The Trish Regan Show - Ilhan Omar SLAMMED With Federal CRIMINAL Probe—Marriage, Money Scandals EXPLODE! 20 Years?!

Episode Date: March 17, 2026

Ilhan Omar faces intensifying scrutiny as a new federal anti-fraud task force turns its focus to alleged financial misconduct tied to broader investigations into fraud networks. Plus — YouTuber Nick Shirley is back on the ground in California, uncovering what he claims are alarming cases of fraud tied to daycares and hospice operations. Meanwhile, President Donald Trump marks St. Patrick’s Day at the White House alongside Ireland’s leader—while reacting to the sudden resignation of his counter intelligence director for Iran, Joe Kent. And the big geopolitical question: after Venezuela… after Iran… is Cuba next? Finally — Democrats hit a stunning new low in the polls, with even CNN describing their numbers as “lower than the Dead Sea.” Could airport chaos and DHS funding battles be to blame? 🍀 Join Trish this St. Patrick’s Day for all this — and more. ✅ Help support independent journalism — become a TRISH TEAM member: ▶️ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBlMo25WDUKJNQ7G8sAk4Zw/join Get my newsletter and start investing today! Https://76research.com ✅🔔 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 SPONSORS: Go to https://https:www.squarespace.com/REGAN to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code REGAN. https://balanceofnature.com USE CODE TRISH Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Empeas your period of per year MES in shopify.combeckx Day. Welcome to the big show, everyone. Good to have you here. I am Trish Regan. It's a Trish Riegan show and boy oh boy. Lots to talk about today on this very, very happy day. St. Patrick's Day is always a happy day. I'm going to tell you some memories and stories about it, a little bit about Ireland later on in the program. But first, we've got a lot of news to get

through because Ilhan Omar, it's almost like she's got her very own task force, right? J.D., his only mission in life is to take down Ilhan Omar. Oh, and a few other fraudsters there in the state of Minnesota, and also in the state of California, New York, you name it. Also, you know, what's going on with Cuba? First, Iran, Cuba next. Or maybe I should say first Venezuela, then Iran. Iran's like the pit stop on the way. And then Cuba next. We're going to bring you the latest on that. The president giving some indication of his thoughts on this. Plus, Democrats, now lower than the Red Sea. Oh, my goodness. They're low, low, low, low, low. And it's all because they are refueling. to fund the Department of Homeland Security. Imagine doing that at a time like this. Well, you can

only sense the frustration, right, of all the airline travelers that have to deal with the four-hour long lines. Come on enough already. As I said, happy St. Patrick's Day. And as my family always said, you know what, everyone's Irish on St. Patrick's Day. So make sure you have some cheers tonight from me. A quick mention of my other company, 76 Research. Gosh, our recent stock pick, I can tell you, I think we're going to tell you guys what it is. I don't feel like holding back anymore, but I have to clear that with the powers that be. It's up 124% in like four weeks time. So that's pretty good stuff, right? 76research.com.

Use my code word dollar there. 76research.com. Three different portfolios. You can get the 76 report for a dollar a month. Ilhan Omar under investigation, ladies and gentlemen. And the White House has made it its mission to make sure that they, get to the bottom of whatever it is the Ilhan had going on. The president is signing the executive order that basically unleashes, and I mean unleashes Doge in its new form, right?

This is like Doge 2.0, and it's being helmed at the helm by one J.D. Vance, who's got to prove his stuff, if you would. The president's like, no pressure or anything. I mean, if you can't do it, I don't know who can. So no pressure or anything. Here he is signing the legislation. This is the executive ruling put it into effect with a lot of applause there. Hey, bottom line, they're concerned because she may have married her brother, right?

That's the fear. I hope this is part of it, but she married her brother supposedly. I mean, there's a lot of documentation. That means she's here illegally and she's a congresswoman. And I hope you're going to be looking at that or somebody is, all right? Because she's one of the ringleaders here. She's bad news. bad news. She's so bad for our country. Anyway, JD, please say a few words.

You see what I'm looking at. If you're listening to the audio version of this show on Spotify, thank you so much for doing that, or Apple Podcasts, wherever you get your podcast. But if you're watching live on YouTube or you're watching on Spotify, then you can actually see this marriage license application. This is for the second Ahmed. Do you see there was number one Ahmed and then number two Ahmed and number two Ahmed? You know, she likes to keep her Ahmed straight here. You know, you don't have to worry about calling someone the wrong name. You just keep marrying Ahmed. So anyway, the second Ahmed, he's kind of the one that's the issue. That's the one that people have speculated. Oh, gosh, are they a relation? It doesn't even matter. You know,

it doesn't even matter. If she did this in some fraudulent way, like he was a family friend from back home, and if she did this because she was arranged, she was, it was arranged so that he would then get some benefit from the citizenship, it's game over for her. That's really serious. It actually carries a very significant penalty, both in the way of denaturalization, as well as other things that can be facted in. She could be looking at two decades, believe it or not, if, in fact, they find her guilty of marriage fraud as well as corruption that it is believed she may have. And I said, you know, I have to be careful. These are allegations still. You know, I get it. You're innocent until proven guilty. But none of this, none of this looks very good. And we've talked

about it before. The president has a reason. You know, he said, look, all this stuff that's coming out now. He was asked, how did it exist for so darn long? And he's got a theory. Let's go to it. Why do you suppose that the leaders in recent memory haven't looked at the systemic amount of frauds to take place? Because they're crooked. They make money. They gain power. They use it for power. Like with the Somalians, they vote in a block 100%. They make a deal with the Somalians. They all vote because they're in a gravy train. It's money first, power second. A lot of people say power first.

It's money first, power second. Do you ever see where like Mercedes? People come over from somebody, they have no money, and now they're buying Mercedes-Benz cars. Okay. It's more cash goes out of the Minnesota airport than any other place in the world or something. He's right.

We can find it. And Minnesota is really bad. The governor's corrupt. The attorney general is totally. corrupt, just like the New York State Attorney General, Letitia James. She's a highly corrupt person. Bragg, the DA is a corrupt person. They're all corrupt. These are corrupt people. And we got too many of them in our country. And we have to expose them and we have to catch them. And if these two guys can't, these are high IQ people. I've always liked high IQ.

these are high IQ people. If they don't do it, we're going to go a long way, fellas, to find somebody else that's going to. We have no choice. Honestly, and they may not do a good job. If they don't do a good job, it's possible.

If they don't do a good job, the country's sort of in trouble. Yes, go. No, he's not wrong. I mean, in other words, you can't have this kind of fraud going on. Look at the amount of money that we're losing every year. It's absolutely positively outrageous. And this is why people were so

excited about Doge, Elon Musk, beginning that task, of course, and now it's being taken over the White House now issuing this executive order for a fraud task force that is specifically supposed to look into Ilhan's marriage, as well as any funny business that was going on in the state of Minnesota, as well as New York, California, wherever they're finding it. You know, I'll tell you, she's scared. She's coming up with all kinds of reasons, like, well, you know, it was just so easy. I'm sorry. Like, that's not okay. You think that's going to survive in the court of law?

Well, Judge, you know, I mean, it was just so darn easy to steal a few million bucks. Why not do it? Here's her saying this on CNN. Can you shed any light on why the fraud got so out of control in Minnesota? I think what happened is that, you know, when you have these kind of new programs, that are designed to help people. You're oftentimes relying on third parties to be able to facilitate. And I just think that a lot of the COVID programs that were set up,

they were set up so quickly that a lot of the guardrails did not get created. Unbelievable. Okay. So she's in a lot of trouble. Again, we've talked about this before, but I want to just revisit some of the reasons why, okay? Because, you know, for starters, she's got this new hubby. Hubby number three, and Timmy is his name, Timmy Minet. And Timmy Minet has a rather bad history,

okay? A bad history with his cannabis companies, a bad history with his winery that doesn't seem to be. And thus, I would just say, in my estimation, kind of a shady guy. I'm just saying, okay, kind of a shady guy. Also shady because, you know, he's in the political arena. He apparently ran her campaign and he got paid big bucks to do so. But that would actually make her very, very shady too, because she was paying him nearly $3 million to run her campaign. That's never heard of. It doesn't happen. I mean, nobody gets paid that kind of money to run a little dittly squat

congressional campaign out there in Minneapolis. I mean, unless you're married to the candidate, and the candidate wants to make sure she's bankrolling herself. I'll tell you, for somebody who was worth less than $50,000 just a couple years ago, pretty miraculous American dream here. American dream that leads her to be worth an estimated 30, million dollars? Are you kidding me? This is her filing. We did this way back in May. You know, when they first announced this like a year ago, I was like, how the heck did Ilhan Omar get to be worth

30 million bucks? I mean, I'm sorry. I'm really, really sorry, but that just doesn't happen. Overnight, overnight. And apparently it's all because, oh, the hubbies companies, the hubbies got this company that he claims is a venture capital firm. Yeah, right, venture capital. My, you know what. There's no way in H2L. This thing is a venture capital firm. I have looked at it in great detail. It is what you would call a lobbying firm, and that's being generous. That's being like really generous because some people like Steve Forbes and are going to play you a clip. He was on with me the other day. Some people like Steve Forbes believe it to be a money laundering firm. Yeah, not exactly venture capital. I mean, say what you want about the venture capitalist. This guy's not it.

Ilhan, under fire at this moment. She's got to be damn. scared because she and Timmy are about to get hit with a doozy. They're going to have to produce a lot of tax records. They're going to have to produce a lot of records in general. I like how Fortune actually presented it a couple months ago. They were like, oh, Ilhan Omar's husband is rich. The Republican oversight chairman is investigating why, as though to say that maybe somehow, you know, this has nothing to do with her. Why are we picking on her? I'm tired of it. You know, she keeps saying that. Why are you picking on me? You're picking on me because I'm a Somalia immigrant. No, we're picking on you because you're worth 30 million bucks. Like this is more than anyone. I mean,

other than maybe Nancy Pelosi and her husband had a trading business, right? He was an actual investor. Your guy, he doesn't really actually seem to buy and sell stocks. He seems to ask people to buy shares in his own venture capital firm, which he's inflating to a massive valuation that is really not heard of for somebody like him. I mean, I'm sorry, like $60 million, billion, forgive me, billion. Assets under management, no way, Jose. All right, here's Fox News writing. Meet the longtime business partner of Ilhan Omar's husband, his question swirl around her skyrocketing that worth. So it's not just the hubby that's really suss. It's the partner of the hubby that's super sus. Because this guy, his name is William Haler. William Haler. He's actually had multiple

lawsuits before because he's accused of fraud. Oh my goodness. gracious, you don't say so. He's been accused of fraud, of defrauding investors in cannabis and wine. Huh. Gosh, darn it. And what do you think the hub he's been accused of? Here he is. A lawsuit filed in 2025 claimed Minet and a partner misrepresented at California wine business to an investor. The investor, Naimode, alleged he was promised 200% returns. didn't I just tell you about a stock that's up like 124% that we picked at 76 research? That was lucky, okay? I mean, we're good.

We actually are really good, and the portfolios are all killing it, and they're beating the S&P and then some, but, you know, that was, there was some luck involved here. This guy's being promised, 200% returns, okay, with his $300,000 that he puts into Timmy's company, Timmy and Willie, okay, the two guys that are running the thing, and it turns out that, well, they didn't get that money, and it took a lot for him, including. a lawsuit to get any of the money back. So, you know, I mean, you kind of had me at cannabis firm. Not to pick on that industry, but just saying, William Haler, the Democrat operative that's now somehow in the cannabis business alongside Ilhan Omar's husband. Do you understand the irony in this as well?

Like the Muslim woman that's been married three times? Oh, and on the second husband, the second Ahmed, she went back to the first Ahmed. Well, she was still with the second one. I mean, this woman is not exactly what you would call very religious, nor is her hubby. And I'm just looking at the multiple fraud allegations and thinking, you know, I think that, I think the White House is going to have a lot to go on. Oh, and I haven't even talked about his taxes. He's behind $403,000 in his taxes. What a winner. Does she know how to pick them, ladies and gentlemen, or what? I had to put that picture of her all dressed and green as though she's Irish up there today. Oh, boy. By the way, did you see, Mamdami? I'm not going to play it because it.

just, you know, I can only take so much. And we had to listen to one Ilhan clip. So I'm saving you the pain. But Mamdami, there in New York City, Kamdami, hijacked St. Patrick's Day and turned it into a whole Palestinian thing. So lovely. Anyway, Ilhan really is about to get handed. And you know what, because I think there's funny stuff going on. And I talked to my friend Steve Forbes about it. And we're talking about it. I'm like, look, it sounds like it, right? I mean, these again, I want to stress or just allegations, but what they're going to try and prove out is the money laundering operation. So here's Steve with me just a short time ago. Watch. What we have here is a classic case of connecting to government and using that as a means to get money. And one of the favorite forms is you

set up a consulting firm. The nice thing about that is they really can't measure the product. You just turn out a lot of paper and they get a lot of money. from the government for all of this great advice that means absolutely nothing. It's just it's money laundering, scam, whatever you want to call it. That's how we got the Leering Center in Minnesota where they can't even spell the thing right. No kids are there. So there's no there there except a lot of wasted and stolen taxpayer money. And it's amazing how it's quite something when you mix Marxism with joining the government how these people

people, these socialists suddenly become brilliant investors, brilliant entrepreneurs, who knew that Marx had that in him? Because, you know, Marx knew how to steal. He knew how to steal from the people. So he's on to something. One of the things that Steve and I were talking about when we looked at this website is that it just didn't look like a venture capital website. Here it is.

This is the hubby, Timmy Minette. Oh, along with his other business partner there, Willie. So Timmy and Willie have the exclusive partnerships for global operators at Rose Lake Capital. And I'm just saying this thing does not look like a VC firm. It also looks like a really, well, this, I mean, I hate to use the word. We'll go with a crappola job, right? Like a crappola job, this website that it is. Really, really lousy stuff.

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There is Squarespace.com forward slash Regan. But back to the lady de jour. Steve Forbes, he's like, well, what happened to this money? Okay, so they're taking all this money in, we think, okay? The venture capital firm, why did he have such a high valuation on his venture capital firm other than maybe that's how he was selling shares? And he has to justify this and they're pushing a lot of paper around. So what happens to this money eventually? This is why I've told you it's so important that Treasury just get in there and like just roll up their sleeves and dig in hard because the fear is that some of this money may have gone overseas. They may have employed what's known as the Hawala Network. I've actually done a ton of reporting on this. I've actually done a lot of reporting on terror financing. So I know how difficult yet traceable this stuff is. And this is where Treasury is going to come in in a really important way. If they look at where the money was all going and shifting, you heard the president say, look, they had $700 million that went overseas right out of the Minneapolis airport, cash and suitcases. They're taking this stuff out. So the question is, is part of that,

Ilhan Omar's money and Timmy Minette's money. This is what Steve Forbes was getting at. Let's go back to him. When people see where the money's going, it's very easy to imagine it's going for illicit purposes overseas. So the key thing is the exposure. Nobody had any idea how bad this thing was. And now we're beginning to get it.

And this is a case of the old cliche where the genie's out of the bottle, they ain't going to put it back. People are going to find a way to do it. Yeah, it doesn't shut down our voices. You know, we're going to find out. We are so absolutely going to find out. If there is one job that J.D. Vance has now in the world, it is this.

He is now head of the task force. The president keeps hitting him over the head with it saying, well, if you don't get this done, I don't know who will. So he's got to get this done. By the way, it's a little bit of an apprentice show, dare I say. You know why I say that? Because remember Scott Bassett, what he told us the other day, about how he's putting together that reward system because he's going to actually encourage them all

to rat each other out. And I do believe the exact quote was, the rats will turn on each other. And then he actually referenced a scorpion and said the scorpion doesn't change its ways. So he's out for truth as well. And we're going to find all this out. And so Ilhan, I wish you well, honey bunny,

but this is not a good day for you. and the hubby, I don't know why you thought you could get away with it if in fact you're guilty. I don't know how you, I just, again, looking at this, it should just make your blood boil, right? You look at this Rose Lake capital nonsense. It's worth anywhere from $5 million to $25 million. You're kidding me, right? This little no-nothing idiotic company that has nothing. I mean, it's winery, right?

Like they get the winery. That was a big claim to fame, E Street, Cruikers. E Street, Easy Street crew, you get it? See, they're making fun of us. So the E Street crew winery that doesn't actually have any vineyards, it doesn't actually have any wine that doesn't actually have a website. I mean, the whole venture capital firm is located in a we work office building. I'm sorry, but like, how stupid do you think we are, guys?

Okay, not that stupid. You know what? You got people like me who are not going to give up on this. And we got people like Nick Shirley out in California. He's taking the show on the road. He exposed everything in Minnesota, and we thank him for that. And let me just say, California buckle up, because guess who's in town? And he's going digging, and he's looking for daycares, and he's got leering centers coming up the wazoo.

Watch. Here is Hayden Sarah Family Child Care. This is a daycare right here. Apparently, they have 14 children enrolled. Hello. I was naked, okay? No, you weren't. I can sue you. I was like, I wasn't dressed up. I'm Muslim.

Either way, can we enroll a child into the daycare? You don't know what is going on? Well, it says there's 14 children enrolled here on the state of California. 14 children enrolled here. You don't care. I do care. Then where are the children? You don't care.

Where are the children at? Where are the children at? Where are the children at, ma'am? All right, so what she's doing is she's making a video right now, she's going to send out all to all the other daycares. But at the end of the day, enrolled for 14 children? No children here.

And this is from the state of California. We're not targeting Somali population. We're just going after daycares. And just so happens to be that all the daycares, they are Somalian so far. Where are the children at, ma'am? I don't see any. 14 children.

Would you like to make a statement as to where the children are? You don't care where is my children around? Ma'am, we would not be here if we weren't asking you. You don't care. You don't care. What do you mean we don't care? This is why we're here. You don't care.

This is why we're here to ask about these daycares. Who you are? Who you are. My name's Nick Shirley. You already know that. I know, but you are a trouble man. How are we making trouble? You're causing trouble.

We just want to know where the children are. No, I'm calling 911. For what? For what? You come my house. We haven't done anything. Okay, so he's not exactly welcome in California right now. And yeah, they're making little videos and send his all their friends.

Watch out for Nick Shirley. Watch out for Nick Shirley. Listen, here's the bottom line. out, watch out for all of us. Watch out for Uncle Sam because Uncle Sam's come and knocking, not just at the daycares. Oh, but by the way, Nick is paying a visit to some of those hospice centers. I've showed you some of the videos from other YouTubers. You just go around to a hospice building, apparently anywhere in California, and it's open season. Like nobody's actually working, but everybody's got very similarly named businesses as he soon found out

with everybody who's got a hospice in this one particular center that's called Angel Something. Back to Nick. So what do you think about all this hospice fraud? Sir, you're in the cyber truck driving a way, taking money from old people. Yeah, because it looks like, for instance, Guardian of Angels, about used to be here, $4.8 million they build the state of California. And how many clients do you guys have? Brother, do you have a badge?

Do I need to answer your quick? I'm just curious. It's not fine. I work. Yeah. You must be getting paid pretty well, right? This is my parents' business. You know your parents run the hospice?

They don't work here. Who's that guy in the cyber truck? He's your uncle. So it's like a family business selling the hospices. But why was he walking out of the hospice then too? His business is not open today. Seems like this mafia right here is naming all their companies after the word angel. We have angels of valley hospice.

We have angels of haven, angels of peace. light of angels, yet the BMWs, one right here, one right there, two brand new Mercedes over there. It just is unbelievable the amount of money that these people are making, and they're not even trying to hide it. So that's the issue. Like what exactly is going on there? Why aren't there any patience inside there? I mean, are they just, like, farming out the jobs?

Maybe that's their excuse? I don't think so. I mean, Dr. Oz is all over this as well. And Dr. Oz has done his own little documentary along with Shirley doing his, which has recently come out. But Dr. Oz is making the point that this is actually compromising the entire system. And it's compromising people that may unwittingly sign up for this stuff. They don't even know that they're doing it. And then they lack ability to get other kinds of health coverage. Here he is speaking with the epic times and a really interesting interview. Just a short clip. I want to play for you. Doctors are being paid to send people inappropriately to hospice.

Now that's a problem, Yom, because if you're put into hospice, you'd actually give up the rest of your healthcare protection. You no longer get traditional Medicare benefits because you're in hospice, you're dying. So we're not going to pay all these extra expenses for things that aren't going to benefit you because you've decided to pull back. Voluntarily, you've decided that you're not going to go out there and try to get everything done for you possible to help you live longer. You've made peace with the end.

But people are put on hospice who don't know it. They don't realize it. And so now they don't have access to regular Medicare anymore. So people are dying because they can't get care because they were falsely tricked into being on hospice. Unbelievable. So this has to end. Okay, whether it's California, whether it's Minnesota,

whether it's New York, wherever it is. You know, the government's so big and so bloated. I get it. And nobody's mine in the store. Nobody cares. Maybe people are making lots of money off of it. We go back to what the president is saying at the beginning of the show, because they're all so darn corrupt and somebody has their handout along the way.

And that may indeed, in fact, in some cases at least, Ilhan, they're looking at you. Be the problem. Of course, Gavin Newsom doesn't think his state did anything wrong. Gosh, darn it. No, even though he's being accused of $80 billion in fraud, He wants Nick Shirley to go home. Look at this. He puts this on social media. He's so juvenile. He's so, oh, he's just so, sleazy. I don't know. I'm trying to look for the right word, okay? He's a juvenile, like,

anyway, not smart. I think the president called him dumb or low IQ recently as well. Anyway, he puts this out. Nick Shirley right now, hey, can I see your kids? I mean, that's just a wacky thing, right? You know, you see what he's trying to do and insinuate there. And Nick, class act guy that he is, comes back with. I will read it to you. He responds. This is last night.

You do realize I'm trying to help America eliminate fraud and waste, right? No need to try and make me look like the bad guy for exposing fraud. People are over it. Start working for the people and not against them. Well said, my friend. Well said. Gavin, you might actually learn a thing or two. Start working for the people not against him. That'd be great because you know what? We're tired of it. We're sick of it. And now we got the team on our side. Listen to J.D. Vance talking about the outrageous, disgusting behavior we saw in Minnesota as it related to kids with autism. We saw evidence that in Minneapolis, there were Somalis, primarily illegal immigrants,

who were defrauding a Medicaid program that was meant to go to autistic children. So they were taking children who were supposed to get benefits, and they were claiming that their kids were actually autistic even though they weren't. And what do this mean? This meant two things. Number one, you had a lot of people getting rich off of the fraud while American citizens got poor. And the second thing that it meant is that you had autistic kids in Minneapolis, in suburban Minneapolis who weren't getting benefits they needed because Somali fraudsters were

literally stealing out of their pocket. It's got to stop. And unfortunately, that kind of fraud is one example of probably hundreds just within the state of Minneapolis. And then it's repeated and replayed all over the United States of America. Heck yeah. Heck yeah. So the task force has been initiated. They're going to start. looking at all this stuff. First stop is Minnesota and Ilhan Omar, the president specifically saying, guys, find out about her citizenship, because I don't even think she can be in this country. We know that if these allegations of money laundering and taking from the federal government are in fact proven to be true, she's looking at 20 years. So here's the question for you, okay? Do you deport her?

Or do you do you do the 20 years and then deport her? because I think she's going to be looking at something. I really do. Turning to the news of the day, Iran is feeling the pain. Feeling the pain, you know, just a few days ago they made some threats against the president. One specific person made some threats against the president. He didn't live to talk about it. But anyway, they're pretty much decimated. I want to go to the president of the United States.

Donald Trump talking about the issue just moments ago. Their air force is now decimated. They have no air force, no navy. They have no radar. Their radar is entirely gone. anti-aircraft, machinery is gone. Everything is gone. Their leaders are gone. I guess one of the top person was, they say, a lot of people say their actual top was killed yesterday. Yep, that's the word on the street right about now. This is their key in force for somebody who had

actually taken a lot of lives and encouraged this violence and this very, very dangerous regime. He's now out too. So it's like, bad guy, bad guy, bad guy, bad guy. I want to. I want to go to the Fox report on this with their reporter who is broadcasting live from Tel Aviv, I believe. He's in Israel right now. The Israelis allegedly had taken this guy out. According to him, it's in fact true. According to Israel's defense minister, Israel Katz, top Iranian official Ali Larajani is dead.

He was killed in a strike overnight. According to Israel's defense minister, this was probably the most significant strike you could describe it in the past week and a half. as the Israelis and the Americans are going after the structure of Iran's regime. Larajani was largely considered the de facto leader in the aftermath of the killing of Iran's former supreme leader and uncertain questions about Moshabakhamehiyahe, the man who was elected to be the next supreme leader. Larajani was serving as the secretary to Iran's Supreme National Security Council. I can also report overnight the Israelis in a separate strike killed the top commander of Iran's

besieged forces. This is a wing of the IRGC. His name is Gullam Reza Soleimani, and he was responsible for commanding the crackdown on protesters earlier this year across Iran. An official tells me this morning that over a dozen besiege officials were with him when that strike took place, taking out this top commander.

It comes as the Israelis have launched a series of air strikes alongside their American counterparts across Iran over the past 24 hours. You can see some of these strikes on Sunday, this new video released by the IDF, They are expected to intensify and increase in the hours and days ahead. So just to jog your memory, this one of the two bad guys, we've got two bad guys that were just taken out. But this one, Larjani, had made a threat against Donald Trump.

And he created the hashtag Trump must pay and saying that, you know, it's just more than just tweets. I'll read it. Trump says he is looking for a speedy victory. While starting war is easy. It cannot be won with a few tweets. We will not relent until making you sorry for this grave miscalculation. Trump must pay, but I guess he learned the hard way that it was the other way around. Here's the president reacting to it.

The man that was responsible for the killing of 32,000 people over the last two weeks, he was in charge of the killing of protesters. It's an evil group. I mean, they've killed much more than 32,000 people. And the man who is responsible for that was also killed yesterday. today. Ha! I was trying to fix my hair.

There, you caught me. That's great. Usually by the end of the show, my hair's in tip-top shape. Anyway, this is very serious, so, uh, anyway, uh, this is what happens. It's live TV, baby, live TV. And occasionally Trish's hair gets a little bit messy. What can I say? I don't like hair spray.

So we have the alternative. Anyway, this is important because the, president is saying, look, we got the bad guy, we got a couple bad guys, it appears, and we're doing well, right? We're doing well, despite what the mainstream media is saying, because the mainstream media is just nonstop. I mean, I keep saying, I say this to friends and family, I'm like, I've never seen anything like this. I've been the media business a long time. Maybe March 2020 was sort of like it, but this feels even more extreme and even more divorced from reality because you look what the market's doing, at least in March 2020,

you had total paranoia in the markets. But right now, you don't have that paranoia in the markets. You really don't. And so what are they all worked up about? Anything they can, because they've got TDS like you've never seen before. Here's the president. I want to go back to him again saying, look, this is really not that big a deal in the scheme of things. In other words, this doesn't change any of our foreign policy.

We've never liked Iran. We continue not to like Iran. We're going to win this. We're going to be in and out, hopefully, relatively soon, but this is not changing anything in terms of how we feel about China, etc. This is important. One on Iran and one on Cuba. Is Iran now a bigger foreign policy priority for you than China?

And on Cuba, the Cuban government... Iran is just a military operation to me. Iran is something that was essentially largely over in two or three days. because the Navy was wiped out almost immediately. The Air Force came next. The anti-aircraft came next. I mean, we're flying over Iran. We could take out their electric capacity in one hour.

There's nothing they can do right now because everything is knocked out. They have no, again, no radar, no anti-aircraft. They have nothing. And because they have nothing, because they have nothing, we are succeeding and we're going to continue to succeed. I do want to actually say, though, this is important. We could take out more than we're doing, okay, and we're not, right?

Think about that. We're not taking out their electricity. We're not taking out their water. We're not taking out anything that is significant for the people because what is our goal here to take out the weaponry that could be bad against us, right? So we got to do that and to take out the regime, regime one, regime two, regime three. it's getting kind of hard to keep up. And this latest guy, he may be in a coma, okay? He may be in a coma. So he's basically taken out, if you would. But here's one little problem with it all.

I'm just saying, all right, what's going on with the rest of Europe? We've learned over and over and over again from Europe that they're really happy with how things are going. I mean, you had the head of NATO saying, ah, it's going really, really well. We've heard Germany say it going really well. you get Spain. Spain, who's like all upset, well, we're going to cut off trade with Spain. Suddenly they're like, well, maybe it's not that bad. And then you get the UK. And the UK's like really, really sort of begrudgingly saying, okay, you know, you saw them just yesterday, actually admit that they had no interest, no interest whatsoever in sending any troops or any resources to help us. So they're fine, like reaping the rewards of all that we're doing for

world and we're kind of like, okay, you know, it had to be done, whatever, we'll be the adult in the room and take care of things. But all the little kiddos are like, they want to have their cake and eat it too, right? They're like, kind of glad that it's being done, but not so glad that they can really like cheer us on and certainly not so glad that they can actually support us in any way, which causes the president to say, gee, darn it, what is that NATO stuff worth? So suddenly, people are asking whether the president is really going to stay in NATO. I mean, he's said over and over again, I don't need it. And they've made it very clear, they don't need to help us.

And so we find ourselves now in a rather peculiar predicament. Let's go to President Trump talking about NATO today. All of the NATO allies agreed with us. But they don't want to, you know, despite the fact that we help them so much, we have thousands of soldiers in different countries all over the world. and they don't want to help us. We don't need help. You know, we've, that war has been long prosecuted, as far as I'm concerned, almost from day one.

We're knocked out many of these things. We're knocked out the Navy, essentially, in a couple of days. But I was surprised to see that NATO, while they agreed that it was a very important thing to do, they agree fully. Nobody said, oh, you shouldn't do it. They would have had a nuclear weapon within one month of when we had the B2B2. bombers bomb the nuclear potential. I go it the nuclear dust. NATO is making a very foolish mistake. And I've long said that, you know, I wonder whether or not NATO would ever be there for us. So this is a, this was a great test because we don't

need them, but they should have been there. And they weren't. You know, they weren't. And I think we can't forget that. And the president won't forget that. And it is what it is, right? but for some reason, it always comes back to us. And he went on to talk about what's going on in Ukraine. And look, they come to us about Ukraine. And there we are, always willing and able to help. But like at some point, you don't want to be like the lameau boyfriend or girlfriend that just keeps going back, you know, and just, you know, they're like knocking you down

and you keep going back for more. Like at some point, we're like, okay, Europe. I mean, don't get me wrong. The UK is our oldest ally, but that's also what makes it kind of hard, right? Like, UK, hey, you know, can't you do a little bit better than that? And so I think this is sort of a wake-up call for all of us in the United States. Look, we don't expect anything. I think that we've just come to the realization over the years that Europe will never be there for us.

We're on our own, and we can stand on our own two feet. But just remember that the next time they need something, like we don't need to rush. We really don't. We need to like assess each and every individual situation for what it's worth. We don't just do things blindly because Europe needs us. And that's a lesson here in all of this, whether or not he decides to stay in NATO. Listen, I mean, that issue could be on the table, more than you think. Donald Trump getting some bad news today, all of us getting a little bit of bad news,

although good riddance considering what he said. This is Joe Kent that you're looking at on the screen, a picture of him. He was actually one of the top counterterrorism officials there in the administration, and it turns out that he didn't really like that we were going to war with Iran. Now, he's got a little bit of a history. His wife was killed in Syria, so he is not happy about anything going on in the Middle East, but he resigned with quite a bit of a spectacle. He issued a letter, and I'm going to read part of it to you.

Like I said, the president's like, well, good thing he's not there. It's like, yeah, good thing he's not there. Good thing he left, rather than, you know, working against us, people against us in our own team. It says the top U.S. counterterrorism official said Tuesday he had resigned over his concerns with the war in Iran making the first significant departure from the Trump administration due to the conflict. And he wrote in this letter, quote, I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. This is the National Counterterrorism Center Chief, director of it. He said, Iran, actually, forgive me, this was in a social media post, not even in a letter. I guess he did put it in a letter

and then did it in a social media post because that is the way of the world these days. Quote, Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby. Woo! Okay. I'm sorry, but that tells me, you got no faith whatsoever in this president of the United States that we all elected, and therefore no faith in the American people since we elected him. Thank you very much, Joey Boy. Yeah. Good thing you're gone, for goodness sakes. The White House did not at first immediately comment on the resignation. Kent was seen as an ally of the Director of National Intelligence. Tulsi Gabbard, under whom he worked, Gabbard's office, has not responded to a request

for comment, but I can tell you, if this is the way the guy feels, what the heck are you doing in the job, given what's going on. The president had intelligence that Iran was going to have the capability to basically be the director of the entire Middle East and therefore Europe within a matter of weeks. They also had intelligence that they had a chance to take the Ayatollah out and some others out along the way. Now, why you wouldn't take that opportunity, I'm not entirely sure, given that if they

had the opportunity the other way around, they would take it. except from what I've learned, this guy's a libertarian. You know, nothing right. Live free or die. You know, I like libertarians, but I'm way too hawkish to ever be a libertarian when it's said and done. I mean, I like it in spirit. But, you know, I also want a big, strong military taking care of me. Thank you very much.

Making sure that I'm not going to be having to wear a hijib around someday, because that's the way these people would have it. Thank you very much. It is, don't kid yourself, the president, speaking about Joey Boy's resignation today moments ago at the White House. Listen. Well, I read his statement. I always thought he was a nice guy, but I always thought he was weak on security, very weak on security. I didn't know him well, but I thought he seemed like a pretty nice guy. But when I read a statement, I realized that it's a good thing that he's out because he said that Iran was not a threat. Iran was a threat. Every country realized what a threat Iran was. The question is whether or not they wanted to do something about it. Many people, many of the greatest military scholars are saying for years that president should have taken out Iran because they wanted a nuclear weapon.

They were, if we didn't do the attack, or if I'll go a step further, if I didn't terminate the Iran nuclear deal given to us, one of the worst deals ever made by Barack Hussein Obama. Remember when they said Boeing 757s over there? Loaded with cash. Yep. Hundreds of millions of dollars. You would have been very happy. This was a wonderful. They said hundreds of millions.

People forget that. Does anybody remember? Right? You remember hundreds of millions of dollars in a Boeing 757. I think that two of them loaded. They took the seats out and they put cash. And it was so much that there wasn't a bank in Virginia, Maryland, or D.C. That had any money left.

They stripped them of all their money, put it into place, sent it to Iran, almost as ransom. That's not going to happen. with Trump. And nobody ever did anything about it. Nobody ever said anything. Can you imagine if I did that? So they've been a threat for a long time. But they've really been a threat. If I didn't terminate Obama's horrible deal that he made, the Iran nuclear deal, you would have had a nuclear war four years ago. You would have had nuclear holocaust and you would have had it again if we didn't bomb the site. So when somebody is working with us that says they didn't think Iran was a threat, we don't want those people. No, we don't. We sure as heck don't, right?

I mean, you're either on the team or you're not. This is war, guys, all right? If you're not on board, we're happy to hear your point of view, but you know what, you can go do a little podcast. and that may be exactly what he's going to do. Joey can have his little podcast and we can go hear his side of things and he can go on with Tucker Carlson all day long and a few of the others out there. Oh my gosh, at Get a Grip. Thank you for your generosity. Much appreciated.

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and hit the bell so you know when I'm live for all the alerts. Marco Rubio saying the quiet part out loud here, admitting that, you know, the religion itself, extreme Muslim faith is a problem. The extreme Muslim faith wants to spread itself across the globe and have everybody be just like them. And that inherently is a problem, right? And nobody wants to say this.

Everybody's so sensitive, you know, Ilhan. Omar's going to get real mad at you, but Marco said, I'm all in, I'm going to come right on and say it. Here he is. Of course, you get an easy enough audience for this because Sean Hannity's not going to challenge him on it. Nor would I, nor should anyone, frankly. I think that this stuff needs to be understood, needs to be said. This is not just a religion, but a political movement. Marco Rubio here admitting the quiet part out loud watch. Ultimately, all radical Islamic movements in the world identify the West writ large, but the United States in particular, as the greatest evil on the earth. And every chance to have, the notion that somehow radical Islam would be comfortable with simply controlling some province in Iraq or Syria is just not borne out by history.

Radical Islam has shown that their desire is not simply to occupy one part of the world and be happy with their own little caliphate. They want to expand. it is a revolutionary in its nature. It seeks to expand and control more territories and more people. And radical Islam has designs openly on the West. On the United States, on Europe, we've seen that progress there as well, and they are prepared to conduct acts of terrorism in the case of Iran, nation-state actions, assassinations, murders,

you name it, whatever it takes for them to gain their influence and ultimately their domination of different cultures and societies. That's a clear and imminent threat to the world and to the broader West, but especially to the United States, who they identify as the chief source of evil on the planet. The reason why they hate the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the leadership of the UAE of Bahrain, is because they've allowed the United States to partner with them. That's why they hate them. They consider them infidels for it.

They hate Israel. But they also hate America. And they hate anywhere in the world that we have influenced, they seek to attack it, including here in the homeland. If you look at the domestic terrorists, at the attacks that have happened here domestically, the overwhelming majority of them have been inspired by ralienable. radical Islamic viewpoints. And that includes the shooting in the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Florida.

That includes the Saudi pilot in Pensacola. My home state, two attacks. I mean, nobody wants to hear that, but you have to be willing to understand what's at stake here. I think about the soundbite. I'm not going to play it again because we've played a few times already, but the CNN host, right, who is trying to challenge everybody when they're like, okay, there's been all these recent terror attacks, and they're related to Muslim extremism. and the host is like, what do you mean?

Why do you say they're related to Muslim extremism as though it's just completely random, but all of them have been related, in fact, to Muslim extremism? And nobody wants to be able to say those things because in this PC correct world, we're just supposed to like roll over and play dead. You know, you keep playing that. Eventually you will be dead, trust me.

So Marco, thank you for being willing to stand up and call this stuff out. And I'll tell you, the base, the MAGA base loves it. and they love him right now. We've talked about this. He's been soaring as of late. I'm looking at Polly Market. And by the way, CNN has some data as well.

Let's go over to CNN. They can't believe this. Oh, my goodness, CNN has to admit it. He's hot, hot, hot. Their words, not mine. This morning, it is never too early, never too early to talk about 2028. The approaching presidential election,

it is getting closer and closer and closer. And one person who may very well be rising, Secretary of State National Security Advisor, Marco Rubio, front and center with the war on Iran, but also rising, like, look at these smiles. Look at this. Look at the way they're looking at each other there. All right, with us now, CNN Chief Data analyst, Harry.

I'm looking at you at that. It's the same way that they look at each other here. Look, when you talk about the prediction markets, how has, you know, what's happened to Marco Rubio's stock over the last few weeks? Marco Rubio is hot, hot, hot, like a summer heat wave. I mean, just take a look here. Over the last six months, Chance Rubio is the 2028 GOP presidential nominee.

He was just at 7% six months ago. Hello, up like a rocket, 27% chance. Now, what is that? That's quadrupling his chances in four months' time. Marco Rubio's chances, according to the Cali's prediction markets, way, way up. Okay, why? Why?

Why are his chances way, way up? Well, one of the reasons why his chances are way, way up is because the MAGA base really likes the US military action in Iran. Take a look here. Okay, MAGA GOP on the US military action Iran. Look at this, nearly nine and 10, 89% approve of the US military action Iran,

that is the MAGA GOP base. Just nine percent disapprove of it. This is tremendously popular among the Republican base, and of course, Marco Rubio, Secretary of State, overseeing the effort, it seems to me that a lot of people are taking that into account, including President Donald Trump, who has been smiling an awful lot at Marco Rubio. He might be the next president of the United States. And listen, he's got a lot going on right now.

You think about what went down in Venezuela, big, big success in Venezuela. You think about the success we're having in Iran. These are meaningful moves, guys, meaningful moves. And then you think about what's happening in Cuba. I mean, it's like my international relations term paper from senior year coming true. I do believe I said we need to look out for our Western Hemisphere, Monroe Doctrine. Let's make sure that we shore it up so that we have only friends in our neighborhood, okay, because we don't want China hanging out.

We don't want Russia hanging out. We don't want the Iranians hanging out. No, no, no, no, no, no. We want the U.S. of A, at least dominating our hemisphere, for goodness sakes, from a security standpoint. And, hey, economically speaking, too, right? it makes a lot of sense. So we might be doing that pretty soon. Just don't tell MSNBC. Gosh, we haven't talked about them lately, now have we? How have they been escaping me? I seem to be looking at a lot of stuff on CNN and a lot of stuff on the view and somehow MSNBC on its new whatever network it's

called is slipping under my radar, but not for long. An MSNBC host really getting kind of thrown under a bus here on the Cuba issue by her liberal guest. Yeah. So I don't even know who this woman is. Actually, maybe I do, but she looks a little bit different. So I'm not going to, I'm not going to say, I think it's the one that used to date Keith Oberman. Again, I don't want to actually say. I can't remember her name. I think she's got a new haircut. Anyway, Richard Haas, who runs the CFR Council on Foreign Relations, which I actually was a member of way, way, way, way back when, like, as a kid, like, they have these like term memberships that you can get when you're younger and then you elect to stay or not, and I elected not to stay. So take that for whatever it's worth. But anyway, mainly it was just because

I was too busy. But anyway, Richard Haas, he runs the whole thing. He's kind of a lib. He hates Trump. But he's also kind of like a neo-con. So I can't totally, totally pigeonhole him in one spot or the other. But I would say most of the time, he agrees with MSNBC. So all of a sudden, this MSNBC anchor is getting her, you know what handed to her. She doesn't really appreciate it very much. Let me show you. She's like, what is he doing down in Cuba? She's not happy about any of this. She was, you know, she wasn't happy with Venezuela, let alone Iran. And now Cuba, watch. And something closer, say, to Venezuela. Does the administration really have the ability to do that as well right now?

Well, again, it wouldn't be a military thing. I think it would be essentially collaborative or cooperative to a large extent. it would involve economic tools, a lot of diplomacy. I don't think it would be in conflict, if you will, or excuse me, it wouldn't be impossible to do this. Whatever we choose to do in Iran, whether we continue militarily, find a way to end things. I don't see the things essentially fighting over the same resources. All right, let's talk about Iran. Stephen, I just read a number of the headlines. I just have to say, she's not happy, right?

could hear it in her voice. Again, I can't place her. I think it's someone I know, but maybe they got new lights. Maybe they got a new studio. Maybe it's just a new hairdo on her. I don't know. But yeah, she didn't like the way that one was going. So we're going to shift to Iran. Let's agree that we can hate what he's doing in Iran, right? I don't even know. Maybe CFR likes what he's doing in Iran. I'll tell you, on Cuba, things are happening. I mean, there was the blackout going on last night. Did you see this one, guys? And breaking news into CNN, Cuba's electrical grid has suffered a complete and total collapse. This is according to the country's power operator.

It's the first nationwide blackout since the U.S. effectively shut off the flow of oil to Cuba. Okay. So blackout last night in Cuba. They aren't getting any oil because their relationships were with, wait for it. Venezuela and Iran, right? not exactly who you want to be friends with these days. That was a bad call. Castro. Anyway, it goes back a ways, right? It goes back away. So they now are looking at a very different world. And according to my sources, they're trying to get some kind of deal together. They're like,

okay, okay, we realize handwriting's on the wall here. We saw what happened to Maduro. We don't want that to happen to us. Maybe we can make some kind of deal. And so that's why you have Richard Haas saying it's not necessarily going to be a takeover per se. It'll probably be some kind of a deal. but call it whatever you want. I mean, I think we sort of won it and took over Venezuela for whatever it's worth. Delsey didn't have a choice. It's like Delsey, you can go to prison with Maduro, or you can actually try and do the right thing and cooperate with us.

So we want cooperation. We want them to come willingly. But Donald Trump's like, they're going to come one way or another. Full stop. Listen to him here in the White House talking about Cuba. You know, all my life I've been hearing about the United States and Cuba, When will the United States do it? I do believe I'll be the honor of having the honor of taking Cuba.

That's a big honor. Taking Cuba. Taking Cuba. In some form, yeah. Taking Cuba. I mean, whether I free it, take it, I can do anything I want with it. You want to know the truth? They're a very weakened nation right now.

They were for a long time. Very violent, very violent leaders. I mean, it's almost like he was talking, you know, he talks and he did all these interviews. And I'm just going to say, you know what, I give him a ton of credit for that. A ton of credit because he's always willing to speak to the press. And that is extraordinarily unusual, right? We've never had an administration that has spoken to the press the way he has. So occasionally, you know, if he's talking, and maybe, you know, it happens to me.

It happens to anyone, right? That maybe the right word doesn't come to you in a particular moment. And so he said, well, you know, I'd have the honor of taking Cuba. If people will read too much into that, and they're going to assume he really means it. Like, he's taking Cuba. And I'm going to tell you, knowing him, no, he doesn't mean it like that. And you heard the Fox reporter actually say, wait, take and kind of giving him an out. But, you know, Trump is not going to take that.

He's like, yeah, I said it. I said it. I'm going to double down on it. So, you know, whether I'm taking or freeing, I guess it's all a matter of how you look at it, right? You know, if you're one of the commies there that's related to the Castro's in Cuba, but you may just see him as taking it. If you're anybody else that's stuck living in that hellhole,

thanks to the communist, god-awful regime that has just depressed the economy and ruin the lives of so many people, then that is freedom. That is freedom. But, you know, the media is going to go wild on this. Of course they are. I mean, for goodness sakes, Joy Behar on the View has already started in. Ladies and gentlemen, cue the tape of this nasty woman. You know, it's at the point where he has threatened to invade or take over Greenland.

Canada, Mexico, Venezuela, the Gaza Strip, and now Cuba. Yeah, now Cuba. It reminds me of somebody, I can't remember his name, who said, today, Europe, tomorrow the world. Who said that? Let me think. Okay, you know where she's going. Okay, so that was Adolf Hitler,

and she's trying to somehow draw this parallel, which I find nauseating and disgusting and really offensive to history and to these six million Jews that were slaughtered, and to all of our allies and to all of our soldiers that we lost in World War II, and yet you got idiots like John. Joy Behar that are going to get up there with her little friends like Sonny and Whoopi and try and pretend like he is Hitler.

I mean, enough already, guys. Like, until he kills six million people, like, I just don't want to hear it. I really, really don't want to hear it. What he's trying to do is actually, again, oddly, when I articulated in that senior thesis paper of mine in international relations that you need to have a safe hemisphere, okay? And he knows that he doesn't want these kind of vulnerabilities in our business. backyard because they are indeed vulnerabilities. Meanwhile, let's not forget, you know, you're sitting on an asset there, Cuba and you can't figure it out, right, because you're all a bunch

of commies, but we could change it, we could help. You know, everybody might actually have a better standard of living if you introduce a little old capitalism, the other C, right? Not commie, but capitalism into that economy. Marco Rubio knows it well. Listen to him here today, speaking in the Oval Office alongside the president, who, by the way, was there with a guy, who's head of Ireland. Everybody decked out in their green for a reason. But the bottom line is their economy doesn't work. It's a non-functional economy.

It's an economy that has survived. That revolution, it's not even a revolution, that thing they have, has survived on subsidies from the Soviet Union and now from Venezuela. They don't get subsidies anymore. So they're in a lot of trouble. And the people in charge are, they don't know how to fix it. So they have to get new people in charge.

Yeah. So we can help them maybe get some new people in charge and if you have some new people in charge, maybe we can help fix that economy. And, you know, before you know it, we might be wanting to look at a nice little condo on the beach. I'd rather have one there than overseas. I think there was a podcast host who said he was buying real estate in Qatar, right?

Good luck with that one. All right, we have much more to get to. I want to talk about this TSA shutdown. Oh, my goodness. That's what they're threatening right now. They're saying we may have not have a choice. We have to shut down the TSA because the Democrats can't get out of their own way. But before I do a quick shout out to our good friends over at Balance and Nature,

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and you can thank me by going and checking them out at balance of nature.com. Ooh, the TSA may actually have to shut down. They're looking at shutting down airports in various places because they don't have anybody to work because Democrats won't approve the funding for DHS. I mean, this is a nightmare. Just ask any traveler in any airport right now. Our flights canceled.

So what are you going to do now? We have to rebook and then go find a hotel to stay in And so tomorrow. How are you feeling about it? Horrible. I have work tomorrow. We waited also before, even when we first got here, the line was wrapped around. We had to wait like an hour to even check our bags, and it was like a two-minute process.

I could like punch through a wall right now. I'm like just like over it. Yeah, I get it, right? Like if you've ever been in an airport line, you really, really, you know, temper starts to flare. It brings out the worst in people. I actually like admire these TSA agents because I'm like, how do you deal? with John Q Public all day long, especially when people are stressed and rushed or they've been

waiting in line. It's just, it's not fun, right? Like, it's just not fun. I wish it was fun. You know, it would be great if traveling was fun. I like to get to the place I'm going, but, you know, the whole process of it is pretty difficult. And then you factor in what the Democrats are doing by, by not allowing this DHS funding, it means that we don't have any TSA funding, which means those employees aren't even getting paid, half of them aren't even showing up to work. Like, look, I get it. So now the THS funding, PSA just came out, the deputy advisor there, and said, hey, we may just have to shut some airports down. Reality, folks, reality. We're doing absolutely everything we can.

We have a national deployment office force, and we've fully depleted that. So at this point, we're fully stretched. And so, frankly, there's not much else we can do. As the weeks continue, if this continues, it's not hyperbole to suggest that we may have to quite literally shut down airports, particularly smaller ones if call out rates go up and we can't, a lot of these officers can't afford to come in. I talked to one officer this week. She's a single mother and she has a special needs child and she can't afford to pay for her special need child's childcare. So again, I believe it's frankly unconscionable that we have Senate Democrats that are playing, you know,

they're holding our folks' financial livelihood hostage over political games, political partisanship. So we really need to get back to normal order. Yeah. Can someone tell them? I mean, someone please get that memo to Chuck Schumer and company because it's not good. It's not good for the country. It's not good for our safety. It's not good for the airlines. Even the CEOs of all the airlines are begging Congress to do its job and to fund DHS because this is out of control. Meanwhile, just look at the polls. Okay? Let's go back to Harry on CNN. Are voters feeling about Democrats right now? Yeah, I mean, Democrats in the minds of the American public, are lower than the Dead Sea. What are we talking about here? Well, let's take a look. The net approval rating for Democrats in Congress.

You said at Cape Baldwin, the lowest ever. Look at this. Overall, they are 55 points underwater. Their approval rating is south of 20%. It's even worse when you look at independence. Look at this. Negative 61 points. That means that their approval rating is 61 points lower.

than their disapproval rating. Quinipeak has been polling this question for the better part of the 21st century. They have never found Democrats, at least those in Congress, and we're shaped than they are right now. Okay. So just in case they didn't hear about it on CNN, Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson wants to really rub it in their faces because he's like, come on, enough already, guys. Watch. Far below the lowest polling numbers in history. And the story led with lead, Democrats, favorability is lower than the dead sea. They're at negative 55 percentage points of favorability, negative net 55 percent in the open polling. And among independents, Democrats in Congress are at negative 60 percent. They should just retire. They should just throw in the white towel

and give us the Congress so we can fix this mess and stop the charade. This midterm election that we're coming up on is a contrast election. This is not a, I was talking with New gingrich the other night and you know he he brought the contract with america this is a contrast for america yeah i'm with you i'm looking at some of your comments here and peace of my mind is saying like i hope so i hope so because it's scary when you think about midterms and all that could go wrong and you know look i get it like there are a lot of we talked about this yesterday mtg is like i can't believe he's doing this at a time like this imagine sending your party into midterms and you've got this whole strike thing going on in iran well you know i don't know as you had a change you had a

choice, MTG. I do believe that he was presented with intelligence that was concerning enough that you either, you know, care about your party or you care about the country. And I guarantee you all day long, Donald Trump cares about the country. He wants to win. He wants his party to win, but he cares about the country first. And I don't know what Democrats do, because they're going to sit there and they're going to stomp their feet and cover their ears and say, no, no, no, no, no, we're not going to do this. We're not going to fund DHS, all while simultaneously risking our very well-being. So shame on them, really, shame on them. A quick shout out again for 76 research.

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You can also go to 76 portfolios.com just to go straight to those portfolios. I really, really, really do encourage you guys to do it. It is St. Patrick's Day, as I said, and I am very Irish. if some of you didn't know that already, you could probably guess, right? The name and everything, maybe the look. Really Irish. Like my Irish grandmother, it was like, you know, St. Patrick's Day was a big thing in my house, like big, big, big thing. Some of you guys know this story because I've told you about the light-up leprechauns that I used to have to wear. My mother and grandmother would, like, get me these really tacky, really awful light-up leprechaun pins. You just imagine, like, being a sixth-grade

and having to go to school with that thing on. I'll tell you, it makes you tough. You can handle anything, right? Anyway, and like I guess there weren't a ton of Irish people where I was either because nobody else was wearing those leprechauns that lit up. Anyway, I love my Irish heritage, and I get back to Ireland actually quite a bit. Most recently, because one of my kids, she's this amazing Irish step dancer. She's not doing as much lately because she's a very serious rower as well,

and she has not had as much time to do the Irish step dancing. which is an enormous commitment and a tremendous sport and art in and of itself. But we were going back to Ireland because I had to get her the costume, you know, and they kind of have a monopoly on that thing. You had to go to this one person in Belfast. And so we did some trips to Belfast. And every time we went to Ireland, we always went to see my family, the Regan family, or the Oregon's, as they're known there.

And, you know, they still speak Irish in this little town, this little tiny town, in the southeastern part of Ireland. And it's actually one of the 27 towns in Ireland where Irish is their first language. And so the kids, they learn everything in Irish. So my cousins, they go to school and they even learn their math in Irish. The only subject that they actually have in English is English.

I mean, they all speak English too, of course. But it's been wonderful to get back there. I was there when I was about five years old with my parents. we drove and drove and drove. The whole government was shut down at the time. The phone company had gone on strike. The mail services, the post office went on strike, so there was no way to write nor to call our relatives.

And so we showed up one afternoon in this little town. It took a long time to get there. It still takes me a long time now. And my father went and knocked on the door. And my mom tells the story, because I don't remember it quite as well. I was just about five years old. And Peg O'Regan was there. She answered the door.

She was the matriarch of the household. And my dad said who we were, and she knew immediately, immediately who we were. And we were the relatives from New Hampshire. and she put her arms around my dad, and she came out to our car, and she said to my mom, Mary Eileen, she said, Mary Eileen, you are welcome here, you are our family, and brought us in, and we had a wonderful time, and I got to know all my cousins, and, you know, I had lost touch over the years. I lost touch, and it wasn't until, I'm going to get, like, teary-eyed and emotional telling you this story. It wasn't until my daughter when she became an Irish step dancer and she had these

competitions that were taking her to Ireland and the costume design and everything, I actually had some fun with that, taking us to Ireland. That was actually when we reconnected with the family. And she said, Mom, the one thing I want to do more than anything in this world is go and meet our relatives in Ring. So I reached out and in typical Regan fashion, they were very warm and very accepting, and we have gotten to spend a lot of time with them over the last couple years. It's really just an amazing thing. And you know, with technology these days, it's great because the kids, they've all become very, very, very, very close. And the kids all connect on, you know, these various, it's not, it's WhatsApp. It's WhatsApp. I was going to say

telegram, but they all connect. And they talk to each other every weekend. And it's really, really wonderful. Like, it's just been a great, great thing. So I'm so proud of my Irish heritage. That's one side of my family, the other side of the family. They came here during the potato famine. This side of the family came here a little bit after. They actually said that where they lived, they actually had some pretty generous people and people were able to make it through the famine. Not everybody could, but in this particular part of the Ireland where they were, it wasn't as bad. But, but people have talked about the famine and as a genocide in and of itself. We can talk about that sometime. We probably should because I know so much at this point. And it's a fascinating

part of Ireland's history, of course. Anyway, I mentioned that because it is St. Patrick's Day. And I'm very, very, very Irish. And I hope we get back there this summer. I'm keeping my fingers crossed, if not this summer, definitely next summer. And in the meantime, our kids, both sides of the Atlantic are keeping this Reagan connection alive and well. So I applaud them for all of that. And it's a pretty great place to be from. You know, I'm as American through and through, but there's something sort of special about the Irish, too.

And I think the best combo of all, the very best combination, is the American Irish. There's a lot of us. There's more of us here than there are an Irish. than believe it or not. Oh yeah. Many, many more of us here. Anyway, happy St. Patrick's Day. I hope you have a good one. And cheers, everyone. I'll see you back here, live tomorrow.