The Trish Regan Show - Rachel Maddow ABANDONED as Show Ends, Producer OUT! Is Her $25 Million Payday Over?!

Episode Date: May 5, 2025

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Welcome, everyone. We're off to the races. You can see I am traveling. I am on the road. I'm so thrilled. I'm here at the Job Creators Network Conference, and we're talking about all the good things that can be done and R.B. doing to get our economy going again. I got a big show for you today, however, because it looks like Rachel Maddo is kind of on her last days. Meanwhile, apparently CBS News is like going to get some award for that god awful interview that they did with Kamala Harris. Only the media, right? But Donald Trump is having his revenge of sorts. Looks like NPR and PBS aren't going to be living off the taxpayer dollar anymore. What do you think of that? Welcome to the program, everyone. Good to have you here. Rachel Maddow, her sort of gravy-train days of $25 million a year. They may be coming to an end.

So the 100 Days show, remember she was doing actual work for five nights a week? Imagine crazy that it is. Yeah, she had to work five nights a week. Now she's going back to once a week, but I'm not so sure that this is actually going to continue lasting. And you know how I know that? Everybody's leaving. Every single producer she has is basically out the door. Everybody except for the tippy top EP.

There was somebody else who had been there from the very beginning of the show that had helped create the show with her. He just said Sayonara as of yesterday. And then her entire production team, outside of the top cahuna, right, the EP, they've all been fired. So what's going on over there? I mean, I know they need to save money. Heck, you're going to pay Rachel's salary, right? $25 million. But my actual thought on all this is that they're phasing her out too,

because, as I've told you before, you cannot live in a world or exist in a world as a media company when you're paying these really, really fat salaries, and you're not able to get any kind of return on your dollar. I mean, things have changed massively from, what, four years ago, five years ago. Think about this. I'm here with you right now.

While I'm on the road, I'm able to do this podcast. You're responding. We have built this channel to upwards of 700,000 views a month. We got 98 million views in the last 28 days. I mean, this is incredible, right? Because everything has changed, and I love it. I love it.

Personally, I love it, right? Because I don't have to work for one of these networks. But I think these networks are suffering because they've been paying out the big bucks to talent, like if you can call her talent, Rachel Maddow, and suddenly they can't get a return on it. So the big story breaking here, let me fix my camera. See, you know, you guys are so patient. because you deal with all of that.

You get to see how the sausage is made. Hey, it's fun, right? Rachel Maddell is losing her right hand, man, as the blood bath continues. Oh, my friend Edgar, good to see you here. Thank you always for your generosity. I'm just looking at Edgar's chat there. He likes the outfit. Oh, you should see the whole thing.

It's like a full-on pantsuit. I'm like Wonder Woman here today. Anyway, I like that. We like the color red, right? Color red is always. Can't go wrong with that. MSNBC star. if you can call her that, Rachel Maddow loses her right-hand man as bloodbath that liberal network continues,

or escalates. This is because they're just firing everybody left and right. They don't have any money anymore. This was like back in the day a pretty good purchase for Comcast. When they rolled up all these cable channels and they thought, okay, we can just print money except that something has changed. And all of a sudden those businesses have very quickly become dead weight. And when you have dead weight combined with political headaches, It's really not a good business to be in. So they're spinning it off. And ahead of that spin-off, they're trying to figure out what they need, what they don't need. You know, one thing that they definitely, definitely didn't need, and they figured that out pretty fast, was one, Joy Reed.

Remember the lady who told you you shouldn't be having Christmas dinner with any relatives that may have voted for Trump? I mean, half the country voted for Trump. Trump won the popular vote. He won the electoral college. He won the election, Joy Reid, and yet you're trying to say, we need some kind of civil war. This is where the Democrats are going, okay? They want to just cancel half the country. and that's kind of the M.O, if you would, over there on MSNBC.

And so I think the network started to realize, you know what, this is probably not, or at least not that network, it would be Comcast, the parent company, Brian Roberts over there who runs it, the CEO. You know, he's not crazy. He's not crazy like Rachel or Joy Reed. And so they started to make some decisions, and she was one of the first ones that they parted ways with, along with everybody on Rachel's staff,

aside from these two guys, the EP and then the WRIZE. one that just left. This was her commentary that evening, and I think it's very, very telling. She goes out on a limb, oh my gosh, how could they have fired a non-white person? I mean, that's exactly where she goes right off the bat, right? Probably trying to save her audience to a certain extent. And I would just say, you know, Rachel, if it's really that bad, you should leave, you should leave, and maybe she's going to. Watch. I'm going to take a little point of personal privilege here just for a moment, if it is okay with you. You may have already heard about changes that have been announced at MSNBC over the last couple of days.

The new president of our network made it official today. Some of our shows are moving to different time slots or expanding or going away altogether. In prime time, just so you know, I am here five days a week for the first hundred days of Trump's presidency as planned. And as planned, I will go back to just Mondays after that. That is not changing. No, because God forbid I work more than one day a week. What is changing is that the show, Alex Wagner, tonight, is not coming back at nine after the first hundred days. Instead, Alex will be a senior political analyst for MSNBC, and Jen Saki will start hosting the 9 p.m. hour all the other nights except for Mondays.

So that's a big change. And even bigger programming change is at 7 p.m. Eastern, where Joy Reads show, the readout, ended tonight. and joy is not taking a different job in the network. She is leaving the network altogether, and that is very, very, very hard to take. I am 51 years old. I have been gainfully employed since I was 12. And I have had so many different kinds of jobs you wouldn't believe me if I told you. But in all of the jobs I have had, in all of the years I have been alive,

there is no colleague for whom I have had more affection and more respect. than Joy Reid. I love everything about her. I have learned so much from her. I have so much more to learn from her. I do not want to lose her as a colleague here at MSNBC. And personally, I think it is a bad mistake to let her walk out the door.

It is not my call, and I understand that. But that's what I think. I will tell you, it is also unnerving to see that on a network where we've got two, count them two non-white hosts in prime time, both of our non-white hosts in prime time, Both of our non-white hosts in primetime are losing their shows, as is Katie Fang on the weekend. Whoa, okay, here it gets interesting.

And that feels worse than bad, no matter who replaces them. That feels indefensible, and I do not defend it. But there's just one other piece of it that you should know. From your side of the TV screen, you will mostly see changes in terms of who's in the anchor chair. And actually, everybody who's going to be in anchor chairs from here on out are great colleagues and great at what they're. they do and you are not going to be disappointed and who's on our air and what you're going to be seeing. But one thing you cannot necessarily see is that the people who get our shows on the air, they're really being put through the ringer. Dozens of producers and staffers,

including some who are among the most experienced and most talented and most specialist producers in the building, are facing being laid off. They're being invited to reapply for new jobs. That has never happened at this scale in this way before when it comes to programming changes, presumably because it's not the right way to treat people, and it's inefficient, and it's unnecessary, and it kind of drops the bottom out of whether or not people feel like this is a good place to work, so we don't generally do things that way. Maybe all of our folks, including most of the people who are getting this very show on the air right now, maybe they will all get new jobs here and I hope they do but in the meantime being put in this kind of limbo the anxiety and the

discombobulation is off the charts at a time when this job already is extra stressful and difficult it is not news for me to tell you that the press and freedom of the press are under attack in a way that is really it's a big deal for our country it's very visceral for us here I know that the business of the press is not an easy thing and I know that that no job is forever. But I think I'm safe in saying, for all of us anchors who you know through the TV, please know that what pains us the most

is not what happens to us. It is what happens to our coworkers on whom we depend and who you don't necessarily know, but we respect and love them and depend on them. And did I mention we respect them? This is a difficult time in the news business, but it does not need to be this difficult. We welcome new voices to this place and some familiar voices to new hours.

It's going to be great, honestly. And we want to grow and succeed and reach more people than ever and be resilient and stay here forever. I also believe, and I bet you believe, that the way to get there is by treating people well. Finding good people, good colleagues, doing good work with them, and then having their back. That we could do a lot better. on a lot better. Oh, okay. So she just completely called out her network, talking about biting the hand that feed you. So they laid off all her producers. They laid off Joy Reid and all of those producers are asking people to apply for new jobs. You know, I mean, hey, maybe since she's only

doing one show a week for $25 million and she's such a socialist, right? Maybe she ought to just share the well. Hey, imagine that. Yeah, fat chance, right? That's always the way it is. Somehow, you and they want to fight for the little guy all while collecting the money themselves. That's why I have no use for any of them, shall we say. So Rachel Matto, she is a fraud, a phony, she sits there, gets a big, big spiel, sticks it to her bosses, all while, you know what? Her entire team gets laid off. And now the other big guy, they had like two big guys left, one's the EP,

the other one started the show with her. He's leaving now too. So yes, there are lots of challenges in the media industry. I would say if I'm Spingo or I'm Comcast, one of those challenges would be easily rectified by not actually paying one Rachel Maddow $25 million a year for one show a week. like, blah-p-pah, okay? Like, come on, right? And by the way, I should say that's reported. Donald Trump has been kind of funny about that. He's like, I don't really believe that she makes $25 million a week because that's just crazy, right? But hey, it's MSNBC. They can be a little bit crazy. Sure. So I wouldn't actually doubt it. I would not be surprised that that is around what she is making. and I'm not sure why they're being held hostage to her.

I mean, were her ratings that great? Nope. No, in fact, the whole network is down considerably. I guess because people realize they were totally wrong, and they're only selling one thing, and it gets kind of old after a while. Doesn't what you think, I think? I mean, and hey, by the way,

it's not just troublesome there. Over at MSNBC. They get big troubles over at CBS. I mean, there's a total mutiny going on. We're talking civil war because, oh, the business people actually want to settle, and the quote unquote journalists who hate Trump want no part of it.

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reporting on this. They must have good sources over at Paramount, maybe the lawyers, I don't know, but they have been sort of ahead of the game on this story for quite a while, and now they're saying that Paramount leaders have discussed settling Trump's lawsuit for as much as $20 million. So that would be more than it was settled for over at ABC News. So a little bit more of a premium, but you know, a little bit more going on here, maybe. I mean, you consider what his charge here is, and also what he's coming forward with, he's got like a $20 billion suit.

Keep in mind the whole company, Paramount, which owns CBS News, is only worth like $8 billion, so he's asking for more than they are worth altogether. I do think that he's going to get something, and this is what is making all the journalists over at CBS News and 60 Minutes so darn mad that this thing is going to get settled, and that they see as a win for Trump, whereas Sherry Redstone,

who's the majority share, Holder in Paramount is looking at it saying, wait a second, I just I just want to move on, right? I want to do this deal with Larry Ellis and Skydance and this thing may be in the way. I need to get FCC approval. I wonder if I'm going to be able to get FCC approval. Don't forget. The FCC is coming out and saying, hey, you've got to abide by the new anti-DEI rules. In other words, you can't be discriminating against somebody just because of the color of their skin.

Huh? Oh, so that's revolutionary, right? Apparently now it is because in places like ABC or NBC or CBS, they were actually choosing people based on the color of their skin. I actually had some experience with that when I worked at CBS myself. I was reporting from Katrina from the Astrodome in Texas where they were sending all the refugees and everybody was primarily black and I was white. And apparently I got in big trouble one day because I wore a white t-shirt. on the air and they're like, what are you doing? We're in a white t-shirt. And then they sent this poor girl in who was an African-American woman who didn't want to be there because she was like five or

six months pregnant and couldn't even go into the Astrodome. But, you know, she was the right skin color and there was such a movement. And this is like years ago, years ago, years ago, years ago. So I'm just saying like the DEI thing and all of these networks, it's a thing. And I remember being so disappointed. I actually wanted to go into the Astrodome and interview everybody and report on this story. But I got sent. packing go figure right so the DEI thing it is embedded within the network they're going to have to deal with that the FCC is demanding it but then there's also this lurking you know lawsuit out there and and sherry redstone's like hey i want to i want to move on right like i actually it's it's forgive me it's larry's son

who runs skydance and they want to do this merger so she is really eager to secure this thing i mean naturally right she's a business person so she doesn't want this oh journalism with a capital j to get in the way. Thank you so much. Andy, again, for the generosity. I appreciate, yeah, we're 720,000 subs. It's amazing, right? Amazing. I was just telling the crowd here today at Job Creators Network. It's incredible what can happen here in an organic environment, no marketing, no anything. We just go here, we do the show every day, and you guys are here and you respond and you spread the word. Boy, CBS, which is it could do that, right? Anyway, you know, they're not very authentic, and look, I get it, right? They don't want it over at 60 minutes. I have to

you beholden to Redstone. So I just say, you know what, go to your own thing, guys. If 60 Minutes is that good a show, and it's not, but if it is or if it were, then it should be able to survive on its own, just like yours truly is surviving on her own right here, right, independent programming, where you don't have to answer to any bosses. You know, Owens sent out a statement, Bill Owens, who was the top producer there, he had been Pelley's producer for years and years and years, he was running the show. He's well, well regarded. I'm going to tell you that at CBS News. A lot of reporters really, really like him and he was seen as sort of the figurehead. You know, 60 minutes doesn't really

have a figurehead. Can you name any of the talent that's on 60 minutes? I mean, maybe, maybe Leslie Stahl, but really, I can't. I mean, all I can think of is the clock. And so this was the guy that was behind the whole thing and he had to bow out. He said, I can't do this. I have lost my independence. He said, probably because Sherry was like, hey, we're going to pay this. And maybe maybe you could give an apology? And he's like, no, I'm not going to give an apology. Don't forget what this is all about. This is a New York Times piece on it. They're saying, oh, it was an extraordinary declaration. Extraordinary, extraordinary. He's leaving. You know, he doesn't feel like he has his journalist independence anymore. You know what? Fine. Leave again. Like, you know,

it's a free country. Okay, you don't like what they're doing? Good. You know what? I've left networks and I feel a lot better. Having left them, life is a whole lot better on the other side. Thank you, John Swanson. Appreciate the generosity, of course. It is really, really, really good. to have such terrific viewers here. But I would just say, look, CBS News is at the point now where they're going to have to settle. Paramount was looking at it saying, we just need to move forward. We have much bigger fish to fry.

This little news division is kind of like a gnat, right, that they've got to get rid of. And I would say, hey, maybe you should spin out the news division. Do you think of that? Maybe you could do like Spinoch just like MSNBC, and they can be rid of them all together, let them fail or succeed on their own. It all comes down to what happened there in that Kamala Harris interview, which, by the way, whether or not is getting nominated for a big award. Oh, yeah.

Did you know that? The interview that Donald Trump is suing over, that Paramount is looking at paying him $20 million over because it was rather manipulated, dare I say. I mean, they took all that word salad, and somehow, you know, actually they probably do deserve an Emmy for this because they actually were able to make sense of it. I think that's a skill, right?

If you can make sense of Kamala, that's a skill. So they took that giant word salad and they turned it into something that was actually understandable. And for that, Donald Trump went back at them and said, you know what, this is kind of election interference. I mean, you wouldn't have done that for me, right? Why are you doing that for her? And just to jog your memory, here it is. She's sitting down with a guy named Bill Whitaker and they did this interview and they mistakenly ran a portion of it on Face the Nation on Sunday morning. This is how we know about it.

And we're like, okay, that's one version of it. but what we saw on Sunday night on 60 minutes was entirely different, remember? But it seems that Prime Minister Netanyahu is not listening. Well, Bill, the work that we have done has resulted in a number of movements in that region by Israel that were very much prompted by or a result of many things, including our advocacy for what needs to happen in the region. But it seems that Prime Minister Netanyahu is not listening. We're not going to stop pursuing what is necessary for the United States

to be clear about where we stand on the need for this war to end. I mean, maybe they do deserve an award because anybody that can take Kamala Harris's ward salad and turn it into something that sounds decent? Well, that's like a war. You know, I'm teasing and everything. but the point being that it's now being nominated for an Emmy Award. Of course, of course, of course, of course.

They're getting an Emmy nomination there at CBS News for their interview that is now the subject of some real problems for the company and may result in a $20 million hit that's going to go to the president and his presidential library. So I wouldn't be surprised if it wins the thing. So the nomination is one thing, right? They'll nominate like four or five things in these categories. This is for Best Interview.

I've been nominated a couple of times for investigative stories that I have done. But in this particular instance, I suspect that, you know, and these things can be kind of political because people are looking at it. They're like, ooh, and there's a lot more that's going to go into it. So not only did they nominate it, but now somebody's going to get a chance to actually give it the Emmy. And like, I'm sure they're like, oh, this is our giant FU to Donald Trump. this is our giant effue to Sherry Redstone. This is our chance to bring our former executive producer onto the stage to help accept the Emmy,

and wouldn't that be so fitting? And the New York Times would love it because they could write a whole big story on it. So I wouldn't be surprised if this thing wins. It shouldn't win. It really shouldn't, other than, you know, as I joke, the ability to turn word salad into something decently eloquent is actually a gift. Like the editor deserves extra brownie points for that one, right? I'll tell you, though, Trump isn't done with the media. Oh my gosh, you should see what he's doing with PBS and NPR.

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And, you know, I'm always here no matter what, come rain, come shine, no matter where I am in the world, I try to make sure I'm always here with you guys. I want to move to another big story right now. Donald Trump is effectively canceling all the money that we're going. we give as taxpayers to the likes of NPR and PBS taxpayer dollars. And it's not just the outright taxpayer dollars because this stuff gets kind of complicated. And we've explained it on the show before, but basically there's affiliate dollars that get put to work where basically you have taxpayer dollars that's allocated from the public broadcasting network. And then that's then put into these

guys. And it's kind of convoluted and complicated. But suffice it to say Donald Trump's like, we're done, we're done. We're not going to be. giving any more money to these guys because why should taxpayers be funding this and I agree with him why should taxpayers be funding this in other words you know what I don't think even a corporation should you know paramount what are you doing with CBS if 60 minutes is that going to show let it go sit on its own let it do its own thing that's the way it should work right but you know we'll see how it all shakes out I do know that he's pretty serious about this and he's got the backing of Congress right now. He wants to get rid of any of the money that taxpayers are spending for NPR and for

PBS and he's got a lot of support in this department. Branding Gill, do you remember him? Like a few weeks ago, he really went after Catherine Marsh is the CEO of NPR. I'm going to show you that clip in just a second. But first, let's hear Brandon's reasons. He's a junior congressman out of Texas. Just terrific, dynamite. He's got a wonderful wife, by the way, who just happens to be the daughter of my good friend Dinesh D'Souza, who has come on this podcast a lot. I go on his podcast a lot. He's a great, great, wonderful family. So here's Brandon talking to CNN about why we don't need to be using taxpayer dollars for the likes of PBS or NPR. I'm a member of the Doge Subcommittee of Oversight. We were tasked with finding waste, fraud, and abuse in the federal government and highlighting it.

One of those that we found, which Republicans and conservatives have talked about for decades, is state-sponsored media in the United States. China and North Korea have state-sponsored media. The United States does not need state-sponsored media. Listen, if Fox News or any other conservative news organization came to me and asked for taxpayer money, I would tell them no. And I certainly don't think we should be funding left-wing propaganda outlets like NPR or PBS. I had a hearing just a couple weeks ago where I got to question the head of NPR

and asked her about some of the wild, outrageous things that she had been posting on the Internet for the whole world to see. And she had no answer for that. The American people are sick of funding institutions who promote values that they find repugnant, and that's what we're doing with NPR and PBS. And that's what we are hopefully soon, via a rescission bill,

going to pull those funds back. Wow. Okay. So Donald Trump is making this executive order, but let's be very, very clear. He has the support. He has the support of Congress on this right now, without a doubt. In other words, they don't want any taxpayer money going to this stuff, especially in light of, well, the reality that, you know, some of the sort of values that are being espouted on some of these programs are clearly at odds with what so many Americans think.

You know how we know they're at odds? Because they hate Donald Trump, right? They hate everything that MAGA stands for and anything the conservatives stand for. And there's some reasons, I think, why there are so many lefties there at NPR. and at PBS, which I'm going to get to in a second, but first, go back to what Brandon was saying. Remember how he said he asked Catherine all these questions and she had like no answers? It was actually really peculiar. He asked her about all these things that she had tweeted out, that she was very emphatic on,

and she wouldn't answer him on any of it. Let's take a listen to this. It's pretty good. Ms. Marr, I want to start with you just generally. Would you say you generally agree or disagree with the following statement? The history of all hitherto existing society is the history. of class struggles? I would not say I agree with that.

You're not. That's good to hear. It's interesting because a lot of your thinking, as expressed by your public statements, is deeply infused with economic and cultural Marxism. Do you believe that America is addicted to white supremacy? I believe that I tweeted that, and as I've said earlier, I believe much of my thinking has evolved over the last half decade. It has evolved.

Why did you tweet that? I don't recall the exact contact. sir, so I wouldn't be able to say. Okay. Do you believe that America believes in black plunder and white democracy? I don't believe that, sir. You tweeted that in reference to a

book you were reading at the time, apparently, the case for reparations. I don't think I've ever read that book, sir. You tweeted about it. You said you took a day off to fully read the case for reparations. You put that on Twitter in January of 2020.

Apologies, I don't recall that I did. I know no doubt that your tweet there is correct, but I don't recall that. Okay. Do you believe that white? Whoa, whoa. She took a day off from work to read the thing and then tweets that, and she can't remember that she even read it. Whoa. What are we paying her for?

People inherently feel superior to other races? I do not. You don't. You tweeted something to that effect. You said, I grew up feeling superior, how white of me. Why did you tweet that? I think I was probably reflecting on what it was to be to grow up in an environment where I had lots of advantages. It sounds like you're saying that white people feel superior.

I don't believe that anybody feels that way, sir. I was just reflecting on my own experiences. Do you think that white people should pay reparations? I have never said that, sir. Yes, you did. You said it in January of 2020. You tweeted, yes, the North, yes, all of us, yes, America. Yes, our original collective sin and unpaid debt. reparations, yes, on this day. I don't believe that was a reference to fiscal reparations, sir. What kind of reparations

was it a reference to? I think it was just a reference to the idea that we all owe much to the people who came before us. Oh my gosh! She's clever, huh? That's one way to get out of it. Listen, this is the end of state media. You're watching it right here, right now. If you guys can make that work,

you go make it work on your own, but I don't think taxpayers are going to be paying for it anymore, which is important. It's a good deal. You know what? This, ladies and gentlemen, let me show you. Whoops, see, Daisy, we're going to get the right camera up here. See? This is my favorite thing. The Smith-Mund Act. Okay, the Smith-Mund Act of 2012. This went into being because of one Barack Obama. Okay, so he changed the propaganda rules. He lifted the domestic ban on U.S. government-produced media. We used to do this back in the Cold War days. Okay, we did this, like back in the 1950s. We actually put the Smith-month thing. in because we wanted to make sure that our State Department was projecting our worldview onto all the other countries that we wanted to influence. But the deal was you couldn't actually turn it back on us, like you couldn't have some kind of psych up going on with us. And then it all changed.

Officially in 2013, rather interesting, given that Donald Trump came around in 2015, right? So 2013 it changes. They lift the domestic ban. And all of this means is that all of the propaganda that was being pushed, say, overseas, suddenly could be used right here at home. I mean, this is amazing, right? And you talk about how the insanity started. I mean, we got lots of insanity from the likes of Whoopi Goldberg, et cetera. Everybody on Disney, everybody in the mainstream media that tried to tell you that Donald Trump was the equivalent of Hitler.

I mean, how insanely disrespectful to Jews, to anybody who died in that war, to us, to our troops, to our allies. And I'm saying, thank you, Trace, for the support much. much, much appreciated trying to get everybody to make sure that they like, that they hit a like button and that they subscribe. The subscribe is really important because we're jumping, jump and jump and and thanks to all of your subscriptions here, 730,000 people. But this Smith-Munt act, this is actually really important because that's when you started to see this tone change. And I think since then, like it's just gotten wild. And I used to say, why is this? Like, I've been in the media for 20 years

and I know they were always biased and I always knew they were lefty, but how did it get so aggressive and so mean so fast? And I go back to this because all of a sudden, USAID money was being used to pay media outlets that had international footprints, but had big footprints right back here at home. And so all of that is changing. All of that is stopping. And like the money train, the gravy train is over. You have to either be able to succeed on your own or you're just not going to succeed. shouldn't be having taxpayer funds go to all this, which is, again, like, I'm proud of what we've been able to do here because we are succeeding on our own. And it's because you guys are interested in truth and real stuff, and I love that. You know, I mentioned I'm here in Savannah,

Georgia today with Job Creators Network. Good news. We added 177,000 jobs to our economy in the last month. This is very good for Trump. I mean, he's got lower energy prices. You've got unemployment at 4.2 percent holding steady. You get a jobs report that is coming through is relatively strong. everybody was worried about this thing with tariffs, et cetera. So I think he's looking back on his first hundred days, and he's saying, wait a second, okay, there's been some volatility in the markets, but you know what, it's all shaken out kind of nicely. This strong jobs report, fueling gains in the market today.

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Dollar for the first two months, then goes to $9.95. $9.95. Anyway, a lot of information there that you can use. One of the things that we've been talking about here at the Job Creators Network Summit, Freedom Fighter Summit, is the importance of those tax cuts being extended. In fact, I just did a really phenomenal panel with some just terrific people, including my friend Grover Norquist. We had Representative Van Dyne.

on the panel. We had a small business owner on the panel, and we were all sort of looking at what happens if it doesn't continue. If it doesn't continue, that'll be really bad. Okay? Let me just say, that'll be really bad. I'm like, how can this happen? You know, we have Republicans in the House, in the Senate, and in the White House. Like, what is going on? But there's a lot of different interests. So if you get a chance, maybe check these guys out. Protectprosperity.com, because it's really important that these tax cuts get extended. It's important for small businesses. It's important. And, you know, you can do your part by just getting involved somehow letting your congressperson know that they need to be extended. It's really important right now that they're extended.

I'm going to be heading back to Home Base, and I will see you there, of course, on Monday, as always, live again on the show. I appreciate everything you do. We get a lot more content coming your way. I may actually be doing a live members only over the weekend. So stay tuned for that. Thank you for being here. Thank you for all you do. I'm going to see you Monday, or maybe even.

even sooner. Have a good one.