Media Exposed with Adam Weiss - January 4, 2026

Summary

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Podcast Summary: Real America’s Voice — "Media Exposed with Adam Weiss"

Episode Date: January 5, 2026
Host: Adam Weiss
Guests: Justine Brooke Murray, Royce White, Emily Rose Finn, David Zier
Main Theme: Examining media bias, incendiary rhetoric, underreported scandals, AI’s impact on news, and failures in legacy news coverage—told through key stories from 2025.

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Episode Overview

This special New Year’s edition of Media Exposed with Adam Weiss dives deep into the interplay between politics, comedy, and media narratives. Adam and his guests critique how mainstream and entertainment media have amplified incendiary rhetoric, highlight a multi-billion-dollar fraud case underreported by major outlets, analyze AI’s take on the year’s top stories, and discuss the implications of New York’s controversial driver’s license law. The episode’s tone is forceful, combative, and critical of perceived mainstream media bias, with a focus on defending conservative voices and exposing double standards.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Incendiary Rhetoric in Comedy & Daytime TV

(Starts ~[02:20])

• Late Night and Daytime Shows as Activist Platforms:
  Adam Weiss opens discussing a Newsbusters compilation of late night comedy’s “worst moments” of 2025, highlighting how satire often blurs into political activism, particularly targeting conservatives.

• Hollywood’s Disconnect:
  Adam points out that Gen Z and everyday Americans are increasingly alienated from Hollywood award shows:
  “They punched it. They’ve done damage to their own brand. A lot of Gen Z. A lot of average Americans don't even know what these Hollywood shows are anymore.” [03:55]

• Justine Brooke Murray’s Take:
  “They’re all just a tub of elitists blowing off their own steam... in order to be cool and popular among the Hollywood elite, you have to pedal leftist fundamentalism.” [04:23]

• Clips from 'The View':
  Whoopi Goldberg’s statements about the dangers of another Trump presidency are highlighted as examples of fear-mongering, with Justine warning,
  “She is giving every nut bag out there permission to commit violence and to potentially try to assassinate President Trump… they instigate it.” [06:42]

• Adam’s View on “Racist” Labeling:
  Adam and Justine critique late night segments (e.g., Colbert with Kamala Bell) that label Trump as “the LeBron James of racism” without, in their view, substantiating examples. “If you’re going to call someone a racist, please give us examples.” [10:37]
  “The term racism has lost all meaning at this point… this is peak projection and everybody’s sick of it.” —Justine Brooke Murray [10:37]

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2. The Massive Minnesota Fraud Scandal — Ignored by Legacy Media

(Starts ~[12:07])

• Scandal Summary:
  Adam introduces the story: a $9B fraud scheme involving daycare centers in Minnesota, allegedly run as scams—uncovered by 22-year-old YouTuber Nick Shirley, yet barely mentioned by CNN or MSNBC.
  “While a multi-million dollar scandal is treated as a local story rather than a national one…” [13:23]

• On-The-Ground Investigation:
  Clip from Shirley’s exposé shows fake daycare centers with no children, millions in taxpayer funds routed through shell businesses, and the use of “fake parents” to simulate activity.
  “We have empty parking lot. No one’s inside. License for over 50 kids. No children anywhere, but yet millions of dollars every single year.” —Podcast Announcer [16:52]

• Royce White’s Perspective (former MN Senate candidate):
  “Minneapolis and Minnesota is the belly of the beast nationwide. Somali residents have always gotten preferential treatment when it comes to state and federal grants…” [18:22]
  Royce distinguishes between calling out group-specific fraud versus racism:
  “Am I saying all Somalis are engaged in fraud? No. But we should be able to say it’s Somali fraud when it’s Somali fraud. That’s not racism.” [19:06]

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3. Underreported Political Violence—Melissa Hortman Case

(Segment ~[21:13])

• Tragic Political Fallout:
  The assassination of MN State Senator Melissa Hortman, the lone Democrat to vote against medical assistance for undocumented immigrants, is raised as a major story with scant coverage.
  “She was one of the few Democrats to vote against giving medical assistance to undocumented illegal immigrants.” —Royce White [14:48]
• Political Shaming and Consequences:
  Adam reflects on how Hortman was emotionally pressured by colleagues before her death and questions motive and coverage:
  “They really shamed her to death… it’s terrible. And who knows if that led to her assassination.” [22:12]
  “I don’t know… how every major media outlet in the country isn’t here in Minnesota right now trying to uncover what’s going on.” —Royce White [23:31]

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4. AI and 2025’s Top Media Stories

(Segment ~[25:03])

• “The Year of AI”:
  Adam and Emily Rose Finn play a “game” with ChatGPT’s list of top 2025 media stories, using it as a springboard to critique legacy coverage.
• Top Story – Trump’s Election Victory & Narrative:
  “There wasn’t a way to really try to frame it any other way than just what an embarrassing loss [for the Democrats].” —Emily [26:19]
• Presidential Health Coverage:
  “There wasn’t barely peeps from the media for five years of Biden. But… with Trump, coverage is constant and critical.” [26:50]
• “Lawfare” & Double Standards:
  “The media gives a lot of credit to one party in this country and they don’t on the other side. There are definitely some fluff pieces, for sure.” —Emily [28:23]
• AI Identifies the Rise of Independent Media:
  “That’s my favorite one so far. That should be number one.” —Emily [33:40]
• Cultural Wars & Declining Trust:
  “Daytime talk shows and late night talk shows, they would do a lot better if they would just stick to comedy.” —Emily [29:33]
  “Viewers became more aware of the framing, of the media’s double standard.” [35:17]

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5. The “Green Light Law”: NY Driver’s Licenses for Non-Citizens

(Segment ~[36:13])

• Law Summary & Media Silence:
  A federal judge upholds NY’s “green light law,” allowing licenses for undocumented immigrants—Adam argues this undermines voting integrity and is underreported.
  “They didn’t ask me for any proof, nothing. They just gave me my license. All they kept asking me, are you registered to vote?” [37:44]

• David Zier’s Analysis:
  “If you are an illegal in New York State… you don’t need anything and you don’t need to prove you are here legally… what’s going on is criminal.” [38:50] He adds, the judge’s decision was on legal grounds, not policy, but blasts the overall effect:
  “They want to make all these illegals their voters and keep a majority forever.” [41:29]

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6. Media Critiques and Supreme Court Integrity

(Segment ~[44:28])

• CBS Legal Analyst Calls Out Media:
  Jan Crawford (clip) rebukes narrative calling SCOTUS corrupt:
  “Not only is that narrative overreported, it is patently false, and it is dangerous for the institution and the public’s faith and confidence in the rule of law.” [44:28]
• Adam & David’s Response:
  They agree such statements should be normal, but are seen as bold only because of media bias. “The Supreme Court doesn’t always go the way of the right… when it benefits them, it’s fair, and when it doesn’t, it’s corrupt.” —David Zier [46:10]

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Adam Weiss on Comedy’s Downfall: “It’s almost like they’re professors at college campuses instead of just comedians anymore.” [04:51]

• Justine Brooke Murray on Hollywood: “They’re all just a tub of elitists blowing off their own steam… in order to be popular among the Hollywood elite, you have to pedal leftist fundamentalism.” [04:23]

• Royce White’s Macro: “You can’t trust anybody in Minnesota… Somalis have always gotten preferential treatment for state and federal grants.” [18:22]

• Emily Rose Finn on Trump: “He is just really winning. The mega base is more fired up than I’ve ever seen before.” [27:15]

• Jan Crawford (CBS) on the Supreme Court: “Not only is that narrative overreported, it is patently false, and it is dangerous for the institution and the public’s faith and confidence in the rule of law.” [44:28]

• Adam Weiss closing: “Thank you and Happy New Year and God bless America.” [48:34]

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Timestamps for Major Segments

• Incendiary rhetoric in comedy/punditry: [02:20]–[12:07]
• Minnesota fraud exposé (Nick Shirley): [12:07]–[19:27]
• Political violence and Melissa Hortman case: [21:13]–[23:31]
• Top stories of 2025: the AI segment: [25:03]–[35:17]
• NY ‘Green Light Law’ & voter integrity: [36:13]–[41:29]
• Supreme Court integrity & media bias: [44:28]–[46:48]

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Takeaways

• The panel sees late-night and daytime TV as crossing lines into political activism, often ridiculing or vilifying conservatives.
• Massive government fraud and political violence are cited as underreported because they don’t fit the “preferred” media narrative.
• AI and independent journalism are on the rise, and legacy outlets’ trust continues to erode.
• New York’s approach to driver’s licenses for non-citizens is called a voting-integrity threat; the media is charged with silence on these matters.
• The episode is emblematic of Media Exposed’s unapologetic conservative perspective and repeated calls to scrutinize establishment narratives.

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Transcript

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[Adam Wise]

Welcome to Media Exposed. This week for our New Year's special, we're going to look a look at the comedians most incendiary rhetoric. Top of top 10 of their incinerary comments towards in the media. We're also going to take AI how is AI looking at the media scape? Take a look at this big story to happen in Minnesota. Should be national news, should be international news. How's the media covering that story? I want to take a look at the story in New York that a judge just postponed this law making law a driver's license, allowing it legal to have driver's license in New York without id. Sounds kind of crazy, but yep, that's happening. That and more coming up on Media Exposed. What they do say is fake news. That's how devious the media has become. They're full force activists now. They colluded.

[Aaron]

Trump folks were in on it.

[Adam Wise]

Sways elections, sways policy. We need to expose them. Republicans trash the country. I've been 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. Head into the unknown.

[Royce White]

Media Exposed with Adam Wise starts now.

[Adam Wise]

Welcome back to Media Exposed. I want to take a look at how important this is because the award season, Hollywood's coming up and our friends over at News Bus, they put a compilation of the 10 worst moments from late night comedy in 2025. They're showing how these comedians and their guests routinely blurred a line of comedy between satire and political activists. And we know how that political activist goes usually one side of the aisle. Their reports highlight a repeated instance where late night hosts use their platforms to normalize extreme rhetoric against the right, against conservatives, smear their opponents and dismiss half the country as a big punchline. And I noticed this because I was asking people about these award ceremos. A lot of people across America don't even know about them anymore. Separate in a separate Newsbusters report, they tracked 12 times the view used inciting or inflammatory language about 2025. They couldn't help it. They had to keep correcting themselves, framing it as a moral authority rather than opinion. The common thread daytime and late night comedians no longer just comment on the news. They shape it. They use the emotionally charged language and rhetoric would be condemned in the past. I want to welcome my next Justine Brooke Murray, TV host at Newsmasters Media Research center and a frequent guest here. And thanks for News Busters for giving us a lot of content throughout the year. And thank you for joining us at the end. Happy holidays and Happy New Year's. Justine, thanks for coming on. Justin. The awards ceremonies in Hollywood is coming up. Used to be such a big thing, but I think over the last decade or more, probably just the last decade or so, if alienated so much of America Hollywood that a lot of Gen Z is a lot of average Americans don't even know what these Hollywood shows are anymore. Back in the day like the Academy Awards, the Globes are coming up. They've, they punched it. They've done damage to their own brand. All Hollywood, what are your thoughts on that question?

[Justine Brooke Murray]

I think they're all a bunch of enlightened sages passing on deep knowledge to the rest of us common people. But they're all just a, a tub of elitist blowing off their own steam and their own bubbles. Nobody cares what political opinions they have. But apparently in order to be popular, and we know this, in order to be cool and popular among the Hollywood elite, you have to pedal leftist fundamentalism.

[Adam Wise]

Yeah, it used to not be that way. You'd sit down, you just want to enjoy a movie. You just want to enjoy your comedy. And they blood the line so much that it become activism. It's almost like they're professors at college campuses instead of just comedians anymore. Let's take a look at this cut one here. It's from the View and how many times they have to correct themselves. But watch this one. They're talking about how delusional us is under Trump.

[Whoopi Goldberg]

If you guys think that we can survive another three and a half years of this, think you're delusional. Every day there's some nihilistic thing. Joy, can we not start there? I mean, I hate to be Debbie Downer, but you're every day this guy has survived a lot. He's undoing Something in this country that we value every day. Every day is a shock and awe here. And I, for one, am skeptical that we will survive this. I am not.

[Emily Rose Finn]

I am not.

[Whoopi Goldberg]

So if you need that from me, I do believe.

[Adam Wise]

I believe in our Seattle.

[Whoopi Goldberg]

She's seen worse. No, no, I have not. No, I. I grew up in. During World War II.

[Aaron]

It's Whoopi that says she's seen wor worse.

[Adam Wise]

No, I think.

[Whoopi Goldberg]

All right, I'm Whoopi.

[Adam Wise]

To cheer us up.

[Whoopi Goldberg]

Cuban missiles. Every president, and they were all dealt with by presidents who were not, you know, in the business of destroying the country and destroying the Constitution.

[Emily Rose Finn]

I'm hopeful.

[Whoopi Goldberg]

I mean, we always had presidents who followed the law, including Nixon. As bad as he was, he felt he had respect for the Constitution all the time. And he didn't go after the military and call them names. I've never heard of such a thing in this country.

[Adam Wise]

It's like this. It's like the spoiled Justin's. It's like these spoiled kids or teenagers told every day, behave yourself. Don't go after someone. Don't go into fights. And all they do. They can't behave themselves. It's right. It's like the activism is just spewing out of them. What do you think of that clip and the other clips from the viewer from the year when.

[Justine Brooke Murray]

When she says that the country will not survive Trump? She is giving every nut bag out there permission to. To commit violence and to potentially try to assassinate President Trump and make a third, fourth attempt after we've had so many with the help of them instigating it. But it's kind of funny because Behar especially will use all these words that she just, like, learned about on air. She uses nihilism a lot. And she even presented that word at one point, calling it her word of the day. And she was like, Wikipedia ing it as she was sitting there. And she used that to describe President Trump wanting to make the White House even greater, even more beautiful, by modifying the ballroom, creating a bigger ballroom, which is opposite of nihilism. Nihilism is very much of a leftist ideology. And then she says that, oh, Trump says mean things about the military of the view. They targeted the National Guard. They compared the National Guards to Nazis. And then right after that, you had two National Guardsmen targeted by an Islamist.

[Adam Wise]

I know. I always blame Trump for rhetoric and Trump for misogyny and Trump for his, you know, his anti. Semitism. I don't see it much. Once in a while, when he's on the Back foot and he's getting attacked so much he'll punch back. But if we took a long list, the amount of attacks that Trump and his family is taking compared to what they've shot back, it'd be 1,000 to 1, maybe 100,000 to 1. But they lie and say our side does it, and it's always their side. And they border on extremism, the rhetoric. If you tell people on the deep end on the spectrum over and over, that person's an anti Semite, that person's evil, what is that person on the spectrum going to do? They might take out a knife, they might take out a rifle. They've created a society where they've tried to normalize, you know, hatred. They don't. They normalize murder almost that what they've done, you know, in our society. It's sick what the media has done. It's sick with these data and they should be ashamed of themselves. But let's look at this other cut to here. And this is really bad. It's come on the Late show, another late night. The Late show, which supposed to be another comedy show at night, but they have this comedian, Kamala Bell on watch. This last time you were here was 2020 and Trump was president then. And now he's back. What for second? Yes. I'm sorry.

[Royce White]

Oh, my God.

[Adam Wise]

Be the one to tell you, I've.

[Royce White]

Been studying for celebrity Jeopardy.

[Adam Wise]

I didn't really read the news. What do you, what are you looking forward to most? Keep it positive.

[Royce White]

Okay. No, I will not. I will not.

[Whoopi Goldberg]

Okay.

[David Zier]

All right.

[Royce White]

So here's the thing that annoys me about the Trump era, or error depending upon your pronunciation. Yeah. Is some people's inability to admit that he's a racist. And when I say some people, I mean mostly white people. Okay, let me clear. And a few rappers.

[Adam Wise]

Okay.

[Royce White]

So the idea is that people who don't like Trump, even don't agree with him on left and right of the spectrum, still don't want to admit that he's a racist. And let's be clear, Trump has one of the greatest resumes of racism in the history of racism. Yes.

[Adam Wise]

He's an all star.

[Royce White]

He's a, he's a first ballot hall of fame racist.

[Adam Wise]

He is.

[Royce White]

He is the LeBron James of racism for years. And so I hate the fact that.

[Adam Wise]

Like, I will be talking to people and be like, I mean, it's like the nerve of him. He gave Jesse Jack, I mean, Al Sharp, Jesse Jack to Rainbow Cliff, free rent downtown in one of his buildings, they loved him, they put him in rap songs, they put him in movies. And just you see what he does. Justin, blanketly calling him racist over and over again on the Colbert show, but not giving anything that he did, not saying what is the racism? What did he do? Give us. If you're going to call someone a racist, please give us examples. Right.

[Justine Brooke Murray]

The term racism has, it's lost all meeting meaning at this point. And as he's calling Trump a racist, he's making a sweeping generalization of all white people. This is the party that wanted DEI for anyone who wasn't white, who wanted to teach white kids that they were automatically evil because of the way they were born, because of their skin color. So again, this is peak projection and everybody's sick of it.

[Adam Wise]

It's this and a smug look, which is, you know, African smug look with his glasses on, sweatshirt on. You know, it's a shame that he, that they stoop to that level when it should be a better society, should be a better place with all the rhetoric and all the recent murder of Charlie Kirk, that shouldn't happen. Justin, give me a quickly, I want to know your very top two stories. The worst media of the year, the worst media outlet or the worst media personality. Quickly. Top two.

[Justine Brooke Murray]

I would say in this list of so called comedians. Nathan Lane complained about the Kennedy center now being run by President Trump and he said, oh well, the Sound of Music will probably be rewritten to glorify Nazis. Okay, well this is coming from the Hollywood elite that has rewritten every character. Cruella De Vil, the wicked witch of the west. Who all be victims. Yeah, victims of their circumstances. But I would say the top of the top is MSNBC's Matthew Dowd saying, essentially saying that Charlie Kirk deserves to get murdered because of his views.

[Adam Wise]

Justine, happy New Year. Thanks for joining us and I'll see you soon. Thanks again. Coming up next, man was just blown up this Minnesota scandal, how much they've stolen, how much fraud. There is a young YouTuber uncovered this. Let's see how the media is covered that and more coming up on media exposure. Foreign. Welcome back to Media Exposed. I according midweek because we're taping a little early, we've got New Year's special here. Media reported that CNN and MSNBC have largely ignored the allegations of his 9 billion industrial scare fraud scheme in Minnesota despite its massive cost to taxpayers. That's what the media likes. Usually it has all the elements of a great story. Fraud, scamming, taxpayer money, government involvement. What did the governor know the article notes that the case is well documented with court filings, federal investigations, people getting arrested. Yet this leaves no attention in the big overall media coverage of major cable networks. In the viral clip of this Nick Shirley, he commentated his question how a fraud case of this magnitude fails to break through the national news cycle. Nick Shirley Young YouTube I think he's 22. When has a couple, maybe a 200 million views on his investigative piece, the YouTube segment, it underscores the same point. While a multi million dollar scandal is treated as a local store rather than a national one. I want to welcome my next guest in this Royce White. Royce is the host of the Royce White show on Real America's Voice. New former basketball player, NBA player. Royce and a Minnesota resident. Thanks Royce. Thanks for joining us.

[Royce White]

Thanks for having me, man. I appreciate it.

[Adam Wise]

And he ran for Senate a couple years ago, am I correct? Right.

[Royce White]

Ran for United states Senate in 2024, running again in 2026 for Tina Smith's now resigned seat. Gonna be resigned here in the midterms.

[Adam Wise]

Well now we gotta punch a hole into this scandal because it should take hopefully people wake up and say we need some common sense and Republicans like you in office. Cause unbelievable. It's happening right under the eyes. There's no way the governor, the state legislature didn't know about this. And the one woman state senator was executed and she was the only one that voted against, you know, adding welfare payments. Right. Was all sorts of welfare payments to citizens in Minnesota, am I correct?

[Royce White]

Yeah, absolutely. Melissa Hortman shot and killed at her home by a political assassin. Still very murky details around that entire situation. But a horrific day for Minnesotan resident. Minnesota residents in the state legislature. And she was one of the few Democrats to. One of two Democrats to vote against giving medical assistance to undocumented illegal immigrants.

[Adam Wise]

Yes, Royce, let's watch Nick Schur. Let's watch a little bit of his. Let's go to cut three and watch him exposing this. And he did a long piece. But watch a little snippet of him at a daycare center.

[Podcast Announcer]

What do you guys do think about the fraud or how come the autism centers are popping up?

[David Zier]

I can't answer.

[Whoopi Goldberg]

Are you a music reporter?

[Podcast Announcer]

My name is Nick. We're doing a little documentary, trying to find little Joey a spot to put himself in one of these centers here. Cuz there's the fraud. Yeah, because we want to make sure we're going to legit business if we're going to bring our little boy Joey here.

[Adam Wise]

This is not a jo SP but that's our number. But this is a. We can't let you guys.

[Podcast Announcer]

Okay, thank you. So, once again, little Joey, he can't even go to daycare, and now they won't even accept him if he has autism.

[Whoopi Goldberg]

And again, no kids. Couldn't tell you how many kids they serve.

[Podcast Announcer]

After being able to provide no evidence of them actually being an autism center in a place where a child could go, they shut the door and we headed to the next fraudulent daycare center that was just around the corner. We're on to the next location. We're still trying to find little Joey a place to go to get some daycare.

[Whoopi Goldberg]

So where we're going now is a place called Super Kids Daycare Center. Interestingly, this daycare center was shut down when it was called Creative Minds Daycare. And it had received $2.45 million this fiscal year 2025. They had to shut down because there were so many violations. And they went and they just reopened under a new license and they renamed the center Super Kids Daycare center llc.

[Podcast Announcer]

So they got shut down, then started on the other one. Literally the next day, Creative Minds Daycare, $2.45 million got sent to this daycare center. We have empty parking lot. We do have a bus here. This is different. We'll see if we see anybody. I knocked on the door. Absolutely nobody was inside. And once again, no children could be heard anywhere. So, David, once again, another child daycare center. We have a bus out here. No one's inside. License for over 50 kids. No children anywhere, but yet millions of dollars every single year.

[Whoopi Goldberg]

So the sign says Creative Minds Daycare. They got in so much trouble. They had so many violations that they had to shut down and they reopened the next day.

[Adam Wise]

Royce. And they kept throughout the. He met this guy Dave, who just happened to work there in Minnesota, but he. This guy, I can't remember exactly what he did. He told the story at the beginning that he used to drive by these daycare set and the buses, and nobody was ever there. He said, how is this working out? So they got buses. They got. So since that video ran, I saw earlier in the week, there's video that came out now, but fake parents dropping kids off and then picking up 10, 10 minutes later. So they drop them off and then pick them up to pretend that they were actually using the daycare center. So this is a really unbelievable. It's fraud here. So I think the. And we can't trust the ag, right? In Minnesota.

[Royce White]

Of course not. I mean, you can't Trust anybody in Minnesota. On my show Saturday mornings, I say Minneapolis and Minnesota is the belly of the beast nationwide. Now, the entire country is getting a good look at what's been going on here in Minnesota for many decades, probably. I mean, the Somalis first started to immigrate here after the Somali civil war and the refugee programs in the early 90s. And so far as Minnesotans know, the Somali residents have always gotten preferential treatment when it comes to state and federal grants for programs and other small businesses that they own in the state of Minnesota. Now, am I saying all Somalis are engaged in fraud? No, but we should be able to say it's Somali fraud when it's Somali fraud. That's not racism.

[Adam Wise]

Well, I've read it. Also, a lot of Somalis are on welfare. They're on, you know, food stamps, all this stuff. Why do you need daycare if they're home? Right? They're not. If they're not out in the workplace and they figure this big scheme of opening all these daycare centers, what do you need it if you're not even working? That should open somebody's eyes at the very beginning.

[Royce White]

So the question is, yeah, when are the arrests going to begin? When are the arrests going to begin? Where are the indictments we should be seeing FBI. I mean, I. If memory serves me correctly, the FBI raided Mar A Lago and held President Trump's staff there, or, you know, whoever was there at the time, held them at gunpoint for some documents. That ended up being a nothing burger case. Where are the FBI raids here in Minnesota? I mean, if you or I were involved in a Ponzi scheme of this magnitude, we'd be belly down in the snow with. With an assault rifle at the back of our head. It needs to be noted the. The type of deference that's being showed to this. This fraud.

[Adam Wise]

There was no deference for grandmas, for elderly people, for minorities, for any group of people, any class of people when it came to J6s. They arrested those people within weeks, two weeks, three. Didn't matter if there was 75, 85. FBI SWAT teams were showing up at houses and arrested them by the thousands. Why aren't we. Why aren't the F in it? You're right in at the governor's mansion. Find out what he knew, the mayor's officer knew, because how could they not know this? It's like, if this guy's 22 or 23 years old and he's with a camera and he's exposing this, how could this government Officials not know. Let's go to cut 4 and watch the PBD go over this. They explain it well. I know that people will be hurt by that vote, and I'm. We work very hard to try to get a budget deal that wouldn't include that provision. DFL speaker emerita Melissa Hortman emotional. Following the House's adjournment from a special session Monday, Hortman was the lone DFL.

[Podcast Announcer]

Lawmaker to cast a vote to cut.

[Adam Wise]

Minnesota care access for undocumented immigrants.

[David Zier]

Weird.

[Adam Wise]

It's a move she made with a heavy heart.

[Whoopi Goldberg]

I did what leaders do.

[Aaron]

I stepped up, and I got the job done for the people of Minnesota.

[Podcast Announcer]

The bill was deeply unpopular with members.

[Adam Wise]

Of the DFL Caucus. Members have repeatedly expressed frustration that the bill was part of a compromise, one that would ensure the necessary GOP votes to pass the rest of the state budget.

[Podcast Announcer]

We are.

[Adam Wise]

Vinny, how much longer after that was she killed? A week. I want to say. A week. It wasn't. It wasn't that long, Patrick. Her and her husband. And then that killer went to another place, shot two other people, killed one of them, and then in his manifesto, said that Tim Walsh hired him or wanted him to kill somebody else. And think about it. Look at how emotional she was. Because think about it, those people that she's like, hey, guys, she has a heart.

[Whoopi Goldberg]

She's like, that money.

[Adam Wise]

I'm sorry, should be going to the. She understands that these people don't have anything.

[Whoopi Goldberg]

They're coming from a third world country.

[Adam Wise]

But what's fair is fair. So, Royce, it's unbelievable when you watch the senator, she's breaking down all nervous and almost crying out there. And they really shamed her to death. The other. The DFL and the other Democratic legislators, it's awful the way they treated her. It's terrible. And who knows if that led to her assassination. Give me your thoughts on that clip. Sad, right?

[Royce White]

Oh, yeah. Sad, tragic, and inconspicuous. I do think that, like I said, we've not heard much about her assassination and the killer. That trial kind of became a buried lead in this entire Minnesota political culture. So a lot of people still have a lot of questions, rightfully so, about that assassination and the claims that he made. Now, you could say, hey, he's just a crazy. He's a quack. But we're living in treacherous political times, and it shouldn't be lost on people that it was very shortly after that vote, very controversial vote, for a Democrat politician in the state to say, we're not going to give this money to illegals or undocumented immigrants. It's not right. I don't know. You know how every major media outlet in the country isn't here in Minnesota right now trying to uncover what's going on.

[Adam Wise]

That's why we have to cover this because unbelievable. This is the making of what should be national news. Everywhere has scandal of government fraud. You know, it's really intriguing and interesting and has all the it should make a great story. If you and I were teaching in class, we say that this is what news is and this is should be covered. But we know that Royce, they protect one side of the ideology, another side, not to mention the minority of Somalia. They don't want to touch that. So Royce, I gotta jump. Happy New Year. Thanks for joining us, Royce and see you soon, bud. Thank you.

[Royce White]

God bless, sir. God bless.

[Adam Wise]

Up, up next, we're going to take a look at AI what does AI consider the top stories, media stories of the year. Dive into that since it is the year of AI that and more coming up on Media Exposed. Welcome back to Meeting Media Exposed. What has been the year of AI? We're going to take a look at AI and what the AI says is the top media stories of the year. So let me bring up the next guest. Emily Rose Finn hosted Real America's Voice News. Emily. Emily, thanks for joining us as always.

[Emily Rose Finn]

Always great to be with you, Adam. Thanks for having me.

[Adam Wise]

Emily. This is just AI everywhere we turn around AI for, you know, almost everything's happening is AI no matter what it is. But what business, what field? Legal, you know, writing, producing, it's just, it's never ending. Sooner or later, hopefully they don't dispose of humans. We'll still be around, will still exist. Right. I don't think AI is can procreate yet. So that's one thing that they can't do supposedly. So let me just say the top stories, let's take a look at what AI said was the media's top story and read them to you. And we're going to play this game here. It's not puzzle, quick game, back and forth. 2025 has been the year of AI so let's take a look at what Chat GPT said. The top 10 political stories. Number one, media coverage, the election aftermath, legal challenges, court rules, how the results were framed for the public. That's what I say. We wanted to talk number top story here. The election results. How did they frame it?

[Emily Rose Finn]

The media, the election results. Oh my goodness. So I think that this was such A such a win for President Trump that there wasn't a way to really try to frame it any other way than just what an embarrassing loss.

[Adam Wise]

But how did it, how did, how did they, how did they frame the midterms, the. I'm not the, the two gubernatorial races and that were held in 20, 20, 25 in November?

[Emily Rose Finn]

Well, that was typical of the mainstream media. Absolutely. How they decided to cover all of that, all of the tactics came out. This is media exposed. So definitely exposing that was certainly something very prevalent throughout both of those elections.

[Adam Wise]

Presidential health. And number two was the presidential health and cognitive fitness not barely peeps from the media for five years of Biden. Right. But with sharp contract, how the media covered age, medical disclosure and mental substance. How did they meet? That was a chatgpt. That was a number two important story for them, how they covered it. And what was your thoughts and how the media covered President Trump's health?

[Emily Rose Finn]

Well, you know, President Trump has been doing so much throughout this entire year, really getting things done, promises made, promises kept. And so the media has a really tough time with giving him the credit that he deserves. I think that that is something that we have seen, like I said with the same with the gubernatorial races. We have seen that for years with the way that the media has covered President Trump, but he is just really winning. The mega base is more fired up than I've ever seen before. And so I think that the mainstream media certainly needs to reevaluate their approach and how they cover the president because he is doing such great things for America.

[Adam Wise]

And number three, we got here lawfare and political pro prosecutions. Well, it's lawfare on one side all throughout the last two years, raiding Mar a Lago, you know, going through drawers and all sorts of state prosecutions of a bs Right. But I think Chat Boutique might be confused here. And the media's role in treating charges as conclusions before trials played out. How did the media cover when a couple of Democrats got indicted?

[Emily Rose Finn]

The media certainly, you know, they give a lot of, a lot of credit to one party in this country and they don't on the other side. You know, that definitely some fluff pieces for sure trying to, trying to save face.

[Adam Wise]

I think the Chaffee tape was spot on in this one. It said number four story was the normalization of incendiary, incendiary rhetoric in entertainment media and political media where late night and daytime TV became openly political. Spot on there where decades ago we didn't get this. But your thoughts on that?

[Emily Rose Finn]

Yeah, certainly, you know, we Saw that with Jimmy Kimmel recently. There was a lot of political stuff going on with them. The View that is someone that we talk about often on this show, Adam. You know, they have just gone so, so political and so far to the left. Definitely need to get those, those ladies balanced out a bit. But, yeah, daytime talk shows and late night talk shows, they, they would do a lot better if they would just stick to comedy or stick to, you know, to different topics.

[Adam Wise]

Number five, foreign conflict coverage marked by inconsistent moral framing and selective outrage. How are they covering the. The, you know, international and foreign conflicts? The media. Trump has closed, you know, made peace with a lot of different countries. But how's, how's the media covering it?

[Emily Rose Finn]

Well, the media certainly, it's giving him a hard time. You know, he definitely ran on campaigning that he was going to reach some kind of a deal between Putin and Zelensky. You know, definitely tried to. Is still trying to negotiate that. And so I think they're giving him a hard time that it just hasn't happened quite yet. But, you know, this is the closest that we have gotten to, to peace in Ukraine. The president has done so much in the war in Israel against Hamas as well. He is doing a really great job in the media. Once again, Adam isn't giving him credit because this is the closest that we have been to peace. When Biden was in office, this was not as safe of a world as it is with Trump in office.

[Adam Wise]

Let's go to cut five here because in the middle of our top 10 or 12 content. But I want to show you a little bit of his humor when he met with a foreign leader early in the week. Let's go to cut 5. Him meeting with Zelensky at the table. Watch this. Are you okay? Is everyone fine? Margo, if you would, I think you could sit outside and have some food. Would you like to have food? Or do you consider that a bribe.

[Whoopi Goldberg]

And therefore you cannot write honestly or.

[Adam Wise]

Therefore you have to write a bad story?

[David Zier]

Okay.

[Whoopi Goldberg]

Because you.

[Adam Wise]

If you'd like. Would you like something to eat at this time? Yes or no? You can speak.

[Royce White]

Yes, sir.

[Adam Wise]

Yes. Okay. Margo, take them outside. Tell the chef serve them little lunch.

[Aaron]

Okay.

[Podcast Announcer]

Thank you, Press.

[Whoopi Goldberg]

Thank you, Press.

[Royce White]

Thank you.

[Whoopi Goldberg]

Thank you, Press. Thank you, Press.

[Aaron]

Thank you.

[Emily Rose Finn]

Thank you, Press.

[Aaron]

Thank you, Press.

[Adam Wise]

That should guarantee good stories. But it won't. They'll only get worse. Will go out of their way to make them worse. He gave us a handwriting we have to recommend.

[Whoopi Goldberg]

Alex, thanks. Lead the way.

[Adam Wise]

Go outside on the porch and there's such mistrust in the press. I don't think there's a little bit of humor to that. But I think he is serious because he knows almost a few steps ahead what the media would do is Trump trying to curry favor with media by offering them food. That's actually serious thing they would do. Early in his first Trump administration invited CNN for dinner. Right. And he invited him in the Oval Office for dinner and they wrote in this and the only thing I remember this is what they did purposely did this. What can I remember that they complained that when he went for dessert he got himself. He offered him ice cream and he brought back that he got two scoops and he only brought them one scoop of ice cream. And that was like the headline and that was the article and that's what and that's what they CNN wrote came out of their private dinner with the president early in his first term. So kind of humorous but he knows how the. He knows what the media will do, right?

[Emily Rose Finn]

Oh for sure. I mean this is, he has been battling the mainstream media his entire entire present first term and now this term and the years off in between. This is, this is certainly nothing new. That's quite hilarious to be attacking him for having two scoops of ice cream as opposed to one. I actually thought this was really nice of him to offer to buy lunch for the press. You know he's just being funny. He's just in Trump and anyone who takes that so seriously, you know how he brought up oh, are you going to think that this is a bribe or something? I mean, come on, he's just being a nice guy.

[Adam Wise]

He's being a nice guy and serious. But I can't, trust me, they would write something, you know, scandalous about just offering him on lunch. Number six there was a story is about suppression and censorship allegations including reporters reporting on stories delayed, spiked or minimized by major outlets. Again, I might talk about the 60 Minute story but do you think that was a big I don't think that's too big of a deal with one little story. Why don't we jump to number seven which Happy D said the rise of independent and alternative media as audience migrate away from legacy news organization. That's a big one. That's what Chat GBT picked up. Thoughts on that?

[Emily Rose Finn]

That's my favorite one so far. That should be number one.

[Aaron]

Yes.

[Emily Rose Finn]

I mean we have seen so much of a rise in independent media. You know, I think that his name is Nick Shirley, I believe who was out on the street in Minnesota uncovering What happens with that? That learning or leering center, you know, misspelled on the sign outside. Absolute fraud. So definitely, I think that social media has empowered independent journalism and people to participate in alternative media, and this presidency has really embraced that as well.

[Adam Wise]

Number eight was AI and deep fakes. How newsrooms struggled to verify, label and respond to synthetic content. That's a, you know, that's par for the course there. Right. Number nine was cultural war dominance and political coverage with symbolic issues often crowding out policy discussions. Are they right? Give me your thoughts on that. About the culture wars, for sure.

[Emily Rose Finn]

You know, I think that the. That that was definitely a big story, you know, with what happened with Charlie Kirk, I think that he was certainly leading the. The conservative culture among the youth. And my God, it was just horrible, absolutely horrible what happened to him. I'm still in shock that, you know, that we don't have him anymore. So, definitely, I think that that was a huge story throughout the entire year, especially after that assassination happened. And, you know, people were, you know, not really having the right, you know, sympathetic response that they should have had, you know, attacking his wife, you know, saying awful things. That was something that was a big. A big story throughout the year.

[Adam Wise]

Number 10, we know is that they got it right. Declining trust in media viewers became more aware of the framing of the media has double standard. But let's go to cut six quick. We're going to have a big meeting and we'll see you in a couple of hours if you'd like. And if you'd like, you can come up and have lunch like you did yesterday. Would you like that or not? Do you want that? Because some of them, they could. Terrible. It's a bride, but, you know, a bride for $25. I don't know if you'd like, you can go and if you don't, you can stand in a driveway and melt. So was two days in a row you offered him lunch. Give me your final thoughts on his lunch. Would you take up. Emily, if you were offered lunch, would you go in there and take it?

[Emily Rose Finn]

Absolutely. Are you kidding me? Like, come on, this is really not that big of a deal. Like he said, $25 is a bribe. I don't think so. I know what it's like to be out in the field, you know, covering the president. Have certainly covered a ton of rallies for him. And so I wish that a lunch was offered at the rallies. That would have been fantastic.

[Adam Wise]

To Emily, Happy New Year. Thanks for joining us. I'll see you soon. Happy, happy New year. Coming up next, we're going to talk about the judge postponing the legal the Justice Department trying to get after fake licenses in New York state. That and more coming up on Media Exposure. Welcome back to Media Exposed. What was recently happened in New York was a judge overruled was was Trump administration was suing to not allow illegals to have licenses and not allow them to be truck drivers to allow them a simple driver's license. The judge gives green light to controversial New York driver's license law and blow the Trump administration. Let me explain this. A federal judge on Tuesday last week cleared the way for New York's so called green light law ruling against the Trump administration's effort to block the state from giving people driver's license without proving that they're here illegally. U.S. judge Judge found the Justice Department which sued Governor Hockle and State Attorney General February had failed to prove its claims at the state law sought to invalidate federal law or the measure unlawfully regulates unlawfully discriminate against the federal government. So David, I want to look at my guest David Zier, host of Breaking Point. Thanks for joining us. Happy New Year, David.

[David Zier]

Hi, Happy New Year, Adam. How are you?

[Adam Wise]

Why this infuriates me and the media is not covering it all because right before the convention I lost my license. I went to Riverhead. We know what Riverhead is because there's no, that's the one motor vehicle office way in the eastern part of New York, east part of Long Island. Very Polish town too, if anybody wants to know their Polish roots. And I go there and I had no, I had no backup id, right. So I only had I showed up with bank statements. I'm like, how am I getting my license? I have a flight in a few days to the convention. I show up with bank statements. I sit down to get a new license. They didn't ask me once for my license. They didn't ask me for any proof, nothing. They just gave me my license. All they kept asking me, David, are you registered to vote? Are you registered to vote? Sorry, Registered to vote. I turn around, there's about 200 Hispanic people sitting in back of me waiting there. What are they waiting for now? It's obvious. A register to vote and get their license and not one of them has to prove that they're a citizen. It's unbelievable. The media is not covering it. Give me your thoughts on that. I think they flooded New York state with these type of illegals.

[David Zier]

Well, they did. And during COVID they were giving illegals driver's licenses across New York State. The lines were wrapped around the buildings. I remember taking my daughter for her permit test and I had to provide five forms of id, five at the motor vehicle. We couldn't get them to accept anything. And if you are an illegal in New York state, you don't, which is one of about a dozen states, I believe that do this. You don't need anything and you don't need to prove you are here legally. And yes, non citizens in the United States and people on visas and stuff can get driver's licenses and drives in many states. I don't have a problem with that. But you're not required to have ID in New York State. And there was actually somebody pulled over in I think New Orleans a couple of months ago or Louisiana with a New York State driver's license. And in the name field, it actually said no name. That was the guy's name. Right. And what's going on is criminal. But, but this decision by the judge here, Judge, U.S. district Judge Ann Nardacci, it wasn't about the policy of the green light law, which I believe passed in New York city state in 2019. It was based on, not the policy, but whether or not DOJ proved that the challenge to the green light law by DOJ and Pam Bondi violated the supremacy law in the US Constitution. The judge said DOJ did not make their case and prove it. Now, it was a Democrat judge appointed by Biden. That in and of itself doesn't mean, you know, that it wasn't a fair ruling or not. I'm going to look into that more. But yeah, in New York state now it doesn't apply to commercial driver's licenses. And ICE, I think arrested about 100 truckers nationwide last week. And we always have Mike Kucharski, your client from JKC Trucking, we've had him on for many years on the Network, one of the largest refrigerated trucking companies in the country. You know about. And those illegals who killed the people in California and in Florida, the Indian guys who had licensed in California that were here illegally, there is a big crackdown by the Trump administration protecting people on our highways. And Trump once again doesn't get credit for it.

[Adam Wise]

If you flood the zone, whether it's in Minnesota, they flood these businesses, pretend they're daycare centers, right? They flood them. How many of them here illegally in those daycare centers and those fraud facilities? And they're probably not even citizens. And yet they. You get them, their businesses, same as the Truckers, right? You get them their truckers, then you register them to vote illegally. And who are they and who are they going to support now? Right. They just, at the end of the day, it seems the political establishment of the Democratic left wants to make all these illegals their voters and keep a majority forever. It doesn't matter how corrupt and how fraud. Tell me how terrible that Minnesota fraud case is right now and we should see some big arrests. And why aren't they storming into the Capitol? Why aren't they storming into the governor's mansion or the mayor's office to find out what he knew? Right.

[David Zier]

Well, it's gone even further. It's actually tied now to Mike DeWine in Ohio where one of his, I think a donor or somebody he had working with the gubernatorial administration over there, you know, didn't pay their income taxes. Who is Somali. This thing is going to expand and grow. And listen, I had an Uber driver on the way to the Charlie Kirk memorial in Arizona that we were covering at 4:00 in the morning. He fought in the civil war in Somalia. His father died in the civil war against Al Shabaab. And they were Sunni Muslim family and they escaped to Kenya, came to the United States. This guy loved Trump and loved Charlie Kirk. So we got to be careful not to throw out, you know, and cast aspersions on everybody. But there's no doubt that, you know, Obama was responsible for this in Maine and Minnesota. They flooded it. They flooded it. They were selling, they were ballot harvesting, they were selling ballots illegally in, you know, in the last presidential election and I think in 2020 as well. It's very corrupt. And how much of that money wound up back in the politicians hands in the Democrat right party and the farmers Democratic Party in Minnesota and who ran Omar Fateh.

[Adam Wise]

Right. When it's a Republican establishment, a Republican business, how fast are they but you know, raid the person's home. I remember watching when Roger Stone's house was raised all manifested and you confuse, you confused what they're even getting rated for because it was all bs Roger Stoners, all that Russia hoax crap. They were trying to, they were diving in looking for things that didn't exist and to force them to tell on other people. So here we are, wide out in the open, this corrupt, I've never seen such corruptness here. But I want to show you the story that I saw because the CBS Morning show, the big morning show and Jan Crawford who's like the legal analyst, she actually called out a fellow reporters which is A rare a rebuke because they all just usually talk in tandem and kind of like the rhetoric that the left espousing lately that, you know, and it's become so normalized in our society. And I'm glad she did it. Let's take a look at cut seven here.

[Aaron]

There is a narrative that the Supreme Court is corrupt. I mean, we saw that emerge in the wake of the Dobbs decision that overturned Roe versus Wade, and now we see it that they're in the tank for Trump. Not only is that narrative over reported, it is patently false, and it is dangerous for the institution and the public's faith and confidence in the rule of law. This is a conservative Supreme Court. It has been a conservative Supreme Court for 20 years. People can disagree and do disagree with their opinions, but it's profoundly wrong to call it or say corruption where there in fact is none. What's under reported is any understanding of what this court's been doing for the past 20 years, its views of its role vis a vis the other branches, how it sees the law, how it's trying, and its focus to restore some kind of accountability in our constitutional structure. Again, this is a court that is functional. It is consistent. They are nine justices. They don't necessarily see the Constitution the same way by any means or how to interpret federal law. They're in a struggle over the proper way to interpret the Constitution. But that is as it should be. And I think as we approach our 250th anniversary of this country country, it's important to think about the court and the rule of law as the justices are doing, especially if we hope to keep democracy intact. That's a big statement, Jan. If we hope to keep democracy intact, if we lose, if the public lose confidence in the role, the rule of law, I don't know what that means.

[Adam Wise]

You notice how the host says, Jan, that was a big statement. So big about it. It's normal. Those kind of statements are normal on our side, David. Right.

[David Zier]

Yeah. And there's five big decisions coming up by the Supreme Court. You've got the tariffs, you've got birthright citizenship. You've got the Federal Reserve case with Lisa Cook being fired. You've got the asylum metering regarding Trump administration policy. We've got mail in ballots coming up. And listen, the Supreme Court doesn't always go the way of the right. I mean, look at Obamacare and what John Roberts did. Right. And so, you know, when it benefits them, it's fair, and when it doesn't, it's Corrupt.

[Adam Wise]

You know, Kobe hall from media wrote a Trump's chaos media, which is the bible of media. Right. They kind of had that big hurrah party. We weren't, we didn't get our invite for some reason last week, but they had a big annual top media, influential people. They missed this. David Trump's chaos machine. Every scandal, conflict and controversy of 2024, what we see as normal stories, David, they see as a scandal. You know, they see it through the lens. Tell me what your top two stories were. Media actually give me a top, top, number one story for the year quickly. Number one media story for 2025.

[David Zier]

The biggest media story of the year. Oh, my God. I don't even know where to start with that one.

[Adam Wise]

Just give me one tariff.

[David Zier]

And I think they're going to be upheld.

[Adam Wise]

Okay, David, Happy New Year.

[David Zier]

Happy New Year, Adam.

[Adam Wise]

We'll see you in Times Square. We'll see the party. Hopefully I'll send you a party. You'll film for a party. Thank you, David, and happy happy New Year. Have you ever been lost and in need of a certain place to go? Go to your Friendly [e-mail] They're not all AI powered. Can speak to a [e-mail] Great for your travel needs. Great, great for last minute bookings. They'll give you the brace deals hotelplanner.com for your all your different travel needs and your hotel accommodation. I want to thank David Zia for joining us. I want to thank Royce White for joining us from rap. Emily Rose Finn for joining us. Justine Brooke Murray for joining us. Aaron and Fran for doing a great job. The control room. And happy New Year to all of us, the Rav family and all the audience out there and viewers, thank you and happy year, New New Year and God bless America. This is an I heart podcast.

[Aaron]

Guaranteed human.