Trump BANS CNN, MSNBC, POLITICO From White House! And--WE GOT GREENLAND!

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He apparently was really obsessed with Greenland and I happened to notice that he closed on a house up there for like $800,000. And that news just broke today and I was like, okay, we gotta do this story. So I had done all this research. It was in the show and then this comes out breaking news. I am pleased to announce that the United States of America has entered into an agreement with the Kingdom of Denmark and Greenland and that gives the United States permanent control over security and other needs in Greenland completely addressing all of our many US concerns. Remember what I told you about yesterday when we saw Canada sneaking around, Canada working with the EU, Canada doing its little dance out. We're gonna work with the EU and you know, and I told you it was all about the Arctic. Did I not? Gosh, do I have a six cents for this stuff or what? I'll tell you. Greenland, we got it, baby, we got it. Greenland is ours. We have a lot to say. I get to talk about the media getting banned too. I'm like, oh my gosh, what do we talk about first? You know, I'm really into Greenland. But we'll get back to Greenland because we're still getting more information in real time. Let me get to some other important stories of the day. Band, you got CNN band, you got political band, you got MSNBC band, they are all banned, they are done. But what do they call it now? MSNBC or something? This is now. They're all done and the president has a reason for it. Oh, we got near full. You know, I was listening to this. I mean, he's in the Oval Office and just take it them down one by one. Here we go. Oh, thank you for telling me. Are you trying to intimidate the president? No, no, no. I dislike dishonest press like you. I think you're terrible. But I dislike dishonest press. He doesn't want them there. He's getting rid of the likes of MSNBC and political and MS now. MSNBC, whatever the heck that that network that nobody watches ever that gets really, really lousy ratings that one. Yeah, and CNN too. Look at the way he treated, but he went a year and a half without having a press conference. A year and a half. And what was the question you asked the most? What is your favorite flavored ice cream? Okay, what I think you asked him that question once. What ice cream do you like the best? I mean, I heard that question so many times. And he always say vanilla. That's a good thing. It's very consistent. Yeah, you know, it was kind of amazing. Have they never ever gave him any hard stuff? I mean, it's like they just couldn't do enough for the guy, right? And that was like on the few times he'd actually talk to them because he never talked to this president on the other hand. I know we're waiting for the new press secretary and I have a feeling it might be Scott Jennings. We can talk about Marie about a room or two. I don't actually think that might be her, but you know, hey, who knows there's a few options out there. But he doesn't, he almost doesn't need it, right? Because he's always talking to the press himself. Whether, you know, he's getting after them for their lousy questions or just actually giving them information. He's quite forthcoming, quite forthcoming. Exactly. As we know, here we go. I think it's hard for you to argue against a free press when you're literally standing in the Oval Office asking questions. Thank you, not really. He's been more accessible and easier to talk to than any president in history. Think about the previous administration where you can barely get through a press conference and yet you have the opportunity to stand here in the Oval Office and ask questions to the leader of the free world. And you're standing here asking those questions. I think the president is right to support the First Amendment, but he's also right to ask that you be honest and fair. That's not an unreasonable point. Well, look at the way he treated Biden. He went a year and a half without having a press conference. A year and a half. That was Sarah Huckleberry Sanders. You remember Sarah, right? She's the former press person now in Arkansas. Anyway, he came out with this one today. He said he just banned him like right out. He said, I am proud to announce that effective immediately. I am banning fake news CNN, MSNBC, who recently changed their name to, oh, wait, what do you call MS now? I can't keep him straight to MSNBC due to lack of viewership and credibility and political. This is very interesting. He goes back to remember the February 2025 story. We talked all about it that he said the ridiculous $8 million subscription. It was an all time record what the government was giving and he calls him crooked Joe Biden would he and his administration were giving political in order to just stay alive seems like corruption to me. He writes from the White House as a result of their constant reporting fake news media outlets shouldn't be able to constantly write or report fiction and lies when they are covering the President of the United States, the Trump administration and the United States of America, other fake news media outlets to follow. Thank you for your attention to this matter, President Donald change Trump. Okay, so who's next? Right, so who's next? There's, you know, on any given day he's not too thrilled with any of these people, right? It takes an oath to uphold the Constitution, which is the first amendment. Much more so than you. What is the fake news? You get so tired of reading and seeing fake news. When you look at CNN, it's just fake. That's why the ratings are no good. When you look at MSN which used to be MSNBC, which some people called MSDNC Democratic National Committee, it's fake news, it's fake news. And excuse me, excuse me. And when you look at, it's political. I mean, they got a government, the government under Biden game, like $8 million to keep him afloat. And the stories they wrote are fake. So there's a lot of news and there may be others to join them and maybe they can get better and would like to have men. But our country has to have honest news. You know, you don't have a country unless you have, as I say, borders, good voting, straightening them out. The borders are unbelievable. Nobody's coming to our country in the last 17 months illegally. But you need borders and you need fair and free voting. And you know what you need? You need a free press. You need a fair press and an honest person. And you know it. And everybody knows it. You're intelligent. I've done you a long time. You know how fake they're reporting is. It's one sided. It's never good. I've done many, many. Look at the story today about favor nations and drugs. We lowered the drug causes by 50, 60, 70%. They won't even put it, if they put it on, it'll be elected. They will find a reason why that's a negative. You know, he's totally right. Like, I was looking at the Wall Street Journal. Look, I look at all this stuff, right? I read a ton of papers every day, everything from the FT to the Wall Street Journal to New York Times, to Breitbart, to Washington Pre-Beacon, to, you know, I'm like, I'm cruising right around the Internet. I have a very busy day. I do a lot of reading Daily Mail. I love them. New York Post. Okay. So, you know, I get it all and I get all sides. And I look at the Wall Street Journal. And I just, it's like non-stop, negativity, negativity, negativity. Okay, they've got a big thing on the front page. Trump says he is banning CNN, MSNOW, and Politico from the White House. They ought to be running kind of scared because they don't have, I would say, they don't have really that fair coverage on the Wall Street Journal. I mean, I expect that from Bloomberg, but the Wall Street Journal, I expect that from the FT, but from the Wall Street Journal, which is a Murdoch-owned company, just saying, right? That's not exactly what you would anticipate, but this is everywhere you go, right? Whether it's ABC, ABC for goodness sakes. Those are the, that's the network that had the Jimmy Kimmel. He's going to be gone. We've talked about that at length, and there is now confirmation from the New York Post. It's there reporting, and it's there exclusive, but they have confirmation that his contract's not being renewed. Meanwhile, the FCC is investigating a show like the view, the view, because it's non-stop regurgitation of all these talking points from the Democrat party. And they don't have all sides represented. It's just really nauseating. That's just the way it is. We play to clip the other day from a former ABC News reporter, Terry Moran, and he said, look, part of the problem is that everybody who's on television and all the producers, they are all Democrats, not one single one of them voted for Donald Trump. And so you just don't have any empathy, appreciation for the other side, period. Here's Donald Trump talking to an ABC reporter just the other day. People having to put up with violence. Yeah, I'm not you. You also offered check to every one chance. And that's in there. On Iran, your network and you, you're the worst. Yeah, I mean, Fox isn't too great either, right? Look at what they did in Maria. We're going to talk about that. talk about that today because I have some more insight that I want to bring you on Maria Barraomo, who just became a wonderful friend of mine there at Fox. We had worked together previously at CNBC as well, but I really got to know her at Fox and she's just a great person and she didn't deserve that. She really didn't deserve that. But I'm looking at all of this right now and it's like on any given day, I mean, they're all unfortunately and I say this and I'm trying to be as fair as I can, right? Because you know how passionately I defend the First Amendment, but you do have a cabal of organizations that think they know better and they hate them. They hate them. They make fun of them for any idea he has. Greenland was a big one. Oh my gosh, we got to make fun of them for crazy Donald Trump and that Greenland tackle. We got it, right? More on that in a minute. But everything he suggests they either laugh off is just plain old stupid or just plain old scary here. It's like, you know, guys, like at some point the jig is up. I'm sorry, Obama's not president anymore. I'm sorry, you know, your hero, your savior. He is gone, gone, gone, gone. He's not coming back. He was kind of, maybe he was like holding the strings beyond the scene, right? Because we don't know who was running the joint when Joe Biden was there, but here's just the reality of now. The press thinks it can report on this White House as though they are a member of the opposition. They don't need to be with the president nor against the president, okay? They just have to do their job. And so when they constantly frame it in such a negative way and it's constant, right? He starts to get a little annoyed naturally. Here's Caitlin Collins talking with, I guess this was a woman, the Caitlin Collins as a CNN reporter. And she used to be a conservative reporter. It's funny how, you know, whatever way the paycheck goes, I guess. She used to work for the daily caller. I think there was Tucker Carlson's organization. So she was once conservative, but you know, once she went to CNN, things changed. Here's Caitlin Collins talking to a woman about a conversation she had. And she just tears down the president pretty badly. I don't know if he saw this, but I'm just trying to think, what is it today or yesterday that could have really ticked them off on CNN? I mean, was it the website? Was it this interview? Or is it just, you know, the general sort of tenor of the conversation that was constantly going on? Here is the sound bite that may have contributed. What he is proposing is unlawful. And he just shouldn't be allowed to get away with it. And if he thought trying to bully me was going to stop me from standing up for what's right, he picked the wrong person. A source described the call as effing crazy. I mean, maybe you won't use that language, but is that essentially how you would describe what happened today? I probably wouldn't use that language, but I understand what the person was saying. I think it would be unthinkable for someone to hear a president using the language that he used. Imagine setting your makeup. Then forgetting it's even theirs. 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Millions as you witness who are scared right now. What do you say to Americans who are watching you right now who are scared? I say that you're a terrible reporter. That's what I say. I think it's a very nasty question. And I think it's a very bad signal that you are putting out to the American people. And that was going back in time because you saw Fauci over there, too, right? Okay, so this has been a constant thing, right? He's been dealing with it for a sense forever. He's been dealing with it ever since he went down the escalator that day that I guess lives in infamy for some in the media when he declared that he would be running for the presidency of the United States of America. And they all laughed. Again, they laughed at him. And I was like, "Don't count this guy out. Don't count him out," because he's got something that no one else on that stage has. And I mean, besides the tax policy, because the tax policy, I was just talking about Maria Bartiromo and Fox. And I remember she and I were like, "Yeah, that's a heck of a tax policy. We like this tax policy, right? He's going to lower corporate taxes, get a lower personal taxes, win-win." Anyway, he had a lot of good ideas and good policies. And even his point on immigration way back then, they laughed at that as well. They laughed at the guy. Or they treated him as though he was, you know, the next 1930s villain. And we were back in World War II days. And now you look at the coverage right now. And, oh, wow, you know, the AI has turned into the new green energy because, you know, the world, the planet is going to die in however many years, right? And so now they've switched that to AI. And Donald Trump is bad because he likes AI. You know what, Donald Trump wants to make sure this country is protected. I'm just going to tell you this. And you know, I know AI is scary, but here's the reality. You want China running it? You want Iran running it? No, no, no, no, no. You want us running it. He knows that as well as I know that. And you know that too. So we're not going to roll over and play dead while somebody else gets the top dog spot. No, thank you. He knows that big time. Oh, we have so much to talk about today. I want to talk about politicos. $8 million that they were getting. He made a big stink about that. I want to talk about Maria Bartolomo and Fox. You guys are saying, yeah, Fox is no good either. Well, maybe Fox is next on the list to go considering how they treated one of their best reporters. Right? Maybe Fox goes Wall Street Journal. I mentioned them. There's a lot of companies out there that, you know, he's not too happy with NBC news. I think the FCC was looking into something there. We've talked about that. You got a lot there. So I want to get to that. I also want to get to Greenland because guys, this is huge. We got Greenland. We got Greenland. I'm so excited. It's like it made my week. It made my Friday. I was literally coming to air. 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And one of the reasons is because the president is picking up on this constant barrage that's coming from them of bias. And the bias he feels is very, very directed at him. It's not fair reporting. It's not down the middle. And he's concerned because let's just say there were some financial incentives as far as he's concerned as to why they may not want him there in office right now. We're talking 8 million financial concerns as in dollars. Politico, I mean, they got a government, the government under Biden game, like $8 million to keep them afloat. And the stories they wrote affect so there's a lot of news and there may be others to join them. And maybe they can get better and would like to have men. You know, you don't have a country unless you have, as I say, borders, good voting, with straight name out. No, sir, you better believe it. No one's coming in. So he's concerned about this $8 million. And I would be too. So this is a story from February 2025, White House cracks down on news subscriptions. The USDA said Thursday that it canceled its subscriptions to political pro. A news and information service aimed at policy professionals. This thing was amazing. They were charging $1,000 and $1,000 like, I get it. You know, you get a Bloomberg terminal because you're a trader on Wall Street and you need the Bloomberg terminal and you get to pay $1,000 for this thing. And it's just kind of the cost of doing business because they get a bit of a monopoly. It's been challenged lately, but it's been a bit of a monopoly. Great business. Aside from the news stuff, right? The terminal has a lot of what traders need. And so you get it in that sense. But the government, like why would the government be paying $1,000 and $1,000 for this stuff? It doesn't really make any sense unless you were to say, wait, maybe Politico is our sort of news outlet of choice. And then when we need to do something like say, oh, I don't know, drop that 51X books letter. And we want to say that the Hunter Biden laptop is fake when actually it's real and everybody knows it's real. But we want to communicate a message and let everybody know it's fake. Where do we go? We go to Politico. Well, why not? They're on the payroll. They get $8 million worth of subscriptions right from Uncle Joey every year. So this is a problem and he's looking at some of their coverage and saying, you guys aren't fair and he's going back to, well, maybe it's because they're not getting the $8 million for me the way they were Joey. There's also something else. There's this thing called the Smith-Month Act and I know you guys love it when I get really wonky on you. But this thing was around, I think back in the 40s or so, yeah, 1948, Truman actually put it in the original Smith-Month Act and it was designed basically to target overseas communities. So they wanted to basically put a news agenda out there to communicate whatever they want and communicate it. So like Voice of America, these are things that became very big, radio free Europe, radio liberty system because we were communicating a message, especially during the communist times. Right? We had to show something different. And so it was to show how good America is, how great democracy is and there was definitely like, you know, you were spoon feeding this up for all of these foreign communities. So here is the deal. Back then they said, you can never turn it against our people. Like you've got to keep whatever news you're using overseas and what we're paying for. You've got to keep it overseas. It can't get, you know, boomerang effect used back here in the United States of America. Well, what do you know? Barack Obama comes around in 2012 and Barack says, you know, we're in the age of the internet now and so information is easily transmitted across borders. How are we going to protect our side and our culture and the American way of life if, you know, all that information that we're spooning out to the rest of the world can't get spooned out right back here to voters at home. And so in 2012, they repealed some of this smith month, axmith month was put in place, literally put in place to prevent the proliferation of this information. I'm just going to call propaganda, right, that we were pushing overseas. You couldn't use the propaganda back at home. And in 2012, what do you know? You could use the propaganda back at home, woohoo party on, right. So if you wonder if there's some kind of correlation between the insanity and the media starting in 2015 when Donald Trump walked down that escalator, don't kid yourself. I think it's directly related to this. The smith month act and the repeal of that partial repeal of that, basically allowing for all this money to go to news organizations. And for them to be able to use that news right here in the US of A, USAID contributed to this as well. I was looking at some of the statistics, unbelievable 6,200 journalists were on the payroll for USAID, 700 media organizations were on the payroll for USAID. So you're talking about, they had some line budget for independent media that I noticed, 130 to 250 million dollars, wow. So think about all of that independent media that was like going on on Twitter and other places, right. Where all these people were actually being paid by the US government to have a particular viewpoint that was trust me, very anti-Trump. So it all kind of came to a head, we got rid of USAID, we no longer are funding all these things, the way we used to fund them, you know, political, bye bye, you're not getting your 8 million dollars anymore, no, no, no, and so they continue to write negative stories on him, probably hoping that Kamala or AOC is going to come back in and save the day and turn the spigot back on, you know, I mean, certainly conflict of interest if you ask me. And so yeah, you know, the media doesn't like him, the media was probably being paid not to like him, and then that pay went away and so they are no longer incentivized, obviously, to like him, they want nothing more than to get some Democrat back in there who will keep the party going and going and going. Meet new grippy setting mist from Maybelline, New York. Gel to mist technology locks in your look for up to 24 hours with flexible all day comfy grip. Clump, Dewey, hydrated skin, that still feels like your skin. Try new grippy setting mist from Maybelline, New York, maybe it's Maybelline. But the meaning in general, like they all they're singing a chorus. It's the same darn tune and I look at it every day and I'm seeing it. It Fox. I'm seeing it at NBC. I'm seeing it ABC. I'm seeing it CBS, although CBS is trying and it's own little way to get a little bit better. You have institutional bias that's just been born into all of these things and all of these places. And I mentioned even Fox, right? Because for whatever reason they're very trepidacious about carrying the president's water. I mean, I guess, you know, Hannity does it at night and to a certain extent, I guess Jesse does. But for most part, they're like very, very nervous about it. So nervous that they got rid of my friend Maria. Maria Bartiromo was unceremoniously let go. They parted ways with her on August 9th. They issued a press release a couple of weeks ago and it was brutal and they really took her down. I mean, I think that there might be something here for her lawyer to go back at the them, not just one, because they have to pay out her contract, and she should be able to work wherever else she wants to work, but also I'd add into that that they are trying to damage her reputation. And that's a very serious thing. I mean, they've got these anonymous sort of plants in the media, three guesses where they're coming from, them, right, that are leaking these stories, and it's very unfortunate for Maria and possibly damaging to her career. So that is a big problem. Here's good news, though. Guess what? The viewers are mad, and the viewers have noticed, and the viewers are turning off Maria's Sunday show in droves. I couldn't believe these numbers. You know what else I couldn't believe? No one's reported on these numbers. No one. I mean, you know, these lousy media people, look, Maria, and I had talked about it before, how much the media hated Donald Trump, and trust me, I know you guys all wanted to come on, and she will once she's free. She's not in a position to talk about anything right now, but I promise you, I will make sure that as soon as she is free to talk, we're able to get her on this program, because she's great. She's really, really great. And she's got a big future ahead of her. But recently, she sat down with a woman named Sage Steel on her podcast, and they were talking about sort of this bias that the media had against him, and trying to understand it and get her head around it. And Maria's like, look, I just wanted to be fair, which is absolutely true. It's all I have ever tried to be to is just fair. Like, why do you laugh at every idea he has? I actually think a lot of the ideas are fantastic. Greenland being one of them, hey, look, we're getting it, right? So here's Maria explaining this negativity that she picked up on right away. Yeah, I mean, in the last 10 years, I guess, part of the issue, I guess, Donald Trump came on the scene and was polarizing to so many people that they went crazy. And I think that there's a small cabal who hate him so much and have convinced their constituents, media, academia, whoever else you talk of, Hollywood, that, and I saw that as being incredible unfairness. And I called it out, and, you know, I mean, that was one thing that I think, the mainstream media, that's, that happened, Donald Trump happened to them. And they just, they don't want to report on him fairly. They refuse. Yeah. They refuse, but, and they get away with it. I mean, that's the worst part, is when the bosses, the leadership allows it, and it's intentional. I think it's, I used to laugh at the TDS, the Trump Durangement Syndrome, that people talked about. And like, oh, this is real. People cannot, can't handle it. What I wonder why, I mean, you know, I think it's because he exposes their corruption, some people's corruption. And he doesn't care about talking about it, you know, and they see him as dangerous in that regard. Yeah, because he's willing to just go where, where others won't, and to do things, and, you know, to, to actually implement change. And that's what we need, right? Like, we need a little bit of shake up. I mean, for goodness' sake, stuff. Have that made millions, millions, millions of people coming across our border for goodness' sake. You know, couldn't take care of themselves, and that we were suddenly on the hook for. What on earth was that about, okay, like, you cannot look me in the eye and tell me that that made any sense at all? I know they, you know, and now, oh, he's big, bad Trump, forgetting everybody out. You commit a crime. And somehow they still think you should stay. I mean, it's bonkers, right? Like, everything's been twisted upside down. I should go back to the low-tea commercial we can, like, is that the problem? Wow. I mean, anyway, anyway, Maria is a wonderful talent. She's an incredibly hardworking person. She's, like, I mean, for goodness' sake, she never stopped working. Let's be honest. I mean, I take Saturday and Sunday off. She didn't. She was on the air on Sunday, which meant she was prepping all day Saturday. And she was working those horrible hours six to nine in the morning. Let me tell ya. I mean, she'd invite me to come on her show, and I was like, Maria, I just can't get out that early in the morning. I'm sorry. I just can't. I really can't. I tried it once back in San Francisco. I was the morning news anchor a zillion years ago. And at some point, I went and said, like, I'm going to have to switch to evenings or I have to quit. My husband calls them the last years. I'd just fall asleep in my plate on Friday night. No joke. So Maria worked these crazy hours for them, all right? And she worked on Sundays, too. And then they gave her this kick and the pants on the way out the door. Are you kidding me? Well, I love it because you guys responded in droves. And I love seeing this. This is a big drop. This is an 18% drop. And you know, you could say, well, summer was kind of weak. If you look at the overall number, she was averaging like 1.8 million viewers on that show. And you know what happened? It's actually the number. I'm being more conservative in my numbers here. But if I were to look at the one point, I was seeing numbers 22 to 25% of a drop. It was a really big decline. And by the way, she had the number one show on Sundays. The next one was a Fox News Sunday, the one that Chris Wallace used to do. This was always mad because his ratings couldn't compete with Maria's. I mean, that show gets like, and I don't even know who does that show any. I don't even know who's anchoring that show anymore. But that show that Chris Wallace used to have, that show gets like 800 and some 1000 viewers. So like, her show is still riding her coattails, okay? But look at that. An 18% drop. And it was even even greater. Like if we're going to look at apples to apples, you know what? This chart is not entirely fair. Let's see if I can pull up another one because I was looking at the numbers from August 9th right through to now. So it would have been last Sunday. And that number I think was down somewhere around 22%. Yeah. This is a big deal. Like people are turning it off. I think the latest read on this one is 1.3 million. I don't know who's anchoring. I know they put Jason in. He's a nice guy. You know, that's kind of a thankless position to have to go in for such a beloved star and such a wonderful woman. But she's not doing so well. They can try and paint it however they want and they are painting it however they want. This was the article that came out in variety that actually I just read today and I was like, you guys are wrong. Like whoever's reporting this, like you're totally wrong. We're about a Roma versus Fox News anchor's pivot between MAGA politics and Wall Street likely spurred fallout. Okay. Well, let me just tell you like when I worked there, yeah, we covered Wall Street, but they had no problem with us covering the president because they're like, he's a businessman, right? Why wouldn't you cover business? Like these two things they intertwine and they intersect, you know, there's an intersection. So go ahead and cover it. And by the way, we want ratings. So, you know, I'm sorry, but like, you know, you can talk about stocks up, stocks down all day long. And unless stocks are way, way down, nobody's really tuning into you. It's that plane crash thing, right? That's when you get big ratings in business news when the market tanks 2000 points. Anyway, so this article comes out and they're criticizing how close she was with the president who, you know, look, I mean, your reporter. And as a reporter, if you can get close to your source and you have sort of that connection, like that's a valuable thing to have, whether it's a CEO or whether it's the president of the United States, you know, we're lucky that this president actually talks to us. A lot of presidents, they wouldn't do that, right? This is a different kind of president. You've actually get tremendous access to the president as a member of the press. And so they're writing here, they're saying, oh, she was brought in to cover the ins and outs of Wall Street. This is all revisionary stuff, right? And make the company a bigger presence in the world of business news cable. And somehow, you know, her stock within the building began to drop. They start saying, and then they go on to say her main business program was not generating top dollar for Fox News or for its parent corporation. Indeed, in recent quarters, mornings with Maria, they said attractive fewer viewers than its main rival, CNBC's clock box, according to data from Nilsen. And then her demos, the 25 to 54 group, was not panning out the way they wanted it to. And so as a result of this, this is fascinating. And this is to me, where again, I'm giving her lawyer some things to go on. He ought to be looking at this too, because they're using this as an excuse. They're trying to say her show's not making any money anymore. Well, you know, earth to the reporter, like that's not how the money actually works. When you go to a network like Fox Business, they've got one big pool of money, okay? And that one big pool of money gets distributed out to the different shows. And so it's not like shows are saying, gee, I don't want to be on Maria's show. I mean, in Tucker's case, I think that that actually did happen. I mean, that's why he kept doing the Mike Lindell commercials over and over again. But, you know, for the most part, shows are like, yeah, whatever, you know, just make sure that we get certain numbers. And as long as we're meeting these certain numbers, that's all that matters. So this article, I can, like, by the way, this is proprietary information. How does this reporter have this information? He has it because someone leaked it. Someone in the building leaked it to him. And they're leaking it very selectively. So they said, add dollars, earmarked for her shows, earmarked, right? Because again, they got a pot of money and they're like, okay, we're going to give you this. We're going to give you that. Maria, you're going to get this much. On Fox Business Network, fell to 3.7 million in 2025, according to data from ICE, actually, this is a spot, a tracker of adsmening down from 8.9 million in 2022, a decline of nearly 58%. Okay. And they're making the point that the network was actually taking in more money. But her show was getting less. I'm making the point that the network's taking in more money, and the network is actually giving her less. They are actually allocating less. Maybe because they wanted to actually string a story together just like this. Oh, you know, it was a financial decision. Her show wasn't doing that well. She wasn't commanding as much in terms of the rate anymore. So that's why we got rid of her. So they're saying this decline in ad spending of 58% was the reason. They're also saying meanwhile ad spending or ad money supporting Sunday morning futures on Fox News fell to 6.1% in 2025, down from 7.8 million in 2022, a dip in nearly 22%. Again, no one is out there saying, I am going to advertise on Sunday morning. It's not like in the podcasting business, actually, where people do say, gee, I want to advertise on Trisha's show. And that actually happens, right? In this particular media, it's a network. So they come into the network, and then the network decides how much they're going to put on each show. So the network was cutting her back. And then it looks kind of nifty, right? They can say, well, you know, financial decisions. She's just not making what she used to. Well, you guys aren't giving her what she used to. And she was the number one show. And I happened to know, because I worked there, she had hardly any resources for that number one show. Really? I mean, there were other shows like Chris's, right after the entire team, tons of staff, lots of writers, lots of producers. Maria was doing it on her own, basically. I mean, she had the one producer for that show. It was a bare bones crew. And she was still number one. Because what do they say? Cream rises to the top. Again, here's some of the numbers. You know, we're talking about the ad revenue going down. But I just think it's pretty great when you see the ratings. And you see the reality of viewers saying, you know what? We don't really appreciate what you did. We just don't. We don't appreciate this at all. And, you know, I don't think the president really appreciates it either, right? You saw what he had to say. And maybe she'll go to the White House. Maybe she'll do something there. Maybe she'll come out with a podcast network and empire of her own. I'd love to see that. I mean, personally, I have so much fun over here. And I love it. And I'm so thankful that I get to do this. And I'm like, thank goodness, I live in a time or I don't have to go work for a network anymore. Because I did for 20 years work for networks. I've worked for all of them. And I, you know, I didn't really like it. I'll be honest, I don't like having to ask permission. I really don't. I don't like having to write scripts. I don't like having to have script approvals. I just like to have fun and talk to you guys. And it's such a different experience here. So please make sure you subscribe. Oh, we got some more good news, by the way. So this is my point. Maria could do this. And she could kill it over here. She absolutely, and I would just welcome her in and, you know, anything I told her. And I, she can't talk right now. But I told her, listen, anything I can do to help you because it's a whole new ballgame over here, a whole new world. So we were just named in this thing called Excel Cast. Yeah, top 20. And we came in the Treasury and show at number 15. I showed you the other day. We're actually on YouTube. We are in the top for the second quarter. Top four channels for conservative media on YouTube. Isn't that amazing? And I'm only two spots away from Fox News. OK, surpassed Fox Business a long time ago. Anyway, take a look at this. Subscribers, they said 1.33 million. And then they said, aw, this is so sweet. Regan brings something almost nobody else in the top 20 has two decades of broadcast news experience I told you, including anchoring on Fox Business and Bloomberg, applied to an independent show that she controls outright. I do. [LAUGHS] And you've seen the good and the bad of that. Anyway, that background is visible in everything. Tight segments, clean production, guest booked, and an instinct for exactly when a story about Washington becomes a story about your portfolio. The 4.9 rating is the highest of any political and finance crossover show in the index. And it is earned. 30,000 new subs. Thank you, guys. Since June is steady, rather than explosive. But on a 4.9 rating, steady enough to place 15th in our field of more than 1,000. Do you know I placed above Joe Rogan? So in other words, Maria's got tons of options. Tons and tons and tons of options. She could work in government if she wanted to. I don't think she's hurting financially. So I don't think that's going to be an issue if she wanted to go and work at Treasury or if she wanted to go and be the spokesperson for the White House. She could do any of those things. She could start a podcast behemoth. I mean, there is such a need for individuals with-- and not everybody can do this, not everybody. Because you kind of have to have that spark and that curiosity and that excitement and that drive and that work ethic. And she's got it all. So she could do that or she could go perhaps to CBS. I hear they're looking for some live ones, you know, CBS. They could use someone of her caliber. I don't know how happy she'd be there. That's another conversation for another day. I'd certainly support it. But I think that, again, we talk about these networks having their biases. And this is something that the Ellicins are actually trying to undo with the skydands purchase of CBS. So don't forget. There's a big merger out there in Hollywood that is supposed to get done. And that would be paramount buying Warner Brothers. And so this would mean like they're going to control so much content, like all these, you know, from SpongeBob to CBS to CNN, like HBO. I mean, they got it all, right? They're going to have this massive, massive company. And people don't like it because they don't like David Ellison. Because David Ellison, they see as being too close to the president. Oh, he talks to President Trump. You know, in this world, you cannot talk to President Trump. If you talk to President Trump, you're suddenly the enemy. And so next thing you know, you get all these states joining together with California. And they say, we're going to block it. So I just want to like remind you guys that the federal government said it was OK. Every country who said it is OK. It's just California and 11 other states that are saying, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. So you know what? News today, the paramount is going to say, bye, bye. Bye, Hollywood. He's going to pull an Elon. Ellison's going to take it out. He's going to go to Texas or Tennessee. You might have another state or two in there too. But he's leaving. He's like, wait a second. I'm trying to do a murder. Everybody's approved it. California, just because you don't like that I talk to Donald Trump, you're going to try and hold this whole thing up. You know how many people they employ? I mean, I was reading the number of something. 58,000 people are something that they employ out there in Hollywood. Those jobs gone. They're all going to go to Texas. I mean, those that don't want to go. I guess you take a retirement deal. You should go to Texas, though. Trust me. There's no income tax. So you're going to make more money and have a better standard quality of life. I mean, it all makes sense, although we have to watch out for the Jimmy Taylor Ecos of the world getting elected if all those liberals suddenly move to Texas. But this is interesting. So TMZ reporting today that the storied legendary paramount law-- I mean, think old time movies, right? This is the beginning of Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen. And it's going up and smoking. And it's thanks to California's woke, stupid policies. You have no one other than Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass. Oh, and Bonta, the AG out there to thank for this one. Bonta thinks he's a big, big deal. He's the man defending all those jobs, except all those jobs. They're going to go poof by, by away, because you know what? They can leave. David should leave. My own personal view on this is that it's actually a crime to stay there, because you have a fiduciary duty to shareholders. And that fiduciary duty means not wasting money, needlessly. And think about the president's tax incentives for capital expenditures. If you're building a factory, you can deduct that all. Like now, this year. You don't have to wait and just deduct a little bit this year, a little bit, a little bit, little bit, little-- you can take it all right now. So David Ellison could take Paramount to Texas or Tennessee or wherever he wants to go. He could build a new lot, and he can deduct it all right now. I mean, I was looking at the numbers. And I'm like, it's no brainer. Of course you go. Of course you go. So this is David. And again, they hate him because he has a relationship with the president. He's the son of Larry Ellison, which is actually another great thing. And I just say that because this guy, David, and sources I have know him. And I've heard nothing but extraordinary things, actually, in terms of his ability and his creativity and his sense of technology and where it meets entertainment. And so we're in the beginning of something very, very new. When you think about the movie industry, I think it's going to be going through a massive change. I think the news industry is going through a massive change. You look on X now and all the individual independent reporters out there that are capturing all these things and putting it out. And I show you a lot of these clips. News gathering is very, very different than the traditional old network sense. And David gets that. So there's a huge opportunity for him. And I don't think he can do it in California. I really don't because of all the ridiculous tax stuff and the fact that they're trying to prevent this murder from happening to begin with. I mean, this is an anti-trust lawsuit. You imagine it's like, you know, your own family. It's your own home. You know, this is where he grew up. And there's suddenly like all over you saying, no, we're not going to approve this merger. This is Bond. I want to introduce you to this guy. He is the guy that's kind of-- he's like the litisha james if you would of california and he's out there or trying to make a big, you know, deal of-- Imagine setting your makeup, then forgetting it's even theirs. Meet new groupie setting mist from Maybelline New York. Try new groupie setting mist from Maybelline New York. Maybe it's Maybelline. Themself, it's his little moment in the sun going after Alison. I want to be clear about this blackmail threat to leave California. That is David Ellison's choice in his alone. So he's like, ah, it's blackmail. OK, fine, it's blackmail. I mean, I guess a court could look at it and say that's not really fair for blackmail, but I'm going to remind you that a company is a company. And they're free to operate wherever they want to operate. You know, states make it so incredibly unattractive for them to be there with really poor tax policy with legislation that makes it really onerous to be in business there with regulations that are up the wazoo. Well, you know, you walk, money can walk. Elon did it. He went right down to Texas, right? Took all his companies with him. It made all the sense in the world. And now it looks like Paramount's going to do it, too. Paramount LA and state officials say studio leaving, California. So basically what the TMZ story is saying is that this is coming. They thought it was going to be this week. They were getting word that it could happen this week. And here we are on Friday. And technically, it has not officially happened. Although I think they've made it quite clear that they're really not psyched about being in California for a whole variety of reasons. I want to go back to Bonta for a second, because he's really-- he's really digging in. This is his moment in the sun. And he's got 11 states plus the writer's guild of America joining him, because you just can't allow. Such important entertainment companies to be controlled by a guy who talks to Trump. Oh, yeah. That's crazy, right? That's crazy. Last ditch effort to try to blackmail my office and the attorneys general into allowing an illegal deal and illegal merger to go through. He's calling it an illegal merger. I have a duty. I have an obligation to enforce the law. Anti-trust law, the rule of law, is good for business. We support-- OK. Businesses. We are pro-businesses that follow the law. If your business plan involves breaking the law, it's not a very good business plan. OK, so why is it breaking the law? Oh, they say it's too big. It's too big a company. They're going to have too much control over entertainment. You see what this really is, guys? They're upset because they do not want somebody who's coming at the world with a different approach. They doesn't drink the Kamala Harris talking points, and that doesn't drink the Gavin Newsom Kool-Aid. They're coming at-- oh, my gosh. They're going to control that much entertainment. They can't do that, because what would the world be if we don't have a complete hold over the cultural, underpinning of America? That's what this is about. They're really, really scared. I want to go to the attorney who is representing-- he's the top attorney there at Paramount. So he's talking to the company's book here, and he's making a good point. Like, we don't really want to do this. We don't really have a choice, right? Like, at some point, you got to actually think about what's best for the company and what's best for the shareholder. We heard earlier from Attorney General Rob Bonta, who is locked in an epic legal confrontation with UN-- Funny enough, this is at Politico. It's Politico, Politico, which we just kicked out of the White House. And this, again, is the chief legal officer. Start with the question that I think is on everybody's minds. Or one of the questions, is Paramount going to leave California? Well, first of all, let me thank you and Politico for inviting me and for this good lively discussion. It's critical, not only for national policy, but for California. As far as leaving California, you've seen some of the press. I think some of the internal conversations were leaked. And David Ellison was born here, lived here. Since I moved to this country, I've lived here. He's raising his children here. His, I think, intent is to be committed to be California. There's a point of which, where you have a duty-- I think fiduciary duty to your shareholders. And those are all the factors you consider. But our goal is to be here. I heard the attorney general say that this was some kind of a black male attempt before the lawsuit. After it is not, when the delay starts costing, after this merger has been approved from, I believe, 67 countries, European Union, China, Canada, Australia. Let's forget about the DOJ. But all of them have reviewed it this way. But this state seems to view it. This merger in a different market, you have to take a look at the business environment and look to see what's best for not only the community, the business, and ultimately go to place where you wanted. And that is Makin Delrahim. Actually, it was part of the Trump administration. I think he worked in the AG's office prior to coming back to Paramount there. Very, very interesting, right? He's making the point, like, at some point. Push comes to shove. Something's going to give. And I do believe Ellison has estimated, he could save $500 million a year. It's half a billion dollars a year, right? I mean, that's not something to sneeze at. So just leaving, like, in my book, you leave no matter what, because California is never going to get better at this point, right? That ship has sailed. And so you're not going to fix it. So you should leave. But the fact that they're actually trying to make your life so miserable, and they hate just so much, because listen, I'll tell you, they wouldn't be having a problem if this was a Democrat or somebody who was real tight with Kamala and Biden and Obama coming in and doing this deal. It is just because he happens to have the president's cell phone number. That's why. Hey, Alfonz, good to see you in the chat. Again, I'm just looking at, you know, I multitask here. You should be going to soundvites and graphics and looking at all of your comments, which I so appreciate. Alfonz making the point that Paramount understands streamers are their future, and they are-- they're going to be moving south, right? They're moving south to Texas or wherever else, Tennessee is the other place that they're talking about. But I just think that this is probably sort of something that needs to happen just because of the changes in the industry and the fact that you've got to allow for-- you've got to allow for innovation. And if the bureaucracy in California is so against innovation and so against these new opportunities, then really and truly, it comes down to what is best for the company. And I would say, regardless of-- they could drop their lawsuit tomorrow. They could drop it tomorrow and say, gee, pretty please, come back. And I'd still say, Adios, like we're out of here. We're going to Texas or Tennessee or wherever. They're looking at a few locations. I don't want to give too much away. I don't know. I don't know where they're going to go. But I would choose the place with the zero taxes, right? And the zero income tax, and then the zero capital gains tax. And that's where I would be going. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm. New stuff. And yes, you should take Maria. And she should go to Texas. Oh, she's a New Yorker, right? She's from New York. She grew up in New York. I don't know if she would move. But listen, there's a tremendous amount of new stuff coming forward. The news industry is changing. The entertainment industry is changing. And I think you're going to have a guy in Ellison who's going to get that and is going to be able to really run with it. And we want to lead that. We want to lead that in the future. Just like we want to lead AI. Ed Sheeran, so long as we're talking entertainment, did you guys see this? This guy's like a one-man band now. I really like him, all of a sudden. So Ed Sheeran was in all this trouble. I mean, is in all this trouble. His band is deserting him. You know that song, "Gallway Girl," I like this song, because I'm not from "Gallway," I'm actually from "Ring," but I have some Irish roots. And so I do like a lot of his music. And the band, the Irish band that played with him was going to go on tour with him. They're refusing now. They are absolutely refusing because it all goes back to this clown, Mackle Row, or Mackle Row, or-- well, I'd never heard of this Mackle Row guy ever. He's apparently some kind of rapper, which, if you know what I think about rap, you know that. In part, it explains why I've never heard of this guy. Anyway, he's the opening act, and he got out there and said this, and Bob Kraft-- good man, said, you know what? I don't really want you playing at my stadium. I say free talent. I say free talent. He didn't stop there. Free Cuba, to the Congo, to Suban, to Iran, and all the people living in America that have to live in fear, because of this terrorist organization, ice. OK. Yeah, you know, you've got to come full circle there, and hit the. Trump too and ice why not, you know, unbelievable. So now Ed Sheeran is out his team. He doesn't have any opening acts. Apparently they've all canceled. All the opening acts are like we're back and out because he refused to say anything. And you know, this kind of got to be a bigger and bigger issue because AOC had to weigh in on it too. We talked about this the other day, but for any of you just joining us, like AOC had to get out there in front because she's never met like a pop culture issue that she does. She can't tell you about Taiwan. She can't really talk intelligently about Gaza, Palestine, et cetera, but by gosh darn it. She's got a lot to say on Ed Sheeran and what she thinks he ought to be doing right now. Here we go. Hey, if Ed Sheeran comes on the radio while you're driving along, are you changing the channels? I am. You are? Yeah. Why is that? I think that what we've seen, especially it's not just what has happened with the act and not just in removing Macklemore from the lineup, but when you see what Robert crafted to line up all of the stadiums, to censor speech in that one specific way, it's become clear that this is not just about one music artist or two music artists, but this is about how just a handful of stadium owners and the elite can prevent an entire massive-- Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We caught her on tape saying how much she loves deep platforming. And so she said when, you know, when Tucker was shown the door at Fox. Anyway, I want to go to Guy Benson. He's a, he's a great guy. Guy Benson. We were actually just, we did a speaking event recently together and I really enjoyed talking to him. He was on Fox yesterday and he made some interesting points. One that, you know, maybe Ed Sheeran hadn't vetted this guy. I know we're all like, who the heck is it? Macklemore, whatever. He had maybe Ed had none of them either. I don't know. So he's like, he really didn't vet him that much, but he makes a very good point. I want you to listen carefully on craft because, you know, Robert Kraft has a right to his own free speech as well. Look, I think where you can find fault with Ed Sheeran is putting Macklemore on stage with him in the first place. Macklemore infamously said that George W. Bush knocked down the towers on 9/11. He wore a prosthetic, quote unquote, Jewish nose on stage and did a Hitler salute. This is a bonafide nut case and bigot. And putting him as an opening act was a big misstep by Sheeran. He should have anticipated controversy and avoided it in the first place. But to Tom's point, the Gaza obsessives, there's this mass psychosis and they can justify any terrible behavior by just shouting genocide, which happens to be alive, by the way. And imagine being one of these supporting acts are the house band who quit zero loyalty, zero gratitude to the person who's actually employing them because they have to bend the knee to this, I think, really bad cause that is based on fundamentally a lie. Ultimately, Sheeran will be better, stronger. I hope without them. And to add to that, Robert Kraft owns the stadium. If he doesn't want the guy saying that, you know what, like everybody has a right to, you know, am I going to invite somebody into my house for dinner? It's maybe, you know, look, I mean, you know me, like I actually am interested in hearing a lot of political opinions. But, you know, there's something to draw the line, right? You know, you just want to have a pleasant Saturday evening. So maybe you don't invite the free Palestine guy to your house for dinner or to your stadium. Like it's not necessarily canceling him. It's like, this is just not really appropriate. And all these other people now canceling on Ed. I mean, he's stuck in the middle of what did Ed say? He said, I don't want to get in the middle of it. He's pulling a dolly parton. Dolly parton knew how to deal with this stuff. Well, right? She was like, I'm not going there. You know, you people, you want to get all political. And she's like, I realize that I have fans on both sides of the aisle. And I have my own opinions. But you know what, I'm going to keep my own opinions to myself. Dolly did that beautifully. Someone reminded me the other day about Ann Coulter's book. Shut up and saying. And I was like, yeah, it's perfect, right? Shut up and dribble. Shut up and saying, you know, shut up and play. Like you're an entertainer, right? Leave the political pundits opinion to us political pundits. Right? Don't, don't try and crouch in on my territory. What are you doing? I, you know, I say this all the time, actually. And I tell, even tell my children, I'm like, look, don't get too far out there politically unless you really, like, that's what you want to do because it's a very sensitive environment right now. And I'm very aware of that, right? Because I look, how could I not be? And the cancel culture thing is a big deal. And, you know, I don't, it's not good to cancel people. However, you also have to respect that people have the right to say, you know what, Trish, I don't like what you're saying. I'm going to turn off your podcast. And that's fine, right? Trish, I really don't like what you're saying. I'm not going to book you for that speech. That's fine. I'm still going to say what I'm saying because I can't help it, right? Like this is, and this is, this is what I do. But I understand, like, if you're an entertainer or if you're an athlete or if you are, whatever you are, a teacher, like, it's really probably not the best place to be going into these political sort of hot button issues. And so I respect Ed Sheeran for saying, you know what? I don't want to have anything to do with this. I'm just going to go and play my music and be the artist that I am. And yet all those other bands, they had to take a stand. And so now Ed runs the rest, right? Of getting canceled. He's supposed to be playing in Philadelphia. I think this weekend. So, you know, if you live in Philly, you ought to go support the guy for, you know, just, just trying to make his music and have his art. All right. We got to get to my favorite story of the day. This is unbelievable, guys. This is what I was waiting for. Let me put it right here on the screen. How do you like that? We got Greenland, baby. And we got it in space. This is very, very important. The president coming out with a bombshell of a tweet just before I came to air. I mean, I had a whole thing on Greenland plan for you. And I'm like, gosh. And actually, what I was going to tell you was we are so close. We are super close. And it has to do with somebody who's close to the president, Ron Louder. Ron Louder actually is, you know, the heir to the Estee Lauder fortune. Ron Louder, I noticed was buying a place for someone who is a big deal official up there in Greenland. And I was trying to like connect the dots. And I was like, I think we're getting really close to something. And we need to be very close to something because this is a very, very important and strategic area to have a presence in. And sure enough, let me share with you guys. This is just fantastic news. Absolutely fantastic news. I get to hand it to Marco, by the way, too. As Marco's been working behind the scenes to get all this stuff done. And I'm going to explain why this is so important. There was something that happened as well this morning Dan Cain, you know, General Cain. He came out and he said that the next war, these wars are going to be fought in space. And he was talking about the importance of satellites and space, et cetera. And all I could think of was Greenland, Greenland, Greenland. That was this morning. And then I saw that Ron Louder was actually purchasing property up there. And I'm like, okay, Greenland, Greenland, it's but on my mind, I looked at what Canada did yesterday. I'm like, Canada, I know they're trying to get the article to themselves, right? And so, in fact, I called Sal, my producer on the West Coast as we were putting the show together today. And I said, you know, I feel like this Iceland, forgive me, this Greenland story is a very, very big deal. And he said, you know, Trish, you kind of onto things. And sure enough, I was because we just got word. Ladies and gentlemen, breaking news right now. Here we go. I'm going to change this lower third because we got to say we got Greenland guys. We got Greenland. We got Greenland. This is big deal. He writes, I am proud to announce that effective immediately. I am banning. Oh wait, that's the wrong one. That's good news too. That is good news too. Let me go back. Let me go back to what he had to say. He put this out on true social this afternoon. And it is fantastic. All right. I got it right here. And it is a big deal announcement. Way to go, Donald Trump. Way to go, Marco Rubio. Way to go, everyone, forgetting this thing done. Okay, so I'm going to read it to you. Breaking news, I am pleased to announce that the United States has entered into an agreement with the Kingdom of Denmark and Greenland. Don't forget the Danes. They really were getting kind of ordinary. They were very unhappy because he kept tweeting out pictures of Denmark with the flag on it. We've entered an agreement here that gives the US permanent, permanent. That is a key word. Control over security and all other needs in Greenland. Woo-hoo! Completely addressing all of our many US concerns. There will be no cost to the United States. Oh, gosh, this is getting better and better and better, right? I'm reading this in real time with all of you. So, no cost to the United States. United States, at my direction, we will--we worked with representatives of Denmark and Greenland to guarantee that the United States will forever have the complete ability to do what is necessary in Greenland in order to secure and defend the security of Greenland and the United States of America. Additionally, from now on, no U.S. advisory can ever have a base in Greenland. This is good. Having military presence in Greenland or make sensitive investments in Greenland without our express written approval. For over 100 years, presidents have known the strategic importance of Greenland, but none of them were able to do anything about it. I am proud to be the president that permanently and conclusively addressed this very important situation. This is an infinite life agreement. There is no end. We are very honored and proud of what has just taken place and everything agreed to today will be challenged, cherished. I should say, I'm so used to that because it's always--you know, they're challenging them. [laughs] Freudian slip. Cherished by the American people. We immediately begin the process of developing a large military presence, the appropriate part of Greenland of which there are many. We will work with the people of Greenland in its development and construction. The solution is a great one for the United States of America, Denmark, Greenland and all of our allies. We look forward to working with the wonderful people of Greenland and Denmark and Greenland towards a magnificent, that's the long one. Magnificent future with respect to this large and highly strategic parcel of land, we will be very protective of it. This is a dream come truth. The United States of America, one that is very important, historic and special. Thank you for your attention to this matter. This is wonderful. Okay. This is fantastic. Absolutely, positively, fantastic news. We got it. We got it. We got it. Okay. We got it. And we needed it and we're really happy about this one. I am especially, especially happy. Let me put the map back on here so that you see this, guys. [clears throat] [laughs] You know, I'm going to sleep easier tonight. I really am. I didn't know that they were this close. I had gotten word that the talks were progressing and that they were encouraged by those talks. It seemed like it was going in the right direction, but I didn't ultimately know where this was going to line up. And of course, there's been a lot of things that have happened lately where we've seen how the Danes kind of got their nose out of joint. Recently, I've said to you over and over. Greenland is critical. We're talking about some very important natural minerals that are up there. We're also talking about that positioning there between Russia and China. So, you know, the world gets warmer. One would think that that ice would melt and you don't want them having direct, you know, that way we can have a presence there. And then the other big thing is access to the satellites. And that's very important for space reasons, which Dan Keane, actually, it's fascinating how this all came together. Dan Keane, the general, came out today and was talking about the future being wars in space. And all I could think of when I heard him say this was, we need Greenland. We got it. Today, my brothers and sisters, we must be clear-eyed about the environment ahead. Future conflicts will demand that we operate without the assumptions of uncontested access, secure rear areas, or uninterrupted or uncontested sustainment. Our task, my friends, is to adapt right now. So the joint force is prepared to fight, endure, and win in global contested environments from the seabed to cis-looner space. The demands right now on our joint force are not theoretical. No, they're not theoretical, right? Like, it's actually happening in real time. So this was a really important one. We needed to get it. And the president had been really ticked it Europe. I played you the sound by yesterday. Remember him in July at the NATO press conference there in Turkey? And he said, like, you know, my problem with the Europeans really is Greenland, right? So he was all over this. Like a dog with a bone. Gosh, darn it. And he got it. And he said, we have to have it. We have to have it. We have to have it. Here he is just a few months ago. We have to have it. We got it. We need Greenland very importantly for international security. We have to have Greenland. It's not a question of, do you think we can do without it? We can't. If you look at Greenland right now, if you look at the waterways, you have Chinese and Russian ships all over the place. And we're not going to be able to do that. We're not relying on Denmark or anybody else to take care of that situation. No, we got to have it. Okay. So I get to change these, you know, that I told you this all was happening in real time. I got to change what we got here. We got Greenland. A permanent arrangement. This is, it's a really big deal. But what I, what I had originally noticed today was sort of a confluence of things. First of all, the story that we reported yesterday, if you didn't watch yesterday's show, please go and watch from the beginning because I really get into great detail about how the EU and Canada, in my opinion, were sort of angling together to try to get the Arctic squared away because they were very much like, we need the Arctic, we need the Arctic. And apparently we got the Arctic. So that kind of came and went. But anyway, it's important to understand how vital the Arctic is, right? As a resource for us and as a strategic location. So you may or may not know Ron Louder, a little interesting trivia for you. Ron Louder is the heir to the estate louder fortune. And Ron Louder happens to be the, the, well, the son-in-law, I should say, he's the father-in-law of our fed chair. Kevin Morse is married to Ron Louder's daughter. So there's a little, you know, six degrees or two degrees of separation for you. Anyway, Ron Louder is a wonderful man. Fascinating guy, like really, really into art. He actually bankrolled the, I think it's got a new gallery in on the Upper East Side of New York. And I've interviewed him a few times over the years and he gave me a tour for a little documentary I did on him and art. I went back when I was at Bloomberg Television. What a wonderful guy, okay? And very, very, very smart. So apparently I learned that this was Ron's idea. Ron wanted the US to have Greenland. And I guess he's been pounding this since 2000, not, since 2019. And I'm changing all my lower thirds. What did that article say about me? She really, you know, she really, she really runs her show. She does, doesn't she? All right. So this is, you know, it's almost irrelevant now that that Ron bought a house there for someone. But we'll talk about it. So this billionaire, right? Cosmetics billionaire, that's a lot of air. He's friends with Trump. And he's been on him for a while, saying, you need to take this seriously. Like I said, he's a very smart guy. And he got it back in 2019. He's like, we got to pay attention to this. And so Donald Trump listened. And then, you know, clearly was paying attention to it. I am going to get to the house that he bought, but it's almost like I said, you know, it kind of isn't as interesting as the fact that we got it now, okay? So hello, Greenland. Yes, hello, Greenland. I'm going to have to get myself up there. I've always wanted to go to Greenland. I think this would be a really, really fun trip. Anyway, so we got Greenland. We've got this permanent arrangement, but you know, credit to not just the president, but to Ron Louder for recognizing everybody laughed at this, right? They were all laughing their heads off. And Denmark was like, no, it's not for sale. He actually wanted to just buy it, you know, just buy it. Why not? You know, there's hardly any people there will just buy them out. Well, one thing that he did, and this is what caught my attention today is, and I'm going to change the lower thirds again, Ron Louder went out there and apparently bought a house. This is a site called youractive.com. And they were reporting on it because in Denmark, the Danes were reporting on this that Ron Louder, and I guess they view him with some trepidation because he's the guy that put it in the president's head. Hey, we ought to get Greenland. So Ron apparently bought a house for an estimated $800,000 or so. And he's giving it to a former Greenland official. So somebody who was a big deal in Greenland now has this house. And so people were like, what is this? He's trying to buy him off one at a time. He said he wanted to buy it. He just pay everybody. No, I think this is because the guy that's now getting this house, who's the former official from Greenland, is going to be using it allegedly for business purposes. And I don't know, maybe he's bankrolled by Ron. Who knows? But I don't care because we got it. All right. And thank you, Ron, for having the foresight to see this and to convince the president of this because this is important. I mean, I'm looking around the world right now and I'm just blown away because we're getting Greenland. All right. Again, I got to change these lower thirds. We got Greenland. Amazing. We got Greenland. Permanent access. It's a big, big deal. So I told you a while back that we were locking down the bases, new bases. in Greenland. I told you that things were progressing. And I've been watching this story. You know, like I told you, I read a lot. I talked to a lot of people and I've been very plugged in and I've been watching it very carefully. And because of this, I reported on it yesterday, vis-a-vis what the EU and Canada were trying to do. And I was worried they were trying to squeeze us out of the Arctic. And then here we go. Today, with this one, with the president's big, big, news. So guys, I just get to say, I told you that Canada was not going to be able to outsmart them. That was one of my big lines yesterday. I told you there was no way they were going to outsmart Donald Trump. And you know what? I was totally right. I just didn't expect to be right. Usually I'm like really early. This one was like right on time, like within hours. Okay, here we go. Here's the Greenland deal. Here it is, all of it right now. I'm going to just read right off this graphic permanent access. Okay. So we're going to get that permanent basing, overflight, and access. We can add new military installations as we need. Denmark and Greenland are consulted on this, but they have no veto power. That's very important. Adversaries are totally locked out. So anybody that doesn't get along with us, anybody we don't want there, that would be China, that right now would be Russia and any other non-nado countries are absolutely barred from bases. They can have no troops. They can have no sensitive investments without U.S. written approval. Woo-hoo! Okay, golden dome. Remember that? The golden dome that we want. The deal is going to cover security and other needs. Greenland can be used for the golden dome, missile defense shield, sovereignty, unchanged, sovereignty. Okay, so it's going to get to stay with Greenland and Denmark, but basically there is no sale, there is no annexation, and there's no expiration to this deal that we just made. So this deal is a permanent deal for the United States of America to have permanent full access to all of Greenland. I cannot state enough what a big deal this is, and how so many presidents, and you saw that in the true social post he put out. I've wanted this, I've dreamt of this, I've talked of this, I've looked at this, nobody has been able to get it done. It went dormant for years, and thanks to credit to Ron Louder for actually thinking about this one way ahead of time, and I would say other important people Elon Musk, and he recognized the importance of this, and certainly Marco Rubio, and I would also applaud Marco Rubio, because this had to have taken some very good deal negotiations to get done, I mean, this is a biggie. All right, this is a really, really big deal, and he's told us all along, you know what, we need it, we want it, it's got to be ours. Let's go back. All right, I want to play this. This is Davos, February, 2026, and wow, he made the case. I have tremendous respect for both the people of Greenland and the people of Denmark, tremendous respect, but every NATO ally has an obligation to be able to defend their own territory, and the fact is no nation or group of nations is in any position to be able to secure Greenland other than the United States. We're a great power, much greater than people even understand. I think they found that out two weeks ago, and then as well, we saw this in World War II, when Denmark fell to Germany, they have to just six hours of fighting, and was totally unable to defend either itself or Greenland. So the United States was then compelled, we did it, we felt an obligation to do it, to send our own forces to hold the Greenland territory, and hold it we did at great cost and expense, they didn't have a chance of getting on it, and they tried. Denmark knows that. We fought for Denmark, we weren't fighting for anyone else, we were fighting to save it for Denmark. Big, beautiful piece of ice, it's hard to call it land, it's a big piece of ice, but we saved Greenland and successfully prevented our enemies from gaining a foothold in our hemisphere, so we did it for ourselves also. And then after the war, which we won, we won it big without us. Right now, you'd all be speaking German and little Japanese, perhaps. After the war, we gave Greenland back to Denmark. How stupid were we to do that? But we did it, but how ungrateful are they now? So now our country and the world face much greater risks than it did ever before, because of missiles, because of nuclear, because of weapons of warfare that I can't even talk about. Greenland is a vast, almost entirely uninhabited and undeveloped territory, the sitting undefended in a key strategic location between the United States, Russia and China. It's exactly where it is right smack in the middle. I know that's an old clip, but I got to tell you, it was a very good speech and I think everybody woke up. We got Greenland, I'm putting it back on this lower third too. It's a very, very important move and I got to say that it's nice to see this win come right now and it's nice to see that this thing that had been talked about so much and the left will hate it, right? I don't know why they hate it. You know, I don't know why they would hate such a thing. They ought to love it because this is very important actually for global security, for our security and for global security. Anyway, there's a meme going around online right now and real time that our friend Eric Dority over at Florida's voice put out and I want to show this one to you because it's just really cute. We got it, we got it, we got it, here we go. I'm going to add this to the screen and you can see there. Look at that flag going up. Look at that flag. Okay, we got it. This is huge. I own Greenland, that's funny. That's a funny one. Again, strategically just really important in the scheme of things with the world as it is right now and again, as you saw Dan Cain saying this morning, given that there's obviously going to be a new frontier in warfare, we kind of needed to have something like this. Again, this has been planted in the president's head as far back as at least 2019, at least as far back as 2019, when Ron Louder apparently really made the push to try and get this and now it's come about. Now, you know, he's got another term and this is very high on the agenda. He made it a priority and sure enough, it got done. These are things that often take a long time, right? But in fact, in this particular case, we got it done and we got it done fast. We got it done very fast and so my hat goes off to everyone in the administration. This is a huge win. Congratulations to all of them. I'm just going to see if I have more sound coming to you again as this news just came in as we were coming to air. I think it's just an enormous accomplishment and we needed it and we got it. He said we'd get it and sure enough, I'm impressed. I'm impressed. And I don't know what Canada was really up to. I don't know. You know, I got to say here, let me go to GB news because they're agreeing with me here. GB news saying this is a huge victory lap for one Marco Rubio. I know that there is also a Bloomberg magazine cover that just came out. I want to show you this one too because this Bloomberg magazine cover basically was touting. Marco Rubio is the guy, right? The guy that was getting all the presidents deals done. Here we go. Take a look at this before we go to GB news. You've got Bloomberg Business Week putting this one up. This just happens to be their cover this week. The president's man, Donald Trump is blowing up the global order. Marco Rubio is here ready to help. They make it almost sound like you know, he's his little lackey or something. It's meant to be a dig. But that's not a dig. This is history in the making guys. This is, this is huge. And Marco and Trump got us Greenland. So hats off to Marco. This is a big deal to negotiate something like that is incredible. Absolutely positively incredible. And yes, he should be taking a victory lap, a victory lap if you would for days and days and days. Like I mean, gosh, you know, he might be giving JD a run first money soon or thing. Thanks. Let's see what GB news had to say about this one. Yes. Has he delivered on his words? What do we know about the deal? Promises may. Promises kept. And we'll see the full details of it. This is just breaking now, obviously, that we all know. But look, he's been consistent about the need for the United States to have a strong presence in Greenland. And really, the reason why is for national security purposes, Trump is talking consistently about building golden dome to protect the United States from threats like China. And what we cannot have as a country is having Greenland be taken over by a country like China. Obviously, their military is not what we call a superior. It's no disrespect to them. But the United States is a superior military. We need to have access to there for Golden Dome, for National Security purposes. This is key in the eyes of the administration. Promises may, promises kept. Most of the folk details are there. Mark, any thoughts? - The devil's in the details. And so I see reporter that's both Denmark and Greenland, promised nation with statement shortly and they expect to have something signed. What is that something? What are the details in that agreement? Is it exactly as President Trump says or there's some nuance that he's leaving out? Don't know, but really a surprise tonight and definitely breaking news on this, considering the hostility that really all sides have. Remember some people said that this debate that the President brought up could rupture NATO because he was threatening to essentially go into a NATO ally. So really surprising news, and I can't wait to see the details. - I have a few details here, it's just breaking. This is from Fox News or Credit Them. So the US will now have permanent access, basing and overflight rights in Greenland and the ability to establish additional military. So again, huge, massive, we have permanent access now. We have the ability to not let anybody else in there. This is huge. And I imagine, it's just funny that he came out with this today, think about the timing on this, right? Why today? And what was the whole kick in the media? That was really interesting, right? Like I told you, it was really busy afternoon for me because I was actually working on a Greenland story and working on the Maria story. So I had a few little stories going for you, right? And then all of a sudden, we get hit with him, telling CNN, you know, bye-bye-bye, you're out the door. And then, you know, political, bye-bye-bye, you're out the door, along with who's the other one? There are three of them, all to, oh, MS, whatever the heck it's called now. Miz, now, MSNBC, they're all out the door. And then this drops. And this is historic. This is absolutely positively historic. So guys, like, you know, don't out 'em, don't out 'em. I'll tell you, this is massive. And I think it's fascinating that it comes on the heels of Canada trying to do its little footsie dance with the EU. I mean, you get Canada saying, hey, we're going to join the EU. And Trump said, well, I hope it's not going to turn hostile. Was that them trying to get the Arctic? Well, now Canada gets some access to the Arctic, I guess, right? Because NATO, et cetera. I don't know, but anyway, I thought that was the best meme of the day yesterday, because the US is like, what, Canada? Really? The EU? Really? You know, considering that we're kind of like, where you'd want to be? Just judging by the trade numbers alone, right? The trade, you know, hey, we're like a $400 billion market for you. I think that you have to look really long and hard to find any of those European countries on that list. But you do you, Canada, right? You do you. I do think, and we talked about this yesterday, and I encourage you to go back and watch yesterday's show if you haven't seen my thoughts on that. I think that it's actually going to make it perhaps easier for us to have a good relationship with Alberta. Alberta that has all that oil up there, right? Four million barrels a day. Maybe we do a little arrangement. You want to be an associate to the EU? Well, maybe Alberta wants to be an associate of the US of A. But the biggie is the Arctic. And so I'm really pleased this afternoon going into the weekend here that we got it. One of the things that was very much-- and I'm going to get rid of this-- because yes, it was interesting that Ron was buying a home in Greenland for someone. And now I guess we know why. Anyway, we got Greenland. You had Denmark losing it quite recently, just losing it, because the president sent this map out just the other day. And he was suggesting that we were going to get Canada in Greenland. Maybe Iceland, too, right? You put out this map. And the Danish foreign minister went bonkers on it. And so did the prime minister. And it's really interesting, because they were actually in the middle of these deal negotiations, we now know. And so here we are just days later, and the deal is done. And we got it. So a big congratulations, a big congratulations to Donald Trump and the entire team there. This is what I love seeing. I just love it, and don't doubt for two seconds that they know what they're doing. They really, really, really know what they're doing. And it's why I believe in this economy, and I believe in this team. It's why I stay invested. I hope you're invested 76research.com. I didn't even have a chance to get there today. I've been so excited about Greenland. Anyway, go take a look at 76research.com over the weekend if you have a minute. We have a lot of thoughts on AI. We just published a piece on that earlier this week, as well as what went down at the Fed this week. Do take a look at that. Thank you for being here. Thank you for everything you do. And a glorious, glorious, exciting, exciting day. We are one to reckon with. I'll tell you, we're getting stuff done. Have a great weekend. I will see you back here live on the show on Monday. And lots more content coming your way. Hey, you know, I might even come on live. We'll see. If we get another country, why not? I'll see you soon. Bye. Gel to mist technology locks in your look for up to 24 hours, with flexible all day comfy grip. Maybe it's Maybelline.