The Trish Regan Show - Letitia James Hit With NEW DOJ Investigation & SUBPOENA For "Sham" Trump Investigation

Episode Date: August 8, 2025

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And we're live, boy, Letitia, you did it. You really, really managed to screw yourself up pretty massively. It's just epic the way this all is going down right now. I told you something was going to come. I mean, finally, we're here, right? Finally, we are here. We're live. We're talking about Letitia James, everyone.

And finally getting subpoenaed, this is a really, really, really big deal, okay? Because Leticia James has now been hit with his subpoenaed. The DOJ is officially investigating her, not just for what's gone. down, let's say, in terms of the alleged mortgage fraud, which is a criminal investigation that has already been launched. They're alleging that she basically was trying to rip off taxpayers and get a fancy deal, kind of like Adam Schiff, right, saying that she had a primary residence when it wasn't really her primary residence. Anyway, that's going on. And now this. So now they have just come out and said basically that she violated Donald Trump's civil rights when she filed

that massive lawsuit. I mean, one after another, remember? So we're going to get to all the details of that. Thank you for being hers. You can see, I am still traveling, still traveling. I missed you guys yesterday, but I'm back today because this is our territory, right? Because we've been all over this story. I've been all over this story. I say we because it's like you and me together. You know, Gina Carrano has a big, big, big lawsuit that she effectively won. Disney's settling with her, but I'll tell you, they're not out of the woods yet. And that's because Brendan Carr over at Trump's FCC is L. Lowelling closely behind, I suspect that there's more to come for Disney. Meanwhile, Howard Stern over it's serious, is reportedly out. Apparently, he just hasn't kept up with the Times.

And Donald Trump's weighing in on that, so I'll show you that sound. It's all coming as cable ratings are plunging. I mean, last week's numbers, wow. I mean, I just couldn't believe how bad it was for these folks. Entire networks are doing what we're doing right here on the Trish Regan Channel. It's amazing, right? And we've got, well, J-Lo getting kicked out of Chanel, but I get some news for her. She's not the only one. And I actually think it's a little bit political. I actually think that this has something to do with Trump and tariffs. I'm going to tell you about my own personal experience in the Paris Chanel star. It was like a scene out of pretty woman. Not that I needed anything Chanel. But, you know, they don't want Americans, like,

even browsing these days. Good to have you all here. Let's talk about it here. We begin today with finally Letitia James getting subpoenaed for this. for this violation, if you would, of Donald Trump's civil rights. That's what the DOJ is apparently calling this. Pam Bondi is putting this at the top of her list. This is a very big deal. Investigation. They have assigned an attorney, a federal attorney, out of Albany, New York. So it's being investigated in northern New York out of that district. This is important because don't forget, this is a woman who was just absolutely rabid in how she. went after Trump. And don't doubt that for a second. I mean, the violation of Trump's civil rights

is a real issue that they may get around. And the reason is, because you know what, when you become, and it's funny because they're going to say, oh, Donald Trump is just doing this as his retribution. In fact, her attorney, Abby Loll, he was also Hunter Biden's attorney, he's already out with a statement saying that this is just basically politicization, et cetera. But keep in mind what she did. I mean, she didn't have any basis to go after Donald Trump. And yet she was so vindictive. She was so out to get him. Thank you for the generosity.

It's great to see you all here. I just have to take you down memory lane here because her attorney, again, Loll is trying to say that there's nothing there there. And that she absolutely had every right to go after him the way she did. I mean, you're talking about a fine of $500 million. I have a billion dollars where you don't even have any visibility. In other words, where's the crime? There's no victim. Everybody made money. Everybody got paid back. She disputes the valuation of Mar-a-Lago. I'm sorry, Letitia, but you know, you're a politician. You're not a property appraiser. Deutsche Bank could have disputed that, not you. Anyway, here is,

just to remind you, how rabid this woman was and is, and is. Here's Leticia James in all her glory. and just know she's going down. I mean, I'm telling you, like, she may, she may be facing prison before all this is said and done. 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 respect that they start. He's called me radical.

Listen, we know he's crazy. He's called me a racist. We've got to stand up to an administration, which is two men. Two pale and two stale. Too pale and too stale. Two male. Thank you. Two male, two pale, too stale.

Well, now you're in trouble, honey. Bunny, look, again, as I said, this is being run out of Albany, New York. They're saying that there's possible deprivation of rights. That's the allegation. And I can tell you, while it's in its early stage, I mean, the important thing is that they're moving forward on this, because it really does seem to be a violation of civil rights. In fact, I've played you guys the sound at length, right, from the actual appellate court trial where you had the justices, and I don't know why they haven't.

I personally, I do not know why. Other than, you know, I kind of get a go with what the Trump administration is alleging, and that's the Governor Kathy Hockel out of New York is not allowing those justices because there's one woman in particular that she seemingly controls there. those are the rumors anyway. They're at the court, the appellate court in New York. Allegedly, Kathy Hokel, the governor of New York, told Donald Trump because he was holding up, you know, the fines that she wanted to put on traffic in Midtown Manhattan, he said, or she said to him, well, you know, I control the courts. Now she disputes that allegation, but ask herself,

why else has this thing not come out of the appellate court, for goodness sakes? I mean, it's plain as day that it was a stupid case, stupid case. And the justices, know it and they said it and they, I mean, again, we can look at the sound together again, but I've played you everything from that. And those justices clearly knew that that made no sense that case, no sense at all. You know, Eric Trump, he explained this pretty well, this violation of his father's civil rights, because you don't just go into office and say, I'm going to attack someone, like my whole goal, my motivation, heck, I'm going to campaign on it, right? But she did. She absolutely did, so she deserves what's coming to her.

Let me just say. Okay, here's Eric from a couple years ago. You have a corrupt Attorney General who literally ran on the campaign promise to taking down my father. She goes, I'm going to go after Donald. I'm going to take down his family. I'm going to go after his children. I'm going to get her exact quote. I'm going to get to the Office of Attorney General every day.

I'm going to sue Donald Trump and then I'm going to go home. I mean, she fundraise off of this nonsense. Like this was her entire platform going after Donald, right after my father. Then obviously she gets into office. and she does exactly that. And you've got a crooked court and everything else. But actually, I think we're making a breakthrough with the judge. I think they're trying to realize there are no victims.

First of all, my father's statements are undervalued, not overvalued. Second of all, she's going after banks. She's trying to protect banks that made hundreds of millions of dollars with Trump, meaning there were no aggrieved party. There were no defaults. There were no mismown provenance. You guys made money. That's why we would borrow.

We borrow money. You know, go do a great project, you know, be very successful. Jobs and homes. pay a tremendous amount of interest and then pay the banks back in full. Like, we never had so much as a default. So we're saying they're saying, is there a victim in this? I mean, you're suing us and there's no victim, but Carly, it's nonsense. The DOJ has told Letitia James to make my father's life hell, to keep him tied up in a courtroom,

to cost him tens and tens of millions of dollars to distract him. Right. So don't you think that that would actually be illegal, maybe even criminal? I do. I mean, I really do, guys, and I'm frustrated that we're still sitting here this long after the fact. I mean, they heard the case back in September. It was really clear. Even all the media reports were like, wow, the justices are really going to throw this one out fast. It should take 30 days. It's taken over 300. So September from what? We're going back like a year and then some. It's been over 300 days. So not quite a year. Forgive me. I mean,

wow and here we are still sitting around waiting i mean unbelievable unbelievable stuff one of the questions it kept coming up as well and this goes to the sort of broader theory of the the the idea that somehow they were just desperate to take him down at a federal level would be was their interaction effectively between letitia james and say the doj under biden and was their interaction between, say, Fannie Willis, I mean, we know there was, basically. I mean, the boyfriend, don't get me started, the boyfriend of Fannie, kept going to the Oval Office, and he was expensing those trips to Atlanta taxpayers. So why did he keep going? Why did he keep having these meetings? What was necessary for the attorney on the case that Fannie Wills was bringing to be going to

the Oval Office? I don't know. And Alvin Bray. Greg. Okay, so he's another one that people are saying, was this deliberate? Did they deliberately do these things? I mean, none of those cases saw the light of day. However, in this particular one, you're talking about a $500 million fine, right? So that's pretty massive. Here's Matt Gates asking about it. Communicating with these state and local prosecutions against Trump, you can clear it all up for us right now. Will the Department of Justice provide to the committee all documents, all correspondence, between the department and Alvin Bragg's office and Fannie Willis House's office and Letitia James' office. The offices you're referring to are independent offices of state?

I get that. I get that. The question is whether or not you will provide all of your documents and correspondence. That's the question. I don't need a history lesson. Well, I'm going to say again, we do not control those offices. They make their own decisions. The question is whether you communicate with them, not whether you control them. Do you communicate with them and will you provide those communications? make a request, we'll refer it to our office of legislative affairs, they will respond to the thing. You come in here and you lodge this attack that it's a conspiracy theory that there is coordinated law there against Trump. And then when we say, fine, just give us the documents, give us the

correspondence, and then if it's... Right? And so that's the question. Like, why wouldn't he provide the correspondence? So this is why this case is so significant right now, because I think they're going to be able to get to the bottom in the discovery process of just exactly what went down and how it went down. Were there communications, for example, between Letitia James and the DOJ? Probably, I'm just saying, you know, call me a cynic, but probably. And so these are the things that Matt was asking way back when. And Merrick Garland was really being evasive. Didn't want to give an answer if you would. So now you're looking at a situation where, yeah, they are now subpoenaing her. They've got an investigation. She's got the criminal one right with the mortgage

fraud. She's got this one for violating Donald Trump's civil rights. You just cannot, because you're the attorney general, decide, you know what? I get somebody. I'm going to make a example of him so that nobody else on the side of the ticket, on the side of the aisle that I don't like, runs for president again. And that's really what it came down to. She didn't have anything. And the fact that that stuck in the appellate court is pretty telling in light of it. of what everybody had said and all those judges. I mean, you just listened to the judges one after another and it was clear to all of them, right? It was clear to all of them at the appellate level that there was no way this was going to see the light of day. They said right to the appellate

attorney that was arguing the case, for goodness sakes, lady, you don't even have a darn victim. And this seems like, you know, the only one that could get hurt would be the bank itself, right Deutsche Bank and they were willing to take that risk because they wanted to make the money. It's really remarkable. And in the meantime, right, she's out there now. She's suing because she wants to make sure that all illegal people can get access to SNAP benefits, etc. She's suing him for like 31 different things. Okay. So that's just the latest and greatest out of Letisha James. But I would say it's important for Trump in this case to be on offense with her because there's some serious stuff. not only, one, the violation of his civil rights, two, the alleged mortgage fraud, but three,

how about these allegations, the Gateway Pundit came out recently and that we've been reporting on because apparently she didn't feel inclined to actually be doing her job as the Attorney General. She was too busy going after Donald Trump. Well, now they're saying that Letitia was briefed twice back in 2024 about a particular bank, standard charter bank, that had had a history of problems with money laundering, effectively, you know, sort of sanctioning this money, petro dollars that were going from China to Iran. And somehow she continued to allow them to have a license all while knowing that they were possibly in jeopardy of sending $9.6 billion from China to Iran, like sending it through New York.

Remember, like there were sanctions in place against Iran? I mean, you couldn't actually send money from New York to Iran. So why would that be happening? and it happened right under her nose and she allowed it. Why? Because she doesn't care, okay, right? She just doesn't care. I mean, clearly she doesn't care. What woman would say through her power of attorney, and the fact that she is an attorney actually makes this even more suspicious, what woman would say, my house in Virginia is my primary residence when she knew she was going to be, I guess, leasing it out or whatever, to her niece? so she could get a better mortgage rate? I mean, what woman would, again, an attorney say that she had four levels instead of five in a particular unit because it meant she qualified for some kind of better tax rate, et cetera, in New York.

She had some Brooklyn dwelling. And what woman would actually say in a mortgage application that her father was her husband? I mean, right? Like, this is America, after all. I think that she's probably enormously corrupt and a political animal. And she wants to ride this all the way to the governorship in New York, but I don't think it's going to work. I mean, I think this is, you know, between this and the mortgage fraud allegations,

this woman's going down. I just am frustrated, shall we say, with that court, the appellate court, because the other case should have been thrown out by now. reminder, subscribe, share, like, all that good stuff. You know, New York is losing it. Letitia James is losing it. Kathy Hochel is losing it because Donald Trump is saying, you know what? D.C. is a scary place.

D.C. is a bad place. And we actually need to do something to get the crime under control. And if you guys won't do it, well, hey, you know what? This is in my jurisdiction. I'm the chief executive, right, of the whole darn country. Take a look at these statistics. He's like, if you won't do it, maybe I will. And this is sending them into some.

kind of shock because I'll tell you what's sending me into shock looking at these statistics. So these came out yesterday. I believe this graphic, which one of my team members sent to me as courtesy of Fox, I can tell just from the graphic design. I used to work there. So anyway, I'm looking. It's a good graphic. I'm looking at D.C. versus Lima versus Havana versus, and I'm going to say this out because some of you guys listen and thank you for listening. to this podcast, but this is also on video on YouTube live. I'm looking at D.C., which is shocking, 41 per thousand. That's insane. These are homicide rates in D.C. versus, I mean, my gosh, you can go to Mexico City. It's eight per 100,000. That's crazy. I mean, Mexico City, you actually worry

about your, oh my gosh, you know, I have to really worry, but when I'm in Mexico City, I kind of worry when I'm in Bogota. I kind of worry when I'm in Lima, Peru, or maybe, you know, Havana, or someplace down in Brazil. And yet, no, no, no, the real place you need to worry about is being in Washington, D.C. Because the numbers are staggering. I mean, D.C. 41 per 100,000 homicide rates. You've got Lima at 7 per 100,000. You've got Havana at 4 per 100,000.

Bogota 11 per 100,000. So, I mean, you're talking about multiples of Mexico City at 6 per 100,000. multiples of places that are notoriously dangerous, and this is the United States of America. I mean, there's no reason that we should have that. And so Donald Trump has said, you know what, I'm going to do something about it. I think that this is unacceptable. And because of that, you know, I think it's important for me to spend the next seven days putting this under effectively federal control. So now they all are shouting, okay, this guy is a dictator, this, that, and the other. You know where this is going, right? Because this is all that they do. But,

when you look at those homicide rates, you understand why he is upset. Why he is upset. Well, I'll just say that Kathy Hochle is also upset. The governor of New York, I guarantee it. Latisha's upset, but Latisha's swamble because she's got subpoenas now up the, you know why, up the wazoo. And I'm sure she's working on her fundraising letters already. She loves this. That's how twisted this is. Okay, guys, that's how twisted this is. Donald Trump, on the other hand, was mad, right, when it happened to him. I think some of these people get kind of happy because they're like, oh, I can ride this one all the way to the bank.

Kathy Hokel is now saying, how dare he go in and try and take over D.C. And she says she's going to fight it, right? Because she's a street fighter from Buffalo. Oh. You know, you'd think you'd be a better governor then if you were a street fighter from Buffalo. You'd think he'd care about the people

that are actually getting beaten up and worse in the streets of New York City. and the rest of your state, Kathy Hokel. Anyway, here she has watched. Well, Michael, just on the first premise of your question, I've never been a handringer on the sidelines. I'm a street fighter from Buffalo, and my blood is boiling over this.

And so is the other governors, the other Democratic governors. We've talked about this, and history will judge us how we respond in this moment. Because if we allow the Republicans to get away with what they're attempting to do, this legal insurrection of our U.S. capital, then we'll have a generation of redistricted, gerrymandered seats that are skewed against Democrats, and when will we ever get the balance of power, at least, in Washington?

I served in Congress. You know, they've been gerrymandering. Let's just be really, really clear for years and years and years and years. And so now, you know, down in Texas, the conservatives have the floor, shall we say, and they want to basically put some rules through that would gerrymander say Jasmine Crockett out of her jurisdiction, right, out of her area. And so she's really upset about it.

All the Democrats are really upset about it. But, you know, when they do this to us, right, when it's the other way around, it's very interesting how when it's the other way around, it's all about, oh, suppression and, you know, not standing up for diversity and this, that, and the other. Yeah. But when Republicans get the ball and try and run with it, Texas Democrats just flee. I mean, they literally flee the state so that you can't have a quorum so you can't actually have a vote. That's their answer. They don't actually engage with what they need to do. And so, yes, the Texas governor has said, I'm going to arrest them all. I'm looking for them as we speak. Meanwhile, you have what's going on in the nation's capital with Donald Trump saying, this place is an H.E. Double L a hole, right? It's a total hellhole. Just look at the. the crime statistics, and I'm going to do something about it, which leads Kathy Hokel to say what she's saying. And then there's little, not so little, Stacey Abrams down in Georgia, who is saying this. Among the many other vile things that Donald Trump has been called, including tyrant, liar, scam artist, he is also an aspiring dictator, supported and guided like a puppet by a cabal of tech billionaires, Christian nationalist, and xenophobes.

Woo! Okay. I don't know. Does she have a podcast now or something? I don't know what Stace is doing. If she doesn't have any billion-dollar energy companies to run right now where they give away free stoves and that kind of stuff. So she may be doing a podcast.

I'm not sure what that is that we just saw, you know, with her little side shot and everything. Maybe it is her own show. Who knows? Anyway, Stacey Abrams is out there, blabbing. Kathy Holcomb. I mean, they're all going nuts. for on MSNBC. It's a rather constant and similar story, but I guess we've seen this movie before. I mean, think about what Tulsi told my former colleague, Laura Ingram the other night,

when she said, hey, you know, we got a media that doesn't want to report on what went down vis-a-vis Russiagate because, well, they were part of it. Let's be honest, they're part of the system. They're part of the whole thing. So they're not going to tell you, for example, I mean, credit to Fox were putting this graphic out, right? and some of the conservative media out there, but they don't want to tell you what's really going on, say, in D.C. or elsewhere, because they were part of the system. They ignore what they choose to ignore for a reason.

Here's Tulsi. They are using the same old tactic that the deep states' propaganda arm in the media uses. Whenever they come across something that is true and that doesn't go along with whatever their narrative is, that they're trying to shove down the throats of the American, and people, they first usually ignore it, as they did when I first released these documents a couple of weeks ago. They tried to ignore it when they realized that they weren't going to get away with this, that this story was going to continue breathing life. We continued releasing new documents.

Then they decided, oh, we'll take this approach to say, oh, this is nothing. There's nothing really to see here. This is bizarre. This is a conspiracy. These are the things that they do over and over and over again and the next step they will take when they feel that they are not succeeding in getting rid of this truth that we have uncovered for the American people, then they will go down the route of we must destroy and smear and attack the credibility of those who are delivering the truth to the American people. They've done this to President Trump. They've done this to me. They've done this to so many different people once again who are trying to tell the American people the truth and expose these people, many of whom you just showed, for who they are as the propaganda arm of the deep state,

which would have no power and no influence if they weren't able to feed their lies into a willing spokesperson through the propaganda media. I mean, so just think about that. I think spokesperson is the right word to use. So CNN became a spokesperson for the left, a spokesperson for the left, a spokesperson for the left. a spokesperson for Brennan, for Comey. And the same over at MSNBC. I mean, it's just interesting with CNN because they're so international.

I sort of wonder, were they part of these sort of international money scheme, right, with USAID, where they get in any kind of kickbacks? What is it that made them so, so set on putting forth a narrative that was just anti-Trump, no matter what? I mean, he could be like, it's a beautiful sunny day out, and it could be a beautiful sunny day, and they'd be like, now it's a hurricane. Like, I mean, it was just, and it's sort of bizarre. And we're continuing to, like, live in this really super bizarre world where the media is just

getting hammered for it. I mean, you look at, for example, cable ratings, I want to show you these because cable ratings have just really, really, really struggled, just struggled miserably. Ratings at cable networks, in the last week, this is going to blow you away. I mean, it blew me away. It totally blew me away. These numbers right here. Let's see if I can put them up on the screen. So this is just, so I'm going to show you prime time and I'm going to show you average total day. So look at this. I mean, wow. So Fox is still killing it. Okay. So Fox is way out ahead. But even Fox, I mean, for goodness sakes, they're down 41%. That actually is really telling. Okay. That is really telling. I mean, we're over here and I'm broadcasting. I'm actually in Italy right now. I'm going to tell you about my pretty woman experience at the Chanel store. Like, J-Lo, you are not alone. And I think it's actually an American thing. I think they're so upset about Trump tariffs in France that the Chanel store is like turning any and every American away.

Anyway, you look at these numbers right now. At Fox, you've got 2.41 million. Okay, that's a big number, but it's down 16%. In the demo, they're down 41%. That is, that's a big. deal because they're the big cahuna here and then you get msmbc off 40 percent and they're doing 78000 in the demo the demo is what they sell the advertising numbers uh or advertising members what comes in it's based off of the demo is 78 thousand down nearly 60 percent you've got CNN this was actually put out by um our friends over at bright bart and they write CNN l.O.L down 44 percent So they're not doing anything there. And then you look at the average total day, right? The 359,000.

I mean, we have shows that are bigger than 359,000, like one show, right? Here on the Trish Riegan channel. Reminder, subscribe, share, like, all that good stuff. So it's clear that cable is really suffering. And just in the last week, I think this was made pretty darn evident. Here is another screen I can show you right now. Well, it's just a bigger version of what we were looking at. I'm just blown away because the fact.

fact that even foxes down, that tells you a fair amount. It really does. And this is something that one of the writers there at Breitbart pointed out. I thought this was a good way of putting it. He was saying basically, you know, I got to tell you this, guys, you know, that the demo number is a metric that sets advertising rates. No one in the demo is watching CNN or MSNBC. That's really clear. And then he said, I'm going to say it again for the hard of hearing way in the back without the left-wing affirmation action of the cable TV carriage fees. CNN is no longer in business. MSNBC is slashing staff and budgets are hoping to stay alive.

That is just a fact. If you're still dumb enough to pay for cable TV, you are subsidizing these outlets, whether you watch or not MSNBC and CNN, along with the other basement-rated leftist networks, Comedy Central, you know, all the ones that they have associated with them, MSNBC, etc., receive a cut of your cable bill. Those hundreds of millions in unearned dollars, annual unearned dollars, he points out are what sustain these networks. They could never survive on merit, i.e., advertising dollars based on viewership. So it doesn't matter if you watch or not. They're still getting part of your monthly payments.

So just stop it, right? Don't actually subscribe to these things or their streaming versions, things like Sling TV. Hulu, by the way. We'll talk about that in a moment. Just wet bye-bye, because Disney knows it's not making any money and it's super costly. And then he says, basically, you know, basically you can exterminate these guys. Just exterminate them all together if you cut the cord. Enough is enough. He wrote the whole game is rigged to keep them and all the bad stuff they keep doing alive. You know, but it only works if you cooperate, so don't be a dummy.

Cut the cord. Stop supporting these networks. And it's almost like that's what people are starting to do. The idea that they're going to have to survive on their own, think about that for a moment. I mean, MSNBC is a great example. They're getting spun off in their Versant spin-off. They're going to have shareholders breathing down their back saying, hey, hey, hey, aren't you going to earn anything? And they're like, well, we've got to pay Rachel Maddow $25 million for her one show a week, right?

So their profitability, their margins have been squeezed enormously. They're losing money for the company, so much so that now NBC is spinning them off and basically wants to get rid of the headache. And it's almost like you could see it all coming. It's almost like they could see it coming. They're going to blame Trump. They're going to blame Trump. But I'm just going back to these numbers. Don't blame Trump.

Don't blame Trump when you're looking at, you know, these shocking low numbers. By the way, Donald Trump's loving this. And he's loving even what's happening to Fox and the Wall Street Journal because he's mad at Rupert because of some of the, as he calls it piles of garbage that he's been putting in the newspaper, the Wall Street Journal. And that's in reference to,

the whole scandal going to actually James Carville had to come out with an apology and take down a podcast he put up with a bunch of garbage about Melania Trump anyway we we digress let me go back to what all of these sort of commentators that are on the other side of the aisle now are saying their ratings are so low and they can't quite get why but they're blaming Trump and it's like guys these are the numbers these are the numbers okay the numbers don't lie nobody he's watching you. Literally no one. I mean, I can't believe that a channel like CNN is 359,000 for the entire day, and we'll do that in a show. It's incredible. But, you know, Joy and Rachel, they think they're the target, that they're going to get canceled, which they will, and it's Trump's

fault. So you said recently that you thought that you, as an outspoken critic, could be a target yourself. Some people think that sounds overdramatic, but I'm right there with you. I think that he is so vindictive that he will go after, however he has to do the IRS maybe, or even, you know, through sponsors to get us off the air, maybe, or you. How seriously should we be taking that? Well, so I was asked, am I worried about me? And my answer was, I'm worried about all of us. I'm no more worried about me than I am worried about everybody in the country.

I think it's bad to have somebody saying, give me as much power as you can in this country, so I can use it to go after other Americans. So I can use it to go after these subhuman internal enemies and I'll destroy them. Like that's just not a good system for anybody. And I don't think anybody's safe if that's the sort of basis on which he wants to get more power. Well, remember when Nixon had an enemy's list,

that was a proud moment for a lot of people if they were on the enemy's list. Maybe we need to turn it around like that. Well, I don't, I mean, I think that if he decides that he's going to go after you or me or anybody who's well known, you know, we have resources will be, we'll likely be fine. But I think there's a pattern where he picks out individual people and effectively terrorizes that.

But I mean, there's Stormy Daniels wearing a bulletproof vest to get into the courthouse. Once you have political violence, you have fascism following that. Okay, so that's where they're going. Okay, it's all fascism. It's all Donald Trump's fault. It has nothing to do with the fact that we really kind of are just not that watchable or enjoyable to watch. It has nothing to do with ratings being where they're going to be.

are. I mean, throughout all of cable, we haven't even talked about the view. The views nowhere where it was even a year ago. It's held up decently in all fairness, but I can't imagine advertisers are psyched about their content. I mean, their content has just become filled with constant vitriol. I mean, that's just the reality of it. And don't forget, this is the same crew that was Russia, Russia, Russia, nonstop, that Trump didn't win the election. I mean, I thought I was hearing things. I literally couldn't believe it, right? And they let Jimmy Carter, of course, kicking off. Trump then actually win the election in 2016.

He lost the election, and he was put in the office because of the Russians interference. Trump knows he's an illegitimate president. The president-elect, although legally elected, is not legitimate. I don't see this president-elect as a legitimate president. You said you believe that Russia's interference altered the outcome of the election. I do. We have a president. Who is in fact?

Okay, whatever. You know the drill. There's like a 10-minute clip of it. The reality is none of these networks really can survive on their own. It's partly why Comcast and its earnings statement about a week and a half ago said, we just can't wait to get rid of Rachel Maddow. I mean, they really, I mean, this was, you know, they're so proud of the revenue from Comcast. They've got a drop in advertising, an increase at Peacock, by the way,

and they're talking about how they're going to have this great new media company. This is Mike Kavanaugh about the significant numbers that they saw for, you know, one of their streaming series, Love Island or something, and that, you know, basically they're going to move on with this Versaunt and they're going to have USA Network, CNBC, MSNBC, Oxygen East, Sci-Fi, and the Gulf Channel all spun off. But the key there is MSNBC, right, being spun off as well as the others, because, again, that business model is dying out. And they're going to blame Trump for something that is the reality of, you know, what happened to the Iceman when the refrigerator came along. What's happening to these cable channels

when you have something like YouTube come along? It's just the reality of where we are right now, and I don't think that's going to change no matter how much they try and flatter conservatives like they're doing on CNN. This was great. I am going to play it for you've seen it before, probably if you're a frequent viewer of the Trish Regan show. But let me if I can see if I can find you what CNN's been up to lately. It's like they have to have somebody on the air. with a different viewpoint because they can't continue really, I think. Just you look at the viewership. It's not there.

Like no one is watching them. And it's because everybody knows they've been feeding them garbage. And this guy said, hey, you want to know something? Yeah. The brand, the Democrat Party at this point is garbage. It's in the basement. Nobody trusts the Democrat Party. And with the Democrat Party goes CNN, goes MSNBC.

goes all of the networks. So nobody trusts these media outlets on top of the fact that, you know, this is just a changing environment where the real money, frankly, is going to be made in streaming. And YouTube has that covered, right? It has gotten very hard for even these streaming networks like Hulu, which just got folded into Disney. Here's that guy on CNN that I've grown to kind of like. In particular point, the Democratic brand is in the basement. It is total and complete garbage in the mind of the American public. The Democratic Party's next table. Okay. The Democrat Party is complete garbage in the eyes in the American people. And, you know,

frankly, CNN is too. I mean, other than this one lone person out there who's taking his life in his hands in the newsroom, I think, when he says stuff like, yeah, Trump may go down as the most influential president in history, at least up until now, right? The Donald Trump administration is arguably the most influential this century, and probably as well, dating back a good portion in the last century as well. Love it, like it, lump it. Trump is remaking in the United States of America. Let's talk about tariffs first, right? There's all this talk that Donald Trump always chickens out when it comes to tariffs. Uh-uh. No tacos for Trump, the effective tariff rate. Get this. It's 18 percent, the highest, the highest since the FDR administration in the 1930s,

up from, get this, just 2% last year. From just 2% last year, we're talking about a level, an effective tariff rate level, get this, nine times as high this year than last year, but it's not just on tariffs, which of course Donald Trump ran on, in which you're seeing a tremendously influential presidency. What about immigration? Of course, Trump ran and has always run on a very hawkish immigration platform. Get this. 2025 net migration in the United States down at least 60% from last year. In fact, we, we, We may be heading for the first time and at least 50 years in which we have net negative, net negative migration into the United States.

And last year, of course, in 2024, the net migration in the U.S. was 2.8 million. This year we might be talking about negative net migration. My goodness gracious. Now, of course, this is part of the larger story, as I was mentioning. We're talking about immigration, net migration. We're talking about the effective tariff rate. But get this. How is Donald Trump doing it?

while he is signing a ton of executive orders. Get this, 180, the most in a year, since Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Oh, my goodness, you have to go back to the first half of the 20th century, the last century, and to make a comparison, Joe Biden signed, get this, just 77, during his entire first year,

and we're only a little bit in August so far, and Donald Trump making history with 180, 180 executive orders signed so far this year. So that's why I said that in my mind, Donald Trump is the most influential president of this century and probably dating back a good portion of the last century. That is because he is remaking the country in terms of tariffs. He is remaking the country in terms of net migration. And he is remaking the country in terms of how much policy changes he's putting through in executive orders.

As I said, it truly is history making. Love it, like it, or lump it. Wow. Right? That's pretty good. So, you know, CNN's desperate. They're actually trying to admit the truth now and then, and they got Harry to do it. But I just think it's kind of over for these guys in general, right?

And by the way, just to echo Harry's point there, I think it's Harry Enten, I want to point out this new census information that's coming forward that they're really losing it on. They're just losing it. They're so upset. Oh, my gosh, he writes, I have instructed our Department of Commerce to immediately begin work on a new and highly accurate census based on modern day facts and figures and importantly using the results and information gained from the presidential election of 2024. People who are not in our country legally, or rather he writes, people who are in our country illegally will not be counted in the census. Thank you for your attention in this matter. I like the thank you for your attention in this

matter. I think that's a nice little flare if you would. Turning to another story right now. Carano. Remember Gina Carano? She is like a fighter girl and she had some role in Lucas films in one of the Star Wars Siri things and they got rid of her. I didn't watch, I didn't watch Gina, to be perfectly honest, but I paid attention to her when I saw what happened because she was booted from Disney and she, you know, she, the man, it begins with the M. I know you guys know it. I'm going to look down at the comments right now in real time because she was a good actress, a good MMA fighter. She was very talented and she got kind of just really the short end of the stick at Disney. Again, I'm going to look at your comments just because I want to see,

you guys know, right? The show that she was in, anyway, we'll get back to that. The point is she had a she had a very good career going there at disney and she was let go for only the reason that she didn't want to put apparently her pronouns on her Twitter handle yeah so an actress who's a main player in one of their shows i guess it was produced by lucas films and Disney was let go because she wouldn't do the pronouns in her Twitter feed. And she apparently ticked a lot of people off, including that little Rachel one that played Snow White and like nearly bankrupted the company, right, with her Snow White. Well, she ticked Rachel off. Rachel apparently had a hand in this too because she wouldn't bother to put her pronouns on her

Twitter feed. Here she is talking about it at the time. This is great news because she won this, won this big. I wouldn't hashtag trans rights and I wouldn't put my pronouns in. Like, they kept on it pressuring. And finally, I just said, I'm not, I'm not doing this. So here's the headline today. She said, I have come to an agreement with Disney Lucas film, which I believe is the best outcome for all parties involved. I hope this brings some healing to the force. I want to extend my deepest, most heartfelt gratitude to Elon must. Don't forget Elon. Elon had a hand in this because he offered to pay all her legal fees when he heard this. This was another FU to Bob Iger, right? He actually

said it. Remember at the New York Times CNBC conference? He's like, what, you're going to intimidate me by pulling ad dollars? Are you kidding me? No, FU. And then shortly thereafter, he joined Gina in this fight against Disney and he bankrolled all of her legal fees because he, He's like, gosh, you know, you can't just get fired because you're not going to put up your pronouns on your Twitter thing. Anyway, he said Elon Musk is a man I've never met. Now, I didn't realize that either. She never even met him. He just did this Good Samaritan deed in funding my lawsuit.

So thank you for that, Mr. Musk. And thank you, X, for backing me. You know, think of all the people out there, you know, me included, right? I wasn't familiar with her. I didn't watch that show. And all of a sudden, I was very. concerned about her and really just concerned for everyone because the idea that Disney can get rid of you because you're not putting your pronouns up, that's pretty wild. And I think that

it hit all of us hard because you realize that that cancel culture had just morphed into something that became like this vicious monster. And it was an animal trying to like stampede out there. Anyone who had a different opinion, it was bizarre. She writes to my lawyers who walked me through this unknown territory. Thank you for your wisdom and guidance. I am humbled and grateful to God for his love and grace in this outcome. I'd like to thank you all for your unrelenting support throughout my life and career. You've been the heartbeat that has kept my story alive. I hope I make you proud. And then she said, I am excited to flip the page and move on to this next chapter. My desire remains in the arts, which is where I hope you will join me, heart. Yes, I'm smiling from

my heart to yours. She basically, there we go, the Mandalorian, right? Mandelorian was the show. Thank you, Variety. Thank you to you guys. Gina Carrano, Disney said a legal dispute over Mandalorian firing was the headline in Variety. And, you know, they're playing it like, okay, this is sort of a win for Disney. And I just got to tell you, I don't think it is. More on that in a second. But first, Here's Gina, a longer clip of her telling Tucker back when he still worked at Fox, some couple years ago, you know, just how this all came about. And it's a longer clip. I want you to watch it with me. When I wouldn't hashtag trans rights and I wouldn't put my pronouns in, like,

they kept on it pressuring. And finally, I just said, I'm not doing this, you know, like, I'm not, like, what are the pronouns? I didn't even know what people were talking about. I was just not clued in to the pronouns thing, which apparently that's been happening for like seven, eight years now, right? It's been happening. But no one has ever explained its purpose, what, I mean, you're just supposed to know. Yeah. And if you don't know, you're a bigot.

Yeah. Well, then I put beep bop boop in my. Beep bop boop. Yeah. So that, if I'm translating, that just means middle finger to you, right? Well, that just meant I can put anything I want in my bio. I can do whatever I want. That's all that was.

Because you thought it was a free country. Yeah, because I thought it was a guess. Yeah, right. Just trying to follow your train of reasoning here. Yeah, I just, you can put anything in your bio that you want. And the whole, you know, meltdown that that caused was just, I mean, and then, you know. In a bad way or are people impressed? I'm impressed.

No, I mean, it's cool now. But while I was, this was, mind you, this was like one and a year and a half ago. So this was like, I was speaking out about. lockdowns, masks, vaccinations, and pronouns way before anybody was even like saying a word about it. And so I was a little bit ahead. I'm sure if I would have done that now, it wouldn't have been a big deal. But because I was talking about this when nobody else was talking about it, especially nobody else in my industry, it was like, Lucasfilm called me and they were like,

okay, we're going to need you to get, go on a Zoom call with 45 of our, you know, LGBTQ, you know, community. And we have to get you on the phone with these people. we need to have you watch all of these trans, these movies about the trans lives documentaries. And I was like, okay, I'll watch your documentaries and I'll talk to your people, but I'm not going to get on a Zoom call

with 45 different people who can have their phones out videotaping me, and I feel like that's extremely abusive. Yeah, it was. She was right. I mean, what a brave woman to stand up to all of this. And again, I echo her thanks to Elon Musk, who kind of was standing up for society and humanity in the world, right? One, by buying Twitter and making it X and two, getting out there and saying,

hey, Gina, I'll take this case on. I'll help you because it's not easy when you're the person getting canceled. Trust me, right? Like, you got a lot of incoming, a lot. And as much as you may be a hero to some, just the incoming is really hard. Been there. It's not fun. And so she's right when she's like, okay, yeah, maybe it looks cool now,

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Disney has more trouble coming its way. And we know this, well, for a variety of reasons. One, you're seeing that they're folding that Hulu business that they had, right? They're sunseting that. If you look at the way the mainstream media is presenting it, they're saying it like, oh, you know, like no big deal. Like they're just going to have all this cost savings. Well, this cost savings is all about Disney really struggling.

I mean, Disney is getting hit from all sides. And I actually had a great graphic I wanted to show you. Let's see if we can bring it back onto the screen right now. Here we go. Did that work? Let's see. We'll try one more time. Perhaps not.

Anyway, the graphic was just showing you how much in dollar terms they were going to save. I know Don Back. I saw you in the comments saying that you're liking your short right now on Disney. Look, this is a company that was trading their $200 five years ago, and now is really, really struggling. So maybe this will help it a little bit, but I think what it's telling you is that they were not able to make Hulu a success. Are they going to be able to make Disney Plus a success?

I mean, the verdict is still out. Meanwhile, as far as Gina goes, think about what lies ahead right now for this company. because Brandon Carr is still lurking in the background. And Brandon Carr doesn't have a whole lot of use, shall we say, for any of these networks, including ABC, which airs The View. Here he is. Yeah, something really significant is happening right here. And it goes back to President Trump.

When he ran for office again, he ran directly at these legacy national broadcasters. And for years, people cowed down to the executives behind these companies based in Hollywood. would in New York. And they just accepted that these national broadcasters could dictate how people think about topics, that they could set the narrative for the country. And President Trump fundamentally rejected it. He smashed the facade that these are gatekeepers that can determine what people think. And everything that we're seeing right now flows from that decision by President Trump. And he's winning. I mean, look, PBS has been defunded. NPR has been defunded. CBS is committing to restoring fact-based journalism. You see it, you know, everything from, you know, Joy Reid is gone at MSNBC. All these things

aren't isolated pinpricks. They go back to this emperor has no closed moment where President Trump stood up to these legacy media gatekeepers and now their business models are falling apart. Let's go to the view, shall we? Joy Behar yesterday said this. First of all, we'll try to overthrow the government on January 6th. Wait, let me think. Who was that? Okay, can we just fast forwarder? You know what it is. You guys have seen these before. She's just going on and on and on about Trump and hating on him. And by the way, the White House responded to this.

Let's go to their response. Green is not a good color. That for me. Today, who knows what happens today? The White House chose to respond to that. And this is what they said. Joy Behar is an irrelevant loser suffering from a severe case of Trump derangement syndrome. It's no surprise that the views' ratings stood an all-time low last year.

she should self-reflect on her own jealousy of President Trump's historic popularity before her show is the next to be pulled off air, end quote. Is the view now in the crosshairs of this administration? Look, it's entirely possible that there's issues over there. I mean, again, stepping back this broader dynamic, once President Trump has exposed these media gatekeepers and smashed this facade, there's a lot of consequences. I think the consequences of that aren't quite finished. And look, the views got a lot of challenges there. It wasn't that long ago, I think one episode, one show alone, they had to stop, interrupt the show,

and read four separate legal notices to try to avoid legal liability. So I'm not surprised to hear people saying that their ratings are struggling. Well, sir, where does this end then? Look, I think we need a course correction. You know, it's time for America's legacy broadcasters to return to promoting the public interest.

And just recently, you know, Skydance, which is looking to acquire CBS, wrote letters to the FCC committing to serious change to trying to root out bias, to putting in place an ombudsman that would address these issues, to returning to unbiased, trustworthy journalism. That's where we have to go. And I think we're getting some wins along the way. He's right.

Now, they're going to say, okay, this is dictatorship. They just want the side of, you know, Trump on the air all the time. And that's actually not true. What you need is both sides. You need to have some equal representation. and when the FCC controls the airwaves like they do over at ABC, well, Disney's going to have to prepare for that. So they're not out of the woods yet.

I mean, great for Gina. I'm glad that she settled this case, and I'm glad that she wants to stay in the arts, as she said. But think about what's coming next. I mean, here is, shall we say, the latest from the FCC in which Brennan Carr said in March, I want to ensure that Disney ends any and all discriminatory initiatives in substance, not just in name. For another, I want to determine whether

Disney's actions, whether ongoing or recently ended, complied at all times with the applicable FCC regulations. I mean, that's a big deal, okay? Not just whether they are ongoing or whether they are recently ending, but what they were doing in the past, this is where Disney's vulnerability comes in from a legal standpoint, because some of these things included racially segregated affinity groups, reimagined tomorrow initiative for DEI, the inclusion standards across ABC requiring 50% or regular and recurring cast members, characters be drawn from underrepresented groups. They may have enforced racial and identity quotas into every level of production, demanding 50% more of writer, directors, and vendors be selected based on group identity.

That's where they're going to have a lot of trouble, because I'm pretty sure that that was going on, right? Whether it was at ABC or elsewhere through the company, all while, simultaneously taking down somebody like poor Gina, right, on the Mandalorian, who's just out there trying to earn a steady living as an actress. If she doesn't put her pronouns up, then that's the end of her. You know what a big deal this is? I was blown away by this. I'm going to share with you. This is from early October of 2022. My son wanted to go as, who's that little guy in the Pixar film, dash, the one with the red costume and he like runs really fast when my son loves. When my son loves running really fast. And so I went on to try and get him the Dash costume onto the Disney

website. And I typed in, in all seriousness, this one blew me away. I typed in boys costumes, you guys, okay? Can you see that? It says very clearly, boys costumes. What is it that you see underneath the boys' costumes? We're looking at princess outfits. Those are the first things that came up. I'm on my computer. I go, boys' costumes. on Disney. I took a zillion screenshots. I told you about it, and I'm telling you about it again. Running Carr, like, look at this. What do you call that? This is, you know, this is, I mean, they'd fired Gina and they're out there with boys' costumes being Bell, Jasmine. I don't know who that one is, and there's another princess along there. I don't know. Let me see if we can make

this bigger. I can't. I don't know all the princess costumes. I'm not up on my Disney princesses. But they wanted to make sure the boys were. And so just for fun, I typed in girls' costumes. Guess what I saw. That's where you could find Dash, right? I mean, what the heck is going on? This company's so twisted. They are like so messed up that they've created this colossal problem for themselves now. That's quite evident. You know, who else has a problem? Howard Stern reportedly out, ending his show run at Sirius. This guy was like a big deal way back when. But Howard Stern has kind of fallen off people's radars.

I mean, it's, it's, it's, it's, no, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, when was the last time I even saw. I mean, I mean, you can go all the way back to the 90s. Mm-hmm. Like, that's late 90s. Maybe when I saw Howard Stern. So he had this show. It was like killer show for a while. And now you got to hand it to comic book news. He said Howard Stern show reportedly canceled amid woke irrelevancy. I really liked that title because they're calling it like it is, right? Woke irrelevancy. He and Colbert have a few things in common. I mean, he kept putting Kamala Harris on the show. He hated Donald Trump because he thought this served him, I guess. I don't know. But he's been on serious, apparently for 20 years. I don't think I've seen him

in 20 years. Like, didn't I say late 90s is the last I remember of Howard Stern? How about you guys? I mean, Jay Chapman saying, you know what, Howard Stern has not been cool since what did you say the late 80s? Oh, you're really going back away then. Anyway, I just thought that this was sort of amusing and worth noting because he actually is suffering from a very similar problem to many of these shows that have gone so woke. In other words, if you're a comedic show, fine, like, be comedic. Like, why are you choosing to always talk about politics? Like, people don't always want to talk about, I mean, come over here if you want to, like, talk about, like, talk. about politics and we'll talk about politics, but why are the comedians always trying to do this?

And it's, it's like bitter and it's mean and it's mean-spirited. I mean, gosh, you look at the success of Gutfeld's show versus the other late-night shows and they're doing that on a shoestring budget, or you look at the success just of all these podcasts where we're really doing it on a shoestring, right? And beaten CNN in the process, gosh. So Howard Stern had this show on series. They were paying him a ton of money, staff now is reportedly totally freaked out because they're like, wait a second, we get a plan. Is he not renewing? Now, this is just reports, right? Like, it has not been confirmed by him, but the president himself was asked about it and had some rather interesting things to say about Howard, as well as Jimmy Fallon, as well as Stephen Colbert, kind of making the point that I am

that they've all just become irrelevant somehow, some way pretty quickly. Watch. Colbert has no talent. I mean, I could take anybody here. I could go outside and the beautiful streets and pick a couple of people that do just as well or better. They get higher ratings than he did. He's got no talent. Fallon has no talent. Kimmel has no talent. They're next. They're going to be going. I hear they're going. I don't know, but I would imagine because they'd get, you know, Colbert has better ratings than Kimmel or Fallon. You know that. Howard Stern, it's a name I haven't heard. I used to do a show. We used to have fun, but I haven't heard that name in a long time. What happened? He got terminated? Yeah, they're going to a separate way because I think what they're off from salary-wise is real low.

You know when he went down? Whenever you want? You know when he went down? No, before. When he endorsed Hillary Clinton, he lost his audience. People said, give me a break. He went down when he endorsed Hillary Clinton. I think that's probably about the time.

I mean, really. I mean, well, I think I would argue. and maybe it's just because I didn't consume a lot of serious radio. I would argue that I kind of lost track of Howard Stern somewhere in the late 90s. So he's been on Sirius for 20 years, and now that show is coming to an end. So, like, it's really amazing, like, how some of these things are ending. And before you say, oh, well, you know, it's Trump that's ending him. It's not.

It's not at all. You know, it's actually just, and we go back to numbers, we go back to ratings and you look at these cable ratings and how bad they are because no one trusts them anymore. And there's also just a whole new medium. I mean, I think Howard and his team and his show are the victim of a couple things. One, people feel like they're getting lied to. And two, nobody's listened to the radio anymore. Everybody's like over here and streaming. I mean, you even think about Apple podcasts and we love Apple and we're hoping that you're listening to us on Apple. But even that podcast, is switching to video. I made a very big decision when I started this channel. And I've had the channel for a few years. I had a very smart producer back at Fox who said, you really ought to have a channel. And I never used it. So we've had this channel, right, for a long time. And about a year and a half ago, two years ago, I said, all right, I'm really going to commit to this and I'm going to do a show. And I'm going to do it every single day. And we'll see what happens. And here we are now approaching a million subs, which is just incredible.

And it gets harder and harder and harder believing. People think it's going to get easier. I'm like, isn't there any compound interest here? No, there's no compound interest. I think it gets harder. The closer you get to the milestones. So do it you can. Like, share, make a comment, all the good stuff.

But I think the reality is that it was a good decision by me at the time. I wish I had done it years earlier. But the commitment to video was really important because the audio stuff really is just not what it was. And so being over here on YouTube, having a video show being live like this is really kind of a game changer, certainly for me and for my business, but this is the reality of how the whole industry is changing. So Howard, yeah, sure, I mean, politically, he's not necessarily as perhaps, I mean, maybe he's truthful. I don't think he is. I don't think any of these people are very truthful.

I think if you're truthful, then you'd be far more honest about both sides. And how is it that you're like best friends with Donald Trump and going to his wedding and this and that? and then all of a sudden he's the most evil person on earth. That seems very disingenuous to me. Howard Stern had a good show back in the day. Howard Stern could probably, you know, he's an acquired taste. For some people still have a good show. He's just in the wrong medium at this point.

So he's, well, no, I mean, I don't even know. What am I saying that he could have a good show? Because the reality is, if you're going to lie to people, I don't think you're going to have a good show. I just don't. Like you're, and Howard, no one trust you anymore. I mean, that's, you've become irrelevant and nobody trusts you. And this is what they're all suffering from, right?

This is the reality of where we are. It's why you see ratings like this right now. This is what, you know, that people do not trust these networks and they're moving away from these networks and it can't happen fast enough, really and truly. And it has everything to do with the Russia, Russia stuff. and nothing to do with Donald Trump saying, okay, you're going to be out of business. He's not saying you're out of business. They're looking at it and saying, gosh, you know, we're not, we're not doing well anymore. We're just not doing well. And that's just the reality of where they are.

I mean, they have a few meltdowns over there Monday night on MSNBC with Rachel Maddall, the most highly paid woman in showbiz for $25 million, one show a week. Come on. She had a complete total meltdown the other night. Who wants to watch this? Sorry. listen, you can narrow or widen the aperture as much as you want. You can look at the very big picture or the small local picture anywhere in the country. And we try to do as much of both of those things as we can every week here on this show. But whether you're looking at small-scale local stories or the biggest picture stories about what's happening in our country, the story is the same. And it is now an undeniable thing.

we have crossed a line, we are in a place we did not want to be, but we are there. The thing we were all warning about for the last few years is not coming, it is here. We are in it. This is what it likes, it turns out. This is what it's like, right? I mean, it's August, it's a Monday, every day the sun rises and the sun sets, and there are, you know, sports and movies, and there are new hit songs, there are scandals here and there, there are crimes. There's everybody's personal quotient of family drama and health worries and money worries and falling in and out of love. in and out of faith. Life has not stopped, and none of our personal lives have stopped. But also, at the same time, life in the United States is profoundly changing, is profoundly

different than it was even six months ago. Because we do now live in a country that has an authoritarian leader in charge. Oh, my gosh. We have a consolidating dictatorship in our country. Oh, my gosh. And it sounds melodramatic to say it. Yeah. I know. But just go with that for a minute, right? Think in melodramatic terms.

No, we're not going to go with that for a moment. I mean, this is the craziness, right, that keeps getting them in trouble. I mean, they cannot wait to get rid of her. They can't wait to spin off MSNBC there at Comcast. She's dragging them down big time. But, you know, when she's saying, like, we're in this authoritarian regime, I'm like, wait a second. Like, there's real concerns. I mean, consider the debanking of conservatives concerns, even even Jamie Diamond over at J.P. Morgan, I believe he was at Davos when he said, this is getting ridiculous, right? It's getting absolutely ridiculous that they're trying to meddle effectively in the banking affairs of people because they, oh, I don't know, shop at Dick's sporting goods. Yeah, like that would get you profiled. Dick sporting goods, a few others. I mean, this was bizarre.

are. I got to tell you anecdotally, I never got so many calls, like with the know-thai customer thing as I did during the Biden era. Like, it never had happened to me ever in my entire life. Like, and I've had a bank account since, you know, the little past book saving bank accounts, remember those when we were kids, some of us kids? I used to have a little Kenny Bunk Beach in Maine where I had my job busing tables during the summer when I was maybe 14. I had a little Kenny Bunk Beach Savings Passbook. I have never been through what I went through in the last four years. And I'm like, what is it?

Okay, so I get it. Maybe they know thy customer thing. And like, I got to tell you, is it a coincidence? It actually hasn't been happening since Donald Trump came into power. So maybe it's just a coincidence. I don't know. But I have heard from many, many people that, they were getting debanked. My good friend, Dinesh D'Souza, ran into this, and he had a big problem

being debanked. I've heard of people that are in the crypto industry, of course. Like, the minute they find out, you work in the crypto industry, you're out. Well, Stephen Miller is crafting policy now to make sure that this doesn't happen. Like, you can't just get targeted because of an industry or because of, say, your political affiliation. He made this clear, speaking with my former co-host back at CNBC, the wonderful one and only Larry Cudlow on my former employer, Fonk's business. Let's watch. We talk a lot about the weaponization of the justice system, but we haven't talked as much about the weaponization of the financial system. One of the worst features of the last four years under Biden and the Democrat rule, but of course it also

perceives that too, is the use of banking and access to the financial system. to enforce the regime of censorship and political control, right, like something out of a communist country. We all know stories of people who had their platforms, their financial platforms, taken away from them simply because of how they thought or how they spoke or what their political beliefs were. As we've explored this and examined this as the White House,

we found these practices are even more widespread than previously known. As you mentioned, they used this pretext of reputational risk as a basis for financial censorship, which is truly odious, truly un-American, truly dangerous to liberty in every sense. So we've worked closely with Secretary of the Treasury, Scott Bessett, on developing a financial enforcement mechanism

to ensure that those who participate in the banking system are not debanking and financially de-platforming Americans as a result of their political beliefs. And we're hopefully going to have that product finished soon, and we'll be able to bring that to the president for signature. As he's identified, this is a top, top priority for him. Yeah, I'm just pulling an article written by, I want to get to 76 Research in a second,

because it's actually partly why I started this company, 76research.com. But I'm just looking at an article. This is from, let's see, this is from January of what year? January, can I tell? I can't tell. I think this was about a year and a half ago, guys. Or actually maybe, yeah, probably about a year and half ago. So alarming surveillance, written by a good reporter over at Fox. Fed's asked banks to search private transactions for terms like MAGA and Trump. And one bank allegedly handed over information to FBI

voluntarily and without any kind of legal process. So this was a big, big, big concern, all right? understandably and it's really alarming to think that this is where we were heading and so now this is uh the i'm looking at the lower third there has been a federal investigation launched into senator adam shift but we're not talking about that right now we're talking about debanking conservatives is being uh test right it's going to be completely um not allowed no longer allowed why don't we do that um debanking had you even heard that term i had never heard that term until we went through what we went through with the biden administration never heard of it and so when rachel maddo gets up there and carries on like you

just saw and she says oh my gosh we're living in a in a dictatorship which she doesn't seem to understand is the pressure that people on the other side felt that could no longer have a bank account because of their affiliation, perhaps with a party. That was very real. They really were asking for search terms like MAGA. And then they were profiling. For example, people who shopped, as I said, a dick sporting goods, which, you know, I've bought my kids a bunch of stuff there. So maybe that's why I kept getting all these calls. I don't know. But that has to stop. does. And when I said I started my company 76 research in part because of that, it was because I and my colleague there, Rob, we were looking at all this stuff saying,

this is wild. Like you can't invest in this company because this company happens to be in the energy space. I mean, how did that make any sense? Like, you know, if it's a profitable company, heck. But everything became about wokeness. I mean, that's why Disney is putting up what they were putting up for goodness sakes. And I'm looking for a kid's car. costume for Halloween and I go and I see princess costumes under the boys section. It was this obsessive wokeness. And yeah, we got to get away from that, but we got to make sure that you can't go after people just because of their political affiliation. That's what Leticia James, to bring it back to what we started this entire podcast talking about, Leticia James. That's what she did. And now,

hopefully, she's going to face the consequences for that because you can't do it. I mean, we are a wonderful country. By the way, 76 research.com, go there, get my newsletter. It's only a dollar a month for the first two months and it goes to $9.95. Look, the market, I think the MAGA economic plan is a really good one, is a very, very good one. I started 76 research at a time when there were opportunities in the marketplace because moronic people were making moronic decisions based on stuff that had nothing to do with profits and everything to do with wokeness. There's still a ton of opportunity, though, from my perspective and my viewpoint and my colleague's viewpoint, we have three wonderful portfolios over there, and we have the

newsletter, 76research.com. Charlotte, it is really good to see you today. Thanks for weighing in. Credit union, she's writing about that she likes. Look, the banks were really darn scary during the last four years. and we can't have that again. You cannot debank someone because of their political affiliation. I mean, we are a wonderful country.

We're a great country. We're going to continue to be a great country. I mean, we're a special country. And it's not just because we have the highest standard of living. It's not because of our wealth that we have in America or the power that we have in America. It's really because of who we are as a country. It's our principles, right? That's what matters.

It's our principles and it's our people that believe in those. principles. And I, you know, I'm going to get kind of melodramatic on you, but we have a big, big, big, big birthday coming up, right? The 250th. And our founders of this great nation, they launched this great American experiment to really unleash all that freedom and to unleash opportunity that the world had never known. And with that came prosperity, right? And it did. Because once you gave people the power to have that freedom, right, it was like the freedom to prosper, everything else folded in. But if you're going to restrict that, like some would like to, that's a whole other thing. I mean, the good news is we're coming up on

250 and it's like we're doing this reset. We're coming back to basics. And our friends over at Americans for Prosperity, they know that. They love that. They are such terrific patriots and they're here celebrating the entire year with me. You can go to Take One Small Step.com because they have all these great ideas there. Like, you know, maybe host a dinner and have some of your friends over and just talk about America's history and talk about freedom and prosperity and the fact that, you know, what makes us special is who we are. And it's the principles of this nation.

It's the foundation of this nation, right? And the founding fathers that have made us so great. They have a whole bunch of ideas. I mean, you can get involved on a bigger level if you want to. It can be just as little as, you know, having a neighbor in for a cup of tea. You can tell I've been spending a lot of time in Ireland. have a neighbor over for a cup of tea and talk about the greatness of this nation. Why not do that, right? Like bring it back to the community and make sure your kids know that, make sure your

friends know that, and celebrate. This is a whole year to celebrate America's 250th birthday. I'm going to have to start playing my patriotic songs again, you guys. Anyway, go check them out at Take One Small Step.com. Just a reminder, you know, this is amazing to me that this actually happened and it went down. But now Trump is stunning them all and he's going to take some steps, some important steps to make sure all of that never happens again. Okay. Now, the story you've all been waiting for, I've been traveling. I had a very difficult travel day yesterday. I got stuck in the airport in France, in Paris, actually, and it was quite a day. But the day before, the day before was also quite a day. Because I did do a show that. I did do a show that.

day. Earlier in the day, I had done some sightseeing and I was out with my family. We went over and my parents are with me, my wonderful mom and dad and my son, and we went over and saw the Eiffel Tower and all that good stuff. And it was loads of fun. One of the things that we did was we went into a mall because it was really, really hot and we wanted some air conditioning. And there was a Chanel store inside that little, like, Galleria mall. Like, my family, my son's never going to live. let me live this down. So, you know, I'm in there, full-on tourist. Like, you know, I got the backpack, backpack, backpack, no fanny pack, but I got my backpack and my sunglasses and my hat, my little tennis skirt, because I don't wear shorts. It's a tennis skirt, right? And I'm going through there,

and somehow my dad is like, he's older and he wants to sit down. So they have this opening to the Chanel store, and it's roped off, like, it's literally roped off. Well, he goes in anyway. Don't ask me how he, like walked around the ropes, sits down, planks himself down, my mom falls them sits down. Next thing you know, my son's in there. He sits down. And somehow, they're like allowed to sit. You're just not allowed to shop.

That's the thing. Which I found out the hard way. And apparently, so did J-Lo. So J-Lo and I actually have something in common. I typically am not a fan of J-Lo. But she was reportedly refused entry into an international Chanel store and had kind of a surprising reaction. She was fine with it.

do. She was apparently in Turkey, and she was also in one of those upscale shopping malls on the same day that I was. And guess what happened to her? Well, guess what happened to me? I wasn't allowed in. They actually came up to me. And they said, ma'am, ma'am, sorry, you're not allowed to shop here unless you have a design consultant. Do you have a design consultant with you? I'm like a design consultant. Like I was just looking at the sunglasses. You know, it was sunny out. It was hot out.

I thought maybe, you know, maybe I wanted a new pair of sunglasses. I'm looking at the sunglasses and they're like, please leave. I was so flustered. I might have let it slip. Well, you know, Trump's going to put you all out of business anyway. Just under my tongue, right? Because they're a French company. And they're getting hit with their 15% tariffs.

So take that. You want to buy your stuff. stupid sunglasses. I'd rather buy them in New York anyway. Oh, and by the way, I was going to put you out of business. So now, and I, like, stumbled over the red rope on my way out. It was not very elegant. It was not very graceful. My son was like, oh, my gosh, oh, my gosh, mom, she did it again. Anyway, I laughed about it a lot, told my husband about it, and he texted me this morning, the story in the New York Post about none other than J-Lo, also going through a similar experience at the Chanel store in one of those darn shopping balls. Okay? So she was kicked out.

They wouldn't let her shop there. And I have a theory now. I really do. I have a theory that Chanel took a day or maybe a week. Maybe they'll take more time than that. They're reacting, you see, to the news that they're getting hit with the 15% tariff. So think about how they're not happy. They recognize that it could actually result in lower sales for them. So maybe they just don't want Americans shopping in their French fancy stores. I don't know. I think that they're mad at Trump.

I think they're really mad at Trump. I think the Europeans in general are not happy. I know that all the officials are trying to spin it. It's like, all this is great. But, I mean, Trish Rigen can't even look at the sunglasses. They're like, shoo, shoe, shoe, shoe, shoe. and they say it in their fancy French accent and all that. Oh my goodness. Oh my goodness. Gracious. Well, that is a story for us all to remember, at least my family to remember, especially when I stumbled on

the red ropes on my way out, backing out. Trump's going to put you out of business anyway. Anyway, I say that kind of teasingly. I actually think the tariffs are going to wind up doing us a whole lot of good. They're fair enough, right? They're not excessive. They're fair. The 15% deal is very good for Europe and for us. The Europeans even admitting so, Ursula von, you know what, from Brussels, saying with Trump recently that it was really just about equity in making things fair and hopefully now we're leveling the playing field. And, you know, again, what am I doing in a Chanel story anyway? By American. Anyway, it's been a terrific trip. And I'm continuing to be over here with all of you. Grace, and you're very sweet saying,

Trisha the Real Deal. We appreciate you. Well, I so appreciate all of you guys because we've been able to climb and make something of this show and make it a success thanks to your generosity, your spirit, and your conviction. So thank you for all you guys do. I really appreciate it. A reminder. This is really, it's for you, not me. You know what? I created this company, 76 research for you because I want you guys to invest. I know not everybody invest. I was talking to someone in Ireland recently who told me she's never invested. And I'm like, look, you know, compound interest. I know it's hard on YouTube, but listen, in the real world, right, if you can put money into the market and keep it there, like, you know, my son, I told you the other day was like, mom,

my Ethereum's way up, my Bitcoin's way up, my S&P, NASDAQ, he's got some triple Q's way up. What do I do? Shouldn't we take some money off the table? I'm like, oh, what do you want to do? Spunded it, Chanel? I'm teasing. That just came into my head. But I was like, no. You. You know, like, because the whole point is you've got time on your side. And so if you're young like that and you have time on your side, it's great to be investing. If you're older and you're more conservative and more, you know, concerned about having some income in retirement, I encourage you to look at some of the portfolios that we've established, including the basic income portfolio, because the whole idea is that you're going to have the safe and secure nesting for your future.

Anyway, 76 research, at least get the newsletter. It's just a dollar a month. It is great to have you all here. I'm still traveling, as you know, hence the interesting backdrop in Italy right now. But I will be talking to you probably live again tomorrow. And then, of course, on Monday. So thank you for all you do to make this a success. And we'll speak very soon.