
Dan Bongino announces resignation as Deputy FBI Director. Brown University terror attack investigation continues to spark controversy.
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Good evening and welcome to the Tony Kenneth cast here on the Daily Signal, nationally syndicated, first on 93 WIBC. We are here from Washington D.C. in the Bowels of our nation's sewer, where the Assistant Director of the FBI, Dan Bongino, has announced that he is intending to, to resign. So he announced, quote, I will be leaving my position with the FBI in January. I want to thank President Trump, Attorney General Bondi and Director Cash Patel for the opportunity to serve with purpose. Most importantly, I want to thank you, my fellow Americans, for the privilege to serve you. God bless America and all those who defend her. And then he includes a. For those who are listening and not watching on the live stream of the Tony Kenneth Castle included a little American flag emoji and speculation galore. And some more. So as we get into why the Assistant Director of the FBI, Dan Bongino, has announced his resignation, first we'll hear from the President of the United States, Donald Trump, on his, well, speculation, let's say. Oh, Dan, Dan did a great job. I think he won to go back to his show. Yeah, I do. Sorry to do that to you. I know that we all hate the airplane microphone sound when they're right outside of Air force1. Although AI has progressed quite far, we haven't figured out a way to cut out that kind of feedback entirely. The President says he thinks that Dan is ready to go back to podcasting. He's ready to go back to the show. And there is an element, I think, of Dan Bongino, who is a masterful broadcaster, going back to the land of broadcasting. However, the argument that the reason he's choosing to go back is that maybe life in the FBI is a little more dull and dreary than broadcasting. I think that's maybe putting a tulip on a mud pile right now. From what we have heard inside the Federal Bureau of Investigation, there is a healthy Chef Boyardee can sized dose of chaos. There is, and it comes from a couple of things. Uh, part of it is that when you make a lot of campaign promises about what the FBI is going to do. And by the way, I'm not just talking about President Trump, I am talking specifically about a lot of people like those in chairs like mine, broadcasters who said as soon as Trump gets into office, he's going to do all of these various things on top of the work that the FBI already has to do. Because as we're going to cover tonight, there is a growing epidemic of political, racial and religious terror attack in the United States. There is a growing vein of terror. And the FBI has to address that because we have as a country allotted a lot of major investigations not only to state police forces, not only to local law enforcement, but to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. They have become the de facto people you send in to handle stickier situations for better or for worse. In this case, there's a lot of for worse in it because Cash Patel, who has done a lot of good things, again, he was an award winning agent in the FBI under both Barack Obama and President Trump. However, since he has been in the role of director of the FBI, as we've talked about on different shows, he spent a little bit of time doing the photo op stuff. You know, there are reports that he's refused to get off of planes without having his FBI jacket and a person with a camera nearby. Again, part of leadership is PR understandable. But if you make too much of the job, the PR side of things and you're being dragged through the mud because again, the Epstein file rollout, the phase one binders in February was a whiff. It was a disaster. PR wise. And there is an element of when you're in an organization and people are making bad decisions, it's awkward, it's awful. I've been in organizations where I've had colleagues that have made just dirt bad decisions and you can't get out there and say, well, you know what, I'll tell you, Kim, he sucks. You don't get to do that. You have to stay. And essentially, as long as you're willing to put up with it, you stick around. So Dan Bongino leaving the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Um, yes. Going back to his show. I suspect the president is very likely to address this in his address this evening. There was a lot of speculation, we'll get into this about the president's address tonight. Part of the speculation on tonight's address comes from the wild PR week and the rumors of chaos in the Trump administration. Now, a lot of this is overblown, again, partly due to the excellent humor of people like Vice President J.D. vance and future Vice President Marco Rubio, currently the Secretary of State, the National Archivist, the National Security Advisor, the future Emperor of Venezuela, maybe the next Pope. Hard to say with all the hats that man wears. There's been a lot of good humor, but also there appears to be a little bit of chaos. This was, remember, if you do, in the first Trump administration, this was how the media and the left wing of the political apparatus in the United States was able to get under the Trump administration's skin and stop things dead in their tracks. All they had to do, all they had to do was simply say there was chaos and someone needed to be, you know, fired, moved around, that kind of a thing. And this is frustrating. So producer Daniel is reminding me that Attorney General Pam Bondi was involved with the phase one of the Epstein release, not Patel. As you will recall, while, yes, it was Attorney General Pam Bondi who rolled out phase one, they immediately got into a finger pointing match with each other. If you remember, Attorney General Pam Bondi said, well, actually Cash Patel promised the documents. And Cash Patel said, nuh, Pam Body has the documents. And then they said, nuh, they're in burn bags. And we never heard anything about that. Again, nuh, the documents are in Fort Knox. Well, actually they're in the Southern District of New York. We never heard anything about that. That wears on a man. I understand Dan Bongino there. There's also just a lack of really great investigate investigation successes in handling major crises. Right now with the various FBI branch offices. Now, there have been some major wins. We've talked about these. We're not going to play those down. Catching attempted terror attacks or planned terror attacks with the Turtle Island Liberation Front in California. Very important, thwarting a number of other major terror attacks and shootings before they happen. The FBI is getting better and better at preventing those and they often do go unsung. But the situation at Brown University right now, in which, by the way, I will remind the crew for the 836th time, as many in our comments have also reiterated, the FBI has the authority reiterated under the Patriot act to swing in and tell local law enforcement they are incompetent, they are stupid and they are taking over. Right now. The situation at Brown University is horrible. It is an extreme disrespect to the people of Providence, Rhode island, to Rhode island in general, to those at Brown University, to the victims and their families, and to the people of the United States at large. And this kind of disappointment is exacerbated by a lack of leadership in the FBI. But the FBI could not even begin to make up for the sheer amount of disrespect that is not only now being portrayed by the chief of Police, Lopez, who doesn't know what cameras are or where they are or when to speak in English or Spanish or what words to use for when individuals are being asked questions or detained or in custody, but also congressmen like Representative Sheldon Whitehouse, who no one asked to get up and talk today and decided now's the time to get up and just say stupid things. No need from an investigative point of view for people who have no idea what they're talking about to offer their stupid and ill informed views about what happened all over the Internet. Why would you say that? Why would you say that? I, I don't understand the value in getting in the American people's faces and say, you know what, what's really not helpful right now, People calling in tips. We don't know who the shooter is. They don't even have a suspect. Suggested the Internet has gone around and done its sleuthing and presented some suspects. And do you know what we've heard from the police about those suspects? Nothing. Nothing. We had a, an unofficial official statement from Brown University that was submitted via a third party and unnamed third party to Channel 12, the CBS affiliate in Providence, Rhode island, that didn't even mention the one guy that the Internet still believes at this point in time is somehow connected as a person of interest to this particular shooting or the information surrounding it. And what does Sheldon Whitehouse get out here and do? Well, it's really these, these stupid, dumb people calling in tips. Why do you need to run your mouth? Radio crew are going to send you to the commercial. We're going to continue on the live stream here. It's the Tony Kinit cast. We'll let Sheldon Whitehouse continue his, his rants of glory here. So I would please, just from a law enforcement perspective, ask anyone who sees this to just shut up until we know who did it and why. We will find out. Give it some time. There's simply no need from an investigative point. Okay, first of all, you are one of the people, Sheldon Whitehouse, who has 14 different times now criticized Trump's Department of Justice for not acting quickly enough on certain things. Now here you are in front of the camera on committee C spans rolling and you're making the case that they're not moving slow enough and people really need to stop harassing and questioning things. And you know, there are a lot of the left wing pundits saying people are trying to say this was a targeted attack, as though. That's insane. Again, I will remind everyone, as we will talk about later on in the show, and again, most people in the United States, according to the limited amount of polling data that we have, agree that these terror attacks are in fact more often than not targeted. And when you have multiple reports that the young lady who is the vice president of the university's Republican Club, that was shot multiple times, some individuals reportedly not shot again, they're not releasing these details now through the investigation. Police departments should not do that. They are fueling speculation. When Brown University deletes information on a student, all of the information, and locks information on certain professors, it creates speculation. If you come out and say here's what we know, here's what we don't, then the conspiracies get a lot smaller and a lot less effective. I, I, I'm just making the point that for the individuals right now, like Sheldon White House, to get out and claim that the real problem is the public is ridiculous and there are individuals that are getting threats over the phone now, people are, are doxing each other for suggesting tips online about individuals that may or may not be investigated. I will remind you that the Providence, Rhode Island Police Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation have put out new images soliciting tips. So not only is Sheldon Whitehouse stupid, he's also just bluntly wrong in this particular instance. So over on the live stream footage here you can see the brand new super ultra high resolution, super duper party pooper photos of not even the suspect, not even the person of interest, someone who may have known or been connected to a person of interest. They're in like a blue jumper of sorts, what appear to be some kind of black, they've been called like nursing shoes. There's been some Middle Eastern questions as to the individual's heritage or ethnicity, those kinds of things. And when you have a situation in which there's no clear expectation, criticizing people for not knowing what's going on is truly, truly a disgusting move. Now there are all kinds of clips that are also surfacing that are relevant because as you will recall, Brown University is one of the hotbeds for the pro Palestine, pro Hamas, anti Israel marches and riots. And it was university president Christina Paxson who went before Congress and argued that riots were somehow not riots. Argued that? Well, yeah, sure, maybe they're destroying some campus property and maybe they're chanting globalize the intifada and you know, kill the Jews. But I mean, come on, that's just political advocacy. Haven't we all, you know, at one time or another torched a publicly funded and grant endowed building? I know, I have Insane, by the way, more, again, more clips surfacing thanks to producer Nick finding this one here a minute. Before we bring the radio crew back in here, here's some more of this again hotbed of activism that is enshrined Brown University. It's why people have these concerns and these, these theories, these suspicions. I can actually get, I can actually get on that, on that wagon, having accidentally led one of those marches myself. But we'll talk about that in a second because there's some interesting stuff coming out of it. Tony Kinnickass, we're going to come back in a second. Bring the radio crew back in. This is the Tony Kinnit cast on 93 WYPC. Welcome back to the Tony Kinit cast here on the Daily Signal, nationally syndicated, first on 93 WIBC. The situation at Brown University is getting worse, but a huge credit, a huge credit to producer Nick, who called me this afternoon again in the middle of some other stuff we have going on here in our nation's capital and showed me a particular note that came from the Trump administration, the Department of Justice, that several individuals, some of whom I really like, some of whom I really don't like, were posting about the Trump administration and Department of Justice officials reporting that Brown University is in violation of their recently signed settlement agreement with the Trump administration. Now for the radio crew. During the break, I talked with the Livestream crew, a little refresher that Christina Paxton had been dragged before. Paxton, excuse me, had been dragged before the House of Representatives in which she was asked, hey, we can't help but notice your diversity, equity and inclusion programs are all about LGBTQ2 IA, BIPOC, color this, you know, the right shade of ethnicity that. And you know, that kind of violates some civil rights procedures. And also there is some heavy anti Semitism going on on the campus, which violates some Civil Rights act and statutes, rules, regulations. And you're receiving federal money. So if you know you're going to get federal money, you're going to stop this crap. And Christina Paxton and the Brown University leadership agreed. And all of a sudden in the middle of this investigation, you see them scrubbing information about this Mustafa Carbo who has, you know, they he pronouns in his X bio, claims to be born in Lebanon, was actively promoted all over Brown's various web pages and Instagram and Blue sky videos and photos of him participating in Students for Justice in Palestine activities on the campus of Brown. Teacher's assistant for a Palestine pro Palestine pro Hamas professor on campus. And here's what producer Nick brought up in the middle of everyone looking through Brown University's website, there may have been an administration official that said, hey, wait a minute, it looks like the Trump administration and the nation at large might discover that we never stopped promoting anti Semitism, that we never stopped promoting Hamas, we never stopped promoting anti Christian, anti Jewish rhetoric, we never stopped promoting DEI initiatives. And if we're in violation of this settlement that we made, we could lose lots and lots and lots of money. Again, it was very suspicious to the American people that the attorney general seemed to be aware that the page of Mustafa, which by again, at this point we still have no information about whether this is a person of interest or not. There have been vague suggestions that there are no new suspects, but no one has come out and said at this point whether or not this person is a person of interest or not, which are suspicious. If he's not just come out and say, hey, look, here's where he was. Instead, he provided an alibi, we talked to him, we questioned him. Here you go. But they can't say that. And so all of the larger social media ecosystem and members of Congress are now coming out making the accusation that really it's Americans fault for suggesting that in cases like this, like the Crown Heights attack against Jews yesterday evening, many other anti Semitic attacks both here in the United States and abroad, anti Christian attacks here and abroad, that Americans naturally suspecting either the radical kind of Marxist lgbtq, any left wing causes are cause group or the fundamentalist Islamic cause group. When Americans suspect either of those two groups, there's a reason for that. We're going to get into some of these examples, but for example, Congresswoman Rashida Talib very angry, very, very, very angry because the President of the United States has now expanded the previous 19 country travel ban to 39 countries, which includes the Palestinian Authority, not a country. And appears to expand a block on legal immigration now to include the spouses, children and parents of US Citizens. Which means if you have someone here, you no longer get to say, well, I'm supposed to be here. And that automatically brings in whomever in mass via filing cabinet and tanker truck. No. And again, some of these nations like Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, South Sudan, Syria, it makes sense that people, we might want to pause the mass immigration here until we can figure out what's going on. Rashida Talib says that this administration's racist cruelty knows no limits. Expanding their travel ban to include even more African and Muslim majority countries like almost all of these have been labeled all the way back to the Obama administration as severe security risks, according to the State Department. As in hey, don't travel around here kind of places. Even Palestinians fleeing a genocide. Trump and Stephen Miller won't be satisfied until our country has the demographics of a Klan rally. Okay, so first and foremost, no this equivocation with Americans having some concerns about Islamic terror and unfettered mass migration and suggesting that America wants some kind of a Klan rally is not going to do it for Americans. It's not going to sell them on this lie that she's trying to perpetuate. Because Americans have watched for decades now, but especially in the last two years when this pro terror psychology has encouraged more and more Islamic and pro left wing cause omni cause terror attacks in this country that we have heard people shout Allahu Akbar, we have heard people shout free, free Palestine before committing mass atrocities. And so it makes a lot of sense that people might be a little bit suspicious of someone shouting Al Hu Akbar, Globalize the intifada or Free, free, free Palestine who has just not followed the threat up with murder yet. You walk through the streets and go, you know, I've thought about killing some black people. You know, I thought about killing some black people. People might start to suspect that you want to kill black people. You go out there and say globalize the intifada, behead all the Christians and Jews. People might start thinking, you know, man, this guy has said endlessly ad nauseam, they want to kill Christians and Jews. And this is not just here in the United States. Right after a horrifying openly Islamic terror attack in Australia and on Bondi beach in Sydney today, still to this day, I shouldn't, sorry, not still. As of now, right after this tragedy has taken place, there are individuals who are pro Islamic, pro Islamic fundamental terror that are running out into the center of Bondi beach and screaming things like Alhu Akbar, the Jews had it coming and other really disgusting stuff. Don't take my word for it. Here's one of the ladies in her full burqa chanting this today at Bondi Beach. Classy, classy. When they tell you who they are, believe them. The same with Islamic fundamentalists in Brussels who are are running around in front of a Christmas market overrunning the Christians, celebrating the Advent and Christmas, running Christians out of the town square and then flying their Palestinian flags chanting all who Akbar. More Muslims marching in Sydney. But guys, the most important thing that I could share is that the white women on the left, the white women on the left. Now again, there are two kinds of white women on the left. Those who kind of look like Rachel Maddow, like the weird butch haircut and the Harry Potter glasses and then like the over botoxed weird butt chin variety of white women, you know, like the Nicole Wallaces or the Jennifer Welches, those kinds. So here's speaking of the devil, Jennifer Welch pointing out, well, the real problem is not that, you know, there are Islamic people running around saying, kill all the Jews and Christians. But they're saying, you know, maybe we don't want people screaming that here in the United States. That's who's really at fault here, those who don't want jihad. You know, that a lot of our adversaries, our country's adversaries, want that type of social friction within the American public and that the current sitting president campaigned on eliminating the enemy from within and not a message of unification. A little bit of a pause here. It is freaking hilarious that Jennifer Welch, of all people, who has said some of the foulest things, cheering Charlie Kirk's murder and threatening other Democrats. If you don't cheer Charlie Kirk's murder, we're coming after you saying, well, Trump's not. Where's his message of unity? Incredible. It's always the kindness lives here, people, that are always the filthiest on this particular thing. Radio crew, we got to send you off to commercial land. Continue on the live stream without said radio commercial. It's the Tony Kenneth cast. All right, let's let her continue to wax eloquently. I know it may be confusing to those of you on the live stream. Which one is Jennifer Welch, considering they're both obnoxious, thin, botoxified white women, but I assure you, it's the one on the left. I mean, they're both on the left, but, like in the frame one on the left that, you know, that trickles down, and then you have these propaganda arms that instead of focusing on ways that we can advance and progress as a country, they're attacking other Americans, find common ground. Right, right. And yeah, it's really gotten. This is really a new toxic. Yeah, it's really, really toxic. It's really, really toxic. I can't believe just how super duper, ultra toxic this is. You know, I, I, I would suggest again, like many normal Americans, red and yellow, black and white, precious in his sight, would suggest that the real toxic thing is saying, kill the Jews and the Christians, globalize the intifada. That makes a lot. Again, given that we have the track record of individuals who chant those things and then carry out the murder. You know, just saying that seems a little more likely to be toxic to me. The Democrats in Congress, the ladies, the, the squad, and more extensively, are also running out with us. Another angry old blonde white lady Democrat, Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz is also out here yelling that the real problem, the real toxic one, is Donald Trump. Ah. What is the bigger threat to America Right now, American values, American life, Islamophobia or jihad. I think we have to focus, quite frankly, on if we're worried about the threat to American values, on the person who's in the White House. Incredible. So, by the way, she's on with Leland over on News Nation, who's a really solid guy. Been on the show several times. He's very, very. Just an excellent broadcaster. But Wasserman Schultz makes the case here when asked which is the bigger issue, People having some suspicions about those who participate in the most fundamentalist, radical kind of Islam, or perhaps the idea that, well, you know, the mass violence that comes out of it. And she says, well, clearly it's a third option. It's the guy in the White House. I mean, we have. We have a president. Come on. Really? Is that where we're going? Come on. Yeah, I'm going there because we have a president who has completely undermined our democracy, who has. Yeah, I'm going to go there. And the reason I'm, like, going there is because. Have you even voted? He's undermined democracy. I mean, Catanje Brown Jackson didn't even get her way at the Supreme Court. She wrote like three whole sentences in crayon and Clarence Thomas laughed at her. Oh, my God. The state of women in the Democrat Party has. So you don't see. You don't see jihad. You don't see this is a problem? What I don't see is. Won't answer the question. What I don't see are dancing flamingos, Leland. How about that? Weren't expecting that one, were you? As a single lens problem, we have a president who has been determined to undermine our constitutional principles, to degrade our democracy, to divide instead of unite us. You want to know why a lot of Republicans like Senator John Fetterman, because there are moments where he won't just do this crap and say, you know what? Yeah, I'm sorry. Radical jihad. That's kind of bad. Breaking news. You don't have to simp for jihad. You're going to say, yeah, that's bad. It's bad when people do bad things and then move on. Say, you don't like Trump. You don't have to like Trump, but, like, making everything about him is really weird. All right, we got to bring the radio crew back from commercial. We're going to dig into some more of the wildest stuff. Don't go anywhere. It's the Tony Kenned cast here on the Daily Signal. You're listening to the Tony Kenneth cast on Night. Welcome Back to the Tony Kennett cast here on the Daily Signal, live from Washington, D.C. it's why I'm not in my beautiful home, Indiana Studio, where I am the most comfortable. But at least my son has not been detained by ice. Ilhan Omar, representative of Mogadishu, has come forward to announce that her son was detained by ice. Now, I'm not sure if this is her son or her nephew or her nun or her sephu. Could be any one of those. Not quite sure how that family tree loops in on itself, but that's her. That's her claim. She got out in front of the country and said that ICE was, like, racially profiling, targeting specifically her son, the terror of the Trump administration. Again with this idea. There's current jihad. There's massive amounts of fraud. There are people breaking lots of laws. There's chaos in some areas. But Ilhan Omar is out here to say the real issue is they're targeting my one and only son at Target. He did get pulled over by ICE agents, and once he was able to produce his passport id, they did let him go. So your son went to Target last night with his passport. Mm. He always carries it with him in case he gets pulled over. Yes. Which he did. By ice? Yes. Okay, so there's just one small problem. Uh, remember that whole thing about body cameras, guys? Yeah, we all remember about body cameras and, like, the careful tracking of data from police and all the people on the left said we gotta know everything a cop does so they can't lie like them lion pig bastards that they are. I don't know if I'm allowed to say that on the fcc, but, you know, let's pretend that that's totally fine. So here's the catch. This didn't happen. Ilhan Omar's son or nephew was not pulled over by ICE and detained at all. And it was so thoroughly debunked that even Wolf Blitzer over on CNN was like this just in. You're a big, stinky liar. You've said that federal immigration agents actually pulled over your son on Saturday and asked him to prove his citizenship. He is, of course, a US Citizen, as are you. The Department of Homeland Security says, and I'm quoting them, ICE has absolutely zero record of its officers or agents pulling over Congresswoman Omar's son and have accused you of seeking to, quote, demonize ICE as part of a PR stunt. Their words. What do you say to that? Well, if ICE is saying that they have documentation of every single person that they have pulled over in Minneapolis we would love to see that record because we've certainly. Myself and the governor have. You see how quick that was? Yeah. Little pivot. Well, if ICE has records, we would certainly like to see the records. The records have been made available to every member of the House of Representatives. This has been proven time and time again, saying, I would certainly like to see those records. They are available. And by the way, even to you, dear listener of the Tony Kinnid cast, the Freedom of Information act request gives you. Hold on. I'm sorry, I'm looking at the wrong camera. Gives you the ability to ask the federal government to share information on its law enforcement detainment. Now, they're not going to, you know, give you the strip search results and, you know, send you pics, but they will give you the information on those particular stops and searches. So Ilhan's lying, but also the question was about her son. I says that they didn't pull over your son. Where was this? No answer for this at all. Been asking them to share information with us on the ways in which they have interacted with Minnesotans, and they have not been able to provide a single information. So it is amazing that they're able to put out this statement. Definitely. In saying definitely. Okay, little, little. Little thing for you here. So I have been rather free with you guys when it comes to how certain things work. When I don't know how certain things work, I tell you, I let you know. I say, hey, I don't know how this works. In the case of law enforcement arresting people who are important or detaining people who are important. There are people in areas where it is suspected that a congressman or congresswoman, that their family might be in and around. Things get flagged, as we saw from that one drunk attorney general from somewhere in New England yelling at cops as she was arrested. There's this idea that, hey, if someone important is, you know, thrown in the slammer, that, hey, yeah, you know, if you're Nancy Pelosi's husband, you get, you know, pull over for a dui. There's a little something in a lot of systems that will let you know, hey, maybe we need to call this special individual, let these individuals know. Ilhan Omar absolutely would have known immediately if her son was actually detained. Either she's a liar or she's raised a liar. Now, I know that in Somalian culture, honesty is like the most tantamount, just sanctimonious, wonderful of traits. We all know, based on recent activities, how much the Somalian community in Mogadishu excuse me, Minneapolis, values honesty, but she's just gonna say isolized a lot. So that's the answer to your question, Wolf, which is really weird. Now, Laura Loomer, smelling blood in the water, then sent one of her reporting team, I don't really care for chasing congressperson videos. I think they're really cheap. Essentially, there's a kind of political style that I just call vulture reporting, where you just follow a congressman around. Excuse me, Congressman, Congressman, why are you evil? Why do you eat puppies? And also, when did you stop beating your wife? And they follow them around, and it's obnoxious. Sometimes questions need to be asked. But also sometimes any question, like, there are no dumb questions. You want to hear dumb questions? Go to the US Capitol or some of the congressional office buildings, stand in the hallway and watch as some of the Vulture scavenger reporters follow around congressmen and women and ask them questions. Your IQ will drop a fair number of points. But in this case, because it's funny, because, again, she was asked about it, there's one of Laura Loomer's team following Ilhan Omar around and going, hey, why are you a liar? Why do you suck? And also, we're laughing at you. Hello, Congresswoman Omar, DHS says they have no record of ICE pulling over your son. Why did you lie about ICE targeting your son? So they're talking, like, quietly. They're making conversation. I've done this before with someone who was saying, like, really weird things to me when I was walking into a building, and given my tendency not to want to have to use the concealed carry option, you know, because it's a serious thing, I tried to leave some of the fools saying, you know, stupid and silly things at inopportune times alone. And you do. You just have a conversation. You strike up a conversation with someone else. It gets them through the awkward moment. You let them yell. When we were leaving Tel Aviv, actually, we're flying out of Tel Aviv, there was an Israeli family that started yelling angrily at us because we were given a diplomatic pass to leave. So we got to essentially cut a big portion of the line because visitors into the country of Israel, they get to cut the line. I think I mentioned that they did this when they deported Greta Thunberg. Someone started yelling at us. So I said, you know, just talk quietly amongst yourselves. Don't make eye contact with people yelling things at you. But it is interesting in this instance, it's funny because Ilhan Omar still has not provided a single explanation as to why she said her son, her nephew, her sephu was pulled over. We have no idea. One more time, why did you lie about ICE targeting your son? Congresswoman, do you think it's responsible to lie about ICE targeting an individual? All right, they're just doing like the old tunnel walk and yell. Fantastic. So producer Nick again mentions that Ilhan Amar has one of about 13 different Somalian accents that she code switches in and out of. You can hear when she's just talking normally to another person. She just sounds normal, like she's been in the United States a long time. She's talking, but when she gets on television, she'll use her kind of stately, sort of polished accent. Here she is trying to tell Wolf Blitzer later on in the interview that Donald Trump is really awful for saying, you know what, maybe we vet migrants before they come to the country. President Trump signed a proclamation yesterday expanding the list of countries with full or partial travel restrictions from 39 to 39, that's up from 19. And Somalia is on. I love math. I love it when TV anchors do math. 39, that's up from 19. Yes, thank you. Excellent skills there. Public education not lost on him on that list. What's your reaction to that? I mean, the biggest worry of the new executive order is that it does separate families. It doesn't create an exception for US Citizens to have their family members be able to come visit and celebrate milestones with them. And so I'm going to say something in a very vague way so as not to upset my legal team. There is an individual whom I have previously mentioned in certain stories who has said on her social media that she had family members who were in Hamas, active terrorists, Hamas niks who killed people and were then put in prison and caught and one of them faced execution for killing a seven year old girl on camera. And I'm just gonna say, you having a relative and that's somehow making it special and getting to skip the vetting process. How about no? How about the idea that, well, he's my brother? How about no? How about we allow any individual into the country based on their merits and their character after we have solved the current crisis of all of these unvetted people. Again, the case with the border. Close the border first. Stop the leak. If you are fixing a leaky faucet, if you are fixing a mess under the sink, you shut off the water, then you can determine where the leak is. By the way, same goes to Republicans right now with the Obamacare and the healthcare situation. Radio crew, you gotta go to Commercial One last time. We're gonna continue on the live stream. It's the Tony Kinnickast. Now, to make this explicitly clear. Right now, the Trump administration has a number of things that Americans are very, very praiseworthy of. The Trump administration's immigration policies. Banning individuals who commit violent acts or who they suspect are going to commit violent acts when they come in the country based on objectively good data. It just so happens, it just so turns out that the Trump administration doing well on those things is nothing to sneeze at. The Trump administration needs to continue its immigration policies. It needs to continue also as, as Ben Shapiro articulated very clearly at today here at the Heritage Foundation. The Trump administration also needs to sing the praises of. Of the wage increases that are currently happening in the United States steadily and with great bounty, beating inflation because of the deregulatory processes that individuals like Lee Zeldin and Sean Duffy, EPA and Department of Transportation have made possible. Need to focus on those things. The. The idea that the Trump administration needs to kind of stop what they're doing and slow down and be a lot friendlier and nicer and. Well, I need to consider various demographics and how they feel is ridiculous. Absolutely not. This brings me to some of the really weird nonsense that is coming from some factions of the right right now. There are those who have made the decision to go all in on this prediction that Donald Trump is getting us into a big forever war in Venezuela, all, all for regime change and that Israel is pulling the strings to get Maduro out. And as one commentator who laughs before he says things that are proven wrong a week later, says Venezuela, the most culturally conservative country in Central or Latin America and that entire sphere, or North America, including us in it. That's why the Globo homos want to overthrow the Venezuelan government. Number one, socialism sucks. Number two, narco terrorists and human traffickers suck. Number three, I don't care if we launch a missile at a narco terrorist farm in Colombia or Venezuela. I don't care. Americans don't care. That doesn't require boots on the ground, by the way. That is why the Trump administration is firing kinetic strikes from the Navy and from the US Air Force on narco terrorist boats and in the southern Caribbean because it does not put Marines who have died in the last year in interdictions in the Red Sea. It doesn't require the Coast Guard, doesn't require the Marines, doesn't require the Navy at large to seize boats and put sailors or Marines lives at risk, or Coast Guardsmen or cutters. I should say. And so it is a crucial thing of import right now for people in the administration and the American people to not to get distracted. And by the way, most Americans aren't distracted. That's an incredibly good thing. I'm going to be very clear to you guys, I have never been more proud of the American people. I've never been more proud. The polling data consistently suggests that those who are too online, like Marjorie Taylor Greene, for example, and are bending their entire will towards yelling about Republicans, they've lost it. Now when Marjorie Taylor Greene wrote the bill and it was amended on banning transgender surgeries on minors, that was excellent because that's something that the American people want. When you give the American people what they want, you give them long term solutions like codifying executive orders, then things are stellar. And by the way, Marjorie Taylor Greene ended up hopping on the train to vote for the National Defense Authorization Act. We're gonna finish this up on the radio side. We got some cool stuff to finish up the show with. You're gonna love it. It's the Tony Kennett Castle. This is the tony kennett cast on 93 wipc. President Trump signed a proclamation yesterday expanding the list of countries with full or partial travel restrictions from. I just, I just. Sorry. I just. I just love hearing that. I love it whenever I get to see the President of the United States doing concrete things that really upset the squad. Sorry for the lack of bumper music in there. We are doing our best here in our travel studio here in Washington D.C. the place I like to be the least, except for Connecticut. So that aside, I do want to talk about a major win that again, very few are talking about today. The judicial tyranny war, if you want to call it. The current battlefield in the American system is in the courts. I don't have the clip here ready to play. It's on my home soundboard. I can see the button in my mind's eye. It is Chuck Schumer bragging a few months ago about having spent the last decade appointing every single judge nominating conf, confirming every single judge that he could that was going to act in a radically left manner. My colleague Tyler o', Neill, who just testified before Congress, he's our senior editor over at the Daily Signal, has an extensive report on various, I'm not joking, training camps and organizations that train radical leftist judges to be radical and leftist. One of these is the New Venture Fund. It's a hub of kind of left dark money network stuff. They sent $2.3 million in 2024 to share Elding LLP, a law firm that represents Democratic prosecutors, when they file climate litigation against tax filings. The fund also gave 1.25 million to the Environmental Law Institute. There are cases from 2022 and 2023 in which other NGOs that are associated with these very far left leaning organizations have pumped money into everything from law colleges to some of the institutes that provide the legal guidance for some of these judges that are either, you know, appointed at the, at the federal level, all the way to the appellate level, some who become prosecutors that are appointed by administrations. And amidst all of this, we are still seeing fundamental wins in the judicial landscape for the Constitution because it's not fighting on behalf of President Trump. It is fighting on behalf of what the Constitution says. When you have some guy like James Boasberg making things up so badly that his own court had to rein him in and said, you can't hold Kristi Noem in contempt as they did over the last week just because you don't like the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Trump administration. So another major appellate victory for the President today, the D.C. district, authored by and by the way, in this case, an Obama appointed judge, judges, I should say Millett, Katz and Rao stated that the president has constitutional and statutory power to deploy the National Guard to D.C. now, they didn't rule just that in Trump's favor. Yes, the president of the United States has the authority to deploy the National Guard to D.C. because again, it's a federal city. And also the council has approved it, as has Muriel Bowser also so is the Senate. But alas, they have essentially given the president a temporary continuing allowance. I should say they've temporarily upheld. I don't know what the opposite of an injunction is. A conjunction, conjunction, what's your function? Kind of ruling from the appellate court that says, yes, the president is still the commander in chief for now. Again, rather wild, but okay. Another major win for the Trump administration that has fallen out of the media landscape. The cut off to foreign funding like USAID has been a major, major success. And do you know how I can tell it's been a major success? An article from the Associated Press today that may be one of the most insane things I know as a show host. It's easy to say this is one of the most insane things I've ever seen. You know, like and subscribe. I'm serious. I saw this when I was on the plane to D.C. and I shook the person next to me because I like Kramer on Seidville just I Mean, it was, it was that insane. Here's the article from the Associated Press headline, hundreds of underaged girls married off and hundreds of more children kidnapped as US Foreign aid cuts contribute to the surge in violations against the persecuted Rohingya children. This is in Bangladesh, by the way. So the Associated Press, I'm not joking, is making the case that because the Trump administration stopped sending money to Bangladesh, the Muslims in Bangladesh are marrying little girls. So the media is suggesting, and I'm the corporate. I say the corporate media is in. Again, the Associated Press is a newswire. This was published thousands of times today by various organizations around the country, including likely affiliates that are on the channels that you may have watched in your own state and region that you're tuning into the Tony Kenneth cast. They're suggesting that we need to pay off, we need to bribe Muslims in other countries not to marry little girls. And you're telling me that it's bad? President Trump is limiting the amount of migration of these grown men to this country for, for participating in the oldest practice in Islam, as Muhammad did, marrying little girls. Hmm. You know, I'm not too upset about it. I'm just saying I, I'm, I'm the idea that I need to be really worried because the President of the United States isn't being pro Muslim enough as some of the, the far right ecosystem is currently trying to suggest while they're buying houses in Qatar. Nah, not for me. All right, WIBC crew, we're going to let you guys go for the evening and continue over on the radio side, it's the Tony Kinnit cast here on the Daily Signal. All right, little bonus, Tonus, just a smidgen this evening just for you, a little bit of mail. Time to answer again. Really appreciate you guys stopping by in the middle of a situation like this. We do have an update, by the way, from the Rhode Island Attorney General Norona at 4.34pm today and he is suggesting this, this makes me so mad. He's suggesting that the public does not want to learn or. I, I'm sorry, I, I just have to play. This is one of the stupidest things I, I've ever seen. Transcripted here. This is according to Fox News sending this clip over to us. This is the Attorney General of Rhode island on the Brown University shooting investigation. You mentioned a long gun. I don't. We, we're not, we are not in a position to say unless the chief. You want to square it, whether this was a long gun or not. I think. What, what do you mean? You can't say whether this is a long gun or not. What do you mean you can't say whether this is a long gun or not? The man fired bullets. Those bullets have a caliber. Those calibers are in the room. They're in the bodies of the victims, you sick piece of filth. Forensics. You can tell what kind of rifle it came from? You absolutely should be able to know. Didn't you have this ring footage or other footage that. That showed the perp somewhere, somehow? If the individual had a long gun, then they're not able to conceal it. You can't shove an AR15 up your bra, you dumb fool. We don't know if it's a long gun or not. We have no idea. Could. It could have fired Twinkies. It could could actually just be a pool noodle for all we care. That there have been an account. There's been an account from the ta. There are multiple accounts about multiple things including how this gunman approached the victims. Those are not details that advance the investigation. Why not? Why don't you reveal that? It could reveal clues about the person of interest or about the motive. There are surviving victims who can tell you what happened. People around the room. The building wasn't abandoned. It was finals week at Brown University or going into fine preparation for finals week. People were in this engineering building. It wasn't sequestered off. It wasn't the abandoned fish canning factory. When you say this, and then Americans go, I think there's something fishy. You know, I. I can't blame him. I can't blame him when you have either. So there's, there's a principle that I follow. Don't assume malice when incompetence is far more likely. If I had to take these details and assume the level of incompetence this reaches, I do not think that this man could shake himself off after he pissed in a urinal. I think he would need assistance. This is a level of incompetence that cannot open a five gallon bucket that is cracked in half. Moses in a basket floating down the Nile. I can't believe that he. We don't want to say any of the details on the crime after all. Then you might find out who done it. They don't advance the investigation because as we interview witnesses, we don't want them to learn facts from these press conferences. Why? Because you don't think that you can report. Facts are. I don't understand this either. In forensic evidence, if you have the caliber of the round in front of you, what does it matter if you. Again, if a 2 to 3 or a 5, 5, 6. The. The cartridge that an AR15 fires. I got him on a. In most often when it fires that particular round on an AR10, but an AR15 fires that round. You have. Now, there's also question that. Well, they used a nine millimeter. What kind of a nine millimeter was it. There are different kinds of nine millimeter rounds. It matters here because the type of round found at the scene can determine whether or not a long gun was used. Yes, there are conversion kits to make a 9 millimeter a long gun. You can say this, though. We don't want to speculate. We know a 9 millimeter was fired, but we aren't comfortable with saying we've heard differing accounts and give an explanation. When people on the right make the observation that no one on the left has any idea what the f. They're doing regarding guns, this is what they're talking about and this is why it matters. You're in law enforcement. You are the attorney General. But it seems the only thing that the left is interested in electing, as far as attorney generals go, are those who threaten to kill their political opponents, their wives and their children. As Jay Jones in. In Virginia now the attorney general elect. I. I am just. I'm sorry, there is a little of me that is just dumbstruck at the sheer stupidity. Another video today, and I. I don't think that I have it with me. I might. Here, let me see if I can get this up and running here. More from this press conference. We have 1200 cameras located throughout the campus. We don't publish the locations of the cameras that would. We have 1200 cameras on campus. We don't publish the locations of the cameras. Why? They're cameras. They're not invisible. Unless you have a class with like a teddy bear on a shelf has got the camera in its eye. You know where cameras are, guys, we know what cameras look like. It sounds like you just don't want to be embarrassed by the fact that either you installed cameras like 42 of them on a flagpole, probably outside the Republican club in case they got up to too much free speechin'. But at the engineering building where students were shot. Well, give a map to somebody to evade detection on the cameras. So that would be counterproductive to do that. There are cameras in this building. And as I answered the previous question, we have turned over all evidence that we are holding at Brown to law enforcement and are cooperating fully with them. You know, unless you're deleting web pages of students and those who might be relevant to the investigation. Or again, either you turn everything over to law enforcement and then you're done, or you're still actively participating and there's still a giving and taking. Why is an official from Brown a part of the press conference? Why? Why does there need to be? Again, why aren't we just hearing from the law enforcement professionals? And where is the FBI again, I will remind y'. All. By the way, I checked the Rhode Island State Constitution as well. The FBI has the authority, the plenary authority. What I mean by the Rhode Island Constitution is that there's nothing forbidding federal law enforcement from superseding a local investigation. There is in Idaho, and I believe in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. The Commonwealth of Kentucky might have been patched out. I haven't finished researching that yet. Little transparency there. In Rhode Island's case, though, yes, the federal government with the FBI, can supersede, can cut off and say, it's our show. Now. This happens semi regularly. Why isn't it happening here? I don't like this. Americans don't like this. It is if it's incompetence. It is a level of incompetence we haven't seen since Joe Biden's last press conference. Korean Jean Pierre or Joe Biden, the ice cream liquor? Take your pick. On the off chance that it's malice, whoever is acting in this investigation maliciously about a school shooting should be hanged by the neck until dead in the most public place possible. It's either incompetence or malice at this point. I've seen Shaggy and Scooby Doo do better investigating after the gang splits up. Raggy, I don't know how many cameras there are. Like, Scoob, there could be like 15 cameras over here. It's insulting. And then the squad or Sheldon Whitehouse will get in front of a camera and say to you, the American, they will say to you that you're awful and racist and xenophobic and bigoted and mean and a big dum dum for questioning. The experts. The experts are always correct. Always. God bless them. Onto a little bit of mail time here. I don't think I can handle any more on the Brown side this evening. I'm. I'm gonna. I'm gonna blow a vessel. So this is. This is from Lori. Why is it that in government positions like schools, police and mayors, that sort of thing, that the absolute worst people get promoted to leadership? I made a mistake in putting this one in the Mail time this evening. Instead of being fired for being incompetent, they make them the leader of the whole thing so that they can just screw everything up. Why is this a thing? I swear to producer Nick and producer Daniel can back me up on this. I added this into the chat at like 11am today for our mailtime bag. The reason that incompetent people get promoted to positions are one of two reasons. Number one, they are better at things that are not relevant to the position. They're really good at talking. They're really good at raising money. They're really good at campaigning. They're really good at friendships and networking and leveraging those for endorsements. This is why you see a lot of English and music teachers get promoted to principal. They're really good at talking in interviews. They're really good at conveying emotion. That is something that looks really good when you are going through an administrative master's degree. Also, English and music teachers are usually like, less paid positions for music teachers. They should be paid more for English teachers, you know, deserved. But that, that would be one reason. The other reason that these individuals do, in fact, get promoted is that incompetence to you is not incompetence to someone else. According to the, the demographic of the experts, again, the Jennifer Welch white women, you know, Wasserman Schultz, Pearl Clutchers. The idea that you get out there and say the right things and that you advocate on behalf of the right people because you care means that you deserve the job. I've talked about my former boss at Indianapolis public schools. I had two bosses. My first boss, Amanda, was a really sweet and wonderful lady. Totally overwhelmed, didn't really know what she was doing with the department. My second boss, whose name is Bobby, had never taught a science class before, ever, and was put in charge of our department. Didn't know what she was doing, but she said really, like, soft, fluffy things. And so it was like, yeah, give her the position. That's the reason that incompetence gets promoted, either because they say the right thing socially or they have a skill that's not relevant to the position. And then once someone's in a position, it's really hard to get them out. This is why incumbents stay in positions, because it's just easier to go with what you know than to go with the new. And so that's kind of my idea there. This from Desmond Ross this evening. What's your opinion on the sign language interpreters, the ASL interpreters, and what Trump's lawyer argued in court? I'M not sure may producers can help me out what Trump's lawyer argued in court about what these severely intrude on the president's prerogative to control the image he presents to the public. Are there, like, ASL interpreters striking against the President of the United States or are they laughing or making fun of him? I'm not entirely quite sure in this particular instance, but for the President of the United States, set aside as far as sign language interpreters. How do I say this? We have made too much of the focus of our society in catering to the eggshell skull case. So the idea that every press conference needs an ASL interpreter because there might be someone who is deaf that could watch the press conference. As producer Nick pointed out quite correctly on yesterday's episode, guys, we have, like, closed captioning software now. It's. It's not. It's not needed unless there are. If there are deaf individuals that, you know, again, like, a lot of churches, like, have, like, a group of the deaf that come into the church and they, you know, sermon in the middle of going on. Having a sign language interpreter there can be very helpful. But, like, right next to the, you know, the pulpit, the lectern, and the person out there telling someone to steal third, you know, while the, you know, we're trying to pay attention to the press conference for a deaf person that is absolutely not at the press conference at all. Again, captions totally working. Totally fine. Sorry. It's not like the deaf person is tuning into the radio before you clutch your pearls and say, wow, that's awful. You shouldn't say that. Why is that awful? This idea that we need to coddle excessively and treat people that are blind or deaf as though you can't have a conversation with them, like they're emotionally fragile or something, and you can't say, hey, look, can we, like, switch to captions? Because this is kind of cumbersome at this point. Deaf people happen to be just as reasonable as people with their hearing paraplegics are just as happy to talk to you as someone that has both functioning legs. Yeah, I'm sorry. This idea that we need to, like, pretend you can't say anything ever because, oh, God, God forbid, you might offend. Stop it. Americans are throwing that stuff aside. A huge thanks to Tina J. Over on the chat side of things because she gifted five channel memberships over on the YouTube side of things to the rest of the channel. We really appreciate that. It's very kind of you. Again, you don't have to Buy channel memberships or send super chats to watch the show. We're thrilled that you guys are here. There is some channel exclusive members content, mainly that you get early access to the top news in 10 as soon as we record it. But other than that, we're just thrilled that you guys are here. Very kind of you. To those who give, we do try to keep track of that and thank you, but you don't have to do that. We are thankful for those who do. Producer Daniel says, here's what I found. There's a current lawsuit over American Sign Language interpreters at White House briefings where Justice Department lawyers for Trump have argued that requiring real time ASL interpretation would severely intrude on the president's prerogative to control the image he presents to the public. I mean, depending on the ASL interpreter, that legal argument. Sure. The question is to, I think, whether it's necessary if the person who is the ASL interpreter is making faces and undermining the president. Like if Carolyn Levitt got up to the, you know, got up to the podium and said, so the president decided today, roll my eyes, that we're going to do this. Well, yeah, I mean, you're not allowed to undermine your employer. If I got out of here and says, all right, guys, Rob Bluey over the Daily Signal wants us to do this and I want you to know it's really stupid, kind of a dumb idea, well, then Rob would, you know, say, hey, Tony, you do that again, you're really going to enjoy the unemployment line. You know, follow the chain of command. Again, interesting argument. I don't. Everything today is a legal argument in a lawsuit. I find that stupid. The idea that anytime someone makes you sad, you can just whip out a lawsuit like a pervert flashing someone out of a trench coat, I think is really harmful to American society at large. As stupid as when we were losing all of our competent officers during the Revolutionary War to dueling. You've insulted me, sir. Let us shoot each other. How about no? How about you just, like, grow a pair and realize that not everything's going to be for you? Studies coming out constantly showing that over the last 10 years, a lot of people were racially and genderly discriminated against in the United States. You know, that people do things. You don't like people, you know, if there's a law against it already. Sure. But like the argument that lawyers are constantly creating on either side of this, just a little too much. So that side of things, I think we will, oh, James says sign language isn't universal, sir. What language were they signing in? American Sign Language. Like English Sign Language, I think, would be the answer to that little impromptu question. That stuff said. I think we're going to wrap things up for this evening. I'll be back in Indiana tomorrow. Thank my creator. So we'll see you guys real soon for our final couple of episodes before the Christmas week. Looking forward to seeing you then. It's the Tony Kinnit cast here on the Daily Signal, nationally syndicated and first on 93 WIBC. Y' all take care.
Date: December 18, 2025
Host: Tony Kinnett
Podcast: The Daily Signal
This episode centers on the breaking resignation of FBI Assistant Director Dan Bongino, rising concerns about an epidemic of terror attacks (particularly political, racial, and religiously motivated), and the ongoing state of chaos—both within federal law enforcement and the broader political landscape. Tony uses a mixture of humor, skepticism, and sharp commentary to analyze the developments, touching on high-profile controversies at Brown University, increasing incidents of violence attributed to ideological extremism, and responses from prominent political figures.
On Dan Bongino Resignation:
On FBI/Police Confusion:
On University Handling:
On Immigration and Security:
On Cultural Debates:
On Omar/ICE Fabrication:
On Media and “Judicial Tyranny”
On Leadership and Incompetence:
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