The Trish Regan Show - Somali Fraudsters CAUGHT BRIBING JURORS with $120k CASH in Ilhan's 'Feeding Our Future' Trial

Episode Date: March 6, 2026

Ilhan Omar's District In New Bribery Scandal | Sec Kristi Noem Out at DHS | Trump Exiles Tucker Carlson | China, Russia Spooked by US Success in Iran | CNN Host Scrambling Amid Talk of Firings A shocking development in the massive “Feeding Our Future” fraud trial — prosecutors say individuals connected to the case attempted to bribe jurors with $120,000 in cash in a scandal tied to Minnesota’s largest pandemic-era fraud scheme. The allegations are sending shockwaves through Ilhan Omar’s district, where the multi-million-dollar fraud operation first exploded into national headlines. Save 10% on your first website or domain with Squarespace: https://www.squarespace.com/Regan Use code REGAN Meanwhile, President Trump is making waves inside the conservative movement, publicly slamming former Fox News host Tucker Carlson as “not MAGA.” A new poll suggests an overwhelming majority of MAGA voters remain firmly behind Trump, raising questions about the future of several high-profile media personalities. Also in today’s show: • Why Trump’s latest move on Iran has China and Russia watching closely • Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice weighs in on the Iran strategy • DHS Secretary Kristi Noem is out — Trish examines the scandals that led to the shake-up • Panic inside CNN as insiders warn that major layoffs could be coming amid the Paramount takeover Join Trish Regan for analysis of these stories and more in this full edition of The Trish Regan Show. Get Trish’s financial intelligence at: https://76research.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Well, Ilhan Omar is certainly in trouble now. I mean, it's like one thing after another. Her day just went from bad to so much worse, right? Ladies and gentlemen, a $120,000 cash bribe has just been exposed in her district. Minneapolis, they were trying to get some people, you know, maybe off the hook. Plus, we just got word that the President of the United States has fired one Christy Knoam from DHS. We're going to tell you about her replacement. We're going to tell you about why the president wanted this to go down.

Plus, the president also firing someone else from his team, if you could call it his team, one of his fans, well, maybe not his biggest fan. Tucker Carlson is getting slammed by the president. He said, well, you know what, this guy, he's really just not MAGA. Welcome to the program. I am Trish Rigan. It's so good to have you here. Please make sure you subscribe and tell your friends.

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Our research, not too shabby. Anyway, we begin today on the $120,000 cash bribe that has just been exposed in this whole feeding the future, our future scandal. This is a big story, guys. So you know the drill. Ilhan Omar's district got $250 million of your tax. bear dollars, courtesy of her, well, and all of us, because we didn't know about it. She introduced this program, and then what do you know, everybody's signing up in Minneapolis.

They all, for the most part, happened to be of Somali descent, and they get this racket going. And they've all been discovered. So now they're all getting in trouble and they're all going to jail, but somebody decided maybe we can find a workaround, a way around this, and just take $120,000 cash. Listen to the report out of Minneapolis right now. These defendants engaged in a chilling attack on our justice system. It's been three weeks since $120,000 in cash was dropped at the home of a juror in the feeding our future trial. US attorney Andy Lugar describing it now is a sophisticated scheme.

And they plotted carefully and deliberately during the trial waiting for the right moment to act. fortunately for all of us, juror 52 could not be bought. Charged our three of the feeding our future defendants, Abdi Aziz Farah, his brother Saeed Farah, and Abdi Majid Mnir, also charged our Abdul Karim Farah, another brother, seen here in an evidence photo.

And Lidon Ali recruited to fly in from Seattle, also seen in this evidence photo. Ali's fingerprints were found on the bag used to deliver the bribe. Ali's rental car was seen waiting for juror number 52. to leave after court and then following her. License plate readers found 19 times over three days. A lease car was near the juror's home. They studied her, followed her, and determined that she would succumb to their scheme.

Stuffed inside a water bottle and Obdea Z's Fasoam was a typed list of the juror's names. And though deleted, the FBI still recovered evidence from defendant's phones, including text messages arranging the bribe about staking out the juror and a video of a Lee actually delivering the bride. They also found lengthy instructions to the juror and how to convince others to vote not guilty, and it heavily plays on race. We are

immigrants, it reads, they don't respect us and care about us. In the indictment, it alleges that she was targeted for two reasons. One, she was young, and two, that they believe she was the only juror of color. Yeah. Okay, so there you have. We're back to that again.

Oh, you know, let's all bond over color. And, you know, maybe they can't come after us, because we're of color. Is that what you're supposed to say now? Of color? I can't keep track of it. I thought it was just, well, African-American, Somali-American or whatever.

I digress. The point is, you can't do that stuff. Not in the United States of America. I mean, it's taking them a while to get a little used to this. I loved how Timmy Walsh the other day was trying to tell us that, well, you know, culturally it's just sort of different and we need to do a better job of communicating to people that you can't steal. I'm like, well, maybe you should not be coming to this country.

Maybe we shouldn't be given you denaturalization status. Maybe we shouldn't be giving you a green card or asylum if you don't understand the basic concept of let's not steal. All right? I mean, it's kind of basic. It seems to me you don't have the, quite the moral character that one would want coming to this country if you don't understand those basics. If Timmy Wals has to lay it out for you. Ilhan Omar was also caught saying, well, you know, it was just so easy. They made it so easy.

I'm sorry. Guys, that's no excuse. No excuse at all. She's the one that introduced the whole shebang, okay? Back in 2020, on March 11th, right around the same time that she decided to get married to that Timmy Minet. I wonder how much he had to do with this. After all, he had been a campaign worker, a campaign manager for her. And they introduced this thing.

And the next thing you know, every Tom Dick and Harry or Mohammed and Ahmed and I'm running out of names, signed up, the Somali restaurant owner, that Ilhan decided to have her big party. When she celebrated her win at he was part of this, one of her former campaign staffers, he was part of this. I'm betting he knew from Timmy Minet, whom he worked with on Ilhan's campaign. that this thing was coming down. So these are just allegations, of course, at this point. But it's sort of amazing to think that Ilhan Omar went from negative 50,000 to 30 million. In the span of a couple years.

As soon as she married to this, this guy, and as soon as they came out with feeding our future. Oh, she thinks she's the victim, though. And, of course, all the people in her district are victims that stole $250 million. Of the 87 people charged all but eight are of Somali descent. And that has added to the spotlight being put specifically on your community. Why do you think this fraud was allowed to get so widespread? I want to say, you know, this also has an impact on Somalis because we are also taxpayers in Minnesota.

We also could have benefited from the program and the money that was stolen. And so it's been really frustrating for people to not acknowledge the fact that we're, you know, we're also as Minnesota and as taxpayers really upset and angry about the fraud that has occurred. Please, please, please. We're upset. No, you know who's upset? We're all upset because we're. When you tally it all up, when it's all said and done, we're talking about $19 billion,

ladies and gentlemen, $19 billion. And you know what? There are people that have to go to jail for this, not just the fraudsters, but the people that look the other way. I mean, certainly the person that introduced this, if it turns out that she profited off of this in some way, shape, or form, which I happen to believe she did, then, yes, she's going to go to jail too. But you know what?

And probably be deported and denaturalized along with it. But Timmy Wals, he's under five. You saw the hearings just yesterday. And Keith Ellison, he's under fire. And our friend Brandon Gill down in Texas, the representative who happens to be my friend, Desuce's son-in-law. I always have to work that in because I love Dinesh. And I love his daughter.

And therefore, I love Brandon. Plus, I love what Brandon has to say. Listen to Brandon Gill saying he wants somebody in jail. What I'd like to see is I'd like to see people going to jail. Yeah, we want that. Some more of it. Okay, Brandon Gill. Again, to the tune of billions and billions of dollars, that you can commit fraud, you can defraud American taxpayers.

We're going to look the other way, and we expect you to vote Democrat. That was sort of the bargain that was made. I think we were able to highlight that during this hearing, it was very, very clear what's been going on for a long time. This was not just, you know, Governor Walt's not doing his job. It was much more sinister than that. It was a way to buy off votes, and it was unbelievably corrupt. And again, we're the ones who are footing the bill for it. He was pressed further by Rep Byron Donald in that room. Watch.

We lowered the standards for proof of administrative fraud. We lowered what it took to show that fraud was happening. And what did you do with the results of lowering the standards to prove fraud? What did you do? We put 79 people in prison and at- But Governor Walls, the fraud continued to increase. It increased under your tenure. Do you acknowledge that?

Did the numbers increase? Yes. Your takeaway from that? Yes, of course the numbers increased. We saw organizations such as some of this autism centers where you saw payments to Medicaid going up like 500 times over the course of his administration. There were not 500 times more autism patients during that period, but that's what was being paid out. I mean, this is so over the top, it's really hard to wrap your head around, how egregious

this was. And again, the administration knew about it. They didn't do anything. They went after whistleblowers, and we're paying for it. First of all, I'm glad to see the Governor Walts isn't running for re-election because somebody who is that flagrantly corrupt shouldn't be in any elected office. But second of all, I think what we want to see, and we're going to continue doing this work, we're not done yet. Because I'd like to see prosecutions, even more than we've seen now. About 100 people have been indicted so far.

This was far, far bigger than that. I mean, you had open markets where different members of the community were trying to see which autism center they could get bigger kickbacks from. I mean, this is so much deeper than just what we were able to get into in a short time. hearing one day. So what I'd like to see is I'd like to see people going to jail, and I think that's what the American people want to see. You bet it's what the American people want to see. Absolutely, a lot of people are going to have to go to jail over this. And I'll tell you, if Keith Ellison and Timmy Walts, as the committee concluded, in fact, deliberately looked the other way because there were political opportunities for them to do so, as in political funds for their campaigns,

then boy, oh, boy, oh, boy, do we have a problem, ladies and gentlemen. A huge, huge I want to get back to Ilhan Omar. I want to talk about Christine Nome and that firing. But first, quick word from one of our great sponsors here in the Trish Riegan show. You know, I keep saying, I'm going to get my website together. I've been working on it. Thanks to these guys. Squarespace. Squarespace.com forward slash Reagan. You can get 10% off special offer. I've got for you there. Listen, if I can do it, you can do it. One of the things I like about Squarespace is that they have all of these different kinds of templates, including video, which obviously I'm in the video business. so I like video and regardless, you know, I'm told I'm supposed to have a website, you know,

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Epic because, you know, she deserves it. So what happened? The House decided that they wanted to prevent the president from being able to take any kind of strike as he did on Iran. And so they wanted to curb his war powers. Well, it turns out that thing didn't go through. But it didn't stop her from trying. Okay, here's Ilhan Omar. Guys, watch. It's unilaterally dragging this nation into an illegal. unjustified war with Iran. As someone who survived the horrors of war, I know that bombs do not build peace or create stability. Military strikes will not make us safer. They will inflame tensions and push the region further into chaos. Every time we abandon diplomacy, we choose destruction. We know who will bear the costs of this decision. Innocent civilians caught in the crossfire

and young service members sent into harm's way. The American people are exhausted by endless wars, build on false promises, and paid for with American and foreign lives. Congress must re-assert its constitutional authority. I urge my colleagues to vote yes to stop U.S. involvement in another illegal forever war. Thank you, and I yield back.

Oh, goodness. Well, you know what, they voted. No. I'm from New York Reserve. They voted no. So sorry, Ilhan. You know, sometimes you really question who exactly you're working for because it doesn't really feel like us. No, it doesn't feel like us at all, at all, at all, at all. If you haven't subscribed, make sure that you do, please do me that favor. Big news today. Christy, Noem, you know, Ice Barbie, she's out, done. You're fired, the president said.

Wow. This was a big, big story, a huge news development this afternoon. afternoon and, you know, some people kind of saw it coming because once Tom Homan got in there, I told you, you know, Tom's great and he's steady Eddie, and he kind of got Minneapolis and Minnesota back in shape. He kind of just exploded in this humongous controversy. As you well know, we don't need to rehash all that. But there are a few other reasons why the president sought to get rid of Christine Home today. So, again, out as head of Homeland Security, we'll talk about her successor in just a moment, but I would point out that, again, the President had his concerns, which we'll get to. He did say I'm pleased to announce that the highly respected U.S.

Senator from the great state of Oklahoma, Mark Wayne Mullen, will become the U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security, effective March 31st. So she's got a couple of weeks. The current Secretary, Christy Knoem, has served us well and has been numerous, has had spectacular results, especially on the border. We will be moving to the special envoy of the Shield of of America's, whatever that is, I guess our new security initiative in the Western Hemisphere as we announced, as we are announcing on Saturday in Dorell, Florida. Okay? So she's out.

That was quick. And then he goes on and on about Senator Mullen. So why is she out now? You might ask. Well, you see, there was this little hearing yesterday. And we didn't really get into it because we had a lot going on with the fraudsters and that hearing. yesterday, but this hearing was kind of a big deal, and she didn't do so well. I mean, it's hard,

right, because they were just out for blood. Let's be honest. They were like, you know, sharks circling the water, and they were just out to get her. And boy, oh boy, they did. According to the Wall Street Journal at the hearing, Noam told various senators that the president had signed off on a big giant ad campaign, hundreds of millions of dollars where her picture would be everywhere. You You go into an airport, you see a picture of Christy, you go into anything. You see a picture of Christy. There's like a social media campaign, there's a television, whatever. They had billboards, et cetera, and it cost a lot of money.

And not only did it cost a lot of money, she hired her PR person's husband to run the campaign. So that's a little suss. I'm just saying, I mean, you know, you all have your friends, right? but this gets a little bit tricky. And the next thing you know, she's on a horse, as though she's like the Marlboro Man. And so everybody was pouncing on this. I mean, just listen to Jamie Ruskin.

Like a personal slush fund, you budgeted an astonishing $220 million for media consultant contracts. So you can star in self-promoting photo shoots and lavish ad campaigns like this one of you riding horseback at Mount Rushmore. I just want to linger on that picture. Well, she looks great, right? She sure looks great.

By the way, I never meant Ice Barbie to be derogatory. I actually think it's great to be compared to a Barbie who wouldn't want to be compared to a Barbie. And she's a beautiful woman, okay, if I do say. She's a beautiful woman. Anyway, the problem is it can be sometimes misconstrued, right? You know, if you're doing these beauty, glamour campaigns, and, well, we have things not going so well and say the state of Minnesota or there are other issues and now you've got

like a funding crisis with DHS not being operational right now it kind of starts to weigh on people and it wasn't just the Dems right pointing this out this is the part that might have really done her in because they started pushing her on who was okay with this did the president sign off on the 220 million dollar ad campaign all about Christy watch Senator Ken. I said, Mr. President, here's some ads I've cut and I'm going to spend $220 million running them, that he would have agreed to that. I don't think Russ vote at OMB would have agreed to that.

It's something we have to defend. I'm on the Appropriations Committee. I mean, my research shows that you did not bid them out, that you just, you, In fact, one of the people you picked, the strategy group, I'm sorry, Safe America Media was a company formed 11 days before you picked them, and that strategy group got most of the money, and the head of that is married to your former spokesperson. Oh, dear.

Look, we all have friends who are qualified. I'm not quibling with that. I'm just, it troubles me, a quarter, a fifth to a quarter of a billion dollars of taxpayer money. When we're scratching for every penny and we're fighting over rescission packages, I just can't agree with, Madam Secretary. Hmm. So she kind of had all sides going at her. And that isn't great.

That's kind of a problem. By the way, one of the things that Kennedy was pointing out there, Senator Kennedy, was that this PR company, somehow I missed this. I don't know how. Like, you know, I was traveling the last couple of weeks, and Trisha McLaughlin, who I really liked. By the way, I love Christy, too. Don't get me wrong. And, you know, I feel bad for her. It's unfortunate.

But apparently her spokesperson's husband was the one who got the bulk of the money for this deal and the spokesperson, Tricia McLaughlin, actually sort of quietly exited a couple of weeks ago. So again, they're kind of cluing in on this and this seems to be what the president is most upset about watch. Two of them were chosen. That's inaccurate. Madam Secretary, I'll read from the notice from your agency. Given the immediate action to significantly reduce illegal immigration and border crossings, DHS invited, excuse me, identified four companies, four of the hundred,

of thousands of companies in the United States, you identified four. One of those is this Safe America Media Company. Where is Safe America Media headquartered? I don't know. I don't know either, Madam Secretary. We can't find it. We can't find a website. We did find an address that's registered for this company. Do you know where that address is? Is there a problem with this contract? I'll tell you about it. Madam Secretary, the address is registered to a political This is the dollars that were spent to inform people to respond. The company is registered to a political operative in Virginia. Do you know, just by way of example, whether this company that received $143 million in taxpayer

dollars, has it ever done work for the government before? I don't know. I can't. The answer is it has not. And do you know why we know that? Because it was incorporated eight days, eight days before this contract went out. You want the American people to believe that this is all above board, that $143 million of taxpayer money just happened to go to this one company that doesn't have a headquarters,

doesn't have a website, has never done work for the federal government before, and is registered apparently or attached to a residence from a political operative. And of course, one of the subcontractors of that contract, as you know, is a political firm that's tied to you back when you were governor of South Dakota. The reason why I ask these questions is that this is taxpayer money. And I presume, I don't know this for a fact, but Senator Tillis noted yesterday the way in which your agency is blocking the Inspector General from 11 different investigations that it is trying to conduct.

I don't know if this happens to be one of them. I certainly hope it is because eventually the facts will become public in this regard. And... Okay. So, yeah, I mean, in light of everything that we're dealing with in Minnesota, it's... in light of the $80 billion, estimated to have gone up in smoke, thanks to fraud out in California, concerns about fraud in Ohio and in Maine. Look, Massachusetts, too.

Oh, in New York. Can't forget New York. Yeah, they just opened an investigation the other day into the Medicaid fraud they believed to be going down in New York. Look, under the circumstances, it's like, you're going to be squeaky clean, okay? And Donald Trump is not going to have a lot of rope for you if you're not. I'm not saying she wasn't, but it doesn't look great, right? Like, it just doesn't look good. Again, here is the story.

I believe this one, this is in Fox News. DHS defends McLaughlin after allegations her husband's company profited from this ad. They're saying, no, that's not true. That's ridiculous, totally baseless. All right. Well, then there's another issue going on, okay? And I hate to bring this up because I like both these guys, but it became a bit of a spectacle

in yesterday's hearing as well. It was really unfortunate to see, but she didn't fully deny this alleged relationship with one Corey Lewandowski. I don't know. I don't really care. But for some reason, the Democrat attacking her made this a big line of questioning.

And I want you to see the results. Fireworks. You've called Corey Lewandowski a special government employee. I understand what government means. I understand what employee means. Okay. But I don't know what makes him special. Now, I want to give you an opportunity to answer on the record to Ms. Kamlogger Doves' question.

I know you said it's garbage, and it may be, but I really think you need to say the word no into the record so that you can clear that up. I think the ridiculousness of this and the tabloids that you are quoting and referencing are insane. And this has been something that I've refuted for years and I continue to do that. So it's a note. We can move on. Hold on. We can move on. I'm not going to belabor it.

This is what you do. Hold on. I'm not doing anything. Liberal left is you go off and you attack conservative women and you say that we're either stupid or we're sluts. All right, so listen. That's what you do. Yesterday, Richard. I will tell you, sir. I will tell you, sir. Mr. Chairman, I am neither of course.

You were asked by Richard Blumenthal yesterday. You were asked by Richard Blumenthal yesterday if Corey was involved in approving contracts. You said no. Do you want to correct that? What I would say is that he has an advisor to the Department of Homeland Security has no decision-making authority. Madam Secretary, you want to correct it? Yes or no. No.

No. No decision-making authority. Hold on. Not a problem. According to one of the FEMA administrators that you fired, there is nothing, including contracts that is brought to you that he hasn't reviewed. In fact, a significant amount of DHS internal routing documents has his signature on it above deputy secretaries. Okay? That former FEMA administrator wasn't fired by you, the secretary. He was fired by Corey. It was Corey that called him into your office. It was Corey that made him to submit to a polygraph test. The $100,000 spending rule that you created that comes to your desk, You're not even sitting at your desk. It's Corey who's sitting there. ISIS said the Republican should be happy at the job that you're doing. Really? You're looking at the person who single-handedly took the president's signature core issue, immigration, the issue that got him elected from 59% to 39%.

200 miles of border walls being held up by you. They had to bring Tom Holman, pull out of Minnesota. I think the country needs a national divorce from you on biblical grounds. I mean, if Donald Trump was still apprentice Trump, he would look at you and he would realize you're the weakness cabinet member, and he would fire you. And if the president said to you, that only way DHS could reopen

is if you resigned, I hope you would take him up on it. Now, I want to end on a happy note, Mr. Chairman, real quickly. Okay, this just makes me wish he kept her. What a little schmuck that guy is. So, Cori Landowski, according to the Wall Street Journal, he had a pretty heated conversation

with the president last night. Following that testimony, according to the White House, She had apparently lost the confidence of pretty much everyone in the senior aid department. So I'm thinking like Susie Wiles and maybe J.D., etc. They were sort of left totally baffled by her management skills or her lack of management skills, but perhaps most especially by her empowerment of one Mr. Lewandowski. On top of it all, there was the private jet.

Could you explain this? Sir, I'm looking at a picture of an interior. looks like a bedroom. Of an airplane? Yes, sir. You're not familiar with that? These photos are not accurate. If you're referring to the airplanes

that the Department of Homeland Security has purchased and are purchasing, we're using them for long-range command and control aircraft that is dictated in statute by Congress for the Department of Homeland Security to have a plane. A luxury jet with a bedroom in it? Yeah, we used a 737.

I've been on it once, but it is being used. by other administration officials, and it is used for commanded control flights for the department. The department has found that in purchasing our aircraft, that we will save the taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars. Does it have a bedroom in it? In fact, we spent $1.42 billion on ICE deportation flights last year. Does it have a bedroom in it? I believe it's being refurbished and not having a bedroom in it, so it is being refurbished.

part of the room. What kind of deportee justifies being flown out of the country in a luxury jet with a bedroom and accommodations like this? There are aircraft being purchased that will be utilized for executive air travel and for deportations. If you remember in the past, we have used jets of this size and this configuration. This really bugged me, okay? It just, guys, it really did bug me. Look, a few things going on. One, yeah, you probably shouldn't be the centerfold in the campaign. You know what I mean. I mean, the ad campaign can't all be about you.

So that was mistake number one. Mistake number two was everything that unfolded and the way it was handled in Minnesota. A lot of people felt like she was too focused on looking great on the raids and not focused enough on getting the illegal migrants out of the country. So that was one of the criticisms. And look, it's hard, right? Like, she's a woman. She's got to look good.

Like, I get it. I want to look good too. But the concern was there was, like, too much lip gloss and not enough focus on substance. You had Corey Lewandowski there kind of running the show as opposed to her, right? Like, she should be in charge, but she kind of de facto made him in charge. So that ruffled a lot of feathers. And then you got a situation. now where, yeah, you know, DHS is shut down and they're not able to do their work.

And so the frustration is being felt certainly by the president. And like I said, I might have waited a few more days, maybe even a few more weeks after seeing those Democrats because they were just so rabid and they were so out for blood. And that would just make me mad. And that makes me want to protect my people even more. But, you know, he's reassigning her. I see you guys are like upset because I think the lower, the Kairon, the lower third said, she's fired.

Well, she, you know, she's out. it's not exactly a vote of confidence, guys. I mean, he's not quote-unquote putting her out on her, you know what. She's got some other little gig she'll go off to. But it's not great. It's not great for her. It's not great for Corey. But you know who it is great for?

You know who it is great for the new guy. We're talking about one, Senator Mullen. Watch. I'm super excited about it. Humbling. And that's the best one can say it's super humbling. Have you talked to Secretary? Terry Nome, yeah, did you have a chance to.

I'm actually, we neither one of us had time to talk, so I'm gonna go give her a call in just a second. You know, we're, our families are very close and this happened very quick, so we're gonna, we're gonna have a conversation with her in a second. Did my president say anything about what he would like you to do in this job that Nome is not?

I will never discuss private conversations. Never have, not gonna do that now either. But we're super excited about the opportunity and we're gonna, you know, do it the best we can. We're gonna get Department of Homeland Security making sure that we stay focused on protecting the homeland. And no matter if you support me, for me. I'm going to be laser focused on getting that done.

Okay. So there you have it. New Homeland Security Director. It's not changing anything as far as structure. We're considered though, you know, he said, we're still not going to release any funding. Here he is minutes ago. The president has fired Christy Noam. Good riddance. But the problems at this agency ice transcend any one person. The rot is deep. The president has to end the violence and rain in ice. What would you need to confirm Senator Mullen to this position? Do you need assurance?

This is a problem of policy, not personnel. The rot is deep. No one person can straighten this up until the president changes the whole agency, stops the violence, and rains in ice. Oh, come on, come on, come on, come on. You want me to go pull the tape from 1990-something, when you were like, we need more policing of migrants. We've got to close our borders and we need we need IDs. Yeah, that was Chuck Schumer back in the day. We need IDs for everyone. Wow,

wow, wow, wow. Anyway, you get it. This is, you know, politics as usual. It's such an icky job, isn't it? It's such a bad, lousy, thankless job and everybody's out to get you. And it's a tough, it's a tough Roto Ho, shall we say. You know who else is kind of on the outs these days? Someone's really on the outs these days, but I guess it's of his own doing. That would be one, Mr. Tucker Carlson, the guy who I used to have a show, opposite, I was on Fox business, he was on Fox News at 8 o'clock.

He doesn't seem to always really like what the president's doing, including what's happening in Iran. I have my own suspicions about that as to why that is. Maybe it's viewership. Maybe it's, well, I don't quite want to say. But I don't understand it, but, you know, he's entitled to have his opinion. He apparently is very vocal with his opinion and decided to talk to ABC News as all of this went down just last weekend. The president did not appreciate this after he told Jonathan Carl the following Listen.

I've reached out to several of the president's most prominent supporters in his movement to get the reaction to this momentous decision to launch a wide-scale attack on Iran. I just heard back from Tucker Carlson. Tucker Carlson, of course, spoke at the president's convention in 2024. He's been a frequent visitor at the White House. In fact, he was at the White House just last week. So I wanted to know what Tucker Carlson, who has long opposed the idea of another war in the Middle East, what he thought of this. And his answer, he told me that president's decision is, quote,

absolutely disgusting and evil. This is Tucker Carlson, who was at the White House just last week, said that the decision to go to war with Iran is absolutely disgusting and evil. Now, that's just one person, a prominent one in Trump's movement. But this is a momentous and potentially defining or maybe redefining move for President Trump. He got into politics, in part promising to end what he called forever wars. He was harshly critical of the war with Iraq. He claimed that he had always been against it. And now he finds himself starting what could be a major conflict with Iran.

Okay. So, yeah, Tucker's getting his 10 seconds of fame, I guess. He's like, oh, I'm going to do the opposite of whatever. whatever the president likes and then, you know, I'll get a lot of attention. And the left-wing media will just love me for it and they'll be able to use all these comments. I make a little tiny comment to ABC News and the next thing you know, it's all over their newscasts.

I get the reporter. You know, it's like a print comment. So the reporter goes on and said, I heard this from him. Wow. Anyway, the president didn't appreciate it. And this little ABC reporter, he's like having a field day, right? He's like, I talked to Tucker and now, oh, I just talked to the president of the United States.

in quote a lengthy conversation according to him. So this just came out minutes ago. He puts on his ex platform, quote, in a lengthy conversation just now, President Trump hit back at Tucker Carlson, who called the Iran War, quote, absolutely disgusting and evil. The president said, and I quote, Tucker has lost his way. I knew that a long time ago, and he's not Maga. MAGA is saving our country.

MAGA is making our country great again. MAGA is America first. And Tucker is none of those things. Tucker is really not smart enough to understand that. Do you agree with President Trump? Does Tucker Carlson not have the interests of MAGA at heart? I never thought he did, frankly. I never thought he did.

and I say that there's someone who works with him. I think Tucker does whatever's good for Tucker. Right? If it works for him, for ratings, if it gets me little attention, that's all he cares about. That's a lot of what all these people only care about. They only care about one thing. Ratings, sensation, attention, right?

They want all the attention, they walk into the room, they want everybody looking at them. Oh, my gosh, he couldn't stand. I remember we were at Fox at the same time. I was always told, you know what, you cannot take the president's speech if Tucker's taking the president's speech. And I was like, I want to take the president's speech because, you know, for me, that was like a good night. That was like a home run on ratings. Like, I'd be set for the month. After all, everybody would tune into me. And Tucker never wanted to take the speech. No,

because what did I say? Attention. Right? Like me, me, me, me, me, me. That's how you have to understand what these personalities are, especially the men. the men are always the worst. Full disclosure. There's something always a little about a guy who wants to be on television for a living like that. Just telling you. So he would be like, I don't want Tucker. I don't want the president on TV. It's my show. I made this beautiful show. And so I'd say, I'll take them. And then this team would get all mad because what do you know? We'd beat them in the ratings. Of course, the people only wanted to see Donald Trump. So then, lo and behold, they'd tell me, well, you can't take him.

Tucker can't take him because he doesn't want to take him, and you can't take him because we're not going to let you take them. And so I'm like, well, I'm up a creek without a paddle, ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much. I'm sure he's a nice guy. I think he's just all about him. Because if you think about this, here he is telling Jonathan Carl that this is absolutely and disgusting and evil that we bombed Iran. But, you know, if you look back in the archives on this little short,

show that we all used to go on called Red Eye. Greg Gutfell used to have this show on Fox. Well, just a couple years ago, he was saying this. I do think, I'm sure I'm the lone voice in saying this, I think Iran deserves to be annihilated, I think they're lunatics, I think they're evil. You do, huh?

You don't say. You think they deserve to be annihilated. You think they're evil. Until, of course, Donald Trump does it. And you see an opportunity. and Marjorie Taylor Green. Oh, maybe you guys can run. That's a winning ticket.

Not Tucker and MTV. Taken on MAGA. I can see it now. Flop. Bad, bad flop. But for egomaniacs, you see, they see this as an opportunity. And if you ask me, frankly,

it comes down to attention. and grifting. There's money in it somewhere, along with attention. And so this is why you see these kinds of people doing these kinds of things right now. But, you know, I agree with the president. He never was MAGA. He was only Tucker. So think about that.

I mean, the consistency of President Trump, for example, in contrast, where he's always felt the same on these issues over and over and over and over again throughout the decades. Where's what I just showed you? You see, some people are very, very fickle because it depends where the dollar signs are and where the attention is and where the clicks are. And they go wherever they think they can be the star attraction.

But, you know, this time might be running out because I'll tell you, it's kind of funny. He's actually humiliated in all of it because did you see the new poll? Wow, this is one heck of a poll, ladies and gentlemen. Republicans love Donald Trump more than any president's own party supporters loved them at this particular point. Just take a look here. Okay, own party supporters, 21st century presidents, own party approval about at this point in the second term.

Bush was at 77 percent. Obama was at 77 percent. Look at this. 86 percent of Republicans approve of the job that Donald Trump is doing at this point. That is higher than either Obama or Bush had within their own party at this point. magic touch has not seemed to war off yet when it comes to the Republican base. And what kind of approval are we talking about here? Okay, so we're talking about overall approval here.

How about the strongly approved, the strongly approved, not just like, but love, love. Okay, we're going to look at these same presidents again, strong approval among your own party's base. What you see is Trump is the only one who gets a majority at this point in their presidency. Obama was at 48 percent, Bush was at 47 percent. You see you heard Trump at 53 percent, not as high as overall approval rating. but still getting a majority of the Republican base, at least in the average of polls,

to say that they still really, really, really like him. Okay. They sure do. Okay, so all the more reason for somebody like Tucker to be kind of embarrassed about his viewpoint right about now. I mean, I don't know who he's playing for. He thinks Democrats are going to watch him. Maybe he can poach a little bit of audience off of Don Lemon.

Or maybe. Better yet, Jim Acosta. You know, you can go for all 50,000. thousand of his viewers. That's what I'm thinking. Here's the deal. Ninety-eight percent of people who identify as MAGA love what the president has done. And they are still a thousand percent with the president. Are you with President Trump? I'm with President Trump. You better believe, and look, I'll call him out if I think something's a little sketchy. You know that. It's not like it's not like I'm here to, you know, do his dishes or anything.

I'll tell you what I think. The problem is, I don't think Tucker knows what he thinks. I don't think Tucker thinks. I don't think he cares. And I think the same thing with the whole lot of them that are doing this. M-G, you throw her in there. Somebody mentioned Candace. Gosh, I'd never watch her.

She's frighteningly strange. But all of them are cut from the same cloth. And I got no use for it. Like, you either have an opinion because you have some inner conviction. You don't do this for ratings. Okay, granted, yes, it's a business, whatever, but you got to have some moral fiber. Otherwise, what do you stand for? Why should anybody tune in to watch it?

Because you're going to say one thing one day and something else the next because it doesn't matter. It's wherever the wind blows you. Lightweights, as I would call them. Total lightweights that just care about their hair and makeup. I mean, he worked with his little bow ties for years now, didn't he? Until somebody told him, it really wasn't a good luck. And it wasn't. Anyway, you keep working on that.

Maybe MTG will run as your VP, Tucker Carlson. I'll tell you this. There's a lot happening right now, and it's all for the betterment of the world and the betterment of the country. Donald Trump's move in Iran is a game changer. It kind of just changes everything right now. And I mean everything.

I want to go to the White House. He was just speaking moments ago about oil. Don't forget, straight of her moves, right? And Iran is getting kind of sharp elbows there in the state of her moves and they're making all kinds of threats. Well, the president said, we're going to offer insurance so that those boats can go through. And as soon as our Navy has the ability to do it, we'll make sure that we escort the boats through ourselves. So that's kind of a game changer. That helps tremendously in terms of not slowing

down world commerce. Let's go to the president speaking at the White House. Further action to reduce pressure on oil is eminent and the oil seems to have pretty much stabilized. We had it very low, but I had to take this little detour if it's okay with everybody, Scott. It's okay with you. Scott's the one has to put up with it. He said, you have to do this now? I said, I have to do it, Scott, right? But it's been very strong and everybody, including Scott, everybody, everybody, feels we had really no choice. It was going to, they were going to hit us if we didn't hit them. Yeah.

I mean, so what do you want them to do? Okay, I keep going back to this. You want to sit there and allow for a nuclear Iran? I mean, I realize some people, like the lady over on CNN that I played you the other day, what is her name? She has like a 9 o'clock or 10 o'clock show. I just know it is the Scott Jennings show because he's the only one of any interest over there. Scott Jennings does this show where he takes on like five or six people, sometimes

eight, and they're all these crazy libs. and he's out there, pow, pow, pow, knocking them all down. And she's like, well, what's changed? How is this any different? I mean, they've been bombing our embassies for years, right? And he's like, yeah, and you're okay with that? Look, no one's okay with that. Take a look at this, ladies and gentlemen, the new Fox Poll on my screen.

61% of Americans say yes. True. Iran poses a real security. threat to the United States of America. You don't have to be a rocket scientist to understand that one. That's pretty darn obvious. And yet you have these people, like I said, over on some of these other networks like CNN that just seem to be living in la la land. Like it's okay. Like, you know, why are we doing this now? We're doing this now because we have intelligence that suggest they are very, very close to a nuclear weapon. And by the way, if you don't trust what the president's saying,

Why don't you go look at what NATO's saying? The head of NATO coming out and saying, yeah, they were super close. And thank goodness for the President of the United States for taking action on this one. Let's go to the CNN clip as promised. He's been talking to the press. He has not suggested that there was an imminent. He absolutely has said that there's 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. To be clear, I just want to just read you just listed a bunch of things. None of them weren't imminent attack. But Rita's question is actually about ballistic missiles, Abby. No, there 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 been attacking through their proxies, U.S. military bases, for some time now, okay? You want to keep that going or? The argument 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, were not prepared and are not currently firing missiles and drones into things that, of course, they are. Not that. 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? What changed in the last 30 days?

That's the question that everybody. All right. By the way, 47, 47, isn't that kind of interesting? The threat has been there for 47 years. And believe me, it has with these radical extremists and the Ayatollah and his mullahs. and it has been there for 47 years, but guess what? The 47th President of the United States of America came around and said, no, we're done. Not going to be there anymore. Check this out. We're using methods we have not used since World War I, ladies and gentlemen,

U.S. submarine unleashes, a method not seen since World War I on Iranian target in the Indian Sea. It is game over, and it is going to change the world. And Condoleezza Rice even knows this. of some sound from Condoleezza Rice, you guys, former Secretary of State, because she spent a lot of time looking at Iran, and she tried herself to negotiate four different treaties. She did negotiate four different treaties, but guess what? They kept building up and building up and building up, and then they'd wait for the next negotiation. Give me, give me, give me, what can I get? Well, Barack Obama came along with $56 billion. Not bad. And then we had Biden who came along

with six. But think about what happened to $56 billion. They had our soldiers there. I just saw somebody has a son in the Navy. God bless your son. God bless you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you to every member of our military. God bless you and all of their families. We love you and we are so thankful for you. Anyway, they had them up with their hands up over their heads. I don't want to show the video because it's too distressing, but you know exactly what I'm talking about. And this is after Barack Obama gave them the 56 billion. Oh, they'll say, well, you didn't give it to us because it was really our money. Well, guess what?

We had sanctioned you. So we had the money and we weren't going to release it. But you said, oh, we promise we'll get rid of our nuclear weapons. Well, you weren't getting rid of your nuclear weapons. So Donald Trump came along. He tore up that deal. Then Biden comes in and he's like, well, here you go. I got six billion for you.

And the next thing you know, October 7 happens. So these are people that you cannot trust as Condoleezza Rice. So well knows, here she is. Speaking with my former colleague Brett Baer on her. Foxwatch. I myself negotiated four Security Council resolutions calling them a threat to international peace and security under Chapter 7, the strongest chapter of the UN Security Council resolutions because of their nuclear ambitions. So to say that this regime was not a threat, I think is simply not, it's a historical. They have been a threat for a long time.

You better believe they've been a threat for a long time, a really, really long time. And it's like anybody with any common sense knows that, right? I want to go back to Connoisseur, because she went a step further. I've interviewed her a couple times before, and she has a way of saying things in a very calm. You can tell she was a secretary of state. I'd be a terrible secretary of state because I'd be, woo, all the time, right? I get too excited. And my Irish keeps getting up.

I'm still trying to work on that. Anyway, I'd be better at an economic job anyway. Let's be honest. So she's so calm, cool, and collected. But I want to point out that she's saying we need to render Iran incapable. I mean, she says it so smoothly. It goes by just like that. Render Iran incapable for good.

Here we go. former Secretary of State, Condi Rice. But I think if the goal of the administration is to render Iran incapable of using its military forces outside of its borders, of threatening our neighbors, our allies, of threatening our bases abroad, which we're seeing they are capable of doing. If it is trying to deny them a conventional umbrella for their nuclear ambitions, that is a worthy goal. Now, what comes after? People are, of course, concerned about that. But if you can render Iran essentially incapable of military action against us and against our allies, that's worthy. And I think what they're trying to do is to neuter Iran as a military power in the region. Yeah, and it needs to happen. I'm looking in the comments. And hey, Clive, did you see I got your point in there. 47, baby, right? was making this comment in one of the videos just last night, that it's fascinating how it's 47 and 47. I was like, wow, this is just a great point. Really interesting. But I'll tell you, you know,

everybody's feeling the pain right now. China's feeling the pain. Russia's feeling the pain, and they should feel the pain because guess what? We just found a new way to diversify ourselves and ensure safety in the Middle East. And when I say diversify, I'm talking in part, what we've been able to do vis-a-vis Venezuela, for example, as well as our pumping of our own oil right here, and we've effectively just shut off their big oil source. China was getting 25% of its oil from the likes of Venezuela and Iran, and they were getting it on the cheap, right? So on the super cheap, because we had sanctioned it. So they basically would undercut the market and say, hey, we'll pay for you $15 a barrel or something. And China didn't really, you know, they were a good

negotiator and suddenly Iran didn't really have a choice and Venezuela didn't really have a choice. And so they would sell their oil on the cheap and now all of a sudden China doesn't have any cheap oil anymore. Peter Schweitzer explaining this one out last night. The fact that now we control anything that ships out of that straight, so much oil flows out of that straight to the whole world, the fact that we now control it, what does that do to China? It now means we have a choke hole. on the Strait. Look, assume that China wanted to move on Taiwan, right? There's a military response, but now we have a massive energy response, which is we simply don't allow any tankers to ship oil from the Persian Gulf through the Strait of Hormuz. We can do it. It might have been a little bit

dicey had we not taken out the Iranians. That's roughly half of their oil, 40 to 50 percent of their oil, is now suddenly not available to them. So those are enormous, methodologies and look at what happens in terms of military technology, Jesse. China provided their most advanced air defense capabilities to Iran. We completely destroyed them. They didn't shoot down one American or Israeli plane. This is reminiscent of 1982 when the Israelis flying F-15s went up against the Syrians flying Migs and the Israelis beat them 81 aircraft to zero. What happened after that. They couldn't give the migs away. So China now has the problem that their military technology is not recognized as being up to part of the United States. That's going to have

huge implications with a whole host of other countries. So that's an interesting component to all of this as well. So we just showed China what we're capable of doing. We showed them in Venezuela. We can just go and get Maduro any which time we want. And we just show them we can just take out the Ayatollah, just like that. I mean, it's a little more complicated, right? When you get to, forgive me, when you get to Iran vis-à-vis Venezuela, because there are, you know, so many more different factions, and there's so much bigger, and there's more going on. But I'm just going to tell you, look, we have taken out all their air defense. So now we're able to move in. The Kurds are moving in. Apparently, we've got some deals, courtesy of our CIA with the Kurds. And the Kurds don't like

the Ayatollah regime, including the son that just took over. By the way, for like the group didn't want the monarch. What the heck? You got the sun in there now? Didn't they get rid of the shock because they didn't like the monarchy? It's a different kind of monarchy than you have in say Great Britain. It's a monarchy where it's basically a fiefdom. This group of thugs comes in and if they win and they're the strongest and the best they take over and the other thugs go away. Yeah, that's their monarchy. And then they keep it up for as many generations as they can. Well, this group of thugs, led by it most recently, the Ayatollah that is no more, They have now kind of a monarchy too because the sun is taking over.

For now. I say for now because now you get the Kurds going in. They're excellent, excellent, excellent fighters. They don't have the religious zealot kind of thing going on. They actually are made up of a whole bunch of different religions. And they have sort of an ethnicity commonality because of language and other cultural things that are relative to where they live. They actually span four different countries, including Syria, Iran.

Iraq and a missing one. Turkey. Turkey, that's kind of an important one. Don't want to miss that because, you know, we could probably create a little country for them if it wasn't for Turkey. Turkey gets all upset the minute you talk about that. Anyway, the point being, we have just sent this huge message to the world. And I got a kick out of the president last night. Just singing the praises of Delsi Rodriguez down in Venezuela. Nice woman. I've interviewed her twice. I mean, nice other than the fact that she's a total commie and that she was working for Maduro. but you know my sources tell me she's not bad she gets the job done and hey we need somebody who can get the job done down in Venezuela Doug Berman went down our energy secretary to visit her

guess what ladies and gentlemen we are pumping like you wouldn't believe and we're sending twice as many barrels of oil to the United States from Venezuela than ever before take a look at the two of them down there to get. I want to thank you. Okay, so all of us in Spanish, so. We'll talk about Spanish here in a Trish Riegen show. I do speak Spanish. A lot better than AOC, by the way.

So anyway, there's Doug and there's Delcy talking, and you can see they're having a kumbaya moment. They're at the palace in Venezuela, Mirfle, as it's known. And the president is loving her. He actually sent out a note there last night. Let me see if I can pull this one up. I got a kick out of it. I was like, wow, he's really singing her praising.

And he's singing her praises, you see, because she's doing what he needs her to do, proving that, hey, you know what? We're happy to get along with you. You just need to play by our rules, and you play by our rules, and we will celebrate you. Here we go. A nice little one for Delsi Rodriguez. Here he writes, Deli Rodriguez, who is the president of Venezuela, is doing a great job and is working with U.S. representatives right very well.

The oil is beginning to flow, and the professionalism and dedication between both countries is a very nice thing to see. What a nice message from Donald J. Trump. See, Maduro, that's all you had to do. You just had to act like a professional. Delcy is a professional. She's getting the job done. And in the meantime, we got China worried,

and we got Russia worried, and this is why I say the world is never going to be the same. Thank you very much, Donald Trump. We're going to be safer. We're going to be stronger, and China's going to have to deal with it. Let's go to... You see, I'm getting so excited.

I'm almost losing my voice. we're going to be in a much better place. We really will. I promise you that. Make sure you go to 76 research so you can invest in that much better place. Anyway, here is Vladimir Putin saying he's got to get creative

because we just shocked them all. Okay. He said, you know, maybe it's better for us to end supplies. I'm sorry, I don't speak Russian, to the European market right now. to go to those markets that are opening right now and to get a foothold there. And here too, there is, I want to be clear, no political motive. But if they shut us down in a month or two, he says,

wouldn't it be better to stop now and move to those countries that are reliable partners? Dantana, and consolidate our position there. So he's saying, hey, maybe we don't give as much oil and natural gas to Europe anymore. maybe we diversify and we send all of our natural gas to China. But here's the thing. Guess who's in control of the Strait of Hormuz? Dant-da-da-da-da-a. Okay, that would be the United States of America.

I mean, basically, we're almost there. The Strait of Hormuz, that's the area where 20% of the world's supply of oil goes through every single day. I think I have a handy little graphic. What do you know? Take a look at that, guys. Okay? So I drew a nice little red line. Here you've got the Arabian Gulf, right by Dubai, of course, and then the Gulf of Oman,

and the country that you're looking at. You see where the yellow is with the highlighter, where it says Strait of Hermuz, that would be Iran. But since we're now sort of running the show, if you would, in Iran, well, I don't think much oil is going to get through the Strait of Hormuz without our permission. So that just changed the equation in a big, huge way for both China and Russia. That's pretty massive and pretty chess-like, chess-like, because you think about how this was all staggered out. By the way, they gave them plenty of chances. It's not like we heard Marco Rubio say, look, they had their shot. We went back to them and back to them and back to them.

And look, Steve Whitkoff, I played you that sound, in yesterday's show, go listen to that if you haven't heard it. In yesterday's program, I played Steve Whitkoff, who was running these negotiations along Jared Kushner, and he said, look, you know, we went to them to negotiate and was the first thing we heard? This was great. What was the first thing we heard? We heard, oh, well, we have this much uranium, quite a bit, and it's already, it's already at 60%. And so the problem with that is they were effectively, like a few months away from being able to take it to full capacity. And so that actually cannot happen, right? I repeat, that cannot happen.

And so they had to do something about it, and we did. We happened to have this window of opportunity because of the intelligence that Israel had gathered with us and we took it. But listen, don't kid yourself. They've been thinking about this and talking about this for a while. And it's not just Condoleezza Rice who said, look, you can't trust these guys. A lot of people have said this over the years, including our current Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, I want to go back to 2011. I appreciate the consistency here. Listen to Marco Rubio in 2011 saying, you know, we got to do something. Watch.

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coms. Iran will immediately use the money that it's receiving and sanctions relief to begin to build up its conventional capabilities. It will establish the most dominant military power in the region outside of the United States,

and it will raise the price of us operating in the region. They're going to build anti-access capabilities, rockets capable of destroying our aircraft carriers and ships, continue to build these swift boats that are able to come on us, these fast boats that are able to swarm our naval assets. And they'll make it harder and harder for U.S. troops to be in the region. They'll also work with other terrorist groups in the region to target American servicemen and women,

and they may or may not deny that they're involved, but they will target us and raise the price of our presence in the Middle East until they hope to completely pull us out of that region. They'll also continue to build long-range missiles. Missiles capable of reaching the United States, those are not affected by this deal, and they'll continue to build them as they've been doing. And then at some point in the near future, when the time is right,

they will build a nuclear weapon. And they will do so because at that point they will know that they have become immune, that we will no longer be able to strike their nuclear program, because the price of doing so will be too high. This is not just a work of imagination. It exists in the world today. It's called North Korea, where a lunatic possesses dozens of nuclear weapons

and a long-range rocket that can already reach the United States. And we cannot do anything about it. An attack on North Korea today would result in an attack on Tokyo, or Seoul, or Guam, or Hawaii, or California. And so the world must now live with a lunatic in possession of nuclear weapons. And this is the goal Iran has as well, to reach a point where they become immune to any sort of credible military

threat because the price of a military strike would be too high. And then they become an established nuclear weapons power. And never in the history of the world has such a regime ever possessed weapons so capable of destruction. Iran is led by a supreme leader who is a radical Shia cleric with an apocalyptic vision of the future. He is not a traditional geopolitical actor who makes decisions. decisions on the basis of borders are simply history, or because of ambitions.

He has an religious apocalyptic vision of the future, one that calls for triggering a conflict between the non-Muslim world and the Muslim world, one that he feels especially obligated to trigger. And he's going to possess nuclear weapons. This is the world that we are on the verge of leaving our children to inherit, and perhaps we ourselves will have to share in it. And so I want to be recorded for history's purposes of nothing else to say that those of us who oppose this deal understood where it would lead. And we are making a terrible mistake. And I fear that

passage of this deal will make it even harder for us to prevent it. And I hope that there is still time to change our minds, but here's the good news. Iran may have a supreme leader, but America does not. In this nation, we have a republic. And soon we will have new leaders, perhaps in this chamber, but also in the executive branch. And I pray that on their first day in office, they will reverse this deal and reimpose this sanctions. Wow. And back them up with a credible threat of military force or history will condemn us for not doing what needed to be done at this critical moment in the world's history. I yield the floor. I'm so glad that I found that sound and thank you for watching it with me because I think it's important to remember that. Some people, they stand for

something. You know what I'm getting at. There has to be something inside. Look, I do this show. Some days we get a lot of viewers. Some days we don't get as many viewers. But Leslie knows, she was with me in the very, very beginning when we had like five viewers. I'm going to tell you, it's not easy going from television where you had hundreds of thousands of people every day. And then you go on your little YouTube channel and you're like, I got five viewers today. But you know what? It's never changed how I think or the enthusiasm with which I come to my job every day. Because whether I have five viewers or whether I have five million viewers, it doesn't matter. I am who I am. I believe what I believe.

and I have convictions that can't be swayed. That's the president, and that's Marco Rubio. I can't say the same for many people in my business. I think they're very fickle, whichever where the wind or the money blows, and they're willing to change on a dime. But there's something to be said for an individual who has a true belief. Not saying you can't change your mind.

By the way, you know, you're presented with new evidence. it's okay, so fine. But there's something very special about people who know what their convictions are and they stick to them. You don't see it, as I said, in my business very often. I think about, for example, CNN. Like CNN, nobody's going to ain't conviction over at CNN. I don't think they understand what day it is over on CNN. The only thing they understand on CNN right now is that they are all about to get fired. And they're going to get fired by one David Ellison who just bought their company. Well, the deal hasn't come through, but it's gonna. So Paramount Skydance, remember they went in and bought CBS, they put in Barry Weiss, the whole newsroom's freaking out.

Well, another newsroom's about to freak out, and that would be the CNN newsroom. They had this little meltdown, you see, at CNN yesterday after Caroline Levitt went straight for the jugular, and she accused CNN of bias reporting. Wow, did they freak out? I mean, Jake Tapper, one of those CNN host that is very, very fickle, that changes on a dime and then, you know, has one opinion, and then changes he's going to double down on him, he's going to write a whole book on that opinion so he can make a few more dimes, right? Like I said, Kachin, kaching. All right, so Caroline calls him all out in the press briefing yesterday, and this guy flips out. He freaks out. He runs out to his car and he does this little selfie. Well, let's go first to Caroline so you can see

why he was so upset. Herring Hex-up was complaining that it was front-page news about these six servicemeners 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. She's right.

Okay. We watched that together. That is not at all what Pete meant. His point was the only harbor on the negative stuff all the time, all the time. Nobody is saying, nobody, believe me, no one at Fox, no one in, you know, my corner of the woods. No one is saying that you don't honor those fallen soldiers, okay? But let's go back.

So Caitlin's trying to present something there. And Caroline, good for her. She's from New Hampshire, you know. They raise us well and live for your die country. She shuts it down. 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? Let's get through where tragic things happen. It's front page news. I get it. The press only wants to make the president look bad. 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. Especially you. No, 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 have the chairman of the joint peace 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. 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. I don't think covering troop deaths is trying to make the president look bad. 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 disagree with that as well.

She's great, right? She's just great. Don Becka, you were here too. I remember. Don Backa's been in the house for a while here on this show. I got my loyal peeps. And I'm here every day now. Back then, I wasn't as consistent.

But, you know, it took me a little while to figure out all this equipment. Like, I'm just being perfectly transparent. You know, it's not easy. Not easy for a girl who can barely operate Microsoft Word. Anyway, you saw it, Caroline Levitt, like, just knocking it out of the park, putting them in their place. And so this Caitlin Collins goes back and she's like, oh, my gosh. And, like, everybody at CNN is like, oh, my gosh.

And we're all about to get fired because, gosh, darn it. Paramount Skydance just bought us and David Ellison can't stand any of us. And so they're terrified. And so this little guy, he goes out to his car and he makes this. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegsef this morning suggested that the news media only prominently covers American service members killed in action for political reasons to make the president look bad. 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. That's just false, not to mention a kind of warped way of looking at the world, not to mention a rather a historical way of looking at the world. The news media covers fallen service members because they have made the greatest sacrifice for this country. It's a tribute. It's an honor. We did it under President Obama. There is nothing political about it. Oh, gosh.

It's all worked up. Now, isn't he rushing out to the car to make that little, that little, whatever you call it? I guess it's a short or it's a reel or whatever. That little on-camera moment. Here's the thing. Insiders are predicting that Jake Tapper is probably going to be gone. Because, remember I was talking about conviction?

and standing for something, I don't think he stands for much of anything. He loved Obama. He loved Joe Biden. He hated Trump. And I'll never forget this one clip that I've played you before at various times, I think back when it happened. But it's an important clip because it shows you

how devoted he was to Joe Biden, the God, right? Joe Biden was everything. And even though we were all seeing what we saw, and you know, Don, Leslie, the whole gang on Candy, you all know what we saw. Ian, he usually watches the show after the live, we all know what we saw. knew that Joe Biden was slipping. We've probably seen it before and our loved ones at various times. You know, if you've had a grandparent or loved one, we knew. And yet, when Lara Trump went on his show, he did this. Every time he comes on stage or they turn to him, I'm like, Joe, can you get it out?

Let's get the words out, Joe, you kind of feel bad for him. How do you think it makes little kids with stutters feel when they see you make a comment like that? First and foremost, I had no idea that Joe Biden ever suffered from a stutter. I think what we see on stage with Joe Biden, Jake, is very clearly a cognitive decline. That's what I'm referring to. It makes me uncomfortable to watch somebody on stage. It's so amazing to me that. And try and figure out an answer.

A cognitive decline. Well, when you're trying to tell me that what I was suggesting was a stuttering, I had a his stutter. Yeah, I think you were mocking his stutter and I think you have absolutely no standing to diagnose somebody's cognitive decline. I would think that somebody in the Trump family would be more sensitive to people who do not have medical licenses diagnosing politicians from afar. Plenty of people have diagnosed your father from afar and I'm sure it offends you, your father-in-law from afar, I'm sure it defends you. You don't have any standing to say... I'm not diagnosing him. What I'm saying, Jake, You just talked about a cognitive decline.

I have one last question for you, Laura. You can't. Times on stage, and it's very concerning to a lot of people that this could be the leader of the free world. Okay. That is all I'm saying. Thank you, Laura. Thank you, Laura. I feel sorry for Joe Bennett.

I appreciate it. I'm sure. What a jerk, right? What a jerk. This is what I'm telling you. Like, he's not going to be long there because they don't have a lot of tolerance for that. David Ellison is coming in there to revamp the place and to help people. trust it again and how are you going to ever trust it given that this guy said that. And then a few

weeks later, he goes and he moderates this debate and he sees with his own eyes what we were trying to say over and over and over again before. And suddenly he's the arbiter of truth. He's the one that declares it. He's the one that says it's over for Joe Biden. I think not. And yet listen to this garbage. What a jerk. There is a pattern, discernible pattern of Democratic officials seemingly trying to convince you the public to not believe what you saw and what you heard with your eyes and with your ears on Thursday night. The total initiative relative to what we're going to do with more border patrol and more asylum officers.

President Trump? I really don't know what he said at the end of that sentence. I don't think he knows what he said either. Democratic officials have tried to spin this in many ways, they said, President. and Biden just had a cold. They said it was just one off night akin to when President Obama in 2012 was rusty and seemed a little huffy. But behind the scenes, make no mistake, most Democratic officials witnessed the same shocking spectacle that you did. The difficulty that the presumptive Democratic nominee, the current president of the United States,

had just articulating his basic thoughts during the 90 minutes of the debate. We told you. Don, you're so right. He says, Jake is such a fraud. I mean, what a... And then, on top of it all, the guy goes out and then writes a book about it, saying how the media had it all wrong. I'm like, no, no, no.

Like, you had it wrong. You and your media organization had it wrong. So guess what? David Ellison, to the rescue. He comes in, he makes a huge offer, okay? Nobody wanted him to buy it. And he's looking at it for all its potential. And we have talked about this.

You know, I think it has a ton of potential because I think technology is changing so fast. And I'm so excited by it that one day you're going to be able to be right here in the studio with me. And we're going to be able to go to the State of the Union together and you're going to get a front row seat. I mean, all this stuff is going to happen. Or if you choose to go watch CNN, bless you. If you choose to go watch CNN, you might right be in the middle of a hurricane. Because you know what? There's these goggles.

Apple has them right now. And it's amazing. It's amazing. The technology is incredible. It's the whole metaverse 3.0 that everybody's talking about. Think about the potential for that. Well, David is a tech guy. My sources tell me he's totally brilliant. He gets this. And so he's buying CNN. He's going to make something out of this. Nobody wanted it. It was like the red-headed stepchild. I'm like, please, get away, get away, get away, get away. President said, you know, whoever does this deal, I want them to take care of CNN, I want a future for this company. They got bureaus all over the world. But what are you going to do with him? David Ellison is going to figure it out.

But most importantly, what does he want to do? He wants to get back to basics. He wants the public to trust news presenters or whatever the heck you want to call these people that read prompters for a living. Yeah, he wants the people to trust them again. Well, nobody's ever going to trust Jake. I mean, given he's whichever way the wind blows, just like a few other people that we know. David, me again.

You know, unfortunately the world we live in at. to do this because some people watch the audio version of this. We are going to a soundbite from David Ellison today on CNBC speaking with another one of my former colleagues, Gaston, I know the whole world. David Faber, great reporter, by the way. Okay, here we go. David Ellison, speaking with the other, David, me again. You know, unfortunately the world we live and has a political overlay on almost everything going on in the corporate world, certainly when it comes to news organizations. And there is certainly a perception and or a fear perhaps that once you take control of CNN and given the changes you've made at CBS, that you will be more beholden to the Trump

administration. Can you address that potential fear, at least on the part of many? Yeah, no, David. So look, I've said this since the beginning, which is, you know, when it really comes to editorial independence will absolutely be maintained. It's maintained at CBS. It'll be maintained at CNN. And really who we want to talk to is the 70% of Americans and really around the world that identify center left, that's center right. And we want to be in the truth business. We want to be in the trust business. And that's not going to change. Okay. They want to be in the truth business. They want to be in the trust business. But I don't think anybody trusts them right now. So they have to get back to basics and they have to figure that out. If nobody trusts that anchor,

or any of those anchors, frankly. I think he's probably one of the worst that they've got because it was so public. His disdain for Donald Trump was so public. And then all of a sudden, his realization, his coming to Jesus moment when he suddenly figured out that Joe Biden was not the Messiah, I mean, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy.

Oh, you want to debate anchors with me, Don Baca saying Joe Kernan is a lot better than David Favor. That's because you and I like his politics, right? They're both really, really, really nice guys. Quick story. I was about to get, well, I thought I was going to get an Emmy Award. I was nominated for an Emmy Award at the annual Emmy Award luncheon or whatever it was. And I remember I was pregnant with twins.

And I was there waiting. And I'm pretty darn sure that, like, I had gone into labor. I had never been in labor before. So this was a new one for me. and I'm sitting at the table, and David Faber was also nominated for something, or maybe he wasn't, but he was there, you know, along with a CNBC table, you know, everybody's there for moral support. And they're like, Trish, are you okay?

And I'm like, yep, yep, yep, I'm okay, I'm okay. At some point I had to leave the room for a minute. And someone's like, see, Trish, you know, maybe you should go home. And I'm like, nope, because I thought I was going to win. It was actually a story I had done on, what do you know, terrorist financing in Latin America, this little town, Ciadadad de la, stay in Paraguay, had become the biggest hotspot for TerraFon. This before we knew about Minneapolis, right?

The biggest hotspot for Hezbollah and Hamas, outside of Iran. So I had spent years working on this story. I was so excited. I'd been nominated for an Emmy. I was actually nominated for an Emmy twice with different versions of that story. And I'm like, oh, I'm going to stay.

I'm going to stay. And David Faber was so sweet. I came back to the table. He's like, I really, really think he should go home. You know, he'd been through it before, his wife had had a few kids. Anyway, I did not win, but I tell my girls that because I'm like, listen, guys, you know what? You got to stick with stuff.

I mean, as long as you're not really getting yourself in any kind of danger. Unfortunately, I was okay. I actually had the babies that night. Pretty great, great, great day. And it's been a wonderful 16 years since. Let me tell you, just a wonderful, wonderful 16 years. Then we got the little guy who came along a few years later. Anyway, David's a good guy.

and Joe Kernan is a wonderful, wonderful guy. I always got along brilliantly with Joe. I loved him. And sometimes people never really wanted to do that morning show with him, Squawk Box. And I had an 11 a.m. show. Believe me, I didn't want to get out that early and do a show for three hours, for goodness sakes. Three hours.

And some of the anchors, especially the female ones, were like a little intimidated by him. I had the best time with him. I always just thought he was terrific. I'm looking at Alphonse in the house. Oh, thank you. He likes the show. It's visual, and it's amazing to think what's coming, right? Alphan's writing about what is in store on the tech front.

I think it's going to be huge. I mean, we can't even imagine all the cool stuff that they're going to be able to do. But David Ken over David Ellison, and I think that's one of the reasons he wanted to get CNN. Wow, time flies when you are having fun. It's so good to see all of you here. Thank you for being part of this show and part of this movement that we've been. been building every single day. I'm usually on somewhere in the four o'clock hour. Alphonse wants me to have a regular time, but I'm like, gosh, you know, like today, we had so many elements coming in, and I want

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