The Trish Regan Show - Trump ENDS ABC—Jimmy Kimmel & 'The View' in FCC Crosshairs

Episode Date: March 16, 2026

The President is taking aim at ABC — and some of its biggest stars. From Jimmy Kimmel to Whoopi Goldberg, the White House is warning ABC that its hosts and news division is facing serious scrutiny. The media is panicking, with CNN is sounding the panic alarm. Meanwhile, a major success for the United States in Iran is sending markets higher. But if things are going so well, where exactly are America’s allies? President Trump is calling them out! Plus, Democrats are sinking in the polls. Long TSA lines, chaos at the airports, and a refusal by Democrats to fund the Department of Homeland Security may have something to do with it. Markets are recovering and in today's Market Maker segment, Jeremy Siegel suggests inflation may still be contained even in the face of higher oil. He points to housing and rents as a reason for the Fed to move rates lower in coming months. Meanwhile, segment sponsor Dr. Kirk Elliot, Phd has some advice for investors and why it's so critical not to be manipulated by fear. And finally, White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles has revealed she is battling a serious health challenge. We’ll explain what she’s facing and what it could mean for the administration. ✅ Help support independent journalism — become a TRISH TEAM member: ▶️ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBlMo25WDUKJNQ7G8sAk4Zw/join 📩 Get my newsletter and start investing today: ▶️ https://76research.com 🎧 CHECK OUT MY NEW SPOTIFY SHOW — subscribe for the full daily edition: ▶️ https://open.spotify.com/show/2blgbg4OaN5dqFhkBy12ii?si=HPdSujPDRrapZWtxbsgAjQ&nd=1&dlsi=979e048c08c04e13 Sponsors — #ad Invest in gold with Kirk Elliott ▶️ https://KEPM.com/Trish Balance of Nature ▶️ https://BalanceofNature.com Use Code TRISH Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

And we're live. Thank you for your patience today. Lots going on. The president just announced a very big task force. This is what I call a no good, very bad, ugly day for one, Ilhan Omar, because they're focusing on Minnesota. They're focusing on her. They're also focusing on California and New York and a few others. Welcome to the Trish Regan show. ABC News is another one having a really, really bad day. Actually, the entire ABC network, if you would, because the president spent some time calling them out over the weekend. them some, we will get to all of that. Plus, I do want to share with you some very, very bad poll numbers for the left. The Democrats really ought to wake up and smell the coffee on this, because Americans are not having it. You can't just shut down DHS in the middle of these Iran strikes. I mean, talking about stupidity on steroids. There's like stupidity in spades to go around, lots left over. But, you know, what do you expect of them? Welcome, as I said, to the program, please make sure you share, subscribe, make a comment. I'm so glad you're here. I hope you had a terrific weekend. I certainly did. I actually traveled all the way to Princeton University. My daughter

was in some rowing thing and it was like a three-hour thing. So I'm glad to be back at home base. Let me tell you. At least I wasn't actually out on the water though, right? It could have been worse. Trump is blasting ABC News, ABC Network, ABC, the one that had the Oscars that nobody watched. I mean, did you watch it. I didn't even know anybody who was in it. Like, I was looking at the feeds that were coming in and, like, all the pretty dresses, because honestly, that's the only reason I ever watch. If I ever watched, which I haven't watched in like 15 years, but I'm looking at the clips, right, that they're showing on the New York Post and Daily Mail, and I'm like, are you kidding me? I have no idea who anybody is. And like, I'm in the news business, thank you very much. That shows you how entertainment

has really just gone sideways and sideways fast. Okay, so, because, you know, we're being dominated, by all the Trump headlines. But I would say this, we get a media established right now, establishment right now, not just ABC. I mean, he can pick on ABC today, but I would say the entire smorgasbord of media companies, whether it's print, whether it's TV, no matter what, they're all going after them. One, two, three, one after another. I showed you. I've got a little collection here. I've got a collage. I just keep assembling. I just keep adding new headlines to it every day. I'm blown away by this. I tell all my friends, I cannot believe it. This is how you know it's probably a good time to,

I mean, the market went up today, but this is when you know, right? Like when everybody's throwing in the towel, the market actually hasn't thrown in the towel yet, which is really, really, really interesting. And actually, the market ended higher today, which is also not a surprise to us at 76 research. In fact, we've been telling you for some time, 76 research, take a look at these portfolios. At 76 portfolios.com, do me that favor because you can see they're way, way up and away. Actually, I have to update this because our recent stock pick that we added to two of these, portfolios is now well up over 200% since we added it just a couple of weeks ago. But what I'm

talking about here is bucking the trend here because the mainstream media just can't, you know, stop trashing the president trashing the Iran strikes. It's nonstop. And ABC, yes, has been pretty guilty of it to the point where he decided to call out a reporter over the weekend. That's always kind of interesting. The reporter saying, you know, this gal is just obnoxious. She has such obnoxious questions. I'm going to narrate through this because it was on the plane, and it's a little bit hard to hear, so I will make sure that I translate. But here's the President of the United States calling out ABC News. Again, on the plane. Watch. You know what, ABC News? I think it's maybe the most corrupt news organizations.

I think that they're terrible. I don't want any more questions from ABC News. ABC News. You're from ABC News. I think that's one of the most corrupt, obnoxious news, I think it was, well, he referred to her as obnoxious, one of the most corrupt news organizations on the planet. Yeah, he really does, and this is like echoing what he does a lot with specifically ABC. Don't forget ABC is George Stephanopoulos. That's the network that had to pay out all that money, 15, 16 million. I mean, it's getting hard to keep drug, right? Because CBS had at least that. It was 20-something million once you added in all the special service announcements that we're going to have to give him in his causes. I mean, it's getting to be a bit much, but we do know this.

There's an investigation going on into ABC and Disney specifically as it relates to DEI and this idea that somehow they shut other people out and they therefore had this kind of discrimination. I'd call it reverse discrimination, but it doesn't matter. Reverse whatever. It's discrimination. If you're actually not allowing somebody to get apart or have a role on a show there at the view or whether it's in front of the camera or behind the camera because of the color of their skin, that is discrimination. So that's perhaps why he's alleging that they are the most corrupt of all the networks.

I want to go to him again, just slamming ABC. Some of your own administration officials have labeled out. By the way, this ABC fake news is this one. She hasn't asked me a good question in years. I think a nice woman, but I don't really like her too much. Go ahead. What you said? Oh, my gosh.

And there's more where that came from, okay? So let me go to the tweets that he was putting out over the weekend. He's very frustrated with some of the Iran coverage. This was a long one, even for him. He wrote, on true social, Iran has long been known as a master of media manipulation and public relations. They are militarily ineffective and weak, but they are very good at feeding the very appreciative fake news, media, false information. Now AI has become another disinformation weapon that Iran uses quite well considering they are being annihilated by the day. They showed phony kamikaze boats shooting at various ships at seas, which looks wonderful,

looks powerful and vicious. But these boats do not exist, he writes, it's all false information to show through or show how tough, quote unquote, tough. They're already defeated military is. The five U.S. refueling planes that were supposedly struck down and badly damaged, according to the Wall Street Journal, he writes, fake reporting, false reporting, he writes, and others are all in service. And the exception, with the exception of one.

So that's actually pretty significant. So the Wall Street Journal is saying, like, none of these planes are in commission. He's like, wait a second, they're all working. So in this case, he's taken out Wall Street Journal, which, by the way, has been awful to him. Like, I'm like, you know, it's a coin toss. Is it going to be Bloomberg today or Wall Street Journal that's the meanest? And often the Wall Street Journal is winning that round, which says a lot, because let me tell you, my Bloomberg does not like Donald Trump.

And so they're all in, right, to get them, if you would. I've been going to CNBC for better business news, and if you want the best investment news, you know where to go, 76research.com. Anyway, continuing on here, he said with the exception of one which will soon be flying in the skies, buildings and ships that are shown to be on fire are not. It's fake news generated by AI. For instance, Iran, working in close coordination with the fake news media shows our great USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier, one of the largest and most prestigious ships in the world burning uncontrollably in the ocean.

Lovely. Not only was it not burning, it was not evening. even shot at, Iran knows better than to do that, exclamation point. The story was unknowingly fake, and in a certain way you can say that the media outlets that generated, it should be brought up on charges for treason for the disdemeanation of false information. The fact is Iran is being decimated, and the only battles they, quote, win are those that they create, right, through AI, and are distributed by corrupt media outlets.

The radical, he writes corrupt media outlets, the radical. left-wing press knows this full well but continues to go forward with false stories and lies. That's why their approval rating is so low and I can win a presidential election in a landslide, getting only 5% positive press. I'm surprised you got 5% really. That would be a lot for him. I thought it was something like, you know, 0.05%. They have no credibility.

I am so thrilled to see Brennan Carr, the chairman of the FCC, Federal Communications Commission, looking at the licenses as some of these corrupt. This is very important, guys. Corrupt and highly unpatriotic, quote, news organizations. He's looking at the licenses of these news organizations. Remember that because we're going to get back to it. They get billions of dollars of free American airways and they use it to penetrate lies, all caps, both in news and almost all their shows, including the late night morons. Jimmy Camel, he's looking at you. Stephen Colbert, he's looking at you. And the other guy at NBC, I never can remember his name, even though he's from New Hampshire. He's looking at you too, including the late night morons who get gigantic salaries for

horrible ratings and never get, as I used to say in The Apprentice, da-da-da-ta-ta, fired. Thank you for your attention to this matter. Like I said, Jimmy Fallon, Stephen Colbert, and the guy from NBC whose name I cannot remember, he is looking at all of you. He's also looking pretty hard at Wobie Goldberg and Joy Behar. He probably feels bad for them because they're so old, you know,

but they're so, whew-wacky, wacky, wacky, wacky. I'm not, I promise, I won't do it today. I might have to do it tomorrow, but I won't do it today. You know, we have to keep ourselves honest here on the Trish Riegan show. We have to know how crazy the crazies really are, right? And the only way you can fully appreciate it is if you watch it from time to time. Anyway, you know, he's out for blood with all these guys. But let me just say, ABC, watch out right now.

He's on to you. I'm not looking for credit. But what I don't want is when I raise millions of dollars have people say, like this sleazy guy, right over here from ABC. He's a sleaze in my book. You're a sleaze because you know the facts and you know the facts well. Go ahead. You might say something. Never worse. Mr. President, you said that you would have no, Mr. President, you said you would have no problem with releasing the full video of that strike on September 2nd off the coast of Venezuela. Secretary Hague step now says. You said that. I didn't say that. This is ABC fake news.

I don't. The administration and the IRS. Why are you suing? Who are you with? I'm a BBC. You're a loud person. Very loud. Don't anybody else have a chance. Can you answer the question? Why are you assuming? ABC fake news.

Ooh, okay, right? Tell us how you really feel. Listen, I mean, I get some people are like, you know, he shouldn't say that. That's not proper. It's not fair. I'm just going to say this. I am stunned by the vitriol I see coming from these news organizations. I mean, I'm really stunned.

And I say this is someone who has devoted her entire life to journal primarily financial journalism. And in financial journalism, you know, you just kind of have to call it like you see it, right? Somebody may have a viewpoint on whether or not NVIDIA is going to be able to keep up its momentum, and that's fair play, right? But earnings are earnings. A GDP report is a GDP report. So from where I come, like, you know, it's just, it is what it is. And when I look at the president and I see policy, I see policy, okay? When I look at the president and I see poll numbers, I see poll numbers. I'm not sitting there going, well, is he going to do this? I mean, it's really kind of astonishing the way the media has reacted and the threat that he represents to them.

So when I see him putting them down, I mean, he's just kind of like had it. And I get it because I've had it too. And when I'm looking at headlines and I'm like, okay, you know, am I the only not crazy person here? Well, then I look at the market. I see the market's higher and I'm like, okay, well, clearly I'm not crazy because smart money knows that this is not the end of the world. But you would think it's the end of the world.

Anytime you open up a newspaper, anytime you go online right now to all of these various media powers from AP to New York Times to Wall Street Journal to all of them. I mean, Bloomberg, it's exhausting, Reuters. So what does the president actually control? The broadcast airwaves.

I'm talking radio and I'm talking ABC, NBC and CBS and Fox Network, not Fox. cable, Fox Network. The thing is Fox Network doesn't really have any news shows. So, apparently, they were hanging out in Mar-a-Lago this weekend. That would be one Donald Trump and Brennan Carr, and this came up as it should. I mean, it's just an abomination, what you are assaulted with daily from the media and from these broadcast networks. And so they're all getting a little ruffled about it because at some point you just can't print lies, okay? And I think the danger or the fear is they're going to start printing things. You know, you saw what he said about the

Wall Street Journal trying to say that all these planes are out of commission. He's like, that's not actually true. There's one that's out of commission. The rest are back in. And so you run this risk that if the narrative becomes, we're down on our heels, at what point did the American people actually start to believe that? I don't know. I don't know the answer to that question, but I think the media is a decently bit powerful. When I say, I don't know, it's in part because, one, I take it all and I just let it, you know, roll off my shoulder. I mean, I get a little annoyed for two seconds and I tell you how annoyed I am. But for the most part, I'm trying to get something better and bigger. I'm trying to get to the truth. And so I have to cut through all this noise

and all this bias and this feeling that they just want Trump going down. It's like they'll, they're happy to lose the war. They're happy to just roll over and play dead for Iran if it means Donald Trump would fail. Now, if Donald Trump succeeds in this, you understand how bad they look because my gosh, if he's the guy that comes along and sells the Middle East, gosh darn it, they look awfully foolish, right, for hating him as much as they did. So there's part of that. There's some ego going into their reporting. It's just amazing to me that that many people can all think alike. So you have the president now saying to Brandon Carr, gee, like this is not good because you get ABC, you get CBS, you got NBC all

perpetuating this narrative. I know this. As somebody who has worked actually at all of those networks as an evening news correspondent at one time or another in my career. What I can tell you is a lot of that that they get on their news, it comes straight out of the New York Times. Like, what happens every morning? Everybody sits around an editorial meeting and they get the first edition in the New York Times, the print edition that they're looking at. Now they actually have to look online. But so they're getting all their information courtesy of the New York Times. They may get some courtesy of AP. So you know where the AP and New York Times stand. So that's what's being fed to the broadcast media, and then the broadcast media goes on air with that, and herein lies the problem,

because broadcast has a duty to be fair. It actually has a duty to service the community. People don't realize that. People forget that. I've explained it a lot on my show. I know Brennan Carr's gone all over the cable airways trying to explain it to people saying, hey, like, I'm not, I don't have any say. FCC has no say over what you're doing over here in cable, or what we're doing over here online, right on the Trishrigan show or a podcast, any of that. But on ABC, what do they call it, World News Tonight, on NBC, nightly news, on the CBS evening news, you better believe they have some say. And they also have some say on the late night shows. And they also have some say on those political afternoon talk shows like the views.

So this is a problem for all of those hosts right now. The president put this out. You know, he talks about, again, intentionally misleading headline by the fake news media about the five tanker planes that were supposedly struck down in an airport in Saudi Arabia and of no further use. In actuality, the base was hit a few days ago, but the planes were not struck, the planes were not destroyed for the five, actually suffered virtually no damage and are already back in service. So he goes on again about the Wall Street Journal getting this wrong, along with the New York Times getting this wrong. A lot of low-life papers, he says, are getting it

wrong. And the media seems to be cheering this, and that's really, really disturbing as well. But we'll leave that aside, because we'll leave the cheering aside and just say, hey, you got to be right. not be wrong. And if you're going to be wrong, you know, maybe you're not serving public interest because shouldn't you pick up the lousy darn phone and call over to the Pentagon and get the PR person for Heggseth on the phone and say, hey, is this yay or nay true? But if nobody's doing that and they're just trusting some wire report that they get from AP with a bias reporter, then you've got problems. So here he is. He writes, Broadcasters, Brendan Carr responds to this, broadcasters that are running hoaxes and news distortions, also known as the fake news, have a chance now to correct

course before their license renewals come up. The law is clear. He writes, broadcasters must operate in the public interest or they will lose their licenses. Exactly. Like, why is this so hard for everybody to understand? I actually remember, remember a time when I worked in the news industry, and we actually did actually care about things like equal time during elections. Yeah, I remember it was like, it makes me seem like I'm a dinosaur or something, like back when the news tried to be fair, not that it ever was fair, full disclosure, totally not fair, but like there was an effort, okay? Like they at least tried to pretend. Like now they don't even pretend at all. So now, you know, Brennan's like, he's all in. He's like,

You guys, you know what? The law's on our side. We're going to take away your licenses. It's game over. And so who gets all freaked out, but not other than the woman the president calls Pocahontas. One Elizabeth Warren says, this is constitutional law, whoa, 101. It is illegal for government to censor free speech. It just doesn't like about Trump's Iran war. This threat is straight out of the authoritarian playbook. And he writes back, no one has a First Amendment right to a license or to monopolize a radio frequency to deny a station license because, quote, the public interest requires it is, quote, not a denial of free speech. And then he goes on to quote the case, Supreme Court in Red Lion,

quoting NBC versus US 319, US 227, 19. Thank you very much. Lizzie Warren. Lizzie. Cute little Lizzie. I'm going to be nice and call her Lizzie instead of polka. She thinks she's so smart. Anyway, let's go to somebody else who thinks he is so smart. But trust me, he's not. He's also not so tall.

We won't hold that against him. And I mean, he's not so thin either. But anyway, Sean Hannity has a great name for him. I can't remember it. But this is the CNN Media. analyst that's like coming apart at the scene so worried that Brennan's going to do something. Because by the way, Brendan now has power over CNN. And why does he have that?

Because CNN is merging with CBS, which means they're going to have the same old headaches that NBC had with MSNBC. Remember, they couldn't wait to get rid of that thing like hot potato. They were like, ooh, bye, bye. Don't want to have this on our hands. And Rachel Madel has alleged $25 million salary. Let's get rid of this thing as fast as we can so we can hopefully run a clean news organization. Well, CNN is going to have to deal with the headaches of being part of CBS very,

very soon. Watch this little guy. Car was at Mar-a-Lago yesterday. He was talking with Trump, and then he posted this threat on X. And here's the thing, cable channels like CNN are not regulated by the FCC, but local TV stations are. And so Carr is threatening to revoke licenses or not renew licenses for these stations in the future. However, the threat is pretty hollow. He has very little power to follow through. These licenses have eight-year terms are not up for renewal for years, and it would cause a protracted legal fight if the Trump administration actually tries to punish stations in this way. Yeah, I mean, there's just, yeah, there's so many layers to this. And I guess the question is, Brian, like, how far can it go?

It can go pretty far in the courts. This can go on for a while. And I've got to say, I suspect we will see the Trump-controlled FCC attempt to punish a station. at least one station in this way. We've all seen in the past year how some media companies have acquiesced and made Trump-friendly moves while trying to win FCC approval

for various mergers. That's why CBS has an embudsman now, for example. So if media companies are pressured into submission and self-censorship, Carr and Trump will achieve some of what they want without actually taking explicit government action. They'll just pressure companies into doing so.

Okay. Think about what he's saying here. Like, we're going to pressure companies into reporting fairly. We're going to pressure companies into like actually giving fair analysis and trying to show both sides. I mean, if it takes some pressure to actually get both sides out of a given news organization, heck yeah, I'll take that. Thank you very much. By the way, as a viewer, I actually want to watch. If you show me both sides, I'm way more interested than if you only spoonfeed me your ridiculous nonsense day in and day out. I mean, it gets to be

kind of funny after a while, right? You can't watch it. I'm sitting here like picking clips from this and that saying, oh my goodness, but it's funny because I can't actually, if I find them actually talking about the other side, I'm so happy to play it for you because it's like, whoa, CNN makes sense. Whoa, CBS makes sense. Whoa, NBC actually said something thoughtful or they actually just tried to be fair. I mean, that's like a miracle when that happens. And that's news in and of itself, is it not? So let me just say, like if the president and the FCC can enforce a little bit more fairness within our broadcast industry, heck yeah, don't we want that all day long? Mr. Is it a potato head? What is it that he calls him? I can't remember. I always want to say Humpty Dumpty.

We've also seen from many media outlets a real reluctance to give into that pressure. For example, CNN's CEO, Mark Thompson just said the other day, CNN's trying to tell the truth about this war and no amount of public pressure or threats from the White House are going to change that posture. Oh, yeah, CNN's really trying to tell the truth about this war. Remember, CNN is the one that sent their correspondent, their brave little correspondent over into Iran with the permission of Iran. What do you think that is? You got the permission of Iran.

That tells me you're a propagandist for Iran's CNN, because no one's getting into Iran from CNN without Iran agreeing to have them there. And the only way Iran agrees to have them there is if they spoon feed the propaganda to the rest of the world, pure and simple. This isn't that hard. I was really struck last night by what the Radio Television Digital News Association said. This is the trade group that represents TV news executives and reporters across the country at a lot of these local stations that might feel vulnerable to pressure. The group said, quote, journalists are not intimidated by a bully with a briefcase. They've faced far worse and kept reporting.

They will keep reporting now. And I think that is the overall takeaway I've seen this weekend. There's been so much criticism of Carr's tweet. Democratic lawmakers calling it authoritarian and unconstitutional. But mostly we've heard from journalists saying they're not going to change what they're doing. They're just going to keep covering this war and these other topics the way we always have. And that seems to be the proper response to these very aggressive but ultimately hollow threats coming from the Trump administration. No, they're not hollow threats.

Let me just say they are really not hollow threats. And the reason I know that they're not hollow threats is because Brennan Carr, if he wants to actually take away some of these licenses, he absolutely can do so in all of these local stations. Don't forget the way it's set up, right? We've been through this before you. Have ABC News, which is an ABC, which is like the big giant producer of content. And then they funnel it over airwaves, right, to these local stations.

The local stations rent or have a license to use these local airwaves courtesy of the FCC. So they say, okay, I'm going to be a CBS affiliate. I'm going to be an ABC affiliate. and I'm therefore going to get all of my big content from the big mothership ABC. Well, if ABC mothership is spoon-feeding a bunch of garbage, guess who gets caught and held holding the bag? It's the affiliate. So the affiliates like, gee, I don't want this liability.

Maybe I shouldn't be putting the view on air nonstop. Maybe I could actually put my own 11 a.m. show on with my own assembly of lovely women from our community that actually might care about issues that are relevant to my community as opposed to the, you know what, that you're getting fed from the likes of Joy and Whoopie. And Brandon knows this. And so this is an issue. And this is why this show is going to have problems. Let's go to the view, shall we?

Joy Behar yesterday said this. First of all, who tried to overthrow the government on January? And by the way, this is from a couple weeks ago, but it's an important thing to see. Let me think. Who was that again? That was not Obama. The thing about him is that he's that he. He's so jealous of Obama, because Obama is everything that he is not.

Trim. Yeah. Yeah. Smart. Handsome. Happily married. Happily married. And can sing Al Green's song, Let's Stay Together, better than Al Green.

And Trump cannot stand it. It's driving him crazy. Jealousy is not a pretty... Green is not a good color. That from yesterday. Who knows what happens today? The White House chose to respond to that. And this is what they said.

Joy Behar is an irrelevant loser suffering from a severe case of Trump derange and syndrome. It's no surprise that the view's ratings stood an all-time low last year. She should self-reflect on her own jealousy of President Trump's historic popularity before her show is the next to be pulled off air, end quote. Is the view now in the crosshairs of this administration? Look, it's entirely possible that there's issues over there. I mean, again, stepping back this broader dynamic, one. Once President Trump has exposed these media gatekeepers and smashed this facade, there's a lot of consequences.

I think the consequences of that aren't quite finished. And look, the views got a lot of challenges there. It wasn't that long ago, I think one episode, one show alone, they had to stop, interrupt the show and read four separate legal notices to try to avoid legal liability. So I'm not surprised to hear people saying that their ratings are struggling. Well, sir, where does this end then? Look, I think we need a course correction. You know, it's time for America's legacy broad.

to return to promoting the public interest. And just recently, you know, Skydance, which is looking to acquire CBS, wrote letters to the FCC committing to serious change, to trying to root out bias, to putting in place an ombudsman that would address these issues, to returning to unbiased, trustworthy journalism. That's where we have to go. And I think we're getting some wins along the way. It's trust but verify at the end of the day. You know, we're not where we need to go. But I think this legacy media really need to reorient or they're going to continue to run into issues. like Colbert, where it just doesn't make economic sense to run a partisan circus. Yeah, no, it doesn't make economic sense. And what has happened since he was speaking there is that, in fact, we have seen the Skydance Paramount merger. We've also seen Paramount now look to acquire all of the holdings of Time Warner, forgive me, Warner Brothers, which would include one CNN. Nobody wanted CNN.

David Ellison was the only brave soul out there that says, I think I can do something, something with CNN. I actually think you can do a lot with it. I think the future is going to be amazing for the news industry. I'm an optimist, and I love technology. I wish I was better at technology myself. But you know what, I am a full on appreciator of all the great stuff to come. So I think that there's a huge opportunity there if you can kind of write the ship, right?

And you have people that are really interested in telling the truth, as opposed to spinning something for their own political candidate, which is what this has all become. So they're all a bunch of hacks. frankly, there are a bunch of hacks working on behalf of the DNC, and therein lies the problem. But Brandon has explained this before, and I'll go back to him explaining, again, this analogy that I keep trying to make that, you know, you get the mothership that's providing the programming to all the little minions down below, right, like all those little affiliates.

But the affiliates, they get their licenses from the federal government, and the federal government can just as easily take those away if they feel that they are not well serving their community, and they may not be well serving their community because the mothership is feeding them garbage. Yeah, broadcasters are different than any other form of communication, including here we're on cable right now. Fox News doesn't have an FCC license, CNN doesn't, but ABC, CBS, NBC, those broadcast stations do.

And with that license comes a unique obligation to operate in the public interest. And over the years, the FCC walked away from enforcing that public interest obligation. I don't think we're better off as a country for it. But look, President Trump ran directly. at these legacy broadcast outlets, and he exposed them to these market forces. And a lot of these affiliate groups said, to your point, we're tired of carrying this stuff. Late night shows, something's gone seriously awry there. They went from going for applause, from laugh lines to applause lines. They went from being court gestures that would make fun of everybody in power,

to being court clerics and enforcing a very narrow political ideology. And Nextstar, as you noted, stood up and said, look, we have the license, and we don't want to run this anymore. We don't think it serves the interest of our community. Sinclair did the same thing. So there's more work to go, but I'm very glad to see that America's broadcasters are standing up to serve the interests of their community. We don't just have this progressive foie gras coming out from New York and Hollywood. Progressive foie gras.

I'm not a big fan of liver, even the fancy kind. I think he, that's another word, that I think he was going to be. going to go with S-H, you know what, but he decided to call it for Gwon instead, right? I'm looking at it to see if we've got the ratings in yet from the Oscars because, boy, oh, boy, did anybody watch the Oscars last night? The last time I actually watched it, and I didn't watch it live. I just watched the clips. Maybe I watched the feed was when the whole dust up happened, you know, the slap hurt around the world, but I just don't, they're boring, they're boring, boring, boring, boring. And you know, you have everybody going on with their own political nonsense

and various positions that they're trying to push. We don't have the 2026 final ratings out just yet, but suffice it to say. Ratings have been going down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down for the Oscars for some time. And it really, if you ask me, if you ask me, the Oscars are really at a new low point. I'm just looking at the number. how bad it was in 21. They saw some bit of an uptick. I guess they started including their streaming numbers in 23, 24, 25. I just don't think it has much of a shot. We'll see what things look like when the final numbers are released. But nonetheless, without the streaming numbers, they're nowhere. And even with streaming, they're kind of nowhere. Because, hey,

in streaming, you've got competition. Hey, you guys could be over here, you know, watching the Trish Rican show. Who needs to sit there and watch a bunch of no-name actors that have a bunch of political views that you've never even seen or heard of. I mean, I'd never heard of these people before. You got me, but they made a big deal about saying no war and free Palestine. Of course. Like, you know, they get their agenda. They get their 20 seconds of fame. 20 seconds of fame. They're on national network television. They're trying to use it. And, you know, it's getting to be a bit much. So all these people that we do not recognize, I'm sorry, maybe I don't go in the movies enough anymore. But I think if I don't recognize them and I'm in the news business,

Like, what does that say about everybody else? I don't know. And then you get some of the, like, maybe I don't recognize them. Maybe I know, like, of them on the periphery, but they're like, whoo, crazy people, crazy people. And this is who the Democrat Party is now aligned with. Big Dems, big Hollywood. And I thought Bill Maher really said it well over the weekend on his show.

He's got a podcast. I know he's not everybody's cup of tea. But listen to this soundbite because he's right. Like the Democrat Party, if they had any brain cells up there, upstairs. They would be running from Hollywood as fast as they possibly could, because these people are all just weird. Democrats really need to cut loose to celebrities. They're not helping. They don't strike people as normal because they're not. Democrats already have a problem with people thinking that they are not the common sense crowd. And then when they see, you know, the Chapel Rones and the Billy Elishes of the world who don't act like normal people,

And then whatever they're saying just strikes everybody in America who's a normal person as, oh, God, here's more of this stuff where you can't relate to a real life. Right. Because these people are so weird. Weird, weird, weird. The other thing that's going on that I think is affecting Hollywood, is affecting things like the Oscars, is that, you know, you don't need to go out to the movies anymore, right? Because you can actually be pretty well entertained at home. and there's a lot of great series that you can watch at home. And there's a lot of great stuff on YouTube or Spotify that you can watch at home.

And so the whole genre has really shifted. And I think about, well, if I'm going to invest two hours in something, I want to know that that's like a series I can follow. Like I got two hours in it today. And maybe I'll watch it again two hours next weekend. I try not to binge watch, but, you know, I've been known to do that occasionally too. And that's really great. You know, that's a really good series.

if you can binge watch it. But why watch a movie for only two hours and have no payoff? Like, you know, I want something that's going to last a while. Thank you very much if I'm going to get that involved in it. And so the whole genre is changing in real time. And Hollywood's scrambling. They can't figure out how to keep up with things other than to keep getting weirder and weirder and weirder.

And on top of it, hey, you got some real competition from the likes of the actual real stuff going on in the world, from what's going on in Trump world, for goodness sakes. podcasters, et cetera. You know, like all of a sudden, we're fighting for our piece of the pie. And frankly, I think we're a bit more entertaining. Are we not? Well, I don't know about me, but I know that the news I'm talking about is often quite very entertaining.

We did this in a short recently. This guy gets it. He's like, entertainers. They're all upset because, you know what? Entertainment kind of sucks right now because we got something else to watch. Thank you very much. Makes a good point. Donald Trump is the reason why music sucks.

Donald Trump is the reason why TV sucks. Donald Trump is the reason why entertainment sucks. You want to know why? Because he's more entertaining than all of that shit in his real life. When Joe Biden was president, I didn't even know he had a fucking president. Isn't that the truth? I mean, he was sleeping all the time. He was sleeping.

And even if he was awake, you really didn't want to watch. Now, did you? So things are changing. And there's a whole group of people that are really resistant to this change. And a lot of them are out in L.A. And a lot of them are part of the Democrat Party. But listen, the train has left the station. either on board or you're not. But you know what? You're going down. You're going down fast.

You know who else is going down fast? Ilhan Omar is going down. Wait do you see what they just came out with moments ago. I was a little late coming to the show, but it's because I was clipping something very important that I wanted you to see because this is her very, very bad day. This is her worst nightmare. We now have not just Treasury Department, and believe me, Scott Besson is no joke. He's a dog with a bone and he's going to go after this hard. He's got the IRS already on it, but you also have a guy whose entire political future, J.D. Vance, now rests in the hands of the success of this fraud squad. The fraud squad going up against the squad. How do you like that one? Okay, the president just moments ago announcing his executive order, Ilhan, I'm telling

you, you better watch out. Timmy Waltz, you better watch out. Keith Ellison, you guys are going down. And what they've done is so sad. When you look at the Minnesota scam, a lot of it has to do with Somalia. Nobody's calling out anybody, but a lot of it has to do, but it's Somalia and plenty of others. And I believe the governor is complicit. I believe Ilhan Omar is complicit. I believe that your attorney general is complicit. And if they are, you're going to hopefully find out about it, and you're going to be, you're going to have to do what you have to do. If we found half of the fraud that's taking place in this country, and I think you're going to be, you're going to have to do, you're going to have to do, you're going to have to do, you're going to have to do. I'm have a chance of doing that, we would have much more than a balanced budget. That's the kind of

numbers you're talking about. The theft is incredible. And I think J.D. and Andrew will make a charge later on that local states should handle nursing homes and all of these things that the federal government shouldn't be involved in it's too big. The federal government should handle military and a couple of other things. But when it comes to nursing homes, you see, saw where a young gentleman was going around and knocking on doors and none of the nursing homes existed, none of the nurseries existed, the money that's being paid out, and the federal government pays for it. When you see all these people coming in illegally into our country, many criminals, many drug dealers, murders, 11,888, murders. And you look at California,

and more and more come in. And yet they never had money. And yet they pay them. You know why they pay them? Because the federal government is charged with paying. We're not paying them anymore, and I said that. So these two... He's so good. He's so good.

Anyway, you've got a big problem with this whole fraud thing. $19 billion. I mean, think of that. And then you've got what's going on in California. Obviously, that's a big, big concern. We've got reports of fraud in Ohio. We've got reports of fraud in Maine. We've got reports of fraud in New York.

We've got reports of fraud in Massachusetts. It feels endless. But this is effectively Doge 2.0. right, the continuation. And as I said, it's really bad for Ilhan Omar because she's got some really sketchy stuff. I mean, not just the fraud, but then what happened with the money allegedly afterwards is of real concern. We've talked about her net worth becoming 30 million. Like, that just does not happen. It doesn't happen. And I found this clip, and I can't believe I didn't show you guys this. This is just phenomenal. You got to see this. She's so caught off guard by this

reporter, who I think works from Mike Lindell. She's so caught off by this reporter that she's so caught off by this reporter that she kind of just doesn't quite know what to do. She's trying to be humorous about this. Clearly, the woman is not very smart. Not very smart. I repeat, I do believe the president calls her low IQ. That's another way of saying it. Anyway, here she is trying to answer some very, you know, important questions that she should be able to answer. Unbelievable. So this is really going to establish a whole of government effort to fight fraud. Forgive me. We'll get to that. in a second. Back to Ilhan with the reporter. All right. We're going to bring that one to you momentarily. Back to the White House.

Caroline Levitt saying, listen, they're not messing around. They're playing for keeps. So this is really going to establish a whole of government effort to fight fraud at both the state and the federal level in every state across the country. We look at states like California in New York. We know there's been hundreds of billions of fraudulent schemes that have ripped off American taxpayers. So we're going to turn every page to find and identify this fraud to prosecute the individuals who are engaged in it. And they're going to get them. So now it won't be a slam dunk. Like it's not super easy only because you get the Huala system that we've talked about before. But I want to point out that even with the Huala system, you can get them. Because money

leaves a trail. And even if you're taking $700 billion, forgive me million. nearly a billion dollars out of Minneapolis over the span of two years cash in suitcases as they were they actually declared this stuff for the TSA this is how much is declared just imagine how much wasn't even then we can follow where that went and that's what treasury is doing as we speak but let me go to Ilhan Omar and this reporter for just a dynamic back and forth as Ilhan seems to finally be realizing she's out of cards. There's nothing left to play.

She has no hand left to play right now. Hi, Congresswoman, Omar. You were just talking about how Trump's economy has failed the American people, but I think the American people really want to know how you went from a negative $65,000 before coming into Congress to over $30 million in just seven years. My disclosure is public enough. Yeah, it is.

And so a lot of people now are looking at it. looking into that and finding S-Crew winery, a winery that doesn't actually seem to exist. Is that a real winery? Do you all actually look at and read things, or do you just ask silly questions? Well, it's listed in the financial disclosure, so can you explain it? Because we have a lot of questions about it, and things just aren't adding up. There's no real phone number. There's no real location.

Why, did you want to bite some way? Probably not from you, to be honest. We recently stated that the American people should be afraid of the white man. They should be fearful of the white man. I never said that. Yeah, you're on video saying. Our country should be more fearful of white man across our country because they are actually causing most of the deaths within this country.

Oh, I did not. Yes, you... Again, this is like what I said. You need to prepare yourself because you can't continue embarrassing yourself like this. So I'm just a liar. What I was quoting was an actual study done by the FBI. Okay. Thank you.

Oh, my goodness. All right. Thank you, Congresswoman. Oh, yeah. Wow. So, yeah, it's going to be tricky for Ilhan. And, you know, there's a lot to two on, a lot to chew on, including that she kind of is, like, tossing this off. It's not her fault.

It's not anybody's fault. You know, it's the system's fault. You just created such an easy. system. That's the only reason why this happened. Do you remember her saying? Can you shed any light on why the fraud got so out of control in Minnesota? I think what happened is that, you know, when you have these kind of new programs that are designed to help people, you're oftentimes relying on third parties to be able to facilitate. And I just think that a lot of the COVID programs that were set up, they were set up so quickly that a lot of the guardrails did not get created.

Oh, gosh, darn it. You know, those guardrails, which, you know, fortunately, they weren't creative, which meant, woo-hoo, party time. Take a look at this. This is her filing, okay? We're going too fast almost for my taste, so I'm going to slow it down a little bit because I love this one. Estre Crew LLC. It hit me the other day. What is this?

E Street crew, E, Street, Easy Street. Wasn't that a song in Annie, right? I've done that one before. It hit me. I was like, this is Easy Street. Easy Street Crew LLC. They're flinging it in our faces, guys. Is that what they call Tequia?

Right? They're like flinging it. It's so easy. So easy. We're calling it easy street. $1 to $5 million this winery with no vineyards and no wine and no website and no phone number is worth? You got to be kidding me.

And then there's Rose Lake Capitol. Gosh darn it, what did Hunter Biden call his firm? Do you guys remember? Because he also had some kind of venture capital, private equity firm. What was Joe Biden's sons? Okay, so Hunter Biden, what did he call it? Hunter Biden had a firm, and I feel like the name is very similar. It sounds similar to me.

You guys, Clive, good to see you here. I can't let it go. You know I'm not going to let this one go. I am what you call a dog with a bone, and I am so mad and so disgusted that $19 billion could have been stolen from the state of Minnesota, and that there are people that are doing funny, weird, shady stuff and going from negative 50,000 to 30 million in the span of two years, I'm sorry, that's just wrong. It's just wrong and it has to be found out. And if it's not found

out, then we ought to all be up in arms because that it's Rosemont, Seneca Partners. That's what it was. Hunter Biden. Thanks, guys. Yes. Rosemont, Seneca Partners, Rose Lake Capital. You know, They got a lot. They're all coming up roses. What can we say? She also was paying herself. We've been through this before because Timmy Minot's making $2.8 million when he decides to go work for his wife and run his wife's campaign. Again, this is a huge no-no. And Biden's team should have caught this. They did. They brought her into the Ethics Committee and nobody did squat because she sits there and says, it's racism. I'm sorry. But you can't do that. You know what? I'm over it. I'm not over it. forgive me. And neither is anyone in Minnesota. You go to Minnesota right now and the people are

livid, understandably. I mean, unless you were one of the people making off with millions, you're not going to be very happy about this, which is why Ilhan Omar is about to lose her job. She got some really bad news on Friday when Julie Lay announced that she would be running for office. She's another Democrat. She's challenging Ilhan Omar, and she's common at things from a different perspective. She's the one that really didn't like her job working for the federal government because she was working 24-7. She had to keep, you know, dealing with all these migrants that were coming into the country and they were about to get exported or deported, whatever. And she said, ah, you know, like, I basically hate my job. And she told the judge to hold her in contempt so that she could get

a little bit of sleep. She's coming at this from a very different perspective. And she's going to have a lot of appeal in the state of Minnesota because, well, let's just say she's got a little bit of a lot to work with. A lot to work with. Ilhan Omar, who is recently, as just about a month ago, was still trying to get money through for some of her peeps there in Minneapolis in her district that own restaurants that also somehow are in the mental health clinic business. Yeah. Because, you know, they treat you. You come for dinner and then you go upstairs to the mental health clinic. And, you know, apparently, you know, the combo of Somali food and mental health, like, what do you know, you're all better.

Much presto. Joni Ernst stumbled across this. Senator Ernst, guys. Covered the other day, and one of our spending bills making its way through Congress was an $1 million earmark from Representative Ilan Omar of Minnesota, which was an earmark that was supposedly going to a substance abuse clinic, which actually happened to be housed in a restaurant and run by three individuals. that share the same residential address according to their IRS paperwork.

Tons of red flags. So this is what we saw with the fraud involving the daycare centers. Now we see other earmarks coming directly from members of Congress where it seems fraud is being perpetrated as well. So I raised the issue and fortunately the House has now stripped that earmark out of of that spending bill. But again, this is how easy money has been flowing to bad actors in Minnesota. You better believe it. So it's astonishing. And then when you factor in, you know, how upset they were about USAID. I'll tell you, no one was more upset than this one right here. I am exceptionally upset about USAID. I lived in a refugee camp.

Bye, blah, blah, blah, blah. All right. I'm sorry. We've seen it before, so we don't need to belabor it. But Ilhan Omar is exceptionally upset about USAID because, gosh, you know, who's going to get any money? You're not going to be able to print as much and send it around. Lots of love. It's all your friends back home.

For goodness sakes, I'll tell you, Julie Lay, keep your eye on her because she has every ability to win right now. People are so frustrated in the state of Minnesota, and unless you're involved in the Somali ring, you are furious. Okay? And if you are involved, well, 79 of them have already gone to jail. And that number is going to go up because the task force just started today. And J.D. Vance is running it. So watch out. Watch out Minnesota.

Watch out California. Watch out New York. Things are happening. I want to go to the latest and greatest on Iran right now. now. The president giving us a status update as only he can. Our powerful military campaign to end the threats posed by the Iranian regime continued in full force over the past few days. They have been literally obliterated. The Air Force is gone. The Navy is gone. Many, many ships have been sunk. They're war-fighting

ships, but I guess they didn't know how to use them. and anti-aircraft is decimated, their radar is gone, and their leaders are gone. Other than that, they're doing quite well. Yeah, just other than that, a little problem. He did say the other day, remember? Watch what happens to these deranged scumbags today, and sure enough, the deranged scumbags really got quite, quite, shall we say a comeuppance.

I'm trying to frame this properly. I do think one of the biggest things that happened was he went and got at that island, that island that was really, really important where they have all of the oil. Everything comes through there. So by taking out, he didn't take out actually all the oil. They're leaving that as a threat. I don't think they want to because part of this administration doesn't want to completely wipe out all the oil in Iran only because you see.

still need it, right? And that's going to cause oil prices to go way up if you just completely take them out. So they left that, but they threatened it. And they really, you know, going for that particular island was a big, big deal. So when he said, you know, just watch what happens to these deranged scumbags today. He wasn't kidding. I want to go back to the president speaking earlier this afternoon, giving us that status check. And believe me, it is bad for Iran. The media can say whatever it wants. Here are the facts, ladies and gentlemen. They've been at Terra for 47 years, and now I guess the world through the United States, with the help of Israel, is doing what should have been done many years ago.

Should have been done many years ago. Since the beginning of the conflict, we've struck more than 7,000 targets across Iran. Amazing. And these have been mostly commercial. commercial and military targets. We've achieved a 90% reduction in their ballistic missile launches and a 95% reduction in drone attacks. The missiles are trickling in now at very low levels because they don't have too many missiles left. We've also attacked the manufacturing plants where the places where they manufacture the missiles and the drones.

And that's going on today. We just hit three of them today. It's getting very hard for them to manufacture. More than 100 Iranian naval vessels have been sunk or destroyed over the last week and a half. That has to be some kind of a record. Yeah, probably some kind of a record. Just amazing what has been accomplished.

But, you know, hey, don't doubt us. This is the U.S. military, after all. Again, I point out, look at all the headlines, it's my collage, I just keep adding to it daily. The media doesn't quite seem to understand the success that is going on. Fine, you know what, fine, but the attempt at trying to somehow turn America against this war, against these strikes, is concerning to me, only in that, you know what, we're what, two weeks into this? Didn't he say it's going to last about five, six weeks? That's what we told us in the beginning.

It seems to me like, you know, we're two weeks in. We're doing pretty well. We just have taken out so much of their infrastructure and their entire military. Like, why are you going to judge it right now? You don't even know what else is coming. You listen to the left. It's Trump's war. They don't want to fund it.

They don't even want to fund homeland security, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. I would say, you know, things are okay for us. I mean, the Ayatollah, he may be in a coma. Because that's the report we're hearing. I mean, the guy is not doing so well. They took out his dad, the wife, apparently, in the first round. And then they went back for a second round. They got the second guy who was going to become the Ayatollah.

And then third round, they may have landed this guy in a coma. We've been talking about the cardboard cutout. I mean, they haven't seen the guy anywhere. He goes on and does a national television appearance, except he's not there. They're reading a statement from him. So the IRGC seems to be like trying to have some kind of puppet that they can spring forward, but nobody actually sees the puppet. So what is going on?

Meanwhile, the puppet they got, I'll just say, you know what, I am not one to judge. I am not one to judge. And I, you know, whatever. Okay, his sexual preference is his own thing. But the word on the street from the intel community is that the Ayatollah, the new Ayatollah is gay, which is neither here nor there in the United States. States of America. But guess what? Over there? With his own religion, that's kind of like a big deal. That's sort of like a big no-no, right? Because it's Iran. And in the Muslim faith,

like, you really can't be gay. They have punishments for people that are. I mean, it's one of the most incredible things that, you know, you have all these gays for Palestine. And I'm like, hey, guys, you know what? If you went to Palestine, you wouldn't be able to be holding up those signs. Thank you very much. Just saying, you know, careful what you wish for. Anyway, apparently Donald Trump was briefed on our intelligence that suggests that the Ayatollah who has suffered from impotency. Bill Maher had a great joke, actually. I played you something from Bill earlier, so I saw this joke he had on how the Ayatola, you know, hates the West until things don't work right, shall we say? And so he's been treated multiple times for impotency in London.

I don't think they really got to first base, though. I think it continued to be a problem. But it may be a bigger problem, right? because it may just be, you know, his lady friends aren't doing it for him. So this is the intel that our intelligence has gathered. The intelligence community officials believe this to be true that the idol is, in fact, gay.

And apparently they told Donald Trump this, and he just burst out laughing. Right? Because, you know, you get the irony of it all, right? You're clinging on, you're hanging on to this religion and to this culture that, by the way, would, when push comes to shove, be done with you in two seconds, let's just say. So that was the newest out of the New York Post this morning that the intelligence community has believed that to be the case for some time they did inform the president, and he burst out in hysterics laughing.

Meanwhile, we want to know where our allies are. Hey, you know, France, where are you when we need a UK? I don't know. Spain, forget about you. The president was asked what he thought about France and what they were doing. Take a listen. If you have spoken with French President Macron about the coalition to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, have you been speaking with the French president? What does that mean? Have you been speaking with the French president, Macron, about the coalition to reopen the Strait of Hormuz? Yeah, I have spoken to him. He's been on a scale of zero to 10. I'd say he's been an eight. not perfect, but it's France.

Are you confident that France will help with the reopening of Strait of Hormuz? Yeah, I mean, sure. He's going to, I think he's going to help. I mean, I'll let you know. I spoke to him yesterday. I don't do a hard sell on them because my attitude is we don't need anybody. We're the strongest nation in the world. We have the strongest nation in the world. We have the strongest military by far in the world. We don't need them. But it's interesting. I'm almost doing it in some cases, not because we need them, but because I want to find out how they react. Because I've been saying for years that if we ever did need them, they won't be there. Not all of them, but they won't be there. I was very surprised with the United Kingdom. Because the United Kingdom, two weeks ago,

I said, why don't you send some ships over? And he really didn't want to do it. I said, you don't want to do it. We've been with you. You're our oldest ally. And we spend a lot of money on, you know, NATO and all of these things to protect you. I mean, we're protecting them. We're working with them on Ukraine. Ukraine's thousands of miles away separated by a vast ocean. We don't have to do that, but we did it. Well, Biden did it. I mean, I have to be honest with Biden got taken to the cleaners. But we worked with them in Ukraine. We don't need to work with them in Ukraine. And then they tell us that we have a mind chip around and they don't want to do it. I think it's terrible.

I mean, here's the thing, like, who needs friends when you get, you know, or who needs enemies? I think the expression is when you've got friends like that. They needed us in Ukraine. We came to their aid, and then we're saying, hey, you want to help out? You want to? Like, he's right. He's sort of almost doing it like a test. Let's see who our real friends and allies are.

And then you get this guy, Starmer. UKPM who says this. The conflict in Iran and across the Middle East is now entering its third week. So I want to take a moment to set out how we're responding to this crisis and standing up for the British people. Our priority is always the national interest. And so we have been clear and consistent in our objectives throughout this conflict. First, we will protect our people in the region. Second, while taking the necessary action to defend ourselves and our allies.

We will not be drawn into the wider war. All right. Well, I guess they let it be known. So we can't count on the UK. We can't count on France. But we can count on France. ourselves, I guess. I mean, because we can't count on the media and we can't even count on some members of the MAGA movement. Yeah, 98% of MAGA actually supports this war and then you get

a few crazies out there in the podcasting world and some that used to be in the political world that are just praying and hoping and praying to God every night that they might actually get a job on the view. You know who I'm talking about. This lady? into midterm elections. Let's remove Donald Trump out of it. Let's just put any president in there. Why would an American president lead his political party into the midterms, waging a full-scale major war, completely unprovoked on Iran, on behalf of Israel, and that's the way most Americans see it. They see this is for Israel, not for America. Why would an American president do that, which is forcing gas prices to hike right here?

going into spring break where families are going to be driving out of town, going into summer, declaring and waging a major full-scale war that seems to have no end in sight. So I think I may know why. I'm going to just go out on a limb and say, you know, why would a president do this? Marjorie. Maybe because he's seen some intelligence, Marjorie, that you haven't seen Marjorie. Maybe he's seen that in fact Iran was this close to getting a nuclear weapon. And even though we had gone in before and tried to take out their capacity, they came back and they

continued at it and they had no intention of slowing down or stopping. Maybe he saw that intelligence. Or maybe it was when Iran came out and they told Steve Whitkoff and Jared Kushner, hey, we got all this uranium and we've already enriched this stuff to 60%. Oh, and don't take Steve's word for it, you can go over to MSNBC, where the Iranians went on to MSNBC just a couple weeks ago as this whole thing started out. And they said, yeah, we didn't mean to brag, but we do have it. They literally said that. We're not trying to brag, but we do have it at 60% enrichment.

So maybe, Marjorie, when you're the president, you actually need to put the country first and your own political aspirations and that of your party on the back burner for the time being to do what's right for your country. Just saying. Just saying. You know, Democrats are getting positively destroyed in the newest polls. I want to share with you the latest and greatest out of CNN. They just can't go any lower than this one.

Are voters feeling about Democrats right now? Yeah, I mean, Democrats in the minds of the American public are lower than the Dead Sea. What are we talking about here? Well, let's take a look. The net approval rating for Democrats in Congress. You said at Cape Baldwin, the lowest ever. Look at this. Overall, they are 55 points underwater. Their approval rating is south of 20%. It's even worse when you look at independence. Look at this. Negative 61 points. That means that their approval rating is 61 points lower than their disapproval rating. Quinnipeak has been polling this question for the better part of the 21st century. They have never found Democrats, at least those in Congress, and we're shaped than they are right now. Okay. And that may be because they don't seem to be standing for anything, except that they are against Trump, right? If you don't actually have any conviction, if you seem to be for open borders and, you know, rolling over and playing dead when Iran's ready to take over the Middle East. And yeah, you don't really stand for a whole lot. Don't forget, by the way, these are the guys that drove up inflation through the wazoo. I'm just saying. And on top of it, we've had four terror attacks in the last two weeks. And guess what? They still don't want to fund?

DHS, they don't want to fund TSA. People are getting a little annoyed by the four hour long lines in the airports these days. They're making the rounds on the media. At least the media is showing that. And Carl Rove, okay, I know, maybe not everybody loves Carl, but he occasionally makes a good point now and then. So we like to give him, you know, some props when he does. Carl Rove making the point that the Democrats are doomed on this

because it's not a good look not to be funding the Department of Homeland Security at a time like this, don't you think? Again, the obvious. Federal officials warning that the terror threat has risen to levels not seen in decades after four attacks across the country just since March 1st alone. Let's bring in former White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove. He's also a Fox News contributor. Good to see you, Carl. You look at those airport lines amid this shutdown and you say, I mean, we got to do something

about this. The American public is extremely. frustrated with what is happening. Yeah, absolutely. Look, shutdowns are losers. For anybody who is provoking a shutdown, this is a big loser, in my opinion, for Democrats. People don't like seeing those long lines.

There's been no compelling case made by the Democrats as to why the reforms that they are suggesting are so essential. The public has focused on those pictures, and they're focused on the stories they're hearing from people who are going through that process. And they're also concerned and will be increasingly concerned, concerned about what would happen to our country if at our borders or inside the United States, homeland security was not able to meet its responsibility.

Message to the Democrats, find yourself an off-ramp, and events are about ready to give you a very good off-ramp that will allow you to get out of this hole and yet even turn this argument on your behalf into something that's durable and might have an impact on the election. But if they keep doing what they're doing, this is a problem. You better believe it. And look, I think they will keep doing what they're doing. This is, for whatever reason, how they're geared, how they're wired, and they don't seem to have enough self-preservation, frankly, to know better.

Today, you had the CEOs of the world's, the country's most major airlines, issue a statement saying, please get your act together. I'm paraphrasing here. But you've got to have TSA, open and running. You've got to pay these people. We need to have TSA workers. I mean, record numbers of TSA. workers are now quitting because they're not getting paid.

And it's happening when we're striking Iran. Like, how does this make any sense at all? Why are you willing to risk the American people? Because you want to dig in your heels over Donald Trump. That's messed up. I'm sorry. I got no use for any of it. And, you know, they're grandstanding like you wouldn't believe.

Alyssa Slotkin. That's the one with the little silly CIA video. Remember? She was the former analyst and the CIA. turned politician and she got up there with all of them and she just started saying, hey, you don't need to follow orders in the military? Lovely lady that she is. This is amazing to me.

She voted against funding DHS. The terror attack happened in the Michigan church in temple, a temple that she used to go to as a kid that she said she was very familiar with. That happened. and then the vote comes, she votes against DHS funding, and then she hightails it out to Michigan to show her face on camera, despicable politician that she is, to say this.

So they are on the call and they are doing their jobs. Certainly, we need to fund the Department of Homeland Security, and we need, in my view, to cut away all the conversation on ICE, which is its own conversation from all the core missions of the Department of Homeland Security. but they're essential, they're on the job, they're working today. Excuse me, Alyssa. Did you just say, we need to actually fund DHS,

that the TSA workers need to get paid and Homeland Security needs to get paid? Excuse me, because you voted differently. So don't talk out of both sides of your mouth. We know what your record is. All of them, except for one, voted to not fund DHS. And this is despite what everybody is pleading with them to do.

You had Jay Johnson. I showed you that sound on Friday. He came out. This is Obama's DHS chief. And he's like, you got to do this. You got to fund this. And yet, no, they don't need to fund that. Oh, and by the way, this has nothing to do with any kind of Muslim extremism, right?

Wrong. But that's what they want you to believe, consider the boat. The bogus narrative, the CNN host who needs to be fired or go far, far away, was saying just last week. I would say we've had two terrorist attacks here in the last 10 days. And, can we condemn those? Why are we... Of course. What does that have to do with Muslims?

Can't imagine. Can't imagine what that would possibly have to do with Muslims or Iran that's going on right now. Listen, this is like concerning, concerning, concerning stuff. And I would just say that, you know, we should be alarmed, that they have politicized this as much as they have and that they continue to do this because it's not okay. It's not okay. We have new sound coming into us as we speak from the White House. Ilhan Omar is in a lot of trouble. Things are about to get really, really bad for one, Ilhan Omar. In fact, the president may have called her out. If I look at this correctly, oh, Ilhan, this is not a. good situation for you. Oh, no, oh no, watch. That's crazy. And Ilhan Omar, I hope this is part of it,

but she married her brother supposedly. I mean, there's a lot of documentation. That means she's here illegally and she's a congresswoman. And I hope you're going to be looking at that or somebody is, all right? Because she's one of the ringleaders here. She said she's bad news, really bad news. She's so bad for our country. Anyway, JD, please say a few words. Oh my gosh. So Ilhan getting specifically called out for possibly have committed fraud with her second marriage. We've gone through this at length. I encourage you to go watch one of the chapters or one of the shows where we covered this in great detail because she's had numerous marriages. The first one was not in a civil situation and I guess it wasn't like legal in terms of what we would consider legal, but it. it was legal within her community.

And that may have been like the first real husband. Then she marries the second guy, the one that some people believe to be her brother. It doesn't even have to be her brother. If it's a sham marriage, boom, done. She's out, okay? End a story. If it was a sham marriage and we can go back and get that documentation, it doesn't even need to have DNA that matches hers.

Okay? So that was the second marriage. And that happened, you know, in the town hall, all that kind of stuff. They had their proper records unlike the first month. marriage. But then the guy moves away and she has another kid with hubby number one. So that was peculiar. And then somehow something happened, the guy really moved away and she got fully back together with hubby number one and then eventually took up with hubby number three when her net worth went suddenly to $30 million. So there's certainly plenty of questions that people have here.

Stephen Miller talking about the fraud issue in Minnesota as well. It's good to him. But what we found since President Trump came into office is that the Democrats have set up the system to funnel hundreds of billions and ultimately trillions of dollars to migrants that are in our country oftentimes from places like Somalia. So as an example, ICE recently asked a group of illegal immigrants that were in detention whether or not they were receiving Medicaid. Half of them raised their hands and volunteered that they were on Medicaid, just volunteered that. These aren't the ones who are hiding it. They also asked illegal aliens how they pay their medical bills, and they said that if they don't have Medicaid, they go to hospitals, they get free care there, and they bill it to the taxpayers. So they aren't paying for any of their own health care in this country. It's just one example.

And we've seen this over and over and over again. So under President Trump's leadership, and then, of course, with JD and the head of the FTC, Andrew Ferguson, we're going to see the first ever effort in American history to reclaim the ultimately trillions of dollars that were sold on. from taxpayers. Wow. This is huge. This is really huge. You might wonder, why does anybody want to become a politician? I've always wondered that myself, because it doesn't pay very well if you think about it. I mean, it pays decently, but not that well, considering what you have to go through and all the public eye, right, attention that's on you. So that's always been sort of one of my questions. But Ilhan Omar was very proud to go on to become a politician. And I think what they're really going to try and figure out is whether there was any sort of kickback scheme.

that may have been happening. A kickback scheme, as we'll see Forbes, who was on the show recently with me, alleged, saying, look, this doesn't feel right because it just doesn't make any sense that she would have all this money sort of coming in, and she would be skyrocketing and net worth the $30 million. I mean, that just doesn't happen, no matter how good an investor you are. Like, it just doesn't happen. And so Steve laid it out.

I mean, he's like, yeah, she's living. the American Dream. She's living the Al Capone version of the American Dream. So let's go to the Q&A there happening short time ago at the White House where one of the reporters is saying, hey, like, why is this being allowed? Why would any leader allow this fraud to take place in the first place? And I think the president tackles this question. I want to make sure the audio is loud enough for you to hear. I do believe it is. Let's listen in here to the president speaking with this reporter. Here we go. Why do you suppose that the leaders in recent memory haven't looked at a systemic amount of progress in place.

Because they're crooked. They make money. They gain power. They use it for power. Like with the Somalians, they vote in a block, 100%. They make a deal with the Somalians. They all vote because they're in a gravy trade. It's money first, power second.

A lot of people say power first. Now, it's money first. Power second. And do you ever see where like Mercedes? People come home with from somebody that have no money, and now they're buying Mercedes-Benz cars, okay? It's more cash goes out of the Minnesota airport than any other place in the world or something.

We're going to find it. And Minnesota is really bad. The governor's corrupt. The Attorney General is totally corrupt. Just like the New York State Attorney General, Leticia James. She's a highly corrupt person. Bragg, the DA is a corrupt person. They're all corrupt.

corrupt. These are corrupt people. And we got too many of them in our country. And we have to expose them. And we have to catch them. And if these two guys can't, these are high IQ people. I like high, I've always liked high IQ. These are high IQ people. If they don't do it, we're going to go a long way, fellas, to find somebody else that's going to. We have no choice. If honestly, and they may not do a good job. If they don't do a good job, it's possible. If they don't do a good job, the country's sort of in trouble. Yes, go. Yeah, he's right. This makes me very, very happy. It makes me very happy because we've been pounding the table on this, and I feel the same way. I mean, this is, this should be a no-brainer. This should not be hard for them to catch. We ought to be able to see the money laundering

if, in fact, it existed, which I hate to say this, but I do think. that there's a very high likelihood, a high probability that people were getting kickbacks. And by people, I would be looking very closely at Ilhan Omar and Timmy Minnet. Timmy Minet already had multiple allegations of fraud in his businesses before. From the cannabis company, well, that says it all, right? To the winery, the winery. Like, what is she doing in the wine business, by the way? Isn't she supposed to be a good Muslim? But I guess, you know, you get married three or four times, too. Here may not be all that good a Muslim. Here is J.D. Van Samp.

saying how sick and twisted this is, especially when it came to the whole autism scam. Autism, I mean, the money, it was like a 34,000 percent increase in what they were spending in Minnesota just on autism. Here we go, J.D. We saw evidence that in Minneapolis, there were Somalis, primarily illegal immigrants, who were defrauding a Medicaid program that was meant to go to autistic children. So they were taking children who were supposed to get benefits, and they were claiming that their kids were actually autistic even though they weren't. And what do this mean? This meant two things. Number one, you had a lot of people getting rich off of the fraud while American citizens got

poor. And the second thing that it meant is that you had autistic kids in Minneapolis, in suburban Minneapolis who weren't getting benefits they needed because Somali fraudsters were literally stealing out of their pocket. It's got to stop. And unfortunately, that kind of fraud is one example of probably hundreds just within the state of Minneapolis. And then it's repeated and replayed all over the United States of America. Unbelievable stuff. Okay, Ilhan Omar, the warning is now. I think they're going to find you out.

You better hope you're pretty squeaky clean because they're going to have a lot of questions and I just suspect you're really not going to have the right answers. I'm with Steve Forbes on this one, guys. I just think that there's some really sketchy stuff here. Very sketchy stuff. Quick shout out for one of our great. advertisers here on the Trish Regan show. How did I forget? But I need to tell you about

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He was optimistic about it. But I want to get to his sound on that and her reaction momentarily. But first, you know, taking a look at these markets today, wow, up, up and away, right? You know, it's like the past couple weeks have never really happened. Listen, it hasn't been that bad. I'm just saying it has not been that bad. we have, actually, this is, this is, we did get GDP coming in a little bit lower. We did have oil coming in today.

It's kind of fair and all right. Like, I'll take this, right? And I think that's because there's some excitement that this trade of Hormuz is being opened up, even, you know, if not to us, it's okay, because if other people can get through, then other countries can get their oil. And that means it's not going to be. blow up oil prices and they're not going to get too out of control. Jeremy Siegel. Do you guys know Jeremy Segal? He's from Wharton, you know, UPenn, really, really good business school. Jeremy,

I've known a lot of years and Jeremy is, well, always very bullish. And you know what? That's served him well over the years because Jeremy ultimately is always proven right. You know, you never bet against America. One of the things that he was talking about, my former employer today, CNBC, and this segment, by the way, is brought to you by our friends over it. Kirk Elliott, precious metals. EEPM.com forward slash Trish. I put it on the screen for you. But Jeremy Siegel was talking about whether or not we're going to get a rate cut out of the Fed because the president, boy, does he ever want one, right? That's why he's putting Kevin Warsh in. He really wants a rate cut. That would help the economy, help to goose things. But simultaneously, you get some challenges from the

oil market. So that's one of the unknowns. Jeremy, though, making the point that maybe we will get that because guess what? Surprise, surprise. Housing prices have actually melancholy. out a bit and that may give the Fed some room. Listen. We don't have that tailwind of lower oil prices that we had, but we even have a stronger tailwind, and that is shelter prices have really slowed down. Rents virtually unchanged on a national level for three years. The case show our home price index up between 1 and 2%, which is the lowest it's been for many, many years. that's a big component both of the core index and the CPI. Now, you know,

so in other words, I think he's thinking, hey, you know what, if housing prices are steady, then you don't have crazy inflation in the housing market, then that might give the Fed a little bit more room to run. I want to go to our segment sponsor, Dr. Kirk Elliott, for his take on interest rates. Again, you can learn more. You can invest in gold with him at KEP.

PM.com forward slash Trish. But let's hear from Dr. Elliott, PhD. If the war in Iran continues to go on, well, then oil prices are going to continue to go up. That's very inflationary. What is the public policy mechanism to slow down inflation? You have to raise interest rates, not lower them. So there's going to be an initial impulse to lower interest rates right now because of the election year. it is going to be very, very difficult to keep them low if oil prices keep going up because oil is used and everything. And at that point, the inflationary pressures are so much that you're going to have to raise rates to slow down that inflation train. Okay, so that's what we want to avoid. Remember, okay, you don't want a situation where oil goes sky high. This is why I think the president's

thinking about Iran is sort of like a four or five week deal, maybe six if push comes to shove. but we don't want to be in a situation where oil goes wildly crazy. You're up at $200 a barrel and then it affects the price of everything else. And the Fed is left in a bind because it's like, wait a second, we get all these higher prices and all this inflation. We can't really cut rates. So that would be a really bad scenario. I don't think we're going to get there.

I think actually this is going to be a lot shorter lived than some people in the media would suggest. I mean, I'm just looking at my phone in the Wall Street Journal and it's like, like they're freaking out. U.S. Allies rebuff Trump. demand to help open Hormuz. Well, what do we care? As long as our allies get their oil, you know what? We don't even get oil from there. Let them take care of themselves and try and get through their Iran said they're not going to attack them. Great. Fine. They don't want to help us. I'm with Trump, you know. They've shown their true colors. Let them be. You know, I'd say this is so far

a win, win, win, and more of a win. They did admit U.S. says it has hit more than 7,000 Iranian targets. That's good news. But overall, the tenor. that you're seeing in the media is really, really concerning. So what do you do right now in a time like this? I mean, for me, I try to keep really even keel. Always be level-headed. Know what you want to buy. Know when there's opportunities. Know what your limits are. And we asked on the Trish Regan show, Dr. Kirk Elliott, how he kind of gauges that. Because you know, you get to take a motion out of investing. Don back I see in the chat. I know you do this very well, especially because you're in and out of everything 50 times a day. Thon's a former options trader. So he's, you know, he's in and out.

I'm much more of a long-term holder. I mean, I do sell if things look like they're getting kind of tippy. But if I love something and I love that asset, I hang on to it. Let's go to Dr. Kirk Elliott. Do not ever buy out of fear. Fear does two things. It either causes you to put your head in the sand like an ostrich in a windstorm and do nothing, or it causes you to make the wrong decision. Fear is not a good motivator. Neither is. greed, but rather you identify the trends, the economic forces that are shaping the world, because there's always opportunity, right? You just have to know when you should get out of a certain asset class and when you should get in. To me, I'm never afraid of the market conditions,

because there's always something that's going up and there's always something that's going down all the time. You just have to choose the right one, which takes wisdom. You know, it's a very good point. It's a very fair point. And I think that, you know, you just have to kind of take the emotion out of it and know what you're willing to do in any given moment. So, you know, fear never helps, right? Fear any of those like extreme emotions. That's not good as an investor. You've got to somehow separate that. And I think it's hard for people, especially when you look at the media and the crazy media. Like, it's always doomsday, doomsday, doomsday. You know, if it bleeds, it leads. So they try to scare the living daylights out of people. and it's just wrong. I want to turn to Susie Wiles right now getting a diagnosis on breast cancer. Our heart goes out to her. We are saying a prayer. The good news is, the good news is it is early stage breast cancer, and that is, take it from someone who knows my mother, we went through this with her about 15 years ago, and she's doing great. She's doing absolutely great, but she did have to get surgery, and it was very scary for us as a family, and so I know how hard this is and how scary.

it is, but fortunately they seem to have caught it fast. Here is the president sounding a note of empathy is he's very, you know, people don't give enough credit for this, but he's got a very human side to him. And she is his right-hand woman there in the White House as his chief of staff, the first female chief of staff, she doesn't wear it on her sleeve, she doesn't need to. She's just darn good at her job, watch. I want to also introduce Susie Wows, who's fantastic. She's our chief us there. And she's an amazing person, an amazing fighter, and she announced a little, a minor difficulty, which will be in good shape, good shape for, he'll be around for a long time. She has, she had a diagnosis, you probably saw it. And she's going to take care of it immediately,

as opposed to waiting. She said, let's do it now. I said, do it immediately, because there's that particular ailment, the faster the better. That's the only thing I know about. about it, the faster the better. She's going to do it immediately. So she just started, actually. And she's going to be a great shape. The prognosis there is excellent, beyond excellent. So. Thank you, sir. But who needs it, right? Who needs it? That's great. And she's going to be there at the White House with him throughout all of it. And we, as I said, we wish her the very, very best. And as the president said, the prognosis for this kind of thing is very very good. And it doesn't change, I'm sure, how scared she is right now and how scared her loved

ones are right now. And it's something that, you know, no one wants to have to confront. But the important thing is she's getting it early. And early detection is so critical, so critical. So, all our best to you, Susie Wiles. 76 research, if you haven't gone, please go. Use code or dollar. I saw someone saying that they're not sure how to invest, what to do with investing. it all covered there for you. And hey, we've had a pretty good track record. I keep saying this, but like, I'm very, very proud because this one stock that we had been eyeing for some time, and had gotten really beaten down. And so we went in, and we made a big call. And a couple of weeks ago, we told everybody to buy it in two different portfolios. And I have to change this

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