The Trish Regan Show - NBC News Host OUT! FCC Launches Investigations Into NPR & PBS After Networks Accused of ILLEGALLY Advertising

Episode Date: February 2, 2025

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Chuck Todd is out. NBC News, not renewing his contract. We have all the details on that. Plus, CBS News is getting ready to settle with one Donald Trump. Paramount, the parent company of CBS News, that is, over, well, some concerns about whether or not they edited that clip just a little bit too much to make Kamala look just a little bit too good over on 60 minutes. We've got that story. major problems for partly taxpayer-funded NPR and PBS. Guess what? The FCC is announcing an investigation into those guys.

They may not be as clean as you think. It shouldn't be funding a propaganda machine, which is what NPR has evolved into. You bet it is. Okay. We're going to talk all about that. And you know, as Donald Trump addresses, is the issue of DEI and whether or not it played a role in terms of what the FAA was or is capable of doing. The DNC is doubling down. They just hosted this forum. Racism has not gone away since 20 people of African descent came upon these shores at Jamestown, Virginia in 1619, and it's going to require us to think and behave in a new way.

it is systemic, it is structural when it comes to addressing diversity, equity, inclusion, access, and belonging that is for all people of the United States that must come across the voting line as well. This is everyone's America. Okay, all right, so you see where they're going. Apparently they didn't learn their lesson. They're going to double down on DEI and trans and gosh knows

where they're going to be in four years or eight years or 12 years from now because that ship has sailed. America made it very, very clear. And it's having massive effects on everything all over the media. Welcome to the show, everyone. I'm Trish Regan. Happy Friday. It's good to have you here. We have a jam-packed show. And I apologize for coming on air a little later than expected. But guess what? Donald Trump just came forward and said, we are going forward with those 25% tariffs on Mexico and on Canada. So we have details on that. We have new. news on his lawsuit, his appeal with Alvin Bragg, you know, because they got those 34 felony convictions that they're so, so, so, so proud of, but they may have done so in a really perverted, inverted kind of way where they were using this for political reasons, as we know. So he's appealing that. And, oh, what do you know? Meta, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook, they want to relocate to Texas.

Apparently, New York, not the New York Times. Actually, the Wall Street Journal had the exclusive on that. but we begin today on Chuck Todd. Chuckie Boy is out over at NBC News. You see, NBC is going through a metamorphosis. NBC, which is owned by Comcast, has figured out that, you know, some of these really opinionated hosts, and some of them that even aren't so opinionated,

but might be just a little sketchy around the edges, aren't very helpful to the organization as a whole. You know what I'm thinking about Joy Reid. I don't know what they're thinking on Rachel Maddow, but they've got some of these journalists there, maybe you're commanding a fair amount of money, and they're not really pulling their weight, so to speak. This is one Chuck Todd.

So he is out at NBC News. It's being framed as well, you know, he's quitting, but let me just tell you how this stuff works. Having worked in Network News myself for, gosh, was it 20 years until I finally got out? Uh-huh. So the way this works is they have a contract. And Chuck Todd had a contract to host Meet the Press. And for whatever reason, about a year or so ago, they said, no, we don't want Chuck doing this anymore.

We're going to put this Kristen Welker in instead. I mean, she certainly checks a few boxes. I'm kind of wondering if Chuckie was a victim of DEI himself, we can talk about that. But anyway, they kept him around, they kept him around until the contract was out. And then they could have renewed. They should have renewed if they wanted him. But nope, didn't happen. So the contract expired, and Jackie was free to go, as he did.

So he didn't really quit. You can frame it however you want. Here he is a short time ago saying, you know, he's going to leave, Meet the Press. Welcome back. I have a personal announcement. Well, today is not my final show. This is going to be my final summer here at Meet the Press. It's been an amazing, nearly decade-long run.

I'm really proud of what this team and I have built over the last decade, and frankly, the last 15-plus years, that I've been here at NBC, which also includes my time as political director. I've loved so much of this job, helping to explain America to Washington and explain Washington to America. When I took over Meet the Press, it was a Sunday show that had a lot of people questioning whether it could still have a place in the modern media space. Well, I think we've answered that question and end some. We've taken Meet the Press from a single Sunday show to a distinct and important political franchise. From our daily show, Meet the Press Now.

Our magazine show, Meet the Press reports to our newsletters and podcasts. we've successfully expanded what makes Meet the Press special on Sundays to make it special no matter the topic or where it airs or when it airs. That includes our annual Meet the Press Film Festival as well, which has somehow become one of the most important festivals for Oscar Buzz and nominations for news-driven documentaries. But the key to survival of any of these incredible media entities, including here at Meet the Press, is for leaders not to overstay their welcome. I'd rather leave a little bit too soon than stay a tad bit too long. I've had two amazing professional chapters, and I already have plans for my next chapter, including some projects right here at NBC News that I've been very focused on. Oh, my gosh.

So he joins on and on for another two minutes. So I'll save you from that, but that was when he left Meet the Press. So, you know, he kind of got forced out. Not that you should feel too bad. Does he really believe there's a deep state that came out to get them, and these are all revenge picks, right? Particularly Pentagon, Justice, Intel, right? Think about those three. And even HHS, right?

COVID, right? If he really believes there was this giant deep state conspiracy to shut down his first presidency, the four corners that he would pick are folks at defense, the Ukraine, infamous Ukraine phone call, obviously how he feels about the Justice Department. And Bob Mueller, you have the intel community that had intelligence that suggested there was issues here with some of Trump's appointees, and then, of course, HHS, right, which was the home of COVID and NIH and all of this. So my point is, If he succeeds, either he's right and there is a deep state and he exposes it, which we know is unlikely to be true.

I think this doesn't exist. But hey, you know, I will keep an open mind if he proves it, God love him. Yeah, right. Okay. So, you know, Trump's crazy because he thinks that this deep state is after him. What do you think just happened for the last four years? I mean, when you're talking about a $500 million fine from Letitia James in New York City, because he has a different viewpoint on what Mar-a-Lago might be worse.

She thinks it's $18 million, despite the fact that it makes $56 a year. I mean, come on, what do you think that was? You know, that's going to get all proven out. I got more coming up on that in this show today. But, wow. Okay, so, Chucky, you know what? you know, either you're super naive or you have just a viewpoint. Here's the thing, though, you kind of wonder, like what was going on? They replaced, I mean, he was no great shags,

don't get me wrong. I mean, he had no real compelling opinion on anything. And he definitely needed a better haircut. All right. I'm going to just say it. Someone, the stylist, if they have such a thing, probably not at a liberal network like that, but they needed one desperately for one, Chuck Todd, but they replaced Chuckie with this? Like, this is the future? You want to talk old-fashioned stuffy prompter reader. Good Sunday morning. In his frenzied first week in office, President Trump is testing the limits of his presidential power, racing to fulfill campaign promises to reshape the federal government. And I can't stand that kind of delivery. I'm just going to tell you. You know what? I've seen it. Been there.

Done that. It is so contrived. It's so constraining. It's so scripted. Kristen Wilker, gosh, you went to Harvard. You ought to be able to come up with your own lines, huh? Or maybe not. Maybe this was another DEI case. I don't think she's necessarily lighting the world on fire over there. I don't think their ratings or any great shakes. I don't think she offers a lot of interesting, interesting sort of contributions, if you will.

I mean, the only thing that really sticks out is that time that she went after Rana McDaniels. I know Rana's not necessarily everybody's favorite. But for whatever reason, this little anchor on Meet the Press felt really, really compelled to make sure that you knew she had nothing to do with Rana being hired. Nothing, nothing, nothing. And then, allegedly, she was part of the crowd that went nuts. when they found out Ronna was actually on their team.

I'll be joined by former RNC chair Ronna McDaniel in her first interview since stepping down as party chair. In full disclosure to our viewers, this interview was scheduled weeks before it was announced that McDaniel would become a paid NBC news contributor. This will be a news interview. And I was not involved in her hiring. Oh, well, we're so glad that you told us that, Kristen, that was in the prompter too, right? I guess your boss has told you. What was Chuck doing? Was he getting too out of line? Was he actually saying things that he shouldn't have said? Is this why? They let his contract go. I mean, he did actually, he did actually say this kind of recently. statement that Joe Biden made in and around the pardon, where he essentially used the exact same

rhetoric that Donald Trump uses about the justice system, that, you know, they were, it was biased against Hunter Biden. I mean, you could have literally said, I could have said to you, did Donald Trump say this or did Biden say this? And a lot of people might have said, oh, this is something Trump would say. It's not something we were used to Joe Biden saying about the rule of law and about the justice system. Well, now you have, so forget.

Oh, wait a second. Did he just compare one Joe Biden to Donald Trump? Did he actually say that maybe they have a point on some of this? Well, that'll get you fired for NBC. Meanwhile, he really went off the rails this time. I followed the Hunter Biden trial very closely. I read every transcript, all the testimony, because that's what you, all that was made public.

And there is, you want to read, you want to get angry, just as somebody in just all these mixed emotions. You read the Hallie Biden transcript, and that's Bo's widow. Yes. And essentially he... He essentially turned her into a drug addict. And this was all happening in 2017, 2018. And Joe and Joe Biden were so concerned about their family that they decided to run for president.

Yep. I just... So when you talk about the word selfish, I, it's almost like the word doesn't, I mean, I, their decision to run for president put the entire Democratic Party and the United States of America in the position that it's in now. That guy might actually be kind of grown on me. What do you know? But listen, that's not going to necessarily keep you a job over at NBC News these days. I mean, somehow Joy Reid is still there.

I think that that's kind of tenuous, though. Apparently, they're trying to reduce her salary. It's $3 million too much because you see they're paying her $3 million. I don't know how much they were paying Todd, but clearly they felt that it was not worth it. You kind of almost wonder, was he a victim of the DEI stuff himself? I mean, look who they replaced him with. I don't know.

We have to discuss that a little bit more because the DNC is trying to double down on it, just as Donald Trump was saying, hey, hey, hey, hey, we need people who are just actually good at their job. We don't care what color they are. We don't care about their gender. We only need people who are good at their jobs. But before that, this could be the end, really until you the end of NPR and PBS. There's a big investigation that was just announced by none other than Branding Carr, the chairman, the new chairman of the FCC, who actually sees the FCC is having some responsibility. How refreshing. So he just fired this one off to not. None other than Paula Kerger and Catherine Marr, they would be the heads, the presidents of PBS and NPR. And, you know, people have been kind of complaining about these guys for a while because you see the bias, right?

The constant bias. Here's a PBS journalist I'm going to show you who's whining on and on and on about, you know, Mexico can't handle it. We can't just send millions of people back to Mexico. That's not going to work. That's going to be so bad for Mexico. Forget about the fact that it is bad for us. and you do work for the public broadcasting system of America. Mexico cannot cope.

Not sure any country can, but Mexico can't cope with a sudden influx of millions of people. I mean, as much as she wants to embrace them, to use her word, when they come back and make them feel welcome, it all sounds very nice when you're listening to it, but the reality of that is just completely unsustainable. A lot of these people have lived in the U.S. for decades. They have lives there. They have families.

They're good-standing citizens, so they're not, in a position to just be deported and say, like, oh, okay, well, I'm just going to come back here and take a job making a fraction of what I used to make and go to my town where I don't have anything left, which maybe has been overrun by violence. I mean, it's just, it's unrealistic to think that that wouldn't lead to a crisis. I think it's a little unrealistic to think that it's not going to create a crisis here in the United States of America when you have so many people here illegally that are draining this system, that are not paying taxes in the system, that are costing us.

Okay, like we shouldn't have to absorb that, but you know, the journalists over at PBS, they feel kind of differently, and this is why it has recently become an issue. Apparently, they get 1% of their funding directly from the government, 8% of their funding indirectly from the government, which, frankly, is 8% and 1% just too darn much. They shouldn't be getting so much as a nickel from the government if they are this agenda-oriented. And you know they are, represent Duncan. North Carolina, South Carolina, for giving me brought this up just a few months ago on Capitol Hill. You shouldn't be funding a propaganda machine, which is what NPR has evolved into.

The Constitution lays out 17 enumerated powers for this government, providing state media in one of them. NPR and PBS have become America and Propta, a reliable mouthpiece for the liberal bureaucracy and their left-wing enablers. It's time to restore some sanity this government by eliminating NPR's federal boondoggle. Well, that would be refreshing. Why don't we just say taxpayers, you don't have to contribute? You know, if you actually love NPR, you're welcome to contribute on their own. In fact, they would say the majority of our funding is actually coming from individual contributions.

Well, they do get a lot, a lot you see from organizations like, well, George Soros is, and then there's a few others. I guess we get the Carnegie Foundation, Bill and Melinda. Gates, we can get into those numbers. But keep in mind, this is the crux of the issue as far as Brendan Carr is concerned. He's saying, you know what, you guys are not supposed to be advertising. You're not supposed to have commercials on NPR, but it kind of seems like you do have commercials on NPR. Because of the story's selection, you're effectively embedding The commercials within the programming, something that's actually not legally something you can do.

So an investigation in this case is actually quite pertinent. So while it may only be 1% direct contribution from taxpayers, another 8% indirect contributions from the federal government, there is 38% of a contribution that's coming from corporations and nonprofits, It's places like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, open society from George Soros and a series of others. So if you're spouting a narrative on your air that is constantly going back to the values of the organizations that are supporting you, then isn't that effectively a commercial? I think Brendan Carr's got himself a suit.

Okay, so this is what he's writing. He put this letter out. He said, basically, you are in violation of something called Section 39B of the Communications Act, which prohibits a channel like this from airing these commercials or any kind of other promotional announcements on behalf of for-profit entities. So you've got the for-profit entities that are working, I guess, in conjunction with some of the other entities, and I'd actually take this a step further. I don't care if they're for-profit or they're not-for-profit.

If you've got Melinda and Bill Gates and their foundation pushing a certain agenda, and maybe they get money from the likes of some of the big pharma folks, and there's this money-raising boom-doggle that's going on, it's getting funneled back to NPR and PBS. You get yourself a problem, don't you think? So he's going to investigate it. He's going to investigate it. Bye-bye.

Bye-bye. Can we say Sayanara to NPR. to NPR and PBS. I think it's about time. Because we don't need state-run media. You want to compete? Go compete with everybody else, guys. Go compete with everybody else and own up to what you are.

I mean, I listen to these guys. I look at their websites and I'm like, for goodness sakes, they're as bad, if not worse, than MSNBC. And they're masquerading as though they're somehow the perfection of truth. NPR is in a lot of trouble. I mean, take a look at these numbers here. So Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation donated $4 million to support NPR's coverage of global health and development issues. Gee.

And then you have, you see George Soros over here with a 1.8 million grant. That's all the way back in 2010 to the Open Society Institute. They had a whole project, which has now become a problem, called the impact of government. and they were trying to bring in at least 100 journalists who were going to talk about this impact of government issue. And then you got Carnegie Corporation with their millions in Rockefeller Foundation, with half a million, and MacArthur Foundation, all very left-leaning nonprofits, foundations that are influencing the programming, you see, of one NPR or PBS. And this is the problem.

They are in total violation of the law in that case. And so, Brennan Gar and the FCC, they get a case. In other words, these state-affiliated entities that are getting all this money from private corporations are doing the bidding of the private corporations and therefore are having commercials. I mean, they may not be the 32nd job that you see from the pharmaceutical companies on the evening news every night, but they are, which are just horrendous, right? but they're commercials in their own way. And keep in mind, this is effectively propaganda, and it's sanctioned propaganda.

It's sanctioned, by the way, by the people that are running the organization because, oh, maybe this is what their entities, their for-profit entities and their foundations want them to do? I ask, because you see, there's this woman who runs NPR. Her name is Catherine Marr, and she's sort of this, like, sous-profit. intellectual wannabe type that likes to talk about truth in a very philosophical way. So here she is in a TED talk. Mind you, this is the head of NPR, okay? The head of National Public Radio, who goes and does a TED talk where she effectively

admits propaganda's fine. You know, because the search for truth means that you may have to do a little propaganda along the way. She doesn't really make a ton of sense. She acts like she's the first one. to ever have this sort of philosophical revelation. She's kind of tough to take, guys. This is like the epitome of the liberal nonsense.

But her conclusion, if you listen to this, is like, Bob Gant is fine, right? Like, as long as it serves a higher purpose, why are we going to get bogged down and looking for the truth? But one of the most significant differences critical from moving from polarization to productivity is that the Wikipedians who write these articles aren't actually focused on finding the truth.

They're working for something that's a little bit more attainable, which is the best of what we can know right now. And after seven years there, I actually believe that they're onto something that for our most tricky disagreements, seeking the truth and seeking to convince others of the truth, isn't necessarily the best place to start. In fact, I think our reverence for the truth might have become a bit of a distraction that is preventing us from finding

consensus and getting important things done. None of that's to say that the truth isn't important. The truth obviously exists at the core or the surface of the I just got to jump in. Can we hear that again? Important things done. Might become, might have become a bit of a distraction. Okay, she just told us.

Consensus in getting important things. The head of NPR, just told us that finding the truth might actually be a distraction from getting important things done. I mean, that seems a little, a little too far off the left's curve, frankly, I mean, for you to be running National Public Radio, Miss Catherine, who hails from Fairfield County, Connecticut, the Tony Fairfield County, Connecticut,

did a degree in Middle Eastern studies at NYU, then went over to the American University in Cairo to continue her Middle Eastern studies. Let me just tell you, I think I know where her sympathies lie, and they're not with the United States of America, and certainly not with Donald Trump. Now, none of that's to say that the truth isn't important. The truth obviously exists at the core,

or the search for the truth, is at the core of some of our greatest human achievements. It can animate and inspire us to do, learn, and create great things. But I think in our messy human hearts, we also know that the truth is something of a fickle mistress, and that the beauty of the truth is actually often in the struggle. It's the reason that we have so many sublime chronicles of the human experience, because there are so many different truths to be explored.

And so in this spirit, I know that the truth exists for each of you in this room. It also probably exists for the person sitting next to you. But the thing is, the two of you don't necessarily have the same truth. And this is because for many of us, truth is what we make when we merge facts about the world, with our beliefs about the world. Each of us has our own truth, and it's probably a good one. But apparently it's just fine that the Wikipedians

spend all their time trying to recreate the truth rather than actually own up to what's what. yours truly. I mean, my Wikipedia page is a complete total mess. They've taken away every award I've ever gotten. They've doubted that I went to the high school I went to. I mean, it's just actually a mess. You go over to some liberal persons like hers, I guarantee you, it looks like, whoo, like she is the greatest thing's in sliced bread. Okay? So we have a little bit of a problem. I mean, it is, it's actually just gross and it's, it's coming to light now in a really important way. So, Catherine Marr, the head of NPR, is now under investigation.

Her entire organization is under investigation because they don't seem to feel compelled in any way to actually write or tell the truth. They think it's actually really important that they promote some ethereal thing that's kind of just better for society rather than actual truth. Aren't you glad that Donald Trump is president? I'm just going to say. Aren't you glad? CBS News is going to settle with him, by the way, we get that story coming up. But first, just a reminder, 76 Research, where you will always get the truth about investing from me and my colleague, my co-founder over there, Rob Horton.

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I mean, it really is nonsense. But the world is changing, and people are starting to figure it out. CBS is one of them. CBS News apparently getting ready to settle with Donald Trump. I guess they see the handwriting on the wall. Well, you have ABC News having settled for $16 million. You have meta having settled for $25 million. And the next question is just exactly how much is the Trump presidential library going to get out of one CBS news?

Paramount is the company that owns CBS and, well, he's suing for $10 billion, which would actually be $2 billion more than Paramount is worth. So they better get on this, right? But it has a little something to do with, in his view, a kind of election interference, election interference in light of what 60 Minutes was doing to edit. it clips and make Kamala Harris seem a whole lot smarter than she is. She's not that smart, and this proved it. But it seems that Prime Minister Netanyahu is not listening. Well, Bill, the work that we have done has resulted in a number of movements in that region by Israel that were very much prompted by, or a result of many things, including,

including our advocacy for what needs to happen in the region. But it seems that Prime Minister Netanyahu is not listening. We're not going to stop pursuing what is necessary for the United States to be clear about where we stand on the need for this war to end. Wow. She sure sounded a lot better in the second version than she did in the first, right? So is that election interference? Kind of seems like it.

I don't think they'd afford Donald Trump the same kind of opportunity. No, but you know what? They don't have to because he can actually speak about stuff. I mean, and then think about this one. Remember Leslie Stahl, who went after him viciously in that clip on 60 Minutes about Hunter Biden's laptop? Turns out Donald Trump was right. Leslie Stahl was wrong. You know, this is 60 minutes, and we can't put on things we can't verify.

You won't put it on because it's bad for Biden. We can't put on things we can't verify. Leslie. you told me a long time ago when I asked why you keep saying fake in media. You said to me, I say that because I need to discredit you so that when you say negative things about me, no, I don't have to discredit you. You've discredited yourself. Leslie, you've discredited yourself.

When you say that you're not going to cover a bite, you're going to ask him what flavor ice cream he has, okay? Instead of why did Hunter get three and a half million? dollars from Moscow instead of why is an energy company paying your son $183,000 a month or whatever they pay him and he has no experience in energy you know you discredit yourself I don't have to discredit you so this 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 highest, most important issues in the 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. A Republican community. 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.

You want to talk about insignificant things. I'm telling you. Of course it can be verified. Excuse me, they found a laptop. Leslie, Leslie. Yes. What can't be verified? The laptop.

What you said? Well, it turns out it was verified. It turns out, you know what? The FBI was actually investigating that laptop at that very time. And if she were a good reporter and had better sources, maybe she'd actually know that. But no, no, no, no. She's just telling you, in America, whatever it is, the Deep State's telling us, and Deep State, they had this whole thing rigged, right?

You had 51X spooks and hacks going out and saying, no, no, no, no. That's not Hunter Biden's a laptop. That was just misinformation. misinformation bought and paid for by the Russians and spoon-fed to everybody by way of Rudy Giuliani and Steve Bennett. Except that, no, that's not true. Actually, it was, shockingly, disgustingly, Hunter Biden's laptop. And they lied. John Brennan lied. Mike Morel. Lied. Former deputy director of the CIA. And it was all orchestrated by one Anthony Blinken. who was on Biden's team and wanted him to win so he could go on to become Secretary of State.

And then Leslie Stahl sits there and asked, well, you know, like how bad this is. Like they don't trust us anymore. They don't trust us. They don't trust you because you're lousy, stupid reporters. You watch the opinion of us, how many people trust the press anymore. I mean, we're way down there with the lawyers. Yeah. This is really rough, as you know. You're way down there with Congress. I despair. Seriously. I worry greatly. We're at a point where if the president of the United States is going to say legacy media is dead. Well, I guess Musk said that. Legacy media is dead.

And he wants it dead. He wants other media. But it is kind of sort of hobbling right now. And I don't know how it recovers. I'm very disappointed. Oh, very, very dispoint. You know how it recovers? It recovers by having actual people that have some respect for things like truth, unlike Ms. Catherine Marr, who runs NPR and said, you know, it's kind of a waste of time to keep pursuing this truth.

No, no, I don't think it's a waste of time at all. And all of a sudden, you have a whole new landscape. Reminder, please subscribe, share, like, all that good stuff right here. here on the Trish Regan channel, because think of what we're doing here every day. This is nothing but truth. This is nothing but fairness. This is reality. And you can't do that when you're one of these scripted little bots like, oh, what's her name that took over for Chuck Todd. I mean, this is, this is effectively state media, all written for her, complete with music and the, you know, the fancy camera angle. And it's just nausea.

Good Sunday morning in his frenzied first week in office, President Trump is testing the limits of his presidential power. You know what? You're testing the limits of my patients because am I going to sit there and watch that? Like, it's like a little wind-up doll, right? Just cure and she goes on and she reads the prompter. And that is what news has become. It's like paint by numbers. We know what this picture is supposed to look like. So let's just draw it out. thread it out, we put it in the prompter, and we have our little stand-up doll who checks all the boxes, read it for us. Americans are like tired of it. Like they don't want them. They don't want political candidates like that. They don't want hosts like that. Those days are over. And you know what? This show is proof of it. Look at this. We've been on for the air for every day for like a year

and a half. We've got more than 550,000 people's subs. Gosh, guys, I mean, that's amazing. because this is not, this is just me, right? This is organic. This is nothing but us here building something together. There's no marketing. There's nothing. Like really, I mean, other than my sweat equity and, you know, a couple of people I trust. And that's it. Okay. So she's got a hundred people around her. There at NBC News. Leslie Stahl, same kind of deal. And they can't figure out that these are spies who, lied? They're sitting there saying, no, but Trump, you must be wrong. So yes, you know what? Donald Trump ought to get one heck of a good chunk of change out of CBS news. They are looking to settle. They want to get this done and over with. And I'm just saying, get as much as you can. That's going to

be one heck of a lie right before it's all said and done. ABC, meanwhile, might want to think about all this, they might want to think about a show like The View. They might want to think about a host like Whoopi Goldberg, Sonny House, and a few others there that they have on the air because David Muir, another one, because you know what? Trust is way, way, way, way, way, way down at these places. And Brendan Carr knows it. And Brendan Carr is actually using this. He's the head of the FCC under Donald Trump to actually go back at these networks. So ABC thought, oh, we're out of the woods. You know, we don't have to worry because we did that $16 million settlement. And now we're in better shape. Well, no. What did Brendan Carr do? He fired off a letter saying, guess what? This is

actually proof of your bias. And now we have all these complaints from all these people saying that, you know, they're not really feeling this trust, if you would, in their networks anymore. So maybe we don't actually want to renew the affiliate deals with ABC. You see, they have to go through Brendan Carr in order to give out all those affiliations with all those small channels all over the country. So that's at risk and the other thing that's at risk are these complaints, you see. Lots and lots and lots of complaints. People saying, hey, you know, these networks are just too partial to Kamala Harris. And we feel like this is state media for Kamala Harris. We're not really seeing any kind of a quality here, let alone things like equal time. Remember what happened? They put Kamala in a last ditch effort to help her

right before the election onto Saturday Night Live. That became a big issue. I'm telling you, they are in trouble and they just don't seem to quite get it. Whoopi Goldberg who spits, spits on the set when she says the president of the United States' name, how's that for patriotism for you? Here she is going on about, oh, you know, we're just the greatest, if it weren't for what we have done and all the sort of agendas we have pushed, then where would the world be? Yeah. I would like this young lady who's, this is her first job. I would like her to do a little homework.

Because she said something yesterday. Okay, forgive me, the microphone was not on. I want to reference something. She's talking here about Caroline Levitt, the new press secretary, who by the way is on fire. And I get some sound from her that I want to play you from today's press conference that just ended. But she's going on about Caroline. They went on and on. In fact, they even criticized her looks. It's really kind of ugly. But just so you know what she's speaking to, Caroline Levitt had said, you know what, the woke stuff, it's over, it's gone, it's done. You know, we have a new president now, and Whoopie's upset about it. Really pissed me off. And that was, she said, there will be no wokeness here. Oh, yeah. Let me explain something to you because without that wokeness, you might not have that job. Yeah.

Because women were not invited to that table. Women were not invited to many tables in this nation. The reason we fought and busted our behinds to make sure that you didn't have to worry about this. And now to hear you talk about it and to hear anybody talk about the wokeness, the wokenness was put in place for a reason because black people couldn't get into colleges, because women could not get into the colleges they wanted to go to. This is all women. See, this is not black, Asian women.

This is all women. Women were not invited to this party. It was a man's world, and we busted our asses to make sure that this was a person's world. So please stop using that phrase to talk about because you don't understand what you're saying. You're saying about yourself that, you know, hey, that's a terrible thing to be. It's not a terrible thing to be. That's why we fought. That's what we were fighting for so that you could stand in that.

podium so that Catherine Jean-Pier could stand at that podium. So women of all kinds of colors and ilks, wherever they came from, whatever their belief system was, they had the opportunity to bust down that door. I just wanted to do it.

She's probably been put in there because according to Donald Trump, she's a 10. You know that's what it is. I want to be clear, though, it's not her first job. It was her first press briefing. She worked in the previous Republican House. She is the first time that she's been the that she may be, but my point is that job would not maybe have been open to her without us.

I just wanted to clarify that. So, boy, they really dig themselves in a hole, don't they? On the one hand, she's like, oh, you know, we women, we're all women here. Like, this is great for women. And then the next thing out of Joy Behar's mouth is, well, you know, the only reason she got that job is because she's a tent. Oh, way to just be all about women, huh? Unbelievable. And those women are pretty bad. They are pretty bad. And so consider what's going on, right? The backdrop of all of this guys is Brendan Carr means business. He is moving the complaints up against ABC for their bias for shows like that. Well,

simultaneously writing Bob Eager, the CEO of Disney, a letter and saying, hey, hey, you know what? We're kind of thinking that maybe we're not going to renew your affiliate deals with all these ABC stations because you say nobody trusts your programming. And the fact that you had to pay $16 million to President Trump, 15 to his library, a million to the lawyers, kind of proves it. Right? Like you guys did some bad, you know what. And so now, Whoopi is in jeopardy. I think the whole show is in jeopardy. You saw that Joy Behar actually put her house on the market for some crazy amount of money to have a million dollars for this little Victorian saltbox kind of thing in the Hamptons. It's like, oh, don't let Letitia find out.

You know, she may think that's more than it should be. I mean, if, you know, Mar-a-Lago is only 18, I don't know how you're going to get 10 and a half for 4,000 square feet in Sag Harbor, Joy. Anyway, my gosh, these women are like on the verge of having their entire show and possibly their network canceled. And so the only one that actually occasionally shows some glimpses of kind of getting it, I mean, there's Alyssa, but, you know, she's a conservative. So kind of a never-trump conservative, but still she's a conservative. So I'll give her a pass for, you know, at least kind of occasionally saying things that make sense. Whoopie never does until suddenly, all out of the blue.

Clearly, the producers took her in the back room and said, hey, this is serious stuff. Now she's actually trying to sound, dare I say, rather Magalite. But 87% support deporting criminal undocumented virus. I don't know anybody in the world. Yeah, I don't know anybody in the world who wants to keep the criminals. I don't know anybody. That's what you should be focused. Now, you don't know anybody except that, you know, if you don't look very,

far, you can actually find your own AG in the state of New York. That would be one, Letitia James, who's all about keeping the criminals. Really and truly, she's fighting Trump as hard as she can because she wants to keep the criminals. And I actually think, you know, Letitia, you're in kind of a bad spot here at this moment in time. You see, the White House feels very differently. Here's Caroline Levitt in a press conference that just ended moments ago speaking about the issue of immigration and how strongly this administration feels about it and don't forget they kind of get their power there from the Constitution

to go after this. And she's proud of the work that they are doing right now to round up criminals. On January 27, 2025, ICE Chicago arrested a citizen of Guatemala who has been convicted of solicitation to meet a child, disturbing, and sentenced to 24 months probation. On January 28, 2025, ICE Atlanta arrested a citizen of South Korea, who has been convicted of nine counts of possession or control of material

depicting minors in sexually explicit conduct. On January 28th, ICE, New York, arrested a Mexican national previously charged by the state of New York for attempted murder and possession of a weapon and assault. And on January 28th, ICE Philly, arrested a citizen of Mexico who has been convicted of possession of child pornography. Our message is simple. If you are a criminal, illegal alien, you will be arrested and deported. So that did not sit well with the media. It's not sitting well with Letitia James. New York's

Leticia James is apparently not in agreement with Whoopi Goldberg on this because she writes, New York has laws that protect immigrants and limit cooperation with federal immigration enforcement efforts. Those laws should be followed by law enforcement and officials in our state. It's always been us to uphold our laws and protect immigrant New Yorkers. So Caroline was sort of asked about that, too. Are they sanctuary city leaders? Are they violating law? I would certainly think so. I'd have to check back on which specific law they're violating, but certainly if they're not enforcing our nation's immigration's law, sounds like they are breaking

the law. And I would also add that their constituents don't approve of that. You've seen residents in Chicago show up at their city council meetings infuriated with their leadership in that city because they are working very hard to provide for their families. They want public safety and law and order and their officials have abandoned those very basic American principles in these cities. And the American people want law and order. It's an again, an overwhelmingly popular policy to deport illegal criminals from our nation's interior and this administration will continue. continue to affect that goal. Yeah, well, I'm going to help her out here because the reality is this.

The Constitution actually does provide the federal government with the power to have people in or out of the country. Like that's one of the, you know, the Constitution actually is very limiting if you think about it for federal powers, but one of the things it absolutely surely does is give through the Commerce Clause, through Section Act, I mean, there's a variety, variety of examples. And we should do a whole show on that because Letitia needs to be schooled. Let me say, and the California guy needs to be schooled too, but anyway, we have that ability. I mean, unless you want to secede New York, unless you want to secede California,

guess what? We're in control of the border. And therefore, you can't be at odds with us, despite your sort of delusional ways to try and interpret the law. Not only does this administration's new policy put people at risk, but it is plainly unconstitutional. The president does not get to decide which laws to enforce and for whom. When Congress dedicates funding for a program, the president cannot pull that funding on a whim. And of course, she says, I have steel in my backbones. I'm not afraid of Donald Trump. So she's going to go after him with all she's got.

And I think she may just wind up on the wrong side of the law in more ways than one. Not just for that, but also because of how she went after Donald Trump to the tune of nearly $500 million, trying to get in the middle of a deal between him and his banker. It's like, you know what? Your bank says, hey, you want a home equity line of credit? We're going to send out somebody to do an appraisal. You say, well, my house is this many square feet, and I think it's worth this. and they say, okay, well, we're going to have the appraisal guy decide that or gal.

And then the appraisal guy or gal decides, yeah, it's worth that. We will make the loan to you. And then you pay it back. But somehow the attorney general for your state comes along and says, no, no, no, that's not what we think your house was worth. That's a problem for Letitia. She's got that going on. Second Court of Appeals, the Court of Appeals in the state of New York. We're waiting on them, getting a little annoyed, to be honest.

they should come forward with this very, very soon. They're going to throw that thing out. And then on top of that, breaking right now, Trump is appealing his hushed money case. We knew he would do this. But what's interesting is the grounds on which he's appealing it on. He is filing this appeal, because they got the 34 convictions, right?

The felony convictions they so desperately wanted. He's filing the appeal because he says, this is kind of actually a manipulation of the law, a manipulation of criminal law. In other words, you never had the ability to bring this in the first place. Don't forget. Even Jack Smith didn't bring this charge. Alvimberg initially declined to bring it, but they brought it forward because they wanted somehow some way to just get this conviction. You even had a judge who told the jury.

It doesn't matter what you think he's guilty of. If you think he's guilty of any of these things effectively, A, B, C, or D, it's like a multiple choice question. Test. You can go with it. And you know the jury pool in New York being what it is, they would. wanted to convict him of something. So this is a problem. His attorney is now saying the misuse of the criminal law by the Manhattan DA to target President Trump sets a dangerous precedent. And we look forward to the case being dismissed on appeal. And I believe it will be dismissed on appeal. But again, you're talking about the misuse of criminal law. That's pretty messed up. And when people say, you know, is this going to be retribution? I'm just saying, we can't live like this. We can't

have a system where we effectively become no better than a banana republic because every guy or gal who gets in office is suddenly at risk of being sued and thrown the slimmer, just like Brazil, right? Like Lula was in the jail and now he's out. He's president again. We're not Brazil. We don't want to be Brazil. We don't want to be Mexico. We don't want to be Argentina and we don't want to be Venezuela. And so it's actually up to Pambandi, and it's up to Cash Patel, and it's up to hopefully Tulsi Gabbard, who gets over there at National Intelligence, to actually clean house and get these things working and squeaky clean with people who actually have some backbone and value system and are patriots as opposed to political animals.

So let me start with an easy truth that you could speak to the president. Can you tell us, Can you tell him that Donald Trump lost the 2020 election? Can you say that? Do you have the independence to say that? Do you have the gravitas, the stature, the intestinal fortitude to say, Donald Trump, you lost the 2020 election? Can you tell us that here today? Senator, what I can tell you is I will never play politics.

You're trying to engage me in a gotcha. I won't do it. I won't play politics with any ongoing investigation. So let me ask you another. Like you did, leaking your colleague, Devin, Nune. If you can't. Unbelievable. Unbelievable, right?

I mean, this is Pam Bondi's hearing, and she was terrific. She did a great job. But he's so freaked out. Like, Schiff is really worried because they're going to come after him. And James, I'm seeing your comment here, James Jones, writing how great it will be if these liars are held accountable for their actions. Also, it's pretty great to have competent press secretary, right? Yeah.

You know, we're not asking for much. Just somebody who doesn't constantly, constantly have to. look at her binder and get back to you on things. Circle back as one Jen Saki would say, otherwise known as Peppermint Patty and then KJP, who, you know, God bless her, poor little thing, because we used to have her as a Fox News contributor. I used to bring her on the show occasionally. Oh my gosh, it was like I would feel bad for her on the air, because especially I was at Fox business, we talk about economic issues. She didn't have a clue. Like did not have a freaking clue on anything. And so it felt like an uneven fight. You know, we put a Democrat up against a,

a Republican and there would be KJP and she knew nothing. And she was just really, I thought that would just be awful when they got her. And boy, oh boy, was I right, right? Really, really, really, really clueless stuff. Anyway, I think Pam Bondi is going to go after a lot of people. I think that you're going to see some heads roll. And one of the questions that I keep coming back to, and I'm going to play this clip, I played it yesterday, so bear with me if you saw this yesterday,

but I just think it's super important to understand what the Attorney General was actually doing. Merrick Garland, we now know his office, the White House, was in touch with Fannie Willis's boyfriend down in Georgia. Now, that's not supposed to happen. You also know that, for example, in the Alvin Brad case, they sent somebody on the team that came from Merrick Garland's office. So I have a feeling there was a little too much interaction from the feds. and trying to influence the states. Communicating with these state and local prosecutions against Trump, you can clear it all up for us right now.

Will the Department of Justice provide to the committee all documents, all correspondence between the department and Alvin Bragg's office and Fannie Willis House's office and Lettia James' office? The offices you're referring to are independent offices of state? I get that. I get that. The question is whether or not you will provide all of your documents and correspondence. That's the question. I don't need a history lesson. Well, I'm going to say again, we do not control those offices. They make their own decisions. The question is whether you communicate with them, not whether you control them. Do you communicate

with them and will you provide those communications? You make a request, we'll refer it to our office of legislative affairs. But see, here's the thing. You come in here and you lodge this attack that it's a conspiracy theory that there is coordinated law fair against Trump. And then when we say, fine, just give us the documents, give us the correspondence, and then if it's... Hmm. So I'd like to see it. I'd like to know. And this is what they have to get at. So Pambandi, Cash Patel, they will be on the case. And yes, it's going to be a glorious day when we actually figure out what the heck was really going on. And I think there were a lot of things going on. A lot, a lot, a lot. So I'd say, Letitia, watch out. I want to get to this

FAA stuff, because this is pretty significant. And Donald Trump is under a lot of criticism. say, oh, you know, he shouldn't talk about DEI so soon. But we have to. We have to at least have this conversation, you and I anyway, because I think there's important things that need to be brought up before we do. Balance in Nature, you know that I take my fruits and veggies every single day. We love having them as a sponsor on the show. They help make this show come to you every day for free.

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Like, have they not learned their lesson that America wants to move on? We want to be the meritocracy that's about fairness. And you work hard, you get ahead, and you can't fix things after the fact. You've got to actually do the hard work early on. And it is a society that's going to mean dealing with communities that have been so disservice by these lousy politicians for so many years. Anyway, they don't get it. Here's a DNC forum where they're actually trying to double down on this stuff. Racism has not gone away since 20 people of African descent came upon these shores at Jamestown, Virginia, in 1619,

and it's going to require us to think and behave in a new way. it is systemic, it is structural when it comes to addressing diversity, equity, inclusion, access, and belonging that is for all people of the United States that must come across the voting line as well. This is everyone's America. Our story has a new form of glory

that must come to our shores as well. Oh dear. So she's up for getting the top job there at the DNC. So you can see where that's heading. In the meantime, Donald Trump coming out saying, you know, forget about DEI, forget about diversity, equity, inclusion. Like, this is pretty simple. You just need the best people in the best jobs. And when it comes to, for example, the FAA and who's running all the flight controls behind the scenes? Like, we don't have time for this DEI stuff. We just need people who can actually do the job. Thank you very much.

We need the smartest people. We need both psychologically smart and just brilliant period. and we are going to have them in our control towers. We are going to have the most competent people in the country in our control towers, not people that are there for any other reason. It's amazing that that's so controversial, right? Why can't you just say, in the spirit of Martin Luther King, Jr., by the way, that you value somebody for their contribution. If they're good at their job, they're good at the job.

You're not seeing color, right? You want to be colorblind. It shouldn't matter. But they're trying to correct all this stuff, the fact. Again, instead of doing the hard work early on, going into the schools, praising communities, valuing things like a family unit. And two parents in a household, instead of doing that, they're trying to fix it after the fact. And then when he dares to say this, oh my gosh, it's like he's got a new Jim Acosta over there at CNN. Katelyn Collins challenged him on this.

He wasn't too happy. He seemed a little disappointed in her, actually. of the 67 people who were killed. And you are blaming Democrats and DEI policies and air traffic control. And seemingly the member of the U.S. military who was flying that Black Hawk helicopter, don't you think you're getting ahead of the investigation right now? No, I don't think so at all.

I don't think were the names of the people. You mean the names of the people that are on the plane? You think that's going to make a difference? They are a group of people that have lost their lives. If you want a list of the names, we can give you that. We'll be giving that very soon. in coordination with American Airlines. We're in coordination very strongly, obviously, with the military.

But I think that's not a very smart question. I'm surprised coming from you. Not a very smart question. I'm surprised coming from you. Here's the thing. I'm going to tell you something about Donald Trump. He is all action-oriented. So, sure.

Okay, some people are like, well, you know, couldn't he have just... And I see it in your comments, too, guys. I know that, like, some of you are like, God, did you really have to go there right away? And the thing is for him, and I know this about him because I've known him for many years and have had a lot of conversations with him over those years, he takes anything that happens under his watch very, very seriously. I remember once saying, oh, you know, like, why are we pulling these troops out of Syria? And he got really kind of angry with me. This is on a phone call.

And he's like, Tresh, like, you don't, you try looking those parents. in their eyes after they've lost a son over there. Like, there is no reason for us to unnecessarily be risking American lives. I was passionate about it. Then there were other times, for example, having an interview with him once, and he was supposed to meet with some families who had lost their sons, and it was, like, so important. He was really kind of rushed.

He's usually not, like, he'll talk to you a bit, but, like, he had to get out because he wasn't going to be a second late for those families. and I'm telling you, like, he just takes a lot on, right? He wants to be able to say, look at GDP, look at the unemployment rate, it's coming down, inflation's coming down, we're doing great, we're safer, we're better, and when it's not that way, he takes it on personally, which actually is a good thing, right, because I don't think Biden cared. I don't think Kamala cared. I don't think anybody actually felt the way Trump feels when it comes to whether we're succeeding, not succeeding. So the fact that he's president, only a couple of days, this happens, he's living. What does he want to do?

wants to fix it immediately. So maybe it's not like the most whatever, you know, eloquent thing to get out there and rail against DEI on day one. I get that that ruffled people's feathers, especially those on the left who take that as an opportunity, of course, but he's just being a realist. This is not like a political opportunity. He's literally saying, we need the best people, period. I can't believe this happened. It never should have happened and never wanted to happen again. That's his message, right? And when you look at whether or not we have the best people, I think it's in doubt.

So there's a lawsuit that was filed last year claiming that basically people that were highly qualified for FAAA error traffic controller positions were not getting hired. There's a thousand white males that had all the qualifications according to the lawsuit and they couldn't get jobs. Now, remember, like, they need people. They desperately need people at the FAA. They don't have enough controllers. One of the reasons, like, if we don't know all the information, but one of the reasons that people cite is this possibly of being, you know, an issue with the FAA, is that you only had one guy on duty,

and there should have been at least two. And I'm like, two? You mean they don't have like 20? Gee, that doesn't make me feel very good about what I'm in an airplane, landing in the future. Like, that really doesn't make me feel very good. But, like, why don't they have more employees? why aren't they actually able to fill these jobs? Because apparently, according to this lawsuit,

the people that are qualified are getting turned away. And they can't find enough people otherwise. Because, you know, for whatever reason, you got a lot of white males that are in this particular sphere, and they can't change that. So instead, you know, they're doing this big diversity push, and they want to hire people with, according to Fox News, this article came out literally, oh my gosh, This is like days ago, right? Days ago. People have been worrying about this, by the way, for a while. Let me be very, very clear.

And so they had this effort to bring in people with severe intellectual and psychiatric disabilities. Like, what? For the FAA? Like, is that really the direction you guys want to go? Apparently, here's their big diversity push message that was put out by one Brad Mims under the Biden administration. Hi, I'm Brad Mims, deputy administrator at the Federal Aviation Administration. We are looking for the best and brightest to join us as air traffic controllers. We need a diverse group of air traffic controllers to bring distinct perspectives.

I know it's hard to hear. I can't change that, so just turn up the volume just a little bit if you could. To handle the ever-changing aerospace landscape. I'm calling on students and alumni from HBCU's Hispanic serving institutions and tribal colleges to apply now to become air traffic controllers. I don't want anyone interested to miss out on this amazing career opportunity. Make sure you complete your full application during our application window. The short application window ends on May 8th. We need a diverse next-generation air traffic workforce with people from all backgrounds.

So apply now. Maybe you just need people that can do the job. We talked about this yesterday. If you were to go out and say, okay, I'm a company or a government organization and I need to hire people whose last name begins with the D. And I'm only going to hire people whose last name begins with the D. What are you doing? You're limiting your pool. Like, you don't have as many people because you're only looking for people that have a last name that begins with the D. And so consequently, you get them in there and you're like, okay, this will work. I mean, maybe they're not perfect for the gig, but this will work, this will work, and you convince yourself, you convince the organization,

you convince them, it'll work. But maybe, maybe it just wasn't meant to be. Maybe you're actually forcing it. Maybe they'd be better in a different gig. Okay, and maybe you ought to forget about hiring people with the last name that begins with the letter D and actually just hiring the best person. That's what matters, especially in a technical job like that. I mean, you can make the argument, right, in marketing and all these other things, but this is a pretty technical job. And yet Biden, because, you know, he wanted to diversify the FAA, you know, when he was trying to put up a new head of the FAA, this is the guy that he recommended. Mr. Washington, can you quickly tell me what airspace requires an ADSB transponder? Not sure I can answer that question right now.

That's okay. We'll just keep going. So that's a pretty important part. So what are the six types of special use airspace that protect this national security that appear on FAA charts? Sorry, Senator, I cannot answer that question. So what are the operational limitations of a pilot flying under BasicMed? Senator, I'm not a pilot. But obviously you'd ever see the Federal Aviation Administration.

So any idea what those restrictions are under Basic Med quickly? Well, some of the restrictions, I think, would be high blood pressure. some of them would be. It's more like how many passengers per airplane, how many pounds in different categories, and what altitude you can fly under so, and then the amount of knots, it's under 250 knots. So it's not having anything to do with blood pressure.

So can you tell me what causes an aircraft to spin or to stall? Again, Senator, I'm not a pilot. Okay, let's keep going. What are the three aircraft certifications the FAA requires as part of the manufacturing process, quickly, please. Three aircraft certifications. Again, what I would say to that is that one of my first priorities would be to fully implement that Certification Act

and report that the three types, Mr. Washington, the three types, okay. Yeah, that's type certificate, production certificate, airworthiness certificate. Okay, all right, let's just keep going, see if we can get lucky here. So can you tell me what the minimum separation distance is for landing in the parting airliners during the daytime, Mr. Washington? I don't want to guess on that, Senator.

Are you familiar with the difference between Part 107 and Part 44809 when it comes to unmanned aerial standards? Unman aerial, unmanned like drones. Are you familiar with the difference? Yes, yes. Okay. You know the difference between those two, Part 44809 and Part 107? Do you know the difference there? No, I cannot.

It's okay. So I almost actually had to cut that off because it's really painful, obviously, to watch. And he wound up zero for seven. So then Ted Cruz got to him. Have you ever flown a plane? Thank you for the question, Senator. No, I have never flown a plane. So you weren't a military pilot or a commercial airline pilot? No, senator. Have you ever worked for an airline?

No, senator. Have you ever worked as an air traffic controller? No, senator. You ever worked for a company that manufactures airplanes? No, Senator. Have you ever worked for a company that fixes airplanes? No, Senator. FAA administrator is a specialized position.

I'm not qualified to be FAA administrator. I have no idea how to fly a plane. No one in their right mind would put me in charge of aviation safety because I don't have that experience. I suspect most of the members of this committee are in a similar position. The American people, when they think about aviation safety, when they think about, I played in this committee, a Southwest Airlines and FedEx plane almost colliding at Austin's airport. They want an FAA administrator who knows why those planes crash and knows how to fix it to keep them safe.

And with all respect, Mr. Washington, it gives no comfort to the flying public that their pilot might be a transgendered witch, but doesn't actually know how to prevent the plane from crashing into the ground and killing them. I believe your record is woefully lacking. And in fact, you have zero aviation safety experience. Oh my gosh. Did he really say that transgender witch? Look, I mean, it's like putting me his head of the FAA. Like, you know what?

I got a lot of things I do well, but I know nothing. literally nothing about planes. I'd be the same way up there. I mean, I'm kind of looking at this guy and saying, okay, Mr. Washington, didn't you like think that maybe this might be a little controversial since you really don't know what you're doing? Anyway, they put somebody else in. Thank goodness. But, you know, it gets back to why are we doing this? Like, shouldn't we just have the best people? Pete Hage-Seth, I love this. I'm going to play this clip again because he said it on Jesse's show the other night and it's meaningful. I want you to hear us because he says diversity is not our strength. And guess what he says is? What's happening with DEI? How's that going at the defense department?

Well, DEI is not going well at the defense department because it's dead. We will, the president said it in his inaugural. We will be merit based and colorblind. And that is the case at the defense department. DEI is going to be ripped out root and branch because we want everyone treated equally with high standards and held accountable with war fighting, lethality, and readiness front and center. We don't have time for emphasizing differences. Jesse, one of the dumbest phrases in military history is our diversity is our strengths. Our diversity is not our strength. Our unity and our shared purpose is our strength. And the Pentagon is excited to get back to that core mission. It's happening rapidly. The services are responding. And those that don't want to

respond can work somewhere else. So diversity equity inclusion will not be a part of the defense department, not a minute long. But you hear what he said how unity is our strength? I think that's so true. Like let's all try to get along together. Let's not keep just dividing, dividing, you know what? It's divide and conquer. I mean, that's what they've been trying to do. You know, that's exactly what the DNC is all about. Again, this lady. since 20 people of African descent came upon these shores at Jamestown, Virginia in 1619, and it's going to require us to think and behave in a new way. It is systemic.

It is structural. When it comes to addressing that. You see, they're going to keep promoting this idea. Because this is their source of power. They keep telling people, you're down, you're down because of this reason and that reason. Well, I'm sorry. You know, when it comes to planes, when it comes to medical things, you know, Wall Street tried this.

Wall Street tried it. It didn't go so well. So guess what? They bailed on DEI. All these companies saying, no, no thanks. Not working for me, right? Like, it's not working for shareholders. But it's a little different within the context of a Wall Street company versus stuff like

this, right? And if you start making exceptions and saying, well, we're going to pass you along in medical school because we just need more diverse doctors, do you really think you want somebody who's not passing the tests in medical school to be operated on you? I don't think so. I mean, this shouldn't be that hard. Like, it's just not, and by the way, it is reverse or not even, it's just discriminatory. It's actually discriminatory, not this one, this one. The fact that they're turning controllers away based solely on race is really, really, really disturbing. And you know what? As I read about this case. I was really shocked. I mean, it's very clear that they had their agenda. It sounds like

it goes back to the Obama days. And because of that agenda, they weren't willing to actually entertain people who actually knew something about this and really could do the job and think about that. I mean, that is really disturbing and really, really unsettling. This is one part of the lawsuit. Let me bring this into you so that you can see. Basically, they're saying that 20 years before the Obama era FAA, the Collegiate Training Initiative, known as CTI as a program that graduated 100% of those who went on to work in their field. However, the affirmation changes, the changes that they put in during the Obama years that they're talking about, to the hiring process meant that many of these graduates began to be passed over in favor of applicants

who had only graduated high school. So imagine, like, you've gone to school for this. like you're going to be, this is your career choice, you have all the training, but somehow somebody who's only gone to high school gets the gig and you don't because of Obama's initiatives, which were then carried on by Biden. So it's a group of citizens that we represent. This is the lawyer talking, the thousands of people that didn't get the gigs. Their careers were derailed, their lives were upended, so it's important that we get justice for them, but obviously it's important in cases like this to highlight that, quote,

these practices were going on in the federal government, and they can still be going on in any agency in America. And so you're in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. They apparently created a new kind of tests that basically would figure out effectively your race, and if you didn't check the boxes, you didn't get the gig, and that's messed up. I want to give a quick shout out for one of our our great sponsors here on the program. And, you know, it just reminds me as we talk about education and schools and what people are doing. I want to just mention Grand Canyon University because it's a private Christian university out in Arizona. I love Arizona, by the way, in Phoenix, Arizona, which is where my uncle lives. We have to get him on the show one of these

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Donald Trump just announced, oh boy, this is a biggie, we have to get to this one, Mudwistle, thank you. I'm going to actually, I'm going to go to all the super chats, I promise, before the end here, but, oh my gosh, like Donald Trump never, never, never a dull moment. It's a Friday, but that's not going to stop him on the news cycle. Let me see if I can bring this story up for you guys, because you know how he got rid of all of the people in Jack Smith's office the other day? We get new news for you.

Here we go. Trump administration right now, just breaking fresh, hot off the presses here. The Trump administration is moving to fire FBI agents involved in investigations of Donald Trump. This is according actually to the AP. This is not an announcement from the administration. is an AP source story. Trump administration officials are moving to fire. FBI agents engaged in investigations involving President Donald Trump in the coming days.

Two people familiar with the plan said on Friday, it's not clear how many agents might be effective, but officials acting at the direction of the administration were working to identify individual agents who could be terminated and said the people who insist on anonymity because they were private conversations. Okay, I don't have a problem with it. I really don't because you know what? He's in charge now. He's the chief executive officer.

He's got to have people who are a thousand percent on his team. And if you're not on his team, then it's not really going to work. And you're going to have all this friction in the government. It's like the military, right? Everybody buys in. What did Pete Hegg says say? Like, diversity is not our greatest strength. The unity is.

You want everybody on the same page. Now, I will tell you this. I mean, you want to talk diversity. We can talk some real diversity. What do you think Tulsi Gabbard is? She used to be a Democrat. RFK2. I mean, she used to be a Democrat.

And she actually doesn't see. I have a lot of the people in the status quo on a lot of different issues. So that's interesting, but it's not somebody who was trying to take him down. I mean, these people really and truly wanted to take him down. And we told you, did we not, right here on this show, that this administration would be a very different Trump administration than anything you could ever imagine because they have the experience of having been there before.

Ben there, done that, and they know what people are capable of. Russia, Russia, Russia, being one example, right? All of that stuff bought and paid for by Hillary Clinton's campaign, and yet we had to deal with that for so long. I mean, just unbelievable. Think about it. I mean, they were going after Carter Page. Why are tapping his phone in Trump Tower during the election because they wanted to get the goods on Trump? And they said they had the FISA warrant to do it because they had this dossier, which was all fake. And it was bought and paid for by Hillary Clinton's team. Visa that, what was it, Perkins Coy law firm in D.C. that went out and contracted Fusion GPS, that went out and contracted Christopher Steele, that went out and contracted the ex,

sort of, I think, the guy had some affiliation. He was like an FBI informant, but they actually believed he was a spy for Russia on top of it all? I mean, you can't make it up. Who's on first? This was sketchy, sketchy stuff. And so Donald Trump's like, yeah, I'm not doing that again. You guys are gone. I'm with him. I'm with him. Get rid of the bad ones and move on.

Oh, yes, I gave a plug for GCU. There it is again. You know what? RFK Jr., he's going to revolutionize things too. I mean, we talk about all the changes coming. Here's make America healthy again. Let's get the big dollars out of our health policy. That kind of makes sense.

I'm going to make America healthier than other countries in the world right now. guarantee do what every other major country does? It's a simple question. And by the way, Bernie, the problem of corruption is not just in the federal agency. It's in Congress, too. Almost all the members of this panel are accepting, including yourself,

are accepting millions of dollars from the pharmaceutical industry. Oh, no, no, no, no, no. And protecting their interests. Oh, I thought that that would come, no, no, no. I ran for president like you. I got millions and millions of contributions.

They did not come from the executives, not one nickel of pack money from the pharmaceutical injury. In 2020, in 2020, you were the single largest because I had four contributions from workers all over this country. Workers, not a nickel from corporate tax. Bernie was a single largest except for pharmaceutical dollars. No, from workers. in the industry.

1.5 million. Yeah, out of 200 million. All right. But you have not answered. Last question. I love that clip. He's like, wait. Oh, oops.

Oh, yeah. Yeah, I did take that money. I mean, how'd you get all those houses? Books. Books. Yeah, what a racket. I mean, from a socialist, none the other. It's crazy. Hey, Kriky.

Thank you so much for your generosity. did I apply for a press pass at the White House? Do you know they had 100,000 that came through? I'm thinking about at least getting a pool press pass. And I think that, by the way, yes, we got to get the president on the show. I think he would do that. And I will extend that opportunity in the very near future because there is so much. There is so much there. I don't live in D.C. so it's a little bit challenging, but we're talking about it. You know, maybe we get somebody in there. Helicopters can change, of course, quickly. Mudwistle is right. Thank you for your generosity, mudwistle.

Look, I suspect that there were just a whole host of things that went really, really wrong. And my gut instinct on it is that this was really just a case of utter incompetency across the board. And my gut instinct is actually the same as Donald Trump's. Like I said to you, he's like a man of action. So I said to some close friends, like within minutes of this. happening. Gosh, I hope this, it wasn't a case of this. But, you know, they just are understaffed and incompetent because they've kind of had their head up there, you know what, for however long, since the Obama years. And I think Donald Trump is like the same way, right? Instead of waiting,

you know, the 48 hours or maybe seven days to say, okay, this is the problem. He just went straight for it. And he wants change. He's impatient in that he does not suffer for us gladly. And he wants to make this far, far better, a situation for all of us, which is what we voted for, right? And make America great again. And part of that is the health industry, too. I mean, the health industry, we need lower drug prices. It's another one of his sort of pet projects that he's passionate about. And it's why if RFK Jr. gets in there, I think you're going to start to see some changes. In fact, RFK Jr. looks to me, and I'm basing this off of some of the data I see coming forward on polymarket where people are actually like betting on who they're going to, well, who's going to win

or who's going to actually get appointed. But he's going to be there. And given that he's there, Donald Trump's there, we really do have a shot, right, at making America great again, making America healthy again. And that includes price competition within the pharmaceutical industry. And I say this because, look, Big Pharma, we know what Big Pharma does. Big Pharma's looking out for Big Pharma. And they make sure that they get the very, very, you know, best price they can. Now, you know, there's nothing wrong with that, right? I'm a free market capitalist. But when you start actually lobbying members of Congress, as we just saw, right, Bernie getting all that money, when you start lobbying money to Congress and you're spending

all this when you actually could be actually spending on lowering drug prices, then I think you start to have some really perverse incentives. So Big Pharma is setting the price of drugs. Already this year, they've raised more than the price on more than $570.7.7.7.000. of them. They've got these anti-competitive practices which are blocking competition. And so this needs to change. I mean, this is what he's there to do. And hopefully he gets this done. Conservatives for lower healthcare costs is out there. I should just point this out, warning that big pharma, of course, is no friend to the Trump agenda or the pocketbooks of the American people. They oppose solutions to lower drug prices in President Trump's first term.

and they're after a huge money grab at the expense of everyone else, now by seeking more government intervention in the private market. So I just want to give a plug for all those folks at conservatives for lower health care because they're trying to combat this. And you can get more information today at pharma windfall.com. So keep in mind, like, Congress can do something about this. They can stop big pharma if they want to. That means not taking the lobbying dollars.

So call your Congresspeople. Let them know that you care, that you're following this, and go look at pharma windfall.com today. Terrors for one, tariffs for all, Mexico. China, watch out. Donald Trump's coming for you. Did you see the latest and greatest? He says, going forward. It's starting this weekend, 25% tariffs on everything coming in from Canada and Mexico,

because, you know, we don't really need what's coming from Canada and Mexico. Oh, Justin Trudeau. Justin Trudeau is still there? Have they not put his replacement in yet? Anyway, he's freaking out. We're showing the new American administration that they have a strong partner in Canada when it comes to upholding border security, all while simultaneously underscoring that we won't back down, that if tariffs are implemented against Canada, we will respond.

We won't relent until tariffs are removed, and of course, everything is on the table. Everything is on the table. Well, you know, this journalist over at PBS, PBS, which, which is now being investigated by the FCC. She's kind of worked up about all this. I mean, Mexico, what are they going to do? Remember her? Mexico cannot cope.

Not sure any country can, but Mexico can't cope with like a sudden influx of millions of people. I mean, as much as she wants to embrace them to use her word when they come back and make them feel welcome. It all sounds very nice when you're listening to it, but the reality of that is just completely unsustainable. A lot of these people have lived in the U.S. for decades. They have lives there. families. They're good standing citizens. So they're not in a position to just be deported and say like, oh, okay, well, I'm just going to say, you know what? Hey, Mexico, you're not going to take them back or this is going to be so bad for Mexico? It doesn't

matter. You know, it's really going to be bad for Mexico? 25% tariffs. So Mexico, you may want to think about actually securing your border. You might want to make sure that you're taking all those people back. You might actually want to think this one through because 25% tariffs. You know what? actually don't need anything that you're sending. I'm rack of my brain trying to think this one through. Is there anything really, really of value that you're sending? Not really, right? Cheap Mexican T-shirts and, you know, I'm oversimplifying right now. But, you know, if it were Taiwan and it were semiconductors, we might be having a different conversation. But this is Mexico and Canada. Now, Canada is a little more interesting because they have some stuff that probably we want and need, energy being one of

them. So we'll see how this shakes out, but I'll tell you this, he's serious. And this is refreshing because nobody's been serious about any of this stuff for way too long. It's like government's been operating in sort of this mindless space, right? Just kind of chugging along, doing what it always does. And all of a sudden, this guy comes in, he's like, boom, boom, boom, boom, all of a sudden lots of things happening. So countries around the world paying attention as these tariffs, go into action beginning this weekend. If you're wondering about how to invest around this, Rob and I have written extensively on this at 76 Research. We do have model portfolios, by the way, also there that you should check out. You can get the 76 report with code word dollar.

You can also go look at those model portfolios with 10 to 15 stocks in each one of them, 76 Research.com. My company I created with him. It's really, it's important. I'm going to get on my soapbox about that. It's really, really important to invest in the value of compound interest, and I won't bore you and turn into Susie Orman or something. But I'm just going to say, like, you want to actually be investing for the future and especially now, because there's a lot of good stuff coming. I mean, I am very, very happy about the future and all that's to come. And, you know, you have corporate America suddenly saying, hey, you know what? This guy makes sense. This actually is a, you know, policy that's important, and then I can relate to. Meta, just coming out.

right now to reincorporate, wow, in Texas or another state and get out of Delaware all together. This is huge, guys, okay? So Delaware has always been the place where everybody incorporates, like it's just what you do, and Delaware law, business law governs everything. But, you know, it's expensive and maybe the law is not. working as fast and keeping up with the changes. I'm thinking crypto, for example, that are happening in Texas. I mean, Texas has got it going on. First of all, no income tax. So I love them for that. I also love just sort of the person, everybody I knew from Texas is just fantastic. So I have a lot of affinity for Texas in that sense. But also, you know, the sense of independence

that they have down there. And you're seeing all these tech companies flock to Texas because that's where the innovation is coming from now. And you even have a stock exchange. being set up in Texas, the Texas Stock Exchange, where I have a feeling they're actually going to be using crypto technology for some of the derivative instruments, et cetera. One of the other things that they were doing at the Texas Stock Exchange was they were getting rid of all the DEI requirements that they were trying to put in at the NASDAQ and the NYSE. Listen, Texas is happening. Texas, Florida, we need to move the Olympics for goodness sakes.

You can't have the Olympics in L.A., right, with the fires and Gavin Newsom, Texas, I'm thinking, Florida, too. There's a lot of good stuff happening there, and meta recognizes it. The business community gets it, and so you're going to see some changes unlike anything you've seen ever. Like, this is major. This is massive, and this is so damn exciting. It really is. But my show's getting longer and longer. You know why?

There's that much news. There is that much news. This administration is all about, boom, action, moving, and I don't foresee it stopping like any time soon. I think it's just going to keep on coming. And I wanted to get to some of these other super chats because I saw them flying by on the screen. And I just want to thank you all for being here. And so many people that are team members, like Mike Costa, a team member here who's here almost every day, it's great to see you. And Leslie, who's been here from the very, very beginning, Dom Baca, David Lorenzo, great to see you. Thank you for.

your kind comments. I really do appreciate that. But it's really, it's, it's, it's something, right? Like, from the media to the financial community. You think about all the crypto coming into action. You think about all these networks kind of getting just completely reinvented. I mean, all those stars, so to speak, going away, whether it's Chuck Todd or Jim Acosta, and even what we're doing here, becoming bigger. I got to tell you. you know that I actually, I actually have more people watching my shows on YouTube than I had when I was at Fox Business, which is kind of incredible. Spirit-filled. I don't think I could ever change my hair color, but thank you for the suggestion. I think I know where you were going with that, because I think that I know where that came up. Anyway, it is great. Peace of my mind, is it true? We've got 3,500. plus likes and still counting, this is amazing, right? Like, it's a live show, by the way.

I'm a big believer in live. Big, big, big believer in live because, well, you know, I'm kind of a perfectionist, so I'd be editing all day long if it wasn't for live. And then I think there's, again, an authenticity to this that you just can't get when you're doing something that's taped and scripted. And, you know, I tried it.

I actually have a prompter in this room. and I was like, this is ridiculous. Like I'm going to write a whole script, and then I'm going to follow along with a prompter. Like, this is just, it's actually too time-consuming. It's kind of annoying, and I know what I want to say. And then sometimes I don't. Like sometimes, you know, you guys say something in these chats,

and I look at it, and it inspires me, and we go from there. So, listen, I don't believe in scripted shows. I think that there's a new dawn effectively here, and everything's changing, and we, collectively will benefit from that as a society and certainly me as a podcaster and as a streamer. So thank you again. And La Covelloso, thank you for your generosity, pointing out that he thinks that helicopter had a navigation instrument malfunction.

It's possible. I mean, because why on earth did the helicopter go straight into? The other thing that people are talking about, I should just flag, is that they think that it might even have been a night vision. goggle issue. In other words, that people couldn't really see that well. And so that's a possibility, too. We don't know, right? Like, we don't know all the answers. And so that's why people are angry at Donald Trump for mentioning DEI. But regardless of whether it was DEI or not, I'm telling you, DEI is an issue. And we've got to change that. We've got to get away from that.

It's really important. Oh, Leslie, you like that it's in Texas, right? Leslie's a big Texas Texan fan. So we'll see. Yeah, listen, Texas, Texas gets it. So, it's exciting and we have more coming to you this weekend, so make sure you tune into the show to the channel. If you haven't subscribed, do me that favor, subscribe to the channel. And we got more coming your way. Like, this is Trump, right? So, like, the news never stops.

And I'm here for all of it right alongside you. I'll see you soon.