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BREAKING: CNN’S OLD GUARD OUT! Amanpour DONE After 43 Years…Who’s NEXT?! S6E20

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BREAKING: CNN’S OLD GUARD OUT! Amanpour DONE After 43 Years…Who’s NEXT?! S6E20

Kristine Amipur, a long-standing CNN journalist, has resigned after 43 years, signaling a major shakeup in the network’s leadership amid the Paramount-Skydance takeover. Her departure is widely interpreted as a result of political tensions, editorial concerns, and cost-cutting measures tied to new ownership. Critics argue that her exit reflects a broader purge of journalists perceived as politically aligned with past administrations, especially given David Ellison’s close ties to the Trump administration. At the same time, Ilhan Omar is under intense investigation over alleged citizenship fraud and financial misconduct, with her sister reportedly speaking to federal authorities and sharing sensitive family records. This has led to speculation that Omar may face deportation or even jail time, with the president stating she could be prosecuted for dishonesty and ties to a non-state entity like Somalia. The White House has also launched a $25 million whistleblower program, emphasizing the rise of citizen journalists like Nick Shirley, who uncovered fraud in Minnesota using grassroots methods. This shift underscores a transformation in news gathering—moving from traditional networks to decentralized, on-the-ground reporting. As a result, CNN and other major outlets face increasing pressure to adapt to cost constraints, evolving technology, and new accountability models. The situation highlights deepening divisions over media independence, political loyalty, and the future of investigative journalism in a rapidly changing media environment.

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But we had a feeling this was coming, right? We talked about this as SkyDans came in and took over, we knew that a lot of people would be heading for the exits at CNN. We're going to talk all about that and what's ahead. We've got Netflix earnings just out. I'll tell you that's another company that is in desperate need of a redo. Anyway, lots going on at CNN, lots also going on with Ilhan Omar, if you would Ilhan Omar getting called up by the President of the United States just a short time ago. And I want to talk about that because it's somewhat of a big deal. He's actually suggesting that Ilhan may actually be heading to jail. To jail, okay? And there's good reason to think there's a lot going on. I have some very interesting intel to share with you about the sister today. She may have just ratted out her sister Ilhan to the fed. We're all over that. But we begin. We begin on the CNN push. Wow, CNN has got a purge going down. You get one of the most recognized journalists on that network. Kristian Amipur. She's been there 43 years and she kind of flipped out on the air. I mean, we saw her spiraling, okay, like a couple of weeks ago, as this deal looked like it was going to happen. Here's what she was saying on her little show. We have seen the Paramount, Skydance, Ellison takeover of CBS news first. And we've seen what their view of editorial independence has meant. Essentially a wholesale reorientation of the personnel. And as far as we can gather, the editor-in-chief's views on what editorial independence looks like. So, she was kind of, you know, sort of suggesting she was getting a little bit nervous, right? She wondered what independence would look like. And then lo and behold, I mean, this is like a rage quitter or something. She just announces, bump it on. She's done. She's out of here. This is on her show. I guess this came out last night. Hi, everyone. I wanted to give you some news about myself and about this show. After thinking carefully for several months and experiencing a few sleepless nights, as you can imagine, I've decided to separate from CNN. My partner of 43 fantastic years, longer than many marriages. Hmm. I guess longer than your marriage is, right? Anyway. She's gone. She's leaving. And, you know, I just got to say, it makes sense, right? We've talked at length about how this industry has changed so much. And this can delivery is just, it so has been. I mean, and it's canned, right? Like, even her little speech about leaving, I'm sorry, you know. I want to be nice here. And I want to be charitable. And she's been 43 years there and that's all great. But it's just so freaking canned. I mean, it's red off a teleprompter. And you can kind of feel that lack of sincerity right through the screen. She's oozing this sort of canned speech. And I'm sorry, but like times have changed. And we need people who can speak extemporaneously without the very affected accent. Didn't she go up here? I'm like, what is the international quasi-British accent that's always going on? I'm sorry. And delivery. And again, the time has come for us to all move on, including from this very laborious delivery. Now there's no eye in team. And my whole career has been teamwork to make the dream work. So I want to thank all the amazingly talented people I've worked with throughout this incredible journey. And I want to thank all the talented people I've worked with throughout this whole journey. And I want to thank all the talented people I've worked with throughout this wonderful journey. She is biased as you want in this business. I got my biases and you guys know it, right? I like wear it on my sleeve. Sometimes it gets me in a lot of trouble. But this woman is always pretending like she's a journalist with a capital J and she knows better than everyone else. And you know, I'll tell you she doesn't because she reported a lot of crap, a lot of stories, whether it be on what was going on with COVID and its origins or what was going on with that laptop. Yeah. Remember that infamous laptop that did actually belong to Hunter Biden. Here's Trump's PR person getting into the thick of it back in the day is Kristian tried to have this sort of upper hand. Well, you know, she's gone. She's gone. And I just have to say, good. Are you comfortable with the president of the United States being close to a person like Rudy Giuliani, who says also that he is not bothered whether any of the information comes from Russian hacking. What does that say? Are you comfortable that CNN used Russian disinformation from a Russian asset to leak it to subvert the peaceful transfer of power that we're putting on the dossier. This is completely verified Russian disinformation. Is it not? It is. Let's just get back to the story. Was the dossier real? Can we get back to the current story? Everything the Democrats accused us of doing is what they themselves did. We have not always tried to ask that. We've heard this smear very well. It's the United States government who said it, not me and not CNN. The United States government. The FBI. The FBI. Okay, you know what also the United States government says? The FBI says this laptop is not Russian disinformation. So what are you talking about here? This laptop is real. It's not just the laptop. There's other emails. There's text messages. They are real. So according to this government, the FBI has verified everybody to look at that, but that's not what we're hearing from the FBI. Why don't we even report this? This is the one of the most powerful families in Washington, the Biden family. And you're okay, you're okay with our injuries being sold out to profit of Joe Biden and his family when we're suffering during a pandemic from Congress trying to keep stealing up to the deal. As you know perfectly well, I'm a journalist and a reporter and I follow the facts. And there has never been any issues in terms of corruption. Now let me ask you this. Yesterday, the FBI, the FBI, how are you doing that? I'm talking about reporting and any evidence. I'm talking to you now. Okay, I would do a lot of you guys about what the FBI's doing, and start doing that verification. No, we're not going to do your work for you. I want to ask you a question. The FBI. It's a journalist's story. It's a job to find out if this is verified. Okay, okay, okay, okay, I'm sorry, I know I'm having too much fun, right? Anyway, so poor Kristian, I'm a poor, she kind of, you know, her day has come. 43 years. It's been a great run and if she's talented at all, she'll get that little bug as she has with the ex-husband to take off. But I would just say that they're not going to be paying the big bucks to somebody who was so happy to just report, frankly, misinformation, right? It was whatever was being fed by the Biden administration and somehow the Biden administration and the CIA and the State Department and everybody else had like this lock into some of these mainstream news networks. And if you didn't report what they told you to report, then somehow you were the problem. And so you've got CNN who for so many years was just drinking the Kool-Aid and reporting whatever their quote-unquote sources were telling them to report. And so they had their own biases. And now you've got David Ellison coming in and he's determined to try and make a success of this company. Yes, a success, gosh. You can see me, right? You can see me and you can hear me, I hope. But as he tries to make a success of this company, it just means there's going to be a lot of changes, a lot of new stuff coming along. And I imagine you're going to have a lot of people like the Christianomopores of the world that are just not going to fit into that new model. And they'll argue that, oh, it's because the Ellisons are not independent enough. In fact, this is sort of already what I see her doing. She got on the air and in that little monologue or rather that long monologue that she graced us with, she gave a little dig at the Ellisons and Skydance and their quote-unquote independence because she's seeing herself, right, as the independent journalist and she doesn't want to work for anybody that's too close to Trump, listen to this carefully. Now you know I've always been fiercely independent and I will continue to be that for you for as long as I am here and beyond. That's especially important today as we face unprecedented pressures from all sides, political, financial and also from the rising dangers in the field. I'll always be rooting for CNN maintaining its history of independent journalism. In time, stay tuned, keep watching Amanpour on CNN and also my podcast, The X Files with Global. You see where I'm going with this? She gives this little dig because she wants you to know that somehow she's not going to be a spokesperson for anybody associated with the Trump administration. and maybe the elephants are just too close. There is some spin on this. You know, I'm going to just tell you my thoughts here. I do not think that Christiana and Amin Por could stay at that network. In part, yes, because of her political bias, but also because she probably cost too much and had been there for too long. And they want to go in a different direction. And let's face it, the amount of money they were probably paying her is I'm sure far too much as they want to cut costs. And this is what Ellison has talked about. Cutting costs. He's going to be merging the CBS newsroom with the CNN newsroom. And Mark Thompson, for now anyway, is keeping his gig as head of CNN. He's like a print guy that came from New York Times. You go very wise who went over to CBS, but they're going to merge those at some point. Here he is with his been talking about how, you know, they tried and tried and tried to get her to stay. I don't think that's true. Because maybe they tried, but they were like, OK. And you're going to take a 90% pay cut. But we want you to stay. And so I think at that point, like they really don't want you to stay. That's probably what was going on. You see, this is People Magazine because they put this information out. CNN Chairman reacts to Christiana Mumpur's exit after months of discussions. Oh, he's been trying to keep her for months and months. This is what he's telling the newsroom. But my point to you is, no, no, no. Because if they wanted to keep her, they could have kept her. They didn't want to keep her. They weren't going to pay her enough. She was nervous about the direction they were going. They were like, you know what, we don't need this dead weight. And so they let her go. He reacts to this exit after months and months of discussions. Let me tell you, they weren't having months and months of discussions. Because he didn't even know if he had a job, right? Remember the other day, it was like, whoa, he's going to stay. He's going to stay. In fact, Ryan Stelter was so happy to say that he was going to stay. And that was a big development. Let me see if I have it. Yeah, oh, Mark Thompson is staying. I mean, this guy didn't know if he had a job, let alone, could he negotiate for one Christiana Alman por, given that the new bosses were not going to pay her big salary. There have been questions for the past year about paramounts close, cozy ties with the Trump administration. Patrioc Larry Ellison and his close relationship as a donor to the president. And David Ellison's efforts to cozy up to the Trump administration to win these merger deals. So, those questions have really been a cloud over this merger with some concern about what's going to happen to CNN. Well, this announcement resolves that. And it signals there's not going to be any immediate combination of CNN with paramounts CBS news unit. Barry Weiss will remain in place as editor-in-chief of CBS News. Many insider has wondered if Weiss would be given a role at CNN as well. And that's not happening for the time being. It seems pretty clear to me, the SkyDN's leadership team-- again, taking control tomorrow-- they are valuing stability over any possible shakeup. This company is going to be saddled with a lot of debt. It's going to be under severe pressure to cut costs because of that debt. But at the same time, SkyDN's is going to be relying on the cash flow from profitable channels like this one, like CNN, in order to pay down that debt. So, the company has good reason. OK, but I guess her show wasn't possible enough, because they weren't relying on her. In fact, she was partly part of the cost center. But again, I just want to emphasize that there's a spin machine at work. They place this in People Magazine. And they're quoting Mark Thompson from one of his emails, saying, like so many CNNers who will hear the news today, I'm very sorry to see her go, but I've come to accept that this is right for her, both personally and professionally, saying that she's a beloved journalist and one of the most trusted beloved journalists anywhere. He goes on to say, in the meantime, on behalf of the entire CNN leadership team, I want to thank Christiane for 43 extraordinary years of remarkable journalism, loyalty, and leadership. I think she knew. I think she knew that she was toast. As soon as this deal went through, I think a lot of people knew this. It's partly why you saw them so against it. They wanted Netflix to come in and buy them, right? Because Netflix is Obama City. You get Susan Rice on the board. And while Michelle and Barack had a deal until they had a bunch of flops and suddenly, you know, they realized they had to get rid of that dead weight, too, over at Netflix. They just reported earnings. And I'm telling you, this company's in trouble. Four court are not looking good. Another decline. Anyway, Stelter was talking. And I say Stelter, Brian is his name. He is the media correspondent at CNN. He used to have a media show that he got fired from that and somehow got brought back in under new leadership. They've changed leaderships too many times. In fairness to Christiane, she's probably like, "I don't want to deal with this anymore." Like, who does? But Stelter was trying to say, listen, it's going to be OK because we've got a board. It's going to be independent. And that independent board is going to have people from both parties, journalists from both parties, and they're going to be presiding over CBS and CNN simultaneously to make sure everything is kosher above board. Here was his explanation just a few weeks ago to her. I will tell you, just between us, friends here, I'm a little bit skeptical. And the reason I'm skeptical is because we've seen this before, for example, at the Wall Street Journal and Rupert Murdoch bought the journal. There was a board set up, but people say it was mostly toothless. There are also similar boards at a couple of other institutions with media companies around the world. So maybe this one will be effective, but the devil will be in the details, and we don't know the details yet. - We don't know the details yet, but no idea. No, we do. Cost cuttings coming. Yes, they've got their little board. And there's going to be a lot more heads that roll. Look, Christian, she kind of alluded to this. Again, in that same show as she was asking Brian about the deal that was happening, and she basically said, I'm not so sure this is going to look good because I know what happened to CBS. And I know all my friends over at 60 minutes are there anymore. I told you about Anderson Cooper, by the way, guys, already, right? Anderson Cooper left CBS in 60 minutes, and he said it was because he wanted to spend more time with family, no, no, no, no, no, it was because they weren't going to fam, and they probably didn't want them. And so now he's overdoing his CNN gig, but for how long? I don't know. Let's go back to Christian. Freakin' out. - We have also seen this movie. We have seen The Paramount, Skydance, Ellison Takeover of CBS News First, and we've seen what their view of editorial independence has meant. Essentially a wholesale reorientation of the personnel, and as far as we can gather, the editor-in-chief's views on what editorial independence looks like. And there's been a huge amount of criticism about what it has transpired to be. I was actually surprised to see that this deal also adds the editorial board function for CBS. I mean, I thought the CBS thing was kind of done and dusted. - That's a very interesting point. This is a partly as a result of the state attorney's general negotiating over with us. - So she's worried, she's worried. Bottom line here was she said, "Well, hey, we'll just keep on going." Or at least he said, "We will keep on going," and she's probably sitting there going, "Hmm, yeah, maybe you, maybe not me." - There's so many questions to ask about the CNN thing, but we'll see how it plays out. We've also-- - I don't have any other answers, so-- - Yeah, I know. - But there's a thing, Kristian, like we've been going for 45 years, right? CNN just keeps going. No matter who, no matter what, no matter where, this network just keeps going. I strongly believe that's what's going to happen, even though we're about to get another new owner. - Okay, interesting. I've been here 43 years, so I've seen it all. Every merger, every buyout, and so far, yep, we just keep going. - Without her. So I guess the question now is, who's next? Because there's this expectation that there will be more heads that roll more exits coming at CNN amid ownership change. Amid new owners, right? I'm actually just putting this on the screen for you in real time. But they can't do that at CNN. You know how I know how to do things like this? Quick little story. I used to work at Bloomberg Television. And way, way, way, way, way back when it first was sort of getting on the map. I worked there twice, actually. But the first time around, you had to run your own prompter and you had to type your own graphics in. (laughs) So, you know what? Surge me well, right? Because I can do it all on the fly. What do you know? And I'm pretty sure she can't, but maybe she'll learn. You know, maybe she'll learn. It is a brand new world out there. And again, if she's any good, we'll see her over here. Listen, there's going to be more exits coming. It is not just Christiana and Amampore. There will be more. The entire goal of this merger between Paramount and Warner Brothers Discovery, which owned CNN, is to cut costs. That's what David Ellison wants to do. He is trying to streamline these things and he is trying to grow these things. So the guy he brought in to run the business is going to be looking at this critically. And he himself is looking at the technology that's going to basically get them to the next chapter. And what do I mean by that? You look at the citizen journalists out there. In fact, one of them was honored at the White House today. We'll get to that. Nick Shirley, the president's putting together $25 million dollar fund to try and get regular citizens out there reporting on investigative work because the big journalists networks, they just don't do it anymore. So you have this real shift. And what you're going to see, I think, is more of what we've seen on YouTube and on X and Facebook and all of these places where people just have this and Spotify. If you haven't followed me on Spotify, please do that. I put that actually in the chat. So you can find that and it should be in the show notes. It may not be there now I'll make sure it is by the end of the show But if you're watching live you can see it the link in the chat So follow me there the point being that we have all of these different ways to get our message out to you And as long as they don't come along right and shut it down And I don't think they will because I think Elon thought them a pretty darn good important lesson. I don't think they're gonna do that again um, you know knock on wood, right? But we have a way to connect and we have a way to report and we have a way to a pine and you have This ability to come to us all right now and to find us and to kind of see what it is that you want So it's really if you think about it free market capitalism at its finest So what happens to a network like CNN? It's got to embrace these technological changes It's got a streamlined cost and it could do that by taking its 1980 business model and updating it into the future And what do I mean by updating it into the future this you see what happens? You know, we take the good with the bad over here More exits to come I'm looking at I see a typo right out of the corner of my eye on my lower third How do you like that? But in other words, there's going to be a chance for more content to be going onto networks like a CNN Much like they're on YouTube or on Spotify or Apple Podcasts or any of these things The other thing that you got to keep in that's news I mean, I really think the future for news is just going to be incredible because you look at what's been coming into us from Paris for example Or all over France in In Leone and in Merseille in Le Mose where they oh my goodness that city hall right just coming down in flames All of this was caught by everyday people on their phone So you don't need to have the big heavy camera set out there Recording everything. There's a lot that's just coming in and And if you're smart you're going to harness that and you're going to be able to use it and use those pictures I mean verify of course, right? That's very important But it just changes the model and we're going to be able to bring people to the front lines of anything that's going on You want to go and see what's going on in the oval office? It's going to be in 3D at some point kid you not you're going to go into a room in your house And you're going to turn on not your television But your computer or whatever else and you're going to watch all this stuff and you're going to be there in The protests in France. It's like beam me up Scotty. I mean, we're talking We're talking Star Trek meets the news and that is the future And so David Ellison is trying to get that so who is actually going to be this sort of new anchor set that they've got in that realm I don't know I mean I might go out and hire Nick Shirley if I were him And I bet you I could get five Nick Shirley's for the price of one Christian almond pour You see so Christian almond pour has kind of unfortunately for her priced herself out of the market And you also have just a very different kind of media environment right now that is not going to reward the Promptor reading anchor with the canned Speech and the canned puns Now I haven't seen her on her podcast. Maybe she's a totally different person And maybe it's more natural and you know, she doesn't have to read a teleprompter Maybe that's just not her skill etc. etc. But there's going to be a lot of changes And so who who are we thinking I'm curious if you guys have any names. I mean, I think that you know people at risk would be people that are making perhaps too much Anderson Cooper comes to mind He kind of just reads a prompter and he probably costs too much Jake Tapper comes to mind only because I don't know what he costs not as much as Anderson But I would say that he's put himself out there over and over and over again Just thinking I've played it for you before so I won't right now. But remember what he did to Laura Trump When he attacked her and basically forced her off the air because she was making the point that Joe Biden really wasn't speaking so well And he accused her of making fun of people with stutters and she's like no no I didn't know he had a stutter. I think he just kind of is losing his mind And then later Jake was like yeah, he's losing his mind So I think that kind of again lack of sincerity and frankly I would say lack of ability to report Because Jake were you not looking at the same feeds that we're coming in is the rest of us I mean, I'd look at those feeds and say my gosh as he'd wander off at a G8 summit or G7 summit forgive me I'm thinking back in the days when it included Russia. I reported on it back then Anyway, he's at the G7 summit and he's running off to go look at the balloon, you know and and Nobody finds that to be a problem The way he moves so slowly putting his sunglasses on taking the sunglasses off the way he kind of shoveled around Apparently not Jake Tapper or anybody else at CNN. So he may be at risk We know of course the president is not happy with CNN. We know he's not happy with Caitlin Collins We'll see where this leads But I think that there are going to be other heads that roll and they're going to be able to do a whole lot more with a whole lot less At CNN and look that's just the future of what's coming in the media period period right and We're gonna see more changes coming in the near future as well, but I have a big story. I want to get to today because Ilhan Omar's case is getting much larger Ilhan our sister we have learned has told the feds something about her maybe all about her looks like perhaps she could be actually Riding her sister out This is the sister's soft front nor and we have just learned today that she did actually meet with the feds and she spoke with them about this alleged naturalization disaster right the alleged fraud that may have occurred vis-a-vis any immigration papers. Let me go to what Fox was reporting just earlier today this morning Federal investigators last week, according to three sources familiar with the investigation She voluntarily spoke with investigators after the high profile raid on the residents of Omar's shares with her husband in Washington DC This as we learn authorities have her DNA as part of their probe into her Citizenship though it's unclear how they got the DNA They also have her personal passport to use it to evidence and investigation and they do believe she is still in the United States Okay, well they have her passport so that's a good thing. Hopefully she didn't have duplicate passport or something Or hopefully she wasn't traveling on somebody else's passport because she is MIA like we have not seen her For quite some time she apparently was at the raid. We're told that she was at the raid as was her husband Tim Minette When they busted in it like 6 a.m last Monday morning, but now the question becomes what are the feds now looks like they've got the DNA And this family tree is really really sauce The sister cancelled a speech that she was supposed to be giving at the University of Minnesota The other day because she said she had a family emergency and now we've learned that she did Sit down with the fed so the question becomes what did she tell them don't forget what our Treasury Secretary said as we first learned of the feeding our future scandal the 250 million dollar scandal This was a program that do not forget Ilhan Omar herself actually introduced on the day she announced her marriage to Tim Minette There is the 250 mil feeding our future Except it was just feeding a Somalia's future apparently or the Minnesota Somalia people I mean this wasn't feeding any kids and Besson said this at the time Just remember because it's kind of a point in quote quote in in light of what we may know about Ilhan's sister now We will find out who's done this we are going to put in effect a whistleblower program and my Since is that the rats will turn on each other like it's it's like the scorpion. It's in their nature Oh, okay. They did put in a whistleblower program. In fact that was put in today 25 million We'll get to that but Ilhan Omar's sister had her phone confiscated Apparently a search may have been conducted at her home. There were numerous warrants that went out For all of these searches at various homes with people connected to all of this They got the sister's phone and because of whatever was on the sister's phone They got the warrant to go into Ilhan Omar and Tim Minette's home on Monday and do not forget There were two judges there was there was actually a judge out Minnesota that signed off on this who was a Biden appointed judge And there was a judge in DC who signed off on this who was also a Biden appointed judge now their bias would not be to To allow this right the bias would be not to allow for a search On a sitting congresswoman's sister's home Let alone a sitting congresswoman's home, so they had some information I think we've got some of that information right now So I want to share this with you This is all new to me I don't know how steep you guys are on Ilhan Omar and her family But I think you're going to be surprised I think the feds were probably surprised once they did some digging around this story to learn some of this First of all, Ilhan Omar is the youngest of seven children. We know that courtesy of Ilhan Omar herself. She has said this. I guess she had a book out. She talked about being the very youngest of seven kids. So I was curious, like, did any of the other kids get naturalized? The way Ilhan did? And apparently they couldn't have, because they definitely would not have been within the age range to have been naturalized themselves. Her sister, Safra, she goes by Safra, nor although she's gone by other names, including N-U-R, N-R-L-M-D, kind of like N-R-S-I-E-D-L-M-D, kind of like some of these other relations, alleged relations over in the U.K. Anyway, Safra, and this is her picture right here, was raised with her sister. She's a few years older than Ilhan, and she, along with Ilhan, with the father, came to the U.S. Now, interestingly, this is the only sister that Ilhan Omar has ever mentioned. I mean, she's got six other siblings, and she's never talked about any of them. And so we don't technically know their names. We only know about Safra, which I think is a little bit weird. Just a little bit weird. And I can't seem to determine whether or not Safra is actually a U.S. citizen. That's not really clear. She does actually do a lot of work overseas. This is from her website. A lot of work overseas and gets money from USAID, in fact, according to her website, she's very proud. Safra has worked in the U.S. and over eight countries in Africa, from Kenya, Somalia and Rwanda, to Sierra Leone, and a whole bunch of others, training leaders, and strengthening community health, maternal and child health, immunizations, et cetera, et cetera. It says she has secured more than $20 million in funding for health initiatives and consulted on projects backed by the CDC USAID, World Bank, et cetera. So now we know why Ilhan Omar was so darn mad when they canceled USAID. Remember how she was so upset? She told us, yeah, I bet she was upset. So this is the sister we know about, Safra Nur, who has also gone, according to various social media posts, if you go back, you can use the way back machine and you look at some of this stuff, go back in time, and she used to it various times, go by other names, and it is believed that her real name might be Safra Nurse Saeed Elmi. And she went with a different spelling on Nur for her professional life. I don't think she's a U.S. citizen, but I can't promise you that. She would not have gotten citizenship through her father because she would've been too old. So where does she have citizenship? Is she just a green card holder? Does she have citizenship in Somalia still? She certainly spends a lot of time in Africa. We know that. And we know a lot more. And I want to give some credit here to a guy named David Steinberg, who has just done an amazing job reporting this out, and he's been reporting it. I want to say for gosh, about six to ten years, I mean, he's been all over this for quite some time. And he amassed all of these records, and he went back through publicly available data, including a lot of these screen grabs that he was able to get off of Facebook, and he was able to get off of Instagram. And I think when Ilhan Omar first went into office, she didn't quite realize, right, that any of this stuff would make her vulnerable. It's kind of like, you know, they had her birth date on the website. Remember the website we talked about this back in Minnesota? This was the legislative reference library, and they put her down as having a birth date of 1981, and her staff went in, because all of a sudden it started becoming a big deal. The woman who ran against her for Congress started making a stink. AJ Kerns about this saying, hey, you know, how did she ever get naturalized in the first place? They had it switched to 1982, and then there was an email chain about it. I've showed you that because New York Post got their hands on it. And I'm just saying, like, some of this stuff may have been out and about and available, in part because Ilhan just wasn't really thinking it through. So David Steinberg did this whole gigantic report for a website out of Minnesota called Powerline. They were actually involved in the takedown of Dan Rather and Rathergate years ago. So they've got some credibility on this front, but they're considered sort of, you know, far right wing, whatever it is, as, you know, everybody wants to put this down, right, because God forbid somebody starts telling the truth. He went back and he looked at the family tree, and this blew me away. He is making the allegation that there was the entire family with the seven kids, I guess the mother and the father, and they couldn't get all seven because at the time, back in 1995, there were a lot of Somali immigrants coming into the states, and so you couldn't get everyone in. So they were there in Kenya, and they basically had to split up. And according to his reporting, there was a family that went by the name of Omar, and that family was able to bring more people in. They may have been in the states and they may have been able to attach to their immigration records, but they couldn't get everyone in. They could only get three people in, three, or maybe four, I'm not quite sure what happened to the mother, that, you know, maybe you guys know, that's a little bit of homework for yours to do overnight. But you basically have the family saying, okay, part of us are going to go to the US. This is according to his reporting, and part of us are going to go to the UK, and then, you know, we'll all meet up, and indeed meet up they did, because if you look at the social media posts, everybody's all hunky-dory together over the years. Now, I want to get a better look at this, and I realize some of you are probably watching on a phone. If you're watching on a TV, that's great. But let's just kind of, let me see if I can actually bring this front and center so I can look at it directly with you, because this is a very interesting family treat. This is what he's alleging, okay? So back in 1995, they're in Kenya, and you've got two families, basically the Elmys, which would be her family, nurse Said Elmi Muhammad, would have been the father, who had these children, who included Ilhan, nurse Said Elmi, as well as Ahmed, nurse Said Elmi, who was allegedly the brother, who then became the husband, and then you've got Sahra, nurse Said Elmi. Remember, Sahra, Nur that we were just talking about, along with some mothers, Muhammad, as well as Leila. So he said there was this part of the family and then there was the Omars, which was a family of Somalian heritage that was living near Arlington, Virginia, back in 1995, and you had an Abdul, and an Ahmed Omar. I wonder if there was something, you know, money exchange, I don't know, I'm just guessing here, if they were able to like latch on to the Omars somehow. But they, according to his reporting, basically did latch on to the Omars, and as a result, some of them came to the US, and that would have been nurse Said Elmi Muhammad, who then went by Nur Omar Muhammad, as well as Sahra, Nur Said Elmi. That's the sister, right, that is now getting questioned by the feds. And then you've got Ilhan, who would have been the youngest, and then over to the UK, you have three other children. Again, there's supposed to be a grand total of seven. We don't have all other names, and we haven't been able to track them all, and I only use the word seven, because that's what Ilhan has told us. So then fast forward, you know, you got part of the family in the UK, according to him, part of the family in the US. And when it's time for school, they have Ilhan Omar, who's already married in a religious ceremony to another guy, Mary in the court of law, this gentleman named Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, which of course they are saying is in fact her brother, and so he enrolls at North Dakota State University, and they stay together for about six years. I guess he graduates in the spring, and shortly thereafter, they end the relationship. Don't forget, you have to be married for five years, six to be extra safe. Now he's got his American citizenship. Then you fast forward to 2017, and she actually says under oath that she did not marry her brother, that she has not seen or heard from her husband since June of 2011, had no idea how to find him. But if you look at the social media post, and this is what he went back and found, they've all since been deleted, but the social media post showed not only did she know where to find him, she was hanging out with him, and the alleged sisters, all these people from the UK. I mean, this is wild. So remember the birth certificate, his name, there, it's right there, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, and look at the sort of similarity between Nur Omar Mohammed, who's also believed to have been Nur Said Mohammed Elmi. And Said would have made him connected to the Said bar regime that was so heinous and committed all of those atrocities. So that's another thing that keeps coming up, as people say, "Well, wait a second. He never should have been allowed in the country in the first place. But again, he's pretending he's part of the Omar's, right? That's that other family initially that he may have latched on to in order to get into the country. So okay, let's go with this for a second. Okay, these are just delegations and this is what the Fed is trying to prove and I think you might as well know about it. I certainly was fascinated to hear about this. Ahmed Nursahid Elmi, that would have been the ex-husband, that would have been the guy she married and that would have been the brother. So how do we know that that was his name though, right? I mean, we know that was his name. How do we know what the father's name was? And how do we know that the father had the same name with Elmi in it, Nursahid Elmi, that all of those relatives, allegedly brothers and sisters living in the UK had. We know that in part because of Ilhan's sister, Safra Nour, posting with Nursahid, he actually went by Nursahid on his Facebook page. This would have been, quite a few years ago, I think this is, forgive me, I think it was around 2019. She writes, "I love my father, my father, okay? I love my father. As being an awesome dad, it turns out he is also a great political strategist and fundraiser, and everyone knows to never, never, ever mess with any of his children, especially his daughters. Last night's victory would not be possible without you, dad. May you live a long, and I assume she goes on to say happy, prosperous life. Whoa, okay. So he goes by Nursahid on Facebook, which just happens to be the exact same name of the guy Ilhan eventually marries. If you already know this, forgive me, right? I'm fascinated by it because I'm also fascinated that Safra Nour is calling her dad Nursahid. And if we look again, he's calling himself Nursahid. This is his Facebook page from back then. There is someone he's friends with here, Layla, and this is her married name. Let's just go with Layla. I don't know how to say the last name, killed me or something. I don't know. Anyway, Layla is one of his friends there because maybe she's one of his daughters. Layla got married at some point, and so she got that new last name, but Layla's original last name was Nurah Elmi. Forgive me, Nursahid Elmi. And if you look at this marriage certificate that David got from the UK, this 1997 marriage certificate lists her father as Nursahid Elmi. In fact, you have to, do you see it? It's right over. I don't know. You probably can't see it, but if you blow this up big on your screen, you'll be able to see it. Let me see if I can do that. Okay. So here we go. Do you see way over there on the right, sort of the second to last column? Do you see that? It says Nursahid. I need like a pointer or something on the show. Nursahid Elmi, second to last column there on the right, that is her father. So that's interesting. And then you think about this guy who's eventually the husband. He was on social media as I met Elmi, and we know his name being Nursahid Elmi. I mean, wow, okay. This is really quite something he apparently took off for Kenya, and he is working with wait for it. His sister, or shall we say sister-in-law in Kenya, because she's got that USAID-funded charity. So whoa, all right, like just to piece it all together. Ilhan Omar allegedly had a family that was living in Kenya. The father decided half of you are going to the UK, the other half of us are going to the USA. I'm going to take Ilhan and Safran with me. We're going to attach ourselves to the Omar family living in Arlington, Virginia. We're going to go as Omar in the US of A, you see why this is turning into a Rico case, right? Because you've got all of these people involved, including the original Omar family. Why were they committing immigration fraud? So this is a big investigation, and we haven't even gotten to the money. Because the money is an important part as well. The New York Post had reported that the investigation into all of the money was going global, because there were all these deals in Kenya and Dubai and Somalia. Kenya. Again, remember the sister who's doing business with allegedly the ex-husband/brother who's working in Kenya. And by the way, when Ilhan said under oath that she had not seen her brother, look at that pink circle, that's where he said, you know, she said under oath that she had not forgiven me. I don't mean to say her brother because that has not yet been proven. But when she hadn't seen her husband, she said she hadn't seen him in all of this time and didn't know how to get in touch with him. There are, and I'll bring you some of those tomorrow. There are social media posts that show them actually, on vacation together. So this is why you have so many people, and I suspect they now have the DNA evidence to basically cement this. But this is why the president for so long was like, yeah, yeah, she married her brother. She married her brother because the brother and other members of her family were reportedly living in the UK, and they just all, you know, recognized nurse Said Elmi as their name, but they didn't go by it. So pretty wild. The sister's getting 20 million for USAID, yeah, 20 million dollars. It's probably taxpayer money, right? Think about that. So this is where it's really going to get complicated. The investigation into the finances has spread overseas. We know that Ilhan mistakenly reported that she had a net worth of $30 million. And so that's why this investigation now includes the financial aspect, not to mention the shoddy, shoddy ethics of having paid her husband $2.8 million to run her campaign. It's like, okay, you donate to Ilhan's campaign. And that goes right back to the husband's salary. So that's obviously fraud. I mean, I don't know what else to call it. I'm sorry, but that's fraud. I mean, maybe he's a fantastic campaign runner. Sure. But you're paying him so far above and beyond what anybody in that industry makes. And it's all going to your own darn pocket, Ilhan. So that's a big payday, okay? So now we have to ask did the sister rat her out because if the feds know all this and now they get the DNA evidence, and they're saying, hey, you stole $20 million from us from USAID, if they said that, if she, in fact, stole that money, then you understand they could really put her in a bit of a corner. And they might be able to get a whole lot of information out of her. Which is why we now have the president of the United States saying Ilhan Omar could be going to jail. Ilhan Omar is in a lot of trouble. And it may not just be deportation in this case. I want to go to the press conference that happened on Tuesday afternoon from the White House. He's there talking about Nick Shirley and how great his reporting is announcing a $25 million whistleblower program. And then he's asked about Ilhan Omar and listen carefully to his words here, guys. Ilhan Omar's age, could she be deported? She could be, she could also go to jail, she could also go to jail, you know, they keep talking about deportation. No, she could go to jail. This is just my opinion. I think she's a sick, a very dishonest person, but who hates our country? And she comes from a country that is essentially not even a country, Somalia. It's a real [bleep] house, okay? It's got no government, it's got no police protect. All they do is have people running around shooting each other. Then she comes over here and she's just, and she wants to tell us how to run America. She wants to tell us how to run the United States of America. She'll say, "I have constitutional rights," and she never heard the word, can't say. She never saw that before, she never saw that before. She says she has rights, she's a disgrace to our country. And it's amazing that she can get elected, put Somalians vote for her, you know, Somalians vote for her, and most of them shouldn't be here. Do you know they have like a 98% unemployment rate, they don't work, 98% it's a disgrace, it's a disgrace, and they've ruined a great state. You know, you have a great state. I remember Minnesota in the old days, what a beautiful, what a beautiful, with lakes all over the place, and more lakes in any place I've ever seen, it's so beautiful, they're destroying it probably more. Maybe they've destroyed it, and I only hope a Republican woman who happens to be very respected by everybody gets in because you will see a difference. But I will say this, I hope they treat her fairly, but I think she's a very dishonest person. Well, I mean, if you lied on the citizenship to begin with, I would say that would make you dishonest. Again, I want to reiterate, they don't think that she's left the country, but I guess they don't really know, right? They don't really know. They took her passport. At first, I thought, well, maybe they just took the passport because they wanted to examine it and get some backstories and some information, and now I'm kind of wondering, did they take her passport because they thought she might be a flight risk? Again, I think this is bigger than just the immigration component. That's certainly Rico, right, because you're going to be able to get all of these people plus the original Omars. So that's a lot of people, and there might be additional people that the Omars brought in as well. I wonder how many other Omars are out there, right? So that's a big deal. But the financial aspect of this, the possibility that she might have been stealing from US taxpayer dollars, the possibility that millions of dollars could have been going back in suitcases overseas. They certainly declared hundreds of millions of dollars. I mean, one number was like 700 million, I think, over the course of a couple of years, leaving Minneapolis more than any other airport in the entire country, more than even New York. You'd think New York would have a lot going back. Nope, you've got to go to Minneapolis for that. So that's what they declared. How much wasn't declared? There was a lot of money going back to Somalia and the Middle East. And so they might have been worried about Ilhan Omar, yes, Congresswoman Ilhan Omar becoming or being indeed a flight risk. Don't forget, she went on one of her buddies' podcasts and said this. I don't know how they take away my citizenship and deport me, but I don't even know why that is such a scary threat. I'm not the eight-year-old who escaped war anymore, I'm grown, my kids are grown. I can go live whatever I want. Notice she worked the age back in there, too, right, eight. So what was she, four years in Kenya? Because they all came here after that. So at this moment in time, we have not seen her heard from Ilhan Omar. In fact, I feel like one of the last people to actually have seen her was Alison from Lindell TV who kept bugging her about, hey, you know, are you really certain that you didn't marry your brother? I remember that I'm trying to say it's such a fun sound bite because Ilhan loses on it on her, and she's trying to turn it around, and it was just, well, you know, I think I played it yesterday or the day before. So it is quite something because she was asked, point blank, and she's like, no, would you marry your brother? You know, that to me. And one of the things that the reporter said at the time was, hey, are you accusing Tom Homan of lying? Because Tom Homan says, you know, you married your brother. Mark Wayne Mullins says, you married your brother. Vice President of the United States says, you married your brother. There are all these people lying. And she's like, yeah, they say some dumb, you know what? And I would just say that under the circumstances, again, looking at the family tree that has just been outlined, there's a good chance that she may have married the brother, okay? Like I'm sorry, like that's what it looks like. So maybe you got to try and prove us wrong, Ilhan. If you can, if you're still around, unless you decided to leave town, I mean, that's kind of a big question. Did she take off? Did she fly the coop? She's afraid she's going to go to jail. I don't know. But the president says she's going to jail. The president says this is worse than deportation. And he said it on a day when he invited Nick Shirley to come to the White House and be honored. Here he is praising Shirley because it was Shirley that helped discover that there was a ton of fraud going on in Minnesota, especially with those Minnesota daycare organizations. Remember, they were built in taxpayers for all kinds of money and there were no kids at the daycares, the leering center. Remember that one. Anyway, Donald Trump making the point that all it took was a 24-year-old with a cell phone to uncover this. And it's amazing. Today, I'm pleased to welcome to the White House somebody that I've been hearing about, met quickly, but I tell you, I'd give him a big hug today. He's done an amazing job, Nick Shirley. So thank you. Nick, very much. What a job you've done. There's a young guy. A very young guy. He got it very early. And it's too bad that you had to ruin your youth to find that such bad people exist, but welcome to the world. Yeah, the world's a tough place, right? And I think Nick Shirley was pretty surprised because he'd just go knocking on doors. There's no kids there. No kids. And then he went and looked at all the forms and all the money they were getting. Anyway, Nick telling everybody it was really quite an honor to be there and how it's kind of amazing. We were in such a new world where he can go out there with a cell phone and a mission, right? Like he just had some intent to try and discover this stuff and all of a sudden, he's at the White House. I mean, it's a whole new world. Yeah, first off, it's such an honor to be here and I want people to think about what is happening right now. Very cool place. Very cool place. The whole office. Me is a 24-year-old. I went out and exposed the fraud. I just was concerned about the well-being of our tax dollars. And right now I'm standing next to the President of the United States as now people who exposed fraud. And I've never been in the Senate for anyone to ever expose fraud. In fact, my expose fraud instead of the mainstream media investigating the fraud, they investigated me. And people actually, in fact, wanted to kill me after I exposed the fraud. Yeah. I mean, he's telling us some videos where he gets harassed and he reports and as soon as he shows up in any kind of community, some all-in community, especially they all know who he is. So he kind of has run into some concerning times, but all he did was go out there and report. And I kept saying like 60 minutes, where are you when we need you, right? 60 minutes, CNN. Forget these guys. They're all done. It's all over. They are so vetted in terms of their own interests. They have their own agenda that is in sync with the Democrat former administration or any Democrat that's out there, the Democrat party, and so they're working on behalf of them instead of working on behalf of taxpayers instead of working on behalf of their viewers. And consequently, we never heard about this. From the traditional media, we heard about it from a 24-year-old kid. It is incredible. Just incredible. So Ilhan Omar really hates Nick Shirley. Timmy Walls really hates Nick Shirley. The president also saying Timmy Walls is just a disaster and knew about all this fraud. The whole time didn't do squat. Why? Because he's trying to get elected. And that whole crowd that Ilhan Omar has all plugged into, they're not going to elect him if he's blowing the whistle, the same with the AG out there. So you get a lot of corruption. And a lot of fraud. Remind or to subscribe. Subscribe. Subscribe to this channel if you haven't already, guys. If you're here for the first time, do me that favor. We have so much to get to. I want to take a minute and just check in on this race. The Michigan race there, because I don't think it's going as well for Abdul El Saeed as some think. No, no, no. But before I do first, I just want to mention, if you haven't lately read the declaration of independence, do it. Okay? Do it. And I'm going to tell you where to go and do it. I'm talking about a250.com a250 toolkit.com/trish. So if you haven't read it lately, it's really important to do, you know, like just read it for fun. Read it to your kids. Read it to your grandkids. Have a dinner party on Saturday night. Invite everybody over and everybody can take a verse, right? It'll be fun. Like, it's a patriotic thing to do. reread it because it is a wonderful document and we wouldn't have this great nation without it. But think about our founding fathers. I was a early colonial American history major. And so I studied a lot of economics and all that kind of stuff. But I always loved colonial American history. And so I always keep going back to it because we would not have this foundation. We wouldn't have what we have today. We'd be like Somalia, right? If it wasn't for their genius and their brilliance. And when you read it, just be grateful, right? It's almost like a religious activity. If you would, you can do it on Sunday after church. Go to a250.com/trish, read the Declaration of Independence at some point this week. It's just a kind of important thing to do. And, you know, I actually keep a copy of it right by my bed weirdly enough because I am that strange. Okay. And after you've done that, make sure you pay a little attention to your finances. Go check out my 76research.com against 76research.com. Because I want to get to the Michigan senate race. So I do outside eat is kind of having a tough time. I've shown you some of the clips, you know, he's dustin' up with the NBC reporter. He lied to one NBC reporter and so they sent their street reporter out to Michigan, like, why did you lie to me? He's like, are you calling me a liar? Anyway, yeah, I mean, if the shoe fits, right? that was in the case of the Muslim Brotherhood and she said, "Does your family have any connections to the Muslim Brotherhood?" And he's like, "No, my family is absolutely no connections." And then it turns out all these tweets surfaced and the sister has all kinds of connections. And she's so proud because her mom has connections too. What do you know? So they sent a reporter out and then Abdul accused him of lying. Abdul's having a tough time. Okay? He's having a tough time with some key demographics. Black voters and Jewish voters. And they all matter in the state of Michigan. So even though some of the polls are showing us a few things, I'm not buying it. I'm not buying it. Here's Caddy Kay. She's an MSMBC or whatever they call it. The MS now, correspondent or contributor, whatever. And she's pretty left. But here she is on a podcast saying, "Yet this guy, he kind of comes across as a jerk. Abdul Al-Saheed is like a pompous, you know what? I'll let Caddy say it because I totally agree with her. A thousand percent. But perhaps it's more meaningful coming from the MS now, contributor, because you know I was probably going to say that anyway, right? Here she is." He's kind of arrogant and cocky. And I think it's a political weakness because it is preventing him from doing what he needs to reach out to voters who he hasn't persuaded. These audiences, which were almost entirely white, I actually don't think I saw a black person in either of the audiences that I went to. His problem is, and I've talked to him about this, is the word I always use is smug. He comes across as a little smug, a little arrogant, a little too cool for school. Yeah, a little too cool for school, a little too arrogant. And by the way, he just sunk himself again because he's out there trying to court the black vote. The black vote is really not that interested in socialism. Sorry, you know, like their Americans too. So they're not going for the socialism thing. So he's tried a few things. He was out at a gas station. People said this was kind of racist of him. He like went and ate some spicy hot chips and drank some gatorade and like hung out at a gas station. I didn't know what that had to do with being black, but whatever. Anyway, people were saying, "Oh, you know, he's trying to do that deliberately." He also went to black communities and said, "Hey, you know, I'm African, just like you. I'm African. I'm from Egypt." And that didn't go over so well either. And then he tried doing this. He sat down with a black podcaster maybe. I don't know her name, but he actually tries to insinuate that the black population is racist against Middle Easterners like him. So I'm like, "Buddy boy, this is not the way you win friends and influence people. You better go read the Dale Carnegie book before you continue on this campaign trail. Here he is." Because for too many black Detroiters in particular, their experience with somebody who looks like me is not a good one. You go into a gas station, you go to a party store, you're being talked about from behind bullpfer lies. If you're a woman, you're being catcalled. If you're a kid, you're being sold to Lucy at the back, you're being denied a bathroom. I've always tried to be on the right side of that, but I also understand that like, if that's your experience for somebody whose name is like mine, that leaves a terrible taste. Okay, so there he's back at the well. He's like, "You think I'm this way because I'm Middle Eastern? How dare you?" Just like, he got all bent out of shape because that kid Tommy showed up at his little town hall and said, "Will you denounce the Muslim brotherhood?" He's like, "How dare you ask me that? Why would you ask me that? You wouldn't ask somebody else that? Well, maybe we're asking you that because the sister is very proud of all her allegiance to the Muslim brotherhood, okay? Not that hard, right? Anyway, it gets worse, okay? For poor Abdul El Sayyid, got the little guy that he is, it gets worse because he's alienated the black population and he's alienated the Jewish population. So these are two core groups of people that are pretty vital in Michigan for his path to winning the Senate. Like, you can't just go on white voters in Middle Easterners, okay? It's not going to happen." And so he is basically, actively causing people to switch their party. Think about that. Like, that's very rare for a candidate to actually have the ability out in Michigan to get people who are longtime registered Democrats to switch parties, but that's what's happening because a lot of Jewish folks in Michigan are looking at this guy and saying, "Oh my gosh, he thinks Iran is our friend in Israel's enemy. He won't call out Iran. He wouldn't say good when the ayatollah died because he is too concerned that people love the ayatollah. I mean, he's got a whole different base, okay? A whole different base, but black Americans in Michigan and Jewish Americans in Michigan are done with him. Listen to this New York Times reporter explaining it as far as the Jewish population goes. They're leaving the party. Well, so I grew up not far from where al-Sahid is from and one of the factors in this race that is really worth paying closer attention to are the number of Democrats, lifelong Jewish Democrats, especially in the Detroit suburbs who are saying for the first time in their lives they're voting Republican. That's a big deal. I don't know of any other marquee race in the country right now where the Republican candidate is converting Democrats. I mean, given the the overall environment for Trump, the economy, prices, the war, gas, gas, all that, like it's it's very unusual and really quite striking that there are Democrats who are so concerned about their party's nominee that they're willing to vote for the candidate who's aligned with Donald Trump. Thank you. Thank you, al-Sahid. I guess I guess I owe you a big thank you. Now I've been all worked up on this idea that somehow al-Sahid could win the race in Michigan. I don't think he can. I'm going to get to some of the polls in just a second, but before I do the prediction markets where you can make a trade on this and I may actually have to make a trade on this because I don't really think. I mean, look, maybe I have egg on my face a day after, but I don't think that Rogers is going to lose. So just to give you a kind of explainer, when you look at these prediction markets, something like Kelsey, first of all, you have to be over 18, but you can effectively make a trade where you're saying, I think this person's going to win. Right now most of the trades that are being made and so perhaps, and again, everybody sees this a different way and I don't want to tell you how to trade. But you know, if you think that this is somehow mispriced, then that's what you would consider a market opportunity, right? So I'm looking at this and saying, okay, I don't think that Rogers is actually, I don't think he's going to lose. 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Anyway, the reason I'm hesitant to trust the polls right now is because when it comes to this new world in which we live, let's face it, MAGA is always undercounted in the polls. Like we never show up in the polls. And I think it's in part because a lot of people that are Trump supporters don't like to tell the pollsters, hey, hey, hey, I'm voting for Trump. And so I don't really trust what I'm seeing over and over again from the mainstream media in terms of the prediction markets. Hey, maybe we don't have enough people. Make sure you go to Calcie and use my code, okay? Again, go to trade 25, get 25 Calcie.com/r/trish. Maybe we don't have enough of our peeps that are out there. I mean, I don't know. Mike Bloomberg, did you see what he did today? My former boss, he just put, it was 80 or 90, I think it was 80 million bucks into the Democrats. Right now, the Republicans were like 200 and some odd million dollars ahead that was thanks to Il Han Musk. Well, now Mike Bloomberg just rose to the occasion. And so they're going to be spending big on Michigan. And they're going to be spending big on Texas. I don't think it's going to get them that far. I really don't. But again, what's going on with the polls? I thought NBC on the today show explained it pretty well this morning. They came out with their own poll, right? So they're so proud of their poll. And yet they even admit it's really hard to find the mag of voters. So it means that this poll could be totally wrong. I mean, look, Republicans in the Trump era have gotten used to seeing polls like this in states like this and saying, God, I'm just where we want them because we've seen it in places. Ohio, Iowa come to mind. Even if you could go back, there was a Senate race in Kansas in 2020. Polls looked really promising for the Democrats. Republican ended up winning by double digits. So That's Trump vote. been missed before doesn't always show up a lot of theories why. But if that happens again, these numbers can change in hurry. Oh, we already talked about signing. Don't forget to sign the Declaration of Independence. But you see what I'm saying? Like, I mean, tell me the truth. Like, when was the last time you answered a pollster when they got a work on from the New York Times, Seattle poll? You think you're going to talk to them? No, you're like, you're the freaking New York Times. I don't want to talk to you. Maybe you talked to a fox bull, but even the fox bulls have been totally off. I'll tell you a story. 2016 election night. I was to be on set for the whole night. I think Neil Kavuto, who was there at the time, was running it with myself from Maria Bartoromo and Lou Dobbs. Stu Varney was coming in for bits and pieces of it too. I don't think he stayed the whole night. Maria might have left early to don't forget they had an early early morning show, but I know I was there to the bitter end with Lou and also with Neil. And I'll never forget I dialed into the Fox News conference call ahead of this because we kind of needed to have a view of things. And you want to know what they told us? It's going to be an early night. We should be wrapped up and out of here by 10. Their own polling data said that. It's like all my husband. I'm like, well, honey, I'll be home by 10 or so. You know, I'm just going to go on for an hour or two and then I'll be home. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like like he's going to pull it off. It's at some point my husband was like at home on the couch. Remember, election night, 2016, he looks up and it's like 10 o'clock. He's like, well, she's not home and things are getting really interesting, right? Really, really interesting. He falls asleep. And then he wakes up. It's 2 a.m. and I'm still not home. He looks up at the TV and there she is. He's still talking, right? Because wow, what a night that was. My point just being. I think we're going to win it and you know what? If we don't, you know what we're going to do? We're going to roll up our sleeves the very next day and we are going to get psyched and ready and prepared for the next one. Because you need to stay optimistic. We do have good things happening. What is the alternative? You're going to start electing people that want to shut down the other side, like at least lock in at least XCIA. Now, Senator from Michigan is out there saying, well, I just want to make sure that anyone who goes into politics doesn't ever think about going and working for the Republicans because if they do, well, we're coming back to get them. This is not okay. This is not American. This woman actually thinks she can. I mean, it's like some kind of communist move, right? We're just going to cut the legs out from under the entire other side. They have to know that they're going to wind up in jail if they go to work for the Trump administration. Well, she's taken all kinds of heat for this and she made a complete utter fool of herself yet again on MS now. I've got to show you that. I've got to show you. And then, you know, who's just fallen all over themselves to make fools of themselves. It's a CNN host that don't quite actually see this for what it is. But let me start first with the offensive comments that she made just the other day out at University of Chicago. Here is at least luck and promising to cancel out anybody. Throw you in jail if you dare to go work for the Republicans. So that's what I'm saying. I want to look at these signature cases and not just focus on the president but on the people who enabled him. I want young people coming out of school to say, should I go work for the Trump administration? Like, that sounds fun. I might get an opportunity. I want them to be like, "Lord, that might be buying myself a ton of problems that I don't want." And so let me avoid participating in that. I want that deterrence message said, deterrence. Wow, you are quite a brute lady. Quite a brute. She lost a few LBs though lately. Have you noticed? Maybe she got some a little bit of medicine. She was kind of a big lady, right? She's a, she's been shedding the pounds, center, slack, and getting meaner and meaner as she does it, too, because that's something to say. Young people shouldn't go into politics because you may wind up in jail. We're going to make your life frickin miserable if you do it. The New York Post, they called her out on it very, very rightly so. And so now this is becoming a story. So at least lock-ins like, okay, I have to answer for this. So where does she go to answer for this? Of course, onto her favorite little network. Amaz now. And then she gets really unhinged because she does not understand why anybody would be offended with what she said. I'm not going to play it again because we don't need to listen to it again, but she, you heard her. She said she wants us deterrence. She doesn't want anybody going into Republican politics. She wants to make sure they're all canceled out. Their life is going to be bad, so they need to think twice about it. Young people that just want to get a start, that have a little bit of patriotism in them. And she doesn't understand why people would be upset other than to say, well, just going back to the well here. It's because I'm a girl. Oh, please. By the way, are you? That might be open to debate. Anyway, here we go. Unhinged. At least lock-in. Going on to MS now. Yeah, I mean, I think, look, I think when you choose to call out their corruption, they clearly don't like that. They're clearly trying to change the conversation given what the midterms are in the state of the economy, the state of things around the country. I do think there's something about being a woman and criticizing them and calling them out on that corruption that really gets under their skin. Obviously, or they wouldn't respond, you know, remember the second amendment, sweetheart or all that crap. But I think it's more that it's not speaking to them. It's speaking to the people who are potentially going to be asked to follow illegal requests. It's speaking directly to the people who are on the receiving end of this administration and reminding them that if you are forced to sign a contract and you are told from an advisor in the White House, go ahead and sign this contract at the Pentagon and give this company that happens to have Trump Jr. on the board. It is putting those people in a terrible position and people should think about that because it is important to remember that the president has immunity, right? The Supreme Court gave him a lot of immunity. But the people who commit illegal acts on his behalf do not have that immunity. Okay, well now it's illegal. But she, you know, I'm sorry, right. Fine. You know, you do something illegal. You should pay the price for it, including people like, well, we won't go down that path. But I'm just saying Jackie Smith and the rest of them, right? I mean, we got a few names out there. Call me. I mean, yes, you should pay the price for it. But you are actually saying you want to discourage anyone from going into Republican politics. That's pretty bad. And then you're mad when people say, gee, maybe that's not very nice of her. And then she goes back to the well and she said, oh, you know, you find out you're going to be doing a deal with a company at the Pentagon that's backed by a company, a venture, it's a private equity firm that has money. They're putting into this and she gets trapped into this ABC news report that was completely fictitious. So ABC reported that a company, which is 1789 capital of which juniors on the board of put some $2.5 billion into a company that the Pentagon was doing to deal with. $2.5 billion. What's wrong with these reporters? I think I'm so embarrassed for my industry because they don't understand math. Okay, so $2.5 billion would be a lot of money. $50 million was the number, okay, $50 million. So there is a company and junior has nothing to do with the investments that they make apparently, but he's on the board of it. And yes, they put $50 million into a company. And yes, there's a Pentagon deal, but the company was already like a superstar company already. Just saying, okay, so it's just ridiculous. So she's going in with all of this and then everybody's turning themselves in knots. So yes, good. The New York Post calls her out. I'm calling her out. What happens over at CNN? I'm thinking this lady who hosts this show might be the next to drop two, right? First, Kristian, I'm in poor. And next this one, I can't even remember her name. Maybe you guys know it. Here we go. I want that deterrent message set. It's kind of a bit of a Rorschach's test right now, what she said there, but it seems like the American people think there's a problem with this administration in terms of corruption. Well, I think Senator Slotkin thinks there's a problem with young conservatives who might want to work in government, whether it's directly under that exactly that. That's not what she said. Which is why there's an actual pushback and people are calling this out. If you want to argue that was sloppy in how she made that comment. If you have to look at the word, she said, yeah, I wrote them down. I want young people coming out of school to say, should I go work for the Trump administration like that sounds fine. I want them to be like, that might be buying myself a ton of problems. So you're saying you're We're going to tour you activity by the tour people who might want to to work under the Trump administration. That's what you're saying. These are people who are separately. No one here, you're talking-- No one she's talking about, broke any laws. You're talking about-- Yes, she is. She's going to want you to go for the White House. That's the difference. Yes, she is. People in the administration, doing illegal things. Whether they're young or middle age or old, they should all be held accountable. That's what she said. So the young people will be coming out of college. If you go back to the tape, the question she was asked was, should we impeach the president? And what she said is, she was basically saying, we should actually focus on wrongdoing through-- I want young ministers to be in the board that might be buying myself a ton of problems that I don't want. Because if you go, you're not conservative, and you go into the administration, and someone asks you to do something illegal. Where we go, activities are where the question she was asked about. I am not. You were actually asking. Are you asking for the bad of going to your position? Is that true? She's asked about illegal activity. Your position is that she was making a blanket statement about young conservatives going into government. Or people going into government for this. But she was very specific that she was talking about the Trump administration. But I think ignoring the context, the greater context, the Democrats have said for a very long time that anyone who worked for this president, not this term. But last term-- Did he have raps? Did he have raps? Did he have raps? No, I'm not being able to have no raps. That's true. Maxine Waters is saying-- That just went from saying that that's what she was saying. But that's actually not what she said. She said the Trump administration specifically. Now, that's based on her premise that there is corruption. There is bad behavior. Maybe illegal behavior, although they would have to prove that in this administration. And I mean, that-- Did everyone resign? Should everyone resign as one person? I have to give myself, or listen, listen. I mean, I'm just asking you, is it wrong to say maybe people should be deterred from going into a system that either emboldens or encourages that kind of bad behavior? But she should have said that specifically. But it isn't what she said. That's not what she's saying. I mean, nobody is above the-- And don't forget, she was one of the original-- what were they, the seditious six, or something that came out saying that she was going to go after people. And she was trying to tell everybody, don't follow military orders. I mean, this woman is really a piece of work. At least lock it. I mean, the other one, Abby Phillips, Phillips, thank you for telling me her name. Maybe she needs to go head for the exit along with Christian Amampor. Because that is some serious bias there, right? And this is what they're sort of fighting back against. It's, again, it's OK to have bias. I guess my problem with all of it is that she's presenting herself as a neutral anchor. And that's where it starts to get sticky and disingenuous because you're not. Like, you guys know, I'm not neutral. OK, I try to give you both sides. And we often run sound bites because I want you to hear the other side, mainly to just hear what the idiots say. But I always tell you where I stand. And I'm not going to pretend to do otherwise. And the problem with these networks is they're sitting there like they're all high and mighty. And they're somehow the governor of truth. And they're not, right? They're very, very biased with all their Democrat political talking points that get fed to them daily. So that's what you're seeing on display. And that's what needs to change. As for Elise Luckin, gosh, I wouldn't be electing her. No way. Jose. That woman wants to basically knock off half the country. Send him to jail if they ever worked for the Trump administration. I mean, what kind of-- I'm sorry. Like, that is really nuts. This retribution, this revenge that they want to get. I mean, that's what we're up against, right? Come midterms, that's why it's so important that we do well at these midterms. But CNN is just a mess, like just a good, old-fashioned mess. And I think they're going to be facing some more challenges in part because the elephants are in charge, right? The elephants are in charge. And whether CNN likes it or not, that's actually going to become a profitable, more profitable business. It's not so profitable right now. I realize we played a clip earlier of the media reporter saying, oh, CNN is so profitable. It's not that profitable. And the profitability has declined immensely over the years, in part, because there's just so many other places to get your news. But it's not profitable. And you know what else is looking increasingly-- oh, there's not profitable, but less growth-oriented Netflix. Remember, we talked about that the other day, and we've got Netflix earnings that are just out. Robin, I wrote a piece at 76 research for you, basically. I mean, we weren't shorting Netflix, but we certainly, you know what kind of were. I mean, we don't short things. We tend to go long. You can see in our model portfolios. But Netflix is not a company. We feel very optimistic about right now. And we were just proven right by the earnings that came out moments ago. I'm going to get to those. But first, remember, you can go to 76research.com. You can get the 76 report for $1 a month. You can subscribe to our model portfolios. Go check all of that out. All right, we've got much, much more to cover here, much, much more to cover, especially vis-a-vis, a really important stuff. The angels. The angels are back. Oh, my goodness. Even Victoria's secret has learned. Go woke? Go broke. All right? That's what Victoria's secret has learned. This is a company that is really so iconic. I mean, it was iconic, and then it got really woke. And then it got really poor. And the earnings went down. And the stock price went down. And then all of a sudden, they did their fashion show again. And the back, baby, right? They're back. Those Victoria's secret angels are back. And they had an influencer, you know, or by the name of Kylie Jenner, wearing the wings and the preserve and the whole bit. I'll show you pictures. I mean, this is just-- it's actually a nice comeback story for a company that really, if you think about it, it was more than a retailer. Victoria's secret has been such a dominant image, right? Of women's lingerie for a lot of years now. It actually peaked with roughly a third of the US market, generating billions of dollars in sales for L brands. And, you know, they had this fashion show all the time. And the fashion show became like this cultural event. I mean, think about-- you know the angels, right? They became household names and stars themselves because they were selling this glamour and aspiration, which is really important. They were selling this aspiration and this idea of being sexy and customers lined up for it. And then the world went crazy, OK? Then the world went crazy. And all of a sudden, it was like, you can't have all those skinny, well-endowed models modeling your product. You need to show people that don't look as healthy and sexy showing your product. And so you're-- I'd be looking at it. I get the catalog in the mail. And I'm like, I'm offended. I'm like literally offended. Like, I used to like the catalog, right? And you look through it and what's nice to wear. And then you're seeing all the-- I'm sorry. Fatties in the catalog. And you're like, oh, I don't want to look at this, right? There's no aspiration there. Like, nobody wants to look like that. Even if you're one of the fatties, trust me, you want to look like Jizelle, right? Like, you're thinking, hey, I can go on a diet. And I can kind of slim down. And then I can look like that in my new undergarments. So it was all about pressure. It was all about, you know, you can't have these thin models. You can't have such exclusives, such beautiful models. Your messaging needs to be more in line with everyday Americans and the sizes of everyday Americans. And all of a sudden, they're coming out. And they canceled their 2018 fashion show. They just canceled it, right? And they retired the angels entirely. And they decided they were going to have this inclusive-- woo-hoo, line up. You know, they're going to have men wearing this stuff. Because men are going to look sexier than women in this. Are you kidding me? They created this inclusive line up. They dialed back all the sexiness, right? The whole brand that they had built and capitalized on for decades was buff, gone. You know, I could do a whole series on these companies. Really, I mean, think about it. We didn't Netflix the other day. Maybe we need a playlist of just go-woke, go-broke. Great examples. But this is a comeback story, OK? This is a comeback story. Because sometimes it's not too late. It's too late for Bud Light. It's too late for an Netflix. But Victoria's Secret has figured out that you know, a sexy is good, all right? I mean, I just think about this coming-- their market share. I mean, they'd been dominating. And they went from the low 30s in the mid-20s, right? Into the mid-20s by 2018. So they had like 30% and then they went down to 20%. And then all of a sudden, 2018, same-store sales, they actually went negative. And then they just hung out there. They were super soft for years and years and years. And they lost all this sort of brand recognition and all of this ground to competitors who came in and offered, oh, I don't know, sexiness, right? And more comfortable styles and better marketing and sexiness. And so Victoria's Secret winds up getting spun off as a standalone public company in 2021. And what do you know of the stock? [BLANK_AUDIO] room and fall the sales right down it peaked I think it was like somewhere around 75 bucks back in 21 or so and that was like it and then it fell guys it fell and when I say it fell I need to get a stock chart up here for this it fell more than 80 percent okay think about that they do away with the angels and the stock falls more than 80 percent so by late 23 it was trading somewhere around 14 bucks 75 till 14 dollars go go go broke I cannot say it enough two consecutive years of every heavy losses for shareholders this whole progressive re-brand think like it didn't work because what happened people like me women they're throwing out the catalog all right like well why do I need to sit around and look at that while I'm drinking my coffee no thank you and so the company was trying to figure out what to do and it kept adjusting and adjusting and adjusting and it's like how do we fix this it launched something called the VS collective featuring wider bodies a wider I mean they just couldn't stop right they got all these advertising marketing executives in there and they talked about their values and they talked about inclusion and they still couldn't sell anything okay why because customers wanted the sexiness and they weren't okay with Victoria's secret replacing it with a bunch of diverse shubbies okay sorry like somebody's gonna get upset with me for saying this but I'm sorry it's a business okay and as a shareholder I wouldn't be too happy I didn't know in that stock but believe me I would not be too happy happy so revenue was down the brand was down and then Donald Trump gets elected and somehow the company decides it's gonna bring the fashion show back it's gonna bring the angels back the angels returned on stage and the wings and all I mean wow okay so this brand that had been going sideways and frankly down down down down down down because it just discarded all these things like glamour and aspiration and sexiness they decided finally to start bringing it back into the equation and so if you look at the 2025 shows in the 2026 shows you start to see a pattern you know and the wings are coming back and the angels are coming back there's more spectacle there are some familiar faces there and it's effectively a return to the company that they built in the first place again I reiterate go go go broke they went woke they went broke $75 share price down to $14 share price and now what do we see as resurgence so this market response has been pretty direct if you look at the first quarter of 2026 sales was 15% 1.56 billion yeah 1.56 billion comparable sales of 13% the company raising it's full-year guidance the stock actually jumped 50% in a single session okay and for 2026 so far the shares have been up like 66% I mean this is such an amazing go go broke story it is such an important story I think for any company because you've got a stock price it's now around 90 bucks think of that they went woke they were hanging out of 75 they went woke they went down to 14 and then they they decided to end that they decided to bring back glamour and sexiness and aspiration all the things that women like originally liked the company for and men to another stock price is up around 90 bucks okay you got a market cap companies worth about $7 billion overall tickers been changed to reflect the refreshed identity of the brand I'll tell you it's not complicated it's not hard like why do these people bring their fancy marketing executives in there with all their fancy degrees and try and reengineer human beings it's not hard not hard all right you had a great product that was all about glamour and sexiness and aspiration and something that women like liked and then you said we're gonna rip that away and we're gonna listen to all these woke idiots who tell us we need more diversity we need men wearing this product we need people who really are not gonna look that good wearing the product and I'm sorry like even if you don't look that good right like you want to look good like you don't want to resign yourself to like I'm gonna be four hundred pounds for the rest of my life you're kind of like gee let me look at this at this magazine let me look at this catalog and maybe like it's gonna inspire me to not eat so many kickats tonight so the company finally like gets a clue and says gee maybe we ought to bring the sexiness and the glamour back and what do you know well up just like magic the numbers begin to improve and improve and improve and improve right like the fashion show is is no longer just a sort of television special it's actually a very visible signal about what this brand is and what they're trying to sell and customers want that and so investors are now pricing that into the decision and I promised you I would show you some pictures right we get a season pictures they they brought this is great Kylie Jenner in and she just stole this show because it turns out sexy still sells she's not even one of the angels right but they brought her in to wear this like super uber duber was like 50 million dollars for the brazier and she got out there on stage and all she did was walk around which is actually an interesting sort of commentary on influencers now and the role that they have and they play so there she is walking around um you can see it maybe just a little bit bigger here you see Kylie Jenner in the angel costume and bringing back sort of the glamour if you would to Victoria's secret and so this is really just another great example of a company that tried to go woke and then went of course broke um you know it's it's just sort of a sad story to think that there are jobs right they get lost in this process and shareholders lose money and I guess you are in good shape if you bought it at 14 although I think I didn't know that there were planning to turn it around and bring sexiness back or get Kylie Jenner involved or any of this but it is um it's kind of an important lesson and one that that everybody should remember including companies like Netflix because Netflix came out with earnings today and Netflix is looking pretty darn miserable yet again why because they did the same thing that Victoria's secret is trying to do and and in the process they're really making themselves an arcane company you just can't go woke go woke go broke you know the old adage but it's it's for real they should teach a class on this in business school go woke go broke Netflix total disaster they're getting blockbuster okay I keep saying it but I'm not getting we just got the earnings report out today just after the close and they are set for the fourth straight decline of sales you know why because everybody's canceling their Netflix subscription because what do you watch on Netflix nothing we've gone through the numbers before if you look at sort of where Netflix is in terms of the percentage of the living room youtube dominates dominates Netflix is like just a little blip on the screen and then you get cable and you've got broadcast but nobody's watching Netflix because there's nothing you really need to watch because they for whatever reason can't seem to figure out what is good content you know why you know what good content is customers know what good content is the algorithm can feed you good content you don't need some woke executive out in Las Gatos Silicon Valley California sitting around with his 20 billion dollar you know pen to buy content and curate it for you because you actually know what good content is and so this is a company that really is kind of over this is an old media company so here's the Bloomberg report coming out Netflix reporting earnings for the third quarter that did exceed Wall Street's expectations so they get that going for them but forecasting a fourth consecutive quarter of slowing sales growth gas it's just like Victoria's secret right go won't go broke anyway they you know they turned it around can Netflix turn it around I don't know you know I'm more interested when the stock gets down into the 30s I guess but take a look they are just turning into a total disaster a la blockbuster Netflix revenue growth slows as it overhalls programming units so I guess they just hired they fired their guy that was head of programming because he couldn't pick a program couldn't pick a program imagine that they've got 12% year-over-year revenue increases okay that's nice it's all coming from overseas none of it's coming from here they can't they can't grow their US market at all on top of that they're eakin out again this reminds me of an old media company like a CBS or a CNN an old media company that's just cotton costs and cotton costs and cotton costs in order to still turn a profit so if you look at this this is the Wall Street Thank you. report on today's, this afternoon, Tuesday afternoon when I'm coming to you live, if you're watching this on repeat, you'll know that Tuesday afternoon they reported earnings. And the stock is trading off in the after hours market and you see that the revenue came in $12.9 billion, I know, nothing to sneeze at and that is up 12% from the same period a year earlier. Like I said, mostly international growth, the company's lowest quarterly revenue percentage growth though in three years. So this was a company that was a growth engine. It was like getting a multiple on it when it was trading this, though it was in video or something, right? Now everybody's like, oh, it turns out Netflix is definitely not in video. I'm exaggerating, but you get what I'm saying. So net income came in at 3.66 billion for the quarter that's 44% increase from the same period last year. Well, how did they do that? Cost-cutting. Okay. So cost-cutting. People on cost-cutting because they have turned it to an old media company. And again, part of it is just because the environment is changing. But part of it is also the go-walk, go-broke thing. Don't forget they brought in the Obama's. They brought in Susan Rice from the Obama team to be on the board. And then they kept putting trans characters as the main characters in all the kid shows. Just Holly was like, what are you doing in the Capitol Hill hearings? And Ted Cruz was like, what are you doing? Are we on stolen land here? Do you want to tell us about how we're on stolen land? Let me play this clip for you. Are we right now on stolen land? I have no idea the history of this land of the way we're sitting today. Nor do I, Senator. So that speaks volumes that neither of you are willing to say, hell no, we're not on stolen land. And I will say, at the Grammys, when you see an entertainer say, nobody is illegal while we're on stolen land. And then you see entertainers leap to their feet clapping so excitedly at the notion that America's fundamentally illegitimate. It starts to convey that the entertainment world is deeply corrupt. And I will point out that same singer who says no one is illegal on stolen land promptly went back to her $14 million mansion. And somehow that stolen land she wasn't concerned about just the United States of America. Remember that? So Netflix has long been a left-wing company. Your founder Reed Hastings is one of the biggest Democrat donors in the country. Two. Including giving millions recently to the massive Jerry Mander in California, making it one of the most Jerry Mandered states in the union because your founder desperately wants a Democrat House of Representatives. Susan Rice from the Obama White House is on your board of directors. You guys gave $50 million to the Obama's as far as I can tell to produce no discernible content whatsoever. How would you tell a Texan sitting at home to feel comfortable? CNN is already a dumpster fire. There's nothing resembling objectivity. There's nothing resembling journalism anymore. How are people at home to--how should they feel even remotely confident that if this merger happens, the combined entity would not simply be a propaganda outlet, pushing one particular political view with much greater market power than you have now? Well, so we would fail. We would fail pushing a political view or propaganda. We deliver entertainment to consumers. Our consumers see our business pretty much the way they see the America. About 40% conservative, about 40% liberal, about 20% don't know. But when they turn on TV, they're tuned in to be entertained. And if we fail to entertain them by trying to promote propaganda or something, or something anything other than entertainment, we fail. Oh, you're failing, all right. And I think you were promoting a lot of things I had nothing to do with entertainment. And that's why the transgender characters and all the kids stuff and these woke storylines were you just had to get fed constantly, this wokeism, like people just didn't like it. And so they turned it off, the content wasn't good. And now Netflix is in a situation where it is--I like to say it's getting blockbusters. Some of you that watched the show regularly, you've heard me say that before, because blockbusters was like it, right? It was so fantastic. You could go and get your video on a Friday night. It was like fun. And then all of a sudden, Netflix came along, and Netflix took blockbuster totally out of business. Like, there was no way blockbuster ever had a chance, because Netflix would send you a DVD in the mail. All right. Remember that? The CD, the DVD you would get in the mail, and you had to kind of plant ahead and remember to send the darn thing back. I always--I always like--it was a little annoying because, you know, you had to know on Monday or Tuesday what you're going to do on Friday. So you did have to plant ahead, but then eventually, when it all went to the cloud, then you could just, like, turn on the TV and get anything, and it was like, wow, this is amazing, right? So blockbuster, by then, was long, long, long, long gone. And I'm just saying that this is a company that's getting blockbustered because it is not kept up with the time. It thinks that it can sit there and dictate to you the viewer what you should watch. And you know what? Maybe there was a time when that worked. Those days are so over. You get to decide what you watch. You don't have to watch anything on Netflix. You don't have to watch anything on CNN. You don't have to watch anything on CBS. All of these companies are going to have to become more competitive if they are going to succeed in the new world in which we live, and it is a very, very new world. And an exciting one. So make sure you subscribe here to this show so that you'll see me right here live again tomorrow. Thank you for being here. I don't think I was saying was it's down 7% right now. Was it down 7% on the day? Shares of Netflix. I mean, it's just been getting killed. I guess my call on that one was good a couple of weeks ago. I said, it's going to keep sinking. And then we get this news today. I know that the aftermarket was pretty bad. Netflix growth is the headline right now. And Axios, they're saying Netflix growth is buffering, buffering, yeah, you better believe it. Anyway, good to have you all here. Thank you so much. We're going to resume, of course tomorrow. I've got some new information I want to bring you on Ilhan Omar, including some more social media posts that kind of lay out the family situation. So stay tuned for that. I'll see you then.

Podcast Summary

Key Points:

  1. Kristine Amipur, a 43-year veteran of CNN, abruptly resigned amid growing concerns over editorial independence and ownership changes following the Paramount-Skydance takeover.
  2. Her departure is seen as a sign of broader staff reductions and cost-cutting at CNN, with insiders suggesting she was pressured to leave due to political bias and salary concerns.
  3. There is speculation that her exit was influenced by her criticism of David Ellison’s close ties to the Trump administration and fears about a loss of journalistic independence.
  4. The new leadership structure at CNN, including Mark Thompson’s retention and a promised independent board, is viewed with skepticism due to past failures in similar media mergers.
  5. Ilhan Omar is facing serious scrutiny over alleged citizenship fraud, with her sister reportedly speaking to federal investigators and sharing family details, raising questions about immigration and financial misconduct.
  6. The U.S. government, including the president, has suggested Ilhan Omar could face deportation or even jail time, citing concerns over ties to Somalia and alleged fraud involving USAID funds.
  7. A $25 million whistleblower program was announced at the White House, highlighting a shift toward grassroots investigative reporting, exemplified by Nick Shirley’s work exposing fraud in Minnesota.
  8. The overall media landscape is shifting toward decentralized, citizen-led reporting, challenging traditional networks like CNN and raising questions about accountability, transparency, and independence.

Summary:

Kristine Amipur, a long-standing CNN journalist, has resigned after 43 years, signaling a major shakeup in the network’s leadership amid the Paramount-Skydance takeover. Her departure is widely interpreted as a result of political tensions, editorial concerns, and cost-cutting measures tied to new ownership. Critics argue that her exit reflects a broader purge of journalists perceived as politically aligned with past administrations, especially given David Ellison’s close ties to the Trump administration.

At the same time, Ilhan Omar is under intense investigation over alleged citizenship fraud and financial misconduct, with her sister reportedly speaking to federal authorities and sharing sensitive family records. This has led to speculation that Omar may face deportation or even jail time, with the president stating she could be prosecuted for dishonesty and ties to a non-state entity like Somalia. The White House has also launched a $25 million whistleblower program, emphasizing the rise of citizen journalists like Nick Shirley, who uncovered fraud in Minnesota using grassroots methods.

This shift underscores a transformation in news gathering—moving from traditional networks to decentralized, on-the-ground reporting. As a result, CNN and other major outlets face increasing pressure to adapt to cost constraints, evolving technology, and new accountability models. The situation highlights deepening divisions over media independence, political loyalty, and the future of investigative journalism in a rapidly changing media environment.

FAQs

Kristiana Amipur cited personal and professional reasons for leaving, including concerns about the network's editorial direction and a desire to move on from a perceived lack of journalistic independence and authenticity.

CNN is expected to undergo significant restructuring, including cost-cutting measures, editorial reorganizations, and potential departures of long-standing staff, as part of a broader shift toward operational efficiency.

Yes, several reports and social media posts suggest that Ilhan Omar married her brother, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, based on shared family names, marriage certificates, and social media activity from the past.

Federal investigators have questioned Ilhan Omar and her sister, Safra, over alleged immigration fraud and financial misconduct, including unreported assets and possible use of taxpayer money.

The President of the United States has stated that Ilhan Omar could be deported or even go to jail, citing allegations of citizenship fraud, financial misconduct, and ties to Somalia, which he claims has no stable government.

The program aims to encourage citizens to report fraud and misconduct in government operations, such as those involving tax dollars and public institutions, as demonstrated by Nick Shirley's investigation into daycare fraud in Minnesota.

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