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Ep. 378 - BREAKING: DOJ Announces 'Grand Jury' for Russiagate, Arrest Warrants for Texas Democrats, & MORE
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The Department of Justice announces a Grand Jury into Russiagate, to be led by Attorney General Pam Bondi.
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Tony Kennett, host of the Tony Kennett cast. Let's get down to business. You're listening to the Tony Kennett cast on 93 WIBC on CYTV here on the Daily Signal. Good evening and welcome to the Tony Kennett cast here on the Daily Signal, nationally syndicated, first out of 93 WIBC in Indianapolis. Several developing stories this evening, so we're going to try to get to them as quickly as possible. A grand jury has been announced along with an unnamed investigator, although we have a pretty good idea of who that likely is for the Russia Gate scandal. As a very, very quick summary. In the latter days of the second Obama administration, according to emails that have now been verified as true, that have not been denied by George Soros funded Open Society Project, Hillary Rodham Clinton personally signed off along with James Comey and John Brennan to fabricate a scandal in which case they would allege that Russia directly intervened on behalf of Donald Trump to win the presidential election in 2016. This would lead to a series of phony investigations into ties between Donald Trump and and the Russian mob, Donald Trump and the Kremlin, including weird rumors about Russian prostitute urine tapes, a series of very scurrilous claims which would lead to an impeachment trial suggesting that Donald Trump had acted against Ukraine and Congress by temporarily withholding aid, suggesting some kind of investigation into a certain corrupt Ukrainian prosecutor. These crimes do involve a series of actions which would violate the espionage act of 1917 about every single obstruction of justice clause and law that we actually have a law for. So in the particular situation, actually moving forward, from calls to investigate to an official grand jury is a major step. Here's the news. As it broke earlier this afternoon, Fox.
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Tony Kennett
News can confirm that Attorney General Pam Bondi today signed an order directing an unnamed US Federal prosecutor to take evidence to a grand jury relating to an alleged conspiracy to tie then 2016 candidate Donald Trump to the country of Russia. Now, Fox News reviewed the one page order just hours ago signed by the attorney general. A source familiar with the probe confirms this as well. While a DOJ spokesperson declined to comment on this report of an investigation, Fox is told Attorney General Bondi is taking the referrals from Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, quote, very seriously. The spokesperson says that Bondi believes there is, quote, clear cause for deep concern, end quote, and a need for the next steps.
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Producer Nick
Now what does this mean? This means that there is an unnamed, unspecified as of now investigator that is going to prepare as counsel some kind of case that is going to go before a grand jury for indictment. Now, we don't know the specifics of the grand jury or where it's going to be at now based on who we believe at this point. And this is speculation. I want to make that clear. This portion right here is speculation. I believe that Mike Davis, an attorney for the Article 3 project, he was formerly the chief counsel for nominations in the Senate Judiciary Committee. He was a law clerk for Justice Gorsuch. Mike Davis tweeted out this afternoon at 4:02pm Eastern. Justice is coming as promised. He also tweeted earlier on Sunday evening, in fact, I almost included it in the top news in 10 that they heard a lot of concerns from Americans and essentially this, oh, well, nothing is ever going to happen. You know, it's all going to continue as it always has. They're going to get away with it. Uh, he said that he sought for these things to end. Uh, so is it likely that Mike Davis might be the counsel put up at the front of getting this entire thing going? It's very likely. And if that's the case, if Mike Davis is the person that has been selected by the administration to, with Pam Bondi, dive into this particular mess, the Democrats, especially John Brennan and James Comey, are in serious, serious trouble. So I do actually have the Tweet up. On Aug. 3, Mike Davis tweeted out, dear Lawfare Democrats, the team is finally in place. Not exactly hiding the ball. AG Pam Bondi, Dag Todd Blanche, FBI Director Cash Patel, Civil Rights Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon. We're going to get to that in just a second because she is also out for scalps. D.C. judge Jeanine Pirro as well as SDFL USA Jason Redding Quinones. Now the Southern District of Florida being listed along with DC's Jeanine Pirro. That's a big one because it suggests the possibility that this is going to be a federal case tried in the Southern District of Florida. That's a big deal. That is a very, very, very big deal, either regarding this or if he's referencing a probe that Tom Cotton announced that the Office of Special Counsel has opened up an investigation into Special Counsel Jack Smith's conduct during the Biden administration and the 2024 election, and in which Jack Smith tried to argue that all of these different prosecutions on Donald Trump, they needed to be rushed, hustled, hurried along so that you could reach sentencing trial, put all the cameras in right before the election. Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas rightly points out that this is a clear act in order to lean into the politicization of a political cycle along with what we saw with Russiagate, which was orchestrated at least according to to verified emails from the Soros funded Open Society foundation suggesting that Hillary Clinton is again, this email from 2016 in order to distract from the email scandal, which was very, very, very bad considering what the American intelligence agencies knew. The Kremlin had access to that in order to divert from all of this and have perhaps some American intelligence assets suggesting, hey, why does Russia have information on Hillary Clinton's Daily Tran and they haven't released that if they're leaning in towards Donald Trump to distract from all of that, they launched the entire Steele dossier into the Trump investigation regarding Russian favoritism and connections to the mob and to Putin, that these incidents of direct manipulation, including announcing a crowd strike campaign where the FBI would, would stoke the flames in the fires to suggest there's something there. When the intelligence community clearly, distinctly, deliberately reported there was no indication that Russ had any favorite in the election, that they had not intervened in any way other than maybe a couple of Facebook posts here and there. Aside from that, Russia really wasn't directly involved. It was a direct lie. It ended up instigating an investigation series that cost the American taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars and stymied an entire investigatory process, not just with Donald Trump. You guys need to understand that when the FBI is organizing massive amounts of investigatory resources into Donald Trump, they're not investigating child trafficking concerns, they're not investigating homicide concerns, they're not investigating national security concerns, they're not following up on leads of domestic terrorism, they're not following up on leads of potential active school shooters and and open city acts of domestic terrorism through shooting, stabbings, drivings, whatever. How many of these known to authorities situations that we heard of during the first Trump administration that we lived through might have been addressed had so many FBI and NSA agents not been tasked with going after the Trump administration. And it's a major, major area of concern. And now we are finally seeing a grand jury being brought forward on this John Solomon from just the News, who is right far more often than he is wrong. He doesn't make a lot of assertions, this guy. He says quite accurately that it's Brennan and Comey who are, to put this colloquially, likely to swing for this, based on how I'm reading the law. Again, I am not a particular expert. We'll try to get on Kurt Schlichter from town hall, Hans von Spakovsky of Heritage. Well, I would say one of the article three guys, but they're going to be a bit busy over the next couple of weeks to talk about what it is likely we could see regarding a series of crimes which the DOJ is going to try to go after. There's another assertion that I believe is pertinent in this particular instance regarding whether or not the Sean Diddy Combs prosecution had anything to do with all of this. Say, Tony, what in the world would Sean Diddy Combs human trafficking and RICO charges have to do with going after Russiagate? Because there has been a series, well, let me say a habit of federal prosecutors over the last decade, two decades, going after individuals charged with federal crimes for the big massive grand, grand prize, basically the biggest charge they can think of. They hit Sean Diddy Combs with rico. And then when you staple a lot of charges to the racketeering criminality, then Sean Diddy Combs gets off really not scot free, but about as close as you can to it. Radio crew, we're gonna send you off to commercial and continue on the live stream. You can join us there@YouTube.com DailySignal Rumble and X. It's the Tony Kinnid cast here on the Daily Signal. So what does Sean Diddy Combs have to do with the rest of this? Once you see, even in the Trump administration, these charges come down, this prosecution fail and it did fail against Sean Diddy Combs. They cannot just go out and start stapling charges to Obama administration officials like they're advertising wabbit season in the Looney Tunes. You can't do that. And the reason that you can't do that is because these have to go before grand juries that might result in Washington D.C. now tell me, ladies and gentlemen, why Was it that O.J. simpson got off scot free in LA? Because the man got an LA jury. As they later said on the record, that they changed their opinion of the case entirely because of the race of the individual. You're telling me that there might be a jury in Washington D.C. that you know, might just perchance vote against the Trump administration if the charges are not undeniable. And even then, even then it is not a secure and sure thing. So if the Trump administration is going to go after the Hillary thing, it can't be like the last time, can't be like during the first administration where they launched some half hearted attempt and then later on you get the Durham report. No, no, no. Either you are going to go all in and you are going to get everyone who was involved to the point not where you're going to get Obama. You're not. You're not going to get President Obama with this. That is my speculation right here, right now. He does have enough immunity to squeeze out of it. But by calling Obama to testify and putting that up against certain emails that we already have regarding Comey's office, CIA Director John Berning's office, Jay Clapper's office, now, you're looking at a situation where Comey and Brennan are likely to be hit with a series of very heavy crimes. Maybe Hillary Clinton. It's not unlikely that Hillary Clinton does in fact get dragged before Congress because of this Leonard Bernardo thing. And if you know anything about the current Judicial Committee makeup, if you know anything about the current Oversight Committee makeup, Comer is itching to hold one of these individuals in contempt. You say, Tony, why are you getting all excited about this? We've been disappointed so many times. What's going to happen? Oh, you know what's going to happen. I'm telling you, at this particular point in time, they have been looking over every single scruple and detail over the last couple of months. Now, by the way, you should also be aware that there are a lot of individuals in the Department of Justice, in the FBI and the NSA and the CIA who are either present or former members who are either being fired or their security clearances aren't getting renewed. So what you now have is essentially a fog of war that the media outlets are finding it very hard to penetrate. Do you want to know why you really haven't heard anything from CNN or MSNBC outside of them going, well, Tulsi.
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Tony Kennett
Gabernin, are baseless accusations.
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Producer Nick
The real reason you're not hearing anything right now from the media about this entire thing is that all of their little inroads into the Trump administration, save just a few regarding foreign policy at Axios, have been shut, have been closed, canceled, capiche, gone, adios. They're not open anymore because they've either been fired or their security clearances have been revoked. This is why cleaning out the bureaucracy before you get to investigations like these is not just a good thing. It's crucial. It's essential. It cannot be done without it. You need the Supreme Court to have stepped in and said explicitly, yes, in this particular instance, the Trump administration can lay off or fire or revoke security clearances of whom it is that they wish in the executive branches, because otherwise you have people from the New York Times and the Washington Post and the LA Times and Axios and CNN and MSNBC and on and on and on down the list who will actively sabotage any investigation, any trial, leaking things out to taint the jury pool before it ever hits the courtroom. Now, things are different and they are, in fact, different. You want to call that some kind of a distraction from from current political woes? We're going to get to that because right now the Democrats have a little bit of a strategy here. And it all, believe it or not, comes down once again to the Supreme Court and Texas, of all places. We're going to talk about it. It's the Tony Kinit cast here on the Daily Signal. We got to pick up the radio crew back from commercial. Don't go anywhere. You're listening to the Tony Kennett cast on 93 WIBC. Good evening and welcome back to the Tony Knitcast here on the Daily Signal, nationally syndicated, first on 93 WIBC. We're going to get in very, very quickly to some local and national news stuff now. Again, all of the breaking stories that we currently have are in some way shape or form breaking news that's relevant to kind of the national audience. But as far as the local and national stories right here at home are concerned, there are some things that may not be at Capitol Hill but are going to be over the next couple of months. So first of all, as of right now, I believe you said, producer Nick, that Attorney General Ken Paxton of Texas has reached out to is it Governor Abbott's office to question whether or not the Supreme Court of the United States is going to allow Governor Greg Abbott of Texas to replace the Texas Democrats with state appointments after fleeing to break quorum.
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Producer Daniel
Yes, that's from reporting from Mila Joy. We have confirmation that Texas AG Ken Paxton has inquired into whether or not the Texas Supreme Court would have to decide if the 51 Texas Democrats abandoned their positions and can be replaced by Governor Greg Abbott?
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Okay. This is a very big deal for the state of Texas and the nation at large because right now the Democrats are currently trying to move the entire narrative around all of the reaction to news around all of the kind of reaction to the Trump administration and the major momentum that they have been surging with. This all boils down to an effort by the Republican Party across several states to go through the redistricting process in an attempt to combat what Democrats had previously maneuvered regarding earlier census data during the Biden administration in which there was massive over counting of people in blue states and undercounting of people in red states, not to mention a severe overcounting that comes inherently when you count illegal immigrants as part of the constituencies which make up the total numbers for House allotment and Electoral College votes. So right now, Texas is planning redistricting. It's being called gerrymandering. As we've already talked about on the show before, guys, gerrymandering is just something any state legislature does who is in power. There's a ton of states who are gerrymandered. They've been gerrymandered for a very long time. It turns out that your party in your state government wants to remain in power and that one of the last remaining ways that state governments impact federal governments since the 17th Amendment came in and ruined the U.S. senate. The one of the last ways that state governments impact the federal government directly or the legislative branch, I should say, is that they have the authority to redistrict congressional maps, thereby allowing a level of control for the states over how House seats work. And in Texas, they're currently messing around with this, and it's upsetting the Democrats. They're very, very mad because Jasmine Crockett's seat might not exist anymore. Which, by the way, I share some of the concerns over, because Jasmine Crockett is a gift, a gift to mankind. She is. Jasmine Crockett is just an. A blessing upon blessings. Actually, we do have a clip I'm going to play every time she speaks. It's just a gift to the Trump administration and the rest of us. Here you go.
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Tony Kennett
There was a benefit to shining a light on what it was that they were trying to do in the dark in Texas. So unfortunately, we've seen our numbers fall now that they have these voter restrictions in place. But I do think it's important for us to have the conversation around the.
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Producer Nick
That's a wild thing to admit. That is wild to get out in front of the American people and suggest that since Republicans have started requiring IDs to vote that the number of people voting for Democrats has gone down. And by the way, Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon, quote, tweeted that over on X with just the eyeball emoji, just the side eye, saying the stupid stuff right out loud. She does. So what's going on in Texas? So in this redistricting process, 57 House Democrats in Texas have decided that instead of simply voting against again, elections have consequences. Instead of voting against the Texas redistricting effort and losing the vote, they instead decided to break quorum. Quorum is the number of individuals you need in a voting body in order to vote, which means that, you know, if I was, God forbid, a congressman from Indiana of the 6th, and I, you know, ran for office, and then late at night in D.C. speaker Mike Johnson and I decided it's time to make the independent Fundamental Baptist denomination of Protestantism the national denomination. Speaker Johnson and I, who are part of the same little denomination. I wouldn't say little. A lot of us out there, but, you know, usually not this organized. He gavels in me in my seat and him up at the speaker's desk. And there's no one else in Congress, so he and I decide. Congress is in session. The vote passes 2 to 0. Baptists reign supreme. Yeah, you need quorum. You do need a number of minimum representatives in a voting body in order to vote on things. So Texas House Democrats decided to do what they did in 2022 and flee the state, which is a Class 2 felony. You cannot, as a servant of the people of your legislative body in the state of Texas, formerly the Republic of Texas, leave because you don't want there to be quorum. And not only have they, have they done this, but they've also reportedly done so using a $40 million private jet costing $15,000 an hour to fly them to the state of Illinois, which, by the way, would be about $35,250 charged to the citizens of the state of Texas. These legislators may also have committed felonies. What is the felony? What are the penalties for this?
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Tony Kennett
So, very simply, it would be bribery if any lawmaker took money to perform or to refuse to perform an act in the legislature. And the reports are these legislators have been both they sought money and they offered money to skip the vote, to leave the legislature to take a legislative act. That would be bribery. And so the facts will have to come out. But I think based upon comments made by legislators themselves, they face a possibility of facing bribery charges, which is a second degree felony in the state of Texas. There's one way to cure that, and that is if they get back to the state of Texas and make quorum today at a hearing that we have at 3 o', clock, they can cure themselves of any quid pro quo that would subject them to potential bribery charges.
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Producer Nick
All right, that is wild. So now they're hit with additional felonies. Theoretically, again, if once, once brought in, charges can change. So additional felonies. They've already broken quorum, which is a misdemeanor and a Class 2 felony. And then if they accepted a free plane ride to Illinois, where Governor J.B. pritzker is putting them up in ritzy hotels, knowing Pritzker probably won with the biggest buffet, additional bribery charges. And they're all doing their little social media. And you have, you have Gene Woo out there and he's doing his little media shtick. House Democrat Jean Woo, who's usually known for getting beaten half to Death by Corey DeAngelis on Facebook or on social media regarding school choice. Gene Wu is out here with his big crocodile tears. It's beautiful. Texas Governor Greg Abbott says he will try to take your seats away if you don't go back. Let me read you what he said. He said this truancy ends now. The derelict Democratic House members must return to Texas and be in attendance when the house reconvenes at 3pm today. For any member who fails to do so, I will invoke Texas Attorney general opinion number KP0382 to remove the missing Democrats from membership in the Texas House. What do you say to that threat? Well, first of all, I want to say, you know what? Today is a great day to end the corruption of Greg Abbott. This has gone on, he says, taking a free $35,000 flight to Illinois far too long. The public has been enraged about this. How politicians continue to tell the public pretty words but never actually do what they say they would do. This is Governor Abbott being upset about that because he's been caught doing exactly that. And you, Governor Abbott, by the way, I did look into this. I looked at Abbott's approval ratings. They're very, very high, even for a red state governor. Additionally, I would like to point out that though Jasmine Crockett has said that Texas is a minority majority state, the vast majority of people in Texas continue to vote for Republican state representatives and Republican congressmen and women. So a fine womp, womp to individuals like Jean Wu. Also, I believe we have one of the Texas Democrats going, fine, come here and arrest me then. I'm a lawyer. A part of my practice is criminal defense work. There is no felony in the Texas penal code for what he says. So respectfully, yes, there's bribery in Texas, which is a felony, says the lady currently not sitting in Texas. He's making up some. Okay. He's trying to get sound bites and he has no legal mechanism. And if he did, uh huh, uh huh, uh huh. By the way, sorry about that, Alison. I wasn't aware that C SPAN wouldn't have have blurred that particular word out. Getting racy just right out there and saying it. So you've got the. The Texas Goobers. We're going to send the radio crew over, actually to commercial. It's for just time. We'll be back in a second. Over on the live stream, it's the Tony Kinnit cast here on the Daily Signal. Producer Allison says she did catch that with the. The. The dump button. So good. No FCC fines for me today. So that brings us over to the 3pm deadline. Did they make the 3pm deadline? No, of course not. They didn't. And so you can hear the nervousness in the voice of the guy with the gavel. I don't know if this is the Texas speaker of the House, but there's some nervousness in his voice as he announces, yeah, it's time for some arrest warrants. Nays. The motion prevails. The Sergeant at Arms and any officers appointed by her are directed to send for all absentees whose attendance is not excused for the purposes of securing and maintaining their attendance under warrant of arrest, if necessary, until further order of the House. I mean, you know, mess around. By all means, find out. Now, this does, in fact, get a little bit more special when you start looking at what's going on around the rest of the country. So, first of all, you have New York and California, which are suggesting they're gonna get out there and they're gonna gerrymander even harder. There's just one small problem with that. California and New York are already so gerrymandered that essentially it's not possible for them to be any more gerrymandered. So you had Representative Eric Swalwell get out in front of people going, hey, guys, if you. If you do this, you can kiss goodbye five Republican seats from California. Um, and I. I can't say the source on air, but long story a little bit shorter. There is an individual closely connected to the Supreme Court who can overrule redistricting efforts, who pointed out that if California tried to gerrymander any further, the Supreme Court would step in and go, no, by all means, please, Clarence Thomas, please, oh, please come in right now and rule that Illinois, California, and New York are too gerrymandered. Oh, how I would dance in the streets. And as a half Cherokee, half Irish guy, that wouldn't be pretty. So moving on from that, what about the rest of the country? By the way, it is hilarious again, for the eighth time that Illinois is the state Democrats have fled to, given that the entire, like, lower two thirds of the state are split between three congressional districts. The Southern Congressional district, this weird little thin stripe that cuts from saint like the edge of St. Louis on the border of the Mississippi all the way up through Springfield. Like somebody's getting on the zebra suit. What is this? What?
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Producer Daniel
Producer NICK it's where they feel most at home, really.
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Producer Nick
I mean, my goodness. And then you have this awkward sea. It's like Croatia jutting around in a, like a kind of banana stance around that district that's red. That's the lower two thirds of the state. I live in a red state. I live in Indiana here. I mean, the districts here, we did I believe our state legislature just turned down a desire to do any gerrymandering. I want to make this clear. If you think that I wouldn't gerrymander the crap out of Indianapolis to remove Andre Carson from congressional existence, Homie. I would do that in a heartbeat. In a heartbeat. And then I would revoke his status as a Hoosier. I'd force him to go live in Illinois if he loves it so much. So. Or Palestine, for that matter. Now, moving right along. Oh, yeah. Kathy Hochul is looking into redistricting. You know, when she's not saying that black people don't know how to use computers, I think she's a little busy at the moment. Or, excuse me, that black people don't know what the word computer is.
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Producer Daniel
I believe is the interwebs is so complicated.
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Producer Nick
Yeah. I mean, really. Now, moving on from there, there were a couple of serious incidents. San Francisco, a man was stabbed protecting a woman and a child. In Los Angeles. They're dealing with a, a kind of mass shooting at the this morning. Lapd, I believe right now, is still in a standoff outside of a Costco. It's a mess in the blue states and it's not getting any better. We'll probably have to talk about that a little bit more later because we got to come back from the commercial break where there's more news breaking. It's the Tony Kenneth Cast. You're listening to the Tony Kenneth cast on 93 WIBC. Welcome back to the Tony Kennett cast here on the Daily Signal. Let's dig into a little bit of the international breaking news because again, God forbid we get any rest at all. So Israel has now announced as of earlier this afternoon, the Netanyahu administration has reconvened the war cabinet. And after Hamas made the decision to essentially flip off Steve Witkoff and cancel any and all negotiations or talks with the United States, essentially siding with the warm securities of a promise to recognize Palestinian statehood under Hamas by Canada and France and Keir Starmer, who's currently in the middle of being cucked by the Muslim migrant population floating across the channel into the UK for, you know, their child abuse districts. Well, I think that that was probably the wrong move, because as we have learned before, if there is one thing Trump has no issue doing, it's essentially going, all right, Bibi, if they have given you enough trouble, just go in and bend them over your knee. And the final straw, it appears from international reporting, which led the Israeli war cabinet finally to say, all right, that's it. We're going in to fully occupy the Gaza Strip. We're done messing around. Three things, not two things. Number one, the United nations has refused to move aid into the Gaza Strip. On video, multiple incidents of United nations officials refusing to carry aid into Israel because the IDF required to essentially walk alongside the semi trucks on the way to aid stations. Now, you know, why was it necessary for the Israelis to, you know, walk along the aid trucks? Well, because as we have multiple pieces of footage of. You have a. A. Well, two things. First of all, from actual aid campments, like in, like, for example, United nations aid tents, you have members of Hamas, you know, firing mortars. That's a UN aid tent. They're firing aid. They're firing mortars on civilians and Israeli forces from inside UNA tents. Now, not only that, we have, again, all kinds of footage from inside the Gaza Strip in which trucks drive in and then immediately Hamas terrorists run out and grab the vehicles, abscond with them, and then drive away, shooting anyone who comes too close to the semi to get aid. I'm not sure if we have this clip ready to load. Yep, there you go. If you're watching the live stream, you can see him. Yeah, that's not a UN guy with an AK47 and a turban. I know. I it. That is a UN official uniform, but I was told by the New York Times there was no interception of aid. Oh, man. How could the Jews just allow Hamas to carry away the aid? Oh, yeah, that's right, because the UN refuses to send in aid any other way. And even the UN has to admit now that there is a numerous series of convoys that have been completely taken away. No one has any idea what happened to the drivers of the convoys. They're just gone. So given the media sectioning of the current Hamas coverage, that's number one. Number two is that Israel has officially come to the conclusion, which I agree with, Hamas ain't releasing the hostages. At this point, the moment Hamas releases the rest of the hostages, people are just dead anyway. And Hamas has essentially confirmed this by posting videos of men that they're forcing to dig their own graves in the tunnels. And Hamas is slipping up and showing their that they're perfectly well fed and fine while starving. The women, the children of Gaza, again, grandmothers in Gaza saying openly, Israel's trying to give us aid in like the Gazan Hamas are shooting people, they're taking all the aid down to the tunnels. And so Israel is just finally moving in. Which by the way. That's correct. That's correct. Anyone who goes out there and says, well actually they're committing some kind of a genocide, no, I'm sorry, I don't care. I don't deal with illiterate foreign policy. So you can take that back to Ilhan Omar or whatever in Somalia, excuse me, Minneapolis, because yeah, just, just end it forever. Wars where you don't listen to people going, no, don't move in. There could be violence, it's war. There's going to be collateral damage that need to move in and end it. Otherwise it's going to go on forever. The FBI, when there is a man holding his family hostage, does not wait for months while trucking aid into the house in case the father decides to let his family go. If he's holding them hostage, that's not a thing. So that stuff aside, let's talk about the other big breaking piece of international news, which is that Russia's Foreign Ministry announced today that the Russian armed forces, this is at 4:31pm Eastern, will no longer abide by self imposed restrictions. So according to the Russian Foreign Ministry who God forbid they release, you know, anything that isn't 856 paragraphs long as a statement, like a leftist trying to make a meme. The Russians have announced that they are issuing a moratorium on sort of deploying ground based intermediate and short range missiles. And this is being taken as some kind of a Russian aggression, that they are all, we're not playing by any rules now. Russia appears to have kind of a two pronged foreign strategy at this point. They send out Medvedev, their foreign minister to sound real tough there. This town ain't big enough for two of us, comrade. And then Trump says, all right, fine, I'm going to put 18 Ohio class nuclear submarines somewhere maybe right next to St. Petersburg. Maybe I'm going to put it next to the White House. You don't know, you won't know. Maybe one morning the perogee will be a little more burnt than normal. And Russia then essentially backs down from some missile placements. So what we're seeing is kind of like what Russia was attempting to do at the aftermath of the Cuban missile crisis. So Russia is taking away some missiles from certain forward placements while meanwhile they're talking tough, well, United States Americans, they better be removing missiles out of Turkey. Nope, too little, too late. They're backing down. It turns out that the Pete Hegseth strategy of allow me to release the B2 Spirit Bombers and I will wipe you off the face of the earth has Russian people that aren't Medvedev going, hmm, that may not be the most wise strategy.
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Producer Daniel
Producer NICK I think we had talked about it before the show. I think definitely we are seeing the continual history continue of the strong handed peace talks. They want the higher positioning moving into peace talks continually.
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Producer Nick
I think so. I think that more so Trump recognizing that no matter how nice Putin talks to him, that that Putin isn't gonna count from Dracula, that basically Trump is recognizing Putin as he did essentially in like 2017 instead of kind of the later on 2019 and 2020 era Putin in which Trump had him kind of backed down. But realistically Trump and the means of secondary tariffs, this is what has the Democrats completely screwed. Because right now, not only has Donald Trump suggested that he's willing to cut Russia off from the international market via direct primary means, but also Trump is going to push India, Brazil and the rest of the brics little economic alliance to cut the umbilical cord with Russia. Russia has two exports, guns and oil. As has been joked about before, pumping dinosaur souls out of Liberia or excuse me, dinosaur souls out of Siberia and guns into Liberia. The post Cold War strategy for the former Soviets. Now Russia has kind of amped up a couple of those markets a little bit, But Trump announced 6 hours ago India is not only buying massive amounts of oil, Russian oil, they are then for much of the oil purchased, selling it on the open market for big profits. Says they don't care how many people in Ukraine are being killed by the Russian war machine. Because of this, I will be substantially raising the tariff paid by India to the usa. Thank you for your attention to this matter. Donald John Trump so essentially the Trump administration is now in the position of if you don't want an economy, China, India, then by all means continue trading with Russia over the U.S. now there have been some, let's call them, knuckle dragging people who don't understand the economy or what the Trump administration have done so far who have suggested that Trump is going to accidentally create a secondary Kind of block economy. Brics. Oh, in South Africa, in India and China and Russia, they're all going to trade and be fine. No. As we've said before on the show, it has been proven again and again and again. And I'm sorry, I'm not keeping track at this point of how many times I've been right. Every economy on planet Earth is built on the United States economy, whether directly or indirectly. Either you trade with the United States and therefore your economy remains afloat, or you trade with China as your primary trading partner whose economy cannot subsist without the American aid. We're gonna let the radio crew head to commercial because the Democrat reaction to this is. I'm sorry, it's just too good for radio. We gotta bring it to the live stream. It's the Tony Kenneth cast. Okay? Hakeem Jeffries and the Democrats, now, they have a strategy, right? They. They've got. They've got some moves, some plans, some mcmotivations here to swing in and combat the Trump administration. Calling Trump a fascist didn't work. Calling doge. What was it like economically fascist or whatever? I don't know. It's been so, like, long since they had their Doge complaints that didn't work. So all of those things. Remember, by the way, when Elon was the president of the country? Apparently. Yeah, I remember when that turned into.
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Producer Daniel
His ex boyfriend that he's just mad at.
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Producer Nick
Oh, you know. So the Democrats now have their newest line of strategies. He was then. He was racist. Racist. Ooh. Now Trump is unqualified. Hakeem Jeffries is now the new line of approach. This one's going to work, guys. We got him. He's unqualified. Yeah, that'll work. Roll, roll the clip.
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Tony Kennett
I don't think Hassett is qualified to be part of this administration. But that, in fact is the case as it relates to so many members of the Trump administration. This is the most unqualified administration in American history, which is why the whole thing is a disaster. They failed to make life better for the American people. In fact, they're making life worse, making life more expensive. These.
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Producer Nick
Good luck with that. Good luck with that. Oh, man. They're not as qualified as the non binary State Department employee who was leaking information to Iran. Oh, they're not as qualified as, you know, like the Southern Poverty Law center that tried to get administration individuals appointed to the Biden administration. Oh, man. We're not gonna get the dude in a skirt, the assistant secretary for the Health and Human Services Department, or. Oh, man, we're not. We're not gonna get Kamala Harris, known for playing solitaire and providing oral favors to Willie Brown. Two great skills that are useful in any administration. Just ask Bill Clinton. So aside from that, what do the Democrats have? Well, they have radical Islam and communism, two things that Americans are just over the moon for. Here's Elizabeth Warren who when she's not trying to collect on tribal benefits, is endorsing Zoran Mamdani. Thank you to the Democrats for just the endless supply of campaign commercials for.
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Tony Kennett
The rest of us when someone stands up and says, I will lead this city by making it more affordable. And here are my plans, real plans. Plans to deliver on childcare, plans to deliver on housing, plans to deliver. Gonna experiment. We're gonna try things on groceries that.
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Producer Nick
Oh, groceries. The Democratic message, that's the Democrat message. Wow. You mean like the Democrat socialists in their actual socialist meetings saying, y. Yeah, we're going to use New York City to provide transgender surgeries for minors to the whole country. Because Republicans are right. That is what we're trying to do. I'm not kidding. This is an actual guy who works directly with the Zoran Mamdani campaign and staffers.
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Tony Kennett
Zoran is literally attempting to do what conservatives say, you know, we want to do, which is provide gender affirming care to anyone who wants it for free. And we're going to like ship people. We're going to fly people in and pay for, for their hotel rooms and we're going to do all of the like Fox News stuff. Like we're getting ideas from Fox News.
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Producer Nick
I want to do that.
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Tony Kennett
We're like that. We wrote the platform with him. The team was so happy to work.
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Producer Nick
Oh boy. We'll be back in a second. We got to bring him back for commercial. It's the Tony Kennett cast. It's the Tony Kennett cast on 93 WIPC. Well, I've got some really good news to share with y'.
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Tony Kennett
All.
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Producer Nick
I'm really excited about this one in particular. So according to Apple podcasts and their their kind of general summarized ratings, the Tony Kennett cast here with yours truly is now in not only the top 50 in US politics, not in the top 15. We are currently number four on the charts for politics here on Apple podcast. So again, thank you guys very, very much. We're really, really excited about that. We're also number 12 in news at the present time. And then also we are currently in the top 100 in podcasts overall, which is, it's just bonkers. I can't believe it. Less than two years ago, it was actually in November, November 2nd or November 3rd of 2023 that we actually launched this show as an evening show on WIBC out of Indianapolis before later on being acquired by the Daily Signal and then becoming my full time job. It hasn't even it's been just a year almost to the day, that the Daily Signal has acquired the Tony Kinnit cast that we've started syndicating out across to our syndication partners, radio and tv. As a result, we are currently in talks with, let's just say, a couple of individuals about maybe some, some future projects. But for getting us here, guys, we really can't thank you enough. Thank you so much for making us your choice for kind of the evening news. The show has become a rather interesting niche to be filled. A lot of stuff started breaking at the 3pm, the 4pm, the 5pm hour and nobody's reporting on it until like 11pm because for all the network news shows, all of their script writers and people who write the show, they have everything pretty much written by two or three in the afternoon. The nightly news people, they don't even get around to stuff until 11. So what does that leave? Well, maybe a primary Fox Report or because they do an excellent job and a Newsmax report, something like that. To kind of give you an initial look, we're trying to give you a pretty in depth look during our hour of news across the country and then a little bit of Midwestern commentary from someone who's just going to be at least we're trying to be as transparent as possible about how the show works when things mess up, how we're getting things, what we do and don't know. I know that Producer Daniel, Producer Lou, who aren't God miked, really appreciate you. Producer Allison over on the board at wibc, making sure a radio syndication signal is broadcast out through the rest of the country. Really appreciate what you do and not to mention keeping up with all of the weird shenanigans and macros we have put together to keep the show running. Oh, always a blast here. Producer Nick as well, thanks a ton. The the rest of stuff. We really, really appreciate that what you do for the show, dude, can't thank you enough.
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Producer Daniel
Thank you. I want to appreciate Echo the appreciation for the audience that we've been given. You guys are amazing in both your support and your attention with our broadcasts.
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Producer Nick
Really do. So that said, let's kick some of the smushy stuff here and tell you about one of the reasons why Old media, legacy media is out, out. And I do mean with a vengeance. And shows like this and other on the new media sphere are starting to take over the charts. And I can say take over the charts because with some of the numbers that we've been getting on the live stream and TV side, we're actually beating some network TV in some time slots now. So one of the reasons why is because the media refuses to acknowledge how absolutely bat crazy insane the Democrat Party has become. And I do mean just bonkers Looney Tunes that some of these folks have started to become. One of the key examples here is a representative from Illinois who went out in front of her constituents and claimed that before she is. And I want to make sure this is clear here because I actually haven't looked at the clip yet. Is this the representative from Illinois? Does she say that she's a Guatemalan or a Nicaraguan first?
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Producer Daniel
She's a proud Guatemalan.
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Producer Nick
Proud Guatemalan before she is an American. So actually she says I am a proud Guatemalan before I am an American. The media doesn't point this stuff out. Again, the media is so quick to suggest. Ooh, that. Oh man, I tell you what, Donald Trump, he once like said that Putin was not like crazy, that he was a nice guy. He might say that about somebody. That means Trump has secret backroom ties to Moscow. You can have somebody from Somalia say they're a Somalian before they're anything else. You can have somebody say they're a Guatemalan before anything else. And you know, you'll have the FBI investigate parents for saying that they are Christians before they are Americans. Oh, but God forbid, you know, you have a representative saying they're from a foreign country and that they are of and for that foreign country before the United States, the media won't say a blessed thing about it.
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Producer Daniel
They're just proud of their nationality.
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Producer Nick
Oh, yeah, just their national. God forbid that they change their nation, the nation of which you claim loyalty to when you take that like citizen oath or born into this country, which is what the 14th amendment is supposed to be about for all of the birthers. Amazing how much they still want to claim to be foreign nationals while at the same time saying, oh, birthright citizenship. Yes, very important, very, very important. Then there's the Cincinnati style issues. So there is additional information coming out of Cincinnati suggesting that not only is the brutal beating up of Riley and her boyfriend a horribly racially charged incident, that they did not shout the N word, which by the way, even had they done so is no reason for anyone to go out and beat the crap out of people. No. But in this particular instance, we're finding out more and more that the Cincinnati Police Department, the Cincinnati City Council and surrounding Democrat entities, along with media, are just refusing any kind of coverage of this. And well, you know, if it did happen, then the white people probably had it coming.
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Producer Daniel
Producer NICK Initial reports even suggest that there was a failure to provide first aid to both Riley and her boyfriend after the attack.
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Producer Nick
Oh. But I was told that they had like, you know, ambulances nearby and everything. Ah, gee, I am so shocked that that particular police chief who has been previously sued for racial bias might be racially. But wowee, wow. I too am surprised. And then, you know, of course, cnn, msnbc, who like the top of the hour story they will call the full investigation now by the Department of Justice at the prompting of the director of National Intelligence, Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, a former Democrat, by the way. Oh, the baseless conspiracy theory. They won't air things in front of the public. They cut away from press conferences mid statement. We don't do that here. As soon as news breaks, we bring you the updates. And if it is speculation, I will say, hey, flashing lights. This is speculation because I'm very open with you guys. I am a conservative from Indiana. I'm going to have biases. My production team has biases. We argue about things before the show and what airs and what doesn't and in what order. And then we share that with you guys so that you know where the news stops and the opinion begins because otherwise it's worthless to you. And then also I make predictions that are correct. That's the last thing. I'm just saying. Here we are yet again. And the same tactics which haven't worked continue not to work. And the same tactics which do work are continuing to work. We're going to continue with just a bit of bonus tonus over on the Livestream Radio crew. We'll catch you guys tomorrow. Thanks for joining us. It's the Tony Kinnit cast here on the Daily Signal, nationally syndicated and first on 93 WIBC.
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Tony Kennett
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Producer Nick
All right, now that the radio crew is gone, do a little bit of bonus tonus just for you. So first of all, a couple of important mail time questions that I really, really have been looking forward to. First and foremost, there's been a question over the last couple of weeks asking what kind of watch I wear. And the answer to that question is, I sometimes wear a watch. When I remember to. Right now, I'm not wearing a watch, but I did want to answer this question. Normally it's a Samsung Galaxy 7, like a smartwatch, which is supposed to buzz my wrist. I don't wear it very often because my producers will talk all day in the slack about stupid things like Sydney Sweeney and whether or not she is mid or hot.
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Producer Daniel
That's not stupid.
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Producer Nick
And it will buzz my wrist, so I take it off. Other than that, I wear one of two. I really love Seiko brand field watches. I really enjoy field watches. Old habits die hard. And I have like this old Timex expedition with a brown band that I really enjoy. For an engagement present, my wife got me a skeleton kind of fossil watch that I really love. It's got a lot of like rose gold and silver inlay, but those are the watches that I wear. Is that an exciting question? Perhaps? No. But now we're in bonus tonus and I figured, why not? Another question that I have been really, really looking forward to answering is, in fact a criticism. So this is from a guy named Jeems, which is a stupid name. Jeems asks, hey, Tony, why do you do so many annoying voices? I wish you would stop it. The 137% reason that I do stupid voices is that I used to be a guy that did a little bit of voice acting and I can, you know, kick it down into kind of a grog from emperors of News Groove or kind of a hey, Brian. Kind of a Stewie from Family Guy. I can, you know, I do look and do the voices, you know, like from Winnie the Pooh, the gopher, summer squash and honey. I don't know, I could do a lot of a couple of the voices. And that involves a couple of voices that are particularly fun to do politically. One of those is Bernie Sanders and is talking about Trump and it's going to be the fascist and the pudding and the. Oh, my goodness. I really enjoy that. Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton. They're quite fun. I can't really do George Bush yet. I'm working on it. My Barack Obama is getting Better. It ain't there yet. I don't know. I just. It's fun. I don't know. You're just getting the full me. And so if a voice pops into my, like I'm making fun of the LGBTQ2IA, then I might flip it into, you know, just kind of a more feminine voice or something like that. Huh. There's your answer. The answer, why do I do that? Is, I don't know. Why not? Some people like it, some people don't. I'm not gonna stop doing it. I'm sure someday I might tone it back a bit, but I don't know it. Yeah. So that stuff aside, there are a couple of peoples, I believe, who have joined the channel. Joined via membership. JM welcome. One of the questions I have quite enjoy is, tony, do you have great jeans? And the answer to that is, absolutely, I do. I'm currently wearing Sonoma jeans because I like jeans that don't wear out after three or four uses. If American Eagle has increased the quality of their jeans. Yeah, absolutely. Will do. So. So all of that said, I think there was one more mail time, but it's Monday. Way to throw me off. Hey, we do. We do our best. This one is, I think, an interesting one, and it will be the last kind of mail. Timey Monday question for this, our special top of the ratings waste of time here on this show from Cafe Emo xx. Nice. Are there any Asiatic origin MAGA politicians? There are plenty of Korean origin influencers for Trump politicians, so I don't typically think of, like, the kind of politicians by, like, their racial category. I'm not trying to get social points for saying I'm colorblind. There's. I don't really think of, oh, this is my favorite black Trump person. This is my favorite Mexican Trump person. This is my favorite. I don't usually do that. I know the first person that comes to my mind, although he's not a politician, would be the rooftop Korean himself, Mr. Moon from Los Angeles. I don't really. I can't think of anyone that comes to mind, although. What do you got, Nick? You Googled it, I'm assuming, or I.
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Producer Daniel
Believe Tulsi Gabbard's Polynesian.
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Producer Nick
Yeah, Tulsi Gabbard's got, you know, the. But she's not MAGA Islander, Pacific Islander, Polynesian, whatever. Yeah, I don't know. I mean, I guess she would be more MAGA than Republican these days as a. As a Trump person. But I don't know. Again, it kind of depends on what you defined. Yeah, who's. Who's to say the former Prime Minister of Japan was probably one of the most pro Trump people on earth? So. So rest in peace, Shinzo. God bless you. Those things aside. Oh, oh, Under Secretary of the Undersecretary of the Navy. I believe Hung Chow is one of them. So again, I say one of them. I don't, I genuinely don't care. But I guess that's it. It appears right now in the country, as I've said many times before, Asian people are one of the left leaning props. Meaning that like they'll say anytime there's an Asian person that's sad, they'll say this is because the right wing hates Asians. But anytime there's crime against Asians in like New York City, the Stop Asian Hate campaign goes away real quick. Same with Jews and Mexican or Central American people who they just call Brown and then call it a day and who they also despise. If you know, the person from Mexico or Central America happens to be Catholic, all of a sudden those abortion opinions go real out the window. So that said, really appreciate you guys tuning in. It's a blast getting to share all of the news with you that we do. Hope you guys have a wonderful evening. We'll be back tomorrow. Same great time, same great place. This is the Tony Kinnett cast here on the Daily Signal, nationally syndicated and first on 93 WIBC. See you then.