December 16, 2025 • 43 mins
Lara Trump is joined by political commentator Stephanie Hamill and The Trish Regan Show host Trish Regan to respond to what they describe as a predictable Vanity Fair hit piece targeting Susie Wiles and President Trump’s cabinet. The conversation expands to the ongoing bias of left-wing media, including the use of unflattering imagery to shape public perception. Lara and her guests also discuss the foiled New Year’s Eve terrorist plot in California aimed at ICE agents, respond to Tim Walz’s attacks on President Trump’s family, and examine how to fix an economy they argue has been damaged by four years of disastrous Biden-era policies.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And oh loll back down.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
May Hey, everybody, thanks so much for joining us right
here on the right view tonight. We're going to start
with a few videos before we jump in to this discussion.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
So let's see what we've got here first.
Speaker 4 (00:22):
Christy nom the Home Security Secretary, said this week that
in response to that video you put out about knowing
your rights, what to do, advice comes knocking on your door.
If you were mayor, you could have been violating the
Constitution of the United States, and that she intimated that
the Department of Justice might be looking into. What's your
response to Christi Noman. I'm proud to inform people of
their rights, and I can't think of a more American
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thing to do than to speak.
Speaker 5 (00:44):
About the protections that we all have under the law.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
But who is we?
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Who is he talking about? The problem is these democrats
love to and socialists, might I add, love to combine
illegal immigrants with Americans just like that, you see how
that works. Didn't even try to put any day life
between the two. The rights you have as a citizen
of the United States of America are different than the
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rights you have as someone who broke our law to
come here.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Illegally.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
That It's just that simple. There's no two ways about it.
And as a result of you breaking that law and
coming here illegally, guess what, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement has
a right to get you out of our country. You
don't deserve to be here because you didn't come here
the right way. So the idea that this guy is
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somehow suggesting that people who are illegal immigrants have the
same rights as we, the American people, is a little crazy.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
But there you go. Good luck, New York. Let's see
what's next.
Speaker 6 (01:52):
I'm gonna be honest, I don't feel good about being
white every day for a lot of reasons, because it's
a point of privilege that I get to move through
the world in a way that so many of my
other colleagues and friends and family members of the community
don't get the privilege to do. And I'm just a female,
but just a woman, just a white woman. If I
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was a white man, I would be functioning from a
point of an even greater privilege.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Oh, I'm so tired of this. I'm so tired of this.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
That's the Kentucky state representative. You know, why, why do
we need to do this? I as a woman, by
the way her point at the end about it, and
if I were a man this.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Let me tell you something. I've been a woman my
whole life.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
I have never felt like there was any avenue that
was blocked to me because of the fact that I
am a woman.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
You know what I've always wanted.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
I've always wanted to be treated the exact same as
everybody else. Don't give me any handouts, don't give me
that step up in g Jane to get over the wall. No,
I need to earn it myself. I need to do
it myself. The idea that we continue to do this,
this like victim mentality that somehow, unless you are a
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white man, you were a victim in life is so
bad for so many people. To tell people that no
matter what you do, you're already gonna be counted out,
kicked down, like there's no path for you because the
privileged stuff. It's just so infuriating, and you see the
impact of this on so much of our society. You know,
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what would be better would be to tell every person
out there, you know what, you have the same rights
as I do.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
We're all equals, and we're.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
All gonna work hard to achieve our goals and our dreams.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
That's that's the way you do it. This all of
this stuff. And by the way, I.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Think about what this woman's day to day is like this,
what she's really thinking about day to day?
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Does anyone really believe that?
Speaker 2 (03:54):
You know, she had to add in her friends and
family who are not that privilege. Oh, we know, you're
very special that thank you for telling us that. I'm
tired of this. It's exhausting. We've got to move on
from this. We have to start boosting people up. Every
person in this country has the ability to rise. And
you have no better place in the world where you
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can do it than the United States of America. You
are only limited here by what you think you can
do and buy your drive to do it. So that
is an absolute bunch of bullshit.
Speaker 6 (04:31):
Next, so I have to go around the country and
educate people about what immigrants do for this country or
the fact that we are a country of immigrants.
Speaker 7 (04:42):
The fact is, ain't.
Speaker 8 (04:43):
None of y'all trying to go a farm right now?
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Okay, so I'm lying, raise.
Speaker 8 (04:51):
Your hands, you're not. You're not we done picking cotton?
Speaker 1 (05:03):
We are.
Speaker 8 (05:04):
You can't pay us enough to find a plantation.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
All right.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
First of all, the fact that Jasmine Crockett says she's
going around educating people, I don't know what to.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Say about that.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
This is also at a church, at Grace Baptist Church.
You know, my family on my mom's side is a
family of farmers. That's right, blueberry farms in North Carolina.
My grandfather and his whole family and grandmother called her granny.
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They all grew up working on the blueberry farms, and
as did my mom and her siblings and so on.
Still to this day, members of my family work on
those farms. This is absolutely ridiculous. This is a person
who wants to be a senator, a United States Senator
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from the state of Texas. I always say this, everybody
pay attention in Texas. Is that really who you want
representing you?
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Is that the best.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Person to vote on your behalf in Washington, d C?
To represent your interests in Washington, d C.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
From the state of Texas. Just want you think about it?
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Just throwing it out there, have a think about it, really,
let it sink in. Maybe it won't take you that
long to figure out the answer. This is shameful and
ridiculous and by the way, the fact that when she
asked that about being farmers, people were kind of like, well, actually, yeah,
some of us do actually work on a farm.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Ridiculous, Jasmine. Please, I'm trans normal.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
I'm pranky pronounced state them.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
As a trans berry.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
I love living out loud is my most authentic self.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
I'm safe when I'm with my friends or other non binary.
Speaker 8 (07:03):
Peoples, the undisputed champions of my fly by.
Speaker 5 (07:17):
I gave that he or she just who I am.
Welcome to your crash course in holiday self expression.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Okay, well, there's another reason to keep your kids off
the devices. I may have explained before that I am
Eric and I are very big on the devices. Are
just gone from our house, and our kids have started
reading books.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
You know.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
The good news is with books, you got to do
your homework on them.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
The books too.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
But this is so blatant and so obvious and just
another reason you you just can't trust anything today. Can
we just go back to the time when kids were
just allowed to be kids? My God, kids grow up
so quickly these days. I'm so much faster than when
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I was a kid, And it's such a shame, because
childhood should be as long as possible, and just you know,
it should be what we all once upon a time
got to experience ourselves. But not these kids today don't
get that. It's shortened enough already. This sort of thing
is so sad to me. We're just shoving it down
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the kid's throats. We've got to do better than this,
and as parents, it's up to us to know what
our kids are consuming. It's again another reason to keep
them off of these things as long as humanly possible,
and maybe figure out a good book series for your kids.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Like mine. They're so my son can't get enough reading
at night.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
I have to go into his room and say, like,
it's time to go to Betty's got a little night
a little light that clips on his book that he
reads at night. This is terrifying. So ladies and gentlemen,
this is what they want to do to your kids.
Just head on a swivel, everybody, because you never know.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Oh my god, look at this.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Five fifty Tonight, we're joined by political commentator Stephanie Hammill
as well as the host of The Trish Reagan Show.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
We're so excited to have her.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Trish Reagan. Ladies, welcome to the show. Really excited to
have both of you on Trish. It's your first time,
so love love having you, and I'm just gonna jump
right in with ladies. What I feel like everyone got
really hysterical about today this Vanity Fair article. There's so
much going on in the world, Trish. The fact that
this is where everybody kind of honed in, I think
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is a little ridiculous. But there was this Vanity Fair
article that came out today that featured Susie Wilds, Caroline Levitt,
Steven Miller, Marco Rubio, j d Vance, James Blair, and Dancevino,
and they obviously gave very exclusive and extensive access to
this Vanity Fair reporter for many many months. I think
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their reporting started, or their gathering of the information started
somewhere around January, before even the inauguration. And all you
had to do, Trish was look at the photos that
they used to know what kind of piece this was
going to be. That this wasn't going to be some
some kind of fluffy, very kind piece where it actually
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talks about what incredible people all of these individuals are.
And I'm lucky enough to know all of them personally,
great people who work hard, who love America. No, No,
this was a piece where despite having access for what
seems to be eleven months to these individuals, they cherry
picked out little tidbits without any context, to try and
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paint a picture of chaos or confusion or problems between
people within this White House and the administration. I can
tell you firsthand, I've never seen a more well functioning
White House and people working better together. And you don't
have to take my word for it. Take a look
at how America is going right now, Trish. So what
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was your hot take on this vanity fair.
Speaker 5 (11:16):
Knox, Well, my take is that you have a very
bias reporter who has an agenda. And the trouble with print,
I mean, at least when you're on camera and they
don't splice and dice your words, although President Trump has
certainly seen that just look at what the BBC did.
Speaker 9 (11:33):
But at least, if you're actually.
Speaker 5 (11:35):
Communicating something directly on camera, hopefully they can't change it
up so much. But when you get a print reporter
that has a particular bias, right, and that print reporter
had his own bias, and he came into the situation
knowing that bias. He's trying to look for like little
things to kind of fit in and tell his story.
Speaker 9 (11:51):
Tell a narrative. It doesn't matter if the narrative is
true or not, if fits the narrative right.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
So it's entirely possible that Susie could have been joking
around and said something about the conspiracy theory thing with
j D, which, by the way, he handled brilliantly, because
it turns out apparently the last few years being a
conspiracy theorist, you actually just are ahead of the truth.
You know, the truth six months before the mainstream media does.
So he you know, and he was asked about it,
and he did a good job with that. But I
think that that's the bottom line here. You have a
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reporter with that reporter's own bias. Jack Welch once said
to me, the late Jack Weltch, Lara, and you know,
I've been a.
Speaker 9 (12:23):
Business report of my whole career.
Speaker 5 (12:24):
So he remember once saying, I will never do an
interview live unless it's live. I had asked him to
come on my program and he's like, no, no, no, no, no,
unless it's live, no tape.
Speaker 9 (12:33):
And I was like, you know, when.
Speaker 5 (12:34):
Tape an interview, wouldn't that be easier for no, no, no,
I only do live because you know what, they can
do whatever they want with tape, and it's the same
thing with print, right, they can do whatever they want
with print. They concoct the story, and they just use
you as a little tool, right, a little ornament on
the tree to dress up whatever they already have a
preconceived notion of.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Yeah, and this is what So Caroline Lovett was obviously
questioned about this, which not.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
To go back to the photos. The photos they used.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Stephanie I thought were horrific. It's like they chose the
most unflattering photos, which we know they do for all
of us.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
I was telling you before we started.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
They'll love they love to get a freeze frame of
me mid sentence to use for some sort of a
slam piece because it makes us all look crazy. These
the most awful photos of all of these people, Caroline
said today, this is unfortunately another example of disingenuous reporting.
We have a reporter who took the chief of staffs
words wildly out of context, did not include the context
those conversations were had within. And then further, I think
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the most egregious part of this article was the bias
of a mission that was clearly present. Many people in
the building spoke with that reporter, and those comments were
never included in the story, probably.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Because it didn't push the.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
False narrative of chaos and confusion that the reporter was
clearly trying to push.
Speaker 7 (13:52):
What do you think, Stephanie, They're just so much to
unpack there.
Speaker 10 (13:56):
But I will first start off with the photo of
Caroline Levy and the others, and it's like they put
some filter on all of these people to make them
look like mean or older, like Caroline Levett's skin look
like the skin of a seventy year old woman when
we know she's very youthful and beautiful in person. And
so you know they do this on purpose to create
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this image, like a grim image. And you're so right.
They do that to you all the time when they
do the hit pieces. They've done it to me. They
find the most unflattering photo they possibly can.
Speaker 7 (14:26):
And then, of course what the same thing that.
Speaker 10 (14:29):
They do to you, what they did in this article,
what they did to me is they take you out
of context and write a smear piece, which is, you know,
not based on facts. So you know, this is the
vanity fair. You have to take it with a grain
of salt. Probably not a lot of truth in there.
And I trust a liberal reporter following anyone in the
Trump administration around as much as I trust gas station sushi.
I am honestly kind of surprised we're still doing this
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right now, like letting liberals into the inner circle, thinking
that something might good come out of it, when we
know that it won't. Of course, going to get you
out a moment. They're going to try to take a
joke out of context. They're going to do everything they
possibly can to make you look bad. And so you're right, Laura,
this is the Trump administration is obviously the best administration
so far, and everyone's been working so cohesively and together,
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and there really hasn't been the infighting and things we've
seen in the previous administration. So the Vanity Fair is
just creating this whole narrative for clicks, and it's despicable.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
It's pretty rich for these people who you know, for
four years just completely covered up for Joe Biden and
what we all saw with our own eyes, to try
to go out of their way to sow some sort
of discord within this administration and this White House it's
different because the Biden administration was destroying America and the
Trump administration is rebuilding it and doing really great things.
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So you can try and cause a problem within the
White House all you want, but we all know the
truth and we all see it with our own eyes
because it's happening every single day. And so it's it's
a shame though, because I hate that we can't we
can't trust anybody.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
You know, you had this.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Opportunity for vanity fair, for us to maybe kind of
mens some fences here and say like, all right, well
let's do a reasonable, real piece here and let's give
some real information, and they couldn't even do that. It's
just I find it so sad. It's been a really
kind of crazy past week though. You know, there's been
a lot going on. We still don't have a suspect
in this Brown University shooting. There were all of these
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things that sort of happen over the weekend that were
really terrifying. You have this issue the situation the Bondi
Beach shooting in Australia, which obviously was pretty horrific, but
you look back here at home, and you had d
and I Tolci Gabbert, saying that somewhere around eighteen thousand
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individuals with terror tize entered the United States under the
Biden administration. Trish, we knew this was going to be
a problem when you have a fully open southern border
and you're not vetting anyone coming in, just letting anyone,
every person who walks over the border come in. That's
one thing when you actually bring them in from Afghanistan,
which a lot of these people. She says that there
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were two thousand potential terrorists from Afghanistan that were brought
in by the Biden administration, and they apparently rushed and
kind of didn't vet these people properly just to expedite
the entry because they wanted to get them in. There's
to me, it seems like it's only a matter of
time before something bad happens here. And I say this
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all the time. All it takes is one person with
bad intentions. Here you have eighteen thousand individuals with terroritized
who they're saying enter.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
The United States.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
But then you look out at the West Coast, where
the FBI arrested four members of a radical terror cell
who were planning a deadly plot in Los Angeles, this
is the Turtle Island Liberation Front. They were taken into
custody over the weekend after plots of bombings target getting
at least five locations across LA and Orange County on.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
New Year's Eve were revealed. So Tricia's it's it's here, It's.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
It's happening, and thank god we have you know, people
within this administration are are you know, law enforcement agencies
who are on top of this here they've prevented a
serious situation. It wasn't prevented, you know, over in Australia.
But to me, unfortunately, eighteen thousand, I kind of think
it's only a matter of time.
Speaker 5 (18:30):
I mean I found that number just staggering when I
heard it, Lara, and I really do worry for the country.
I mean, it's it's wild, right Like, it's just wild
that that many people were allowed to come into the
country illegally. You have no idea like who's here, you
have no record of people, and then you get wind
of eighteen thousand being here that have suspected terroritized. I
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mean that's just unacceptable, right, Like, it's absolutely positively unacceptable.
What is the job of government to keep us safe
and to keep your property safe and we should not
be fearful. But look, I mean, there's a lot of
bad stuff going down, and we have to take this
seriously because.
Speaker 9 (19:10):
For four years we didn't.
Speaker 5 (19:11):
For four years, we chose to just say, okay, come one,
come all, and hey, we'll give you some free health
care if you're in California, and we'll give you some
free housing in New York at the Roosevelt Hotel, which
used to be a very nice hotel along with daily
maid service. For goodness sake, I mean, it was out
of control, totally out of control, very politically motivated. And now, okay,
we get some adults in the room and we're trying
to all do the right thing here.
Speaker 9 (19:32):
And yet you still look at the.
Speaker 5 (19:35):
Force right of resistance that the Trump administration is being
met with, and it's like, guys, hey, we're on the
same team. We want to keep America an Americans safe.
Speaker 9 (19:44):
Period.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Yeah, we don't care what your political affiliation is. We
don't care we voted for in twenty twenty four or
any other year.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
This is you're right.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
It's the number one job of government is to keep
Americans safe. And it seems like for four years that
duty was just completely just thrown away. Nobody even cared
about it. This issue that was thwarted, this potential terror
attack that was thwarted out in Los Angeles, oo' Stephanie.
I find really interesting they say that this group was
prepping to conduct a series of bombings against multiple targets
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in California beginning on New Year's Eve because no one
would be able to hear over the fireworks if there
were detonations and explosions. And they also planned to target
ICE agents in vehicles. I mean, this is sort of
where we've come right now. This is as a result
of people demonizing our law enforcement, demonizing ICE agents.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
They were lumped in to this group.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
And you know, you also look over to Germany, who
let's look at what Germany has done. Talk about wide
open borders, man, they have let a lot of people
into their country. German police have now arrested five men
in connection with an alleged is Lamist terror plot to
attack and target Christmas markets in southern Bavaria.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
So look, I'm all for people.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Coming to America or immigrating to other countries, you got
to go through the right process to do it. Otherwise
this is the sort of thing that will happen. Whenever
you allow people to just come in without any checks,
with possibly bad intentions, you're going to get a bad result.
And here are two examples of law enforcement really being
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on top of it. But I don't know how long
they can maintain that, Stephanie.
Speaker 10 (21:36):
There's so much to hit on here. Number one, I'll
start with Dani Gabbird's remarks. She said it was eighteen
thousand that had ties to terror. Well, she said the
biggest thing was those were the ones that they cocked
that they're onto.
Speaker 7 (21:50):
What about everyone else?
Speaker 10 (21:52):
The LA case is interesting because we're not really sure
about the immigration status of these people. I think some
of them may have been born and raised in Lam,
not one hundred percent sure, but this is that case,
from what we know right now, doesn't necessarily have anything
to do with radical Islam. If you look at what
they support and what they believed in. They were anti capitalism,
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they were pro Palestine, which is interesting. It just sounded
like a far left, radical group that had a bone
to pick with everyone, because it sounds like if those
bombs were to have gone off, they would have affected
everyone equally. They wouldn't have known who they were harming.
They just wanted to cause fear and make a point
if they were able to pull that off. As for
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the infiltration of radical Islam in countries across the world,
whether it be in Europe or Australia, we have so
many of these politicians that are worried about offending people
and are worried about Islamophobia and all these other things,
that they seem to look the other way when it
comes to properly vetting people that are coming from places
that are known for having radical Islam being prevalent in
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their area. I mean, if you look at you know,
just the importation of the Afghanis that came in after
the evacuation, if you read into it, you know, all
these people were rushed in here. There was really no
proper vetting process. The Biden administration was warned about it,
and now we're seeing the real life consequences of it.
So we're learning that maybe two thousand of these Afghanis
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that were brought over may also have ties of terrorism,
which is exactly what he said. How do you properly
that people when they're coming from a place that's warranty
and it's not like there's a piece of paper here
that says, oh, you know this person radical Islam. You
just you really can't document it. You can't find that information.
So it is really concerning. And that's where the argument comes.
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How does this type of immigration benefit the American people,
the people that are here and already love this country,
and it really it just doesn't.
Speaker 7 (23:47):
Why don't you send.
Speaker 10 (23:48):
These people to places where Islam is common and they
share similar views and world values with other people?
Speaker 7 (23:55):
They just seem to.
Speaker 10 (23:56):
Want, yeah, into the Western civilization where it doesn't align
with it.
Speaker 9 (24:02):
I mean, that's that's just to jump in.
Speaker 5 (24:04):
That's the tough thing, right Like America, Germany, Australia.
Speaker 9 (24:09):
You know, we are these great.
Speaker 5 (24:10):
Free nations and we've been incredibly welcoming and it's it's
of course been one of our strengths.
Speaker 9 (24:15):
But we can't be naive as well.
Speaker 5 (24:17):
Right, I mean, if if people are coming here, they
just are not going to be able to adapt, accept
or be you know, willing to embrace an American way
of life. And I don't know what to say, Like
it's it's it's there's a lot of other places they
could go, and and those countries don't really want them
and aren't taking them and then somehow layer of the.
Speaker 9 (24:40):
Burdens on us. It's definitely the burdens on us.
Speaker 5 (24:42):
I mean, why why should we have to take on
all the problems of the world if it doesn't work
for us. I think that we need to be thoughtful,
and you know we can be We can be very
accepting and welcoming of immigrants from all over the world
provided they want to come to America for that better
start and they're willing to to do what they have
to do, which means do the paperwork, come in the
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right way, be a contributing member of society that's going
to help make this country better.
Speaker 7 (25:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (25:09):
And you have to just remind everyone the shooting of
the National guardsmen right before Thanksgiving. The AC shooter was
the Afghani and according to reports since Afghani said that
he had trouble assimilating. So, I mean, the evidence is just,
you know, right in our faces, is so glaring.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
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Speaker 3 (25:38):
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what I was going to say is you have to
make some attempt to assimilate to a society or culture
whenever you move there. You know, if one of us
were to move somewhere where we were totally out of
our element, you do have to kind of respect the
norms of the place you're trying to move and live.
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And that's just that's just how it works. And you know, you,
on the other hand of the coin have, of course,
Governor Tim Walls of Minnesota saying after and this is
in the wake, of course, Trish, of this crazy, crazy
scandal that'saw at least a billion dollars in fraud sold
from the taxpayers of his state by what seems to
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be a lot of you know, Somali nationals who have
moved to Minnesota. He says he was appeared at some
fundraiser in Seattle over the weekend, and he says he's
pledging to bring more Somali immigrants to his state despite
what has happened. He says, instead of demonizing our Somali community, we're.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
Going to do more to welcome more.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
Instead of cutting programs, we're going to enhance them. Okay,
that's that's fine, But you do have to acknowledge that
there is something going on here. And maybe before Tim Walls,
we start just bringing more people in, maybe you want
to get a handle on what's happening as it exists
right now. Something else he said, by the way, in
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that speech, I watched it. Unfortunately, he said that he
called my husband and his brother, Donald Trump's failed sons.
What failed sons, Tim Walt's what I'm sorry. Donald Trump, Junior,
and Eric Trump have a lot that they have done
in their lives, a lot they've done for the Trump organization,
a lot they've done on the campaign trail, a lot
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they've done in their personal lives, and a lot that
they've done professionally.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
Outside of the scope of any of that.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
So I'd love to know why you think that they
are failed sons. But obviously that's not we're talking about here, Trish.
Speaker 5 (29:31):
I get no, It's just it's a character. You know,
he's trying to assassinate their character. I would say, by
the way, like I don't know Junior as well. I
know your husband. He's fantastic. He's a wonderful person, as
are you, as is you know everyone in your family
that I have come across and.
Speaker 9 (29:47):
Met, really truly.
Speaker 5 (29:50):
Wonderful individuals and appreciative of other individuals. Look, I think
that he's just throwing stuff at the wall to see
what sticks. And it's very political for him, right, He's
got first of all, you know, anything Trump is bad,
so he's going to take that line of attack. But
the second thing is in terms of bringing more some
Allians here, Well, let's let's be honest, Like that's a
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very very big voting block, and so he's trying once
again to cater to a group that he thinks is
going to get him elected. And that's just unfortunately from Minnesota. Uh,
the reality of the situation on the ground. He is
not a very smart man in my estimation. I mean,
for goodness sakes, I don't think he has not to
not to you know, pick on people that don't invest.
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But I mean he's really living up to the Komi
image because I don't think he has a single equity
that he owns.
Speaker 9 (30:39):
Not a singer. You know, he doesn't even have like
the S and P index. The guy does not invest.
He doesn't have any capital after all these years of
making all that.
Speaker 5 (30:46):
Money in Congress, you know, and he's you know, maybe
that's a good thing, right because we don't want them
trading stocks. But to me, if you believe in the
American economy, like you should be also somewhat invested in it.
Speaker 9 (30:57):
Does he even own a home? I don't know.
Speaker 5 (30:58):
I don't have a lot of respects for many reasons
the Tampon's aside for one, Tim Walls, But I would
take anything he says let it go in one ear
and out the other, except for the fact that if
he gets elected again, he keeps bringing people in that
has an effect on the rest of us. Right Minnesota,
they can do what they want to do if they
elect him. I guess it's their problem, But what about
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the rest of us, because that's our money, that's us
taxpayer money that was stolen.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
Was it the tampons or was it the fake hunting
set up situation where you lost all tam walts.
Speaker 5 (31:34):
Yeah, And I think he actually said they're afraid of
me because I'm so masculine. I'm like, oh, yeah, buddy,
you're just the epitome of masculinity.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
When you have to call it out like that, clearly
it's not there. Like if you have to even talk
about it, you aren't masculine. Like no one is buying
the coach stick or any of that crap that he
tried to do. It was really embarrassing. I had secondhand
embarrassment for a guy that we were running against.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
So you know, I mean, take that as you as
you will.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
One of the other problems though, that we hear a
little bit about Stephanie, But if you look at the numbers,
is really concerning is these commercial driver's licenses for illegals,
especially in states like California, is astronomical. When you look
at the state of California, it leads the nation for
illegal immigrants who hold commercial driver's licenses, somewhere around sixty
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thousand of them apparently, which is wild. Secretary Duffy said
that we have states giving out CDLs like candy, and
they've allowed people who should never have a CDL to
operate an eighty thousand pounds big rig on Americans roads.
And he says, we're gonna start to hold these people accountable.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
You know, you've seen these issues.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
You've seen the people who like the guy did a
U turn in the middle of the highway and killed
several people. I think it was three people who were
dead because of it. And you have Washington State saying
they accidentally issued somewhere around seven hundred commercial driver's licenses
to illegals.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
But we have to take this seriously.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
If people come here and they don't speak English, how
do we expect them to read the street signs? If
they don't have a legitimate driver's license like as it is,
because they're not a US citizen, how are we giving
them these commercial driver's licenses, and it's obviously a problem
because people have been killed as a result of this,
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and you know, we got to draw the lines somewhere.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
Somebody's got to do something about this.
Speaker 10 (33:30):
It's infuriating and it's so egregious on so many levels
that this has been going on for so long, and
you're right you pointed out to so many of these
examples of people being killed by these big rigs, by
people who don't speak English, that can't read the signs,
that can't understand the language. And we've also seen the
videos of police pulling over these illegal immigrants that have
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these licenses that they were given from certain liberal states
like California and Washington, as you point out, and they
can't even have a conversation with the officer.
Speaker 7 (33:59):
This is really astounding.
Speaker 10 (34:01):
It's so dangerous, and I really hope that there is
a crackdown on it because we just can't have people
operating these massive vehicles on our streets. And it doesn't
even just stay in the states where they're being issued.
This is a country wide issue because these big riggs
are going from state to state.
Speaker 3 (34:18):
Yeah, it's we got to figure that out too.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
It's just another reason that we got we were done
so wrong by the last administration. Something else they did
that was a big problem was the affordability of America. Trish, Obviously,
that's what the Democrats are banking on for these mid terms.
They keep talking about affordability as though these people have
any idea how to fix it. They're the ones who
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broke it. This is what President Trump always says. He says,
the Democrats broke it. Trump will fix it. And he
said Democrats talking about affordability is like Bonnie and Clyde
preaching about public safety. I would love to know what
the solution is the Democrats have, because Donald Trump and
his administration have actually planted the seats that we will
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see come to fruition. And I mean a lot of
it's already working, but some of it takes a little
bit of time. No tax on overtime tips, social security,
that sort of thing, the trade agreements that we've put
in place, the investment in America.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
Does take time.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
It took four years to dig us into this hole
that Joe Biden left us, and Trisha, I would say
it's going to take a little bit of time to
dig us out of this hole. That's why President Trump
was in Pennsylvania last week talking to the American people
about what he's done. And I think we got to
keep doing more of that as we head to the midterms.
Speaker 5 (35:34):
Look, he's done a great job, without a doubt, and
I would just say that the other team did such
a bad job that it will take a while to
dig our way out of. You know, people they're kind
of nostalgic. They're like, oh, you know, when Trump was
there before, it only costs this much to go on vacation,
or it only costs this much, you know, for the
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new school clothes or whatever it be. And now they're
looking at all the inflation that has transpired. And don't forget,
I mean Leira, when we were upwards of nine percent
on consumer prices. Well, guess what when you're suddenly just
up six percent and they're like, oh, look at this.
You know, we're up nine percent. Now we're up six percent.
Look at this is great. It's coming down. No, no, no,
it's cumulative, right, so it's nine percent, and then it's
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still up another six percent, and then you're up another
five percent or seven percent.
Speaker 9 (36:20):
And we were up there for a while.
Speaker 5 (36:24):
So now we're back in a zone that everybody's comfortable with.
You have to have a little bit of inflation, believe
it or not. Otherwise you know, we'll never shop right.
If I know that something's going on sale next month,
why buy it this month? And so a little teeny
bit of inflation is supposed to be there in the economy.
We've got it back to a level that's acceptable. But
because everybody remembers what it was not too long ago, they.
Speaker 9 (36:48):
Wanted to go back. And I'm sorry, but Joe Biden
ruined it. He just ruined it.
Speaker 5 (36:52):
He and his team did the most asinine things I
could possibly think of.
Speaker 9 (36:57):
I just couldn't believe it.
Speaker 5 (36:58):
I mean, one after another, the money printing that went
on from Nancy and Chuck, which, by the way, lining
the pockets of all the people in Minnesota that we
were just talking about. I mean, you had all kinds
of crazy things going on. So just this money printing NonStop.
Jerome Paul at the Fed, I mean, he just couldn't
print enough. Combined with Biden's third stimulus check. You had
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to send a third check because he want his name
on it. I guess during COVID, all of this contributed
to a massive optick in prices, and so we're still
dealing with that hangover. And yes, it's contained, it's under control.
Some people are worried because unemployment went up a little bit.
I got some good news on that front. Listen, when
you start to see an economy improve, more people try
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and join the workforce.
Speaker 9 (37:41):
That's a good thing.
Speaker 5 (37:42):
And so sometimes the unemployment right goes up a little bit,
That's okay, we can handle it. It's a sign that
people are trying to get back in.
Speaker 9 (37:50):
So I'm not.
Speaker 5 (37:51):
Worried about the economy. I actually feel really good about it.
Thank goodness. We have a smart team President Trump and
Bessant and the whole crew there. I mean, I think
you've got the economy on the right path. It's unfortunately
not fast enough for some people.
Speaker 9 (38:05):
And I would just urge patience.
Speaker 3 (38:08):
We have to have patients.
Speaker 2 (38:09):
And actually that's what the Vice President said whenever he
was asked about it, Stephanie. He said, the thing I'd
asked the American people for is a little bit of patience.
The economy was not harmed in ten months, and as
much progress as we've made, it's going to take a
little bit of time. For every American to feel that
economic boom, which we really do believe is coming. My
message to the American people who are still feeling like
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things are unaffordable, who are still feeling like things are
rough out there is Look, we get it, We hear you,
and we know there's.
Speaker 3 (38:37):
A lot of work to do.
Speaker 2 (38:38):
There's a lot of wood to chop because the Biden
administration put us in such a.
Speaker 3 (38:42):
Very, very tough spot.
Speaker 2 (38:45):
Trisha, I loved your point about the unemployment because there
comes a point when things are so bad, people just
give up and they say, just take me out of
the running in general, and you don't even have them
added into the unemployment numbers because they stop even trying
to look for a job. It's we have to remember
that as well. But Stephanie, you look at everything as
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a whole that this president has done. It's like putting
all of the ingredients on a pastry chef, all of
the ingredients into a bowl to make a cake. You
gotta mix them up, you gotta put them in there,
then you got to put it in the oven, and
you gotta wait a second. They're not just gonna happen immediately.
And I know people like things to happen overnight. But
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all of the things that needed to happen to get
the economy back on track, to get people more money
in their pockets are happening. We have trade agreements, we
have that tariff money which is actually going down to
doing to pay down our national debt. Whoever thought that
we were going to be able to say something like
that in America? What other president was even thinking about that.
President Trump is doing it, and he's bringing investment back
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into the United States. Every country he visits whenever he's
left America gets what he comes.
Speaker 3 (39:55):
Back with, investment in the US.
Speaker 2 (39:57):
He comes back with, you know, promises to make more
jobs for the American people. That's a great thing. So
I just think people have to just.
Speaker 3 (40:07):
Take a breath.
Speaker 2 (40:08):
We're entering into a new year. It's the holiday season.
Speaker 3 (40:12):
I get it.
Speaker 2 (40:12):
It's crazy you're spending money all of these things. Although
Black Friday spending was up significantly this year. I think
it was the most Black Friday spending we've ever seen
in the history of America. But we're going to get there, Stephanie.
So I agree patients, I agree with Trish, and I
agree with our Vice president.
Speaker 7 (40:30):
Well, I agree with both of you.
Speaker 10 (40:31):
I think you hit the nail on the head here,
and that is, you know, the cake, this metaphorical cake
that we're baking, is in the process and it's going
to hit the oven soon and hopefully everyone will be
able to enjoy everything that the Trump administration has been
doing going forward to make life more affordable for the
American people. And I don't want to sugarcoat it. Right,
life is still tough for Americans out there. I do
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my own grocery shopping. I know how expensive things are
and it is hard. Like, for example, went to Whole
Foods the other day, had like five bags and it was
literally three three hundred dollars worth of stuff.
Speaker 7 (41:02):
It is expense.
Speaker 10 (41:02):
I mean, maybe it's my fault for going to Whole Foods,
but it is expensive out there. With that being said,
the Trump administration it's like putting the pieces of the
puzzle together and it is going in the right direction,
whether it be cutting regulations, working on tax policy, and
so forth. And not only are they undoing the damage
that was caused by the Biden administration, which was substantial,
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but also decades of uniparty leadership which hollowed out American wages,
which increased the price of homes and had just really
set our country up for failure.
Speaker 7 (41:36):
And so Trump is trying to undo all.
Speaker 10 (41:39):
Of that, and it is you know, the American people
need to be patient. Affordability is not going to happen overnight.
And it's not even just affordability, but like national security
for example, where Trump wants to bring back manufacturing and
explaining to the average person why it matters because if
we have issues with other countries, we don't want to
have to depend on them for things that we need
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in a time of war. So I am very impressed
on some of the things I've seen nationally speaking. If
you look at like gas prices, I mean that's a
huge accomplishment. Gas is under three dollars average and states
across America, which is incredible. Also, we know that people
are going to be seeing some cash flow from their
tax returns up to like a thousand to two thousand dollars,
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and I've heard people say, oh, well that's not very much. Well,
at least you're not going to have to pay more.
At least you're getting some money back in your pocket.
So again we're heading in the right direction. And I
like what I'm seeing well, ladies, there's.
Speaker 3 (42:32):
So much to talk about. I was going to talk about.
Speaker 2 (42:34):
Joy Reid trying to ruin Christmas as she likes to
do with saying the jingle bells is racist, but we're
out of time. Trish Reagan, what a pleasure to have you.
Thank you for joining us. Yeah, thank you and Stephanie.
We love having you as always so Trish. We hope
to have this crew back together soon. Until then, ladies,
thanks for joining. Merry Christmas to both of you, and
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to everybody at home is always make sure you like, subscribe, share,
and follow. We'll see you back here next time for
more of the Raat.
Speaker 1 (43:00):
Deal and a long back down.
Speaker 3 (43:08):
Baby babe, there ain't knowing that we have
And oh loll back down.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
May Hey, everybody, thanks so much for joining us right
here on the right view tonight. We're going to start
with a few videos before we jump in to this discussion.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
So let's see what we've got here first.
Speaker 4 (00:22):
Christy nom the Home Security Secretary, said this week that
in response to that video you put out about knowing
your rights, what to do, advice comes knocking on your door.
If you were mayor, you could have been violating the
Constitution of the United States, and that she intimated that
the Department of Justice might be looking into. What's your
response to Christi Noman. I'm proud to inform people of
their rights, and I can't think of a more American
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thing to do than to speak.
Speaker 5 (00:44):
About the protections that we all have under the law.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
But who is we?
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Who is he talking about? The problem is these democrats
love to and socialists, might I add, love to combine
illegal immigrants with Americans just like that, you see how
that works. Didn't even try to put any day life
between the two. The rights you have as a citizen
of the United States of America are different than the
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rights you have as someone who broke our law to
come here.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Illegally.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
That It's just that simple. There's no two ways about it.
And as a result of you breaking that law and
coming here illegally, guess what, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement has
a right to get you out of our country. You
don't deserve to be here because you didn't come here
the right way. So the idea that this guy is
(01:37):
somehow suggesting that people who are illegal immigrants have the
same rights as we, the American people, is a little crazy.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
But there you go. Good luck, New York. Let's see
what's next.
Speaker 6 (01:52):
I'm gonna be honest, I don't feel good about being
white every day for a lot of reasons, because it's
a point of privilege that I get to move through
the world in a way that so many of my
other colleagues and friends and family members of the community
don't get the privilege to do. And I'm just a female,
but just a woman, just a white woman. If I
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was a white man, I would be functioning from a
point of an even greater privilege.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Oh, I'm so tired of this. I'm so tired of this.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
That's the Kentucky state representative. You know, why, why do
we need to do this? I as a woman, by
the way her point at the end about it, and
if I were a man this.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Let me tell you something. I've been a woman my
whole life.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
I have never felt like there was any avenue that
was blocked to me because of the fact that I
am a woman.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
You know what I've always wanted.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
I've always wanted to be treated the exact same as
everybody else. Don't give me any handouts, don't give me
that step up in g Jane to get over the wall. No,
I need to earn it myself. I need to do
it myself. The idea that we continue to do this,
this like victim mentality that somehow, unless you are a
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white man, you were a victim in life is so
bad for so many people. To tell people that no
matter what you do, you're already gonna be counted out,
kicked down, like there's no path for you because the
privileged stuff. It's just so infuriating, and you see the
impact of this on so much of our society. You know,
(03:33):
what would be better would be to tell every person
out there, you know what, you have the same rights
as I do.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
We're all equals, and we're.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
All gonna work hard to achieve our goals and our dreams.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
That's that's the way you do it. This all of
this stuff. And by the way, I.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Think about what this woman's day to day is like this,
what she's really thinking about day to day?
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Does anyone really believe that?
Speaker 2 (03:54):
You know, she had to add in her friends and
family who are not that privilege. Oh, we know, you're
very special that thank you for telling us that. I'm
tired of this. It's exhausting. We've got to move on
from this. We have to start boosting people up. Every
person in this country has the ability to rise. And
you have no better place in the world where you
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can do it than the United States of America. You
are only limited here by what you think you can
do and buy your drive to do it. So that
is an absolute bunch of bullshit.
Speaker 6 (04:31):
Next, so I have to go around the country and
educate people about what immigrants do for this country or
the fact that we are a country of immigrants.
Speaker 7 (04:42):
The fact is, ain't.
Speaker 8 (04:43):
None of y'all trying to go a farm right now?
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Okay, so I'm lying, raise.
Speaker 8 (04:51):
Your hands, you're not. You're not we done picking cotton?
Speaker 1 (05:03):
We are.
Speaker 8 (05:04):
You can't pay us enough to find a plantation.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
All right.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
First of all, the fact that Jasmine Crockett says she's
going around educating people, I don't know what to.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Say about that.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
This is also at a church, at Grace Baptist Church.
You know, my family on my mom's side is a
family of farmers. That's right, blueberry farms in North Carolina.
My grandfather and his whole family and grandmother called her granny.
(05:40):
They all grew up working on the blueberry farms, and
as did my mom and her siblings and so on.
Still to this day, members of my family work on
those farms. This is absolutely ridiculous. This is a person
who wants to be a senator, a United States Senator
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from the state of Texas. I always say this, everybody
pay attention in Texas. Is that really who you want
representing you?
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Is that the best.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Person to vote on your behalf in Washington, d C?
To represent your interests in Washington, d C.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
From the state of Texas. Just want you think about it?
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Just throwing it out there, have a think about it, really,
let it sink in. Maybe it won't take you that
long to figure out the answer. This is shameful and
ridiculous and by the way, the fact that when she
asked that about being farmers, people were kind of like, well, actually, yeah,
some of us do actually work on a farm.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Ridiculous, Jasmine. Please, I'm trans normal.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
I'm pranky pronounced state them.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
As a trans berry.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
I love living out loud is my most authentic self.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
I'm safe when I'm with my friends or other non binary.
Speaker 8 (07:03):
Peoples, the undisputed champions of my fly by.
Speaker 5 (07:17):
I gave that he or she just who I am.
Welcome to your crash course in holiday self expression.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Okay, well, there's another reason to keep your kids off
the devices. I may have explained before that I am
Eric and I are very big on the devices. Are
just gone from our house, and our kids have started
reading books.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
You know.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
The good news is with books, you got to do
your homework on them.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
The books too.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
But this is so blatant and so obvious and just
another reason you you just can't trust anything today. Can
we just go back to the time when kids were
just allowed to be kids? My God, kids grow up
so quickly these days. I'm so much faster than when
(08:11):
I was a kid, And it's such a shame, because
childhood should be as long as possible, and just you know,
it should be what we all once upon a time
got to experience ourselves. But not these kids today don't
get that. It's shortened enough already. This sort of thing
is so sad to me. We're just shoving it down
(08:32):
the kid's throats. We've got to do better than this,
and as parents, it's up to us to know what
our kids are consuming. It's again another reason to keep
them off of these things as long as humanly possible,
and maybe figure out a good book series for your kids.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Like mine. They're so my son can't get enough reading
at night.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
I have to go into his room and say, like,
it's time to go to Betty's got a little night
a little light that clips on his book that he
reads at night. This is terrifying. So ladies and gentlemen,
this is what they want to do to your kids.
Just head on a swivel, everybody, because you never know.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Oh my god, look at this.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Five fifty Tonight, we're joined by political commentator Stephanie Hammill
as well as the host of The Trish Reagan Show.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
We're so excited to have her.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Trish Reagan. Ladies, welcome to the show. Really excited to
have both of you on Trish. It's your first time,
so love love having you, and I'm just gonna jump
right in with ladies. What I feel like everyone got
really hysterical about today this Vanity Fair article. There's so
much going on in the world, Trish. The fact that
this is where everybody kind of honed in, I think
(09:47):
is a little ridiculous. But there was this Vanity Fair
article that came out today that featured Susie Wilds, Caroline Levitt,
Steven Miller, Marco Rubio, j d Vance, James Blair, and Dancevino,
and they obviously gave very exclusive and extensive access to
this Vanity Fair reporter for many many months. I think
(10:09):
their reporting started, or their gathering of the information started
somewhere around January, before even the inauguration. And all you
had to do, Trish was look at the photos that
they used to know what kind of piece this was
going to be. That this wasn't going to be some
some kind of fluffy, very kind piece where it actually
(10:29):
talks about what incredible people all of these individuals are.
And I'm lucky enough to know all of them personally,
great people who work hard, who love America. No, No,
this was a piece where despite having access for what
seems to be eleven months to these individuals, they cherry
picked out little tidbits without any context, to try and
(10:52):
paint a picture of chaos or confusion or problems between
people within this White House and the administration. I can
tell you firsthand, I've never seen a more well functioning
White House and people working better together. And you don't
have to take my word for it. Take a look
at how America is going right now, Trish. So what
(11:14):
was your hot take on this vanity fair.
Speaker 5 (11:16):
Knox, Well, my take is that you have a very
bias reporter who has an agenda. And the trouble with print,
I mean, at least when you're on camera and they
don't splice and dice your words, although President Trump has
certainly seen that just look at what the BBC did.
Speaker 9 (11:33):
But at least, if you're actually.
Speaker 5 (11:35):
Communicating something directly on camera, hopefully they can't change it
up so much. But when you get a print reporter
that has a particular bias, right, and that print reporter
had his own bias, and he came into the situation
knowing that bias. He's trying to look for like little
things to kind of fit in and tell his story.
Speaker 9 (11:51):
Tell a narrative. It doesn't matter if the narrative is
true or not, if fits the narrative right.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
So it's entirely possible that Susie could have been joking
around and said something about the conspiracy theory thing with
j D, which, by the way, he handled brilliantly, because
it turns out apparently the last few years being a
conspiracy theorist, you actually just are ahead of the truth.
You know, the truth six months before the mainstream media does.
So he you know, and he was asked about it,
and he did a good job with that. But I
think that that's the bottom line here. You have a
(12:16):
reporter with that reporter's own bias. Jack Welch once said
to me, the late Jack Weltch, Lara, and you know,
I've been a.
Speaker 9 (12:23):
Business report of my whole career.
Speaker 5 (12:24):
So he remember once saying, I will never do an
interview live unless it's live. I had asked him to
come on my program and he's like, no, no, no, no, no,
unless it's live, no tape.
Speaker 9 (12:33):
And I was like, you know, when.
Speaker 5 (12:34):
Tape an interview, wouldn't that be easier for no, no, no,
I only do live because you know what, they can
do whatever they want with tape, and it's the same
thing with print, right, they can do whatever they want
with print. They concoct the story, and they just use
you as a little tool, right, a little ornament on
the tree to dress up whatever they already have a
preconceived notion of.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Yeah, and this is what So Caroline Lovett was obviously
questioned about this, which not.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
To go back to the photos. The photos they used.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Stephanie I thought were horrific. It's like they chose the
most unflattering photos, which we know they do for all
of us.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
I was telling you before we started.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
They'll love they love to get a freeze frame of
me mid sentence to use for some sort of a
slam piece because it makes us all look crazy. These
the most awful photos of all of these people, Caroline
said today, this is unfortunately another example of disingenuous reporting.
We have a reporter who took the chief of staffs
words wildly out of context, did not include the context
those conversations were had within. And then further, I think
(13:35):
the most egregious part of this article was the bias
of a mission that was clearly present. Many people in
the building spoke with that reporter, and those comments were
never included in the story, probably.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Because it didn't push the.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
False narrative of chaos and confusion that the reporter was
clearly trying to push.
Speaker 7 (13:52):
What do you think, Stephanie, They're just so much to
unpack there.
Speaker 10 (13:56):
But I will first start off with the photo of
Caroline Levy and the others, and it's like they put
some filter on all of these people to make them
look like mean or older, like Caroline Levett's skin look
like the skin of a seventy year old woman when
we know she's very youthful and beautiful in person. And
so you know they do this on purpose to create
(14:17):
this image, like a grim image. And you're so right.
They do that to you all the time when they
do the hit pieces. They've done it to me. They
find the most unflattering photo they possibly can.
Speaker 7 (14:26):
And then, of course what the same thing that.
Speaker 10 (14:29):
They do to you, what they did in this article,
what they did to me is they take you out
of context and write a smear piece, which is, you know,
not based on facts. So you know, this is the
vanity fair. You have to take it with a grain
of salt. Probably not a lot of truth in there.
And I trust a liberal reporter following anyone in the
Trump administration around as much as I trust gas station sushi.
I am honestly kind of surprised we're still doing this
(14:52):
right now, like letting liberals into the inner circle, thinking
that something might good come out of it, when we
know that it won't. Of course, going to get you
out a moment. They're going to try to take a
joke out of context. They're going to do everything they
possibly can to make you look bad. And so you're right, Laura,
this is the Trump administration is obviously the best administration
so far, and everyone's been working so cohesively and together,
(15:16):
and there really hasn't been the infighting and things we've
seen in the previous administration. So the Vanity Fair is
just creating this whole narrative for clicks, and it's despicable.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
It's pretty rich for these people who you know, for
four years just completely covered up for Joe Biden and
what we all saw with our own eyes, to try
to go out of their way to sow some sort
of discord within this administration and this White House it's
different because the Biden administration was destroying America and the
Trump administration is rebuilding it and doing really great things.
(15:49):
So you can try and cause a problem within the
White House all you want, but we all know the
truth and we all see it with our own eyes
because it's happening every single day. And so it's it's
a shame though, because I hate that we can't we
can't trust anybody.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
You know, you had this.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Opportunity for vanity fair, for us to maybe kind of
mens some fences here and say like, all right, well
let's do a reasonable, real piece here and let's give
some real information, and they couldn't even do that. It's
just I find it so sad. It's been a really
kind of crazy past week though. You know, there's been
a lot going on. We still don't have a suspect
in this Brown University shooting. There were all of these
(16:28):
things that sort of happen over the weekend that were
really terrifying. You have this issue the situation the Bondi
Beach shooting in Australia, which obviously was pretty horrific, but
you look back here at home, and you had d
and I Tolci Gabbert, saying that somewhere around eighteen thousand
(16:49):
individuals with terror tize entered the United States under the
Biden administration. Trish, we knew this was going to be
a problem when you have a fully open southern border
and you're not vetting anyone coming in, just letting anyone,
every person who walks over the border come in. That's
one thing when you actually bring them in from Afghanistan,
which a lot of these people. She says that there
(17:11):
were two thousand potential terrorists from Afghanistan that were brought
in by the Biden administration, and they apparently rushed and
kind of didn't vet these people properly just to expedite
the entry because they wanted to get them in. There's
to me, it seems like it's only a matter of
time before something bad happens here. And I say this
(17:33):
all the time. All it takes is one person with
bad intentions. Here you have eighteen thousand individuals with terroritized
who they're saying enter.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
The United States.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
But then you look out at the West Coast, where
the FBI arrested four members of a radical terror cell
who were planning a deadly plot in Los Angeles, this
is the Turtle Island Liberation Front. They were taken into
custody over the weekend after plots of bombings target getting
at least five locations across LA and Orange County on.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
New Year's Eve were revealed. So Tricia's it's it's here, It's.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
It's happening, and thank god we have you know, people
within this administration are are you know, law enforcement agencies
who are on top of this here they've prevented a
serious situation. It wasn't prevented, you know, over in Australia.
But to me, unfortunately, eighteen thousand, I kind of think
it's only a matter of time.
Speaker 5 (18:30):
I mean I found that number just staggering when I
heard it, Lara, and I really do worry for the country.
I mean, it's it's wild, right Like, it's just wild
that that many people were allowed to come into the
country illegally. You have no idea like who's here, you
have no record of people, and then you get wind
of eighteen thousand being here that have suspected terroritized. I
(18:53):
mean that's just unacceptable, right, Like, it's absolutely positively unacceptable.
What is the job of government to keep us safe
and to keep your property safe and we should not
be fearful. But look, I mean, there's a lot of
bad stuff going down, and we have to take this
seriously because.
Speaker 9 (19:10):
For four years we didn't.
Speaker 5 (19:11):
For four years, we chose to just say, okay, come one,
come all, and hey, we'll give you some free health
care if you're in California, and we'll give you some
free housing in New York at the Roosevelt Hotel, which
used to be a very nice hotel along with daily
maid service. For goodness sake, I mean, it was out
of control, totally out of control, very politically motivated. And now, okay,
we get some adults in the room and we're trying
to all do the right thing here.
Speaker 9 (19:32):
And yet you still look at the.
Speaker 5 (19:35):
Force right of resistance that the Trump administration is being
met with, and it's like, guys, hey, we're on the
same team. We want to keep America an Americans safe.
Speaker 9 (19:44):
Period.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Yeah, we don't care what your political affiliation is. We
don't care we voted for in twenty twenty four or
any other year.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
This is you're right.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
It's the number one job of government is to keep
Americans safe. And it seems like for four years that
duty was just completely just thrown away. Nobody even cared
about it. This issue that was thwarted, this potential terror
attack that was thwarted out in Los Angeles, oo' Stephanie.
I find really interesting they say that this group was
prepping to conduct a series of bombings against multiple targets
(20:17):
in California beginning on New Year's Eve because no one
would be able to hear over the fireworks if there
were detonations and explosions. And they also planned to target
ICE agents in vehicles. I mean, this is sort of
where we've come right now. This is as a result
of people demonizing our law enforcement, demonizing ICE agents.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
They were lumped in to this group.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
And you know, you also look over to Germany, who
let's look at what Germany has done. Talk about wide
open borders, man, they have let a lot of people
into their country. German police have now arrested five men
in connection with an alleged is Lamist terror plot to
attack and target Christmas markets in southern Bavaria.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
So look, I'm all for people.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Coming to America or immigrating to other countries, you got
to go through the right process to do it. Otherwise
this is the sort of thing that will happen. Whenever
you allow people to just come in without any checks,
with possibly bad intentions, you're going to get a bad result.
And here are two examples of law enforcement really being
(21:31):
on top of it. But I don't know how long
they can maintain that, Stephanie.
Speaker 10 (21:36):
There's so much to hit on here. Number one, I'll
start with Dani Gabbird's remarks. She said it was eighteen
thousand that had ties to terror. Well, she said the
biggest thing was those were the ones that they cocked
that they're onto.
Speaker 7 (21:50):
What about everyone else?
Speaker 10 (21:52):
The LA case is interesting because we're not really sure
about the immigration status of these people. I think some
of them may have been born and raised in Lam,
not one hundred percent sure, but this is that case,
from what we know right now, doesn't necessarily have anything
to do with radical Islam. If you look at what
they support and what they believed in. They were anti capitalism,
(22:15):
they were pro Palestine, which is interesting. It just sounded
like a far left, radical group that had a bone
to pick with everyone, because it sounds like if those
bombs were to have gone off, they would have affected
everyone equally. They wouldn't have known who they were harming.
They just wanted to cause fear and make a point
if they were able to pull that off. As for
(22:36):
the infiltration of radical Islam in countries across the world,
whether it be in Europe or Australia, we have so
many of these politicians that are worried about offending people
and are worried about Islamophobia and all these other things,
that they seem to look the other way when it
comes to properly vetting people that are coming from places
that are known for having radical Islam being prevalent in
(22:58):
their area. I mean, if you look at you know,
just the importation of the Afghanis that came in after
the evacuation, if you read into it, you know, all
these people were rushed in here. There was really no
proper vetting process. The Biden administration was warned about it,
and now we're seeing the real life consequences of it.
So we're learning that maybe two thousand of these Afghanis
(23:20):
that were brought over may also have ties of terrorism,
which is exactly what he said. How do you properly
that people when they're coming from a place that's warranty
and it's not like there's a piece of paper here
that says, oh, you know this person radical Islam. You
just you really can't document it. You can't find that information.
So it is really concerning. And that's where the argument comes.
(23:40):
How does this type of immigration benefit the American people,
the people that are here and already love this country,
and it really it just doesn't.
Speaker 7 (23:47):
Why don't you send.
Speaker 10 (23:48):
These people to places where Islam is common and they
share similar views and world values with other people?
Speaker 7 (23:55):
They just seem to.
Speaker 10 (23:56):
Want, yeah, into the Western civilization where it doesn't align
with it.
Speaker 9 (24:02):
I mean, that's that's just to jump in.
Speaker 5 (24:04):
That's the tough thing, right Like America, Germany, Australia.
Speaker 9 (24:09):
You know, we are these great.
Speaker 5 (24:10):
Free nations and we've been incredibly welcoming and it's it's
of course been one of our strengths.
Speaker 9 (24:15):
But we can't be naive as well.
Speaker 5 (24:17):
Right, I mean, if if people are coming here, they
just are not going to be able to adapt, accept
or be you know, willing to embrace an American way
of life. And I don't know what to say, Like
it's it's it's there's a lot of other places they
could go, and and those countries don't really want them
and aren't taking them and then somehow layer of the.
Speaker 9 (24:40):
Burdens on us. It's definitely the burdens on us.
Speaker 5 (24:42):
I mean, why why should we have to take on
all the problems of the world if it doesn't work
for us. I think that we need to be thoughtful,
and you know we can be We can be very
accepting and welcoming of immigrants from all over the world
provided they want to come to America for that better
start and they're willing to to do what they have
to do, which means do the paperwork, come in the
(25:04):
right way, be a contributing member of society that's going
to help make this country better.
Speaker 7 (25:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (25:09):
And you have to just remind everyone the shooting of
the National guardsmen right before Thanksgiving. The AC shooter was
the Afghani and according to reports since Afghani said that
he had trouble assimilating. So, I mean, the evidence is just,
you know, right in our faces, is so glaring.
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what I was going to say is you have to
make some attempt to assimilate to a society or culture
whenever you move there. You know, if one of us
were to move somewhere where we were totally out of
our element, you do have to kind of respect the
norms of the place you're trying to move and live.
(27:50):
And that's just that's just how it works. And you know, you,
on the other hand of the coin have, of course,
Governor Tim Walls of Minnesota saying after and this is
in the wake, of course, Trish, of this crazy, crazy
scandal that'saw at least a billion dollars in fraud sold
from the taxpayers of his state by what seems to
(28:14):
be a lot of you know, Somali nationals who have
moved to Minnesota. He says he was appeared at some
fundraiser in Seattle over the weekend, and he says he's
pledging to bring more Somali immigrants to his state despite
what has happened. He says, instead of demonizing our Somali community, we're.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
Going to do more to welcome more.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
Instead of cutting programs, we're going to enhance them. Okay,
that's that's fine, But you do have to acknowledge that
there is something going on here. And maybe before Tim Walls,
we start just bringing more people in, maybe you want
to get a handle on what's happening as it exists
right now. Something else he said, by the way, in
(28:58):
that speech, I watched it. Unfortunately, he said that he
called my husband and his brother, Donald Trump's failed sons.
What failed sons, Tim Walt's what I'm sorry. Donald Trump, Junior,
and Eric Trump have a lot that they have done
in their lives, a lot they've done for the Trump organization,
a lot they've done on the campaign trail, a lot
(29:20):
they've done in their personal lives, and a lot that
they've done professionally.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
Outside of the scope of any of that.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
So I'd love to know why you think that they
are failed sons. But obviously that's not we're talking about here, Trish.
Speaker 5 (29:31):
I get no, It's just it's a character. You know,
he's trying to assassinate their character. I would say, by
the way, like I don't know Junior as well. I
know your husband. He's fantastic. He's a wonderful person, as
are you, as is you know everyone in your family
that I have come across and.
Speaker 9 (29:47):
Met, really truly.
Speaker 5 (29:50):
Wonderful individuals and appreciative of other individuals. Look, I think
that he's just throwing stuff at the wall to see
what sticks. And it's very political for him, right, He's
got first of all, you know, anything Trump is bad,
so he's going to take that line of attack. But
the second thing is in terms of bringing more some
Allians here, Well, let's let's be honest, Like that's a
(30:11):
very very big voting block, and so he's trying once
again to cater to a group that he thinks is
going to get him elected. And that's just unfortunately from Minnesota. Uh,
the reality of the situation on the ground. He is
not a very smart man in my estimation. I mean,
for goodness sakes, I don't think he has not to
not to you know, pick on people that don't invest.
(30:32):
But I mean he's really living up to the Komi
image because I don't think he has a single equity
that he owns.
Speaker 9 (30:39):
Not a singer. You know, he doesn't even have like
the S and P index. The guy does not invest.
He doesn't have any capital after all these years of
making all that.
Speaker 5 (30:46):
Money in Congress, you know, and he's you know, maybe
that's a good thing, right because we don't want them
trading stocks. But to me, if you believe in the
American economy, like you should be also somewhat invested in it.
Speaker 9 (30:57):
Does he even own a home? I don't know.
Speaker 5 (30:58):
I don't have a lot of respects for many reasons
the Tampon's aside for one, Tim Walls, But I would
take anything he says let it go in one ear
and out the other, except for the fact that if
he gets elected again, he keeps bringing people in that
has an effect on the rest of us. Right Minnesota,
they can do what they want to do if they
elect him. I guess it's their problem, But what about
(31:19):
the rest of us, because that's our money, that's us
taxpayer money that was stolen.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
Was it the tampons or was it the fake hunting
set up situation where you lost all tam walts.
Speaker 5 (31:34):
Yeah, And I think he actually said they're afraid of
me because I'm so masculine. I'm like, oh, yeah, buddy,
you're just the epitome of masculinity.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
When you have to call it out like that, clearly
it's not there. Like if you have to even talk
about it, you aren't masculine. Like no one is buying
the coach stick or any of that crap that he
tried to do. It was really embarrassing. I had secondhand
embarrassment for a guy that we were running against.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
So you know, I mean, take that as you as
you will.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
One of the other problems though, that we hear a
little bit about Stephanie, But if you look at the numbers,
is really concerning is these commercial driver's licenses for illegals,
especially in states like California, is astronomical. When you look
at the state of California, it leads the nation for
illegal immigrants who hold commercial driver's licenses, somewhere around sixty
(32:24):
thousand of them apparently, which is wild. Secretary Duffy said
that we have states giving out CDLs like candy, and
they've allowed people who should never have a CDL to
operate an eighty thousand pounds big rig on Americans roads.
And he says, we're gonna start to hold these people accountable.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
You know, you've seen these issues.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
You've seen the people who like the guy did a
U turn in the middle of the highway and killed
several people. I think it was three people who were
dead because of it. And you have Washington State saying
they accidentally issued somewhere around seven hundred commercial driver's licenses
to illegals.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
But we have to take this seriously.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
If people come here and they don't speak English, how
do we expect them to read the street signs? If
they don't have a legitimate driver's license like as it is,
because they're not a US citizen, how are we giving
them these commercial driver's licenses, and it's obviously a problem
because people have been killed as a result of this,
(33:25):
and you know, we got to draw the lines somewhere.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
Somebody's got to do something about this.
Speaker 10 (33:30):
It's infuriating and it's so egregious on so many levels
that this has been going on for so long, and
you're right you pointed out to so many of these
examples of people being killed by these big rigs, by
people who don't speak English, that can't read the signs,
that can't understand the language. And we've also seen the
videos of police pulling over these illegal immigrants that have
(33:51):
these licenses that they were given from certain liberal states
like California and Washington, as you point out, and they
can't even have a conversation with the officer.
Speaker 7 (33:59):
This is really astounding.
Speaker 10 (34:01):
It's so dangerous, and I really hope that there is
a crackdown on it because we just can't have people
operating these massive vehicles on our streets. And it doesn't
even just stay in the states where they're being issued.
This is a country wide issue because these big riggs
are going from state to state.
Speaker 3 (34:18):
Yeah, it's we got to figure that out too.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
It's just another reason that we got we were done
so wrong by the last administration. Something else they did
that was a big problem was the affordability of America. Trish, Obviously,
that's what the Democrats are banking on for these mid terms.
They keep talking about affordability as though these people have
any idea how to fix it. They're the ones who
(34:41):
broke it. This is what President Trump always says. He says,
the Democrats broke it. Trump will fix it. And he
said Democrats talking about affordability is like Bonnie and Clyde
preaching about public safety. I would love to know what
the solution is the Democrats have, because Donald Trump and
his administration have actually planted the seats that we will
(35:03):
see come to fruition. And I mean a lot of
it's already working, but some of it takes a little
bit of time. No tax on overtime tips, social security,
that sort of thing, the trade agreements that we've put
in place, the investment in America.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
Does take time.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
It took four years to dig us into this hole
that Joe Biden left us, and Trisha, I would say
it's going to take a little bit of time to
dig us out of this hole. That's why President Trump
was in Pennsylvania last week talking to the American people
about what he's done. And I think we got to
keep doing more of that as we head to the midterms.
Speaker 5 (35:34):
Look, he's done a great job, without a doubt, and
I would just say that the other team did such
a bad job that it will take a while to
dig our way out of. You know, people they're kind
of nostalgic. They're like, oh, you know, when Trump was
there before, it only costs this much to go on vacation,
or it only costs this much, you know, for the
(35:54):
new school clothes or whatever it be. And now they're
looking at all the inflation that has transpired. And don't forget,
I mean Leira, when we were upwards of nine percent
on consumer prices. Well, guess what when you're suddenly just
up six percent and they're like, oh, look at this.
You know, we're up nine percent. Now we're up six percent.
Look at this is great. It's coming down. No, no, no,
it's cumulative, right, so it's nine percent, and then it's
(36:16):
still up another six percent, and then you're up another
five percent or seven percent.
Speaker 9 (36:20):
And we were up there for a while.
Speaker 5 (36:24):
So now we're back in a zone that everybody's comfortable with.
You have to have a little bit of inflation, believe
it or not. Otherwise you know, we'll never shop right.
If I know that something's going on sale next month,
why buy it this month? And so a little teeny
bit of inflation is supposed to be there in the economy.
We've got it back to a level that's acceptable. But
because everybody remembers what it was not too long ago, they.
Speaker 9 (36:48):
Wanted to go back. And I'm sorry, but Joe Biden
ruined it. He just ruined it.
Speaker 5 (36:52):
He and his team did the most asinine things I
could possibly think of.
Speaker 9 (36:57):
I just couldn't believe it.
Speaker 5 (36:58):
I mean, one after another, the money printing that went
on from Nancy and Chuck, which, by the way, lining
the pockets of all the people in Minnesota that we
were just talking about. I mean, you had all kinds
of crazy things going on. So just this money printing NonStop.
Jerome Paul at the Fed, I mean, he just couldn't
print enough. Combined with Biden's third stimulus check. You had
(37:18):
to send a third check because he want his name
on it. I guess during COVID, all of this contributed
to a massive optick in prices, and so we're still
dealing with that hangover. And yes, it's contained, it's under control.
Some people are worried because unemployment went up a little bit.
I got some good news on that front. Listen, when
you start to see an economy improve, more people try
(37:40):
and join the workforce.
Speaker 9 (37:41):
That's a good thing.
Speaker 5 (37:42):
And so sometimes the unemployment right goes up a little bit,
That's okay, we can handle it. It's a sign that
people are trying to get back in.
Speaker 9 (37:50):
So I'm not.
Speaker 5 (37:51):
Worried about the economy. I actually feel really good about it.
Thank goodness. We have a smart team President Trump and
Bessant and the whole crew there. I mean, I think
you've got the economy on the right path. It's unfortunately
not fast enough for some people.
Speaker 9 (38:05):
And I would just urge patience.
Speaker 3 (38:08):
We have to have patients.
Speaker 2 (38:09):
And actually that's what the Vice President said whenever he
was asked about it, Stephanie. He said, the thing I'd
asked the American people for is a little bit of patience.
The economy was not harmed in ten months, and as
much progress as we've made, it's going to take a
little bit of time. For every American to feel that
economic boom, which we really do believe is coming. My
message to the American people who are still feeling like
(38:31):
things are unaffordable, who are still feeling like things are
rough out there is Look, we get it, We hear you,
and we know there's.
Speaker 3 (38:37):
A lot of work to do.
Speaker 2 (38:38):
There's a lot of wood to chop because the Biden
administration put us in such a.
Speaker 3 (38:42):
Very, very tough spot.
Speaker 2 (38:45):
Trisha, I loved your point about the unemployment because there
comes a point when things are so bad, people just
give up and they say, just take me out of
the running in general, and you don't even have them
added into the unemployment numbers because they stop even trying
to look for a job. It's we have to remember
that as well. But Stephanie, you look at everything as
(39:06):
a whole that this president has done. It's like putting
all of the ingredients on a pastry chef, all of
the ingredients into a bowl to make a cake. You
gotta mix them up, you gotta put them in there,
then you got to put it in the oven, and
you gotta wait a second. They're not just gonna happen immediately.
And I know people like things to happen overnight. But
(39:27):
all of the things that needed to happen to get
the economy back on track, to get people more money
in their pockets are happening. We have trade agreements, we
have that tariff money which is actually going down to
doing to pay down our national debt. Whoever thought that
we were going to be able to say something like
that in America? What other president was even thinking about that.
President Trump is doing it, and he's bringing investment back
(39:50):
into the United States. Every country he visits whenever he's
left America gets what he comes.
Speaker 3 (39:55):
Back with, investment in the US.
Speaker 2 (39:57):
He comes back with, you know, promises to make more
jobs for the American people. That's a great thing. So
I just think people have to just.
Speaker 3 (40:07):
Take a breath.
Speaker 2 (40:08):
We're entering into a new year. It's the holiday season.
Speaker 3 (40:12):
I get it.
Speaker 2 (40:12):
It's crazy you're spending money all of these things. Although
Black Friday spending was up significantly this year. I think
it was the most Black Friday spending we've ever seen
in the history of America. But we're going to get there, Stephanie.
So I agree patients, I agree with Trish, and I
agree with our Vice president.
Speaker 7 (40:30):
Well, I agree with both of you.
Speaker 10 (40:31):
I think you hit the nail on the head here,
and that is, you know, the cake, this metaphorical cake
that we're baking, is in the process and it's going
to hit the oven soon and hopefully everyone will be
able to enjoy everything that the Trump administration has been
doing going forward to make life more affordable for the
American people. And I don't want to sugarcoat it. Right,
life is still tough for Americans out there. I do
(40:52):
my own grocery shopping. I know how expensive things are
and it is hard. Like, for example, went to Whole
Foods the other day, had like five bags and it was
literally three three hundred dollars worth of stuff.
Speaker 7 (41:02):
It is expense.
Speaker 10 (41:02):
I mean, maybe it's my fault for going to Whole Foods,
but it is expensive out there. With that being said,
the Trump administration it's like putting the pieces of the
puzzle together and it is going in the right direction,
whether it be cutting regulations, working on tax policy, and
so forth. And not only are they undoing the damage
that was caused by the Biden administration, which was substantial,
(41:25):
but also decades of uniparty leadership which hollowed out American wages,
which increased the price of homes and had just really
set our country up for failure.
Speaker 7 (41:36):
And so Trump is trying to undo all.
Speaker 10 (41:39):
Of that, and it is you know, the American people
need to be patient. Affordability is not going to happen overnight.
And it's not even just affordability, but like national security
for example, where Trump wants to bring back manufacturing and
explaining to the average person why it matters because if
we have issues with other countries, we don't want to
have to depend on them for things that we need
(41:59):
in a time of war. So I am very impressed
on some of the things I've seen nationally speaking. If
you look at like gas prices, I mean that's a
huge accomplishment. Gas is under three dollars average and states
across America, which is incredible. Also, we know that people
are going to be seeing some cash flow from their
tax returns up to like a thousand to two thousand dollars,
(42:21):
and I've heard people say, oh, well that's not very much. Well,
at least you're not going to have to pay more.
At least you're getting some money back in your pocket.
So again we're heading in the right direction. And I
like what I'm seeing well, ladies, there's.
Speaker 3 (42:32):
So much to talk about. I was going to talk about.
Speaker 2 (42:34):
Joy Reid trying to ruin Christmas as she likes to
do with saying the jingle bells is racist, but we're
out of time. Trish Reagan, what a pleasure to have you.
Thank you for joining us. Yeah, thank you and Stephanie.
We love having you as always so Trish. We hope
to have this crew back together soon. Until then, ladies,
thanks for joining. Merry Christmas to both of you, and
(42:55):
to everybody at home is always make sure you like, subscribe, share,
and follow. We'll see you back here next time for
more of the Raat.
Speaker 1 (43:00):
Deal and a long back down.
Speaker 3 (43:08):
Baby babe, there ain't knowing that we have
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