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Ep. 504 - U.S. Sends Largest Air Task Force in History to Middle East, Mamdani Cuts 5,000 from NYPD
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The United States Department of War has dispatched the largest air & naval task forces in world history to the Middle East as Iranian negotiations break down. New York City Mayor and Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani doubles down on tax increases, cuts to retirement programs, and cutting over 5,000 officer hires at the New York City Police Department.
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Tony Kennett. Tony Kennett. Tony Kennett. Tony Kennett. Tony Kennett. TONY Kennett. 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 daily signals. Tony Kennett, cast, nationally syndicated, first on 93 WIBC. No matter where you're joining us from this evening, boy do we have news for you. So without further ado, the situation regarding the United States and its Middle Eastern deployment of more naval craft and task force air equipment to the Middle East. I've seen more of these tankers heading over these anti air defense systems, more of the support craft, more F22s headed for the Middle east than I think we have seen ever now, surpassing what I believe to be the air and naval buildup surrounding the Gulf War. Now, right now there's a lot of people telling you that we're about to enter Iraq 2.0, electric boogaloo to Iraq 2, furious, whatever. No, right now the number of infantry in the region is being reduced considerably and the United States is maintaining a very high level air and naval superiority mission combined with an asset defense package. So an asset defense package means this. They are deploying several different teams, usually different Air Force squadrons to various bases, embassies, military installations and general zones of control that the United States would really like not to have hot burning pieces of metal flying through the air in and they're setting up all kinds of defense systems. Some of these defense systems, of course, you know about like the Thaad missile batteries. Some of them you know about like the United States naval missile intercept systems. And some of them you're not as familiar yet with, but you will be. We're talking about some of the incredible energy anti drone countermeasure deployments as well. But that all said, Iran is still talking a pretty tough game. Al Khamenei, while he's supposed to be working cooperatively with the United States, is just out there tweeting that the entire United States Navy is going to be sunk to the bottom of the Persian Gulf. I guess he wants it to join the Iranian Navy that Reagan sunk to the bottom of the Persian Gulf. That's not going to happen. No. And as for the concerns about broader war breaking out in the Middle east, because we're going to get into some of the updates here before we get to some of the domestic side of news. Iran does not have an army ready and raring to go they need the army at home to continue quelling unrest by their civilians who do not like the Iranian regime. Sam, I am. They do not like it in Iran. They don't like it. They want it gone. It's not hard to understand. It's not really a difficult concept to grasp. And yet still there are individuals who seem to claim some type of weird divination off of a sensual contrarianism on social media. This from I believe the CBS News team. Trump has discussed a timeline for Iran strikes, including as soon as this weekend, but no decision yet. So according to the article, quote, Mr. Trump has not yet made a final decision about whether to strike, said the officials who spoke under condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive national matters. Essentially right now the Ford is just about the Gerald R. Ford. That particular aircraft carrier strike group is just about to pass the Straits of Gibraltar to get into the Mediterranean. That is not a necessary must be in the eastern Mediterranean in order for the United States to make some kind of a move. Just not now. This incredibly huge and by the way, when I say just outright incredibly huge, never seen anything quite like it kind of deployment, I'm quite serious. The flight radar tracker in which before a big military conflict, all of the transponders on aircraft are not all of them, but many military aircraft are publicly displayed so that you don't crash into them in the sky and you can kind of keep track of general air traffic. More aircraft fueling tankers have been seen flying from at least 15 US military installations and then also topping off, for example, some of them in London and and then down through European installations heading towards the Middle east than I have seen again, definitely more so than the Gulf War. And past that we haven't been using refueling tankers that much. So that aside, Israeli emergency services and the home front command have been instructed to prepare for war as officials assess an imminent US Strike on Iran. That's according to several news sources. You're going to have to wait a little bit here. Notice you don't hear me making big predictions yet on the strike. But I will say this. Right now there's a lot of equipment, a lot of equipment and very specialized personnel. The private military contracting agencies have been put on, I wouldn't say high alert, a status where they're basically told to stay put. A lot of groups, especially some of the maritime private military contracting organizations, some of the maritime groups have been told to stay put, drop anchor, wait for a little bit. The Russians and the Chinese have announced that they're going to coordinate with Iran, according to their state media outlets, and close the Straits of Hormuz for a hot second and do a little naval exercise. If Iran thinks that it's going to drag Russia and China into this, no, that ain't happening. Ships can't even change their flag to Russia's and evade US Capture in the Atlantic or the Indian Ocean. It's certainly not going to change things here. On to other news matters out of Indiana. We're watching another horrible semi accident that resulted in a fatality. According to Angela ganote over at Fox 59 in Indianapolis. The Hendricks County Sheriff's Department released details about a fatal crash that happened in noon today in Avon. It's a western suburb of Indianapolis. According to multiple eyewitnesses, a Freightliner semi truck with trailer was traveling eastbound on U.S. 36 when it ran the red light at the intersection of County Road 525 east and struck a northbound Chevrolet pickup truck. The impact caused the pickup to travel across the grass median where it then hit a Chrysler Sebring that was stationary on westbound U.S. 36 in the turn lane. The driver of the Chevrolet pickup truck, 64 year old Terry Schultz, was pronounced dead at the scene. She reported and this earlier this afternoon that crash reconstruction specialists are still on the scene conducting the investigation. The police department reportedly, again this is according to Angela over at Fox 59 is withholding information about the driver of the semi. However, indie reporter friend of mine, good guy named Steven who does a lot of the cataloging of various incidents, independent journalist out of Indianapolis has reported the owner of the semi to be Big Rock Transportation Incorporated. It was created in 2020 out of New Palestine, Indiana. That's just south of where we're broadcasting. Its incorporator is known by the name of Harpal Singh and there appears to be multiple suggestions by earlier reports that the individual involved in this might in fact be another either low training foreign national that immigrated to the United States on a work visa or another illegal immigrant. We will bring you those updates as we have them. Obviously, given the situation regarding the horrible illegal immigrant vehicular homicide in eastern Indiana in Jay County a couple of days ago, this is becoming a, it's becoming a kind of thing where a lot of Americans are telling their spouses just to avoid semi trucks at all costs on the roads, there is going to be in addition to the horrible trauma and loss of the families that are losing loved ones to this kind of behavior and actions and attitude, you are going to see as time draws out more individuals that start dealing with long Term trauma and avoidance patterns on mass transit through, for example, the interstate system or the state road system because they're not willing to come into contact with untrained semi drivers. Now, that aside, let's go to the third major story from the day before. We dive into Zoran Mandani and some of the Stephen Colbert stuff. So, John Brennan, former CIA director under Barack Obama, the new subpoenas for the Florida court he's being charged in have been issued. He's under investigation for his role in fabricating the 2016 Intelligence Community Assessment, in which essentially he took information that Putin and the Russians weren't really involved in weighing on behalf of Trump to help Trump win the election, but instead sat on information that the Russians were suppressing. Information that Hillary Clinton was on quaaludes and a manic, bipolar, depressive individual. I know. We'll play some clips from her later if you don't quite believe me yet. And then fabricated a report to suggest that the Russians were interfering on behalf of Trump, which is not true, sent that information. Obama then ordered the teams to then bring that information forward. And it essentially put the Trump administration in a holding pattern for the first two, three years of his first term in office. Now, as far as some of the charges, for John Brennan, lying to Congress no longer appears to be one of the only things at play. Falsifying information. And even as a head law enforcement officer, providing false information to federal law enforcement, which a lot of people are bragging about doing regarding ICE right now, that is a federal crime that carries with it a hefty, and I do mean a JB Pritzker hefty prison sentence. Radio crew, we gotta send you off to commercial. Sorry. There's more news we're gonna cover on the live stream YouTube.com daily signals where you can find that. It's the Tony Kenned cast here on the Daily Signal. All right, with the radio crew and the TV crews in commercial, I want to take a moment to go over a largely un. A largely unseen investigation by Paul Sperry, who is the senior investigator over at Real Clear Investigations. Excellent guy. I mean, wildly thorough. I don't know if I've seen a more careful investigator than some of the folks over it. Real Clear, he tweeted out over on February 17, kind of in terms to the investigation his team's been working on. President Obama and his national security advisor, Susan Rice, were so distraught after Trump won in 2016, they literally broke down and cried in front of the White House staff. And you say, all right, that sounds like something that somebody might just post on Facebook and kind of a meme doesn't mean anything. Where's the basis for it? This is According to over 1100 hours of new audio and video compiled by the Columbia University academic crew in cooperation with the Obama Foundation. So after all they had built, they feared their accomplishments were at risk of being torn down by a con man and a quote, clown. And then following that, following crying in front of White House staff. Again, according to audio and video compiled by Columbia University in preparation for the Obama horrible monolith, ugly digital thumb library. After this particular meeting and sobbing and a little bit of a kumbaya around the campfire situation, they then moved forward with intelligence community falsification, taking intelligence community reports, altering them, falsifying them, and then sending them to members of Congress and then, of course, the broader media. So we will give into that particular. We'll get into that particular story as it develops. This brings us to another story, this one on Kilmar Abrego Garcia. We reported yesterday that Kilmar Abrego Garcia, according to the Maryland federal judge Paul Azinis, was really, really upset that the Trump administration, which has a removal order, the Kilmar Brego Garcia should not be here, doesn't have any right to be here. He's an illegal immigrant in the United States, not to mention, you know, an MS.13 tattooed wife beater. But this particular individual was to be deported. And Paula Zinnis and Judge James Boasberg and a bunch of federal judges said, well, you can't deport him to El Salvador because he's in danger there or something. And so came back to the United States. And United States said, fine, we'll deport him to Uganda. And Kilnar said, no, no, Uganda said, okay, well what about Liberia? No, no Liberia. Okay, what about Irkutsk in Russia? Nope. And essentially they were like, hey, does anybody want this ms.13 gang member? And all of the countries around the world gave a hearty resounding. So Paula Zinnis then argues that since no country is willing to take him, he can't go anywhere. Well, according to Will Chamberlain, new information in the Kilmer Abrego Garcia case that I haven't seen yet, reported elsewhere in the filing. In the last month, the Department of Justice produced a transcript. We'll throw this transcript up on screen for those on the live stream. This transcript is an immigration court hearing from May of 2019, where Garcia agreed to leave El Salvador as his designated country of removal. So he agrees. Yes, if I'm deported Deport me to El Salvador. When asked if he feared prosecution or torture, by the way, remember all of this? No due process. This was in 2019 when he had these particular immigration hearings. But when asked if he feared prosecution, persecution or torture in El Salvador, he said merely that he, quote, would have fear about what? They are accusing me of belonging to a gang. End quote. Now, that's wildly different than what he ended up telling his lawyers. And then what? His lawyers telephoned to the court later that year saying that, oh, he feared that he was going to be persecuted by a gang. They, they extorted his mom's pupusa shop. Oh, man, the gangs are gonna come after him. Nope, no. He was afraid the government was gonna say, hey, why are you tattooed with MS.13 on your skin? So that's an interesting situation developing as well. We gotta bring the radio crew back from commercial. Lots to cover tonight. Don't go anywhere. It's the Tony Kennett cast here on the Daily Signal. The Tony Kennett Castle on 93 WIBC. Welcome back to the Tony Kennett cast. Same great taste, half the calories. We've got ourselves an incredible move from the media ecosystem and the candidates that run for certain elections. And the more that we see the Stephen Colbert, who again is set to be finally removed from CBS and the nightly airwaves in May of this year. He's very, very upset. He says, oh, they're persecuting me. They're going after me again. He's running a net $40 million loss. He is losing $40 million a year for the network. That is how unpopular his show is. He invited Representative James Talarico, running for the Senate primary in Texas, up against a particular Jasmine Crockett and, and Ahmad Hassan. And Colbert invites him on and makes this big, huge song and dance about how well, I was gonna play the interview for you, but FCC rules and Brandon Carr say we can't. You know, talk shows used to not have to abide by the equal time rule, but now they suddenly do. By the way, that's complete bogus. The, the equal time rule has applied to any network coverage by any broadcast media on Spectrum Air, that's radio and tv, since the rule was created. And so then Colbert like flashes this picture a bunch on screen, says it's going to be on YouTube, and that's it. Talarico then waltzed forward in front of the crowd and announced on an Ms. Now interview as well as of course all over his social media, that this is the FCC trying to ban him from the airwaves. Trump's coming after him. How could they do. It's just suppression. First Amendment evil. Fascismyou. It should be troubling to all of us, regardless of our political affiliations or our political beliefs, that the most powerful people in the country, the most powerful politicians and the most powerful corporate executives are working together to sell out the First Amendment. Oh, they're selling the amendments. Buy one, get one. They're selling us out because they wouldn't air my interview. Again, just digging. Dig in the hole. To sell out our freedom of speech in order to protect their own power and their own wealth. And that should be concerning to all of us, whether you're a Democrat or Republican, whether you're a progressive or conservative. Because an attack on any one of our First Amendment rights, yes, of course, is an attack on all of our. Oh, so brave, so stunning. Incredible. I mean, this is just such a good Chucks, a doodles. Good old Christian guy. I mean, he. In his interview with Stephen Colbert, they were talking about good Christian values and, oh, you're a great Christian. Because Jesus only said, love God and love each other. That's all the New Testament is boiled down to is that one verse in which Christ is quoting the law. That's all. That's totally it. I just want to thank you, Stephen, because I know you're not a politician, but you have really shown people in this country what Christianity should be and what it means to, to actually live out the teachings of Jesus, even in a talk show. Oh, wow. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's, that's, that's what Christ only ever said, just love God and love each other. And that's what you do, Stephen. That kind of smarmy garbage, the gaslighting, where anything I do as Christian and anything that you do is, is evil and hypocritical and terrible. That kind of nonsense. So it then came out that CBS slapped back at their own talk show host and said, no, we just gave you legal guidance that said, hey, just a reminder, if you have on Colbert, you're also going to have to have on Crockett. Now, just to level with you here, Jasmine Crockett is probably not. If they really wanted to push a lawsuit, the only person that he would have to invite on. So even the CBS lawyers were being really, really lax about it. And again, I talk about the FCC and the rules that we live in here on Spectrum show, because since we're juggling, I work for the Daily Signal. That's a nonprofit. That's one side of things, of course. Also the radio Stations that we broadcast on those are on Spectrum Air. One of the TV stations we syndicate to, that's on Spectrum Air. There's a lot of FCC and IRS rules we comply by and we're very transparent about them. Now, not only does CBS come out and announce that Stephen Colbert is a big liar, but the FCC response by Chairman Brendan Carr makes it clear that sweetie, if you're going to be stupid, don't also be loud. You had a Democrat candidate who understood the way that the news media works and he took advantage of all of your sort of prior conceptions to run a hoax apparently for the purpose of raising money and getting clicks. And the news media played right into it. I think yesterday was a perfect encapsulation of why the American people have more trust in gas station sushi than they do in the national news media. Thanks to Western Lensman over on X for that particular clip and he's very correct. Now Talarico has made a lot of money off of this. According to several articles as of this morning, he has made over $2.5 million in campaign donations since this whole thing started. Now by the way, voting for the Texas primary has started. What interesting timing. Now if it is found out that Colbert and Talarico agreed to this before off air and there was a pre prepared fundraising text ready to go, this could absolutely be ruled by the FEC as an in kind contribution to his particular campaign. Jasmine Crockett, who is one of the other two Democrat primary individuals in this particular situation. She's probably saltier than just about anybody because it's starting to look a lot more clear that Colbert was desperate to keep Jasmine Crockett away from his show to air a particular interview with her right before the primary. We did receive information suggesting that the federal government did not shut down this segment. Number one, that is my understanding that the federal government did not didn't shut this down. And we will do an official statement once we get another official statement that we anticipate is going to be coming. Now by the way, the official statement that we're waiting for that I'm very, very, very much guessing is going to come from the DNC or the Progressive Caucus. At the very least that's that. That's what I would suppose such statements. How do you throw a punch without throwing too many punches? Because you don't want to do a Kamala Harris where you once called Joe Biden racist, now you're his vp, you don't want to be Jasmine Crockett call Talarico racist, which People have already called him racist and accuse him, say, of silencing a black woman and then turn around, he's the nominee and I have to encourage people to go vote for him. That's what she's trying to avoid. The reason that I am so particular on this nonsense is because of a comment made by Kaitlan Collins. Now, I know Kaitlan Collins of CNN a little bit better than some because I knew her back when she was working at the Daily Caller, as in over coffee, knew her when she was over at the Daily Caller. And she went on Stephen Colbert and made one of the wildest accusations that I think I've seen, especially from a media anchor. And she kind of calls some of us out directly, so we'll give her a chance here. And I think it's actually a really, really slippery slope because I think that you've seen some people on the right cheering this and saying, well, that's what we want Brendan Carr to do. I think that they don't want a Democratic administration saying that right wing talk radio must give equal time to, to Democrats or to see that moment. And so, by the way, I just want to make this entirely clear. No matter the administration, we abide here on the Tony Kinnit cast, every single radio show on wibc. And I know because I have the emails from Matt Hiblin, the station manager, from David Wood, the program director, that keep us very closely to the law. We don't get up and flirt with the line. You make sure the line is clearly defined because you don't want to cause problems for the station and other hosts, much less the huge financial cost that's going to incur. You don't want to do that kind of nonsense. Stephen Colbert doesn't care if CBS gets sued. He's on his way out anyway. He wants to burn the ship along with him. But I now, especially as a syndicated host, I have several radio stations that I have to consider. And so FCC rules are something that you kind of need to know. Radio crew, in friendship with some of those FCC rules, no matter who's in the White House, we're going to send you over to commercial break and I'm going to do a little explaining here on the live stream side of things about why Kaitlan Collins probably should start talking out of her mouth and stop talking out of her rectum. It's the Tony Kinit cast here on the Daily Signal three weeks ago. To the day. To the day. I directed producer Lou. Producer Lou. He's the senior producer for the show. He Handles the booking. All right. He is the man who holds the golden power of making my schedule a living hell. That producer, Lou, I directed him to invite Representative James Telorico, Jasmine Crockett, Ahmad Hassan. Those are the Democrat side, Senator John Corbyn, Attorney General Ken Paxton onto the show. Why? Because primary candidate Representative Wesley Hunt, Congressman Wesley Hunt was joining the show. We weren't even talking in a large part about the campaign itself. I was asking him about particular details regarding national news at the time and work that he has pushed on the floor of the House, as well as some of the rhetoric about what it means to be a black Republican or a black congressperson in general here in the country after what the left routinely says about it. And immediately, without missing a beat, Lou has the email ready to go. He emails Talarico's crew, Crockett's crew, Hassan's crew, Corbin's crew, Paxton's crew onto the show. Even though it's a primary season and we could probably just get away with inviting on Corbin and Paxton. Why? Because in my view, if you are a candidate in an election, we are in election season. I have a duty or responsibility. Unless you and I have been buddies forever, you know, infinite ad nauseum. And even then I'd probably still invite your opponents on. To invite on the opponents. That's the FCC rule. Everyone's known this forever. And not only would I do this, but even if it were just a livestream show, not on Spectrum Air, because I am affiliated with a nonprofit group and also just in the interest of fairness, I'd probably invite on the opposition anyway. And because of that, there are two things that I think are important. Ask any single representative and at the state level, any state senator here in Indiana, this is where I broadcast out of. Even though it's a national show, many of them have kindly and not so kindly asked slash demanded that I bring them on the show. My answer almost always is no. Almost always it's a no. And the reason why it's a no is because then I have to go get you Tom, Dick and Harry, Bebop, Billy Jones and the second cousin to Emilia Juarez to bring on the show because there's 18 declared candidates for your race and and we're not going to have any time for show. If you're going to get out and run your mouth, at least don't be loud about it. That doesn't stop, of course, Tucker Carlson. Tucker Carlson, who has been going around the Middle east glad handing the Islamic regimes all over, saying that there's a vibrant Christian community where you can openly be a Christian. In Qatar, where he just bought a home, no any kind of Christian symbology or churches are banned. You're not allowed to call it a church. You are not allowed. Very, very much not allowed. He's been going around talking about how Muslim countries are so wonderful to Christians, saying ignore your eyes and ears. And it's really all the guests that he invites on, it's really the Israelis and the Jews or as Tucker would put it, who are, you know, being very, very mean to Christians. Oh, so terrible. So Tucker decides that on his way out, after again going and whitewashing the Islamic caliphate and the horrible, brutal genocide they have waged, not just on Christians, but on Jews, on Hindus, on the moderate Muslim groups, for example, in Nigeria. Finally, Israel ambassador, the ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, good friend of the show, reaches out to Tucker and says, okay, you're going to make all these claims, stop by Israel, you know, while we're here and let's, let's do a bit of an interview. Come on, interview me. We'll talk, you know, you can ask me what you asked Ted Cruz about population statistics or whatever, and we'll call it a day. And then rather to my surprise, I'd say, I must say I wasn't expecting Tucker to agree, but he did and he showed up in Ben Gurion Airport. And then, well, we're going to get into it. We've got to bring the radio crew back from commercial. It's the Tony Kinnid cast here on the Daily Signal. See you soon. Is the Tony Kennett cast on 93 WIBC? Welcome back to the Tony Kenneth cast. I love getting little breaking bulletin messages in my inbox saying big, huge breaking news from the Daily Mail. Tucker Carlson detained in Israel journalist dragged into interrogation room as explosive interview sparks diplomatic firestorm. Whenever I'm really worried about the headlines that we choose for the show and whether or not the news that we're putting up front really is breaking or developing or how we're framing things, I then see these headlines and I stop worrying about it. So according to the article, conservative podcasting titan Tucker Carlson said he and his staff were detained in Israel on Wednesday following an interview with Donald Trump's ambassador to the country. So there was this entire media firestorm. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who's very, very angry right now, what Congress is doing. That's why she quit, she says. An American citizen and journalist, Tucker Carlson detained in Israel after interviewing our U.S. ambassador, Mike Huckabee. We Won't tolerate this. You just made it worse. You go, girl. Okay, whatever. Yeah. He's lying. He's lying. He is absolutely lying. I know. For two reasons. Number one, I was just in Israel as a journalist who argued with the Israeli government. I argued in an open room against Israeli journos and state officials on the right and on the left. And I said, I like. We griped. We had a huge thing. It made the group who we'd been, along with some of the Newsmax crew, a little uncomfortable. And then on our way out, all of the journalists who were there, we did what is called an exit interview for the country. Because if you're a VIP who comes to Israel, there is a major airport and then there is a small private wing airport section outside of the security gates, because the security gates are a huge mess. And it's. It's interesting, but there is a small diplomatic reserve area where Tucker went to do his interview with Mike Huckabee. And then, just like everyone else, and I'm talking all the way from. From the right to Dave Rubin, all the way over to Anderson Cooper on the left, have had interviews with customs like you do here in the United States. Hey, why are you here? What are you doing here? Did you get anything while you were here? Et cetera, et cetera? None of this special detainment happened. A spokesperson for the US Embassy denied that Carlson was detained and claimed he, quote, retained, received the same passport control questions that countless visitors to Israel, including Ambassador Huckabee and other diplomats, receive as part of normal entrance and exit from Israel. I'll go one further. I have it over. My passport is on the vanity shelf. They don't even stamp your passport regularly, especially if you were there on diplomatic or journalistic business. They print you out a little ticket showing entry and exit times and other information that the U.S. border Patrol should probably start using. In that kind of a system, to the individual who is coming in or out of Israel, it is complete, absolutely, 100% garbage. Now, I see one of the comments, not exactly sold. And says, and I quote, what the actual F does your experience have to do with the veracity of this story? Tony, you were brain dead. Okay, so check it out. When I explain the process of the border and it lines up with what Tucker is claiming was detainment. That is what's called the same event. What I'm calling it, standard Customs and Border enforcement and what Tucker is calling detainment are two different things for the same event. Quote from the US Embassy, the only engagement the embassy had with Israel about his visit was to coordinate his private plane landing as part of facilitating a seamless visit. That means not having to go out of the airport and then go back into the airport. It was Tucker who chose only to come into the country for a few hours and then depart. And Tucker received the exact same treatment of any visitors into Israel. That is 100% true, based on the records that we have from the airport, the records from the embassy, who do have to keep track of U.S. citizens that do fly even just into the airport for a few hours. And of course, we all know the reason that Tucker wants to make this a big deal. He wants to do the Greta Thunberg thing. They arrested me and they put me in the holding cell. And it really is a video of, like, the Israeli hand in her like a sandwich and then putting her on a flight and telling her to leave. Sucker came in. He did an interview with Huckabee. I'm sure it'll upload and it'll be some amazing survivor story journey, and then that'll be it. And by the way, the reason that I bring up my particular instance is that I was just there. We did shows from there. I took pictures from there. There was a very, very angry Israeli man who the Israeli officials insisted we cut in line in security as. As special diplomatic service individuals that I disagreed with. And I say that as somebody telling you this story because I really get annoyed when I go somewhere and experience something and someone else goes there and just ignores everything around them in order to tell you something totally different is going on. Case in point, Zoran Mandani. Zoran Mandani, the mayor of New York City, has now announced that because his government is doing so many successful, amazing things, remember, he promised that on the working man, the working class, middle class individuals, taxes weren't going to go up. He promised rents were going to freeze. He promised he wasn't going to cut the police force. He promised he wasn't going to come in and upend a ton of stuff. Well, then once he got into power, now he's announced he was always going to do all of this stuff. And he's only doing it because things are going so well. So Zoran Mandani announced, we covered this yesterday, that because his major, insane $172 billion budget for new York is so massive and bloated due to social service programs that he's extending especially to illegal immigrants, Zoran Mamdani had to do a couple of things. We had to raise property taxes, which is going to raise the rent. Number two, he has to reach into New York's rainy day fund. Number three, he has to reach into retirement and pension investment accounts for seniors. So he had to go rob the old people. And finally, last but not least, he has now announced that he will be cutting 5,000 new hires to the New York City police department. So NYPD, 5,000 officers. There are articles from 2022 through 2025 in which outlets from Reuters to the Associated Press to, of course, the New York Times cite a serious hiring crisis, a staffing crisis in the NYPD. They were able to get 5,000 new hires in, which is a pretty herculean effort. And Mamdani has announced, screw the cops. Now, not only has he announced that he's cutting 5,000 New York City police officers, Mamdani has also decided now is the time to announce that no longer are the individuals who go to homeless encampments and say, hey, it's, you know, minus 5, minus 10 outside, it's kind of cold. Maybe you want to go in. Maybe this homeless encampment that provides absolutely zero protection from the cold shouldn't remain here. Originally, that was something that the police or the Department of Homeland Security or other similar agencies would handle. Now he has announced that the social servants, the, excuse me, the social service agencies of New York City, which are already stretched extremely thin, will be responsible for handling all interactions with any homeless individuals on the street. So the thing that he just admitted didn't work because of, again, the friendly therapists that went around and said, hey there, how does this cold make you feel? And the drugged out homeless person went and which I guess translated means, I'm fine. Leave me alone. Don't think I'm just being offensive. That's on camera. What happened? And then those individuals died of exposure. 19 dead in New York City. And now Mamdani said, you know what? That works so well now. It's standard operating practice and policy here in New York, which is. I'm sorry, there is nothing, nothing in that that suggests the warmth of collectivism is doing a tham ding for just about anybody. Radio crew, we're going to send you guys over to the commercial break. We got a couple more stories to cover tonight because the news isn't slowing down. It's the Tony Kinnit cast here on the Daily Signal. Now, just in case you were thinking that only New York City is horribly, horribly run, Minnesota is, I mean, abysmal. And I'm not talking the Joey Tribbiani interpretation of abysmal. I mean beyond atrocious. Just as a small note here, I do want to I do want to point out a huge thank you to those who have given super chats or have joined channel memberships. Patricia Clampett a very kind $2 super chat. You don't have to do that at all. Jeff D. USMC yesterday $15 super chat comparing Rob Bluey to looking like a younger, younger version of Basil Exposition from Austin Powers. That's really funny. By the way, I must admit we really do not need any of that kind of stuff. We are very grateful to those who do. I'm sorry I don't keep as up to date on thanking individuals for it. So before we get into some of the other Minnesota style news again, CB FJS or 7SU is also joined a channel membership and you guys don't have to do that, but we do appreciate it. The Department of Homeland Security has now announced that the Immigration Customs Enforcement arrest of, or excuse me, they've announced the arrest by ICE of a Liberian national who was working as a Minnesota corrections officer while allegedly being absent without leave from the Pennsylvania National Guard and falsely posing as a US citizen despite lacking legal status. Authorities say the 45 year old Morris Brown. This is according to the Office of public affairs for DHS. 45 year old Morris Brown was identified during a major fraud investigation in Minnesota. You know, the one that Attorney General Keith Ellison and Minnesota Governor Tim Wallace said wasn't needed. Didn't matter. No, no, no questions. That during a major fraud investigation in Minnesota, he was also accused of marriage fraud. You know, shout out to shout out to my girl Ilhan Omar. Anyway, marriage fraud and repeatedly making false statements to U.S. immigration officials. So you'll notice the last charge there, false statements to U.S. immigration officials. There are a lot of people who make the claim, well, crossing the border illegally, it's more of a civil offense in a way. It is a civil offense, by which I mean a civil offense meaning that if you cross illegally, federal authorities are able to just turn you around the border and go and then just turn you around. You don't have to be charged, for example, you can just be turned away and said, all right, now you have a 10 year penalty on coming into the United States. That's what that means by a civil penalty. But if you come across the border and then you evade federal law enforcement, you don't go to a port of entry, you don't go through proper policies and practices, you engage in employment fraud or labor fraud or investment fraud or marriage fraud or all of the other kinds of Minnesota flavored frauds, those are very, very much crimes and your continued evasion or false statements about those also count as crimes. Just, just cool fun facts for kids. It's always interesting to find these particular examples of various state agencies, legislatures, governments that allow this kind of targeted fraud, you're told isn't happening, doesn't exist, is front and center and exactly what some independent journalists, for example, have alleged they're doing. And we got to bring the radio crew back one more time. We're going to talk about another bill from the state legislature in Minnesota and then Maryland and its sewage problem. Don't go anywhere. Tony Kennett cast here on the Daily Signal. This is the Tony Kenneth cast on 93 WIBC. Welcome back to the Tony Kennett cast here on the Daily Signal. Nationally syndicated, first on 93 WIBC. I know you could be tuning in to a night evening news and analysis show that was written by 11:30am and the news is all old and stale and about as useful as J.B. pritzker at a slimfast convention. But alas, I gotta level with you. We're glad that you've decided to stick around here for the Tony Kennett cast because the news is entertaining and if you don't laugh at how foolish some of these individuals are, you might cry. So for example, state legislatures around the country continuing to be an abject disappointment. The Minnesota state legislature doing everything they can to go after Immigration Customs Enforcement, for example. Today was the first day of Minnesota's legislative session and the Minneapolis Star Tribune reports just ahead of the session. House and Senate Democrats unveiled 11 bills to counter what they consider some of the worst excesses by federal immigration officers during the surge. By the way, at least eight of these particular bills proposed by the Minnesota state legislature that have enough traction that they, you know, they're worth enough to be reported on these particular pieces of legislation. Eight of them have no chance in court. There's already extensive, extensive supremacy clause information, legal precedent that says, yeah, you can't block administrative warrant use in your state. You can't do that. That's a Fort Sumter situation, not going to fly. We have a lot of status legal stuff on this. You cannot force federal agents to take off their masks. You cannot force people to wear a sign that says dox me and my family in an era of anti law enforcement violence. No, absolutely not. This is the same kind of stuff, by the way, that is going on in states all across the country. Regardless of whether or not the bills have any viability, Democrats are doing their darndest. Wes Moore, Democrat governor of Maryland. Instead of focusing on one of the largest raw sewage leaks again in history, he is signing new legislation into power that refuses the ability of any Maryland law enforcement to cooperate with federal law enforcement. Again, not really gonna fly here, but here he is. He's so proud of himself. He's so excited. He's like tapping his little fingers, oh, when am I gonna get to sign the bill? He wants to be president so badly, so he just thinks he's this prima donna up on pet show display. Oh, I'm so great. Look, it's SB245. She brought out the, the same little signs that they use to say who are men and women and what bathrooms they should go to. They, you know, or maybe a hymn, a hymnal announcement in a Methodist church. Senate Bill 245, House Bill 444, public safety, immigration enforcement agreements, prohibition. We'll have the first of the sponsors. First picture will be the sponsors. We'd lined a bunch of pictures for it. While they're taking photos over a bill that is not likely to be popular with Maryland voters, we do have Westmore completely goofing it over on the sewage situation in which a ton of untreated raw sewage continues to flow into canals and the Potomac response and officials have told CBS that some of that aging infrastructure is a concern. That this particular pipe wasn't even the most urgent concern. Do you know if the government is looking into which other pipes could be at risk of collapsing? Well, well, the next step in this process is for any of the three local jurisdictions involved, whether that's the Commonwealth of Virginia, the state of Maryland and Governor Moore or the District of Columbia, to step forward and to ask the federal government for help and to ask for the Stafford act to be implemented here. Now, the reason this, Matt, the reason this is particularly important as a response. Wes Moore was just signing legislation all over as fast as his little wrist can flick it off the paper. We don't want the feds here. We'll do it ourself. Cuz we're Maryland, known for the Naval Academy and well, we're Maryland. Okay, so he's beautiful. Big announcements, exciting. People took a moment from stabbing each other in Baltimore to look up at the heavens and praise Westmore for eliminating federal cooperation with the state. And Carolyn Levitt from the president's office is making it clear, well, if they're so, you know, big and important and incredible, their sewer, they can fix it. Reach out, say, hey, we'd Like a little bit of assistance here. Why does FEMA have to come wipe your behind, no pun intended, when you're busy flipping off the rest of the federal government so that the federal government can go and take control of this local infrastructure that has been abandoned and neglected by, by Governor Moore in Maryland for far too long. In fact, now there's a really interesting point to be made from the comments actually, from Artemis. Can you imagine if a private company was responsible? Yes, I can. Yes, I can. There would be House investigations, the kind that actually come with incredible bam, slam. Thank you, ma'. Am. Majored hundreds of millions of dollars in penalties, people probably sent to jail, corporate licenses revoked, all that kind of stuff. After all, AOC told us that Deloitte, maybe she meant dupont, not Deloitte, the accounting firm that Deloitte was responsible for pumping all of those chemicals into the Cleveland River. And, and remember that couple of weeks ago, all of a sudden. What have you heard from AOC about this? Oh, oh, nothing, nothing. She's. She's busy being confused over where cowboys and horses come from. Excellent. I mean, that's. You can't buy that kind of leadership. That's stellar. Excellent, excellent point from the comments. And by the way, Lenore points out, those pipes were built in the 60s, which means there's a pretty decent chance that they included some of that awful tar wrap paper piping, the kind that is about as thick and trustworthy as a unicorn whisper. And so in other words, what I'm saying, yeah, Maryland probably should have been on the ball with this one for a quite a while and didn't because. Passing the buck. And hey, man, if I can't see it, it certainly isn't a problem. It's not exactly as though the people in Baltimore deserve nice things or the people on, you know, living on the Potomac. Sure, they may get cholera, but that's a risk I'm willing to take. I'm Wes Moore. I want to run for president or something. Now, you do have some governors that are willing to admit things are bad. They just really don't have the, the perception, maybe the circumspection to recognize what they're complaining about has a little bit more to do with their job as governor. I'm talking about JB Pritzker, Roly Polioli himself. Here you go. The problem is clear. Rent is too high and homeownership is too far out of reach. Now, I do appreciate this because there was a meme that was popular back when I was in high school of an older Gentleman who would walk on tv, he would go, I represent the rent is too damn high party because the rent is too damn high. And like we played that clip ad nauseam forever because it used to take more in some particular debates than just getting up there and, and saying, you know, the rent is too high. But again, despite, you know, Pritzker getting out there and announcing, I do appreciate the sign language person which is behind every single Democrat person making a statement, looking as though she just got crop dusted by J.B. pritzker. Great moments on camera. But I don't, I don't want to be unfair. We'll let him start again. The problem is clear. Rent is too high and home ownership is too far out of reach. The cause is clear too. We are not building enough homes fast enough. We're not building enough homes fast enough. Gee, I wonder what top five states have polities have localities that restrict building development project for middle class renewal at the University of Illinois issued a report last summer showing that we will need to build 227,000 more homes by 2030 to keep up with demand. In many places, local regulations have made it too difficult and costly to build new housing. Oh, local, like he says, local. As there's a bunch of Republican districts that are to blame for this. According to the Illinois Policy Institute, in 2019, Illinois is number three in the entire country as the most, excuse me, the third most regulation heavy state 259,830 to state restrictions in Illinois delineated in 15.1 million words of legislation. It would take 21 full work weeks for a fast reader to go through all of these regulations. Radio crew, we have to send you out for the evening. Do yourself a favor, don't move to Illinois. It's the Tony Kinnick cast here on the Daily Signal, nationally syndicated, first on 93 WIBC. Take care. All right. Now that they're off in end of time commercial land, the gaslighting is incredible. The rent's too high. These regulations are awful. J.B. pritzker signed in a ton of these regulations on claims like environmentalism. Oh, you can't build a house there. The Saskatchewanese left footed flea has made its home here probably for millions of years. It was worshiped by the Shoshone macaroni tribe as their medicine bug. You can't take. There's an angry lesbian. Quick, somebody ban construction. Third in the country for most regulation. And this lump has the audacity when he's not, you know, stealing millions in blackjack earnings to get in front of the country and say, oh, man, we need to start looking at these regulations. 7,000 more homes by 2030 to keep up with demand. In many places, local regulations have made it too difficult and costly to build new housing. Some of the rules even have shameful roots that go back to the days of redlining. Often the, by the way, some of those legislation pieces, in fact, 26 of them that he's citing here, that have roots that go back to the days of redlining he recommitted, meaning that he signed legislation to keep those into practice. So, Steve, I'm going to go with JB Pritzker is doing the. We're trying to find the guy who did this from. We'd like you to leave. Yep, excellent stuff. Problem is a failure to modernize and keep up with the changing times that we live in. Remember when Elon Musk was dragged through the mud for wanting to modernize? He came out and said, the problem is there's all these mines full of all of these documents stacked on top of each other and no one can read them because they're not on a computer. And a bunch of other things that Doge said, do we really want to still be measuring particular things in frog bladders? And the left said, oh, that's terrible. What if he gets a hold of somebody's Social Security number? The Pritzker, all of a sudden, he's modern, man. It all adds up to bureaucratic red tape that unnecessarily increases costs, delays construction, and frequently kills projects altogether. Oh, there's a big surprise. That's an incredible. I think I'm going to have a heart attack and die from that surprise. Wow. Wow. It's almost as though Democrat regulatory policy sucks Potomac river water, for example. Local parking mandates often require a uniform number, minimum number of spaces for every new build, even in places where people don't have cars because they have ample public transit and available street parking. Oh, now he's gonna talk about Chicago. Oh, man. I certainly hate to tell you, but guess what? The City Council and the surrounding governing bodies, as well as the mayor's office in Chicago, those ain't exactly been Reagan Republicans run in Chicago for the last century. Unused parking spots add millions of dollars in costs and severely limit the number of new units that can be built affordably. Now, I will remind you that the Trump administration came in, and while I recognize I'm getting a little bit of flack in the comments section, that's a terrible Elon Musk impression. Yeah, nobody said it was pretty, but when Donald Trump came in, he said, I got Elon Musk here. We've got Sean Duffy, transportation. We've got energy, we've got Lee Zeldin, EPA. They're gonna cut regulations, 10 regulations cut for everyone that we add. It's gonna be great, better than we've ever seen before. And people like J.B. pritzker said, oh, that's terrible. Oh, my gosh, that's horrible. How could you just cut regulations? All of the bald eagles are going to be extinct. They're going to level the Rockies and put in a parking lot. Counting Crows is writing another song. I mean, gee willikers, he probably wants to build homes for families. That sick, terrible real estate developer of a president. Now, the State of the Union is coming up in six days. We're going to be covering it here. It's going to be a long, fantastic show. We're going to have studio producers all going to be in. We're going to have guests, our Daily Signal team from Washington, D.C. covering this. And we're going to look at some of the victory lap stuff that Trump brings up. And I sincerely hope that cutting all of these regulations, for example, the chicken tax, fuel economy crap from the Biden administration and the Obama administration, those kinds of things are great for the economy. And of course, most importantly, and I think important to all Americans, gets Tony Kennett that much closer to buying a Toyota Hilux. Oh, so much. But I digress back to some of the news because, you know, no one else is going to cover it. So we'll do our rootin. Tootinist. There's a lot of hullabaloo over the Save America act, and deservedly so. Senate Majority Leader John Thune is getting ratioed. That means there are more comments than there are likes on a post. He's getting ratioed on every single thing he posts on media right now because he got in front of at least a reporter, if not some kind of the wider media in print, and said that bringing up the SAVE act was going to be like a long, difficult fight. And the rest of the country, again in the most popular issue on the table right now, has more support among Republicans, Independents and Democrats than anything in the American political sphere. And an easy win for Republicans. They said, okay, look, you don't want to kill the filibuster permanently. We hear you do the talking. Filibuster. The talk again to filibuster, where the word comes from doesn't mean that you need 60 votes in order. No, no, no, no. The term filibuster Means extending the debate ad nauseam, blocking it. Essentially, you're stalling. You're stalling and preventing any other bills from being added to the ledger. So right now to the Senate ledger, the Senate calendar. Republicans could absolutely bring up the Save America act on voting ID regulation that is extremely popular and encourage. And bring up the talking filibuster. And the parliamentarian wouldn't be able to say boo. And then you would have Cory Booker stand up in front of the Senate with his angry eyes and he would take an imodium so he didn't have to poop and he would stand there for 22, 26 hours. TMS now is saying Cory Booker breaks records. Wow. He talked for so long all about how black people, he says, are too stupid and women are too stupid and poor people are too poor to go get voter id. Easy win. But there are some individuals who say no, no, no. Um, one of these would be Senator Mitch McConnell, who again has to be led around. I mean, this man is one stiff breeze away from falling and breaking something. I'm not saying that because it's funny at all. It's not. I consider once you get to a certain point in life and a stiff breeze could blow you over being carted around everywhere. I and a lot of Americans consider that elder abuse at this point. But here's Mitch McConnell again. The reporter is like really in his face and. But still question to be asked. Mitch, are you afraid of the America first wing that's replacing your Republican establishment? Stupid question from the reporter. I don't care for that. I don't care. Do you. Do you hate that you're being replaced from people because you're evil? Okay, good one. Are you scared of Tucker Carlson? The Israeli embassy would. Would like to have a word. Now. This was posted alongside the caption that Mitch McConnell said he's not going to vote for the Save America Act. Now, there is indication from his office that he probably wouldn't vote for a Save America act to be brought up. Right now it's unknown whether or not he would vote yes or no in the situation. If Susan Collins, though, is a yes from Maine, I think that McConnell's probably going to end up going for it. So again, please do watch the clips that you know are. Oh, supposedly aired it. No, I know. Now, again, McConnell has been asked repeatedly his opinion on certain legislation. A lot of rush up and ask you a question kind of reporting is more missed than hit when it comes to the Capitol. But there is a lot of pressure. There was a lot of Pressure on Thune to get this done. We'll have to see. Carolyn Levitt also got one of these. Let me talk first, then get around the question. Now, again, I'm gonna level with you just very, very briefly here. You, me and Dupree. One of the only good things on planet Earth, and I mean, there are very, very few reasons that there was a good thing for some of the gatekeeping regarding the earlier White House press secretary room is to avoid questions that aren't questions. I hate them. I hate them. I hate it when people have a question for the press secretary or for a congressperson, like, I have a question and then they start telling you this whole paragraph of stuff. Ask the question. So anyway, we get some guy talking to hear himself talk for a while and then Carolyn answers the question. I'd say pretty handily. DHS closed and the SAVE Act IDs. Both of these could get solved in 15 minutes if Senate leader John Thune simply got rid of this phony 60 vote cloture rule and got 51 votes. And then that would be the end of it. Because everyone in this room knows if the Democrats take over, they'll get rid of that rule in 90 minutes. Okay, 24 seconds. Now you're not here. I have been to the White House press room. Not during a press briefing yet. Stay tuned. But if I do in fact ask a question to Carolyn Lovett or whoever is at the podium, like I did, for example, during the Rollins presser a couple of weeks ago, you don't need to tell your life story. Just get around to it. Yes. Yeah, you know what, dude? We get it. You're Republican, you're conservative, dude. Same, same. I hear you. I agree with. You don't need. Because we all know. Yeah, yeah, you're the journalist asking the question though, man. Get to the point. Already tried at one time. And the two Democratic senators that stopped it are no longer there. Manchin and Sinema. President Trump is backing a lot of these senators for reelection and yet they will not get rid of the 60 vote cloture rule, which is holding everything up again. Do you have a question? I agree. And by the way, that's even a good observation. Yes, Trump is backing a lot of the Senate reelection, including in some primary races where there are people who aren't putting pressure maybe on Thune to move forward and get this stuff done. So to quote Jerry Seinfeld, what's the deal with that? But you got to ask that question. What is the President's position on John Thune in The Senate finally getting rid of this so this legislation can get moved. Well, the President has a good relationship with Senate Majority Leader John Thune. And she then proceeds to say he would like to see the bill passed and the filibuster removed. Because he's already on the record saying that Trump's already on the record. I think they should get rid of the filibuster. I don't really care for it. They got to get legislation through. Just do it, Trump. Nike commercial, 2026. So, again, the motivation, the momentum is there. I would humbly request, humbly just, just me here as a fellow conservative who wants to see the Save America act passed. Can we not do this in the most obnoxious and annoying way possible, Please, por favor. Can we not. Can we not just get up there and do stuff that annoys the crap out of people? One of the reasons why, for example, Chief Justice John Roberts of the Supreme Court has been ruling in favor of Trump on a lot of cases that he was not supposed to rule in Trump for, maybe that he wouldn't have a couple of years ago, is because Chief Justice John Roberts has been poked and poked and poked with sticks and knives by the left on everything for so long, he's like, fine, you are so annoying. And I'm going to just pass it. I'm going to just rule in favor of what the Trump administration's constitutional practices here. And John Thune, I believe, could be in the same place, but by getting in front and going, hey, Thune, we're mad. Yes, I agree, we are mad, but making a big spectacle out of it to the point where you're the annoying child throwing a fit in Walmart. No, don't do it. Don't be the AOC to spurn Chuck Schumer. No. Now, again, I think that there should be a big, huge focus on this, and I think they should toss that stuff aside. And I think, yeah, he should again bring it before the Senate. But this silly nonsense in which there's like, oh, I got to get my 15 minutes of fame on camera for this. No, not what it's for. Now, speaking of being angry in really embarrassing ways, Hillary Clinton, Pokemon, go to the polls. Hillary Clinton, she is coming hot off her amazing Munich security conference appearance in which she said Trump is. Yeah, you guessed it, bad. Yeah, you impressed yet? And not only is Trump bad, but also, yeah, maybe the migration stuff wasn't so hot. And then also she did the weird trans panel and said everything I don't like is, you know, a violation of Human rights. She then took to American media. Why? Not entirely sure. But she's out here now announcing that, yeah, Democrats are working to hurt straight people, white people, men. Because if there's one thing Hillary Clinton knows, it's how to win an election. We haven't gotten to the more perfect union and we fought a civil war over part of it. And people have been protesting, you know, for hundreds of years that, you know, things were not as they should be, given our ideals and how we should be moving toward them. So I think that's what makes us so special as a country. And the idea that you could turn the clock back and try to recreate a world that never was. Joe Scarborough looks as though he's about to shove scissors into his ears and twist. Dominated by, you know, let's say it, white men of a certain persuasion, a certain religion, a certain point of view, a certain ideology is just doing such damage to what we should be aiming for. And we. So she does this interview. Every once in a while she comes back and she says the exact same talking point. That again, is not effective in a 2026 time of year. You know, getting into the midterm time, I should say midterm election season, not good. I again, I really don't think this is going to pull what it is that you want again. Of course, Clinton's already on the record suggesting that there need to be all of these regulations on free speech. French President Macron is getting a lot of flack for announcing that free speech without a bunch of European guardrails and banning, for example, saying mean things about Muslims. No, no, no. Tucker Carlson and Emmanuel Macron say, don't you dare say mean things about. Don't you dare. That's Islamophobic or something. That's bad. Don't. Don't you say those words. Emmanuel Macron announces that in that light of things, free speech is. It's BS or something because I mean, free speech is a pure bullshit. Nobody knows how you are guided through this so called free speech, especially when it's to be guided from one hated speech to another hated speech. So then all the individuals behind him start clap. Yeah, it's bf. Free speech, unguarded free speech. It's terrible. We hate it. I just want to have a transparent road through these different speeches. And I want, by the way, to have a sort of public order. I want to avoid racist speech, hated speech, and so on. Yeah, that's why France is doing so well right now. Clearly the government cracking down on speech and you know, Opening the floodgates for unfettered migration and cultures of a certain kind. That's just going so well. That's why the French government burns down every 14 and a half days. The French government is more regularly burnt down than some ladies on their cycles. It's ridiculous. It really is a wild thing to see. And the U.S. state Department led by Marco Rubio is doing a pretty, I'd say one of the most important things that has come out of a, an administrative project in some years. The U.S. state Department is now developing an online portal that will supposedly help enable people in Europe and elsewhere to access content banned by their governments including quote, hate speech and terrorist propaganda. Quote, that's, that's what Reuters added. And this site will be hosted@freedom.gov now it's unclear if this is some kind of a VPN situation or a proxy situation. I'm sure there will very likely be some government entities which try to then ban access to freedom.gov, we'll have to see how that all plays out. The very nature of this kind of a move, again, siding with those in other countries who are being oppressed. It's a good thing. It is. That doesn't bring any long term United States commitments. It's not an end of all, end of all. I do believe that, at least according to some of these reports. Again, I do enjoy that Reuters said giving access to terrorist propaganda is the aim of this nonsensical nonsense. Last but not least for this evening, I wanted to play for you one of the greatest pearl clutching interviews I've seen in a while. And this involves Jennifer Welch, the botoxed weasel lady who looks like Nicole Wallace if you had dragged her through car batteries. But Jennifer Welch again, one of the menopausal left wing ladies losing her mind all because of Scott Jennings friend of the show. I go on his show quite often. Great dude over on cnn. The reason that people watch Abby Phillips show and she and Mehdi Hassan, a an Islamist apologist who looks a lot like a balding shoe spent a good 5 minutes just complaining about Scott Jennings face. Yeah, I mean, okay, where is that? I have that in segment two. There we go. There's a clip we have of you on CNN last August with Scott. You see that? Look at that. Look at that face. Here we are, we're gonna come back here. We have a view on Jennifer Welch, ladies and gentlemen. That. Yeah, all right. That's, that's real, real special. I'm again because she constantly goes after individuals for how they look. She's fair game. That's my standard. You go after for how people look. You're fair game. Myself included. By the way, you know, make your JD Vance discount Matt Walsh jokes as much as you'd like. But anyway, they're going to complain about the manosphere from the balding shoe. Mehdi Hassan, all about Scott Jennings, CNN Last August with Scott Jennings, a man I consider to be the most loathsome man on cable news. And if you don't think he has dementia, let's just discuss the time that when he was on the campaign trail that he tried to perform oral sex on a microphone. If Joe Biden did this, I hope Democrats do next year. If this is a Democratic strategy, congratulations, America. You've already reelected Republican majorities as far as the I can see. Yeah, because Trump's approval is in the low 30s. Listen to this one, he says, picking up his mug and making that face of his. What a beta. Cuckoo. What a sad, sad man. Oh, look at. And then he does like the, he does a little imitation of it, which, you know, I mean, I enjoy that. By the way, what Scott's saying is true. If you go into 2026 going, they're sexist and they're like bad and oh my God, like not even good for the environment, I'm oh my God, like, if you do that. And Scott Jennings going, yes, please do that. Please go into 2026 with this. By all means, you, you lead with this. There's no defense against that because then she has to articulate why it's in point minute. And you see she's also offended having to bring up a clip all the way back from August to whine about not a whole lot going on. Again, I will reiterate, we are going to be changing our set pretty soon because I have noticed every single podcaster now has the fake 1960s early 70s era wood paneling slats that are like 20 to $40 a board based on how hellish your state is. But anyway, okay, why does he have such an annoying face? Okay, have you seen yours, shoe man? This old queen sitting there, he's always looking like he acts like he's on the Truman show or something. You know, he's always looking in the audience. He said recently to Adam Friedland, he sees his role as like a WWE wrestler, like performance. Oh, he said that? He admitted it. He admitted it. Oh, yeah, I think there's nothing to do with that. He thinks he's a performer. He thinks he's going out and he's performing. Yeah, He's a pundit. Pundits, what you're supposed to do is take politics, take the news. The massive festering bathwater, Potomac river, the deluge of news that you, the normal people who are tuning into this right now, you don't steep all day in this, the bathwater of politics, as I call it. So then you have pundits. And depending on your flavor, you know, you may get out there and you may prefer Ben Shapiro to tell you the news in a very quick, fast way, folks. Or you may prefer Scott Jennings to give you his pace of the news on Salem with his particular brand of Kentuckian humor. You might prefer the Five over at Fox. You might prefer a bit of the banter that you find on kind of the more moderate, independent y style of show. But every pundit brings something. It's a performance. Of course. This is. I was a sarcastic teacher who watched way too much, whose line growing up and has probably way too much of a kind of a Chandler Bing obsession with little quips and jokes. And that's what I do. You don't like it, you've probably already left. Yeah, it's a performance. And she does the performance all the time. If it wasn't entertaining, why would you watch? Of course, some people prefer, you know, maybe you prefer Hugh Hewitt. He's a much more stable, direct to the point kind of news guy. But anyway, we're going to have to feign some outrage here. He should be fired from his job. Of course, that's never going to happen. But I think he is such a disgrace to human beings. Intelligent conversations. To the. Yes, intelligent conversations. I once talked for 40 minutes about JD Vance and a meme humping a couch. Intelligent conversation. Martha, where am I? Smelling salts? Truth. He's not interested in the truth. He's already admitted he's a performer and he's playing to an audience of one, which is. Okay, well, breaking that one down, just because you are a performer, an entertainer does not mean you don't do the truth. And there are, there are those out there who do this, right? There are those out there who for Tucker Carlson's a great example of this. Right now he accuses everyone else of only talking about Israel. All of his guests over the last six months have all come to his studio and complained about Israel, with the exception of maybe a handful, and then ignores this and just promotes certain state run lines. You know, let's pick any state. Qatar, for example. I could come out here and do the same thing. I could. I could come out and Read the exact same line, whether it comes from Carolyn's press office or whether it comes from Karine Jean Pierre's press office. I could do that. I think that it's probably more interesting as an entertainer to give you a fun spin on the truth, because then my ADHD rattled brain doesn't have to keep track of all of the narratives I'm supposed to be holding. And then number two, then when I make a prediction and it comes true, then I get to be proud of me being right. I'm not always bending over and kissing the ring or shaking my fist. Kind of on the opposite and going, you're not responsible for this, because that's what you're going to see at the State of the Union, right? Republicans are going to stand every 13 seconds and they're going to go, yay, Wonderful. Amazing. And then the Democrats are going to boo, and you're going to. You're going to have Al Green going, dastardly deeds undone. And then Lauren Boebert's going to stand up and go, boo. And it's going to be theater along party lines. Right? We can do that. But none of the emotion behind it means that you get rid of the truth of it. That's a weird statement. Donald Trump. You know what's amazing to me, Mehdi, is how submissive all of these men are. They. They want to beat women down and make us submissive. And I'm like, y' all are the most submissive group of men I've ever seen. Okay, So I don't think you know what the term submissive means. Submissive, meaning to submit. If you are beating others down to submission, which, again, they're not. I haven't seen one thing in which Scott Jennings tells women what to do. So far, I have seen Scott Jennings criticize women being told they're too stupid to go get their own voter id. She's going to go after Jesse Waters in a second. I think you've been reading too many smut novels where the author is unhealthily obsessed with BDSM and bestiality homes. So between Botox appointments, might want to start reading other stuff. Yeah, yeah. I mean, Jesse Waters at Fox calls Trump daddy. It's a weird thing to do. It's weird. Am I the only one hearing this? I'm like, and he talks about masculinity all the time. Like, men, real man won't suck out of a straw. And a real man wouldn't do this. And a real man. And a real man. And a real man And I'm just saying, again, it's not even the. It's not even the misogynistic, childish, immature, toxic masculine rhetoric that I. Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. The toxic masculine rhetoric, I thought that was really dominant. Like spreading your legs when you sit down on the subway. That kind. That's. I thought that was dominant. How is that also submissive? What weirdo versions of word. Well, I mean, I can't ask what weirdo versions of words you guys are using. You can't even agree that a penis means you're a man. Object to. It's that Donald Trump is the guy they think is the real man. Again, it's like the cult. I don't mind the cult. It's the guy you've decided to make your cult leader. Right. Same here. I get why lots of men will sit around and say, we need to be more manly. Okay, fine. But Donald Trump. So I will make a little something clear here. I've never heard Scott Jennings go, well, Donald Trump is the man. He's the man. He's the idea of a perfect man. I've never seen that whatsoever. And a lot of people on the conservative side of the aisle do not like Donald Trump because they think he's the perfect picture of masculinity. They think he's an entertainer and he's also the coroner who has essentially declared the old performative style fake. Frontward facing American politics behind closed doors. The kind of stuff that Tim Burchett from Tennessee criticizes. For example, wheeling and dealing, sausage making, then coming out in the front and acting all theater esque again, that Donald Trump came in and he ended a lot of that. And he also recognizes kind of the common feeling of Americans on a lot of issues. None of those have to do with the President's masculinity. I don't know if you guys know this, but some of the most popular members of his administration are very masculine. RFK Jr some of them aren't really super masculine. Scott Besant, for example. It's almost as though a lot of people on the right like the standards of results, or at least the attitude towards results, the desire to see things move in a certain direction. Then they are worried about this weird body language nonsense. That dude with the makeup and the bronzer. Don't you get it? Draft dodging. But that's such a tell. Because they feel these guys have like compensatory narcissism. And they feel like by beating other people down, by punching them down, or if they join Ice and they get a gun and a badge, then they're going to feel like real men. And that's, that's the through line. So, by the way, not the correct term in this instance for the use of the word compensatory. Compensating, sort of, but compensatory, not, I use that word. Easy there, Candace. Number two, the idea that I like a politician who aggravates a lot of people that I think have been screwing over the American people for a long time, that's not worship. That's, that's team sportism. That is that, that is tribal team sportism. And that's what this country has become. If it's theater, then my team might as well win. And if my team can effectuate some good things, I mean, hey, that's a pretty good bonus. And look, we can argue day in, day out, you know, from morning until night how effective that is in the long term. And the Republicans are going to have this conversation regarding the 2028 primary. I mean, if you put people, I should be careful because of FCC regulations, there are certain people who are currently in the lead in primaries from many different kinds of states who are running who I think you might see repeat Kerry Lake incidents if you're not careful, in which you, you bring the bluster and the yelling and the crazy and the, ah, I'm going to be Trump. But different. That's not what people are looking for. Trump is Trump. No one else is trying to, excuse me, no one Americans take seriously is trying to be Trump. Americans have not crowned anyone else. Donald Trump. Nobody, no one else has been crowned. He is a unique figure and that's not the answer. And Republicans, well, again, with regard to, with an exception to a few primaries in which there are some, let's say, for example, perhaps state office holders, you know, attorney general, esque individuals maybe, who are running for positions. You might get a very Carrie Lake situation in which there's all this bluster and then ends up losing a race that should have been easily won. Yeah, there, there could still be some flops, but by and large, there are a lot of candidates running who aren't trying to do the performative theater stuff. They're looking forward to looking forward. Whoever paints a better picture of where we go to in 2026, that's going to be the crew that walks away with a midterm victory. It is not decided yet. There's a lot of betting market polling stuff that thinks it's already decided. No, no. So question from Jules. By the Way tone is time. Does the FCC still apply in the bonus tone of section of the show? Sort of. So FCC regulatory rules outside of the broadcast hour do not apply, but because the Daily Signal and some elements of the show deal with some kind of nonprofit infrastructure. For example, I don't endorse candidates openly and I don't do that anyway. I'd rather say, hey, I like it when candidates don't act like Kari Lake, and I like it when they're decent. I don't like it when they preen and posture Dan Crenshaw style either. I don't care for that. I don't, I don't care for tut, tuttery that we get out of from some, for example, some Alaska Republicans like Murkowski. I don't care for that either, but you're not gonna hear direct endorsements from me. I don't, I don't like it when anyone endorses candidates from like a media side of things. And to be honest, I think that's just insurance. Because if I endorse you and then next week you walk out and do something blisteringly, blitheringly stupid, well, then I'm locked in. I've endorsed you. There we go. So, yeah, best, hottest takes of the time, I would say, is that I don't usually do the endorsing. So some rules apply. Some are a little bit different. You'll hear, for example, if I play clips that do have a bit more swearing in them, I save those for nights in which we are preempt on some radio network sides of things or on, on nights in which we'll save those for the bonus Sonus section of the show. So those things aside, I think the, you know, that particular side of things is worth moving into just a smidge, a smidge of some of the mail time this evening. So Alicia Booker very sweetly gave $10 and said for the Toyota, for the Toyota Hilux. I very, very much appreciate that. If there is any kind of a dealership out there who now, because of the new rules, you would like to sell me a Toyota Hilux, I am all about it. Please get ahold of us. Tonykinnit.com it's on the, in the description. It's on the little Chiron down below. There's a contact page. You reach out to us, we'll get one. That sounds awesome, but thank you very, very much to Alicia. One question from S. Jack, California or ca. Tony, given where the country is today, do you believe that President Trump's current term is better suited to the political and cultural moment than if he had been elected to serve a second term consecutively. Absolutely. I am one of the very few people out there who will admit openly that it is a good thing that President Trump was not confirmed as the winner of the 2020 election. Now, do I think there were some shady shenanigans at foot? Yeah, absolutely. I think the mail in voting system and the ease of regulations regarding those was enough. And again, of course, the hiding of the Hunter Biden laptop scandal, et cetera. That aside, I think it was very good that we got to see Biden for four years so that we could get, oh no, Donald Trump and his mean tweets out of everybody's system. Because then we got to see Biden and the gaslighting from the media that said, oh, he's totally alive. Oh yeah, he's, he's like in the, the prime of his life. Ignore the corpse. Now that Trump's in office again, they tried to make a huge media scandal, for example, out of the video in which on his account tweeted out the video that autoplay the following video that had the Obamas depicted as monkeys. And the media tried to go, oh kids, so racist. And oh my God. And nobody cared because Trump, he just tweets things, he says things all the time. Maybe he'll say, you know what tariff 39% because your prime minister sucks. I mean, Americans are used to that. At this point, the real question is who the real referendum for? Is Trump more appropriate for this term? There are some good things, as in, yeah, Trump is appointing way better individuals who are not making deals on the side like in his first administration. However, some of the appointments that are more political and have nothing to do with leadership. Can I get a Kristi Noem, for example? They haven't really done anything useful. And when you could have had an individual like Tom Holman, for example, who again knows his stuff backwards forwards, veteran law enforcement officer, no fluff, no muff, Right to the point. Probably wouldn't assign a bunch of people to do all of the social media videos. I hope you've noticed a lot of those social media videos have like stopped. Americans want the cool, calm, collected airline pilot. That's what we need. Again, that's why you're seeing Scott Besant. That's why you're seeing Marco Rubio dominate in, in the case of some of these approvals, these modern approval rating and polls. We'll have to see where that goes again. I think Bernie Moreno as a senator has started emerging as a leader in the Senate because while it is absolutely great to have a good friend of the show, good friend of mine, Senator Eric Schmidt, he gets out there sometimes and he just lights into him and then you'll have Senator Hawley usually then get up and then he'll really start shouting and yelling and stuff. A little of that goes a long way. You know, spoonful of sugar, not a metric dump truck of sugar. So I still think that Trump absolutely is more effective in this administration. Again, he took all of that time to craft the American the America First Policy Institute, which is literally just the Trump administration's copycat or the Trump team's copycat of what the Heritage foundation operated as for prior kind of administrations. Just policy think tank. Here's where this comes from. Here's the data, here's where it's going. I think that he taking some time to prepare, has done some really good stuff. The question again is going to be what the impact is for kind of the legacy building. And the person whose mind is on that the most right now is Trump. All about the legacy. So that stuff aside, counselor tips 5891, how do you read comments and talk? Hey, that's a fun question. So the answer to your question is that and I'm not sure there's really a way that I can show you from this particular angle. I'll try. So this is the second camera angle. Right in front of me. Right here is the camera with kind of a screen in front. It's a teleprompter that literally just is my image. So I can, you know, make sure that everything is right in place. And then I have some things underneath it that shows the scenes in the videos. When there's a wrong clip or something, it's because I've either clicked the wrong clip for just pick a random. Should be troubling to all of us. Yeah, it's very troubling to all of us, that kind of a thing. I'm the guy who activates those particular things underneath a window. That is a mirror of that in front to my right, which you'll see when I turn my glasses. You can see that. That reflecting off of them. There's a copy of what's on my teleprompter, which is why when you see me clicking clips, I usually look over to my right. Your left a little bit Right below that is a dual window. One is my communication with kind of the onboard for the clock timing people. If you ever see me look up above the camera, I Have like a little LED synced up clock with the radio and the TV clock so that I can stay on the time rules for the FCC and also keep an eye on, for example, that it's 8:35 bonus. Tonus usually only goes for a half an hour to 8:30 if you know, as is our recent way. So I'm kind of five minutes over and rambling at this point. So on the dual screen below, on the left side is the communication with my team, on the right side is the comments. So it's just the comment section from the whole thing and I do occasionally look over and see what's up. I also have my excellent producers though, specifically Daniel, Producer Daniel and producer Jen. They keep an eye and they throw any questions that you throw in the live chat or super chats into mail time. So the super chats are so that I can thank people for them because again, it's not something we solicit from you guys. And then of course the mail time questions, if you ask a question, if they see it, sometimes the live chat gets a little, you know, picked up. Well then we try to get as many of them as we can. Also the computer in front of me as well, that I kind of have a smattering of everything on the screen. So I have my notes, my bullet points for the show. Producer Josiah thinks that I should get the. The slate pickup truck. If you think that I would get an electric pickup truck instead of a Toyota Hilux Hilux, the backbone of every CIA funded and armed organization on the face of this earth, you don't know me at all. But alas, we'll get to some of that a little bit later. Someone asked, I saw over on the right. Oh, from Annie Channel member Annie, when is the studio tour? We're still working on it. We're getting ready to raise the floors up in here along with completely rebuilding the set. Because as I've said before, I've noticed far too many podcasters, analysts, show hosts on tv, radio, podcast, Sphere, wherever, they all have this background and I don't care for it. No matter what color I dye it, it's the same. It's this wooden slat background. Don't care for that. Everyone's using it. And also these black IKEA bookshelves have been here forever. There's too many books, it's too busy, things have changed. You can't even see the Daily Signal logo. It's not even in focus because it's not the right kind of lens. We're getting there. We've got all kinds of things. I'm getting the itch to get a better mic as well and finally return this one to wibc. I, I definitely did not take it. Um, so we've got some stuff in the future on that side of things. Um, up there there's the old microphone that I used originally. The wrong kind of microphone for this, but hey, live and learn. So with that kind of stuff said, I would say I've rambled enough. So I really appreciate you guys. Oh, they're copying you. Blue Arrow. That's very kind of you. I don't think so. I saw it, I liked it. I asked very kindly producer Lou and producer Daniel to somehow balance it onto my. No, I think we had a trailer for that. I don't think I balanced that on the Corolla on the way home through Greenfield, Indiana on a windstorm day like the old fake shiplap look. So I don't know. I'm interested. There's a couple of sets that I'm kind of curious about for the future design of the show. I guess maybe I should just to keep the live chat on the screen here, you can flip it back to the beginning screen where you can actually see. Yeah, there we go. Now that live text can be on the, on the screen here. Ignore the Timer that says 0.00. Obviously that doesn't matter. We've already counted down for today. I've thought about an epoxy panel. We had something custom cut. This really nice aluminum thing. Is it in here? Oh, yeah, here it is. I'm going to break a rule and get up on screen. So the fine folks at Draper in Spiceland, Indiana, because they listen to the show and it's hugely kind of them, made us this daily signal aluminum panel that does have like a, like kind of plasticky epoxy layer behind it. I originally wanted the LED lights that are above that, by the way. If I can maybe even zoom out just for some real kicks and giggles. Here, here. Zooming out a little bit further. Make it any better? Ah, no, you can't see it. So I made that LED light set up. I kind of wanted them behind the sign, but it just looks terrible. I mean, look, it's awful. Look at garbage. So what does that mean for the future of the set? There's a couple of sets that I really like. I don't know, I'm not quite sure. I don't know. I, I, I. There's a couple of sets that I really like. I'm just not sold. Will Kane Set I love. It's actually where we got the idea for the second. The vertical screen, I should say. So little. The vertical TV screen. He does that in his studio. Now that's actually how he displays guests. I think that's freaking sweet. We don't do that because the camera focus issues and that's a lot of, you know, tech work on that end. I really like kind of the fake window, not the green screen window behind you look, but I like kind of the fake window look that a lot of sets are trying to do, obviously. First one that comes to mind, Ben's. Ben Shapiro's set. I like the, like, fake Nashville skyline behind him, obviously. You guys know I'm obsessed with the Indianapolis skyline because I'm a Hoosier, so something like that maybe, but if it looks cheesy, I don't want to do it. So we haven't really decided yet. I don't know, maybe you have any ideas or anything like that or. Heck, I don't know. You do something in set design. You want to sponsor our studio redesign, you let us know. I mean, we're still talking about the, the concrete and the framing construction individual for the studio. They have permanent sponsorship slots here on the show. So, you know, Matt Walsh, Fish. I don't know those of us with hearing issues. The lights changing is really distracting. I'm sorry. That the Aurora, that's a GE lighting kind of preset called Aurora. I can change that up a little bit and make it kind of a basic something. I do that for some TV hits. But the coloring gets off and it's kind of weird. And I don't know. I've been doing the Aurora for a long time because it's an easy effect you don't to do too much for. So I don't know, sometimes it's, it's really flashy and exciting and, you know, sometimes it's just not all that worth it. So we'll keep that, keep that stuff aside. You know, I, you know, try to do what it is that we do here. So that all said, appreciate you guys think you're excellent. And we will be back tomorrow evening, 7pm Eastern for the Tony Kennett cast. I have been reliably informed it is Thursday tomorrow, not Friday. So I'm not going to say we're about to round out the week. You guys have a wonderful evening and take care. 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. 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