The Trish Regan Show - 🚨 LETITIA JAMES’ OWN PROSECUTOR JUST TURNED ON HER — Bombshell Could END Her Career

Episode Date: August 31, 2026

BREAKING NEWS on Letitia James — as a prosecutor inside her OWN office turns against her, blasting out an extraordinary email to more than 2,000 state employees. ✅ Support independent journalism — become a TRISH TEAM member: ▶️ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBlMo25WDUKJNQ7G8sAk4Zw/join At issue: allegations that the New York Attorney General's office used taxpayer resources to pursue political enemies — targeting individuals first, and then looking for crimes. We'll show you exactly what he said — and why this could become a major problem for Tish James. Plus, President Trump accuses Kathy Hochul of violating federal law as New York prepares to release an alleged 7,000 criminals back into the state. And the newly released FBI "Fang Fang" files are raising explosive new questions about Eric Swalwell — and what Democratic leadership knew when they put him on the House Intelligence Committee. Meanwhile, Trump is making Canadians an offer that may be VERY difficult to refuse. Could Alberta actually take him up on it? Europe is reeling after Iceland rejected joining the European Union. And that raises a fascinating question: could Iceland's decision create a NEW opportunity for President Trump in the Arctic — and potentially Greenland? And NBC has landed itself in some serious hot water. The President is demanding action — and the FCC is now at the center of the fight. We've got ALL of it on today’s Trish Regan Show. ✅ Get my newsletter and start investing today! Https://76research.com ✅🔔 CHECK OUT MY NEW SPOTIFY SHOW AND PLEASE SUBSCRIBE FOR FULL DAILY EDITIONS: https://open.spotify.com/show/2blgbg4OaN5dqFhkBy12ii?si=HPdSujPDRrapZWtxbsgAjQ&nd=1&dlsi=979e048c08c04e13 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Oh, Letitia James, we knew something was going to happen eventually. I mean, sometimes these things just take time. But I'll tell you, this is not good for her. This is not good for her at all right now. We'll talk all about that. Plus, it's also not very good for Eric Swalwell right about now because the FBI has actually just this afternoon released those Fang Fang files. I'll tell you, it's not a good look for him.

But, you know, it's really not a good look for the Democrat Party. I will explain why. Alberta, Canada, maybe we'll be. one step closer to either going independent or joining the US of A, Donald Trump, making them an offer that would be very hard to refuse right about now. We get breaking news on the ballroom. It can move forward. Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, well. But we begin today's show. Make sure if you haven't subscribed to the Trish Rican show, I'm Trish, do me that favor. We begin today on one Tishie. My message is simple. No matter how powerful you are, no matter how much money, you're

you think you may have. No one is above the law. No, famous last words, right? Famous last words, because Lettisa James is now actually in a lot of trouble. This actually could end her. This is something that came out over the weekend. Apparently, one of her own prosecutors went totally Jerry McGuire on her, and he published an email accusing her of all kinds of stuff, and you better believe there's going to be some follow-through on this one. So a guy in her office, that worked in the Brooklyn office is claiming that basically she partnered up with the bureau chiefs there in Brooklyn, and they went out determined to find anything they could on Donald Trump or anybody associated with Donald Trump.

And they used taxpayer funds to do so. Now, you may be saying, well, gee, this is like kind of obvious. Like, we knew that already, Trish, right? Yeah, of course we knew that. We all assumed that. And she kind of made it clear and evident with some of the things that she was saying. but it's a whole other thing now for us to have something, an email from someone in her office sent out to 2,000 people statewide saying that, yeah, that's in fact exactly what was going on.

And that's illegal, guys, that's illegal. So here's part of the email that got released to a newspaper up in Albany. No one, as far as I can see, has seen the entire, well, the newspaper has. But nobody has published the entire email. I'm going to share with you some excerpts. He started off, I told you, full Jerry McGuire, saying the best part about having FU money is being able to tell the truth without fear of consequences. So here we go. Plam, pum, okay, he writes, this is Daniel Weisenfeld in the Brooklyn office.

One of Letitia's own prosecutors writes, Bureau Chief Chamiso Maswasway. luck with that name. Okay, I forgive me. I'm sure I mispronounced it, but we'll go with Shemiso, directed him, quote, to find and pursue crimes committed by specific individuals and organizations affiliated with Donald Trump. Oh, okay, specifically targeting Trump himself, true social, HP, Hewitt Packard, they had that DOJ merger that was, you know, apparently the Biden administration didn't want to go through with Jupiter. And it goes out with saying, without having a credible reason for targeting these organizations and individuals. So according to Daniel Weisenfeld, who was a guy who came from like a white shoe law firm, fancy law firm in New York City and decided,

I guess, because, you know, he felt so politically inclined to go to the office of the DA and work on these business transactions. I mean, she was trying to actually, I think, go after his businesses and anybody associated with him from a business perspective, because she wanted to bankrupt him. He's saying, you know, she teamed up with her buddy there, who's running the Bureau, Shamiso, maybe that's how you pronounce it. Chamisot, Mazwa's way, the Bureau Chief in Brooklyn, and the two of these ladies teamed up to basically try and take out Donald Trump. Now, this is, again, let me reiterate going to be a problem because it's actually illegal. According to Daniel, they write Bureau Chief Shemissimo

Mazwawe and directed him to find and pursue. crimes committed by individuals and organizations affiliated with Trump, okay? And she didn't care if there was any reason to do so or not. But we knew that, right? Like, remember she was trying to actually bankrupt him? She wanted to go and basically put a nice big red ribbon around Trump Tower and say, I got it. I got it, right?

She told us. Four days after a judge ordered Donald Trump to pay $355 million for a decade of fraud, New York Attorney General Letitia James says she, prepared to do everything she can to make sure the former president pays his fine, including she told us, seizing the buildings that bear his name. If he does not have funds to pay off the judgment, then we will seek, you know, judgment enforcement mechanisms in court. And we will ask the judge to seize his assets.

That's all she wanted to do. And then she's like, if I can't seize his assets, I'm going to seize the assets of anybody who worked with him. And then she's got this Daniel Wisenfeld that she's telling to go out and do this. And he's like, are you kidding me? I mean, the guy's like a real lawyer, right? So he's like, this is not really legal. And he decided to just go out with a bang because he'd had enough.

And this is a big deal because there's certain felonies here, felony class A, felony class E that could be prosecuted because you cannot use taxpayer dollars like this. I mean, if it's a legitimate investigation, that's one thing. But these were not legitimate investigation. And she's like, you go out there on a wild goose chase. So let's go back to Daniel and his pretty explosive email. If you believe, he writes, Trump is using the DOJ attorneys to prosecute his enemies and further his political interests, you should find it equally troubling that Tish James is doing exactly

that same thing, you know, because I'm sure that her buddy Shemiso doesn't think that that Biden's group would ever do that or that her bestie. Letitia would ever do that, but Daniel's like, oh, you better believe she's doing it. He says, also, I ask that you not serve as Tish's personal attorneys by targeting her political enemies. Instead, I hope you choose to prosecute crimes and find the individuals accountable rather than targeting individuals and then finding crimes, which is exactly what she was doing. And he goes on in the email to say, you know, all the things that we could be working on,

like maybe going after, you know, the anti-Semitism that's happening in some of the temples, going after, you know, the violence, any of these other things? No, she's ignoring it all. She's ignoring it because she just wants to get Trump. And again, you may look at this and say, well, so what, we knew that, but I think that this takes the whole thing a step further. Because you have Michael Cohen as well saying basically, like they had a gun to his head, you don't have a choice, you've got to come forward with stuff.

She was out there looking for something. And he's saying she didn't have anything. She just kept looking. But she promised us that she would. I mean, here she is. Remember she got all revved up at like Rev Sharpton's thing? I'm like, ooh, he's been giving her some little tutoring over there on the side, teaching her to preach.

And you want me to sit in my seat and stand idly by and allow this craziness to happen? You could come after me if you want. But you elected me to stand up. You elected me to use the law. You elected me to go to court. You elected me to continue to challenge this administration. You elected me to stand up for the least of God's children.

You elected me to continue fighting on. And I will fight on. And I'll fight and I'll fight and I'll fight. Even if there's nothing to fight, I'm going to keep up. What is she going to do when Donald Trump's not there anymore? I'd like to know. I guess she's going to just keep fighting, fighting, fighting, she'd take on MAGA. I mean, I remember when the view was starting to take on Ron DeSantis because they thought that Ron DeSantis was going to be the next guy. These people just want to fight,

and they're going to go after anybody who is not them. Okay? And that's a problem. So she's now got somebody Weisenfeld who's making a massive allegation. Well, what did she do? She ran out and had that thing deleted so fast. It's gone, gone from the servers. Thank goodness. Some people screenshot it and got it. over to the paper so they were able to publish this in Albany. So she's kind of embarrassed about the whole thing. Now she's being asked questions. And they're saying this is a personal matter or a personnel matter. Let me double check that because she's got, she can't say. What is she supposed to say? Right. Now she's on her heels. Here we go. Here's the article in the Times, Albany.

And again, this guy just went nuclear on Tish James over the weekend. I love it, right? finally somebody standing, and we need more people in her office doing exactly this. New York prosecutor claims Letitia James's office directed him to target Trump, agency-wide email sent by assistant attorney general to hundreds of colleagues. It was actually thousands of quickly deleted from the state computer servers. Oh yeah, she deleted it as fast as she could. And she's like, you know, this doesn't concern you. Doesn't concern anyone. But remember, you know, she was going after Michael Cohen. She told us that she had to find something, right? She was going to go after Trump. That's what she campaigned on. I mean, I don't think she would have raised any money if she hadn't

gone out there. I'm going to get them. I'm going to get them. And her like, you know, Rev. Sharpton want to be voice. But, you know, it's funny. It's funny because things are coming, dare I say, full circle. Famous last words, Letitia. My message is simple. No matter how powerful you are, no matter how much money you think you may have, No one is above the law. No one is above the law. All right. So, you know, justice in the end.

I mean, it may take a little time here, but it seems like things are coming around full circle for tissue baby. I think it's going to end her. I really do. What do you think? You agree with me? I mean, come on. And like I said, it's a class A felony in some cases,

class E felony in some cases, depending on how it's prosecuted. If nothing else, it should end her politically because she's taking your hard-earned money and she's going out there on the, wild goose chase just to try to hurt Donald Trump. But it shouldn't surprise you. I mean, this is what this team is all about.

I mean, you've got Kathy, Mamdami, and Letitia James, all basically working against New Yorkers. And that's certainly what it seems like. You saw the headline we talked about this. New York sheriffs are suing Hockel over this. And, by the way, Leticia James over this anti-ice law that bans government cooperation. And you got Tishi and Kathy's saying. oh, so what? Well, the president has seized on this, and he's soon going to seize on this. Kathy Hockel out there in a job over the weekend, begging for votes, trying to speak to male Middle Eastern men in New York,

telling them to vote for her, all dressed up in her fancy headscarf. some people would say she has completely succumbed, right? I mean, to their way of thinking and their way of working, you know, the whole black pantsuit and everything. She might as well just put on the whole full burker at this point. Kathy is in trouble, all right? Like her polls are not looking good. Her polls are not looking good. And now Donald Trump's got her on a big one.

He's accusing her of releasing 7,000 criminals back into the state of New York. And she's doing so because she wants to basically fight the federal government. Fight the federal government every step of the way. Here she is just the other day saying, you know, ICE can't be allowed to do this, that, and the other. But she's probably in violation, I would guess, federal law at this point. ICE can no longer use locally funded police to carry out the Trump administration's aggressive immigration agenda. local cops cannot be ordered to aid an event an out-of-control agency.

Out-of-control agency, I would actually argue you get an out-of-control political system that allows for Leticia James to use taxpayer dollars to just go after Donald Trump or anybody associated with him just for the A2L of it, right? Now her own prosecutors are turning on her.

Yeah, I would say that's a problem. I'd also say it's a problem that you're releasing, nearly 7,000 people back onto the streets. I mean, that's not okay. Now, she would argue, well, you know, they're not violent criminals. And the ones that were really, really violent, we helped with, although we're not going to help anymore.

That's why you actually have the Rensler County Sheriff's office suing her. And then, oh, A.G. Latisha James turned around and sued him. She'll probably tell all her investigators to find what you can on this guy, too. This is the county sheriff who spoke on Friday on Fox explaining what this new law really meant for New York. What the law does is it limits our cooperation with 287G as far as entering in the contracts. It also allows, it takes away the ability for a sheriff to house in ICE inmates and that it also has created the Office of Immigrant Trust. And we find that extremely troubling that the governor and the attorney, General have created an agency within the Attorney General's office to investigate sheriffs,

just to make sure they're in compliance with the law. Yeah, it's kind of funky, don't you think? Reminders to subscribe. Kind of funky, just a little bit. Because again, whose side are you on? Donald Trump speaking in a rally earlier this month, and then he put out a tweet on True Social as well about Kathy and her 7,000. He's certainly going to point in in favor of the Sanctuary City. She thinks the sanctuary cities are wonderful, which are killing our country and less than three months ago. Kathy Huckle signed a deadly and sedacious new law making New York a so-called sanctuary state. So she took it from the city to the state.

Meaning Kathy Hoker wants to release migrant criminals from jail and set them loose on innocent New Yorkers all over. Every street has people that are not supposed to be here. And the reason they left their country is a lot of bad reasons. I know a lot of the leaders of these countries. They're very smart. More than smart, they're street smart, very street smart. And they don't want these people. So what they did is they sent them into the United States of America,

through the open border. And people like Kathy Hockel, they want to keep them in New York. We don't want to keep them in New York. We don't want them. We don't want to take a chance. Yeah, maybe they'll get better. You know what the chances of? About 2%.

Maybe they'll get better. But Hokel and the radical left stand with the gang members, child predators, violent felons. We stand with hardworking New Yorkers. We stand with the great people of law enforcement. Wow. You see what he put out there over the weekend? Kathy Hokel, Governor Kathy Hokel, just released 7,000 hardcore criminals onto the streets in New York. What is wrong with her? She is grossly incompetent and must be voted out of office president, D.J.T. So, you know, what is wrong with her? I think that she's choosing a side. right she's she's choosing the side and apparently she did this back in 25 she released nearly 7,000

and not fully 7,000 at that time I think it was somewhere she might have capped around a thousand or so but now that she's got this new you know we're not going to honor any kind of agreement with ice and just to kind of explain how this works yes there is you know state and federal and so you don't necessarily need to be using state resources to help federal law officers but in this case what they were doing was they were saying to the, if you committed crime, right, you go to jail and you're in the state jail and they're holding you there. And then ICE would deliver a list and say, hey, can you cross reference? Because if you have that guy, we want to make sure that he gets deported when he leaves. And she's now not allowing for him to get deported. She's just turning

them back out into the open. And that's really, really messed up. And especially in this environment, I don't really get it because politically speaking, I don't understand what it gets you. I still think that, you know, Americans, they want to take care of their own. And this is why you're seeing Blakeman start to really narrow that gap. And if you talk to him, he'll tell you, his polls show him winning. Now, that's not what we saw in the Sienna poll. We saw them about 10 points apart, but that's actually the closest anybody's ever been to having a Republican governor in the state of New York in like 20 years. So I don't know how Kathy, you know, you can wear all the headdress you want, Kathy.

don't think this is going to work for you. I mean, it's not Minnesota. I don't think, but she may be thinking, well, Mamdami's having kind of a success here. Memdami got himself elected. You know, maybe I just need to appeal to all these people and that'll get me to the finish line. I don't think so. And so I think Kathy Hochel is going to find out, surprise, surprise, people are not fond of her policies. Her policies don't make sense for everyday New Yorkers at all. I mean, they just, you kind of scratch. You your head and you go, why, why, why, why, why? But, you know, sometimes people don't think things through. And I tell you, I saw a fantastic movie this weekend. Fantastic. I mean, I was like, why do they want me to, they wanted me to see this and they sent me a copy of it, which is nice, you know,

sometimes a few little perks with the job. But anyway, it's called the uprising. And it's about the 1381 uprising in England. And what they had done at the time was they, the king just kept taxing and taxing and texting and texting and texting and they were on like the third tax. And that was back when you had the serfs and they had just come out of the plague and everything. So there's a far smaller population there in England. And this smaller population, they didn't believe it. The tax collector would go town to town and say, well, where's your family? The family was all dead. And they say, well, we want to tax them anyway. So it became super onerous. And you saw this massive uprising from the people. It was really incredible. It's an incredible economic story.

I mean, it's a war story as well. So keep that in mind. But it really just brings you back to these very, very issues that we talk about all the time, that, you know, you can only get so much from people to the point where they finally, they've had enough, they've had enough, they've had enough. And that's kind of what the movie gets into. I don't want to give it all away, but I really encourage you to go and see it. The uprising, it's coming out in theaters. It's by Focus Films. It's the acclaimed director, Captain Phillips and Jason Bourne, and it's starring Andrew Garfield. And it really is, they say the true story behind the legend of Robin Hood, when everything is taken from him and nothing left to lose one man's stand against injustice will inspire a movement that will change everything in

a land of kings. A man of the people will defy the most powerful empire on earth and ignite a revolution. It's really neat to see. I mean, I just, you know, I love history. You guys know that and I love economic history. And I firmly believe like all these big changes in the world and in society and that have happened in history. They happen for economic reasons. And so, yes, this is an uprising. and it's a story of people saying, okay, enough is enough is enough, and really trying to take back their lives and take back their freedom. It's rated R. Under 17, not permitted without a parent, witness the rise of Robin Hood, only in theaters. Go check it out. Again, it's coming to theater September 11th. So mark your calendar. Ooh, we got some breaking news this afternoon.

The FBI has just released the Fang Fang Files. We were waiting on this one. We weren't sure they were going to. Remember because Eric Swallow was like, don't you dare? And he was threatening to sue, and he was threatening to sue Cash Patel and the whole nine yards, don't you dare. It's kind of funny because back in 2019,

when somebody asked him, what if the president were to say, I don't want the Mueller report published? What if? And this is what he said at the time? They don't sound like a team that has nothing to hide. Only someone who has something to hide

would be so interested in pre-screening what the outcome is. If the president truly was interested in transparency and did nothing wrong in his businesses as a candidate and a transition and leading the administration, then you would say, hey, you know what? This is all nonsense. I cooperated. Here you go. But that's not. He knows. Because he has a guilty conscience, he has tried to obstruct. And so I expect that we're going to have to litigate this. I spent the last two years of because he has a guilty conscience. That's why he's going to try to obstruct. I think somebody else

had a bit of a guilty conscience. And that's why you obstructed. You did not want that. I don't blame you. You know what, Eric, I wouldn't really want those things coming out either. Here are the, here's the woman of the hour. Fang Fang. Can't make it up. I guess her American name was Christine Fang, but her Chinese name was Fangfangfang. Anyway, the files are out. The files are out. Indeed, they're out, guys. Donald Trump putting this one out, you know. Sweet justice, right? FBI had evidence, Swalwell, got illegal donations. from suspected Chinese spy, bombshell memo show.

Yeah. And you know what's crazy? The Democrats knew this. They had Jack Smith on the case. Remember Jack Smith? And yet they let it all blow over. They put them on the intel community, for goodness sakes. They knew who he was and what he did.

And yet, it's sort of remarkable. So just to bring you back in time, I remember here's a nice little picture of Swalwell and his girlfriend. She was, although I don't know if we can really call it. She was like the occasional girlfriend. I'm being polite. She basically was getting all these interns for his office, and it was some kind of like pay-to-play scheme,

but I think she was also funneling foreign money. That's what's being alleged, but let me go through the documents with you. So basically, and Justin News had this story and did a phenomenal write-up. It's like 13 pages, long at just the news.com, the files chronicling the relationship between Swalwell and Fang Fang. They were declassified by the president. They were released today. We said all that. Well, they show the

FBI opened a predicated investigation, which is a formal law enforcement inquiry, backed by a factual basis or allegation that indicates a crime or national security threat already exists. And so if we go and we read a little bit more of this, we can see that the FBI initially wanted to investigate the congressman for a bribery scheme in which he exchanged donations from fang fang for her planting interns in his office but eventually decided to narrow the case to see criminal charges only against fang fang for making illegal donations to the california democrat through conduits swalwell admitted to having sex with fang his staff placing fang's intern in congress interns in congress and not having enough campaign finance system a strength of a campaign finance system to detect

Oh, I, oopsie daisy. The straw donations, she allegedly passed through U.S. citizen conduit. So, whoa, so China was back in him. I get it. Like China needed to have their person, right? And Fang Fang and Swalwell, they were going to be it. Well, the Justice Department declined to prosecute her. Why? Because I'm not really sure. Do you know why? I mean, maybe because it was embarrassing. I don't know. But she went back home. And the prosecutor was supposed to be Jack Smith. I mean, he never met a charge he didn't want to bring against Donald Trump, but, you know, Eric Swalwell, he was on pretty good ground, apparently. The FBI, meanwhile, was recruiting Fang Fang to be a confidential informant through an undercover agent. This is so bizarre. They assigned her the code name Rusty Thumbs. They planned to hire her through a cutout company, and she was still evaluating her

suitability as a confidential, and they were still evaluating her suitability as a confidential source. She clearly wasn't that reliable when they discovered her alleged criminal behavior. So the FBI knew, I guess, during the recruitment that Fang Fang was tied to the Chinese Ministry of State Security, apparently, which is their notorious spy agency in Beijing, and apparently her parents were tied to it as well. They were MSS agents, and she was known for raising money for California Democrats as well as exchanging, uh, I'll show, we say personal favors as a way of getting ahead in the world of U.S. politics. And so he's the idiot that I guess was just so, you know, inclined to oblige. And so it goes on to say that Congressman

Swalwell had said for a decade that he did, oh, this is the legal counsel, I should say, for Swallow. Swallow, who's like out of a gig right now, he's got no real political future, I don't think. he was running, remember, for California governor, but all those explosive things came out about him in April, I think, and suddenly he was out, and he's no longer in the House of Representatives. So he's got a lawyer, and the lawyer said, quote, there is nothing new here. The government's own memorandum confirms what Congressman Swal has said for more than a decade. He did nothing wrong, and there was no basis to charge him for any offense. in the lawyer statement that was made through a public relations firm, so clearly he is desperate.

She also said, quote, what is new and deeply concerning is the apparent use of federal law enforcement information to punish or embarrass an outspoken critic of the current administration. An investigation that produced no charges and no finding of wrongdoing should not be resurrected years later as a vehicle for political retaliation. Let me be clear, there's really nothing that one can do to Eric Swallow at this point. I mean, maybe retaliate, but he's kind of out of the picture. politically speaking, the other thing I'd say is it actually is relevant because it shows you that the Democrats were willing to cover this up. And to me, that's kind of important to know, right?

Jack Smith, I mean, trust me, if this had been Donald Trump, I mean, he wouldn't have gotten to first base. Like, there would have been no way, right? But because it's Eric Swallow, they're willing to look the other way. And that guy's kind of a, you know, you're to believe some of these allegations, including what came out and why he had to step down from that governor base in California. I mean, he is, he's not exactly, um, a Boy Scout, right? So it goes on to say that the FBI assessment, which later became a full-fledged investigation, centered on allegations that Swalwell awarded internships in his office in exchange for campaign contributions. And the FBI identified Fang Fang, the Chinese National, as the person

that was facilitating all of this. But it gets worse. It gets worse because apparently she was willing to use her own money. And that's what's alleged in some of these. documents, again, that were just revealed today, and I've got to read through all of them, but one of the allegations is that she came forward to a source for the FBI, and she said, hey, come to this event, this money-raising, fundraising thing for Swalwell, with me, and write a check for $1,000, and I will give you $1,000. And this source for the FBI was like, no, thank you. I'm not going to engage in that, understood that that would actually be illegal.

And so the FBI knew this. And I just think the fact that they covered it up and tell me if I'm wrong here, right? I think that they covered it up for a reason. And it's because they didn't want to make swallow look bad. And that's it. And the fact that they were covering it up, that to me speaks volume about the party and who the party is. And so I think it's good that it's all coming out. You know, little sunlight on the situation serving as a bit of a disinfectant in more ways than one.

Right about now. So good. You know, the more information we have at this point, the better. Alberta, Canada, we're with you on this one. Alberta is looking to say, Arroy? No, they don't speak French in Alberta. Alberta, Canada wants out. All right?

They want out. They want out of Canada. And Donald Trump is kind of coming forward with a bit of an attractive offer. I mean, he's got no use for Canada right about now. We'll lose $60 billion a year for many years with Canada. More than that, they used to lose. But we lose all of this tremendous money. They think they're a state, but they're not a state.

Why should we be subsidizing Canada? And I've said it for a long time. And I would have done it in the first term, but we were doing other things. And we did have the Russia, Russia. Oh, the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax. It took a lot of oxygen out of the room, right? That took up a lot of energy. But that's what they were doing deliberately.

They wanted to either take him out or make sure that he was so distracted with that. He couldn't get anything else done. Well, now he's running on offense right now. And he's running on offense big time, including with our trade deal with Canada. Because Canada pulled out last minute. Apparently didn't like that they couldn't do as much business

with the Chinese as they so wanted. And so now we're looking at, some serious tariffs. I mean, we put tariffs on them. They put tariffs on us. And you know who's not too happy about it? The woman who is in charge of Alberta, Canada, the woman who is the premier, she is a smart cookie. This is Danielle Smith. I want to go to her comments on this. Although I understand the need to respond strongly to these tariffs, I cannot think of a more disastrous policy decision than cutting off or taxing Alberta's oil to the United States. doing so would absolutely devastate the Canadian economy.

It would not only extinguish the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of Albertans, it would economically hobble our friends and neighbors in other provinces to the east. Let me explain why. And it's important that this be understood by every Canadian. If Canada were to put, let's say, a 50% export tariff on the 4 million barrels of oil that we export daily to the United States, United States. The United States would immediately respond with a 50 to 100 percent export tariff on oil and natural gas that they export to Ontario, along with millions of barrels of diesel fuel and gasoline that Ontario and Quebec import from the Midwest. This would bring the

economies of Ontario and Quebec to a grinding halt. Meanwhile, all those refineries in the United States that currently use Alberta's heavy oil would start looking to Venezuela. for replacement heavy oil and reverse the pipelines northward to get it to Midwest refineries. As a result, we would lose the United States as a customer entirely and likely forever. This would result in the loss of about half a million jobs at a minimum, mostly in Alberta, but also hundreds of thousands of jobs in Ontario and Quebec. And if we cut off our oil entirely, what then? The same results, but even worse. The United States would of course respond and cut off all gasoline and diesel from their refineries to Ontario and Quebec, right as we turn into fall and

winter. And unlike Canada, the United States has strategic oil reserves that Canada does not. So although their gasoline prices will increase, they will be able to keep them at relatively manageable prices, just as they have done through the Iran War. And without strategic oil reserves, Canada has no way to supply Ontario and Quebec with the oil, natural gas and fuels that they would need in a timely fashion. The Toronto Stock Exchange would nosedive, along with millions of Canadians' investments, particularly our seniors, and small and medium and large energy companies across Canada would shudder and lay off their employees, unable to find a market for their product. There is a better way forward.

Better way is for Alberta to say, see ya, all right? She's not wrong. She's smart cookie, right? I mean, what she said about Venezuela. I mean, hey, we just struck oil down there, 60 million barrels that Donald Trump is getting his hands on for the USA. The Pentagon's going to run it. Plus, we got Chevron doing all kinds of deals down there, too. It's a big, big deal. And so Daniel Smith is like, wait a second, you know, what's going on? But I'll tell you, you know, these tariffs are a big deal. And Donald Trump could be coming through here with an offer that Canada may not be able to refuse. Take a look at this one, he put out. Let all Canadian companies that are doing business with America moved to the United States immediately. Many of them are companies that moved out years ago

due to stupid U.S. leadership. When you move back, there are no tariffs. So come on, come one, come all. We want that kind of immigration, right? We want the companies coming here. We want people who have deep pockets and can start factories and build factories and create jobs. We want that. But the other thing you should keep in mind is, well, you know, those oil fields that they got up in Canada, Those can't move. So Alberta is looking at this and saying, wait a second, they're trying to, like, Carney is trying to devastate our industry and devastate our economy. And that's really not going to work for us. Now is it?

No, it's not. Not at all. Our businesses here are going to be more harmed by the Canadian counter-ter tariffs than they were by the American tariffs. No mistake. Canadian businesses are going to be hurt by both. that's why we think it's important for us to stay focused on trying to get to that, that tariff-free or close to terror-free relationship as quickly as possible. Good. Okay. You know, maybe she should be running the country. Did you ever think of that?

In the meantime, Alberta is one step closer to pulling away. So they're going to have a vote in October. And the vote is basically to look at whether or not they should be moving forward with this secession, if you would, from Canada. And I think it's something that the Treasury Secretary, the President would certainly encourage probably the Pentagon as well, because what do we want? We want oil. Alberta's got oil. And even if it doesn't join us, hey, 51st state, I'm teasing, even because they want independence. If they don't join us, be independent, be independent from Carney and that noose around your neck, right? I mean, because it's going down. It's going down fast. Here's Besson speaking at G20 that they had today in North Carolina, they get all the global financial officers from all over the world

speaking. And here he is with one of my former colleagues on CNBC. Let's watch. Mark, it's wondering if we're now in a tip-for-tat trade war with Canada. Well, I don't think you can be in a tip-per-tap with someone who's 13 times larger than you are. They say they're doing okay. What else are going to say? Look, I think this is very unfortunate that Prime Minister Carney has turned this into a political shouting match. I mean, we're not at war with Canada. How are we going to be at war with Canada? They're going to take their two submarines

from the Edmonton Mall and Sicken on us? That, you know, he came to power on an anti-American, anti-Trump agenda. He was 20 points behind in the poll, and then he started this, and it's unfortunate that he's not doing what's best for the Canadian people. He's doing what is best for the Liberal Party,

what's best for Mark Carney. and in the long run, the Canadian people are going to see through that. And I will say that they were offered the best trade deal of any country on the globe. And he chose to walk away from it at the last minute. He's an idiot. Okay, he's a TDS plagued idiot. Karni, gosh, you know, there's no hope for you, buddy. Especially when he's clearly not looked at the numbers like Besson has.

I can't believe this. I mean, so there are a number, we are, I should say. their number one trading partner. There is no one that comes even close. We're like roughly 10 times the size, almost 10 times the size of China in terms of the amount of trade that we do. Okay, that's one thing. But I dug into these numbers even more, and this is really important, guys. Look at this right here. And Danielle knows this. I've actually heard her talk about this too. 404, I'm rounding up billion dollars in exports. That's what they send to us. Okay, so we buy $404 billion dollars worth of stuff from them. We are like dominant by far. We are so important to them. They don't have

any customer base, right, without us. And then you go down the list. The UK is high only because gold last year. That's the only reason that they're going to be wiped off the list this year. Then you've got China, 24 billion. You've got Japan at 10. Netherlands at 6. I mean, you go right on down the list. Italy's buying $2 billion, $2.8 billion. So call it three. We'll be generous. nobody's buying from them. We are 16 times the size of China in terms of our might in terms of what we buy. Okay, so we got all the power here. We are 2.3 times the size of the rest of the world in terms of what we buy from Canada.

So Canada, come on. Like, you know, put your big boy pants on. Screw in the noggin straight there, Carney, if you have one. And start listening to Danielle Smith. would you? Or Alberta, we welcome you as the 51st state or as your own independent union. We might have a little bit more affinity for you, even. You're the engine. The engine of that economy by far, they lose Alberta, they get nothing. Carney's getting nothing. I mean, he's going to go bonkers if that happens. He's already said, no, no, no, no, no, we're not going to

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Take a look at this. Iceland had an opportunity to join the European Union, well to just have some talks about joining the European Union and Iceland doesn't even want to talk about it no no no no look at that it was a big vote i mean turner turnout was huge 82.5 percent that was the voter turnout so nearly all of Iceland showed up and they voted no to joining the EU this is a big deal for Donald Trump you know why it sits in a rather strategic spot don't forget right and he's kind of interested in this particular spot. Because you see what it's close to? Greenland. Greenland. Yes. Iceland and Greenland quite close together. I mean, Iceland is much smaller. Greenland is mostly a whole bunch of ice.

But this opens up a new opportunity in some ways. Granted, it's already part of Schengen, it's already part of NATO. But the fact that they didn't go full force into the EU is quite interesting, perhaps quite telling in terms of offering more opportunity for Donald Trump to make this Arctic play. Here's the headline in the Guardian. They write Iceland rejects EU ascension talks after divisive referendum campaign, well-funded no-camp. Oh, that darn well-funded no camp prevails, winning 52.8% of the votes and gaining plotted from the Eurosceptic figures across Europe. So today, what is everybody talking about? Oh, no, this makes us more vulnerable to Donald Trump. Here is what the woman who is in charge of Iceland was saying at a press conference. She said it's

clear that this matter will not move forward under this government. But as the Guardian points out, the vote was held in the shadow of repeated threats by Donald Trump to invade or acquire neighboring Greenland. Although Iceland is a NATO member, as I mentioned, support of the EU membership and EU solidarity was just not there. They are saying that it would have provided greater protection from Trump if Trump ever made similar threats towards the smaller Arctic Island. And they nonetheless didn't want it. So at a press conference, the prime minister said the campaign had, quote, raised the debate in Iceland to a higher level while acknowledging that there were aspects that could have been done better. Apparently, they didn't sell their message so well on the

other side. And what's interesting is a lot of people from the country came out in force. It was not like the metropolitan Reykievich that decided this one. It was the people in the country, and a lot of the people were very frustrated because what it would have meant for their fishing industry. and let's face it, Brussels is controlling everything. I mean, the fishing industry, even in Ireland, has suffered as a result of joining the EU. It's something that I hear from people in Ireland, from people who make their living as a fisherman, including my own cousin, by the way, who has a fishing boat. And it's like, look, it's all been basically turned over to Spain.

And that was part of the deal when they joined the EU. So it's not a good thing for the fishermen in Iceland to do this deal. But now it opens up maybe a little bit more wiggle room because the president has made it very clear what he wants. And that would be that big block of ice. You know that. I mean, he communicated as recently as July at the NATO meeting. Here he is speaking in Ankara Turkey. Well, that's what hurt my relationship with NATO because Greenland doesn't help Denmark.

Denmark doesn't spend money to really help Greenland. but it's an important part for the United States. And it's surrounded by China ships and Russian ships. And that's not going to happen. The ships is not going to happen. It was Greenland and it continues to be, that should be controlled by the United States, not by Denmark. And when they wouldn't go along with it,

and with all the money we spend to help them with Russia, and we don't have to spend any money. We could remove all of our soldiers out of Europe. Because as you probably noticed, Europe's a very different place than it was 20 years ago. A lot different, much different. It's a much different. And they better be careful with immigration and energy. If they're not careful with those two things, you're not going to have a Europe anymore.

Okay, thank you very much. But, you know, he's made it clear over and over again. He wants Greenland for strategic reasons. I mean, certainly the mineral rights, right, that we would get there are massive, significant. but maybe even more important than that is that it basically is right in between that China and Russia. And if Europe is not able to protect Greenland the way we would hope and would want them to, then that would make us very vulnerable. So I think he's looking at this very strategically.

He's wanted it forever. You know, you've seen the memes of him peering down. He put that one out on true social. and I think he's pretty serious about this. And I know that talks are still ongoing. It's all behind the scenes right now, but I'm told that the talks are going well. And we're looking to have a bigger and bigger presence there in Greenland, possibly have territories. So if we could get some territories and therefore really have some cemented relationship there with Greenland, it would be a big, big deal. Denmark doesn't want us to have this. Europe doesn't want us to have this, but the president is looking at this very seriously saying, listen, you guys can't them. We know that you can't even protect yourselves. I mean, you keep looking to us, right? How are you ever going to protect Greenland for goodness sakes? And so we're just trying to be realist about all of it right now. And given the U.S.'s presence and hegemony in the world, it would make sense that we would have such a valuable asset. Did you guys watch Meet the

press this weekend? Ooh, Donald Trump not too happy with Meet the Press. He's demanding the FCC get involved in this one now because he said, you know, how can they just get on there and lie and say things that are not true. And so Kristen Welker apparently made a big, big thing about his influence on the midterms. If you recall, and I don't know if we watch this together or not, do you know that he has said, I think of it like I'm on the ballot. I'm on the ballot come November. He knows that, you know, if he's not on the ballot, it's kind of harder to get the base out to vote for him. So he's like, you've got to think of it like, I'm on the ballot. And so here she is questioning whether or not having this idea that Donald Trump is on the ballot at midterms is

going to work for him or not. And she kind of, she kind of flubs it up. Watch. He's going to loon large over these midterms. There's no doubt about that. He, of course, has endorsed a slate of candidates in the primaries. He's had some mixed results. But most recently, his pick of Senator Darlene Graham, of course, the sister of the late Senator Lindsey Graham was successful. Yeah, that was kind of a big deal. You remember we watched it together, how Darlene reminded me of like a beauty pageant contestant. They're like, you know, what do you want? And you're supposed to say world peace. And she just kind of stumbles. Well, in this case, they said, do you think that China and Taiwan are, you know, important or something

I can't remember. Important. I know you got, you guys are all getting after me for that. You should hear me say, oh, I'll just say it. Mitten. New Hampshire thing. Anyway, but it's, it's, do you think that they're going to be important to the U.S. overall, et cetera? It was some kind of simple question. Like, yeah, I think, like, our relationship with Taiwan is really important, and it's going to matter in the future with China, et cetera. It was like an easy one, but she couldn't get it. And he went in and he totally saved the day because it didn't look like at that point

she might actually make it to the finish line. She was already struggling against Ralph Norman. And yet she did. So it was a big victory lap for him. So he did not appreciate Kristen. saying this. And he put this one out on true social. Kristen Welger, the unpopular hostess of the once great Meet the Press, now considered Meet the Fake Press, just stated that Donald Trump has mixed results on the endorsement of his candidates when the recent wins of Darlene Graham and

Mike Mazze stand at 100% for the U.S. Senate and 98% for the U.S. House recently and over the long term. How can anyone be allowed to say this? Working for freely given public airwaves. See, This is what he's learned, what I told you. Cable is different. YouTube is different. Print is different. Radio and television. ABC, CBS, NBC.

They're all governed by the 1934 Communications Act. The FCC has jurisdiction. Okay, so he's saying, why is she allowed to say this over freely given public airways? Results are attached. Because of this purposeful inaccuracy, she will be reporting. to the FCC for rebuke or punishment. Unfortunately, she's not the only one. The radical left news he goes on is going out of its way to harass, demean, and libel anything Trump. Their new weapon is to say, their new weapon is to say that my 99% success rate on endorsements, 100% on

senatorial endorsements, many of whom were not even given a shot, of winning until I endorsed, is either a mixed result or not very good. In actuality, is without question, the strongest endorsement in the history of politics. If it were not, I would not be the first, I would be the first admit, Darlene Graham's run for the Senate was the biggest story in all the politics because she wasn't expected to win. And then, when I endorsed her, and she easily won the story of her victory was hardly covered by anybody. Oh, that's interesting. He says that. It's kind of true. I mean, I remember we covered it here and you guys definitely, I think, appreciated the coverage. You know, then he goes on, the same thing for Oklahoma. He said, the press is a disgrace to our nation,

and I hope that Chairman Branden Carr and the fine people of his commission will take this threat to our country very seriously. I mean, I think that the press. the bottom line is, so here's the numbers, right? Like, he's getting kind of sick of it because you look at these numbers. I'm putting them up here on the chart and you see 98% success, right? The 243 candidates that he has endorsed, 239 in them one, and then you go on to the House, you go on to the U.S. Senate. Wow. So, yes, he has had a lot of success. And so he does not appreciate this. He also went on to say the fake polls used by our crooked media or out of control and something must be done about a FCC. seat of the rescue. What he's getting at here is something we've talked about at Nagem, right,

that you have this blatant bias in the media and they just hate them. And I don't fully, I don't get it. Like, I've thought about this a lot. I know we've talked about, you know, whether this is the Smith-Munt Act and the fact that that got repealed and the fact that now there's no more money to go to these international news organizations that were then basically using that money and sending messages within our borders. And just to back up, Smith-Mund Act was put in place basically by our CIA and State Department because they wanted to be able to influence people's thoughts overseas, right? Because the thinking is, you know, it's better to influence the people rather than have to have some kind of, you know, bloody war and take out the whoever's there. So

let's influence the people. And so they paid basically news organizations overseas. to have this quote-unquote influence. And then at some point, I believe, was under Barack Obama. Of course, of course it was under Barack Obama. It wasn't, I believe, I know. It was under Barack Obama. I just can't recall the exact year. But basically, this whole thing was reversed.

I think it was right before Obama left office. I'm pretty sure it was right before Obama left office. Maybe he saw Trump coming. It was like, we've got to do something. We've got to do something. And so it basically enabled the press to use money that otherwise would have been devoted to overseas operations to use that to have a point of view that was projected onto the American people.

And that's all I can think of because I don't understand. I mean, granted, yes, there's always been, I've worked in media so long and was at CBS News and many cable stations from CNBC to Bloomberg to Fox. And I get that there's some liberalism there, right? I get it. But it still doesn't explain how drastic it has become, like when you turn on the view. And you see, it's like they're just spewing this hate constantly. And in her own way, there, Kristen Welker, choosing to, what, report on the 2% and say that he's got mixed results?

I mean, that's a little weird. It's a little bit weird. He's going to loom large over these midterms. There's no doubt about that. He, of course, has endorsed a slate of candidates in the primaries. He's had some mixed results, but most recently, his pick of senator. again, he would not call these mixed results. So I often think, like, what happened?

I mean, I know everybody was super liberal. Fine. But it just completely changed in 2016. It completely changed. And then he had the whole deep state working against him with Russia, Russia, Russia. And you think about the media, right? And somebody put this out on Twitter,

and I want to share it with you. And I thought it was really kind of telling and important. Important! Here we go. Somebody said, take a look at this. as far as the media goes, okay, you know, maybe we lied about Biden's health and Russia collusion and COVID and Hunter's laptop and voter fraud in January 6 and Ukraine and do-da-da-da-da. I mean, some of these are really indisputable, whether it be Russia or COVID and its origins,

Hunter Biden's laptop, for goodness sakes. On the voter fraud, I mean, you just had 6,600 people fraudulently get registered there in New Jersey. And like, what, 300 of them voted for goodness sakes? I mean, it's just, it's exhausting. So they're saying, yeah, you know, the media is carrying someone's water. And it's certainly not Trump's. Okay. It's definitely not Trump's. And they've got their bias, which has just been unleashed.

And now Donald Trump is saying, hey, you know, FCC, where are you when you need you? And everybody's like, well, the FCC never did this before. But the FCC never had to do this before. Think about it that way, guys. why would the FCC have had to step in? I mean, granted, yes, the media was super liberal, and I can tell you this, having worked in it, but I would also say that we felt a sense of duty, like, you know, as liberal as they were, they still felt like, okay, well, we kind of have to have both sides, so they pretended a little bit better. Now they don't even pretend. Like,

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