Media Exposed with Adam Weiss - February 1, 2026

Summary

Podcast Summary: Media Exposed with Adam Weiss – February 1, 2026

Podcast: Real America’s Voice
Host: Adam Weiss
Air Date: February 2, 2026
Guests: Justine Brooke Murray (Media Research Center), David Zier (RAV News), Nora Mati (Field House Strategy/Heritage Action), Edward Woodson (Political Commentator)

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Overview

This episode of Media Exposed with Adam Weiss dives into the week’s major media and political stories through a skeptical, right-leaning lens, focusing on how mainstream media allegedly distorts and manipulates narratives to favor left-wing politics and undermine conservative voices. Topics include newsroom infighting at CBS, funding controversies involving NPR and PBS, ongoing economic reporting under President Trump’s second term, the negative media portrayal of Melania Trump, and recent protests and unrest in Minnesota.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Media Leaks, CBS & Bari Weiss (01:35–08:04)

• Topic: Internal leaks at CBS following Bari Weiss’ town hall with staff; challenges of bringing ideological diversity to major newsrooms.
• Adam Weiss highlights how, despite Bari Weiss' attempts to introduce open, centrist dialogue, staffers immediately leaked her comments:
  • “Only in journalism does this happen and then they’ll keep their jobs. … Just total lack of professionals.” (04:01)
• Justine Brooke Murray (Media Research Center) responds:
  • Critiques newsroom culture as immature, likening it to college drama.
  • Reminds how Weiss was pushed out of The New York Times for “being moderate,” not conservative.
  • Points out hypocrisy in how media figures praise leaks when they fit a leftist narrative but criticize pushback against leftist bias.
  • “They dogpiled on her … because she dared to talk about what it was like working at The New York Times.” (05:35)
• Insight: The episode frames the incident as another example of mainstream media’s resistance to anything but extreme progressivism, arguing that true diversity of thought is stifled from within.

2. Public Funding, NPR & PBS Survival (06:47–09:42)

• Topic: NPR and PBS claimed they would collapse without federal funding, but are apparently operating just fine.
• Adam Weiss: Calls their “gravy train” claims a pretext for unnecessary taxpayer support.
  • “Turns out they’re surviving just fine without your tax dollars … proving they never needed government welfare in the first place.” (04:59)
• Justine: Shares an anecdote: MRC brought a physical tower of ‘15 years of left-wing bias’ as evidence to NPR/PBS, only to be kicked out by security.
  • “We have to continue paying $500 million per year in order for them to spew their partisanship. This is compelled speech, which is even worse than censorship.” (08:53)

3. Media Narrative Control & ‘Red-Pilling’ (09:42–13:36)

• Clip featured: Chamath Palihapitiya (tech investor) on how digging into media coverage (notably, Charlottesville) led him to realize he was being misled by mainstream narratives.
  • “I can’t believe I’m being lied to by this group of people whose sole responsibility is to hold truth to power. … That red-pilled me, I guess, in a way.” (09:48-10:30)
• Justine: Extends the critique to current issues, alleging the media demonizes law enforcement and “indoctrinates” by dominant search engine results, showing only left-wing outlets.
  • “It’s crazy that they’ve managed to convince an entire population of some quote-unquote objective truth when it’s all just been lies for so long.” (11:32)

4. Economic News Suppression & Trump Economy (15:14–24:38)

• Adam: Accuses mainstream media of ignoring positive economic metrics under Trump’s second term.
  • “You never know it from watching CNN, MSNBC, or the other left-leaning stations … Where’s the coverage?” (15:24)
• David Zier (RAV): Contrasts Obama-era low growth with “massive” GDP numbers under Trump (5.3%), touts rising refunds and expanded credits for families.
  • First-hand: Reports back from Iowa, highlighting working-class support for Trump’s policies.
• Notable Soundbite: Clip of Stephen Moore on CNN, dispelling economic negativity:
  • “We… the latest report is almost 5.5% growth in the fourth quarter, which is an incredible number. … I would think … I’d find hundreds of clips like Stephen and other outlets, but I can’t find them.” (18:19)
• Charles Payne (FOX):
  • Asserts “absolute economic boom” with nearly universal bullishness from Wall Street and “imploding” inflation.
  • “We’ve got this economic win at our backs. That should make this just an absolute amazing year—a year that, by the way, I think many Americans forgot.” (22:42-23:44)
• Discussion of the Federal Reserve’s reluctance to lower interest rates and how homeownership, the “American Dream,” is now out of reach for many.
• Adam: “I don’t think they even teach the American Dream anymore to Gen Zers or millennials…” (21:21)

5. Melania Trump Documentary & Media Hostility (28:48–38:00)

• Adam: Attended the Kennedy Center premiere; sees a coordinated media campaign to smear, discredit and “make it flop” before general release.
  • “The media is using Melania as a punching bag to hurt the administration and the movement. … This isn't journalism. It's a coordinated character assassination campaign.” (27:21–28:24)
• Nora Mati: Frames attacks as a “distraction technique” to deflect from Melania’s hands-on, empathetic approach as First Lady; suggests critics are threatened by her potential public influence.
  • “She is essentially the good-hearted wing … a mother to the nation.” (29:19)
• Jon Stewart (clip): Mocks the documentary as an unnecessary, transactional PR move.
• Nora: Pushback—media tries to paint GOP as “party of the rich oligarchs” but in reality it's “the party of the working class.”
• Discussion: Adam and Nora suggest Melania’s apparent authenticity and family focus will resonate once Americans see the real person behind the media caricature.
  • “For the very first time we get to peek behind the curtain. And I think a lot of people are really excited … it’s kind of getting clouded and that’s why there’s such a Big offensive.” (32:55–34:08)

6. Minnesota Shooting, Protests, and Media Framing (39:18–50:28)

• Adam: Details shooting of “nurse” Alex Pretty during a Minnesota protest, criticizes Secretary Kristi Noem for rushing to judgment, and lambasts media “suddenly” defending Second Amendment rights when it fits “their narrative.”
  • “The riots are highly orchestrated by the left … coordinated chaos designed to create maximum destruction, maximum media coverage, and probably use it moving forward to go after the election again.” (40:04)
• Edward Woodson (Political Commentator): Analyzes organizational tactics behind protests (Party for Socialism and Liberation); sees evidence of paid agitation, not grassroots action.
• Critiques Kristi Noem’s “guns blazing” PR style and calls for more careful crisis management.
  • “Whatever happened to … when an incident like this happens, the authorities usually say we can’t comment because there’s an active investigation?” (43:26–44:20)
• Recounts media focus on the ‘nurse’ victim and the framing to generate public sympathy, while questioning of law enforcement is relentless but lacks balance.
• “I never saw the media love the Second Amendment so much.” (50:28)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Justine Brooke Murray on newsroom immaturity (05:19):

  “The media is where outgrown college students go to just basically never grow up.”

• Chamath Palihapitiya on being 'red-pilled' (09:48):

  “I can’t believe I’m being lied to by this group of people whose sole responsibility is to hold truth to power…That red-pilled me, I guess, in a way.”

• David Zier on the Trump economy (16:53):

  “Obama’s economy…only grew at like 1% per year…But under Trump, they’re talking about GDP numbers now that are like 5.3%. It’s massive.”

• Charles Payne on the economy (22:42):

  “It’s an absolute economic boom. And no one disputes it—no one who is in the business of finance, every firm on Wall Street sees the market higher.”

• Nora Mati, on Melania as First Lady (29:19):

  “She is essentially the good-hearted wing … a mother to the nation.”

• Edward Woodson on protest organization (42:52):

  “Clearly, these people are highly organized. They know what they're doing. It seems to me that there's a bigger force behind them.”

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Timestamps for Important Segments

| Time | Segment | |-----------|---------------------------------------------| | 01:35–03:40 | Show overview & topics teaser | | 03:45–08:04 | CBS/Bari Weiss newsroom drama | | 08:04–09:42 | NPR/PBS funding & media bias evidence | | 09:42–13:36 | Media “red-pilling”, info bubbles | | 15:14–24:38 | The Trump economy, media suppression | | 28:48–38:00 | Melania Trump documentary & media hostility | | 39:18–50:28 | Minnesota protests, shooting, media spin |

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Recap & Tone

• The episode is energetic, combative, and unfiltered, suspicious of mainstream narratives and convinced of a concerted anti-conservative bias in news and entertainment media.
• Throughout, Adam Weiss and guests highlight examples—new and historical—where they believe the media acts dishonestly or as activists rather than impartial reporters.
• The tone alternates between sarcastic, frustrated, and defiant, frequently referencing ‘real’ American values, calls for truth, and the need for alternative voices.
• Soundbites from news, other podcasts, and late-night comedy illustrate the broader media environment and the Real America’s Voice editorial position: skeptical of “legacy” media, sympathetic to Trump and conservative causes, and deeply concerned with mainstream media’s cultural power.

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For Listeners Who Missed the Episode

Media Exposed February 1, 2026, is an impassioned defense of conservative viewpoints, with a satirical, critical review of how current events and key figures are covered—distilled through the filter of media skepticism and concern for American cultural direction. The show is a platform both for airing grievances and rallying listeners to challenge dominant narratives, with analysis ranging from detailed (economic stats, protest tactics) to the personal (Melania’s documentary, Bari Weiss’s intent). The episode’s through-line is the perceived necessity of exposing and countering media manipulation, with an eye always toward the political consequences for upcoming elections.

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Welcome to Media Exposed this week and take a look at cbs. Barry Weiss held a big meeting, brought on some big contributors and they're leaking right away. How did that happen? NPR and pbs. They claimed a year ago they'd be out of business if they didn't get all this government funding. Let's take a look at how they're doing and their quest to stay as one of the viable preeminent newspapers sites in the country. Washington Post was facing major layoffs. How are these reporters inside the Beltway taking it? We're back in Minnesota and it seems like the epicenter of action, epicenter of rioting epicenter, you know, happens to be a sad murder case. So we'll take a look at that. We're also Melania A movie premieres this week. Documentaries this week. There's all sorts. There was a big splash in the White House, big Splash. I'm in D.C. for this. We're going to talk about that. And also the economy. How's the economy doing? We never know because the media doesn't really celebrate the economy. It's good under a Republican president. That and more. Coming up on media exposure. What they do say is fake news. That's how devious the media's become. They're full force activists now. They colluded.

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Trump folks were in on it.

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Sways elections, sways policy. We need to expose them. Republicans trash the country. Doing this. Since I was 18, I've had hit jobs done against me. I've been attacked by media reporters. I afraid no truth will prevail. Fake news media, we're here to call you out.

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They come back to Media Exposed. This week, CBS staffers leaked Barry Weiss's comment in real time during a town hall despite Gayle King's warning. Proves the mainstream media can't help themselves, even control their own newsrooms, their own bosses and shows. Just total lack of professionals. Only in journalism this happened and then they'll keep their jobs. I want to talk about NPR and pbs. They claimed, also claimed they collapsed without taxpayer funding. Turns out they're surviving just fine without your tax dollars proving they never needed government welfare in the first place. I want to welcome my first guest. It's Justine Brooke Murray, video TV host at the Media Research Center. Justine, thanks for joining us.

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Thanks for having me. Good to see you again.

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Good to see you, Justine. You know, only in the media business I saw this story because Barry Weiss held a big meeting. She brought a lot of new contributors to join cbs. She's making this push to be fair and open. I mean, only in the media business she makes a push to be fair, open, represent a little bit other swaths of America and leak and leak and criticism. An article about her, it's like a non stop attack. If you don't blindly do what the left wants, they attack you. It's so sad. Right? So but they was holding this, Tilda's town hall. And while she's holding the town hall, the memos get leaked. It's so sad in the media business. What do you think of that? Did you see that story?

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I did and I was not surprised at all. The media is where outgrown college students go to just basically never grow up. I mean this is something that only teenagers would do. And if you do it in any other field, if you rat out your boss because he or she said or did something or had an order that you disagreed with, you would immediately get fired as you should. These people shouldn't just not work in the media. They shouldn't work in any fields. They are not equipped for the workforce force. But it's kind of funny seeing the irony of these people targeting Bari Weiss and complaining going to be able to spew leftist bias. When I remember they dogpiled on her because she dared to talk about what it was like working at the New York Times. When the New York Times claimed they hired her to bring a more centrist viewpoint. And when she did that, they pushed her out for it. So said horrible things because she was Jewish. And then after she left she spoke about the insane bias and discrimination there. So they, they, they laughed at her for years and now they're, they're hailing leakers and squealers as a bunch of heroes. But this is the same outlet whose previous 60 Minutes post just came out and complained that we actually need to have biased media and they need to tell you what to think. But the same breath, these folks are claiming that oh well, we're not going to have balance anymore because someone who's actually bringing balance is now on the team.

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I don't even think Bari Weiss became different. She's not like a conservative now. She just. The party has shifted so far to the left. Reporters have shifted so far to the left that she's, that she's actually looked at as a moderate. And then they call her conservative. But in our eyes as true conservatives. We see a moderate, they're libertarian there. We don't see a conservative. But to the left leaning media, most of the radicals, the young gen zers, they see her as some arch conservatives. So they'll attack her, try to ruin it for anything if they don't follow their, their ultra orthodoxy. It's sad, right? I saw this NPR and PBS claim, remember last year they were going to collapse without taxpayer funding that was pulled. They kept using this verbiage. I remember Justine. Rural, rural parts of the country aren't be able to be able to get their news like these people. Like rural's like a whole other country. Like they don't wi fi. I don't have Internet excuses over and over again won't be able to get their news from a fair and balanced place. They'll do just fine. Everybody has wi fi, it gets the news. But that was all false. They just wanted to gravy their train pbs. But they're still in business and they're Doing just fine, right? There's a. Look, if we have a free and open market, there's going to be an audience for most of this. Left, right, center. What do you think?

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Because last year they, they laughed and said, well, you shouldn't strip funding from us because you're only getting, you're only funding 1% of our business in the first place. So it's not really going to make a difference. Oh, but at the same time, please don't defund us. I remember actually bringing the Media Research Center's News busters compilation of 15 years of left wing media bias that they spewed. We made it into this tower, this physical tower, and I rolled it into the headquarters of NPR and PBS after, during a hearing. Both of their CEOs seem that they would love to see evidence of their bias, but of course they've had security kick me out, which was, which was just so hypocritical. But it's the idea that we have to continue paying $500 million per year in order for them to spew their partisanship. This is compelled speech, which is even worse than censorship.

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You know, it's interesting because the media research senator has been following this junk for decades and decades saying, why are funding this? But yet Republicans were too weak to pull funding. Democrats were in favor of it because the ideology was in favor of Democrats. Always. Finally, somebody, Doge and President Trump. Let's do it at a mandate. I want to show you this clip I saw Shamath from the all in Boys podcast. Silicon Valley entrepreneur, investor, probably billionaire or so was on Katie Miller's podcast. And this is really interesting. This sums up being red pilled. Sums up everything that we have to preach. But watch this. Let's go to cut one.

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I realized that some of those fundamental things that I was told about him were just totally false. And there was enough content online where I was almost afraid, but it started with Charlottesville. I was almost afraid to look at it because I'm like, I think I was lied to. And then I saw it. I saw what he said, but then I saw the portrayal. I had originally believed that portrayal until I saw the truth. And then I just started to go down that rabbit hole. So for me it was an evolution where I was like, I can't believe I'm being lied to by this group of people whose sole responsibility is to hold truth to power. The key word there is truth to power, not your perception or your desires. And I just think that, that, that, I mean, red pilled me, I guess in a way.

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The fact, Jesse, the fact that you said I had to go down that rabbit hole like it was a spooky thing, like he's being adventurous. Like you were lied to flat out by the media. We know this for decades. But that sums up everything wrong in the media. They lied about Charlottesville and many other things. And takes like, you know, CEOs like him finally get it. Your thoughts on that?

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Yeah, the rabbit hole. As if looking for truth and objectivity is as if you're looking up for foreign sites which the media actually promotes. And we've seen how terrible the media indoctrination has gotten within the past two weeks. Right now they're trying to tell you that law enforcement, well, they're just a bunch of Nazis. So they're encouraging the bulbous brigade of board suburbanites to go fight ice and pretend they're in Django Unchained with their minivans. And they're hoping that they either get themselves kill killed or that they kill conservatives or anyone who's a dissident of the media. But if they get themselves killed in an act of self defense by law enforcement, they're hoping they can stir up a mob of more wannabe vigilantes to come for the rest of us next. And it's crazy that they've managed to convince an entire population of some quote unquote objective truth when it's all just been lies for so long. And it goes to show how easy it is for people to just become one with the mob. Thinking for yourself. It shouldn't be something that's so hard, but it's difficult when for example, the Media Research center has been studying how all these big four, big four news platforms, they compile leftist outlets. So all you're seeing when you go onto Google or when you go on to Yahoo or when you search something in AI, the only news outlets that they're, they're showing you is things like Washington Post, cnn, msnbc. So it's, it's all BS and the.

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Onslaught because you know, the fractured in the podcast world, the alternative world, some kind of fractures there, a lot of it over foreign policy, a lot. So there's not this onslaught of. So the mainstream media is making dense back again because it's, they're fully in camp with each other, fully in cahoots with each other to take down the President and his agenda. And you see it in Minnesota, you had to backtrack a little bit. Justin, I want to thank you for joining us. I'll see you soon. Thank you. Next we're going to Coming up, we're going to Melania is still the media's favorite punching bag. Maybe she want they want to get at Trump now, but next we're going to talk about what's going on with the economy, how well it's doing, and are the media portraying it in a positive manner that More Coming up on Media Exposed.

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Welcome back to Media Exposed. The mainstream media refuses to acknowledge economic success under the second Trump administration because it doesn't fit their doom and gloom narrative against the Trump administration. Gas prices are down. Economic indicators show strength. But you never know it from watching cnn, MSNBC or the other left leaning stations, or the big morning shows or the nightly evening shows. Third quarter GDP growth exceeded expectations. Where's the coverage? Where are the headlines celebrating American prosperity? You know, people creating wealth, all the economic opportunities. The media spent years fear mongering about economic collapse, but now that things are improving, they've gone silent they don't want you to know the truth. Vanguard and other major financial institutions show positive market outlook. But legacy media would rather talk about manufactured controversy and real economic news. I want to welcome David Zier, David Zia, our own host at Breaking Point and a host here at Real America's Voice News. Dave, thanks for joining us as always. David, it seems like this always happens. You know, I remember Obama ran the SEC when he ran for reelection. Economy was doing crap, right? And Romney just sat there like a, you know, like a whipping boy. He didn't really fight hard enough. I think if he did, he probably could have won the thing. But Duchani wasn't doing well at all. But the media didn't show any signs of going after Obama. They wanted to, they wanted him to win reelection. Now that things seem to be on the up, I'm looking in Google, I'm looking other places. I don't see any great articles, do you?

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No, a couple. But listen, Obama's economy, it grew, but it only grew at like 1% per year coming off of the housing crisis, you know, the subprime mortgage crisis in 2008. But under Trump, they're talking about GDP numbers now that are like 5.3%. It's massive. And it's going to continue to grow because remember Trump's first term, it didn't start to really grow until the second and third year when those tax cuts kicked in. The average family is probably going to see an additional thousand dollars in refunds this year. He expanded the child tax credit, the no tax and tips and overtime and Social Security. You know, he brought up part time workers from like Davenport, Iowa. Yesterday I was on the ground in Des Moines, Iowa for that Trump rally to support congressional candidates in these tight races out there. But he brought up specific examples and these two girls, these two young women got up there and said not only am I going to save no tax on tips, but no tax on overtime and they're going to put thousands of dollars back in their packet pockets.

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Adam, I was at the Trump account summit early in the week, midweek and Michael Dell was, he's pledging billions of dollars. Nicki Minaj came the celebrity music giant, a lister, which is surprise. She said, I'm maga, I'm all the way. I'm a big. She said, I'm the biggest Trump supporter. But other people are pledging lots of money and this is a great idea to give kids newborn babies, automatic 250 as a gift, which they're pledging and let it grow from there. By the time they're 18, 20 knows what kind of value that would be. A, it, it's a good incentive to families to grow. B, it creates wealth for a child and can hold a child and going, wow, what do I have next year? What do I have another year? So it's very creative ways and there was a lot of people in the room. It was an interesting summit. But, you know, I want to play you this clip because I found one clip and Stephen Moore, what's the Animal? And CNN point out how good the economy is doing. Let's go to cut to get the facts of the economy. It is a booming economy. We, you know, the latest report is almost 5 1/2% growth in the fourth quarter, which is an incredible number. We haven't seen that in recent memory. We've got gas prices down. Inflation is headed down to the 2% target. Median family income last year was up, up 2500. Those are people in the exact middle adjusted for inflation. I mean, I could go on and on with the positive elements. You know, I would think when I'm searching, David, I'd find hundreds of clips like Stephen and other outlets, but I can't find them. Right. Because the media doesn't want to, doesn't want to celebrate great economic news. If they did celebrate economic news, that would put positive accomplishments and that would show positive, you know, acuity to the economy and people would be happier, people would smile more and people probably go out and be more entrepreneurial. That would probably help the economy even more. Give me your thoughts.

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Well, he cut the trade deficit even 77%. But it is early because things are just getting better. We're coming off of compounded inflation probably at 27 to 40% over the last five years. So it's going to take a while. People don't feel it yet in their pocketbooks. They're starting to. At the pump in Iowa yesterday, I saw gas was A$85 a gallon for a gas station outside of Des Moines that Zach Nunn, the congressman, was talking about. And in Texas, you're talking a $85, $2 a gallon in some places. It's going to take time. It's, you know, I think in a month or two it's really going to kick in and we get new GDP numbers in and people start getting their refunds and then they go to file their taxes again in April. It may have an impact on the midterms. Listen, the Republicans are down plus four to plus six in every major poll for the last year that they're going to take back Congress. So without interest rates being lowered, like Scott Besson said, it's the only missing ingredients for a vibrant economy. So they have to lower the interest rates. It's got to come down 150 basis points. Kids can't buy a home at five and a half percent. It is getting better, but it's not happening quickly yet.

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Yeah, I mean, the Federal Reserve has been stubborn, right? He's very stubborn about lowering interest rates. That's one thing that could put a push into home ownership. People need to understand the American dream, because when you and I were growing up, which we don't want to say how long ago that was, because we don't want to scare our audience, but it was the number one thing that we parents taught us and other people taught us, get a home, own a home, right? That was the American dream. I don't think they even teach the American dream anymore to gen zers or millennials or whatever's underneath them. And we got to get that back into the psych of the American people, because owning a home is very important. It gives you pride. It gives you something for family. And they don't teach that. And they and with the interest rates, it's hard, too. So wouldn't that be nice if people can grow and get home ownership again? DAVID.

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Yeah, I use the pizza index. Pizza was 50 cents in 1978. Now it's $4 a slice, plus sometimes five and six dollars here in New York. And money has outpaced inflation, has outpaced incomes. Housing costs are double in the last five years. Average home ownership is 59. Now. It was 31 in 1981.

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Adam yeah, in Miami beach, when I'm there, it's $9, $50 a slice. It's not even good pizza. And it's almost criminal. But, you know, I put a complaint with the criminal board of Pizza, but they didn't get back to me yet. Let's go to cut three. CHARLES Talking about the economy booming.

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It's an absolute economic boom. And you know, it's amazing because no one disputes it, no one who is in the business of finance, every firm on Wall street sees the market higher. And what's interesting about it is, you know, and I've always said the stock market is not the economy, but there are parts of it, particularly when it comes to earnings, right? So this market is going to go up, but it's going to be driven by earnings, not what they call PE expansion, not hype, not anything else, just the fact that the economy, the domestic economy is doing so much better. By the way, you didn't mention rents. All right, so think about this for a moment because affordability has been a real issue. Rents came down every single month the last five months of 2025. That momentum will continue to the downside. There are some sources out there that show inflation at 1.2%. It's absolutely imploded. The data will catch up with the Federal Reserve. The data will catch up with the economists. They use other forms. But the bottom line is we've got this economic win at our backs. That should make this just an absolute amazing year. A year that, by the way, I think many Americans forgot.

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We can still have the economy. Like you said, David, it's only beginning and it's going to get better. But how is the media going to portray this? Are they going to tell the truth? They're going to tell the facts. I doubt it, because they don't want to help Trump. They don't want to help Republicans in the midterms that are coming up. They'd rather have a battle royale. They'd rather have the left take over. And we don't want that because we know what's going to happen after that. It'll be conflict and conflict and impeachments. So I don't see the media helping, even, no matter what the numbers are. What do you think?

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I love Charles Payne, but I don't know anybody whose rent has gone down. My kids are paying $4,500 a month for rent in the city. It's not going down, but I think things are going to get really better. It's going to take off like a rocket ship, this economy. Maybe too late for the midterms, but this country is going to be healthy, at least economically, very soon.

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What do you see in New York State now that we got a candidate? Bruce Blakeman. Right. He's the sole candidate. What do you see in New York state is any hope for Republicans this coming up November, any hope at all? We can have a.

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Yeah. Kathy Hochul has 18, 20 million dollars on him. Blakeman doesn't. Yeah, he doesn't have those kinds of funds. He can win, though. Sentiment may change, but Hochul may benefit from the economy approving and then take credit for it, too. I don't know where that stands yet. Zeldin built up the GOP in New York. He only lost by five. It is reachable. It's going to be a very hard uphill battle for Bruce Blakeman.

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The New York's getting hard but maybe the Mandani effect, we can push this out, you know, with his crazy zealot ideas. Where David, you're covering this week. What are you covering up in, you know, Orlando?

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Yeah. Well, I sat down with General Stephen Whiting, the head of US Space Command directly underneath Pete Hegseth at the Department of War. It's fascinating. I'm at SpaceX here, a space here and the Space Congress, private and military defense contractors working together. Threats in deep space, threats in low orbit from the Chinese direct energy laser weapons. The Russians may have a nuclear weapon in space. There's a lot of concerns, a lot of concerns out there. U.S. space Command is addressing them and it's kind of like socom. They can pull from the different branches. They helped with the Maduro event in Venezuela. They help with the Iran bombing. Space is front and center. Our satellites are at risk. Anti satellite technology. We have hunter killer satellites that have robot arms that can rip apart other satellites. They can shoot direct munitions at other satellites. And we're addressing it. Thank God Trump is president. It's all I can say.

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David, I'm glad we have you on the ground. I'm glad we have Rav because we exploring these important things for national security. I'll see you soon, David. I'll see you next week. Thank you for joining us. Up next, if it seems, if it's not the Obamas, Michelle Obama, the media wants it to be a dud. We're going to look into deeper. Melania's movie documentary coming out this week. Welcome back to Media Exposed. I was in D.C. for Melania's movie premiere which has happened at the Kennedy Center. As I take a look at this, there seems to be a full out assault on the Melania Trump unlike anything I've seen before for a first lady. No Michelle Obama documentaries. Michelle Obama's production companies always treated like kid gloves. The Obamas. This coordinated media assault and attack is nothing like I've ever seen before. Outlets declared her documentary flopping a week before it even came out, even released. They're so interested in her failure, they're manufacturing negative headlines narratives right out of thin air. The media is using Melania as a punching bag to hurt the administration and the movement. If they can tear their her down or any positive coverage or success, it seems like a failure if they allow that. Anything to get at President Trump, anything to get at the administration. So let's take a time and go after the first lady. Unlike you've never seen before. First lady attacks. This isn't journal. It's a coordinated character assassination campaign and the American people, I think we'll see right through it. I want to make my next guest, I'm going to accept Nora Mati. Nora is the CEO of Field House Strategy and director of Heritage Action. Director of Heritage Action, Michigan State director of Heritage Action. Sorry about that. And Fieldhouse CEO Nora, thanks for joining us. First time on Media Exposed as it's.

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Great to be here. Thank you so much for having me, Dora.

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You know, I don't know if they should have they're putting in the theaters. It's coming out Friday. It seems like because everywhere I looked on Google Melania, they're tearing her apart. I want to show you this first photo. Look at the photo. 1 Melania Bach as her 75 movie is already struggling. I don't know, I'm not in the movie business but they can, they're so vested in making sure. And look at that photo they put up with Melania. Oh, they made it look scary, all these wrinkles. I mean, she's a stunning woman. They found the worst photo unless they photoshopped it. Unlike the Michigan, unlike the Minnesota nurse who passed, sorry, we lost him, but they turned him into this golden boy nurse. The photoshopped him a little bit. But this full out assault I'm noticing against Melania seems to be not Sarah, for the media, give me your thoughts on what you've seen so far. In looking at the reports on the Melania documentary movie.

[H]

I mean, I think it is a perfect distraction technique that's being done. Melania is not only just the first lady, she is, you know, a key representative for the Trump administration. We've seen her operate in the background. And I think this is a perfect example of attacking her in order to distract her what she normally does on a day to day basis for the administration. So for example, Melania is the one where when the flood zones in North Carolina hit, she was flying to California during the fires. She was in Las Vegas for the shootings. She was there in Puerto Rico when we had hurricanes. She is essentially the good hearted wing of, you know, she's Donald Trump's wife. She's going there to be with the American people as a mother to the nation. And we're seeing that this movie is essentially a distraction technique. If, hey, if we can focus on this, then we know for a fact we can talk her down when it comes to her efforts of eventually most likely being sent out there to do the good work that she's doing when it comes to when the nation is in crisis.

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Right. Let me show you. Let's take a look at the trailer, see what you think. Let's go to cut four. Melania's trailer. Here we go again. You can come in.

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Come on.

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My parents legacy will be then a peacemaker. Peacemaker in the fire. Beautiful. Together with like minded leaders. We have a voice. Is it safe? It is safe. Everyone wants to know. So here it is. Hi, Mr. President. Congratulations. Did you watch it? I did not. Yeah, I will see it on the news. Well, Nora, I know I'm gonna see it because I'm going to the movie from here, Kennedy center. But I think I might have been a misdirection to put it in theaters as just a documentary of Melania. I find it interesting. I'm gonna want to see it because she hasn't been exposed that much. First lady, she's kind of played a secondary role. Other first ladies played a way more prominent role. Hillary, Nancy Reagan, Michelle Obama, even. So I find this, I'm gonna find it interesting to see what she's really like behind the scenes. But there's full out assault like nothing I've ever seen before because. And the other thing with these movie theaters, Gen Z, it's like Gen Z, they don't have attention span like used to. They can barely get through Instagram reel for five minutes together. To have them go all the way to a theater just for one, just to watch Batman, that's a tough, that's a tough ask. What do you think about this?

[H]

I honestly think it's a, it's a genius idea. I think a lot of the times people also forget she had a young son. When her husband became president of the United States, she stepped back to be a mom. Now she's stepping forward now that her son is finally in college and we get to see what she's like in the day to day. When you look at that clip, I, I actually adore the fact that she's sitting there critiquing President Trump's speech because that shows the true partnership, which I think is like goes to core of her actual marriage. And we're getting to see that for the very first time. Because if there's one thing that we know about President Trump is that he loves his family. And you see that no more perfectly than in their marriage. And for the very first time we get to peek behind the curtain. And I think a lot of people are really excited and I think it's, it's kind of getting clouded and that's why there's such a Big offensive. They're like, let's just preempt it. Let's attack it now. But I think when people actually go and see the movie, they're going to be really excited because it's also one of the very first times we've had that up close in person. Not just with Melania, but with a first lady of the United States and even a historic within a historic presidency as we're ushering the golden age of the United States.

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Look at this. I'm going to show you a photo too here from I believe it's a Daily Beast again. Melania documentary flops as crew reveals behind the scenes chaos. How does it flop? It's not even out yet. See, they're so vested in destroying this film. The headlines don't even make sense. It's pathetic. But I want to go to Jon Stewart.

[H]

The chaos part just makes me laugh. I was like, could you imagine being the first lady of the United States and you have like a peaceful, normal schedule. I'm just like, in what world does that exist?

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Right?

[A]

Chaos. No, but like if it was chaos for like any other movie, like actors always create chaos. They're actors, they're entertainers, they're theater. Theater. So chaos is normal to them. But when Melania does it and the theater crew with them do it. Oh, it's bad, right? Watch this. And Jon Stewart too. Imagine if the late night talk shows if Michelle Obama had a movie come out, they did this. Watch the Cut 5 Jon Stewart how he mocks Melania. Watch Move over Avatar sequels. Here's another movie that wasn't necessary. Love the tagline to the movie Melania. The inspiring true story of how an online shopping billionaire paid millions to curry favor with the president. Am I in trouble? I can't wait for the sequel. Oh it just take the money. I'm trying. I'm trying.

[H]

He goes to a greater narrative is especially within the Republican Party. And I can push back on that and say basically they want the Republican Party to be the party of the rich oligarchs when in reality the Republican party is the working class party. So they're trying to invent something there and they will use anything humanly possible to do that. And we're, we're seeing it right now in real action.

[A]

Right. They're so dying. I hope we have a passion or Christ moment here where just they didn't want it so bad. The elites didn't want it to be a popular movie, to be a historic movie to box offices set and it blew the doors because people from middle America and rural parts of America believed in, you know, have religious values which Hollywood, you know, they don't want ever want to promote Chris Judeo Christian values. And hopefully people across America will come out and see Melania and make it a success. I want to show you this other photo. Let's go to photo three here. Photo three is mocking Melania again. Again, it's entertainment. It's can the media be any more their agenda? Look at their agenda. They're pushing out here making sure the administration does lincolnheart the administration and making sure this film doesn't do well, which I'm So it comes down to middle America, Melania and the rest of stuff. But most of the people I know want to see this movie Inner Circle. They're very interested in the first lady because like you said earlier, we haven't seen much of her. And it's very interesting to know her relationship with the world, her staff and the president without being Melania's coming out and they vested in it. Brett Ratner's director, he vested in it. So hopefully it does well. Give me your thoughts on Melania's coming out now or how do you think, how do you think it's going to do at the box office?

[H]

I personally think it's going to do very well and if not the box office, especially online, we're going to see a lot of clips from it, a lot of Gen Z's that are going to be watching the reels of it to get a better insight into the president, his wife and their relationship and how they raise their family. I think like I've said before, she was a very, she was a mom with a young son act and now she's stepping up and we're going to be able to see, you know, exactly. You know, the American people will fall in love with her the minute that they get to know her and all the work that she's doing to help prioritize the health of children issues and so on and so forth.

[A]

Nora, I want to thank you for joining Media Exposed here. Thanks again. I'll see you soon. Thank you.

[H]

Bye. Have a great day.

[A]

Thank you. Up next, we're going to back in Minnesota, what happened this past weekend, this past week, big shakeups in Minnesota. Are the mayor and governor do anything to stop their chaos? How's the president reacting? That more Coming up on Media Exposed.

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Welcome back to Media Exposed. Over the weekend there was a tragic shooting of Alex Pretty, 37 year old nurse, they called him. Tragedy happened. He showed up with a gun. Legal to show up with a gun. He had a permit. But Secretary Noem seemed to rush to judgment without knowing the facts. That might have spiraled it out of control. But a little more protesting, a little more raucousness throughout Minnesota. She should probably have just waited a little bit. Let's let the facts investigate this instead of immediately defending the shooting before anyone knew what happened. We don't know the victim had the gun, if it was discharged, if it was pushed out or what happened at first. So it just calmed down for half a day or so. There are too many moving parts for the Homeland Secretary at that high level position to making definite statements. The legacy media suddenly all of a sudden loves the second amendment, right? When all of a sudden any other protest. How dare you carry. We shouldn't have carried. Now that it's their narrative, all of a sudden, they're the defenders of it. The riots are highly orchestrated by the left. It's coordinated chaos designed to create maximum destruction, maximum media coverage, and probably use it moving forward to go after the election again. Yet even President Trump realized the situation requires a pivot. Nobody fights the media better than Trump. But an armed citizen is killed. You have to step back, get the facts right before the narrative spins out totally out of control. I want to welcome my next guest, Edward Woodson, political commentator Edward Woodson. Edward, for too many weeks I said this is going to hurt the gop, hurt the GOP in the midterms. We don't have a country really isn't a militia country. We don't have look like an army flooding into Minnesota. I wasn't there, so I don't know, but the visuals didn't look great. And then all of a sudden you got the combined avalanche of the media going after the president, going at the gop, going after Kristi Noem. It just was hurting them. But I want to show you first cut here 7. It shows how organized these protesters are. Ed, watch this cut seven. Look at this. Here goes.

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A group of professional activists renting a U Haul, getting signs out of their trucks. This is not organic. These are the same printed signs.

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And now they're heading to the federal courthouse. What do we Want. When do we want it?

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Do you know who's organizing this?

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The PSL Party for social.

[A]

Oh, okay.

[H]

Okay.

[A]

I'm just going to observe. Thank you though. Tuck in, meet your neighbors, cuz again. Hey, remember, we're not doing this by ourselves. Right? Which group is organizing this party for socialism and liberation? We've been out here for a few years. How do you join? Like, how do you. If you want to also donate, it's pretty easy. You can look it up. PSO web.org got. Is there like a Minnesota or Minneapolis chapter? Twin Cities. Twin Cities Cities. So, okay, so people can simply just donate and go to signs and whatever.

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Out here to protest.

[A]

Okay. If we don't get it. If we don't get it. I don't think they're vals here. They're probably all paid agitators. If I it had to take a guess. Nobody vests that much. I mean, freezing cold as a volunteer. What. What do you. It's a shame that we lost, that someone had to be killed. But you know, give me your thoughts on these agitators and overall. Give me your thoughts on the, the weekend and the loss of the Minnesota nurse.

[C]

First of all, thank you for having me back. Appreciate it there, Adam. I have many thoughts on this and I'll tell you clearly, these people are highly organized. They know what they're doing. It seems to me that there's a bigger force behind them. Again, organizationally, I think that, you know, it was a tragedy clearly to have someone die. I think this was a little different from the Renee good shooting, where I think the Renee good shoot was a good shoot coming from. You know, I used to be a criminal defense attorney and I'll tell you this, that was assault with a deadly weapon very clearly. And you see people all the time that are charged with that. However, this case, it's not to say that this guy Alex, the nurse, he probably should not have engaged, but these people feel that they have this moral duty to engage with ice and obstruct justice. And that's exactly what they're doing. They're obstructing the shoot though itself. While I think it's. It's a legal shoot and it's a good shoot, I think I would say that the response though was a bit heavy handed. You go and you talked about Kristi Noem, whatever happened to. And my whole life I've always heard this. Whenever an incident like this happens, the authorities usually say we can't comment because there's an active investigation going on. That's always a good thing to say. That's PR 101. That is Crisis Management 101. Before the facts come out, you get up there and you say, I can't comment on this. There's an ongoing investigation and most people will accept that. The fact that Kristi Noem came out the way she did, with quote, unquote, guns blazing, as it were, I think was a problem for the administration. Trump clearly saw that. That's why you're seeing him pivot away from her. That's why they took Gregory Bovino out of there. They brought in Tom Holman. The adults are now in charge. But if we look back at Kristi Noem, for instance, this has been something that she's done throughout her career, going back to, if you recall the book she wrote, where within the book that she wrote, she talked about killing her dog. Now, I don't know who advised her that that was a good thing to put in the book. I don't know how there was a final edit and that was a good thing. But that's really, really bad pr. So if you think about it going back to that incident, she. I don't know what it is. Maybe she just doesn't have a good feel for what good PR or good crisis management is. So I think what you're seeing now with the administration, you're seeing now that she's kind of being put on mothballs somewhat.

[A]

Like I said, I think, I think Trump has great pivot timing, you know, great comedic skills. Great pivot timing. He understands the, you know, the moment in time. And you could see, even though he doesn't like to be told what to do by the media and take direction, the onslaught that was happening is not just going to affect his administration. It'll affect the midterms and need to make a move here. And I'll give him credit, right? And Kristina is too stern in her approach. She doesn't know how to pivot either. She shouldn't be jumping to conclusions that fast. But yet we have a media that just takes one side, so it's difficult for these folks. So look at this clip, because these guys don't know how to behave. Any of these left wingers don't know how to behave. If they just respected the cops a little more, none of this would happen. But watch the way the media has to go after the AG Todd Blanche, Kristen Walker with NBC. Let's go to cut eight. Watch this.

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In Texas, we have the cooperation and.

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Support of local law enforcement so that.

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We can do These operations safely keeping U.S. citizens and others protected and safe. That is not what we have in Minneapolis.

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And the fact that it's the administration that's being blamed for the utter failure.

[F]

Of leadership in Minneapolis is not right.

[A]

It's not appropriate. Are you saying those officers bear no.

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Responsibility, those federal Officers who fired 10 shots yesterday bear no responsibility for the death of this 37 year old ICU nurse?

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I did not say that. Don't put words in my mouth.

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I didn't say that.

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I said there's an investigation ongoing. But I said that the story is, and the narrative around this cannot be just about those officers that were forced to do what they had to do yesterday to keep, to keep the operation.

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Going as it should go without any support.

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And not one question about the governor holding up Laura. Not one question about the mayor holding up Laura. Not question about why did this 37 year old, all of a sudden he's a nurse. It makes it, you see how they frame this. It makes it sound so much a quality person, the nurse. Not one question. Why is he carrying a gun when he, when he's confronting, you're allowed to carry a gun, but you could confront federal officers with a gun on you. I mean, that's kind of stupidity if you didn't do that. But that's the assault you have to take from the media. Give me your thoughts on that clip.

[C]

Well, look, we all know that the media's always going to take that position. Like we know that. So that being said, the administration should already know that, that that's what's going to happen. So when Kristi Noem comes out and makes that statement, and I think it was, you know, it was too early to make that statement again, you know, whatever happened to just saying, hey, it was an ongoing investigation, I'm not going to comment yet. But you know, the, the problem is there's a fault on all sides. When you think about it like these people are being encouraged by leftists in Minnesota. They're encouraged to do this behavior. They're encouraged to that. And so that's the fault of, I don't know if it's necessarily, clearly it was the fault of Alex Peretti to engage with law enforcement. It's probably not a good idea to engage with law enforcement in the middle of an arrest. The fact that he brought a gun to it. Look, you have the right to bring a gun. You have a right to carry magazines. Clearly under the second amendment, you have the right to do that. However, is it a good idea to do that to bring a gun to a protest? Probably not. I would say so there's fault in that. But at the same time, if you look at the shooting, you know, there's a lot going on. People don't understand. I love when I hear non lawyers commenting on legal issues because you know, there, nobody was there. You know, there's this, there's a, there's a, there's a standard, it's a reasonable person standard. Right. And, and we don't know what's in the minds of these, of these, these officers in the moment. This is a split second decision. You know, they're, they're, the, the gun comes out. One of the, one of the, one of the, the, the border patrol agents grabs the gun. It looks like it misfired. Those guns are notorious for misfiring. At that point, clearly all hell breaks loose. So.

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Woodson, I got a wrap here. Thanks for joining us. I never saw the media love the second amendment so much. But we'll see you soon. Eddie. Thank you. A word from our sponsor partner at Hotel Planner. Are you frustrated how confused it is these days to find and book a good hotel room family for your large group events during the holiday seasons, during the cold seasons, our friends at Hotel Planner are cutting edge hotel booking platform, easy to navigate, easy go to hotelplanner.com I want to thank Fran and Erin in the control room. David Zia for joining us, Ed Woodson, Nora Matthew and Justine. Brooke Murray for joining us. We'll see you next week on Media Exposed. Thank you. This is an iHeart podcast. Guaranteed Human.