Ep. 484 - BREAKING: Walz & Frey Under Investigation for Obstruction, More Somali Fraud, Nobel Prize Freakout

Summary

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The Tony Kinnett Cast, Ep. 484

Date: January 17, 2026
Main Theme:
A breaking investigation into Minnesota officials (Governor Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey) for obstructing federal immigration enforcement, in-depth analysis of ongoing Somali-linked fraud scandals in Minnesota, political and media fallout, and a Nobel Prize controversy involving Venezuela’s opposition leader and President Trump.

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Episode Overview

Tony Kinnett dives into explosive breaking news: Minnesota’s Democratic Governor Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey are under federal criminal investigation for alleged obstruction of federal immigration enforcement (ICE). The show unpacks the details behind the charges, explores persistent fraud involving Somali migrants and government grants in Minnesota, and covers the media and political reactions. The episode also breaks down a viral Nobel Peace Prize handoff to Trump by Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado and delves into shifting political landscapes and polarization, both in Minnesota and nationally.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Breaking: Walz & Frey Under Federal Investigation

• [00:06-04:56]

  • Confirmation from CBS that Governor Tim Walz and Mayor Jacob Frey are targets of a DOJ criminal probe.
  • Allegations: Conspiracy to impede federal immigration agents, obstruction of justice, endangering citizens by failing to cooperate with ICE.
  • Tony argues this is “not an escalation, it’s accountability.”
    • Notable Quote:
      “This is called accountability. Now, I know there are some who are rather frustrated that there are not arrests that are happening this very instant.” (00:45, Tony Kinnett)

• [04:56-06:51]

  • Federal law enforcement claims obstruction in specific cases, including release of a violent gang member (Raul Gutierrez).

• Charges Discussed:

  • Obstructing justice
  • Conspiracy or intent to defraud the United States
  • Inciting insurrection
  • Encouraging sedition
  • Putting citizens at risk by obstructing federal enforcement

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2. Minneapolis Crime & Immigration Enforcement

• [05:17-08:46]

  • Rep. Ilhan Omar claims ICE is targeting non-criminal undocumented immigrants, not "actual criminals."

    • Notable Quote:
      “I still have not heard a single case in this search where someone who was a criminal undocumented being picked up from the street.” (05:17, Ilhan Omar)

  • Tony counters by reading out a litany of criminal arrest records, highlighting cases of violent or sexual crimes by undocumented immigrants in Minnesota.

  • Critique of local officials’ “open bragging” about not cooperating with ICE.

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3. Analysis of “Blue State” Sanctuary Tactics

• [09:30-11:50]

  • Contrasts ICE cooperation in red states vs. resistance in blue states (like Minnesota).
  • Mayor Frey’s stance: More federal agents are “not the way to restore order.”
    • Notable Quote:
      “If this were about order, there would be a simple way to restore it. And let me tell you a secret. It’s not restored by additional federal agents.” (11:10, Jacob Frey)

• Tony’s commentary on the self-defeating nature of these policies, comparing them to past lawless zones (“Chaz,” Seattle).

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4. Federal Law Enforcement’s New Assertiveness

• [13:00-16:46]
  • ICE is no longer tolerating protests/blockades as they once did. Amusing segment on protester in a fox costume being removed from the scene.
  • Mockery of excuses (disability, brain injury, etc.) sometimes cited during arrests.

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5. Somali-Oriented Fraud in Minnesota

• [20:00-24:00]

  • Fraud investigations into businesses and nonprofits, often Somali-operated, that exist only on paper or funnel funds outside the U.S.
  • Nick Shirley’s investigation finds a “safari transportation” business that’s really a money wire service.
    • Notable Quote:
      “All we do is money transferring.” (23:05, business owner)

• Upcoming investigation into a Minneapolis church (Zion Baptist) receiving sizable grants with little documentation of services rendered.

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6. Media & Political Spin

• [24:10-26:47]
  • Mainstream media attempts to link Trump’s immigration enforcement to economic harms (e.g., higher fruit/dairy prices), which Tony deconstructs as baseless “wishcasting.”
  • Democrats frame DOJ probe as “political intimidation.”

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7. Venezuela / Nobel Prize Controversy

• [29:50-36:51]

  • Maria Corina Machado, Venezuela’s opposition leader, presents Trump her Nobel Peace Prize plaque.

    • Notable Quote:
      “She said, you know, you’ve ended eight wars and nobody deserves this prize more than you do.” (31:16, Trump, quoting Machado)

  • Virginia Allen interviews Machado, focusing on her meeting with Trump and the future of Venezuela’s transition. Machado draws a parallel to the “fall of the Berlin Wall.”

  • Discussion about U.S. policy on Venezuela, Trump’s restraint, and lessons from U.S. involvement in Iraq.

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8. Continued Unfolding Minnesota Fraud

• [46:10-50:07]
  • Tyler O’Neill (Daily Signal) discusses a new report: $673,000 payment to Zion Baptist Church for one month’s work, questionable documentation, the involvement of a bureaucrat who awarded the grant and then got a consulting job at the same church.
  • Larger trend: Non-competitive grants, ongoing feeding fraud and corruption.

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9. Reactions from Walz and Frey

• [50:07-53:00]

  • Both issue statements labeling the DOJ probe as intimidation/political prosecution.
  • Frey's statement notably self-incriminating: “This is an obvious attempt to intimidate me for standing up for Minneapolis...” (50:18)

• Tony’s Legal Take:
  Advises caution about overcharging (e.g., RICO, treason) and stresses prosecuting clear, provable violations to avoid legal loopholes or acquittals on technicalities.

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10. Media Roundtable & Left-Wing Commentary on ICE

• [56:16-63:53]

  • Clips of Jennifer Welch (liberal commentator), Jim Acosta (CNN), and others compare ICE to ISIS and slave patrols; denounce its conduct.

    • Notable Quotes:
      • “Let’s first talk about ICE, which I think needs to be abolished...this is an organization that’s behaving like ISIS.” (56:16, Jennifer Welch)
      • “It’s a fascist, authoritarian, white nationalist MAGA.” (61:12, Jim Acosta on J.D. Vance)

  • Tony and the crew mock the overblown analogies and perceived hypocrisy.

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11. Mailbag & Broader Societal Commentary

• [64:21-72:00]

  • Tony addresses listener questions on political polarization, civic responsibility, and what’s needed for American revival.
  • Reflection on entitlement culture, civil duty, and the historical requirements of citizenship.

• Tackles audience queries on Canadian auto policy, China’s growing influence, and the deeper causes/plausible resolutions for dysfunction in U.S. policy and society.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Accountability over Partisanship
  “This is not an escalation. This is called accountability.” (00:45; Tony Kinnett)

• Ilhan Omar on ICE arrests
  “I still have not heard a single case in this search where someone who was a criminal undocumented being picked up from the street.” (05:17, Ilhan Omar)

• Tony’s Media Critique:
  “Anecdotally, that’s how every bad story begins in journalism.” (24:23, Tony Kinnett on NYT sources)

• On Fraudulent Businesses:
  “All we do is money transferring...That’s not at all suspicious.” (23:03–23:12, Business owner & Tony)

• Machado on Venezuela: “...for the first time in history, we will have the Americas free of communism, dictatorship and narco terrorism...This is equivalent to the fall of the Berlin Wall in the Americas.” (33:25, Maria Corina Machado)

• Frey’s Response to DOJ: “This is an obvious attempt to intimidate me for standing up for Minneapolis...” (50:18, Jacob Frey)

• Liberal Commentary: “I think this is an organization that’s behaving like ISIS.” (56:16, Jennifer Welch) “It is a fascist, authoritarian, white nationalist MAGA.” (61:12, Jim Acosta)

• Tony’s Legal Advice:
  “You don’t want to go after Tim Walz with RICO...If you can’t prove all of them, you’re done.” (70:45)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Intro & Breaking News: 00:06
• Ilhan Omar & ICE Critiques: 05:17–08:46
• Minneapolis Crime Example: 06:51–08:46
• Comparison of Law Enforcement Approaches: 09:30–11:50
• Fox Protester Removed: 13:00–16:46
• Somali Fraud Investigations: 20:00–24:00, 46:10–50:07
• Media “Wishcasting” / Economic Impact Claims: 24:10–26:47
• Venezuela Nobel Drama: 29:50–36:51
• Walz & Frey Statements: 50:07–53:00
• Media/Liberal Roundtable on ICE: 56:16–63:53
• Listener Mailbag & Societal Discussion: 64:21–72:00

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Tone & Language

• Brisk, sarcastic, and frequently irreverent; Tony’s tone is unsparing, especially with political opponents and mainstream media.
• Mixes humor, mockery, and sharp political analysis ("ginormous podium", “bag of consequences”, “overly botox liberal lady”).
• Regular use of biting asides about news coverage, left-leaning commentators, and bureaucratic incompetence.

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Conclusion

The episode is a rollicking, opinionated rundown of federal crackdowns against Minnesota Democrats for alleged obstruction of ICE, a window into the state’s ongoing struggles with immigration-related fraud, and a lampooning of the way both media and political rivals frame these controversies. Temporarily lighter moments (like the fox-suited protester) balance the weightier discussions of legal tactics and America’s future. A must-listen for those following national law enforcement policy, Minnesota politics, or the shifting culture of political media.

Transcript

[Tony Kennett]

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[Jennifer Welch]

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[Jennifer Welch]

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 93 WIBC. We begin with truly breaking news right before we went on air because of course it was confirmed that both Minnesota Democrat Governor Tim Walls and Jacob Fry, the mayor of Minneapolis, are under official Department of Justice investigation in a criminal probe, according to the article uploaded at 7pm Eastern. So you know I'm not joking when I say this is breaking over on cbs, quote, the Justice Department is investigating Minnesota officials, including Walz and Fry over an alleged conspiracy impede federal immigration agents. Now, they call this an extraordinary escalation in the Trump administration's clash with Democrat leaders there. No, this is not an escalation. This is called accountability. This is called accountability. Now, I know there are some who are rather frustrated that there are not arrests that are happening this very instant. And we will get to that conversation before let's look at the specific charges that could go at Walls and Fry's knees and why those matter. Right now. You could charge Walls and Fry with a number of things. You get out there and say that they obstructed justice, that they had some kind of conspiracy or intent to defraud the United States, that they perhaps incited an insurrection, that they of course, encouraged sedition. You can suggest that they put Minnesota citizens at risk by directly acting against federal law enforcement. There are statutes in both the Minnesota state legislature or Minnesota state law, I should say, and federal law for that. However, there are a very specific number of commands that were given by Governor Tim Walls and several other state officials, including Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Fry, that directly obstructed federal law enforcement that ended up putting the carrying out of certain operations at risk. In other words, by allowing, let's say, a certain Raul Guterres, a certain 33 year old alleged Latin Kings member with prior felonies if they allowed this individual to escape the Hennepin county jail because you know, he's an illegal. And this individual then ripped open a federal law enforcement rifle case after a riotous mob that the Minneapolis Police Department was not dispatched to contain. And because of the orders of Minnesota Governor Tim Walls and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Fry, the law enforcement did not cooperate with ice, which they Openly bragged about in front of the press. We're going to again see that in just a second here with comments made today by Mayor Fry that it is in fact a likely felony committed by both individuals that resulted in the escalation of violence and the obstruction of law enforcement. Now, if you go in and you. You charge them with, with RICO and racketeering and conspiracy for all this other stuff, it's going to be a lot harder to stick. But some of these things they have backed themselves into corners over. Now we are gonna get into some of the information regarding the subpoenas and the arguments. Walls has said in a statement, two days ago it was Elisa Slotkin. Last week it was Jerome Powell. Before that it was Mark Kelly. They're weaponizing the justice system. Um, no, no, no, no. You don't get to play this game. There's a reason Tim Walls is not running for reelection in Minnesota. Now Ilhan Omar, representative and congresswoman from Minnesota, as well as Somali migrant under suspicion and now investigation for immigration fraud and possibly marrying her brother to gain access to the United States. She says the reason that Tim Walls isn't running for reelection isn't like the 18 billion in Somali fraud that he presided over. And actually it's because he wants to focus on the fraud. There are no criminals in Minneapolis. She says, no, no, I'm not joking. She has taken to the press podium of the Democrat House of Representatives, which is a huge podium, by the way. Just, just fun fact here. This thing is. Is a real look at the size of this podium.

[Daniel (Producer)]

I still have not.

[Tony Kennett]

That is a large podium. Let me get me get a better shot of this particular podium.

[Daniel (Producer)]

Love more accuracy.

[Tony Kennett]

That is a ginormous podium that she's behind. She makes the complaint that Immigration Customs Enforcement is out arresting people and no criminals at all. They're not even arresting people that have committed crimes. Here's her making that direct claim.

[Daniel (Producer)]

I still have not heard a single case in this search where someone who was a criminal undocumented being picked up from the street. Many of the cases that dhs, at least to my knowledge, and I would love for them to provide us the dates in which they were picked up and from where in our communities or what operation produced some of these people that they are putting forth saying, you know, they've taken off the heart and criminals off the street, because it is my understanding that many of those people were already adjudicated, already serving prison sentences, and many of them are still serving their prison sentences in.

[Tony Kennett]

So she realizes very quickly you can See the shift? In the middle of her little explanation lecture, she's suggesting, oh, I haven't even seen any criminal. Actually, there's. There's other criminals out there, and. And we don't know them, but we do know them, and they're still serving sentences. It gets really awkward. You can actually. In the expanded shot, you can see Pramila Jayapal, who's standing off to her left, grimacing because what Ilhan Omar is attempting to do, other than look like a case of vertigo, is trying to weasel her way through more flubs at the podium than Hakeem Jeffries makes in an entire month.

[Daniel (Producer)]

Many of the prisons throughout the state, and they're just taking their mugshots and submitting the charges of what they've been convicted of as a proof of the people that they're picking up. So I would love.

[Tony Kennett]

Okay, so she's making the claim that ICE is coming into Minneapolis, right? And what they're doing is they are arresting people who are already in jails and prisons in Minneapolis who are already arrested. Okay, There's a problem with that. The problem with that is that guy was telling you about that Raul Gutierrez. Uh, maybe, you know, maybe you might be confused as to who I'm speaking. I mean, there's been a lot of stuff going on in Minneapolis. Um, here he is, for those who are watching the live stream. Smashing a lockbox in an FBI vehicle and ends up gaining access to and stealing a Colt M16, a Glock handgun, and some ammunition, as well as, you know, some. The. The official report says some. Some body armor and sensitive documents. This guy. Now, according to official records, this guy is supposed to be in jail. You can see, look here. Arrest details. Interesting stuff here. This guy was. Was supposed to have been arrested previously multiple times, but he was back out on the streets to be arrested yet again. Why is that? Why did the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, the FBI, and the Department of Homeland Security have to pick up this dude again? Looks real friendly, doesn't he? Oh, you mean this. This guy was let back out onto the streets. Ilhan Omar said these were all people serving their prison sentences. They weren't out on the streets. And this isn't the first time, just for the record, that she's made this claim. Ilhan Omar has made the claim there are no criminals out on the streets in Minneapolis multiple times, have not been.

[Daniel (Producer)]

Able to tell us what is the purpose for this search. They haven't been able to produce any evidence that they are finding people who are undocumented, who have committed crimes.

[Tony Kennett]

Amazing. Now, it sure would be a shame if we were able to pull up the records of individuals who were released back out onto the streets in Minneapolis, in Minnesota. Not just this fine individual who again, stole a rifle from federal law enforcement in a Glock and then find all of the different fantastic, upstanding Minnesotans, the kind of people that Governor Tim Walz says make Minnesota a great place to raise a family. Let's, let's go a few of these people that ISIS picked up here. Let's see, maybe one of them might be a criminal. You have Hernan Cortez, Valencia, criminal legal alien from Mexico, with the final order of removal in 2016, who's been convicted of sexual assault against a child, sexual assault and carnal abuse, and then four DUIs. You have some guy whose name I can't pronounce. Criminal illegal alien from Laos, final removal order, 2018, convicted of strong arm sodomy of a boy, a girl, another aggravated sex offense, nine counts of larceny, unauthorized use of a vehicle, four counts of fraud, vehicle theft, two counts of drug possession, obstructing justice, possession of stolen property, receiving stolen property, burglary and check forgery. Also, you know, some pending charges for two counts of receiving stolen property. You've got G. Yang, illegal alien from Laos, final order of removal, strong arm rape, strong arm aggravated assault against a family member, et cetera. Radio crew, we got to send you to the commercial. This is only page 1 of 4 of some of the individuals ICE has arrested in Minneapolis. We'll catch you as after your commercial break. Radio Crew going to continue on the live stream. It's the Tony Kinnit cast. Now, this does, in fact, go on for quite a while. And, you know, I would like to go through all of the cases of these disgusting individuals and show you that they're not all just like this dude. But you have individuals that have committed some of the most disgusting things that have been let back out onto the street, not just from Laos, not just from Mexico, but of course, individuals like Abdul Rashid Ados Elmi, a criminal legal alien from Somalia, convicted of homicide. Abdirashid Mohammed Ahmed, a criminal legal alien from Somalia, final order of removal back in 2022. He's been able to stay in Minneapolis because you're not allowed to say anything to the Somali people of Minneapolis. They're all wonderful. The glue that holds people together. Convicted of two counts of negligent manslaughter with a vehicle. Legacy media would probably describe that as trying to avoid hitting people because that's how they, you know, classify manslaughter from the vic, the vehicle, two counts of a dui, larceny, damage to property, criminal, illegal aliens, violent from Sudan, Mexico, from Guatemala, El Salvador, and on and on it goes. Ilhan Omar hasn't seen these, apparently because she refuses to look. There are actual reporters following Ilhan Omar around in Washington D.C. that are trying to show her these arrest records. People who are on the streets. ICE has arrested them. They didn't go to the jail. Pick up those who are already illegal immigrants. That's what they're doing in red states in red states like Florida, in Indiana, in Texas. ICE is sending a message to the law enforcement of that state and saying, do you have these illegal immigrants with orders of removal who have committed these crimes? And a lot of those red states say yes, here they are, they are in this particular jail, or if there's a blue jurisdiction in those red states, they provide all the information on their last known location. ICE goes in, they pick them up, they leave, presto, no problem, done. But in these, these blue states, however, you have guys like. Again, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Fry, now under a federal investigation for obstruction, saying things like this. If this were about order, there would be a simple way to restore it. And let me tell you a secret. It's not restored by additional federal agents. Wow, that's quite the secret. Hey, hey, you know what, you know all those, those rapes and vehicular manslaughters and, and negligent manslaughters and, and strong arm sodomy of boys and girls and abuse and trafficking and drug possession and dealing and violence and murder and larceny and arson. You know, all that, that's not stopped by police. That's not stopped by that. No, that's, that's, you know what we gotta do, Give them more money. Jacob Fry Mayor of Minneapolis Incredible. Order would be restored. And I will make this prediction if those federal agents left. Ah, yes, no. Police zones famous for their incredible law abiding friendship. Yes, I too remember the Chaz in Seattle, the autonomous zone. And within like 48 hours, there were over a dozen cases. People leaving the chats going, somebody's gotta come in here. There's rape and violence and murder and all of, oh, wait, all of the things that come with lawlessness. Again, if you do not like federal law, for whatever reason, you hate it, you can't stand it, you're upset about it, whatever. You have to send congressmen and women to the Capitol to change the law. The executive branch has constitutional authority as federal Judges have upheld and have made it perfectly clear law enforcement from the federal government can come into your jurisdiction because you are a member of the United States and enforce federal law. It is just that simple. And because of actions like these, ICE is really no longer messing around. The media is wishcasting losing it. We, we got to bring the radio crew back from commercial, then we're going to get in some of this stuff. Don't go anywhere. It's going to be a hoot. It's the Tony Kennet cast here on the Daily Signal. It's the Tony Kennett cast on 93 WYPC. Welcome. I hope you're having a fantastic evening. Apparently Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Fry and Minnesota Governor Tim Walls, who is now under quite a few federal investigations at this point. No wonder J.B. pritzker of Illinois has gotten a lot quieter in the last week. I don't know if you've noticed that he, for he originally came out and started, you know, issuing all of these threats, shaking his big, heavy jowls at everyone. Now he's gotten real quiet because there are at least three active federal investigations into Minnesota Governor Tim Walls. Now, yet another criminal probe, this time into obstruction of ice. And ICE is no longer messing around. People have asked, why hasn't Trump actually invoked the Insurrection Act? Going to be honest with you. By sending another thousand ICE agents in and now seeing Immigration Customs Enforcement handle their own security. So when you have individuals who have tried the stuff that used to work 10, 15 years ago. I'm a woman. I'm, I'm, I'm autistic. I'm, I'm just out here doing, just protesting. I'm in a Fox suit or whatever that used to work. You know, that'll scare off the cops in Portland. No, no, I'm serious. People dancing in Fox suits, again, blocking traffic, trying to obstruct federal law enforcement. And Immigration Customs Enforcement now isn't putting up with it. Exhibit A, here's the Fox. So he's out there dancing again in the middle of the road. He is beyond where he is supposed to be. He's trying to block traffic. You can see ICE walking up one of them, carrying over his shoulder a fantastic bag of consequences. So what does the Fox say? You're about to find out.

[Virginia Allen]

Boom.

[Tony Kennett]

Now the crowd starts freaking out because again, they believe they've been told by media, they have been told by Jacob Fry, they've been told by Minnesota Governor Tim Walz that you can violate the law. It's your right to violate the law as long as you don't get out a gun and shoot people. And even then, you know, you have threats to shoot ice everywhere. We haven't been able to play half of them on the show because they are so vehement and disgusting. There would be more BLEEP noise than actual video footage. But in this case, they think, well, they have to just let us do whatever we want. No, not in the rules again. If you are going to FA in this case, you're going to fox around. You might find out now people start screaming, yelling, oh, how dare you. Traitor, murderer. Oh, you're terrible and awful. How could you do this? All of the left wing ladies who are trying, all of their screeching, it's not working anymore either. So the individual which we showed earlier this week, who parked perpendicularly in the street to block federal law enforcement as she was being ripped out of her car and dragged away. I can't believe I didn't find this footage. But I do have to share it with you. Announced, Stop. You can't do this. I'm disabled. I have a head injury. I'm autistic. Now I do need to inform you, you don't get autism from a head injury unless they've changed a lot in the last couple of years. Anyway, here we go. I am disabled. I'm disabled. Okay, great start. So I seem to have noticed here that her being. Let's, let's pretend that she's disabled. Here there are four ICE agents who are each carrying a limb. Now, if you are disabled and you can't move your arms and limbs, let's say it's a physical disablement. Hey, they've got you covered. No problem. Now let's say it's a mental disability. They're keeping her head from hitting the ground. Good on them. So just so far I'm not seeing any issues. I have a brain injury. Stay back. I'm autistic and I have a brain injury. Okay, interesting, fun information, exciting stuff. No brain injury. Put me down. I was just trying to get to the doctor and I'm autistic. Okay, her last claim. I was just trying to get to the doctor. I have tried a lot of ways to get to the doctor. I have. Mainly because my doctor's office has moved quite a bit in the last couple of years. And I'm gonna let you in on a little secret. Never when I was trying to get to the doctor have I put my car in park in the middle of the road perpendicularly. Especially being followed behind by like officers behind Me now there's been road, don't get me wrong, Indiana State Road 9 has been under some serious bridge construction and it has been annoying finding ways around that over the last year. It sucked. Never did I drive up to the construction project, put my car parallel in the road, you know, do a classic 23 point turn and then sit there and yell at people. Also a bunch of political phrases. That was never really, you know, I know that again. In the wizard of Oz, Dorothy was told to click her shoes together and repeat phrases. That's not an actual way to get home or to the doctor. So exciting, exciting stuff. There is more fraud yet again that is in Minnesota. That's being revealed. Nick Shirley, who is doing God's work, has now started looking at any business that is owned by Somali migrants and going to that business to find out if it is actually that particular business. In his most recent investigation, the man's released like two or three investigations since his initial daycare center expose. A safari excursion store company listed in the Minnesota business records. They showed up to, they, they like they were going to walk in and say, hey, we'd like to purchase a safari. And found out that instead it was this transportation and wire service that was wiring money directly to Somalia. That's a little suspicious. Also happens to be a kind of sort of pseudo convenience store because of course it is. And when asked about, hey, where's the safari business that's listed here? It's listed on the record. Updated this year 2025, 2026. Where is it? Man, the business owners get a little upset.

How are you?

We're looking for the transportation company.

[Jim Acosta]

Safari transportation.

[Tony Kennett]

Looking for safari transportation. Sorry, not a safari excursion company. I had questions anyway. Safari transportation transport company. All right, cool. Two and a half men in a truck or whatever you get out there. A little Penske truck, get a little business going. All right, I'm here for it. I don't know many transportation and truck companies that, you know, have the. You can see on the right side of the video there, that's wire service information on that placard and a little kiosk for wiring money. You know, like Western Union, when the scammers tell you you got to go buy Amazon gift cards, you know, do not redeem that kind of a thing. There's no safari transportation here. No safari Transportation.

[Jim Acosta]

Safari Transportation.

[Tony Kennett]

6 or 7 seater Avenue. We're just looking for safari transportation, so. But this is registered for Safari Transportation. 607. Now I'm going to level with you here. I'm just I'm going to level with you. If I owned a business and someone came in and said, hey, Tony, they're on. These records show there is a business that is operating here. It has been updated this year. It says it's operating here, and you showed me that. And there's no business there, especially if it's a residence or I'm in a different business. I would be rather concerned. As the business owner, I'd say, whoa, hang on, let me look at that. Someone might have stolen my identity and might be using that for malicious purposes. That's not how these guys react. They're like, go, get out of here. There's no safari transportation here. No, no. My cousin, he transports your goods back to Somalia. That's it.

[Tyler O'Neill]

We don't know.

[Tony Kennett]

We're asking where safari transportation is.

[Maria Corina Machado]

We don't know.

[Tony Kennett]

Okay. So this business is not here.

[Maria Corina Machado]

We don't know.

[Tyler O'Neill]

This.

[Tony Kennett]

Do you see this?

What is this?

Money transferring.

That's it.

[Jim Acosta]

Okay.

[Tony Kennett]

Registered.

Oh.

All we do is money transferring.

Oh.

Hmm. That's not at all suspicious. There's a meme that has become a favorite of mine right now. That is Bart from the Simpsons with a dead look in his eyes going, what an odd thing to say. That's essentially what a lot of Americans feel right now. Now we'll get into more fraud. In Minneapolis, my colleague Tyler o' Neill at the Daily Signal found a very suspicious series of potential fraudulent operations operating that involves a church in Minneapolis. We'll get to that a little bit later. He's not on the line yet. In the meantime, before we send the radio crew off to commercial, I do want to share the media's framing of all of this as though the Trump administration is on fire and they're going to lose the midterms because of immigration enforcement. The New York Times is now suggesting, though this is what I want to share with the radio crew before we send them off. The New York Times is now suggesting that because the Trump administration is upholding immigration law, it is skyrocketing the price of berries in the United States and Pennsylvania dairy. I've followed their particular sources. None of that is remotely true. Radio crew will see you in a second and continue on the live stream because no commercials over there. It's the Tony Knitcast here on the Daily Signal. Now, I do want to share this. Here. Here's the actual New York Times quote. Anecdotally, that's how every bad story begins in journalism. Anecdotally meaning, I heard this from my cousin Tim, the White House's immigration crackdown has also played a role in driving up food costs. They say this with such authority when literally the sources my cousin said to the New York Times, a lack of workers in some areas has led to cherries rotting in Oregon fields, blueberries rotting in New Jersey fields, and Pennsylvania dairy farmers selling off cows. Hold on. How does the lack of illegal immigrants in Pennsylvania lead to farmers selling off cows? I just want to make this clear. I followed their sources. Like, I've clicked on the hyperlinks. I followed it all the way back. No one explains that. No one explains that. Is the idea that they have, like, a bunch of illegal immigrants that they just hired for milking. Like, they couldn't afford the milking equipment, so they hired Jose. Like, Jose, go out there and milk. Okay, I'll go there. Milk the cows. And like, they don't have anyone to milk the cows anymore. And they can't do it because, you know, that's a lot of work, you know. And so they've had to sell off the cows because the cows udders are getting too bloated from not being milked enough. Are you joking with me right now? This is what's called wish casting. You were so desperate to point a narrative out. Oh, fruit farms and dairies, they're especially reliant on immigrant labor. On immigrant labor. Look, I like berries as much as the next guy. I have toddlers. You know what toddlers do? They eat berries quicker than. Than. Than Charlie Sheen did Coke. Okay, they go through berries. But I'm sorry, the idea that in order to have berries, I need slave labor. How about no? Now, if legal immigrants want to come to the United States and then follow federal law and work for farms and end up having to be paid a higher wage with specific employment. Yes, absolutely. Because the need of an expensive agricultural cost drives innovation. And relying on slave labor. There's an amazing study out of the American Enterprise Institute showing that slavery prevented. The south, prevented the southern states from advancing technologically in industry as quickly as the north did. Because you could just send out. You can just send out a black guy to do it. Who cares if it's inefficient? You don't have to pay him. That's the same illegal immigration practice. Agriculture. We have figured out incredibly impressive ways to handle the harvesting of certain things, like tomatoes, for instance, that we couldn't have done back in the early 90s. Now we're able to do and do it far cheaper than when you had to pay individuals who were often illegal immigrants to do it slave labor is not okay. The argument the New York Times is making that, well, you know, sorry, the, there's less slave labor going on. So you know what? Also there's less of since ISIS started cracking down, failures in commercial housing developments. Also in the news, Axios is trying to say unnamed advisors of the Trump administration are suggesting that the presidential administration is going to change their messaging on immigration. Like, like right before the midterms. Trump is so worried. Apparently, again, they can't get anyone on the record to talk about this, but apparently, supposedly, anecdotally, the president and his visors are really nervous that immigration is unpopular. It is growing to be more unpopular within the Democrat Party. There is a question about how this is being marketed to independence among Republicans. Trump has lost no support whatsoever. He's lost no support. Going to bring the radio crew back in and talk about Venezuela. Don't go anywhere. It's the Tony Kennett cast here on the Daily Signal. This is the Tony Kennett cast on 93 WIBC. We'll get back to the fraud. I promise we'll get to the fraud. First we got to talk about Maria. Yeah, that's right. I picked that Brooks and Dunn bumper on purpose. Maria. The one and only opposition leader, Maria Corina Machado came to the United States, met with President Trump and gave him her Nobel Peace Prize that she had received. And a lot of people on the left are furious, are outsized. They're so angry that the president of the United States had the gall to accept the award he had the gall to accept. She handed him a plaque, a beautiful like frame of the Nobel Peace Prize and them smiling together like had it all made for him. She didn't just say like, well, I guess if you really want it, here's my Peace Prize. She made a very big show of praising the president of the United States and giving him the peace prize part of it to butter him up. And then they ended up having a conversation. Now, before we get to the conversation, because actually our Virginia Allen got a chance to ask Maria herself about her conversation with President Trump because again, right now the president of the United States has still endorsed the vice president of Venezuela, Delsey the Maduro junior over in Venezuela, with continuing to run the country, there are a couple of questions as to why the president is doing that, but why he is meeting with Maria instead. First and foremost, though, I do want to get this out of the way because the media had to make a big deal out of President Trump accepting the prize that she get. How dare he accept Something someone gives him, he should be miserable and sad. How dare people not all be pearl clutching white liberal women here in the United States. Here's how that played out yesterday. You accepted Maria Machado's Nobel Prize medal. What do you intend to do with it? And why would you want someone else's Nobel, Nobel Prize? What do you intend to do with it? What do you talk. I'm gonna, I'm gonna put it in my bicycle spokes. I got a new bike. It's a, it's a really good looking bike. It's got pegs and, and I thought a Maria rookie card. What a great thing for the Trump bicycle. Maybe I'll put it on my locker and say, oh, Maria, you gave me this medal. Every day I'm gonna look at it and go, wow, that's a stupid question. What do you plan to do with it? What do you mean, what do you plan to do with it? I'm going to glue it to the Washington Monument. Get out of here. Prize medal. What do you intend to do with it? And why would you want someone else's Nobel Prize?

[Maria Corina Machado]

Well, she offered it to me. I thought it was very nice. She said, you know, you've ended eight wars and nobody deserves this prize more than in history than you do. And I thought it was a very nice gesture. And by the way, I think she's a very fine woman and we'll be talking again.

[Tony Kennett]

Now, just, just for, for kicks here, I, I, I do want to, to show what it is that, that she gave him. So the actual, again, just for, for the sake of transparency here, if we do pull that particular file up, here it is. You can see she made a really nice full, like, this is for Trump, this is for you. She didn't come in and like pull it out of her pocket and offer it, like being forced to offer the, the golden ticket to Willy Wonka. No, I mean, she, she came, she wasn't gonna leave with it. How dare you accept it. Oh, these both say, I don't want it. Take it and be gone. And your stupid little dog too. He didn't stop it. Why do you have to be ridiculous? Legacy media. Now, they did actually have some pretty intensive conversations. They spoke for quite a while and it was behind closed doors. So I do want to show you our Virginia Allen. Got a chance to ask Maria what it was that she and the President spoke about, if this meant anything. We'll go ahead and pull that particular clip up here.

Thank you so much. Wondering regarding your meeting with President Trump yesterday. Do you believe that you earned the trust of the president? And did you all specifically talk about a transition of power in Venezuela in which you would become president? Thank you.

[Virginia Allen]

Point again, this is not about me. It is about the will of the people. We certainly talk about how popular sovereignty has been expressed in Venezuela and absolutely terrible conditions in which we did and how the regime stole that result. I think he can certainly relate to that. I believe that the point here is Venezuela has decided as a nation to be united first, to unite back again and to fight for a right to be free. And he understands the moment and the implication for, for I would say the whole hemisphere. We talked and I would say this, I know you can imagine that about other countries and specifically about Cuba and the implications of a transition to democracy in Venezuela, what would mean to Cuba. And I insisted on something I've said many times that I believe that for the first time in history we will have the Americas free of communism, dictatorship and narco terrorism for the first time in history. And that's what's already happening. Sometimes you are so immersed in processes that it's hard to understand the implication, the geopolitical and historic implications. Imagine what this will mean to have these dictatorships from finally gone in Venezuela, in Cuba and Nicaragua. I mean, this is equivalent to the fall of the Berlin Wall in the Americas. So this is huge from a historic perspective. And this is happening as we speak.

[Tony Kennett]

We have our Virginia Allen on, couldn't keep her away, Foreign affairs, a lot of them going on. So right off the top of the bat, do you think that the answer she gave you was a deflection? Because she didn't directly address. She said, that's not the point. What's your take?

It's a little bit of a deflection, no doubt. It's politician speak is what we'll call it. I don't think she wanted to get into details related to what exactly she talked to President Trump about. And to be fair, I can't blame her. Those are sensitive conversations and she's at a critical moment right now. Her country's at a critical moment. And the last thing she wants to do is get ahead of the President of the United States and say something that he says, hey, we talked about that in confidence. Please don't share that with the entire world. So I get it. I get why she wasn't very direct. At the same time, you have a lot of Americans who are wondering, what are these conversations that are going on related to who is going to lead Venezuela? What is the timeline as far as who takes control and authority, are we talking about, you know, having elections within the next year? What does that look like? And those are questions that hopefully we'll learn the answers to soon, but not today.

That's very interesting that you say within the next year because she compared the capture of Nicolas Maduro to the fall of the Berlin Wall. I mean, very, very overtly, and, and said, this is for this hemisphere. This is its fall of the Berlin Wall. That's quite the claim to make because it did take just under a year, 11 months between the fall of the Berlin Wall and of east and West Germany, and there was a major collapse of the Communist government in eastern Germany in that time. So that's quite the statement to make. Do you think that she's suggesting that now we're going to see an uprising against the regime that's left over with Maduro gone?

I think, I think there could be suggestion of that. I think more largely though, she is saying that the wind has gone out of the their sales. They have lost their leader. And the message from President Trump has been so clear. If you, for the regime that has left, if you essentially just pick up the mantle and start doing the exact same thing Maduro did, the results are going to be the same. So watch out. And not only that, but this, of course, as she mentioned, sends ripple effects through all of south and Central America, specifically to the nation of Cuba that has been propped up by Venezuela for years and is one of our biggest threats within, within the hemisphere. And so to see not only Venezuela transition of power there, but potentially major transition in Cuba, that is huge news for democracy, for peace, for freedom in this hemisphere.

But that also brings up the idea of, you know, Delta Force making it so that the boxes sent home to Cuba were rather smaller than traditional caskets. It's a very harsh form, form of, let us say, aggressive negotiations. But in this particular instance, why I bring this up in her answer is that it seems that she is suggesting that the new regime is going to have to answer to the people all of the sudden and that they will give up power in another election, while simultaneously claiming that both the last election and the 2020 election in the United States were stolen. I mean, how do you go from saying, oh, they stole an election, but also they're going to willingly give up power now that Maduro is gone.

Well, and I think that is where she really is so dependent on the United States. And said as much earlier in her remarks, she pretty much said Venezuela will only be free with the help of the United States and President Donald Trump. And so she's acknowledging, okay, the last election was, was stolen in Venezuela and really appealing to the president, saying, hey, I know you know something about that. And then going on, obviously, to explain, you know, further. Okay, but there's also this movement among the people to want regime change. But again, she's very careful in how she threads that needle and what she says and doesn't say.

Virginia Allen, our senior news producer and the lady we send to fight our foreign policy battles on the journalistic front, thanks for giving us a couple of updates.

Always a pleasure, Tony. Thank you.

All right, we're going to send the radio crew over to the commercial and talk a little bit more about some of the fraud and, of course, some of the media squabbles. It's the Tony Kinnit cast here on the Daily Signal. All right, radio crew gone. They're away. They're on commercial break. Let's talk a little bit about what the infighting media, little nip at the ankles nonsense looks like. So, first of all, you have people saying, hey, why aren't you just sending Maria down to Venezuela to die? Which you do realize that if Trump said, I'm endorsing Maria, fantastic, el presidente, or I suppose la presidente, because she's a woman, we're sending her down in a boat, a nice boat, and we're going to wish her the best. If he did that, then they would say that he sent her to die, but he didn't do that. So they have to come up with something else. So here's that question. And then, of course, how the president feels it.

Why align with Kelsey Rodriguez and the.

Residents of the Maduro regime and not.

With Machado, who has the support of the Venezuelan people?

Okay, so again, I hate the next to Marine Force One or those kind of of camera journalistic questions because it's really hard to hear him. AI isn't quite at the point yet where it can totally clean that up. She asks, why are you supporting Delsey, the dictator in, you know, on deck, rather than the woman who has the support of all of the people? Maria, here's his response.

[Maria Corina Machado]

Ever remember a place called Iraq where everybody was fired? Every single person, the police, the generals, everybody was fired and they ended up being isis. Instead of just getting down to business, they ended up being isis. So I remember that. But I'll tell you, I had a great meeting yesterday by a person who I have a lot of respect for, and she has respect, obviously, for me and our country. And she gave me her Nobel Prize. But I'll tell you what I got to know. I never met her before, and I was very, very impressed. She's a really. This is a fine woman, huh?

[Tony Kennett]

Well, I mean, I don't know if you guys caught this, but what I, What I saw was an incredible level of restraint, which is something that supposedly Trump doesn't have. He goes in and he gets. People is all about himself all the time. And what I'm seeing here is Trump said, hey, you realize the last time that when we. You look in Iraq and we got in there and we fired a bunch of people and said, go, get out. You're done. Goodbye. And we gave no thought. We just smashed around and then got to nation building. Thank you. Uh, well, that turned into a major disaster, and those people became isis. Hmm. Boy, those inches sure do be resting. Interesting. Indeed. He seems to have learned a couple of lessons from the United States mistakes in the last 20 years. And again, he's like, I'd never met her before. Believe it or not, the President of the United States doesn't know everyone on Earth. Right? I used to get aggravated when everyone would expect Joe Biden to know everything immediately, right off the top of the bat. It's one number one reason why I really don't want to run for office. You're expected to know everything. I mean, like, Gary Johnson being creamed over not knowing where Aleppo was in Syria. Like, what, what. What's Aleppo with you? I. I don't. Give it. Give. Give him. Give the guy a break. So in that particular instance, I just want to point out it is rather funny to watch the media try very, very, very hard to paint Donald Trump as though he's making really huge blunders. And regarding the fraud front, regarding the immigration front, all they really have so far is saying that there are some people out there, anecdotally, probably kind of, who aren't fans of it. And that, of course, brings us back to the fraud. So we'll be back in a second. Don't go anywhere. It's the Tony Kennett cast. We gotta bring that radio crew back one more time. This is the Tony Kennett cast on 93 WYBC. I told you. I told you there was going to be more in the fraud and nonsense. Fear in the media goofing it all up. Well, we sure do have a little bit on that. So we now have, according to Gallup polls, additional series data suggesting that, yes, of course, the partisan gap between young men and women has. Has doubled in the last 25 years, men are supposedly, you're told, moving more to the right. Women are moving more to the left. Well, according to the data, that's not true. It's not true at all. Women, by and large, by average, have moved 20 to 30 points to the left. Men have essentially stayed pretty even. Men have stayed a little more conservative than the. The even, you know, consider themselves conservative or liberal line. Women have gone way more liberal. Men have essentially stayed the same. Which means that over the last 20 years, you were lied to. You were told that we needed strong female leadership everywhere because the men are becoming radical. So stand aside, George Lucas. Kathleen Kennedy is here to manage Star Wars. Stand aside. A new female cracker barrel CEO. She's here to make everything better. We're gonna make everything nice and clean and modern. Hey, stand aside. What we really need. All of these men are radical and they're toxic, and they're masculine and they're awful, horrible. And now what we have. Well, I would say at this point, we have a pretty firm conclusion. I can't say proven because it's polling data, but it is a pretty firm conclusion. That women, by and large, in the United States have moved extremely far over to the left. 20 to 30 points in the last 20 years is huge. That is a major shift. And men, by and large, have stayed in the same place. Now, again, we're going to get into that with some of the Jennifer Welch craze in just a little bit here. But first, I want to get back to the situation regarding the fraud in Minneapolis, because it's not just centered around the Somalia community. Individuals throughout Minneapolis and throughout Minnesota, we're told that you need to get out there and you need to support all of these programs because it's the right thing to do. You got to get out there, your church, your organizations, you need to get out there and not only accept when you see fraud around you, you need to actively participate in it. And, well, people are being caught. So our own Tyler o' Neill with his investigation on the fraud in Minnesota getting a whole lot worse.

[Tyler O'Neill]

Hi, Tony. Here's the deal. We know in Minnesota that there was fraud, right? We know it because there have been so many of these prosecutions, many guilty pleas, many convictions. But there's more fraud still to be revealed. And just last week, the office of Legislative Auditor put out this really shocking report that showed that the person who helped appreciate a $673,000 payment for one month's worth of work to an entity called Zion Baptist Church, that this bureaucrat then went on to work as a consultant for Zion Baptist Church just about a year later. And so I went through this. I looked up the. I went through the auditor's report. I found the most shocking detail. And then I worked on a story for it, and I actually got Zion Baptist Church to give me a statement. They, of course, denied any wrongdoing. And they claimed that even though the Office of Legislative Auditor said Zion Baptist Church had no documentation showing what they actually got paid for what services they were doing, the real story, according to Zion, is that the Department of Human Services just lost their documents. And the only reason they ended up hiring this former bureaucrat was because the Department of Human Services kept transferring their grant to different parts of the agency and lost all the documents that Zion Baptist Church swears to high heaven. They always gave on time, dotting their I's and crossing their T's. We'll see what the full truth is. When I asked Zion Baptist Church if they could share with me these documents or give me receipts showing that the Department of Human Services actually received them, Zion Baptist Church didn't respond. Also interesting, the woman who went to work from the Department of Human Services to Zion Baptist Church also gave me a statement. She identified herself, and then she said that everything was above board because she worked with her supervisor and her former supervisor at dhs. That's. The Minnesota DHS approved her doing consulting work here. This raises some interesting questions on the other side of the issue, because as the whistleblowers later told me, that means the conflict of interest may not have been with this particular employee, but with this employee's former supervisor. Many questions remain about this grant. Among them are the fact that this grant was one of many grants that were not offered to anybody else in a competitive process. So Zion Baptist church received a $1.6 million grant and this $673,000 payment without having to compete for it. So that raises other questions. This is the beginning. So we have. In the feeding our future scandal, we're toward the end of understanding everything in that scandal. This one we're kind of at the beginning of. So we're going to see it's being given to the. The office here is referring it for potential criminal charges to offices there in Minnesota, to law enforcement. And of course, this is just one of many different scandals that are bubbling up regarding fraud, waste, and abuse in the state of Minnesota. Meanwhile, Tim Waltz is constantly trying to distract from this by demonizing ice, by demonizing federal law enforcement. And, you know, there's one scandal after another, after another. So follow our coverage at the Daily Signal, and we will keep you updated as these many things continue to develop.

[Tony Kennett]

Tyler, thank you very much for that excellent summary. Appreciate it. Again, the number of different fraud scandals in Minneapolis are getting quite worse now. As of about five minutes ago, Jacob Fry, mayor of Minneapolis, has released a statement. Bad idea. Now both he and Tim Walls are, quote, tweeting the exact same CNN article. As producer Daniel has pointed out. We've read part of Tim Wall's statement already, but we have to send the radio crew out to their end of broadcast time. So, radio crew, we'll catch you on the other side of this Martin Luther King Jr. Day weekend. Take care. We're going to continue on the live stream, YouTube.com daily signal. Don't miss it. It's the Tony Knittcast here. Take care. All right. Over on the live stream side of things, Jacob Fry has also stacked in his incredibly poorly timed statement. So he's responded to the Justice Department probe into his actions and possible obstruction of federal law enforcement. Quote, this is an obvious attempt to intimidate me for standing up for Minneapolis. Guys, guys, just, just a second, you and me here. This is why when you are under investigation or when you are sued or you are arrested, whatever, don't speak before your lawyer looks over your statement. If you are charged with, let's say, obstructing federal law enforcement, and the first thing you go out there and do is say, well, I only did it because I was standing up for people. You, you're a freaking moron and you deserve everything that's coming to you. This is Renee, Good levels of arrogant stupidity here, not recognizing the situation that you are in and likely to pay for it. And we are going to talk about that. Are they actually going to pay for it here? In a moment or two. But Jacob Fry, an obvious attempt to intimidate me for standing up for Minneapolis, for local law enforcement and residents against the chaos and danger this administration has brought to our city. I will not be intimidated. My focus remains where it's always been, keeping our city safe. America depends on leaders that use integrity and the rule of law. So, so he sends out his first tweet, right? And then realizing that essentially he has. He's essentially admitted to committing the crime in the first tweet. So he sends another tweet, like, a couple of seconds later. He's like, oh, no. He says, America depends on leaders that use integrity and the rule of law as the guideposts for governance. The guideposts for Governance, integrity and the rule of law. Oh, you mean upholding federal law. Yeah, that's what the Trump administration is doing. You refused to cooperate with it. You fought, forbade the Minneapolis Police Department from working with the Trump administration. Just the absolute stupidity, the waltzing into situations that you made yourself when, when you just blunderously waddle into bad situations and then expect to everyone else just to ignore the bed that you've made for yourself. Incredible. Incredible. I really, I really can't believe that he actually admitted to obstruction of law enforcement. As a reminder, Tim Walls, his statement is a little bit more politically crafty. He said, you know, two days ago it was Elisa Slotkin. Last week it was Jerome Powell. Before that, Mark Kelly. Weaponizing the justice system against your opponents is an authoritarian tactic. The only person not being investigated for the shooting of Renee Good is the federal agent who shot her. Now that isn't. That last part doesn't make any sense. The only person not being investigated. No, there's a lot of people that aren't being investigated for the shooting of Renee Good. If you mean that Renee Good's wife is under investigation for saying, and I quote, drive, baby, drive. And encouraging her wife to commit vehicular homicide because it was the officer in front of the vehicle that suffered from internal bleeding after hitting, being hit with the car, according to the video footage that that officer who was hit was talking to the, the, the, the, the lesbian lover of, of Renee before the hitting with the vehicle. Yeah, I mean, should be investigated. Sure. The officer who got hit with a car and reacted in self defense. No, I don't, I don't, don't think an investigation is necessary there. You're not going to Derek Chauvin, this one. But at least Tim Walls didn't admit to the crime. He just says everyone's being politically persecuted and prosecuted. Oh my gosh. He didn't have any issue with that when Trump was being investigated or Melania's underwear drawer was being raided. All of the sudden, though, hmm. The, the shoe is on the other foot. Hmm. Excellent. It appears these Somalian beans are rather bitter for Tim Wall. So excellent stuff there. Now, moving aside from this a little bit, I did want to share one of the things that now that the radio crew is off and I don't have to abide by as many of the FCC regulations, viewer and listener discretion advised because, I mean, Jim Acosta and then Jennifer Welch, who again, looks like every other angry blonde left wing, like, angry lady. I said before, every left wing lady either looks like an off brand version of Rachel Maddow or Nicole Wallace. So you either have like the overly botoxed blonde lady or like the short haired angry woman. Those are, those are your two choices in this case. Jennifer Welch, Jim Acosta, they're out here with their own opinions on ice. And I guess if this is supposed to be the 2026, like, line of victory, best of luck to you there, chief.

[Jennifer Welch]

Let's first talk about ice, which I think needs to be abolished. Yes, I think that this is an organization that's behaving like isis. And, and you and I are old enough to remember when we would see these videos when America was doing nation building in the Middle east and people would get kidnapped and they had hostages and they had on masks and all of these Republicans were talking about how chicken shit it was that they weren't man enough to even show their faces and they wore these masks. And now I see this similar thing where I'm from originally in Oklahoma, and your producer Sam can attest to this. You'll see a big pickup truck with a bunch of flags in the back of it, totally giving isis. And then.

[Tony Kennett]

Ah, yes, yes, A pickup truck with an American flag. Yes, it's giving isis. Ah, excellent. Thank you, overly botox liberal lady. I certainly do love how you can look at something totally innocuous and go, terrorism and then look at someone attempting to commit murder. This is someone who was cheering on the murder of Charlie Kirk and said, if you're on the left and you don't cheer on the murder of Charlie Kirk, we're coming after you. But, but an American flag in a truck that gives ISIS to her. Mm, mm. Yes.

[Jennifer Welch]

These ICE agents with these masks, I'm just, it's just amazing to me.

[Tony Kennett]

Look, see, there's the pearl clutching. There we go. Yes, Excellent. Ah, excellent. I was hoping to get these out today. Go on, Welch, give us your best Sex in the city outrage.

[Jennifer Welch]

How irony is so lost on these people and just how morally depraved they are.

[Jim Acosta]

Yeah. And listen, I'm sorry, I always forget.

[Tony Kennett]

That Jim Acosta looks like someone who tried to once look tough in junior high and it didn't go well.

[Jim Acosta]

We can get into this and expand the conversation and talk about all this stuff, but this is, I think, a defining moment for the Democratic Party. I think if they are not going to take the position that ICE should be abolished the moment a Democratic president comes into office, then you really shouldn't be up on the stage. It just doesn't make sense. Like, yes, you may think, okay, if we triangulate and you know, I'll move to the left over here and then back to the center for the.

[Tony Kennett]

I'll see that anything went to the left and the right instead of just the scratching of the armpits. Jane Goodall moment right here. Very exciting general election.

[Jim Acosta]

We don't want any of that shit. ICE has gotten to a point. I mean, take a look at what happened in Minneapolis. If we have a situation in this.

[Tony Kennett]

I like how he says, take a look at what's happening in Minneapolis as though everything that they are saying right now is, is not involved with Minneapolis. I love it when Democrats do this. They're like, hey, we're talking about this one thing. And as an example, here's that one thing that, that's not, not how you describe something, Bud. Again, this was the CNN super duper ultra journalist man. So far all he's had is I really don't like ICE because of Minnesota. And also, don't, don't just, don't just focus on that.

[Jim Acosta]

Think about Minnesota country where the government can go out and murder a US citizen with no. Without any investigation that is credible.

[Tony Kennett]

Then we've murder a citizen. I love how they found citizen again. Good on them. Finding the word citizen again. Exciting stuff. Murder them. So he went to say, like without a warrant, you don't need a warrant to stop someone from actively committing a crime. That's what he was about to say. You can see like the malformer, like the W. Instead he's like, without any investigation. As though anytime there's an officer who fires a gun in self defense or otherwise in stopping a crime, we need to stop everything and do an investigation. Because obviously it's the libertarian argument that all police are evil and that seeped over onto the left. It's profoundly retarded.

[Jim Acosta]

Become a Putin, like thugocracy.

[Tony Kennett]

Ah, there you go, Putin. I'm surprised he didn't say Hitler.

[Jim Acosta]

And that is not sustainable. And we can't have a situation where, you know, the governor of Minnesota says we're going to bring in our National Guard to protect our citizens from ice. I mean we all know where this is going to end up leading. It's going to end up with people shooting at each other in the streets.

[Tony Kennett]

Yeah, yeah, it is. That's why the rhetoric question was important. You didn't have any concerns about that though. Now they're also, again, all the media is also trying to shift their attention. Donald Trump isn't running for election again. Uh, despite all of their claims that the midterms are gonna, you know, be canceled and Trump's gonna be dictator for life. They are now starting to shift their attention to Vance. I have noticed that Jennifer Welch is very creepily obsessed with J.D. vance. It's just sad. I, I don't know what dissatisfaction in her life has JD Vance in every single episode that she does. I mean, of course you people have common sense. You're not watching Jennifer Welch. But it is important to notice the shift that is occurring right now from going after Donald Trump to Now going after J.D. vance because they think he's gonna be the nominee in 28.

[Jim Acosta]

He's the future of MAGA. It is a fascist, authoritarian, white nationalist MAGA.

[Jennifer Welch]

It's worse than Trump.

[Jim Acosta]

It is worse.

[Tony Kennett]

There it is. I love it. I love it. So you had like, you had George bush and then McCain was worse. He was worse than Bush. And then you had Romney and he was worse than McCain, and then you had Trump. He's worse. He's the worst thing ever. And now you've got Viz. Worse than Trump. It always incredible. It's like, it's like a Marvel movie. You just have to keep raising the stakes and getting like infinite levels of power because you've already had the universe ending movie before. Well, you want to keep making money. So now there's, it's even bigger. It's not just the Infinity Stones. It's a multiverse.

[Jim Acosta]

Ooh.

[Tony Kennett]

This is their, this is their attempt.

[Jim Acosta]

Trump. It's Trump with staying power.

[Tony Kennett]

You know Trump the other day, Trump with staying power. Ah, yes. Clearly Donald Trump has made no staying power impact. Yeah. Donald Trump, the man with no ego who doesn't slap his name on the side of everything. No staying. Ah, yes. That was what, that's what the. That's what was missing. Trump was staying power. Mm.

[Jim Acosta]

Is, you know, he's, he's asking, am I going to go to heaven? Am I going to go to heaven?

[Daniel (Producer)]

Yeah.

[Jim Acosta]

It must be dawning on him that the sand and Dorothy's hourglass is running out.

[Virginia Allen]

Yeah.

[Tony Kennett]

Gosh, I can't believe that a man getting older would wonder where he's going to spend eternity. It's almost like that's one of the fundamental questions every person asks in their life. Wow, what a terrible. It's like it's dawning on him that he's. He's not a spring chicken. Oh, gasp. Wow. What a Jim Acosta with the hard hitting journalism.

[Jennifer Welch]

The curtains are closing.

[Jim Acosta]

The curtains are closing. JD Vance doesn't have to worry about that. This.

[Tony Kennett]

It's the walls closing in. But it's softer. It's the curtains closing in.

[Jim Acosta]

Whole crew of guys who are going to try to come in after it. They're not worried about that. The American people have to show that movement the door. I'm not talking about Republican presidents want to come in and act like Mitt Romney and folks like that. Everybody can deal with that. Everybody can stomach that. If, if Mitt Romney had been president, said Donald TRUMP In 2016, you and I probably wouldn't be talking right now. That's right. You know, Jen, you'd be down in.

[Jennifer Welch]

Oklahoma enjoying your own interior design.

[Tony Kennett]

You'd be doing that.

[Jim Acosta]

But the reason why we're all fired up, the reason why I talk about politics in the news the way that I do right now, is that I am deeply worried that this is coming to an end. This way of life that you and I grew up with, you know, our young producers who are sitting off camera, they don't, they have, they don't have, I know they don't understand what you and I grew up with. I know this beautiful thing that came out of the end of the Cold War and the post World War II era. It's a precious thing and it's being taken away from us right now in real time.

[Tony Kennett]

I love it. Thanks to MRC Newsbusters for sending us those clips. So it's good stuff. The Democrats are just having a real hoot, a real holler over here. Now, again, the midterms are nowhere near settled. We're nowhere near done with this. We're going to get to that, but we're going to get to that next week. I do have a little bonus clip for you here because one of the mailtime questions is about Jasmine Crockett, but about, like, if we've actually reached out because we've had on one of the candidates for the Texas Senate slot currently occupied by Senator Cornyn, who we have also invited on the show, I believe Ken Paxton as well on the show. And Jasmine Crockett we've all invited on the show because, you know, FCC regulations and also I would absolutely love an interview with any of those particular candidates. Jasmine Crockett is once again out there comparing ice to slave patrols because the only thing that she can do is complained that no one has pointed out that she's black in the last 24 hours. That's her entire shtick. Here.

You go get offended and try to say I'm too black, but the reality is that y' all never let the fact that I am black go so I'm gonna be clear about one thing. I know my good black history, but I love that.

I love that. So she's accused of only ever talking about how she's black because that's all she ever talks about. She's never produced a good economic policy or any economic policy. She's never accept racial reparations. She's never suggested a law enforcement practice. She's never suggested a piece of foreign policy. She's never suggested a bill on. On actual societal governance. She's never suggested a bill that has anything to do with the governance of the bureaucracy or on the function of Congress or the judiciary. Jasmine Crockett has done almost as little as Marjorie Taylor Greene, but she's. But she's talked about being black. Oh, there she. So when people point that out, like, hey, you're running for the Senate in Texas and your only thing that you've ever done is talk about what color you are and also, you know, practicing a different black scent every week. So what's the deal? So she comes out and goes, you know, everyone keeps talking about how all the only thing I say I'm about is black. So anyway, I know my black history.

This looks like modern day slave patrols. And they have been sanctioned by this Supreme Court.

[Virginia Allen]

What?

[Tony Kennett]

Ah, yes. Modern day slave patrols. How are they modern day slave patrols? Share with me one way in which they are modern day slave patrols. Is it because it is law enforcement that occasionally arrests individuals who are black? Is that it? Like, is that all you got? How else? I. I'm sorry, I. I don't know if you know this, but look, slave patrols, they were for catching people and then sending them back to the place that had ownership of them. When ICE catches someone who's in the country illegally, they are sent back to where they came from. Incredible. You too can do very, very basic reading. I would gladly pay for a Sylvan Learning center membership for Jasmine Crockett. Heck, I'd even pay for a membership to the Quality Luring center if it hadn't shut down. So onto a couple of questions from mail time. We do have a couple of excellent Mail Time questions. So I want to make sure that I get to them before we're done here. So again, you have a question for mail time. Every show's got a Mail Time segment. Not breaking any new exciting ground here. If you do have liked the show this evening, by the way, liking subscribing, that helps us. That's the only thing we'd ever ask. We try not to be annoying or obnoxious with that. So to some of the mail time from Glenn Gardner, who very kindly gave a $5 super chat. You do not have to do that for a mail time question. But he asks, he says, just wondering if you've had a chance to enjoy Mr. Reagan's new edition of the Mega man series. Yeah, it's fantastic. I have not. I've heard enough about it. I believe that Stephen Kent, who's on for Whatcha Watching, has sent it over my way. I have that on my list of things to kind of get through. So that aside from Carol asking about other international news, so what happens when Canada aligns with China? So Canada, that being Mark Carney announced. I think I have the video here. I can pull up. Mark Carney, the prime Minister of Canada, announced that they are because the United States is tariffing automobile imports. You know, to the United States, Canada is now going to start importing a bunch of cheap Chinese vehicles, electric vehicles, of course. So here's, here's Mark Carney, I think, talking about that. Thank you, Chairman Zhao Liji, for receiving me, my ministers and our delegation. Ah, yes. Nothing like watching a Canadian sound like he is being taken hostage by the Chinese. Because in case you're wondering, under the liberal government of Canada, that is exactly what occurs. 90% of the time. They essentially lick whatever Chinese communist boot is in range. And unless the United States threatens to cut them off in areas of defense, they continue licking the boot of Xi. And here's a great example of that. This is indeed a very important beating and the most auspicious start to the new year and to a new era of relations between Canada and China. We're heartened by the leadership of President Xi Jinping. Man, for all that great Chinese technology, they can't invent a translator that works faster than the speaking speed of Hakeem Jeffries. Really. But alas, I'll summarize it for you here. A they are going to start importing a bunch of Chinese electric vehicles, the ones that are currently exploding in China and that break down in about 15 seconds, loaded with a bunch of spyware to send back to Beijing. Excellent work there, Canada. Yeah, you know, from all of your favorite Chinese brands, U dong and we way tech have. I'm, I'm sure those are actually like brands that I've written down, you know, the Amazon brands I'm talking about, like make it up five minutes before they list this same AliExpress product, Temu product, that kind of a thing. Yeah. Excellent. Great work, Canada. Way to go, Mark Carney sell our stuff. So what do I think will happen? To answer the actual question, the United States eventually gets tired of it and at some point the United States announces some type of an embargo of the Canadian government or foments some type of political action. Do I think that the United States will actually allow China to have a strong foothold in a conservative administration, maybe under a Vance administration, maybe. Do I expect that to be allowed to happen? No, I don't. I don't. And that, by the way, that is my opinion kind of on the Greenland side of things, that if the United States actually felt as though there were a strong and sufficient threat of Chinese or Russian involvement in Greenland itself, then the United States would intervene. That would be done. Now I think the United States should own Greenland and it should just go ahead and take it and say, here's two weeks. We're either going to buy it for this or we're going to take it. That's, that's what I think should happen. Because I just don't care about the Danish or the 13 soldiers that Germany sent over. The two that Norway sent over, the one that the British sent over, they have, by the way, now invited the United States to participate in their defending Greenland exercises, to which I hope that Marco Rubio sends over a wooden horse on wheels just because that'd be really funny. So on that side of things, from David Macera, a good friend of the show, he said, Tony, question what is the answer for our society with people like these in it? I'm guessing you're talking about like the Jennifer Welch's when does it ever end? Voting out idiots doesn't solve this, correct? That is absolutely correct. So the answer to this is that the American society has to become long term invested in, in our country. I have a really great conversation with a pastor out of St. Louis that is going to be airing this weekend on this issue. Specifically, Americans since the end of the Cold War have just been interested in quick fixes. And the individual who elaborated on this the most to me over the last 5, 10 years has been Newt Gingrich, who has basically said that near the end of his time in Congress, Americans became so obsessed with the idea of just voting to fix a problem that we started giving ourselves lots of of rights and privileges and entitlements to where now, I mean, even the conservatives in the United States in the upper age bracket, they're like, I'm owed this, give me this and give me this. I, because I paid into it, give me, give me, give Me. And that isn't sustainable. But that's also how Americans view all of policy right now. Republicans, this is where the uniparty argument has some merit, is the idea that people just want things. And Congress knows that. If at some point you say, okay, America, you're not getting things from the government anymore, both sides will riot. So what do you do? Because that's where this, this entitlement from, like Jennifer Welch comes from. Give me, give me, give me things, and then I will impose my social hedonistic will on all of you. And the answer is that either there is a societal revival in which individual freedom and responsibility is regained, or it will eventually desist into chaos and we will enter hard times. And it's a rough conversation to have because both sides of the aisle are flirting with populism. The left has flirted with populism, whether it's the corporate populism of Bill Clinton back in the 1990s or it's the socialist populism back when Bernie Sanders encouraged very populous policies on things like tariffs and protecting the border. Now the Republican Party has its own populists. Say what you want, but, like, the idea of this is a popular opinion, therefore it's true. Give me stuff. It's not sustainable. It's not. And there are hard conversations to have now, by the way. That doesn't mean that the people who believe those things are bad, evil, or stupid. That's where both parties have screwed up. The right tried this with the establishment, was like, well, those populace are stupid and they're dumb. They can never do anything. And then they had the party wrenched away from them. That's not the answer. And it is a. It is what I believe what it means to be an American, and therefore what is expected of you is the most important question of the next 50 years. What does it mean to be an American citizen? Not in a manner of what you are entitled to. Right now, we're talking about citizenship as, like, what does it mean for me? What's in it for me as a citizen? No, being a citizen is not about what your country can do for you. No, being a citizen means what you owe your government. Paul, in the New Testament, as a citizen of Rome, understood and articulated that he owed. As a citizen of Rome, he owed the government of Rome certain things. It's supposed to be different than a resident in the United States. The 14th Amendment and the modern interpretation of it means that if you were popped out here in the United States, that you're a citizen. And that doesn't Mean, there's nothing that has to then come from you. You can ignore it. And the American society has been so prosperous that you can essentially sit back, do nothing, ignore politics, and nothing bad happens that really affects you that much, and you wake up once every four years and you go vote, and then you're done. You've done your duty. That's not what a citizen was meant to be. And you're right. You can't change that by electing new people. That's a problem. It's a cultural problem. It's why I and many others are encouraging Americans to go to church, to be actively involved in your community, because that kind of individual investment has been lost. And please, by the way, don't take any of that as some kind of a lecture like those of you out there. You are the problem. No, absolutely not. This is something that I struggle. I mean, again, you'll, if you choose to tune into that conversation this weekend, you'll see specifically what it is that, that I'm, I'm talking about with Pastor Marty Haas out of Grace Church in St. Louis. Very honest. Say I struggle with this consistently. So that aside, last question here. I, yep, I, I, yep, there it is. There that the one comment on that. Civically, no one wants to hear that the government doesn't owe them anything when they've been taxed at a rate of 50% all their working lives. Stop spending thousands of billions on foreign countries. There you go. You can't actually talk about how you should be relying on the government when that is the primary attitude of the United States. It's a problem. Not saying that person isn't even right. That's a problem. There you go. Sorry. Looked at the comments section last, last little piece here on a particular question I wanted to answer. What do you think these charges that should be brought against Tim Walls and others should look like? So that was before the story broke, but I do want to get this question answered. It's from Renee, not the good kind. I think that there are a series of charges that could and should be brought against individuals like Ilhan Omar, like Tim Walls, like Jacob Fry, like Attorney General Keith Ellison. I am more concerned about what they could be charged with. So there are people suggesting, oh, they need to be charged with treason. Oh, they need to be charged with rico, the racketeering clause. That is a mistake. It's a mistake. You do not want to go after Tim Walls with rico. Do you know why? You don't know. Proof exists that he did a racketeering scheme in Minnesota. You don't know that. There's proof that Ilhan Omar's husband. Yes. Whose net worth increased exponentially. You don't know. There's proof she was running a racketeering ring, you say, Tony, don't you want them charged with what it is they committed? Absolutely. Do you know what I want more? I want them to go to jail for crimes they can be nailed on. We saw this with Sean Diddy Combs, did we not? Well, I mean, he had these baby oil, you know, horrible parties, so therefore he must have been actively participating in sex trafficking. He had to, right? Turned out they couldn't prove it. They had him on a whole list of charges they could have gone on him for. Instead they made RICO a part of it and then glued a bunch of stuff to rico, which you have to do. You have to glue charges to rico. And then he ended up getting off for it. Because if you can't prove all of them, you're done. And Sean Diddy Combs, who should have been in prison for 50, 60 years, if not more, in my opinion, ended up getting off because the RICO charge didn't stick. By the way. Same thing that Fani Willis learned in Georgia. She's like, I'm not just gonna get Trump for these things that he absolutely said in court, which still would've been specious, but it wouldn't have been a more solid case. Instead, I'm gonna get rico. It was a big mob thing. And while she was, you know, having sex with the prosecutor of the case, cuz she's stupid, she tried to run RICO on Trump. Didn't work. It turns out that what you charge the defendant with matters. And if you go in willy nilly, by the way, am I super satisfied everything Pam Bondi's done? I didn't say that. But if you suggest you should just go in there and start throwing out charges like Johnny Appleseed, don't be surprised when things don't stick and then you're done. Double jeopardy rules. You gotta be really, really careful about how some of this is done. And it has to be done carefully. And that may mean you gotta be patient through some of this. And by the way, that doesn't mean that that gives them carte blanche to goof things up. I said earlier on the show this week, before we saw the probe and the subpoenas, I said specifically, they need to be careful because if it is worth doing, it is worth doing right. And if you are going to back down, the political temperature of this country and individuals are going to be held accountable, then they should be held accountable correctly and end up with the charges. Now look, you and I, we understand very clearly there's a good chance they do walk away with this. Yeah, for sure. There's a good chance they do. There's a good chance they don't. You and I can have our suspicions. We've seen how this goes before. I'm not saying one way or another how it's gonna go. But I am saying that I would rather the cards be played correctly in this case than going rico treason looking ugly. Book em and then them get off scot free and have the supreme court weigh in and go, you can't do that. Just kind of my, my end of thought there on that. So I'd say that's about enough for the Tony Kinnick cast this week. We will be back next week. Not on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. We will be back next week, 7pm Eastern every single night. Glad that you joined us. If there is some breaking news over the weekend that is slightly Persian flavored, we'll go on the air. Can't tell you when that'll be because unlike so many, I'm not omniscient. Have a fantastic weekend. Tony Kinitkast here on the Daily Signal, nationally syndicated, first on 93 WIBC. Take care.