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So there goes my big idea for the commercial. Give it a try at mintmobile.com slash switch. Upfront payment of $45 for three months, $90 for six months, or $180 for a 12-month plan required. $15 per month equivalent. Taxes and fees extra. Initial plan term only greater than 50 gigabytes. May slow when network is busy. See terms. I think we're going to get some fireworks. Ho, ho, ho. Let the games begin, right? This is war. Maria Bartiromo is a fighter. I've known her for many, many years. And she's not going to take any of this departure from Fox lying down. Welcome to the program. I am Trish Regan. Make sure you subscribe. And we begin here on Maria. Wow. So yesterday, when I was live with you on the show, we talked about how Maria, was departing Fox. And for the life of me, I just couldn't figure it out. I was like, well, you know, maybe she's going to start her own thing because I get it. Like, why wouldn't you want to start your own thing, especially nowadays? And for that reason, maybe they're kind of giving her a little kick on the, in the pants on the way out the door. Cause it wasn't exactly what you would call a nice press release. It was like Maria Bartiromo out at Fox. We have parted ways. And so I was thinking about it. Like what, what was this really? And it, it hit me that probably this was not a very nice situation. Whatever was going down was not a nice situation. You can read between the lines if you would. And then we later learned that, and I imagine this is the Fox PR team leaking like two stories. So one story is she's out. And then the second story behind the scenes to a bunch of these, like industry writers, very liberal, interestingly industry writers was that she was Maria was somehow a little too cozy with the white house and letting the white house in on some private communications between the bosses and the producers at Fox and private communications, vis-a-vis the China FBI story that the president came out with memory, had the big primetime address. And he was like, oh my gosh, like China's really been infiltrating, et cetera. And it was a big deal story, but you didn't see a lot of coverage in the mainstream media. And you didn't see a lot of coverage on Fox. And it was sort of like, well now why is that? Why is that? And apparently some people at the white house may have asked Maria, why is that? And according to, I'm just going to say it Fox PR leaks. Okay. Because the PR department leaking this story, according to the Fox PR leaks, it was Maria who was apparently informing the white house. And she was mad because she couldn't cover the story understandably, right? Like, cause you, you're a journalist. You want to cover the story. I mean, this is why it's just so much better, right? On the, on the other side. Um, so here, here's where we are, by the way, this is just a nice little picture I found. Oh my gosh, we're all gone. One of us really gone. Um, Lou Dobbs, Maria Bartiromo and myself, we were covering the conventions. I remember the only one we're missing there is Neil. I have another picture somewhere with Neil as well. Um, but Maria, I've known for many years, we worked at CNBC together. We worked at Fox together. I love her. I mean, I really, really, I think she's just a phenomenal person. She's a phenomenal reporter. She's super hardworking and now she's leaving after nearly, 15 years. So it's pretty, pretty much something. Um, the president weighing in, he was shocked by it last night around nine o'clock putting this one out. I can't believe Maria Bartiromo is no longer going to have her great show on Fox business, Fox news, three different shows. Always. Number one, Maria is a total professional on a true warrior. Her fans of which there are many will not be happy. You know, it, people are not happy with this. People are very upset with this and, uh, understandably so. She was, kind of the only reason to watch morning TV there on Fox business. And now she's gone. Like I said, they kind of gave her this swift kick in the pants on the way out the door. This was the first one. So daily mail reporting Maria Bartiromo out at Fox news, a New York post, which is actually owned by the Murdoch's who own Fox news. They write this headline, Maria Bartiromo out at Fox news after more than a decade at the cable giant. And again, if you look at the wording in the press release, I'm going to show you here. The cases of some people who are, uh, are married that you want them if they've changed, their name. I, it's also worth just seeing Maria in action because she didn't put up with fools gladly, but first to the press release, they're saying effective today, Maria Bartiromo is no longer with Fox news media. And you know, we wish her well in her next chapter. Wow. I mean, that was, that was harsh, right? And again, just think about how great she was as an interviewer, especially because she just didn't put up with anything. Watch the cases of some people who are, uh, are married that you want them if they've changed, their name to go and have to prove that with their birth certificate to a registrar. What's the problem? Get your birth certificate. What's the, yes, yes, that's the law. You can't vote if you're not an American citizen. Yes. Yes, that that's exactly right. No problem. I wanted a copy of my birth certificate. I went online, I got the birth certificate. I've got it. It took, it took a week. No problem. Yeah, no problem. Okay. But, um, a lot of Democrats maybe didn't like her. A lot of people, internally probably at Fox didn't necessarily like her because she had perhaps some outsized influence with the administration given that the president did like her. And so now Axios is just coming right out with it. Maria Bartiromo fired by Fox. And if you read this article, it actually says it here. It's very, this is very interesting wording because they're admitting that the, the PR department told them Fox news media fired a longtime host to Maria Bartiromo. For business reasons, a spokesperson confirmed to Axios on Thursday. So they're coming right out full fledged fired. So wow. Right. That's and you know, there's, there's a backstory here and um, you know, her lawyer saying she wasn't fired and I'm guessing at this point knowing what I know about how these things go down and look, I've been in her shoes. I, I was fired. I mean, they didn't, I don't know if they called it fired, but I'm just going to tell you, tell you what it was. I was fired, right? Like I went on and I talked about COVID in a way that you weren't supposed to talk about COVID and I, I, I laid it all out there and I was like, this is basically going to turn into a giant political football and they're going to run this way, the run with this thing all the way to the end zone. And sure enough, what did they do? That's exactly what they did. So it turns out I was right. Anyway, you couldn't say that back then you apparently couldn't, even though I had had my script approved by management because I always had to have my scripts approved by management. Don't mean that's guess what over here. I don't have any scripts. No scripts. Feels good to be free anyway. So I went on, I delivered this monologue and they like served it up if you would to all the lions and the lions went nuts. And the next thing, you know, they called me and said, well, you were going to be on vacation. Actually, I wasn't going on vacation because it was COVID and apparently the whole country was shut down. So I was like, no, I'm just going to, I'm going to be here. I can still work. And they said, no, no, we're going to suspend your show for two weeks. So this is the mo. Okay. This is the easiest way to do it because legally speaking, right, you can just get the talent off the air, you get them off the air, you remove the liability and then you hit them with it. And so for two weeks I'm thinking, okay, well I'm coming back and you know, they're just suspending my show and that really stinks, but that's it, you know, because I was under contract and when you're under contract, you know, you would have to do something for cause and how could it be for cause? Because Hey, guess what? The CEO of the whole darn news organization approved my script. So this didn't make any sense to me anyway. I was off the air for two weeks and then the next thing, you know, like two weeks go by, I get a call on a Friday and we are parting ways with you. Take it or leave it. And by the way, we're issuing a press release now in my defense or in their defense, even they said, we're going to pay out your contract. I'm betting I wasn't as expensive as Maria. They're going to pay out my contract. I mean, I guess they kind of had to, because what was the cause that you weren't going to fire me when your own darn management team had approved the script. But with Maria, they don't want to pay her. Okay. So they want her gone and they don't want to pay her. So now they have to have cause because she just resigned her deal in February. So here's the cause that they are going with. Um, and she's got a really good attorney for this one. He's the attorney that represented, um, Tucker Carlson and I think Don Lemon, and a few of these. I think Sharon Alfonsi over at CBS has hired this guy, too. He's supposed to be very, very good. Anyway, Dylan Byers, who's writing for Puck, has the back story that Maria Bartiromo wanted to pursue a story related to China and 2020 election voting conspiracies, a major sensitivity for the network given its dominion in smartmatic lawsuits. Ah, see, that's a biggie. Don't forget, they fired Lou Dobbs after dominion. It was before the dominion settlement and before he died. They fired him, and then they fired, they didn't fire, I guess she had a graceful exit to the White House. That would be Jeanine Pirro. Jeanine Pirro left to go to the White House, but she's involved in this, too. And the three biggies basically were Lou Dobbs, Jeanine Pirro, and Maria Bartiromo. And so the smartmatic lawsuit is going to be a biggie. And so the smartmatic lawsuit is still pending. So yes, there is probably a lot of sensitivity. Maria is like a bull in a china shop, though. And I say that in a good way. Like, if she finds a story or she thinks she has a story, like, she's completely tenacious, and she's going to pursue it and pursue it and pursue it and pursue it. And that makes it hard. Management of reporters and journalists in general can be hard, because reporters kind of, you know, we have a higher calling, if you would. And if we feel like we have a good story, and this china thing is a you're not going to really want to listen to your bosses when they tell you, nope, you can't say that on the air anymore. And they do. That's literally what happens. I mean, I especially at Fox. I mean, it happened over and over and over again. I was doing Venezuela every night. It was a great story for me. All of a sudden, they're like, we don't want you doing Venezuela anymore. Why not? It's raiding. I have all these sources. We don't want you doing it. Why not? Like they don't tell. Oh, you'll get that on a guest to your booking a guest. The guest is doing great. You got a good camaraderie. And all of a sudden, we don't want you booking that guest. And they don't even sometimes tell you why. So Maria's like had it like she's been dealing with this now for nearly 13 years, right? More power to her. And she is very independent in spirit. And so she probably wanted to pursue this story. Well, they understandably, right? Like their business, they're like, yikes, they just had to be nearly a billion dollars, because they couldn't control, you know, the inmates, so to speak. You have a CEO that by a lot of people's sort of is somewhat weak, and she wasn't able to kind of keep the wheels on the bus. And so now they're getting a set. Oh, Maria may go after this story. And if she goes after this story, is it going to turn into another Dominion smartmatic thing? Maybe we just need to get rid of her first so that we prevent anything like that. So here's what they're going with. Maria took a screenshot of the guidance, apparently, a Fox business executive sent a text to Fox business producers informing them that the story could not go on the air. Yeah, this is this is what they did. This is this is I have been there. Bartiromo took a screenshot of the guidance and sent it to senior White House officials. So maybe she's got some front and like, those are her sources, right? So and she's, she's talking to her sources who happen to be in the White House. And then somehow Fox learns of it, because they're on a phone call with the White House. And the White House tells them, well, we know, we know that you're refusing to cover this story. We've seen the text from Maria. So they find out about this. And they're like, that's that, because you were for our company, you're effectively our property, right? We're in charge of you, and that day, apparently, or right around that time, it was August 9, they pulled her from the air, what I tell you, I went through similar thing, right? You know, oh, you're on vacation, or not. They pulled her from the air, maybe she had a vacation, I don't know. They even fired her executive producer as well. According to this report in puck. And this is all keep in mind, knowing that she had resigned her contract with Fox last February. So that means she has like two and a half years on it. Generally speaking, I don't know, sometimes they're four year deals, it was probably a three year deal. I'm guessing that she was somewhere in the vicinity of seven to $10 million a year. Because by all reports, and it came out in the in the testimony for Dominion, she I think, had been working there, I can't remember how many years, maybe about, maybe about 10. And they learned that she had accrued $70 million in pay in 10 years. So if you assume she's making like $7 million, yeah, so I mean, probably, you know, I wouldn't be surprised if it was 10 million bucks a year, maybe more. And so now they don't want to have to be on the hook for that they wanted her gone. And they're basically saying, Hey, you know, we're going to negotiate an exit. Now, what's really important is they're out there trying to say, she's fired. And her lawyer saying no, she's not. And her lawyers, right, I'm going to explain that to you in a second. So that's, again, the puck story. Status is another one of these sort of liberal publications written by a super liberal guy, you can look at his writing, actually, some of his adverbs and adjectives that he chooses are pretty indicative of his bias. And it's funny, because I know this writer. And I don't know him personally, really. But I do know that the PR team actually hates him. So you can get in on the sports action no matter where you are, including these places. Gambling problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER. Everyone's got a hard question about AI, your job, your kids, where it's going. Ask yours at Claude.ai slash Spotify and keep thinking. That's Claude.ai slash Spotify. Upfront payment of $45 for three months, $90 for six months, or $180 for 12-month plan required. Taxes and 50 gigabytes may slow when network is busy. See terms. I can't stand this little torp. But they called the little torp because he's a liberal torp. And they fed him a bunch of stuff that they wanted somehow to get out there, right? Like, I don't know what else to make of this. Who else would be feeding it to them? Somebody. It was sanctioned by somebody internally in the building. Okay, so there's this little newsletter that has, by the torp, that has learned that part of almost termination stems from an incident, which has not previously been reported, that occurred in July. And it's a little newsletter that has learned that part of almost termination stems from an incident, which has not previously been reported, that occurred in July. After Trump delivered his unhinged, the writer writes, primetime speech in which he pushed more conspiracy theories about the 2020 election. I told you he was biased, right? They call the liberal biased torp. This time making a number of allegations against China. Oh, we just love China. If we're liberal, we love China. After all, they're paying our backdoor salaries, right? I am told that Fox News issued a guidance to senior employees instructing them to steer clear of giving credence to Trump's own business. So, I don't know if that's true. I don't know if that's true. I don't I forgot to underline this one too. Delusional claims. Delusional. I'm sorry, buddy boy. But you know, you guys are the same team that told us there was no Hunter Biden laptop. There was a big deal Russia scandal. There was also this thing called COVID that came from a wet market as opposed to the lab where we all knew it was created. So anyway, I'm kind of sick of this. But this is just to point out his bias. So he's doing, and the irony of this is he is doing the Fox PR people's thing. He's like working for the man, right? For News Corp. He's out there helping the Murdochs to make sure they're not going to have to get squeezed for millions of more dollars. Indeed, the day after the prime time address, Fox News conspicuously avoided covering the debunked, there we go, claims the president had pushed. I'm sorry, but the FBI had some of those claims too. The lack of coverage raised eyebrows among media observers at the time. It also appears to have caught the attention of the White House. It's unclear whether Trump or someone at the White House. Ultimately, Bartiromo spilled the secret. This little newsletter has learned, divulging to the White House that Trump's speech had received scant coverage on the channel because network bosses had ordered it. So I'm even told the text message in which Fox News brass offered their guidance was shared by Bartiromo with the White House. And in doing so, Bartiromo not only effectively betrayed her employer because suddenly this guy's like loving Fox. This whole thing is like, oh, my God, I'm going to get fired. I'm going to get fired. All right. So I guess they're going to have to prove it. Right. I guess they're going to have to prove it. Number one. And that's where the lawyer comes in. So Maria Bartiromo isn't taking any of this stuff laying down. She has gone out and she hires she hires this guy, Brian Friedman. Brian is a very he's who you want in a situation like this. He is a bad, bad ass attorney who's going to go to war with Fox. And he's been to war with Fox. box before, because Tucker Carlson also was fired rather unceremoniously, and they didn't want to pay him out. Yeah, I guess I'm like, I guess I'm lucky that I was so cheap, because they were just like, okay, we'll pay you out. And then they were just hoping I didn't sue him. But you know, I don't know, I just like to move on with my life, right? You move on in life. And in some ways, it was just like the best thing that could have ever happened, because I wouldn't be over here doing this now, right? And I've been staying there. And I hated it. I hated having to get my scripts approved. I hated having to write it all out. I have so much I want to say, let me just say it. Anyway, so she hires Brian. And here's what Brian put out today. This is important. He said for many years, Maria Bartiromo hosted three number one rated televisions to the president was making that point to me, she is just incredible. Three number one rated television shows on Fox channels. She has been without question one of the hardest working journalists throughout her award winning career, that is for certain. The irresponsible reports that have been published stating that Maria Bartiromo was fired or is no longer an employee of Fox are absolutely unequivocally false. He's right. And I'm going to explain that in a second. Make no mistake, we have the receipts and witnesses, and they will come out whether through the courtroom or otherwise, those reporting her firing or the incredulous facts supporting that fiction have exhibited a complete and utter reckless disregard for the truth. Way to go, Brian. And you know, it's funny, because they they keep these little reporters that write for these little newsletters that nobody actually really reads. Like they didn't put this in the New York Times, they put them in these little newsletters, or they have plausible deniability. But I'm telling you, like that's coming from internally within the building, somebody is feeding those particular reporters, those very liberal reporters that should actually hate Fox, but they just hate Maria. They hate everyone, right? But right now, Maria makes for a good story for them. And they kind of hate her. So they're pushing out that she was fired, etc. Even Axios. I mean, Axios should know better. They're saying she was fired. Here's why I'm going to tell you, she's not actually fired. She has a contract that she signed in February. And they have to keep paying her until the two sides come to some kind of agreement. It's like, I actually was still working technically for Fox. There's this thing in your contract that is basically pay or play. Okay, so they they can hold you it's kind of, it's kind of arcane and pathetic, but they can keep you as an asset. And they can take you and they can put you up on the shelf. And they can say, look at my pretty little asset. They're just sitting there on the shelf. Oh, I own Trish Regan. I own Maria Bartiromo. I own whoever. And as long as they're still paying you, they can sit there and look at you all day long. And it's kind of a pain, right? Because, you know, if you're in this business, you want to get out and do your thing. And you want to keep reporting. And, you know, you have to be really careful. I remember, like, I didn't even tweet. I actually, by the way, I reached out to Maria last night, and sent her a couple of texts just, you know, to offer my support, of course, but I didn't hear back. And I know why I couldn't, I couldn't text anybody back either. And I couldn't tweet. And I couldn't go on a radio show. And I couldn't, you know, because you're, you're now in that stage where you're trying to work it all out. But she's not fired. She's under contract. They're still paying her. She's still getting health insurance. Okay, so he's right that those are erroneous reports. And those are just, that's just spin, because they're trying to get out of having to pay her whatever they would have to pay her, which would be a lot of money. And I think that's a lot of money. It would be many millions of dollars. So that's why they're feeding it to these reporters that they know, hate the White House, and hate successful television news anchors like Maria Bartiromo. And what her lawyer is saying is that none of this is true. And you know, here's the president again, just he's, he's so disappointed. And of course, you know, he was disappointed when I left too, and called me up, hey, it's not every day that you get the president of the United States, right, calling you on a Saturday morning. But he, he's, he's upset, because I think he probably sees it as a little bit of an affront on him. The other thing I would say on this is, so Maria's got this lawyer, and now they're going to have to prove this out. They're going to have to prove that there was, in fact, some text message that she shared with the White House. And then they're going to have to approve that that was indeed a fireable offense, because he may take the argument that she was being a reporter. And the fact that Fox was deliberately trying to constrain the reporting on a particular story, that in and of itself, is kind of a story, right? And let's just be objective about this. You know, when Catherine Herridge was trying to report on the Biden laptop, and CBS wouldn't let her, like, that's a story. So if Maria thought that she had a story, and her network's not allowing her to do so, and you know, she happens to mention it to some of the sources on her, that are part of the story, then, you know, he may make the argument that she was just doing her job as a journalist. And they'll come back and say, no, you know, this was not good for the business. You can't just, you know, go off and be on an island like that. Well, you can if you're over here, right? So again, this is my push to Maria. Come join us over here where we actually have fun, and we get to do whatever we want. We don't have some, you know, middle manager breathing down our back. Anyway, again, oopsie daisy. There we go. Yeah, those were the good old days. I told you I had a picture of Neil and Maria and me together. I had a picture of Neil and Maria and me together. Sandra's the only one that's still there. Maybe she does what they tell her to do. I like Sandra a lot. This was the debate. Remember the undercard? We had so many, so many candidates, right, in the original Republican debate back in 2016, and Maria and Neil were hosting the big kids debate with Donald Trump and a few others, and Sandra and myself. First two women to actually ever co-host a debate. I know, NPR tries to take that credit, but it actually goes to Trish and Sandra. So, you know, look, they fired Lou right before the Dominion thing. Now, Janine is out right before the Smartmatic case, and now Maria is out right before the Smartmatic case. Good thing I avoided all that, right, guys? So, I think that the reality on all of this is Maria is going to be a whole lot better off. She is going to do her own thing and be her own boss and get to report as much as she wants to report, and she's got tremendous access, and she'll have tremendous guests, and she'll do really, really well, but she's got to get to the finish line. Like, they're going to try and keep her in that little pen for the next two and a half years. So, if you recall with Tucker Carlson, they wanted to, I think, pay him, but they were telling him, you can't go work anywhere. And eventually, he may have forgone that pay just so he could go out and do his show on X. Remember that? And, you know, I think it didn't, there was another, Megyn Kelly had an issue over at NBC when they fired her there. I think she hired the same guy, and NBC wanted to get out of paying her, and it was like, no, no, no, you fired her. This is not for cause. She is, now, I don't know if she had to sit on the shelf, because I don't think that she was back for a while. So, she may have just said, okay, fine, you know, I'm going to take a I can't see Maria taking a vacation. Maria, like, she works six days a week, kind of seven, because you're prepping for your Sunday show on Saturday. So, I imagine she'll want to get right back to work, and very, very fast. And here's what I'm going to tell you. She's got a good future ahead of her. Here's a, this is a publication called Brand Strategies, and someone sent me this yesterday. You know, they say never read your own press, and I definitely don't. But it was kind of interesting, because they were making the point that, you know, she'll be just fine, and they actually mentioned the success of this program, and this show. Maria Bartiromo, the face of Fox Business, and host of its guest-heavy morning show. Forgive me. This is the problem with no commercial breaks, okay? I get a little bit thirsty. Abruptly departed the network on Thursday, and then it, you know, goes on to tout her program, and how successful it's been. And then it says, with her departure, the business-politics crossover is worth watching. It's talking about how, you know, she really was an important part of business and conservative media, and how that's been kind of lacking, and how you do have the Wall Street Journal, which still carries weight. But then it says, center-right political business shows are gaining ground. We recently noticed the success of former Fox business host, Trish Regan, as she has built a massive audience on YouTube. And then I'm like, oh, wow, what else did they have to say? And if you link through, it talks about that. So this is kind of nice. This is really, really, really nice. Let me show you this one. So again, the, let's see if I've got it here. Here we go. Okay. Here's, here's their brand strategies, it's called. They wrote a little piece in mid-July, and again, I just saw this because somebody sent it to me in light of Maria leaving. It said, since leaving Fox Business for podcasting in 2021, the former Miss America contestant, oh gosh, that thing will haunt me forever, right? An award-winning business reporter has built a highly successful video-first platform with 1.3 million YouTube subscribers and a strong presence on the charts of Spotify's video friendly platform. Regan is outperforming her footprint on audio only platforms like Apple podcasts. And then they say, this is very interesting to me because I didn't even really realize this. It says with 1.3 million. Gambling problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER. For $15 a month is back. So I thought it would be fun if we made $15 bills, but it turns out that's very illegal. Upfront payment of $45 for three months, $90 for six months or $180 for 12 month plan required. See terms. He and YouTube subscribers and the strong presence on Spotify. Go check out Spotify if you haven't. She's outperforming her footprint on audio-only platforms like Apple. In fact, chaotic errors, Q2 metrics rank her as the fourth. This is the best part, guys. Okay, this is the best part. Revenge is sweet. The fourth most viewed conservative political YouTube channel trailing only Fox News and Sean Ryan while outpacing a whole bunch of heavyweights like Tucker and a few others. Wow. I mean, I didn't even know that. Like, I just put on a show every day and I hope you come. And I, you know, I have an eye on the numbers, but I don't, I don't actually compare and contrast. And, you know, I kind of like doing my own little thing and not getting a bunch of headlines necessarily for it. Although I appreciated seeing this. What I was sort of shocked by is that this little channel, I mean, what does Fox have, like 20 million subs? 40 million subs. And I have 1.3 million subs. And we're doing, we're, we're, we're the fourth ranked. We're only trailing Fox and Sean Ryan. Way to go, Sean Ryan. Wow. Okay. So make sure you subscribe. Be part of this momentum. It's amazing. But brandstrategies.com, thank you for that shout out. I really, really appreciate it. And I guess what I would say is, look, Maria, has a lot more coming her way. This is the other thing. So, so long as I saw that, I was all right, all right, let me go look at my numbers. We've done over 2 billion views. Amazing, amazing, amazing, amazing. So 2.1 billion views. And really, you know, I just really started this in earnest. I want to say maybe around 2023 mid-year, that's when we started going live every single day. So you guys have been so much a part of that and I thank you for it. And I, I mentioned this only to let you know that, you know what? Um, unfortunately for Lou, you know, rest in peace, but Maria has got a lot of life ahead of her and a lot of reporting to do, and she's going to be just fine. She is not going to go down without a fight. She's got a big time lawyer and he's making it very clear. She was not fired. They can't fire her. It was my point too. I was like, well, technically I wasn't fired. I mean, I was like in spirit fired, but technically I wasn't fired. And then they had to pay me out for a year and a half. So it was kind of nice. I got myself totally free and was able to think about how to do all this. And I got that time at home with my family, which was really kind of important. You know, I own glass half full. Someone said to me yesterday, you know, they treated you really badly. And I'm like, eh, you know, it's just business. It really is. It's just business. And you know what? If it hadn't happened, I think about everything that happens in life this way. If that hadn't happened, something else wouldn't have happened. And so you always have to stay positive, big time positive. I wouldn't have had a chance to build my 76 research, 76research.com. If you are interested in investing, and I sure as heck hope you are, this is the best way to do it. Invest, invest, invest, invest for the long term. I get three portfolios. I started this with a very dear friend who was a longtime money manager on Wall Street and an outstanding stock picker. We just put another note out actually about NVIDIA yesterday. So go check that out. You can get the free version at 76research.com or you can spring. What do you know? For a dollar, a dollar a month for the first time. So it's a great way to get started. It goes to $9.95 for the 76 report or the real value add is in those portfolios. Get the names on those portfolios, eight to 10 in each one of those and start investing today. This is another idea from Maria. I got all kinds of ideas from Maria because Maria knows the best way, the very best way to build wealth is what? Let me let her say it. That truth is the best way to create wealth over the long term is investing in the long term. in U.S. equities. Bottom line, boom. Bottom line, boom, indeed. Maria is going to be back with us very soon. It's unfortunate what happened. I'm sorry that that happened. She didn't deserve that. But it's all going to work out. It's better on the other side. Oh, what was Huckabee thinking? Did you guys see this yesterday? I'm just going to show you really fast. So this guy, Ambassador Mike Huckabee wrote, I just saw that Maria Bartiromo has left Fox Business, Fox News. It's so sad to hear. The smartest, hardworking journalist and absolutely class act. It was an honor to work with him slash her and later to be a guest on a show always worth watching. Somebody wrote, it's an honor to work with him slash her. WTF kind of Maria Bartiromo news is about to drop. And oopsie daisy. So it turns out it really wasn't that big a deal after all. And Maria, oh, we're skipping ahead. You know, here's here's a problem. Here's a problem with being your own your own show. You're also your own tech at times. We're going to skip that. But anyway, the point is that Huckabee said, thanks for catching the him her line. I was typing while riding a vehicle on Bumpy Street, but have no idea how that came about. Aside from my clumsy typo mistake, I still love Maria and will always have total respect for her. Just her. No him involved. Indeed, we love Maria. I couldn't agree more. Anyway, just kind of a funny moment. Those things happen. Those things happen. All right. We've got a jobs market that's on fire. What do you know? Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. One hundred and sixty two thousand jobs added in the month of August. Shocker, right? Three times as many as anybody thought. Wow, wow, wow. Here's my friend Rick Santelli. Really good guy over at CNBC. I've known for many years. He's like kind of the harrient in the business news. Watch. Hold on to your seats, folks. Non-farm payrolls for the month of August up one hundred and sixty two K. One hundred and sixty two thousand. That's basically three times what expectations are. Now, here's the fly in the ointment. The two month net revision is minus. Excuse me. It was minus one hundred. Three thousand last month. It's plus fifty five thousand. Oh, that is great. So plus fifty five thousand there. Look again, we're adding up. It's all adding up. And you want to be in this market. I'm telling you, the president also coming out saying, boy, oh, boy, was this not fantastic. Fantastic. He also had a few things to say on Spain yesterday afternoon. Spain is really struggling. OK, so Spain should have taken the president's advice way back when. But, you know, they got a little Pedrito Sanchez there. prime minister of spain that um basically if you ask me is completely in bed with iran and china i mean his predecessor was definitely in bed with china which is a real problem for nato and for security but you know spain has just been a disaster for a whole long time and they've been all about welcoming all these migrants like they're big believers in the global sort of migration theory and pedro has stuck his neck out there as recently as yesterday was just saying we need to give more money to morocco to help them because uh apparently he's not interested in building a border wall in ceuta and you had all those people remember pouring over the border from ceuta spain it was outrageous i was actually near that area and talking to people in that area over the summer and it was bad i mean they just couldn't believe it you had all of these people pouring in the video the images were just insane it's like what were they thinking what were they thinking all of these people you know it really was uh for better lack of a word a total invasion here's one example that's excellent I'm actually sending tanks. I was told that those tanks weren't really able to do much of anything. And let's see, there are some pretty outrageous footage. I'm going to see if I can find you some of the better footage, or you can also go back and watch some of my reporting from Ceuta. Here is some examples of the people after. They were all supposed to be gone, but they were there like this. Wow. Wow. So, yeah. This is, I mean, it's crazy. So an estimated 80,000 people poured in over that border into Spain, and it's so out of control. I want to go to Spain today. Let's go to Ceuta, Spain. These images coming. And you can see that the migrants are still there in the beaches there in Ceuta, which is a big, big, big, big, big old problem. And the president knows it. And he's warning Spain. He's warning them hard. Here he is with an interview on GBnews.com. When you see something like Spain, you know, in a certain way, that's an invasion of a country. Yeah. It's actually, in many ways, worse than a regular military invasion. Your country is going to be destroyed. That country is going to be destroyed. Yeah. There are reports about 70,000 people went into Ceuta. It's much more than that. When I look at that, you know, I'm pretty good at estimating. Oh, my gosh. Right. And, you know, it's so sad because, look, we've been through it. He's saying he's never really seen anything like this, but we kind of did. Right. Like you think about what was going on on the Texan border. And it was another example that maybe not quite as egregious. I mean, these images were really something else. I'm still trying to see if I can find some of the most brutal ones. It was just crazy because thousands. I mean, here's. I mean, this was here's another. I think these are protesters or the migrants were protesting. Wow. That may just be protesters in Spain, which we actually saw yesterday in the streets of Madrid. I mean, there's just thousands of them taking to the streets saying this is out of control. This is outrageous. And the president agrees. You could do the same thing. And so could Spain. What's happening? What's happened with Spain is an outrage. When I look at it, it's so sad. It's going to ruin their whole country. It's going to ruin the system. It's going to ruin the law and order. It's it's a different country. What what are they doing? And why? Yeah. What are they doing? I mean, they hate us. That's for sure. Take a look at, you know, we have a couple of bases over there. Not that far from Ceuta, actually. You basically have the Strait of Gibraltar right in between. So it's like Morocco. Do I have a map for you? I could show you on the map. Basically, you've got this, you know, Strait of Gibraltar in between the African coast. Ceuta is a little town that belongs to Spain, but it's right next to Morocco. And then you've got the Strait of Gibraltar. And then you've got all of these towns. Cadiz is actually and I spent some time in Cadiz when I was just there over the summer. And that's where we have some military base operations, Rota and Maron. So they have been the most. Resistant member to NATO. They have refused to pay the five percent. I don't think they're even paying their two percent. And they, for some reason, are getting a pass. It's like you got the the the one the youngest in the family who just keeps getting a pass and getting a pass and getting a pass. And Donald Trump is like, all right, at some point you guys are just not going to get a pass anymore. Rota and Maron are the two bases there. They refused our ability to access those bases. And it was a big deal because, look, we've been paying for them and we've been running them. And. Instead, you know, you've got the prime minister, little Pedrito Sanchez, getting out there and saying that this war is unjust and illegal, illegal. Yeah, you don't need to speak Spanish to understand that, you know, it's illegal and he wants to hold people accountable. I guess he and the ICC, oh, maybe they can go arrest Trump that way. Right. Well, Trump at one point a few months ago kind of sent a message. You send one of our submarines right over there to the Strait of Gibraltar area just to kind of send a warning. I know. Strait of Gibraltar. Gibraltar belongs to the U.K., but it's in that Spanish territory. So it kind of sent a message, if you would. But you got Spain that's basically been quite liberal, really, for for some time. And they've got, you know, Spanish media. There's an Iranian controlled Spanish media channel there. So I'm telling you, they're very sympathetic to Iran, which is why he's going on and on about this being illegal. They were big traders. They still apparently still trade saffron. They like to get saffron. From there, look, I think Spain is a great example of why we can't allow for this open immigration, this open system. It's a mess of an economy. They've got all kinds of social welfare programs that they got to hand out hand over fist. You get Pedrito saying come one, come all. And it's turned into a giant cultural mess with people crying in the streets. I saw a video of. Gambling problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER. Everyone's got a hard quest. See terms. But just a little, little girl, maybe 10 years old, saying she's afraid to go out. Parents won't let their daughters out. I mean, can you imagine living in a town of 80,000? And all of a sudden, 70,000, 80,000 more people just invade with a completely different culture, a completely different language, a completely different standard of living? That's not going to go well. Well, we were having, to a certain extent, a similar situation happen here in the U.S. And so the CIS just put out this report. And I think this is fascinating. Take a look at the growth in immigration, right, that happened. The foreign-born population that was coming to this country over the last, well, going all the way back to Obama, was growing. So it was growing, it was growing, it was growing. You had 2.9 million coming during Obama's first term. And then you had 3.4 million during Obama's second term. And then growth during Trump's first term came out to be 1.6 million. So he still wasn't able to nip it in the bud. But don't forget, he had all those people all up against him. And then look at this. This is the telling number. I actually think it's more. I think it's more like 20 million, like, you know, in terms of, I guess these are the people that maybe were actually, they documented foreign-born population, 8.3 million. And now it's declining. It's down nearly 3 million. So you have people leaving the country now that were not born here under Donald Trump. And this is an important shift. This is a very important shift underway right now in terms of our foreign policy. A very important shift is occurring. And Marco Rubio came out yesterday with a really phenomenal speech. I want to share some. I want to share some excerpts with you because everything is changing right now. Everything is changing. The entire sort of world order that we knew, it's just been turned on its head from an immigration standpoint and from an economic standpoint. I mean, you learn in sort of the rule of free trade is that, you know, you just want to keep trading and trading and trading. And it doesn't matter if, you know, somebody else is able to make all those widgets less expensively than you are. It doesn't matter because in a world where you are loving free trade, you should want to be able to outsource everything, get it cheaper and cheaper and cheaper and cheaper. But what happens when push comes to shove and all of a sudden everybody else is creating all your goods? What are your goods that you're making? Number one. And what do you do in a pinch? I remember this during COVID, right? I couldn't get darn Lysol anywhere. I had quite a bit of it. I had somehow oddly a stash. I had been getting it automatically. Delivered on Amazon and hadn't been quite able to figure out how to turn that off. I was very grateful once 2020 hit. So I had all this Lysol, but at some point I ran out and now we're this far along into the crisis. It might've been a year later and I still couldn't buy Lysol because guess what? Those chemicals, even if it's made here, the chemicals that we needed, they were all being made in China and those factories were still shut down. So wasn't that a great example of the, just the most simple thing in the world. You cannot outsource everything for goodness sakes. You can't have open borders. culturally, it's not going to work. knows this. And this is a very distinct difference from what we saw in the Cold War era. This is a completely different kind of doctrine, if you would. Marco, take it away. Let me put it to you this way. I think we made a terrible mistake in this country, not many years ago, under people that were in charge at the time, especially at the end of the Cold War. And that was the idea that the ability to make things no longer mattered. It didn't matter any longer where things were made. They were to be made in the most efficient place at the lowest possible cost. That meant more profits for the company, lower costs for the consumers. And that was the way the world would work. There was this fantasy, really, that the whole world would become a free enterprise democracies and that everyone would look like us. Oh, yeah. And that didn't happen, right? I mean, in theory, sure, it sounds good. But what happens when production shuts down in China or, you know, you can't get oil out of the Strait of Hormuz? What happens? You need to be self-reliant, independent. And this is why things like Venezuela right now are critical. This is why things like Greenland right now are super critical. This is why getting all those chips on shore, out of Taiwan and right back here at home. This is why it is so critical. And we need to have a workforce that can meet all of these demands. And Marco knows it. The president of the United States knows it. You know it. I know it. That ran into reality. The reality that that is not how human events have ever worked. The reality that the nation state still does matter. Nationalism is still real. National borders still matter. And that countries are going to always act in their best interest. But the result of it is that it de-industrialized America. We lost our ability and our capacity to make things. Wow. I mean, and what happens then? When you can't make anything, you become dependent, you become reliant. It happens when you have so many people that you have to take care of in an economy and no way to support them. You become Spain. Or worse, the third world. I mean, I'm just a realist here, okay? Like we have to be thinking long term. We have to be planning beyond the quarter and beyond, you know, the earnings result from any CEO. Think of a CEO just wants to like make bank, right? Like they just want to print money. They want to go over and get the cheapest possible goods they can in the cheapest possible place. They want to be able to sell to more markets. I get it. But you got to have strategic thinking about where the United States fits in that big wide world. And we woke up to the reality just a few years ago that we are suddenly as a nation, dangerously dependent, dangerously dependent on other nations for all sorts of things that we need, not simply for the economy. Not simply for our economic vibrancy, but in many cases for our national security and our very survival as a prosperous nation state. And so now we are involved in this endeavor across the board to try to reverse those mistakes. And it will be the work of multiple administrations, but it starts here and it starts now with this one that is receiving attention at as high as levels. One way is just the basic ingredients to go into all this, and it's why you've seen such a focus on access to not just critical minerals as raw material, but also to the ability to process them. But the other has to be the ability to actually make things once again. Yeah, we need to be able to make things once again right here at home. It's a very important part of our future. So all these things are changing. Like all at once you think about this is a massive shift. Everybody's like, oh my gosh, why is he on Greenland? Why is he on Venezuela? It's because we are coming to the point of no return, if you would. And it's really important that this stuff stay in play, right? I want to get Marco for another four years. If not, his program is going to be canceled. I want to get Marco for another four years, if not his program is going to be canceled. And somehow, Now, I guess they had an offer or they put it out for $5.95 at some point because it just kept coming down, down, down, down, down, down, down. At some point, they decided we're at $5.99. Let's make it $6.99. And they're trying to say that that was smart. Okay, guys, if you sold it for $7 or $7.50, I'd say it was smart. Gambling problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER. Everyone's got a hard question about A.I. Anthropic was built to surface those questions and share what it finds along the way because there's hope in hard questions. See terms. But you sold it for $5.6. Less than the $5.9, less than the $6.9. You can spin this way any which way you want. Joy was desperate. She needed out of this property, and she didn't get much for it considering that she had bought the place back in 20, what was it, 2016. I mean, unbelievable, unbelievable. So, you know, look, if you look at it, look, it's lovely, it's lovely. But people were saying it's kind of, you know, I have some friends that are sort of in this area and they're very she-she, and they're like, yeah, you know, it kind of felt dated inside. And I think some of these pictures may have been, I don't know if the realtors were trying to do their vision. Here's a good quote. Basically, they said that a lot of people don't have vision. They don't see what the house could be. What we're trying to do is make it more palatable. What we're all but doing the renovation for them is really what it comes down to. Wow, they carried out every necessary step to prepare for a renovation without actually requiring Behar to start any construction. So that's the reality of it. Nobody liked her house, and nobody wanted it. And they didn't even want it. They wanted it at, you know, eight or nine or seven. She wanted to sell this thing for 11. I'm just like, man, oh, man, oh, man. I mean, sorry, more than 11, nearly 12. I mean, some people are so delusional. I mean, and this kind of fits with the whole theme, right? This delusional woman who's now basically up against it, and I suspect, going to lose her job, probably. I think that shows. I know everybody's like, Trish, you've been saying that forever. And I'm like, well, you know, I will eventually be right. I tend to always be right in these things. I don't think I've ever been wrong. I'm, you know, I don't know. I did say Scott Besson was going to be the treasurer. Forgive me. I did say our other friend, Scott, is going to be going to the White House as the press secretary. Now we're talking about maybe Maria going. So, you know, I'll give that one some wiggle room. I don't know. But I think that what is eventually going to happen with The View is that they're going to have a choice. They're either going to have to have a conservative on the show. Oh, there we go. That's another job for Maria. I'd still like to see her do a podcast. I wouldn't wish that View show on my worst enemy, let alone one of my friends. But that job is probably up for grabs. I know that Caroline Levitt is going to be going there for a little round. And she's going to go on there. I'm told anyway, or they're trying to get her on there as a guest. Maria certainly, I just don't think she would like it very much. You know, you reach a certain point in your career and you're like, I don't think so. I don't have to do that. But you look at this house and this is a great example of somebody that's totally delusional. And she doesn't understand what she's up against with the FCC. And she doesn't understand that they mean business and that they want fairness in the media, especially the broadcast media. It's one thing to be Maria right over on Fox business where she had a point of view. And incidentally, how much you want to bet that like Kennedy and others show texts like that all the time, that's going to be another point for her lawyer that he'll be able to address like double standard, right? So, you know, she's okay, fine. She's in the tank for Trump. Like, I think it's pretty obvious. It's pretty apparent. She's not running around with a journalism with a capital J on her. She's definitely a conservative. And these ladies are definitely liberals and they tell us as much. I mean, they just despise Trump, but the difference is Maria works in cable. They work at ABC news. They were a product of ABC news. So what could eventually happen is that the FCC is going to say, okay, enough is enough is enough. You guys are out of here and then it's going to be game over. And so she'll be really happy that she sold that house. Right. I mean, look at this. They're talking about all the various numbers that they could have gotten. I'm just like, you guys wanted 12 and you got 5.6. And it's amazing considering she, she, she bought it for four something, you know, in 2016, she definitely should have made more money for sure. But this is the, she's not a smart woman. She's just not a smart woman. And I don't think any of those women are particularly smart. Maybe they're good entertainers, right? Isn't she a comedian by background? She's not a journalist. She's not a political person. She's become one, but she's basically an entertainer. Huh? 4,500 square feet. Forgive me. I think I said 3,600, 4,500 square feet, four bedrooms, four and a half baths on a 0.63 acre lot corner lot and said it had very unique bones existing in many days, including the gunite pool in the backyard. And, uh, you know, it was just a little dated and nobody had the vision to see beyond what joy. Like, and eventually, um, once they basically took it almost all the way down to the studs and they said, here's the plan, here's the contractor sign on the dotted line. Someone was finally willing to buy it for 5.6. Good luck to them. Good luck to them. Oh, that's a nice view, right? It's probably very lovely on the weekend. Uh, I still think, I still think the handwriting is on the wall and it's, uh, going to be happening soon. Sooner than she wants sooner than she wants. Hey, if you haven't subscribed, do me the favor of subscribing to this show. Go check out my Spotify as well. Uh, that's the Spotify version of the show and we're not live there, but we are there every single day. And so I'd love to have you join there too. We're building it all up bit by bit. I don't have a lot of help and I don't do any marketing. And as you can see, I'm my own tech person, but it's all me and I love it. I love everything. Uh, about this and I love that you guys are so committed. I just want to go out and look at some of those chats. I saw we had a hater in there. It happens from time to time. What are you going to do? It's okay. I have a lot of people that love me so we can, uh, we can do without the haters now and then. Thank you for all you guys do to make this exciting and fun. And, uh, thank you for being here. Thank you for coming earlier today. Earlier, I told you I had some weekend stuff to get to. So my weekend's starting now. Thank you for being here. We have much more to discuss. Next week, right? We're going to be back on the show next week and, uh, we'll see if there's any more fallout from Maria. Um, I, I think, I think it'll get settled pretty fast. What do you think? I mean, again, I want to reiterate, I know that like some in the media want to say she's fired because it makes a sexy headline, but technically she's still under contract and technically I think they're going to have to pay her out on this one. And she's still don't forget going to be testifying for them on smartmatic so they might. Might want to be nice to her, don't you think? What do you think happens? Let me know. I hope she comes over to YouTube. I'll see you guys soon. Have a good one.