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Ep. 499 - Jake Tapper Thrown Off Nancy Guthrie's Property, ICE Hearing, Trump's 2006 Epstein Call
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CNN's Jake Tapper is thrown off of Nancy Guthrie's property by an Arizona sheriff after a new round of neighborhood searches begins in the search for Virginia Guthrie's mother.
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Tony Kennett, host of the Tony Kennett cast. Let's get down to business. You're listening to the Tony Kennett cast on 93 WIBC on CYTV, here on the Daily Signal. Good evening and welcome to the Tony Kennett cast here on the Daily Signal, nationally syndicated, first on 93 WIBC. Whether you're joining us from radio, TV, live stream side of things, the podcast later, we're really glad that you are with us, mainly because when I am sent on assignment anywhere, I am told very clearly respect those that you are around, especially those when you're on different assignments, especially those who are affected by particular tragedies. For example, when the Daily Signals, Tim Kennedy and I were sent to Maui right after the first wave of the wildfires, a lot of the ground still smoldering, our Daily Signal president, Rob Bluey, threatened us within an inch of our lives that if we did not treat every single person on that island respectfully, we were going to hear about it up close and personal. Unfortunately, I cannot say the same for a lot of other journalists, broadcast hosts, show hosts, et cetera. So we have this news, the situation regarding the kidnap and the reported $6 million ransom request of Virginia Guthrie's mother, Nancy. She has been missing now to the point where there are a lot of individuals who are rather concerned that at this point, given the amount of medicine that was left at the house, there's, there's questions as to whether she is still alive without serious injury at this point. And we're going to get into some of the clips that were released by the FBI through some backdoor stuff today. Before we get to that, though, Jake Tapper over from CNN showed up to the crime scene today and according, according to JLR Investigates, an independent journalist who was filming this from a dash camera and then I believe, got out and got a little extra footage. Quote, reportedly, Jake Tapper arrived to the scene to report and literally started asking the people around him, pointing at Nancy Guthrie's house and asking, is that the house? He had no idea. Now, look, a lot of houses look like a lot of other houses, but at least do a bare minimum of research before you show up. They are now in the third wave of investigation in the neighborhood, in the community. So there's a lot of people in the kind of greater neighborhood of Nancy Guthrie that spoke with police and FBI and agents today, kind of re going through a lot of evidence. And then after Jake Tapper had been There for just a couple of minutes, the sheriff walked up and threw him off of the property, which is rather wild. Here's what that looked like. Righteous Monkey. He covers all Tucson. You don't have to be on camera. Sheriff is telling Jake Tapper to get off the property. So you can see the sheriff getting out of his vehicle walking up there. I'll go ahead and zoom this into the full screen here so you guys can get a better look of what's going on. The sheriff just told Jake Tapper to get off the property. So now you can see Tapper calling home base, doing some motions there. And the CNN crew starts packing up and leaving. Now, I have no idea what it is that Jake Tapper did to severely offend individuals, but when you are showing up to a particular crime scene, no matter if the road is considered public or not, it is considered appropriate, respectful even to contact the law enforcement agency with jurisdiction over the current investigation and ask them, where can I stand? Where should I go? That is not in the way because given this particular investigation, where they don't really, at least as far as we know, yet have a significant lead on any place, any person, the time is really all we have at the moment. And as to Nancy's kidnapping, to just show up on, to, you know, into an active crime scene and just start broadcasting and recording is, yeah, it's a bit disrespectful. Now, that's not Jake Tapper alone at all. That is a majority of the corporate and legacy media. And then on the flip side, some of the independent journalists and influencer side as well, they just stroll up and think, well, I'm a journalist. I get to do whatever it is that I want. No, you do not get to do that. Just because you show up, you got a press badge which is on, you know, clipped onto your blazer or onto your sweater, or you show up with a microphone or some cheap cell phone camera and say, I'm a journalist. You don't get to do whatever it is you want. Now, that isn't stopping Don Lemon. Now, in the case of, in the case of Don Lemon, who again showed up to the city's church in Minneapolis after meeting beforehand with the former NAACP and BLM leader, then of course, participating and at the very least, trespassing, at the most, kidnapping and, and forbidding individuals from leaving a space, intimidation as well, Don Lemon has now hired, in the particular defense of his, his upcoming hearings and trial. Rather curious here, Joseph Thompson. Now, Joseph H. Thompson is the former acting U.S. prosecutor for Minnesota. So A couple of weeks ago, in the middle of the ICE operations, the Trump Department of Justice directed the Minnesota U.S. attorney's office to start investigating individuals like Renee Goods wife, who had said, and I quote, drive, baby, drive, and got in the altercation with the ICE agent before Renee tried to gun her vehicle through him. And this particular former U.S. attorney, Joseph H. Thompson, then resigned in protest. Said he didn't. He didn't like it. He was too far. And above such things, now has been hired by Don Lemon as his defense attorney. Now, I'm gonna level with you here. That's rather strange to me. I don't know all of the ins and outs of hiring certain kinds of prosecutors to represent you or defense attorneys and certain things, but I did believe that if someone acted as a prosecutor normally, I didn't think that you then turned around and then hired them for all defensive kind of things. So I reached out to Kurt Schlichter, a phenomenal trial lawyer friend of the show from townhall.com and. And I asked him a couple of minutes before the show, because we're still getting information in on this. The New York Times just broke this story about a half an hour before we went on air. He said there could be a significant conflict here. He said, quote, I'm not sure what the rules are for a criminal defense lawyer. That would be what this guy is. Now, I guess, obviously, passing the bar in Minnesota would mean that you get to participate in law in Minnesota, and at some point, he has to be able to go up against his former employer. But if he was on any kind of a case or had anything at all to do with Don Lemon's prosecution or keeping an eye on certain kinds of intimidation and harassment, like some of those individuals who were serial, consistent, repeated protesters, that one individual with the long beard who screamed that he would die but the revolution would never die comes to mind. Well, then that would be a significant ethical conflict of interest, and he would be barred. Now, if he had nothing at all to do with the case at all when he was there, then he could probably do it legally. That's from Kurt Schlichter. So interesting development here. It reeks of theater because it is theater. It is the idea that you go in, you do something, you're like, I'm a journalist. And then you get told to beat it because you're not doing journalisty things. You're posturing, you know, like a congressperson in committee. We'll get to that in a minute. Then once you get out there and you maybe do something to the point of breaking the law and you get charged. Then you hire the most flamboyantly, you know, stick it to them kind of attorney that you can find. This is in essence, by the way, just so that you're aware a couple of days in advance, this Joseph H. Thompson, this is your new Jack Smith, this is your new Robert Mueller. Just so you know, you're aware, this is the new person that Democrats are gonna light incense candles to and suggest that, oh, this is the last of the non biased, unbiased, wonderful holding to justice attorneys and prosecutors, whatever that are out there. Oh, so brave, so stunning. Now in the rest of the media sphere, things are on fire. Obviously you already know that the Washington Post laid off a third of its staff. Their CEO has now also resigned. Oh gee, I wonder if Jeff Bezos is gonna be able to find someone, anyone willing to run the Washington. The Washington Post. Oh no. CBS Evening News is also having a really, really terrible time. According to an exclusive report and sources telling the New York Post this. Also this afternoon right before the show, CBS Evening News staffers are jumping ship without any kind of a buyout offer ahead of Barry Weiss, the new director of CBS News, expected layoffs. So according to the Post, quote, about a quarter of CBS Evening News staffers which are eligible for buyouts, meaning, hey, you guys can leave, we'll pay you to cancel your contract, see it. They have instead chosen the option ahead of the impending layoffs to scoot to leave. Eleven staffers opted for buyouts which were only offered to non unionized employees. A source told the New York Post Six of the producers out of the show's roughly 20 added. It just seems like people are jumping ship, a lot of people. Another individual said to the New York Post. So this contains a rather interesting tidbit with it, but we're going to send the radio crew off to commercial before I get slapped with an FCC fine. It's the Tony Kennett cast. We're going to continue on the live stream because FCC don't rule that roost. It's the Tony Kenned cast.
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Donald Trump
All right.
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Tony Kennett (Host/Commentator)
If I can keep my glasses from sliding down my face, it will be an absolute miracle if CBS can actually keep some of these people on staff. It will also be an absolute miracle. Here's what this buyout skipping means. Usually when you take some kind of a buyout to be bought out of your contract early to take a little extra on the moolah side, you agree to sign an NDA, a non disclosure agreement. And when you Sign an NDA, you say, I solemnly swear that I will not reveal a bunch of things that are not privy to the public. I won't get out there and disparage my employer. I won't get out there and talk about that one time we made out in the staff lounge, that kind of nonsense. And if you have a bunch of CBS staffers, producers, whatever, that are now saying, I don't want the money, I'll just go and resign now before Barry Weiss can get out the comically large city ribbon cutting scissors and attack my contract like Dave Ramsey attacks credit cards. Well, then it's very likely because they're getting ready to come do some kind of expose. Expect something in the next couple of weeks where there's, there's some mini documentary on VOX or something. Oh, the horrible life of anti journalism under Barry Weiss. Oh, the horrors. So the media is having a really rough time. CBS programming is of course, just in a really, really rough place. And it was compared quite recently to when Iranian state media cites your news.
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Donald Trump
Program.
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Tony Kennett (Host/Commentator)
Because you're too busy fluffing certain other interests around the world. For example, like Washington posted. Yeah, it's a really bad look. It's a really bad look. So, yeah, I don't blame Barry Weiss for the shakeup, obviously. Do not blame the sheriff in Arizona for telling Jake Tapper to beat it. Also on the subject of cbs, they're also in hot water because they released a report saying less than 14% of those arrested by Immigration Customs Enforcement in Trump's first year back in office had violent criminal records. A document shows they were called out on this immediately because it turns out, and this according to Curtis Hauck over at the Media Research center, no over 60% of ICE arrests involved those who had been accused or convicted of crimes. And you may say, well, I mean, sure, you want to say that illegal immigration is a crime, but we're talking about real serious crimes, not standing outside the Home Depot. That's what you're often told in a very angry and often illiterate comment over on social media. However, the crimes which make up 60% of the indictments, the prior arrests for again, the, the accused of or the conviction include arson, kidnapping, homicide, robbery, burglary, sexual assault, weapons offenses, dangerous drugs, dui, dwi, and then my personal favorite, assault, lots of assault, and then another chunk of 30 includes like all of the other various kinds of state and federal crimes. So again, it's a really rough time for the media. All you have to do is get out there and report what is in front of you. Really not that hard. But alas, it just seems like such a high bar for many to clear. Now, in the meantime, regarding DHS situations, the Trump administration is winning in some pretty sizable cases. First of all, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled in favor of the Trump administration. This in a divided ruling. A 2 to 1 ruling has now suggested that in many of the southern states which have detention centers for illegal immigrants to then be processed and get their extra super duper due process before they are shipped out of the country. The fifth Circuit Court of Appeals rules. Yeah, alligator Alcatraz, the speedway slammer, the who scow near you. Yeah. That's allowed to stay also. And we have to hustle because the radio crew is about to come back from commercial. The ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled unanimously that, yes, the Trump administration can cancel temporary protected status for Nepal, Honduras and Nicaragua. So this now means you have an appeals court which says that Trump can release some of the TPS for places like Nicaragua, Honduras, Nepal, but not Haiti. That's not going to last. We're going to bring the radio crew back from commercial. Don't go anywhere. Lots more news. It's the Tony Kenneth Castle. You're listening to the Tony Kenneth cast on 93 WIBC. Welcome back to the Tony Kenneth cast here on the Daily Signal. We had ourselves another Rootin Tootin congressperson shooting in front of the camera. Nonsensical hearing yesterday in which you bring in a bunch of cameras and you shoot lots of wonderful footage of congresspeople acting like children. So they dragged in to the House Committee on Homeland Security several of the key staffers and administrators, deputy directors Todd Lyons, Department of Homeland Security, Immigration Customs Enforcement, U.S. border Patrol. And then they turned on the cameras and it became just a clown show and a half. Now, when I say clown show and a half, I mean. No, no, really. I mean, we had everyone, they went to FedEx, Kinkos, they got their big posters and then they, they lectured individuals or got down to some theology, as we'll talk about with a Kool Aid man herself, Lamonica McIver smashing through walls and federal agents here in a minute. But first and foremost, Sri Tandadar of Michigan, the man of the incredibly large eyebrows and the wig he stole from Party City. He just started telling Todd Lyons that, hey, you know what? I hope you're ready. I hope you're, hope you're going to get a pardon from Trump. Essentially announcing Nuremberg in the committee here was Sri Danadar. Do you think President Trump will pardon you and your Boss Kristi Noem before he leaves office, just like he has for Insurrectionist and his political allies. Do you believe President Trump will pardon you? Because that's a wild thing to say. That's a very wild. Do you think that President Trump will pardon you for what? We've now moved past leading questions in committee, by the way. I'm just going to say we got to make sure if we're going to do the, the full on circus rigamarole in House and Senate committee hearings. Can we at least get some professional lighting installed? I've seen school board meetings that were filmed at 2am on some forlorn Thursday off of a potato and an old Panasonic tape recorder that were filmed better than this. It's awful. At least if you're going to make it a TV production, then put a little effort into it. But Shri gets out there and he says, don't you think you're guilty and that you're going to die and you're going to need a pardon? And Lyons is like, what are you talking about? And sri because, you know, professional order then just goes off. And I'm, I'm, I'm just going to level with you here. If I called for support of some kind and this is the voice that picked up, I'd hang up. This man ever calls me and asks me for donation, I'm reporting him to Verizon as a scammer. Well, you better hope so. You better hope you get. Because you will be held accountable for the absolute disregard of the law your agencies have shown over the past year. Your agencies have lost the trust. Takes him like three minutes to turn the page because he doesn't actually know any of this. He's reading it. Some intern typed this out in like 12 point comic sans on the paper of the American people with millions taking to the streets to protect. Not millions, homie. Not, not even close. The illegal actions of your agencies. Okay? So at this point in time, I would like to remind you that in a committee, what you could do is you could ask them, hey, did you do these acts? 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. Why did you do these acts if you did? And if not, there's this other evidence that says otherwise. Huh? And, and then, see, here's what you do. You then go through what you think are the illegal things. Because that's what this hearing is supposed to be, right? Right. So it should be like some kind of congressional hearing of accountability. No, it's just yelling about why it's not me. It's you. And then I saw you flirting with Jennifer. How could you do that?
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Donald Trump
This is.
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Tony Kennett (Host/Commentator)
What is this? Junior high garbage? And that's why I introduce a bill in the United States Congress to abolish ICE. Yeah, that's real special there, Sri. Thank you. Now, of course, Representative LaMonica McIver, she got out there as well. Again. You'll remember her from body slamming a federal agent and being charged with assault.
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Tony Kennett
Alliance. I've heard my colleagues ask many questions.
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Tony Kennett (Host/Commentator)
Over and over again and ask.
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Tony Kennett
Of course, you cannot answer them. So let me ask you some questions that you may be able to answer. Mr. Lyons, do you consider yourself a religious man?
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Matt Davis
Yes, ma'.
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Tony Kennett
Am. Oh, yes. Okay. Well, how do you think Judgment Day.
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Tony Kennett (Host/Commentator)
Will work for you with so much.
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Tony Kennett
Blood on your hands?
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Tony Kennett (Host/Commentator)
I'm not. What you hear is the room groaning. Because this is tantamount to a Parks and Recreation skit at this point. Not gonna entertain that question.
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Tony Kennett
Oh, okay. Of course not. Do you think you're going to hell, Mr. Lyons?
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Tony Kennett (Host/Commentator)
I'm not gonna entertain.
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Donald Trump
Of course.
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Tony Kennett (Host/Commentator)
Gentlelady. Gentlelady.
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Tony Kennett
How many government.
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Tony Kennett (Host/Commentator)
The gentlelady will suspend? The gentlel. Suspend, Chairman, as I. A gentlelady will suspend. As I said, the issues we're debating here are important to ones that members feel deeply about. Incredible. Incredible. Getting lectured by the Kool Aid man who assaults individuals on camera. See, I don't have to say allegedly assaults, because I saw it on camera. I witnessed her body slam. Oh, yeah, the federal agent. Do you think you're going to hell? Because I see all of this blood on your hands and let me ask you about it. Do you think it's typo blood or more like AB positive. Excellent. Then you had Representative Benny Thompson just strolling out with the fake AI image clip of the headless ice agent with the robotic leg with the arm growing out of his boobs, killing him in broad daylight. In the video of the incident, a.
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Donald Trump
DHS agent can be seen cheering.
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Tony Kennett (Host/Commentator)
So he says that in the video of the incident, he could be seen cheering. And he's going to point to the photo like a still of the video, Mr. Preety's death.
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Matt Davis
Americans watch the video.
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Tony Kennett (Host/Commentator)
Now, wait a minute. That's that AI photo. Arm boob, robot leg, headless man. In fact, by the way, if you look up at the guy who's supposedly about to shoot Alex Pretty, he has, like, a weird reverse mohawk beanie on, and he's holding the gun with his. I mean, like, with the veins in his wrist, it's. It's. It's incredible. Beautiful, amazing artwork. I'm told that's no Will Smith eating spaghetti. AI is right here, right now. Now we're going to let the Delia Ramirez, the newest, freshest face of the Democrats again, explain the entire purpose of this. This is kind of the last of these, you know, just nonsense circus performing.
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Virginia Allen
As I've said before, dhs, ICE and cbp, they're not really rogue. Congress designed DHS to violate our rights under the pretense of securing our safety.
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Tony Kennett (Host/Commentator)
So she's half right. Half right. She's half right because in one part, yeah, Congress designed the way immigration law works so Congress could change immigration law, you know, reform some things, change some rules. But she's got a difference. She knows Congress needs to do something. But see, she grew UP in the 2020 School of Political action.
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Virginia Allen
I'm going to say it loud and clear, and I'm proud to stand by what I say. DHS cannot be reformed. It must be dismantled and something new must take its place. Because if we let DHS persist, it will continue to be a weapon that can be pointed at anyone the government considers the public enemy.
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Tony Kennett (Host/Commentator)
Demolish it. Just ban it. Cancel it all. Ah, boy, that's the move. We go over to Virginia. Allen over from the Daily Signal. Of course, host of problematic women, as well as one of our best news producers in Washington, D.C. in part because of the fantastically circusful nightmare that was the Department of Homeland Security hearing in the House today. We didn't really waste a lot of time before we got to the theatrics, huh? Not at all.
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Tony Kennett
And quite frankly, that sometimes what these hearings are become all about, unfortunately, as they very quickly deteriorate into moments of a lot of theatrics and members of Congress getting very frustrated, very upset. And quite frankly, at moments it can seem like, you know, looking for a news clip that they can send out to their donor base to, you know, say, hey, look, I really challenged the lawmakers in Washington, D.C. and whatnot, members of the Trump administration. And there is very little productive conversation, which we saw some productive conversation today on Capitol Hill around the issue of border and immigration, but not much.
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Tony Kennett (Host/Commentator)
That's what I want to dive into really quick because clearly both groups, the Republicans and the Democrats, when they go into a hearing like this, they have their initial statements before all of the witnesses and whatnot. So what did it appear that both sides of the committee were attempting to accomplish? I mean, obviously we could talk about body slam kool aid man McIver, you know, talking about finding Judgment Day but this is actually something that we need to know. What is it that Republicans and Democrats looked like they were trying to accomplish here?
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Tony Kennett
Yeah, I think from Republicans, you had great effort and intentionality to try and remind the American public why borders matter, why following immigration law matters, and that the men and women of, of ice, of cbp, of usc, is that they are simply executing the laws that Congress has passed. So there was a lot of discussion of the 10 million illegal aliens that entered the US under the Biden administration, how the Biden administration ignored and failed to enforce U.S. immigration law and how the current administration is seeking to do that, and why it's important. On the other side, from the Democrats, a huge focus on Minneapolis, Minnesota, of course, on the, the deaths of Renee Goode and Preddy and really honing in on. And that's where I got into really theatrics, really honing into simply bashing Trump for trying to enforce those immigration laws, bashing Kristi Noem, calling for Noem to resign or for her to be impeached. And there was, there wasn't, I would say, a lot of good communication between the Democrats and members like Todd Lyons on the committee. You know, there was efforts to try and have conversation, but it became very clear and that many of these members came in with an agenda, they wanted to say their bit, and they, quite frankly, weren't that interested in what the witnesses had to say.
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Tony Kennett (Host/Commentator)
It sounds like a cheap marriage counselor. A lot of yelling, Fair amount of yelling. I, I gotta, I gotta ask here, because this is one of the things that does pique my interest because again, do you make it appear that. Well, a lot of the opening statements through the close amonis were all performative for the camera, but ice, when they have been pressured before on, you know, basically being scolded, yelled at, no matter who they are, I mean, even if it's Scott Besant and an unrelated financial committee, when individuals are lecturing or when individuals are lecturing the administration about ice, the response is that, well, if you, as congressmen and congresswomen don't like it, you should change the law. And I know we saw a lot of those responses today. What was the response when the, when that was, was thrown back in their faces? Well, if you don't like it, you should change the law. That kind of a thing. Was it just completely brushed aside or were there any quips or anything ready for it?
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Tony Kennett
I think what we repeatedly see when individuals in the administration bring up that fact is from, from Democrats, from many on the left, they just kind of go back to various stories that have been told very inaccurately in the media around actions of ice. Like the, the story of, you know, supposedly ice detaining a five year old. Well, no, his father abandoned him and they, they took care of him while they tracked down his parents. So those are, it's very, I would say, narrative forming which like the Border.
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Tony Kennett (Host/Commentator)
Patrol rodeo story from the 2024 election.
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Tony Kennett
A bit. A bit, yeah. And you know, being in journalism, Tony, you and I know how important narrative is that it's a powerful tool but it's not helpful when lawmakers essentially try to become journalists and rewrite the facts.
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Tony Kennett (Host/Commentator)
Ah, how we know that so well here on the Tony Kennett cast. Virginia Allen, our senior news producer. Thanks for covering that today. I wish there were more exciting bits and bobs of new facts that were presented that we could analyze. But you know, if we're going to see theater, then we might as well get the playbill.
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Tony Kennett
Absolutely. You got, you got a front row seat here in Washington D.C. all right.
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Tony Kennett (Host/Commentator)
We'Ll send you some popcorn here from Indiana to help you get through it next time. Thanks again for joining us.
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Tony Kennett
Thanks, Tony.
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Tony Kennett (Host/Commentator)
All right, I've got a little something special just for you. And it all has to do with bridges because Sri Tanadar, he's very, very angry. No, no, no, no, like more than usual. He's very, very, very angry because the Trump administration has made a couple of changes regarding the Gordie Howie bridge project. So this is the bridge between Detroit, I believe and Canada and that particular negotiation prior earlier deals, the Trump administration had kind of pushed back on a couple of things before that got underway. Here's how that was pitched to Carolyn Levitt, White House press secretary today in the, well, the White House press briefing room regarding this particular, this particular bridge.
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Tony Kennett
Canadian.
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Tony Kennett (Host/Commentator)
Sorry about that.
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Virginia Allen
I think the president was very clear and direct in his truth, John. But just to reiterate the fact that Canada will control what crosses the Gordie, how Howe Bridge and owns the land on both sides is unacceptable to the President. It's also unacceptable that more of this bridge isn't being built with more American made materials, even more so than what President Barack Obama could committed to with the Canadians at the time at the start of the project. He also believes that the US should own at least half of the bridge, have shared authority over what passes across it and participate in the economic benefits generated by its use. This is just another example of President Trump putting America's interests first. And so he made that very clear in his call with Prime Minister Carney earlier today.
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Tony Kennett (Host/Commentator)
Now there's a lot of salty sailors over this one. We're going to get into it because there's a little bit more to it. And of course, the Epstein stuff afterward, don't go anywhere. We got to pick up the radio crew from commercial. You're listening to the Tony Kennett cast on 93 WIBC. Welcome back to the Tony Kenneth cast here on the Daily Signal, nationally syndicated, first on 93 WIBC. A lot of angst and aggravation. Some, some salt because the Trump administration is now suggesting that Canada, which would control both sides of the bridge between Detroit and Windsor, the Gordie Howie Bridge right before it's opened up, that Canada, which was going to control the tolls on both sides. No, absolutely not. America gets to control the land, at least on the American side. Some conversations about that. Sri Tanadar is very, very, very, very upset about this. So is Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer here. She was making a statement about this this afternoon.
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Tony Kennett
Canadians have paid for the bridge.
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Tony Kennett (Host/Commentator)
The bridge was built with organized labor.
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Tony Kennett
Union labor on both sides of the bridge, including Michiganders.
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Tony Kennett (Host/Commentator)
It is a really important part of our economy, the largest crossing in North America.
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Tony Kennett
And so it is important that it continues to move forward and open up on time.
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Tony Kennett (Host/Commentator)
And that's my expectation. All right, so a couple of things there. The Trump administration is making the case that since American labor helped build it, then America should get a bigger stake in the bridge than perhaps Canada owing everything. Now Sri Thanadar got out there because, you know, of course, and he says he's very, very angry because as Canada is paying the entire cost of the bridge, Michigan was about to get a no cost bridge. That's not how that works. But Donald Trump is trying to kill it. And then we get my favorite, we get like all of the, the emotionalizing for no other reason than to inflict pain on Canadians and Michiganders alike. No, that, that's not why. And by the way, a lot of angst from those over on the left side of the aisle about this particular bridge and Canada having paid for it. I, I seem to remember a certain pipeline that was funded by Alberta, the Keystone pipeline, which they didn't give a flying fig about getting canceled. So spare me, spare me the pearl clutching here. Now onto a couple of things from the Trump administration regarding tariffs regarding international policy. I'm going to be honest with you. The way the president of the United States describes a retaliatory tariff with Switzerland, I mean, as an American, it's Really hard not to at least smirk. In this particular instance, I had an.
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Donald Trump
Incident with a very nice country, Switzerland. They were paying no tariffs, sending stuff over here like nobody could believe, and we had a $42 billion deficit, and we weren't taking anything. I said, well, we have to do something because we have to even that up a little bit. I didn't have to get everything at one time, so I put on a 30% tariff, which is very low still. We were having a big deficit, but it was half the deficit.
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Tony Kennett (Host/Commentator)
Here we go.
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Donald Trump
Then I got an emergency call from, I believe, the Prime Minister of Switzerland.
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Tony Kennett (Host/Commentator)
She called the president. So in America, we have, like, the red phone. In Switzerland, they have, like, a phone that's just shaped like a Toblerone. You pick it up and you call the United States. Emergency call from the Swiss. The Swiss government.
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Donald Trump
She was very aggressive, but nice, but very aggressive. Sir, we are a small country. We can't do this. We can't do this. We are. I couldn't get her off the phone. We are a small country. I said, you may be a small country, but we have a $42 billion deficit with you. No, no, we are a small country. Again and again and again. I couldn't get off the phone. So it was at 30%. And I didn't really like the way she talked to us. And so instead of giving her a reduction, I raised it to 39%.
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Tony Kennett (Host/Commentator)
So she calls and just starts griping at him and is like, you can't do this to me. I'm Switzerland. Don't you own me? I'm Toblerone. Swiss watches. I'm so mad. And Trump's like, I'll tell you what I'll do. I'm going to mark it down from 30% to 39. Have a wonderful day. And from all of us here, konnichiwa. I just. I enjoy it. I do. The president also described the sending of 200 US troops to Nigeria for the process of training local forces to fight against Islamists, isis. Here was the president on that.
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Donald Trump
They're killing record numbers of Christians in Nigeria, and they have other countries. Very bad also. You know that.
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Tony Kennett
That.
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Donald Trump
That part of the world. Very bad. They're killing the Christians and killing them in very large numbers. Not going to allow that to happen.
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Tony Kennett (Host/Commentator)
The audio in those Air Force One clips is just brutal. First person who invents a way to make that sound gorgeous, beyond AI Robotics is going to be a very wealthy person indeed. The Trump administration is what I would say, understandably, so interested in kinds of military solutions so far from what we've seen that don't involve the classic go there, take it, hold it, set up little puppet democracies and things like that. It's a pretty regular thing for the United States to dispatch a couple of platoons or in this case a couple of companies to go and participate in some kind of field training exercises. For one thing, that's about as much training for the US army as it is for those who are on the ground in Nigeria. Teaching isn't of itself a training experience. So that on that side, one other thing I wanted to point out here, not just because our White House correspondent Elizabeth Mitchell for the Daily Signal asked this question. I want to talk a little bit about ag, this kind of Trump foreign policy thing and how it all fits together. So here was this from today.
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Virginia Allen
So some Republican lawmakers from Nebraska have said they're worried that the Argentinian beef executive order will sideline some American ranchers. How will Trump administration make sure prices go down for consumers without harming those ranchers? Of course, both things can happen at the same time. That's the president's belief. He wants to see prices come down. In fact, I just overheard him on the phone with Secretary Rollins. They were talking about something different. But he's always saying we got to make sure that prices continue to come down. As you know, Secretary Rollins successfully did that with respect to ice egg prices. Cattle beef prices are coming down slightly and the president wants to see that continue. He believes that a minor import to the country with cattle might be a short term solution with respect to bringing down prices. But of course, protecting our American cattle and rancher industry is a priority for the president. And he's in touch with those stakeholders. We've had them here at the White House a few times in recent months to discuss this issue directly.
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Tony Kennett (Host/Commentator)
So a couple of things there. First of all, I am very, very, very critical, very critical. For example, some of the more, let's say, flamboyant influencery style of administrator. I know I have criticized Kristi Noem over this before, in contrast to Tom Holman, who I think is doing a far better job of leading the Minneapolis situation. And it has led a couple of people to suggest that maybe what I really don't like is that I actually I, Tony Ken, like women, apparently, and that I don't want them anywhere near leadership. And my answer to that is no, because I adore Brooke Rollins leadership. I do. Brooke Rollins is doing a phenomenal job with agriculture in this country. She is doing a phenomenal job doing something that very few in the agricultural department has ever had to do, which is translating the president's foreign policy into agricultural goals and compromises here in the United States. That's a very, very difficult thing. Whether you're talking about ranching or farming right now in this country. The United States has economic levers to play and some diplomatic levers to play and then military levers to play by force. And it turns out that sometimes if you pull an economic leverage on the greater world stage, it may affect Americans here in a manner that means you have to compensate. We'll talk about that. Radio crew. We're going to send you over to the commercial break. We're going to continue on the live stream here. It's the Tony Kinnet cast here on the Daily Signal. I'm deeply impressed with Secretary McRawlins, obviously Carolyn Levitt there articulately pointing out to my colleague it's difficult. You do have to thread a pretty fine needle when it comes to foreign policy and agriculture because the levers of import and export, which the president understands, even if I don't necessarily agree 100% of the time with his particular ways that he uses tariffs in a long term strategy. He understands economic purchasing regarding, for example, Argentina or Chile or the Philippines or whether it's looking at the exports compared to certain farming industries that are propped up by our not competitors but global foes and rivals. China comes to mind regarding the soybean market. That might mean that prices are affected here in the United States and it's not as simple as in Egyptian times. In the Bible, when Prime Minister Joseph, appointed by Pharaoh, had everyone put a bunch of grain into silos and save them from seven years of famine. It's a little bit more difficult to and intricate than it used to be. And huge props to the Rollins team who is not out in front of the camera every day talking about how wonderful she is and patting herself on the back. She is constantly. And she's not. No one from her team has reached out to me and asked me to say anything like this whatsoever, although we would be thrilled to have her on. Ever since the situation in which I went to Washington, D.C. for I believe a a celebration over a family whose land was returned to them after they were sued by the federal government for allowing their cattle to graze on a couple of feet of federal land. Ever since then I've watched as she's traveled to all of these different ranchers and she's been working as hard as she can to broker a couple of deals and make things in a rather fluid way function to kind of hang on for some of these international levers being pulled. I'm, I'm rather, I'm rather impressed by that. That brings us on to the major levers that the Democrats are trying to pull. This would be Jeffrey Epstein. So a boat ton of documents dropped. Some of them communications, as I've already told you. Some of them are videos, some of them are anonymous tips that have been called in. And the more we read through the files, the more hilarious the narratives that were consistent over the last year turn out to be. So, first of all, the biggest story of them all is that President Trump, according to a host of media outlets and also several documents, was one of the first individuals to blow the whistle on Jeffrey Epstein to police, period. And indeed, after Epstein was arrested and in the middle of court proceedings back in 2006 regarding his own solicitation of sex with Epstein's own solicitation of sex with a minor, Donald Trump got a hold of Florida law enforcement and not only congratulated them for going after Epstein, but then said, you need to look into Maxwell. You need to look into Jelaine Maxwell right now because she's the worst. I mean, all the way back in 2006, tipping them off. Now the Democrats have decided that this is the ultimate gotcha for Trump, which is just really, really bizarre. And we're going to talk about that with the radio crew. We got to bring them back from commercial break one more time. Don't go anywhere. It's the Tony Kennett cast here on the Daily Signal. The Tony Kennett cast on 93 WIBC. Welcome back to the Tony Kennett cast here on the Daily Signal. Good to have you. And boy, is it weird to watch people take things that are good and try to say, no, actually, this is really bad. We got them. So a couple of months ago, a lot of the communications section of the Epstein file dump was, was leaked. And what we found were a plethora of emails in which Epstein said to anyone who would listen, I hate Donald Trump. I don't like him. He's awful. He's evil. I can't stand Jeff or I can't stand Donald Trump. I don't like him. I think he's bad. I don't trust Donald Trump. That was from Jeffrey Epstein, like, for like 15 years of emails of him saying that. And the Democrats ran with that and suggested from their public social media, even Jeffrey Epstein didn't like Trump. And man, if the worst person ever didn't trust Trump, imagine how bad Trump must be. Uh, I will remind everyone for the 562nd time that if a bad person does not think highly of you, that's actually, that's actually a pretty good thing. You know, just cool, cool, fun tips for, for living. One. One might say now, again, when we're talking about the Epstein case today, this document reveal that Donald Trump had gone to the police over Jelaine Maxwell, who is now pleading the Fifth and begging for clemency. Trump's not gonna give it to her. Uh, and, and the connection there where Trump's like, I know you got Epstein for going up to a minor and that's good that you got him for soliciting sex, but you should really go after Ghislaine. She's the worst. She's doing all the hooking up. And then there are some allegations that are. Are still sealed at this point. Speaker Johnson has referenced them, that Trump essentially fed information on Jeffrey Epstein to the FBI over the next several years. Those are not fully verified yet. Now this, however, though, that the Trump that Trump himself called in to Florida law enforcement, at least according to Florida law enforcement back in, oh, six. That is more verified, at least according to the. The media outlets that are corroborating this. Now, that said and decide media, for example, like Representative Garcia, are coming out trying to claim that actually this is all a lie and they were buddies forever. Jeffrey Epstein was clear that Donald Trump was his best friend for over a decade, according to the emails that we have. No now, when he was trying to impress someone, because again, that was his thing. Right. He was a manipulator. He would try to say, I'm friends with all these people, give me money. When he was trying to sell himself. Yeah. But in private communications to those who were closest to him, he hated Donald Trump. And this Garcia clip is from this week, this morning. I believe it's a wild thing to get out there and say Donald Trump has denied and has tried to essentially say that he barely knew Epstein, he viewed him a certain way. But we now know in every single document that was released, we now know that the evidence continues to pile up that there was a real relationship and that Donald Trump did know Jeffrey Epstein. So again, what he's alleging there is that there's no evidence that shows that Donald Trump didn't like Epstein. Again, the 06 call clearly show. So we have, again, additional records that show that Donald Trump really didn't care for the guy. But again, we're going to keep on trotting this out time and time again, despite the evidence. And we're going to hope that at some point, the walls are going to. The walls are going to close in. I believe this is the beginning of the end.
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Donald Trump
I do, too.
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Tony Kennett (Host/Commentator)
It's really the beginning of the end. The beginning of the end. That's what kind of stuff that they're. They're really hoping for. Why were women, as we know, recruited from Mar A Lago? Why is Donald Trump basically claiming that, oh, he didn't, for example, do the birthday note that we all know he did. He continues to try to distance himself, but with that email and others, it's clear that Donald Trump knew about Jeffrey Epstein. Again, he's never claimed that he didn't know Jeffrey Epstein. And Democrats are running with this as well. So the particular piece of B roll that we have here. Yeah, from the Democrats, Trump knew. Everyone has known he's been doing this. Donald Trump in 2006 on Jeffrey Epstein. I'll remind you that at the time, Jeffrey Epstein had only been charged with going to one minor and soliciting sex. Trump in 2006 said, Go talk to Jelaine. Go after her. She's the one that's trafficking all of these minors into him. And the Democrats are like, aha, Donald knew and he told the police. And that's. That's a bad thing. So let's review. We have emails, more than enough that show that to his closest friends, Jeffrey Epstein hated Trump. We have evidence consistently that shows Trump threw Epstein out of Mar A Lago. Banned from the property, would not go to, like, not get off the plane, go onto the island. Epstein island, that kind of a thing. Though Steve Bannon tried to manipulate Trump and Epstein into reconciling. Trump was like, no. And threw Bannon out of the White House. Epstein was ratted out by Trump regarding the later charges and the investigations as far back as 06. What. Here is the part that makes Trump look bad. The birthday card thing that it really. Okay, I'm. Best of. Best of luck to you. They're trying this with Howard Lutnick as well, who also, like a lot of rich and famous people, knew who Epstein was. So in a Senate hearing with Howard Lutnick, Secretary of Commerce, it was really funny watching a lot of Democrats try to strut out there and say you knew Epstein while also making it clear that, well, yeah, you knew Epstein, but also, there's no allegations of any kind of wrongdoing at all. But I'm still going to mention it. As you know, Mr. Secretary, the issue is not that you engaged in any wrongdoing in connection with Jeffrey Epstein and.
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Matt Davis
No suggestion of wrongdoing on your part and propriety, if you will. And there was also the communication regarding the museum across the street being put up and that action needed to be taken and what should we do? So that's eight different instances. Just encourage you to be completely frank and open with everyone. Correct the record as needed. And again, no wrongdoing on your part. Thank you.
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Tony Kennett (Host/Commentator)
What a weird thing to get out there and say, what a weird series. And you can't hit someone with something that they've been cleared of. But again, we've seen this with the left for ages. This is the smacks of the suckers and losers remark. It doesn't matter whether or not it's been discounted or disproven or thrown aside or, you know, different evidence that's come up to contest it. We're still going to throw this up because genuinely nothing at all. Now, we'll get to this in the bonus section of the show. About what? About all these famous people. There's so many famous people in these documents, all of these in, you know, Instagram and social media grifters out there trying to get all these clicks for important people. Joe Rogan's name's on the. Oh, my gosh. We're gonna get into that. We're gonna talk about it. Because, yeah, it turns out when you just dump thousands upon thousands upon tens and hundreds of thousands of anonymous tips, which the FBI was like, this person was clearly on crack. In the section on after they looked into it, the crackhead outside Speedway called in, said they saw Mickey Mouse and also Tom from Tom and Jerry with Epstein. And like, that's, no, not useful. We'll get to that in a little bit here. For before we get to that, though, I do want to mention some Olympics news and some really cool stuff because, you know, we started out kind of awkward and weird with some grumping and complaining. And then the US Women's hockey team showed up and things got pretty stellar. So radio crew, we're going to send you guys out for the evening and we're continue on the live stream YouTube.com daily signal or rumble.com the Daily Signal would love to see y' all there. It's the Tony Kinnit cast here on the Daily Signal, nationally syndicated and first on 93 WIBC. All right, I do want to check on one thing. I must have looked down at perhaps the right time or maybe the wrong time. I'm Seeing in the comments, someone suggest that the Guthrie family has paid the $6 million ransom, but the mother has not yet been returned to a bitcoin wallet of sorts. Could you guys check in on that for me? I don't normally do like those kind of update requests over the air. I normally try to type them out, but just check on that one for me, if you would. Now, Olympic stuff. Then we'll get back to some of the Epstein situation. Really want to point this out here. The USA shut out Canada in the Olympics in women's hockey, 5 to 0. It is the first time in history that Canada has been shut out in a hockey game in the Olympics. Really, really cool stuff. Here you go.
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Donald Trump
I had an incident with.
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Tony Kennett (Host/Commentator)
Next scene. That'll get you. All right, there we go. But Judge David, what on earth? I tell you what, it must be one of those particular evenings I get my mind talking about nonsense like that. And I miss the incredible clip of the US Women's hockey team. All right, that should be loaded. There you go. Murphy gets to it. Centering pass score.
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Donald Trump
Bilka 2 Nothing.
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Tony Kennett (Host/Commentator)
United States. Annabel out of Texas. Excellent stuff. Excellent stuff. To the US Women's hockey team. Really great. Love it. Keep it up. Also, Ilya Malinin. I'm not sure if I'm saying that name right. I'm probably not. Also known as quad God. Netted the United States the gold with the first legal backflip in 50 years in Figure skating. This is. This one's just incredible to watch. No one in the world can do that flip. Wow. Incredible form. Incredible. That's a fantastic performance. That's stellar stuff. That's the kind of. That's the kind of reason to watch the Olympics right there. The never before scene, hasn't been done before kind of stuff. That's what the United States has traditionally been known for in the Olympics. Not just breaking a record, but doing something that no one has even seen in decades. That's some excellent stuff. So huge congratulations to the United States Olympic team. So now back to cover some of the things that I wanted to touch on really quickly here. Tmz, because of course it is, is suggesting that there has been activity seen going into the bitcoin account, which is tied to Nancy Guthrie's alleged ransom note. At this point, not really sure. I would say that there is maybe hefty speculation that either there was an attempted payment that was made or perhaps some other activity. I'm not certain how public the bitcoin address was. That's not something that you can Just hear very briefly and then enter in. Those addresses are a bit long and hefty, so we'll keep an eye on that one for you over the next 24 hours. Obviously, be in prayer for the Guthrie family that their mom is returned and that when they find the individuals who kidnapped her, they hang him in the public square. So that moving on forward. Also, I believe there is a video that was released by the Federal Bureau of Investigation today, which appears to be some kind of doorbell footage. And a mask man, very difficult to see any discernible features here on the Nest camera. So he goes up to the door and then recognizing that there is a camera lens there, puts up a mittened kind of fist there. Looks like he's. You can see the eyes. Tries to turn away, see if there's a way can maybe walk away and find another entrance in or cover up something in the face. Picking up a rock to go back and attempt to smash the Google Nest camera. So that's some of the footage released by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the Guthrie case onto the rest of the Epstein conversation. So again, I made the case that if they released all of the unredacted tip line. So you have Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna, who have every ability to go out and list any redacted names that they want right now, any of them, they're allowed to go out onto the floors of Congress and just release them. They're not doing that. They're just complaining. In the meantime, though, there are a lot of people who now everybody. Everybody and their mother and their second cousin. Everyone from the part timer down at the local speedway or Piggly Wiggly, all the way up to every fortune 500s and P500 Daytona 500 executive is on the Epstein list, including Joe Rogan. And there are a lot of grifter accounts on social media who are trying to gaslight you into this hyper ultra conspiracy that everyone is involved. Everyone is involved. And that's why your life is miserable and terrible and awful. It's the secret French, Jewish, Chinese, CIA, Dinoco, Texas Instruments, Taco Bell, NASA conspiracy. It always has been. To try to trick you into believing the earth is round or some nonsense. So Joe Rogan did go off on this particular goofiness. Again, the idea of, like, why Joe Rogan is in the Epstein files. And I. I would. I would argue that it's a pretty interesting conversation. It's a bit long. But he. He does go into why he might be in these particular files. Well, I'm told I Knew that was going to happen. That's why you don't click that particular line. Here you go. Joe Rogan.
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Matt Davis
It seems very dark, very dark. Because it seems like it was this bizarre black male influence thing that was going on for a long time.
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Tony Kennett (Host/Commentator)
Through different administrations. That's what's so unbelievable about it, how long it was going on.
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Matt Davis
I'm in files for not going.
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Donald Trump
Huh?
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Matt Davis
Yeah, I'm in the files for not going because Jeffrey Epstein was trying to meet with me.
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Tony Kennett (Host/Commentator)
Oh, I did see that.
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Virginia Allen
Yeah.
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Matt Davis
And I was like, what?
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Tony Kennett (Host/Commentator)
You're like, no, thanks.
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Matt Davis
Yeah.
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Tony Kennett (Host/Commentator)
Aren't you glad? Yeah.
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Matt Davis
But I would have never went anyway. It's like, it's not even a possibility that I would ever went. Especially after I googled them. I was like, what the fuck are you talking about? This was like 2017. One of my guests was trying to get me to meet him. I was like, bitch, are you high? Like, what the fuck are you talking about?
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Tony Kennett (Host/Commentator)
For what reason would you, what, what.
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Matt Davis
Would be if I was a guy who is like, sucking up to the rich and powerful, if I was really interested in hanging out with rich and powerful people.
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Tony Kennett (Host/Commentator)
There you go. There's a lot of people that are on the Epstein list for going, for not going, for being reported in anonymous tips for, you know, suggesting, hey, man, that guy in the Willy Wonka nerds commercial really looked like that kind of stuff is all over things. There are a lot of people who knew who the individual was and there are some people out there who have slapped on the aluminum foil and have decided that, ah, yes, this, this, this proves the ultimate super duper theory. No, just, just, just hang on, hang on for, for just a minute there. The last thing that you want to do is get out there and make some really big claims and then be humiliated after it turns out that a bunch of that stuff is, is not true. And again, as we've seen more in the documents released, we're getting a clearer picture of what it was that this guy was doing. Now, in kind of an interesting related side, not on the sexual scandal, but just on the business corruption scandal, Keir Starmer's entire government in the United Kingdom could just be over the moon, compromised regarding business dealings with the Jeffrey Epstein business group, including an ambassador that Starmer named to the United States. I mean, just a huge mess. Royal family. The United Kingdom is already in a really rough place, you know, because halal. But in the meantime, this could really cripple the United Kingdom's liberal government and could quite honestly pave the way for maybe Nigel Farage and the reformists. I need to see a little bit more in the momentum side for that. Uh, so that particular moment aside here, I do want to get over to a smidgen of the mail time questions. Uh, but again, looking at what the Democrats are really all in on for 2026, once you get past the Epstein stuff and the hating voter id, well, they're not getting past the whole voter ID hate. One particular representative. Oh, what's her name? Is it Belint? Some no name representative from Vermont. Becca. Yeah. Becca Balint of Vermont has now come out to announce that one out of four women are idiots. No, really, one out of four women. Here you go. The whole point of the democracy is.
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Tony Kennett
To make it possible for people to.
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Tony Kennett (Host/Commentator)
Vote because it's the people who get to decide the policies. And Republicans talk nonstop about protecting women. And you'd think if they really believe.
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Tony Kennett
This, that this would be a non.
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Tony Kennett (Host/Commentator)
Starter for them because it disenfranchises so many women. But as we have seen with the Epstein files. See, got to tie it back in here. That's a stupidly wild and wildly stupid thing to say. So the case they're making is that when women change their name, it's no longer the same name. You know, they get married. You know. Oh. So therefore, if you bring a marriage document or again your letter of change to the Social Security Administration and the new updated name, by the way, not only has that been done for a very long time, it's not even a difficult process. So she is quite clearly saying that this disenfranchised one out of four. One out of four women are too stupid to get an id. Really. There is also not one, not one documented case of a lady being turned away after some kind of a name change after marriage. There is not one, not a single documented case of this in the United States whatsoever. But she's got her Epstein. She's going to say, oh, it's just like the Epstein files over this past year. What they say and what they do are two different things. Ah, yes, those. Excellent. So thank you very much to Becca Blint, by the way. I am, I am quite, I am quite entertained by those over on the live chat section on YouTube at least, who get a kick out of. Occasionally I will click the wrong clip because I do a lot of my own pausing and unpausing, you know, explanations in the middle of it. They have now decided there is a drinking game whenever I pull up the wrong clip accidentally on the wrong scene or number. So you win this time and also go ahead and I don't know, good luck to you. I'm just gonna play eight wrong clips so you all can be just completely sloshed. All right, that aside, I want to take a little bit of mailtime questions here based on some of the things that we've been talking about tonight. You know, some, some really good, good enjoyable stuff. I think really good mail time questions. You can get a question answered here, throw it into the chat, head over to tonykinnit.com that scrolls over at the bottom on the live stream T O N Y K I N n e t t.com and send a mailtime question there. We'll read them. Some of them are good, some of them are awful. Send your compliments, your insults, your recipes for chocolate mousse. I don't know. Great question tonight. First of all, regarding some of the stuff on the show. It's from David macereau, a friend of the show said, based on the marked bias of legacy TV media, what's the status of the FCC holding hearings and evidentiary gathering with relevance to the revocation of their TV news broadcast licenses? So regarding cbs, the answer really boils down to whether or not persistent licensure, persistent infractions are taking place as to whether or not their licenser gets to stand. So in order to broadcast on FCC spectrum, that's radio, AM&FM and TV, analog TV or digital, but signal sent through the air, we're not talking satellite, we're not talking cable news, we're talking broadcast on Spectrum air. Those are regulated by the FCC and there are certain things that you're not allowed to do. So CNN, Ms. now all of those various networks, they don't have a license for FCC. They don't need a license for the FCC. Now Fox and well, Nextar and MSNBC, Ms. Now, I suppose CBS, ABC, all of their affiliate stations that carry some of their national programming, those do have to be licensed for the fcc. If there is a series of practices that do violate FCC regulations, then they'll be fined. Now if you have some place and let's say ABC News and they're just doing such a bad job they're violating all of these different rules, then the FCC can hold hearings and throw them off the air, but very likely that you're going to get hit with a strong series of fines. It's pretty rare for any kind of an outlet on Spectrum to just keep doing whatever it is that they want and flip the FCC off. So that'd be kind of that now, of course, everyone on broadcast media and broader media in general do it. They do have to be careful about defamation laws. So you will have heard during the show this evening that I tossed aside the word allegedly regarding representative Lamonica McIver in New Jersey. So typically you don't get out there and make assertions in public about certain public figures or really a lot of individuals that involve things like specific crime. And the reason that you don't is it could be damaging. It could cause them specific damages to their person to future opportunities, financial, legal, down the road, something could be admitted as some type of an evidence or a pseudo testimony in some civil cases. And therefore you're not allowed to defame people. For example, on CNN to Cameron Caskey, one of the Parkland survivors, a liberal activist got out there and said, donald Trump is a pedophile. I know it. There's evidence for it. He did it. And then everyone in the panel said, no, there is no evidence of this. Dude, don't get us in trouble, please. It's under defamation, not under an FCC fine. Now, if I commit defamation here on the show during broadcast air, so there are still a couple of stations which have started broadcasting the bonus tonus section of the show. So I do have to be somewhat more careful. But for the most part regarding the FCC and defamation, I believe there is an additional fine that I can be hit with if I commit defamation on Spectrum Air. But of course I am still liable for lawsuits if I say something. So the reason I threw out allegedly is I saw on video and from her own testimony Lamonica McIver shoved her way through federal agents that constitutes assault. So I don't have to go, well, oh, allegedly, no. And I'm making a point a, a a pundits witty bar by saying I don't even need this particular legal protection of saying allegedly because that's how obvious it is that she is a horrible, horrible individual who did something rather odious on camera. So that aside, I got a comment from a YouTube member, Crystal Raven Jones, who asked Tony, what do you think is going to happen to Social Security over the next 20 years? It will eventually reach austerity measures and insolvency because it is continuing to grow and the payments are getting bigger and bigger and bigger and less money is going into it. And because the payments are getting bigger and bigger and bigger, the United States won't be able to support it. Medicare and Medicaid also in these, the United States has too many entitlement programs that there are no way out of now, the rough part of this is that there are a lot of people who have paid in their entire life, and according to the money that was taken from them, yeah, they're entitled to that money back. It's one of the reasons I'm such a huge fan of the Trump accounts. The Trump accounts are really just a twist on the George W. Bush Social Security reforms. Back in the early aughts, when W. Got out in front of the country and said, hey, what if instead of just taking your money and throwing it into a random government ethereal debt system, what if instead that money was invested into the stock market and other key industries here in the United States, people could choose where to invest their Social Security money and then get access to it later. Now, I think that the best off ramp here is kind of what Trump is floating, and it should go one step further, which is that anybody in Generation X and the millennials at those two generations primarily should get to choose whether or not they want access to Social Security later or start now as X and Millennials to start investing into something separate than Social Security. And then Generation Z and I alpha behind them. Just. No, none of that. I think money should still go into Social Security to make sure that the boomer generation and the upper half of Gen X is paid for what it is that they put into the system. Absolutely. And that's going to take a really big bite out of us. We will hit austerity measures because Congress doesn't address anything until we get to it. While I love the President's optimism on outgrowing the national debt, I very much doubt it. Prove me wrong. I will. I'll love it. But I'm a little bit hesitant on, on that one from Tuesday States or Tony, will we go to war with Iran? They don't have an army or a navy or an air force. They have some missiles. And the cool thing about ballistic missile sites is that once you fire one, you can kind of see where it's been fired from. So after the United States struck the Iranian nuclear facilities, Iran did a whole lot of nothing. Because the United States military is freaking sweet. And because the United States military is freaking sweet, it's like, are we going to go to war with Iran? No. No. The entire coalition in the Middle east with, with regard to the. The sad cucked silence of some parts of Iraq, Turkey and sort of Qatar. They ain't doing nothing. Ain't doing nothing. The waiting game right now is really a question of when you know when certain things are going to happen or you know, rather than how Iran is going to retaliate. From Kevin H. Stankiewicz, really very kind super chat. A very, very nice 10 super 10 super chat. Again, you guys don't have to do that here on the show. Really appreciate that's very kind of you. A huge thank you, though. Now, another great question for the evening. Kind of an update. Can you give us an update on the election boxes and kind of missing the Fulton county stuff? Yeah, the Fulton county situation is getting more interesting by the second because the Department of Justice, the FBI, and also a couple of different courts are now in the process of unsealing all kinds of information about Fulton county in Georgia, including the affidavit. According to the Atlanta Journal Constitution, this would be the affidavit in the FBI raid on the Fulton county election hub. Now, an interesting tone shift here suggests that now instead of using terms like election deniers, which is what the Atlanta Journal Constitution had called anyone investigating elections in Fulton county before now, they use the words election skeptics. So it appears as the investigation comes forward and again, more documented cases of election shenanigans are brought to light at the very least because of just rote stupidity and incompetence, but also a lot of people going, come on now, you are likely to see a very interesting goalpost shift. That's where we are right now. The goalposts are being shifted in real time. I am still choosing to hold my tongue because I want to see the end of investigations and their findings as much as I can before I get out there and run my mouth. Otherwise, I say very clearly, like, well, this is, you know, me speculating instead, that kind of a thing. So again, best thing to do right now. Best thing to do right now whenever it comes to these investigations that are ongoing, ignore a lot of the influencers who are telling you to be judged during Executioner right now. They don't know. They have no idea. Essentially, I'm telling you, don't be Candace Owens who gets out there and then says really stupid, crazy, dumb things and then has to walk back her story and then Rewrite it every 15 and a half minutes because she's stupid and awful. So kind of a cool thing there. Dave3156 here's an easy question for Tony tonight. Where's the IU hat on the bookshelf? The IU hat on the bookshelf is right up there. Right there. It is pointed a little bit inward, not for any particular reason, but yeah, the IU hat is staying on the bookshelf because again, watching Indiana football is so, so, so, so much better. So much better than the NFL. So that said, Alex Ekin Sviller, a $5 Canadian super chat.
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Donald Trump
Thank you.
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Tony Kennett (Host/Commentator)
Thank you for keeping the public aware. That's very, very kind of you. I really appreciate that. I wish you all of the best. And the minute that you would like me to start gun running into Alberta so that it secedes from the rest of Canada. You got it. I'm here for you. I recommend the Sten mark 3, although the grease gun is technically a better submachine gun. I just have a real soft spot for the Sten home manufacturing from World War II. All right, one last thing here for the evening that I've. I've been saving. There is a clip of stolen land crying. I guess Jesse Waters sends around his crew to talk to individuals around New York City and the rest of the eastern seaboard. I've seen him do several kind of Waters world investigations around the country. I'm enjoying watching how much of the Democrats are still trying to run the stolen land narrative. Before we start, let's acknowledge we are on stolen land right now. We are very sorry to the Lenape people. Are we? I'm sorry. I'm sorry to the Lenape tribe. So the Waters Jesse crew member gets out there and says, let's start out with a land acknowledgement to the Winape tribe. And again, this is just all of the reactions from the various people saying, sorry, start. Let's acknowledge we are on stolen land right now. We are very sorry to the Lenape people. Are we? I'm sorry. I'm sorry to the Lenape tribe. Bless our ancestors. Mm.
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Matt Davis
The what?
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Tony Kennett (Host/Commentator)
The Lenape tribe.
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Matt Davis
What is this buffoonery? We're on conquering land.
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Tony Kennett (Host/Commentator)
So sorry that my colonizer ancestors stole your land. This will never be my colonizer's ancestors land ever, period. Is it your land? I mean, I live here. Nobody can take it away from you. Do you feel guilty A little bit right now?
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Tony Kennett
Yeah.
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Tony Kennett (Host/Commentator)
Reparations are required. We shouldn't be on stolen land. Right? I'm okay with it. Okay, well, that makes me feel a little bit better. Should we give the land back? I mean. Yeah. Oh, cool. As a member, federally registered. I've got my little BIA card and everything. El the Cherokee tribe, if you would like to give me your land, I'll take it. I'll take. I will. I will give. Depending on the land that you give me, I will give some of it to BUC EE's. There need to be more BUC EE's locations in the country. I will give some of it to Refounding Marsh, the chain supermarket. Rest in peace Marsh. Also Doggin Suds. You. You were taken from us too soon, you delicious Coney Doggin root beer joint. Aside from restaurants, I also. If you give me your land, I will. Oh, man, there's so many cool things you can just do with land. I'll burn down one in every eight houses, just, you know, for a fun bonfire activity. You're more than welcome. You want to give some land back? You feel really bad about land and stuff, I'll take it. I'll make you pay the property taxes, though. But hey, and, and. And I will give you a special ritual rite of the Cherokee people. And also a free copy of Elizabeth Warren's Pow wow chow. Yeah, almost 1 1,024th authentic. Your apartment. Let's give it back. I don't want to be homeless. We should give everything back. If we give all this land back, where is everybody going to go? Honestly, figure it out. I don't think we can give it back. I feel like you can all share it.
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Matt Davis
Give it back.
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Tony Kennett (Host/Commentator)
If we give back the land, where are you going to live? Just go back home to North Carolina.
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Virginia Allen
Which is like, I don't want to do that.
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Tony Kennett (Host/Commentator)
That's stolen land, too. Oh, geez. I love it. I love it. Thank you very much to the Jesse Waters crew for sending your folks out to ask these kind of questions. Man on the street interviews are fun. You miss them when you're in this kind of a lull in the news cycle. And all of the influencers out there that are sharing clips are. Are sharing like breaking exclusive. Donald Trump says he loves the new Hardy's Valentine's Day Biscuit and also loves voter ID and like, that's the news that they're sharing. Cause we've. We've been rehashing some of the same Minneapolis and ICE stories and of course, the congressional circus and the shutdown conversations for a solid month. It's rough. It's difficult to go through. So again, appreciate getting some man on the street clips out there. Really, really good stuff. Also, huge thanks over at Rumble to Ebulla. A very kind $10 super chat saying, I rename these stinky chats. Indeed. I'd say that about wraps it up for this particular no human is illegal on stolen land. You're a magical. Says the Blue Texan. Well, you can give me your land immediately as again a federally registered member of the tribe. Go ahead. And if you don't you're racist and sorry, we don't tolerate racists here in this chat. So you can pokemon go away. To quote Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton, that all said, have a wonderful evening. We'll see you tomorrow. 7pm Eastern. It's the Tony Kennedcast here on the Daily Signal, nationally syndicated, first on 93 WIBC.
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Matt Davis
I'm Matt Davis, CEO here at Maranatha Baptist University, and I'd like to invite you personally to Maranatha's fourth annual Leader to Leader conference on March 5th and 6th here in Watertown, Wisconsin. This event, sponsored by our School of Business, offers two days of practical insights, valuable connections and leadership development that will impact your career, no matter your field. This year's conference includes keynotes from Ken Barbik, a Maranatha graduate and former Senate confirmed assistant secretary of Agriculture and currently serving as a senior lobbyist and advisor to Fortune 500 companies my friend Tony Kennett, another Maranatha grad who now serves as a national correspondent and syndicated radio host for the Daily Signal, and Adam Morgan, president of Majesty Music and a former member of South Carolina's Legislature. Becoming a more intentional, effective Leader starts here. Take the next step in your leadership journey and join us March 5th and 6th for two days of learning, networking and growth that will set the tone for the rest of your year. To learn more, visit mvu.edu leadertoleader can't wait to see you here on Maranatha's beautiful campus March 5th and 6th for the 4th annual leader to Leader Conference.