The Trish Regan Show - SMACKDOWN! CNN Bias SLAMMED by White House Press Sec as US Makes Major Advances in Iran

Episode Date: March 5, 2026

Smackdown! On today’s edition of The Trish Regan Show, Trish calls out the media for its wildly inappropriate bias. And Trish isn't the only one... White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt just blasted CNN for what she calls blatant media bias in its coverage of the Iran strikes. The President says the mission is going “15 out of 10,” yet MSNBC brings on former CIA director John Brennan to warn that the situation is a “real mess.” So which is it? Are we winning — or is the media spinning the story? Meanwhile, controversy explodes around Jasmine Crockett after a shocking new allegation that could mark the end of her political career. Plus, the House Oversight Committee concludes that Minnesota leaders — including Keith Ellison and Tim Walz — deliberately ignored massive fraud schemes in the state. And now questions are swirling about whether Ilhan Omar knew more than she admitted. Trish connects the dots the mainstream media won’t. Join Trish for the full breakdown in today’s episode of The Trish Regan Show. 🔔 SUBSCRIBE and remember to hit ALL notifications ▶️ https://Youtube.com/TrishReganChannel ✅ JOIN the Team to support independent journalism: ▶️ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBlMo25WDUKJNQ7G8sAk4Zw/join 📈 For financial insights, subscribe to Trish Regan's own research with The 76 Report: ▶️ https://76research.com — Use CODE: DOLLAR for special offer. ✅🔔 CHECK OUT MY NEW SPOTIFY SHOW AND PLEASE SUBSCRIBE FOR FULL DAILY EDITIONS: https://open.spotify.com/show/2blgbg4OaN5dqFhkBy12ii?si=HPdSujPDRrapZWtxbsgAjQ&nd=1&dlsi=979e048c08c04e13 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We are winning. Do not forget that. Incredibly good news that we're hearing from our side in terms of the Middle East today. Over 2,000 strikes we've enacted upon the soil of Iran, and those strikes have been extraordinarily successful. Israel, as well with Operation, Lion, is out in full force and guys. You know what? I don't think that you could necessarily expect a better outcome than this, this early in the game. So we've had a new wave of airstrikes, and it's a little strange. I get it to talk about this in terms of winning or losing.

But you know what? People win or lose wars. You win or lose this one. And by the way, it's not just ours to win. It is the world's to win. We have Germany on our side. We have NATO on our side. You know, Spain, UK, they're a little flighty. But most of the free world is on our side with this. And as a result of what we are undertaking at this moment in time, history will be changed forever. And for the better. Welcome to today's show, everyone. I'm Trish Riegan.

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This military campaign against Iran is certainly the most sensitive headline in the world right now. We have a new wave of intense airstrikes that struck Tehran and other Iranian targets throughout the night and into today. Broad-scale attacks that have effectively made them powerless. in terms of fighting back against us. Their air defenses have been taken down. That's a big deal, okay? A really, really big deal. Today, we want to get into, why did this happen now?

A lot of people are saying, like, well, why? I mean, Iran's always been a threat. Why would you possibly do something like this now? We have a lot of information to share with you on that, including some of the things that Steve Wickoff, who was trying to negotiate for some kind of peace deal with them, has shared. And we also have information that's coming to us via Israeli and television. as to why this timing was now.

But first, I want to go to the success of the mission. It is very clear that America is seen tremendous success. Pete Hags, said, my former colleague at Fox, it's kind of funny how one knows all these people. It's a small world, shall we say. Pete Hegseth out there today explaining the success of the mission. Listen to this. We're playing for keeps. Our warfighters have maximum authorities granted personally by the president and yours truly.

Our rules of engagement are bold, precise, and designed to unleash American power, not shackle it. This was never meant to be a fair fight, and it is not a fair fight. We are punching them while they're down, which is exactly how it should be. Not a fair fight. No, not a fair fight. But you know what? They knew that getting into this. It's their fault. In other words, they had plenty of opportunity to wind down their nuclear program. They chose not to, and instead we're doing the antithesis. of that. The absolute antithesis, they were producing 100 plus ballistic missiles per month, thousands of one-way attack drones. They were aiming to build this retaliatory shield that would

make their nuclear program untouchable. So we couldn't allow for them to reach that, quote-unquote, point of immunity, and thus had to act. There was an opportunity, a window, to act, and the president chose to use that window. Now, I realize a lot of people in the mainstream media are taking issue with that. You know, why couldn't we just let bygones and, you know, continue on as is and allow everybody to have the status quo? Well, that was not okay by this president. It was not okay by this administration. And frankly, it's not okay for the world. I mean, what are you going to do? What is your choice here? You're going to arm Iran? You think that's a good one. I got news for you. It's not. And before anybody sits there and tells me, all the president can't do this,

He can't declare war. He can't do this, that, and the other. It's like for 80 years, guys, go all the way back to FDR. We have been doing it this way. Every single strike. And we got many of them, right? It has all happened because the president has used the power of Article 2 and has used his executive power to be able to inflict these strikes. Just asked Nancy Pelosi. Oh, gosh, I watched the tape. I'm going to have to pull that one for you guys. She's out there. Years ago, when we were striking in Libya telling everybody, oh, Obama was perfectly fine to do this. Yeah. Well, again, I reiterate, that this is going well. Thus far, so far, very, very good. We're ahead. Thus far, Operation Epic Fury has delivered twice the air power of shock and awe of Iraq in 2003, minus Paul Bremer and the nation building. The campaign has seven times the intensity of Israel's previous operations against Iran during the 12-day war, seven times. And as President Trump said, more and larger waves are coming. We are just getting started. We are accelerating, not decelerating. Iran's capabilities are evaporating by the hour, while American strength grows fiercer, smarter, and utterly dominant. More bombers and more fighters are arriving just today. And now, with

complete control of the skies, we will be using 500-pound, 1,000-pound, and 2,000-pound GPS and laser-guided precision gravity bombs of which we have a nearly unlimited stockpile. We used more exquisite standoff munitions at the start but no longer need to. Our stockpiles of those, as well as patriots, remains extremely strong. The enemy can no longer shoot the volume of missiles they once did, not even close. And the chairman will lay out some of those percentages. I want to actually get to the chairman. So we can go to General Kane, who actually talks about.

on those percentages, but what's remarkable here is how, you know, the first couple of days you saw are on fight back with all it had, and what has been tremendous to see is the reduction in its ability to do so. So a massive decline, if you would, in the amount of missiles that they're sending back at us, and that's significant. In other words, I think that the, the theater ballistic missiles that were being fired are actually down some 86%, down 23%, down 23%, down 23%. percent on top of that within the last 24 hours. So this is significant. And General Kane actually laid this out this morning. I want to bring this to you. We got lots to talk about. We got to get into Jazzy. Jazzy Crockett, right? We got to get into what's going on in Minnesota with the

fraudsters because that's quite a hearing. We have some tremendous fireworks. But this is the news of the day. And I really want to spend some time on this so that you understand the state of play. Let's go right now to General Dan Kane, who was speaking this morning. about it once. Central Command is making steady progress. Iran's theater ballistic missile shots fired are down 86% from the first day of fighting, with a 23% decrease just in the last 24 hours. And their one-way attack drone shots are down 73% from the opening days. This progress has allowed CENTCOM to establish localized air superiority across the southern flank of the Iranian coast and penetrate their defenses with overwhelming precision

and firepower. We will now begin to expand inland, striking progressively deeper into Iranian territory and creating additional freedom of maneuver for U.S. forces. That's significant, okay, guys. So we have basically cleared the way. Okay, we've cleared the way so that we can now begin going in and tackling them on the ground and getting everything bad out and all the bad guys out. That's a big deal. Cat Crazy Sam, making a very good point in the chat. I just saw about the sort of role that we're playing with China and the signal that we're sending to China,

which is one of force. We've just said to China's little proxy guy there, you know, Ron, hey, we have the ability to take out the top player. We can take out the Ayatollah, just like we took out Maduro. Okay, I get it. It's a little bit harder than Maduro. And we're going to be there a few more weeks than we were. You know, Maduro was like a couple hours, right? Just go in and, boom, get them and go. Well, we're going to be there a little bit longer. And unfortunately, we have already. We've learned lost six two American Patriots soldiers. But, but you got to think about the long game. And if you're president of the United States, this is what he has to tackle. He got intelligence.

that suggested they were themselves trying to play for the long game, and they themselves and Iran were trying to take over the entire Middle East and call all the shots. And they were doing so with China's backing. Well, guess what? China, we just told you. I think you're going to think twice before you try and mess around in Taiwan and then near future, don't you? Look, there's been tremendous advancement in the last few years in our military capability, our military intelligence, and our military software that enables us to do a lot of the stuff

that we're doing today. I mean, you know, I talk about the markets a lot. I'm always looking at these companies within the market sector. You know, I'm a big believer in AI as scary as it is. But this is the future, guys. And so we have to embrace and own the future, not just as investors, but on the international state. Okay, on the international states, the United States, you want a world where the United States is in charge. A world where the U.S. does not reign supreme is a dangerous, dangerous world.

As for the timing of all of this, I realize a lot of people are, why, why? now? Why now? It's been going on for 47 years. Why not now? It's like now or never. Okay, that's really what it came down to. I want to go to Marco Rubio on the timing. He was pretty explicit with some reporters just yesterday. The president determined we were not going to get hit first. It's that simple, guys. We are not going to put Americans troops in harm's way. If you tell the president of the United States that if we don't go first, we're going to have more people killed and more people injured, the president's going to go first. That's what he did. That's what the president will always do. He will always put the safety and security or a men and women in uniform and of all

Americans before anything else. He's always going to do that. And that's what he did here. Good. Okay? Like good. That's why we put him there, right? That's why we elected him. Because we should certainly hope that in the event, Iran was to get a nuclear weapon, we would have an administration that would stop it from happening. Full stop. I mean, I don't get it. All these people, why, why, why, why, why? Why? Because you know what, they were going to be able to get the nuclear weapon and they were there for going to be able to take out the entire world. You really want to put a nuclear weapon in the hands of the Ayatollah. I think not. I repeat. I think not. And the president echoes this. Listen, at times I've worried about him being a little too

isolationless, full disclosure. I've had discussions with him in the past off camera. like why you know why don't you care about doing more here there or whatever i remember when we pulled out of syria and i had a conversation with him on the phone and i'm like you know i just don't get it like why aren't you keeping more troops there keep them there we want to make sure that the caliphate never rebuilds you can see where i come from i'm all about strength yeah it's important to me it's important to me we stay safe i want a strong economy and a strong military okay i don't want to have to use it that much, but I really want it to be strong. And occasionally when it's needed and when we have to use it, we have to be strong enough and thoughtful enough and willing enough to be able to make

these hard calls. So I remember asking him, and he said, listen, Trish, you try being, you try being the one to look these parents in the eye and say, I'm sorry, your son has died and it's for the sake of the world, it's for the sake of our country, it's for the sake of America. I do not. I do not want to risk one American boy or girl in any kind of endless who knows what war to nowhere. They've been fighting for thousands of years. I'll never remember this isn't a direct quote. And they're going to fight for thousands more. Not our problem. That's fundamentally how he feels. Okay, guys. So before you sit there and say, oh, he shouldn't have done this, he shouldn't have done this, and he's dragging us into something, I'm going to remind you, this is fundamentally how this man

feels. And so when he gets dragged into something, he doesn't go that willingly. He goes because he has to, because it's in the best interest of keeping every boy and girl in America safe. And this is what the mainstream media just doesn't want to believe. Look at CNN, for example, going after my friend Scott Jennings here. He's such a good sport, right? Imagine having to go on that show every single night and deal with these eight little maniacs around the table and he just takes him on. It's like watching WWF or something. I'm like, woo, pow. Anyway, Scott gets on this show and he's got the anchor who's like, I don't understand. I don't understand. Like, why are we doing it now? And like, can't we just allow them to, she effectively says, like, she's perfectly fine with them

going after our embassies. They've done it before and they're going to continue to do it again. And it's like, Jennings is like, hello people. I'm in some kind of twilight zone. Yeah. He is. It's CNN. He's been talking to the press. He has not suggested that there was an imminent. He absolutely has said that there is an imminent threat of them having ballistic missiles that they were, A, possibly planning to shoot at U.S. military installations, B, and in the short and medium term, continuing to manufacture ballistic missiles that would allow them to shield

a nuclear program that they would not give up. This is a pretty clear rationale. Let me play. The bottom line is they don't want them to have ballistic missiles. They don't want them to have a nuclear program. They don't like that their Navy makes trouble for everybody in the Gulf. And that is the stated rationale. You could throw on other things for the last 47 years.

They have killed American troops. They've maimed American personnel. They've exported and funded terror around the world and around the region. And you seem to be suggesting we have no allies in this. I watch the president with the Chancellor of Germany today. He strongly supports what we're doing. The UK is feckless. Spain is feckless.

But we have plenty of allies in the region and around the world who know we have done the right thing. I'm clear, I just want to just read, you just listed a bunch of things. None of them weren't imminent attack. But Rina's question is actually about. Ballistic missiles, Abby. No. These are imminent attack weapons. What proof is there that there were ballistic missiles, that they actually had ballistic

missiles that could reach the United States. Reach U.S. bases. Look at your television. They're falling right now. Iran has, Iran has been attacking through their proxies, U.S. military bases for some time now, okay? You want to keep that going or? The argument, the argument that. that the administration may be making sometimes is that they might have had capabilities

to attack the United States. What about that is imminent? Are you all arguing that they are not not prepared and are not currently firing missiles and drones into things that course they know. I mean, everybody understands the threat of Iran. It's been there to quote Tom Cotton for 47 years. Yeah. The question is what changed in the last 30 days? We got a president that had the balls to take care of it. I guess. And I have a question that everybody. What changed?

Okay, so Abby has not seen the intelligence that the President of the United States saw, of course. But she's still willing to clearly make her own presumptions about things. CNN is, in general, you can believe the fireworks that just went down in today's press conference moments ago. I'm going to get to that in a second. I got to share with you. But first, I want you to know the intelligence that at least they're now willing to share with us. Okay, so let's go to, you know, something that Abby apparently was not aware of. Steve Wickoff, who had been working with Jared Kushner, to do these negotiations, et cetera,

to try and get Iran to give up its nuclear program basically laid it all out when he said he went into the meeting and the Iranians started it like this. In that first meeting, both the Iranian negotiators said to us directly with, you know, no shame, that they controlled 460 kilograms of 60 percent, and they're aware that that could make 11 nuclear bombs, and that was the beginning of their negotiating stance. So they were proud of it. They were proud that they had evaded all sorts of oversight protocols

to get to a place where they could deliver 11 nuclear bombs. You see that? Okay, so this is what you're up against, okay? So maybe Abby doesn't really understand that. Maybe the left doesn't really care. I get it. They have TDS. So anything they can say and use against Donald Trump, they're going to continue to use.

By the way, I want to just point out that the Iranians have sent back that up and said, yeah, we do have that much. And, oh, we weren't bragging. We were just telling them we had that much. Okay, guys, you got that much. Whipty-do. Well, guess what? That's our problem.

You were told not to do that. And yet you're continuing to defy us. And I'm sorry, but we can't allow you to have it. Period. Full stop. End a story. You ought to know that. you want to come and be part of the major global economy that, I'm sorry, we still control,

or you're going to have to play by our rules? Yeah, that's just the way it is. I know. I know it sucks. You know what? We're all lucky we were born here and not in Iran. But it's just the way it is. And if Iran were smart, if Iran were smart, it would actually recognize that it needs to listen

to the big kid in charge. We are the principal effectively, okay? We are the principal and we'll let you do great. You know, you can be on all the sports teams, but you're going to have to play by the rules. And these are the rules, and we're laying them out, and they continue to disobey. So I don't know, what are you going to do with that?

I want to go, however, to the CNN getting beaten up by one Caroline Levitt. Caroline Levitt has had it with the media because she's probably looking at it like, I am, like you people, you know, you're a bunch of fools. You seem to think it would be great to just roll over and play dead and allow for people, to strike us, to strike, you know, completely redefine the Middle East as they want to see it. The next thing you know, everybody's going to be wearing a hijab, because, well, that's what, that's what Tariola would allow for, right? You want to Ria law all through the Middle East and possibly the United States of America?

I think not. And yet these idiot reporters out there, they just keep saying, well, why, why, why, why, why? The answer is, because we had intelligence that suggested they were an imminent threat to us, period, full stop. Let's go to Caroline Levitch is beating up on the CNN correspondent because again, feeling that CNN is hardly anything but fair. Watch. Terry Hexat was complaining that it was front page news about these six service members who were killed. That's not what the secretary said, Caitlin, and that's not what the secretary meant. And you know it. You know you are being disingenuous.

There is not, we've never had a secretary of defense. Who cares more? If you get through or tragic things happen, it's front page news. I get it. The press only wants to make the president look. As you know, we cover the debts of U.S. service members under every president. The press does only want to make the president look bad. That's a fact.

Listen to me. Especially you and especially CNN. And the Secretary of Defense cares deeply about our war fighters and our men and women in uniform. He travels all across this country to meet with them, to connect with them. And your network has hardly ever probably reported on that. You also had the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Chairman Kane, who's a brave patriot, standing alongside the secretary at the Pentagon this morning, again expressing his condolences to these families. And I just told you that the president of the United States will be attending

their dignified transfer. So please, so please. That's not making the president look bad. That's showcasing that. We expect you to cover that as you should. We expect you to cover that as you should, Caitlin. But you and your network know that you take every single thing this administration says and tries to use it to make the president look bad. That is an objectable fact. covering troop deaths is trying to make If you're trying to argue right now that CNN's overwhelming coverage is not negative of President Donald Trump

I think the American people would tend to agree and your ratings would tend to disagree with that as well. Right? I mean, is she right or she right? What do you think? I mean, Carolina, I'm proud of her today. She always does a great job, but at some point it just gets a little silly.

I mean, did you see the way they eulogize him in the Washington Post, the Anatola, he was a vuncular, he had a great laugh, this, that, and the other, I mean, it's sort of unbelievable. It's like, guys, he was a terrorist who killed thousands of people, including just recently in the last couple of weeks, some 35,000 protesters, and you're celebrating him like he's some kind of hero. Like, what's wrong with this world that I'm living in? Really? And Pete Heggsat, talking about the media as well, the media that just can't stand Trump and they're like willing to just roll over and play dead and allow themselves to get taken over by Iran if need be. We've taken control of Iran's airspace and waterways without

boots on the ground. We control their fate. But when a few drones get through or tragic things happen, it's front page news. I get it. The press only wants to make the president look bad, but try for once to report the reality. The terms of this war, will be set by us at every step. As I said Monday, the mission is laser-focused. Obliterate Iran's missiles and drones and facilities that produce them, annihilate its Navy and critical security infrastructure, and sever their pathway to nuclear weapons. Iran will never possess a nuclear bomb, not on our watch, not ever. And this is why President Trump's moral clarity on Iran today is so vital. Unlike the past, where vague red lines,

and endless negotiations let Iran fund terror and inch ever so slightly toward a bomb. This president sees the threat plainly and acts decisively. No more. I mean, you kind of have to, right? When the threat's right there in front of you and you can't just sit there and say, well, maybe I'll give you 56 million billion. Forgive me more. Okay. Or how about Biden with his six billion? And what do we see? October 7th days later. In other words, you cannot, you can't satisfy these people. It's in part because of their extremism. The extremism is not going to change.

So you have no choice, but to take out the extremists. And right now, we're looking to do that. We're looking for the help of the Kurds. It's my understanding that we are speaking with them. They've been very helpful, for example, in Syria in the past. The Kurds, remember, are the people without a land. There are a multitude of different religious factions, but what binds them together is their ethnic similarity.

And they're there. They border Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Syria. And so they love a country of their own. It's hard because Turkey's a member of NATO and Turkey's not so psyched about this. And then you get Syria and Iran and Iraq to deal with. And of course, all of these countries want their pound of flesh because the Kurds happen to be sitting on some very, very important oil fields. So that's a hard one.

But they've been very helpful to us in the past. And the expectation is they probably will be very helpful to us again. in terms of ground intelligence and warfare, because they've had to protect their different factions as they exist in each of these countries. They're within the mountains on the outskirts. So they will be valuable. Of course, Israel has been enormously valuable to us throughout this,

so much so that the mainstream media is actually accusing us of trying to do Israel's bidding. I mean, there's a whole conspiracy thing going on out there. Of course, of course. And it's, you know, pushed by our enemies. Just listen to Rashid. to Talib's mosque there in Dearborn, Michigan. I don't know if she goes to the mosque, but it's in her district.

And they were going on and on about Jews and Americans and Satan worshipers that they think we all are, okay? And they were praising the Ayatollah. These are people that are here in America. I'm like, you know, you might want to leave. Hey, you know, if you really feel that strongly, if we are Satan, then why don't you just go back home? because we don't really, in that case, need you hating upon all of us while you are living

in the wonderful United States of America, by the way, on our 250th anniversary year. You're welcome to have your own opinion, okay? And I realize that not everybody agrees with everything, and that's fine. But, you know, when you come here and you start calling us Satan and you think that we have to live by your way of life and you're going to suppress every independent thought we might have, including the ability of a woman to show her hair. I'm sorry, you lost me, you lost me big time. And anybody who says that they care about women's rights

and then says they're going to stand up for that, I mean, wow, you're just frankly, you know, really bonkers. But this issue of Israel, et cetera, look, Israel is a tremendous ally of ours. We helped create Israel. We rely on Israel. Yes. Okay, so Marco Rubio is out saying, listen, Israel presented us with an opportunity. You think we're not going to take that opportunity? We're going to take it. This threat from Iran, they are hiding behind these missiles and hiding behind these drones. They wanted to reach a point where you couldn't touch them and then they could do whatever the hell they wanted with their nuclear program. And there was no way in the world that this terroristic regime was going to get nuclear weapons, not under Donald Trump's watch. So the U.S. attack? That's going to do with Israel.

It's not going to do with this. Go ahead. This operation, there's a general question of why the president gave the green light, and then there's a question of why did it have to happen this weekend? Are you saying it had to happen this weekend because of that Israeli action? No, this weekend presented a unique opportunity to take joint action against this threat. And I've just found out, we wanted this to have maximum success. We want this operation to be successful at achieving its objectives.

I'll repeat the objectives. The president laid them out yesterday. Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. It cannot have, and therefore it cannot have the things that will hiding behind to have a nuclear weapons program. What are those things? Number one, we are going to destroy their missiles and their missile launchers. We are going to destroy their capability to make these missiles and these launchers and we are going to destroy their navy. Those are the objectives and this weekend acting at this time gave us the highest probability of success in achieving

those objectives and as the Department of War will brief you, we are on or ahead of schedule to do that. The U.S. attack would have happened no matter what, or the U.S. attack about no matter what what Israel is really israel is planning to do the president had already made a decision to act on the timing the president acted on the timing that gave us the highest chance of success and that's what you're seeing play out right now you're seeing it play out right now and you'll see it in the days to come we will systematically take apart their missile program we will destroy their ability to sponsor terrorism by the way we will destroy their factories we will destroy their navy those objectives are going to be met we're well on our way to meeting them it will not be

easy. There will be a price to pay for it, but that is a much lower price to pay than having a nuclear-armed Iran. I would say, I mean, what kind of upside-down world are we living in? The mainstream media things, and the lefties, I get it, you know, they just hate Trump so much. And you get a bunch of little influencers out there doing the same darn thing. They seem to be wanting Iran to have nuclear capability. Like, that makes any sense. Again, it's kind of a weird. weird world where, you know, somehow that's considered a good thing. Like, we want to give them that opportunity. No, we don't. We want to do everything we possibly can to prevent that, to

prevent that big time. But you know, listen, I mean, you've got the left out for blood, whether it's the ladies on the view, whether it's some former colleagues of mine, whether, you know, all going into Influence City, or whether it's these representatives on the left from Rashida Talib to Ilhan Omar to, oh, even the guy in Massachusetts. Sethie Babe, Moulton, representative from Massachusetts. Listen to this winner. This isn't a war for America. This is Trump's war for Trump.

And every service member deserves a commander in chief who gives a damn about them, not just himself. Okay. What would be in it for Trump? Let's just, let's like indulge him for a moment. What would be in it for Trump? Joy Behar on the view yesterday saying, maybe this was just a dog and pony show to distract from other stuff.

Why? How is this ever helpful? Look, I'll tell you, I've looked at the polls and Americans are divided on this. People get scared. They shouldn't be scared, by the way. Just look at the markets. That'll tell you you don't need to be that scared. But people are scared, okay?

So they're scared. That's never a good thing politically. This is not scoring him brownie points, but he's not worried about his brownie points in his polls right now. He's playing the long game. He's swinging for the fences because he actually wants to keep America safe and his promise to keep America safe. So he is doing what a president does in a situation like this. And all the left can do is bicker about it. And to, ah, he's going in for this endless war and this, that, and the other. war and blah, blah, we got the guy who ran for vice president. I keep confusing him with Timmy Wals, who by the way is in big trouble. We're going to get to that because he's on Capitol Hill just getting crucified by the likes of the House Oversight Committee today because

he looked the other way on all that fraud. But the Timmy Walsk guy who I confused with Timmy Kane because gosh darn it, like they're dead ringers for each other. I'm sorry. Then they're both named Timmy. And they both were vice presidential candidates for Ray's strong woman, one for Kamala and one for Hillary. Anyway, remember this guy, Timmy Kaine? He's trying to make something out of this that he shouldn't. Have we learned nothing from 25 years of war in the Middle East? Apparently Donald Trump has it. I am pressing my Senate colleagues on a motion of mine to vote on whether we ought to be at war with Iran. I think it's a bad idea. I think the president is waging an illegal war.

Just as importantly, it's an unwise war, putting our sons and daughters' lives at risk for no clear reason. And I'm going to do everything I can to stop them. And the first step in that is a war powers resolution to basically say simply no war against Iran without a vote of Congress. I believe I'll have virtually every Democrat supporting because the Democrats, whatever they think about Iran and that nobody mourns the loss of the Ayatollah. Nobody challenges that Iran commits a lot of bad actions within its own country and certainly in its region. But should we send our sons and daughters into war against Iran when there are other options like sanctions, diplomacy, etc. I'm encouraging Republicans to vote for it as well. And I'm asking them the question of whether

we've learned anything after 25 years of war in the Middle East, losing tens of thousands of lives, multiple scores of that injured, hundreds of thousands of civilian injuries, trillions of dollars spent. So stay tuned. It's a very important vote. Okay. Timmy Kane. Thanks for that, buddy. You know, For what it's worth, I just want to remind you what's your own candidate at the top of your own ticket was saying back in 2008 about Iran. And I want the Iranians to know that if I'm the president, we will attack Iran. Whatever stage of development they might be in their nuclear weapons program in the next

10 years during which they might foolishly consider launching an attack on Israel, we would be able to totally obliterate them. That's a terrible thing to say. Those people who run Iran need to understand that because that perhaps will deter them from doing something that would be reckless, foolish, and tragic. Okay. So I just want to remind everybody of that. One of you guys was just saying, hey, apparently it was not against the law when Barack Obama decided to use any kind of weapons against Libya. No, of course not. No, Nancy Pelosi sat there and told us with a straight face totally possible. it was actually totally possible. You see, you can go back 80 years and presidents have done this over and over and over again because that's not really the way it works. Why would it work that way? Think about it. Why would you give 500 some on members of Congress, some of whom don't really seem

to be playing for the home team? Rashida, Ilhan, I'm looking at you. Yeah, not playing for the home team. Why am I going to give them any kind of heads up on anything? Think about that. Because you're only going to jeopardize then U.S. forces. You're only going to be, you're only going to running all kinds of risks that you do not need to run by giving them any kind of anything. And yet this is the nonsense we're having to deal with, whether it's from the little guy Malton in Massachusetts or the other little Timmy that once ran for vice president. It doesn't seem to remember what his own party and his own top of his candidate, top of his ticket candidate was saying, or, you know, again, this lady, this little one on the view.

Yeah, yeah. Right. finish your sentence. I was just going to say, you know, the bottom line is that this is an illegal war. This is an unconstitutional war. Only Congress can wage war and declare war. And so that's the first thing. I think we have to call a thing of thing. So this is an illegal war. This is a presidential war. I will also say, I think what Anna was about to say, did the regime really change? No. At this point, Donald Trump has come out and said, I had some choices for who would lead, but they are dead now too. And so now, you have people that are in Iran picking their own people. So you don't have a regime change,

just like you don't have a regime change in Venezuela. Also, what I'll say is it's very, very easy to start a war, right, without a plan. It's very difficult to end a war. We've seen in Russia invading Ukraine thinking that it was going to be over. It's five years later, 610,000 Russians are either maimed or killed. No, 1.2 million Russians maimed or killed. We've got 600,000 Ukrainians maimed or killed. That war is not over. I thought this was going to be the president of peace. I thought this president wanted to win a Nobel Peace Prize for peace. Is she hanging out with Tucker? Listen, this president wants peace through strength. I'm going to tell you that again. He wants peace through strength. And if you roll over and play dead and you allow the

Iranians to run all over us and to continue to. work to elevate their nuclear weapons program. What are you going to do then? You know, once they have the ability to fire off a nuclear weapon, what are you going to do then is our understanding that they were very, very close? We took one operation, right, and tried to get what we could, and then they doubled down and did some more, so we had to go in for the big cahuna. And that's what we did. And now you want to sit there and pretend like, oh, we shouldn't be doing this and we're not getting regime change anyway. I don't think anybody cares about regime change. You know that? Let me repeat. No one cares about regime change. We don't really care. What I tell you earlier about Donald Trump

saying they're going to fight for thousands of more years in the sand together, let them fight, as long as they don't have weapons that can kill us. Okay, that's the distinction. So this is America first, you see, because we're protecting America and America's interests while simultaneously saying, you guys want to fight, you can fight all out, all you want. Okay, sure, we'd like a regime change, we'd welcome a regime change. And if you guys decide to keep on with the same old regime, by the way, they put the sun of the Ayatollah in there, well, then fine, go for it. But if you continue your aspirations to become a nuclear superpower, well, we are going to stop that every chance we get, at least so long as the Republicans are in charge, so long as Donald Trump

as is in charge. And I would hope, so long as the Democrats are in charge. You know, this doesn't need to be a partisan issue. This is like life or death, okay? Do you want to live or do you want to die? Do you want to live under a world in which we have to deal with a nuclear Iran? Or do you want the peace of the world guaranteed for the future because you have taken out the threat of this horrific, horrific enemy? I think the answer is pretty darn easy. Meanwhile, the president's saying just yesterday that he was going to cut off all trade with Spain. Because you see, Spain decided to play like the youngest child. Spain decided to get all, you know, temper tantrum you like. And Spain came out and said, well, we're not going to allow you. They volunteered this. We never even asked

to use their bases. We're not going to allow you to use any of our bases. And it's like, well, first of all, we never asked. Second of all, if we want to use the basis, let's just say, you know what, guys, we're going to use the bases, because that's kind of how it works. You know, we have the ability through various treaties and just once again, I mean, I hate to be like so, you know, RaRWA USA and we are all mighty and powerful, but I'm sorry we are. And when you're top dog, if you don't use it, you know, you just try and play nice and you just worry about DEI nonsense. Well, that's what lands you in this kind of trouble in the first place. Anyway, Spain decided to be like the naughty, bratty, three-year-old.

And Donald Trump put him in its place. Watch. Of the European, like Spain has been terrible. In fact, I told Scott to cut off all dealings with Spain. Spain, first of all, it started when every European nation, at my request, paid 5%, which they should be doing. And everybody was enthusiastic. about it, Germany, everybody, and Spain didn't do it. And now Spain actually said that we can't use their bases. And that's all right. We could use their base. If we want, we could just fly in and use it.

Nobody's going to tell us not to use it. But we don't have to. But they were unfriendly. And so I told him we don't want to do. Spain has absolutely nothing that we need other than great people. They have great people. But they don't have great leadership. And as you know, they were the only country that in NATO would not agree to go up to 5%. I don't think they wouldn't agree to go up to anything. They wanted to keep it at 2%. And they don't pay the 2%. So we're going to cut off all trade with Spain.

We don't want anything to do with Spain. Anyway, he set Spain straight pretty fast, didn't he? I want you to hear what Caroline Levin had to say about Spain in today's press conference moments ago. Let's go to it. Because Spain is a member of the EU, does that at all put a wrinkle in the president's plan for a trade embargo with them? With respect to Spain, I think they heard the president's message yesterday loud and clear. And it's my understanding over the past several hours they've agreed to cooperate with the U.S. military.

And so I know that the U.S. military is coordinating with their counterparts in Spain. But the president expects all of our European allies, of course, to cooperate. And this long sought-after mission, not just for the United States, but also for Europe, to crush the rogue Iranian regime that, again, not only threatens America, but also threatens our European allies as well. Yeah. So, that was quick. Right?

It's like, yeah, Spain suddenly realized, gee, you know, nobody's going to buy that Mantego cheese anymore. Right? I'm trying to think, like, what do we get from Spain? I mean, really, considering France is smaller than California's economy, I'm guessing Spain's pretty far down low on the list. Germany's economy actually matters, and Germany came out fully in support of this, by the way, as did the entire NATO organization. He had the head of NATO, one, thanking the president for this, and then two, saying, look, we were really close to seeing them be able to have a nuclear weapon, and we can't let them have a nuclear weapon. And

Unfortunately, we have the technology, I mean, the intelligence to be able to do something about it. I repeat, this is not a president that's going looking for war, okay? It's just not his way. It's not his style. He doesn't want that. But he also wants to make sure that we're not down on our knees begging for anything. Just consider what he was saying all the way back in 1980. I mean, you can go back in time.

There's nothing else. You know, we certainly have gotten ourselves a president who is consistent, consistent over the decades. I want to go back in the archives. Ladies and gentlemen, 1980, Donald J. Trump. When you get the respect of the other countries, then the other countries tend to do a little bit as you do. And you can create the right attitudes. The Iranian situation is a case in point. That they hold our hostages is just absolutely and totally ridiculous.

That this country sits back and allows country, such as Iran, to hold our hostages, to my way of thinking, is a horror. and I don't think they'd do it with other countries. I honestly don't think they'd do it with other countries. Obviously you're advocating that we should have gone in there with troops, et cetera, and brought our boys out. I absolutely feel that, yes. I don't think there's any question, and there's no question in my mind. I think right now would be an oil-rich nation,

and I believe that we should have done it, and I'm very disappointed that we didn't do it, and I don't think anybody would have held us in abeyance. I don't think anybody would have been angry with us. And we had every right to do it at the time. I think we've lost the opportunity. I was playing that for you because I just sort of want to point out, again, that there's consistency here. A lot of consistency. I mean, he really has not deviated. He hasn't deviated, and he told us, by the way, on the campaign trail, you know, my favorite soundbite, when they said, what are you going to do about Iran? He said, I'm going to bomb the, you know what, out of them.

Yeah, I mean, he's been very consistent. I will sort of qualify that by saying, I don't think he would have taken this opportunity to do that if for some reason they said, hey, we're going to play ball, we're going to be your friend, we're going to stop our nuclear ambitions, but that's not what they did at all. All right, that's not what they did at all. I played you the soundbite from Steve Wickoff, who was working with them to find some kind of diplomatic solution.

Same with Jared Kushner. They couldn't get to first base with these guys because these guys could only talk about how much arsenal they had and how it was 60% developed, 60% developed. So they were very close along. And then the funny thing is they think that somehow was misinterpreted that they were bragging and they wanted you to know they weren't bragging, they really had this stuff.

Let's go to this, the Iranian foreign minister telling MSNBC this little nugget right here today. So we were not bragging. We were just saying that this is the results of our scientific achievements, but we are ready to, you know, send this, I mean, to get rid of this, provided that we have, we will get something good in return. Well, you guys just don't know how to negotiate, I guess. Hey, thank you, Michael Russell, and thank you, Cat Crazy Salmon.

Oh, my goodness, Leslie Crimble, that's very generous of you. Thank you so much. You know we're getting to Jasmine Crockett. How could I do a whole show without talking to? about Jasmine Crockett, Leslie, saying in the chat that we got to talk about how she got beaten by that damn. But you know what? He's a total nut. He's a total nut. Wait till you see what he was saying about the border. I am going to get to that, Leslie. Thank you again for the generosity. It is much appreciated. I don't know why we don't have more people tuning in. We've got to

spread the word, right? Guys, we're already up to 1.2 million subs here on the Trish Riegan channel. We're growing every single day like nearing 20. It's a tiny little channel over on Spotify. So please do what you can there to promote the Spotify channel as well. And maybe even, gosh, let me put that into the show notes. If I find that link, I'll include that so that you guys can also watch on Spotify. It's not live. It's not live. It goes up shortly thereafter.

But I sure appreciate your help. It's all free, of course. So do what you can to spread the word on Spotify as well. And you get to give me a minute because I do have to find that. But we move on and I will do that momentarily as that becomes available. I do at least want to get to a little bit more here on Iran, and then we can tackle Jazzy babe, Jazzy babe, who's out of the market, shall we say. I just think that the Iranian foreign minister going in there and leading with, well, we got this

much uranium and we're at 60 percent. Like, you moron, I'm sorry, that is not the way you negotiate, okay? It's just not. Like, by the way, you guys didn't have any negotiation. Let's be perfectly honest. I mean, I hate to be mean, but there was nothing. There was no opportunity. Zip zero, zilch, nada, okay?

Pick your language. I'm sorry, I don't speak Persian. But there was no chance that you were going to be able to really negotiate here other than to say we're getting rid of everything. We will never touch this stuff again. We will never even dream about it again. We would like to join the world economy. And we are going to let our nutty religious nonsense go bye-bye.

But you see they can't because if you look at their nutty religious nonsense and this was sent to me in a note by somebody today who speaks Arabic and who ran the translation for me and I'm going to share with you what he was saying. I mean, it's bad. Like, in other words, their religion is all about, you know, killing the infidel and doing so with a certain amount of glee and promoting the religion there at the sort. And I don't think that you're ever going to be able to work with people diplomatically or economically when that is what they're about. Would you agree? I mean, it's just, I'm sorry, you know, you lost me. You lost me. Big time. But this is the problem, frankly, with Islam as a whole, and it's why some people,

Zudy Jasser, he's actually Dr. Zudhudhhhhhah, I've had on the show over the years, and he's wonderful because he's all about reforming Islam. He feels that it's incredibly important to actually reform Islam because of all of its hate and its constant echoing of sort of, you know, death to the infandel. It's really a tough thing to see. We can go through the translation a little bit later, but you know the drill, right? It's bad, bad, bad stuff. And it saddens me that, you know, there are people in the world like this, but I'm a realist, like Trump, okay? I'm a realist. I don't want to fight. Do you want to fight? Nobody wants to fight. No one. But if it's kill or be killed, you know, you're really not leaving us with much of an opportunity. We've been very generous.

We've given you multiple chances. And yet you still stand there with a straight face and brag. Oh, you say you're not bragging. You tell us. Okay, forget about the bragging. You tell us. You get all this uranium that you've enriched a 60% capacity. For goodness sakes, not happening. Not. happening. All right. Jazzy. This is pretty funny. I got to say, bye-bye. Bye-bye, Jasmine Crockay. I'm going to miss you. I really am. I'm going to miss you because, you know, I think if nothing else, she was good for ratings. It's better for the country this way, though much better for the country and certainly better for Leslie down there in Texas, that she doesn't have to worry about a potential senator named Jazz. Jasmine Crockett, Jasmine Crockett, who by the way is crazy enough that she gets out there last night and she starts saying,

oh gosh, darner, I thought you weren't supposed to talk about this, that maybe the election was stolen from her, that people were cheating? That's her allegation because she just can't understand how she couldn't have possibly won. Oh, no, you know, she was Texas's golden girl. Not. We encourage each and every one of you to remain resilient. we cannot allow this type of behavior to be rewarded because so long as they know that they can win, even if it means cheating, then they will continue to do it. So I am asking you, I am begging you to make sure that you go ahead and figure out where it is

that you are supposed to vote, stand in line, wait in line. Even if it means cheating? What's that about it? I thought that you weren't supposed to say things like that. Or is that just if you're Donald Trump? I mean, if you're jazzy, you can say it all day long. Oh, if you're Stacey Abrams down in Georgia, you never even have to concede. You could pretend like you actually won the governorship.

And then the New York Times will do a giant Sunday magazine spread on you. It happened. Where they just talk about your dating life. Gosh, I didn't want to know about that. I really didn't want to know about that. That's what happens. That's the difference between being a Democrat, being a Republican, given the media bias that we know is so rampant. So, so rampant.

But anyway, yet, Jazzy is out, and, you know, it's no surprise. I often wonder if the real Jazzy would please stand up because she's got more accents than Hillary Clinton. Watch. Actually, what they are fearful of is my authenticity because it rings true with every single American. You know, no one could have told me that when I went down. down to Austin now looks like a little bit over a year ago that I would be running for Congress. Maybe because these people, they are crazy,

because they always talk about how Christian they is. Ya, I don't know how many them on that side are getting divorced because they getting caught up, sleeping with their coworkers, staffers, interns, all the things. On campus mailboxes, and at that time, my school hired the Cochran firm. And there was a lawyer who graduated from University of Houston, who was assigned to me.

You're not. You're not. We done picking cotton. We are. You can't pay us enough to find a plantation. I want the American people to know that when you stand up to a bully, you win. Do not back down. Do not bend. And I'm going to be the first one. You and your little friend off of Twitter. Y'all about to find out, all right?

But at the end of the day, I am who I am and I am authentic. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, real authentic. Our thanks to Western Lensman, who has a Twitter account and puts all kinds of good little info bits like that one. I really love it. Take a look at his account. You should consider following it because he does a good sort of throwback in time and puts these little things together, like that gem of Jasmine Crockett. So we don't really know who she is really other than an opportunist.

Opportunist. Okay, we know she's an opportunist. for sure she's an opportunist and now she's looking for an opportunity to be on oh i don't know MSNBC or host her on podcast or who knows but gosh it must be tough to have to kiss the good life goodbye right you were living high off the hog traveling to fancy hotels rich crulton i read a story about you in the atlantic where you were doing this interview from your suite at the ritz crulton in Atlanta nice nice work if you can get it right and her staff complained. She insisted on having a driver and an SUV and a staff member that would have to rent an SUV

if they couldn't find or afford it that week, particularly the driver. I mean, really bonkers stuff. She cared most about what she was going to say in these hearings and creating a viral moment. Okay, then Jazzy, babe, you know what? You need to go be an influencer. You need to go to a little TikTok account, okay? And maybe somebody will watch it. I don't know who.

But somebody, somebody. Maybe not the people in Texas. I know Lesney's not going to be watching that. Anyway, she's going to be bye-bye. And probably doing something as an MSNBC contributor or perhaps a CNN contributor, or if she were really lucky, Bumpan!

Ladies and gentlemen, new host of the View, Jasmine Crockett. I mean, you could put Jazzy on and MTV. Now that would be some television, right? See? Once a producer, always a producer. Except that they already get a zillion. lefties on that show and they need a conservative, but any smart conservative would not go on that

show. I repeat, would never go on that show because, you know, you'd have to have some kind of death wish, frankly, to go on that show. Let's be honest. You really would. She's now been replaced by this guy, James Tolerico, and James is like, I don't know, 12? Is he 12 years old? How old you have to be to run for the Senate. I don't think he's going to pass the age test. He's like this little kid, little guy, and he is very idealistic because he just thinks Texas should open its doors. Ladies and gentlemen, the open border candidate James Tolariko running for Senate. Our southern border should be like our front porch. There should be a giant welcome mat out front. Do you hear that? A giant welcome mat out front. I don't know is that's going to go over so great.

with people of Texas, just saying, I mean, you are running in Texas. And Texas has been pretty darn upset about its border situation, and it's been fighting that border situation pretty darn hard. So I don't think that's really and truly going to fly. I'm just, you know, taking a stab in the dark here. What are you now? Who am I to say? Good luck, James. I think Corbin or Paxton are going to beat you pretty handily, which is a good thing. You know what else? I'm beating pretty handily over at my 76 research. It would be the S&P. All three, all three of our portfolios. I got to take a victory lap now and then, right? You can indulge me with this. All three of those portfolios have beaten the S&P this year. So we're just

thrilled about that and beaten them quite handily. 76research.com. You can go to 76portfolios.com and look at those portfolios. But take a look at the screen there. You get all our our stock picks, and you can see just tremendous, tremendous upside. We like to think we know what we know what we're doing over there. I've been in the media for a couple of decades, so I see through some of the media bias and the insanity, right? I mean, look at the markets. Let's see if we're still up today. The market sold off initially. I bought initially just yesterday because there was a little bit of paranoia about what was going down. And of course, it wasn't, we moved down like 3%. And then we end of the day down about 1%. The president's taking some really important steps to try to ensure

that we still have international commerce moving pretty freely through the Strait of Hormuz. He actually is ensuring. He's offering insurance to big container ships that are going through that. So that's a pretty important and critical move. He's insuring those ships offering that, you know, they will be fairly insured. And if needed, if there is a dangerous situation, they will be escorted by the U.S. military in the Strait of Hormuz. So what are you seeing today? You've got a market that's up. You get the NASDAQ trading up 1.3%. You get the Dow Jones Industrial average up nearly 1.5%, and then the S&P up nearly 810th of a percent. Listen, this is a good, good outcome right now. You don't have a market that's shittery. You don't have a market that's fearful of

World War III. You only have a media that's fearful of World War III. So between myself, when I see through the media and you know I can see through them like nobody's business. And my colleague, Rob Horton, who's worked decades on Wall Street as a stock picker between the two of us. Yeah, we have a few ideas on what's good right about now. So go check it out. 76 research.com. Minnesota is in trouble. Yeah, capital T. Tom Emmer, the Republican, conservative representative from Minnesota, Latin, the AG. of Minnesota have it at the House hearing today. Watch. This is a serious thing, Mr. Attorney General. You are the only one who thinks protecting

taxpayer dollars is political. Mr. Ellison, my concern is that you actively obstructed this investigation in exchange for campaign donations, a quid pro quo. If these concerns are proven to be true, you should be disbarred and you should go to jail. Yeah, he should. He should. I mean, everybody's heard what he said, right? We've played it for you here on the show, and it certainly sounds a little suss.

More from Tom Emmer. Millions of Americans have grave concerns over your alleged relationships with Somali fraudsters who have since been charged and convicted of federal crimes. I'm sure you are aware that over 90% of the defendants charged in the feeding our future fraud case are of Somali descent. In fact, you have personal knowledge of these people. There's a 54-minute audio tape of your meeting with these criminals in December of 2021. And during your meeting, they complained to you about increased scrutiny of their nonprofits,

and you told them, quote, of course I'm here to help, end quote. It's on the Internet. Anyone can listen to you say that. Since then, you claim you were not aware of their crime. in the $250 million feeding our future scheme, the largest pandemic fraud case in the nation. But just weeks after your December 2021 meeting, the FBI executed search warrants

that you never would have requested in the feeding our future fraud investigation. I just think this is absolutely fantastic and fabulous, and I love seeing them all go down and up and smoke because they all deserve it, okay? I'm sorry, but they deserve it. You don't steal from U.S. taxpayers like the Somali fraudsters did, and you certainly don't get the stamp of approval from people in the government,

as they allegedly did more on Mr. Emmer and Mr. Walts and Mr. Ellison. Here we go. As you know, I have addressed this issue many times. All right. Reclaiming my time. In that same meeting with the fraudsters, Mr. Attorney General, you took aim at the Minnesota Department of Education. You stated that the Minnesota Department of Education had fought the nonprofit in very disgusting ways in a very racist, xenophobic, and Islamophobic manner. You actually asked for the names of all these folks who are just hung up and offered to call the Minnesota Department of Education to, quote, demand some explanations.

We now know that when you made these comments, the Biden DOJ was working with the Minnesota Department of Education. Department of Education and that their work exposed the massive fraud ring. Pretty bad look for you, sir. Either you were oblivious to what was going on under your nose or worse. You were trying to obstruct the work of the Minnesota Department of Education. So I can see the time is getting short. Mr. Chairman, we are left with two questions. One, what did Governor Walls and Keith Ellison know about the fraud?

and two, when did they actually know it? I would suggest that if they do not give direct and truthful answers to both these questions at this hearing, then they both need to be put under oath in a deposition. This is a serious thing, Mr. Attorney General. You are the only one who thinks protecting taxpayer dollars is political. Mr. Ellison, my concern is that you actively obstructed this investigation in exchange for campaign donations, a quid pro quo. If these concerns are proven to be true, you should be disbarred and you should go to jail. I yield back. Pretty good. So it, I agree with you. I'm looking at

one of you guys is saying a very important point. If that were like me or you, we'd be in jail by now, right? And it's crazy that Keith Ellison is still not being held accountable really to anything. It's concerning, it's crazy, and disheartening. Walses is the other one, because we're getting word that Walsh actually knew a lot and looked the other way. That's from whistleblowers directly. So according to the whistleblowers, Tim Wals, Keith Ellison, the governor, the AG of the state of Minnesota, knew this was going down and allowed the fraudsters to steal anyway. Like, that's kind of a problem. And they should be held accountable for that.

I want to go to Nancy Mays, who had a little dust up with Governor Walts. Watch this. This is fantastic. I mean, Wals came in there and he knows nothing. Or so he says about any kind of fraudulent spending in the autism. Autism circle. I mean, we all know what spending increased something like 34,200 percent. it's like a number I can actually rattle off the top of my head right now.

Think about that. I'm in the news business. I shouldn't have to know that, but this was this guy's state, and he doesn't know it. Take a look. What is a woman? Have you learned that lesson? Do you know what a woman is? I'm the governor of Minnesota, Congressman.

I'm not here to be your prop for your obsession. If you can't define what a woman is, you certainly can't define what fraud is. If you can't even define what a woman is, you can't define fraud. How much money was spent on autism in Minnesota in 2017, Governor? I don't have those numbers in front of me, Congresswoman. Did you prepare for this hearing today? No. Did you do any preparation for this hearing today?

And you've seen the numbers about autism fraud in Minnesota. So we're going to do some Minnesota math with you today, okay? Are you ready? How much money was spent on 2017 for autism in Minnesota? How much? I don't know. I wasn't the governor. Okay. Did you not just say that you prepared?

for this hearing today. One million dollars, okay? A quick Google search or using your AI could tell you, $1 million was spent. How much money was spent on autism in Minnesota in 2024? I don't have the number in front of me. Were you governor in 2024? I was, but I'm not the head of the budget test. Okay, so your excuse before that you didn't know what 2017 autism numbers were because you were not governor, and today you can't answer the numbers about 2024 as governor, and you still said you prepared for this hearing today. It's unbelievable. $343 million. It's fantastic, right? Nancy Mace, for the win on that. Wow, that was just fantastic.

So she totally, totally just humiliated him. How could he not know those numbers? I mean, everybody knows those numbers now. Again, $34 million. It was a 34,200 percent increase. I want to go to one of the original stories, courtesy of Fox News on this. The allegation is that the treatment centers would encourage parents to get a bogus diagnosis that their kid was autistic. The treatment center would then get a check and the parents would get a kickback. The treatment centers could not receive surprise inspections because they were not licensed. Now that licenses are required, only six out of more than 500 centers are even applying for the provisional license. Dr. Ross says this goes all the way to the top of state leadership.

This is not a problem with the people of Minnesota. It's a problem with the leadership of Minnesota and other states who do not take Medicaid preservation seriously. Any delay in services should be laid at the seat of Governor Walz. Now, Governor Tim Walz says a decision to withhold a quarter billion dollars in Medicaid money is an example of the Trump administration weaponizing the federal government and punishing the people in a blue state. The sense of retribution, no state has experienced this before. How does taking and punishing children and elderly have anything to do with fighting fraud when that's not where this issue was taking place? It does nothing.

Now, in 2017, the money repaid to the state of Minnesota for autism treatment was less than $2 million. By 2019, word got out that money was available. And then when COVID hit, the money really started moving until we see in 2024, almost $350 million paid out for autism. treatment, quite a... Yeah, quite a lot of money, okay? Quite a lot of money, ladies and gentlemen. It's pretty sickening and disgusting that we were stolen from so blatantly. Minnesota is a great example of a really nice state with a lot of people.

A lot of Swedes actually settled there initially. And, you know, there's a gentleness and an empathy about them, which, by the way, is getting them in trouble, not just in Minnesota. and that's, you know, generations removed from the original settlement, but you think about Sweden today, and the number of Syrians that they had coming in and other people throughout the Middle East that have really caused a lot of challenges within the culture there in Sweden,

and that's really bubbling up and heating up in a way that has become quite controversial there in the country. But I also think about what's happening there with Minnesota, again, with so many people from Swedish descent who had the best intentions and wanted to help people. right? And they said, sure, we'll give them this, that, and the other. And the next thing you know, you get all the Somali fraudsters, the pirates stealing from them. It's like unbelievable. I want to go to my friend Byron, Byron Donald's, who's just phenomenal out of Florida,

the representative who took on Timmy Walsder and Ellison, quite strong in today's hearings. Let's listen to a short clip from him. There are accusations that she was intimidating whistleblowers. There was a meeting on April of April 12th, of 2024 where she went on stage and publicly denounced whistleblowers in the state of Minnesota, calling them losers in their mother's basements. Is this the type of treatment that your administration allows for whistleblowers in Minnesota? I'm not familiar with that. Are you aware of any intimidation of whistleblowers in the state of Minnesota? There are 30 whistleblowers who have given letters to this committee on the record saying that

they have witnessed, they have been a subject to intimidation by your administration because they were trying to stop the fraud in Minnesota. I encourage them to go to the OLA and the independent sources of Minnesota that are. The OLA, you're the governor. No, the OLA is the independent office. But, sir, you're the governor. Why don't you take responsibility for what's going on in your state? We do take responsibility.

None of those people, I'm telling you, I have no knowledge. She lost billions of dollars of American taxpayer money in a process, Governor Wals. Yeah. And yet, you were okay with that. So I get back to, did he really, did he really just say we're going to look at? the other way, and was it for political reasons? I mean, how could he go there to the hearing today and not know the numbers that he was bound to get asked about by the likes of, in this case, Nancy Mace? He knew those. He just seems to be playing dumb. Maybe he's covering his, you know

what. I mean, he did, after all, say he was no longer going to run for governor there in Minnesota. He had a big political aspirations. Clearly big. For goodness, he was running for the vice presidency of the United States of America. Thank goodness he did not win. Thank goodness. But I'm left with more questions right now, more questions, because what I want to know you guys, what I want to know is why is no one putting Ilhan Omar up on the stand. The representative from Minnesota that came up with the feeding our future to the tune of $250 million and it was her entire district that was involved in the thing. Why? Why? Why? I'm talking. glad we're hearing from Ellison. I'm glad we're hearing from waltz. I'm glad that members of

Congress are tackling them, but you know what Congress needs to tackle? This lady right here on the screen and the hubby beside her. Hubby number three. Third time's a charm, right? Ilhan Omar is the one I'd be focused on, highly focused on right now because my suspicion is that this feeding our future was created as a vehicle to money laundering. Okay, that's my suspicion. I think that the Treasury will probably be working hard, is working hard right now to come up with the proof on that. These are just allegations at that point. I have to, at this point, I have to be careful when I say that, but, I mean, it just doesn't make any sense.

It doesn't make any sense. I've gone her through her financial records and I've showed you guys this. Her filings indicate that she was like down 50,000, right? And now she's suddenly worth 30 million? because she marries this guy? And he comes up with a venture capital company where he claims on his website that they have managed $60 billion.

My, you know what, no way, Jose. No way, Jose. You would be like one of the biggest asset management companies in the world if you had been, I think he's trying to suggest that he has, over the course of his career, managed 60 billion in assets. There's no way.

Like, there's just no way. Just to put that in perspective, right? That would be like one of the largest, asset management companies in the world. This guy has managed like nothing. He's just managed Ilhan Omar's career and her campaign. I have no doubt she got millions, but we're not talking billions, okay? That's just a lie. And he's lied on other things. I mean, just look at all the trouble he's been in. He was defrauding people on the winery. The winery that doesn't seem to have any vineyards, the winery that doesn't have any grapes, the winery that has no wine, the winery that has no

office or website. What kind of winery is that? Money laundering business. He didn't pay his taxes, by the way. Ran away from his taxes for, you know, all this money he's making. Apparently he's making all this money in his venture capital firm, although we don't know what the venture capital firm is really investing in. So you see how this could work. Ilhan Omar has feeding our future. Interestingly enough, she announced that whole program the day she announced her marriage to Timmy Minet. Expensive wedding, I guess. You know, they had to pay the bills. So this guy, I mean, he's had complaint after complaint after complaints. There was an investor who said he was promised 200% returns on his $300,000 initial investment. He never got the returns. He was really upset. He

accused them a fraud. And I guess the principal was eventually repaid, but the promised profit never paid. Okay, well, it's good that I guess he got his principal. Sometimes when you make an investment, you don't even get the principal back. But there's been other cases. like this because apparently it wasn't just the winery. There was also some other businesses. Oh, the cannabis firm. Yeah, you know, she really knows how to pick them. The cannabis firm. We've talked about this. He had all these investors in the cannabis firm. And it turns out, well, he promised them a whole lot too. He and his buddy, William Haler, that's his longtime partner. And so I just have this suspicion, okay? It's just a suspicion. But my suspicion is, when 2020 hit,

there was all this money available. And Ilhan had access to all these Somali fraudsters. I can call them fraudsters. They are convicted fraudsters. So many of them are in jail. Tried and convicted. Stole millions of dollars. Right through feeding our future.

So I'm wondering if Ilhan and hubby number three decided to team up and hubby number three said, hey, you know what? You want to be part of feeding our future? give me X number of dollars. You can buy shares in my little venture capital firm, which is trust me not a venture capital firm. It seems to be a lobbying firm, an access firm. Of course, it's access.

Access to feeding our future. So she gives people her husband's number. Her husband says, okay, a million bucks, and we'll give you whatever. It's a multiple, right? Because you're going to get free money from the government. you don't really have to be feeding anybody. It's not feeding our future.

Or you get a daycare program, you name it. Maybe an autism program. We'll come up with some kind of program for you. You just go see Timmy. Timmy Minet will hook you up. You just purchase shares in the venture capital firm, and voila, money laundering. This is what I suspect.

Again, I don't have the proof. I just have common sense, you know, and he's made some rather fatal errors like saying he runs $60 billion. or has run $60 billion? There's just no way. So he's made those fatal errors. He wasn't registered with the SEC.

If you're really, you know, running that kind of money, why aren't you registered with the SEC? Ha, that's kind of a weird thing. You've got this one, too. The fact that he just doesn't pay his taxes, Rose Lake Capital. Is it me or didn't Hunter Biden's firm had something? It wasn't like Rose Lake, but, yeah, it was Rose something?

I feel like that. I've heard that name, Anyway, Rose Lake Capital was the name of his venture firm, and he apparently was owing $403,000 in taxes, but he just never paid his tax bill. So you combine that with the multiple allegations of fraud, with the fact that, oh, the New York Times even went in and said, hey, you know what, this has happened before. We've had to investigate her before. And it was the Biden administration that was investigating her before because she was giving to me a big giant, big, you know what payday, all right? She was paying him $2.8 million because you see once they got married, it was her money too.

That would be kind of a problem. You see, it's an enormous amount. I've told you this before, guys, so I know I'm repeating myself, but let me just remind you, no one makes $2.8 million running a congressional campaign. Unless, of course, your spouse is the one whose campaign you're running and apparently there's enough money is slushing through the streets of Minneapolis in the Somali district to make it worth somebody's while to put so much money into her campaign for then to, for her to turn it back on you, which means turning it back on herself. So I'm wondering if this was a partner in crime. Because Ilhan, she really knows how to pick him, doesn't she?

Wow, what a lady. We do know how to pick them over in 76 research. Talk about making money the old-fashioned way. Please take a look at that. We've got the market's recovering right now. It's really a tremendous thing to see. and I think very important because when you think about, really, remember this guys, when you think about what we're facing, when you think about what we're up against with the potential, if you listen to the left, it's World War III, for goodness sakes, you know, you look, you look at the success of the markets and it's telling you a very, very different story. We began the show talking about how we are winning, we are winning this. And I will tell you, the president out just moments ago, and I want to bring this to you because this is a very, very important. important message that he is sending to the country at this moment in time.

Ladies and gentlemen, he wants you to know we are doing well and we're going to continue doing well. Let's go now to the President of the United States speaking on the strikes on Iran. Very well on the war front, to put it mildly, I would say. Somebody said, on a scale of 10, where would you rate it? I said about a 15. Their leadership is just rapidly going. everybody that seems to want to be a leader, they end up dead.

And it's an amazing, amazing thing that's taking place. It is. The president determined we were not going to get hit first. It's that simple, guys. We are not going to put Americans troops in harm's way. If you tell the president of the United States that if we don't go first, we're going to have more people killed and more people injured, the president's going to go first. That's what he did.

That's what the president will. And that's what he does, okay, right? Because you're going to need to save America. lies and why are you going to sit around? If you've got intelligence that they're going to strike, you tell me you're going to sit around and wait for that to happen? That's not how he moves, okay? He's going to take the offensive upside opportunity in a situation like that. But, you know, you get the likes of John Brennan out there, another never-trumper, just despises him. He's out trying to say, this is not going the way the president hoped. I mean, these people, it's really kind of

strange to me. It's so strange that they hate him so much that it's like they hate their country. Here is CNN's John Brennan, you know, who's worried about probably going to jail himself for a variety of things. Spouting more nonsense. Watch. Director Brennan, let me just ask you, you know, if you were sort of assessing what was happening in this country, um, as the CIA director for the UK or for another country. I mean, what would your assessment be of where things stand here right now? I think Paul said it very well.

The fact that all of the United States' very formidable resources and capabilities in the military law enforcement, all across the board are in the hands of someone like Donald Trump. I think a lot of intelligence chiefs around the globe are looking at the United States and saying things are really broken there in terms of how policy is formulated, It's not. It's just something that Donald Trump decides to do. And so I think it's really quite worrisome. And I think the feeling is we're at a very dangerous point because as this Trump realizes, I think, that the war in Iran is not going the way he had hoped and wanted. This is a real mess. And how do we get out of this? And it really, aside from the fact that this is such a needless war

and such unnecessary death and destruction that is taking place, as pointed out, the fact that that, you know, it's almost like an amateur show. If you really wanted to go forward with some type of regime change, you know, you wouldn't have just had the military operations. You would have been doing a lot of advanced work in terms of coordinating with allies, in terms of, you know, reaching into the Iranian military and trying to recruit generals and units and get them to defect as soon as the bomb started to fall, arming and equipping and, you know, training such as the Iranian Kurds and other types of things. So there'd be a simultaneous combustion inside of Iran. As much as I don't think that should have happened

at all in light of the lack of any human. the threat. It just shows that there wasn't any type of strategic plan that went on. And so it's anarchism that's happening. And unfortunately, people like, you know, Marco Rubio and others, they know better. But the fact that Donald Trump is leading them all around, you know, by the ring in their noses. Again, I think, you know, the Brits and others are looking at us and saying, my God, the world has changed so dramatically because the United States is acting in such an arbitrary capricious and reckless manner. What is coming, you know, a headbuss? And I do think that there are a lot of questions It's about what the rest of this year.

We get the picture. I mean, John Brennan, again, he's worried about his own hide, shall we say. I'm going to tell you, in my estimation, this was brilliantly, brilliantly executed. And you know how I know that? Think about what just went down. What do we do? We opened up American drilling, okay? Because that's an important part of it.

Listen, you don't want to inflict economic pain on the people if you can help it, right? Consider the contrast between this guy and, you know, friends over there in the Biden administration that decided that we're going to sanction Russia and make sure that none of its natural gas gets to the U.S., but simultaneously, we're going to sanction effectively ourselves by shutting down all the energy opportunities here in the U.S. V. Like that made any sense. While simultaneously begging Maduro to leave office in Venezuela and getting nowhere, I mean, they couldn't get to first base with him. He just ran them on around in circles. It was kind of funny. I actually have a lot of inside knowledge about that

and saw it all going down in real time. I mean, they just couldn't make hay of that at all. So Biden won and Maduro gone, couldn't get them gone. And instead, you had the Iranians, you had the Russians, and you had the Chinese all hanging out right here in our Western Hemisphere in Venezuela, taking advantage of the opportunity to have those oil fields. And I mentioned it from the oil perspective, right, knowing that when something like Iran happens and you go in there and you kind of mess it all up, you're going to possibly have a difficulty getting oil and therefore you're going to inflict this pain on the American people, all right?

The lives and stuff aside. So there's an economic cost to that. What did this president do? Because he's smart, unlike Biden, unlike Brennan, unlike the whole rag team that was there in both the Obama administration and, of course, the Biden-Kamala Harris administration. I mean, that was just idiocy on steroids. Anyway, what they did was really smart. So they took care of Venezuela. They made sure they opened up production here in Texas and throughout. all U.S. territories, and then they said, okay, you know, we're going to work with Israel because Israel's all over this one, and we're going to do everything. We're going to shut down their cameras. We're going to make sure that we have the cameras that basically allow us to know where

they're going to be. There are suggestions, and I have not independently confirmed this, but there are suggestions that they may have had trackers on some of these people. I've read some examples of maybe it was put in their dental implants. I don't know, but whatever they did, you know, You don't mess with the Massad. They were all over that one. So they tracked these guys and they figured out where they were going. Not only did they get the Ayatollah, but then when they tried to reassemble and then get another Ayatollah,

boom, boom, presto, they went again. Okay, that's how good we are. We're really good. And you know what? We're going to just keep getting better because we've got all kinds of technology on our side. And we just happen to be, again, the United States of America, with the best tech companies in the world. So between us and Israel, you know, Brennan, I think it's actually going pretty well.

And again, I'll repeat, you know, Donald Trump, say what you want about him. But he actually doesn't lie. I mean, part of his problem is he tells the truth too much. In all seriousness, I remember back in March 2020, and it was a Fox reporter. I think it was John Roberts. Yeah. sorry, not March 2020, after March 2020. It was May 2020, early May. And John Robert said to the President of the United States, have you seen any intelligence that suggested the virus came out of

the Wuhan lab? Well, we had all seen a lot of intelligence. I had seen some intelligence, thank you very much. I had pretty good sources. I had seen some intelligence in February of 2020 that was not reportable yet, but I had seen intelligence suggesting, sure enough, that this thing had come out of the Wuhan lab. Well, guess what? But the president looked him in the face and said, yeah, I've seen that intelligence. And all AT-T-W-L broke loose. New York Times went crazy. Nature Journal went crazy.

They all went nuts. Oh, my gosh. They had to get rid of them in there because he told the truth. It would take years before all the three-letter agencies would admit the truth on all of that. Yeah, he tells the truth. Okay. And here's the truth. He's telling us about what is going on.

You know we're on right now. We're doing very well on the war front, to put it mildly, I would say. Somebody said, on a scale of 10, where would you rate it? I said about a 15. Their leadership is just rapidly going. Everybody that seems to want to be a leader, they end up dead. And it's an amazing, amazing thing that's taking place. Everyone who wants to be a leader, they wind up dead.

So, moral of the story, you don't want to be a leader there in Iran right about now. Now do you? I'd say not. Hey, guys, you know, it is tremendous to have you here. I thank you for being here. I encourage you to subscribe to the show, to tell your friends about the show, to leave a comment. What do you think? Do you think this war is going well?

I mean, I think we're doing pretty good under the circumstances right about now. Pretty darn good. And I don't think the president would have ever taken this risk. if he didn't have some confidence that we could do decently well right now, knowing him the way I do, knowing how much he cares about our troops, knowing how much he cares about the safety of every American. I don't think he would have taken this on unless he felt very strongly that indeed we had a shot at doing this well.

David Lorenzo reporting, look, it was like we've got our own reporting team out there that the Kurds have started a ground invasion. This was the goal, right, to get the Kurds involved. And I know those negotiations were going on because the Kurds, one, they're great fighters. They helped us tremendously in Syria. And they are the ones that have the might and the wherewithal and perhaps the conviction, right, to really see this through. They have an affinity for the West. They like us. We like them. They like Israel. Israel likes them. They don't want a religious extremist running their country. So this is the good news.

I am very confident. I am very confident that this is actually going to end. very well for the world. But you know what? We're only a few days in. We're only a few days in. And this is, you know, it's, it's what you would call a short movie. It's not a long one. Okay, this is not a big dramatic, you know, Netflix sequel type thing. I suspect, and I take the president at his word, that this is going to be between four and six weeks here. So I think we're just a few days into this. And thus far, if we go back and we look at the success that we are having and how basically they have had to, you know, suspend all of their efforts in terms of sending those missiles. They were trying to strike every single Tom, Dick, and Harry embassy that they could,

and that's not working out for them. So, well, we see that the Iran's theater ballistic malaise shots fires down 86%. We know that they are, in fact, just down 23% in the last 24 hours. This is percent come. We also know that the one-way attack drone shots have, declined 73% from the opening days. So this is very, very good news. We are now in control of the airspace and they are not able to fire back in that sense. So we're going in on the ground, as you heard earlier from General Kane earlier in the show and earlier in the day. So now we

have this new opportunity to move in and we're taking it. We are taking it because we have to see this through. And we need to ensure the same. safety of our troops. We need to ensure the safety of our country. And you know, you say the safety of the world, well, it is the safety of the world. And you can't look at me and say, oh, well, it's just about the world. It's not about the U.S. The U.S. is the most important country in the world. So if the world disintegrates, right, because you've got Iran suddenly in charge. And by Iran, we would also say China and Russia, well, that would be a problem, guys. And we're not going to stand for it. Okay. we elected the guy. So, Alleluia. I'll see you right back here tomorrow live on the Trish Rican

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