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Programming alert🚨: Tonight, you get double of me — I’m doing Cuomo’s show at 8 p.m ET then “On Balance” as usual at 9 p.m. ET
📺See you tonight starting at 8 p.m. ET
54 years♥️: A very happy anniversary to my parents — Mark and Carol celebrate 54 years today!
🙏Rachel and I are grateful beyond words to have such incredible examples of love and commitment from both sides.
Together, our parents have been married nearly 100 years — it’s quite the standard to live up to :)
Belfast burns🔥: Have you heard of the “anti-immigrant” riots in Belfast — maybe.
I bet you haven’t heard why — an African immigrant (attempted to) behead a man in the street.
Best read📰: The Spectator headlines “Belfast and the truth about ‘alien cultures’”
You🫵: One of our most-watched segments last week was about the growing fear in America of Muslim immigrants who refuse to assimilate.
Willfully blind🧑🦯: The Left says reporting the killing is inciting racial tension — no, really, watch this clip from ABC News Australia
See, the real problem is talking about the crimes of immigrants — not the immigrants beheading people
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‼️President Trump can’t afford to restart the war but also can’t afford not to restart the war, so he might as well restart the war.
Put another way ↪️: The ceasefire was a mistake, and the political cost of restarting the war keeps getting higher.
We’ve told you this🗣️: Every day Trump’s hand gets weaker, and his options get worse.
The Iranians keep playing Trump for a man unwilling to endure the kind of pain they will.
The ONLY option is to fight your way out.
Good news👍: We have the best military in the world to do it.
Prison yard🚓: We have often compared the Middle East to a prison yard — the Russians know how to deal with such people.
Look back🔙: In the 80s, the Iranian terror group Hezbollah kidnapped some KGB officers in Beirut — the KGB kidnapped a top Shia cleric’s son, killed him and sent the cleric some of his son’s very valuable body parts
💣Both Trump and Hegseth promised punishing strikes tonight — let’s hope they speak a language the Iranians understand.
Watch tonight📺: Bill O’Reilly — if we can finally stop talking about deals and just finish this.
Bill Gates — Creepy or Illegal👀
‼️Bill Gates testified before the House Committee today about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, telling Congress that his affairs had nothing to do with Epstein.
Gates: “I never witnessed nor had any indication that Epstein was engaged in ongoing criminal conduct.... “I have never victimized anyone.”
Why should anyone believe him?
Timeline⌚: There are those who associated with Epstein before his plea deal for procuring minors for sex (in 2007 and 2008) and those associated with him after.
Gates is among the latter — unforgivable.
Laughable😆: As Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., pointed out today — the irony of the Epstein files focusing on transparency, yet all the hearings are behind closed doors.
Reporter: “Why was this a closed door hearing?”
Burchett: “I don’t know, ma’am, that was above my paygrade. I’m here about transparency. I always say ‘let it be wide open.’”
Coming▶️: The new Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan book lays out the inner White House brawl over the Epstein files — many there realized what we told you.
📰The New York Times headlines, “Inside the White House Freakout Over the Epstein Files”
Watch tonight📺: Alan Dershowitz — former Epstein lawyer on whether it’s illegal to be creepy.
Bernie for the Win‼️
🗳️Bernie Sanders won the 2020 primary; it just took six years to count the votes.
Bernie Sanders’ candidates just keep winning
Good read📰: Politico headlines “Bernie Sanders’ candidates just keep winning,” writing:
“The Vermont senator’s endorsed candidates cleaned house on Tuesday, a coast-to-coast show of force headlined by a resounding win for his embattled Senate pick in Maine, Graham Platner...Other Sanders-backed victors for House seats in recent weeks include Adam Hamawy and Analilia Mejia in New Jersey, Sam Forstag in Montana, Brian Poindexter in Ohio and Bob Brooks in a key Pennsylvania swing district.”
🤦Even ones with tattoos of Heinrich Himmler’s Nazi hat logo like Graham Platner
👀Even MS NOW Morning Joe seems worried
Platner: “I know someone in my hometown here who works three jobs and pays over 60% of her monthly income in rent. I think that matters a lot more than the details of my relationship.”
Morning Joe: “Talk about the nature of the sexting in terms of can you call for the release of the Epstein files, and can you call out those who have abused women and not be conflicted in any way?”
Polling📊: Only 42% of Democrats view capitalism favorably, while 66% have a positive view of socialism
Yes, they are ignorant — in history and practice, socialism has a predictable and certain result — absolute destruction of society.
Watch tonight📺: Mike Nellis on his party’s newfound obsession
K-Shape Keeps Getting Worse🚨
❓K-shape?!?! My dad, a lifelong investor, asked me what a K-shaped economy means.
🤷If he didn’t know, I figured I should explain
💰Start in the middle of the vertical line — the rich keep doing better, the working class falls further behind
Why it matters‼️: America is built on fairness — the above describes a situation that is fundamentally unfair.
Scary⚠️: Today’s inflation numbers only prove what’s known…the problem is getting worse, not better
📈Inflation rose again in May — crossing 4% for the first time in three years.
The consumer price index is now at 4.2%
Proof📰: The Wall Street Journal headlines “Why Teenagers Stopped Working in the Summer,” writing
“For the affluent teenager, skipping the paycheck is genuine optimization. She trades the lifeguard chair for a research internship, science camp, an SAT tutor. Economists Shirley Porterfield and Anne Winkler found the retreat steepest in exactly the most educated, highest-income households—and the substitutes those families reach for, the unpaid internship and the enrichment program, are precisely the ones a low-income family can’t afford.... For most American teenagers, the decline is a rational bet on a future that rewards their time elsewhere”
Cliffnotes📃: Rich kids get to do internships — poor kids have to work summer jobs. If they can find them.
📅Today, Trump said he loves inflation
Flipside 🔄: To Democrats, the answer to inflation is taxing the billionaires and giving everyone solar power roofs.
We already saw that in the foolish policies in the Inflation Reduction Act and the Build Back Better Act
Additional taxes on fuel sources that would increase prices everywhere
Hundreds of billions to solar, wind, EVs, etc
Electric vehicle tax credits
The result: It didn’t work — Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act didn’t reduce inflation
Is taxing the rich really going to get us out of inflation?
Watch tonight📺: Former Senior Economic Advisor to President Donald Trump Stephen Moore
Your Comments!‼️
Michael R: “Wow! Wasn’t sure about the SubStack thing, but it’s a HECK OF A LOT easier to read! RE: Trump/Iran- he needs to understand that he is in this mess now. Like it or not, understand where you are. Like the quote from “The Untouchables” says, “When they put one of yours in the hospital, you put two of their in the morgue.” It’s the only thing Iranian leadership understands.”
Shenanigans!!!
‼️ActBlue CEO Regina Wallace-Jones pleaded the Fifth when asked about allegations that the group funneled foreign donations to Democratic campaigns.
🤦She also pleaded the fifth when asked her NAME!!!
Look back🔙: The New York Times published a devastating investigation of ActBlue not following its own procedures to prevent illegal small-dollar contributions
🗣️Rep Bryan Steil, R-Wis., said there was “significant concern that ActBlue may have allowed foreign donations on their platform, lied to Congress and withheld responsive documents from a congressional subpoena.”
Before the hearing, Wallace-Jones headlines in The Washington Post, “Why I Will use my Fifth Amendment rights before Congress Today,” writing
“Silence in response to bad-faith action is not retreat — it is a bedrock American right.”
Reality🤷: Pleading the Fifth doesn’t mean you committed a crime
Trump has pleaded the Fifth countless times.
More reality🤷: Those who say California doesn’t have fraud should look at these videos of homeless folks confessing to accepting payments for votes.
Yikes — can we finally have an honest conversation about legally rigged elections in CA?!
The California Post reports homeless on Skid Row say they were paid to vote for Karen Bass and Nithya Raman
People Burning Sells Books 🔥📕
🔥In local news, our highest ratings came during weather and house fires — sadly, people like to watch things burn.
🔥When it comes to politics, people like to watch people burn.
In fact, they will pay for it — in the form of buying books … lots of them
📗Kamala Harris’ burn book earned her millions, if not tens of millions.
Jill Biden’s is nearly as successful.
President Joe Biden got a big book deal for the same reason
Watch out⚠️: But the biggest burn of them all is coming in a few weeks from The New York Times reporters — it’s called regime change
They have all the juicy infighting and backstabbing inside the first 16 months of the Trump administration.
Perception👀: It will be a mess — the White House is genuinely worried about it.
Reality☑️: Nothing will change
Doubtful anybody will go to jail over it.
Watch tonight📺: Clinton-era legend Mark Penn on how a white house gets ready for a political nuclear bomb.
Trumps comments on inflation saying it makes him happy ,makes my blood boil.Wish he would just shut his mouth.How impressive to see your parents together all these years..God bless them.Leland your the hardest working person on TV!Keep up the great work.Look forward to your show and some of your guests.Best ever is Bill for sure.
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