The Trish Regan Show - Trump Targets New York and Letitia James NEXT After CA Court VICTORY!

Episode Date: June 21, 2025

After a major court win in the 9th circuit appellate court over federalization of the National Guard in California, Trump sets his sights on Letitia James and New York next in his legal counteroffensive. This is a CLIP from the LIVE Trish Regan Show episode 137 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The feds are moving in on one New York City, and Letitia James is not too happy about it. Take a look at how they're characterizing it here. At the Daily Mail, hostile takeover. Trump's new sweeping directive to ICE sends liberal cities quaking. I'm telling you, they are panicking everywhere. This is truly their worst nightmare. I mean, Latisha James has been out there saying, no, no, no, we can do this, we can do that. What has she been tweeting?

She's effectively been serving as a form of impedement to ICE. and to the feds who want to move in and be able to conduct their duties and the federal law. And they should be able to, right? Because constitutionally, they should be able to. And this is what it's coming down to. This is where you get into that state versus federal situation. Now, interestingly, Caribbean life, for some reason, they're like all over, Latisha James.

They're reporting on her all the time. I mean, they might actually report on Latisha James more than I report on Latifia James. And they love her, by the way. Unlike yours, truly, they love her over Caribbean life. AGs blast Trump for unauthorized use of California National Guard. She is now leading the way with all these AGs from all across the country suing the president because of his use of the National Guard. And yet he's saying, well, tough luck because you know what?

Not only did I use it in L.A., I'm going to use it a little bit more. I'm going to use it in New York City. I'm going to use it in Chicago. I'm going to go use my ICE agents and make sure that I carry out the single largest mass deportation program in history. So, yeah, that's not sitting well with, say, Kathy Hokel in New York or one Letitia James. Don't forget, Pam Bondi back in February, one of the first thing she did was announced that she was going in and she was actually, you know, basically charging them with this kind of impediment along with the head of the DMV because you can't have a sanctuary city like this.

You just actually can't do this stuff. By the way, I want to remind you guys, we are live and I'm looking at all your comments in real time. So keep them coming. It is great to see so many folks here and so many regulars. We have quite the crowd. I'm a little bit later today, but that's all right, right? We're all here all motivated to see through everything that's happening. And don't worry, we're going to get to G7. We're going to get to some of the international news and some of those things that are going on too. Also, as you well know, we learned that they have caught that guy in Minnesota.

So that is some good news. Anyway, Donald Trump coming out late last night saying, our nation's ICE officers have shown incredible strength, determination, and courage as they facilitate a very important mission. The largest mass deportation operation of illegal aliens in history every day. The brave men and women of ICE are subjected to violence, harassment, etc. He's going on about all the threats that they have been subjected to. And you look, for example, at what happened over the weekend. And look, you know, you can characterize that however you want.

I think that in different places it meant different things. And we saw some uproars in L.A. that I don't know how you characterize any. way other than being pretty bad. And to the point where, you know, the mayor, Karen Bass, even though she didn't want to admit that she had to do anything out there in Los Angeles, she actually had to put in place a curfew. So these ICE agents, right, are just trying to do their job, and they're met with all of this resistance.

And he's like, forget about it. You know what? If you're going to resist us, we are going to insist that even in some cases, we're going to take over the National Guard. Because we need the National Guard assisting our ICE agents. We can't have the ICE agents being put in danger. And so he goes on to say, specifically that he's running into this situation in Los Angeles, in Chicago and in New York, where millions upon millions of illegal aliens reside, these and other such cities are the core of the Democrat power base, right? So that's a very interesting thing. And, you know,

His big concern is that they've been loading up on people in an attempt to really stack this system and sort of rig it, right, so that you have more of a population center there and therefore need more members of Congress, et cetera, and then perhaps one day even get all of these people to be voting, which is what they were trying to do in the state of New York, 800,000 non-citizens that they wanted to be able to vote. And so he's saying, hang on, you know what, we're going to get this all, we're going to get this all figured out. You know what's fascinating about this is as much as the left wants to say this is terrible, this is awful, this is big bad Trump, they were talking about the same thing, not too long ago. I mean, two years before you saw Donald Trump coming down the escalator, we heard the same kind of rhetoric out of Barack Obama's mouth. We're going to get to that. But I mention it only because we get a severe case right now of TDS.

And when he goes in with his National Guard, and when he goes in, forgive me, when he goes in with ICE, and may need the help in the National Guard. When he goes in with ice, he's being met with this constant resistance as opposed to saying, okay, well, we'll work with you because you know what? There is such thing as federal law, and the feds have full jurisdiction when it comes to things like naturalization when it comes to who is here in this country. And so he goes on to talk about this is all in a very late night, well, not that late, 8.43 p.m. I think when I saw it, it was rather late. 8.43 p.m. just last night, putting out on truth social, that he wants our brave ICE officers to know that real Americans are indeed cheering them on and very much behind them.

And we want a safe community and that they are indeed supported. So even if you don't see that support in, say, L.A. or Chicago or New York or some of these very blue metropolitan areas, the reality is that the majority of Americans are with ICE on this. And frankly, you know, again, I'll go back to some of the polling, including some of the polling that CNN was shocked by because if you look at even, for example, people who have immigrated to this country legally and are now American citizens, he's got that group. They're up like 40 points. It's actually kind of amazing.

So it's a big constitutional battle. That's the reality. And so this is what Leticia James is gearing up for. It's like, you know, this is her calling. I mean, at least this one has some teeth to it, unlike, you know, the other go-around that we had to deal with, where she's just going after him because, you know, he thinks Marlau's worth one thing and she, for whatever reason, thinks it's worth another. At least this actually has some intellectual might, if you would. I mean, she's, that one, I will never get over how crazy

all of that was. The idea of an attorney general of a state like New York getting in the middle, right, in between Deutsche Bank and one Donald Trump and saying, okay, I'm going to come into the middle this private transaction, even though there's no victim, I'm there to get him for $500 million. Half a billion dollars, you guys. And we're still sitting here waiting on the appellate court to turn that thing around. They've already indicated and they've showed their hand that they don't think that there's much of a case there. But I guess they want to be really, really, really certain.

And we're still waiting. But she's now going to make this her moment in the sun quite literally. So she's banning together, if you would, with some 17 other. attorney generals in condemning President Trump for unlawfully, they say, quote, unlawfully deploying the California National Guard against protesters in California without coordinating with state leadership. So they said in this joint statement, the president's decision to federalize and deploy California's National Guard without the consent of California state leaders is unlawful, unconstitutional and undemocratic. Well, I got news for you guys.

Guess what? The Ninth Circuit, which is like about as lib as they get, the Ninth Circuit, Court of Appeals last Friday, actually decided, you know what, that would stay. And that Donald Trump would have control over the National Guard until they got a chance this week, later this week, to really review it in greater detail. So in other words, they made sure that the National Guard was there over the weekend for all the No Kings protests, because maybe they were worried about that. In all seriousness, you've got all these states, you see Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey.

Gosh, it's all the blue ones. New Mexico, North Carolina, Oregon, and Vermont, all banning together led by Ms. Leticia James out of New York to try and take them down. Look, I mean, again, non-circuit court of appeal. Like, you don't get any more liberal than that. I realize they're still looking at this issue, and they've got a lot to look at, and we'll get into the nitty-gritty because I actually know this pretty well. And I would say, look, look, there is precedent for what's going on right now. And you have to go back to pretty unfortunate times, like 1963, Alabama and George Wallace. But what did you have then? You had the feds come in and say, we're going to take over the National Guard because you guys are now in violation of federal law.

I mean, and you can take your pick. In that case, you might go right to the Commerce Clause, right, with the integration there of schools in Alabama. In this case, you can talk about the Commerce Clause. You can talk about the supremacy clause of the executive powers and the federal government. You can talk about the naturalization clause. I mean, there's a lot of clauses, actually. Because as I said before, if there's like one single power that the federal government has, it actually is over our borders and immigration. And so it's about time that Letitia James learned that.

Democrats totally live it. They're furious. You know what? This is just, you know, Donald Trump taking on too much power. But I got to ask you, when you get a senator, Like this guy, Padilla, who, you know what? I'm in the news business, and I had never seen him before? Just saying? And he goes into a press conference at FBI headquarters, and he's like theoretically rushing the stage. I mean, I don't know what he's doing there. He's yelling. He's dressed in plain clothes and he's rushing up.

I mean, what are they supposed to do? What is Secret Service supposed to do? Fuckiness sakes. Christy Noem just had her purse stolen, right? In D.C. recently, they had to take him down. They had to stop him. And they, of course, used that as a moment. I'm Senator Alex Padilla. I have questions for the secretary because the fact of the matter is a half a dozen criminal that you're rotating on your on your head off. How many of our ice agents have been douched for doing their duty and how they have been targeted.

Wow. I mean, you guys saw that right? In the very beginning, he sort of identifies himself, right? We see him kind of say, I'm Alex Padilla. I'm Senator Alex Padilla. How do you know he's not a state center? You don't know what's going on. I'm Senator Alex Padilla.

I have question for the secretary because the fact of the matter is a half a dozen sent him on your hands off. Hands off. Okay, so they take him back there. And this is where they're upset, right? Because they're saying, oh, well, this is violent because they wrestled him to the ground and they handcuffed him. And now you got the likes of, you know, Spartacus, Mr. Corey,

Booker out there in New Jersey going not so on at all and plenty of other people going a little bit not so on it. But under the circumstances, you guys, in dealing with what we're dealing with, I mean, unfortunately, right? Like, that's just what we're dealing with right now. And I hate it and it saddens me and you look at what happened in Minnesota. I'm sorry, but everybody is on high alert and they should be on high alert. So you don't go barging into something like that and expect that there's going to be no ramifications. No, that's not how it works. Kristine reacting to the situation. I would say as we were conducting a press conference to update everyone on the enforcement actions that are ongoing to bring peace to the city of Los Angeles,

and this man burst into the room, started lunging towards the podium, interrupting me, and elevating his voice, and was stopped, did not identify himself, and was removed from the room. So as soon as he identified himself, you know, appropriate actions were taken. But I would say that, you know, I had a conversation with the senator after this. We sat down for 10 to 15 minutes and talked about the fact that nobody knew who he was. He didn't say who he was, that until he was already had been lunging forward and people were trying to detain him for quite a period of time. And that this, you know, we're leaders, we're public servants. And if he had requested a meeting, I would have loved to have sat down and had a conversation with him, that

coming into a press conference like this is political theater, it's wrong and it does a disservice to this country and the people who live here. So we sat down, had a conversation. We probably disagree on 90% of the topics, but we agreed to exchange phone numbers. We'll continue to talk and share information. And I think that's the way it should be in this country. I wish he would have acted. Let's be civil. Like, why couldn't you've got an appointment, an appointment? Even CNN, guys, even CNN knew that this was the wrong approach, right? There's no doubt about it. I mean, she was holding a press conference to do a press statement. He's not a member of the press.

It wasn't like a hearing where it was an open forum for senators to ask question. He clearly showed up to a public event to create a moment and do what you're saying, sort of show his constituents, not just Democrats, but that he's fighting from his perspective. Hmm. Right. So it's called acting, like PR. Let's get my moment in the sun. Nobody knows who I am.

Well, now we're going to make sure they do. And it's not appropriate, right? It's just not appropriate. And this is why he's now facing censure. Mike Johnson bringing this up on Friday. They are looking at censuring him. They are looking at taking him off committees. It's just not how a public servant should be conducting themselves.

Now, is it La Monica? La Monica McGever learned this one the hard way. She faced 17 years in prison for her little escapade. I mean, at least, at least this guy wasn't, you know, pushing up, physically trying to aggressively move the ICE officers away. I mean, at least he didn't do that. Just saying, here's Mike. But the Senate does its disciplinary actions over there, and we do ours over here.

We have a certain set of measures, as you all know, and it ranges from censure to removal from committees to ultimately expulsion from the body. And do you support that for the senator? It's not my decision to make. I'm not in that chamber. But I do think that it merits immediate attention by their colleagues over there, and that they I think that that behavior at a minimum is, it rises to the level of a censure. I think there needs to be a message sent by the body as a whole that that is not what we're going to do.

That's not how we're going to act. We're not going to have branches fighting physically and having senators charging cabinet secretaries. No, right? That's not right. Anyway, we're now in a situation where things have escalated, and Donald Trump is saying, okay, I'm going to send in possibly the National Guard to the likes of New York, Illinois, not just California anymore, because I have law makers there, I have attorney generals there, I have governors there in each of these states that don't actually want to enforce the law. And when they're not willing to enforce the law, then we got a problem, right?

Because the law's the law, and until you actually change the law, you do have to actually enforce it. I mean, otherwise, why the heck do you have it? Christy, no, I'm making this really, really crystal clear. And what I want to point out by showing you this sound is, you know, she's not out in left field. Okay, this is like normal talk. Christy sounds like a normal person as head of DHS. You know what? If you don't like the law, you can change it.

It's the left that somehow thinks in New York and California and Illinois, they can be completely their own countries with their own set of rules and their own set of laws. And that's not the way it works. My only question to you, I'd say a question back to you is which laws in the United States should be enforced and which ones shouldn't. I mean, now my job, here's the deal, guys. My job is not to pick and choose which laws we enforce and which ones we don't. We have laws in this country and they matter. If you want the law changed, go to Congress.

Once the last time you went to Capitol Hill and told your senator or representative to change it? That's what they need to do. This is the perfect time for Congress to make a decision on how they want people in this country to be able to have an opportunity to come here. legally and to fix this. We as law enforcement officers and as a national security department and agency, my job is to uphold the law. And that's what I will continue to do. Right. Okay. Now this is not something that should be in any way, shape or form controversial. Okay. It didn't used to be controversial. The law is the law. In fact, President Obama was asked about this law back in, was it 2013 on Telemundo?

And gosh, I got to tell you, he sounds a lot like Christyneau. Head of Donald Trump's DHS. Let's listen. Last time we spoke, you said that you weren't king, you were president. There were only certain things you could do unilaterally. As time goes on, a thousand deportations on average a day, people are wondering, and our Twitter feeds and Facebook feeds, that's the question everybody asks, won't you at least consider unilaterally freezing deportations for the parents of Deferred Action Kids? Yeah.

Here's the problem that I have, Jose, and I've said this consistently. My job in the executive branch is supposed to be to carry out the laws that are passed. Congress has said, here's the law when it comes to those who are undocumented, and they allocate a whole bunch of money for enforcement. And what I have been able to do is to make a legal argument that I think is absolutely right, which is that given the resources we have, we can't do everything that Congress has asked us to do. What we can do is then carve out the DREAM Act folks saying young people who have basically grown up here are Americans that we should welcome. We're not going to have them

operate under a cloud, under a shadow. But if we start broadening that, then essentially I would be ignoring the law in a way that I think would be very difficult to defend legally. So that's not an option. And I do get a little worried that advocates of immigration reform start losing heart and immediately thinking, well, somehow there's an out here. If Congress doesn't act, we'll just have the president sign something and that'll take care of them. We won't have to worry about it.

But he's saying like legally he can't. And you can debate the Dream Act, but I think moral of the story is the Dream Act was like kind of a band-aid. And he was saying, I can't legally do this. Similar to what Christy Noam is saying, hey, you want to change the law, you want to fix the law, then go for it. You do that. This is what Tom Homan was trying to explain to the little bartender, one AOC, who has presidential aspirations, believe it or not, scary. I know. But anyway, she doesn't get it.

He's trying to explain to her a couple years ago in this fantastic, Sometimes you guys may have seen me place before because it's just this unbelievable moment where he's so crystal clear on it, he gets it. And she just doesn't. She doesn't. I mean, he sounds like Obama right here trying to talk some sense into little Miss AOC. This memo. You're not the author, but you signed the memo. Yes.

A zero tolerance memo. So you provided the official recommendation to Secretary Nielsen for the United States to pursue family separation. I gave Secretary Nielsen numerous recommendations on how to secure the border and save lives. But it says here that you gave her numerous options, but the recommendation was option three, family separation. What I'm saying, this is not the only paper where we were given the secretary numerous options to secure the border and save lives. And so the recommendation of the many that you recommended, you recommended family separation. I recommend a zero tolerance. Which includes family separation.

The same as is, whatever U.S. citizen parent gets arrested when they're with a child. Zero tolerance was interpreted as the policy that separated children from their parents. If I get arrested for DUI and I have a young child in a car, I'm going to be separated. When I was a police officer in New York and I arrested a father for domestic violence, I separated that father from his family. Mr. Homo, with all to respect, legal assailies are not charged with any crime. When you're into the country illegally, it's violation 8, United States Code 1320. Seeking asylum is legal. If you want to seek asylum and go through the port of entry, do it the legal way.

The Attorney General of the United States has made that clear. Okay. You see, again, you want to change the law, go change the law. In the meantime, you actually need to enforce the laws that you do have on the books. And if states are going to get in the way of the federal government enforcing the law, then at one point is the federal government had to say, okay, you know what we're taking over, we're in charge. And that's the point at which we have reached in states like New York and California with Donald Trump. Now again, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals is going to be looking at this again this

week. They put the order in on Friday that indeed the National Guard could be federalized and the question becomes are, is that going to stand? Like, where does the law come out on that? I'm going to get into the nitty gritty. But first, I just want to again remind you because this is sort of bizarre. I mean, I'm like, guys, whatever happened to the world? We're suddenly now, like, you're a bad person if you think that the law should be enforced. I mean, remember, remember when Clinton and Obama were saying this. This administration, the Bush administration, has done nothing to control the problem that we have. We've had five million undocumented workers come over the borders since George Bush took office.

It has become an extraordinary problem. And the reason the American people are concerned is because they are seeing their own economic position slip away. And oftentimes employers are exploiting these undocumented workers. They're not paying the minimum wage. They're not observing worker safety laws. As president, I will make sure that we finally have the kind of border security that we need. That's step number one.

Step number two is to take on employers. right now, an employer has more of a chance of getting hit by lightning. Yeah, he said he was going to take that on. I guess that didn't really work out for him. But again, everybody kind of felt very strongly one way. Like it didn't used to be controversial to say, you know what, we have borders, and we need to enforce the borders. Open borders?

That's a Coke Brothers proposal. The idea, of course. I mean, that's a right-wing proposal, which says essentially there is no united. States. But it would make a lot of global poor richer, wouldn't it? And it'd make everybody in America poor. Then you're doing away with the concept of a nation state. And I don't think there's any country on the world which believes in that. If you believe in a nation state. Well, you know, hey, a decade later, suddenly we do. What the heck happened?

Donald Trump happened. I get it, right? So anything that Donald Trump stands for, they do not stand for. Weird. And then there's the, you know, the gerrymandering, redistricting thing that I think has become quite real. And, you know, before you dismiss it as some kind of conspiracy theory, don't forget, if it wasn't for the appellate court in New York striking this down, you'd have 800,000 non-citizens voting in the next election there in state elections in New York. And this has come up out in Berkeley, California, where you have now people that are non-citizens that are voting for school board members. it's getting to the point where now we understand a method to the madness. Maybe back then they didn't see it now. Today they do.