Ep. 458 - 124 Democrats Launch Desperate Bill to Prevent ICE from Arresting & Deporting Illegals

Summary

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The Tony Kinnett Cast – Ep. 458

124 Democrats Launch Desperate Bill to Prevent ICE from Arresting & Deporting Illegals
Aired: December 4, 2025
Host: Tony Kinnett, The Daily Signal
Guest/Co-Host: Producer Nick

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Episode Overview

In this charged episode, Tony Kinnett dives deep into the national debate over immigration policy, the public backlash against recent Trump administration actions targeting certain immigrant communities, and the unprecedented move by 124 House Democrats to propose a sweeping bill that would essentially halt ICE detentions and deportations. The conversation spans high-profile political reactions, alleged media mischaracterizations, cultural commentary, and defense policy controversies.

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Main Topics & Key Discussion Points

1. National Immigration Crackdown & Policy Changes

• [00:48] - [06:14]
  Tony opens by discussing American frustration with political rhetoric vs. policy on immigration, particularly the perceived lack of distinction between legal and illegal entrants and the consequences for local communities.

• [04:30] He contextualizes recent crime sprees involving migrants (Afghan, Somali, Pakistani, etc.), and criticizes officials who evade debate on character or assimilation.

• [04:50]
  Bomblshell: The Trump administration, per Tony, has just halted all immigration and naturalization from 19 countries (e.g., Afghanistan, Somalia, Iran, Venezuela, Yemen) in response to security concerns.

“Immigration will be halted and all naturalization processes halted for individuals who originate from these 19 countries...”
—Tony Kinnett [04:57]

• Widespread outrage follows from left-wing politicians and some local leaders (Minneapolis’ Jacob Frey, Ilhan Omar) criticizing these moves as bigoted or unconstitutional.

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2. The Somali-American Community, Crime, and Political Reactions

• [06:14] - [15:51]
  Tony and Producer Nick analyze comments from President Trump and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey regarding the Somali community:

• Trump is quoted harshly critiquing the perceived economic and social contributions of Somali immigrants, specifically referencing welfare rates and crime.

• Tony and Nick discuss inner-community divisions (e.g., support for mayoral candidate Omar Fateh), and breakdown the ethnic complexity of Somalia itself.

"Ilhan Omar is garbage. She's garbage. Her friends are garbage...These are people that do nothing but complain...Let them go back to where they came from and fix it."
—Quoting President Trump [08:08]

• Mayor Jacob Frey’s defense of his city’s Somali community is called into question, with the hosts challenging claims about their economic benefits and cultural integration.

"To again, villainize an entire group is ridiculous under any circumstances. And the way that Donald Trump is consistently doing it...calls into question major constitutional violations."
—Jacob Frey statement, analyzed by Tony [14:35]

• The hosts lampoon politically motivated defenses of "diversity for diversity’s sake," and push back at the notion that restricting migration based on nationality is unconstitutional.

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3. Somali-American Contributions to U.S. Society – Satirical Audit

• [18:11] - [24:26]
  Tony and Nick satirically "research" notable Somali-American achievements and, after comedic pauses, claim there have been extremely few high-profile contributions outside politics (notably, Ilhan Omar) and minor arts/sports. They single out Hoden Nalaya as the most prominent figure (an Integration TV journalist killed by al-Shabaab).

"Producer Nick, this list of Somali Americans that have contributed to American society is freaking empty. There's nothing here."
—Tony Kinnett [20:06]

"The Somali American community sends more money home than any immigrant community in the United States per capita."
—Tony Kinnett [24:08]

• They highlight federal fraud cases (Minneapolis Somali Americans arrested for over $1B of fraud, allegedly funneling money to Somalia).

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4. ICE Operations in Minneapolis & Local Backlash

• [27:49] - [30:59]
  The show presents on-the-ground updates as ICE conducts arrests in Minnesota, eliciting uproar from parts of the Minneapolis population and city leaders.
• The hosts mock the local outcry and statements issued in Somali by officials, likening it to "speaking like Jawas in Star Wars."

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5. Congressional & Political Responses

• [31:07] - [37:19]
  Ilhan Omar and Pramila Jayapal react strongly on cable news, with Omar denouncing Trump as "racist, bigot, xenophobic, and Islamophobic" [31:27].
• Jayapal touts the new Democrat House bill ("Dignity for Detained Immigrants Act," 124 sponsors) as aiming to scale back or ban ICE detention and bolster detainee rights/legal aid.

"It drastically scales back the use of detention. It ensures every single immigrant in detention has their human and civil rights protected..."
—Pramila Jayapal [37:48]

• Tony and Nick critique the bill’s practicality and constitutionality, contending it could in effect bar ICE from enforcing any immigration law.

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6. Media Critiques, “War Crimes,” and Military-Pentagon Controversy

• [43:44] - [58:54]
  The hosts pivot to "war crime" accusations in a Washington Post story against Secretary Pete Hegseth, which have since unraveled.

"The New York Times came out and said, yeah, the Washington Post article is what the kids call wrong."
—Tony Kinnett [45:13]

• They lampoon the idea that overseeing multiple airstrikes equals a war crime, clarify rules of engagement, and criticize journalists for "air-conditioned outrage" about military operations.
• Tony argues journalists exaggerate their hardship and misunderstanding of military protocol.

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7. Swatting Incident at Tony’s Studio

• [62:14] - [67:12]
  Tony reveals a recent attempted “swatting” targeting his team, credits Indiana law enforcement for their professionalism and preparedness, and warns other public figures to liaise with local police for safety.

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8. Additional Quick News & Satirical Cultural Commentary

• [67:23] - [78:54]
  • The Trump administration’s new SNAP work requirements spark debate; Tony and Nick ridicule objections to a 20-hour/week threshold.
  • Segments of online slacktivism, performative virtue signaling, and accusations of "cultural appropriation" (bonnet-wearing, BLM expression) are lampooned.
  • A viral video of a woman in a pink frog suit expressing her “disappointment in America” is mocked.
  • Joy Reid and Jennifer Welch liken Trump supporters to a "religion" of "jihad," a comparison Tony treats with heavy sarcasm.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Merit of Immigration Policy

  “These decisions by the Trump administration have upset a lot of people—every menopausal left wing woman, every young college barista, liberal lady, and then of course the immigrants and their simps…”
  —Tony Kinnett [05:45]

• On Somali-American Community and Crime

  “Ilhan Omar is garbage. She's garbage. Her friends are garbage. These aren't people that work… These are people that do nothing but complain.”
  —Citing President Trump [08:08]

• On Federal Fraud

  “...72 Somali Americans were arrested for a billion dollars of fraud to then send that money back to Somalia.”
  —Tony Kinnett [15:51]

• On the Democrat-backed Bill to Halt Detentions

  "It prohibits the detention of children and families… If you have cousins, you can't be detained. Because that would be detaining a family member. And that's deeply, deeply wrong."
  —Tony Kinnett [38:09]

• On Journalism and War Crime Allegations

  “You sit in your air conditioned offices or up on Capitol Hill and you knit pick and you plant fake stories in the Washington Post...”
  —Tony Kinnett [51:20]

• On SNAP Work Requirements

  “You can't do 80—20 hours of work a week? Find a consignment shop and work the counter a bit there. I don't know what to tell you… scoop some trash…”
  —Tony Kinnett [69:51]

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• 00:48 – 04:50 — Opening monologue on immigration debate and Trump's policy shift.
• 06:14 – 09:31 — Trump and administration officials’ cited statements on the Somali community.
• 12:36 – 15:51 — Mayor Jacob Frey’s defense and Tony’s counterpoints.
• 18:11 – 24:26 — Sarcastic audit of Somali-American contributions.
• 27:49 – 30:59 — ICE raids in Minneapolis and local backlash.
• 31:07 – 37:19 — Ilhan Omar and Democratic congressional response.
• 43:44 – 58:54 — Discussion of “war crime” allegations against Pete Hegseth and the Pentagon.
• 62:14 – 67:12 — Swatting incident at Kinnett’s studio, advice to journalists/pundits.
• 67:23 – 70:11 — Coverage of new SNAP work requirements.
• 70:55 – 78:54 — Satirical takes on performative activism, viral protest clips, and pop culture racial debates.

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Episode Takeaways

The episode is a blend of hard-edged right-wing commentary, policy critique, and mockery of political posturing. Kinnett is adamant that most Americans support current restrictive immigration actions, dismisses claims about the contributions of particular immigrant communities, and openly ridicules what he sees as performative or unserious political and media responses.

Producer Nick’s interjections add humor and technical clarifications. There is satirical and sometimes biting analysis of left-leaning narratives, vivid invocations of “flyover country” common sense, and explicit appeals to Kinnett’s non-coastal audience.

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Final Note

Listeners unfamiliar with this episode will come away with a strong sense of how the show frames the contemporary immigration debate, with a focus on “facts vs. narratives,” acute hostility toward Democratic messaging, and an unapologetic, satirical Middle America perspective on ongoing culture wars.

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Transcript

[Tony Kennett]

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[Rachel Maddow Lookalike / News Anchor]

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[Tony Kennett]

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[Rachel Maddow Lookalike / News Anchor]

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[Ilhan Omar]

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[Ilhan Omar]

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[Rachel Maddow Lookalike / News Anchor]

Tony Kennett, host of the Tony Kennett cast.

[Tony Kennett]

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 on 90 BC. The President of the United States is really fed up. He's fed up. His cabinet is fed up. A lot of American people are fed up because for a long time now you have been told, you have been promised that all immigrants into the country, all migrants into the country, everyone who's been called a refugee or a migrant or just an immigrant because God forbid you classify whether someone is an illegal or legal immigrant. These are the backbone of our country. Doesn't matter where they're from, doesn't matter who they are. By nature of being an immigrant, they make our community stronger. Now, we don't actually talk about character, what they choose to do when they come here. That would be discussing something like assimilation. We don't talk about the resources that they take or they provide to their local communities or the country at large. That's discussing merit and character. No, instead of all of these politicians, they got together on the left and a lot of them on the right and said, you know who's really good? Immigrants. And everyone just, oh, that's so brave and stunning and just wow, incredible. And after watching crime after crime after crime, after large scale betrayal of American values, after large scale betrayal of Americans themselves, people got really tired of it. And so after a shooting by an Afghani migrant who was brought in by the Biden Administration of two National Guardsmen from West Virginia in Washington D.C. one of whom is recovering, the other of who was murdered after he shot her in the head after the 70 plus Somali migrants in the latest scandal. And I say the latest scandal because this is one of dozens of major Somali related crimes, or should I say Somali immigrant crimes in Little Mogadishu. That's not my term for it. Little Mogadishu is what the Somali community in St. Paul, Minnesota is known as. That is a major issue. We'll talk about that a little bit. And then of course, the Pakistani terror attack that was thwarted, the number of third world country crimes that have been committed here in the United States that should have never been here in the first place. And you were told that, well, we can't do anything about it because those are the same kinds of immigrants as that came through Ellis island back in the day. The tired, the poor, the huddled masses yearning to breathe free. That's why they don't make any effort to speak English or participate in a community or join a local church or get involved or actually follow United States labor laws, or not defraud the entire community to send money back to Somalia. I say all of that to announce, or maybe I should say, for those of you who have heard the news already, to reiterate and go into depth, that the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, at the direction of the President and at the advice of Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the Director of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, the USCIS has announced that effective immediately, immigration will be halted and all naturalization processes for individuals halted who originate from these 19 countries, including Afghanistan, Burma, or if you're a dirty commie, Myanmar, Burundi, Chad, Cuba, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Laos, Libya, Republic of the Congo, which isn't really much of a republic, but we'll talk about that later. Sierra Leone, Somalia. And I do mean the currently civil war torn atrocity Somalia, not the decent Somalia from like a hundred years ago that wasn't around for very long. You know, another story for again, a couple of minutes from now. Sudan, Togo, or you know, if you don't have much time to go, yeah, sorry, Turkmenistan, Venezuela and Yemen. These decisions by the Trump administration have upset a lot of people. And I mean they've upset a lot of people, by which I mean every menopausal left wing woman, every young in college barista, liberal lady, and then of course the immigrants and their simps, uh, for example, Jacob Frey, the mayor of Minneapolis, news anchors that look like Rachel Maddow, news anchors that are Rachel Maddow. But alas, what has people more upset than anything is not just that Trump is pausing immigration until we actually vet the people that are already here. While they're most upset because Donald Trump said some things. Producer NICK. He said some things and some stuff. And they really. I mean, it's enraged some of these Karens until they're just. You need to leave that kind of rage. So the President of the United States said this in a cabinet meeting yesterday about Jacob Frey and how proud he is as the mayor of Minneapolis about the number of Somalians in his city. Interesting stuff.

[Rachel Maddow Lookalike / News Anchor]

President, the Mayor of Minneapolis, Jacob Frey, is saying that he's actually proud to have the largest Somali community in the country. And his police chief is a fool. Well, his police chief is also saying.

[Ilhan Omar]

Have the largest Somalian look at their nation. Look how bad their nation is. It's not even a nation. It's just people walking around killing each other. Look, these Somalians have taken billions of dollars out of our country.

[Tony Kennett]

He's very correct. He's very correct. Why are you so proud that you happen to have a large number of one kind of people in your community? Isn't that kind of weird? Because again, Somalians aren't like a race. They're not an ethnic group. They haven't been considered an ethnic group itself since the people in the.

[Producer Nick]

It's like one big family there.

[Tony Kennett]

We'll get to that.

[Producer Nick]

The Somalian goes round and round.

[Tony Kennett]

The Somalian people, so to speak, since they actually moved to become the Somali people on the Somali coast, haven't actually been considered a genuine ethnic community itself as a wholesome group. And I mean wholesome as in.

Encountering or encouraging the whole since like the 16, 1700s. Again, that entire eastern region of Africa is rather diluted into many different ethnic groups. Somalia itself is comprised of like 40 to 50 different ethnic groups. And do you know how we can tell? Because the Somalians are mad at other Somalians in Minnesota for not helping get Omar Fateh elected to be the next mayor of Minneapolis because Jacob Fraser refute over there in power Grant. It's such a circular firing squad of just abject nonsense. But I digress. The President also said some things about Ilhan Omar that got him in hot water right after he made this comment about Jacob Frey. Here you go.

[Ilhan Omar]

And they contribute nothing. The Welfare is like 88%. They contribute nothing. I don't want them in our country. I'll be honest with you.

[Producer Nick]

Okay?

[Ilhan Omar]

Somebody would say, oh, that's not politically correct. I don't care. I don't want them in our country. Their country is no good. Good for a reason. Their country stinks and we don't want them in our Country. I could say that about other countries, too. I can say it about other countries, too. We don't want them to help. We got to. We have to rebuild our country. You know, our country is at a tipping point. We could go bad. We're at a tipping point. I don't know if people mind me saying that, but I'm saying it. We could go one way or the other, and we're going to go the wrong way if we keep taking in garbage into our country. Ilhan Omar is garbage. She's garbage. Her friends are garbage. These aren't people that work. These aren't people that say, let's go. Come on, let's make this place great. These are people that do nothing but complain. They complain, and from where they came from, they got nothing. You know, they came from paradise and they said, this isn't paradise. But when they come from hell and they complain and do nothing but bitch, we don't want them in our country. Let them go back to where they came from and fix it.

Thank you very much, everybody.

[Tony Kennett]

The tapping that you hear are some of the cabinet members essentially hear. Hearing the President of the United States. And this is something that the elites on the coast and in some of the suburbs in flyover country. Flyover country, as I say, from Indiana, and the academic elites who are in the more establishment wing of the Republican Party, that still remain in a lot of positions and as well as the remaining academic elite over on the left, in university campuses and, of course, on the coasts. You need to understand something. The majority of Americans, according to the polling data, agree with this man on this principle. Now, there was a lot of pearl clutching. Immediately we broke out the pearls. All of the gnashing of teeth that came out. Oh, he called all Somalians garbage. They tried that, too recently. You tried it with Puerto Rico. Oh, he had a comedian out that said Puerto Rico's a trash place in Iowa. Oh, it's terrible. It's awful. All this other nonsense, the idea that you are going to convince Americans that Donald Trump is saying all black and brown people, I want them gone. They're awful. And unless they're picking cotton, I don't want. He's never said that. He's not going to say that. The president made it very clear. Immigrants from Somalia have quite the track record of producing nothing of value for the country. And we're going to get into a little investigation on that in just a moment. But first, we got to give Jacob Frey, the mayor of Minneapolis, a chance to respond because this deeply offended him. Nothing offends a white man without any testosterone whatsoever. Or of course, a menopausal, liberal middle aged woman. Quite like the President saying something that the majority of Americans agree with. And so Jacob Frey, he pulled out the Kleenex and he. He just pours his heart out to little Mogadishu here as Jacob Frey. He's wrong. And we want them here right off the top of the bat. For those who are listening and not watching the show, I love the dramatic news angle. Like, as soon as he started talking. Did you see they did the, the. The Almost. The Michael Bay zoom in. Almost. Look at this. Impressive.

[Producer Nick]

They pulled the cameraman from the office.

[Tony Kennett]

Yeah, yeah, that's actually Creed Pratt. And behind the, behind the camera. It's really. It's really incredible. All right, sorry. We'll let him continue. Wrong. And we want them here. Somali people have been an extraordinary benefit. I'll say it again. Somali people have been a benefit to our city for longer than I have been in our city. Okay. He is making a claim that the Somali people have made an objective difference not just for the people of Minneapolis, not just for the people of St. Paul, not just for those of Minnesota, but for the United States at large. In fact, Somalian people have been what it was it that the backbone. Ilhan Omar called them. They're the backbone of the people.

[Producer Nick]

It's their turn to be the backbone of America.

[Tony Kennett]

Very, very impressive stuff. Uh, we'll let him continue, but keep score here because it does kind of matter how he's describing these individuals, because not really holding up to fact check scrutiny. Well, we'll find out. They have started businesses and created jobs. They have added to the cultural fabric of what Minneapolis is. They were welcoming to me when I first came out to Minneapolis. In fact, they were one of the first groups that I myself got to know. So this is a man who has never been to the south. If you move into any town in the south that is under 20,000 people in population, you will be welcomed by everyone, including probably getting a pot roast and a dump cake from the postalman. I'm sorry. The idea that the Somali people can do no wrong or have never, you know, contributed, you know, no crimes or fraud. I mean, they're great because they welcomed me because I came into the community and ignored all of their fraud. I ignored all of the problems. I ignored the consistent local Islamic groups making excuses for those who had been convicted of rape and child molestation. And so they welcomed me.

[Producer Nick]

Oh, wow.

[Tony Kennett]

I mean, what an exchange. How amazing.

[Producer Nick]

I mean, I moved into my apartment and a group of men came to my door and said, ignore all the fraud and corruption and we'll vote for you.

[Tony Kennett]

Well, kind of. Until they finally got one of their own to run, Omar Fateh. And then they had a little Somali civil war, which, given the history of Somalia, that's probably the only culturally accurate thing that the Somalian community's done since moving to the country. Alas. We'll let him finish. He's, he's still excited and you can see the, I guess the community liaison to Somalia behind him. He's very, very excited about this. He looks like he's watching a steak being fried on the stove. He's, he's pretty pumped.

To again, villainize an entire group is ridiculous under any circumstances. And the way that Donald Trump is consistently doing it, I think calls into question major constitutional violations. That's not how constitutional violations work. And actually separating a group of people based on the concerns, security wise, on a cultural origin point, is constitutional. It is one of the very first things that the United States did as a country. We set up immigration parameters and guess what those immigration parameters were based on? They weren't based on religion, they were not based on race. They were not based on the like, localization understanding of ethnicity at the time. Now it was based on nations specifically. And it has always been so.

[Producer Nick]

As we mentioned earlier, this came up with the Puerto Ricans, which worked because they were mostly. Puerto Rico is a mono ethnic community. There still is issues there, but with Somalia, it's mono racial, sort of. And so they can get away with this argument that it's a race based issue when Somalia is a, it's nationality, not. Right.

[Tony Kennett]

That's a really, really good point. Again, the idea they bring forward, they're like, oh, well, I mean, Trump says he doesn't like the migration from Somalia. It must be because, oh well, all Somalians are black. So therefore, no, not going to work. By the way, I do like what sick of the bs A One of the channel members said it looks like Frey is very confused by his own lying. Yeah, I agree. There's only so many mental gymnastics you can do before you end up pulling something and it certainly violates the moral fabric of what we stand by in this country as Americans. The mayor of Minneapolis, Minnesota wants you to know, wants you to know that the Trump administration has violated the fabric by, after, again, after 72 Somali Americans were arrested for a billion dollars of fraud to then send that money back to Somalia. He's like, how could, how could Trump Just say Somalian. Incredible stuff. I really, really do enjoy it. Again, if there is someone in a MAGA hat, someone in a red hat that commits a crime, let's say he's not even committing a crime. Let's say he's just caught in a bad camera angle. Let's say he's standing on the steps of the Supreme Court and this Native American walks up to him and starts chanting and yelling like an idiot in his face.

[Producer Nick]

Specific. Almost like it could have happened.

[Tony Kennett]

Yeah, just a little hypothetical here. And let's say this kid, let's say he's a kid in the MAGA hat and he stands there and according to the camera angle, it looks like he smirks at the Native American. Well, then what you gotta do is say all people who wear Trump hats are racist against Native Americans. We need to crucify this kid. And then you are losing a major defamation lawsuit because the kid didn't even smirk. And even if he did, who cares? And even if he had done something, I thought you were against painting groups with this wide brush. Again, it's all a cherry picking game for the left. But I'm interested in picking some deep cultural and historical cherries here because here on the Tony Kenned cast.

[Producer Nick]

We care.

[Tony Kennett]

We care deeply. Jacob Frey made the claim that there were all of these wonderful, incredible contributions that the people of Somalia have made here in the United States.

So we're gonna do a little cultural service here and list some of the great achievements that Somali American immigrants have contributed to society since they have immigrated here. I happen to have.

American History, the AP edition. So, you know, it's good. We're gonna go through some of the most famous Somalian heroes in our nation.

Somalians who have exceeded expectations in mercantilism and colonial commerce in the United States.

Somalians famous for their contributions to literature.

And let's not forget.

And also the most famous Somali American poet.

Somali American accomplishments in physics, chemistry, engineering.

And.

Also.

You know.

Looking through some of these incredible examples that I've listed of Somali American accomplishments. Sorry, Producer Nick.

[Producer Nick]

I also went through the effort of compiling a list.

[Tony Kennett]

A list of Somali American accomplishments. Producer Nick, you shouldn't have.

Oh, my gosh.

[Producer Nick]

It took me a while, but there's a lot there.

[Tony Kennett]

Producer Nick. This list of Somali Americans that have contributed to American society is freaking empty. There's nothing here. Oh, wait a minute. Are you telling me there aren't any major Somalian contributions now? We actually. We actually did, you know, aside from, you know, the, the.

[Producer Nick]

I did. I did actually do some research.

[Tony Kennett]

Aside from that. We did actually do some of the research here. There have been, and I'm serious, this is the complete compendium of notable Somali immigrants in the United States who have contributed to the growth, the prosperity of the United States. There have been. Are you ready for this? Four politicians.

One of whom married her brother.

Three musicians, none of whom have topped the Billboard charts or been awarded anything specifically at a national level. Two athletes. Well, one athlete in a minor B league sport and one trainer on a team. Impressive stuff. Two activists.

In fact, the most prominent Somali member of American society, like the one person that we've looked. We look serious. We've looked like all afternoon to try to find one Somali American who had done something notable. The most notable we could find is Hoden Nalaya. Now, what. What is Hoden famous for? He was a journalist, sort of. That's right. The most notable Somali American in history. Hoden Nalaya was a journalist. Well, what was his journalism? What did he do? Did he expose the Chicago meat markets like Upton Sinclair? Maybe he was a brilliant broadcaster like Walter Cronkite. Maybe he did extremely brilliant investigative reporting like Andy Ngo. Did he win Pulitzers, Dow prizes? What are his accomplishments?

I'm not joking. He is the founder of Integration tv.

[Producer Nick]

Sorry. He was.

[Tony Kennett]

He was the founder of. Well, he'll. He'll always be the founder. Right? I mean.

[Producer Nick]

Yeah, he.

[Tony Kennett]

Yeah, right. Founder of Integration tv, which is celebrated for positive stories about Somalia.

Now, someone callanus Morissette, because there is a bit of irony here and it's a bit gross. So this individual, who is a Canadian. American. Somalian. Okay. He left the United States to travel back to Somalia, and in 2019, he was killed in an Islamic terrorist attack in Somalia. Who is the terrorist organization responsible for killing the. The most notable Somali American in history? Al Shabaab, the terror organization that was receiving the over $1 billion in fraud committed by the 72 Somalians who were arrested in the major federal operation in Minneapolis just this last year.

That's. That's incredible. How.

I mean, the most notable. I. I mean, there were so many great names, all one of them just beautiful stuff. So, again, if anyone tries to tell you that Somali Americans haven't contributed a lot, let's say you're a reporter on the left and you look like Rachel Maddow, which is to say, like every reporter or anchor on the left, you can cry some big crocodile tears over the horrible treatment of. Of Somali Americans here. Again, I don't just want to give you my perspective. Let's hear an expert's journalistic perspective here.

[Rachel Maddow Lookalike / News Anchor]

Vast majority of Somali folks here are American citizens. They're people who fled war in their country as refugees to start a new.

[Tony Kennett]

Life, which is why they're sending so much money back home. Again, the Somali American community sends more money home than any immigrant community in the United States per capita. More remittance funds are sent back to their home country than anyone.

[Producer Nick]

And for such good causes, like we.

[Tony Kennett]

Mentioned, three times as much per capita. Three times as much per capita than someone connected to Israel, South Africa or China. Just if we're going to talk like controversial foreign funding circumstances, for example here, Somalians send oodles of money back to.

[Rachel Maddow Lookalike / News Anchor]

Somalia in their country as refugees to start a new life. Once upon a time, that was a story America liked to tell about itself. Hell, it's emblazoned on the Statue of Liberty. Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. To breathe free. Minnesotans by the thousands cannot tonight perhaps sitting in fear even with legal status and that their president called them garbage.

[Tony Kennett]

The president did not actually call all Somalians garbage. The specific phrasing that he used, that he used was to call Ilhan Omar and her friends garbage. That was the language that he used. Now knockoff Rachel Maddow over at Care11, she's really, really upset about this. Now, I would be upset if I wore a black and white houndstooth vest and had Bradley Cooper hair also. I mean, that would, that would be quite the combination. But alas, she is. Is deeply touched and concerned. Again, we actually did the research on prominent Somalians. If you're going to list a community that's deeply important to you, then you might. Again, I've done this on the show. One of the very first things that we discussed on the show back when we were just a single station, this was a side project of mine out of WIBC in Indianapolis, only back when it was just that show. One of the first episodes that we did talked about some of the most valuable contributions of those in the United States who came from generations of slavery and went on to create incredible inventions for the country. And we have had on guests consistently that have praised different communities in the United States who have produced things because their culture had something valuable to add or they assimilated to the country, really, and they assimilated to the country and they provided incredible services and improvements to the nation.

[Producer Nick]

Yeah, the left is really going to learn a hard lesson here. Of the days of having pride in diversity for diversity's sake is over. Jacob Frey needs to realize that having pride for having the largest Somali community because they're a Somali community, it just, it doesn't, that dog doesn't hunt. It doesn't work.

[Tony Kennett]

No, absolutely not. And we're going to come back and talk about some of the ICE raids. And then of course, Pramila Jayapal and Ilhan Omar, the pearl clutching because again, 124 Democrats are now co sponsoring this bill together in an effort 123 + Pramila Jayapal, in order to produce this amazing restoration of freedom by forbidding anyone from being arrested or deported or having immigration law upheld at all, which is not constitutional. We'll cover that in a minute. Don't go anywhere. We got a lot to cover tonight. It's the Tony Kenneth cast here on the Daily Signal. It's the Tony Kennett cast on 93 WYBC.

[Rachel Maddow Lookalike / News Anchor]

Feels like I'm losing.

[Tony Kennett]

Welcome back to the Tony Kennett cast. Oh yeah, that was a really quick commercial break. That's the kind of stuff that we do for you here. You didn't even see a commercial on that break because it's time to talk about what's actually going on on the ground. Now. You can hear an angry Rachel Maddow lookalike tell you how things are all the time, but you might be a little suspicious of that. So we have some actual on the ground footage here of ICE making the rounds. And yeah, they are in fact arresting those who are here illegally, those who are suspected of committing various crimes, those who have been convicted of crimes but allowed to evade federal immigration law and judicial removal orders in Minneapolis. I mean, the Minneapolis population is losing it. Video after video.

Of ICE agents out and about doing the work. People are very upset about it. I do love this one caption on this last video here. So it said, ICE spotted near Robbinsdale, Minnesota. Two Somali women were pulled. I love how from a distance they can tell they're Somali. Why do you think that? Oh, is it, oh, they're wearing a burka. They must be Somali. I, I'd love to hear the, you know, the reasoning on that. But my favorite is the sentence after it said ICE is driving mom cars. Beware mom car. Do they mean minivans or just like slightly off brand SUVs?

[Producer Nick]

Honda Odyssey.

[Tony Kennett]

Honda Odyssey, dude. Honda Odyssey's are nice. Minivans get a bad rap, dude. Those are some fresh V8 of the.

[Producer Nick]

Highest safety ratings and gray is the least likely to be stolen.

[Tony Kennett]

So, dude, I'm here for it. You know what, ice, if you're using minivans. That's a level of comfort I wasn't expecting. Maybe they mean homeschool moms and they're like the Mercedes, like, travel van thing. Those are pretty comfy. A little less comfy than the Honda Odyssey. Just, you know, I once had the opportunity when I was in high school to ride a little bit with some friends, and one of them homeschool family had the Mercedes Sprinter. Not as comfortable as you'd think. Probably not even called the Mercedes Sprinter. I'm probably mixing two of those different vans. The comments are correcting me. I don't care. They're vans. So aside from the exciting van conversation, Jacob Frey and the police chief Leather Jacket von Tough dude, they came out to issue a statement in Somali, because when you're trying to communicate that you have a really pro American community getting the crew out to talk like jawas from Star wars, that's the move right there. Here's their joint statement.

Or, you know, as. As they say in Star Wars.

[Producer Nick]

Hmm.

[Tony Kennett]

Yeah. True words. Truer words have never been spoken. Exciting stuff. Now the real. The real catch here is Ilhan Omar. She's the angriest. And so she goes on Ms. Now to tell everyone she's ready to fight. She's got her dukes up, her brother's on the line. We're ready for a tussle.

[Rachel Maddow Lookalike / News Anchor]

He's always been a racist, racist, bigot, xenophobic, and Islamophobic. We know that he.

[Tony Kennett]

For the record, she said xenophobic. She did not say xenophobic. I think President Trump probably enjoys a good Cinnabon every now and again. I mean, who doesn't? Probably true monsters. So she said xenophobic. So she called him the isms, the ists, the phobes. Exciting. But we'll let her Royal Ilhan Ness.

[Rachel Maddow Lookalike / News Anchor]

Describe the president a racist, bigot, xenophobic, and Islamophobic. We know that he called African nations a shithole in his first administration. We know that when he came down that escalator, he said he was going to stop Muslim immigration in. Into this country. And so it is not surprising that he is going after black immigrants.

[Tony Kennett]

Do you see how quickly she framed that in? So she says, you have Trump, what he's doing now, he said when he came down the escalator once, he said, we're gonna stop Muslim immigration, which again, what he was talking about was a temporary pause, again because of Islamic terror incidents, for example, boys and girls, like the New Orleans Muslim terror attack in which a vehicle was driven through the crowd of People on New Year's. Or of course, the Islamic terror attack in which an individual in Colorado torched women and children with Molotov cocktails. Those kinds of terror attacks. Again, understandable. Then she says that. See how she compares it? Immediately, she says, which is the same as he wants black immigration cut down. No. I don't know if you've noticed this, producer Nick. I've done the looking here on the. Stopping Kenya and Botswana not on the list. No, Kenya and Botswana not. Not seeing it. In fact, there are a lot of African nations, in fact, also some Caribbean nations, like the Dominican Republic, which have a lot of people in those nations who are black who immigrate to the United States. They're not on this list. Do you know why? Because it is a national issue. But she's not honest enough to say that.

[Rachel Maddow Lookalike / News Anchor]

Of course, not in this country. And it's certainly not surprising that. That he is choosing a black immigrant community that is also Muslim. But what I would like to say is that most of us are citizens. On our passport, it says we are nationals of this country. We love that Minnesota has welcomed us. Many of us have not been settled in Minnesota. We chose it as a home because the Minnesota people and the state is beautiful and very welcoming. And we are going to.

[Tony Kennett]

She has complained about Minnesota and how it's weather affects her. She's called the weather of Minnesota racist before. Ilhan Omar has complained about the racism of Minnesota weather. And by the way, she says we chose Minnesota. Isn't Minnesota supposed to be like stolen land from the Sioux or something? Where's that? Right here. Well, because the Somalians came later. They're not on stolen land anymore. Oh, so much for that particular narrative. Uh, but again, she's making the case that again, well, these are just American citizens. Yeah, sure. I pledged my allegiance on video to Somalia first, which is a problem. Uh, you don't see me going around saying, I pledge my allegiance to the Cherokee tribal nation before the United States. That would be wrong in the right context. That would be seditious.

[Rachel Maddow Lookalike / News Anchor]

But alas, be here regardless of what the President has to say.

[Tony Kennett]

Now, a lot of Americans have called for her to be denaturalized. In fact, an investigation perhaps to be opened into her interesting marital circumstances, maybe a DNA test of sorts. And again, if she violated immigration law by maybe marrying a member of the family to come into the country, that would violate a lot of things you're supposed to not do if you're immigrating into the United States. Also, it's kind of gross to marry your brother. She has been asked now if you know she's going anywhere. And of course she just responds that she's not going anywhere. I love little congressional walking interviews like this because you get some real choice comments.

[Rachel Maddow Lookalike / News Anchor]

Congresswoman, do you agree with President Trump's.

[Tony Kennett]

Assumption that you married your brother to get citizenship?

Have you begun packing your bags for Somalia yet, Congresswoman?

[Rachel Maddow Lookalike / News Anchor]

Not going anywhere.

[Tony Kennett]

So you're not. No.

[Rachel Maddow Lookalike / News Anchor]

Don't waste your energy on me.

[Tony Kennett]

Do you have a message for President.

[Rachel Maddow Lookalike / News Anchor]

Trump will be here probably longer than Trump.

[Tony Kennett]

Do you have a message for President.

[Rachel Maddow Lookalike / News Anchor]

Trump like a quarter of his age?

[Tony Kennett]

Do you have anything else you'd like to say to him?

[Rachel Maddow Lookalike / News Anchor]

Old man losing his mind. I don't know why he's obsessed with me.

[Tony Kennett]

Okay. I'll be here longer than he is. I'm young. She said. Producer Nick, I don't know if you can help me. Did President Trump marry his brother to gain access to the United States?

[Producer Nick]

No. He has been married quite a few times, but never his brother.

[Tony Kennett]

Yeah, I'm just checking here. Just checking for kicks and giggles. Then after all of this, Pramila Jayapal, with Ilhan Omar being a co signer, one of the co sponsors of the bill, by the way, co sponsoring a bill is you're supposed to be the other author of this. So there's this large Democrat group that's come forward now, 124 in total with Pramila Jayapal from Washington, I believe, and has stepped into the ring to announce that they are producing a bill that is going to just completely outlaw Immigration Customs Enforcement or any federal authority from upholding federal law and immigration or deporting anyone. And also, oh yeah, giving every single illegal immigrant who made it into the country their own taxpayer funded lawyer you have to pay for in order to keep them in the country even longer. Here you go.

[Rachel Maddow Lookalike / News Anchor]

Today to say enough. Our Dignity for Detained Immigrants act has a remarkable unprecedented. 123 original co sponsors before we've even introduced it. 123 co sponsors. And it overhauls the detention system.

[Tony Kennett]

What's so unprecedented? These Democrats are really mad. Oh, it needs to stop. Our Protection for Immigrants who Did Nothing Wrong Act. It says it in the name. Come on.

[Rachel Maddow Lookalike / News Anchor]

It drastically scales back the use of detention. It ensures that every single immigrant who is in detention has their human and civil rights protected. Our bill also phases out the use of private for profit detention centers. It prohibits the detention of children and families and makes it harder to.

[Tony Kennett]

Did you notice that right there? It prohibits the detention of, of families which means if you have children, you can't be detained. If you have a husband or a wife, you can't be detained. If you have cousins, you can't be detained. Because that would be detaining a family member. And that's deeply, deeply wrong.

Yeah, that's just straight up corrupt and disgusting.

[Rachel Maddow Lookalike / News Anchor]

Primary caregivers and vulnerable people like pregnant women or seniors or workers who are whistleblowing and unscrupulous employers.

[Tony Kennett]

Now you go, so if you're working. Yeah, sure, let's say you're violating the Department of Labor. You are, let's say, working on a weed farm in California and you're doing illegal work or you're working in a, in a canning facility, perhaps in the middle of the country. Let's say Omaha, Nebraska, for example. You know, pick a hypothetical. If you are one of the people there, you just claim to be a whistleblower and they can't detain you and you can totally not run off.

[Rachel Maddow Lookalike / News Anchor]

It requires DHS to allow members of Congress to do our jobs and conduct those unannounced inspections that hold these facilities accountable. As an immigrant myself.

[Tony Kennett]

Yeah, great. We don't care. So I do like the, the. Oh, we're. That requires them to allow Congress again. Congress is already allowed to participate in oversight of federal facilities, but they have to give 24 hours notice. Why? First of all, the oversight committee has been given rules based power in Congress. You have to ask the oversight committee chairman on the rules for when people can show up to certain things. You can't just be Lamonica McIver and show up like the Kool Aid man. Oh, yeah, and body slam federal agents because you want to. No, not allowed. What you have to do is say, hey, I want to come out and observe this facility. They then make sure the facility is secure. Federal agents are not allowed to put congressmen and women and members of the administration or any civilian in the United States. And a safety risk by allowing them access to an unsecured area. By the way, that's not just me. That's literally a freaking OSHA code. You're not allowed to let people into unsafe operational spaces. It's not difficult. Boys, girls and squirrels. But alas, I mean, you know, we have to get out there. We have to. Pearl, Clutch. We have to get out there. And Virtue Signal. All exhausting, all tiring. Producer, do you have anything to add on this nonsense before we pivot over to the newest on the war crime saga and scandal?

[Producer Nick]

Yeah, while I was preparing for the show today, I did some research into The Minneapolis fraud issues. I became interested in some of the NGOs that have been helping move some of these illegals into the communities. And so I made my way to the DHS websites and was looking through them, trying to find information about the NGOs grants that helped fund them.

[Tony Kennett]

Sure, sure.

[Producer Nick]

I heard some rumors online that per illegal detainee, more than $2,400 was granted to each member.

I don't know if we have the B roll up yet, but when we are able to, one of them will feature a page showing the Department of Administration, Grants, Management, and featuring a social services subsection where there is three categories. Department of Children, Youth and Families, Department of Human Services, and Office of Collaboration and Dispute Resolutions. Under the Department of Human Services, it required me to sign up for an email list, which I decided not to. So I went to look for the DHS.

Website itself for their partners, providers, grants and funding.

[Tony Kennett]

Sure. You know, you're supposed to, as a state website, list the state grantees and what you found was a 404 page. Explain what a 404 page is for perhaps the less techie among us. Real quick, producer Nick.

[Producer Nick]

So 404 indicates a direct failure of whoever's running the website to properly host the page. Which means that, you know, sometimes it's innocent. Sometimes there's issues with page hosting that it needs updated and can't be at that moment. But also that it appears when a host takes that page down without properly removing the links from outside sources.

[Tony Kennett]

So Minnesota's Department of Human Services in the middle of a major series of fraud investigations. And of course, Governor Tim Walls announcing a new definitely not fraudulent riddled, come take money program. The grantee list has just all of the sudden 404, it's nowhere to be found. It's just vanished from existence. Not suspicious at all. Not suspicious whatsoever. We're gonna send everyone over to the break real quick. When we come back, we're gonna talk some war crime nonsense and the actual Rachel Maddow. And of course, lest I forget, Senator Mark Warner of Virginia suggesting a military couple. It's gonna be a real hoot. It's the Tony Kenned cast. Don't go anywhere.

It's the Tony Kenneth cast on 93 WIBC. Welcome back to the Tony Kenned cast. It's good to be with you because remember at the beginning of the week, the end of last week, I was told Hegseth had committed these war crimes. There was this Washington Post story. It was incredible. Incredible. And that Hegseth had Been sitting there watching a live video feed in September of these strikes on fishermen. You know, just these, these people out for a nice Sunday fishing exercise. You know, just out there casting the reel, doing a little trolling at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. And then Pete Exith is like, kill him. Kill them all and kill him some more. And then threw 800 missiles and mustard gas. And also I'm pretty sure the ghost of Saddam Hussein onto these poor fishermen. War crimes. And then a couple of things happened. Number one, Senator Mark Kelly of Arizona said, now's the time I can run for President of the United States. And he got out in front of everyone and said, hey, I was a Navy captain and I say war crimes. And I wouldn't have followed these orders because they're illegal. And then they're like, are you on the record saying that.

You'Re still like on reserve status? Are you sure you want to say he's like, well, actually I, I'm not saying it'd be an illegal order, but I'm Mark Kelly, and that's kind of the, the whole spiel for him. And then the New York Times came out and said, yeah, the Washington Post article is what the kids call wrong.

Not true. In fact, Hegseth gave the orders. There was an admiral that made sure things were going correctly. A special operations admiral. And yeah, absolutely not. What happened. That didn't stop, of course, the main demographic from. For the left. Of course, I'm talking about middle aged women on the left again, not the nice sort of loving, sweet, kind women who as they age like a fine wine over on the right side of the aisle with their family, their faith, their community, enjoyable people. I'm talking about, well, you know, the kind of ladies that are represented on like the View.

[Rachel Maddow Lookalike / News Anchor]

I just want to make it very clear. Wow. If this second strike, I feel like I'm in a few good men. Who ordered the Code Red? Did you order the Code Red? I think that Pete Hegseth clearly ordered the Code Red.

[Tony Kennett]

Here again, the Washington Post was wrong. The New York Times pointed out that the two magical, unnamed imaginary friend sources who they cited Hegseth was nowhere near the direct orders. Watching from a tv. This strike. No, you guys, that's not how the military works. Right? You do realize that the Secretary of War is not sitting there in the room with a TV watching every operation around the world undertaken by active servicemen of the United States Army, Air Force, Navy, Marines, the Coast Guard, and also all of our military contracting groups that we work with. Yeah, that's not how that works. She thinks it's like Tom Cruise and Jack Nicholson. We sit in a wind room with walls. Who's gonna. Are you Lieutenant Weinberg? Okay. Yeah. Great.

[Producer Nick]

Thank you, Seth. Sitting in the break room with an iPad.

[Tony Kennett]

Just, shh, shh.

[Producer Nick]

I'm watching a boat being blown up.

[Tony Kennett]

Yeah.

[Rachel Maddow Lookalike / News Anchor]

And I also think that that would be a war crime. And it's very clear. You speak to anybody from jag. You speak to Senator.

California Representative Ted Lieu, who's a former JAG officer.

[Tony Kennett]

Again, JAGs have come out to speak on this and have said no. In fact, I'm just. We're going to go ahead and do this here, right here, right now. Just so that you're aware, the idea that firing two subsequent missiles, whether they be hellfire, some kind of an agm, whatever, whatever package of missile it is, you know, whenever there are packages that are fired, when. If it's a JTAC officer and he's calling and he says, hey, that grid square, I don't want to see it anymore. If it's with a suspected terrorist, if it is with a declared war nation, no matter what, if there are clear rules of engagement set forward that say you are allowed to operate in this particular instance, then, yeah, you're allowed to send multiple strikes on a particular target. There's no one shot rule. That's not a thing. It's like, all right, you've only got one shot, so make it count. No. And how do I know this, by the way? I have observed a lot, a lot of soldiers and airmen in training at Lackland and other bases. I have observed them in training. No. Never has a sergeant, never has an officer from Butterbar all the way up to the old man at 06 said, all right, now remember, men, as soon as you let that fly, that's your only missile. We only have three of them, and one of them is currently on the fritz. No, that's not a thing. Don't be stupid. Again, just for your personal enjoyment, here is a clip provided by former infantry officer Mark Lucas, pointing out that, for example, when there's an AC130, an aircraft providing overwatch to a combat command. Yes. Fighting terrorist. Designated organizations by the State Department that Congress hasn't explicitly stated are terrorist organizations, like, let's say, some of the different Houthi Yemen tribes, for example. Uh, yeah. Multiple rounds.

One.

[Ilhan Omar]

Two.

[Tony Kennett]

Oh, there goes another.

[Ilhan Omar]

Vehicle. And more people clear to engage.

[Tony Kennett]

All those clear to engage. Again, notice that there is communication. This is who we suspect is in this vehicle. You are cleared to Engage now. Not. You are cleared for your one shot. Your one shot only. Do not pass Go. Draw four color blue. Skip bow. That's not a thing.

Ready.

Announcing the caliber of the shot. Moves away. There we go.

Shots called. Shots called. Shots called. Explosions. Explosions. Explosions. Multiple packages.

There's no one shot. Roll. That's not a thing. And you may have noticed that after some kind of explosion, there's this stuff called smoke and fire. The idea that we have magic cameras that don't have any kind of smoke obfuscation. People really have been watching too many movies if they think that, oh well, thermal imaging shows that we immediately know smoke is. There's no temperature at all. Such nonsense. By the way, here was Secretary of War Hegseth making this point in the cabinet meeting very clearly. And what he said really upset the journalists, which for me is just a bonus. We're proud to do it. So you didn't see any survivors? To be clear, after that first strike, I did not personally see survivors, but I stand because the thing was on fire.

[Ilhan Omar]

It was exploded and fire, smoke, you can't see anything.

[Producer Nick]

You got digital.

[Tony Kennett]

This is called the fog of war. Again, he's making it clear to answer your question blatantly. So you don't accuse me of avoiding the question. No. Also your question is stupid. I'm not sitting there going, okay, wait a minute. How many survivors do we have? James, get the calculator. No, that's not. No. He says, but by the way, even if the admiral in question ordered 30 missiles one after the other, the only person he's accountable to for sending those shots is me, the Secretary of War. The rules of engagement are already approved. This is what you and the press don't understand. You sit in your air conditioned offices.

[Ilhan Omar]

Or up on Capitol Hill and you knit pick.

[Tony Kennett]

And you plant fake stories in the.

[Ilhan Omar]

Washington Post about kill everybody phrases on.

[Tony Kennett]

Anonymous sources not based in anything, not based in any truth at all.

[Ilhan Omar]

And then you want to throw up.

[Tony Kennett]

Really irresponsible terms about American heroes, about the judgment that they made a whole. I wrote a whole book on this topic. Now this really upset the journalists. There's one thing that journalists hate hearing more than absolutely anything, and that is being told that they have really cushy easy jobs. I'm going to level with you guys. I really don't care for the journalist label. I don't call myself a journalist. The only people who do in fact at this point call me a reporter of any kind are Hammer and Nigel on wibc. I've told them like eight times. I'm no longer a reporter. They're just kind of, you know, they're not always the quickest to update titles. My title is national correspondent, but in the journalistic sphere, my job's pretty cushy. Now occasionally we'll go on assignment, but I'm in a really nice, enjoyable studio. Now someone did attempt to swat us today, but that was an inconvenience on the police department where our studio is much less so than us. It was an inconvenience to my family as well, but at a lesser so, it's a cushy job. I have been on assignment in dangerous places, but as someone who has been to the Middle east and in places where there are interesting things going on. Yeah, I'm sorry, the journalists attached to the battalion. No, he doesn't have it as hard. The people in the battalion are given the job of covering and protecting the journalists in the group. We've had that policy for a very, very long time. Uh, but you know who is the real victim? Who was really victimized by Hegseth saying you journalists in your air conditioned offices? Why Barbara Star? You say who is Barbara Starr? Well, I had to like double check and look this up. She is a senior fellow at the USC center for Communications Leadership and Policy. She has more than two decades on the CNN national security beat. So there. How about them apples? Here's what she had to say. Sit in our air conditioned offices. Get out the pearls. Finally, I have to say it. How dare you, sir. Jacques, close to every member of the press corps you despise has made multiple reporting trips to combat zones, been under fire, some reporters wounded, some killed, some today still with PTS. Mr. Hegseth, should we indeed finally accept it's just not possible for you to show any basic respect? I guess in fact, it is not possible.

[Producer Nick]

Hmm.

[Tony Kennett]

Barbara Star, senior super duper correspondent, Supreme Pulitzer Intelligentsia, PhD. Okay. If you wonder why so many Americans despise the press. That's why there are a lot of journalists who do sit from their air conditioned offices like the Washington Post. Authors who wrote the false story.

And write stories. Yeah, I may go out on assignment every once in a while and be in a dangerous place. Do you know where I am the other 355 days of the year in our climate controlled studio? That's nonsense to tell people. Oh, the, the. Oh, you have it just as bad as the, the soldiers, the sailors, marines and the airmen who are out in those temperatures and conditions constantly. Okay, now we get over to Senator Mark Kelly who made the decision to leak the details of a classified inspector general report to the Wall Street Journal. So according to an article from the Wall Street Journal, quote, a Pentagon watchdog has found that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth violated some of the department's regulations all the way back when he shared sensitive information from his cell phone on the signal messaging service earlier this year, according to Senator Mark Kelly of Arizona. However, the Defense Department Inspector general also concluded that as Pentagon chief, Hexth has the authority to declassify whatever the bleep he wants from the Defense Department, it's his department. He was confirmed. If he wants to come out tomorrow and declassify a bunch of operational details of the Department of War, it's his choice.

Anyhow, here's the bottom. Kelly said Wednesday after viewing the watchdog report the department sent to Congress that suggests the Defense Secretary did not break the law. Now, here's the issue with that.

If Secretary of Defense, now Secretary of War Pete Hegseth was written about in this particular inspector general report that was classified. A classified inspector general report. And then Mark Kelly then released that classified report to the Wall street journal and to CNN According to 18 US Code Section 798, leaking classified information, that's a crime. He doesn't have the authority as a senator to release that stuff.

[Producer Nick]

But I mean, it's not like he's still an active serviceman in any way, shape or form.

[Tony Kennett]

Uh oh, uh oh, by the way, just, you know, the. Just for the record here, Sean Parnell, spokesperson for the Pentagon, made this statement today. Thought I'd play it because it's relevant here.

[Rachel Maddow Lookalike / News Anchor]

I kind of want to get your.

[Tony Kennett]

Take on the signal gate.

[Rachel Maddow Lookalike / News Anchor]

Yeah, obviously the IG Report being leaked out there. Are you happy with the report?

[Ilhan Omar]

Of course.

[Tony Kennett]

I mean, so you remember the narrative back in March, I think, when the signal stuff broke, was that the secretary, sheriff, shared classified information and broke the law and, and shared classified war plans and put American troops. I mean, obviously, like what the IG report shows now is that the secretary did not share classified information. So. And did not break the law. And to me, and not just to me, I mean, this, the, the secretary has been totally exonerated. I mean, the narrative that the media pushed back then in the heat of the signal gate stuff, was fake. And today that narrative has been exposed. And, you know, you'll see out there a bunch of headlines where, you know, mainstream media outlets are using the word sensitive. That is not a, that's not a classification term. He's correct. He's correct again. The idea that a bunch of air conditioned armchair quarterback journalists are suddenly taking emotional descriptive words and are using them now as the official legal standard for things is foolish. It's stupid, and it doesn't resonate with the American people whatsoever. Go ahead.

[Producer Nick]

Yeah, they're really showing their ignorance here. Similar what Hegseth was calling them out over the fog of war. It's like they think Hegseth is supposed to be standing over the drone operators or the airmen on radio as a circus carny telling them, oh, you get one chance. What if they had left the two people say that there was a second strike to take out two more people.

Left clinging to wreckage.

[Tony Kennett]

Yeah, like the end of the Titanic.

[Producer Nick]

You know, Rose and they had been left to sit there in the middle of the ocean till they what, drown? Get saved by a follow up boat that was probably gonna be hundreds of miles away?

[Tony Kennett]

Yeah, no, again, there's, there's no, there's no common answer here. We'll kind of move along here because we are into the bonus Tonus section of the show. Thank you very much for those who are hanging around with us this evening. If you do like the show, feel free to like and subscribe over on YouTube. Rumble. That really helps us out. That said, I do want to show you one of the most bizarre clips. Mark Warner of Virginia, Senator, Democrat, Senator. This is one of the most attention hungry, bitter old men that I've ever seen. And in the Senate, that's a really, really fierce competition. So Mark Warner got in front of the media today, the media, the medio today, to make a very weird statement. I'll play it for y'.

[Producer Nick]

All.

[Ilhan Omar]

Unprecedented disrespect when they were all brought to get a pep rally in front of Hegset and Trump. This is an administration that's fired, you know, uniformed generals from the head of the nsa, the head of the Defense Intelligence Agency. And I think in many ways the uniform military may help save us from this president and his lame people like hegsep, because I think their commitment is to the Constitution and obviously not to Trump. And I expect Bradley to adhere to that.

[Tony Kennett]

So, Senator, let's go a little further. That's a wild thing to say. I expect the uniform members of the military are going to save us from Trump. That's again, the weird language that the left has consistently used to encourage sedition in the military is wild. And then they immediately tries to go back and cover his tracks and say, and of course, that means adherence to the Constitution.

[Producer Nick]

Interestingly, in Article 2, Section 2 of the Constitution. The president is labeled commander in chief of the armed forces.

[Tony Kennett]

Hold on a second here. Are you telling me that by swearing an oath to the Constitution, you are swearing to serve the commander in chief of the US Military?

[Producer Nick]

It almost, it's almost like it says, quote, the president shall be commander in chief of the army and Navy of the United States and of the militia of the several states.

[Tony Kennett]

I mean, that's some, that's some pretty, pretty incredible stuff right there. No way. I'm, I'm almost.

[Producer Nick]

They should abide by the Constitution and listen to their commander in chief.

[Tony Kennett]

There, there is, there is such nonsense that is pervasive. Yeah. I mean, suggesting that the military needs to save us from Trump. That's cool stuff. Boys, girls and squirrels. That's not good. I don't recommend it. Don't do that stuff. Don't say those stupid things. Don't get out there and make those bad decisions. But that's Senator Mark Warner for you. We'll leave Jackie Rosen behind for just a second. We're going to come back from the commercial break to talk a little bit about some quick news reactions we haven't done in a while. There is some other cultural stuff going on that we want to share with you. And of course, we want to address some of the events from today and give our thanks where thanks is due. Don't go anywhere. It's the Tony Kenned cast here on the Daily Signal.

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Welcome back to the Tony Kennedcast here on the Daily Signal, nationally syndicated first on 93 WIBC. Very unrelated. I did the little Spotify wrapped end of the year thing today and the bumper track was my most played song of 2025, all the Way by Bellic, which is interesting. I don't remember listening to it that much. So I now suspect that the kids of having just like played it over and over and over again. So excellent stuff there. And I know that's not necessarily related to much, but speaking of home and the family, I do want to bring up one thing really quickly. It's very important. So if you give me a little bit of grace here to dive into this. Today, we here at the Tony Kinnit cast studio were the target of an attempted swatting. There is an individual who is from northern Indiana who called local police departments here where our studio is and informed them that apparently I was extremely intoxicated, belligerent and were a threat to those around me and that I needed essentially they were concerned that I was going to commit a lot of violent crimes. So whenever you call a police department on someone else and you suggest they're holding their family hostage, they're in a very unstable state and they're a threat to those around them, this then dispatches the police to your house.

Looking for trouble. And in a lot of swatting events and incidents around the country, this has turned into a very bad situation where the police and SWAT teams, for example, end up bursting into the room and shots can be fired. It's a very disturbing thing that has caused a lot of real damage.

Thankfully, the Greenfield Police Department and the Hancock County Sheriff's Departments here in Indiana, as well as the Indiana State Police and the FBI branch in Indianapolis, we have spoken before.

Way back, I'd say at least a year and a half ago, about the potential for future swatting events. And there was something in a kind of code with the dispatch so that when they received this targeted call from the individual trying to create a swatting event, there was a note that, hey, there might be a little something weird about this. So again, the officers did show up to our home. We were able to have a good conversation. Obviously there weren't any problems, but it was a waste of law enforcement resources and time. And it was also in an attempt to. For officers to break into the area and fire on individuals, because that's the attempt. The point of a swatting incident is attempted murder. And now we know who the guy is. Police are investigating this right now. So he will be caught. He was also stupid enough to give his name anyway to the officer when doing the swatting, which is a very bad choice. So a huge thanks to the Greenfield Police Department and the Hancock County Sheriff's Departments here in Indiana, who addressed this today, and of course to the Indiana State Police and the Indiana, the Indianapolis branch of the FBI. Really appreciate that, Producer Nick.

[Producer Nick]

Yes, huge thanks to both of those service branches. But I do got to say, as I was sitting here with you as it happened, honestly, the worst thing that you were doing was wearing Crocs during this freezing, just snowy weather.

[Tony Kennett]

First of all, first of all, I wear comfy shoes out here. I wonder what's below the desk the day at work. No, no. I mean, I've got khakis today, a little jake from. From State Farmage right there. And I am wearing nicer shoes this evening.

[Producer Nick]

But the one not wearing shoes now.

[Tony Kennett]

Yes, I unfortunately was wearing Crocs that my kids got me. I wear them around. I know it's winter and there's snow, but I don't have any like slippers for the studio like Grand Moff Tarkin or around the Death Star. Little Peter. Little Peter Cushing knowledge. So, alas, again, huge thank you to those two police departments. If you are and someone who participates in political broadcasting, you're an influencer or you're again, someone who's either running for office and doing a show. Ted Cruz obviously does the verdict along with Ben Ferguson, even though he's a senator. If you are broadcasting from somewhere, you really should have a conversation with your local police department in case anyone attempts to call those threats on you here during the redistricting process. There have been some idiots before, obviously. I just condemned this a couple of days ago who have attempted swatting incidents on those who are against redistricting here in the state of Indiana. A stupid and awful attempted murder anytime that it's done.

So that aside, I, I do want to move on to some of the last little bit of news, you know, for, for the day. So first of all.

The Trump administration's work requirements for supplemental nutrition assistance have now gone into effect. So now you need to work a minimum of, is it, is it 80 hours a week or 40 hours a week in order to.

80, 80 hours a week in order to receive SNAP benefits. This has upset a lot of people who are going on to media complaining that they have to work or at least attempt to work in order to get supplemental assistance. Here you go.

[Producer Nick]

I don't think it's fair that he do that.

[Ilhan Omar]

But. And you were saying you think it's going to hurt a lot of people?

[Tony Kennett]

Oh, yeah, definitely. Definitely it's going to hurt a lot.

[Producer Nick]

Of people because you never know. You know what, especially now that we.

[Ilhan Omar]

End the holidays and everybody wants to.

[Producer Nick]

Have a good dinner and everything.

[Tony Kennett]

And if you don't give it to.

[Producer Nick]

Them, it's going to be really hard.

[Tony Kennett]

It's very sudden and it will affect people negative. So.

I.

So many things to say, so little time, a work requirement for snap. I'm not really offended by that one because I was told the reason that people aren't taking these entry minimum wage positions is because there was not a left money at the end of the day for them to then pay for food and for their families. But if you're working at like McDonald's again, that's always the example that's brought up like our president did, then, you know, you can still qualify for supplemental nutrition assistance and you get a little.

[Producer Nick]

Bit of money, I mean food at McDonald's.

[Tony Kennett]

And then of course, you also get the Money from your labor at McDonald's. So what's the issue here? Why do you not get to work? There better be some root and tootin good reasons for you not to be participating. You say, well, that really hurts their pride. Big freaking whoop. You're not entitled to work in a particular. If no one wanted to tune in to the Tony Kennett cast, no one wanted to read my stories. I'm not entitled to this job. The Daily Signal does not have to give me money because I think that I'm amazing and wonderful. No. It continues to bewilder me that the number of you that are tuning in are tuning in at all.

[Producer Nick]

Yeah. And it's kind of crazy that people are complaining about this at all. I believe there may have been a misphrase earlier. 80 hours per month, which just puts this into perspective of. Are you seriously complaining about 20 hours per week?

[Tony Kennett]

No, no, no. Yeah, it's 20 hours a week. It's 80 per month. You can't work 80 hours per month. Yeah, 80 a BE.

[Producer Nick]

You know what we do some weeks?

[Tony Kennett]

Yeah. What we do occasionally. But that, but no, no. 880amonth. Thank you. Sorry. I got that, that got the, the week in the month mix there. You can't do 80, 20 hours of work a week. Find a consignment shop and work the counter a bit there. I don't know what to tell Salvation Army, Goodwill, scoop some trash on the side of the road or something.

[Producer Nick]

You. Aldi has a cashier.

[Tony Kennett]

You get a chance to go to your local, go to your local Protestant non denominational church and start stacking chairs. Man, I don't know what to do. To tell you something, man, it's. Yeah, 80 a week would be two full two time rolls. We've, we've upset Daniel with the wrong term and now he's like given us, he's given us the lowdown and the breakdown on it. All right. Speaking of the lowdown and the breakdown again, the, the, the racial dynamic is creeping back into the Democrat Party. They're again, they were slapped for doing the race stuff in the last election. Are they going to learn before midterms? No. Here's a young lady who's complaining, saying that white people should not be wearing bonnets because that's racial appropriation or something.

[Rachel Maddow Lookalike / News Anchor]

And at the end of the day, I don't think white people should be wearing bonnets. It never sat right with me. I always hated it when the Get Ready With Me would come up on my 4U page and the girls would have the under eye things and the white girl would take her bonnet off and her hair was completely straight under. That shit used to piss me off.

[Tony Kennett]

She's really mad because again, the idea that there. There would be a person again. So again, the idea. The concept of the bonnet originally is supposed to be that because the hair of a lot of black people is naturally curly. If they had done their hair and they didn't want it to get wet and then ruin all of the work on their hair, but then still take a shower and get ready and not mess up the hair you put on the bonnet. But that's not exclusive to black people. A lot of people put their hair in bonnets.

[Producer Nick]

And to that point, the name wasn't exclusive. It was shower cap.

I remember it being prominent in the Golden Girls.

[Tony Kennett]

Yeah, the Golden Girl, like the curlers in the bonnet. That's the kind of thing. The old lady in the bonnet with the nightgown is a very comic. Just the desperation to be a victim is just so silly.

[Rachel Maddow Lookalike / News Anchor]

It still pisses me off.

[Tony Kennett]

Yeah, she's mad.

[Rachel Maddow Lookalike / News Anchor]

And I'm already knowing if this video does get a little bit of traction, everybody's gonna be under the comments saying, you guys didn't invent them. Or bonnets are for all types of hair. It's been proven. I'm a cosmetologist. And this, that, and the third. Why?

[Tony Kennett]

Yeah, there are a lot of cosmetologists just saying, like, you're stupid, which is really funny.

[Producer Nick]

She did predict the.

[Tony Kennett]

She upset. Yeah, she upset. The hairdresser fan made this video very unhappy.

[Rachel Maddow Lookalike / News Anchor]

I want a black woman tells you guys something that makes her uncomfortable. Your first instinct is to invalidate her feelings.

[Tony Kennett]

No, my first instinct, depending on what it is that you're telling me you're uncomfortable about, if you come up to me and said, tony, I'm really upset about bonnets, I'm gonna laugh. That's my first instinct. And then after. Oh, no, no, you're serious. You're upset about bonnets. Oh, oh, okay. I don't usually look at the color of the person when they're like, you know, oh, I'm upset about something. And go, well, you are looking a little Chinese. So I don't know if you're qualified to talk about this one. No.

[Producer Nick]

To bring up footwear again. Do you get angry when you see people walk around in moccasins?

[Tony Kennett]

I thought you were gonna say Crocs and I was gonna throw something at you from here. All right, moving, Moving on the. Again, more people are upset on camera. There is an, apparently an immigrant of 30 years who was very disappointed with Trump in a frog suit.

[Ilhan Omar]

I've been here for 38 years and I cannot articulate how disappointed I am.

[Rachel Maddow Lookalike / News Anchor]

In we, the people that we allow.

[Ilhan Omar]

This to fall so easily.

Coming 38 years ago because I bought into it. Yes. I wanted to come here 38 years later after being here and realizing how it's more fast. It's.

[Tony Kennett]

For those of you who are listening and not watching on the live stream, which you should watch on the live stream, I would like to remind you this is a woman in an inflatable frog suit saying this seriously. Dead serious. Bright.

[Ilhan Omar]

More smokes and mirrors.

[Tony Kennett]

Yeah, bright pink. Bright pink frog suit. Thank you for the correction, producer Nick.

[Ilhan Omar]

How it's more fast. It's more smokes and mirrors. I am ready to leave. I don't, I can't financially leave right now, but the first opportunity financially that.

[Tony Kennett]

I can get, I am leaving.

[Ilhan Omar]

And I'm leaving on principle because, I.

[Tony Kennett]

Mean, I don't mean to be that guy, but I believe there are people that if you're ready to leave, they'll, they'll straight up float your ticket. Self deportation. Kind of popular, right?

[Producer Nick]

That there was a monetary reward for.

[Tony Kennett]

A period where you self deport. They'll, they'll walk you out to a Sabrina Carpenter song, man. I'm told it's, it's super duper.

[Rachel Maddow Lookalike / News Anchor]

Because I feel that if I, as an immigrant, remain in a fascist country.

[Tony Kennett]

Oh, a fascist country. Says the woman in the frog suit. She's like, I'm not getting enough money from the government. And also, I don't like Trump.

[Producer Nick]

$38 at Walmart.

[Tony Kennett]

Incredible. I'm thrilled. Yeah, yeah. Complaining about not having the financial resources. Said the woman who bought an inflatable pink frog suit. Dave Ramsey. That poor man. So let me get this straight. You bought, well, Dave, back to your.

[Producer Nick]

Home country of Jamaica?

[Tony Kennett]

Well, I'll tell you what you do. First of all, beans and rice. Not with your hands.

Oh, my goodness. And then, of course, the white girls are getting involved. I don't know how I'm going to explain this to those who are listening, but.

It'S a choir over a girl doing slacktivism. It's very, very brave. So she has a black hand over her mouth, pantomiming. I can't breathe. Okay.

And then the caption says, why are you protesting? I don't know of anyone who's actually ever contracted. Why are you protesting like that? Unless he's like a granddad With a washboard that he's playing in, like, northern Alabama. But anyway, why are you protesting? This is America. This is America. All right.

I can't breathe again.

Then she does the Bambi. You know, she's. I have antlers. And she has a white hand and a black hand, which symbolizes the deep racism of the minstrel theater in the 30s through the 60s. Or just that maybe she wasn't able to wash it off her hand after she did the. The George Floyd hand over that. Wouldn't it be a knee print because of Chauvin. The. I can't breathe. And it wouldn't be on the neck. I was. Was Chauvin saying, like, let me feel your teeth? I don't think he was doing that.

[Producer Nick]

I don't think Childish Gambino would appreciate his song being put over a video of semi blackface.

[Tony Kennett]

Yeah. How much blackface is this? I want to be ma. Hey, Producer Daniel Mathematic. This for me here. What percentage of blackface is half your face and the palm of your hand? This is America.

[Ilhan Omar]

Hey, guns in my area. I got the strap.

[Tony Kennett]

So now she says, love over color. And she has blm, very poorly fingerprinted finger painted on her chest. Now it.

[Producer Nick]

It's.

[Tony Kennett]

I'm. I don't quite know what to say to this. She looks hinged, not unhinged. Not this one. This one's very hinged. Clearly, this is America.

Does this look like a weapon to you? She says, holding up a white hands and a black hand. And then, of course, the BLM stuff. That's wonderful. And then she raises her arm. That's half black palm, white knuckles. Maybe she'll tattoo MS.13 on it to stand with Kilmar. You know, a little Maryland man solidarity here. She says, be the change. I see you. I hear you. I am with you.

White girl slacktivism, man. It's the backbone of the Democrat Party. That and little Mogadishu.

[Producer Nick]

Do you think that she'll pretend to be autistic to earn some fraud money?

[Tony Kennett]

You know what? I'm sure she's gonna be right there with the community. Standing hand in black hand. Producer Daniel is writing. He's done the math. He's doing it. He's done the math. The surface area of your entire.

[Producer Nick]

He did it. He did it.

[Tony Kennett]

I love it. All right, what do we got here? The surface area of your entire hand, including fingers, is typically estimated to be 60 to 70% of the surface area of your face.

[Producer Nick]

More than 50%.

[Tony Kennett]

She's. She's more than 50% black face. I gotta round up. I'm sorry. You are voted off of the island and we are deporting you to actual Mogadishu at this time. So.

Excellent stuff there. Last but not least tonight, I want to share a Joy Reid Jennifer Welch video because, again, the Islamophobia thing only goes one way. They're very passionate about this. Again, we've gone over the demographics. We had the young white girl. Now we have Captain Botox, Jennifer Welch, and then Joy Reid, who doesn't really have a show anymore, talking about the Trump cult and jihad, apparently. So all who. Here you go.

[Producer Nick]

I don't think it's fair.

[Tony Kennett]

Oh, sorry, that's the. That's the snap whale. I'm sorry. Here we go. And as a man, I got the wrong Welch.

[Producer Nick]

Looks very different.

[Rachel Maddow Lookalike / News Anchor]

MAGA supporters are armed to the teeth. Right.

[Tony Kennett]

They are rabid in their support of.

[Rachel Maddow Lookalike / News Anchor]

Him and it's a religion.

[Ilhan Omar]

And so they will commit jihad for Trump.

[Rachel Maddow Lookalike / News Anchor]

The fear is that if you don't obey him, his cult will try to kill you.

[Tony Kennett]

You know how I know that's not true?

[Rachel Maddow Lookalike / News Anchor]

Because if it were, there would be bodies everywhere.

[Tony Kennett]

That is true. There's a lot of people on the Trump side of the aisle who have disagreed with Trump recently. But I really do appreciate, you know, the little commentary that jumps in there from the MRC crew.

Wouldn't committing jihad for Trump be like an Islamophobic remark?

[Producer Nick]

Isn't it? Yeah. Isn't jihad a good thing? I mean, jihad is supposed to be.

[Tony Kennett]

Like a peaceful struggle, right?

[Producer Nick]

We have a lot of politicians that are very pro jihad right now.

It's almost like she knows the truth of what jihad is and still lies about it.

[Tony Kennett]

I think that they're just really, really struggling after Afton Bain getting kicked in the knees. Really, really struggling in the confidence sector of things. I think that's going to be about it for us this evening. We'll be back tomorrow with more of our roundup of the day's news and nonsense. It's the Tony Kennett cast here on the Daily Signal. Nationally syndicated, first on 93 WIBC. And I prefer to watch it on the live stream. I'm just kidding. I. I don't usually watch it, but you should on YouTube, rumble or X. Take care.