is part of the group, which would just add more years to the prison sentence. You heard what some of the folks said in there, you know, that this is, they shouldn't be there and, you know, they shouldn't be uncomfortable, and this is our house and whatever. That's what protesting is about is to make people uncomfortable. You may not like it, but I mean, if they went into a church, you know, any church. Yeah. Okay. So that's, they go into any church. They're allowed to go into any church. No, they're not. They're not.

That is a private house of worship. And by the way, it's protected, courtesy of the 1994 Face Act. We'll get to that in a second. But here, now we know this guy is cooked, okay? This is the soundbite that really is going to do him in. They didn't have enough evidence for whatever reason the first time they went there in order to get this arrest warrant. And now they came back with more. And we were trying to help them along the way. But here's a good one. Okay. Don Lemon actually admitted exactly what was going down, that this was premeditated and this is what is going to be the problem. Because as you heard Harmeet say, you know, hey, if you decided to, you know, join forces with some bank robbers because you're a podcaster who thinks it would be cool to have it on your show

and you're crossing state lines with those bank robbers all while you know they're going to commit this crime, then guess what? You're guilty too, buddy boy. Watch. Chiron again. Into Minneapolis, a little bit of go and did some reconnaissance on the ground. I'm speaking to an organization there that's gearing up for resistance and protest. I've been surprised, pleasantly surprised to see the community coming together. diverse community. If you see this, when we first pulled up, we're like, wait a minute, which operation are we at? And as it turns out, because we're like, well, this is kind of

mega-coded, right? So the American flag or whatever, but these are resistance protesters. They're planning an operation that we're going to follow them on. I can't tell you exactly what they're doing, but it's called Operation Pull Up. And it's the Keema Armstrong. And she has been doing this since George Floyd, Dante Wright, and others, where they surprise people, catch them off guard, and hold them to account. And so that's what we're doing here. And then we're after that, after we do this operation,

you'll see it live. And these operations are surprise operations. Again, you can't tell you where. He can't tell you where, but he knows where. And they're going to find his text messages, and they're going to find his emails, and they're going to figure out he knew darn well where it was. even if he didn't, I'm going to just clarify this because even if he just stumbled across the scene

and saw it all going down and then rushed in with them into private property, he would still be at risk for getting caught up in all of this. So this just makes it worse, the fact that he knew that they were going to this church to do this protest. He doesn't get it, though. This is a narcissist who thinks it's all about him, completely about him. I'm the most famous person, so they're going after me. By the way, they went after another journalist. We're going to go to her tape because she videoed the whole thing.

She was live streaming it on Facebook as the feds came to her home there in the Minnesota area to arrest her. We'll get to what transpired there. But just remember this narcissistic viewpoint that it's all about him. And there's a certain degree of entitlement. I think people who are in religious groups like that, it's not the type of Christianity that I practice, but I think that they're entitled, and that that entitlement comes from a supremacy, a white supremacy. Excuse me. Wait, so they can't protest, you can go and protest them at their church because you see them as, well, clearly, less than human beings, that's quite obvious. They're supremacists.

I mean, you guys are the worst possible place, as these people always do, and this idiot who's listening to them just laps it up. think that this country was built for them, that it is a Christian country when actually we left England because we wanted religious freedom. It's religious freedom. Don't tell me about religious freedom, buddy boy. You're a Christian and only if you're a white male pretty much. And so, yeah, absolutely 100%, but it's an intimidation tactic. And, you know, I said, I don't understand how I've become the face of it when I was a journalist. I do understand that I'm the biggest name there.

And I'm also, as I was on with my producers this morning, you know, you and Kylie talk all the time. My producers were saying, I said, how did I become the face of this? And my producer said, Don, you're a gay black man in America. I can't make it up. Wow. You know, he's a trip. He really, really is. But, you know, he's met his match.

Let me just say, if this is all some kind of stunt, it was a really, really bad and really stupid stunt. And Pam Bondi is making it very clear. Don Lemon, we don't care who you are. You are in massive trouble right now under arrest. And guess what? She's making it clear to anybody who gets any ideas about interrupting. People at prayer, you better forget that fast. Make no mistake.

Under President Trump's leadership and this administration, you have the right to worship freely and safely. And if I haven't been clear already, if you violate that sacred right, we are coming after you. Oh, okay. Well, we're proud of her because we've been kind of waiting. And she didn't get it done the first time around. She flew all the way to Minnesota and was on the ground there and didn't happen. Well, today it did. At my direction, early this morning, writes Pam Bondi, our Attorney General of the United States of America on X.

Early this morning, federal agents arrested Don Lemon. God help me on this name. Tahreen, Jean Cruz, Georgia Fort will get to her, and Jamal Liden Lundy, in connection with the coordinated attacks on City's Church in St. Paul, Minnesota. Cash Patel, head of the FBI, also chiming in earlier this morning. the FBI arrested four individuals in connection to the January 18th coordinated targeting of City's Church in Minnesota, Don Lemon, Tahern Gene Cruz, Georgia Fort, and Jamal Lydell Lundy. I know you guys just like hearing me say those names. I mean, it's no La Manica, but you know, we'll make it too.

Unbelievable. Really, really unbelievable. Georgia Fort is one of the people that they are citing there. Georgia Fort was apparently an anchor of some sort of reporter in Miami who now lives in Minnesota. So she's meeting the moment going out, videoing a whole bunch of things with a lot of the protests happening, including this one. And when they knocked on her door, she was not too happy. She streamed the whole thing. Let's go to it.

Okay, so this is, she's getting the knock on the door. It's the feds. Okay. Okay, we're waiting. We're waiting. There's kids in the house. You guys have not been really friendly in the community and to me this seems a little can I finish sir? This seems can I finish? Can I finish? Get your phone. This seems a little bit aggressive to have all these cars in our cul-de-sac two or three agents and now I saw the one disappear to the back. So

So to me, this is a little aggressive to just serve a warrant. Let me see the warrant. They're going to slide it under the door. They got it. They got it. Oh, wow. All right. So she's going to.

And that, to me, what I have been told is not a judicial warrant that has me to have to open a warrant. Well, sorry, Georgia. They had the warrant and you're under arrest and you're in custody. and, well, you know, you got some people sticking up for you, the likes of this guy who's never met an opportunity or some kind of, you know, political wedge that he would not embrace. Chuckie Schumer is at it again.

On another issue. Last night, federal agents arrested journalist Don Lemon in Los Angeles after he recently covered... I love, I love how he's a journalist. He's a journalist, Don Lemon. in Los Angeles. By the way, remember when Tucker Carlson was doing all the reporting on January 6th? This was the guy who had Tucker taken down. He went and gave a big speech on the floor there saying that Tucker had no right to release any of the footage, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. And he called on Fox

to get rid of Tucker. And what do you know, Fox got rid of Tucker? I mean, can't say I haven't been there before. Of course, I didn't get called out on the house floor. But I'm sure I was called out privately in some way, shape, or form because you were not allowed to say anything against, you know, March 2020 and whether or not, you know, they were seizing the opportunity for political purposes to take down the President of the United States, which we all know they were. Anyway, back to Tuckie Boy. ...test activities in Minnesota. Once again, the administration is behaving no differently differently from police states and authoritarian regimes across history. They've arrested a journalist

for the crime of doing his job. And let's be very clear. No! No! Okay, sorry, guys. He gets the Irish up now and then. He's not doing his job. At that point, he's breaking and entering.

He's trespassing. He's preventing people from being able to worship. He's like one in the crowd there. He knew it was going to happen beforehand. Don't you sit there for two seconds and try and tell me that this is journalism in the First Amendment. It's just not.

This arrest is not just about one. journalist in one incident. The arrest is a dark message to journalists everywhere. Oh, please. If you dare criticize this administration, watch your back. Oh, please. That's not a democracy. That's a police state, and that that is pure authoritarian bile. Democracy will suffer if the government chokes our civil liberties. Oh, please, please, please, please.

The Department of Justice has all too often become the Department of Vengeance. He's just... Don Lemon should be released at once. Stop. Please. Stop. Make it stop. I mean, it's really wild.

Horace are seeing this again as a political opportunity and they want to scare everybody. And you get a bunch of dumb people over on CNN and the rest of the liberal media outlets that, of course, are going to go along with this. Let me just remind you exactly what Harmeet Dillon said. I'll play it again. because I think this is really important to understand. Harmeet Dillon explaining that Don Lemon doesn't have a leg to stand on because guess what? He is in violation of the law. This position of his is so stupid that I was trying to figure out how to put it in layman's terms.

Imagine you have a bank robbery that's being planned by a number of criminals. They're crossing state lines or using the wires. And then a podcaster says, well, let me embed myself in here and come along for the ride and live streamed the crime. that would not be protected by the First Amendment. And so it is a crime to disrupt and harass and make people in a church or any house of worship feel unsafe in this country. And when you're part of that planning and show up and write along and laugh outside about and make commentary outside about how disrupting and putting people in fear is literally part of protest and part of the plan, you know, we are not reaching because of the plan. You know, we are not reaching conclusions now. Of course, everybody is entitled to the presumption of innocence, but if I were giving advice to a journalist about...

She did say if she was advising a journalist and she's advised them before, she would tell them not to go in. It was interesting. If you think back to even January 6th, you didn't have a lot of journalists inside there, now, did you? Because that would have been breaking and entering, and I'm guessing a lot of people called their networks and the lawyers said, hey, don't do that. For some reason, you know, Nancy Pelosi was able to invite her daughter along for the ride, and the daughter knew that this might be coming as did Nancy. And of course, Nancy didn't do anything about it, right? But she did invite the daughter along so that she could do her documentary filmmaking

and present one side of this story. Here's CNN trying to, like, say that this is a First Amendment thing. And I'm just sort of blown away. They clearly don't really teach the law in journalism school. Now, do they? This woman's like freaking out, and they brought their favorite little guy who, I guess, also got fired from CNN, but mysteriously is back to weigh in on it. Now that you are learning that there are two journalists who have been taken into custody, one of whom we know well, our colleague and friend Don Lemon, the other. Oh, by the way, it's kind of funny because he left with a big, like, circus around him.

And now he's suddenly their colleague and friend. Oh, wow. It was very well known here as an independent journalist. She also saying that she was taken into custody, Georgia Fort. I saw her just the other day. She was covering the Ilhan Omar incident. Listen, her voice is getting like higher and higher and more and more stressed. Does that tell you about what the Trump administration is doing here?

I mean, the First Amendment is the First Amendment for a reason. It's taking a minute. escalation against reporting in America. And I would also put it in the framework of protests. You know, this is part of an ongoing pressure campaign against protests, especially the kind of provocative anti-Trump protest action that we have seen makes the administration so uncomfortable. Maybe it's the kind of protest that actually terrorize people and prevent them from going

to their Sunday worship where kids are freaking out and people are crying and they're all upset. And frankly, make some voters very uncomfortable. This is an action, this arrest of Don Lemon, this arrest of this independent journalist who is in live streaming and reporting in Minnesota, this is something that some MAGA loyalists have been demanding. They've been wanting to see it happen. When Trump promised retribution, this is the kind of retribution that some of his voters, not all, but some of his voters wanted to see.

And I think that is, for better or for worse, some of the context of what we're seeing this morning. I'm laughing because Texas Gidgett is saying, yeah, we voted for this. Listen, I'm not saying that people want retribution, I will say this. I will say this. If you think it's okay to go march in on, oh, they call it a white supremacy church, right? That was Don Lemon's quote about those people that are going to pray on Sundays and dinging them because they're a different color. I mean, my gosh, if you think it's okay to go in and disrupt their service and scream at them and terrorize them, then, yeah, the administration has to do something about that because that's a direct

violation of their civil rights. Okay, so yes, by all means that's going to happen. Now, this is funny. He's trying to like walk a line here because he knows, he knows that there's no First Amendment backing up Don Lemon on this one, no way, Jose. And he's trying to explain this to the reporter who's hyperventilating. And they know now they're in a little bit of trouble. They're just in a little bit of trouble, not with the FCC because cable can do whatever

they want. But they know that, you know, the administration is on to the, them and hey one of their former colleagues was just arrested watch the first amendment is meant to protect both the reporter's right to report but also a congregation's right to worship so legal experts might say this is somewhat complicated although lemon said all along he was there as a reporter not as an activist and he did a really important job showing people all of us now who can watch the video what happened inside that church i want to back up to that sunday morning oh he wants to back up to the Sunday morning because he actually wants to sound like he's a man of the people and tell you how

horrible it was for those protests to happen and so shocking. And then he does this other little turn. It's just sort of funny because they're trying to walk this tight rope right now. And, you know, I'll get into the lawn a second. But here's the bottom line. Okay, Don Lemon had no right to be there and do that. Those people had no right to be there and do that. And don't you sit there and tell me this is the First Amendment thing? Because if it's First Amendment, then I guess since everybody has a cell phone camera, anybody can just bust into your home and cause a ruckus or bust into your church in cause a ruckus. No, I don't think so.

That's not the way the law works. Chuckie Schumer knows better. I guarantee his stelter knows better. And you know what? Don Lemon, he's just too stupid. He doesn't know any better. That intrusion into City's Church was sincerely shocking to many, many millions of Americans, myself included.

You know, people, you know, saw that video. They saw Lemmon's video, and they were uncomfortable by what happened. inside that church. The idea that worship service was disrupted by protesters. And now there's a very interesting debate about whether the protesters were right or they were wrong to go into the church. But that is a political debate. And that's a debate about what forms of protesters effective. The Trump administration's moving that political debate into the legal arena and wanting to take it into court and have a court fight. And we know there have been these attempts to arrest some of the other protesters last week who were there. And now we have these arrests of these reporters

who documented the scene. I'm reminded of what one of Lemon's friends, Jennifer Welch, said to her on a podcast. Lemon was talking to Welch. And Welch said to Lemon, quote, you are a prize for them, an independent, gay, black, happy, successful man. And this is an attempt to intimidate

and beat you down. So that's how Lemon's friends see this situation. This attempt to charge him, and now this actual arrest of Lemon, he's in jail in L.A. now, as an attempt to target another Trump foe. And let me also quote, Sarah, our colleague Larry Madovo, who's based in Nairobi, who covers Africa or CNN.

He wrote on X a few minutes ago, this arrest is a gift to authoritarian governments worldwide. Oh, my gosh. Who can now justify arresting journalists they don't like because even America does it. No, no, no. We're going to sit there and say it's totally fine. Come on. You can just bust into church services.

You're just doing your job. Okay, so let's just explain what this really is. You've got 18 U.S.C. 241, conspiracy to deprive. rights often referred to in some reports as conspiring to deprive individuals of their constitutional rights with a potential maximum. Penalty of 10 years. Imprisonment. If serious injury or other factors apply. I mean, what if there's emotional damage? What about those poor little kids that were there? I mean, with everything going on in the world, right? So 18 U.S.C. 241. The other one is 18 U.S.C. 248 violation of the freedom of access to clinic entrances face act. Okay?

They put grandmas away for 40 years for this thing, which prohibits. By force, threat of force, by force, threat of force. You hear that? Or physical obstruction with someone's exercise of religious freedom or access to reproductive health services, though here it's applied to obstructing a religious service, obviously in the case of what happened in St. Paul. This includes interfering with First Amendment rights related to religious practice. And then, of course, we have the other just reality that he knew about it ahead of time.

It was premeditated and he went along for the ride and was willing to break the law because he felt as a journalist he needed to be there to document it rather than call it in to the police who may or may not have done anything given the state of Minnesota right now. Maybe you need to call that one into the feds. The freedom of access to clinic entrances. This is the face act codified into law 18 USC 248. We talked about it getting signed into law by Bill Clinton. 1994, so funny how one of the Democrats' own laws is going to work against themselves here.

It typically has provided basic access, right, to reproductive health services so that if you were, say, a grandmother protesting outside an abortion clinic, well, then that would actually land to the 40 years. But now in this case, it's going to, because it also applies, as we said, to churches, it's going to land Don Lemon quite a few years, as well as all the other people with him. I'm kind of curious, what about the producers? You probably ought to go after the producers as well because the producers knew what was going on. And I think they're going to get a lot of information now.

They're going to be able to go through his emails and his phone records. And they're going to figure out also importantly who was helping to support this organization and provide them with the infrastructure in order to do this in the first place. I mean, I think a lot's going to come out and it's going to be very painful for Don. And he is probably very much at risk now of going to prison. because, again, the law is not on his side, as much as they're going to try and tell you otherwise. So just remember that. You know, the First Amendment only takes you so far.

The First Amendment does not allow you to be some kind of accomplice to a crime. Ilhan Omar might want to pay attention to the law a little bit more herself. Steve Forbes has gone around. 30 million, I think you're going to find. I'll make a speculation and prediction. That 30 million came from sources that are illegal, period. Illegal sources. So don't forget.

She was like worth nothing. She had no money, just student debt, which allegedly she still has, according to her filing. And then she marries Timmy Minet. And like we like to say, that's how I remember his name, because there's apparently a lot of Timmy's. You get Timmy Walls in Minnesota, then get Timmy Minet. There's so many Timis. But, you know, my net worth goes up when I married Timmy because that's what Ilhan saw. She was like nothing.

And now she's estimated to be up to $30 million. I mean, come on. I don't care how good an investor you are, okay? That's not happening. It's just not happening. And when you look at these filings, you see, let me stop it right here. Estcru, LLC, is worth a million to $5 million. This is some kind of partnership income that provides him with $5,000 to $15,000, he says.

Okay, it's a winery in Santa Rosa. How was it worse so much? Because last we checked, there's no winery. There's like no website. There's no phone number. there's no land. And clearly the brand's not worth much because no one's ever heard of it. So do they even produce wine?

Apparently they had a deal, apparently. They were hiring somebody else to produce the wine and then they were going to sell it. But they never paid her. So she's actually accusing them of fraud. I mean, we're hearing a little too much fraud, aren't we? Rose Lake Capital. Ooh, we looked into that. We talked about that yesterday.

I went through that website very carefully. And that does not look like what he's calling a venture capital management firm to me at all. In fact, if anything, it looked like a, I don't know, you pay me and I help you kind of firm. It was very, very sketch. I'll show it to you in a second, but before we get to that, I want to go back to my friend Steve Forbes. I love Steve. I've known him for a zillion years, and he's just the salt of the earth. And he's not messing around here. He knows finance, obviously, runs Forbes and has been in the financial sphere his entire life, very, very smart when it comes to economics and markets. And he also finds this to be super suss.

Madam Ilhan Omer claiming the Justice Department in Congress, probing her sudden skyrocketing wealth to $30 million in just one year that they have a problem with her living the American dream. You heard her say the goddamn United States of America. We've got new questions on where she and her husband got all that money. Joining us now, Forbes Media Chair, editor-in-Chief C Forbes. Steve, new information coming in in Forbes magazine, your magazine has reported this too, that the state of Delaware and Washington, D.C., canceled the registrations for Omar's husband's investment firm, Rose Lake, for not paying its back taxes. We saw it owed more than 400,000 to Delaware and nearly 1,800 to D.C. She's claiming it's worth $25 million from less than a

grand a year before. How can his investment firm not afford to pay taxes? It's supposedly worth an estimated 75 million to 150 million. This is really weird stuff. Well, weird is not the word for it. There's another word for it called crooked. And that's why we have to have an investigation into this. As you know, the Biden administration examined started examine her finances and that of her husband. And so, so surprise, surprise, that investigation went nowhere. But it's amazing how people can go into Congress and then become these entrepreneurial investing geniuses where they come in she had under $1,000 of net worth and her husband didn't have much and suddenly now they're multimillionaires. Is there a money laundering operation here? And in terms of the firms themselves,

they have a sketchy background, that winery in California that she and her husband own. Where did that come from? Where's the wine there? And nobody can seem to find it. So there's a lot of smelly stuff here. And that's why in the American Dream, Her Meriv Virgin in the American Dream is the Al Capone version of the American Dream, Tony Soprano version of the American Dream, and that is steal it, steal it from the taxpayers. And so there's a lot of stuff here. And so when somebody cloaks themselves in the whole of the American Dream and so you have numbers like this from minus 1,000 to 30, 40 million, you know something is not right.

Whoa. Okay, so that's a lot for him to come out and say that, but it doesn't make any sense. Again, it just doesn't add up. You don't go from zero to 60 like that or zero to 30 million. Here's his firm, okay? So he calls it exclusive partnerships for global entrepreneurs. This is supposed to be a venture capital firm. There's like two pages on this website.

I'll go to the second page, okay? What do you think this is? I mean, come on. I mean, I don't get it. 80 countries where we've worked. I mean, is you doing deals for Somalia? Rose Lake is focused on unique global opportunities where our experience can create bespoke.

solutions for our clients and our partners. Huh. Is this, gosh darn it. Is this who you go to when you want to open up a daycare? Like the Lering Center? Do you go see Timmy Minet and say, we want to hire your venture capital firm to help set me up? Because you know, maybe Ilhan will work her magic. Can you believe this? Like three weeks ago, she was still trying to get a million bucks for another Somali restaurant owner who had a mental health clinic. right above his restaurant, right above the kitchen. They had some mental health offices. I mean, it's disgusting.

I laugh at it, but it's really gross. It's really wrong. And the fact that they started this under the Biden administration, but then backed off because what does she cry? Racism, racism, you're being racist because I'm black and I'm Somali. And, you know, this administration's like, well, we don't care. We don't really, like, have a whole lot of faith in Somalians anyway. The president's words, not mine, okay?

So Steve, Steve is seeing the same stuff you and I are seeing, shall we say right now. Let's go back to, he's on with my friend Elizabeth there on my former employer, one of my former employers. Boy, it's good to be over here. Please make sure that you subscribe and you share and you make a comment because it helps the algorithm. Let's go back to Forbes. Also like, you know, blaming people bullying, doing race baiting, race bullying. There's no evidence, public evidence, there's even a winery. She valued it a $5 million.

His investment firm is real, well, it's supposedly real. Its DC headquarters appear to share office space at a we work, Steve. There's no track record of his firm managing money doing M&A deals, no clients we see investment deals or any work it's done. They say they do work in 80 nations operating in. There's no SEC registrations for them as investment advisors. What is going on here? This increasingly looks sketchy, both the winery and his investment firm.

Yeah, the winery may not exist in the first. firm may be just a really a name only, as you say, a we work office, big deal. So that's why the investigation needs to be done. And suddenly all that 30 million, I think you're going to find, I'll make a speculation and prediction, that 30 million came from sources that are illegal, period. Whoa. So, what do you think? What do you think? Seriously, what do you think? Tell me, I'm looking at the comments right now. Was this the money laundering off of some kind? was she part of the whole $700 million in cash leaving the city of Minneapolis in suitcases? That's what they told us about.

That's that they declared to TSA, which TSA thought it was a little bit suspicious that there was $700 million over the span of two years, nearly a billion dollars. Just imagine how much they didn't declare. Heading for Dubai, all with the Huala Money Network. This is the way that the remittances go back and forth. they send money and sometimes it's hard. In the past it's been sometimes difficult for Treasury to follow some of this because it's all sort of hand-to-hand person to person.

And so in my own investigation of terror financing, and I've done quite a bit, especially down in Latin America, and spoke with many members of the Treasury Department throughout my career as we were tracking this. What they would communicate to me was how difficult it was sometimes with this Huala Network. So if she's smart, and I don't think she's that smart, If Timmy, my net is that smart, and again, I don't think he is, they probably hid this as well as they could possibly do. But nonetheless, Bessent's smarter, okay?

You've got a Treasury Secretary that now is like a dog with a bone. And he's like, I'm not, you know, I'm not putting up with that. And he did say something about how he thinks they're all going to rat out each other, that they're all going to turn on each other in a recent interview. Bessent was pretty darn provocative about that. He's like, you know what? we're going after them and we're going to find that they all turn on each other because we are going to offer them as he described it a reward right there's going to be rewards and i want to play this for you

because it's pretty as i said it's pretty provocative him to say this he's equating uh all of these people with effectively rats that would rat each other out and he's ready uh and and capable of bringing them in let's see we're going to get this for you because it's very, very much worth hearing Treasury Secretary of the United States. When you see these protesters, someone is financing them. There are safe houses that when you see the 300 people with the same laser that they're using to blind DHS agents in courthouses in Portland, someone bought those lasers. What we do is follow the money, just like we followed it with the mafia,

just like we followed it with the drug cartels. and we will find out who's done this. We are going to put in effect a whistleblower program, and my sense is that the rats will turn on each other. One of the Somali fraudsters tried to bribe a juror with $120,000. What turned out, she'd been given $200,000 to bribe the juror, and she skimmed $80,000. It's like the scorpion.

It's in their nature. Whoa. So, he has... a feeling he's going to be able to find all this out. Again, remember, the $250 million for feeding our future, that was right from her district. All the people that have been arrested, the majority of all come right from her district. And she's got pictures of herself on her, you know, campaign night when she won, at the, one of the leads in this whole thing, at his restaurant. So I think it's going to be bad. Now, she's going to keep going out there and saying all the mumbo-jumbo

stuff that she's doing and she's, she actually wasn't the banana. I'm looking at the comments and you guys are referring to bananas and rice. Bananas and rice girl. By the way, she's, she's also under arrest. What do you know? For allegedly attacking ICE, which is interesting because she complained that ice had attacked her. What do you know? Funny how that works. Maybe she had too much bananas and rice. So Ilhan Omar now is going to be confronted with a massive problem, as she should be, right? because it's just not acceptable. We got ball back right now, ladies and gentlemen, as we look at the market, we have a new treasury, forgive me, I don't want a new treasury secretary.

I love our treasury secretary. We have a new Fed chair that has been announced, and that would be one, Kevin Warsh. So announced, I'm typing and talking in real time. New Fed chair, Warsh. Let me get his name on the screen. So we want to talk a little bit about Kevin, but first, I want to just sort of give you a lay of the land in terms of the market here as we get ready to close. We are looking at one of the worst days ever for gold, which is certainly too bad. But overall, how is the market holding up?

Not bad, not bad. I mean, the NASDAQ's been under a little bit of pressure down 1% and change. You get the Dow off about half a percent and the S&B down about 6 tenths of a percent. Gold, though, is the standout in terms of the losses that we're seeing there. I actually bought some today when it was down further. It's now down about 7.3%. I bought it when it was down 9 and change. Silver I also bought because it's down about 25%.

And you don't see that often. I also bought copper when it was down about 8% earlier today, and it is now down 4%. So look, I'm a long-term player, as you well know. I encourage you to get my research and my colleagues over at 76 research, Rob has or was, until he helped her. me found this firm a stock picker for many, many years, for decades on Wall Street, and he's really, really good at this. And we've been talking a lot about what Kevin Warsh is going to

mean for the markets, and we're both pretty optimistic. And I would encourage you to read our analysis of that. Again, at 76 Research.com, you can use code word dollar to get the 76 report for just a dollar a month. Or I encourage you to check out the model portfolios where we're telling you exactly what we're investing in keeping track of all of those, single month and let's just say, we're not stupid like Don Lemon, all right? Yeah. Listen, anything can happen in the markets. I get it.

But for those of you that are serious about being there for the long term, we really encourage you to look at those portfolios. We have, as I said, a new head of the Federal Reserve. He doesn't start until probably about May. So we've got to deal with Powell for a few more months. but Kevin Worst is coming in, and this guy, like, has the perfect background. I mean, Donald Trump even said it when he announced it early this morning. He said he's straight out of central casting.

I got to tell you, I told you one of the Kevin's was going to get it. Do you remember that? I was like, one of the Kevin's. This was like maybe a month ago. I said, my money's on one of the Kevin's, it's probably Warsh. And sure enough, he's the guy, so Kevin Worse coming in, and he has a very sort of different approach than what we've seen from Powell. Powell has been all about QE, QE, QE, QE, QE, you know, that think that,

the cruise ship. QE, quantitative easing. And I couldn't understand it because when Biden came into office, things were getting back to normal. We had an economy that was in the recovery phase and people were going back to work. And what did he do? But he printed more money. And he printed more money. And I'm like, you know that you're going to have horrible inflation. For goodness sakes, I mean, I'm sorry, but COVID was Paris in August. Okay. The whole place shut down for a little while and then everybody went back to work. So if you're still printing money, you're still giving out handouts, and then you get Chuck and Nancy on the deal, and they're giving out billions of dollars in stimulus, forgive me, what am I saying? Trillions of dollars in stimulus, then you know what's

going to happen? You're going to see 9.4% on consumer prices as an inflationary skyrocketing disaster, and that's exactly what they saw. We got upwards of 10% on consumer prices, right? Hey, I mean, you could see it unfolding in real time, and I thought how stupid is he, really? I mean, Jerome Powell, come on. And look, I get it. There's a lot of pressure, and it's easy for me to be on the sidelines and say, gee, that doesn't make any sense to be printing that much money. He felt the weight of the world on him.

Maybe he wanted to keep his job, you know, with Joe Biden and Janet Yellen there as Treasury Secretary thinking, hey, you better do what the boss wants. But the QE wasn't really working. He also lowered rates, so you got like a double whammy. Low rates, QE, I'm sorry. But now you've got somebody coming in. Kevin, who has written extensively on the news. need for lower rates. And he actually has this view that QE only helps the markets. And you need

to actually help the middle class, the working class in America. And, you know, they can't get car loans and they can't get home loans because mortgage rates are too high and car loans are too high and the cost of credit is too high. Then how are they going to be able to help grow their own families and thus the overall economy? I mean, any way you slice it still, at the end of the day, the middle class is two-thirds of overall GDP. So we need a strong middle class to be a strong country. Period. Full stop.

So how do you get back to that? It's not through QE in his view of things. Donald Trump speaking moments ago on his pick, Kevin Warsh, straight out of central casting. He really is. It was one of the things he said on his two social posts. Let's go to his sound.

He's going to want to do the same thing. I think that, yeah, I've had times of him. I think you've had to really have rate hikes too. But he's very smart, very good. strong, young, pretty young, and I think he's going to do a guy. I mean, he was the central casting guy that people wanted. Kevin was great. I tell you what, I met numerous people.

Every one of them were fantastic, really fantastic. I wanted to keep Kevin here, and I thought that I call him Kevin one, Kevin two. And we have, I said, it's going to be a Kevin. That's what I said. You know, Kevin really has been fantastic at the White House. them, you know them very well. And so we have Kevin, Kevin W. Are you concerned? Okay, so he's talking about the other Kevin, which is Kevin Hasse, and Kevin Hesse is another,

just, I mean, what a bench, right? They had quite a bench. But I think when push came to shove, he really saw Warsh as the guy who would be able to have the sophistication and be a little, maybe less political and more entrenched in markets and overall economics. And let's face it, he's kind of a wonk. I mean, he's a total policy wonk. Undergrad at Stanford and public policy, then he has a law degree from Harvard, and he has worked in finance, most recently, for Stan Drucken Miller. Interestingly enough, little tidbit for you, do you know Stan Druckeniller, who's a brilliant investor, absolutely brilliant, and a big Trump supporter, he, he had two guys working for him. One was Besson, and the other was Kevin. Warsh. So fascinating, right?

Just kind of interesting to think about. And Junk Miller is a very, very smart guy. But these are people that want the markets to go up. These are people that want the middle class to be strong. So they're very MAGA and they're very focused on the economy and seeing the success there. I want to go to Kevin, the other Kevin. We've got Kevin one and Kevin two, as he said, the other Kevin. Kevin has it in his reaction to this because he was seen by many,

including early on some of my sources that thought he was going to get this. although I would tell you that in time things sort of changed and I think that they felt that Kevin Warsh was the better, more appropriate pick and as the president said, he kind of needs Kevin Hacet at the White House, but let's go to his reaction on CNBC. Another place I've worked. I'm telling you, the grass is so much greener and better over here for real. It's not like I'm looking in.

I'm part of it. Make sure you subscribe. Let's watch CNBC together. No, no, I've got my dream job. You guys have been seeing me say that for months. I think President Trump made a great choice, and I'm really thrilled and humbled by all the kind things he said about me. You know, the bottom line is that the economic team in this White House was Scott Besson and Howard Lutnik and myself. I think we've been hitting on all cylinders, and it's a really bad time to change teams.

You don't change quarterbacks with your way ahead. And I really have high regard for Kevin, and we're going to put every effort that we have into getting him confirmed as soon as possible so that we can get the Fed moving in the right direction. Yes, okay? Really good stuff. The president is promising that the market's going to double this year. I don't know if, I mean, those are what he said, it doubles. I don't know is I go that far, but I still, I got to tell you, I'm very bullish on all of this policy right now, very bullish on America. And hey, you know, we couldn't keep up that balance sheet forever. I'm, I still like gold. I still like gold long term. I mean, how could you not? Which is why I bought some more today. But, you know, it was getting kind of crazy because it was like, we can't just keep printing money. Like, is there no responsibility from anybody? Do we have no adults in charge? And so you want

for the health of our future and for the health of our middle class to have a strong economy that's based on some fundamentals and not all on fluff. I would also point out that Kevin Warsh is very bullish on the potential for cryptocurrencies to just reshape finance as we know it, which is really cool because it's also something I've talked about at length. And trust me, no, I did not want to be a treasurer secretary or that's what I keep, I'm screwing up my terms here, Fedshire. I, you know, I wouldn't wish that on anyone. You guys who joke and say, Trish for the Fed, Trish for the Fed.

I'm very happy doing what I do here, which is a way to really, in my, in my viewpoint, I don't have the pressure, right? And I don't envy them for having that pressure. And as much as I criticize Powell, I remember my husband actually saying to me, think about what it's like to actually be him and have the stress, right, of the entire U.S. economy. And frankly, not just the U.S. economy, because at that point, it's the world economy on your shoulders.

And, you know, the easy answer, I guess, is always to print. But my point is we need to think about this stuff in a more innovative fashion. Listen, Ben Bernanke did the right thing. When he came in and all H.E.S.L. broke loose and he had to goose things and, you know, drop helicopter ban money down from the sky. It was what kept us from freezing up entirely. And so I think they were looking at that playbook thinking they could do it all again during COVID. But the answer was you couldn't.

Okay, the reason you couldn't was because you had Nancy and Chuck acting incredibly irresponsibly on the fiscal front. And then you're going to throw monetary policy on top of that. And you're going to tell me that you're not going to be looking at a 9.4% increase in consumer prices. And then when it came down, it was going to 6%, 7%, and then coming down to 5% and 4%. Listen, like that was painful. We've been through that. So when we think back on how things were in 2019 and 2020 pre-COVID, I mean, things were pretty starting sweet, right?

And prices weren't this crazy. Just try and book a vacation. Good luck. I mean, wow. Tony, the cruise is the way to go. I told Rob we need to write about that. Not that we necessarily like cruise lines to invest in, but we really do need to write about the fast.

I'm fascinated by this because it's gotten so expensive, right, to go on vacation. anywhere, you stay in a hotel, and it's like 4x what it used to be. Why? Because construction shut down, you had no new builds, and now everybody is chasing those hotel rooms, and they are out of sight. Plus, you know, think about all those miles that everybody accumulated. Oh, thank you, Jason, 1984. It's trying to help me get to 1.2 million subs. We are so darn close, guys. We are so close. So that's why I need you to do me a favor and make sure you subscribe. Make sure you share. Make sure you like.

And just make a comment. If you're watching this during the live, comment, if you're watching it after the live, make sure you comment. Let me know. One, do you think Ilhan Omar is actually money laundering? You know what I think. You know what Steve Forbes thinks. But, you know, innocent till proven guilty.

Two, did Don Lemon deserve this? Should he be in jail? Three, what do you think of the new Fed Chief? Again, we won't have them until May. I encourage you to go look at our note today. We do have a very, very bad day for gold. But, you know, you've got to be able to look those opportunities in the eye, too, don't you, right? We've got still plenty of opportunities out there in America right now,

and I think that good things are coming. So I encourage you to go and look at my financial research firm and the note that we put out there at 76research.com. You know, we're coming up on a big birthday, aren't we guys? 250 years. Isn't it amazing? And my friends over at Americans for Prosperity are all about celebrating this. Like we don't need to wait until July 4th.

We can celebrate it now. I mean, think about this amazing country. Think about the Declaration of Independence. Think about the risks that people took all in the name of preserving freedom. And when I say freedom, I include there are freedom to prosper because that's a really important component of all of this. There are people in other administrations. I'm thinking Kamala, looking at you, I'm thinking in Biden, looking at you,

that did not want to afford for any opportunity for people to prosper outside of the little click that they had, right? There was a whole message there from them. You're either in or you're out. And like you subscribe to the DEI thing and you get down on your knees and you're sorry for who you are and your ancestry or whatever, regardless of, you know, if you just got here yesterday. You're responsible. And they wanted to basically make it. difficult for certain people to be able to have the same access to opportunity and success.

I mean, we saw it over and over and over again, even with, you know, bank accounts getting shut down by regulars. Regulars. I mean, it was unbelievable. And everybody's freaking out about Don Lemon today. I would just say, listen, I remember a time when I had some of my accounts disrupted. And by the way, I lost my job because I was saying things that you couldn't, even on Fox, say at that time.

So we know what that's like, all right? And we are so happy that things are different now, that we get to exercise our freedoms. And by the way, the people in that church, they had the freedom to go and worship. And it should not be interrupted by a group of protesters with an agenda. So think about all of this, right, as we come up on the 250th anniversary of the United States of America and the Declaration of Independence, what does the Declaration of Independence really mean? to you, to your family, to your life, and to your future. That's what Americans for Prosperity is talking about right now,

with their one small step initiative. I'm so glad to team up with them on this, because basically they're taking a simple idea here. They're saying that the Declaration of Independence is built upon this simplicity of really every aspect of our society being able to turn back to the success of our founders because of the foresight of our founders, And so why not take one small step yourself to appreciate that all year long, right?

You don't need to wait until July 4th. So to kick things off, they've released January's one small step toolkit centered on the Declaration of Independence and the founding principles that still matter today. Freedom, self-government, civic duty. And they're asking Americans, and I ask you together with me to do something symbolic, you know, something. But meaningful. Why not sign your own declaration of independence?

and when you're signing it, think about what it means. Talk about it with your family and your friends. You can download it, you can sign your name, you can add yourself to a growing list of Americans collectively here who believe our rights come from God and not from government. I'm going to show you where you can do that. Go to A250toolkit.com. A250toolkit.com.

It just takes 30 seconds. And when you do, think about what you're doing. Sign your name to that. Be part of this celebration. and be proud that you are an American and that we have all of these rights thanks to our great founders. Go and get this A250 Toolkit.com. That's where it is.

It really is a special time, a special year. And one amazing thing to have Donald Trump back in the White House, right? I mean, it could have been bad. It could have been really, really bad. But fortunately, we avoided that because, you know, Americans, when push-cons of the chef, we always do the right thing. Do we not? I mean, over and over and over again throughout history, I think time has proven that. And once again, I know that, you know, he's not popular with everyone.

But I think that history will judge this to have been a very courageous man who's willing to take courageous steps. And that's what matters. I am looking at your comments here in real time. You are not fans of Don Levin. I get it. And John Buono, I love it. And John Buono, I love you. But yes, I'm always right. I mean, it's strange. Sometimes I scare myself. I just tend to say exactly what I think in real time. And I think we're living in a society where people are afraid to do that. And so they second-guess themselves and their instincts. And that's something perhaps the president and I share very much in common. We don't second-guess our instincts. Listen, I'm always willing to listen. I'm always willing to hear more and to understand more.

But I think having sort of some grounding in who you are, your sense of self, is really important. And you've got to remember that because there's a lot of people out there with a lot of different agendas and they all want you to think something different. I see a lot of them in the podcasting arena too, right? And they get agendas or they're getting paid by this group or that group. You know, there's a lot of money out there. And if you don't have some kind of conviction, some kind of core value and willingness

to just say exactly what you think, then you know what, your viewers are getting a disservice. And so I say that to some of the people out there in the space, including one Don Lemon right about now. I'm glad you're here. If you have not checked out my Spotify show, please do that. It's a teeny little channel. We're growing, though.

We're getting stronger and stronger. I think we're up to almost 18,000. I'd love to hit $1.2 million over here. So tell your friends, tell your family to listen to the Trish Regan show, the Trish Regan channel on YouTube and the podcast there on Spotify. I hope you have a wonderful weekend. and I'll be here with you throughout the weekend with more content coming your way. Hopefully I won't be live.

Hopefully nothing major will happen, but you know it doesn't take much. I am highly committed to all of you and to this news cycle. We're on the front lines of history every single day here. I will see you on Monday.