The Trish Regan Show - WHOOPI & SUNNY LOSE IT on ‘The View’ — ABC Producers PANIC After On-Air DISASTER!

Episode Date: January 7, 2026

On today’s episode of The Trish Regan Show, chaos erupts on The View as Whoopi Goldberg and Sunny Hostin appear visibly shaken by a colleague’s unexpected on-air comments — a moment so off-script it reportedly left producers scrambling. As America celebrates one of its most significant victories in decades, legacy media outlets are once again exposed for refusing to acknowledge the full truth. Instead of reporting the facts, they’re lashing out — and the cracks are showing. Join Trish Regan as she breaks down the on-air disaster, the growing panic inside mainstream media, and why the left can’t keep control of the narrative any longer. That story and much more as Tim Walz finds himself without a political career, Ilhan Omar is freshly in the hot seat and, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting shuts down for good. Subscribe for daily videos and full live episodes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

And we're live, happy 2026. My gosh, talking about starting the year of the bang, right? We've got all kinds of stuff going on. And this, let me just tell you, is a very good omen. We got a lot of ground to cover today. You know, I've been away and I've been trying to make sure that I came to you live and we got the news out of Venezuela, et cetera. But, you know, it's nice. It's nice, shall I say, to be back at home base in the studio with all of you here today. So, so good to have you here. If you're just joining us for the first time, make sure you subscribe. share, like, all the good stuff. Make a comment. I'm seeing all your comments in real time. We begin on Whoopi, Goldberg. Woo! She kind of was a little destabilized herself there.

Forget about Latin America destabilization. We're looking at the view destabilization because she doesn't know what to do when one of her colleagues actually has a viewpoint that's different than her. Same thing with Sonny Hauston, who's just reeling as Anna Navarro admits the truth, okay? Like, for once, for once admits the truth. This woman who's like a total never-trumper and typically despises Trump with every sort of morsel of her being, shocked all of her colleagues on the air, because she actually said, yeah, you know, she's happened to Los Maduro as long gone from Venezuela,

as everybody should be. Because why do you want a socialist, communist, communist dictator running the show? I mean, you think about what's happened to that country? You think about GDP declining something like 80% since the year 2013, and that was after Chavez. I mean, it has been a disaster and then some going from the highest standard of living in all Latin America to the lowest, to poverty, to starvation because of one man who's making out like a bandit, by the way, and who the U.S. has alleged is involved in drug trafficking. The DOJ hit him with those charges. And now, guess what?

He's facing them. And Whoopi, you're going to just have to face the music on this one as well, because people are happy. It's like America's back baby, right? Let's watch the clip. The people in South Florida, the Venezuelan community, the Cuban American community, the Nicaraguan American community voted for this. And for us, this is a very, very happy day when we see a dictator who has been part of oppressing and abusing the Venezuelan people for 25 years.

When we see him in handcuffs and held to some sort of accountability, it brought me into tears. It brought me great joy. And I live in South Florida. But are you okay with the way that it was done? But you can, I think both things can be true. Okay. I think you can criticize and ask questions and have concerns about the way it was done and what this means in the future.

Right. And I think you can still celebrate that this murderous, corrupt, sadistic son of a bitch is out of Venezuela. Yeah. Yeah. I think there's eight million Venezuelan exiles all over the world. People have fled from this man's tyrannical rule. So for me, to see the face on Sunny? You know, it's like somebody just let off a stink bomb right next her.

Like, oh, God. Yeah, well, you know what, Sunny? Your relatives didn't live in Venezuela or Cuba. Or maybe they did, actually. Doesn't she have some really weird background where it turns out, like, her family was somehow in slave trade? She came forward with that one. That was a doozy.

Anyway, the point is, like anybody who knows anything about this, and trust me, yours really knows a lot about. this. First of all, you have to Spanish. The Irish girls speak Spanish, yeah, because I studied it in school, unlike Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who can't speak a word of it. I do speak Spanish, and I have studied Latin America and worked on, you know, reporting Latin America for many, many years for decades. And I think, I mean, I just couldn't believe this. I was like, this is amazing. This is fantastic. I've been waiting like 15 years. It seemed like a no-brainer to me. I'm like, hey, hey, you got a lot of oil sitting down there in the good old.

old Ornokea region, I've been to it. These Venezuelans, they can't figure out how to get it out of the ground because they're a bunch of commies. And there's no incentive for them to really get it out of the ground. In fact, there's incentive to do corrupt stuff. Like, hey, you know, sanctions go into place, but China still needs its oil. So let's find a way to change the flags on the ships and divert all the oil over to China. And we'll make more money on it.

Guess who makes the money? It's not the people of Venezuela. No, no. This is what Mamdami needs to do. go and do some studying on. It's never the people. It's always the corrupt bureaucrats that are running the show. So this is phenomenal news. Not to mention we get the Iranians and we get the Chinese and we get the Russians all out of Venezuela right here in our Western Hemisphere. There's a little thing called the Monroe Doctrine, which I hear Donald Trump now calls the Donro Doctrine

rather fittingly, right? Listen, this was massive. This was amazing. The guys being held, on charges of drug trafficking, and those drug trafficking charges go back to the previous administration, so they had every right to go after him. In fact, if you look back to other points in time, I'm going to show you, 1989 Joe Biden. Joe Biden was like,

we need to go after these guys. We need to go after the bad guys. Well, we're going after the bad guys, but gosh, don't tell anybody at ABC, whether it's Whoopi or Sunny. Porana Navarro is out there on a little island all by herself, so you might as well be in Cuba. And then you get Georgie Pooh, right?

who's still reeling because, oh, my gosh, his network had to pay $16 million because of that little error that he never should have said on the air. And he knew, and he was briefed by his producers and told not to. And he's just, I guess, waiting out the last days of his contracts because he's miserable, miserable with Donald Trump in the Oval Office. And so listen to how he gets scorched by our Secretary of State Marco Rubio. This is brilliant. I want you to watch it with me. He said the United States is going to run Venezuela. under what legal authority?

Well, first of all, what's going to happen here is that we have a quarantine on their oil. That means their economy will not be able to move forward until the conditions that are in the national interest of the United States and the interests of the Venezuelan people are met. And that's what we intend to do. So that leverage remains. That leverage is ongoing. And we expect that it's going to lead to results here.

We're hopeful that it does positive results for the people of Venezuela, but ultimately, most importantly for us in the national interest of the United States, We will no longer have, hopefully, as we move forward here, we'll set the condition so that we no longer have in our hemisphere of Venezuela. That's the crossroads for many of our adversaries around the world, including Iran and Hezbollah, is no longer sending us drug gangs, is no longer sending us drug boats, is no longer a narco-trafficking paradise

for all those drugs coming out of Colombia to go in through the Caribbean and towards the United States. And obviously, we want a better future for the people of Venezuela. We want them to have an oil industry where the wealth goes to the people, not to a handful of corrupt individuals and stolen by, you know, pirates all over the world. That's what we're working towards, and we intend to use the leverage we have to help achieve that. Let me ask the question again. What is the legal authority for the United States to be running Venezuela?

Well, I explain to you what our goals are and how we're going to use the leverage to make it happen. As far as what our legal authority is on the quarantine, I'm very simple. We have court orders. These are sanction boats, and we get orders from courts to go after and seize these sanctions. So that's, I don't know, is a court not a legal authority? Hey, just to remind everybody, right, there are sanctions. Venezuela is not allowed to send that oil to China or to Russia. There are sanctions on Russia.

There are sanctions on Venezuela. Like, you can't just pirate this stuff all around the world. That's what they've been doing. You saw me reporting on this last summer, right? Because I was telling you how they changed the flags on the ships and they're trying to send it to all these various places. Half the time they're trying to go through, you know, the Irish. That would be the Russians trying to get it down to Venezuela, forgive me, not Venezuela, but to China. And it's a huge problem, but let's continue listening.

So yes, we have the jurisdiction. We have the legal authority. We have the international standing to be able to do this. Just don't tell Georgie. Is the United States running Venezuela right now? Well, I've explained once again, I'll do it one more time. What we are running is the direction that this is going to move moving forward. And that is we have leverage.

This leverage we are using and we intend to use. We started using already. You can see where they are running out of storage capacity. In a few weeks, they're going to have to start pumping oil unless they make changes. And that leverage that we have with the armada of boats that are currently positioned allow us to seize any sanctioned boats coming into or out of Venezuela, loaded with oil or on its way in to pick up oil, and we can pick and choose which ones we go after. We have court orders for each one.

That will continue to be in place until the people who have control over the levers of power in that country make changes that are not just in the interest of the people of Venezuela, but are in the interest of the United States and the things that we care about. That's what we have. The legal authority is the court orders that we have. When the president was asked yesterday, who will be running Venezuela? He said it was you. He said it was the defense secretary.

He said it was the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Are you running Venezuela right now? Jordan, I explained again that the leverage that we have here is the leverage of the quarantine. So that is a Department of War operation conducting in some case of law enforcement functions with the Coast Guard on the seizure of these boats. I'm obviously very intricately involved in these policies. And by the way, very intricately involved in moving forward and what we hope to see some of these changes being addressed. Unfortunately, the person that was there before, who was not the legitimate president of the country, was someone we could not work with.

He had already suckered the Biden administration a couple of years ago on a deal he didn't keep. And this is someone we simply couldn't work with. We are hopeful that there are people in place now, we're going to find out the proof will be in what they do or fail to do that will start making some of these changes that will ultimately lead to a Venezuela that looks substantially and dramatically different from what's been in place for 15 years. But our number one objective is America. We care about Venezuela. We wanted to do well moving forward, but our number one objective here is America.

No more drugs, no more trained-out-agwa gangs coming our direction, and no more an area of the country in our hemisphere that becomes a crossroads for every single adversary we have around the world. Hezbollah. Boom. In other words, translation, America's back, baby. Back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back. Back.

You don't mess with us. I think it sent quite a message around the world. Just ricocheted overnight, right? Iran. China. Russia. You guys are paying attention? We just kicked you all out.

Okay? Because you were right here in our hemisphere. Total violation of monroe doctrine. And I would add that we and our oil companies had actually bought a lot of that land in Venezuela ages ago. And it wasn't until Chavez came along with all his European, you know, colonialism nonsense that he decided to kick everybody out, including European companies as well. When I was down there, you had European companies like Total in the oil business. You had American companies. And guess what?

The country was doing great. They were sitting pretty until they got this idea of socialism and communism and communism. and that crept in, and before you know it, Tavis put all his cronies in charge. Just like what Mamdami is doing, right? The guy who was the defense attorney for the al-Qaeda terrorist. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's now, like, running the legal show for Mamdami. So all the cronies get instituted into their positions in office.

And guess what? None of them know how to run an oil company in Venezuela. So poor Petravesa was then just, you know, bleeding cash until they could find out ways to pump a little illegal oil and send it to people that were sanctioned, including themselves. They were sanctioned. So this is amazing. And I'll tell you, you know, ABC is having a hard time with it. CNN's having a hard time with it.

CBS is having a hard time with it. PBS. Well, I mean, they may not be around anymore. We're going to get to that story in a little bit. They're all having a hard time with it. Even the financial media is having a hard time with it. I mean, we'll talk about this a little bit, but I couldn't believe it. The headlines on Monday morning, they were like, oh, it's going to be choppy trading.

and I'm like choppy trading. I mean, the futures are way up. Like, way up, guys. What's choppy or jittery about this one? This is good news, okay? Good, good, good news. So CNN is forced to admit that Americans recognize it. Hey, yeah, yeah, yeah.

It's really good news. I want you to see this clip I'm about to show you. My favorite reporter over there, he's got a lot of personality is the only one that can actually admit the truth on any of these polls. But first, keep in mind what Maduro was doing in the background. Okay, Maduro is singing his little Be Happy song, you know, don't worry, be happy.

There was that little episode. And then he was taunting Donald Trump saying, hey, come get me, come get me, come get me. Here he is. Venga for me! Vengo por me! I'm here in Miraflores Palace. I'm here in Mirrofores Palace. Well, he wasn't actually in Mirrofores.

He was actually in his bunker. And if you were watching the show on the weekend, I had a friend of mine on, Hans Humes, who runs Great Luck Capitol, and they actually are trying to recover all the money for debt holders that, you know, have lost something in Venezuela. And he's very, very familiar with the inner workings of all sides there. And he's been multiple times to that bunker. And he told us all about the bunker.

And he said that there was some intelligence a couple of weeks ago that wasn't actually spot on where the bunker was. Anyway, Hans has been there. They have lots and lots of guards. It's up in the hills. And they came and they got him, not in Murrah Flores, but they got him in the bunker. I mean, just an amazing op, right? So kudos to Hegsef and the entire team, just an amazing op,

showing you, once again, the force, the almighty force and power of the U.S. military. Should we decide to use it and you better believe we can in Americans? Guess what? They like that. So take that, CNN. Take that CBS, ABC, NBC, the rest of yet. Okay, U.S. military ousting Maduro. Pre-austing, what you saw was the clear plurality of Americans opposed at 47 percent.

Just 21% support. Come over to this side of the screen. After the ousting, look at that. The support through the roof. Now we're talking about 37% well within the margin of error right here of the opposition, 38%. It turns out Americans like what they

deem to be successful foreign policy operations. And in this case, they view the ousting of Maduro, at least up to this point, as a success one, and therefore the support way up. Yeah, before underwater, now basically even. What about the idea of putting Maduro on trial here in the United States. Yeah, you know, part of the reason why I think that the success number is way up and you saw it here, what was it, was 26 points in favor of opposition and now within the

margin of error, is because they simply put, don't like Nicholas Maduro. In fact, they believe that he should be on trial for drug trafficking. Look at this. 50% of Americans favor compared to just 14% who opposed. So there are very few Americans here who oppose it. Even among Democrats, the opposition number is below, get this, just 24% is below 25%. So this is something that unites Republicans. It divides Democrats. And at this particular point, support for the operation way up. And in terms of those who favor the drug trafficking trial for Maduro, that is a clear plural. It doesn't really even divide Democrats on the idea of a trial. They all seem to support it by a large. Only 24% oppose it for Democrats. Let's talk about sort of what the lessons. You know, it's amazing. The Democrats, they were all

getting rid of Maduro. I actually happened to have a long inside knowledge on this, okay? A serious amount of inside knowledge. Again, my first job long before I became a reporter was actually in finance at Goldman Sachs, and we were trading Venezuelan debt along with Argentine, Brazilian, Mexican debt, and sovereign debt. And so, you know, you kind of needed to know the politics of Venezuela inside and out. And so I've always stayed very close to the story. And I was there right as Chavez was coming to power. Right as Chavez was coming to power. And the hope was, okay, you know, maybe he won't be that bad. He says he's a socialist. He says he's a communist. Well, let me tell you, he was that bad and then some. And I've heard him speak multiple times. I was so sick of hearing

about the white European that conquered Venezuela and took all the oil. Well, guess what? I guess the white Europeans back and we're taking the oil. We're not really taking it. And again, I would just stress one thing. It is good for us, okay? Like, I'm a pragmatist. I'm a realist. This isn't about freeing. I mean, there are a lot of countries that we could free, right? choose to free. This isn't really what that's about. This is about making sure that we lock down that oil and the rest of the natural resources. Therefore, yours truly, okay, because it's again in our hemisphere. Do you really want the Russians and the Cubans and the Venezuel? Forgive me, they are Venezuelan. Do you want the Chinese and Iranians hanging out just three hours off the

coast to Cuba? I was actually, ironically, as this was all going down, in the Caribbean, right off the coast to Cuba as this was happening. And I'm thinking, you know, this is a total national security issue. Like, they just shouldn't be there. When you go to Caracas these days, well, maybe not these days, but a couple of weeks ago, the number one language after Spanish that you would hear would be Russian. And after that, Chinese and after that Arabic. So enough, okay? The U.S. is back in town. And hey, I'm sorry, but it worked really well for a lot of years. Venezuela, we helped you produce your oil. You enjoyed the highest standard of living in Latin America. place was like freaking Switzerland.

And, you know, when we went away, because you kicked us out, even though we owned contracts and owned land there, look what happened. Okay? Let it be a warning, by the way, to Mamdami in New York City. I kid you not. It's the best example of the terror that socialism, which becomes communism, which becomes communism, creates. And Stephen Miller had to set CNN straight on this.

You know, that little anchor, Jake Tapper, is his name who's going to like whiny voice? And I love it because he said, you're doing that swarmy thing again. That swarmy thing you do, jakey boy. Well, Stephen Miller doesn't want to have any part of it. Stephen Miller absolutely positively humiliating Jake Tapper in an interview last night. Watch. The reason why I was giving you that speech, which I know you didn't want to hear, is because you're approaching this from the wrong frame.

This neoliberal frame that the United States job is to go around the world and demanding immediate elections to be held everywhere immediately all the time, away to get these vacuums. That's not what I think, but you invaded the country. We took it into the country and we seized the leader of Venezuela. Damn straight we did. Woo! Damn straight we did.

And that, ladies and gentlemen, have the USA roles. Okay? Here's what I also know. I actually know this for a fact that the Biden administration had worked aggressively to try to get him out. And they had come up with a lot of ideas and none of it was working. And part of the reason for that was, was Celia, Celia, the Wifee in the background. So the Wifee apparently liked her kind of lifestyle

that she had going on. She is, I'm told to be a rather shrewd negotiator. And anything they threw at her, she didn't want. And so because she didn't want anything, they were kind of running out of options. And they'd get close and then no cigar. And so this was going on and on and on and on. And then it happened again with Donald Trump in charge and like, you know, like he's got some patience, but it runs thin. And so after a while, he's like, you got to be kidding me. Do we have any other options? Don't-da. Enter Delta Rodriguez, who is a socialist as well, a tabista.

But all of my sources have told me she's sort of the best one to deal with. In other words, she's a straight shooter. And, you know, not that you can trust any of the. these people, but if you're going to trust someone, you're better off with her than, say, Maduro and his wife. Interestingly, notice that they picked up the wife as well. It wasn't just Maduro like they would typically do because the wife is a big problem. The wife has been an issue in terms of all the negotiations. So Delsey, who's the vice president, she walks in, she gets the gate. Now, I know Delsey. I've had her on my program a couple of times. We've

interviewed her over the years, and she's hardline socialist. Really, really hardline socialist, but Donald Trump needs somebody in the country that can't. keep the wheels on the bus. And apparently, as long as she does what he tells her to do and what Marco tells her to do, what Pete tells her to do, she's going to be okay. He made it very clear. You know, if she doesn't, well then she's going to fall to a fate worse than Maduro's. So how do you like that? Delsey, we're not giving you any choices here. You better actually be able to keep the wheels on the bus. A lot of people are asking, why is it her? Why is it not the woman that just got the Nobel Peace Prize? Who is lovely, by the way, I adore her Maria, Corino Machado,

I actually thought it might be her initially, but the thinking is there's too much animosity. The opposition in Venezuela, it's kind of like, well, the Republican Party is right now, right? With Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson, like all flying off the handle with all this, that, and the other. And so there's no real consistency. Well, that is what the opposition in Venezuela is. And so for every two people that love Maria Carino Machata, there are eight people that hate her. And he's like, we can't do this right now. So listen to Miller again.

To run the country until such time. Forgive me. This is Donald Trump explaining who's going to run it. We're going to run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper, and judicious transition. So we don't want to be involved with having somebody else get in and we have the same situation that we had for the last long period of years. So we're going to be in charge. We're running the show, okay? Hey, you better, you better believe it. Damn straight we took that guy out, right? in the dead of the night. We're running his rights and sent him on his way off on the helicopter

and then a boat. Now he's in New York City awaiting his trial. Here is Miller again, trying to explain. And these guys just don't get it. Like, I'm sorry, like, I'm going to tell you something a little secret. A lot of these reporters, they're just not that smart. And they don't have enough experience in many of these stories. And they don't really understand the global security issues that we're facing. I mean, again, for 15 years, I've been sitting there going, why is it that we have a crazy socialist running Venezuela when they're sitting on more oil, proven oil reserves than all of Saudi Arabia? I mean, right here at home and they're not doing business with us? Come on. We've got to be able to make friends with these guys. We've got to be able to make friends with Maduro. If we can't make friends with

them, then bye-bye Maduro. Sorry, like I told you, I'm a realist, and so is Miller. 70% of the vote or something like that. Why does the president think that Machado should not be the next leader? Why does he think she's weak? First of all Venezuela experts agree. All Venezuela experts agree that it would be absurd and preposterous for us to suddenly fly her into the country and to put her in charge. And the military would follow her and the security forces would follow her. This is not a serious, it's not even a serious question.

So should there be an election? Let me, if you're giving me the floor for 30 seconds, let me tell you what we are doing here, Jake. The United States, this is sort of foundational. The United States is using its military to secure our interests unapologetically in our hemisphere. We're a superpower, and under President Trump, we are going to conduct ourselves as a superpower. It is absurd that we would allow a nation in our own backyard to become the supplier of resources to our adversaries, but not to us, to hoard weapons from our adversaries, to be able to be positioned as an asset against the United States,

rather than on behalf of the United States. Sovereign Congress shouldn't be able to do what they want to do. The Monroe Doctrine and the Trump Doctrine is all about securing the national interests of America. For years, we sent our soldiers to die in deserts in the Middle East, to try to build them parliaments, to try to build them democracies, to try to give them more oil, to try to give them more resources,

The future of the free world, Jake, depends on America being able to assert ourselves and our interests without apology. This whole period that happened after World War II, where the West began apologizing and groveling and begging and engaging these vast reparations schemes. What I'm talking about, Jake, is the idea. By the way, you do. I know you love doing that smarmy thing, Jake, and I was hoping to be better. Do you hear that? You love doing that swarmie thing, Jake. You out.

Gosh, this is good. This time. I'm just, I asked you about if there should be an election. Exactly. I asked you if there would be an election in Venezuela. That's what I asked. I said, why was the president so quick to dismiss Machado? You answered that question.

And then I said, the objective, Jake, is security and stability for the people of Venezuela. With our help and leadership, that country will become more prosperous than it has ever been in its whole history. Venezuela is a woman running Venezuela right now is part of the majority regime. There will be, there will be conversational. about all of these guy posts along the way. The reason why I was giving you that speech, which I know you didn't want to hear, is because you're approaching this from the wrong frame, this neoliberal frame that the United States job is to go around the world

and demanding immediate elections to be held everywhere, immediately all the time right away to get these vacuums. That's not what I think, but you invaded the country. So Miller gets it, okay? Like, Miller is trying to explain, basically, what I've been saying, and I've been saying, and been saying for 15 years, like, for goodness sakes. You're sitting on a huge oil reserve. What the heck is going on? And this is something Monroe Doctrine, right, which we're joking as the Donro Doctrine, is pretty important. It sort of had some very basic, basic sort of core principles that came out in 1823 by then President James Monroe. And basically he was saying, hey, hey, you stay out of the Americas, okay? We get Canada. We got Latin America. We get South America. And they did not want any new European possible enemies coming in like Spain and trying to resettle some of these areas. So this was a non-interference warning.

You guys, you stick to Europe and we'll stick to the Americas. And many times, you know, many of these countries had just gained independence from Spain. So that was important for us, right? We didn't want Spain in our backyard. And so they came up with the Monroe Doctrine. And it was really enforced. I mean, you even think back to Theater Roosevelt in the early 1900s. And it was very clear.

In fact, I believe that some of those oil fields in Venezuela were, actually first started by the Rockefellers in that turn of the century time. I mean, we've always had a presence down there. And so it's really important to keep that and to not allow China in there and to not allow the Iranians in there and to not, I mean, this is basic, right? Basic, basic, basic stuff. And the Democrats deep down, they know it, but they just can't let this go. Because why?

TDS. I mean, it's a serious, serious disease. So let's, the question about who is now running Venezuela is one that even members of Congress who are big Trump supporters say they're not quite sure about. Senator Majority Leader John Thune told CNN's Manorajou that he doesn't know what President Trump meant by his assertion that the U.S. is running Venezuela and he said he needs more information. Can you tell us what the president means when he says, says is acting president Delsi Rodriguez

in charge? Is she running Venezuela or not? Well, what the president said is true. The United States of America is running Venezuela. By definition, that's true. Jake, we live in a world in which you can talk all you want about international niceties and everything else. But we live in a world, in the real world, Jake, that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power. These are the iron laws of the world that exist. But are you saying that...

But in terms of day-to-day operations in Venezuela, that is acting President Rodriguez, right? It's not some sort of American emissary. No, what I'm saying is... We'll keep going here, Jake. So I want to say what I'm saying, and you'll follow up. But what I'm saying is just one level above that, which is that by definition, we are in charge. Because we have the United States military stationed outside the country. we set the terms and conditions.

We have a complete embargo on all of their oil and their ability to do commerce. So for them to do commerce, they need our permission. For them to be able to run an economy, they need our permission. So the United States is in charge. United States is running the country during this transition period. If that's true, there... Obviously, it doesn't mean that President Trump is setting the bus fare schedule inside the country. It doesn't mean that President Trump is assigning the key to 12 curriculum in the country.

The indictment... This is great, okay? So yeah, we're running the show. We're running the show because we need good neighbors. We need the Monroe Doctrine. We need the oil. And by the way, we'd like them to have a better lifestyle. And you want to address the root causes of immigration?

Conlairs, I'm looking at you. The root causes of immigration? This is how you do it. You actually provide people with a better economic future because guess what? We're going to have a capital infusion into Venezuela. And you're going to have oil companies dumping all kinds of money because, again, biggest.

natural resource area outside of Saudi Arabia, you want to be there. Well, what does that mean? It means jobs. It means a higher standard of living. It means upward mobility. It means you don't have to come to the USA for a chance of anything. And by the way, when you have a chance at that upward mobility through proper means to actual free market capitalism that we're helping you to build, ha ha. What do you know? All the crime, all the drugs, it's going to be less and less. Well, in part because we're going to make sure it's less and less, but also because people are going to have other opportunities. We need good neighbors, nice neighbors, right here in the Western Hemisphere. You know, I'm just thinking, this won't so well. Maybe next weekend it's Cuba. Maybe next month.

Greenland. Just saying, here's the president. In South America, America first. Well, I think it is because we want to surround ourselves with good neighbors. We want to surround ourselves with stability. We want to surround ourselves with energy. We have tremendous energy in that country. It's very important that we protect it. We need that for ourselves. We need that for the world. And we want to make sure we can protect it. Exactly. Okay, this is not that hard. This is not that hard. And what I appreciate about this president is he's actually calling it like it is, saying it like it is. He's not trying to like sugarcoat this and tell you this is about

democracy and freedom. And we want to free the Venezuelan people and make sure that they have a better standard of living. Frankly, he doesn't care to hoots about that. He really doesn't. He cares about the fact that you get the Iranians and the Chinese and the Russians hanging out three hours off the coast of Florida. That's what he cares about. I mean, would they do Cuba next? I don't know. I mean, Cuba doesn't really have the natural resources that Venezuela has. So this is, of course, more interesting to us. And I appreciate that he doesn't try and sell it to the American public as something else. He's telling you the truth. I can't. about the freaking oil. We're running the joint, okay? And this is what everybody wanted,

even Democrats, whether they're willing to admit it or not. I am telling you, I know for a fact, I know for a fact that the Biden administration was heavily, heavily trying to get Maduro out. And they made multiple offers to him, and they tried. And I have firsthand sourcing on this, okay? So they tried to negotiate an exit. And they couldn't do it. And so Donald Trump comes along. He's trying to negotiate an exit. And Celia, the wifey, I told you, Nicholas, Nikki's wife, doesn't want to do it and keeps getting in the way. So finally, they're like, forget it. You know, we're just going to pluck you right out of bed and be done with it. And so the Democrats are standing there like, oh my God, we didn't know you could do that. We really didn't know you could do that.

But they got to be happy, right? They've got to be happy because this is exactly what should be done, as John Federman admits. I mean, at least you got one honest broker there. And just acknowledge that it's been a good thing what's happened. I mean, I've seen the speeches from whether it's leader Schumer or kinds of past tweets from President Biden. You know, we all wanted this man gone. And now he is gone.

I think we should really appreciate exactly what happened here. Now, remember, we all Democrats years ago wanted to eliminate him. And they, why, why have a bounty of $25 million if we didn't want them gone? Why would you do these things if you weren't willing to actually do something other than harsh language? Let's remember, 8 million Venezuelan were displaced and mass chaos. And now they were shipping drugs to our nation as well, too. So for me, it's like, why, why as a Democrat, you know, we can't just acknowledge that it was successful? it was so successful, okay?

And that's why they can't acknowledge it. I mean, if Joe Biden had done this, I swear to God, guys, I promise you, I would have commended this. Because ultimately, at the end of the day, I'm actually not that partisan. I just want what's best for America. Period. Full stop. And that generally means national security, international security, right, on the world stage, a prosperous economy, low taxes, lots of capitalism, it's not that hard.

Okay, I mean, even Biden, we'll go back to 1989. He knew it. He knew that this was the move to take. And losing a war on our own soil. Let's go after the drug lords where they live with an international strike force. There must be no safe haven for these narco-terrorists, and they must know it. Well, now they do. speed up to 2026. It's going to be a good year. I'm telling you. Listen, like, this is phenomenal, phenomenal, phenomenal. I'm just, I thought to myself, this is fantastic. It's fantastic

for the U.S. dollar. Okay. King dollar. Live on, right? It's fantastic for the U.S. dollar. It's fantastic for our future prospects because we want that source of energy. Energy is really critical when you think of the technology changes that are coming along and the need for And, you know, I'm looking at the market. And once again, we're up, up, up and away. Okay, like nothing's lower. Nothing. Yesterday, I was traveling with my family.

And, you know, I had my parents. My dad actually had like one or two stocks that were lower. He's not investing in, I guess, in 76 research. I was like, Dad, you're really going to take my recommendations, would you please? He had a couple stocks that were lower. And I'm like, oh, my entire portfolio is sky high. And it's going to be sky high tomorrow again because this is setting a tone. in my estimation a very, very good tone.

So the dollar is stronger. You see U.S. debt markets responding well, all of this, right? And I'm looking at the market yesterday, and actually Rob sent me this. My colleague at 76 Research. If you're not subscribing to 76 Research, please do that. Dollar a month, D-O-L-L-A-R, use code dollar, 76Rex.com. And you really should try and look at the portfolios because that's where real value is. We have three model portfolios on there.

But Rob sends me this. This is Bloomberg saying stocks, bonds set for jittery start. And we're like, but the futures market's all higher. Like, when did suddenly jittery become synonymous with massive upside? Like, this is not a jittery start. This is what you call a voluminous, fantastic, wonderful start. And sure enough, the market was way up yesterday. And we got a market that's tear and higher today.

Terran higher today. And yet the Wall Street Journal, a financial publication, is leading with U.S. allies sound alarm over Trump's demand for Greenland. They're all freaking out about Greenland right now. Let me tell you, market doesn't care about Greenland. They'd probably love it if we got Greenland, actually. They love it that we got Maduro, and things are off to a great start for 2026. I love it. 76 Research.com. We love it over there as well. You know, you have to be able to look at markets with just a sense of realism and, you know, a practical sensibility and the financial press, even the financial press, they just can't get away from their

TDS. And so consequently, they're not thinking in real ways, even the institutional Wall Street firms. I mean, I'm looking at some of the notes there and it's like, guys, do you not see what's actually happening? Just look at the markets. They'll tell you exactly what people think about this, along with Harry Anton's poll over there on CBS. CBS News at CNN. I said, CBS. CBS. News. News, by the way, they can't kind of deal with this. I don't know what to tell you about Barry Weiss. I know she's trying to change things up and she comes from a print background. So good luck to her. Print is extremely different than television. And of course, the entire medium is extremely different nowadays. Why? Oh, because you've got people like me. What do you know? I hope

you subscribed. Make sure you share like, make a comment. Even if you're watching this after the live, do make a comment. Every little bit helps. Well, you know, CBS News, is just plagued by this heavy weight that it's got going on. There's a sense of total liberalism in the newsroom, along with TDS, worse than most people have it. And I'm watching this weekend as Marco Rubio goes on the CBS weekend. And I'm just blown away. I mean, he completely humiliates this anchor.

And I wonder how long she is for that world only because they're probably not paying her much, But very wise has to know that this Tika, and she's an Irish girl, former Irish dancer, actually. I actually like her a lot on a personal level. We used to share like an office cube together at CNBC when she was a business reporter there. But she's really kind of hostile, it seems, to everyone in the Trump administration, including one Marco Rubio. And so she starts saying, well, I don't understand. You got Delsey Rodriguez there. And yet Diastado Cabello, who runs the military.

he is still there, but you guys had a bounty on him. So why is he still there? And what she's just sort of not grasping is that you kind of need the military. And that's probably one of the reasons they left Elsie there, to be honest. Diastado, he actually, another thing I know, used to be one of ours, one of our Intel guys, and we used to like him a lot. And then he switched in 2015. But maybe they recruited him back over to our side.

So she's like, why is Diazio? Cabello's still there. I'm so confused. I'm confused. You're confused, Tony. Boy, well, Marcus said her straight, too. The defense minister, who has deep ties to Russia, $15 million price on his head. He is still in place.

I'm confused. Are they still wanted by the United States? Why didn't you arrest them if you are taking out the narco-terrorist regime? You're confused? I don't know why that's confusing to you. They're still in power. It's very simple. You're not going to go in and they wrap up.

You're going to, but yeah, but you're going to go in and suck up five people. They're already complaining about this one operation. Imagine the howls we would have from everybody else if we actually had to go and stay there four days to capture four other people. We got the top priority. The number one person on the list was the guy who claimed to be the president of the country that he was not, and he was arrested, along with his wife, who was also indicted. And that was a pretty sophisticated and, frankly, complicated operation.

It was. It is not easy to land helicopters in the middle of the, largest military base in the country. The guy lived on a military base. Land within three minutes, kicked down his door, grab him, put him in handcuffs, read him his rights, put him in a helicopter, and leave the country without losing any American or any American assets. That's not an easy mission. And you're asking me, why didn't we do that in five other places at the same time? I mean, that's absurd. I do think this is one of the most, you know, daring, you know,

complicated, sophisticated missions this country has carried out in a very long time. tremendous credit to the U.S. military personnel who did it. It was unbelievable. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. And yet the mainstream media is like, why are all these people still there? Here's what I would just say. And again, I've been around the story a lot more than they have.

And so I'm much more sort of in it. Again, my background as a traitor of the sovereign debt and the sources that I've had on both sides throughout the years, both within the Maduro regime. Again, I've told you I've interviewed Dulcey many times. and within the other side, which would be the opposition. And I knew everyone very well there. And I really wanted this. I wanted this for the opposition.

But I understand they were not willing. The administration was like, okay, we just need somebody there that's going to keep the wheels on the bus. It's going to make sure that the military goes along. That would be diastato Cabello that you heard her talking about along with another guy there. And they need to kind of just keep that structure in place and then infuse the place with American oil companies so we can get all that oil and all the other natural resources and actually bring them jobs and it's going to be win win win. I mean, listen, the people of Venezuela, they have a lot more in common with us. Let's be honest than the Chinese. They're Catholic by background. They used to be

the most educated population in all of Latin America until Chavez came along. There's a lot that could come of this that is extremely good, extremely good, which is how you want to start 2026. Boy, coming out with a bang. My gosh, like I did not see this one coming. I really didn't. And my sources, many of whom are like very entrenched. I mean, Hans, you met the other day. Heck, the guy has been to Maduro's bunker a couple of times, okay? No one saw this coming. The Chinese, they were there.

On the ground, they had just met with Maduro hours before. And then the next morning, they wake up in Caracas and they're like, oh, what's going on? Which you could say either they knew and, you know, they were tipped off and they didn't say anything. I guess they're more quiet than Congress. That's why they couldn't be tipped off in Congress. Or you could say this was a giant FU to China. I don't know, but I'll take it. Because America's back, baby, and this is the side you want to be on.

It's called winning. My friend Dan Von Dino is going back to his show. He left the FBI, and you know, he's got a big warning he's coming out with. A big warning. Because he knows what winning is, too, right? He's going scorched earth on some of these crazy folks in the MAGA, realm that kind of just have gone off the reservation, shall we say? Marjorie Taylor, I'm looking at you. Candice, well, there's no hope there. And, you know, occasionally there is.

Sometimes she says really good things, but it's getting almost scary and bizarre. And then there's, my former colleague at Fox, I used to have a host, who used to host a show opposite me at 8 p.m. I mean, granted, I was on the red-headed stepchild network, you know, just Fox business news and he had the big gahuna there at 8 p.m. on Fox News. He and I have always differed on Venezuela for some reason. He has never wanted to go near it. But you know, you kind of sometimes wonder about people's alliances. Mine is pretty pure and pretty simple. America first baby. That's it. America First. We want the oil. We want control over the region and it really doesn't need to be more complicated than that, right? Except this one Tucker Carlson, and this is what Dan's getting at.

I'm going to get to Dan Bonino in a second because he's out with a huge warning. But he's basically telling people like Tucker, knock it off. Okay, we get like midterms coming up. What the hell are you doing, buddy? He, Tucker, that is, is trying to figure out how he's going to explain his very anti-U.S. involvement in Venezuela. So how does he explain it? Well, he can't actually say, well, hey, we shouldn't care about the oil. Because heck yeah, we care about the oil. Why shouldn't we care about the oil? So he goes off on this really weird tangent that's super twisted and super weird.

But you should hear it because when Dan comes out and slaps him hard, you'll understand why. We can safely discount democracy as a reason for affecting regime change in Venezuela. We're not going to go kill Nicholas Maduro because we don't like the way he's treating his people. It's possible we're mad that he doesn't allow gay marriage. That is a distinct possibility, but no one will say that out loud. Not defending the regime, just saying, one of the most conservative countries in North or South or Central America. Only El Salvador really comes close, which is much smaller, of course. And by the way, the U.S.-backed opposition leader who would take Maduro's place if he were taken out is, of course, pretty eager to

to get gay marriage in Venezuela. So to those of you who thought this whole project was Globo Homo? Not crazy, actually. Why are we trying to install this woman? It makes no sense. Well, because she'll bring gay marriage to Venezuela, and that's important. I mean, that's what we stand for.

All right. Like, now I've heard it all. So he has no way of explaining any of this. So he's going to go and tell you, they, oh, you know, there's a desire on part of Marco Rubio, Pete Heggzeth, and Donald Trump, to make sure they get gay marriage in Venezuela? I mean, this is about as good as some of the things I've heard about Brigitte, right?

Macron, despite the fact that woman actually had a couple kids and we've seen all the pictures of her pregnant. My gosh. All right, that just tells me you're really, really desperate. And you're trying to convey something that literally makes no sense. Again, I'm just a pure, simple girl from New Hampshire, live, free or die who believes in this country and believes in the greatness of capitalism. And we get a lot of oil down there.

And I kind of want it. I want it for my country. And I don't want it for Iran. And I don't want it for Russia. And I don't want it for the Chinese. Thank you very much. So I want them all out. Okay. All out. It's our hemisphere. Thank you very much. Monroe Doctrine indeed. So he apparently just doesn't care. And now he's trying to come up with some other reason for why we might possibly go down there. And so, you know, he's talking about Maria Carino Machado, who by the way is like a former Bushie. She was educated at Yale. She is a conservative. I don't know where. is on gay marriage. And frankly, I don't really care. I care about the oil. Okay. It's all. I care about. I care about making sure, well, the people as well. But that's the added benefit. And so I can't really understand his reasoning here, except that he's trying to divide and conquer, okay? Divide, divide, divide. And so all of these people, whether it's Marjorie Taylor Green or, you know, a few others on the, on the fringe there, are trying to destabilize MAGA as we go into midterms. Not a good move. And Dan is calling him out. He said he declares war on black pillars and grifters trying to hijack MAGA. Tucker want to run for president after all?

You think you're going to trust him with your foreign policy? I'm going to trust the teen that goes and plucks Maduro right out of Ben in the middle of the night. It takes him right back to New York for his trial. You're damn right I did, Dan Bongino says, after declaring war on black pillars and grifters trying to hijack MAGA. And he went on to explain that, you know, he's coming. back to his show, but a couple things. He's got a warning for all those people that are out there with all their BS. It really is not even worth seeing. I mean, that was not worth seeing. I apologize to you for even showing you, but I just want to understand the magnitude of what's going on.

And, you know, MTG, who's angling for her new job at the view, which she may just get. And so she's super anti-Trump. I mean, these people. So if you're whining, he says about it, it means you can't exist without seeing and commenting on ours. You'll need to get over that. We do it because there's nothing. Black pillars and anti-Trumpers want more than to create division and drama. This is about drama for some of these people and division because they're trying to like whack off part of this audience and take it over to theirs. And it's actually not really healthy for the country or for the party or for what's happening in midterms. And believe me, I certainly don't want to go back to a world in which the Democrats are running the show and

you're going to have another impeachment, right? For goodness sakes. I mean, they're like, frothing at the mouth over this Venezuela thing. Suddenly, dictators are good. Oh, who knew? Dictators are good in their little version of the world. And so we don't need people within the MAGA movement that aren't fully embracing what our values are because they're going to try and get Democrats elected in the process.

It's just not cool. Here's Dan talking about why he left the FBI in the first place. I mean, I gave up everything for this. I mean, you know, my wife is struggling. I'm not a victim. I'm not Jim Comey. It's fine. I did this and I'm proud that I did it.

But if you think we're there for tea and crumpets, I mean, cash is there all day. We share our offices are linked. He turns on the faucet. I hear it. He's there at, he gets in like 6 o'clock in the morning. He doesn't leave till 7 at night. You know, I'm in there at 7.30 in the morning.

You know, he uses the gym. I work out in my apartment. But I stare at these four walls all day in D.C., you know, by myself, divorced from my wife. Not divorced, but, I mean, separated divorce. And it's hard. I mean, you know, we love each other, and it's hard to be apart. But you're doing some great work.

You're straight now to the FBI. You're moving buildings. There's a lot of change. I just got one more thing. So it'll be good to see him back. It'll be good to have him back in the community as a podcaster, weighing him with his opinion on things. And, you know, he's been to the other side and can live to tell about it. But I'll tell you, we need a united movement right now.

And granted, look, I take my shots when I think it's necessary. Pam Bondi, I'm looking at you still. And I don't think that she's probably the most qualified person for the job. But when it comes to the overall op that just went down, you're going to criticize that? I don't think so. I really, I mean, you know, unless you're Rand Paul and it can be expected from him because he's a total isolationist. But you can't be an isolationist in the real world. And guess what? We're dealing in the real world, just like Stephen Miller said, okay?

We're realists over here on the Trish Regan show, which is why we're delighted that PBS is done and over Corporation of Public Broadcasting Finito. Finito. There's a little Italian flair on that one. I'll tell you, it was a super liberal foundation that basically supported, right, PBS and NPR, and because the Trump administration and numerous Republicans were like, why are we giving all of this money to a leftist propaganda machine? It's taxpayer dollars. Like, you can't do that, all right?

So finally got shut down. What a glorious 2026. This is turning out to be. Watch. A stunningly fast end of an era for public media. After nearly 60 years, a corporation for public broadcasting has voted to dissolve itself, forced to take the drastic measure after the Republican held Congress voted to defund it at the behest of Donald Trump. The private agency has steered federal funding to PBS, NPR, and

hundreds of public television and radio stations across the country. Bye-bye. See you later. And it's been nice knowing you, PBS. We've played you clips before. The woman who runs NPR, oh gosh, she's really... kind of a sight for sore eyes. I mean, beautiful, actually, lovely, attractive woman, which almost makes it more eerie when you realize what she's trying to do. And the senator, forgive me, congressman, future senator, future senator, Brenna Gillen, giving you a promotion, the congressman, who's actually Dinesh to Susan, my good friend Dinesh's son-in-law, he just grilled her, mercilessly grilled her. You can go back and look at that. We've played it many,

many times in the show. But it's just fantastic what he did. And he pointed out all the times on Twitter that she went on and on and on about all her wokeness and DEI and this, that, and the other. And long story short, she's not going to be making as much money anymore. I don't know his NPR is really going to make it without the support and the help of the corporation for public broadcasting. So that's a good thing, right? Now, who's next? We get rid of PBS and get rid of ABC and NBC and CBS and CBS news in the process? I mean, do you really need these news outlets?

It's an actual question that's worth debating because they have their biases and they're not successful commercially. I mean, some of them are, granted. I mean, I think there's some liberal podcasts out there that people listen to. But this whole sort of what's come along in this sphere, right, with what we're doing right now,

live on YouTube. Imagine I've told you before, back in the days when I did work at CBS or NBC, it would cost tens of thousands. thousands of dollars in order to do something like this. You couldn't just be streaming live from a studio. Streaming didn't exist. So everything has changed and it's changed really rapidly. And all of these networks are suffering and they're all feeling that pain. And so sure, Paramount brings in Barry Weiss for millions of dollars to try and fix CBS, but good luck to her. I mean, I don't know if she could do it.

I don't know if she has the sort of television savvy one to do it. I don't know if she has the management savvy because it's like, you know, the inmates are running the asylum over there. You got big personalities in the TV space. They don't exist in print. I'm sorry, they just don't. I mean, the ego that goes with being on camera and you see it when you're watching some of them, I'll tell you, it's significant. And so you've got to manage all of these personalities. None of them are actually a big deal personalities because nobody watches CBS and nobody actually tells you what they're really thinking over on CBS. So she's got that ahead of her, the management of the place, the conversion over into, you know, they're going

to be a little more opinionated, you kind of got to see some personality, and look at what's going on over at 60 minutes. I mean, that show's not going to be long. It's really not, which is a shame in a way because it's a great brand. And yet look at the YouTuber, Nick Shirley, who's run in circles around them because he's the one that's actually finding the actual fraud at the Somalian daycare centers that are collecting millions of taxpayer dollars. Not that CBS was ever interested to do that. Because why CBS probably has their own biases that they have to protect, including the Democrat Party,

much like perhaps some of the politicians in Minnesota, like the AG Keith Ellison, like Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, like Tim Walz, who had to say Sayyanara himself, to his future as a politician. This is the guy that was going to be the vice president of the United States of America. but because of this scandal that was unfolding under his watch and all the fraud that took place

that he just kind of looked the other way on, he's now out of a gig. He is no longer going to be running. And that's just the beginning. We're going to get to that in a second. But keep in mind, the DHS is all over this right now. You get Kirstie Knoem. Kirstie Knoem out there saying she's going to send 2,000 ICE agents and officers to Minneapolis, the Minneapolis area. So not just Minnesota, but the Minneapolis area. That would be Ilhan Omar's district. district because the belief is that there's some fraud that went in in terms of getting some of these people to be naturalized American citizens. And they want to discover that fraud and they want to actually denaturalize them. Have you heard that term before? That's a new one. That'll be a good

one for 2026. Denaturalization. Denaturalization after we learned of some nine, possibly 16 billion. Some are saying even more, maybe 100 billion, went missing from Minnesota because it was going all these daycares that didn't actually exist along with Medicaid and Medicare fraud, along with, oh, feeding the future fraud. I mean, it just keeps going on and on. Listen to Caroline Levitt promise, denatualization for those possibly involved. The Department of Justice as we speak is continuing to execute search warrants in subpoenas. People will be in handcuffs as a result of the fraud that Governor Walls has allowed to occur

for many, many years. The Department of Homeland Security is. conducting door-to-door investigations on the ground at potential fraud sites. And they are also, of course, conducting continued deportations of illegal aliens in Minnesota's communities. We're also not afraid to use denaturalization. Do you hear that? De-naturalization. Get ready. This is going to be a big word. A big word in 2026. Basically, if they can prove that any of these people secured citizenship through fraudulent means, boom. They sent them back to Somalia.

You lose your American citizenship. And given the level of fraud that they have detected already in the state of Minnesota, I'm going to go on a limb and say that there might be a little more there, right? Where there's smoke, there's fire. And this is much more than smoke. So you have all these people that suddenly secured citizenship along with millions of dollars in daycare centers, and they're going to look into that.

And if it turns out that you secured citizenship through some kind of illegal false means, misrepresenting yourself in any way, shape, or form, now you're in trouble. You're going to lose your citizenship. People are asking whether or not this could actually mean Ilhan Omar could be denaturalized. She might have a more complicated case

because at 17 years old, she was still a minor, and that is when she became an American citizen. But there are lots of rumors about what her family may have been involved in in Somalia, if any of that. And again, I want to be careful and sell speculation at this point, but if that comes to fruition, and if any of that is true, and if she went along with that at 17, then they might be able to do something there. The other thing that they certainly would be able to do is if they can figure out whether or not the husband slash brother is actually the brother, again, just an online rumor, but Daily Mail's done a lot of reporting on that one, and they claim it's true. Well, then you might have a way at least to make sure that the brother's denaturalized, and I think that there would be serious, serious implications.

For one, Ilhan Omar, people are talking about the possibility of criminal charges for Ilhan Omar, for Tim Walts, and for Keith Ellis and the AG in Minnesota. Ilhan, as you know, has been at the center She's the one that introduced the legislation. Funny enough, one of her campaign managers was one of the guys that was profiting off of it to the tune of millions and millions of dollars, $250 million being defrauded from American taxpayers. The president has turned off the spigot, not only to Minnesota, but to a lot of other states where they're questioning whether or not there was fraud. I mean, it's pretty amazing.

And the other big question, when all of this comes out, is, how much money went to al-Shabaab, which is the illicit terror organization out of Somalia with al-Qaeda and ISIS links. So if that happened and given my background in tracking terror funding, it would be very hard to think it didn't happen because the way the money is transmitted through the Hawala network. Al-Shabaab has its hand in all of it and takes something off the top. So I don't know how you can confidently say

that none of the money went back to a really, really bad organization. You can't. And maybe Ilhan is coming around to that realization because I want you to see her speaking. This was in late November. And then she talks about whether or not any of the money went terrorist organizations like a week later.

And she's starting to sing a different tune because, Donanta, a light bulb has gone off in her head. She's in trouble. There is not a single evidence that the president or his coonies have put forth that there are any single resource from taxpayers in Minnesota that has gone to aid and abate terrorism. That language is dangerous. that language puts the lives of Somalis not only in Minnesota, but across the country in danger.

If money from U.S. tax dollars is being sent to help with terrorism in Somalia, we want to know. And we want those people prosecuted. And we want to make sure that that doesn't ever happen again. Okay. So first it was absolutely no. There's no way that this could have ever happened, ever, ever, ever. dare you suggest otherwise to, well, if it did happen, then we want to know. Yeah, it's not looking good. And that's why Walls had to resign, by the way, because it's really not looking good. And I think what they're going to find in the Treasury Department's all over this. And again, I'm sorry, I don't have a ton of faith in Pam Bondi in the DOJ right now. But I do have faith in the Treasury Secretary and Scott Bess and the team over there at Treasury. And they're looking at how the

Whole Walla Network had its fingerprints on this money that was going back to Somalia. And that's going to be a problem. Not to mention, you know, there's some things that came out over the weekend on Twitter. I want to credit an account. She's great. Lives of TikTok, who was doing some reporting on this. And she basically found that Somalia's minister of foreign affairs business partner in his health care company is a guy who actually also works for a money transfer service that got

suspended because of its links to terror organizations. Again, these money transmitters are the ones that are allowing for some of the terror organizations to take some of the money off the top. And so this all came out. Look, where there's smoke, there's fire. And all of these people are in Ilhan Omar's district. So I don't think you can ignore that. I don't think you can ignore that her husband has been accused of fraud for his winery. And somehow, shortly after she debuts this feeding the future thing, she goes from like being worth what, $200,000, she married a minet there, to now being worth something like $30 million?

I mean, that's kind of weird. Alphonse, thanks to the generosity I see here. You get highlighted, you guys, when you, and I'm just looking to see if I can go to your comment. But I find this very, very, very peculiar. And maybe her fingerprints aren't exactly on it, but, but, where there's smoke, there's fire. She doesn't want you think of that. She's, oh, no, the only reason you're saying this is because you're prejudice and, you know, this is white supremacy.

It works. She sounds like wolves. Why do you think Nancy Mace is is targeting you as much as she is? It's easy click bait. There is a lot of hate in this country for Muslims. There's a lot of hate in this country for black people, especially black woman. And there is a lot of hate, severe hate, for immigrants. And so I fit the mole. She knows that she can easily raise money and get support for her bigotry from the bigoted people who want to be. want to give money to her campaign. But the reality is, in this country, the First Amendment does not only protect the speech. It protects the right and liberty for anybody to practice their faith. I do practice the Muslim faith. I am an immigrant. I am proud of both of those things. And I was, of course, born in Somalia, which the president likes to mention.

And I'm also proud of my Somali heritage. And that is not something that they can take away from me. And I just want to say, you know, one thing. I'm sorry. But, like, this is not acceptable. And you can be proud all you want. And you should be proud, whatever. But it's not acceptable in the United States of America to have this kind of level of fraud.

Okay. And Alfonz, I want to get to your comment because you're making the point that she was actually worth, what'd you say, 65, oh no, she was $65,000 in debt, okay? Now she's worth like 30 million. Come on. And now they try and say, how dare you say this? It's somehow this must be prejudice of you. I mean, this is what Walls banked his entire freaking career that was very short-lived, ultimately on. Oh, they're just racist. Now that worked out well for you, right, Tampon, Timmy? Minnesota Franz Gans. grows and grows and grows to the point where Timmy Wals had to say he's no longer running for office.

He will no longer run to be governor of Minnesota because clearly he can't govern. Clearly, here's President Trump talking about Timmy just moments ago. Not even believable. This very stupid low IQ governor, he's a very stupid man because you know I had a campaign against him with JD. And he's a stupid man. And he's a corrupt politician. and the Somalians are ripping off our country to the tune of, it looks like $19 billion, but that's only what they can find.

So usually when you look at it 19, that would mean it could be 50, but the numbers are astronomical. Think of it. They have a dead country. They don't have government. They don't have anything. They don't have a military. All they do is run around shooting people and trying to capture ships.

You know, we don't let them take ships anymore. You know what? We use the same exact missile on them that we use on the drug carriers. And it's very effective. You notice there's nobody capturing ships anymore? Because as they head out to go capture the ship and the ship doesn't want to fire back because it's very flammable stuff in many cases. And the insurance companies don't want because they, you know, they build a billion dollar ship and they don't want anybody firing rockets into the ship.

But we're hitting them so much. hard and it's very similar same same missile system it's called deadly accurate and did you notice that ships aren't being taken anymore the pirates are right i thought about the pirates aren't no somalic it's actually very easy they head out we say guess what there's pirates being at the end of the pirates yeah he's not a big fan of smaya but the smolia pirates are a big problem i mean that he's not a big problem i mean that he's not wrong, and that's a big issue in the shipping industry, and it's a big problem for the insurers. And now, here we're dealing with some version of Somaliant pirates here in the U.S. of A. And so this is getting really ugly.

It's getting ugly for Waltz. It's getting ugly for Omar, and it's getting ugly for the Attorney General of Minnesota, who was just caught on tape. I told you this was a big show today. I mean, this is what happens when I go on vacation for a little bit, right? We come back, we've got a lot of news. this guy, Keith Ellison, who basically,

Washington Free Beacon has the story, was that caught bragging about helping to indict fraudsters who stole $250 million from a federal child nutrition program. No, no, no, he's been bragging about that, right? He's like, oh, I did what I should do. But it turns out there's newly uncovered audio

which shows Ellison privately offering support to people tied to this scandal. And I got the tape for you, and we're going to watch it together, because this is not looking good for Minnesota and its leadership. Listen. Feel free to call me directly. And it is my goal to see prosperity among people who've been denied it.

You know, I think it's very kind and important for you to say that new American communities appreciate the sacrifices of people who come before. But we're all in this together. Right? You see what I'm saying? I think it's kind of you to say it and I appreciate it, but we don't recognize no differences between us. We're one and we're going to stand up for each other and make sure that we get some things fixed. I do recognize there's a problem, but what I really need to move to be effective on your behalf is to get specific. Absolutely. And it's like, you know, this sister on this day is having this problem on this.

And I can call up him like, what is the problem? And let me tell you, just being able to say, just getting the question, just getting the inquiry from the AG is sometimes enough to make people knock it off. You need a true and steadfast partner to fight for basic justice. And that is your M.O. Well, brother, let me just tell you this. Of course I'm here to help. I mean, but let me be clear. I'm not here because I think it's going to help my re-election.

I don't care about no re-election. I voluntarily threw my congressional career away. I'm like, I don't want to do it anymore. It's boring to me. So to do this, to do what I'm doing now. So, of course, I didn't leave that job to do nothing in this job. I mean, is this, am I going to get more hits than I got by prosecuting a police officer and giving them life in prison? Right?

So we're going to, yeah, so let's just go fight these people. Wow. Okay. So that was leaked audio. Lily discovered. It seems that he's trying to play ball with them in a way because, you know, well, we're all black, right? We don't care if you just got here recently. You know, we have our struggles.

You're going to have a, he's trying to like lump everyone together again in this division politics. Don't forget, he was out there really pushing for that Somalian vote. The reality is, look, you're not going to win a state election in the state of Minnesota if you don't have Minneapolis. And you're not going to win Minneapolis unless you have. the Somalian population. So he was acting in his own self-interest,

possibly looking the other way, when bad stuff was going on. It is. So can you tell us why the Somali communities are very important for the elections? Well, the Somali community is critical. In my own election, I wouldn't be in office without the help of the Somali community.

Somali voters came out in very large numbers and were able to register people to vote. Very recently there, I think there was several thousand Somalis who are just naturalized as U.S. citizens. Somalis can make a huge impact on this election. Okay, they were just naturalized. So that's part of what Christy Nome's operation is actually investigating.

How are they naturalized? Should they have been naturalized? And can they be denaturalized? I mean, this thing is going to get bigger and bigger and bigger. And it's going to bring down a lot of key people, not just walls, but Ilhan Omar and Ellison as well. And you know what? I don't think people are going to rest until someone goes to jail.

I again, repeat. I'm a little disappointed in Pam Bondi. You should have seen my Christmas Eve show. I mean, I'm like, I'm really disappointed in Pam Bondi. But I have faith in the Treasury Department. And they're going to find this money. And they're going to find exactly where it goes back to. And let me tell you, we're talking jail.

Okay. And don't take my word for it. I want to go to one of my former colleagues, a lovely woman on Fox, Dana Perino. And Dana doesn't really go out there and hit hard on things all the time. She kind of tries to be sort of neutral Switzerland. But she's pretty much like at the point, much like me, where there's no coming back for walls or any of them wants.

He might have been the first shoot-of-all, but there's more coming. Because Keith Ellison, who is the Attorney General of Minnesota, a former congressman who is a member of Democratic leadership. He is on audio, leaked audio, talking to these people, tell him that he will cover up the investigation, so that they'll tell the investigators to back off. So this resignation or decision not to run, not a resignation, but the decision not to run, it's not the end of the story. The fraud story doesn't end there.

To me, it's really just beginning. And thankfully, there's a very good prosecutor in the state that is relentless. so hopefully they'll get it cleaned up. Bad news for you, Timmy. Bad news for you, Ilhan, and bad news for you, Keith Ellison. Because someone, even CNN admits, is going to jail.

That nothing is being done, that no one is being held accountable, that this was just let to run rampant, is completely false. Well, some people have been held accountable, but I think in the opinion of most Republicans, not nearly enough. And truthfully, until some people,

in a position of power, until somebody in a position in Minnesota elected position who was in charge of administering this or having some oversight over, it goes to jail, it's honestly never going to stop. Look what's going on in blue states across the country. Nine billion in Minnesota, 70 billion in fraud in California, cooking the crime stats in Washington, D.C. When is someone in a position of power going to go to jail for the rampant fraud? What I am telling you, though, is in the case of these states, and locales, this is public money, taxpayer money. Sure.

People get elected. They're supposed to run this program. The DOJ is doing their job every single day. About dead walls, the Medicaid program is run by the state. The DOJ is prosecuting fraudsters of public funds all the time. Someone's going to go to jail. There will be a head on a platter. And, you know, if Pam can't get it done, I'm pretty sure Besson can.

Because they're going to be following all that money. And you wonder why they're all freaking out. Elon. Elon was spot on. He told us why. You know who complains the loudest? And with the most amount of fake, righteous indignation, the fraudsters. That's, it's a tell.

You listening? Minnesota? Yeah. Serious, major, major fraudsters. So there's going to be a lot more on that. But this fraud is so widespread. I mean, California. It's not looking good in California.

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California is more corrupt. than any place. California is more corrupt than Minnesota. And I won Minnesota. Well, Tom's going, I think so. Well, it's close. It can't be proportionately, probably nothing's more corrupt, right? Well, his point is, is they get real issues in California. The homeless funding program alone apparently cost them something like $2.3 billion. News Nation doing a story on this the other night. 2.3 billion dollars sent to L.A. County over four years is completely unaccounted for. Ooh! Okay. So the president writes, there is more fraud in California than there is in Minnesota. If that's even possible, when you add in what he believes to be election fraud, then they become first.

You got two crooked governors. You got two crooked states. And he's not having it. He's just not having it. you know, it's amazing. You look at just this one YouTuber, right, who went out and like started a firestorm because now YouTubers are going around looking at these daycare centers everywhere. There's one I just saw in California. I wasn't able to actually verify it. And, you know, I like to verify things before I bring them to you. But he found a guy who's running an Iranian daycare. A guy at like 40-some million that he got and there were no kids there. So he's like, what's going on? So that was something to see. Again, I want to just track it down and make sure it's all, in fact, totally 100% real.

But this kid, Nick Shirley, 23 years old, he's absolutely real. And he is on to something starting a trend here where people are finding out that these daycares actually don't even exist. ...fraud is taking place within the government and the Somali population. Here, this building alone, Quality Learning Center is a daycare, yet they spelled learning wrong. And they said, leering. This daycare alone in 2025 has received $1.9 million from the government. The strange things about these child care centers is there's no one here right now. It's midday on a weekday.

If you were to try to go inside, it's completely closed and the windows are all blacked out. No one's working. Midday children should be in here. And this place is licensed for 99 children. And this is the outside. There's no windows, no nothing. Like I said, they literally spelled the word wrong on their sign. This is open and blatant fraud taking place here inside of Minnesota.

The government is complicit with this. So it's fantastic. Like he did this awesome, awesome, awesome, awesome report. And all he did was take the addresses and compare it with, you know, public documents starting how much money had gone to these things. And one knocking on doors, and it turns out there's no kids. There's like nothing there.

I mean, heck, they can't even spell the word learning right at the Quality Learning Center. It's unbelievable. So that's happening there in Minnesota. And then you've got people finding it in Ohio, too, nonetheless. Another one? Check this one out. Today, I'm showing you 161 child care in Columbus, Ohio. And as you can see, does not look like a child care center at all.

It is locked. It says it's open. There's a little desk right there, but the ceiling's all falling out and stuff like that. And if you come around back, you can see that this place is just a total dump. This is unbelievable. Little is just debris everywhere. This is your taxpayer dollars. The question, how do you enroll?

How do you enroll your children here? You can't do that? No kids? So how can I enroll my children? It says you get, you get public money through. You get public money through Ohio. You get money through the state of Ohio. This is why I keep saying you cannot give government too much money.

what government has, government spends, and quite often it winds up, possibly going to fraud. So that's Ohio. If you go over to Washington, you get a bunch of places, some of which don't even actually have addresses on them. And they're all belonging to naturalized Somalian American citizens. So there's kind of a theme going on, the Somali daycare centers that's kind of a problem. Don't you say? I mean, this is our taxpayer at all, our money. And what's incredible about all this, I just want to point this out, is that this is being discovered by YouTubers. This is not being discovered by the mainstream media.

Again, you know, hey, CBS News, where are you? 60 minutes. Isn't this, you know, I remember the days of Mike Wallace would go chasing, this would be perfect for him. He'd be chasing down the daycare owners. So somehow the media has lost its way, if it ever had its way to begin. with. But the reality is there's power that's been given to the citizen journalist because of

what we're doing right here. So, you know, we don't, we don't have to deliver status quo. I've never felt so free in my life. My gosh, I get to say whatever I want. I don't have to have any scripts. And I don't have to have any approve my scripts. It's just you and me, baby, right? And that is certainly gratifying for me. as a journalist, as a commentator, but it's going to be gratifying for you too, right? Because there's like nothing in between us. We've got like kind of a thing going on, shall we say.

It's like I've never felt so connected to my audience. And I get to see what you guys are thinking in real time. By the way, I'm going to go out to some of your comments right now. And that's a whole different experience than anything I've ever had in my career. And it's a wonderful one. So, you know, we, the media is changing in real time. The mainstream media doesn't really know how to handle it. I mean, they've got an FCC investigation going on, for goodness sakes, over at ABC News.

And I think the view is on its last legs. And they're all fighting with each other, and they get mutiny over there. And for goodness sakes, Ann Arroy has a different point of view than Whoopi Goldberg and Sonny Housen. Apparently, you're not allowed to do that. And then you got Marjorie Taylor Green angling for her job at the view. I mean, the whole place is coming apart. you got Georgie Poo, who's already been fined $16 million, or his network rather, who doesn't seem very happy to be there nor happy that the Trump administration is running the show.

And then instead of asking really interesting questions, you've got the media on these weekend shows, like basically trying to say, like, how do you have this legal jurors? I mean, there's so many fascinating questions that you could be and should be asking about Venezuela right now. I mean, this is a moment. a historic moment that frankly as a nation we should all be proud of. I mean, most people are. The CNN survey showed you that one.

I see a fellow New Hampshireite here in the mix. A good old 603er, Michael Smith, welcome. Good to have you here. Yeah, the view, I don't know what happened to the view, superstar bad. The view kind of went right off the cliff. And peace in my mind, we are over a million subscribers. and still climbing. We're going to get to 1.2.

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