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BREAKING: ELON MUSK BUYING CNN?! Paramount Looks to Include Elon As NEW OWNER!

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BREAKING: ELON MUSK BUYING CNN?! Paramount Looks to Include Elon As NEW OWNER!

1. Mabelie’s new groupie setting mist uses gel-to-mist technology to provide a long-lasting, hydrated, and comfortable finish without stickiness or residue. 2. Elon Musk is reportedly being considered as an equity investor in Paramount’s $110 billion merger with Warner Bros., raising concerns at CNN about editorial control and news integrity. 3. David Ellison and Larry Ellison have long been involved in media deals, with Larry personally guaranteeing over $40 billion for the Paramount-WBD acquisition. 4. The merger faced legal and political resistance, particularly from California and liberal media, but ultimately proceeded after antitrust concerns were resolved and concessions were made. 5. The consolidation of major media assets—like CNN, CBS, HBO, and Discovery—under Paramount and potential Elon involvement has sparked fears of reduced journalistic independence and ideological bias. 6. Critics, including former tech reporter Kara Swisher, are alarmed by the shift in media ownership, arguing that new owners lack journalistic values and may prioritize political alignment over facts. 7. The White House’s ban on certain media outlets like CNN and MSNBC has intensified scrutiny, with critics claiming it violates First Amendment principles, though legal precedent supports presidential discretion over access. 8. The broader trend signals a decline in traditional media monopolies, with tech billionaires and entertainment conglomerates reshaping media ownership and coverage, challenging legacy institutions’ dominance. The transcript explores a major shift in media ownership, centered on the $110 billion merger between Paramount and Warner Bros., which is being financed by new equity investments, including a potential role for Elon Musk. This development has triggered widespread anxiety at major news networks like CNN and MSNBC, who fear loss of editorial independence and control. The narrative highlights how long-standing media monopolies are being dismantled by powerful tech and entertainment figures, especially as Elon Musk’s influence grows through investments and strategic partnerships. Critics argue that such changes threaten journalistic integrity, citing ideological bias and lack of accountability in new media structures. The merger also faces scrutiny over its political implications, particularly given its timing and alignment with conservative figures. Legal challenges over press access to the White House are presented as both symbolic and real, reflecting deeper distrust in current media gatekeeping. Meanwhile, Elon Musk’s potential involvement is framed not just as a financial move but as a strategic redefinition of media power, where technology and private capital are replacing traditional gatekeepers. The shift underscores a broader transformation in how information is produced, distributed, and controlled in the digital age.

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Welcome to the show, everyone. I'm Trishry. And good to have you here. Make sure you subscribe. Elon Musk may wind up owning CNN. This is just honestly like the funniest, most awesome things I have heard. I've told you, I thought there was tremendous opportunity still in something like CNN. I know, you know, nobody watches it anymore, but it doesn't need to be that way. They have enormous resources all over the world. What if you, what if you took news forward and said, hey, you know, we're going to bring everyone out into the world. We're going to do what Elon has done with X, and we're going to do it with news. And you know, there's so much opportunity on the tech front with the, you know, the special goggles that enable you to see everything in 3D. I mean, this could be amazing. And Elon may be one of the forces behind it all, incredible, incredible news. You know, I don't know as this deal would have gone through California and all those states that were leading that lawsuit charge against this deal actually happening. If they had known Elon was in the picture, because this is going to make some people, including the anchors, very, very nervous right now at, well, CNN and many other places within the entertainment venues that they're going to be getting. Take a look. Kara Swisher was already back in, well, this is just a couple days ago. She basically has said, f these guys, she didn't want to be involved with CNN. You may not even know who she is. I get it. She is a former tech reporter who suddenly weighs in on politics and she doesn't want anything to do with CNN in light of, well, the merger going through that 110 billion dollar merger. Well, now it's just taken this new turn, right? We knew yesterday that California was dropping the suit and now we're learning that the Ellisons are going out and they're raising more money. I mean, Larry Ellison himself, Oracle, think Oracle, think lots of money, okay? He had promised to backstop this, but that doesn't necessarily mean he's going to put his money on the line, right? He goes out and he forms a group of investors that can come in and that we'll fork over the cash to get this deal done. So this is the headline in the post, David Ellison reportedly eyes Elon Musk for Paramount Equity Investment sparking fears at CNN, really scary, yeah, really scary. This is the article that generated all the buzz. It makes all the sense in the world, by the way, because don't forget, you know, Elon, when he was buying Twitter, went to Larry Ellison and got some money from Ellison, I think it was like a billion dollars to help that deal go through. So now, you know, he's going to return the favor and all of a sudden we're seeing this monopoly that the left had on media and entertainment and news. It is crumbling in real time, whether it's Donald Trump banning the likes of these legacy media networks from the White House and they're throwing a fit, launching a strike and saying, well, we're not going to cover you. And it's like, well, it doesn't matter because there's plenty of other people that will. We don't need you guys anymore. And now you're seeing it in the entertainment industry. So this is semaphore. They had the article today just a short time ago. Here it is. Paramount, looking to firm up its financial picture as a digest Warner Brothers discovery. Remember, Paramount now was bought by Skydance. Skydance is Larry Ellison's son, David Ellison's company. So Paramount is now buying Warner Brothers for $110 billion. So it's a lot of money, right? Like, people just don't have this kind of cash hanging around. And so now they've got to find some fresh sources of cash. Well, who's going to be the fresh source of cash? They're going to Elon. Like it is that the company have discussed asking Elon Musk to become part of a syndicative equity investors into Paramount, according to people familiar with the matter. Musk's name is one of a number of wealthy individuals that Paramount CEO David Ellison has considered tapping for the syndicate that people have said. Musk and David Ellison's father, Oracle founder, Larry Ellison, have long been close. And it is part of the elders Ellison's money and connections that made Paramount take over Warner Brothers possible. Larry Ellison has personally guaranteed more than $40 billion of the equity financing for Paramount's acquisition of Warner Brothers. And I can just hear the left now. They're going to say, well, Larry has to pay for it. Larry. Larry is the one that promised that he had the $40 billion. Well, yeah. Like, he's like, this deal's going through. I'm not going to like, yeah, not have it happen. I'll guarantee this, but that doesn't mean that Larry can't go out and hit up his friends including Elon Musk for the $40 billion. It's really just amazing. So again, they're panicking at CNN because let's just say, well, Elon and CNN don't necessarily have the best history. This is a tweet that Elon sent out. I saw from about a year ago, August 29th, 2025. And you had Andrew McCabe on there talking to Caitlin Collins about the transgender Minneapolis shooter. And, you know, he's referring to this person as a woman, it was a trans, trans originally a man. And sometimes I get my terminology on that stuff a little confused anyway. Elon was like enough is enough is enough. Somebody has to do something about Elon, forgive me, CNN. Well, the anchors on CNN are flipping out because they're thinking somebody's going to do something about Elon. They were saying this all along. Remember when everybody was talking about how that spin off of MSNBC was happening? And it was because you know, NBC kind of wanted to ditch MS because, well, it didn't want FCC regulation interfering with the mothership NBC. And so it spun it off, all of its cable entities off. And at the time, people were like, oh, gee, is it going to go public in this, you know, public entity or might Elon come along to buy it? And then everybody started freaking out, including, including the talent on CNN. And I want to take you back to this moment because it's rather interesting to watch in light of what we've just learned. Platforms are not regulated right now, which gives them Car Blanche to whatever they want right now. Elon is not someone who likes to be regulated. And so to buy MSN, he would go under some federal regulation. Who's regulating CNN right now? The FCC. No. We're not broadcast. It's cable. It's people are not smart. I mean, I don't really think cable stations are under the same regulatory structure of Republican. Thank you, God. It's definitely regulated more than Facebook. And what she's saying is that there's still a litmus sense of journalism that you have to pass. You can't just make up things and say things. That happens on checks. Please don't give me the eyebrow furrow as if you don't know what I'm talking about. It happens often on X. I can go and say the color is blue and I will be met with so many disrespectful remarks. No one's regulating the inward. No one's regulating the criticism. No one is regulating how people are treated. How much go of the regulation of the first amendment are you for? Let me tell you something. If I came on here and I just started calling you all kind of names, do you think the bosses would let me continue to do that? I mean, it happens. I mean, occasionally. Oh, I didn't have to. But it doesn't happen to me. And I know that I wouldn't be able to do that. There's a level of professionalism in what we do here because we are journalists and we adhere to something at least morally. And there is no moral compass on this thing called it. We're also having a call. Oh, yeah. We are so special and we are so great and we are so moral and we only tell the truth and nothing but the truth. Give me a break, guys. I mean, there's a reason you're getting banned from the White House. We've got more on that. But I've tell, this is just, this is pretty darn great, right? Like this is quite a story. Again, here it is, David Ellison reportedly eyeing Elon Musk for paramount equity investments, sparking real fears at CNN. Word has it that they are absolutely terrified. You know, this is a big deal, $110 billion, and don't forget, they're getting all kinds of stuff. They've got this combination between, of course, paramount and water brothers. And what is paramount? It's got mission impossible, talk on Star Trek, the Godfather, Transformers, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Gosh, I haven't heard that one in a while. And then they're combining with Warner Brothers, which gives them Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Batman, Wonder Woman, whoo, the Matrix, the Conjuring, Looney Tunes. I mean, this is mega, okay? You get two studios combining. This is a big empire, and the deal went through, okay? So there were no concerns, antitrust concerns at the federal level. The states, they put up a giant fuss, and they didn't like this at all because, you know, of course, Donald Trump's friends, the Ellison's buying this, and we can't have Donald Trump's friends buying anything, and having not much influence over culture, well, it's It turned out they all folded and Bonta dropped all of his concerns. He got a few concessions. They promised to make a certain number of movies in the U.S., and they've promised a certain number or whatever. It's good that they're making movies in the U.S. by the way, and Donald Trump's all for that. But anyway, here's what they're getting more prestige hits. As I said, they're getting all this stuff on TV, like SpongeBob and Paw Patrol, on my kids used to love Paw Patrol, Avatar, they're getting HDTV, Food Network. The Big Bang Theory, and they're picking up, well, that's what they have, they're picking up, Game of Thrones and the sopranos and friends in South Park. Oh, 60 minutes, yes, of course, 60 minutes, because they're getting CBS, of course, that's over at Paramount, wow, and think about between the cable entities and the pipes, what they're picking up as well. So they're going to get CNN, that's why everybody at CNN is freaking out right now. They've got CBS news, they've got HBO, HBO Max, Paramount Showtime, Pluto TV, Discovery, they've got MTV, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, BET, TVST, NT, Cartoon Network, Food Network, I mean Discovery, it goes on and on and on and on. This is what you call a big murder, and you've got people that aren't complete nutty job lefties that are going to be in charge of it, that are buying it and Elon Musk is reportedly one of them. It makes all the sense in the world, unless he sees this as somehow a threat to acts, but I don't think he would. I would think that this would be very complimentary, actually. So Cara Swisher, she's the tech reporter that you probably haven't heard of, but she's got some kind of position, I don't even know what it is, does she have a show on CNN, I've never seen her on there, but she does something on CNN, apparently some kind of commentator, and she says she's going to ditch CNN, ASAP, in the wake of the Paramount, WBD settlement, and this is before, okay, this, clearly I'm having too much fun with this, this is before she found out that Mr. Elon Musk might be in the building, okay, so this tech reporter's like, I don't want him anything to do with this, you know, I'm not going to deal with these people, there are a bunch of you know what, she had already communicated this repeatedly. Here she is in some speaking thing, you know, bragging about how she's got other options and she doesn't have to work for the lessons, take a peek. Speaking of business, we've been talking about what political reporters how they might adjust the way they cover the beat, to meet the moment in terms of technology, there's also the business of journalism, which is quite impacted by technology, by AI, by the splinter, because of social media, but also- What is the purchasing of the ownership by technology, billionaires, do you understand what they're doing? I do. Right, it's God. Good move. You'll love it out here, it's much better. You don't want to work for the lessons, I've spent a lot of time with Larry Oslin, he's a terrible person. Okay, so you recently said that you would leave CNN if Paramount won the base for Warner Brothers, perhaps as soon as the new series airs we want to hear about this new series, they're not, they haven't bought it yet, they haven't, it's not finished yet. So is that a for sure thing, is there a scenario in which you would stay anyway? I don't see how. Why? Tell us. Well, it's interesting, because they've been calling me. They've been very nice, they don't care, a good show with Matt Bellany, they're doing a lot of friendly, friendly with me right now, which is like, too bad, it's not going to have work. You know, it's not going to happen for you, as I say. I don't think they'll be good owners, I don't, I think they've already shown several times, including editorial choices, which Scott knows more about than I though, I know a lot, it's got, that they have no interest in journalism. And I refuse to work for an organization that doesn't respect journalists. And I don't mean not cutting, listen, I got out of journalism because I understood the costs were too high, and I could make a lot more money if I did it in a more efficient, more digital way. And I, I think a lot of the legacy organizations have been really stubborn in terms of understanding what's going on. It's not my issue, there has to be cuts, the costs are out of line with the audience, right? That's just the way it is. That's not how you do it. It's, it's a basic like, disdain for it is anything useful, that there's not a way to reform it except for hiring someone who is an a journalist. I'm sorry, I just don't, there's no reason to do that. Okay. On some level, I just don't, I, I don't have to because I've created my own media organization where I make a lot of money. So I have to have some. So for me, you know what, I encourage everybody to have their own media organization by the way now because it's a heck of a lot more fun over here for sure. But she's trying to say, you know, these people aren't journalists, they're just not journalists. Oh my gosh, you know, they, they, you know, they can't hire these non-journalists. I, I, I got to, I got to tell you I'm getting a little sick of it. The way they're all carrying on about, oh, we don't have the pool camera there covering Donald Trump right now. And he's inviting the likes of Breitbart and and Real America's voice and all these like real America. I mean, they are so upset that anybody other than them, right, because they had a total monopoly on this for how many decades is involved. And guess what? It's changing and it's changing fast. And the money behind it is changing fast. So, you know, this guy over here, he was campaigning hard. He even testified before Congress, Jim Acosta, the fired CNN employee who said, you know, you can't have this merger go through. It's going to be awful because we're going to have a different narrative, a narrative. We don't like it. Yeah, you better believe it. What? Do we want Scott Jennings anchoring the CBS evening news or anchoring AC 360 and talking about what a great president Donald Trump is and how he's the best president since George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. Well, I mean, what kind of crazy, stranger things upside down world are we going to become? If that's the kind of news and information that we have pumping out over the airwaves in this country, it sounds to me that that's exactly what Donald Trump wants. All you have to do is go inside his twisted mind. I mean, just the other day, he was tweeting about sending a hospital boat to Greenland. Oh, by the way, we got Greenland. He can't even stay awake at his own events. Oh, please. And this is the guy who's going to cow these giant media properties into combining into one another and becoming propaganda arms of his administration. I mean, what kind of crazy 1984 hit is this? I don't know, but like I got to tell you Jim, you are reminding me more and more of Rosie O'Donnell like every single day. I don't know if it's the look. I don't know if it's the cadence and the voice. Maybe you guys are channeling each other, but honestly, I mean, it shouldn't matter to him. He doesn't even work there anymore, but you understand the tenor of what's going on. Everybody's freaking out because the idea that you have some conservatives running these big entertainment conglomerates. I mean, it's why you had California leading the charge trying to prevent this merger from going through. But guess what? The merger went through, you know, so Kara's going to have to find work elsewhere, I guess. But this is what happened, right? So yesterday, we talked briefly about this paramount settling. It states anti-trust lawsuit clearing the way for a mega, mega deal, $110 billion and you're getting tons and tons of properties. One of the concessions was they wanted an editorial independence board. So paramount voted or vowed, I should say, to create an editorial independence board in order to oversee CNN and CBS news. And the two organizations agreed that it would control those news organizations after the deal. But, you know, who's in charge, really? The owners. Okay? The owners. And the owners are going to be the elephants and possibly Elon Musk. You understand how kind of rich and funny and amusing all this is right about now, especially given what we go have going on with the band at the White House, et cetera. I mean, they have totally lost their monopoly. They are losing their monopoly and they can't handle it. I want to get to that because they are just spazzing out, oh my gosh, like if they're not going to cover Donald Trump, who can? Apparently, a lot of people, more on that in a moment. But first, at first, you know, I was traveling a lot this summer, right? I told you, you saw me, maybe overseas. And one of the things I most hated about traveling was that I didn't get to sleep in my own bed. Now, normally, and I'm very specific on my kind of hotels and I like very good hotels, actually early, early, early, early on. I remember when my husband and I were first married and I, you know, would stay in a hotel or something. 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I mean, who wouldn't, Elon will definitely do that. You know, if nothing else, return the favor to the Ellsons, 'cause they helped you get Twitter. Anyway, MSNBC, Politico, they all got banned, and so all the big pool cameras, the pool is like what basically covers all the big events, they send like one pool camera out there, so not everybody has to be covering the same stuff. That way you don't have a whole slew of cameras, you have one pool camera, everybody chips in, pays a little money to the pool camera, and then whoever's on pool duty, gets all the generic B roll and all that kind of stuff in any given day. So all the pool cameras that we're not gonna do this, we're shutting down, we're not gonna be part of this. And they sued, right? These CNN, MSNBC, and Politico sued. You know, one of the points that has been made, and actually I'll get to this in a second, is that, you know, why is it? I'm gonna ask you this, why is it that some media organizations get a press pass and others don't? In all seriousness, because, you know, bright part was not allowed in during the last administration. I don't believe, right? I think jump was the first one to allow them in, but Politico was. So why is Politico, which was getting eight million dollars from the government for all those subscriptions that they really didn't need, that they were helping to prop up Politico, I guess? Why would Politico get a pass when another organization that's seen as conservative would not, right? So we're gonna give the pass as to liberals, but nothing goes to the conservatives. How does that make any sense at all? You know, and they're littered right now, because they think they control access, because they have the pool. And the New York Times is like, how is he still finding ways to get on the air? You better believe it. He's finding lots of ways to get on the air, because you know what, he doesn't need you guys. All right, he doesn't need you. It is a big broad universe of cameras out there. And there's plenty of people that are still willing to cover him because he happens to be the president of the United States. But, you know, they're all worked up about this. Here's an example, right? They were saying, how dare this is an MSNBC? Like, we have these pools for a reason, right? They're up on their high horse. Bunch of liberal pool cameras that got grandfathered in that have their own view that's very specific and very liberal, and they hate the president. And he's pulling the plug. Okay, and their answer is, you know, we're gonna take our ball and go home. Well, it's not working out for them. - Without the pool, without CNN, with CNN being barred to cover it, on behalf of all the networks, the one hand selected outlet is called Real America's Voice, which is the mega-propegating outlet that is host to Steve Bannon's show and Jack Basobick. John Solomon, before he entered the government to find the election fraud claims. - Okay, so there they are, passing judgment. Oh my gosh, how can you have this news organization that host Steve Bannon's show or Jack's show? My gosh, now, you know, that's not real TV. Absolutely not. And they weren't done, right? Like, so there was like a round robin on MSNBC. They were all about this, CNN's similar story, which is why it's so poetic. It's poetry, that's the word I was looking for. It's poetry, the Elon Musk looks like he's gonna come in and be an investor and therefore an owner in CNN. Woo, okay, here they are again. MSNBC just absolutely livid that these, oh, horrific, horrific, horrific organizations are gonna be involved in covering the president. - This White House has actually allows very friendly media outlet inside of the door. And those are the ones they like. The Pentagon press pool, in fact, is for Lindell TV, have started by my pillow CEO, Mike Lindell, the gateway pun and human events. Today in New York City, Real America's voice, a small pro-Trump network was listed as the secondary crew for this important trip to the UN. - Okay, he's surrounded by people that'll literally repeat every single lie that he says. There's just no replacement for the TV pool system right now, just because of how large the cost is. - Okay, so first of all, the argument on MSNBC is that he has surrounded himself with people who will just repeat every quote lie that he says. You get the irony of that one, right? I mean, when you have Rachel Maddo as your headliner, right? And all these, I don't mean to be unkind. I was going to call them nut jobs, but let me just call them hacks. Okay, all these hacks on MSNBC that are pushing their uber liberal point of view. Somehow, they get to get up on that high horse and think that they're actually journalists. Yeah, news for you guys, you're just not. Okay, you're a bunch of hack journalists. I mean, I don't even think I'd put journalists next to your name for goodness sakes. You're a bunch of people who are commentators. Okay, nothing wrong with that. Look, I'm a commentator too. Okay, I do have a background in economics and real stuff and real journalism, unlike any of you, right? How many of those people actually worked in network news? I doubt many of them, I digress the point being, they think that they're better than everyone else, but here's the reality. All they were doing was carrying the president's water. I mean, their favorite question for Joe Biden, the few times they got to ask him something was, what is your favorite flavor of ice cream? Like, so don't sit there and tell me that somehow you guys are better at your job than those that are on the right because you're just not, all right? You're absolutely just not as far as the pool getting replaced. Oh, it can get replaced and it's getting replaced fast. All right, I did not see the president at the UN assembly. I mean, we did a whole thing on it yesterday, right? We ran all the sound and he was out talking with Mamdami. We saw all of that. We're gonna continue to see him everywhere because there are other players out there. But here's a question for you. Why does Biden get a pass? Why is Biden seen as the one that could hold up truth and somehow Trump doesn't? I mean, if I recall, I think Biden lied to us a lot, whether it be on the laptop, whether it be on the Russia, Russia stuff, whether it be on the Wuhan virus. Oh, and where that originated from. Okay, I'm sorry. We heard a lot of lies, a lot of lies. And there's one guy that actually has told us the truth. Maybe that's what scares the establishment so much. I mean, the fact that he is actually very forthcoming with the truth that he just says exactly what he thinks. I think that frightens the heck out of them. But Lindell TV, which that guy was just poo-pooing, I'll tell you, they got one great reporter out over there and she catches up with all of these congressmen and all of these senators and she went up and she caught up with the guy from Virginia, representative buyer who's up on his high horse and she asked him about something that's kind of important that I think you may or may not know about. Do I have this graphic? There we go, okay. So under Biden, we actually saw a real crackdown in the number of people that qualified. Again, you have to qualify, right? To get a Biden press pass to the White House. I didn't even bother. I was like, you know, there's no point. Anyway, and I consider it at one point 'cause in my sort of midnight thoughts when I think about my business and expanding, I was like, maybe we should get a Washington reporter and we can put somebody down there. But I was like, yeah, the Biden team's not gonna give me a pass. They didn't wanna give out a lot of passes in general, right? They tightened the requirements so severely that they actually wound up reducing the number of press passes by 442. So during the Trump administration, prior to Biden, you had 1,417 people with press passes. And then during Biden, you had 975. And the reason for that was they made it really difficult. They put all these new requirements on it. You had to have a full-time job in a news organization whose principal business was actually news. So, okay, I guess that's sort of fair. Your physical address had to be in the DC area. Okay, so that would have maybe counted out somebody who, like me, who might have employed say a freelancer to work for me and be a White House reporter. If I didn't have an office for that person, I guess that would have been a problem. Proof of White House work in the prior six months. I guess you had to have proven that you weren't new to the party, right? Well, all of these things resulted in fewer press passes, which the Lindell TV reporter asked this representative buyers directly about, and you gotta hear his answer. The pompousness of these people, it's unreal. This White House has actually allows very friendly media outlet inside of the door. The Pentagon press pool, in fact, is for Lindell TV, have started by my pillow CEO, Mike Lindell, the Gateway Pond. That's said, the guy going off on Lindell TV, let me get you to Allison. Here we go. I just wanted to ask you about the media ban over in the White House. You did a post earlier yesterday saying that Steve Scleese was lying when he pointed out that more than 440 reporters lost their press pass under the Biden administration. Now Trump is obviously ban CNN, MSNOW, Politico. But what is the lie here? Can you just tell us? Oh, the lie was that 440 reporters lost their press passes. There's no way that that could be true to the best of my nose. But really? Because didn't we just explain to you that that was true? You saw the graphics I put up. He changed the requirements in over 400 people lost their press passes. But let's let Allison go back at them. They did. Many of them were banned. There was even one man named Simon Atiba who worked for an African news outlet who was banned because Kareen Jean-Pierre didn't like his line of questioning. She literally just kicked him out because she didn't like his questions. You think that's fair? I don't know anything about that case. What I do know is that the first thing that dictators and autocrats do is they ban the press. And so when you take nationally-known recognized press things like MSNOW, CNN, and Politico and ban them from the White House, it's just a total attempt to suppress any news that the president doesn't like. Oh my gosh! You guys, MSNBC is basically an arm of the Democrat Party. I mean, that's why they call it MSDNC, right? It is a total hack organization that, frankly, in my estimation spreads a lot of lies, all right? I just think it's a terrible, terrible, terrible excuse for news. And this guy is holding it up like, oh my gosh, if you're going to get rid of MSNBC, but you're going to allow real America's voice or Lindell TV, which this girl happens to work for, you are just, I mean, that is unheard of. It's unheard of that we got MSNBC acting like it's all high and mighty for goodness' sake. You certainly need to see anything like this from, I can't think of, there may be an individual reporters who may not even have been reporters, they may have been fake people. So I get, who knows what this 140R, even that's a true act. But did you never saw any president including the Bushes or Reagan or anything else banning major networks or major newspapers from the White House? All Obama did with Fox under his administration, he didn't allow Fox to cover a certain event with an individual who was interviewing at the White House, but also, it was- Fox was in the White House all the years of Obama, was there? There was quite a bit of censorship during the COVID era, I mean, anyone who spoke out against the safe and effective narrative was censored. Many people who tried to sound the alarm on the damage the vaccine, the so-called vaccine did, they had their account silence censored shut down, and that was cheered on by many in the legacy media. Do you think that's correct? Now looking back? Well, first of all, I think that that's incorrect, that the vaccine's saved hundreds of thousands of lives, and the people that didn't get the vaccine is where the death rate soared. So I think that that is really important to follow the science and the facts on that. Oh, good. Oh, my gosh. What this is coming down to is, who's the version of the truth we're going to go with? Look, don't get me wrong. I've told you this before, you know, everybody has biases, like don't pretend you don't forget to say, so you have a certain bias, you know, my bias, I wear it on my sleeve. You know, just don't tax me, right? Like I'm a big believer in small, limited government, although I am quite a security hawk, you probably know that too about me. So I believe in spending our money wisely and on things that we really and truly need. But for the most part, I want the government out of my freaking life, okay? So that is my bias, and I approach my job with that bias every single day, but these news organizations, MSNBC trying to pretend like it's not a bias news organization. Give me a break, get over yourselves, just get over yourselves, okay? So hey, listen, you know, maybe the answer is you don't want to stay TV, but maybe the answer is you have one pool camera that, hey, the government pays for if it's just basically a shot of the president getting on and off the helicopter, on and off Air Force One or going and doing his speech at the UN, you know, that's one camera, and you don't give the license to these broadcast networks, which are profiting off of using this footage, right? Because, you know, technically, and I show you a lot of this footage and, you know, for the most part, some people are good about it. Actually, MSNBC is not good about it, so sometimes when I show you their stuff, I sometimes hear about it on the other end, but for the most part, people are pretty good about sharing. But the fact that you have to pay to be in the pool camera to begin with, I mean, that's actually a bunch of bogus nonsense because it should be available for the public to see without having to go through this lousy pool, which somehow thinks that it can really get to Trump by suspending the coverage of Trump. Well, Trump has an answer for that, and it's Trump TV. Whoa, here it is. Trump TV is here. What did I just say? We need some way to actually get all of this video in, where we don't have to go through the likes of MSNBC or these big networks, and so Joe, I think he's just watching G.D. He's good. Nancy. I will just stand here and watch television for Alice. I love it. I want to walk by Joe! No! So this is that that's their ad for Trump TV. I don't know as it's totally here yet. I think they're, you know, they're still pulling it together because otherwise I'd be showing you more from it. Hey, why not just broadcast everything, right, and make it free and available for everybody to see? So in the meantime, you get the networks figuring out like their days are numbered, right? They've just kind of been hit with this reality that they don't matter. They don't matter. He can still get on the air without them. And so now they're suing. And they're like, oh, this is our First Amendment right. Well, I disagree. It's not your First Amendment right. We talked a lot about this yesterday, right, because they don't have a First Amendment right to be able to get into the White House and sit up in the front row there in the briefing. They don't. You can still have your freedom of speech and criticize the president all you want. You don't necessarily have to do it with your little desk inside the White House or your little live shot right outside the White House. No, no, no, no, you can still speak and criticize and do whatever you want and ask questions and call up the White House and send emails and get answers to your questions. But you don't have some kind of constitutional right to guarantee you political a seat in the room. Well, bright part is denied. You understand the hypocrisy of this nonsense? Well, anyway, a judge today decided to allow for this lawsuit to go through. The DOJ had come forward as of late yesterday and said, hey, to the judge, you should throw this thing out. And she's saying, no, I'm going to give it a minute. I'm going to hear the arguments on all sides, Marco Rubio making a very valid argument just as I have that, no, you don't have a right. You just don't have a right to a seat in the room. That is not a constitutionally given right. The White House feels very strongly and the president feels very strongly that the coverage he gets. And I can't blame him. Look, I got to be honest with you. Maybe you're not going to like to hear this, but I watch a lot of American news coverage and it sounds in some cases, for example, like they're rooting for Iran. It sounds like they highlight anything Iran says in all their public statements as true and they downplay everything American officials say is wrong. I think I don't think that that is what's behind this, but I think there's a trend line here. But Mr. Secretary, look, the White House is very strongly. With all the respect, should media outlets be banned because the president doesn't like their coverage? Should you be able to ban? They're unbanned. They're banned from, no, they're banned from the other side. No, we're not closing CNN. Well, that's different. What they want is access to the workspace that the president is doing right with you. The White House feels very strongly, the president feels very strongly that why should I have people working in my building and in my office that I believe are not honestly covering my administration? That's how he feels. We're not closing CNN. There aren't a bunch of police officers or soldiers kicking down the doors of MSNBC or MSNOW whatever it's called and arresting people and unplugging it from the grid. They're just not allowed to work from the workspace at the White House, but there'll be no changes in your traveling pool of reporters. That's an important legal point and I just want to stress this here because they're freaking out saying this is a violation of our First Amendment and an impeller court already decided this. And I've told you guys this before because when this first came up, what did I do? I went back and I looked at the AP legal case that they had against the Trump administration because he got kind of sick of them referring to the Gulf of America as the Gulf of Mexico. And so he's like, all right, well, you want to keep calling it the Gulf Mexico? You're out. They didn't let them in to certain gatherings and so they do have some access, but not full access. So they got mad and they sued. And the first judge said, yeah, you got to give them back the press passes. But the second judge at the appellate level was actually two judges at the appellate level said, actually, this is within the president's right to decide not to have AP in all of these various press opportunities, absolutely within his right. And basically, they were making the decision similar to when the president decides who's going to go on Air Force One and who's not going to go on Air Force One that you have limited space. And you can hand select just as you would for an interview who's actually going to be there. You don't have a constitutional right, AP, to be at every single event. And so that is what I would be looking at. Now I want to point out the administration. has actually made the point, and the DOJ has made the point that this is a security issue, which is a very interesting take, because this is what Joe Biden was able to use when he kicked out the 400-and-some-odd people, because he said you don't have the right credentials. And at that time, the Biden administration argued that it was a matter of national security that you just wanted, didn't want any Tom Dick or Harry having access to the White House with that press pass. And so in this case, the DOJ is making the argument in a similar way that they don't want all of these people having access. I don't know as that's as successful an argument as the one that Marco just gave, and the one that I'm explaining to you, the AP, was up against, because I think the president does have the right to sort of pick and choose who he wants to be there. But this is what they're saying. And from a national security standpoint, here's what I would tell you. I kind of get it, because I was a little bit surprised. Because weren't you just a little bit surprised when all of those media headlines were out about the plane, right, and how the president pulled the switcheroo with the plane from Qatar? Only because what hit me was that the press was probably leaking like a sieve. Or some people, maybe these were people within the, we did see some secret service folks go by bye after that, maybe some people are leaking to the press. And so I can understand that from a certain perspective that yes, you may have a security argument there, but I think it's actually more simple. It's simple in that he can decide who's in the room. You have no constitutional right to having a little live shot outside the White House. Just go get yourself out on the sidewalk and do some real reporting, okay? That's what I would say. You know, they're freaking out, though, over at CNN. They're freaking out about everything at CNN, but you know, they're really going to be freaking out because Elon's buying the place. Mark my words. I think that's going to go through. I think he's going to actually be one of the owners when it's all said and done. But in the meantime, they are freaking out about the press coverage, right? Because, you know, there's so much to freak out about, whether it's Greenland, whether it's the president, whether it's soon to be Elon Musk at CNN Watch. I thought one more thing that happened today that was of note was if you listened to what the Prime Minister of Denmark said today about the deal that they have made with President Trump in the United States, if you listen to her comments about the historic relationship that we've had, about how strong it is, about how this agreement is going to make it even stronger, about how we're going to keep the Russians and the Chinese from circling around this strategic piece of property that President Trump has long had his eye on. It was in a moment. Yes, it was a momentous thing. And for a year and a half, or almost two years now, I've been listening to everyone have a complete and total hysterical meltdown about this, about how we've ruined our relationship with them. Mark about how this is weakened Europe and weakened NATO, blah, blah, blah, if you listen to her speech today, it could not have been more pro-American and pro-Trump and pro-national security. Yeah, but it got done, it got done despite all the hysteria. So when I hear the same hysteria, people coming out here and claiming somehow we've just decimated the entire Iranian military, and that means they're running, I somehow feel like maybe just maybe we're on the right track on the Greenland thing, you know, you're comparing the Danish to the Iranians? No, I'm comparing the hysteria that I get on virtually anything you'd rather do. You see that? I mean, they can't ever say anything. Like that was a big deal, guys. The Greenland deal was massive. We've talked a lot about that, okay? And it guarantees us permanent access for our military to be up there and we're already putting more military there in Greenland as we speak with Pete Hegseth announcing that one the other day. I mean, it was a huge deal and she was very complimentary and I showed you all that sound on yesterday's show. Feel free to go back and watch that towards the end of the show. I mean, Greenland was absolutely thrilled that finally, you know, they got to keep their country. And we got basically our digs in there, right? We've got the ability to now really secure it, which we needed. And for some reason, CNN can't even bring itself to admit that that was a win. Like why? Not to mention, they were laughing about it the entire time. And now they're going on and somehow comparing Greenland and Iran, I don't even follow that narrative, but I'll tell you this, on Iran, here's the good news. Here's the good news. Oil prices have been coming down. Brand new news out today, forgive me, that is the wrong graphic, but we're going to keep it for another bit later on out today that sure enough, here we go, I'm going to pull it up, our stockpiles in oil have been increasing far more than anybody thought. That is a really, really wonderful thing. And basically it puts a bit of a problem ahead of the libs right now, because oil prices are coming down. And if they continue this way, they were up a little bit in today's session. But if they continue falling, I don't think that the libs are really going to have a leg to stand on going into midterms. Donald Trump is taking on Canada, and we're going to talk about that in just a second. He's warning of a migration mess. But before we get to that, I do want you to think about what we're seeing in the oil markets. OK, now I know it's hard, because in, by the way, the diesel for goodness sake, that's just awful, right? And the president's been calling that one out. It's tough. Don't get me wrong. It's tough. But we're seeing some green shoots, right, as they like to say, green shoots. Some opportunities here in that we've got a lot more in the way of oil coming out of the street of Hormuz. And I think that the Iran situation is going to have to come to a head sooner rather than later. Here is, do we have Iran today? Or is this the president? Oh, here's Iran, yes. Those who are-- So here's Iran. They're basically trying to signal to the UN that they're not the terrorists, the U.S. is and what's problematic for me is that you have so many members of the military, the military, forgive me, the media, eating this kind of thing up, right? Certainly not our military, our military is wonderful and what will we do without them. But the members of the media, they're militaristic media that we have, right? There you go. That's what I meant. They're eating this up because anything that Trump does or wants or says, they're like, OK, we want the opposite. So in this case, if Iran is the enemy, suddenly Iran becomes their friend. And this guy's out there pushing the narrative that Hassan Piker, who's besties with all the bad dems, whether it be Mamdami, whether it be Ilhan Omar, whether it be Rashida Tlaib, whether it be El Saeed at Michigan, who's campaigning with him. OK, so Hassan Piker blames the U.S. for 9/11 and claims that we are the terrorists and that we are the problem and look at how Iran just glums onto that one. Those who are terrorists and trained and protect terrorists, describe us as such. We have only defended ourselves. We are not terrorists. OK, and you get the U.S. guy naturally walking out. So he's trying to sit there and lie to everyone's face and say, we are not the bad guy. Well, I'm sorry, you guys are. And I realize that some members of the media will eat that up. And Hassan Piker is probably running that all day. But here's the deal. They're a bad guy, right? Like this isn't bad hard. And the good news, I would say, for Donald Trump and for conservatives is that we have seen oil start to come down. And that's a big deal. And that's important because as people go out to vote at midterms, we need a better picture on the oil front. And I think we're going to get it sooner rather than later. I told you this what last week, because what did we see over and over again? But evidence that, in fact, those stockpiles, well, one, I've got evidence that the stockpiles are growing. Yes, oil, obviously there. That's a very, very good headline to see. But also you've got 18 million barrels a day coming through the straight of her moves. The energy secretary Chris Wright explaining that. And then Marco Rubio also explaining this improvement in what we're seeing. He's estimating 60 to 70% of the oil now getting through. I just want to point out 18 million barrels of oil getting through in one day last Tuesday. That was huge because that's pre-war levels. Anyway, let's go to Marco who's saying, yeah, oils coming back online and it's coming back fast. The reality of it is if you look at it now, we're about 60 to 70% of the oil flows that we're coming out of the straits are now coming out. And it's climbing because there's more and more ships are able to use that southern strait with confidence. You'll see more and more ships doing that. Obviously, there's another thing going on here, not directly related to Iran, but related to Iran because it's the Houthis and that is their attack on a Saudi pipeline. If you look at the increases we've seen in just the last two weeks, the enormous majority of that increase is because the Houthis attacked a Saudi pipeline and the Saudis had to shut down that pipeline. So there's still oil in the system, but the markets are reacting to the expectation that there will not be as much Saudi oil in the future. So that is a problem as well that we're confronting here. Again, it's not Iran directly, it's the Houthis, but the Houthis are an Iranian proxies. So he mentioned the Houthis and Saudi Arabia. I should also point out that the Saudis have told us and this was a big story in Bloomberg towards the end. the end of last week, that that pipeline is actually going to be back online half of it anyway within the next few days. So that one's coming back online. You've got the straight-of-her-mose opening up as both the energy secretary and the secretary of state have pointed out. So listen, it's going to be okay. And so when I see Iran getting really desperate and trying to frame itself as the good guy, it really leaves me with one big takeaway, and that is that they're freaking out because they know the end is near, and the President has a decision to make, right? He made it loud and clear right in front of the entire world. But I have a big decision to make. Will a deal be made with Iran that lets them rebuild and create a far greater country than it ever was before? Maybe one of the greatest in the Middle East, or even the world, or do I annihilate the Islamic Republic and do it quickly, never giving them a chance to kill and destroy people and countries again? Do I drive them into hell with no chance of survival and no hope of future greatness or generations? But I believe we'll make a deal right after the election, because it doesn't make sense for them not to. Two. I mean, it doesn't make sense for them, I guess, to do it before the election either, because they don't want oil coming down that much, but here's the good news, all right? Just stay with me. I tend to be right on these things. Sometimes a little oil, early, but on oil, I think I'm right. I told you last week, last Wednesday, watch oil, it's coming down, down, down, and sure enough, it was down every day, other than today where we saw a little bit of a pickup, but I think that that's going to change based on what we learned about the stockpiles. Again, those stockpiles coming in really significant here, really, really, really significant. Look at that. Rising by three million barrels last week, analysts had expected those crude stocks to fall by 500,000 barrels. Clearly, they're not watching my show, clearly, because I told you, hey, we got the 18 million coming out of Hormuz in a given day. You've got the Saudis saying we're going to get this pipeline back on. There's a lot to be happy about right now, and I predicted that these were going to be looking a lot better. In other words, we don't need to export, I guess, as much oil, because you've got more coming out of the straight of Hormuz. Hence that uptick there, and this is very encouraging. We rose our stockpile by three billion barrels when the entire world thought it was going to go down 500,000, all the more reason. You've got to make sure that you listen to the Trish Regan show every day, because, like I said, I tend to be right on these things, and I'm just going to, you know, take a shameless plug here and credit my financial knowledge. And if you are not getting my financial knowledge, I encourage you to go over to 76research.com. That is my financial research company. We have three portfolios. I give you all the names of the stocks that we're investing in there, about 10 to 15 stocks, and each one of those portfolios, you can get the 76 report, or you can pay for the research for these three portfolios, but I do encourage you. If nothing else, there's also, there's a free part of it, too. I'm going to put this one up. I'll do this. Invest in Maga, because, you know, we've got to update that a little bit. It's a newsletter. Invest in Maga, the website, that is. But what was I telling you from the beginning, as soon as this president came in, you needed to be invested, you needed to be invested in the stock market right now, because it was just going to go up, up, and away. And yes, indeed, I was right. So how do I know these things? I don't know. Like, maybe I just pay attention a little bit more. And to me, it was pretty obvious when you saw all the news coming out of basically the straight-of-hormouse, oops, today's, I'll get rid of that, straight-of-hormouse, and then combined with, yes, the Houthis were attacking the pipelines in Saudi Arabia, but we knew that the Saudis were repairing those. So there is going to be, I think, some more downside ahead for oil. And that's good news, right? That's good news, not just for all of us and for the economy, but obviously good news for Donald Trump and good news for midterms. He went after Canada today, you know? This is an interesting one. The president has very little tolerance for the woke migration nonsense that has been feeding the Europeans with a real migration problem and has recently resulted in a similar kind of problem up in Canada. He put this one out. Do I have this one? We were just looking at Canada, right? We were just looking at Canada, goodness gracious. I'm getting my graphics all, you know, this is the only problem with not having a full network behind you, right, guys? Because a lot of this stuff I'm doing myself, but I will tell you this. I think because I do it myself, I'm not much more passionate about it. Here we go. Here we go. So let me show you this one. This is a big deal on Canada, so, you know, Canada has been a, how do we say a little bit of a problem child, right? Canada has been a little kind of annoying lately. I mean, they were going to do a deal with us and then they didn't do a deal with us, even though they said they were going to do a deal. I mean, that was kind of weird. And now we learn that maybe they were doing a deal behind the scenes the whole time with Ursula and company over in Brussels because they wanted to join the EU. And it's like, gosh darn it. I mean, the EU is a total complete mess. Like it's economy is a disaster. It's got inflation like you wouldn't believe. And it's got migration problems like you wouldn't believe. I mean, they don't know how to close those borders. Just look at what's going on and say you to Spain, it explains everything you need to know. I mean, a total disaster. And so the president is looking at Canada and he's like, really, okay, I mean, I would just say, fine, let's take Alberta and be done with it. But, you know, and I say that lovingly to my friends in Alberta, okay. Here he is saying Canada is destroying itself by allowing millions and millions of people into the country, essentially unchecked and unvetted and who are causing problems that will soon be too big to handle. It is a liberal takeover that will end very badly already showing up in their numbers. Big unemployment. You know what? He's right. Big unemployment has hit 6.4% in Canada. We're 4.1. There's 6.4. And it's going to get even worse for Canada, why? Because they didn't sign the trade deal with us. And I told you this before, we're the biggest customer by far. We buy something like $400 billion worth of goods that's 16 times as much as China buys. Yeah, they apparently wanted to do a deal with China. And that was also one of the things that was holding all this up. They wanted free trade with China. We're like, no, you're not going to bring all those Chinese things in here and then have them permeate down through our border. So that was another problem. But you know, they're holding out for, God knows what? I mean, we single handedly make up 2.3 times the rest of the world in terms of what we buy from them. But they've got problems. They're joining Europe and the EU and they've got unemployment that's at 6.4%. Meanwhile, the president's not wrong when he talks about the migration challenge. I looked at these numbers and I was blown away. I didn't realize it was this bad in Canada. I mean, I've seen some commentary from you guys in, I read all my messages. So, you know, even if I don't respond, I try to respond to a lot of them or like them or heart them or whatever. Sometimes I don't get a chance to do all of that, but do know that I look through all of them. So please, leave me a message. Let me know what you're thinking. If you're not here watching this live, I do see the live chat going on. But look at these numbers, okay, 2001 to 2011 to 2021. They've had a threefold increase in the number of migrants that have come in that are Muslim, okay? And I specify Muslim only because, you know, at the risk of offending people, I don't really care anymore. I mean, everybody's so darn offended by everything, but I'm just going to tell you, it's a different culture. It's a different religion. And I am going to stand my ground on this because I don't like the way the Muslim religion treats women, period, all right? And you can sit there and say that's insensitive of you, Trish, well, you know what's insensitive? It's insensitive to not see women as equals. So I am going to continue on that unashamed, all right? So your Muslim population in Canada more than tripling from 2001 at 579,000 to 2011 at 1 million, over 1 million. And now 2021, that was the most updated figure I had, 1.775 million. That's 4.9% of the population now. I mean, that's a lot. So they're really looking just like Europe, are they not? And Europe is reeling from the controversies they've had over the migration issue. I mean, look what's going on in Germany. AFD is rising and about to take over Germany for a reason, okay? Because people are so fed up with migration. You've got 15% of the population in Germany that is directly migrant. When you look at the new people coming in, 40% of the youth now are somehow migrant derivatives, right? So their parents are here and now they give birth and they have a problem. Because then you look at the welfare roles, overwhelmingly filled with migrants or you look at crime. And crime has increased 17% since 2019 and low and behold. We don't have the numbers for the 40% like so I don't know if these numbers are even higher when you factor in some of the youth that is, I guess, technically German, even though their parents are from other places, but 42.9% of the violent crime suspects in Germany right now are non-German's, okay? These are the migrants. So that's problematic, especially when your quote migrant population is only, technically, 15%. So overall, yeah, you got a problem in Europe. You look at what's going on in Italy. We talked about Georgia Maloney on Sunday coming out with new rules saying, you know, no more burkas in school. We don't believe that women should be told or forced to cover up. And by the way, we're going to change the rules because we cannot have 12% of the student body, which is migrant there in Italy, being overwhelmingly in these classrooms in some classrooms, right? Because 12% is a broad number overall. But in some particular areas, it's overwhelmingly migrant. And that is a disservice to the children that are from Italy and it is a disservice to those kids that have migrated in because nobody's learning Italian. So this is a problem. And yet the Canadian Prime Minister, Mr. Carney, getting out there all super psyched that he's about to join with EU saying, this is going to be great because we're going to have open borders. Canada and Europe should secure our strategic autonomy through deep cooperation in the full range of strategic capabilities, including critical minerals, defense industrial capacity, AI and compute, energy security, space and payments. We should move towards seamless digital trade and non-agricultural goods and a wide range of services. We should deepen our people-to-people ties, allowing our youth to work, study and live where they want on either side of the Atlantic. Canadian membership of Erasmus Plus would give your students and ours more opportunity to learn that some of the world's top universities, to broaden their horizon and to build those lasting ties that will sustain our alliance for the future. Canada needs to focus. Canada needs to get its act together and Canada needs, frankly, a new Prime Minister. I mean, they are just coming apart at the seams. It is a disaster. In the meantime, let's look long and hard about Alberta because it would matter a lot to us to be able to get that. It would matter a lot to them. And they could still have their independence, right? I think it's October 19th, that they have their independence vote and they're going to vote on whether or not they should be advancing talks to continue this line of independence away from Canada because they want their own sovereignty. I don't think they have the votes yet, but this is just merely sort of a first look. Like should we be having this conversation? And they might get the votes to have this conversation and then I think, you know, it's going to come down to what is Canada doing for us? And right now, Canada is not doing a lot. For Alberta. Instead, Alberta is doing a lot for Canada. And they're providing all the revenue, right? So they can then take it and then redistribute it to all the new migrants coming in. This is the problem, okay? And we've seen that movie before in Europe. In fact, we're looking at that movie in real time in St. Louis, Spain. I mean, this is, this is unbelievable. You've seen all the footage of all these people coming in and they're still there. And what is the Prime Minister little, Pedro, right, little, little Pedro? Little Pedro is totally helpless. Little Pedro is blaming the rest of Europe. I don't even understand this. Like why are you blaming the rest of Europe? And he's blaming Morocco instead of just building a border wall. You know, he ought to hire somebody from the Trump administration. Say, I'll give you a consultant gig. Why don't you tell me how you guys did it because I don't know what to do about this. And I'm about to get voted out of office because the people are upset, thousands of people taken to the streets of Madrid to say, hey, Pedro, this isn't working out. So Pedro, over in New York, of course, for the big UN assembly, decides to sit down with Cristiano Amampor. I wonder what Elon's going to do with her. Sorry. I think Elon's going to be quite powerful and wonderful influence on CNN when that deal goes through. Anyway, Pedro Sánchez talking to Cristiano Amampor about seú to Spain and why it's not his fault. No, no, no. He's not going to take in it. What's the name, Pedrito? Obviously, still, the never-ending issue, roiling politics, whether it's in the United States or in Europe, is immigration, migration. You have just presided over what's generally seen as a disaster, the seú to disaster in a Spanish territory in Morocco, where tens of thousands, as we all saw, rushed in and you had a very difficult time trying to calm it down there, still according to authorities, some maximum 15,000 migrants, somehow wandering around seú to. What did you guys do wrong? How can this happen overnight? So, our first of all, just to say that failed in Malaysia, there are two Spanish cities in Africa. So there's not only Spanish cities, but also the European border, a territorial border, a very hard border in Africa. So I think it's important to ask for that solidarity when it comes to the European Union and unfortunately we suffered the insolidarity of many of these governments during the crisis. We showed that solidarity for instance in Lampedusa in Italy when they suffered the migration crisis. We showed that solidarity in Greenland when other governments questioned the territorial integrity of Denmark and Greenland. So we asked for that solidarity when it comes to failed that. So there's one angle, which is this European solidarity. The second angle is our bilateral relationship with Morocco. I can tell you that over the last four years we have developed a very positive bilateral relationship with Morocco. We have asked Morocco for answers and actions because it is clear for us that its border control mechanism is failed and the third angle is how do we manage this migration crisis. So we know and we understand quite well that the world is watching at us and we will show that security and order can be provided and guarantee without or not at the expense of human dignity. Okay, so this is important. So watch it. Now, he's already blamed Europe, you know, he wants more solidarity with Europe, whatever that means. I think he means like you guys have to take some of these migrants too. He blames Morocco and now get a load of this, he starts going on and on and on about human dignity. Why? Because he wants everybody coming to Spain. I'm telling you, I look at this guy and his mentor basically was backed by the Chinese. The reason the Chinese have a deal Huawei with broadband in Spain is because of his mentor and it's believed that there were some serious corruption there and obviously it's very concerning for NATO security that you have Huawei which is running the broadband there in all of Spain, right? Because if you're talking to anybody in Spain and you're from NATO, now China could potentially have access of backdoor entry. So I really look at this guy and I question a lot of what he's doing and where his quote-unquote support and ideas are coming from behind the scenes and to me it points to China and Iran. It just does. Anyway, listen to what he says about we got to care about humanity, humanity, humanity, give me a break. What about the humanity of your own people, Pedroito? And this is what we are doing. We are recovering the normality in the city of Telta and at the same time we are also providing the legal framework for those migrants who could have the right for international protection. Your government is just declassified a whole load of documents. Which appear to show or do show that actually you all warned that there could have been this kind of crisis. Actually, those documents show that there was no clear evidence that something like that will happen. And again, we are investigating what happened those days back in July. But at the same time we have asked Morocco for actions and also for answers because it is also clear that it is what a controlled failure. But again, we need to have a positive relationship with Morocco because we have this strategic partnership with Morocco. Just build a wall, buddy, okay, just build the wall and be done with it. It's not that hard. You don't want to because you have all this, quote unquote, human dignity that you want to protect. Well, again, I asked the question, what about the human dignity of the people that live there? Young women that can't go out to walk right now. What about the women that say that we used to go for a walk or a run at the reservoir every day? And we can't do that. What about the beaches that have been taken over? I mean, I'm sorry. Again, you look at all the damage that has been done to Germany, to Italy, to France, and to Spain. I mean, this is a good one, too. Did you see this is important, actually, for you to see. So, at the UN, you know, this is Macron's, how do we say, swansung? Like this is the end, right? Because Macron is going to be out, and maybe he's sad about that. And it's going to be, if you would, sort of, the final hurrah. The final hurrah for one Macron. And he's kind of bummed out. out, right? He's bummed out because he kind of liked all the stuff that Biden was saying. And he liked the stuff that he heard from Barack Obama. And he was really inspired, right, by all of that stuff. And so it's a very different kind of tune when you hear, and you can go back and listen to my show from yesterday. And I did a big analysis on everything that we heard, everything that we heard, which was very important to hear because it was like for the first time you were starting to hear some kind of, you know, realness, realness. I mean, what a difference it makes to have Donald Trump up there versus these clowns from before. Forgive me. I mean, they were presidents. I don't want to be disrespectful. But it was all about, you know, we need to do more. We need to do more. We need to give you more money. We need to do this. We need to do that. And it was all about how bad America was. Like, how are we bad? Like, if it weren't for us, Europe, you'd all be speaking German right about now. Okay. Like I consider that a positive influence in the world. And you need us. I mean, we don't want what we used to get. What a difference. What a difference a president makes. Right. Take a look at this one. Our administration as a riot has invested over $150 billion to make progress and other sustainable development goals. It includes $20 billion for food security and over $50 billion for global health. We've mobilized billions more in private sector investment. We've taken the most ambitious climate action in history. We've moved to rejoin the Paris Agreement on day one. And today, my country is finally on track to cut emissions in half by 2030. On track to honor my pledge to quadruple climate financing to developing nations with $11 billion thus far this year. We've rejoined the World Health Organization donated to 700 million doses of COVID vaccine. 217 countries. We must now move quickly to face epochs outweigh in Africa. We're prepared to commit $500 million to help African countries to prevent and respond to epochs and to donate $1 million doses of end-proxy vaccines. We're just giving away. I have no interest in leaving dangers to grow for another day. I do not believe in letting problems fester. They only become harder to solve. So while others have talked, I have acted. While others have spoken of peace, I have made peace. While others have ignored threats, I have confronted them. While others have talked of courage, America has shown it. While others have promised strength, I have used it to make America the most powerful country in the world. Working with many nations in this room, we are solving decades of intractable challenges. And we are settling years of unfinished business and we're doing it well. There is no better example of a danger that was allowed to gather strength at the world's peril than the number one sponsor of terror, the Islamic Republic of Iran. For 51 years, the fanatical Iranian regime has moved. You know, again, I encourage you to go look at my show from yesterday, but the point being that he's saying, look, we want a strong America and a strong America is good for all of you. And Joe Biden, on the other hand, was like, what can America do for you? Like, can we give you more, more, more, more, more? And it really left a lot of people wondering, you know, just what all that was really about? Big transfer payments. That's what it was about. And so you got to look out for yourself. You got to look out for your country. Marco Rubio gets this. I'm guessing, you know, Macron doesn't, not to the any extent that I would consider meaningful. Macron is one of the globalists. Macron is all about these transfer payments. And Macron is all about, he's allowed for this massive migration into France. And Macron is going, bye, bye, just like Kierstarmer went, bye, bye, just like Fred Mertz, Friedrich Mertz, over in Germany, the chancellor that's very, very unpopular is about to go, bye, bye, because you know what? The people have said enough is enough. You've got to put us first. You've got to do what Donald Trump is doing. Here's Marco Rubio talking about this strategy and the contrast between say, a Macron and one Donald Trump. Okay, just to make sure that you hear that question, okay, he's basically saying, you know, Macron says there's just erosion of international law. And he, you know, what do you think about that? Because clearly, you know, what we heard from Trump was really different than what we've heard from presidents in the past or from Macron. And here's Marco's spot on response. Why didn't see President Macron switch? We saw him, the president saw him briefly, I guess tonight before that speech. I don't know what he's referring to. Yeah, look, I mean, the international system is not in good shape right now. And these international norms people talk about, I think the limits of international norms is your national interest. At the end of the day, the president, and I reflected this going back to the very beginning, the view of this administration is that the number one obligation of every government is the national interest of their country. And so the United States, well, obviously, we see the utility in the international system. We're here. We've argued, I think, the president has said that the United Nations, for example, has tremendous potential, but it's not living up to it because it's lost its -- and I think multiple leaders, very curious thing. And I think something you guys should point to is multiple leaders pointed to the fact that the international system is failing. And it's failing because it has grown beyond its mandate. It has grown beyond its intent. It's involved in all kinds of things. It shouldn't be involved in -- and it's unable to solve virtually any major conflict in the world. So I think there's unanimity and consensus here in this gathering in broadly that the international system is broken, but it's broken because it broke itself. It needs to be brought back to its proper focus and its proper role. And yeah, it would be great if we had a functional international system. For example, that could deal with a war between Thailand and Cambodia that occurred or the potential conflict between India and Pakistan or what's going on in the DRC and Rwanda or what's going on in Sudan or what's going on with Iran in the streets. Right now, we don't seem to have a functional international system that can address it. And in the absence of that, nation states will act in their national interest. I will say this to you, and I want to be clear because this is not an attack on the international system. But at the end of the day, the United States will always act. At least as long as President Trump is in office, we will always act in the national interest of our country, not in the interest of the international order. We will never put the international order above the interest of the United States, okay? Nice, right? In other words, put yourself first. Take care of yourself first, and then worry about everybody else. Although we got to the stage where we were so concerned about everyone else that we totally, like, forgot about what was going on at home. I mean, when you're more concerned about making sure everybody gets three squares a day and a hotel room in New York City and a cell phone and you're giving them these, you know, handouts and you don't actually have a legitimate education, public education system in New York City. Trust me, they don't. It's just pathetic. The woman who, like, founded the 1619 project, she's all over the airwaves for this because she tried to send her daughter to a public school and then eventually the daughter transferred to a private school and she doesn't know anything, right? Because she wasn't taught anything because they have allowed for this total deterioration. So you've got a mess of a disaster, right, in New York City and you're not looking out for your own people. It's just kind of unbelievable. And I think people have had it, which is why, by the way, Kathy Hocal's going to be out. Kathy Hocal is getting, you're going to get her, you know what, kicked by this Brad Blakeman, Bruce Blakeman, forgive me. Look, I mean, he's not even a household name and he's catching up with her. New poll out today showing that the GOP candidate is gaining on Kathy Hocal. I mean, they're, they're just a few points away. Nine, nine points away right now. These are single digits. Nobody's ever seen anything like this. This just hasn't happened because historically, anyway, at least for the last 20 years, basically, you've always had the Democrats running at least double digits ahead of any GOP candidate. And now we've got Blakeman coming along as the challenger and he's doing really, really well. So single digits separating Kathy Hocal and Blakeman. Now, I wonder why that would be. I'm going to go on on the limb. Okay. And say it was really unnecessary for Kathy to done the, the job or whatever you call it and get out there and, and, and, and cow towel to this, this group. I mean, come on. You're in the United States of America. Like I, I can store to get it, right? You're in their country. Like, maybe you followed their customs, customs that I don't like, but, you know, you, you can be a little bit more respectful, but they're here in our country. And Kathy Hocal, the governor of New York, gets up there and puts on her whole, he job and like, you know, thanks them all for her. So they're all talking over. Thank you. I don't think they're talking over in fairness in this particular clip. I'm confusing it with the clip of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who also dressed up in her hijab so that she could talk to a group of Muslim men who did talk over her. But Kathy, like, this is just not playing in Pioria as they like to say, or in Buffalo, okay? I'm sorry. Like, my husband's from Buffalo. Are you from Buffalo? Aren't you Kathy? Y'all to know better. Like, this is not going over well. Your whole transfer of wealth is not really working out in the rest of the state, and the rest of the state is filled with normal people that aren't looking for these handouts, and that actually believe in working for a living and don't want their communities overtaken by people who will become economic liabilities. And yet Kathy, and Mamdami, and Leticia, the whole state of New York, is suing, along with 21 others, Donald Trump and his administration, I mean, you can't even keep track of all these lawsuits. Just wait to see what happens if for goodness' sake that Democrats actually see the light of day in midterms. But anyway, she's suing because she's like, "How dare you take away all that welfare money?" Last I checked, welfare money from the federal government should never actually go. To migrants or people that are here illegally, like, that's actually not allowed, okay? Not allowed. That's a law in the books. And now they're suing because they say it should be allowed. And that somehow you can't tie someone's migration status and use of assistance to whether or not they eventually can have a green card or whether they can stay here. But of course, we've talked about this before and there actually is a law in the books. It's like 100-some-odd years old that says you shall not become a public charge. I was reading some of the comments from you guys on a recent show where we talked about this and you're like, "Yeah, I moved to Mexico and when I moved to Mexico, I had to approve that I had this much in the bank." And somebody else said, "I moved to Ireland. I had to approve that I had this much in the bank." Like, "Sorry, that's the deal." And the more Kathy goes out on this limb where she seems to care about everybody except for the people that actually live in New York, the more Blakeman is going to grow in these polls. So good for him. I'm happy to see it. I hope he gets in there. You know, we used to have Pataki, right? New York? Pataki was a conservative. A few more conservatives in there to clean up the joint. Good to have you here. Do make sure that you go and check out my newsletter at 76research.com or get the free version Invest in Maga that's very memorable. It's hard to forget that one. 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    1. Mabelie’s new groupie setting mist uses gel-to-mist technology to provide a long-lasting, hydrated, and comfortable finish without stickiness or residue. 2. Elon Musk is reportedly being considered as an equity investor in Paramount’s $110 billion merger with Warner Bros., raising concerns at CNN about editorial control and news integrity. 3. David Ellison and Larry Ellison have long been involved in media deals, with Larry personally guaranteeing over $40 billion for the Paramount-WBD acquisition. 4. The merger faced legal and political resistance, particularly from California and liberal media, but ultimately proceeded after antitrust concerns were resolved and concessions were made. 5. The consolidation of major media assets—like CNN, CBS, HBO, and Discovery—under Paramount and potential Elon involvement has sparked fears of reduced journalistic independence and ideological bias. 6. Critics, including former tech reporter Kara Swisher, are alarmed by the shift in media ownership, arguing that new owners lack journalistic values and may prioritize political alignment over facts. 7. The White House’s ban on certain media outlets like CNN and MSNBC has intensified scrutiny, with critics claiming it violates First Amendment principles, though legal precedent supports presidential discretion over access. 8. The broader trend signals a decline in traditional media monopolies, with tech billionaires and entertainment conglomerates reshaping media ownership and coverage, challenging legacy institutions’ dominance.

    The transcript explores a major shift in media ownership, centered on the $110 billion merger between Paramount and Warner Bros., which is being financed by new equity investments, including a potential role for Elon Musk. This development has triggered widespread anxiety at major news networks like CNN and MSNBC, who fear loss of editorial independence and control. The narrative highlights how long-standing media monopolies are being dismantled by powerful tech and entertainment figures, especially as Elon Musk’s influence grows through investments and strategic partnerships. Critics argue that such changes threaten journalistic integrity, citing ideological bias and lack of accountability in new media structures. The merger also faces scrutiny over its political implications, particularly given its timing and alignment with conservative figures. Legal challenges over press access to the White House are presented as both symbolic and real, reflecting deeper distrust in current media gatekeeping. Meanwhile, Elon Musk’s potential involvement is framed not just as a financial move but as a strategic redefinition of media power, where technology and private capital are replacing traditional gatekeepers. The shift underscores a broader transformation in how information is produced, distributed, and controlled in the digital age.

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    Yes, according to reports, Elon Musk is being considered as an investor in a syndicate that would fund the $110 billion merger between Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery.

    CNN is concerned because the merged company would gain control of major news properties like CNN and CBS News, potentially altering editorial independence and news coverage.

    Paramount brings franchises like 'Mission: Impossible,' 'Star Trek,' and 'The Godfather,' while Warner Bros. contributes 'Harry Potter,' 'Batman,' 'Wonder Woman,' 'The Matrix,' and 'Looney Tunes.'

    No, the California lawsuit was dropped, and the merger proceeded after the state and other legal challenges were resolved, including promises to produce more domestic films.

    Elon Musk’s involvement raises concerns about media control and editorial independence, especially given his past criticism of CNN and his strong stance on free speech and platform regulation.

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