The Trish Regan Show - Judge GREEN LIGHTS $2.7B Chilling Defamation Lawsuit Against Network

Episode Date: January 14, 2025

In today’s LIVE Trish Regan Show, Trish looks at the potential damage the Smartmatic suit against Fox News could cause not only for the Fox Network, but for the profession of journalism as a whole. Plus, a curious thing just happened in the Leticia James $486 million civil case against Donald Trump. The court switched the judge in the case (Arthur Erdogen) only to put him back on. What’s going on? And, given some of the expected FBI Director Kash Patel’s recent commentary, is there a reason for Letitia James to worry? Trish says YES. Trump is offering up a new solution to the IRS - it’s called the External Revenue Service. Get ready for tarriffs! And, finally, there are growing rumors about Mr. and Mrs. Barack Obama possibly in the midst of a divorce! We investigate. Join Trish LIVE by subscribing to the channel to watch today’s stories and much more. 🟢For independent views on the market - sign up for my financial newsletter The 76report at https://76research.com with CODE: DOLLAR today. Today’s show is sponsored by: 🟢https://TrishLovesGold.com — American Hartford Gold — go to: Https://TrishLovesGold.comor TEXT TRISH to 65532 to receive up to $15,000 in free silver with American Hartford Gold or go to https://TrishLovesGold.com. You can also use Trish's name when calling 1-844-495-1115. 🟢Go to https://balanceofnature.com and use CODE: TRISH for 35% off🟢 The pursuit to serve others is yours. Let it flourish. Find your purpose at Grand Canyon University. Private. Christian. Affordable. Visit https://gcu.edu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's quite a lawsuit. Fox News buckle up. I mean, if you thought Dominion was bad, you ain't seen nothing yet, shall we say. $2.7 billion is the amount of money that Smartmatic is suing Fox News for the judge just ruling that this case can move forward. We're going to talk about the implications for the company, for the stock, and for what it is that you see on air every day. Because I'm not entirely sure with all these legal bills mounting how they're going to really be able to deliver on the product day in and day out. I don't think this bodes well for journalists overall. I'm just going to say that right out because I guess you could say I'm on Fox's side to a certain

extent, although it looks as though between me and you, there were some management failures, some spectacular management failures. We can talk about all of that. Plus, oh, wow, what is going on with Leticia James and this judge? The judge, Arthur Boy, first he's on and then he's off, now he's back on. We're going to talk about what that means. and why Letitia James is getting awfully nervous right now, as she should be. Could Elon Musk buy TikTok?

That's the top of the town right now. Elon Musk and TikTok. Huh. It could happen. Crazier things have happened. And you know what? I bet you he could get a great price for it because this is what you would call a fire sale, given where the Supreme Court is.

And Carrie Underwood is going to be singing at the inauguration. Go Carrie. I've always loved her. She's great. And you know what? A lot of artists are not willing to step up and sing at anything related to Trump. She is. And I think she's going to be rewarded for it.

We'll talk about that and someone who's not being rewarded right now, Megan Markle, making the rounds. They're calling her a disaster tourist out there in L.A. Ooh, lots of fallout. Family ties Justine Bateman doesn't have many good things to say about her. And you know who probably won't be at the inauguration? Michelle Obama. The rumorville mill is really going strong here. Some people think that Michelle and Barack, Mr. and Mrs. Barack Obama could be no more. What do you think? We're going to talk about all of it.

Welcome to the show, everyone. Good to have you here. Reminder, subscribe, subscribe, share, like, do all that good stuff. I'm going to be looking at your comments. Yesterday, some of you were upset because I didn't read out all of the comments, especially the ones that were supporter comments. So I am going to try and do that at the end of the show today. You know, we're learning as we go here in YouTube world. One world I'm not part of anymore. And I was just talking to somebody this morning and saying, how delighted I am not to be part of this world anymore. And mainstream media is really, in my estimation, for losers. You can't make it over here, so you go do it there. You know what? If you got any

opinion if you get any common sense, you're going to be here streaming because this is the future. I love it. And you know what? You have authenticity and you have a rawness here that you're never going to find at the big networks. You'll find lots of misinformation, lots of half-truths, lots of spin over there at those networks, but you're never going to find it over here, not in podcast world, not in streaming world. Anyway, this could be the end of Fox, as they say. Smart Matters, Suing Fox News for $2.7 billion. It's a lot more than the Dominion suit, which was around 1.2 or so. They did settle that one for $787 million.

Wow. So Smartmatic knows that there's precedent. They know there's more where that came from, shall we say. Now, don't get me wrong. Fox News can handle it as a company. I do believe they made around $15 billion last year. Of course, in terms of the actual profitability of the company, I think it was around one and a half.

Don't quote me on the numbers. That's just off the top of my head. But if they're making profit-wise about one and a half billion dollars, it's sizable. But if they have to pay, 2.7 billion, ooh, it's going to take a couple years to make up that loss, right? You see where I'm going. So this is not a good thing financially for the company. One would anticipate that if there's a big hit, if they do have to pay a big fee, then the stock price is going to crater, at least,

for a little bit, right? For a little bit because that would be, well, less dividends and, you know, you're going to see that reflected in the earnings because they'd be taking such a big hip. So again, the judge in New York, oh, we love those New York judges, right? Given the green light here to move forward with the smartmatic suit. Now, why this is of significance is it was a big deal with dominion. So you recall, right? Let's go back to 2020 and there were a lot of people on air on Fox News. Rudy Giuliani was one of them. Sydney Pound. Powell was another saying, look, we don't think that this election was on the up and up. We think that there's some flaws within the software systems of these particular companies

that were making these voting machines. And allegedly, none of this was really vetted. So they put this information out there. And look, it's Rudy Giuliani, right? He's counseled to the president. It's Sidney Powell. So from a journalist's perspective, it's news. You get Rudy Giuliani saying this.

Sydney Powell is saying this. It is news. And so I understand and I empathize with why they were putting them on and trying to hear more and trying to understand more. The question becomes, and this is what Smartmatic is going to have to try and prove, at what point did maybe they think this is all bogus and we don't really think there's any there there? Tucker Carlson didn't think there was any there there there. There are text messages between him and Laura Ingram and John Hannity and everybody's like, yeah, there's no there there. But, you know, it's good for ratings, basically.

So if Smartmatic is able to prove that no one actually believed this CRAP, but instead they were just doing it to get a grand slam on the ratings, then, yeah, Fox is going to have a problem. If they're able to prove that management was just concerned about ratings, then yes, they're going to have a problem. Now, I'm going to tell you something. I don't believe for two seconds that Maria Bartaromo didn't believe in it. I think she believed everything that Sydney and Rudy were saying.

And so in fairness to her, in fairness, journalist to journalist, if you actually are interviewing someone who is a counsel to the president, that's a big deal, right? He's got a big position. Sidney had a big position, and this is what they're saying, then it is news. And you should be able to openly talk about it. You shouldn't have to worry about this threat of smart manic coming down. But, but, and this is the big but, okay, if management knew better, or if other anchors within the system that were speaking to management and everybody felt,

a consensus that, you know, Sydney was high and Rudy was high and blah, blah, blah. And yet you aired these things anyway without the other side of the story, specifically when it comes to Smartmatic. I didn't realize this. I just learned this today. They were actually only involved in one particular county out in L.A. So they didn't even have their machines widespread throughout the country. Then are you doing sort of a defamation exercise?

I mean, you are hurting a company, you are hurting its reputation, and are you doing so recklessly? In other words, is this a kind of malpractice as a journalist or as an organization? This is what Fox is going to be facing because, again, if management and some of the more senior anchors there, I mean, let's face it, Tucker had a big show. There at 8 o'clock we're saying this, that, and the other. And no one was sort of reining anything in or asking to have the other side of the story, then Fox is going to have some problems.

and Fox have some problems. I think that they're going to be looking at mounting legal fees. They're going to be potentially looking at a big judgment there. I mean, again, they're asking for $2.7 billion, which is a lot more than the 780 some odd million, nearly a billion, that Dominion got, but the stock tagged after that one, right? The stock was not happy. We'll see where this company's heading. I mean, this is one problem for Fox, but there are other problems. There are other problems just given where this entire medium is heading, and it's heading far away from cable mainstream. It's heading right over here to where you are with me right now, so I appreciate it. Make sure you subscribe, all that good stuff.

Make a comment again. I'll be getting to the comments later in the program. But this is a very sort of organic, shifting sector, and the media business as a whole is really in for some more massive changes. So the last thing, the last thing, ladies and gentlemen, Fox needs about now is this smartmatic suit. But yes, it's coming back to haunt it. I don't love it because just as a journalist, I want to be free to talk about, whatever I want to be free to talk about. But I also think you do have a responsibility. You just can't actually, you know, go out there and you can't print lies, right?

And if you have any information that would suggest otherwise, it's putting everybody in a really bad spot. if you're only giving one side of the story. And in this case, it turns out that the story didn't have a whole lot of there there because Smartmatic was only in one county. So again, if you're going to assume everything terrible about Smartmatic, just remember it's only in one county in L.A. So it's a lot. It's a lot of damage that was done to the brand.

And they do have a leg to stand on, like it or not. So this could be very, very, very difficult for Fox News. Again, the judge deciding there just recently that they've, can move forward with the $2.7 billion defamation lawsuit. What does this mean in terms of the here and now? I think it means you're going to see more cost cutting. Now, this is a company that makes a lot of money, but it's also paying a lot of money to its lawyers, and it's facing the potential of a devastating blow to its balance sheet vis-a-vis the smartmatic issues. So what are they doing? I think they're looking for places to cut costs.

And so one of the ways to do that is to play musical chairs with your anchors. Maybe you get rid of some of the anchors that are costing you a lot of money, but maybe aren't delivering on the advertising front. I mean, you can't get rid of Laura, right? You can't get rid of Sean. You definitely don't want to get rid of Jesse. And by the way, I bet she's not costing you much. Tucker was probably a whole lot more expensive.

So Jesse's a home run. But they did get rid of Neil, as you well know. This is it, the final segment. But today I also wanted to let you know, this is my final show. I am leaving Fox. In planning this day for some time, this just seemed like a good time. Now, some of you might be thinking, well, merely it is about time. After all, I've been doing this for nearly three decades here.

You know, it's kind of sad. Like, he kind of helped build Fox. All right, I know you guys don't like him. I know that he was kind of anti-Trump and anti-Maga. And listen, it didn't help him with his ratings. I will say this. You've got to be in sync with your viewers. Otherwise, you're at the wrong network.

I mean, if your viewers love Trump and you, really, really don't like Trump, then you probably should have been exiting stage left a long time ago because, you know, I mean, you're swimming upstream at that point. Anyway, there's subbing this other guy in that I had never heard of, but some of you yesterday were like, oh, no, I love him, I love him. So some guy who's on the weekend show named Wilcena, I guarantee you a heck of a lot cheaper, and listen, they need to think strategically. They're not the growing bonanza that they used to be, even though the ratings are doing well, they got serious, serious costs. So they're putting in this guy Will Kane, who's going to take over the four o'clock slot. And you know what? It's not going to be hard

to improve the ratings. You know, unfortunately for Neil. Plus, it was a business show and who wants to watch business when you can be watching politics and it's so much more entertaining. I say this, by the way, as a business reporter, I'm really into business. Not everybody else is. Neil was really into business. So it'll be interesting to find out where he does go. He did say that he's not leaving news. He's just leaving that place. So Will Kane is coming in. He's going to take over the slot at 4 p.m. and they're going to continue whittling away at cost. Hey, they were able to get rid of Pete Heggseth, right? Pete Heggsat, doing a stellar job, stellar job there on Capitol Hill today. Pete Heggseth, the former at this point, Fox host, who used to hold, maybe he was there

before or during Will's time. He was doing the weekend show there. Great guy. By the way, I worked with him at Fox. Really smart, phenomenal. My experiences and his interactions with him were only positive. And, you know, some of the things that have come out of and sort of disturbed to hear, I would say that I'm troubled by the fact that there's so many anonymous sources. Oh, the media loves to talk. And there are a bunch of catty little jealous folks. And so what's happening? Well, one saying to one or saying to another, this is anonymous sourcing upon an anonymous sourcing where they're trashing Pete nonstop. Anyway, Pete Hegseth made a really compelling case there on Capitol Hill today. I just want to, I want to play a little

excerpt of it because Pete's all about bringing us back to basics in terms of having a strong military that hopefully we don't have to use, but heck, if we're going to use it, we're going to win. For this position, the primary charge he gave me was to bring the warrior culture back to the Department of Defense. He, like me, once a Pentagon laser focused on lethality, autocracy, war fighting, accountability, and readiness. You may continue, sir. Returning the Pentagon back to war fighting, that's it. That's my job.

Well done. You had a lot of other really good things to say, but I mean, I think at first I'll just tell you honestly, I was a little surprised when I heard it. And I think Pete's a phenomenal guy. He's also really smart, like Princeton and Harvard. and then, you know, the whole military background, it means that you'd actually have somebody who had been in the boots on the ground running the military, which is what I would call refreshing.

And let's face it, all the executives from those big defense companies and all those generals, they really haven't worked out so well. So why not? Hey, why not giving a shot with somebody new and a fresh approach? He'd also do a heck of a lot, I think, in terms of boosting morale for those that really don't have a lot of faith in our military. right now. I mean, heck, you get people recruiting for the Navy on TikTok in drag saying, guess what? You know, you can go get your transgender operation. Seriously. I mean, so I'm just

saying, like, it doesn't really feel like it's the kind of thing you want to do and be part of when that's the message getting out there. So I think Pete would do wonders for trying to restore this faith in patriotism, which is so lacking right now, and it's so important in the military. So good luck to him. I think he's got a real good job. shot at this point. We'll see how this all shakes out, but it's a good litmus test, right? It's a good test to see whatever happens to Pete, is this the way the country's going to go? Because Trump has phenomenal ideas, all kinds of ideas on how he can help fix this country. We're going to talk about one of them a little bit later in the program. He's talking about getting rid of the IRS and putting

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I want to turn to another story. This is fascinating. The judge in the Letitia James. case against Donald Trump. You know that one for like $486 million. They're trying to penalize him for nearly half a billion dollars because he had an inflated version of what he thought Mar-a-Lago was worth, vis-a-vis with the judge and Letitia James think it's worth. They say $18 million. I said I would buy it for $18 million. Seriously, I mean, that would be a steal. Latisha, you ought to line up a few investors and get that one together if that is really and truly the rate.

But there's some funny stuff going on with the judge. It's all coming as Letitia, of course, responds to Donald Trump, winning this election. And lastly, I congratulate the president-elect Donald Trump. And if possible, we will work with his administration. But we will not compromise our values or our integrity. or our principles. We did not expect this result, but we are prepared to respond to this result. And my office has been preparing for several months because we've been here before. We faced this challenge before, and we use the rule of law to fight back.

And we are prepared to fight back once again. because as the Attorney General of this great state is my job to protect and defend the rights of New Yorkers and the rule of law. And I will not shrink from that responsibility. She won't shrink from that responsibility. But what exactly is going on? Do you see the headline I have at the bottom? This was actually back in June of 2024. Judge Erdogan will not recuse himself from the Trump civil fraud trial.

Okay. He wasn't going anywhere. But then all of a sudden this came out. It came out that he was being kind of forced to side. So what we learned was he was taken off the case. Arthur and Gorin was taken off the case against Donald Trump. This just happened. So they assigned a new judge to preside.

Fox was the first one reporting this, to preside over the civil fraud case against President-elect Trump, brought by New York Attorney General, Letitia James, seemingly replacing judge, Arthur and Goren, but then hours later, the court picked him back up on the case. So what was that? I mean, everybody's been saying all along, you know, this judge had tremendous, has tremendous bias. Tremendous bias because, oh, I don't know, he's contributed to Democrats his entire life. And, like, what judge would actually come up with a $486 million? I mean, Latitia wasn't even asking for that much. He upped it.

She wanted like 200 and something. He's like, nope, we're going to make it $486 million that we're going to charge this guy. It's crazy. So, again, at 12.45 p.m. on Thursday afternoon, the parties were notified that they were actually going to be putting Justice Judith McMahon of Staten Island onto the case. And then, what do you know? By 412, they'd changed their minds. Attorneys on the case received another automated message saying, no, no, no, no. Arthur's back on. I think this is very strange.

Enormously strange. I think they would be a lot better off getting rid of the extraordinarily biased guy. I mean, heck, even the court of appeals, which any day now, I'm getting a little frustrated. I get to tell you, like, you know what? I'm a patient person. Remarkably patient. Hey, I have three kids. I have to be. But this is not. This is not. getting a little insane. It should have taken a month. And now we're going on at least two months, two plus months, for the Court of Appeals in New York to throw this case out. They need to throw it out so fast. And guess what they also need to do. They need to disbar one Letitia James because she's a political animal that needs to be controlled. Here's the Court of Appeals telling her

surrogate there. Judith Bale was trying to plead this case on behalf of Letitia. Honey, you got nothing. You got Buckkins. There's no case there. May it please the court, Judith Vale for the New York Attorney General's office. All of the defendants repeatedly violated... Ms. Vail, can you identify any previous case which the Attorney

General sued under Executive Law 6312 to upset a private business transaction that was between equally sophisticated partners with the supposed victim had the ability and legal obligation to discover the allegedly misrepresentation

matters by conducting its own due diligence, where the supposed wrongdoer advised the supposed victim through written disclaimers to conduct its own due diligence and to draw its own conclusions, where the alleged misrepresentation almost entirely concerned inherently subjective valuations of properties and businesses. Yes. And where the victim never complained about any fraud of the transactional losses from it. because I've gone through the cases which you've cited, and all of them always involved the consumer protection aspect.

It involved protection of the market. And I want to add to his question, and little to no impact on the public marketplace. Okay. So there is no case. There's no case. They're switching the judge and the switcheroo thing, and yet they put this guy back on who cleared.

has a personal bias against Donald Trump. How else did he come up with half a billion dollars? Other than they're trying to bankrupt him. That's the goal here. They are trying to bankrupt the future president of the United States of America. I mean, she basically said it. I know some of you have seen this before, but it's important. And if you're just tuning in for the first time, I've been all over this story. I have played some of this sound at Najum. I get it. But this is Leticia James saying she's going to show up on his doorstep. She just can't wait to get to Trump Tower and take it from him. Darn it. I don't have that one, but I do have this.

At the end of the day, the documentary evidence demonstrated that in fact he falsely inflated his assets to basically enrich himself and his family. He continued to persistently engage in fraud. The numbers don't lie. I mean, Letitia, you really want us to think that Mar-a-Lago is worth $18 million? Really? I mean, are we supposed to take your word on it? When did you become a real estate expert? So let me just point out, you don't actually know what anything's worth, technically, until it sells. That's when you have something on paper. Prior to that, it's kind of in the eye of the beholder, but I would point out that Mar-a-Lago makes $56 million

a year in income. Therefore, why wouldn't anybody sell it for 18? Didn't have any debt? on it. I mean, this woman is completely high, but you know what? She has a totally different agenda. We've seen that agenda on... He's called me venomous. We will fight back to your attempt to bring Trumpism to New York City. He's called me disgraceful. A effect that they stole the Supreme Art. He's called me radical. Listen, we know he's crazy. Okay. Boy, is it get under your skin or what? So, she has a political vendetta against him. She figured she could raise her profile.

Heck, you know, she may want to run for president one day. And she has the ability to say, oh, you know what? I'm the one that went after Donald Trump. I'm the one that bankrupted. I'm the one that did this or that and the other. Good luck, honey, because by the way, true social, I guess, is worth a lot of money these days. But here's the problem. Here's the problem.

You've got a legal system that's so messed up. And it's so messed up that you have a judge that's in cahoots with Letitia and Letitia who just wants to take him down for personal reasons. And you know, that adds up into a pretty, pretty bad and frankly, dangerous scenario. I mean, the court of appeals, get going. Get going. Get going. We're still waiting and you got to actually turn this thing around. But you know what may happen? Kosh Patel may beat them to it first. More on that in a second, but first a shout out to my financial research company, 76 research.com. You know, if you're interested in investing in stocks, and believe me, you should be, you really should be. I can't emphasize that enough. Go check out

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I mean, this is so unprecedented. It's just amazing to you. He would say that. It's shockingly unconstitutional, Trace. It's great to be with you. And I'm here to announce on your show a measure that I'm working with Congress that should be Congress's bread and butter. And I'm calling for the subpoenas to be issued to Judge Mershant's daughter's company who

made $15 plus million from the illicit information pouring out of her father's courtroom. I want to know the bank records because money doesn't lie. I want to know how deep it is and how much. of it went to the family and how much of it is going to the family after this false conviction. And then we need to investigate the FEC actual violations that this judge and his family conducted because he should never have been overseeing this trial to begin with because of the illicit campaign money that was flowing through there. And the unconstitutional due process violations are only the beginning.

So America is calling for accountability of our judicial system and Congress is the only lever that has it. And I'm hoping for one or two brave members of Congress that I'm talking to to issue those subpoenas A-Fam. So he's referring, of course, to what was going on with Judge Mershahn and the quote-unquote Hushmoney case, which is just a travesty onto itself. And frankly, there was no crime. And Alvin Bragg knew that, and he didn't have the jurisdiction, et cetera. So that thing should get thrown out. And he's right. Like, he wants to know just exactly what was going down between Mershahn and was Mershon getting any of the kickbacks from his daughter. It could just be that he

was this ideologue that had this crazy vision that somehow he was going to stop Trump. That might be what was going on with Arthur too. But I will say this, Letitia should be worried because there's already a motion filed by one Elise DeFonic in the state of New York to disbar her. And I suspect, one of you guys is pointing this out and you're right, that this case will be ruled on by the Court of Appeals after the 20th. So after the inauguration, you can anticipate that this will get thrown out, thrown out on its, you know what, and Letitia with it. Because at that point, people are going to start to say, why did you waste taxpayer dollars? Why did you waste taxpayers' time? Pam Bondi is also involved in this. Pam Bondi going in and she is going to be

absolutely merciless. She has already made it clear over and over again that there are heads that need to roll. And let me just say this. This is not a political thing, okay? I'm the last person. I actually really, as a patriot, just believe in the sanctity of the system and making sure that we have a fair system so that innocent people are protected. We can't have a system where, oh, you're my political enemy, therefore I'm going to go after you with lawfare. What kind of country is that? And by the way, the tables can turn just as quickly. I mean, for the last four years, we've seen versions of that in the social media platforms, right? Mark Zuckerberg now admitting it all. He's spilling the beans on just exactly what the Biden administration was doing. Look, we don't need that. Okay, you can't

have a country where you're going to shut off half of the people. or an entire side because you don't agree with their vision of the world. It's just so unbelievably horrifically wrong. So a lot has to change. Kosh Patel coming in, I think, Pam Bondi coming in, I think, and I think you're going to start to see things that really shift things. I mean, already, if you listen, and again, I've played this before, but in the Court of Appeals, David Friedman, one of the judges there at the appellate court

is saying, wait a second, how do we make sure that this kind of stuff doesn't get so out of control in the future because we can't have attorney generals with this much power wielding this kind of power doing these kind of crazy things. You're pointing to Ernst & Young, you're pointing to First American. Ernst and Young you're dealing with the collapse of Lehman Brothers. First American, you're dealing with an action board against an appraiser who overvalued properties at the behest of a lender perpetrating a scheme to induce unsophisticated consumers into taking out home loans that they could not afford.

It hardly seems that that justifies bringing an action to protect Rachel Bang against President Trump, which is what you have here. I mean, you've got two really sophisticated parties in which no one lost any money, and that was the point of my initial question. Every case that you cite involved, where there was damage to consumers,

damage to the marketplace, You've got a scheme to get unsophisticated consumers to take out home loans. You've got to collapse of Lehman Brothers. You don't have anything like that here. Well, first of all, Your Honor, the statute doesn't require that whatsoever for liability. And the statute is written broadly because the legislature wants the Attorney General to go in and stop fraud and illegality. I think you hear underneath all these questions, the question of Mission Creep, has 6312 morphed into something that it was not meant to do? And that's something you must address because there has to be some limitation on what the Attorney General can do in interfering in these private transactions, as Justice Friedman said, that where people don't claim harm.

So what is the limiting principle? I want to jump in. Thank you. Peace of my mind pointing out that I was muted when I said this. I was just saying, like, this is crazy, right? The judge is leading to this question of, wait a second, if you're telling me that the authority is within the AG's perspective, and they have this ability, then we actually need to look at the statute and we actually need to start changing things because nobody should have the ability to do what she did, right? That is just

so blatantly, overly wrong, and that has to change. So I would anticipate that, yes, we are going to see some changes and we may see some actual sort of massaging of the law in ways that would restrict Leticia James going forward. And that needs to happen. So, Latisha, you should be worried. I actually think that you're going to be probably out of a job, probably out of a law license, and probably in some trouble with federal authorities, which would be a good thing. Reminder, if you have not gone to 76 Research, if you don't want to spend a dollar a month, come on, you guys have a dollar a month, right? A dollar a month, you can cancel any time, so you're not even out of dollar. A dollar a month at 76 Research.com goes to 995 after the

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That's the word on the street. Elon Musk making a play for TikTok potentially, possibly at least China apparently wants it. This is the headline that just came out out of Bloomberg last night. You see, Elon Musk could possibly, possibly be looking at buying TikTok. Well, he certainly could do it, right? He's got a lot of money. And I don't know his TikTok would be that expensive right now. only because there's a little bit of what shall we say is a fire sale.

I don't love fire sales because I don't think they're really fair, but at the same time, I don't think that TikTok's that fair. I'm just going to say it, given what I've seen on the platform. I am on the platform. I have a TikTok account. A lot of my stuff doesn't get through, full disclosure, but it doesn't get through on Facebook either. So there, hey, we're hoping that changes now that Marky Boy is suddenly drinking the MAGA juice.

see. But TikTok is a concern, of course, because they have access to all of your data and, you know, they have the ability. One thing that you guys don't necessarily understand, I've been sort of shocked by is how intrinsic these apps are to your actual phone. So have you ever looked at Facebook, for example, and you're like, wait a second, I was just researching that like two seconds ago. or, you know, and then all of a sudden you're getting an ad for it right on your Facebook account. Well, that's because they know everything that you're searching. You have to go into the deep, deep, deep, deep, deep back of Facebook and turn all of that stuff off. It's not easy, okay?

Like, I do it myself every now and then I'll go back and I'm like, wait a second, why is it on? And I made sure with TikTok to turn everything off, but somehow occasionally it gets all turned back on. And I'm like, what? What? So TikTok has a lot of access to everything that you're searching, every one of your contacts, et cetera. And there's some fear about that in light of, well, China not really being exactly what we would call a friend. Yeah, Tijuana 522 saying it's like they can hear you, piece of my mind pointing out the algorithm. The algorithm is everything, but it is like they can hear you, right? It's like they're inside your head. And so if you don't turn everything off. This is what happens. And so the concern, obviously, and you guys get it, is that from

a national security perspective, do you really want a Chinese company having that much access to all these Americans? And it's a real concern. Kevin O'Leary, do you know him from Shark Tank? He's a great guy. He's come on my Fox show all the time. I like him. He's a capitalist. He's a common sense, realist. He's actually been trying to put a consortium of buyers together to buy TikTok himself. Now, Elon has emerged as a potential buyer. He was just talking about this on with Jesse Waters last night. Let's take a listen. In the end, TikTok is Trump's deal, all right?

He's not giving it to anybody else. It's his deal. He's going to use it for all kinds of leverage. I get it. It's a negotiating tool against China. I get it. But he is the consummate dealmaker. He's not going to let this drift into someone else's hands.

That's my personal take. I asked him myself, just 24. hours ago, are you going to support bringing this thing and keeping it alive? Because I got, you know, a lot of businesses running on it, and he will. Let's see what happens next. So the Supreme Court is expected to say, nope, China, you're going to have to divest your U.S. assets. So TikTok being one of the, bite dance is the parent company. You're going to have to divest this somehow. It's going to have to go to Americans. Kevin's actually Canadian. But hey, You know, if we have any luck, Canada may be one of us pretty soon.

It's a reason enough for Kevin to back that idea. Anyway, Maeve Musk, who is Elon's mom, was on Fox talking about this as well, and just her frustration and disgust with the mainstream media. Media has to change, and the politicians have to change, and stop being mean and nasty and dishonest. Because, as I say, they used to always hate on it. Elon for 15 years, but I trusted them with the other news where they hated the Republican Party, they hated Fox News. And then I realized, no, they are dishonest in all aspects. Yeah, really dishonest.

I think mainstream media is overall working for mainstream media. I think even Fox News, to a certain extent, is a kind of controlled opposition, right? Once Tucker got out to far, where yours truly got out too far, especially on the COVID stuff, saying this is ridiculous. Why are we shutting down the entire country? Then, you know, problems ensue. Chuck Schumer was going after Tucker saying that it was just an abomination, that he dared to take a different side of things on J6. So in some ways, just mainstream media, being mainstream media, is controlled by corporations

that have corporate interests and political interests, and that's just the reality. of it. And one of the beauties of, say, something like the streaming platform here is that there is no higher up. There is no one looking at my scripts. I don't even have scripts. How great is that? I don't even have to have, you know, let me tell you, the liberation there and not having to sit there and wait around for the teleprompter. I always wrote all my stuff, but except for the teases. The teases were hard because, you know, I just want to give it all away. I just want to tell you everything right away. So trying to tease you and like say, hey, you know, stick with me through the commercial break. That was a whole other thing. But I would say that that is still a very controlled

mechanism. And all of these publications, whether they're print, whether they are networks, they're kind of waking up to the reality, some of them anyway, they're just stale and old and wrong. The LA Times owner who backed Karen Bass. And by the way, at the 11th hour, wouldn't actually come out and back Kamala Harris for the presidency, just like we saw over watching. in post, Jeff Bezos saying, no, we're not going to do this anymore. Same thing happened with the owner of the LA Times. And, oh, people were furious. There were resignations at both papers.

Well, anyway, he just came out and said, you know, we kind of got it wrong on Karen Bass. You think? This is the mayor of L.A., ladies and gentlemen, just to remind you, who took off for Ghana as the winds were coming in to L.A. Because she felt it was more important to be in Ghana on New Year's Eve, on the taxpayer's dime, to celebrate the inauguration. of the new president in Ghana in Africa. She took $17 million away from the budget for the firefighters,

but somehow miraculously found $17 million to put towards DEI nonsense. Here's the L.A. Times owner saying, gee, we got that one wrong, really wrong. First of all, we'll accept from blame, right? So at the L.A. Times, we endorse Karen Bass. I think right now in front, that's a mistake, and we admit that. I thought it was very important early on for me to come out. And I think we were one of the few to say competence matters. We've got maybe 20, 23 million views to show how that was really due to the heart of most people,

whether you right or left. And it's an interesting thing is that maybe we should think about how we elect people on the basis of did they actually run a job? Did they actually make a payroll? Do they understand what it is? And rather than having professional politicians whose only job is ready to run for office, there's nothing, I'm not trying to be disparaging,

but I think we are the stage now of the nation and the world. There's many things we'll talk about even in healthcare, that you really need people to understand how it affects a man in the street, you know, how it affects the working type of person. And I think President Trump in this election has understood that. And he's become truly a Republican Party, as you said, he's become the Democratic Party in terms of addressing the problems of the man in the street.

So competence absolutely matters. And I'm glad that that's been taken up as almost a meme now that competence matters. Peace of my mind, I'm laughing. He says, competence matters. What a novel idea. You know what? It's crazy, right? Because competence for whatever reason didn't matter at all in politics. And then along comes Donald Trump. And people are like, oh, wow, he has a business background. Oh, wow. He's had to meet payrolls. Oh, wow. He's a builder. He understands interest rates. He understands the dynamic international economy in which we live, in which, by the way, you don't need to always send the military, but maybe you can use some things like

tariffs pretty effectively to try and get your point across with all these countries. I mean, wow, imagine that. Competence about time, right? Listen, we have been veering away from competence for too long. It's one of the reasons I'm so proud of announcing my new partnership with the Herzog Foundation, the Herzog Foundation, just a wonderful, wonderful group that cares so much about kids' education because kids are our future, right, of this country. And listen, if your kids or your grandkids are in public schools, there's good

chance they're getting captured by all this crazy, crazy, crazy talk. What my kids said the other day that they had a history teacher that said to them, you know, you're so lucky because you're growing up in a time where you can pick your gender. And if I were growing up in a time where I could pick my gender, I would have chosen to be a boy. Fortunately, my kids have a sense of humor about it, right? Like, you need to have such humor about it. And you need to understand how wacky this all is. But, you know, for the kids that don't maybe get a chance to talk to their parents enough

or who are just getting this stuff down their throat, it's not good. It's not good. And so Herzog Foundation is a foundation that actually studies all these schools and looks at how Christianity has a positive impact on kids. And so as a result, they are sort of the be-all-end-all authority on Christian schools. And I can't say enough. about the goodness of Christian schools. By the way, went to Catholic school,

first, second, and third grade myself. My father actually wound up suing the bishop on behalf of the nuns that got fired for no reason. In my little state of New Hampshire, it became a big deal, went all the way to the Supreme Court. It was a pro bono case. He loved the nuns because, you know, the nuns were everything to him.

Growing up in a big Irish Catholic family, they wouldn't have food, they wouldn't have clothes if it hadn't been for the nuns. So he defended the nuns. It became a huge story. First time nuns had ever sued a bishop. Oh, the vassie. Vatican wasn't happy. It was like on the cover of the New York Times. He was on Good Morning America, the Today Show. I remember this also vividly as a little kid because the upshot was, I had to leave my wonderful little Catholic school, which I loved. I loved my Catholic school. And I wound up having to go to public school because, you know, we weren't exactly, we weren't exactly welcome, shall I say, given that dad was suing the bishop. He won, by the way. I went to the Supreme Court in the state of New Hampshire. I digress. But, but,

I would just say, I think a Christian education is a wonderful education. And what I love about what the Herzog Foundation is doing is they are promoting Christian education and they are giving you the resources and the tools to better understand these educations. So, you know, they are effectively just the trusted source on American K-12 education from a Christian standpoint. So if you have a child or a grandchild and you're considering moving them to a Christian school, first of all, I applaud you. Second of all, I encourage you to use the resources that they offer there at HerzogFoundation.com. You can go over there and check it out. They'll help you, especially as you make the change. They've got actually a great new podcast called Making the Leap. They've got an online publication called The Lion,

where you can get lots of information. It's not easy always. It's not easy on families. It's not easy on the kids, right? Anytime you change schools. But listen, it's a worthwhile thing to do, and I guarantee you're going to get a great education. I still miss my first second and third grade and sisters of mercy were my teachers. Anyway, Herzog Foundation. I'm proud of this affiliation. It's really just one of the great things I feel proud to be part of in 2025. So check it out. Check it out. Check it out. Check it out. Whoopi Goldberg making some news again. I'm just waiting for her to get fired and I actually do think it's going to happen rather sooner than later. Maybe this year, we'll see. Disney is getting kind of a thin skin. You see, Disney is struggling from a variety of different perspectives,

including from their programming perspective, including the, you know, they get the FCC suddenly as a January 20th, breathing down their back. By the way, Brendan Carr, who's head of the FCC, is already breathing down their back because he already sent one Bob Iger, who's the CEO of Disney, a letter saying, hey, hey, hey, buddy, nobody trusts the media anymore, and that's kind of a problem. Why? Because you got people like, well, Goldberg on the air saying this, that, and the other, spitting every time she actually mistakenly says Trump's name because she tries desperately not to. Anyway, she has a new theory on why the fires started. Huh. And it has nothing to do with the incompetency, the total incompetency of the leaders of California. No, because this is Whoopi Goldberg speaking,

and she's speaking for the Democrat Party. She might as well be head of it. full of the state reservoirs here in southern california that miss and disinformation i don't think advantages or aids any of us here's how this works there was a fire catastrophe in california had to do it wins you know how they always say oh the win it actually does the winds move things and sparks move things and it doesn't matter how much water you have if 900 000 buildings go up at the same time. Now, having lived in California, having lost every house, save for one that we ever lived in, I take great offense at pointing fingers. You should be pointing fingers about how can we help? Yeah. It's too soon to be saying, oh, it's Gavin's fault. It's nobody's fault. It's like us

taking seriously that there are, you know, magic lasers in the sky that direct the weather. That doesn't work. It doesn't happen. It's a catastrophe and this is what's happened. And let's try to figure out how to work towards not having it happen again. But, you know, we don't control Mother Nature. Okay. This is the same woman who's going on and on and on and on about climate change, right?

So she wants to have control when she wants to have control, but then when things don't go so well, suddenly we don't have control anymore. So a few things. Remember back in 2018, I talked about this the other day. New Chicago actually came out with a study saying that all the things they were doing to advance the climate issue and green energy initiatives in California, they were being negated by all of the fires. So they have these tremendous fires, which actually are extremely, extremely polluting to

the air. I mean, just think about breathing in. Look, LA's had smog forever, right? So they try and get rid of it by creating all these ridiculous emissions standards, this, that, and the other. Oh, we got to send the water back to the smelt fish in the Pacific. You know, we can't have the water and the hydrant. I mean, there's a whole series of things. And we can't, oh, gosh, no, you're not going to burn the forest because, well, there's too much red tape and bureaucracy. And gosh, you might do this, that or the other. But then if you don't burn the forest, you see what happens is the forest burn themselves, and then you have the kind of problem that you're looking at right now, where there's been an enormous amount of environmental damage. So, okay,

the climate's changing. Now, whether you think that's because of pollution or whether you think that's because, you know, we once had the ice age, and now we don't, and the climate just is changing, the reality is we are pretty smart as human beings. I mean, look at this. We're sending people to the moon. We got Elon Musk, creating grok, which is really amazing, by the way. I've got to say on X. You got chat GPT, perplexity. We've got a lot of sophisticated things out there, and they're getting more sophisticated by the day.

So can't we use and apply that sophistication to trying to manage potential natural disasters? Well, apparently not. No, because you're supposed to spend all the money on DEI initiatives, and you've got to make sure that you have somebody that looks like you rescuing you from a fire. Remember that?

The assistant fire chief saying, well, you know, It's better if you have somebody that looks like you. And it's like, no, no, no. All we want is somebody to rescue us, period. End of story. So there's this lack of focus. There is a desire to try and recreate the world in some other kind of image. And in doing so, what are they doing?

They're destroying the world. That's what you're looking at in Los Angeles right now. now utter destruction. And it's not just the wealthy people and the elites. And believe me, there's plenty of them that have lost their homes. And maybe won't even return. Why should they? To a state like that, that's a huge tax loss.

Trump knows that. He was just talking about that yesterday. Huge tax loss for California. So now you're going to be left with all the people that sadly, you know, couldn't lose their homes to begin with. Probably don't have the insurance. And they're going to be in a very, very tough spot. But Whoopie just wants to blame the women.

wind. It's all the wind's fault. It has nothing to do with an incompetent governor, an incompetent fire chief, an incompetent water chief and an incompetent mayor that thinks it's more important to travel around the world, including to Ghana, even the New York Times, is calling her out on that one. Another shout out to one of our great new sponsors here on the program. I'm proud of this one because you know how much I believe in education and Christian education. Grand Canyon University, it's a private Christian university in beautiful Phoenix, Arizona. I love Phoenix. My uncle lives in Phoenix.

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I know you noticed because I actually saw you guys commenting on it and I thought about it. And you know, I don't like to traffic in rumors. And let me be very, very clear. This is just a rumor. And I'm going to get to more things that contribute to the rumor in just a second. But it's a rumor. Nonetheless, you guys noticed it. So when you noticed something, I noticed something.

And I kind of looked around. and I pondered about this, but I just found out that she's not going to attend the inauguration either. I don't think it's about Trump. I think it's about something else. Take a look. By the way, I'm just going to say, this is one of those great moments because you're like, thank God. Kamala Harris is not our president. I could not have dealt with looks like that.

It's like your second grade teacher, but worse, right? She's kind of a mean girl. She's given this nasty, nasty look. Oh, my God, how dare you talk to Donald Trump, you turd. Anyway, that was a dirty look, okay? Really, really dirty look. And what were they talking about? Trump actually released a really, really funny clip

about what they were talking about, but, you know, it was just a joke. He was kind of going into his really wonderful troll mode there. Anyway, here is a story in AP today. Michelle Obama is going to skip the Trump inauguration, but ex-presidents, Obama, Clinton, and Bush will all be there alongside their wives, just kind of like she skipped Jimmy Carter's funeral

while all the other ex-presidents were there with their wives. Apparently it was a scheduling snafu. We haven't gotten an excuse on this one, though. So what is this? Jack on Twitter, Fosovic is saying he's hearing serious talk that the reason Michelle isn't at the funeral isn't that she wasn't invited, but that because she and Barack are on the outs.

So that's about the funeral. So why isn't she going to the inauguration? And don't tell me this is just a Trump thing. No, no, no, no, no. I mean, Jill Biden is going to have Melania to the House for tea. They're apparently going to do that. There's a lot of pomp and circumstance going on. And Michelle is suddenly just deciding not to participate in any of it.

Not even, I mean, Jimmy Carter, right? Like, Democrats love Jimmy Carter. There's no reason that she shouldn't have been at the Jimmy Carter funeral, unless it really is that she can't stand being next to this guy. One Barack Obama, who said, by the way, you know, as he was leaving office, he needed to spend a little time with her and get things on the mend. The truth is, after eight years in the White House, I needed to spend some time one-on-one with Michelle if I wanted to stay married.

And she says hello, by the way. I also wanted to spend some quality time with my daughters, who were suddenly young women on their way out the door. Hmm. So he said he needed to spend some time with her. She, in the meantime, said there was a good 10 years where she couldn't actually stand her husband. People Magazine picked up on it.

This is the soundbite. She went on a podcast and actually said, really, I guess it was Revolt TV, that she just couldn't stand him for 10 years. People think I'm being catty by saying this. It's like there were 10 years. Well, I couldn't stand my husband. Michelle Obama is getting candid about love and marriage.

The former First Lady doesn't hold back during a December panel with Revolt TV. When talking about her relationship with her husband of 30 years, Michelle reveals things with Barack weren't always picture perfect. especially for about a decade. Sounds like they're not so picture perfect right now. Well, that would be interesting. We shall see.

Again, we don't want to, you know, we're going to be very cautious here. This is completely unconfirmed. Completely unconfirmed. But strange, okay, strange, that the former first lady, her husband was there for two terms, is not showing up at Jimmy Carter's funeral

or showing up at the inauguration of one, President Trump. But you know who will be there? Carrie Underwood has a big new gig. Carrie Underwood is going to be singing at the inauguration. I love this. By the way, I love her, loved her on American Idol. I'm a big country music fan. And she's kind of made this transition in a really good way, right, to pop as well. So she does country, she does some pop.

She's now back on American Idol as a judge. And apparently they're okay with it. What do you know? What do you know? And it's a big deal because don't forget, like Hollywood has shunned Donald Trump. And here's this artist with her country roots coming out and saying, you know what, I want to be part of this. I want to be part of this historic moment. And I'm honored and I'm flattered and I'll be there. So she said specifically, I love our country and I am honored to have been asked to sing at the inauguration to be a small part of this

historic event. So go carry. We're behind you. I bet you anything like her sales are going to go through the roof. You know, the MAGA bunch is a good bunch, good, good bunch of people. And they like to support their own. So she's coming in at a time when, oh gosh, this other country artist, she must be just furious, right? Just furious because she thought it would help her career if she left country. That would be one, Marin Morris. And I know you're like, who the heck is she? She sang a song that I used to like called Rich, and then she sang another one called My Church. And she was climbing the charts in country, but then she said she was getting the hell out of country music

because she has too much to say, and it was somehow too limiting because of Donald Trump, but the fact that country music fans liked Donald Trump. She did this big article in the LA Times. And then here's another one. I think this one is from people, where they're talking about how she was leaving because of what she views as country music and its willingness or unwillingness

to honestly reckon with its history of, quote, racism and misogyny and open its gates to more women and queer people and people of color. Huh. And then she went on, actually, this is the LA Times. So she said, after the Trump years, people's biases were really on full display. it just revealed who people really were and that they were proud to be misogynistic and racist and homophobic and transphobic. All these things were being celebrated and it was weirdly dovetailing with this hyper-masculine branch of country music that she calls butt rock. So, Marron's out,

carries in. I think that's a good trade. What do you think? Bye, Marin. No one knew you anyway. Carrie Underwood, taking a big leap there, and she is going to get tremendous support for it. She's got a beautiful voice. She is a beautiful girl. She's the all-American image. And it is fantastic that she's going to be there.

Lee Greenwood, right? Another one that has just stepped up to the plate with his beautiful song. God bless the USA. I mean, and the village people. They're going to be there because they've got to be there. They get the song with the dance. So I think it's going to be tremendous. I'm super, super excited about it. Some people in L.A. not so excited, including Megan Markle, Prince Harry. I think Megan Markle wants to run for Governor of California next. We'll get to that in just a moment. But before we do, first,

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It's actually got a really, really, really amazing promo. I watched it this morning. And I was like, wow, the promo is everything. Like, it's really uplifting and happy. And you're like, yeah, but it's fake. Like, it's so fake. It's so produced. Anyway, talking about fake and produced, she showed up at the hurricanes because, you know,

she's, forgive me, what am I saying hurricanes? Wildfire. We just had hurricanes. Yeah, those hurricane victims aren't getting, any kind of attention compared to a whole other separate story, right, compared to what they're getting in L.A. But anyway, she went to the L.A. fire victims, and she went to try and hand out water and necessary supplies with her husband, Prince Harry. And this is the video of them, which they proudly had circulated out there, doing their good deeds, trying to help out,

however they can. There you see them, looking so concerned, hugging everybody. trying to do their part to make everybody feel better. Oh, isn't that great? And of course, the cameras are rolling because they're taping for her show, which actually was postponed until March because of the hurricanes. And so they're getting a little bit more PR about it, talking about the show out there, telling people how bad they feel. But then, you know, somebody picked up on this and this is kind of worth noting, the feeling that it might just be all a little bit fake and a little bit phony and all done for the benefit of the cameras. because you see as they were walking away, they had no interest in anyone.

Check this video out that somebody posted on Twitter. Here they are. Okay, they're walking away, just walking straight on by, not looking at anyone. There's like a disabled person there in a wheelchair, boom, going straight on by. And so there's this sense that it's not really for real. And you know who knows that? Justine Bateman. Remember her family ties, Michael J. Fox.

She played the sister. Justine Bateman came out with a tweet. And Justine wrote, Megan Markle and Harry are no better than ambulance chasers. What a repulsive photo op they achieved. They are, quote, touring the damage. Are they politicians now? They don't live here. They are tourists.

Disaster tourists. Wow. Well, Megan didn't appreciate that, nor did Harry. And so now they're out telling the New York Post that that was really low of Justine. And they're just astounded that she would think. that they would do anything just for attention. How many of you think Megan and Harry are doing that for all truistic reasons? Just curious, we can take a poll.

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avocados in California? What if you didn't need to grow them in Mexico? What if it was more cost efficient to actually grow them in California? And maybe the tariff would actually encourage more farmers to grow in California as opposed to sending the work down to Mexico. Think about that. And then there would be no tariff. There are a ton of industries. I mean, avocados are neither here or there, but think about strategic, important industries for national security. We need them here. We don't want them off in Timbuktu. I'd like to get all the semiconductors that are over there in Taiwan right here in America. Thank you very much, where we can protect them. Let's have everything we can have here. You know, when he was there before, he did all this

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So no harm, no foul. I promise that I would get to some of your comments there as we closed out the show. And I definitely want to do that. So let me just see if I can get in here. And I've been reading them as we go. but as I said, I promised I would read a lot of these. It's good to see so many familiar faces like David, cat crazy.

I like your names. Billy, good to see you guys. I mean, just wonderful. Blue Waffle. Huh, I don't think I've seen you here before, but welcome. Mike Costa, good to see you. I know. Isn't Ireland beautiful, Theresa?

I mean, it's just absolutely the most beautiful place. I'm going back there again this summer. And I've learned a lot, actually, being over there. It's really, it's just such a terrific place. my kids love it too. I mean, it's just, plus we've got lots of cousins and stuff. So that is all good. I love this cat crazy. Trump is an original authentic gift to America. I think it's so, so, so, so to Mike Costa. I agree with you, Cat Crazy. Again, you guys are really active today. Just wonderful to see so many people here and speaking in the chat live. It's really, it's really

kind of special what we've been able to create and look at us. We're up over 500,000. which is just incredible. I mean, when I started this, I actually talked to somebody who is in television today, and she's trying to go to another network, and I was like, why go to a network? Why do you want to do that?

I mean, just think about what you can create on your own. And, you know, if you're willing to slug it out and I think put in the effort, it's so clear, like this is a way to reach people directly, and all of this is changing, and it's growing so fast, and here I am looking at your comments, but I suspect that in not too long, in not too long, we're actually going to do this in different ways.

Like maybe actually you can actually come on. Like we could have you like zoom in to the show, right? Like there's going to be so many things that are actually possible. And I just think it's so amazing to be here at the start of all of it. I see you guys are really big Carrie Underwood fans as well. So we're all in agreement on that one. It's good to see Don back as well. Don, I know it was hard for us to see you when I was overseas in Zermat, in Zermat, Switzerland.

And I didn't actually do a lot of skiing, actually. I was working most of the time. But, you know, I'm also no longer the young skier that I once was. You know, I grew up in New Hampshire, so that's what we did for fun. And I used to race and stuff as a kid. At some point, though, as I got older, I'm like, you know, I could break. something. I really, really, really could break something. And that would be, that would be pretty bad. So again, I'm just sort of going through your comments here. I appreciate all this tune in,

and I love it, guys. It's really, really, really wonderful to see this. And I thank you. I really thank you for your dedication and your excitement about this, because this is how we have been able to grow. Oh, Carol, I love that. She likes my collared top. David, I, you know, I've thought about that, my own network, because there's so many great, great thought leaders out there and talented people. And for example, when I spoke to this girl today, I'm like, you know, do your own thing. And at some point, I really want to do that, almost in the Daily Wire style,

because I think that there's so many talented voices out there that deserve to be heard. And you don't want to have to go through that traditional mechanism. of the cable network or the mainstream network. If you can sort of cut through all that and just go directly to the viewers, that's where it's at. And that's where the excitement is and that's where the growth is. So thank you for everything that you do and for being here every day. I will be back, as always. Tomorrow, I will see you then.