The Rich Zeoli Show- Hour 3:

5:05pm- In a post to social media, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced that the United States and Ukraine have agreed to a “historic economic partnership”—the United States-Ukraine Reconstruction Investment Fund. Under the agreement, the U.S. will provide security guarantees to Ukraine in exchange for access to the country’s rare earth mineral reserves.

5:15pm- The Trump Administration has announced that Mike Waltz will be leaving his position as National Security Advisor and will now serve as United Nations Ambassador pending Senate confirmation. Marco Rubio will serve as Secretary of State and, at least temporarily, become acting NSA. According to The New York Times, Rubio will be the first person to serve in both positions since Henry Kissinger during the Nixon and Ford Administrations.

5:20pm- Jordon Hudson—football coach Bill Belichick’s 24-year-old beauty pageant girlfriend—has suddenly amassed an $8 million real estate portfolio. According to estimates, Belichick has a net worth that exceeds $200 million.

5:30pm- While speaking with Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic, former NIH Director Francis Collins said: “when you mix politics and science, you just get politics.” But wasn’t he at least partially responsible for the politicization that occurred during Covid? This story provides Rich and Matt an excuse to play Collins’s hit song: “Somewhere Past the Pandemic.”

5:40pm- Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) weighs-in on deportations…and nobody knows what she is talking about. And is David Hogg, Vice Chair of the DNC, about to lose his position after just 2 months?