Ep. 444 - Schumer Collapses as Senate Fractures, Mamdani Caught with Foreign Money

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Tony Kinnett Cast – Ep. 444

Title: Schumer Collapses as Senate Fractures, Mamdani Caught with Foreign Money
Date: November 11, 2025
Host: Tony Kinnett | The Daily Signal

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Episode Overview

This episode centers on the fracturing of the Senate during the government shutdown negotiations, the collapse of Democratic unity under Chuck Schumer’s leadership, and fresh corruption allegations against New York progressive Zoran Mamdani. Tony Kinnett offers sharp, often satirical commentary on the practical and political fallout within both parties, the progressive movement’s ongoing struggle, and media scandals. The show also critically dissects broader debates on healthcare, immigration, party leadership crises, and the infighting that shapes the future path of both Democrats and Republicans.

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Key Discussion Points

1. Government Shutdown: Senate Fractures & Democratic Flakes

Timestamps: [00:06]-[05:57], [08:18]-[14:15]

• Senate votes: The shutdown is almost over with eight procedural votes and delays caused partly by Senator Rand Paul.
• Democratic division: Several Democrats (“flakes”) break ranks, ensuring government reopens with a lackluster handshake deal; their progressive base is furious.
  • Notable Moment: Kinnett plays the audio of the vote passing and progressive groans.

    “On this vote, the yeas are 60 and the nays are 43...” [02:23]

• Weak negotiation gains: Democrats claim they secured federal rehires and a future Obamacare subsidy discussion, but the agreements are non-binding.
• Mockery of Democratic leadership: Kinnett ridicules Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries’ talking points about "lowering the cost of living," pointing out Obamacare’s real-world failures.
  • Quote: “You lose. Good day, sir.” – Tony Kinnett [02:54]

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2. Democrats in Disarray: Schumer Under Siege

Timestamps: [15:51]-[22:10], [17:04], [17:43], [19:21]

• Progressive frustration: Reports emerge that Schumer is out of touch and unable to maintain party discipline, with Ro Khanna and AOC openly criticizing leadership distraction and capitulation.
  • Quote: Ro Khanna: "He's wildly out of step with where his own voters are within the Democratic Party." [18:09]
• Dick Durbin breaks cover: Durbin admits Democrats' original “strategy” was to keep the government closed to protest Trump, but he could not support that at the expense of his constituents.
  • Quote: Durbin: “I cannot accept a strategy which wages political battle at the expense of my neighbor’s paycheck or the food for his children.” [12:03]
• Schumer’s legacy questioned: Calls from figures like Rep. Seth Moulton for Schumer to step aside echo a growing leadership crisis.
  • Quote: Moulton: "We need new leadership. We’ve got to stop protecting this establishment status quo..." [56:27]

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3. Healthcare Debate & Shutdown Fallout

Timestamps: [05:57]-[14:15], [19:32]

• Obamacare subsidies and SNAP: Kinnett and guests analyze the failed Democratic push to secure new health subsidies and the misleading narratives about Republicans "starving" Americans.
• Polling misinterpretation: Kinnett contends both parties suffered during the shutdown, drawing a blue-collar analogy: “People don’t like it when you pay a plumber to do a job and he takes a nap on your couch.” [10:38]

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4. Progressive Infighting & Rep. Zoran Mamdani Scandal

Timestamps: [24:29]-[33:19]

• Mamdani’s failed promises: Minimum wage, free public transit, and government grocery plans all dead on arrival, with suspicions of cronyism involving relatives’ businesses.
• Chief of Staff’s credentials mocked: Elle Bisgard Church is introduced in a satirical exchange, with Kinnett lampooning her inexperience and academic focus on taxation.
  • Quote: "A lady who had to go to school to learn what a tax is." [29:19]
• Foreign money investigation:
  • Mamdani’s campaign found to have accepted $13,000+ in illegal foreign donations; efforts to return funds lack transparency/documentation.
  • CAIR, suspect PACs, and alleged click-farm-driven voter outreach further undercut Mamdani’s grassroots image.
  • Quote (sarcastic): "I pinky promise. I returned the money." [31:17]
• State pushback: NY Gov. Kathy Hochul distances from Mamdani’s agenda, bluntly stating:
  • Quote: "We don't put up with a lot of crap." [27:07]

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5. Media Manipulation & Institutional Bias

Timestamps: [33:19]-[36:26]

• BBC scandal: Resignation of BBC News leaders after airing misleading, maliciously-edited Trump footage from January 6.
  • Kinnett:

    "That's like really malicious editing... taking the letters in a magazine and cutting them up and pasting them on a ransom note." [34:31]

• Denials of institutional bias: Kinnett skewers their public defense as hollow, citing examples of previous BBC impropriety.

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6. Healthcare Research, Government Grants & Funding Politics

Timestamps: [36:26]-[39:50]

• Breast cancer research funds cut: Harvard’s Joan Brug laments the loss of government grant money amid DEI/antisemitism controversy, leading Kinnett to question why such research needs taxpayer funding at all.
  • Quote: "If this is like we're right on the cusp... wouldn’t Alex Soros be up for pushing some dollars into that, or Bill Gates, or the massive endowment Harvard has?" [38:39]

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7. Party Civil Wars & 2026 Midterm Outlook

Timestamps: [39:50]-[54:48]

• Whoopi Goldberg and The View: Used as a cultural barometer of Democratic priorities and urban/suburban female influence.
• Republican soul searching?: Kinnett insists the realignment isn’t to become more like Schumer—calls instead for painting a pragmatic vision.

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8. Immigration, SNAP Policy, and Democratic Policy Drift

Timestamps: [43:01]-[54:48]

• Critique of new guidance denying visas to obese/diabetic applicants, linking it to government reluctance to accept new beneficiaries likely to need public assistance.
• Explanation of how state and federal funds get "funged" to let even ineligible immigrants indirectly benefit, especially in states like Minnesota.

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9. Populist Drift, GOP Factionalism, and Marjorie Taylor Greene

Timestamps: [45:39]-[50:01]

• Greene claims she's the only Republican focused on affordability and inflation, prompting fact-checking and criticism from Kinnett.
  • Quote (MTG): “I've been talking about affordability for months now. I think I'm the only Republican that's been talking about it.” [47:19]
• President Trump responds by reaffirming the global, not isolationist, nature of U.S. leadership.

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10. The Road Ahead: Party Benches and 2028 Forecasts

Timestamps: [60:22]-[61:45]

• Kinnett lampoons Democratic bench (AOC, Biden, Harris, Newsom, Mandani) as unserious and unelectable, contrasting it with what he sees as a stronger, more focused Republican future.
  • Quote: “They’re ready to toss out the establishment and go with the new, the bold, the exciting. Let’s look at the bench, shall we?... The Republicans, they've got a bench and they've got a fairly decent plan.” [60:39]

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Democratic negotiations:

  “Gene Wilder, you lose. Good day, sir.” – Tony Kinnett [02:54]

• On Senator Durbin’s split:

  “I cannot accept a strategy which wages political battle at the expense of my neighbor’s paycheck or the food for his children.” – Dick Durbin (read by Kinnett) [12:03]

• On click farms & Mamdani:

  “Grassroots campaigns usually don’t have to fake engagement...usually aren’t taking selfies with Alex Soros.” – Tony Kinnett [32:00]

• On The View:

  “The reason we watch The View is...left leaning middle aged women and young women running that party.” – Tony Kinnett [41:51]

• On Buttigieg’s DOT record:

  “With $1.5 trillion in the Inflation Reduction act, he built eight charging stations.” – Tony Kinnett [60:22]

• On Democratic leadership bench:

  “Who else you got? Zoran Mandani...being smacked down harder than a midget going up against Shaquille O’Neal.” – Tony Kinnett [61:41]

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Key Timestamps for Reference

• [00:06] – Opening; procedural votes & shutdown drama
• [02:27] – Senate procedural vote passes; Dem groans
• [05:58] – Tim Kaine fumbles on shutdown rationale
• [12:03] – Dick Durbin’s candid critique of Dem strategy
• [17:43] – Chuck Schumer’s leadership eviscerated
• [24:29] – Mandani's string of failed progressive promises
• [31:17] – Joke about Mamdani’s inability to return foreign donations
• [33:19] – BBC media scandal and resignation
• [39:50] – Whoopi Goldberg/“The View” analysis
• [43:01] – Immigration, health, and SNAP eligibility discussion
• [47:19] – MTG claims affordability focus
• [56:27] – Moulton’s call for new Senate Democratic leadership
• [60:22] – Critique of Pete Buttigieg and DOT failures
• [61:41] – The state of Democratic and GOP benches

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Tone & Style

The episode brims with sarcasm, sharp wit, and Hoosier-style skepticism. Kinnett combines biting humor (“10 out of 10. Well, this brings us to the corruption side of things...”), direct attribution, and an accessible--often mocking--critique of the political and media establishments. The frequent use of pop culture, parody, and running gags (especially about “flakes,” The View, and leftist “Karenism”) highlight both content and spectacle in modern politics.

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Summary Verdict

Episode 444 of The Tony Kinnett Cast spotlights the collapse of Senate Democratic unity and the exposure of progressive corruption, blending clear-eyed analysis with irreverent commentary. Kinnett portrays the moment as rife with opportunity for Republican resurgence and chaos for Democrats—whose leadership, policies, and messaging come under relentless fire—in a style that’s part talk-show, part roast, and consistently combative.

Transcript

[Tony Kennett]

Tony Kennett.

[Producer Nick]

Tony Kennett.

[Tony Kennett (Host)]

Tony Kennett. Tony Kennett.

[Producer Nick]

Tony Kennett.

[Tony Kennett (Host)]

Tony Kennett.

[Tony Kennett]

Tony Kennett, host of the Tony Kennett Cast.

[Tony Kennett (Host)]

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 Knittcast here on the Daily Signal, nationally syndicated first on 93 WIBC. We've got a lot of news to dig into from over the weekend. So without further ado, the government shutdown is like almost over. So the Senate is currently going through a number of procedural votes. You say, Tony, how many procedural votes? Eight. Eight procedural votes. And they're very, very boring. Now, we do have the team diligently monitoring all of these different procedural votes. Some of them require 60 votes, some of them require a simple majority of 50 plus tiebreaker. So at this point, we're really looking for kind of the end of a few of these procedural votes. Republican Rand Paul, who's two great talents include being pretty decent on what government spending should be and then also complaining when it's time to be pragmatic and actually get things moved forward. So Rand Paul's holding things up a little bit. That all goes to say that by the end of, I'd say Wednesday, Thursday perhaps, you're likely to see the House brought into session and the bill, after leaving the Senate and its eight wonderful procedural votes, heads over to the House. They will end up signing it because there's a lot of Republicans in House districts and Democrats in House districts that would like to be elected in 2026 and then that is going to be signed in presto. The government will reopen its doors and will start the process of detoxing all of the weird bumps and and knots and kinks in the long rope of government garbage. So there's a lot on that line. May I just hit you with, of course, a fantastic clip of the very moment that the Democrats that flaked away, which I will say get a coin for the Tony. Ken, it was right. Jar did say it was coming. Here they are flaking away. You can hear some of the moans and groans from the progressives in the background as that initial vote was passed. On this vote, the yeas are 60 and the nays are 43 fifths of.

[Producer Nick]

The Senate duly chosen and sworn, having voted in the affirmative.

[Tony Kennett (Host)]

The motion upon reconsideration is agreed to. My favorite old people clapping. All right. Now the Democrats are having a really rough time about this. They're having a really rough time about this because they were standing firm in solidarity and they got nothing. They got nothing. Gene Wilder, you lose. Good day, sir. Now, I have seen some people trying to push back on this claim and say, well, actually the Democrats, they got two things out of their super negotiations. And what they are claiming they got out of the negotiations is a number one, that all of the people that the Trump administration laid off during the government shutdown would be brought back, would be rehired, re contracted, that kind of a thing. And then number two, in December, they would have some kind of a vote, an additional vote, one might say, on giving the Obamacare subsidies some money. This was a handshake agreement, meaning it's just kind of a temporary sort of promise. Now, the Democrats who flaked are currently being yelled at by a lot of very, very young and pronouned people on the left. Blue sky is a category three toxic zone. You are required to wear personal protection equipment if you go onto the platform because it is just all kinds of angst and anger. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, part time William Shatner and Barack Obama impersonator. He's really mad. I mean, he's not as mad as Whoopi Goldberg, but I mean, he's kind of mad. He wants some more shut down. And so House Democrats and Senate Democrats have been fighting hard to address the Republican health care crisis and to lower the high cost of living for everyday Americans in the United States of America. Because the reality is America is too expensive and far too many people are struggling to live paycheck to paycheck. Now, now that's a really wild thing for Hakeem Jeffries to bring before the American people. And allow me to tell you why the Obamacare program, which I was told, which you were told by Democrats, was gonna be the most splendiferous, exciting, super duper, ultra incredible program that ever programmed. You and I were told that that was going to lower the cost of healthcare. If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor, Michelle. It was gonna be amazing and incredible and wonderful. And then it turned out to make healthcare wildly more expensive, like logarithmically more expensive. And then during the COVID times, Biden said, which loosely translated means subsidize Obamacare to give people extra money because there's Covid and monkeypox and aids. Oh my. And it's swirling around. We ought to give people extra money. And it turns out people who get government assistance really, really don't like stopping the receiving of government assistance. And so Democrats have come forward and said everyone's going to die. But of course, holding the entire government hostage over getting additional subsidies for Obamacare is not really a good look at the best of times. And if this sounds difficult for me to explain, here's Tim Kaine, fresh off of the Back to the Future set as Doc Brown, having no idea whatsoever how to answer what the shutdown was for, or if he would do anything different or if he kissed anyone at prom. It's really weird. Here you go.

[Tony Kennett]

Do you wish that you would have.

[Tony Kennett (Host)]

Started looking for this offering sooner?

[Tony Kennett]

You said that Republicans were never going.

[Tony Kennett (Host)]

To change in their position. I didn't fully understand how dug in they were. Again, because I was so focused on the Virginia elections. I wasn't in this discussion on the health care to see how dug in they were. But I, even as I was not part of these discussions, I was saying to Thune and others on the floor, going back, listen, I need you. Some of you heard me say this in the hall. I need a moratorium on mischief. A moratorium on mischief. Ah, yes, I need a moratorium on mischief. And a. And a flask of photosynthesis. What in the world? What is this nutty professor saying?

[Co-host or Guest Commentator]

I find it so funny. I never realized how dug in the Republicans were. You didn't realize that they wouldn't just let you screw over the American people, like, do their jobs.

[Tony Kennett (Host)]

I don't think that he recognized this. By the way, Tim Kaine has the easiest answer of all time. He has the easiest answer. He's in Virginia. He is the senator who presides over. Since being a senator is now a big popularity contest, just a representative, but bigger as the senator of the Commonwealth of Virginia, he has the most federal workers, period. The most federal workers who are currently laid off, who are not receiving pay. All you have to say is, look, most my people in Virginia, I care about them the most. There are times when in here, in Indiana, where I'm broadcasting from, when Senator Todd Young or Senator Jim Banks doesn't have the best answer ever to a question, all they have to say is, well, I represent the good people of the state of Indiana. And therefore, you know, or whatever American reason he decides to give. Tim Kaine had that example. He had that reason. But he can't just say that because then he has to admit complicity in being one of the people that kept his own constituents in Virginia from receiving their paychecks. So then we get to Dick Durbin. Dick Durbin is one of the Democrats who broke away. So There were really eight and a half Democrats who ended up flaking. I say the half because technically Senator Angus King is an independent. He caucuses with the Democrats, though. So, yeah, he's an independent, just like Bernie Sanders is definitely an independent.

[Co-host or Guest Commentator]

Independently Democrat.

[Tony Kennett (Host)]

Yeah, independently Democrat, exactly. That brings us to the other Democrats, Senator Kathy Cortez Masto of Nevada, which we knew because she, like John Fetterman and Angus King, were always voting to reopen the government. Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois. We'll get to him. Senator Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire. And then Tim Kaine of Virginia, of course, Senator Jackie Rosen of Nevada, Jean Shaheen of D. New Hampshire. There are likely to be a couple others that end up flaking away. If Jon Ossif actually remains resolute through all of the procedural votes, I'd be a little surprised because he and Warnock voted in favor of paying the troops. Georgia's not as safe for the Democrats as they'd like to think going into 26. That said, Velma from Scooby Doo over on MSNBC has released the goods here, which is apparently that this was all about the master plan of winning elections in Virginia, which I would assume definitely this. I don't think this moved the needle for elections in, like, New Jersey or the Pennsylvania Supreme Court retention. But here's the master strategist straight out of Scooby Doo.

[Tony Kennett]

It's strange, Dean, to go back to the original sort of part of this conversation of whether he is a good dealmaker. I mean, a way it seems like the president is kind of getting what he wanted. 40 days ago when all this started, he was out there saying that, oh, this is all about Democrats trying to give health care to illegal immigrants. He just said that to reporters moments ago.

[Tony Kennett (Host)]

Man, the president hasn't changed his messaging because that's what he believes. Oh, man, I'm so used to Kari Jean Pierre getting up dressed like Al Capone and saying something completely different than she said the day before. Radio crew, we're going to suffer through this on the live stream a little bit. We know you have to head over to the commercial break. Hey, watch the livestream so you don't have to deal with commercial breaks. It's the Tony Kennett cast. See you after your commercial. All right. While the nerds are suffering through their FCC mandated commercial and PSA time.

[Tony Kennett]

Velma, he did that refrain the Democrats had actually very successfully pushed back against. Then there's all this energy.

[Tony Kennett (Host)]

Did she just say successfully pushed back against? I don't know about that.

[Tony Kennett]

In the wake of the election. On Tuesday, the president made remarks saying, basically, wow, Republicans are being harmed by all of this. Acknowledging that he was on his back.

[Tony Kennett (Host)]

Foot and saying that Republicans were also harmed by the government shutdown does not mean that the Democrats did not harm themselves even greater. Guys, as I pointed this out during the polling, people like to say. Guys, look. Voters say 65% of people believe that Republicans are 53% as likely to be responsible for the shutdown. That's a stupid way to read polls. Don't read polls like that. The approval ratings for both parties sunk during the government shutdown. People don't like it when you pay a plumber to come in and do a job and then he takes a nap on your couch. People don't care for that. And by the way, as far as the argument to be made, did the government shutdown help Democrats in Virginia? Yeah, but also, other than that, heading into 2026, thinking that, what, the people are just gonna forget that you wiped SNAP benefits into next week? And that brings us to why Senator Dick Durbin from Illinois, straight from the Crips of Egypt, broke away. He was here on the Senate today saying something. I don't think he was supposed to say this openly. Many of my friends are unhappy. They think we should have kept our government closed indefinitely to protest the policies.

[Producer Nick]

Of the Trump administration.

[Tony Kennett (Host)]

True. That is what they said they wanted to do. Keep the government closed to protest Trump. I share their opinions of this administration, but cannot accept a strategy which wages.

[Producer Nick]

Political battle at the expense of my.

[Tony Kennett (Host)]

Neighbor'S paycheck or the food for his children. Correct. Correct. And for all the Democrats who've tried to come out since and say it was Republicans who wanted to starve people because Donald Trump wouldn't order Secretary Rollins of the Department of Agriculture to give the $6 billion in emergency contingency to. To pay for just over half of one SNAP payment. And then what, when the government reopens, have to then refill that particular contingency. None of the. None of the common sense thinking, the two plus two equals four kind of thinking made its way into this whatsoever. And from this point forward, I should point out Joe Scarborough was on MSNBC this morning, just. I didn't even think of admitting something this dumb on the air that the reason Democrats shut the government down was to get crime off of the front page of the newspapers. The Democrats is.

[Producer Nick]

They took crime off the front page of every newspaper.

[Tony Kennett (Host)]

That was the story. And they turned it into health care. That's. That's a. That's some 10 out of 10, 10 out of 10 stuff there, Joe. Appreciate that. The RNC appreciates your campaign donation. Now this brings us down to Chuck Schumer under fire. But before we get to that, I do want to point out again Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania is yet again Senator Betterman. He posted, quote, after 40 days as a consistent voice against shutting our government down. I voted yes for the 15th time to reopen. I'm sorry. To our military SNAP recipients, government workers and Capitol police who haven't been paid in weeks. It never should have come to this. This was a failure. I made a prediction a little bit ago that by the 2026 midterms or at least the end of the year 2026, John Fetterman would no longer be in the Democrat Party. The left is outraged at John Fetterman and who's his ally right now? Well, believe it or not, here's Lara Trump, former co chair of the rnc.

[Tony Kennett]

I actually sat down with Senator Fetterman and I find that he probably has more in common with Donald Trump than than he does with any of the Democrats in his party. He's very common sense. He's very straightforward. He wants to do the right thing and they just can't do that anymore in the Democrat Party. And that's so unfortunate because if I were the leader of that party, I would say this is the kind of individual I want to have. This is somebody who makes sense and who the American people feel like actually has their best interest in heart. And I can tell you, the people of Pennsylvania, I sure feel that way about John Fetterman.

[Tony Kennett (Host)]

We're gonna bring the radio crew back from commercial because it is not looking good for the Schumer and progressive side of things. Believe it or not, it's the Tony Kennett cast. Don't go anywhere. The Tony Kennett cast on 93 WIBC. It is the 50th anniversary of the REC. The Edmund Fitzgerald, that is of course, the legendary Gordon Lightfoot. Rest in peace. And I believe you told me the maritime sailors Cathedral in Detroit, Normally, which rings 29 times on the anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, that it rang 30 times this year. The extra ring of the gong or the bell. Excuse me for of course, Gordon Lightfoot. Which is again for those of us in, you know, the Great Lakes region, the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. I mean my dad told me about the gales of November. Remember when I was a kid and we're not even that close to it.

[Co-host or Guest Commentator]

Was a part of our school's curriculum.

[Tony Kennett (Host)]

Oh, that's right. It was a part of the school's curriculum. So the Edmund Fitzgerald, the 50th today. Just something to note here on the show. Meanwhile, Democrats are really, really, really struggling with Chuck Schumer. The they don't know which way to go. And I don't mean that they. Behind closed doors, they kind of know which way to go. There was an argument that Chuck Schumer kind of gave the nod to some Democrats to just go ahead and reopen the government from what we are getting out of Axios. That's not true. Finally, there were Democrats that just said, chuck, you're out of touch, you're out of time. And after singing a rousing verse of the greatest hall of Notes song, ended up flaking away and voting alongside the right. And for Chuck Schumer, he has to be the one who has now brought the entire party through a shutdown that got them nothing. They are in fact, the ones who have caved. And who's the angriest about this? It's his own party members. Here's Ro Khanna of California who really, really wants to be the next speaker of the House desperately. He wants to get out there and be presented as the new progressive, sort of populisty leader. He doesn't really know what he is in a lot of ways, but he's out here saying that Chuck Schumer's leadership has failed.

[Tony Kennett]

I think the point he makes there too, about Chuck Schumer refusing to even say who he voted for in New York City, I think it's an important one as well. Because if you're gonna be a leader of the Democratic Party and the Democratic base is saying, hey, this is Zoramdani, this is our guy. Like, we like this guy. We like the direction he's going for. We're gonna vote for him in the primary. We're gonna show up in record breaking numbers to vote for him in the general election, make sure that he wins. And, and you can't even say that you voted for the Democratic candidate. I mean, how out of step are you with the own. Like your own voters in the party, let alone, you know, your own caucus, let alone, you know, colleagues such as.

[Tony Kennett (Host)]

You, by the way. I just want to make this clear because this is a breaking point. I can't remember the name of the host of Breaking Points. If it's. If at any point I ever start talking in that modern, transatlantic, monotone reporter or anchor style voice, voice when I'm talking to people in interviews, you have Just every right. Just go ahead and throw me out, toss me into the garbage bin. I failed listening to that. It hurts me. But hopefully she'll let Roe answer at some point.

[Tony Kennett]

But he's also, and most importantly, wildly out of step with where his own voters are within the Democratic Party.

[Tony Kennett (Host)]

So you're absolutely right. I mean, look, this was the straw that broke the camel's back. You had Chuck Schumer cheerleading into the war in Iraq. You've had Chuck Schumer cheerleading for a blank check to Netanyahu. You've had Chuck Schumer betraying us on the first shutdown. You then had Chuck Schumer given multiple opportunities after Zoran won the primary to at least endorse him, even if it was a pro forma endorsement. You hear that gripe about Zorin Mandani? He doesn't do that. And now he's not even willing to fight to make sure that the ACA subsidies don't increase. So to your earlier question about. Uh huh. Great stuff. So really hilarious, by the way. Not only over in the House where you have people like Representative AOC saying people want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. Uh huh. It's about people's lives. Not enough to, you know, reopen the government for SNAP benefits or anything like that. But, you know, she's got to get out there and pretend that she cares about the working people.

[Co-host or Guest Commentator]

They continually phrase it as if they suffer at all. Hold the line. You have. No, no suffering comes upon you by doing this. You're deciding it for your constituents.

[Tony Kennett (Host)]

Yeah. And then you have Bernie Sanders, he gets out and says, this is a bad night for America. I woke up this evening and there was no tapioca in my pudding. It was vanilla. I don't like it. I don't like it at all. Bernie Sanders, he's got a little bit of the chutzpah here for the American people. Tonight, eight Democrats voted with the Republicans to allow them to go forward on this continuing resolution. And to my mind, this was a very, very bad vote. What it does, first of all, is it raises health care premiums for over 20 million Americans. By no, it does not. The bill itself does not raise the premiums. It allows external subsidies that the Biden administration threw during COVID for Obamacare, which sucks. It is a badly written program. The Affordability Care act is not affordable and they don't care. So now he's mad that it takes additional money to act on fixing this garbage fest. But Again, it's so hilarious to watch him pretend to care about health care when every country this has been tried rockets the cost of said health care by 10, 15, 20, 30 times doubling and in some cases tripling or quadrupling. People can't afford that when we are already paying the highest prices in the world for health care. Number two, it paves the way for 15 million people to be thrown off of Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act. Studies show that will mean that some 50,000Americans will die every year unnecessarily. So first of all, that's not true. Second of all, about the Americans comment. It's really interesting listening to him complain about Americans not having enough of the share of government spending when he's one of the people that is currently advocating for illegal immigrants to remain on either receiving through fungible trade or directly in places like California or Minnesota Affordability Care act dollars. And this gets worse for Chuck Schumer. Seth Moulton, another Democrat member of the House. Um, he was up in arms over Chuck Schumer. We're not going to play his clip. We might come back to it later. Uh, but that brings us to the state of the Democrat Party. They're not only turning against Chuck Schumer, they are already paying the price for making really, really bad choices. And this comes in two flavors. First of all, you have idiots like Jasmine Crockett who are now out here saying that she doesn't trust Dominion voting. To quote Michael Scott. Well, well, well, how the turntables, Jasmine Crockett.

[Tony Kennett]

We do know that one of his friends has purchased Dominion. So it's going to be really important for us to educate all states that we can to make sure that their Secretary of State are like, we don't want the Dominion machines.

[Tony Kennett (Host)]

Wait a minute. I thought it was like a deeply unpatriotic thing to go out and have your Secretary of State say that you don't trust certain companies or organizations and their voting machines. Weren't there like big, massive hon in lawsuits over this, one might say, because.

[Tony Kennett]

I personally believe that that ally purchased Dominion so that he could potentially play with the machines. Because we know that they're trying to cheat by changing the lines for the midterms. And I think that they're trying to solidify their cheat potentially.

[Tony Kennett (Host)]

Okay, all right, so, so he's going to cheat by redrawing the lines that he's not even redrawing the lines of ignore Gavin over there with Prop 50. Then he's going to cheat by having the National Guard. I Guess, stand next to voting booths or whatever, according to the ladies on the View. And then he's going to cheat by rigging the voting machine. At some point you really need to stop just licking leftover aluminum foil after Thanksgiving. Now I would say, you know that I'm really joking here. No, there's an actual Democrat radio host, Stephanie Miller, who actually went to kiss and lick the sneakers of Jasmine Crockett today, said, why yes, I did kiss the sneakers of Jasmine Crockett. And I do worship the ground she walks on. And she was like lovely about it. That's from her Twitter. I added the little like in there. Yet again, the year of the Democrat Karen, the liberal middle aged woman. Yet again. My, my argument that women on the right as they age are like a fine wine that grow sweeter and Democrat women are like vinegar left out in the sun. So, radio crew, we got to send you to commercial and talk about some Zoran Mandani scandals. Guys. It's here, it's equitable and my oh my, you can eat it with your hands. It's the Tony Kenneth cast. Zoran Mandani in the last 48 hours has now essentially had to admit or has been slapped down by people like Governor Kathy Hochul of New York. There was going to be no minimum wage increase. That is a, that's a no on that one. So no minimum wage increase.

[Co-host or Guest Commentator]

At least there'll be free bus rides, right? Free public transit.

[Tony Kennett (Host)]

Are there going to be free bus rides?

[Co-host or Guest Commentator]

Hmm.

[Tony Kennett (Host)]

Again, that's gonna be a no. All right. Government run grocery stores though, is he? Government run grocery stores? No. And by the way, there is in fact now apparently him trying to. There's a micro investigation that's currently going on suggesting that Zoron might be attempting to artificially place his cousins like run down grocery store as the model that New York City uses for some kind of state run grocery stores. Now hang on, hang on. Because there's one, there's one more thing here. Ellie Bisgard Church, you say? Who the heck is that? Well, I'll let him introduce her first and then see if he gets her background correct here. And I would now like to introduce my chief of staff, L. Bisgar church.

[Tony Kennett]

Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

[Tony Kennett (Host)]

Electric. Okay.

[Tony Kennett]

My name is L. Biscard Church.

[Tony Kennett (Host)]

Okay.

[Tony Kennett]

I am so proud to stand here.

[Tony Kennett (Host)]

To accept the role as chief of staff for the incoming Mamdani administration. Now what has she done? What has she done in the past? Because at chief of staff it's a very, very big position, one might say.

[Co-host or Guest Commentator]

To be very Qualified, one might say.

[Tony Kennett (Host)]

A chief of staff, you know, somebody a little older, a little more experienced who isn't going to, you know, make youthful mistakes. Well, I got you here. Elle Bisgard church is a 34 year old socialist from California who has never held a real job. The only real job she has ever held as the chief of staff is campaigning for Zoran Mandani. That's it.

[Co-host or Guest Commentator]

Is she highly educated? Like so spend all those years instead of getting a job, getting a lot of education.

[Tony Kennett (Host)]

That's actually a good question. Will you look that up for us? I'm kind of curious what education El Bisgard Church has. I'm sure whatever it is, it involved, you know, classes in gender studies and I don't know, drum circles and hacky sack prophylactics, you know, the regular stuff. Now here's the rough part for Zoron. It comes in two beautiful chunks here. First of all, Governor Kathy Hochul of New York. Yeah. She knows that Elise Stefanik is going to beat her with a knotted plow line if Hochul bends to Zoron's New York socialism campaign. Here's a little bit of that.

[Tony Kennett]

I'm from Buffalo. We don't put up with a lot of crap. So I just want to set the stage that, you know, you look at the history of people who've run multi million dollar ad campaigns to try and get me to change my position. I don't change my position. So I just want to put it out there. I respect people's opinions. I respect expect proper place to convey them. And so I said to people, I hear you. That was important. But also there is a time and place. And so that's all. On that note, I've had conversations on this trip, but many conversations I'd say over the summer and the fall that were important that led to an understanding of what's in the realm of possibility, shared ambitions. But what, what is, what is doable is the question. And so no.

[Tony Kennett (Host)]

Okay, so to. To actually get her through the beautiful list of things that it takes her three weeks to beat around the bush and get to the point of none of Zoron's big financial programs. He needs approval from the state of New York in order to raise taxes big time. He ain't going to do it now. That's really the least of his worries, believe it or not, because a new series of investigations makes it a lot worse. Don't go anywhere. Got to bring the radio crew from commercial Tony Kenneth cast. It's the Tony Kennett cast on 93 WIPC. All right, ladies and gentlemen, Zoran Mandani. He's got all of the great Stalinist things. He's got the coming out immediately and like leaning in on weird ethnicities as like the branch for running his new little socialist union. Number two, he's got the nomenclature. The nomenclature, what's that? Well, that's the Soviet bureaucracy in which you give all of your special friends really nice jobs even if they have no experience whatsoever. Like your cousin who runs a rundown grocery store. As you know, your model for New York City's possible state run grocery store system, a communist from California with. You said two MPAs choosing to study taxation.

[Co-host or Guest Commentator]

Yeah. What's interesting about that is she's been quoted as saying, if I'm interested in critiquing and reforming our system of taxation, I better go study formally what a tax is.

[Tony Kennett (Host)]

Oh my, oh my. Okay. A lady who had to go to school to learn what a tax is. A 34 year old woman from California, no real job ever.

[Co-host or Guest Commentator]

Do you think she's paid a tax?

[Tony Kennett (Host)]

Do I think she's.

[Co-host or Guest Commentator]

She like looks at a form and goes, this is, this W2 is a tax.

[Tony Kennett (Host)]

She has like girl tax. And it's just like asking guys to give her money.

[Co-host or Guest Commentator]

She gets a hot dog from a stand in New York and is like, do I need to pay taxes to you?

[Tony Kennett (Host)]

10 out of 10. Well, this brings us over to the corruption side of things. Zoran Mandani's political campaign. I know this is going to shock. You may not have been above board whatsoever. I know. I too am just shocked that that may not have been above board. There's a couple of things. First of all, there is an investigation into Zoran Mamdani's political campaign accepting nearly $13,000 in illegal foreign donations from non US citizens, which is obviously a violation of US election law. Now here's the funny thing. The campaign has since stated it intends to return all of the foreign donations and has reportedly returned over $5,000, including a contribution from Mamdani's mother in law in Dubai. Most of these donations were received in June before Mamdani's primary win. Here's the issue though. $5,000, $13,000. If you don't have the ability to, since June, return all of those dollars to foreign sources, that's a little suspicious. Now apparently on the 30th they had reported to KATV, that's ABC7, that they had returned $9,000 in foreign donations. However, now that's in dispute because they haven't provided any receipts that show they have actually returned more than five grand. So that's. Again, it's just a couple of thousand dollars. I mean, I get that he's really strapped for cash right now.

[Co-host or Guest Commentator]

I pinky promise. I returned the money.

[Tony Kennett (Host)]

Yeah, the pinky that's currently shoveling rice into my mouth now again, he is currently running around asking people for additional donations, which is very weird because his campaign was funded in a large part by CAIR and their US Political pac, which may not be a US Political pack at all. Senator Rick Scott of Florida is currently looking into that. And then from the New York Post, a South Asian political machine used foreign influence to tip the scales in Mandani's favor. The immigrants, Right? Nonprofit Deceased Rising up and Moving, or DRUM for short. Very clever, I guess. And its political arm. Drum beats. Stop it. Stop it. You people are dumb. Have built what insiders call the most effective field operation in city politics and recent memory. And what is this particular city operation to turn out voters? It's. It's social media bots. It's fraud. Yeah, it's click farms. Oh, wait, wait, like what? Oh, you mean like the click farm that was discovered right before the UN that China was installing to possibly take down the New York City cellular network? Hmm. Hmm. There are a lot of people who use clickfarms. There are a lot of people on the right who also dabble in click farms. I hear you. I'm just saying grassroots campaigns usually don't have to fake engagement. Grassroots campaigns usually don't have to fake grassroots funding. Grassroots campaigns normally aren't taking selfies with Alex Soros. It's really not going to be pretty when Senator Rick Scott does, in fact, put the one and only Chuck Grassley on the case. Every. Every single document from Mamdani up to and including the Polaroids and apron from his failed rapping career are going to hit the public.

[Co-host or Guest Commentator]

It's already over. The moment that Chuck Grassley hears his name called, he's like, oh, you wanted those documents? I've had them in the filing cabinet for five years.

[Tony Kennett (Host)]

He picks up the scent. He's the. He's not the senator that we want. He's the senator that we need. I love it. Every single day just gets more enjoyable. This brings us over to the media. Fun in the sun, because one of Mandani's biggest supporters, that. Which would have been the BBC, the British Broadcasting Corporation, well, they're having a rough one because their director general, Tim Davy, and their CEO of the news division, Deborah Turnis, have Resigned? Why did they resign? Well, because they released a documentary that had maliciously edited footage of Donald Trump on January 6, 2021 to make it sound like he said something he didn't. Or more accurately, they cut out things he had actually said. Here is the footage. First I'm going to play the edited version with all of their spooky dramatic documentary music and then I'll play the actual clip.

[Producer Nick]

We're going to walk down to the Capitol and I'll be there with you. And we fight. We fight like hell. We're going to walk down to the Capitol and we're going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women.

[Tony Kennett (Host)]

Hang on, hang on. That's like really malicious editing. That's not like where you cut him off and then, oh, that's all he said. No, that's just, you know, taking the letters in a magazine and cutting them up and pasting them on a ransom note. That's some, that's some no, no territory stuff. So. By the way, Deborah has since yelled at a random reporter, which by the way, in England might, might even be a crime. I'm not sure everything's a crime unless you have a license for that. Saying there's no institutional bias at the BBC whatsoever. Uh huh. I would like to say it has.

[Tony Kennett]

Been the privilege of my career to.

[Tony Kennett (Host)]

Serve as the CEO of BBC News.

[Tony Kennett]

And to work with, with our brilliant team of journalists.

[Tony Kennett (Host)]

I step down. So she's, she's, you can see the vein starting to pop out. She said this is the pre prepared statement that I pulled out of my package of crumpets this morning. And then she leans forward and the crazy eye gets a little wilder. The static electricity picks up a little bit over the weekend because the buck stops with me.

[Tony Kennett]

But I'd like to make one thing very clear. BBC News is not institutionally biased. That's why it's the world's most trusted.

[Tony Kennett (Host)]

News provider by ratings. Not even close. Not even close.

[Tony Kennett]

Why did you fail to deal with the mistakes that were made and see my teams. Thank you so much. Do you think that the journalists are corrupt? Nights.

[Tony Kennett (Host)]

Thank you.

[Tony Kennett]

President Trump said.

[Producer Nick]

Do you think the journalists aren't?

[Tony Kennett]

Journalists aren't corrupt. Our journalists are hard working people who strive for impartiality.

[Tony Kennett (Host)]

By the way, BBC journalists and reporters have in fact been caught taking bribes and editing particular pieces of media incorrectly several times over the last decade. So that's a big no on that one. Producer Nick we as a news organization.

[Co-host or Guest Commentator]

Have the most integrity. Please ignore why I'm Stepping down for our malicious lack of integrity.

[Tony Kennett (Host)]

Excellent, Excellent stuff. That does bring us over to something that I personally enjoyed out of this whole. Just this whole nonsense. Speaking of federal funding, a Harvard researcher, Joan Brug, or Bruggie if you're pronouncing it phonetically, she went on 60 Minutes with CBS and made the claim that they, I guess, discovered the cure for breast cancer and then found out that the federal funds were getting cut off. And this is the first that you're hearing about it. Here's Joan Bruggie Bruglas. If you were talking to the American public, what would your research do for them?

[Tony Kennett]

My research has the potential to prevent their daughters and their wives and their cousins from developing breast cancer. And I don't think any taxpayer would want to interfere with progress on a project like that.

[Tony Kennett (Host)]

Joan Bruge is director of the Ludwig Cancer center at Harvard Medical School. For 50 years, she has applied for and won competitive federal grants that helped uncover how tumors form and resist treatment.

[Producer Nick]

And discovered innovative therapies.

[Tony Kennett]

Did I send you that note about.

[Tony Kennett (Host)]

When her million the B roll footage where she looks at the camera for. I can't. I can't stand. I just. Such clownishness. Dollar annual funding was canceled last spring. She was leading a team that had identified the earliest precursors of breast cancer.

[Tony Kennett]

The ultimate goal is to find a treatment that will eliminate those cells that.

[Tony Kennett (Host)]

Carry the mutations and in effect, prevent the cancer.

[Tony Kennett]

Yes, prevent the cancer.

[Tony Kennett (Host)]

Last spring, you got an email. What did it say?

[Tony Kennett]

It listed two grants from the National Institute of Health and said that they were terminated.

[Tony Kennett (Host)]

Terminated.

[Tony Kennett]

Terminated.

[Tony Kennett (Host)]

What went through your mind?

[Tony Kennett]

It was just like a gut punch. My knees buckled and. And I had to sit down because I just never imagined that research focused on a disease like cancer would be canceled for a reason that was unrelated to the quality of the research or the progress of the research. But this was across the board for issues relating to diversity and antisemitism.

[Tony Kennett (Host)]

Can I ask you a question real quick before we send the radio crew to the commercial? Just one question. Why do you need a government grant for that? I'm just saying, if this is like we're right on the cusp of terminating cells before they really get to spreading mutations or start going through the rapid process of mitosis with the corrupt DNA in them, then wouldn't Alex Soros, you know, wouldn't he be up for the running for pushing some dollars into that or Bill Gates or the massive endowment that Harvard University has? Maybe instead of Harvard sliding money over into its lesbian breakdancing major Maybe you throw money into breast cancer research. Hmm. Or just reapply for the government grant. If she would have gone public about this, then I'm sure something else would have been made. No, she wants to do the t moral to mmm. Radio crew, we'll see you guys after the commercial break. We'll be over on the live stream. It's the Tony Kenned cast. Now, there are other media things that are Chef's kiss. First of all, shout out to Scott Jennings, a friend of the show over on Abby Phillips, for being 100% correct in his predictions like a week, two weeks ago about the shutdown and how it's all going to end.

[Tony Kennett]

How are Republicans going to use leverage in their fight with Democrats when the Democrats are actually the ones with the upper hand when in the eyes of.

[Tony Kennett (Host)]

Voters, this is a week ago. I'm sure Democrats will be more than happy to open the government now the election's over. I mean, I mean, part of the reason they shut it down was to get through tonight. I mean, I would, I would suspect there'll be debate opening up by the end of the week. Correct. A fine prediction, Scott. Well done. And that brings us over to the other side of the crystal ball. Whoopi Goldberg over on the View. Just melting down over all this. Now we've gotten a couple of questions people don't really like on the show watching the View. The reason that we do show you the View clips is not just because we enjoy sitting back and watching, you know, Joy Behar foam at the mouth. The reason we watch the View is that our best understanding of the next couple of years of the Democrat Party involved left leaning middle aged women and young women running that party. And so that kind of functions, you know, I would say rather accurately here. Here's Whoopi.

[Tony Kennett]

So let us tell you what's been going on. The biggest sticking point in the longest US Government shutdown has been Democrats demanding that Republicans negotiate to extend health care subsidies that are about to expire. But last night, eight Senate Democrats threw in the towel by siding with the GOP to advance a vote that could lead to the government reopening. And they tried to explain themselves to their unhappy colleagues.

[Tony Kennett (Host)]

Take a look, by the way. Oh, sorry. Let's hear Shaheen.

[Tony Kennett]

I understand that not all of my Democratic colleagues are satisfied with this agreement, but waiting another week or another month wouldn't deliver a better outcome.

[Producer Nick]

This agreement tonight is a, is a.

[Tony Kennett (Host)]

Win for the American people. I always forget when Angus King speaks, he looks like he just came out of a cattle ranch from 1823.

[Producer Nick]

Actually.

[Co-host or Guest Commentator]

I think he looks like he belongs in a Dr. Seuss movie.

[Tony Kennett (Host)]

Like, is that Walt Disney? I'll say this, though, clearly the reason that we are playing views on the show, to answer the Simple Life for me, we loathe entirely the View. Same I'm trying to get on the show. I am a woman with a lot of opinions and every morning when I wake up and I go through aggravated liberal menopause, the first thing I do is turn on the View and then Sex in the City because I'm just fun like that.

[Co-host or Guest Commentator]

After your third bottle of Merlot?

[Tony Kennett (Host)]

After my third bottle of Merlot, absolutely. And then I run around telling everyone how excited I am that I view illegal immigrants as farm equipment and then talk about how progressive that I am. So really excellent stuff. Yeah, yeah, please. The poetry, the beat poetry snaps. Very, very good. We do have a couple of things to get into before the last end here. ABC is now reporting that foreigners with certain health conditions, including obesity, may now be denied US Immigrant visas under new guidance by the Trump administration. Good. I don't see the issue with that. I. Can you imagine the, the, the shipping fare to get him over here? I'm sorry, producer Nick.

[Co-host or Guest Commentator]

I mean, Whoopi must be happy. You know, the heavier set ones can't pick as fast.

[Tony Kennett (Host)]

We got to bring the radio crew back from commercial. We'll be right back. Don't go anywhere. It's the Tony Kenneth cast. It's the Tony Kenneth cast on 93 WYB. So the left is very, very, very mad. Very mad, very, very upset just deep, deep down that the Trump administration under Marco Rubio may now be including diabetes and obesity as factors in whether or not people applying for visas are rejected. Now, by the way, one of the reasons that was is explicitly stated as part of the policy in the State Department is because individuals who are considered more likely to be on SNAP benefits, if you're more likely to come over as an immigrant and be on government assistance, you will be given lower preference, you will be given lower, you'll begin less, less attention. You'll be put kind of in the back of the line rather than someone who provides a net good to the United States. And again, it doesn't mean there aren't some very wonderful people who want to immigrate to the country that have certain conditions. No, diabetes and obesity are not the only things on the list. No, I, I'm sorry, but that's just not the case. Also, according to several sources now, a New York attorney General Letitia James has filed a motion to dismiss the Trump administration's lawsuit against her, calling it, quote, vindictive prosecution. I'm just. Sorry, one, one more time here. Calling it vindictive prosecution. Well, well, how the turntables. Exactly. My, oh, my. Yeah, that's. That's not. That's not going to. That's not going to happen. So that brings us to kind of the last thing, because the left is just having a really rough time. There was this argument right after the elections that the right was going to do some huge soul searching. Some huge soul searching. Now, I think a lot of us have suggested that we focus a little bit more on painting the picture and painting the vision. But was this the end all, you know, destruction? Really what Republicans want is someone more like Chuck Schumer. No, no, no, no. Now, one of the people who has said that the Republican Party really, really needs to change is Marjorie Taylor Greene. And this has not been taken well because she's not only started getting into more interesting conspiracy theories, but she's also started praising Democrats because those on the right have, you know, said, I don't think so. Here's the view. Yeah, the view. Praising old MTG out of there.

[Tony Kennett]

And that's why when you said Marjorie Taylor Greene. Oh, yeah, I'm happy to say that she's going to be here on Tuesday. Oh, yeah, yeah. It's Election Day. Because Election day happens to be Election Day. And, you know, she. I don't know how many things we agree on, but I know the one thing that she and I and all of us at this table agree on is this should not be affecting the American people. This is.

[Tony Kennett (Host)]

Mm. Yeah. All right, now here's the fun thing. She has since come out, Marjorie Taylor Greene talked to reporters claiming to be the only Republican who really cares about the people. She's St. Teresa wrapped up in a Georgian representative.

[Producer Nick]

Talk about how much have you heard.

[Tony Kennett (Host)]

From people about your constituents about affordability.

[Producer Nick]

Issues and what are you doing to.

[Tony Kennett (Host)]

Try and keep costs low, you know, across the board.

[Tony Kennett]

Yeah, it's something we hear about every single day. So under the Biden administration, It was in 2022, we saw inflation hit a 40 year high at 9%.

[Tony Kennett (Host)]

Correct.

[Tony Kennett]

And these prices have not come back down. I give the President Trump as his administration, they're holding it right now at 2.5%. That's pretty much the average. And that's. That's a good thing. However, life is unaffordable. And with the health insurance crisis coming, that will start January 1st with these.

[Tony Kennett (Host)]

New premiums, ah, here's the issue.

[Tony Kennett]

And credit card debt is at an all time high with our economy having some softening which we could see possibly a recession. These are, these are alarm bells for me and they're blaring so loud. I've been talking about affordability for months now.

[Tony Kennett (Host)]

She has not, by the way, but.

[Tony Kennett]

I think I'm the only Republican that's been talking about it.

[Tony Kennett (Host)]

No, no, no, no, no, no. Not even remotely true. But we'll, we'll, we'll, we'll give her the fair shake here. We'll, we'll address her points here in a second. We'll let her finish.

[Tony Kennett]

And I think it's a crisis and I just think there's, it is a complete failure on both sides of the aisle for, for anybody that serves in Congress to allow this to happen to the.

[Tony Kennett (Host)]

Okay, so first of all, no, as far as the argument she's making that it's the premiums that are skyrocketing that's going to hurt Americans. She proposes more government intervention in healthcare. She has proposed more populist, left leaning actions to grip the economy. She hasn't criticized the areas of policy of the Trump administration that really has to do with investment and finance. She's criticized the Trump administration's take on Israel as though Israel is secretly draining all, all of the dollars away from the United States. That's just a lie. Now look, we could play a lot of clips of her saying rather objectively kooky things on various interviews, things of that nature. I'm less interested in her kind of going off the beaten path and calling everyone in the Republican Party that doesn't agree with her on Israel a pedophile. Instead, I would like to play the president's response today. Kaitlan Collins pitches the question to him. This is the kind of the curbing of those who are going out glad handing and grandstanding about how they're so wonderful and forgetting there's work to be done.

[Tony Kennett]

Meeting with the Syrian president earlier today, Marjorie Taylor Greene, who is a big ally of yours, said that she would rather see you focused on nonstop domestic policy meetings here at the White House instead of nonstop foreign policy meetings. What's your response to her saying that and also saying that grocery prices are up and not down, as you've said?

[Producer Nick]

Yeah.

[Co-host or Guest Commentator]

So.

[Producer Nick]

I don't know what happened to Marjorie. She's a nice woman, but I don't know what happened. She's lost her way, I think. But I have to view the presidency as a worldwide situation, not Locally, I mean, we could have a world that's on fire, where wars come to our shores very easily. If you had a bad president.

[Tony Kennett (Host)]

This is the isolationism point that President Trump is not. That from all appearances, Vice President J.D. vance is not. We're gonna get to that and get to that after he finishes his statement here.

[Producer Nick]

We had a horrible president and we ended up with Russia, Ukraine, and we ended up with other disasters, too. Don't forget, I put out eight wars, nine to come. I think I'll get the other one taken care of. But I put out eight wars, and look at the damage that Russia, Ukraine has done to us as a country. I mean, we spent $350 billion. We're not spending any money anymore. Now they pay us through NATO.

[Tony Kennett (Host)]

You know, now we're going to kind of go through the ins and outs of why there's a little this schism here. There is this argument that has popped up on some parts of the right that has suggested that any US Involvement in foreign policy is throwing away all of our money. And that's just not the case. I mean, objectively, the data, according to the Congressional Budget, that's not the case. The idea that if the President of the United States threatens India and Pakistan and says, get back in your corners or I'm going to slap you like Will Smith on stage, then. Then, no, that's not the president starting wars. That's the president recognizing the leverage the American economy and the military have and then saying, if you're going to play, you're going to play by my rules. It's more Teddy Rooseveltian. It's not this hyper isolationism. We got to send the radio crew off to the end of things this evening. We'll catch them later and continue on the live stream. For a bit of bonus tonus, it's the Tony Kinnick cast here on the Daily Signal. All right, now, for those on the live stream, quickly here. Marjorie Taylor Greene had what I believe a pretty decent start, a rise in the MAGA movement, where she got out and she said that the president is right, he's being unduly prosecuted. There's a lot of people who are being hurt by the Biden administration. Inflation is really bad. That was a lot of what she built her campaign around. Those are good things. Those are accurate things. Also accountability. You can see her arguing with Jasmine Crockett in the Oversight Committee more days often or more often than not. And it is. Those are very good things. However, when you spend all of your time online watching various podcasts, and you get into the zone of just ardent conspiracy theories instead of actually doing what you were sent to Congress to do, you become guilty of the same stuff that you accuse the left of. Because through the shutdown, we accused the left accurately of being more convinced about all these conspiracy theories and these wild demands that they had rather than actually coming to the table and doing what we are paying you for. And the arguments that she's made that actually the Trump administration is this awesome grand cover up for the Epstein files and, oh, maybe the National Guard is going to be used for some kind of a coup and all this other nonsense. That doesn't help Georgians. It doesn't help the people of Georgia whom you are representing. It doesn't help the country either. This is the criticism I make of Senator Rand Paul and Representative Thomas Massie of Kentucky. When you get out there and put your own dreams, wishes and aspirations ahead of what actually gets things done, you end up giving the other side power. It is a national game at this point. And what Trump is pointing out, and as pointed out consistently, it is an international game. Either you win or you lose. There is no middle ground here where we say, okay, Panama, you just do whatever you want to do. And that doesn't screw over the economy. Which, by the way, as Senator Josh Hawley points out, he's more of an interventionist populist. You know what? Yeah. He's willing to tip the scales in order to get his voters what it is that he thinks that they're asking for. Especially focuses on that regarding subsidies. And that in and of itself is important as we move into 2026, because the idea that after Trump, the Republican Party is going to go through a kind of hyper isolationist front. I'm not seeing it, just not seeing it after 2028. Now, that brings us over to a comment that I think is, is pretty important that, you know, I, I think probably deserves a little bit of answering here. I thought that right now illegal immigrants can't even receive benefits, or immigrants in general can't receive benefits until 10 years after they've been here. No, some federal benefits, yeah, they cannot receive and receive until 10 years after they've been here. However, there is an issue regarding something called fungibility. Fungible funds are these magical pockets of money that states collect from their people in taxes. And then when the federal government comes in and funds the state, the state is then free to use their money to spend however they choose. This is what allows illegal immigrants, especially in Minnesota. We've talked about this regarding possible snap fraud in 2019, 20, 20, 2021, in which their. At the same time their resettlement and migrant programs were exploding, people who had been here for not 10 years, like 10 days, SNAP benefit requests were exploding by 120 to 147%. So as far as it's currently seen, unless Minnesota natives and citizens are just popping out 13 kids every single marriage, I don't think so. Chief. Not likely.

[Co-host or Guest Commentator]

Producer NICK that's not even including the involvement of NGOs that are funded governmentally, involved in distribution improperly of funds to illegals. It's true.

[Tony Kennett (Host)]

And by the way, I want to make this, you know, explicitly clear right now for kind of economic policy as the United states heads into 2026. There is an argument that Republicans need to focus more on affordability. But going through the weird mechanisms of saying the government will take care of you, that's not the answer. The government sucks. It's a nanny state. It doesn't. Now, does the government need to uphold the law? Absolutely. Does the government need to send in federal troops when states won't uphold federal law? Absolutely. Does the government have a responsibility to put Americans first? Absolutely. Does that mean that the government needs to grossly expand SNAP benefits and the Obamacare subsidies, which, by the way, I don't think I see any way that John Thune is going to okay that when that comes through the Senate eventually, despite what some California Republicans might be throwing together as far as various funding bills are concerned. Is the government coming in to save the day but just with a different coat of paint going to fix anything? No scoreboard. Every single time the government has done so, it has wrecked the economy, it has wrecked the particular market that it gets involved in. Now, regarding Chuck Schumer's future leadership, I do wanna bring things over to Seth Moulton from, I believe Massachusetts, who really, really went after Chuck and his shutdown. Answer. I think it plays into this kind of long term strategy the Democrats have, which hasn't worked for them. So Republicans trying. It is not the answer. Here you go.

[Tony Kennett]

You think that Chuck Schumer should step aside now and let someone else lead Democrats in the Senate?

[Tony Kennett (Host)]

I think it would be better. I think it'd be better than the status quo. And I hear this from Democrats all across Massachusetts.

[Tony Kennett]

Everywhere I go, people say there's a.

[Tony Kennett (Host)]

Leadership vacuum right now in the Democratic Party. We need new leadership. We've got to stop protecting this establishment status quo that's gotten us a second term of Donald Trump. Okay, two things. First of all, that establishment status quo is what took Joe Biden in 2020. That's what took him as far as it did. That is, that is in fact what ended up winning out in the Democrat primary. Lest we all forget, do you know who understands this? Pete Buttigieg of all people. Pete Buttigieg understands that the establishment area, the kind of Ezra Klein abundance, establishment Democrat, the corporatist Democrat, as corrupt as it is, is the only way the Democrat Party can move forward without eating itself. Now, the majority of the party has elected the eating itself strategy. Again, not really the smartest maneuver. But anywho, President Trump did also comment yesterday, or excuse me, earlier today on Pete Buttigieg. We reference this at the beginning of the show. I do, I do want to play this because it's pretty great guarantee to.

[Tony Kennett]

Americans that travel is going to go back to normal. Once the government travel, that travel, all the air travel better than normal.

[Producer Nick]

You know why?

[Tony Kennett (Host)]

When the government reopens, yeah, sure, it'll be much better.

[Producer Nick]

Better than normal because we're buying the most sophisticated avionics and, you know, technology for our control towers.

[Tony Kennett (Host)]

What he is saying there, I want to make this clear. Sometimes Trump, you know, throws in it's going to be the best logistically, empirically, deliciously, fergaliciously. Sometimes he gets into the adjective and the adverb game and it's not as worthwhile. What he is saying here is dead on. Air traffic control and airlines in general stopped running on Windows 95 like three years ago. It is a horribly unupdated garbage system that needs desperate upgrades. And Pete Buttigieg had all of the time in the world to do that and instead went on maternity leave so Chastain could chest feed the kids they adopted.

[Producer Nick]

And we didn't have that. We had a guy named Buttigieg. Boot Edge Edge is the best way. Just say two edges, like off the edge of a cliff, which is where they were taking us, by the way. Boot Edge Edge was the Secretary of Transportation and he spent billions of dollars trying to patch together our air control, our air traffic control system, which was a conglomeration of all different systems in all different cities. He spent, they had hundreds of hundreds of countries where companies working on it and they were spending billions of dollars. And when they turned it on, it didn't work. It didn't even work a little bit. That's why you had a helicopter crashing into an airplane that if we had a great system, bells and whistles would have started going off.

[Tony Kennett (Host)]

Now let's talk a little bit because Pete Buttigieg he bolted out into public view, quoting this and said, just getting dinner onto the table for the kiddos. Okay, we'll deal with this later. He thinks this is going to be his moment. Pete Buttigieg has nothing, nothing at all, to show for his time as the Secretary of Transportation. No upgrades. Not. I mean, of course I'm not going to blame all the disasters on him, like everything from East Palestine, Ohio to the Francis Scott Key bridge getting destroyed or the, the, the ship from the Mexican Navy wrecking itself on another US Bridge later. No, I'm not going to blame, you know, those things on Pete Buttigieg. What I will say is that the Biden administration, believe it or not, in a way, delivered and passed that infrastructure bill, the build back, better booty judge bonanza, and gave him a lot of Money. And with $1.5 trillion in the Inflation Reduction act, he built eight charging stations. Not like eight full like chart, like gas stations. There's like a lot of pumps and.

[Co-host or Guest Commentator]

You can pull inside grocery stores where there's like 30 of them.

[Tony Kennett (Host)]

Right, right. No, he built eight charging stations.

[Co-host or Guest Commentator]

Eight cars can be charged at a time.

[Tony Kennett (Host)]

Eight outlets plugged into a 2x4. And not even double outlets, one outlet.

[Co-host or Guest Commentator]

It literally is just a power strip going inside the Kroger where it plugs into the wall.

[Tony Kennett (Host)]

Excellent, excellent. And it's only on half the time because it's powered by solar and unicorn wishes. And that's going to be the strategy. You've heard kind of a consistent theme throughout the evening. The Democrats are ready to toss out the establishment and they're ready to go with the new, the bold, the exciting. Let's take a look at the bench, shall we? You have aoc, who has no idea still to this day how many branches of government that we have, who has now been reduced to making margaritas on screen. Remind you of anyone? Shout out to Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi. Um, and then you have from that point forward, Joe Biden, who's just dead. You have Kamala Harris, who is also cackling and wine drunk and can't complete a sentence. You have Gavin Newsom, who allowed most of his state to burn down peanut butter sandwich. And yeah, can make 5 layer peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Incredible. Who else you got? Who else? Zoran Mandani, who already. The majority of what he's brought forward for his policies for New York are being smacked down harder than a midget going up against Shaquille O'. Neal.

[Co-host or Guest Commentator]

Use his property name, Mr. Card. Mum.

[Tony Kennett (Host)]

You got it. So at this point. I mean, who do they really have? Cory Booker? Is constipation really the Democrat ticket in 28, who do they got? The Republicans. They've got a bench and they've got a fairly decent plan. And right now, the Republican administration appears to be getting rid of kind of the rhino kind of corporatist Republicans on the left of the party and then getting rid of like the cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs members on the far right side of the party. And they're actually getting some things done. And with that said, we'll see you real soon. Tomorrow night, 7pm Eastern. It's the Tony Kennedcast here on the Daily Signal, nationally syndicated, first on 93 WIBC. Take care.