The Trish Regan Show - Pam Bondi OUT at DOJ?! Fresh DEBACLE Proves Sheer Incompetence

Episode Date: December 30, 2025

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Welcome to the big show, everyone. I am Trish Regan. Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas to all of you. You know, it's a big day, and I hope you have big plans. I certainly do, but I wanted to at least be with you here at this hour because there's another big story going on behind the scenes that not everybody's talking about right now, and I think it's pretty important to address. You know that, while I like Pam Bondi a lot on a personal level, I think she's lovely. I do think that she has the president's best. interest at heart. I really mean that. I just think the woman is actually incompetent. And the latest news that I'm about to inform you of coming out of the DOJ in regards to the release of those hundreds of thousands of pages that we've all been waiting for,

really, to me, proves it in a really significant, massive, and disastrous way. In other words, the time has come for the president to admit that poor Pam, is in over her head. Now, I realize she's not actually responsible for what just went down, that it was her underlings, but I'm sorry, like at some point, the buck stops with her. And while I can actually draw a direct connection to the lack of timing and sophistication and understanding the nuance of the calendar, though it really shouldn't be that hard, let's be honest. A statute of limitations is a statute of limitations and she forgot to turn her homework in on

time, right? She forgot when the due date was, for goodness sakes, on James Comey. I'm looking at what just went down with the release of these new files, the notorious Epstein files, and I can't believe what I'm seeing. A couple weeks ago, we saw Leading Report was a pretty good Twitter handle. You guys to check it out. They actually are like all over things before anyone. And they were saying that it was rumored. that Pam Bondi was about to be replaced by none other than Andrew Bailey and that he was going to be moving up to run the DOJ. He's an attorney by background. He's at the FBI. Unfortunately, that didn't happen, at least not yet. But I think now after you see what I'm about to show you, the jig is up. I'm sorry, Pam, the jig is up because it turns out that she allowed the release of hundreds of thousands of pages

that internet sleuths were able to go online and basically get all the redacted information out in the open. So you know how the FBI, like, redacts things, they release these things to the public and they redact them and you see like big swaths of black ink so that you can't read names so that you can't read who the actual people were that they were talking about? Well, in this case, they redacted it. As soon as you put it into like a word format document, you take the stuff that's online, you put it into a word document and, you know, like you can see past changes, right? Just like an attorney, you know, they redlined a document and you want to go back and see

what was redlined and not redlined? Well, all you have to do is hit one button and suddenly everything that was redacted is out there in the open. I mean, I honestly can't believe this. Like, I cannot believe this. Let me go to. And by the way, out of respect for the people involved, and there is a Russian model that they're talking about that apparently got paid off by somebody to the tune of $400,000. And just in the interest of keeping people's names out of it, I actually did some clever editing on this.

So you're not actually going to see. Like, it's still redacted, okay? Because I actually believe if the government wanted to keep this secret, it should stay secret. But, and there's, by the way, you know, you can see it online. You can see it on Twitter. There's nothing that interesting and nothing special here. But I guess we got some more redacting to do. So I'm going to have a busy few days ahead of me.

I think they're trying to change this in the process and they're trying to fix the technology. But I just can't believe that anybody would be so stupid as to release this. So I'm sorry. You know, she, I was disgusted by what went down with Comey, but this one, for goodness sakes, let's watch it together. Oh, look at this pesky redaction. Let's just, let's just get rid of that. That is insane.

This is what happens when you fire government. Come on, right? Come on. Now, so, you know, the people on, on whatever, TikTok, they're saying, oh, you know, it's because they fired so many government employees. I'd say this. It's because you guys don't have the right people there. I mean, again, it's not like Pam is.

the one watching the technology to make sure that this stuff, it doesn't happen. But the buck's got to stop with someone. And it's not going to be the president. Okay. So Pam Bondi, get your new, you know what together. You got to get your team together. I don't think she's very good manager. That's my issue here. And I go back to what happened. Remember with Comey, September 30th, 2025 was the statute of limitations, was going to run out. And you can twist this anyway to you won. You can say, oh, you know, it's not fair. It's the statute of limitations. Well, guess what? Like, the way the legal system works, statute of limitations, statute of limitations. You can't, like, finangle your way around that. And you can't sweet talk your way around it. It is what it is.

And so what do you do? If you are running the DOJ, and you kind of know that the president has this high on his agenda. Now, I do, before we get into the debate of whether the DOJ is doing his business or not, by the way, the DOJ for Biden we've since learned was totally doing his business. What do you think the Mar-a-Lago raid was about? That's all come out in emails now. The FBI at the time was like, oh, we don't really have, you know, the need to do this. We can probably work with his lawyers. We don't have to do this. And then the DOJ. In fact, we've got emails from the deputy headed of the Department of Justice. And he's like, no, no, no, I don't give a damn because he thinks he's like Brett Butler talking to Scarlett O'Hara or something. So they were very politically motivated in what they did.

So, you know, we're not going to get into the, well, you know, she shouldn't have been doing this because it's just what the president wanted to do. Let's just assume, because we're all big boys here and gals, that, yeah, the president probably wanted the Comey stuff to come out. Everybody did. I mean, for goodness sakes, Rand Paul was like a dog with a bone on that because he felt that he had been lied to. And by my estimation, he absolutely was. But they only had five years to get him on it. September 30th, 2025 was the end of the time. they could go back and get them. So if you are head of the DOJ, what do you do? You mark the date on the

calendar and you have a little sticky note on your computer that says September to 30th, 2025. Put on a whiteboard. I don't care what you do. But you go and you say, hey, how's this investigation coming? Where are we? You manage it for goodness sakes. We need somebody who's a chief executive of the DOJ, we need somebody, oh, dare I say, with some business skills, you know, forget these goddamn politicians. They don't know how to do squat. And their teams don't know how to do squat. You've got to get some real people on there. And by real people, I want a real lawyer, a real lawyer that's run a big, big, big, big, D.C. firm or a big Wall Street firm that knows how to litigate. And not only knows how to litigate, knows how to run a team of

litigators. I don't want a politician like Pambani. I'm sorry, I'm done. Okay, I'm done. She's just another, she's the rights version of Letitia James at this point. Get me someone who can do the job, and it's not Pam. Because someone who can do the job doesn't allow for that to happen. We don't redact things only to not actually have them redacted, right? Oh, look at his pesky redaction. It was pathetic. Let's just, let's just get rid of that.

I mean, absolutely, positively, utterly pathetic. That is. No excuse. This is what happens when you fire. No excuse for it. And I'm sorry, like, I, again, she's a very nice person. And you know what? She's great on television.

I haven't seen her on television a lot lately. She's probably hiding right now. I mean, she's had a few screw ups along the way. Like, oh, the files are sitting there on my desk. Even Susie Wiles was like, oh, that was a big whiff. Yeah, that was a whiff. Okay, a few too many whiffs. I'm whiffed out.

I, I, I had the interest of the country and the interest of the president at heart. My interests are very pure. and very simple. And I'm not saying she's not a nice person and I'm not saying that this was deliberate, okay? Believe me, I don't think it was. I think she's just literally incompetent and she's a politician. She's not a real lawyer. She's not a real litigator. She's never run a big, big shop. So I don't know, get me someone from Sullivan and Cromwell, thank you very much. Okay, that's like a real litigator who knows how to run a team of litigators and knows how to check up on people and say, well, where are we on this project? Because, you know, September 25th, 2025,

30th, forgive me, is coming around the corner. Think about that. I mean, they, they let that thing slide and slide. What was the name? Eric Seabird, who's, by the way, buddies, buddies with James Comey's son-in-law allegedly, for goodness sakes, what the heck? What the heck is James Comey's son-in-law doing in the U.S. Attorney's Office that's about to prosecute him. Come on. This is low-hanging fruit, okay? So I'm sorry, she's cute, she's blonde, she loves the president, fine, it's not enough. We've got to do better. And you know what? I'm telling you, like Dan Bongino, you want to know why Dan Bongino left? I'm going to tell you the real reason why Dan Bongino left. Dan Bonino left because he's not going to work for an incompetent

boss, somebody who can't get the gig from here to there, who can't do the job, right? Like, she just can't do the job. And remember, he went there with pretty pure intentions. Remember when he said this? Let me ask you about, are you going to be looking into, Cash and Pam, any potential collusion between the DOJ, Letitia James, the novel legal theory of Alvin Bragg or Nathan Wade or Fannie Willis and the DOJ. Is that something? Has anything come up?

Is there any way to determine whether or not evidence was destroyed in any of these cases? Well, there's always a way to determine that. I don't want to comment on that specific case right now for a reason. I don't want to get ahead of the Department of Justice on that. But I want to say this. You know, the FBI obviously has the public corruption portfolio. and yes, if you are a corrupt politician out there, if you are engaged in behavior, you know what you're doing,

we're going to find you. I promise no one is going to get off the days of selecting and putting your partisan bias on and taking care of your friends. Those days are over. You know what, Sean? I don't have any friends. I don't want any friends. Well, maybe outside of you.

I don't care. You stuck with me. I didn't come here for the money. I didn't come here to make, I know. You didn't go there for the money. I can tell people. I come here to make friends. I don't give a damn about friends.

I don't have any friends. I don't want any friends. I got my wife. I got you and I got a small crew of people. So I don't need any friends. If you're a politician, screw it around, we're coming for you. That'll help.

Yeah, you want a friend of D.C.? Right. Go get a Labradoe like I have. Because there are no friends in D.C. You've been doing this about, what, 30 years. There are no friends here. So he went there to get a job done. He wanted Comer to pay the price for

allegedly lying under oath. during testimony before Congress. For pretending he wasn't talking to the press when he actually had the press on speed dial via his various surrogates who were on the payroll for the FBI, including his professor friend at Columbia Law. So Dan goes there to get a job done

and you got incompetent bureaucrats and incompetent politicians of which she's both in the way. I mean, think about the rollout of the whole Epstein file. Again, the files are on my job. desk, except they weren't. And then it turns out she's got a truckload of them coming from New York because you had to fire the guy who's running the FBI in New York in order to get the files. Oh, interestingly, Comey's daughter was working in that field office.

Comey's kind of good. His hands all over everything, right? Again, you should know this, Pam, you should know this when you're running the DOJ. And you should make sure that you dot your eyes and that you cross your T's and that you don't give false promises to the media and you don't. You don't and say, I got the file sitting there right on my desk when you don't. Because you're abusing the public trust. And I'm going to be honest, our trust is fragile at this point. Very, very fragile. And you're causing us to really doubt your competency. I mean, this ship has already sailed, as far as I'm concerned, the woman needs to actually go. And I do think that they're actually thinking about, well, what could be, who could take over? Andrew Bailey, I guess, well, he's a politician as well.

I want them to go in a new direction, okay? This is my recommendation to the president. You know what? You need somebody who knows how to run a real shop. I don't care what they look like on camera. Let Pam keep a job in PR, all right? She can get up there and be the PR person for the DOJ. But she cannot be running this when we're missing deadlines and heck, we're releasing files that we claim a redacted that aren't redacted. Now, it hasn't hurt the president and it doesn't really seem to have hurt anybody just yet, but, you know, we haven't gone through it all. I don't know what they were able to do in terms of retracting some of that stuff, but this is bad. Like, these are mistakes that just cannot be made, okay? Like, cannot be made. And again, you want to know why Dan left? I repeat.

He had a boss at the DOJ who was bottom line incompetent. And sources tell me it came down. to Pam or Dan. President chose Pam. I think it was a mistake. Let's go to Dan explaining, in his words, why he left. I mean, I gave up everything for this. I mean, you know, my wife is struggling.

I'm not a victim. I'm not Jim Comey. It's fine. I did this, and I'm proud I did it. But if you think we're there for tea and crumpets, I mean, cash is there all day. We share our offices are linked. He turns on the faucet. I hear it.

He's there at, he gets in like 6 o'clock in the morning. He doesn't leave till 7 at night. You know, I'm in there at 7.30 in the morning. You know, he uses the gym. I work out in my apartment. But I stare at these four walls all day in D.C., you know, by myself, divorced from my wife, not divorced, but, I mean, separated divorced. And it's hard.

I mean, you know, we love each other, and it's hard to be apart. But you're doing some great work. You're straight out of the FBI. You're moving buildings. There's a lot of change. I just, I got one more thing. So it was hard on him from a personal standpoint, of course. His wife's in Florida, he's there in D.C., and that's not right, and that's not fair.

And by the way, he gave up a lot in terms of the financial health of his family, right, in order to go and do this. But he did it because he's a patriot and he wanted to actually get stuff done. But when you realize, yeah, I can't get stuff done because you don't have the proper team in place. And I'm talking management to get, you know what done. Well, then what are you doing? Oh, you're just going to become her fall guy? Because remember, that's sort of what went down.

Remember the initial release? Like, she released some initial videos, and he was saying one thing, and then it turned out the video was another. I mean, that was just a disaster, and he was getting blamed for it. So how much you want to bet that she would have been blaming him for this little number

where, you know, stuff is redacted, but not really? This pesky redaction. Let's just get rid of that. Wild. That is insane. This is what happens when you fire government. Or it's what happens when you have Pam Bondi not mined in the store. Pam Bondi running this whole op when she's so far out over her skis.

I'm sorry, but you know what? The Trump administration has to do better. This is a really serious, serious job. I don't care what someone looks. like on camera. I don't care how well they communicate. She hasn't even been on camera lately, right? Because she knows, like, there's no getting around this one. She told us she was going after Letitia. Whatever happened to actually going after Letitia and Kathy Hockel because they were in direct violation of the law, because they were allowing for, as well as the head of the DMV,

because they were allowing for all of these people to illegally get these driver's licenses. that kind of never got to second base. I've played the soundbite many times. I don't need to play it again, but she was so proud of announcing in a press conference how she was going after Tish James and Kathy Hockel. And then, well, the Epstein rollout, I mean, to invite all the influencers in there?

Like, you think they're that stupid that they're going to fall for your nonsense? No. They're not stupid, and American voters are not stupid. Trump voters are not stupid. And by the way, the other side's not stupid. The other side wouldn't have made these mistakes on statute of limitations. You think that would have happened?

No way. No way, Jose. I mean, again, put it all over your office, September 30th, 2025. And if Eric is not doing his job in the U.S. Attorney's Office in Virginia, then what do you do? You start initiating a proceeding to find someone new for the job. You do not wait until the president calls you out in a late night truth social post, which is exactly what he did about 10 days before the statute of limitations was coming up because somebody must have told him, hey, you know, the statute of limitations is approaching. She was just going to blow right through it

and say, whoopsie. Oh, I missed that one. Well, whoopsie, she did miss that one. So 10 days before the statute of limitations is up. What do they do? They go in and appoint Lindsay Halligan. I'm sorry, illegally, because the way the law works, whether you like it or not, or the way the law works, is that you actually had to have all the judges in the community sign on to that, and then they would have been the one to have selected the replacement. Now, if you had selected the replacement enough in advance, you wouldn't have been running up against the statute of limitations. And instead, we got a big old dog and pony show. Don't you? Trump had to find a lawyer himself to put in Lindsay, who was, who was one of like an insurance

lawyer. This is not even her expertise with 10 days to go. And she finally like somehow in the 11th hour makes the filing to get the indictment. And then the whole thing gets thrown up because they're like, well, she didn't actually have the proper authority to be able to do this because she had never been appointed properly because, whoo, Pammy, Pammy forgot. And that's me being generous because if I were a real conspiracy theorist, I'd say there's something else going on. Some people were trying to ignore this because maybe they didn't really want Comey to be tried. What do you think? I'm curious. I'm watching your comments in real time. I mean, I just, the time has come. Ladies and gentlemen, the time has come. You know what?

I realize the president puts loyalty above all. But you need competence with loyalty. You need people who have an eye on the calendar who know what's coming next, who can manage an entire team. You need somebody that's leading a group of U.S. attorneys out there doing their jobs and doing those jobs efficiently. And you don't need to micromanage, but you need to be able to manage. Now, if you talk to some people at the White House, sources have told me in, you know, sort of in their chance at trying to, like, explain what's really going wrong. They're like, well, you know, she doesn't have enough help. She doesn't have all the U.S. attorneys that she needs. So she can't really do the job because there aren't enough people. Well, okay, Pam, fine. Let's go with that for a second. If that's really the issue, then why

aren't you screaming that from the mountaintops? I'd be tweeting every single day. I need more people. I can't get the Senate to confirm anyone. So I don't have enough U.S. attorneys to do their job. you need to actually play that out and you need to demand and you need to say, hey, this is what I want and this is what Americans deserve, but she's not doing that. She's really not doing anything. She is, I'm sorry, a sorry excuse for the head of the DOJ. And I say this, you know, she's been on my show over the years. I've been on other shows with her and I like her. And, you know, she's lovely. But here's the bottom line, guys. She's not smart enough and she's not. together enough. And these are high-stake situations. So we need a change. And we need it fast,

and we need it in 2026. You lost Dan Bongino because of her. Now, he's going to tell you, it's his wife. He's going to tell you it's this, that, and the other. You know, he's, he's a class act, and he's not going to call her out the way, the way I will. But I definitely don't have any friends to lose here. I have no dog in this. fight other than to keep insisting on one thing and one thing only, and that's that the country deserves more, that the president deserves more, that MAGA voters deserve more, and that what we went through, what we went through was unacceptable with James Comey, what we went through with Hillary Clinton and the Russia, Russia, Russian nonsense was unacceptable. What we went through

with the 51X spooks and spies that decided to take it upon themselves to fire off a bunch of misinformation about Hunter Biden's laptop. We don't need that ever happening again on either side, frankly. So Pam, buckle up. I think changes are coming. Merry Christmas to you. You know, I will say there is one U.S. attorney, maybe a couple. You get the one out in Minnesota doing a good job. I mean, they've uncovered, what, $9 billion? I think I've even seen higher estimates at this point. Well, here's another, another fraud story to tell you about in none other than California, New some. Oh, this is going to be a Rocky 26 for you, buddy. 2.3 billion dollars sent to L.A. County over four years is completely unaccounted for. Woo! Just gone. 2.3 billion unaccounted

for. What happened to it? Well, you know, according to the U.S. attorney there, apparently they were supposed to be spending it on the homeless, but it never actually made its way to the homeless. This kind of reminds me of the autism program out in Minnesota that never actually went to help autistic kids. It helped the families of autistic kids because they were getting payoffs. Just tell us your kids autistic. We can file for all this paperwork. We'll cut you in on the action. There you go. Nine billion dollars later, the U.S. taxpayer is out of money, but I'm seeing some really high estimates that I want to bring you according to a new state auditor report in California. But first, this on the homeless stuff.

How long has this kind of fraud been going on? I mean, the homeless issue in Southern California is a massive issue. Taxpayers have forked over tens of millions, if not hundreds of millions of dollars to fix it, and people are stealing it? It's unbelievable. And, you know, it's probably been going on for a very long time. But unfortunately, no one's really looked at it until recently. Before this position, I was in the state legislature,

and we would ask a lot of questions about the billions of things. of dollars being spent every year to solve homelessness, and we can all see with our eyes and ears that it wasn't being solved, and the money wasn't going to the people we needed it most. So one of the first things I did after being appointed as the U.S. attorney here in L.A. was to create the homeless fraud and corruption task force. And frankly, we were starting from the bottom up, and we began brand new investigations with the IRS and the FBI. And it's already culminated in two separate indictments, and I can assure you that more will come.

In the two indictments you've announced thus far, in one case, somebody was taking this money that was meant to build homes for the homeless and spending it on things like tickets to Coachella concert, jewelry, and a Beverly Hills mansion. It's frankly outrageous, and this goes to show when you hand out billions of dollars with little to no oversight, there are people out there that will take advantage. and that's always been our suspicion is that there's been very little oversight or accountability to the individuals who receive this money. Most of the money goes out to nonprofits or developers who claim they're going to use the money to build housing. And what we saw in just these two investigations, that's not where the money went. And it was used to pay one individual's American Express bill. All right? This is why.

What is my motto? What government has, government spends. And so you need to keep government on a very short leash. People were so upset about the unemployment report recently showing a slight uptick and unemployment. Well, what is that from? A lot of it's from the recent loss of jobs within the government sector. But what do we also see? Woo! 4.3% GDP growth. I'll take that. Go to 76research.com, by the way, my company, because we have a fantastic report on that today. 76research.com.

But wow, 4.3% annualized GDP growth. You've got 2.7%. inflation. This is good stuff, right? But what happens? When you take the jobs away from the government and then you give it to the people, I'm telling you, you get a lot less corruption. But we got all kinds of corruption, apparently in California. Again, the $2.3 billion in L.A. County being a key trigger to look into some bigger things. And now we're seeing possibly a whole lot more because there's a brand new report from the California State Auditor reporting that between 24 and 25, there was all kinds of waste, all kinds of misuse. I mean, this is unbelievable to the tune of, wait for it, $76 billion,

allegedly, poof, gone, missing. 76 billion. This is the state auditor, okay? So this is not like a partisan group or anything. This is just the state audit report that is putting these various agencies, these government agencies in California on what they call a high risk alert for fraud and for waste because 76 billion is suddenly missing. I mean, this is sort of wild to me. There's the Employment Development Department that apparently they're estimating between 20 and 32 billion of

improper payments made, gone, stolen effectively, missing. This is in the audits. that they did. I mean, that's a lot of money. This was all for COVID relief. Oh, yeah, those COVID relief funds. I mean, hey, Chuck and Nancy approving trillions of dollars in COVID relief. And the Somali immigrants in Minnesota found a way to make that one work for them. In Massachusetts, they found another, albeit smaller way to make all this work for them to the tune of $7 million dollars that a couple of people to Haitian immigrants to the U.S. were able to walk off with. Now, we don't know the groups that are involved in California, but this is not looking good, okay?

This is really, really, really not looking good. So Gavin Newsome, I'm kind of curious about your political opportunities right about now, because, you know, if I'm a California voter, I realize you're not running for governor again, but I'm a little mad. If I'm a United States voter, which I am, I'm definitely mad. Because those are my dollars too. And to think these people actually wanted more money on health care that they were going to ensure got sent out to all the states

so then they could dole out as they saw fit, which would have resulted in, what do you think? More fraud. The fraud, waste, and abuse is out of control. And guess what, it's coming from one side. And one side only, don't you think? I mean, we know. who's responsible for initiating this massive feed-the-nation program, right,

in none other than Minnesota, rather remarkable, considering that, you know, all the people were coming from her district, Ilhan Omar's district. This woman is quite a peach. A reporter caught up with her on Capitol Hill, and I want to show you what she had to say when she was asked about all that money that had gone missing, and does she feel bad at all?

I mean, maybe a little remorse. Nope. Well, we can try that again, I think. What a gal. Do you regret of pushing forward that bill, the Meals Act? Do you think it led to the fraud? Absolutely not.

It did help feed kids. Maybe the Smalley Fraudsters kids. Right. Exactly. I'm wearing red all week for Christmas. We got my furry red. We got the ski outfit red. There's lots of red.

lots of red on the set. We got my Christmas tree. But listen, this is no joke and this is serious. And I feel really bad for all of us, American taxpayers that effectively are footing the bill for this. I mean, who else is? Right. So you get $76 billion, according to the state auditor. There's a representative there, Representative Kylie from California, a Republican who is just outraged by all of it. But listen, everybody should be outraged. The story, again, is just breaking in. It's come to us within the last 24 hours. So there are more developments, but I'm going to tell you, this is not looking good for one Gavin Newsom because ultimately, again, just like I said, the buck has to stop somewhere, okay? And while it may not be Pam Bondi's fault, that they screwed

up in the release of those documents, and maybe she'd even argue, although I do think it's entirely her fault that she missed the statute of limitations on James Comey, but maybe she'd argue that was some underling, you know, they should have been following that more closely. You can give me whatever excuse you want, but at some point, it's with whoever's in charge. charge. So Tim Walz choosing to look the other way. By the way, doubling down and we want more Somali immigrants coming and how dare they try and pin this on you guys, despite the fact that the majority, like 90% of the people involved in the fraud in Minnesota were all of Somali descent. Not to say that, you know, we're grouping a whole group of people with, you know, saying, oh,

they're all fraudsters because they're from Somalia, but it definitely is not a good luck, right? I mean, if they were all Irish, I'd say it's not a good look for the Irish. It's not a good look for the Somalians. And it's not a good look for the Haitians in Massachusetts. And I don't know who's responsible for this one, but I'm just going to go on a limb and say, it's not a good look for California. And it's not a good look for Gavin Newsom. And Gavin Newsom, you better be put on notice, because I don't think America wants to elect a guy like you, and you can't even manage your own state and you're allowing for that kind of fraud. What are we going to do? We're going to hand you the keys to the big candy store so that all these people can make off with more and more money?

No, I don't think so. It's wrong. happened in Minnesota, it's wrong, what happened in California, it's wrong, what happened in Massachusetts, and this can't happen anymore, but I'll tell you, the answer's pretty simple. You give the money back to the people, put it in the hands of the people, and what do you see, 4.3% GDP growth. What do you see? 2.7% inflation. You see, when government is not running the show, and government is not committing all this fraud, waste, and abuse, and it's actually real businesses and real people running the show when it comes to the determination and allocation of where capital goes, what do you know? They make smart decisions with their own money. So give it back to the people.

Get rid of the government workers that you don't need. We need to operate, you know, in a slimmer way. We need to inject a little Ozzympic, if you would, into our government and make sure that it gets pared down. This is what Doge was all about, and it's being exposed, whether it's $76 billion in California, whether it's $9 billion, estimates even higher right now coming out in the state of Minnesota, or whether it's just $7 million, and I suspect there's more where that came from, in the state of Massachusetts. We're learning about it all in real time. Listen, it's not exactly light content for Christmas Eve. I realize, you know, my kid said to me, mom, you know, you're going on the air. You should kind of keep it light and breezy. Like, maybe I just don't know how to do light and breezy.

I don't know, but when stuff is happening, like, I can't ignore it, okay? But on a happier note, Merry Christmas. On a happier note, I hope you have wonderful, wonderful plans for this Christmas holiday. it's an important time of year, obviously, the birth of Jesus of Christ and a chance for us to be really thankful for all that we have, and we do have a lot in abundance. I mean, for goodness sakes, at least, at least Kamala Harris is not in the White House. If nothing else, you thank you lucky stars every single night when you go to sleep. Thank God for that one, right? And at least we don't have Joe Biden back at it, because that was pretty much a disaster as well. I mean a real

disaster. One of our team members, David, sent me this. He said, hey, remember this? This was like the most epic toll ever. Do you remember this? When Biden was called out during his Christmas special, watch. Yeah, I hope you guys have a wonderful Christmas as well. Oh, thank you.

And let's go, Brandon. Let's go, Brandon. I agree. Let's go, Brandon. I agree. Well, that's good. By the way, 76 research. I'll give a little plug for that on this Christmas.

76 research.com. Go there, check it out. You really got to prioritize yourself this year. I think it's really important. And we'll talk about that as we go into the new year because, you know, you got to look out for Numerona. The government's not going to do it. Don't trust AOC.

She's looking out for her friends, AOC or Tim Walts or Bernie Sanders or any of these people. But I would say we should be thankful. Donald Trump is back in the White House. we should be thankful our economy is growing again, that inflation is low. We should be thankful for all the upside that we saw in this market this year. Again, reminder, make sure you're investing. And if you don't know how to, I hope I can help you.

If nothing else, go to invest in MAGA, investin MAGA.com. That's our free guide. And I think it will help sort of get you on the right path. But we have a lot of, you know, different levels for people who are just getting started and you want the free report, invest in MAGA.com, or you can go to 76research.com and get our 76 research newsletter, which also just included the addition of the Mag 7 monitor, so you can really be watching those really important stocks,

Mag 7, or you can go and look at the actual portfolios. We have three of them set up for people with different appetites for risks. So I encourage you to do that. But just think about how you should be grateful for one. The right team being in charge, I would say we've got to make sure that we've got to keep the right team in charge. And that's why I get a little upset over people like Pam Bondi, forgetting to turn in the homework on time and missing deadlines,

like the statute of limitations deadline she missed with Comey, or for example, screwing things up like the release of these very important hundreds of thousands of pages of documents. You got to do a better job. But I am glass half full. And I think that there's a lot that we should be excited about and we continue to be excited. I mean, I'm excited.

I mean, think about what I've been able to do over here. And I credit you guys with that because I've been able to break free of the mainstream media where I lived my entire career. I mean, it's sort of amazing. I remember saying to my husband, like years ago, as we first sort of saw YouTube coming on the scene and I was trying to understand it,

and he told me something that was very wise at the time. He said, listen, Trish, you don't have to worry about the distribution stream. Ultimately, it's content. It is going to be content that matters in only content. And was he ever right? I remember when I first got to Fox business,

and I was like, gosh, darn it, look at where we are on the dial. We're up around number 297. And you know, all those other cable channels, they're like number 52, 53, 54, 555, whatever they were in various markets. My parents would call me and say, you know, you guys are number 258 or whatever we were. And we watched this, that, and the other,

and they're all down in the teens or something. And do you know that my kids today could not tell you what any channel is? Number one, they don't watch legacy media at all. Two, if they were going to watch it, they just type in what they want to see. They don't have to go to channel whatever. Everything has changed. And it's like, I can't believe it. Like I'm so thrilled because, yes, content is king in this environment. Content does matter. You guys are coming here for the Trish Regan show. Frankly, you know, for the content we're providing. And I feel so privileged to be able to do that and not have to worry about what dial I'm on. I'm just looking at your comments in real time because this is a live

show and I appreciate everything that you guys are doing. It's really, I will sing. I will sing. I'm going to work on Silent Night. Actually, with my daughter tonight. We have a whole bunch of people coming over doing some more Christmas caroling and I'm in charge of dinner. I outsourced it. What can I say? Outsourcing is good now and then. We have a wonderful catering company in town, so they just dropped off the food. I got to make sure everything's heated up and ready to go.

But it's just a privilege to be here with you, and I thank you for everything, and I mean that from the bottom of my heart. I cannot believe what we've been able to do. I pinch myself every day. I'm so happy I don't have to go into New York City and be on a set. I'm so happy I don't have to do with middle manager. I'm so happy. I don't have to read a teleprompter. I'm so happy I get to say whatever the heck I want.

And granted, it gets me in trouble from time to time. But I've always been willing to take that risk. And I'll keep taking it here every single day for you. I hope you have a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful Christmas. Hug your loved ones tight. God bless America. God bless our president. God bless every single one of you. Now, I've got to get dinner on the table. Sing some carols and get ready to go to church. Thank you so much. Merry Christmas.