The Trish Regan Show - NEW: Trump’s Legal Showdown with Leticia James HEATS UP! “Drop Case, Or Else…!”

Episode Date: December 4, 2024

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Letitia James, watch out. New information coming into us right now that Trump means business. His legal team is out ready for a showdown here with none other than Leticia James, the Attorney General of the state of New York, that tried to actually have him pay nearly half a billion dollars for, well, let's just say, some pretty crazy charges. We're going to get into all of this, in fact, what they're doing right now to fire back. all this as, well, you know, who's firing back himself, one Pete Hegseth. Pete Hegseth, one of my former colleagues over at Fox News, doesn't appreciate the move to undermine his

opportunity to be defense secretary. We're going to get into him and what he's doing to fire back against the media establishment that really has their knives out. By the way, Ron DeSantis, who actually, who actually doesn't quite have the same kind of, you know, issues going on in the closet, so to speak. out, ready, willing, and able to take the gig right away from Pete to Santa's. So, a little trouble heeding up there. Plus, we get to talk about this horrible situation in New York, as well as what's going on with the United Health situation. I mean, just awful, awful, awful. I'm like, what country are we in? We're like this kind of thing can happen in broad daylight. And, and, ladies and

gentlemen, this Supreme Court thing with Tennessee and can kids have these gender reassignment surgeries? I mean, it's amazing that it had to get all the way to the Supreme Court, but I'm telling you, it's a conservative court and wait until you hear Justice Alito just taking these people down. Welcome to the program. It is very good to have you. I'm Trish Regents, the Trish Regan show. We begin today on news that the Trump administration is quite serious about just exactly making sure that Letitia James goes away and goes away for good in terms of her case that she is trying to still present. I mean, it's amazing. It's actually incredible that the case hasn't already been thrown out by the Court of Appeals. I think they're kind of waiting

to see if Leticia will gracefully go away herself. Well, Trump doesn't want to wait around for anyone. Nope, his legal team is out with this. Let me share with you. Well, first of all, let me share this with you. I mean, think about what exactly went to. down in September 23 before the non-jury trial began. And Gorin, this is the judge that presided over this, with Letitia James bringing forward all these charges. They decided that somehow he was deceiving banks, insurers, and others, by overvaluing his assets and exaggerating his net worth on paperwork used in making deals

and securing financing. Huh. Those are some pretty serious charges, right? Very, very serious charges. Well, Donald Trump's like, okay, first of all, everybody made money. Deutsche Bank made like 100. million dollars on the deal and who is Letitia James to decide how much my property is actually worth. Well, he just came out with this one.

A big one. Trump demanding that New York's A.G. Latisha James dropped civil fraud case for the greater good of the country, right? It is for the greater good of the country. I mean, everybody else has dropped their case. Why is this woman still hanging on for dear life? I will not fear Donald Trump. I have steel in my backbone.

And the reality is I will not allow this. a person, Donald Trump, who unfortunately is a broken man to get in the way of progress and to separate. Well, he's president now, Letitia. I realize you said that before he actually won. You did everything you could to try and make sure that he either couldn't run, wouldn't win, or somehow wound up bankrupt. I mean, think of that, guys.

That's what's so amazing here. Remember this? Remember when she was actually trying to go to his properties? if he didn't have the money, if he didn't have the nearly $500 million, half a billion dollars they were trying to charge him, she was going to go confiscate his properties? Four days after a judge ordered Donald Trump to pay $355 million for a decade of fraud. New York Attorney General Leticia James says she's prepared to do everything she can

to make sure the former president pays his fine, including she told us, seizing the buildings that bear his name. If he does not have funds to pay off the judgment, then we will seek judgment enforcement mechanisms in court. And we will ask the judge to seize his assets. And you wonder why he won, okay? Like, Democrats, think about it. Think about what you did. Think about how disgusted the American people were with all of these cases, one after another.

Oh, my gosh. I mean, do you remember Maxine Waters talking about how great it was that he was? We had all these African, I mean, I hate to make this about race, but she's the one saying this, right? All these black women going after Donald Trump, now they keep coming back empty-handed. Letitia is trying to be the holdout here. Well, Trump's not having it. Here's a vaccine back in the day. It's so important for us to fight for education because when we do that, we can aspire to careers

that will help change what goes on in this country and have a real democracy. I want to give you an example of it. Right now, as Trump is on trial, you have Letitia James in New York, you have Fannie Willis in Georgia, and you have Tanya Chunkin, who is a judge, who all have a role to play now, prosecutors and judges. And if we're ever to change the criminal justice system and get some justice, we've got to be in there. Okay. Well, you were in there and it kind of failed, shall we just say. Because you know what? You can't, you can't go after someone just because you don't like him. Or just because he's your political enemy. That's not going to fly. They didn't come up with anything in any of these cases. And so Letitia's hanging on for dear life, even though Donald Trump is demanding this go away. Let me share with you excerpts from the letter here. Guys, here we go. The lawyer's right. The lawyer's writing that, you know, first of all, this was nuts because the valuation decisions that they came to were completely subjective. I mean, think about it. Real estate is totally subjective.

Until the thing actually trades, you don't really understand or know what it's worth, do you? Do you want Letitia James or the Attorney General for your state deciding what something's worth? I mean, in her case, it was really nuts because she was trying to say this was somewhere around $18 million from Mar-a-Laga. I'll tell you, I'll buy it if it was $18 million bucks. Anyway, he's like, no, no, no, it's worth $1.2 billion. You know, what's interesting is that it's debt-free and it generates income. So it was generating income of $56.9 million in revenue. They said in the last year alone, $52.3 million in revenue the year before.

Well, that's kind of a big deal. If you figure that it's going to trade it somewhere around 10 times revenue, I don't know where you're coming up with $18 million. I mean, if it's making $57 million and you want to trade the thing for $18, I mean, hey, maybe this is how. Like, does she pick up a few assets along the way? I mean, how is it that Leticia James guys is worth some reported. This is unconfirmed, but she's worth a reported $15 million,

but it makes like $200 grand a year in her job. I mean, those must have been some really good investments. I don't know if she can really invest, given that she doesn't understand the valuation of a property. In other words, if it's making that much, you shouldn't be willing to sell it for $18 million. Unbelievable. So that was one of the points that the lawyers just revealed.

Of course, we knew that, we know that. And they also pointed to this, this supremacy clause, which is that the supremacy clause prevents state prosecutors from proceeding against any sitting president in any way. So there you go. Letitia, you're out of luck. Sorry, honey. Case closed.

He's going to be the president. You know, you ought to just do the decent thing and step aside. And then they, you know, they cite this. In other words, the president is in charge. The president is in charge. One of the things I liked about this letter from the Trump attorney was, and this is Mr. Sauer, how he sort of presented it at the end, and he kind of made this historical analysis saying, you know what? Remember George Washington who warned against the alternate domination of one faction over another? Sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most hoarse.

enormities. I mean, what an interesting way of summing this up, right? Because he's saying, and he also goes to Lincoln. At a time of such division, President Abraham Lincoln issued his Thanksgiving proclamation, establishing the national holiday that we now celebrate, this was sent on around Thanksgiving, and he's saying that because, you know, we need to get rid of these bitter divisions, bitter divisions, that the blessings of liberty could be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged as one heart and one voice by the whole American people. Okay? So Leticia get with the program. And yet you know she's not willing to. She already said as much. And lastly, I congratulate the president-elect Donald Trump.

And if possible, we will work with his administration. but we will not compromise our values or our integrity or our principles. We did not expect this result, but we are prepared to respond to this result. And my office has been preparing for several months because we've been here before. We faced this challenge before, and we use the rule of law to fight back. and we are prepared to fight back once again. Because as the Attorney General of this great state is my job to protect and defend the rights of New Yorkers and the rule of law. And I will not shrink from that responsibility.

You know what? You may not have a choice, lady. You just may not have a choice. for one thing. The Court of Appeals had no use for your case. Remember, remember what they said. May it please the court, Judith Bale, for the New York Attorney General's Office. All of the defendants repeatedly violated. Ms. Bail, can you identify any previous case which the Attorney General sued under Executive Law 6312 to upset a private business transaction that was between equally sophisticated partners with the supposed victim had the

ability and legal obligation to discover the allegedly misrepresented matters by conducting its own due diligence, where the supposed wrongdoer advised the supposed victim through written disclaimers to conduct its own due diligence and to draw its own conclusions, where the alleged misrepresentation almost entirely concerned inherently subjective valuations of properties and businesses. Yes. And where the victim never complained about any fraud in the transaction losses from it because I've gone through the cases which you've cited and all of them always involved the consumer protection aspect it involved protection of the market and I want to add to his question and little to no impact on the public marketplace because you know let me put a little salt in the wound there way to go okay so these are the justices on the Court of Appeals that were listening to that lawyer

Judith Vale tried to argue the case that Leticia was putting forward, and they were having no part of it, right? And it just gets back to why are we sitting here at the 11th hour as he prepares to go to the Oval Office and to be inaugurated? Why are we sitting here waiting around seeing if Letitia James is going to drop these charges or the Court of Appeals is going to throw it out? I mean, shouldn't she do the right thing? She doesn't have the legal precedent here to be able to move forward, not to mention the whole thing was a complete sham. don't even get me started. This one, this one, I'm telling you guys, this one annoyed me more than any, because, you know, I've been the business reporter

in my whole career, so this was just disgusting what they did. The idea that somehow Latisha James is going to get in the middle of Deutsche Bank and the person they're lending to, in this case Donald Trump, is bonkers, okay, completely bonkers, and frightening and scary,

and they talk about fascism. Look at what they just did. Anyway, I love this, Mike Davis, who's another one of the Trump attorneys, making it very clear that you know what, Letitia, honey, your day has come and gone. It's over, hon. Bye-bye. And you know what?

We can do a lot. If we have to, we will. Let me just say this to Big Tish James, the New York Attorney General. I dare you. I dare you to try to continue your lawfare against President Trump in his second term. Because listen here, sweetheart. We're not messing around this time. And we will put your fat ass in prison.

for conspiracy against rights. And I promise you that. So think long and hard before you want to violate President Trump's constitutional rights or any other Americans constitutional rights. We, it's not going to happen again. We've been warning people on the show, Mike. This isn't the same Trump administration. Stop messing around. Don't rig elections. Don't illegally vote. Don't try the funny business because we know the team this time and they are not effing around. It's true. You know, actually, I I want to just echo that. So the difference between the first Trump administration and this Trump administration is that

he's been there, done that, seen that. And you know what, he tried to play Mr. Nice Guy. I'm going to tell you guys something. For those of you, I see so many familiar faces here. Ian, welcome back. It's a peace of my mind. Welcome back. Don.

Thank you. Don's like 80% of you don't like, Trish. Make sure that you like if you're watching right now. Look, I mean, I'm going to just tell you that the difference between the previous Trump administration and this Trump administration. administration is that he played nice. He tried to be nice. He told me personally. I was like, you know, Mr. President, why didn't you go after Hillary? Like, why didn't you actually make anything of that with her servers? And he said, Trish, you know, like, we're still the United States of America.

I don't want to have to do that. Like, I don't want to have to go after someone after, you know. Her husband was the president. She was a candidate for the presidency. I don't want to do that. He meant it. when he told me that. And what did they do to him? Okay, what did they do to him, ladies and gentlemen, two federal cases, plus Fannie, plus Letitia, plus Alvin Bragg, I mean, you know, he's been there, done that, seen that.

He doesn't want that, not only to not happen to him, but to anyone, either side. Let's be very clear, if one side is totally in charge and they can go after you legally for everything, they can join bankrupt you, then what kind of country do you have left? Nothing. So it's actually not just vindication, it's not retribution, this is something much larger.

You've got to make sure that this does not happen again to anyone. They actually have to have real reasons to be going after you legally. Not made up stuff where they somehow believe the valuation on your property is like a fraction of what it should be and how dare you get alone? Because you're lying if you think that it's worth this one.

Letitia, the Attorney General of the state of New York says it's worth that. And she's going to try and manipulate and use the law. I've shown you a bunch from that case. And I encourage you to go back and look at the Lawfare playlist on the Trish Regan channel because I've shown you, I mean, we had like seven or eight clips. I think I watched the entire thing and I just divided it up into little clips to show you. But you can see how the justices are showing. sort of freaked out that she went that far out over her skis, and they need to do something

to prevent AGs from doing this in the future. But this is a team now that's coming in and they mean business. Speaking of courtrooms, news today on the Tennessee transgender case, it looks increasingly as though we might see the Supreme Court of the United States, which is predominantly conservative, as you well know, be ready to endorse the Tennessee law that would ban gender affirming care for minors, all right, kids. Gender affirming care means, you know, you're playing with hormones, and in some cases, I'm going to show you an excerpt from a young woman who actually lost her breasts as a result of this gender affirming care. She went through surgery, and she'll never be able to breastfeed a child. She's been on the show. I've gotten. I've gotten,

to know her, that her story would break your heart. I mean, really, truly break your heart. And so Tennessee is saying, hey, we should be able to make a decision that we're not going to allow these surgeries on kids. I mean, kids can't smoke. Kids can't drink. Why would a kid be able to undergo some massive surgery? I mean, this doesn't seem like it's that far out there. And yet you should hear the left as they go on and on. and on and on about this. I'm going to play some things from the courtroom. But, you know, here's somebody on CNN who's trying to argue that, you know, at two years old, basically, you should be able to make these decisions and have some kind of gender-affirming care

because you know as young as two what you are. I mean, this is kind of wild. Say, nobody has to provide this medication to adolescents. These are not doctors being forced to provide this medication. These are doctors who are, wanting to treat their patients in the best way that they know how, based on the best available evidence to us. And these are young people who may have known since they were two years old, exactly who they are, who suffered for six, seven years before they had any relief. And what's happening here, it's not the kids who are consenting to this treatment. It's the parents who are consenting to the treatment.

And as a parent, I would say, when our children are suffering, we are suffering. And these are parents who love their children, who are listening to the advice of their doctors of the mainstream medical community and doing what's right for their kids. and the state of Tennessee has displaced their judgment. Okay. So it looks like the state of Tennessee is probably going to be able to get in front of this in some way to prevent doctors from moving forward with these surgeries that, by the way, you can't undo, okay? Like, it's done at that point.

I mean, if you want to do that, can you not wait until you're 21 years old? Justice Samuel Alito just slammed the Biden team lawyer that was trying to argue this. I want you to hear an excerpt from the courtroom. Now, just remember, one of the reasons you see these sketches is because you can't have any cameras in the courtroom, so we just have to listen in. A question about the state of medical evidence at the present time. In your petition, you made a sweeping statement, which I will quote, overwhelming evidence, establishes that the appropriate gender-affirming treatment with puberty blockers and hormones directly and substantially improves the physical psychological well-being of transgender adolescents with gender dysphoria.

That was in November 2023. Now, even before then, the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare wrote the following. They currently assess, quote, that the risks of puberty blockers and gender-affirming treatment are likely to outweigh the expected benefits of these treatments, which is directly contrary to the sweeping statement in your petition. After the filing of your petition, of course, we saw the release of the CAS report in the United Kingdom, which found a complete lack of high-quality evidence. showing that the benefits of the treatments in question here outweigh the risks. And so I wonder if you would like to stand by the statement that you made in your petition, or if you think it would now be appropriate to modify that and withdraw the statement that there is overwhelming evidence establishing that these treatments have benefits that greatly outweigh the risks on the

dangers. I, of course, acknowledge Justice Alito, that there is a lot of debate happening here and abroad about the proper model of delivery of this care and exactly when adolescents should receive it and how to identify the adolescents for whom it would be helpful. But I stand by that there is Okay, she's a fast talker. Elizabeth, what is her name? Begins of the P. Anyway, Elizabeth is arguing the case saying, you know what, parents ought to be able to make these decisions with the doctors. I mean, actually, if you really want to get technical, parents can't always make those decisions with the doctors because Joe Biden put into place,

at least for those that are 12 years old and above, that you no longer need any kind of parental supervision on any of this. Seriously, that that information, that medical information, is guarded by that 12-year-old. I mean, wow. Okay, so Sotomayor is trying to say, well, gee, you know what? Like maybe parents and kids ought to be able to do this. to her.

Cannot eliminate the risk of detransitioners. So it becomes a pure exercise of weighing benefits versus risk. And the question of how many minors have to have their bodies irreparably harmed for unproven benefits is one that is best left. I'm sorry, counselor. Every medical treatment has a risk. Even taking aspirin. There is always going to be a percentage of the population on the,

or any medical treatment that's going to suffer a harm. So the question in my mind is not, do policymakers decide whether one person's life is more valuable than the millions of others who get relief from this treatment? The question is, can you stop one sex from the other? They're kids, and she's trying to say that gender reassignment, surgery, or puberty, hormone treatments are like aspirin? She's comparing it to aspirin.

Again, I go back to, you wonder why they lost. You wonder why they lost. I mean, these are kids. Shame on you, Justice Sotomayor. Shame on you. Is there no appreciation? Honestly, for human life? Then you get catangely brown, this Jackson Brown, this woman.

Oh my gosh, guys, she's trying to summon. somehow say, and this is a leap, so bear with me, I'm not going to do it justice. She's somehow trying to make this legal argument that if you don't allow gender-affirming care to kids, that somehow the same is not allowing an interracial marriage. I kid you not. Being drawn by the statute. That was sort of like the starting point. The question was whether it was discriminatory because it applied to both races and it

wasn't necessarily invidious or whatever. But, you know, as I read the statute here, excuse me, the case here, you know, the court starts off by saying that Virginia is now one of 16 states which prohibit and punish marriages on the basis of racial classifications. And when you look at the structure of that law, it looks in terms of, you know, you can't do something that is inconsistent with your own characteristics. It's sort of the same thing. So it's interesting to me that we now have this different argument. And I wonder whether Virginia could have gotten away. with what they did here by just making a classification argument the way that Tennessee is in this case. Yes, I think that's exactly right that there is absolutely a parallel between any law that says you can't act inconsistent with a protected characteristic and in all other contexts. Oh, my goodness. So you understand where the left is coming from. No, you probably don't understand. I mean, I don't understand where they're coming from. To me, this is pretty simple stuff.

often you want to protect the kids. And oftentimes a child doesn't really understand. They may be going through something else entirely. And you got some wacko psychiatrist and doctor that want to put this label on it, they're transgender, and suddenly they're going to wind up getting all kinds of surgery. I want to go to Chloe Cole because she's been on the show. Some of you have seen her on this show.

And she was out basically on Fox today saying this, is nuts. And she's testified before Congress. She's made a big cause of this. So she was born a girl. And because she was struggling with some things that girls often struggle with when they're around 12 or 13 and they think, gee, I wish I didn't have to go through this. And suddenly they told her, well, you don't have to. And you know what? You can just do this surgery and it'll all be better. And she said, the thing is, is like it did the surgery and it wasn't better. I realized it was worse. And these are things that can't be reversed now. I'll never be like. to breastfeed a child, she said. So listen to her here.

Children, they can't consent the things like sex or buying alcohol or cigarettes. They can't vote. They can't enter into legally abiding contracts under the age of 18. So to allow them to make a decision that will affect not only the entire course of the development physically, psychologically, and reproductively is completely ridiculous. Ridiculous. Ridiculous. I mean, when you look at some of the exit polling data from this whole election, what you actually see is that people were so over ridiculousness. You actually see that providing gender affirming care for prisoners that were in prisons,

that Kamala's all happy to do with your taxpayer dollars, like, people really didn't like that. Then you talk about kids, they're really not going to like that. All right, so, okay, now the Supreme Court has to weigh in, and what I think you're going to come back with, is that the power is going to go to the state. And if the state decides we're not going to do this, we're not going to allow these operations on kids, then guess what, you're going to have to go to another state

because the state is going to have that power. I want to get to the news of Pete Hegsteth momentarily, but first, a quick word from one of our great sponsors here on the Trish Regan show, and that would be Balance and Nature. Our friends over at Balance and Nature, This is terrific. I take my fruits and veggies every single day. And you know what? Like it's, it's tough in the month of December, right? There's all those yummy chocolates everywhere because it's Christmas time. And there's lots of Christmas parties. And it's hard to, you know, I call it the diet crash. It's like hard to stay totally, you know, healthy, right? I'm going to say like not eat too many sweets, but then also make sure to eat the good stuff, the healthy stuff. And so I know that like, let me suffer if I take my fruits and veggies, I'm okay. I'm okay, right? So that's one of the reasons I love that. I love. balance in nature. Balance and nature.com. That's where you need to go. Type in code word

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at defense. And it's such a significant fight that Ron DeSantis is now looking as though he's in the lead. In fact, if you go to the Wall Street Journal, the front page of the Wall Street Journal, this is the headline. Trump is mulling, replacing Pete Hegseth with Florida governor, Ron DeSantis. So, Pete is trying to fight. back against this. So he's going, he's making the rounds on Capitol Hill, he's talking to all the senators, he's out talking to the press. Here he is, he's being asked about some new charges that just came forward. Pretty ugly stuff, right? We knew about the he said she said thing at some conference out in California. I'm not going to get into all the details, but it was a he said, she said,

there was a police report. It's all pretty ugly, but he's like, no, no, no, this didn't happen the way it was presented. But now there's other stuff. There's other stuff. There's other stuff coming out. And they're pretty, pretty ugly accusations. And it's all sort of behind the scenes. Like there's no necessary proof of anything. But they're out for the attack. Listen to this report on MSNBC. Three current seven former Fox employees telling NBC News, Pete Higgs, would drink in ways that concerned his colleagues. Two said he smelled of alcohol before going on the air as a co-host of Fox and Friends weekend more than a dozen times. NBC News reports.

Three current employees said his drinking remained a concern up until Trump announced him as his choice to run the Pentagon, at which point Hagseth left Fox. For the sake of national security, I really hope he has stopped drinking. One of the former Fox employees said he should not be Secretary of Defense. Another former Fox employee said his drinking should be disqualifying, end quote. This follows a report from the New Yorker earlier this week that detailed accusations of impropriety and drunkenness that led to Higgs' ouster from two top veterans groups nearly a decade ago. Spokesperson for the Trump transition tells NBC News,

these disgusting allegations are completely unfounded and false, and anyone peddling these defamatory lies to score political cheap shots is sickening. As a decorated combat veteran, Pete has never done anything to jeopardize that, and he's treating his nomination as the most important deployment of his life. Hags' lawyer referred NBC to the Trump team statement, and Fox News did not respond to requests for comments. So he's in kind of a tough spot right about now. But he's a fighter, and he wants that to be known that he's a fighter.

So again, he's on Capitol Hill, trying to meet with Senators, trying to muster up support, although some of them have come forward and said, wait a second, like we knew about the one thing, but then there's this and then there's that. And it's becoming almost just this barrage of news that he's having a hard time fighting back against. he wants to he's willing and able listen you've had any conversations

the president left I spoke to the president like this morning he said keep going keep fighting behind you all the way so you're in this all the way why would I back down I'm always gonna fighter I'm here for the more fighters this person is not withdrawing your name for consideration

just to be clear meeting all day of seven Okay, so he's got all those meetings going on. He's trying really hard. In the meantime, the trains are, you know, continuing to roll forward, right? And so they're trying to figure out, well, if Pete isn't going to be able to make it. If he's not going to get through, who are we going to get? And the name they keep coming back to is an interesting name. Ron DeSantis, governor of Florida, super anti-woke, and, by the way, a former

member of Jack, which is the legal military arm. It was, you know, he was in Fallujah. He, he, like Pete, was actually, I mean, I think Pete was in more full-on combat, but, you know, he was a lawyer in the military. And he served his time, and there are a lot of people that like the idea of his military background, sort of his level-headedness, the fact that he's totally vetted, except, you know, like, there is this little problem. He ran against Trump, and in running against Trump said a whole lot of,

of bad things against Trump. And, well, you know, the base isn't too enthusiastic about him, shall we say, because of that. He's a backstabber, people say. Trump supporters are melting down. This is from Raw Story over the potential idea that Ron DeSantis might come in as defense secretary. In the meantime, you had the media circling and circling and circling and circling and circling. I mean, you saw the clip I just played from MSNBC. You had the view going on and on about him the other day, so much so that Sunny Austin had to read one of her famous legal notes. I mean, she's supposed to be a lawyer, for goodness sakes. Why does she have to keep reading these little legal notes?

Because otherwise, you know, they risk getting sued because you can't just come out and say things about somebody. They're all a whole bunch of rumor and allegations and allegedly, you know, completely untrue. And yet here we are. I see you. I see you over there. I have a very quick statement.

It's not going to be that quick. Pete Hedgef has denied any wrongdoing. His lawyer said he paid the woman in 2023 to head off the threat of a baseless lawsuit. No charges were ever brought. You rushed me for that. We'll be right back. Okay. So there's the police report out in California that was made public with a woman accusing him with some pretty horrible stuff, right?

She's accusing him of rape, and he's saying he didn't do that. Again, it's this tricky situation. And then on top of it, you have what MSNBC is reporting, that there are former, look, I worked with the guy. I live way out away from the city, so I don't engage in the social life, shall we say, as the kids do. And so I certainly never saw that. I co-hosted the show with him on the weekend at times.

I never saw that. He really stuck me always as a pretty great guy. He liked to marry a lot, right, clearly. I mean, he's on his third wife, and there's a lot of kids. but what these allegations now are that they're coming forward with are pretty pretty suspect I don't think anybody's on the record which is which is tricky right so people aren't willing to go on the record this is all hearsay MSNBC puts out a report that's not great so are they just trying to take him down

probably probably and you know I'm just going to say I don't think Pete ever thought he was going to be nominated for Secretary of Defense So I don't think he necessarily lived his life in a way that would be sort of like a priest or like somebody who wants to be present one day. I'm betting that Ronda Santis has lived his life like that since he was 10, right? Like he's kind of just gone through the motions of making sure he dots his eyes and crosses his teas and doesn't get too inebriated at any holiday cocktail parties. And it's because he has his eye on the prize.

And Pete, on the other hand, you know, is in a different career. different circumstances, and now suddenly is getting thrust into the spotlight. And I feel bad for him because I think that, you know, they're just out to get them and they want to get them and they smell blood. And so they're circling and the sharks are out there. I mean, can you believe that they actually got an email from his mom? From like a zillion years ago during his first marriage? I mean, they found an email from his mother.

I'm like, how did they get that? Maybe the ex-wife, I don't know. Maybe they hacked in. But the New York Times wound up with an email from the mother. So his poor mom, Penelope, is out there on Fox News now trying to defend her son. You never in a million years thought you would be doing this. No. Because you didn't realize that this email you wrote in 2018, somebody leaked

to the New York Times and they printed it. I'm going to read part of it. You say, this is two Pete during the 2018 divorce. You say, I have no respect for any man that belittles, lies, cheats, and sleeps around. And you go on and say, you are that man and have been for years. And as your mother, it pains me and embarrasses me to say that, but it is a sad, sad truth. You say, we still love you, but we are broken by your behavior and your lack of care. When you wrote that, what's the backstory?

What was going on that made you so angry you wanted to write that? Well, I will tell that story in a moment, but let me make two statements first, and one is to President Trump. And I want to say thank you for your belief in my son. We all believe in him. We really believe that he is not that man he was seven years ago. I'm not that mother. And I hope people will hear that story today and the truth of that story. So the other thing I want to say is I am here to tell the truth, to tell the truth to the

American people and tell the truth to the senators on the hill, especially our female senators. I really hope that you will not listen to the media and that you will listen to Pete. Well, and you're here to tell us because you are in the news now. So why did you write that email in 2018? What was going on? Right. Let's go back seven years, which if we all went back seven years, we would see that maybe we were not the people we are today. But they were going through Pete and his wife at the time were going through a very difficult divorce.

It was a very emotional time. And I'm sure many of you across the country understand how difficult divorce is. on a family. There's emotions. We say things. And I wrote that in haste. I wrote that with deep emotions. I wrote that as a parent. And about two hours later, my husband tells me I should think through things a little bit more. But Pete and I are both very passionate people. I wrote that out of love. And about two hours later, I retracted it with an apology email. But, nobody's seen that. So it was a difficult time. I want to say something about the media. And part of today is to discredit the media and how they operate. When they contact you,

I let a few phone calls go, but then they call you and say, they threaten you. That's the first thing they do. They say, unless you make a statement, we will publish it as is. And I think that's a despicable way to treat anyone. Threats are dangerous and they're hard on families. And I'm sure this is a really difficult time for her. I'm sure it's a really difficult time for Pete. And I don't know if he's going to make it. Like I'm just going to tell you this. They smell blood and they're like sharks in the water and they're going to keep coming and they're going to keep coming and they're going to keep coming. And look, I mean, you can go after anyone, right, and find anything, I guess.

But in Pete's case, like I said, you know, he wasn't preparing for a life in politics one day. And I don't know as he sort of lived that life. They're going to be out there trying to find anything. And this poor woman's getting calls from the New York Times. What's your message to the New York Times? I would say I don't think the way you operate. is it feels almost criminal when reporters call you and threaten you. I don't think a lot of people know that's the way they operate.

And they are in it for the commission, for the money, and they don't care who they hurt, families, children. And I just, I don't believe that that is the right way to do things. You know, I don't disagree with her at all on that. The media is a very, very bad bunch, okay? And I say that as a, do I still consider myself a member of the media? I don't really want to be, right? Because I'm over here doing my own thing.

Reminder, subscribe, share, like. But it's like they traffic and rumor and innuendo, and then they try and make something of it. And it's all for a particular point of view. Right now, they are trying to tape down Pete Heggseth. he deserves a right to defend himself. I don't know what he's going to get through. I, you know, I always, I play it straight.

I never saw that side of Pete. I was actually pretty happy. Well, full disclosure, for the first hour, I was like, what? Like, when I first saw this news cross, someone sent it to me and I'm like, ha, ha, ha, that's a joke, right? And they're like, no, no, no. Like, Laura Ingram reported this on her show. Pete came on and blah, blah, blah. I'm like, wow.

So at first I was like, gosh, I don't know, but then I thought about it some more. And I thought, you know what? He could do a lot to rehabilitate the military in that it had become so crazy and so woke. And you had transgender recruiting people on TikTok to be in the Navy. And I'm like, okay, like, that's not exactly where we want to be going with this thing, right? You do want your best, your brightest, your strongest, your most capable. And so he's a terrific communicator. That is what he was doing for a living.

He communicated. So what a great thing to have somebody who was representing or would be representing the military. That was a great communicator, et cetera. But you know what? I think he, I'm going to just be completely frank. I think he should have told Donald Trump about the police report. And I think he probably should have told him anything

else that might have been suspicious at all. I mean, Donald Trump can handle a lot, right? Like, he's a big boy, and he knew Pete had been married three times. He's been married three times, right? I don't think he would have held it against him. But I now think he's in a position where it's like, okay, well, what else? What else is out there? So the fact that the Wall Street Journal is reporting he's looking around now, and maybe is looking at Ron DeSantis, that tells you, you know, what, Pete's going to be fine. Pete's going to be absolutely fine. I don't know, is he, going to go back to Fox, but I'm telling you, there's a huge opportunity waiting for him anywhere.

You know, he could do a podcast, he could do a show like this one, lots and lots of opportunities. I'm confident he's going to be fine, but I don't like what they've done, and I don't like how they did this, and I don't like this destroy effort. Maybe in retrospect, one of the things that Donald Trump should have done first is not relied entirely on Pete, you know, when they have the sit-down meeting and he says, I'm thinking of you for this and is there anything that we need to know about? Typically, there's what they call background checks and opposition research checks, and you want those checks, right? Because you don't want to put that person in a bad spot. And you don't want to put the president of the United

States in a bad spot. And I think, unfortunately, everybody is in a bad spot right now. And think about this too, guys, right? It's not just the media that wants to take anyone down that they think they can take down. They get one little inkling or something and they're going in. It's also people within the apparatus itself. So you've got people in the military that maybe don't want him that wanted that job themselves. Who knows? Then you've got people within the campaign circle that maybe want that job. I mean, everyone's gunning for the poor guy, right? So did he have the political capital going in. That's a big question. Did he have the support from this, that, and the other going in? I think it's going to be hard. And I would not be surprised. I would not be

surprised if they move forward with DeSantis and he becomes the next Secretary of Defense. He wants a position on a national scale. This would give him that. It might better position him to run in 2028. Of course, he's going to have to fight J.D. Vance for that. I'll tell you one thing, though, if I'm Florida, I'm not too happy. You know why? I'm going to lose a great governor. He's been terrific for Florida. I mean, it's the one state that's boomed throughout all of his, Texas, too. But that's what's going to be a question that needs to be, hey, where's Matt Gates? Maybe there's a method to the madness. Maybe humor me for one moment. Maybe Matt knew that whole report on him was about to come out.

maybe he knew and he thought well you know what i'll just i'll exit stage right and uh this whole thing will blow up and maybe i mean this is what i'm saying there's so many different players here right this is like a case of dominoes and unfortunately pete is like stuck there with a lot of other people with a lot of other desires and ambitions that are at stake and maybe he thought well you know if desantis goes on to something bigger on a national stage i come in i waltz in his governor I don't know. Anyway, the intrigue continues, and I feel bad for a lot of the players here, and most definitely for him, for his children, for his wife. It's not over till it's over. We'll see. And I think he's got the right mentality. He's going to confront this head on. And I think

Donald Trump is willing to support him up to a certain extent. So we'll see where this goes. You know who should not be supported under any circumstances from her network. That would be one on a Navarro on the view. I'm going to tell you about some really shady stuff, really, really shady stuff. But before I do a quick shout-out for our Invest in MAGA guide, investinmaga. Dot com, go there. It's totally free. We have 76 research.

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Where did you get that from? No, no, I tweeted it out two days ago. So the reason I wanted to mention her today is... is I came across some information that I found a little bit troubling. You know, she's been telling everyone on the show that will listen that basically, you know, the president has to, should absolutely pardon his son, which he did. It was crazy, crazy stuff.

I mean, the whole idea, right, of being the president is that you're supposed to put the country before anything, including even your family. And he told us forever he was never going to do it. And then when he finally did it, he had to like, he had to say it was because, Oh, it was because of Trump, because of something that Trump was going to do, which was just especially, especially grotesque.

So that's Biden, you know. He's doing whatever helps him. Gosh, do I have this right here? I may just read it to you because I have something I want to show you with Anna Navarro, where she's actually, I do have it, so here we go. Anna Navarro somehow thinks that it's totally fine to go out and do a speaking appearance for Biden, while advising him on the side. And I'm just like, this kind of doesn't feel like journalism, all right?

You people are like so proud of, oh, we're run by ABC News. We had to listen to them say that the other day on the show. But Anna Navarro, she had some sort of gig, it seems, where she was like doing a speaking event while simultaneously talking to Biden as his quote-unquote confident. And you know what's amazing? It was reported by ABC News. So this is some kind of.

affiliate for them. They write the Vue co-host says she was encouraged or she encouraged President Biden to pardon Hunter. I mean wow, so she's the one. She's the one who made the decision, shall we say. She's taking full credit for it. And then she goes on

here's the quote to say I actually talked to Joe Biden about this when he was on the show. I told him he I hoped he'd pardoned Hunter. I went to speak at the Biden Institute in Delaware like a month later, and we talked on the phone and I told him, I hoped he'd pardon Hunter.

I left him a handwritten note at his desk at the University of Delaware and told him, I hoped he'd pardon Hunter. Wow. Okay, so this is what I picked up on. First of all, she's like advising the president, right? So he's got his friends in the media too. Remember they were like so mad because Donald Trump would talk to people in the media? Well, guess what?

Joe Biden talks to people in the media too. But here's the thing that you need to focus on. She says, and I quote, I went to speak at the Biden Institute in Delaware. Okay. Let me tell you, Anna Navarro doesn't do anything for free. So that was a speaking engagement that she did at the Biden Institute. So she's being paid.

And then she's out there saying, oh, yeah, he should pardon him, he should pardon him, you should pardon him. Do you see a conflict of interest here? Just a little bit of a conflict of interest. I mean, the show is awful. The show is disgusting. The show should not be on television. I know, even though, you know, some of these fact-checker things are going to be like, oh, no, no, no.

Disney doesn't want to sell it. Well, you know what? Bob Iyer said he wanted to sell it. He said so, like a year ago when he was out in Sun Valley with, well, you know what, we'll play it. Okay, so for all the fact-checkers that are like, no, he said, he's sense, him out, and I think is he going to get a good price, and said he's rethinking it, but here we go. Well, you're going through all the things that we want to talk about in the time that we have here, but I mean, just to sort of wrap up why you're staying. I mean, you said in a memo to employees,

you've made important and sometimes difficult decisions. You're proud of what you've accomplished, but there's more to accomplish before this transformative work is complete. So what, again, what's transformative here and what is the work that is going to take another perhaps two years or even more, even after you do leave, that needs to get done? Well, the transformative work, of course, is making sure that our cost structure reflects the economic realities of the business, and that includes disruption. Transformative work is dealing with businesses that are no-growth businesses and what to do about them, and particularly the linear business, which we are expansive in our thinking about, and we're going to look expansively about,

opportunities there because clearly it's a business that is going to continue to struggle well let's stop there for a second then and just and let me ask you about it we're talking i guess ABC the network the the stations but then the cable networks as well yes effects net geo is it possible you would look to sell them we're going to be expensive I think if you can you can interpret what that word means you know we're just getting at that work but we have to be open-minded and objective about the future of those businesses yes meaning the that they're not core to disney

that they may not be core to disney yeah now there's clearly creativity and content that they create that it's core to disney but the distribution model the business model that forms the underpinning of that business and that is delivered great profits over the years is definitely broken and we have to we and we have to call it like it is and that's part of the transformed of work we're doing

right well we've been having this conversation for a very long time well i think what i'm saying is the erosion of the linear business and now it's kind of closer to obsolescence Well, as I said, when I came back, one of the things I discovered was that the disruptive forces that have been praying on that business for a while are greater than I thought. Okay. So the business is being disrupted. I mean, that's why Comcast is selling MSNBC, CNBC, and their other cable networks. They don't want to be in the business anymore because the business is going like that. It's down. It's over. Forget about it. Everybody's over here, right? The cool kids are all streaming. So, naturally Disney does not want to be in it anymore.

The problem is, who the heck wants to buy it? Good luck on that one. Sources tell me, Nexstar was talking to them. Apparently, Nexstar passed. So who else is looking at it? I think some private equity shops might take a look, and they would just kind of eke out some profits until they could run the whole thing into the ground.

They would just take the profitability it has. They would make it more profitable. I mean, the margins are thin. You got to pay for the whole. live studio audience. One of you guys was in the chat the other day saying, hey, don't they have to like pay somebody to tell them when to clap? And the answer is yes, they do. That's actually a job. You have to hold up a sign and say clap and then you have to get the audience going, et cetera. So they have very high overhead. Plus, you know, whoopey salary, Anna Navarra's salary,

Sonny House and Joy Behar. They got all their stars, right? They got to pay them a pretty penny. And so it's not a great business for them to be in. And they know really, really, that they don't want to be in that business. The problem is nobody else wants to be in that business either, which is why what MSNBC has going on with the Sphinco, Comcast, selling it off as a separate entity to be traded on Wall Street, that's actually kind of a good solution. Maybe you can, I don't know, focus on that core business,

and if it fails, if it completely sucks, then you know what? Nobody cares. It goes away. and it's not going to be a drag on the core company. In Disney's case, ABC is a drag on the rest of the company. I mean, look, they're recreational stuff. They're cruises.

Like, all of that is doing really, really well. We've talked about this, by the way. It's 76research. 76research.com. We did a big piece on Disney quite recently. It's actually not in one of our holdings, but we have talked a lot about the challenges that that company faces. And so I think that's part of it.

Listen, a lot of people, oh, you know, this is fake news. They're not going to sell it. And I'm here to tell you, you know what? Like as an investor, I'd sure as heck want to sell that thing. Like yesterday. And you think I want to deal with the liability of whoopee and joy and the rest of them? Or Anna Navarro, who's getting paid by the Biden Institute and then simultaneously advising him on the side and then trying to help grease the wheels so that the public messaging is just so that it's okay, that he pardoned his son?

No, you know what? It's not okay. It's just not okay. And what's especially not okay is the way he did it and the way he tried to make it all about Trump. No, this one's on you, buddy. It's entirely a thousand percent on you. Really horrible story to tell you about today.

United Healthcare CEO was gunned down right outside his hotel, the Hilton Hotel. He was there to attend a conference. Scary stuff. Let's go to a quick excerpt from CNN on it. We are going to stay on the breaking news. We're trying to get some new information about what happened the last few hours here in Manhattan. The CEO of United Healthcare was murdered, gunned down on the streets,

and what police are calling a targeted attack. Brian Thompson, you can see him right there. He was shot while outside the Hilton Hotel, where he was arriving apparently for a conference. Let's bring back Brinjinginggrass, who's been reporting on this. for any more information you've been getting, Bryn? Yeah, that's right, John. Listen, I just got up the phone with sources, and I'm just learning a little bit more details.

First of all, we should get a lot more details because we're expecting police to hold a news conference later this morning at about 1130 or so. So we'll probably hear from the police commissioner. Hopefully by then we'll have a little bit more details on the investigation, as you can imagine, that is very, you know, in high speed at this point right now. What we're also learning, of course,

as John Miller was reporting through his sources, is that police are right now pulling camera images from all that area. And as I said before, there are a lot of cameras since we're talking about the heart of Manhattan. So there are images that police are going to have of this suspect. Not only the video of this person, you know, trying to get away on a bicycle, as we reported, through a back alley behind a theater, but also just images of this actual person. And what I'm learning from sources is that this person was also masked. So it's possible this is going to hinder a lot of.

little bit of them trying to identify who this person is. I've also learned from sources just within the last few minutes that that person might have been waiting outside that hotel for about 10 minutes or so. As we said, John was reporting that sources were telling him that we believe he was waiting. It's a targeted attack against that United Healthcare CEO, Brian Thompson. That is one of the theories that investigators are working with right now. So it's possible that person was actually waiting outside that hotel for about 10 minutes or so. Again, this is all preliminary information. This is what we are learning from sources at this point. And of course, they need to firm up their information as this investigation continues. But we will expect some

more information, certainly when police have that press conference, we're expecting around 1130 this morning. But those are some... Okay, so the information I can bring to you that we know so far is that it was apparently a targeted attack. As she said, the guy was wearing a mask. And we don't know why he was specifically targeted other than, you know, you can run through the scenarios. I mean, one thing that came to my mind and one thing that I'm on alert for and concerned about is this some kind of Antifa thing. That's one idea. Another idea might be that, and again, this is pure speculation, so we want to be cautious with all of this, but is there somebody who maybe lost a loved one because United Healthcare denied certain coverage and therefore this was a vendetta that they

had. It's not clear, but what I can tell you is of utmost concern is the idea that they could do this at 645 in the morning. In Midtown, New York City, I can tell you, my Fox office was just like a block away between 6th and 7th Avenue. And there's many, many offices right around there. And, you know, people are walking around. At 6.45 in the morning, I know it's still kind of a little bit dark but people are walking around. So this just happened at dawn in one of America's most vibrant cities. Certainly the most affluent city in terms of the money that is made in New York City. And I get back to what the heck has happened to New York City.

I mean, if they think that they can do this, do we run certain risks that other things could happen? The third thing, of course, that comes up is, oh, my gosh, you have a lot of, criminals now in New York City, an estimated nearly 60,000 migrants that are criminals, right? These are not just the hundreds of thousands that are there, but 60,000 with known criminal backgrounds. So that has to change. New York Post did some reporting on this. They came up with 58,626 migrants with criminal backgrounds. They have actually nearly 800,000 total migrants living there, 7.7% of them do. have known criminal backgrounds. I mean, this has to change. And whether this was a targeted attack or whether it was a migrant thing, I don't know. Like, we don't know a lot. I do believe it probably was

an assassination kind of attempt and that's scary and it's awful and we have to change this. But it all kind of goes hand in hand, right? We need safer places, which means actually we need very good intel departments to find out just exactly how this stuff is happening. Because I'm talking on-the-ground to Intel. If it happened to this guy and they don't catch this person, we have a serious, serious problem. As for the migrants coming here, the 60,000, nearly 60,000 criminals, you know what Kathy Holtzell says she's playing ball. She's on board with ICE and Trump in what they're trying to do. 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 are

There we go. Killed. 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 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 arrive to. here when those are identified, I'll be the first one to help get rid of them.

I don't want them here. Thank you. Okay. Finally, thank you. Finally, they're talking some sense. It took a whole 2024 election to have anybody actually admit that you don't necessarily want to be opening your arms to criminals, for goodness sakes. And maybe you ought to be working with ICE in the jails to get them out of the country.

Is that that revolutionary? 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 to 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 than neighborhoods. It's a simple math. Yeah, okay? Simple.

But the other thing is you need some good, ground intel. So I know that Vivek and Elon are going to do everything they can to get rid of all the bureaucrats in Washington. That's important. You need to do that. But simultaneously, you want to make sure that you still have the people you do need. Right? I'm talking about the people that are on the ground, that are running the intel ops in a place like New York City that get the information that maybe, you know, like there's a hit out for hire so that you don't get into the situation that we saw unfold this morning where a CEO was tragically gunned down. That's pretty important. So you're going to need the right kind of intel. Don't tell CNN that though. Oh no. Like they they had a full on

breakdown, total breakdown on the set of CNN. It started because they were talking about Pete Heggseth and somehow it turned to oh my gosh, you know, Trump is going to try and control these cities and this, that and the other. And they really, really lost it as only CNN can. Well, I miss NBC. can too but here we go I don't want to be bringing back waterboarding I don't want to be a country that tortures people especially for the kind of country that's going to be using the military against our own citizens well wait this kind of thing concerns me what do you mean use against our own citizens I'm talking about sending states what do you mean what are you talking about I'm talking about sending the military

into blue states to make them behave what getting Gavin Newsom under control getting J.P. Pritchker under control are you making sure what are you talking about what are sitting into the state capital to commandeer the state government I mean, I hope not, but I'm definitely, he's definitely talked about that. I don't know why you're acting like he's never heard of this before. To suppress in the Black Lives Matter era those protests in the street. He was there himself. Just make sure I understand your position that you believe Donald Trump is going to use the military

to set up effectively like coups in state capitals of states that he didn't win? I think you're taking it a step or two. No, she said make blue states behave. And she also said round up immigrants. That's not true. It's deport illegal immigrants. Scott, I don't know why you're acting. No.

Okay. Well, I'm sorry. Hold on. I mean, look, let's, I think you're right. Let's be precise. Trump has wanted to use the military to do things domestically that actually the military is not allowed to do. I think that's the point that she's making. Like what?

Like deport illegal immigrants. That is actually not a function of the military. The military can absolutely be used to work with local officials to provide military resources but working with other parts of the federal government and local officials. We're not against the will of the local officials or the will of the state government. We have a federalist government here. The military is not supposed to take up arms against American citizens. They're not. You keep saying that. This is about illegal immigration. You all keep saying American citizens. How do we know whether the people are illegal or not? Well, when we know after their shot, we have 1.6 million people in this country who have already received deportation.

That's not the point. They are here. No, it's always back to illegal immigration with people who support Donald Trump. It's always back to illegal immigration. But that's not the only thing that we're talking about here. We're talking about the American people. We're talking about taking up arms against them with a military that's supposed to be protecting. This is not right.

You cannot say Donald Trump is sending the military to round up. That's what he said. That's what he is saying. That's not what I'm saying. He said that. Totally false. That's what he said. We were in the fever swamps, Andy.

I'm sorry. What is your dispute here? I'm not even really understanding. Because they're saying that he's sending the military to shoot and or round up American citizens. We did not say shoot. I think the issue, the issue. You said take, he just said take up arms. I mean, look, I did say take up arms because when you send the army in, that's what they're, that's what they're here for.

Maybe they just have too many people on set. Could that be the trouble? I mean, how many more can they pack? in. What was it, like eight or so? Should we count them? I mean, they had a zillion people on set. And by the way, it's all like a zillion people against Scott, Scott Jennings, who does a terrific job, really terrific job. And you know what? I give him credit for taking that on. That is not an easy position to be in. Everybody ganging up on you every single day, every single night on CNN. But that was a complete meltdown. They completely went off the rails. And it's all because what

they think that Donald Trump's going to show up. And listen, what do you think the left was doing, by the way? There's a bunch of people for the J6 protests. You know, they're all in jail. There's the fact that they went after some reporters like Matt Taibi with the IRS showing up on his doorstep the day he was supposed to testify for Congress about the Twitter gate files because the State Department was like deep in bed at Twitter. I mean, there's some pretty wild stuff that has gone down during the Biden administration.

The Biden administration ensuring that Twitter got the New York Post kicked off and Facebook was kicking off the former president of the United States. I mean, okay? Yeah. And then they were, oh, this was the best. Remember when they were going after parents that would show up at the school board meetings because they were like, how dare you as a parent? challenged the school board when they put all this, frankly, in many cases it fell out

like pornography, like out there on display for Library Week. And somehow that was the parents that were bad, we had to root out those evil parents. Or the best was, remember when there was that whole scandal about the FBI trying to target families that attended Mass in Latin? You can't make it up. Anyway, look, Donald Trump is about preserving freedom. The whole team around him is all about preserving freedom, but also preserving some kind of safety, right?

So you need the good intel ops. You need people preventing things like just what happened in New York City today. You need people preventing the 60,000 migrants from ever coming here that have criminal records to begin with. This should not be controversial people, okay? You shouldn't have nearly 800,000 people living illegally in the city of, New York. By the way, the governor doesn't even seem to get that. Remember, she was quoting some 200 and some on thousand? No, the precise number is 259,218, illegal border crossers living in the boroughs of New York. That's not even the whole state of New York, to which she is the governor of.

But, you know, hey, why wouldn't you come? Hey, they're going to roll out the red carpet. You get a stay at the Roosevelt Hotel. You get free hotels. You get more 350 bucks a week for food. there in New York City, the mayor, Eric Adams just had to end that one, and you get a one-way plane ticket anywhere in the world. Come on. Like, this is why we have Doge coming in. This is why Doge is going to be so successful, and Doge is taken, no prisoners,

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to Angola. Did you see that? That little thing that's just happening on his way out of town, he goes over to Africa and says, here's a check. The United States continue 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 of new humanitarian support for Africans displaced from homes by historic droughts and food and security. 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. So he goes over there. He offers a billion dollars up. And then they make them sit through a whole bunch of meetings, which was a little bit hard on the guy. There's a great video. I think we're going to put the short up momentarily.

If I have it, I'll play it for you right now because it's pretty funny. He's having a bit of a snooze fest. Oh, we got it. We got it. We got it. So here, I'm going to show you something that's about to go if it hasn't already gone onto my shorts feed. Take a look. Poor Joe, fall in asleep on the job again. I mean, in fairness, it is pretty boring. Tanzania views the Lobito Corridor as an integral part of a broader strategy.

Yeah, he was falling asleep. I don't blame him. I really, really don't blame my reminder for invest in MAGA. Investim MAGA.com. Listen, you know what? There's something more there that I think we need to get to the bottom of. And I think Doge, they have a new Twitter account, by the way, at Doge, is going to be able to. I mean, they're already talking about how there's such an insane amount of money that's been spent on illegal immigration.

costing taxpayers so much money in a way that it really just doesn't make any sense, especially when you compare it, contrast, to say, you know, World War I, costing us $334 billion in today's dollars, and yet we've spent $151 billion on the immigration crisis? I mean, this is really kind of weird, don't you think? I'm laughing, I'm looking at some of your old comments, by the way, as we're looking at this in real time, and Don Baca is making a joke about CNN,

and then they clearly have their diversity panel. Yeah, you need, they need somebody with purple hair, though, clearly on CNN. But this stuff is going to end, right? You get the FCC chair in there, Brandon Carr, and Brendan's like, forget about it. The second mandate at our FCC is to have DEI. Oh, that's why, like, that's why you have like eight people on a panel on CNN because it's all about DEI. And he's like, no, no more. You know what we're getting rid of that.

He's tearing it up. I think that there's a return to basics that needs. needs to happen, that is happening, and that we should all take Hardin. So that's the good news. By the way, do me this favor. Make sure if you haven't subscribed that you do that right now, give it a thumbs up because the algorithm loves it. I mean, we're coming up, we're knocking up on $500,000. And I notice like every single time I get close on these things to another sort of milestone. It gets harder. Like it should get easier, you would think. But it gets harder as I'm approaching. Like for some reason, like the shows, you know, we were getting like 500,000, 400,000 viewers last week.

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