The Trish Regan Show - 🔥 Ilhan Omar SPIRALS as Trump Weighs Military Option in Minneapolis

Episode Date: January 17, 2026

Minneapolis is on edge as unrest intensifies and President Trump newly signals his willingness to invoke the Insurrection Act if local leaders fail to restore order. Ilhan Omar is furious. Today, the Minnesota Congresswoman unleashed a public tirade against the Feds — just as investigators sharpen their focus on Minnesota’s massive fraud scandal. New reporting shows the overwhelming majority of alleged fraud cases are tied to her congressional district and the Treasury Department is examinging financial records connected to her controversial Feeding the Future program. With federal pressure mounting and accountability looming, Trish Regan breaks down what’s happening, why it matters, and what could come next for Minneapolis — and the nation. 🔔 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 Products: https://120Life.com use CODE: TRISH FOR 20% OFF. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tensions running high on the streets of Minneapolis right now as the president of the United States makes it very clear. The Insurrection Act is still on the table. He doesn't want to have to use it, but if he's pushed, he will. And judging by the actions that we have seen overnight, and today, going into the weekend, I can tell you, he's getting to the point of no return. So Ilhan Omar is freaking out, completely panicking at this hour because, you see, they're zeroing in on her. She's trying to divert the story to somehow this being some kind of Gestapo authoritarian regime taking to the streets in Minneapolis. But we know the truth.

And they're zoning in on her. I'm just going to tell you guys this. $250 million. $80% of the people were all from her district. You know, you start to add this up and you start to follow the money. And it gets very suspicious for one. Ilhan Omar. Meanwhile, as I said, the president of the United States, not taking the insurrection act off.

the table you could see military rule in the city of Minneapolis. By the way, it wouldn't be the first time this has happened. Welcome to the program, everyone. Good to have you here. Make sure you subscribe, share, like Ilhan Omar. This woman is nervous. She's getting panicky. She's starting to lash out saying all kinds of things.

The latest and greatest being that she is referring to ICE, immigration, customs, enforcement, which is part of the Department of Homeland Security. as, well, a paramilitary group. I mean, this is, I mean, even for her, it's kind of off a rocker, but, you know, it's off in left field. And I think it sort of speaks to how panicked and how scared she really is. And so she's got to turn this story into something else, as opposed to just law enforcement actually doing its job, because you see this is a law that's on the books made by Congress nonetheless.

And they're just trying to enforce the law, but not with Ilhan Omar around. Watch. now is unprecedented. There is no modern president for this level of federal overreach, violence, lawlessness carried out in the name of immigration enforcement. This administration has unleashed primarily paramilitary force into our neighborhoods terrorizing families. Terrorizing families. What a choice of words. Okay, what a choice of, I mean, forget about the fact that some families have been terrorized by the violence that has come from criminals that are here. I mean, again, I'm sorry.

Like, I was looking at a report this morning. It was back in the day when Barack Obama was getting people out of the country left and right. And for some reason, it was perfectly fine. CNN does a ride-along, okay? They're like, wow, isn't this amazing? Now, when it's actually a Republican in the Oval Office, suddenly it's terrible. It's the equivalent of a paramilitary group because apparently she doesn't believe that the federal government has a right to patrol who is in the country. I'm sorry, but, you know, Ilhan, I think what this is really about, my dear, Ilhan Omar, it's really about the $250 million that went missing, stolen, courtesy of your district.

Okay, and you want to tell me that you had nothing to do with it? Nothing to do with feeding our future? $250 million. That's what she's claiming. I mean, I think it's kind of interesting. The day she marries Timmy Minet, you know, as in my net worth goes up when I'm with Timmy. Not Timmy Wals. Timmy Minet.

He was her campaign manager. Yeah, he left his wife, not a good move for Ilhan Omar. I mean, economically maybe it was until the feds figure out perhaps that there may be something just a little bit wrong. I got my suspicions. I think you've got yours, and I think the Treasury Secretary has his. $250 million. She introduced that Feeding the Nation program on the day she announced her marriage with Mr. Minet. So that in and of itself just had me kind of thinking the fact that 80% of the people that have been convicted of fraud all came straight from her district.

And the fact that she was even trying to do it as recently as last week, yeah, ladies and gentlemen, as recently as last week, leave it to Joan Eurs to figure that one out. $1.03 million, Ilhan Omar was trying to get for a mental health clinic above another Somali restaurant in Minneapolis. How do you like that? Well, when she's confronted about the $9 billion, because that's what it's estimated to be right now by the U.S. Attorney's Office. They're in the state of Minnesota. $9 billion in fraud. She's confronted about reality by a reporter, and man, does she go running? I mean, she literally flees after insulting this reporter. This is an unbelievable clip, but I know some of you have seen it, But we're going to watch it again because I think it gives us interesting insight into the paranoia and the absolute hysteria going on in my opinion in Ilhan Omar's mind right now.

And believe me, she hasn't seen the worst of it. Here we go. Congresswoman Omar, yesterday you told me to please read when I asked you about the $9 billion fraud that you denied is happening. But I have it right here. I read. Look, Chairman Comer opens here on massive fraud scandal, $9 billion. That's what Comer believes because he's, that's a lot. smart as you are. It's not just Comer. It's Scott Besson, it's federal prosecutors, its house oversight. And it's Minnesota state rats. You could have that. Ma'am, I think you need to get examined because your brain has been fried in some way and it's not okay. I really hope you get

some help. You and the Republicans here. Take care, okay, ma'am? I'm sorry, I can't go to the learning centers that you're running over in Minnesota, but I think you should perhaps read what's I need one of those learning centers. I need one of those learning centers. Yeah, see it. Yeah, that's great. That's absolutely great. I like that reporter.

She's going on me. She works from Michael Lindell's network. Anyway, the point being that the day before, Ilhan, she'd approached Ilhan, and I saw the tape of this one, this was good too. She approached Ilhan and was like, hey, you know, the $9 billion, and the woman looked at her like she, you know, had a screw loose because there's no such thing as $9 billion that has gone missing, but I hate to break it to her.

Yes, everybody knows, okay? This has actually been reported, believe it or not, by even the mainstream media, CBSE. Evening News, well, not the evening news. I don't know as the TV arm has done it, but they did have it on their print site for what it's worth. $9 billion it is estimated that is suddenly up in smoke, your money, okay, your money. And she sits there and laughs and tries to tell this girl that she's got a screw loose. I think we know who's got a screw loose, ladies and gentlemen. By the way, what kind of argument is that?

I mean, she's asking a question and she comes back with, you stupid, and you know what? I mean, that tells you everything you need to know about the state of mind of one Ilhan Omar right now and how scared she is and how worried she is that they're going to find her out. They're going to find her out because $250 million went somewhere. Oh, perhaps, oh, I don't know, to Dubai because we did see that $700 million departed from the Minneapolis airport. That's more than any other airport in cash, in suitcases. Can you imagine that?

They're like stuffing millions of dollars into suitcases and they actually declared this stuff. The question is, how much did they not declare? And so the Treasury Department is like, why is so much money leaving the city of Minneapolis? I mean, it's not like these people on paper had that much money, right? But these businesses were raking it in. I mean, we don't actually have to have a business, but you just sit back and you collect off of Uncle Sam. Pretty good deal, I'll tell you. And so this is all coming to a head right now.

Mayor Jacob Frye going out on a limb here and saying, well, it would all end tomorrow, right? if we could just get rid of ice because they see ice is the problem. They don't see themselves as the problem. You see, they are the problem. The fraudsters are the problem. The reckless craziness in the streets, and we've seen it. By the way, this is the second time under Governor Timmy Walsh's watch that you've seen this kind of craziness in the streets.

The last time being summer of 2020 BLM riots, right, in Minneapolis. So they know how to do these things. They don't like who's in office? What do you know? Amazing. it didn't happen when Joe Biden was there, right? We don't want to make the president look bad, but hey, when we can make Trump look bad, we're all over it.

So Jacob Fry is out there trying to say that it'll all end tomorrow. If ICE just goes away, no, no, no, no, it won't end because I'll tell you what, Mr. Fry. We're not going to stop investigating all this money, that you stole your team, your district, stole from us. And you guys looked the other way. So number one, there's that. Number two, you're not allowing federal law enforcement to do its job, which puts you in violation of the U.S. Constitution you are impeding and therefore giving the president every single right to invoke the Insurrection Act. You're going to have the military on your streets. Here's Jacob Fry. If this were about order, there would be a simple way to restore it. And let me tell you a secret.

It's not restored by additional federal agents. Order would be restored. And I would be restored. We'll make this prediction if those federal agents left. As soon as they leave, we will have peace, we will have safety, and order will be restored. Yeah, right. So, you see, he wants to get his way. But if we leave, we don't actually get to see all the fraud that was going on. They don't want DHS there.

They don't want the Department of Agriculture there. They don't want the IRS there. They don't want Treasury Department there. They don't want any of the feds there, right? because you see the feds are the ones that are finding all of this fraud. $9 billion in the state of Minnesota. $250 million, just from one little program that was introduced by Ilhan Omar and, by the way, was servicing his city.

Nobody thought to say boo. Well, I mean, heck, Ilhan Omar had her own darn campaign people. Think about that. One of the people on her campaign that worked for her as a staffer went on to steal millions of dollars. from U.S. taxpayers via the Feeding Our Future Program introduced by her. So clearly, we have a problem. And Ilhan has a problem.

And Minneapolis has a problem. And it's going to come to hurt them badly. Meanwhile, we've got good stuff going on in the overall U.S. economy. Just don't tell CNN. I thought this was great. Somebody tweeted this out yesterday, and I wanted to just show you. U.S. inflation is still high, but it's falling, they said, back in 2023. This is when we were dealing with like upwards of 6%.

After having touched 9.6% in consumer prices, they wrote in 20203 under the Biden administration, whoo, last month's consumer price index measured 6% down from January 6.4%. Like it's a victory lap, right? And then the other day, this week when we get inflation out, and by the way, it's great, okay, it's 2.7%. Core went down to 2.6%. The headline is, U.S. inflation remains at 2.7% in December, underscoring persistent cost of living challenges.

Oh, you know, Debbie Downer's over there at CNN. They just don't want to give this president anything. Well, BlackRock came out with a report today, and by the way, they own a ton of housing, which has been controversial in and of its own right. But it's worth noting, and we tweeted this out over at 76 Research, that they're pegging inflation at 2%. Okay, so they think the government's way high. 2.7%.

Forget about it. They think it's actually 2%. So there's a lot of optimism out there. We get six point, rather, forgive me, 5.6% expected GDP growth that's predicted from the Atlanta Fed for the fourth quarter of the year. I mean, what's to complain about? I really like all of this. Go to 76 Research.com. That's my financial research company. Use code word dollar to get the 76 report. You get a lot of insights into what's going on in the markets, but I'll tell you, the real, real investors out there. You want to look at the model portfolios because we have our research on all

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Act. He doesn't want to use it, but he wants you to know. He remains open to it. And if he needs to, and I actually think he's going to need to, it's on the table. Watch. Well, the Interaction Act, which has been used by 48% of the presidents, as of this moment, the Insurrection Act, also, if you look at it, I believe it was Bush. the elder Bush. He used it, I think, 28 times. It's been used a lot. And if I needed it,

I'd use it. I don't think there's any reason right now to use it. But if I needed it, I'd use it. It's very powerful. Well, yeah, it is very powerful. You see, because you get to send the military in to keep the peace. And look, we've done it before. I mean, he mentioned, I don't know, about 48% of the time, I guess there's some sort of minor things that have happened along the way. but the biggest one in recent memory, sort of in my memory, would be 1992. And I sort of barely remember it, right, because I was still kind of a kid. So 1992, I mean, it was Rodney King, right? And they sent the troops in there to keep the peace in L.A.

because of the riots that were ensuing. And so that's one example. The other big example in history would be going back to Eisenhower. And they had to do this with Eisenhower because, you know, they didn't want to integrate in the state of Arkansas. The schools, they didn't want to integrate. I mean, it's like Alabama, right? When Kennedy had to send in the National Guard in Alabama,

because they didn't want to integrate there as well. So this is the same kind of thing. The states like Minnesota, well, we're not going to do this. We're not going to go along with your immigration enforcement. We're going to actually serve to impede ICE, and that becomes a problem. Jonathan Turley talking about this actually on Hannity last night. I like Turley because he's an excellent, excellent constitutional law scholar. Let's go to him explaining, yeah, guess what?

The president has every right to be able to do this. He can invoke the Insurrection Act right now. And I'm going to tell you guys, I wouldn't be surprised if it happens this weekend. If things get out of control, it could indeed transpire. Here's Charlie. I hope that this can be avoided. But if you're asking the question of, does he have the authority to invoke it? I think he does.

The Insurrection Act is very generally worded. It allows a president to call out. military force in order to enforce the laws of the United States. That was done by President Eisenhower and Kennedy in very similar circumstances. In those circumstances, you had local officials, including governors, who were extremely aggressive, anti-federal government, saying they would not assist in the enforcement of civil rights laws. These are obviously different laws. These are the immigration laws, but both are laws of the United States.

And you have a governor here and a mayor who have been fueling the rage, telling people that they're under attack. You have Democratic senators just as weak saying democracy might not last till November. All of that's creating this very volatile situation. So under the insurrection. And you almost wonder if it's by design, right? Because they're trying to like gin up something. And so as much as I think the president's going to need to use this, And I'm sort of like over it at this point.

I mean, Minneapolis, get a hold of yourself. Minnesota get a hold of yourself. I'm sick and tired of it. I'm also cognizant of the reality that they may be trying to set a trap for him. Because if you look at some of the polling, Americans don't like what he's doing on immigration. They don't like what they see transpiring with ICE in Minneapolis. And so these guys are trying to ride that all the way to the bank.

And so they want more and more and more trouble that they're trying to gin up. Turley talked about this too. Watch. Do you see a connection between the incendiary rhetoric of elected officials and the actions of people on the street? Have they dehumanize these agents? Have they created a false narrative that they somehow are not there to protect the community, but are somehow at war with the community? I think there is clearly a connection.

I just wrote a book about what I call The Age of Rage. That's what we're in. And you have people who want to ride that wave of rage. This has happened throughout our history in which you have politicians that want to harness the power of the mob. We've had these types of situations before. It's very reckless, is very irresponsible, and people are being harmed on both sides. But it's clear that the governor, the mayor, do not want to ratchet down the rhetoric because they do see political advantage in this as the midterms approach.

Boom, okay? So that's what I'm talking about here. They're looking at it in a very cagey way, and they see that, you know what, and it's true. I mean, Americans don't like seeing this kind of chaos on the streets, and they worry, you know, is this being brought on because Trump decided to make an issue of this? And these are the things that they're worrying about. And I'm telling you, you ought to be worried about the fact that they're stealing potentially $9 billion from you.

That's what I'm worried about. Coupled with, yes, the reality that you have people that did not do things the right way. that's what they're uncovering with some of these people from, indeed Somalia, the president has basically stopped anyone knew being able to get naturalized as a citizen from Somalia at this point, with the point being from DHS, you can go home to your own country, you do not need to seek refuge in the United States anymore because Somalia is in a different place than it was however many years ago. All that said, listen, they see opportunity. These politicians are pure and simple, political. And anytime they can go up against Trump, it's all about going up

against Trump. As I said, and the media is along for the ride, right? Literally, along for the ride, except for, you know, a few, like Newsmax and maybe Fox. That was Jonathan Turley on Fox, actually, on Hannity's program. And he asked a good question, actually. We'll give them points for that. The point I'm making is that this juncture, you may not have any kind of other option. if you want to protect the people of Minnesota. Now, they'll say if more people get killed, if more people get shot, well, it's your fault, Donald Trump, because everything's his fault, right? But I would also point out if he goes in there with the Insurrection Act

and he does bring the military in, then they're going to say it's your fault. I also would add to this, look at what happened in Washington, D.C., right? You had the murder rate come down, you had crime come down, you had the mayor go along with it. It actually was a good example of how this can all work beautifully. But in the case of what we're seeing on the ground right now in Minneapolis, this is very clear. Politicians are doing everything that they can to gin up controversy, leaving the president with very little option other than to look at the Insurrection Act and bringing in the military.

Jason Chavez, he's a Democrat senator or maybe a Democrat congressman, forgive me, from Minneapolis state politician and listen to this guy. He actually admits it. He says, he comes right out and says, I'm alerting people. I'm alerting people to whether or not ICE is in their neighborhood every day. Is that not impeding law enforcement? Thank you very much. One law member, I mean, a member of the state assembly going out and alerting people.

This is total anarchy and it cannot happen. watch. I give daily updates about where ICE is at in our neighborhoods. So people can make adequate plans to stay safe. Lerting your neighbors about immigration enforcement is not escalating tensions. It's keeping people safe. Taking folks to work and back is not creating tensions. It's keeping people safe. Allerting neighbors of any type of immigration enforcement is not escalating tensions. It's keeping people safe. Okay. Did you notice how we kept repeating that? It's keeping people safe. It's keeping people safe. He's got his talking points, ladies and gentlemen, and they've realized it's working because they're looking at their real-time polls. And listen, this is a president who's just going to do what he thinks sometimes.

I mean, granted, sometimes he listens to polls, but for the most part, I'd actually say he kind of follows his own path. And this is important to him, and he ran on this. So he's very serious about cleaning up immigration, and he's very serious about getting rid of the fraud. Here's another Democrat state representative. Trying to turn this into something it's not. The disorder that exists in our streets, the public safety risk at this point, is not an insurrection in Minneapolis. It is an invasion by masked, unaccountable secret police

on behalf of an authoritarian regime on the march. Woo! Woo! Okay. I got more to show you. Wait a second. We got to unpack what that lady just said. An authoritarian regime on the march. It's an invasion by an authoritarian regime on the march. Okay, of course, on MSNBC or Ms. Now, whatever they go by these days. Ouch. So this is how they're characterizing it. This is part

of their talking points. And that's actually, believe it or not, doing okay for them in the polls. Meanwhile, I showed this in yesterday's show, but I want you to see it again. I had to play it twice, Because I was like, wait a second, did he really, really say that? The CNN anchor asked this state representative, would you be okay if people actually have arms and, like, they're taking up arms and they actually have weapons and they're going after ICE in that way? And listen to his answer. This should frighten everyone. If they did, in fact, have some sort of weapons to use to attack the ICE officer, would that change your opinion of whatever unfolded next? Actually, no, right?

No, I don't care. You got weapons, go for it. Okay, we get a problem. Because our law enforcement officers are now being put in tremendous jeopardy, and they're scared. That's why the Renee, good thing happened. Because when you look at the tape and we watch that together in the premiere show, remember frame by frame, and what did we see? She gunned the gas. She put her, you know, pedal to the metal, as they say.

and he was really frightened because, by the way, he had just had a bad situation. Just a few weeks earlier where he had been in the hospital. We've also learned, Fox reporting just this week, that he suffered some internal injuries and was hospitalized for that as a result of this particular episode. So, look, the guy was scared. But wouldn't you be? I mean, look at what's going on. They broke into a federal agent's car where this federal agent had a locker filled with weapons

and they tried to take the weapons. I mean, this is insanity. The video we're looking at is coming to us from Nick Sordor. By the way, just kudos to all the citizen journalists out there and independent journalists that are getting out of this video and information. And thank goodness for the freedom that we now have in the media, that we can bring this to you because otherwise it might not be. seeing this, but these people are going after this locker filled with weapons, and you can see

the just kind of rage that they've got, and I don't know how else you would characterize this, and they fortunately were not able to get that thing open, but it leaves you asking the question, you know, what would happen if they had been able to, so see them like trying to break in with hammers, et cetera. So, you know, this is important to just think about, because On the night that this is happening, simultaneously, you got a state lawmaker out there telling CNN, hey, you know, it would be okay. I'd be okay with it if they had weapons. So what exactly are these people trying to gin up?

I think we know. I mean, I'll just say it, right? This is like a civil war type thing. I mentioned a few times in history that a president has had to call for the Insurrection Act. Gary's metal detecting, good to see you here today. I would just say, because this show is live, by the way, so I see all your chats. and appreciate the generosity as always. But I would just say that in light of the president saying it, you know,

it's been used many, many times before. I can tell you the big times would be Rodney King, 1992, and then you go back to 1957 with Eisenhower. I'm thinking about 1960, what, 1963 with George Wallace and Alabama and the need to integrate the schools there. In other words, there's a duty that the federal government has to being able to ensure the safety and, indeed the potential for prosperity of all of these citizens all over the country.

And if you've got one state in particular that, frankly, is stealing from everybody else and they've got all kinds of fraud going on and nobody's willing to prosecute it, well, that's when the feds have to step in. You couple that together with the violence that we're seeing on the streets right now, and that is a recipe for the Insurrection Act. And the reason why it's a big deal is because everybody harkens back to Lincoln using the Insurrection Act, which actually kicked. off the Civil War. So nobody wants that, or at least I don't want that. The president doesn't want that.

People don't want that unless I guess you're a dem because they're so crazed right now. They're so far off the reservation that they're actually out there saying, yeah, you know, I'd be okay with that if somebody took up arms. Suddenly they're like pro second amendment. What the heck is going on, ladies and gentlemen? Meanwhile, Greg Bevino, he runs, he's the temporary head of border patrol right now, or interim, I should say, he told Fox, yep, I can confirm that was a federal law enforcement officer's vehicle that they stole those weapons from, and it points to how dicey the situation is on the ground right now. We want to bring in Greg Vivino, the Border Patrol Chief, who I just mentioned, is on the ground there right now. Greg, welcome to you. Thank you for joining us. Please

do share with us what's happening there and describe the situation. Sure, Sandra, the situation there at the federal building, the Whipple building, quite active protests out front at the building, and there have been some recent arrest made some of those protesters and rioters. They want to block the road, make it difficult for federal law enforcement to do its job. So they're being pushed out of the road, and if they don't move, they're being arrested. Greg, it's John here. We know that it's been an awfully busy couple of weeks for you there in Minneapolis. We see the resist flag in the footage that we were looking at, although our camera has just gone down.

I don't know why. It could simply be a battery and we'll probably be back up again. But that's echoing the words of the governor of Minnesota last night, who said that people should go out and resist ICE. They should take their cameras out with them and film everything that they're doing. This idea, though, of holding protests right in front of the federal building, right where ICE is, the confrontation between the protesters and ICE, is in your mind, is that the way the people should be protesting ISIS presence, or should they

have an area where protesters make their voices heard, but avoid direct confrontation? Sure, no one wants direct confrontation, John. We respect the First Amendment rights of anyone to air their grievances. We just ask those grievances to be aired civilly and not with violence. And that's where it seems a lot of these individuals cross the line, whether they're at the Whipple Federal Building or otherwise, is because they're encouraged. And we've said this many times Sandra and John, they're encouraged to step over that line. And as you say, resist. And that is far and apart from exercising the First Amendment right to freedom of speech, freedom of assembly.

You see, they're being encouraged to defy law enforcement to prevent the feds from being able to enforce the law. They are encouraging the citizens of Minneapolis to, quote unquote, fight back. And this is reaching a level, sort of a volume that is not sustainable. And what they're hoping is that this will cause ice to go away and for it all to end. They want this to be ground zero. but I don't think it's going to go away. And you know what? It can't go away. Not in light of what we've discovered with $9 billion being stolen from the American people.

And lawmakers look in the other way. That's why it can't go away. So victims' rights, you know, you've got to think about the victims in this situation. They are the other people in Minneapolis that aren't out there taking to the streets. We ran a short the other day on the Trish Regan Shorts feed, and it was a young woman from Minneapolis saying, hey, you know what, we're not all crazy out here. It's just that they've been dominated, politically speaking,

by this group of people, Ilhan's peeps, right, who have come here with maybe the intention of having a better life. And it sounds like, you know, hey, $9 billion later, like maybe they're really getting it. These are the allegations, of course. And in the case of the feeding our future scam, it's true. I mean, these people were stealing millions and millions.

and millions of dollars from you. And so there are victims in all of this, the people of Minnesota that weren't engaged in this and the rest of America. Not to mention, you've got to protect the property of the people of Minnesota. I mean, I want to give you an example here. I mean, they are so rabid right now in Minnesota that they're going after anyone in an SUV. God help you if you're driving in an SUV. This poor guy found out the hard way.

He's a member of the media. So typically the cameramen, you know, they still get the big cameras. They don't really need them. They could take much smaller cameras, but it's a network thing. They like having their big cameras and their big equipment and they get the big SUV with the equipment in the back. And all of a sudden the protesters target him? Come on. I mean, this is just telling you how crazy it's all gotten. And again, how rabid these people have become. I want you to see a clip. Huh? Here you go. Like you said, I don't have to do this. I'm happy to do this.

That's all. We just got to stop this. So he's got a lot of cameras. Yeah, I'm not. I tried to tell him. First lady, nobody believes me. I'm trying to tell you. That's all I can do is I can tell you you guys have the wrong guy.

I know it's hard to hear. This is sort of a cell phone video of a cameraman in an SUV. And because he, I don't know, maybe he looks like a Fed. They just assumed he's a Fed. He's driving an SUV. They start targeting him and he's like, wait, wait, no, no, you got the wrong guy. I've already told you. No, no, no, I'm not with ice.

I'm not with ice. I'm just here as. a member of the media. But what does it tell you about the state of affairs in the city of Minneapolis right now that people are so crazed that they're going to go after a federal agent's truck, pull out a locker that's fully locked and try and open it because they believe there are weapons inside which were told their war? What does it tell you when they're taking to the streets like this and just frankly verbally assaulting an innocent guy? I've showed you a video all week of them harassing ICE officers that are in uniform. We saw what happened with McDonald's,

for example. McDonald's in Minneapolis not allowing ICE officers to even come in and get a lunch. I mean, this is chaos. You know, you got all kinds of things going on. You get the Supremacy Act. You get, well, the Commerce Clause, I kind of love for everything, right? You've got the 14th Amendment. You've got to secure everybody's rights. I mean, this is turning into a complete, lawless hellhole. and you can't allow for that. So this is where the president finds himself right now. Again, the end of this tape. This guy's just like, guys, guys, I told you, you've got the wrong one.

You know, is this their goal? I think I see a spelling error. What do you know? On the lower third, that's what we call those lower thirds, and we fixed it on the fly. See, we do it all here on the Tristan show. Hey, quick reminder, make sure you subscribe. We talked about this yesterday about how one of the guys on my team said,

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we're challenged by here. So yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, like I said, not the best picture, but it serves a purpose. Okay, so that was me earlier this week. We were talking about Pam Bondi being on very thin ice with the President of the United States. And she still is. I mean, look, I know she got the Pentagon leaker put in jail, apparently, because that guy was, like, given secrets to the Washington Post reporter. It's like some low-level person, but had top security clearance and was getting information on what we were about to do in Venezuela and, like, leaked it out. It's really, really awful stuff. Anyway, she did secure getting him in jail, but there's a lot of stuff, let's face it, that she hasn't done that we're all frustrated by. and I know I saw in one of your comments you're like,

paging Pam Bondi, I think I put it up on the screen, when we think about how little she's done thus far in everything, whether it's Letitia James, whether it's James Comey, whether it is, oh, I don't know, Russia, Russia, Russia, whether it is the Hunter Biden crime family that's been alleged, right, with the money that may have been going. I mean, we know it was going, right? He was making $600 grand a year for a board job.

Like, nobody's even heard of that. It's absolutely insane for a now defunct energy company that was completely corrupt. I digress. Pam does that to me. I like her, by the way. I really do like her. I just get a little frustrated with where we are.

And that's why they're actually appointing a separate prosecutor. They have kind of, you know, cut her legs out from under her because she's been a no-show on everything. And so now they're bringing in someone separate to run the prosecution specifically for all of this fraud that's going on nationwide. But look at that bell. It has a line through it, because none of those alerts are going off.

So I encourage you to just double check and make sure you're subscribed and make sure that you hit the bell for all alerts. Pam Bondi, I don't know what to tell you. I think that Janine Piro would like your job. And I think Janine Puro is a pit bull and is not going to take a no from anyone on anything. In fact, she bypassed her boss, Pam, in order to go after her. Jerome Powell, allegedly Jerome Powell, wasn't answering her questions, and she went back

over and over again to him and asked all these questions, and he just ignored her and he blew her off, and so the next thing you know, he's being investigated for criminal purposes. So that's what happened there. And she did not ask Pam Bondi if she could do that, nor the Treasury Secretary, nor anyone. She just went rogue. That's a bureau for you. Judge Janine, all right, never underestimate her. And Pam, if I were you, I'd definitely not underestimate her. Meanwhile, Tom Homan, our borders are, is like, we need to expose these people. These protesters that are skipping work because they think it's a good idea to hit the streets and go out and protest.

We need to let everybody know who they are. In fact, you know what we can do? We can try to make them famous. And that's exactly what he appears to be looking at doing. Tom Homan making it really clear that he's willing to call out everyone. Yeah. I want to show you an excerpt from his interview with Laura Ingram last night. He basically says, we're going to docks you, right? For lack of a better term, watch out. You guys may want to wear your mask now soon too. Here he is with Laura. When Governor Wall said for citizens to track ice, film them, and record their quote, atrocities for future prosecution. And then you hear the Philly police chief,

looked like a comedy sketch when she was up there, talking about, we're going to, you know, we'll arrest ICE if we have to. We'll arrest the agents. If you come into our town, you're going to get arrested, essentially. I'm paraphrasing. What's your response to them tonight? Well, the Philly sheriff, she's proven she's not too smart. I mean, you know, I don't know it was the supremacy clause. If you interfere or impede ICE, officers, I don't care if you're wearing a badge or not. You just committed a felony. So we're going to continue doing this job. And these people who want to, you know, say, follow ICE, you know, and film ICE, you know what, you can protest. They have that right.

But when you cross the line and we've proven it. If you interfere or impede or assaulting ICE officer, you will be prosecuted. I didn't mean to cover him up. He's such a good guy. So he's like, yeah, you can't do that because you're now impeding law enforcement. And you know what? We're going to do something about this. We're going to make sure everybody knows that you are impeding law enforcement. Everybody's arrested.

It's going to be out there. Watch. When Governor Wall said for citizens to track ICE, film them, and record their, quote, atrocities for future prosecution. And then you hear the Philly police chief. look like a comic comedy sketch when she was up there talking about we're going to you know we'll arrest ice if we have to we'll arrest the agents if you come into our town you're going to get arrested essentially and paraphrasing what's your response to them tonight we're going to create a

database where those people that are arrested for interference and pina assault we're going to make them famous we're going to put their face on tv we're going to let their employers in their neighborhoods in their schools know who these people are because as you said a lot of these people they say they're taking time off work to protest, I bet you a lot of them are calling and sick. I bet you a lot of employers don't know what they're doing, but we're going to make sure everybody knows who they are who we're going to broadcast. They want to broadcast the ICE officer those nearly killed all over the internet. We're going to broadcast every one of these people we arrest. Wow. Okay, so he's serious about that. And hey, if you're arrested, you're fair game, right? They're going to put your face out there

and your name out there. And I don't think your employee is going to like it if you did indeed. Call out six so that you could hit the streets. Look, you've got residents that are living there. There's a duty for the federal government to protect those residents that are getting caught up in this craziness, right? Because they deserve to be protected. You saw the guy, for example, that's a member of the media and he's just driving around his SUV and they're ready to pound him. You've got people that are living alongside.

Did you see all the homes? That was a residential area where the people pulled that locker out of the federal agents truck. Again, a residential area. And so there's a duty there to actually make sure that people are protected. And, you know, from a violence standpoint, from a protection of life and property standpoint, all of these things are incredibly important. And this is what the federal government has to come in and do. And so as we go into the weekend right now, and you can anticipate that they're probably flying the protesters in.

There's professional protesters. They're like training protesters for exactly this stuff in hopes that it will gin up some political excitement. And believe me, if you look at the most recent CNN poll, and you have to always take it with a grain of salt, right? Because it's CNN. And I'm guessing the way they even phrase these questions is especially biased. But that poll indicates that Americans don't really like this, that they're really concerned about this. So they are thinking, we're just going to ride this all the way to the bank. The bank being midterm elections.

And so that is of concern. And I don't think that they're going to relent. So you're going to see as we go into the weekend more and more violence, more and more trouble. And, you know, it's becoming increasingly a problem. We do have the president saying, okay, no more, no more protection to Somalis, no more visas to 75 different countries. That's actually related to what's going on in Iran. But as I circle back to the use of the Insurrection Act, I would also point out what we know about all this fraud. And I would say, you know, the Treasury Department is trying to get some answers because $700 million went missing.

And by the way, Minneapolis, right, being ground zero for all this. Minnesota, broadly speaking, having a lot of this fraud, it turns out the second highest center of money going out of the country in suitcases is actually from Ohio. It just so happens that in Ohio, you actually have your second largest Somali community to what you have in Minnesota. So, you know, it's like $345 or $360 million that they saw coming out of that state. In the airport, in cash, in suitcases, head and for Dubai. All right?

So this is concerning. They have this Huala system, okay? the whole walla system is like a cash-to-cash transaction thing. So these are their money couriers. And the money couriers are basically stuffing all these dollar bills into suitcases and taking it out. In Minneapolis, they found that $700 million had been carried out over the span of two years.

That is peculiar. Okay, so I realize Ilhan Omar doesn't seem to have her fingerprints on anything. And I would hope for her sake that she's as clean as a whistle. But Treasury is going to want to track all this money down. and Treasury is doing this. And I would just re-emphasize that when it comes to the Insurrection Act, you're looking at a couple of things, not just the violence in the streets, which is massive and significant and perhaps the first reason,

the sort of impediment of law enforcement to do their job. These are combined, very, very important reasons to be looking at the Interaction Act. But the secondary reason would be this protection of the rest of America because if they're stealing this much money, we've got to do something about it. I mean, Nick Shirley, YouTuber, has done a phenomenal job. Basically, if I were Barry Weiss at CBS, well, first of all, I never would have taken the gig. Although it's $150 million, so, you know, we can't totally fault her. She's never going to be able to fix that place, though.

Sorry. And Nick Shirley, if they brought him in, they'd eat them up and spit him out for lunch on any given day. He'd be like a morning snack. But he's actually doing some really good reporting in all this. He's the one that found the quality leering center, remember? And his sidekick has been looking at a new thing, which is the transportation services and the translation services they have for small. He's going to the doctor.

And he's on to something here. Watch. We lost it. Oh, well, this is the thing with a live show. I'm going to go back to what we're talking about with al-Shabaab. This is the fear because al-Shabaab, Boko Haram, these are terror groups that basically take a cut, right? Like everything, you know, they've got this money network, the money career network.

They don't trust Chase Bank or Bank of America or any of these places. They give it to their friend who gives it to their friend, who gives it to their friend, who puts it in a suitcase, and takes it over, seize. And so it makes it more opaque and more difficult to track. And the terror organizations know this. I happen to know a lot about this because I've actually won quite a bit of, quite a few awards for my reporting on the Hezbollah and Hamas networks that were basically the biggest source of funding outside of,

well, this was a while ago. I was going to say outside of Minnesota, right now outside of Iran. And they were in Latin America. And there was like a real center, a hot spot of illegal activity. And so many of these people were sending it back to Hamas and to Hezbollah. And that was the biggest source funding, as I said, outside of Iran for these terror organizations. But, you know, that was a while ago. And we're talking 2006, when I reported that out, And so, yeah, my gosh, it was 20 years ago. I'm dating myself. So 20 years ago, it was Latin America.

Nowadays, it may just be Minnesota. In fact, there was a big article by Manhattan Institute talking about this in their daily publication where they said, look, the biggest, they quoted somebody who's a terrorist financier tracker. The biggest source of money for al-Shabaab in the world is actually coming from. Minnesota. So that's concerning. It's Somali couriers. They're believed to be part of a much larger system reports just the news in which legal and illegal immigrants are moving tens of billions of dollars a year out of the United States via flights or remittance payment vendors. So this is

indeed concerning. And, you know, here it goes on to talk about Mexico and the cartels, etc. But my big concern is Minneapolis. My big concern is Minnesota. My secondary concern is Ohio, where the second largest amount of money is being transferred, which happens to just be the second largest Somali population, and you've got to worry about al-Shabaab and Boko Haram. Ilhan Omar, I think she's really scared at this point. I mean, this is my personal conjecture, but given what we've seen over and over again, she's now referring to ICE as a paramilitary group, but she can't even say the word paramilitary, as you saw earlier in the show.

She is also refusing to answer questions and belittling reporters that dare to ask them. And now she's saying we've got to just completely defund ICE because we are not going to have any kind of border patrol whatsoever. We've got to get away with immigration enforcement. We want to get it away for good. Take a listen. The Congressional Progressive Caucus has adopted an official position to hold ICE accountable. Our caucus members will oppose. all funding for immigration enforcement in any appropriation bills until meaningful reforms

are enacted to end militarized policing practices. Oh, okay. So we're just going to get rid of it. You know, who needs, who needs immigration enforcement? We didn't like those borders anyway. Hey, guys, you know what? You might have more in common with Trump than you think. I mean, he just took Venezuela, though, right?

He could go and take Mexico. He seems to want to take Canada, along with Greenland. Hey, you know, it's a free for all. Listen, if you're going to open the borders, then we better control what's going on down there, okay? It's ridiculous. It's utterly, totally, utterly ridiculous. I'm seeing some of your comments, you know, Ilhan Omar was no fan of Charlie Kirk, of course.

I mean, Charlie, by the way, just I can't say enough good stuff about him. I don't want to go down that rabbit hole right now, but he was just a terrific, terrific guy, and I was one of the first to put him on TV. some 10 years ago. I was like, this kid is good. Man, can we get him back? And he was always willing to come on and we used to make him a regular. So he was just always spot on and he didn't like Ilhan clearly. It's not that he didn't like her. It's just he sort of knew what she was. He saw through her and she was really awful about that, including in the aftermath of his death. So there's some things, you know, it's just going to be hard to forgive. And whether it's

Charlie Kirk or whether it's her stealing from the American people via the feeding our nation, And I realize, I can't say that she's stealing. It's her constituents that we're stealing. 80% of them were from her district, for goodness sakes, $250 million up in smoke, and she was still trying to do it. I mean, this is the amazing thing. I mean, the gall on this woman. To then be putting through this request for another million bucks,

you've got to be kidding me. Who do you think we are? Covered the other day. And one of our spending bills making its way through, Congress was an $1 million earmark from Representative Ilan Omar of Minnesota, which was an earmark that was supposedly going to a substance abuse clinic, which actually happened to be housed in a restaurant and run by three individuals that share the same residential address according to their IRS paperwork. Tons of red flags. So this is what we saw with the

fraud involving the daycare centers. Now we see other earmarks coming directly from members of Congress where it seems fraud is being perpetrated as well. So I raised the issue. She raised the issue, unfortunately, that funding did not go through for Ilhan Omar's friends that had a mental health clinic above a Somali restaurant that she was trying to get through last week. You can't make it up, right? You cannot make it up. Well, I'll tell you, Besson's on to her. Besson brought down the Bank of England. I think he can bring down Ilhan Omar, Timmy Walsh,

and Keith Ellison, the AG, of Minnesota that was apparently caught on tape. Trying to promise protection for the fraudsters. Yah. Following the money, there are evidently some disturbing tapes of A.G. Ellison in meetings with people who donated to him. them calling for political favors to stop the investigations. So we'll see. But again, I don't want to get out ahead of the investigations.

It's going to be very methodical. And Chris, I can guarantee you when the bear trap snaps, we're going to get these folks. And again, we're going to follow the money, whether it's all, whether it's over the two counties here, in Minneapolis, St. Paul's, or whether it's to East Africa. And there's tons of luxury properties, cars that have been bought over there. He's going to find every stinking one of them. Did you hear that, Ilhan? So I don't know what you did.

I'm not suggesting you did anything. But I have questions. Guarantee a Besson does too. A lot of questions. And this guy doesn't mess around. In fact, we know he doesn't mess around because he made sure that Pam Bondi wouldn't be the one prosecuting all of this, right? they're getting a special prosecutor. And meanwhile, Ilhan Omar getting referred to the Ethics Committee by one James Comer

because it's really suspicious how she went from no money to $30 million. I mean, her husband also had no money. And then suddenly, $30 million. How does that happen? I ask you, what do you think? Comer has his suspicions. You said this week that Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar was, quote, at the top of the suspect list. Can you elaborate?

Well, we have to disclose annually our financial statements. And I think it's public knowledge what the salary is for Congress. And it's been the same. I've been here nine years. It's been the exact same, $174,000 for nine years. Omar's been here maybe five or seven years. But regardless, her network just out of nowhere skyrocketed. We know it's tied to a venture capital or private equity, some type of investment, two investment funds that are husbands running.

We have a lot of questions about where the money came from. How do you make that much in fees in a short period of time? Is the Congresswoman Ilhan Omar? Is this a case that could be referred to the Ethics Committee? Absolutely. You know, the Ethics Committee's sole purpose in life is to investigate members of course. Will you refer her case to the Ethics Committee? Absolutely. And I think that there are going to be a lot of members that will encourage the Ethics Committee to take this up.

Because it's just a simple question. It shouldn't take very long. One little session with the Ethics Committee, you know, with basic questions, how did he amassed this much money? And then if they're not satisfied with the answer, then they can certainly get those financial records. Our thanks to Catherine Harage, her show straight to the point for that interview with Comer. her, yeah, she's going to be in the hot seat, really and truly in the hot seat. Again, because, you know, as recently as last week, she's still trying to look out for her friends, the Somali restaurant owners who had an addiction group.

Now, I'm not saying, I have to be careful here, right, because they're innocent until proven guilty. But I'm saying, it's certainly suspicious in light of everything. Guys, like, you know, we weren't born yesterday. You got a Somali restaurant group where apparently they got an addiction center upstairs, you know, separate offices, you get to like eat and go get some treatment all in one thing, except you probably weren't getting any treatment, right? Like that's the whole problem here.

It's just somebody's making off with a whole lot of money. And we need to find out how. And we need to find out whether Timmy, Minet, and Ilhan Omar had anything to do with that or any money was going through the Huala Network to go back overseas to buy her some fancy stuff. Besson's going to find out. Believe me. Generation hope. My, you know what.

Generation hope. I mean, you got to hand it to them. They got clever names for these things, right? They figured out the gravy train, haven't they? Bessent, like I said, is on it. And he knows exactly what this is about. Hear him with Laura. So we're lowering that to 3,000. Oh, good. And we're also targeting the two counties here.

and we're going to do enhanced surveillance. And from now on, anyone who wires money out from one of these money service businesses has to check a box saying whether they are on public assistance. And if you were on public assistance, we are going to start pushing that you cannot wire money out of the country. Oh, gosh.

And what if they lie and they don't tell us from public assistance? Well, then... That's a crime lying out of federal form. We're going to follow it up. And we are going to... that you can no longer do that. The American people, our generosity, has been taken advantage of. Our generosity is funding al-Shabaab in Iranian interest, it could be. Well, the money... This is really bad.

The money is supposed to go for alleged asylum seekers and their families and children. And if you were wiring the money out of the country, one of two things must be true. You are getting too much money and your benefits should be cut or you are part of this conspiracy. Where did that money come from? We're going to find it out. That's what Treasury does. IRS has a group called criminal investigations. Criminal investigations was the group.

So criminal investigations is going to be looking very hard at all of this, as is everybody within the IRS. He talks about these guys saying, you know, they're kind of like cool cats. They do it all. Like on the one hand, they can look aggressively at a balance sheet, and they've got a good head for math, and then on the other, they can get out there with a weapon. and bang somebody's door down.

So it's clear, very, very clear, if you would, that he's not gonna take no for an answer on this. And he's very serious about it. Meanwhile, you've got ICE saying, hey, hey, we're onto you guys. They actually tweeted out. This is really interesting for a government. Well, I mean, this is what, he does a lot of this, right? He tweets other people's stuff.

In the case of ICE, they're tweeting out an article from this week. Trump administration ends temporary protected status for thousands of Somalis in US. And they say, DPS for Somalis has ended. Leave the U.S. on your own terms between now and March 17th or receive a visit from ICE. The choice is yours. So that is a big deal, guys, a very, very big deal. They're making it clear. They're not going to put up with any of this, any of this at all. Again, I want to at least point out that we've got some optimism in that we're not probably dealing with Pam Bondi, dare I say on this.

we're all kind of upset with Bondi. The president himself is upset with Bondi. I mean, again, I am frustrated with what happened with Leticia James. I'm looking at your comments and you guys are angry and you're like, look, what the heck is going on? Like, why is nothing happening? I think she's in over her head. That's my own two cents.

And I say this is someone who has no axe to grind against her. I've been really in her corner up until quite recently because when you lost Letitia, like that did it for me. And we'll and call me too. I mean, it just did it for me. And I thought with all this that's happening, she's never going to be able to manage this, all this fraud and financial crimes. I mean, it's way, dare we say, over her head, okay? Not to mention the logistics of it all. I mean, she's going to have to remember, you know, when to turn in her homework on time. No missing any statute of limitations. So I think we all share this sentiment. I showed you how Comer said how disappointed he was in Pam.

And then the next day, the Wall Street Journal had a very interesting report saying, indeed, the president has been speaking to his inner circle saying, you know, I don't understand. Like, why can't she do anything? Here we go, Comer. The end of the day, I've been disappointed in some of the criminal referrals that are collecting dust on Attorney General Bondi's desk. I've made that very clear with the White House. I'm hopeful that we'll see some action soon on, you know, the criminal referrals that

range everywhere from Dr. Fauci to the Biden family. influence peddling scheme. So we've got that. But now with respect to Minnesota, I'm very confident the Department of Justice is going to make several more requests. They've already made several arrests, dozens of arrests down there, and they're working on dozens of prosecutions. But that's the tip of the iceberg, and the Department of Justice knows it. Homeland Security, obviously is down there. You've got the Department of Ag looking at some of these food programs. So I think everyone in the Trump administration, HUD, all the different agencies are serious about apprehending these fraudsters. So you're confident there will be arrests and criminal charges brought in Minnesota in 2026?

Absolutely. Back to the Justice Department. Has the Justice Department done enough? Well, I would like to see more. I'm an optimistic person. I believe that they're working very hard. And I know the president has a lot of confidence in Pam Bondi. So hopefully they will be more successful in prosecuting some of these people that we've provided congressional evidence that have broken the law.

I'm sure you've seen a lot of the comments on X. This is a very popular chart on X. It says zero arrests for some scandals that are very important to Republicans. Is that what accountability looks like? That's the biggest complaint of every Republican on the House Oversight Committee is there haven't been enough arrest. Now, some of these, some of those issues, I don't know, it's going to be hard to arrest people. With the Biden Autopin scandal, what we produced in our investigation is evidence that the pardons and executive orders that were signed with the Autopin in the last year of the Biden administration should be declared Nolan Void. Trump tweeted after we issued our report that he was going to declare a null and void.

But I don't believe the paperwork's ever been done, and you're still going to have to go to court for that. But our congressional investigation will serve as basis to uphold the declaration of those pardons and executive orders being declared null and void. Someone from the Department of Justice just has to take it to court. Okay, so someone from the Justice Department has not picked up the ball yet. Nope. It appears that way. No. Okay, well, that must be. frustrating. Very frustrating. Yep. Very frustrating. Okay, very frustrating. Not just for James Gomer, but for yours truly over here on the Trish Riegan show. I mean, it's almost embarrassing. Like, I'm just going to tell you that, guys, because you feel like a fool, right? You feel like,

I'm like, you know, Latisha's going down, Latisha's going down, Latisha's going down with aughtes going down. And then all of a sudden, you know, they had the indictment and then poof, it's gone. It was dismissed without prejudice. So they ran it back in. But, but, But frankly, I'm guessing that they just didn't quite have the case together the way they should have. And I would just say, if you're Pam Bondi, why aren't you overseeing this a little bit better? Why don't you have your A team on all of this? And then they missed the second indictment. And they went back for a third, and they missed that.

So I don't know is they're ever going to get her on the alleged mortgage fraud that was going on in Virginia. I don't know as that's ever going to happen. I mean, maybe you'll get her on something in New York. Maybe you'll get her on the violation of civil rights and injustice for going to, you know, going after President Trump for purely political reasons. Of course, that's what she alleges he's doing to her. Funny how that works. But to try and sue someone for what she got.

I mean, that was the judge's settlement. Think about that. I mean, that was an enormous amount of money. I mean, I've never seen anything like that, right? Latisha James is going to decide how much Mar-a-Lago was worth. The whole case was absolutely insane. So, yeah, she should be gone after for that. And you should take a look at that brownstone that she has in New York, where she apparently said it only had four floors instead of five because it qualified her into a different bracket for mortgage purposes, tax purposes, et cetera.

I mean, I get a lot of questions with this woman. I really do. And I think if you sniffed around, you'd probably find some stuff. But they had some stuff, okay? And they even had an indictment. And then Pam's office somehow screws it up. So Donald Trump is like repeatedly now saying to AIDS like what the heck and he's privately criticizing her. I mean even Susie Wiles who's his chief of staff told Vanity Fair, yeah, Pam really

whiffed that one and she keeps whiffing. And I think it's because she is not, she's not, she's not kind of, she's like not a real lawyer. I mean, she's a politician who likes going on TV who's very much a kiss up to the president. I mean, I get, good sourcing. I think Bongino was like, see ya. Like, I don't need this. At one point, a source close to Bonino told me it was right down to him or to Pam. And like cash was ready to leave too because she was thrown all everybody under the bus. Remember Miss, I have the files on my desk? She brought in all those influencers. People I know, I mean, they were really upset because, you know, she apparently thinks they're a bunch of fools. She's going to like

hold up a shiny toy and say, hi, you know, I got it. I got it. Here you go. You guys are getting the first stuff and they're like, wait a second. None of this is new. None of this is interesting. And so the president is finally coming around to what I think the rest of us have seen. And maybe he just didn't want to admit the big story this week in the Wall Street Journal being that this month Trump had talked with allies about how he could appoint special counsels at the Justice Department because he's so frustrated with what he sees as slow progress of its work. Yeah, and guess what? He did.

He did, right? Because when it comes to Minneapolis fraud, Pam Bondi can't handle this one. No, no, no, no, no. Pam Bondi can't handle much. Certainly not $9 billion in fraud coming out of the state of Minnesota, certainly not possibly $600 billion in fraud, that the Treasury Secretary said the GAO is estimated nationwide, and that is why J.D. Vance made this statement.

declaration. Is we are creating a new assistant attorney general position who will have nationwide jurisdiction over the issue of fraud. Mm-hmm. So he's going to create all these silos. And I would say, you know, at this point, I'm a realist. I think you kind of have to. I wish they had done this seven months ago because it's clear she couldn't do the gig.

And you probably need somebody in there. that's a little more sophisticated, that has run a big op, right, like a big, big shop, like Jones Day or something because they work with the Republican Party a lot. I think Sullivan and Cromwell out in New York is doing some work with him as well with the White House. So maybe get somebody who's run a whole slew of lawyers and knows how to manage them. And maybe you need somebody like Piro too who's just kind of, you know, willing to go a little rogue as we saw this week when she went after the portion. Treasury, forgive me not the Treasury Secretary, the Federal Reserve Chief. Oh my gosh. He lists

of backlash, right? So she's one brave, brave, brave customer. And she just went, you know, guns blazing straight ahead and is really, you know, taking it pretty serious. He apparently overspent by some billion dollars with the construction project for the Federal Reserve historical buildings. I guarantee you, Jerome Powell probably has no clue. Like, he wasn't running the project. I don't think he was like personally. profiting. I want to be like measured here. I think Janine was probably just really ticked off because she asked repeatedly. She went on Fox and she talked about this actually, her former employer, mine too. And she talked about this and she said, look, I was, you know, I asked and I asked and I asked.

And like the third time, like you're just going to ignore me? Like, what the heck is going on? You can't just ignore me. You can't just ignore the Justice Department. And so then he came out with the big video or he looked like a hostage victim, right, saying the DOJ, the Trump DOJ is. is coming after me for these criminal allegations. And so I think it just kind of sped up and it kind of got out of control. But she did this without asking anyone Scott Bessent, not too happy about it, of course, right? Because, heck, don't forget, you know, we invest in U.S. treasuries. People all around the world invest in U.S. treasuries.

And you want them to keep on investing in U.S. treasuries. but at some point, at some point, they sour on us if they think we're basically no better than a banana republic. And that's the fear here. And, you know, Scott Besson clearly not happy. You know, who else wasn't too happy, Jamie Diamond, but, you know, whatever with Jamie. I actually, I think Scott, you got to listen to, though. You should. And I think Trump is, but he really doesn't like Powell.

I mean, he really doesn't like him. And I've also announced that the U.S. government, government is purchasing $200 billion of mortgage bonds to bring down mortgage rates and it's had a huge impact. It's already started. And just last week, the average 30-year mortgage drop below 6% for the first time in many years. It's coming down very rapidly. And that's not with the help of the Fed. If I had the help of the Fed, it would be easier. But that jerk will be gone soon. Yep, he'll be gone soon. In fact, the money now is on Kevin. Warsh, who's maybe going to be the new head of the Federal Reserve.

I told you it was going to be one of the Kevin's, right? You get two Kevin's in the mix. Kevin Hassett, who I think it's just terrific. He's a great guy. And then Warsh, who's a little bit more of sort of out of central casting who you would pick for the Fed Chair. I think the latter is probably, at least that's what the smart money is on, going to be Warsh.

And, you know, he's for these lower interest rates. I told you earlier in the show that we were looking, my colleague over at 70, research and myself, go check out 76research.com. I feel like your mother. Like, make sure you're investing. Make sure you're saving and investing. Go, let us help you. 76 research.com. Anyway, I was talking to my colleague, and this morning we looked at some data, a report that had come out of BlackRock, where they're talking about inflation being 2%. It's like, wow. Okay, the government has it at 2.7%. But BlackRock, which has money on the line every single day, now has it pegged at 2%. 2%. So heck, I mean, that's exactly where the Fed wants.

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I don't know if you guys have been following this, but the president has announced his brand new health care plan. He just spoke about it moments ago. I want to bring you the sound from the President of the United States, pointing out that, you know what, we need to find a way to get the money to the people, not to the insurance companies. We need to re-engineer the health care market.

market. Here he is. It's going to be a tremendous, it is a tremendous plan. It's called the great health care plan. And we're going to get tremendous reductions, as you know, through, if you look at medicines and prescription drugs, they're going to come down by numbers that have never been seen before. And we're doing that by most favored nations, and other nations, whoever pays the lowest in the world, that's what we're going to pay. Right now we're paying sometimes 10 times higher than other nations. So we have favored nations. That's been approved.

Other nations have, for the most part, agreed to it. And they had no choice. Otherwise, we were going to put tariffs on them. The health care plan that we're coming, the money is going to be paid directly to the people. So it goes directly, not to the companies, not to the insurance companies. It's going to go directly to the people,

and the people are going to buy their own health care. they'll get much better health care at a much reduced. Because guess what? You're interjecting some market competition. I mean, gosh, I feel like he sounds like me. What if I've been saying on this show for months, the drug prices are too high, for example, and that's because, well, you get a lot of middlemen in there

working to make sure that we're paying the highest prices, for goodness sakes. And it's not right, that every other country in the world gets a much better deal. And yet we Americans, who, by the way, support all this R&D, are whining up having to pay the most. It's crazy. And this is such a huge cost on people, right? You guys know this. I mean, when we talk about inflation and it's good that the numbers are coming down, health care costs have not come down. And I ask you why. You know why? Because you got the stupid government in there with good old Barack Obama and his Obama health care plan that has driven these costs even more astronomically higher than they were before.

And this is an important issue to people. People know that all of these companies, including the drug companies, including all of these big pharma companies, they have their hand in the cookie jar. And they are doing everything they can to keep costs high because it works for them. It doesn't work for us. It works for them. And so this is a poll, if you see it on the screen. We had John McLaughlin, who's the president's pollster on the show the other day. You came out with a brand new poll, and this one was fantastic.

73% of voters. These are all voters, guys. These are not just Republicans. These are all voters. Okay? So this is how you bridge the gap, I hope. 73% of voters blame Big Pharma for high prescription costs, high prescription drug prices. 85% are concerned, Big Pharma-backed government intervention would increase costs, 80% believe

Big Pharma is behind the proposals. This is a very good poll. John is the best. Only the best for you guys, right? So I think this is important data to consider when you think about we're coming up on midterms, and this is going to be really critical. It's going to be a key issue. health care costs matter. And so what the president puts forward is really important. And me together

with conservatives for lower health care costs, want you to go check out pharmawindfall.com. We appreciate the support of conservatives for lower health care costs here on the Trish Regan show because they are working alongside the president, congratulating the president on all he's doing to try and lower these costs. And you can learn more about how you're being taken advantage of and how you can stop it there at pharma windfall.com. So go check that out today. Meanwhile, I'll tell you this. The other big thing that they got to keep in mind is that if you can discover this fraud, think about the success of Doge that we started to see, right? USAID, all that news being blown wide open, wide open. And now we're learning that Minnesota is home to all kinds of fraud. There are reports

that California has even more. And this is the hard reality that Ilhan Omar and her cronies just don't want to accept. Of the 87 people charged all but eight are of Somali descent, and that has added to the spotlight being put specifically on your community. Why do you think this fraud was allowed to get so widespread? I want to say, you know, this also has an impact on Somalis because we are also taxpayers in Minnesota. We also could have benefited from the program and the money that was stolen.

And so it's been really frustrating for people to not acknowledge the fact that we're, you know, we're also as Minnesota and as taxpayers really upset and angry about the fraud that has occurred. I'm laughing at the last boy scat. No, you aren't. Hey, that was a close and tight shot, right? Up close and personal here on the Trish Rican shout. Listen, guys, it is so good to see you. We get a lot more content heading your way over the weekend. Please make sure you subscribe to the show.

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and the Constitution will triumph. I can promise you that. Good to have you all here. I will see you live on the program Monday.