The Trish Regan Show - MSNBC Plummets to 20-Year Low: Comcast Ready to Sell, Elon Ready to Buy!

Episode Date: December 3, 2024

#TrishRegan #MSNBC #news “Oh, it's bad. Really, really bad,” says Trish Regan regarding MSNBC’s new ratings low. “Why again did they renew Rachel Maddow's contract for $25 million? They can't spin this thing off soon enough!” New chatter today about whether Elon Musk or another billionaire like Marc Cuban might come to MSNBC’s rescue as MSNBC ratings plunge to the lowest level in twenty years. Join Trish for that and much, much more in today’s full live edition of the Trish Regan Show! JOIN TRISH REGAN LIVE!! HERE ON YOUTUBE: https://Youtube.com/TrishReganChannel SUBSCRIBE TO TRISH’S Financial Market Research HERE: https://76research.com including my free guide to investing in a Trump economy at: https://InvestInMAGA.com 🟢CHECK OUT MY MERCH AND HELP SUPPORT THE SHOW: https://TrishRegan.shop 🟢For independent views on the market - sign up for my financial newsletter The 76report at https://76research.com with CODE: DOLLAR today. Today’s show is sponsored by: 🟢https://TrishLovesGold.com — American Hartford Gold — go to: Https://TrishLovesGold.com or TEXT TRISH to 65532 to receive up to $15,000 in free silver with American Hartford Gold or go to https://TrishLovesGold.com. You can also use Trish's name when calling 1-844-495-1115. 🟢Go to https://balanceofnature.com and use CODE: TRISH for 50% off Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

MSNBC's in a little bit of trouble right about now. You see, ratings are plunging in real time. I mean, they just keep getting worse by the day. They somehow had the brilliant idea to re-sign Rachel Mano at $25 million a year. The staff is really upset. They're looking to do this spin-off, and it looks like Elon Musk could come in for the kill. Welcome to today's show. It's good to have you here, everyone.

Welcome to the Trish Rican Show. Make sure you subscribe, share, like, all that good stuff. really, really important to do right about now. We want to talk all about the latest and greatest out of MSNBC, really, really bad stuff. Plus a little cat fight going on. You got Rachel Maddow and Keith Oberman. Remember Keith Oberman?

You probably don't. But, you know, for all the kids out there, he was really popular at one point in time if MSNBC was ever that popular. He's not too happy about her. He kind of thinks she's some kind of money-grubbing, untrustworthy sellout. She probably is.

So another looking for another billionaire besides Elon. Would Mark Cuban come to their rescue? Doubt it. We'll talk about that. Plus, the founder of Facebook, aka Meta, well, he actually wants in on this whole Mar-a-Lago thing. You see, he's checking down there, kissing the ring, so to speak, trying to ingratiate himself to one Donald Trump.

I'm not so sure it's going to fly, but we can talk about that. All as Trump humiliates, the Prime Minister of Canada and Doge is coming to the rescue with all kinds of spending cuts. We've got a big show for you here today. Welcome. Again, make sure you subscribe, share, like. Okay, we begin today on ratings out of MSNBC. They haven't seen numbers like this in two decades, guys. It's that bad.

We're talking about the lowest since 2004. So you get to go back 20 years to see anything quite as bad as this. Because you see, ever since the election, they've been plunging. They've cut their numbers in half. Can you imagine cutting your numbers in half? I think because everybody suddenly woke up and realized these people are a bunch of phonies. These people actually don't believe in what they're doing.

I mean, heck, you got Mika and Joe running down to Mara Lago to kiss the ring themselves. Rosie O'Donald didn't appreciate that one. Why? Because they're opportunists. And they get it. And they see the handwriting on the wall. And now you have a network that is owned by the likes of Comcast,

which is waking up saying, why the heck do we own this thing anyway? I mean, who needs this headache? Joy Reed and Company, Joe Scarborough and his wife, tag along Mika Brzezinski, we don't need them. You know what? We don't need any. Hey, you know what?

They'd probably be very happy with CNBC, but who even needs that, right? You get rid of all these businesses, which are low growth, no growth businesses. you hang on to the streaming network, that would be Peacock, you hang on to the broadcast network, that would be NBC News, and you get rid of the rest of it.

It's actually pretty great. It's quite brilliant. They're going to do this spin-off, you see, and it's time. Of course, I don't know how much money they're going to get. I mean, if you think about ratings being where they are, and they're really bad, I'm going to go through the numbers, then how are you going to get the best price?

You know, some of the talent they're trying to put on like a good spin, and they're like, oh, it would be great, it would be great, because you see now, now we can have people that are going to focus on what we do. Of course, if they focus on what you do guys, you might be really in big trouble. They think that they'll get some kind of investment. Let me just tell you, you're going to have a bunch of shareholders that are going to get really demanding, and they're going to say, let's just bleed this for what it's worth. Or you're going to have somebody come in like a private equity company, if you could do that.

I mean, the deal has certain tax advantages in place because it's a tax-free spinoff. So those wouldn't really be sort of obsolete until a couple of years from now. So could somebody come in and buy it? There would be a tax penalty. But, you know, that wouldn't stop Elon necessarily, would it? I mean, Elon Musk, he's willing to pay a pretty penny for just about anything. Although, I don't know about this, because look at what you're dealing with. Maybe Elon could save it.

Here we go. November 26, MSNBC had the lowest rated non-holiday weekday among advertising coveted demos, adults 25 to 54. lowest in 20 years. MSNBC only got 38,000 average demo viewers its smallest non-holiday audience among the critical viewers since July 19th, 2004. Oh my goodness.

I mean, we knew it was a dying business, but really? So bad stuff, multiple programs saw their audience size cut in half from Election Day. I mean, just really, really bad. 50%. I mean, read out, the joy read, read out down 50%. Somehow that doesn't really, really, really surprise me. Right? I mean, this is a group of people that somehow thought they were in control, total control, of what you should be thinking. And guess what they just realized? They're not.

Oh, gosh, they're not. I mean, they said as much. Let's go back to 2022. Here's Mika and Joe on their little morning show together, husband and wife, talking about how they control. They're supposed to control what you think. Can you imagine if Donald Trump, or back in charge and maybe he had a hand in something? Here we go. He said he's going to do. Well, and I think that the dangerous edges here are that he's trying to undermine the media, trying to make up his own facts, and it could be that while unemployment and the economy worsens,

he could have undermined the messaging so much that he can actually control exactly what people think. And that is the, that is our job. Yeah. issues. That's your job? Yamese is right. He's doing exactly what he said. It's right. It's that's your job. Not anymore. Not anymore. America just fired you guys. Take a look at those ratings, shall we? Down 51 percent. You have been fired. And you know what? The ratings got even worse after they announced the world that they went down to Mara Lago, right? Then they just got even worse, even worse, even worse. Well, now of course, Comcast is putting the thing up for sale because

They don't want anything to do with it. They're talking about evaluation. I've heard some numbers float of maybe $7 billion. Again, jump change for Elon Musk. And what would he do? Let me ask you. If you're watching this live, let me know in the comments. I'm going to read them as we go to this soundbite.

And if you are watching after we are live, make sure you subscribe and you hit the bell so you know when I am live every day. But also let me know what do you think Elon should do. What would be your first order of business? I know a couple people that worry they'd get fired. We could all be fired a year from that. when this happens, you never know what's going to happen. You never know.

You never know, guys. You never know, it's tough. They're in an industry that's dying. It's partly why I'm excited to be where I am right here. It's why it is important that you subscribe and share and like. This is a different medium. There is no sort of outside control. There's no management structure, getting in the way of things.

And so I feel that it's more transparent. It's more honest. You know, there's some bumps along the way. But in the end, it's worth it because you're getting reality. You're getting me without all the sort of cablification, if you would. We'll coin a new phrase. But they don't understand MSNBC why they're not relevant anymore. They don't understand why things like X or streaming on YouTube or any of these platforms.

They don't understand why this is where it's at. And it's frustrating for them because they're used to controlling the narrative. They're used to having a ton of power. research shows one in five adults regularly get their news from influencers on social media. The number is even higher among younger Americans, with almost 40% under the age of 30 getting their news from those sources. According to the Pew Research Center, the social media site X remains the most widely accessed platform, followed by Instagram and YouTube. comes obviously for political news and Mike that's the challenge you grew up in a newsroom like

jean grew up in a newsroom i mean that's a lot of challenge that's a challenge for a lot of mainstream media sources is do they make themselves relevant again to here 20% of adults who actually get influencers on social media i don't know maybe maybe somebody who makes baskets and while they're making baskets they look up and say vote for candidate acts I don't know how they make themselves, how we make ourselves relevant again, because we can't compete with 20-second snippets on an iPhone walking up. Morseals. Getting your entire news digest of the day in less than a minute on your phone as you're walking in the crowd with coffee in one hand in your phone on the other. I don't know how we catch up to that.

Yeah. So, Gene Robinson, do you agree with Mike? Because I find this hard to believe that younger voters would be more interested in getting an entertaining 20-news, 20-second. new snippet than watching a cable news show for four hours from 6 a.m. 10 a.m. This seems like an easy choice to us here. What is wrong with these people? Exactly. I mean, look, if I knew the answer, you know, I would implement it immediately, right, and reverse

this. But we have to compete. I mean, the answer is we don't know how. to compete with these social media basket making influencers or whatever, but we have to. And so we've got to figure out ways to do it. And maybe we make our own 20-second snippets, and we meet viewers where they are. We meet news consumers where they are because they're not here. That's the problem. Coming up. Yeah, they're definitely not there.

They're definitely not there. I'm glad that you guys realize that. They're not there. So, of course, MSNBC has been trying to make its own little 20-second snippets, but that really hasn't gone that well. I don't know if you've noticed some of these. I have played some. They're rather disgusting, frankly, to watch,

but you might as well know what the world is doing and how they're trying to answer this call to somehow be more hip, more in vogue. here's one Joy Reed trying to do exactly that. Take a listen. Hey, I just want to give some free advice to the white progressives, particularly white progressive women who may be thinking about marching against the Trump victory, maybe putting back on the P-word hats and doing that thing. I would just say probably don't send any of those invites to any black women, you know. I'm just going to tell you right now they're not coming. Like, I'm pretty, I'm pretty, pretty sure black women have resigned from the Save America Coalition, Save Democracy Coalition,

and definitely to save the Democratic Party coalition. I think that's probably not happening. I would just keep those invites maybe among your own friends because I don't think, I don't think they're coming. But yeah, I think black women are now on the Save Black Women, Prioritized Black Men and prioritize Black communities, black businesses, and that, and, you know, the Black spaces, Save America, save the Democratic Party out. Yeah, I don't think that's happening. Oh, by the way, Rachel Maddow's also getting killed in the ratings, too. So that's Joy.

She's not doing so well. And the 20-second snippings, they're really not doing well, okay? Because I don't think America subscribes to that division that they're constantly trying to sell. I mean, they sat there and they told us he was the reincarnation of Hitler. Don't even get me started on how grossly disgusting that is to say to the Jewish population worldwide to anyone who lost a loved one in World War II. I mean, that's pretty wild, right? To all of our allies, you're going to say that kind of stuff about somebody just because

you don't want him to get elected? I mean, come on. You wonder nobody's watching you. And the queen of these conspiracy theories that would take you down these wild rabbit holes, rabbit hole after rabbit hole, Rachel Maddaw, I'd watch that, and I'd be like, I can't believe She's doing that. And she had a kind of bizarrely entertaining way of doing it, which actually made it more conspiratorial and more,

you want to talk dangerous? I would say dangerous. Rachel Maddo was at it day in, day out, night in, night out. And now, I got news for her. She's not doing so well. Not doing well at all. In fact, if I look at these numbers, I do believe that it's so bad for Rachel Maddo, so bad that there's a show on adult swim.

Do we have that? Nope. Maybe here. There's a show on adult swim called Bob's Burgers that's doing better than Rachel Maddo right now. I'm so bad it is. But these suckers just paid her how much money? They just renewed Rachel Maddow at some $25 million a year. And you know what?

The guy who kind of mentored her, who kind of made her into what she is today. Do you remember this guy, Keith Olberman? Keith Olberman. Okay, for the kids out there, let me give you a little snippet so you know where I'm coming from. On a special Tuesday edition of the Countdown podcast,

The Hunter Biden Pardon is not about anything Hunter Biden did in the past or in the day. distant past. It was about what Donald Trump and his cult of scumbags intended to do to Hunter Biden and to everybody else in the future. This was about beating Trump in a way that hurt Trump and all of the lunatics he wanted in charge of his asylum. So you get the picture. You see how he fostered along and treated as a protege his little Rachel Maddow who then went on to dominate Rachel Maddell followed by the guy that looks just like her. You can't even tell them apart. Oh my gosh. And what do you know? It's like we got multiple Rachel Maddows now that all were

given birth to, courtesy of that guy, the granddaddy of them all. Keith Oberman. Well, Keith Oberman and Rachel are now in this little teeny tiny little cat fight. Of course, she's not scratching back, but he's angry. He's really, really angry because somebody wrote on Twitter, this would actually be a guy who's like a professor of journalism, and they're so clueless, right? Totally clues. They're not even in on the news cycle. They have no idea that Rachel just signed for $25 million. This guy, Jeff Jarvis, he writes, troubling. MSNBC might have to change its identity. We'll lose ties to NBC news operation, have to move. Could be an acquisition target. Stay the Foway, Sinclair, Murdoch, Musk, Springer, etc. or maybe Rachel Maddo should leave and build a new operation.

Oh, he thinks she should leave, but, you know, of course, he's a journalism professor of some sort, or journalism critic, I believe, Jarvis of some sort. And Keith Oberman has an interesting response. He says, you idiot, she just resigned. She just re-signed for 25 million. And then here's the dagger. If you think she'd do anything for principal, I'll light a candle for you.

In other words, she's an opportunist too. And she doesn't care, I guess, that her ratings are going down. She just signed for, oh, okay, $5 million less, but $25 million. I don't know what they're thinking. I really don't know what they're thinking. But you know what?

It's a really good idea, Brian Roberts, to get the H.E. AAL away from. from this network. Get away from it as fast as you can because it's only going to bring you more and more headaches. I mean, when Rachel cannot beat Bob's Bergers on adult swim, I don't think there's a whole lot of hope. So this is an article that was in Yahoo News and the guy's writing about how things are not so great over at MSNBC right now, quote, rumors are swirling about a spin-off. Oh, the spin-off's happening. I mean, these are no longer rumors, buddy, okay?

The company came out and announced it. It's confirmed. This is a company that's getting spun off, complete with CNBC and oxygen, which was an Oprah thing, and sci-fi. Oh, they get the whole shebang, except for Bravo. That's going to stay with the mothership. Both fans and coworkers have a lot to say publicly about Morning Joe hosts Joe Scarborough, Amika Brzeinski, sitting down with President Trump. And most concerningly of all, there's the ratings which have been horrible, horrible since the election.

And actually, horrible might be an unfortunate understatement. Rachel Maddo just put her worst ratings into the year, according to the independent she lost in the 25 to 54 demo in reruns, two reruns, I should say, of Bob's Burgers on Adult Swimped. Hey, I didn't even know it was reruns, right? So that's pretty bad, nothing against Bob's burgers. But, you know, there's a lot of things we'd rather watch than Rachel Mata. Right, let's be honest.

So the staff is mad. Keith Oberman, no longer there, he's mad. He's like, she's not going to do any favors. and I think the staff has finally got onto this too. Not only is Rachel not going to do many favors, she's going to collect her a cool $25 million for working one day a week, but Morning Joe co-hosts, Mika and Joe, they're not going to do you any favors either.

In fact, the latest and greatest is this one by Fox News, who, of course, loves the opportunity to ding MSNBC, let's be honest. Anyway, they write an article here saying that they're cowardice, they're opportunists, according to one person, who works there. So this is what they're telling Fox News Digital. They're not surprised. They find it disgusting, but frankly unsurprising. Well, I'm glad you're not surprised because, you know, we could have told you this was coming. They are opportunists. In fact, I would say, like, if anyone's actually going to survive all this, it might actually just be Meekin Joe.

Rachel, too, to a certain extent. I think she's for sure a survivor. And, hey, it's only one show a week. She'll have to figure out a way to turn the ratings around. But look, Joe and Mika went down to Mara Lago for a reason. They want to be part of the club. They want to be one of the cool kids. Right now, they're hardly, hardly one of the cool kids. In fact, nobody's even watching them. So everybody's nervous now.

Everybody's like, okay, is Elon Musk coming in? What is he going to do? What does it mean for us? Could he actually buy the thing? We're going to get to that in a second. First, a shout out to our friends who are an American Heart for Gold. You can save it to $15,000 in free silver right now. You know I'm a big believer.

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Actually, the funny thing is, they used to look like they smell. Did you notice how Joe Scarborough is like suddenly in a suit and tie after having been in a hoodie for so long? He's like trying to spiff it up because he is, as he tells you, after all, a white southern male conservative. It's like, yeah, you know, I'm. is stuck you for Tucker, right? Oh boy. So they get a lot of work to do and they're saying, okay, like what happens if Elon comes in? Well, we're fired, right? Elon would get rid of them.

I mean, the first one that would go would be Joy. Let's be honest. Joy Reed would be the first. She's actually a liability for the network. She should be fired right now. Brian Roberts, if he's smart, will get rid of her because you don't want the baggage, especially. going into a spinoff where this would be a separately traded company, you just don't want that heading. But could another billionaire jump in on this whole thing? That's a big question because they're all like, oh my God, oh my God, I don't want Elon. Please don't let it be Elon. Is there some liberal billionaire out there ready, willing, and able to buy us? Because otherwise, we run the risk that Elon's going to control everything. He's going to have this, quote,

media capture, as CNN likes to write. This is the whole theory, right? And there's a whole theory, right? get this whole theory about Victor Orban, urban Hungary, and somehow he's accomplished a quote-unquote media capture because he's got his friends that have bought the networks and he's in charge and so then he influences things. I'm like, wait a second,

what do you think happened? What do you think we've been dealing with? I mean, heck George Clooney, he was able, Obama's friend, to get Biden tossed. You had Jake Tapper aggressively working with David Pluff and David Axelrod.

and Obama to toss Joe Biden because they thought he couldn't win. I mean, if you didn't think that the media wasn't controlled by a bunch of leftist billionaires, I'm sorry, I got news for you, all right? That's just the way it's been. And so they're upset saying, oh, my gosh, you know, this is going to be just like Victor. Just like Victor Orban over in Hungary. So they're like, could anybody, anybody at all possibly buy this besides Elon Musk? Who we got?

Who we got? Oh, there's this guy. Donald Trump, you never see him around strong, intelligent women, ever. It's just that simple. Except not even he wants it. No, Mark Cuban is too smart for that. It's like Shark Tank. Nope, sorry, I'll pass.

So CNN reached out to him. They said, Wood Cuban and key billionaire surrogate. Not a very good one for Vice President Kamala Harris. Have any interest in MSNBC? I asked him, writes as Brian something guy. I mean, I think that it didn't handy call him like Humpty Dumpty or Mr. Potato Head or something. There was like some funny name for him. He was like at CNN and then he got it fired from CNN and got some kind of position fellowship,

whatever at Harvard University because that's where everybody goes to die. And then came back now to CNN. He's like resurfacing in some other capacity, not as the host, thank God, of an on-air show. You know, you do kind of need to sort of fit the part a little bit, a little bit. way this guy writes, I don't think, or he asked him, he's like, I asked him. And he got this quote. Cuban said, I don't think there is anything anyone can do to change the impact of linear TV news. So the answer is no. It feels like a shark tank episode. The answer is no. People feel like MSNBC is not doing enough to rival Fox. I don't see that. What could they do differently? manufacture conspiracy theories?

Oh, well, didn't Rachel do that? I mean, she did that quite successfully, right? That's actually why they got ratings for a while. Go all in on crypto? Ha, ha, ha. I would rather promote blue sky. This is this alternative to X and hope it helps them aggregate audience. Okay, so Mark Cuban's out.

Short answer is, no one wants this thing. No one, because guess what? television, linear TV, cable television is done. It's over. And not even the most liberal of billionaires is willing to fork over the money for it. So you get back to, okay, if somebody were to buy it, and I don't necessarily think Elon would, he's just entertaining everyone and perhaps keeping the news cycle going a bit longer. Would he buy it? Well, look, he would, he would fire Joy Reid. He would fire likely Mika and Joe. Maybe he put Tucker in. Joe Rogan is volunteered to do a show. But you know what? Nobody really needs to do that anymore.

that's the truth of it. Who wants to go work for somebody else? Like if you can do this completely on your own, then why would you actually need to answer to a boss? So I think it would be hard. I think it would be challenging to get big names, podcasters that have a decent size audience. Reminders, subscribe, share, like,

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And it's a great great guy Anyway the cool kids They're all heading down to Mara Lago And Mark Zuckerberg's like wait a second Why am I being left out? This is the Facebook founder Now known as Meta So he's like Why not me? Why not me? Why not me?

Well, you know, a few things going on there. You did take Donald Trump off of your platform for some rather long period of time. Did you not? You did censor a whole lot of stuff on Facebook for a whole lot of time. Did you not? And then there's this little squabble that you have with Elon Musk, who's ready, willing, and able to fight you any day of the week. I mean, he wants a big on, this is like, you know, martial arts style fighting.

He wants to be in the ring. I'll find I'll find Zuckerberg any place, any time, any rule. Can I get a picture with me? I don't know. I'm sorry. Hey, maybe they go to Mar-a-Lago. Maybe they can fight there. What do you know?

Well, I'm telling you, Zuckerberg wants in. He wants in. He just went down to kiss the ring. So he went to Mar-a-Lago, and he is grateful. He says for the invitation. And he basically wanted that meeting in order to kind of make sure,

that he is included in some of these tech discussions that they're having over the future of technology. Because the future of technology obviously is really, really, really important. Mark Zuckerberg wants in. I don't know as there's a lot of warmth, shall we say, there? Mark Zuckerberg, who used to come to the White House and kiss my ass. Okay. Well, now I was going somewhere else to kiss his, as the thing. same. Mark Zuckerberg dines with Trump at Mar-a-Lago after pushing for meeting to discuss new

administration. He is so grateful for this invitation. Now, yes, why would he do this? Why would the head of meta? Like, let's, I mean, there's some obvious reasons, right? Like, it's good for business. You don't want to be on the bad side of Donald Trump. But let's start with best case scenario, shall we? Like, let's pretend that he is completely altruistic, which he is not. But let's just assume that he actually is trying to do the right thing. I mean, if you recall, if you recall, he did say this immediately after the attempt on Trump's life. He sat down with my former colleague from Bloomberg, Emily Chang.

She has a tech show out of San Francisco, and he told her this. I've done some stuff personally in the past. I'm not planning on doing that this time. And that includes, you know, not endorsing either of the candidates. Now look, I mean, there's obviously a lot of crazy stuff going on in the world. I mean, the historic events over the last, like over the weekend. And, I mean, on a personal note, it's, you know, seeing Donald Trump get up after getting shot in the face

and pump his fist in the air with the American flag is one of the most badass things I've ever seen in my life. But look, I mean, it's, you know, as... And I think, look, at some level as an American, And it's like hard to not get kind of emotional about that spirit in that fight. I think that that's why a lot of people like the guy. Well, here's another. You know, I do think that Elon led a push early on to make Twitter a lot leaner.

You can agree or disagree with exactly all the tactics and how we did that. You know, obviously, you know, every leader has their own style for if they, you know, if you need to make dramatic change. for that how you're going to execute it. But a lot of the specific principles that he pushed on around basically trying to make the organization more technical, around decreasing the distance between engineers of the company and him, like fewer layers of management. I think that those were generally good changes. And I'm also, I also think that it was probably good for the industry that he made those

changes because my sense is that there were a lot of other people who thought that those were good changes but who may have been a little shy about doing them and I think he um you know just in my conversations with other founders um and how people have reacted to the things that we've done you know what I've heard from a lot of folks is is just hey you know when you when someone like you you know when I wrote the letter outlining the organizational changes that I wanted to make um back in March and when people see what Elon is doing, I think that that gives, you know, people the ability to think through how to shape their organizations in a way that, okay, okay, so the point is he's trying to lay it on thick and he's trying to kiss Elon's, you know what now,

okay? So like, from Elon to Trump, like Mark is like, let me in, let me in, please, can I sit at your lunch table? I mean, I did write that letter. Did I not, Jim Jordan? I did point out that we got way too entrapped in. Good news what, right? Back in 2021. In other words, yeah, the government was in there manipulating them, telling them they couldn't do this,

they could do that, and as a result, we kind of feel bad. They thought it was Russian disinformation. Remember? Oh, because that's what the FBI said. The FBI told us that the Biden family and the Burisma thing, that was all part of Russian misinformation, disinformation, right? That's why you couldn't talk about the laptop.

I personally got myself kicked off of Facebook for a year because I shared a story about the laptop. They actually full-on shadow banned me, and they told me. Like that was just, and they couldn't do anything about it because I was like, oh gosh, if you're that upset, I can take the story down. And I didn't know that if you took the story down, that's like admitting drunk driving. Like, that's like admitting. It's like not taking the breathalyzer.

So they wouldn't do a darn thing about it. I mean, they took the president off. I have so many friends that have been affected by this. I continue to be affected by it. I'm happy to tell you about that. But look, here's the reality. They bought it. Hookline and sinkers.

They bought all of it. And they actually shut down people's accounts, including the president of the United States, because of it. I mean, all of them were in on this. Think about 60 minutes as well. This story about him to her in his laptop. Some significant things.

I'm telling a story about Hunter in his laptop. Some repair shop founded. The source is Steve Bannon and Rudy Giuliani. I don't know anything about that. I just know it's a laptop. And they haven't? And you're making this one of the hottest, most important issues in your rallies. It's a very important issue to find out whether or not a man's corrupt who's running for president,

who's accepted money from China and from Ukraine. and from Russia? All these things have been investigated and it's incredible the way you can try and say this and sit there and look me in the eye and say it. He accepted money, his family, from Russia, from Ukraine, from China, and from other places. His brother, who didn't have experience, became a big builder in Iraq without experience. Take a look at what's going on last thing. And then you say that shouldn't be discussed.

I'm saying. It's the biggest scandal out there, Leslie, and you don't cover it. Because it can't be verified. You want to talk about insignificant things. I'm telling you. Of course it can be verified. Excuse me, they found the laptop. Leslie, Leslie.

You can't be verified. What can't be verified? The laptop. Why do you say? So, you see, Facebook was part of this as well. And now they regret it. Now they lived a regretting. He sent a letter to honor.

chairman of the Judiciary Committee, Jim Jordan, basically saying, gee, we're sorry, and you know what, we won't do this again. We kind of screwed up. So, okay. All right, so let's just, you know, take him at his word. Like, maybe he really is sorry. Maybe he's really bummed out that he got duped, kind of like George Clooney. George Clooney got duped into writing that op-ed saying Biden should leave, and now he's all mad at Obama about it. Well, somebody else got duped, too. But you know what? I'll tell you who's not buying any of it, the guy who may be the next. new head of the FBI won cash Patel. Zuckerberg is a fraud pretending to care about American democracy and the election.

This guy spent 400 million last election cycle, and I don't care what he says. He is going to spend money somehow, some way in this election cycle. And let's put that aside. He owns one of the largest social media companies on Earth in Facebook, Met, and Instagram. I didn't hear the CEO and owner Mark Zuckerberg come out and say, I guarantee you, my companies will not participate in censorship at the behest of the FBI or anyone else in the federal government, like we did in the last two elections, like we did with Hunter Biden's laptop, like we did with the 51 Intel letter. He could have said that, but he didn't because he wants it to happen. And as a sort of proactive, preemptive move to say, well, I told you so, he came out to the media and said, oh, you know, my bad, I'm sorry. But it doesn't matter to these guys because they're going to go past number. November 5th, and if they get their way and Harris has awarded the victory, they're just going to be like, nothing to see here. And if Donald Trump wins, they'll come back and say, see, our companies

tried to comply. But it's BS and Zuckerberg is the biggest fraud in big business. Okay, tell us how you really feel. So Cash Patel saying that Zuckerberg is totally a fraud. He has no use for him. The guy spent $400 million in the last election cycle, trying to get Biden elected, took Trump off the platform, numerous other people off the platform, yours truly included. So, you know, what used to we have for him now? Now you could say, okay, he's either just being, you know, maybe he's waking up. Maybe he's waking up to what they did in understanding and realizing how bad it was, or maybe he just sees which way the wind is blowing.

He's got Nick Clegg who runs his policy for him, and Nick is a former UK politician who is pretty liberal. He believed in a wealth tax. And he's now in charge of the policy, and he says, look, you know, maybe we overdid it. We overdid it. This is according to a brand new article in the FT. We overdid it. We had, you know, too much content moderation.

And so maybe we need to back off that. Quote, per the financial times, meta has conceded it was too heavy-handed with certain content moderation in the past. In an overture to Donald Trump as its chief executive Mark Zuckerberg seeks a quote, active role in shaping tech policy debates with incoming U.S. administration. Sir Nick Clegg met as president of global affairs, said the social media platform obviously quote, overdid it a bit when moderating pandemic-related content a concession that appears designed to placate the president-elect who has repeatedly accused the company of censorship and silencing conservative speech. Look, I don't know what they really believe.

I know that for like three days, my channel got opened up over on Facebook. And then somehow the automated system decided I was actually about to hold political office. Hey, you know, maybe I'm going to be the next chairman of the Fed. I'm teasing. I'm not going to hold political office. I have no interest in holding political office. I like very much what I'm doing here. I am a full-time podcaster and a mom.

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Because the border's a problem, both on the northern side and on the southern side. I lived right next to it in New Hampshire. We border Canada. There are a lot of French speakers that would come down. But apparently they're having trouble with all kinds of people coming down, and this is what Donald Trump is so upset about. It's not to the same extent, obviously, as Mexico is, but it's still a problem. because it's a weak entry point. And he's saying, listen, Justin, you got to get a handle on this.

If you don't get a handle on this, I'm putting 25% tariffs on all of you. And so Justin Trudeau, after hearing this, flew down to Mar-a-Lago to have this dinner. And apparently, the President-elect completely humiliated him because he told him, he's like, Trump, we can't survive. If you put 25% tariffs on Canada, like, we're not going to make it. We financially can't handle that. And he said, well, gosh, then, maybe we should just take you over, right? Maybe you just become the 51st state in the United States of America. We'll welcome you.

We'll take you in. And, well, he didn't appreciate that. Here we go. And tonight we're getting some new details about that Trump Trudeau dinner from two people who were at the table. We are told that when Trudeau told President-elect Trump that new tariffs would kill the Canadian economy, Trump joked to him that if Canada can't survive without ripping off the U.S. to the tune of $100 billion a year, then maybe Canada should become the 51st state and Trudeau could become its governor. Right.

How do you like that? You know, the only problem is Canada's really liberal. I mean, really, really, really. Kamala grew up there, right, in the French-speaking town of Montreal. all. So they're really liberal, which means that might be kind of a problem. We don't necessarily want them, right? But I get a kick out of the whole thing. Listen, Tudeau's taking these threats pretty seriously. Here he is reacting to the news of the threat of 25% tariffs. He called Donald Trump immediately promised cooperation on the border. Here he is moments after that call.

I had a good call with Donald Trump last night again. We obviously talked about laying out the facts, talking about how the intense and effective connections between our two countries flow back and forth. We talked about some of the challenges that we can work on together. It was a good call. This is something that we can do, Laying out the facts, moving forward in constructive ways, this is a relationship that we know takes a certain amount of working on and that's what we'll do.

One of the really important things is that we be all pulling together on this. The Team Canada approach is what works. That's where putting aside partisanship, that's where I reached out immediately to Doug Ford to agree with him that we would have a First Minister's meeting this week to talk about the United States, talked with Francois Legoe and some other premiers as well. There's work to do, but we know how to do it. I've got a good appell with Donald Trump. Okay, and then he flips into French.

Okay, so in other words, they're paying attention. And you know what Mexico's paying attention to? A little bit, because, you know, Mexico has suddenly realized that it's going to be a problem for them as well. So it turns out that Claudia Scheinboen, the president of Mexico has just broken up two caravins that were headed straight for our boys. You know, the border thing is pretty serious. And I want to share with you some breaking news that just crossed right now because the mayor of New York has just promised that he will cooperate.

He will cooperate with Tom Homan and everyone at ICE and the federal government and Donald Trump to get the migrants, the criminal migrants, most definitely right out of New York City. Listen to this. Those who are here committing crimes, robberies, shooting at police officers, raping innocent people have been a harm to our country, our country. I want to sit down and hear the plan on how we're going to address them. Those are the people I am talking about, and I would love to sit down what the board is czar and hear his thoughts on how we're going to address those who are harming our citizens.

We're open to that. Open to hearing what their plan is to deport some of these folks, and you think the city, in some circumstances, should cooperate with us. Let me, let me, you know what's interesting, and I was talking to the team the other day, I want you to all go back and and Google Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Google what they said about those who commit crimes in our city and what they said in our country.

They said those who commit crimes need to get out right away. That was their position. So this is not a new position, you know, because in the state, of in the era of cancel culture, no one is afraid to be honest about the truth. Well, cancel me because I'm going to protect the people of the city. And if you come into this country in this city and think you're going to harm innocent New Yorkers and innocent migrants and asylum seekers, this is not the mayor you want to be in the city under. Like, what has happened to the world? I mean, all the lefties that were like, how dare you? You don't come

near, you don't come near our migrants, like all of a sudden they're singing a really different tune. That was the mayor of New York that just crossed. It just came in right now. Fresh, hot off the presses. And it sounds kind of similar to what Kathy Holtzwell, the governor of the state of New York is now saying as well, listen to this, you guys, because this is revolutionary. This is not at all what Kamala Harris was talking about. This is not at all we have been hearing from Joy Reid and Rachel Maddo and everybody over there on MSNBC. This is new. Our immigration system is woefully broken. It's been broken for decades.

There was an opportunity to make meaningful change that the Republicans in the House Representatives killed. You got to get that one in. And they should be held accountable for that. But we need to fix the border, fix the system. But I'll tell you this. Those who come here legally, we want to get them jobs. I have $460,000 open jobs in the state of New York.

I want them to get the proper work permits. I want them to keep their temporary protective status, if that's what they have, I want to make sure that they're part of contributing to society while they're here. That's separate from people who are criminals. Someone breaks the law. I'll be the first one to call up ICE and say, get them out of here. So there is a difference in categories of individuals. And so I just had a meeting this morning with my team that's been studying all the other, all the scenarios that could play out over the next few months and what we need to do to prepare. We'll be announcing more about that. And also making sure that our final,

final request to the Biden administration are secure. And so that's something else. Again, I'll do a report on what we've achieved in the next couple of weeks. So just to be clear, are you supportive or not supportive of deporting undocumented immigrants whose only crime is either crossing the border or overseeing? If they're here with legal papers, like they came and they're seeking asylum, like this 224,000 people came to New York, they're here legally in search of asylum. and that process will play out. But there are other people who commit crimes or are known to be criminals before they arrived here.

When those are identified, I'll be the first one to help get rid of them. I don't want them here. I don't want anybody. Guys, this is just really, really different than what we've heard before. It's been so bad. Think about this, that they were refusing. I mean, these criminals have been turned loose. They're locked up, and then they let them out loose.

Again, it's wild. I mean, you think about poor Daniel Penny. remember the guy who was trying to save some people on the subway, and they won't let him go on bail, right? They get some astronomical bail number, but you're a migrant and you do something bad, and they release you. It's catch and release, catch and release, catch and release.

And so here's some numbers that were just revealed. This is crazy. Nearly 60,000 migrants in the city of New York are criminals. Like, what the heck is going on? Read these stats out of the 759,218, illegal border crosses now living in the five boroughs. They call New York City home 7.7% were either previously convicted of crimes

or had criminal charges pending. This is according to ICE. But instead of rounding them up, what do they do? free hotels with maid service. They give them $350 in food vouchers. There's a whole thing going on because the mayor of New York, Eric Adams, he just said no more food vouchers. We're not doing that anymore. We can't afford it. All kinds of protests about that. I mean, 60,000 criminals felony records roaming around the big apple, totally free. You get 670,000 migrants with criminal records that we know

about that are here in this country. Like, what are they doing? What are they trying to do? Tom Homan, he's now in charge of the border. I know him well. He's been on this show. He's been on my other shows throughout the years, and he means business. And he's like, let me into these jails. I need to arrest these people and deport them. ASAP. And if you don't let me into your jails, then guess what? I'm going into the neighborhoods. I don't have a choice. Watch them. We're not asking to be immigration officers. We're asking you to assist us in the jails. Let us in the jail to arrest a bad guy. Because if we can't arrest a bad guy in the jail and the safety and security of a jail, that means they release them back in the community. They're screaming and yelling. They don't want

ICE officers of their neighborhoods. Well, guess what? If we don't let us in the jail, you are forcing us into the neighborhood. More officers in the jail means less officers in the neighborhood. It's a simple math. But no one, we know there's no one in Washington, D.C. can do math unless it adds up to something in their own pocket. Here you go. They're giving them the red carpet treatment, free lodgings, money for food,

airline tickets, anywhere in the world. My gosh! My gosh. One of those free hotels, ladies and gentlemen, happens to be the Roosevelt Hotel, a very storied hotel,

Midtown East, in New York City, and, uh, this is unbelievable. The Roosevelt Hotel breaks in some 220 million dollars a year to house these illegal migrants. This is from New York City taxpayers. But it turns out the Roosevelt Hotel isn't actually owned by an American or the city of New York

or anyone in New York. It's owned by a Pakistani airline group, which is owned by the state government of Pakistan. How do you like that? It's unbelievable, unbelievable. This lease agreement, look at that pretty hotel. They were bragging about this in a press conference. They were bragging about how it's going to generate $220 U.S. dollars for the Pakistan government. This is the Minister of Railways and Aviation. My gosh.

I mean, the Twitter. twisted nature of this is really, I mean, like Vivek and Elon and Doge cannot start soon enough. Vivek tweeted this out and he said, a taxpayer-funded hotel for illegal migrants is owned by the Pakistani government, which means New York City taxpayers are effectively paying a foreign government to house illegals in our own country. This is nuts. You can say it again, right? Completely, totally, utterly nuts. So what I was. like to know is who's getting paid off in this scheme. Somebody's making some money somewhere. Somebody's getting a cut because it doesn't actually make any intuitive sense that we are paying

and subsidizing Pakistan, which is not exactly like a huge friend of ours, with New York City taxpayer dollars so that Pakistan can get paid to house illegal migrants, 7.7% of which have criminal records in the city of New York. I mean, this is bonkers. So Doge is coming into action, and I'm telling you, Doge is taking no prisoners. Take a look at this. This is a new tweet. So they have a Twitter account. I encourage you to follow it. They just put this out. I love it. In 2003 alone, oh, it's all coming out. It's all going to get exposed. This is going to be good. Illegal immigration cost tax fares, $150.7 billion. Now, to put this in context with other costs, These are all adjusted for inflation, okay?

That's really important. This is the New York Times does not do. They don't adjust anything for inflation. They just tell you, wages are going up. Well, they're not. They're not when adjusted for inflation. Okay, so World War I, $334 billion. So wait a second.

We are paying roughly half of what we shelled out for World War I to house illegal migrants in this country. The Apollo Space Program, $257 billion is what it cost us. So, I mean, it's almost as much as that. The Manhattan Project was $30 billion. Hey, the Panama Canal, we built that one for $15.2, the Hoover Dam, $1 billion. What the heck are we doing, spend $150, nearly $1 billion,

on illegal migrants, housing them. That's messed up. You know who talks about this? I'm actually going to get him on the show soon. This is my friend Kevin Roberts. He's over at Heritage, and he's got a new book out called Dawn's Early Light taking back Washington to save America. He gets into some of the challenges here and just the sort of mistakes that we have made.

I just mention it in case you're looking for some Christmas reading. It's a good book. I've been reading it. And I'll share some excerpts from you maybe next week or so. I'd like to get my little highlighter out. And maybe we'll get Kevin on. But listen, I mean, taking back Washington to save America, it's really, really important because I don't know who's running things.

Like, who's running the show right now? I guess the Biden family is making some money and some money. other people are making some money, but you've got to ask yourself, like, who is in charge? So Dr. Roberts gets into this. Again, Don's Early Light, you can buy it right now on Amazon. If you go to Amazon Books, just taking back Washington to save America, it's obviously really important, really critical, good Christmas gift for your conservative friends. It's a very good reading.

Anyway, you get to ask, like, who's doing this? Why are they doing this? And is there some kind of underground effort to, you know, to, you know, to? really hurt America and hurt the West. And was Obama part of that? I mean, I keep going back to Obama, right? Because he really did not seem to have the interests of the U.S. at heart. And I think about, say, the $6 billion that went to Iran,

and, yeah, we got the hostages, but yet $6 billion went to Iran, and then shortly thereafter we were dealing with the likes of October 7th. And so I think that there's a real effort underway globally that we don't even fully comprehend or fully understand. Without sounding too conspiratorial on this, I do think that this sort of hate America, hate Israel theme is extraordinarily popular. You have only to give any college campus, right, to have seen this alive and well, the hatred that you saw directed at Israel. And part of that is directed against America and directed against the West, right? because somehow, you know, you're supposed to pay the price forever of having settled this country.

And, you know, you're never supposed to forgive yourself. Even if you didn't, you know, my ancestors didn't come here until the potato famine. But somehow it's my fault that colonial America was settled and they killed all the Native Americans, and I should never forget that. And I should be paying the price ever, forever going forward. I mean, this is really dumb, really, really, really dumb.

You should be proud of this country, proud of what we've accomplished, proud of the settlers before us, live in the moment and understand history through the context of an actual historic lens. Everything's starting to shift. I think people are starting to wake up to all of this right now. I'm looking at the UK Prime Minister. This was amazing. He came out over the weekend and he said, we got a problem. We have been a giant experiment in immigration gone wrong. they're in the UK and there's some other force at work. I want you to watch this.

I'm happy that people are waking up to it. I hope it's not too late. What the British people are owed is an explanation. Because a failure on this scale isn't just bad luck. It isn't a global trend or taking your eye up the ball. No, this is a different order of failure. This happened by design, not accident. Policies were reformed deliberately to liberalise immigration.

Brexit was used for that purpose, to turn Britain into a one-nation experiment in open borders. Global Britain, remember that slogan? That is what they meant. A policy with no support of which they then protect. intended wasn't happening. Amazing. Really amazing. He just called it out.

There was a desire to infiltrate those borders with everyone from, you know, very different cultural backgrounds. Why did they do that? Why did Angela Merkel open up Germany? I mean, was this World War II guilt that she was still suffering from? I don't know, but they got a whole lot

of problems in Germany that they shouldn't have. especially vis-a-vis crime on women, which is don't get me started. It makes me really, really, really angry. I'm sorry, you have your cultural norms. We have ours. And guess what? We value and respect women. And nothing's going to change that.

So you either adapt or you leave. We don't want a society with gang members. We don't want a society like New York City where you get 60,000 migrants living high off the hog in a hotel room with daily maid service and a $350 a week credit card to go get food, gang members, known criminals. I mean, this isn't, you know, prejudice in any way. This is just reality.

And people need to wake up to the reality. I think America did. That's what happened. And now everybody is like, okay, I can do this too. Kathy Holtzel over in New York, the governor of New York, Eric Adams, the mayor of New York City. They don't want migrants, criminals in their state. They don't want them in their cities. And so finally we're coming back to some kind of normalcy.

You've got the UK Prime Minister who feels that he can come out and speak as well. But you've got to ask yourself, what were these schmows trying to do for all that time? how much damage has already been inflicted on the United States of America, 51X spooks trying to cover for one Hunter Biden and the Biden family and the Democrat institution. I mean, this is just gross, right? I'm going to go back to the 60 Minutes clip. And again, listen to it. Listen to all of it. I know the audio is really, really hard to hear. But think about what Leslie Stahl, the establishment 60 Minutes reporter, is, saying to him. She's like, you're wrong. That laptop, it hasn't been verified. You're making stuff up. You're part of the problem. This story about Hunter in his laptop. Some repair

shop found it. The source is Steve Bannon and Rudy Giuliani. I don't know anything about it. I just know it's a laptop and they haven't. And you're making this one of the highest, most important issues in your rallies. It's a very important issue to find out whether or not a man's corrupt who's running for president, who's accepted money from China and from Ukraine and from Russia? Yeah, I think that's an important issue. It's incredible the way you can try and say this and sit there and look me in the eye and say it. He accepted money, his family from Russia, from Ukraine, from China, and from other places.

His brother, who didn't have experience, became a big builder in Iraq. without experience, take a look at what's going on, Leslie. And then you say that shouldn't be discussed. I'm saying it's the biggest scandal out there, Leslie, and you don't cover it. Because it can't be verified. I want to talk about insignificant things. I'm telling you. Of course it can be verified.

Excuse me, they found the laptop. Leslie, Leslie. Yeah, be verified. What can't be verified? The laptop. Why do you say? Huh. Well, it turns out.

It was verified. Actually, the FBI knew it. the time that it was legit, but they told you otherwise. And then when the New York Post reported on this, they took down the New York Post's Twitter account, and the rest is history. So people are tired of it. Meanwhile, you know what? I'm just going to ask some questions. Like, why is Biden over in Angola giving out a billion dollars of our money? Like, what's the reason for this? Let me show you, the latest and greatest. Hot off the press, ladies and ladies. The United States continued to be the world's largest provider of humanitarian aid and development assistance.

That's going to increase. You know, that's the right thing for the wealthiest nation of the world to do. And today, I'm announcing over $1 billion in new humanitarian support for Africans displaced from homes by historic droughts and food insecurity. We know African leaders and citizens are seeking more than just aid. You seek investment. So the United States is expanding our relationship. all across Africa, from assistance to aid, to investment to trade, moving from patrons to

partners to help bridge the infrastructure gap. Okay, so we're spending a billion dollars in Africa all of a sudden. You know, a little billion here, a billion there. I'm just wondering, like, who's in on it? Like, who's getting a cut of this? Hunter was just forgiven for his 10 years, going all the way back to the days. and his dad was vice president, and he was there making money off of Burisma,

which you weren't supposed to know about, right? That was just more misinformation. Fed you courtesy of Rudy Giuliani and the Russians. You weren't supposed to know about that. But it turns out he was making a lot of money off of that. His colleague was making a lot of money off of that, not to mention Romania, not to mention China. They were, by the way, all these traditional energy companies.

You couldn't pump for oil. Couldn't drill for oil here in the United States, but all around the world, you know, there's Hunter, ready, willing, and able to help you out. I want to know. I want to know who's getting paid off in all of this stuff. And you know what I also want to know? Who got paid off, ladies and gentlemen,

in the Kamala campaign? That I'm curious about, because, well, we've learned a little bit, right? Our friend Oprah Winfrey, not our friend, but she made $2.5 million, according to the New York Times. We only knew about a million, courtesy of the Washington Examiner, but the New York Times reports that it's even more than you thought. So Oprah got paid, who else got paid?

I'm betting a lot of people got paid along the way. Well, now a major Democrat donor is calling all this out. And she's saying she wants a forensic accounting. She wants to know exactly where every dollar went because the thinking is there may have been some graph there too. Here we go. And no one answered any questions about why millions of dollars were spent our stars started concerts, celebrities. $2.5 million went to Oprah's production company. Oprah very well could have taken.

could have made an in-kind contribution and covered the production costs and her employee's salary herself, but she decided to take payment from the campaign instead. And also we learned recently that $500,000 was given to Al Sharpton just shortly before he interviewed Kamala Harris. So there's a lot of conflict of interest here. And we need a careful accounting and probably more granular than the FEC report would offer. So somebody needs to carefully explain why they decided to, for example, spend $900,000 on the sphere. Because if we don't do that, how are voters and donors ever going to trust the Democratic Party again? Do you think on the flip side, a little over 100 days to mount a campaign was a near impossible task? Would there have been criticism if the

Harris campaign did not spend, did not leave everything on the table to spend every single dollar they have and then some? Isn't it common for campaigns to end in debt? Well, when Obama ended in debt in 2012, it left the DNC in a terrible position because we had to climb out of debt. And that took a while. And that definitely, even Hillary Clinton cited the 2012 Obama debt as a reason why she lost because initially her campaign was at a disadvantage. And also, there is no reason why consultants became overnight millionaires who they campaign. There was no justification for that. You know, these are everyday Americans, hardworking Americans, a lot of whom just gave 10 to 15, And that was all they could do. They pour their hearts into the campaign.

They need, they deserve answers as to why these people became millionaires, multi-millionaires. Just bear in mind that all the advertising costs, hundreds of millions of dollars went to just four well-connected forms of four well-connected firms. That's it. You know, the whole thing was very incestuous. Friends took care of friends. But it's not about that. That campaign was supposed to be spent on battleground states, making the economic case to America. Americans explaining bread and butter issues, explaining how she would bring inflation down,

not on lining the pockets of well-connected Democrats. Wow. Well said, right? And that's the fear. Is this just everybody on the take? Everybody's on the take, looking out for themselves. I mean, heck, Reverend Al Sharpton making $500,000 for his organization just days before he sat down for that interview with Kamala Harris.

So they were paying for interviews. you understand you don't do that as a news organization. Like, you just don't do that, not with a presidential candidate, for goodness sakes. That is so unbelievably unethical of Rev Sharpton. This allegation is huge. I said earlier in the program Joy Reed should be fired first. You know what? I get rid of Sharpton.

ASAP, because that is a breach unlike any other, all right? unacceptable. So what was going down in this campaign? It was like party time. Maybe they knew they were never going to win because they had all of horrific news stacked against them, including inflation, including worldwide troubles, including the border, et cetera.

So is everybody just out to make another buck? You know, the amazing thing about Trump is that he's so proud of running a tight operation. It can be a little bit cheap, cheap, cheap, cheap, cheap. He can. In a good way. In a good way. You know what?

You say to yourself, that's how the guy got to be a billionaire, right? He's eating at McDonald's instead of the ritz. Or maybe he's eating at his own hotel and then it, you know, it's all awash. But there's something to be said for it. He mines, his dimes, his pennies. And a lot of successful billionaires that I've come across in my career, they all do that. They all do that. Because you know what?

They remember what it's like when you don't have a lot. And I think that they're never that divorce. forced from their roots. And maybe that's one of the reasons why he carries through in a way that Kamala simply couldn't. Biden couldn't. I mean, Obama definitely couldn't now. Forget Obama. He's done.

All of these people are done. That girl that you just saw on television complaining about how they need an actual accounting of what went down. How is it that four ad agencies got it all? She's got a better future in the Democrat part. than any of these jokers. They don't get what matters to America because they don't want to,

maybe because there's some other grand plan. And you know, Americans aren't that stupid. We're not so stupid enough that we're going to sit and take it anymore. We've had it, all right? We don't appreciate the 57% increase in car payments thanks to the insurance costs. We don't appreciate a 50% rise in egg costs.

We don't appreciate the 70% rise in... K through 12 school food costs. I mean, this is out of control. And this administration should be positively ashamed. You tack on the darn pardon on top of it, and you got a real recipe for problems. But I'm looking forward to what's going to happen. I was talking to my friend, Neil Grossman,

some of you guys know him, he comes on the show now and then, and he's just one of the smartest people, I know. Very smart. I mean, like a PhD in math, a PhD in physics, from Cambridge, and a law degree. you throw that in from Columbia, an undergrad in engineering. I mean, Neil is absolutely brilliant, and he's been very, very successful and owns a wonderful vineyard now and has a beautiful family, and just a great guy.

And I talked to him last night, and he's like, I really wonder, like, what's up? What was up? What were they trying to do? They were really trying to dupe us somehow. And I look at it and say, like, none of it makes any sense. George Clooney's paying the price, right? He's all upset. He's fuming because he got seduced by Barack Obama.

Did he really get seduced or was the promise that, you know, you're going to be that much greater, that much better, that much more successful if you just join the team? He's basically been, frankly, I mean, dare I say, for lack of a better word, kind of a, you know, a pin-up boy for the Democrat Party for this long. You get George Clooney to come to your events. George Clooney will come to the fundraiser.

Robert's maybe too and like suddenly everybody in town wants to be there, those days are over. Those people don't matter anymore. That's what's great. His movie's not doing well. Brad Pitt's mad at him. His wife is mad at him. He's mad at his wife. Amal, Clooney, big supporter of Gaza hates Israel.

Guess what? That's over. That's over, over, over, over. We are the United States of America. We're ready, willing, and able to fight back and we will be successful. Did you see what Donald Trump said about the brick countries recently? was great. Let me see if I can find this for you because over the weekend, I loved this. He came out against some of these brick countries. You know, it actually caused quite a bit of a stir. There was a lot

of sort of mixed signaling and some people were upset. Some people were happy with it. But basically, he said there's no way in H.E.L. that these brick countries are going to create their own currency and do their own thing over my dead body. Here we go. I love this. Donald Trump putting all these brick countries by brick, I mean Brazil, Russia, India, China, all on notice. You guys think you want to do your own thing. You think you want to actually get together

and create your own little currency. Good luck. He really gave it to them. The idea that the brick countries are trying to move away from the dollar while we stand by and watch is over. We require a commitment from these countries that they will neither create

a new bricks currency, nor back any other currency to replace the mighty U.S. dollar, King dollar, king dollar, king dollar, my word's not his. Or they will face 100% tariffs and should expect to say goodbye to sell it into the wonderful U.S. economy. Bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, we don't need you. They can go find another sucker. There is no chance that the bricks will replace the U.S. dollar in international trade and any country that tries should wave goodbye to America.

that's the attitude you need. It is. I mean, I don't mean to be crude or crass about this, but we need to recognize the power that we have. You get a bunch of weaklings that have been sitting on their thumbs, you know, or sucking their thumbs and twirling their hair, saying, well, what do we do? What do we do? What if they create their own currency? They're not going to create their own currency unless we let them. I mean, everybody wants to do business with the USA. Do they not? I understand. I sympathize. you know, it's not great when the U.S. suddenly put sanctions on you and, you know, you can't get your money. I get it, believe me.

And maybe the answer is we do a little less sanctioning and we do a little bit more vis-a-vis tariffs. Tariffs. You're not planned by our rules? Well, you know, you're not allowed access to this market as much. I think that actually makes sense. And you know what? You get a great Treasury Secretary in there by way of Scott. And Scott's going to be able to actually use those tariffs alongside the United States.

the president to kind of get the policy in place that they want that we need as a country to be successful. We have sat back and we've kind of allowed this whole thing to happen and we pretend like there's nothing we can do other than maybe send troops. Well, who the heck wants to send troops? I'd rather lose dollars, thank you very much, than lives. And so this is a chance for us to rethink how we go about this. So all of these brick countries, they had just been put on notice. dollar is still it. Realistically, it would be hard for them to create any kind of counter currency. I mean, do you really want Chinese yuan?

Do you really want rubles? No. Of course you don't. You don't. No one does, right? Like, we don't even want euros, okay? The truth is, you want dollars. That is what matters globally.

The U.S. dollar, and it's going to continue to matter, but you need a president who's willing to kind of come out there and put the U.S. first. America First Policy, that's what this is about. Finally, we get somebody who's putting it into play, and this matters. It really, really, really matters. There's a lot happening. I'm kind of revved up, as you can see. I'm kind of excited.

I think there's good things ahead. Very, very good things. I think this is a chance to really set things right in a way that just absolutely needed to be done. It could not happen soon. enough. I see, okay, you guys are talking about the bricks. I like what David says. Yeah, no way, nohow. It's not happening. It's not happening. And he made that very, very clear. David, David pointing out that roubles are so poorly valued. Look, I would also say that the reality about these brick countries, I mean, from an investing standpoint, is that they've just been so over.

Right? Just so, so, so over. It has not been a successful investment. International really just overall has not been so great. The U.S. has been the place to be. You think about the MAG7 and how they have so much dominance over the S&P. And I believe if you actually look at their market cap, they equate for something like 67% of the world's wealth. So the U.S. still has it going on. I mean, this is why Mark Zuckerberg wants in. This is why Mark Zuckerberg. from meta doesn't want to be excluded from all this. He's one of those MAG 7. And you know, it's the right thing for shareholders for him to at least have a seat at the table. Because you do want the U.S. having this success, right? You want the U.S. being out in front of everything right now so that the U.S. can dominate the next century. And I think there's a chance for us to do that in a pretty meaningful way. Hey, it is so good to have you all here. I'm looking at some of your comments here. Andy, welcome, Selma, welcome, Toronto, welcome. I see my friend Don is back, si, you ablo of Spanish.

He mentions I speak Spanish and, yes, it's la preadadal. You ablo of Spanish, I'm going to Spain. Anyway, so, okay, I'm getting carried away. I don't mean to go into Spanish on all of you, but yes, I do speak Spanish. Javier Mille, yes, you know what, I should do that, Don. Wouldn't that be great? Go down to Argentina and interview Javier Mille, of course. maybe I don't even have to go to Argentina.

We will look into that on the team. It would be terrific. He is such a character. One of my Argentine friends, we had some misgivings about him initially. She's like, oh my gosh, he's doing great things for the country. It's just amazing to see.

And I can tell you people I know at the IMF, they love them too. So, I mean, when you get the people and the IMF all saying, wow, you know, there's actually some there and we can actually really start to make some meaningful changes. That's exciting. It's good to have you all. Thank you so much for tuning in.

I'll be here live again tomorrow. See you then.