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Ep. 510 - Department of Justice Sues 29 States Over Voter Roll Compliance, ICE Fight at Columbia in NYC
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The Department of Justice is now suing 29 states + Washington DC over voter roll compliance, as Voter ID laws face dog parade delays in the Senate. New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and President Trump fight over an ICE incident regarding an illegal immigrant with a revoked student visa.
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Matt Davis
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Virginia Allen
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Harmony Dhillon
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Tony Kennett (Host)
Let's get down to business. You're listening to the Tony Kennett cast on 93 WIBC on CYTV here on the Daily Signal. Good evening and welcome to the Tony Kenned cast here on the Daily Signal, nationally syndicated first on 93 WIBC. Double the taste and now only half the calories. We got a lot of breaking news to get into. So without further ado, the assistant attorney general on civil rights, Harmony Dillon, has announced that the United States is adding five states to its voter rolls lawsuit. Now, the voter roll lawsuit is in kind of an interesting place to begin with because there have been appeals and some overrulings and some kind of throwings out that then the appeals were confirmed. Essentially. The Department of Justice is currently suing 29 states, plus the sewer of Columbia for failing to produce, quote, their full unredacted voter registration lists upon federal request. And this comes originally after an announcement today that Utah, Oklahoma, Kentucky, West Virginia and New Jersey were being added to the lawsuit. This is from attorney or, excuse me, Assistant Attorney General Harmony Dhillon.
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Harmony Dhillon
Exciting election law news here at the DOJ Civil Rights Division. Today we sued five additional states for their refusal to turn over voter rolls in response to the attorney General's request under the Civil Rights act of 1960. Specifically, we sued West Virginia, Utah, Oklahoma, Kentucky and New Jersey. This brings to almost 30 states that we are suing in addition to the District of Columbia. And we will not rest until we have resolved this litigation throughout the United States. Now, speaking of which, we have had a couple of adverse rulings in different courts. We disagree with them. There's been a hodgepodge of issues that plaintiffs lawyers have thrown up against the wall. We have filed our notices of appeal promptly in the Ninth Circuit in the cases in Oregon and California, and we have also filed a challenge and appeal in the Sixth Circuit against a recent Michigan ruling.
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Tony Kennett (Host)
Now, I know that as far as statements from Harmeet Dhillon are concerned, that that was riveting. You were on the edge of your seat. Why does any of this matter? Vice President J.D. vance today in Wisconsin released a bit of information. You may be aware that he has been kind of named the fraud czar. So whereas Kamala Harris, the vice president who historically has nothing to do by the very first vice president, John Adams, who said, I am so bored, I want to hang myself, I'm paraphrasing a little bit, but the wanting to hang himself thing. That is an absolutely true part of the quote. The vice presidency is kind of useless unless the president's heart stops beating. So what do you do? Well, they're often made the Michelle Obama of school lunches and other kinds of policy. The president says, you need something to do. Here's some Legos and something to focus on. Go ahead. Now, Kamala Harris looked at that and went, oh, well, the border. And then she like went to a QDOBA and called it a day. Vice President J.D. vance said, oh, fraud. The frauds are, huh, huh. We can do a little bit of investigating here. And the man got every manila envelope in the tri state area and started diving through a lot of figures while he was preparing a trip to the Rust Belt from Wisconsin to Michigan, swinging through these Midwestern states. And he said something in a response to a reporter that is rather telling in this whole Department of Justice lawsuit situation. Thank you, Mr. Vice President. Matt Smith from WISN TV in Milwaukee on the fraud efforts and what we saw in Minnesota yesterday. Here in Wisconsin, the governor has refused to give over the SNAP data here in the state along with the voter data. I'm curious, is there a point or at what point would the administration withhold federal funds from Wisconsin? Well, look, we're going to look at
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J.D. Vance
every option that we have because we've got to stop this terrible fraud. But that is absurd. Ask yourself a question. Why would the government of Wisconsin not want to help us kick fraud off of the welfare rolls and kick fraud off of the voter rolls? And the only answer I can possibly come up with is because, because they like to cheat. There's no other real explanation. Now, the governor might say, in fact, I'm sure the governor would say this. Let me just be charitable to those who disagree with us. The governor would say, well, there isn't as much fraud as the Trump administration believes there is. Well, even if that's true, and it's not, but even if that's true, let's get what fraud there is off the voter rolls and off the welfare rolls. You know, the right number of people who should be illegally voting in American elections and zero. You know, the number of people who should be fraudulently collecting food stamps, Zero. I want those benefits to exist for the people who need them. The only way to promise that is to get the fraud out of the system. And that's what we're trying to do in the Trump administration. No more fraud, no more corruption.
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Tony Kennett (Host)
It shouldn't be hard. Now, there are a couple of points from that But I want to, I want to touch on this one first. There was a little bit of scorn, a little laughter, because the Attorney General Todd Rakita and the Secretary of State Diego Morales here in Indiana made the decision to do a full investigation on voter fraud in Indiana. And they found, I think like less than 20 or around 20 cases. And a lot of individuals said, ah, see, therefore the investigation was a waste of time. No, see, the people committing the crime, that's still individuals who did commit the crime who should then be punished according to the law. The idea that there needs to be a certain threshold for the government to care the law is being broken is called the abdication of duty. You don't swear an oath to meet a quota. You swear an oath to uphold the laws of the country. Now this really, really upset a couple of Republican administrations who are rather lackluster. Lt. Gov. Deirdre Henderson of Utah put out a little scathing statement, I suppose. Um, and, and she said the U.S. department of justice has sued more than half the states for the private data. Oh, here we go. The private data. Social Security number, driver's license number, date of birth of their voters. Oh, no, not the date of birth of voters. Oh, no, not the most sacred of all private information. Oh, thank goodness, Lieutenant Governor, you're protecting the birthdays. Ah, Hallmark is saved. Anyway, the Justice Department has declined our previous offer to share publicly available voter lists with him. Well, yeah, Deidre, if they're public, the government doesn't need to check them. This just in, I didn't need to ask what color her shirt was because she was wearing it on the outside. More at 11. So anyway, she says, as expected today, the DOJ filed a lawsuit against us along with several Republican states. Um, she said neither state nor federal law entitles the DOJ to collect private information on law abiding American citizens. Guys, that's not true. That's not a thing. There's no information privacy. Hands off Government act of 1922. That's not a thing. I, the, the whole I don't give Facebook permission to share my data posting, that's what this is getting out there and posturing because you are Republican state who can't get it together. Now, Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt did what a lot of kind of mealy mouth pathetic Republicans do, which is they go on liberal media and they go, please don't think I'm bad. I'm, I'm normal. Don't, don't call me bad words. So this is Kevin Stitt who has about 1cc of testosterone in his entire body, talking about voter fraud in the country.
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Kevin Stitt
But I will also say, you know, even my Democrat governor colleagues, they're not trying to get illegals here to turn them into voters. I don't believe that's what Democrat politicians
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are trying to do. Now, again, the problem with this particular statement, let's take it on his face value here. Forget why he's doing the interview for a second, but let's take this on face value when you make that statement. And I can immediately pull up the pleas and the cries and the angst and the anger from. From states like California and Oregon and Washington State, where they are talking openly about making sure that illegal immigrants are not banned from participating in any local or state elections that also happen to make it really easy with federal election registration when you get out there and go, guys, I know everyone. Everyone's fine. No, no, you don't know that. That's not endearing you to those who sent you to office. And.
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Kevin Stitt
And just like Republicans get a bad rap that people think that Republicans don't like immigrants.
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Tony Kennett (Host)
That's not true.
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Kevin Stitt
There's some common ground that if we can sit down together, we can figure this out.
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Tony Kennett (Host)
Okay, I'm gonna explain the difference here between Kevin Stitt and John Fetterman. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania will go. I disagree with you. I think that you're wrong. But I know that based on the opinions and decisions that you're making, you're not a Nazi. And people calling you a Nazi, that's a very bad thing. I'm still gonna go to the State of the Union. I'm gonna clap for the things that make sense, the common stuff. We need more of that. The idea that I need to compromise what I believe, though, in order to appeal to you, that's wrong. That's wrong. If. If I told you that what I believed here from the Daily Signal depended on what you sent into the show, you should not have any respect for me whatsoever. You should go watch something else. Absolutely not. That's garbage. And I think that it's. It's very correct for the Department of Justice in this particular lawsuit. I don't like the idea that we need to hide the birthdays of voters from the Department of Justice, who, by the way, the FBI. Guess what? They've already got a lot of that stuff anyway. Radio crew, we got to send you over to the commercial. We're going to continue with some more news on the live stream. No commercials over here. It's the Tony kinder cast now. In the meantime, Zoran Mamdani and Donald Trump had a very weird day together. Yes, they had a very, very weird day together. And it did not start with this post from an Azerbaijani influencer, Ellie. And I'm gonna pronounce her last name wrong, probably Aga Yeva. Again, I'm not pronouncing it correctly. Give me a break. Azerbaijani is not one of mine. But anyway, this, this particular influencer, Ellie, she released a post earlier today, said, DHS illegally arrested me. Please help. And what followed was quite the firestorm of activity. So there was an ICE statement that came out, but also a statement from the president of Columbia University who said, hey, that we are Investigating that at 6:30am this morning, federal agents with DHS entered Columbia University residential building and detained a student. Were working to gather more information. This is the part that kind of matters in the story. A little more here. Our understanding at this time is that the federal agents made misrepresentations to gain entry to the building to search for a missing person. We're working to gather more details. So the allegation that's made is that ICE went to the Columbia University dorms and gained access to the individual here, this, this Ellie Azerbaijani immigrant, by saying that they were the police and that they were looking for a missing person. Now, if they said, oh, are you cops? Are you law enforcement? Or they said, hey, are you cops? And they go, yeah, we're law enforcement. They, they didn't lie. And they say, what do you look what you're looking for? And they, they carefully crafted a sentence that sounded like missing person. Again, you can talk about the, you know, kind of the morality of it, but that doesn't change the legality. And again, the idea that cops have to stop and go, stop, I am a police officer. All of these weird urban myths and legends go right next to if your professor doesn't show up in 15 minutes, class is canceled and you're legally allowed to leave. Urban myth, nonsense. But that didn't stop a bunch of protests. Here's CBS2 in New York reporting on the protests that happened immediately.
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We are outside the campus of Columbia University. There is already a rally underway and a protest, and it's all stemming from an incident that occurred this morning. According to Claire Shipman, who is the acting president of the university. 6:30 this morning, federal agents gained access to the campus by misrepresenting who they were and what they were there for. They apparently had said that they were here to search for a missing person. It turns out that they entered the campus and, and detained a student.
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Tony Kennett (Host)
Now, so far, what you're hearing from the reporter is just, and I do play these, by the way, a little bit sparingly, but I do play the news cast in which they say essentially what I said to show you that the only thing anyone's going on here in this particular situation is the letter from the Columbia University president. That's it. And that's important. It is important because when you were told that like these, these vaunted, incredible journalistic organizations are all doing investigative, Sherlock Holmes law and ordered SVU kind of work, that's not true. That's just not true. All right. Everyone's kind of reading off the same information here. It's not that special. Then Kathy Hochul gets involved because, oh, thank the Lord.
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Now we're still waiting to learn whether they were posing as local law enforcement or otherwise. But at this time, this protest is gathering in size and students that we spoke with are furious that they feel this is an invasion of privacy. We did hear from Governor Hochul, who made the point as similar one to what the acting president said to students in a campus wide email that federal agents need some sort of judicial warrant or subpoena to gain access to campus.
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Tony Kennett (Host)
We're still looking for more information, but to misrepresent who they are, I've said they're out of control. Okay, now, first of all, that's another lie. If they have an administrative warrant, they're allowed in. This idea that, that you need a judicial warrant in order to enter. Sorry. The Supreme Court cases have already been had. Precedent has already been upheld. Now we're going to get into this and how Trump and mom dummy get into this. And again, it is a weird day for the two of them. We'll talk about it. We got to bring the radio crew back from commercial. It's the Tony Kennett cast here on the Daily Signal. You're listening to the Tony Kenneth cast on 93 WIPC. Welcome back to the Tony Kenneth Cast. A lot, and I mean a lot of news to get into. We haven't even gotten to the foreign policy disasters happening around the world. We haven't talked at length about the spyware on Kristy Noam's phone installed by Department of Homeland Security. People. We got to talk a little bit about the developing situation still between Donald Trump, Zoran Mandani, this Ellie Azerbaijani immigrant in New York City at Columbia University and the protests that spawned out of it. So according to the statement from the Department of Homeland Security, ICE arrested Elmina Akhavieva again, not pronouncing that right at all. An illegal alien from Azerbaijan whose student visa was terminated in 2016 under the Obama administration for failing to attend classes. The building manager and her roommate let officers into the apartment. She has no pending appeals or applications with the Department of Homeland Security. This is the thing that is being left out quite a bit. She had her student visa revoked. If the statement from ICE is true, and usually when they make a very rote clear, here's the person, here's the statement, unless they grab the wrong person, then, yeah, this, this would be a case that's really hard to argue against if she overstayed her visa. Now that what's being shared all over social media, and I do mean all over all, every influencer had to get their, you know, little video out and post things like, hey, this just happened.
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So Columbia University student Elia Gava was detained by ICE this morning.
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Tony Kennett (Host)
I mean, all over, every, everywhere. We got to get the posts, the videos, the walking on the street. And did you know this? It's, it's, it's like extra bad, all of that junk. All right, so while that was going on and we started looking into the record, you know, the, the information on Ellie Agaeva, we discovered that while she claims to be a, studying neuroscience or whatever, she's been here for 10 years now. I don't know if the kind of neuroscience that she is studying is, is at the master's degree level. May I humbly suggest, though, if it is taking you 10 freaking years at least, because her visa expired in 2016. Right. If it's taking you 10 years to get a bachelor's degree, either you better be like a full time mom auditioning for Reba. I mean, you know, a single mom who works too hard. That, that kind of, that's the joke I was making there. Either that should be you, you're too busy, you know what I'm saying? Or, I don't know, maybe you shouldn't be getting a bachelor's degree in neuroscience. I, again, none of this, again, none of this has anything to do with like not renewing your visa. Now there are some other questions about her activism roles and things like that. But now we get into Zoran Mandani because, you know, of course we do. So Zoran Mandani, who's having a hard day. We're going to talk about that in a minute. He posted this afternoon. Just got off the phone with President Trump. In our meeting earlier, I shared my concerns about the Columbia student Elmina Agajeva, who was detained by ICE this morning. He has just informed me that she will be released immediately. And then all of the sudden, a lot of red flags should have gone up. And the reason, by the way, that a lot of red flags should have gone up and is why is President Trump taking a call and going, you got it, I'll release her. I'll, I'll take care of it. That, that should be an issue. Now. Mom Donnie could be lying here. But according to her own post later this afternoon, said, hi, guys, I'm so grateful for every one of you. Just got out a little while ago, I'm safe and okay, blah, blah, blah, overstimulated, everyone's blowing up my phone. I love you all, blah, blah, that kind of junk. Okay, this is why I believe things are a little bit strange. President Trump and mom Dani spent the day together, guys. And mom Dani knows how to play Trump a little bit. He does. He brought Donald Trump, it appears, at least from this image, some really nice things. Some things that are like, I like Donald Trump. And that is a way to get on Trump's good side. It absolutely is. The man has an ego. He does like to be treated respectfully. He does. So, mom Donnie posted earlier today, I had a productive meeting with the President this afternoon. I'm looking forward to building more housing in New York City. Now, as a reminder, the reason there is not housing being built in New York City is because of the city and state regulations that won't let people build more buildings. The answer is not more state funded housing. The answer is taking the regulations off and letting the companies that want to build big apartment buildings build, you guessed it, big apartment buildings. So Mamdani, kind of playing around Trump here. I again, Trump hasn't made a statement yet that I know of. I just don't like that. Now, I don't think Trump's stupid and you being cowed or anything like that. I'm just saying Mandani's kind of a weasel. Now, he's also having a very, very bad day because he has been caught lying yet again. I know. I too am oh, so shocked. So you'll recall, mom Donnie, after cops were hit with a bunch of snowballs and ice chunks and some stuff with rocks in it, according to some of the video footage, that no one was going to be arrested because it's just kids having a snowball fight, right? They're shooting ELF 2 return to Central park or whatever and they're all just having fun. It's great. It turns out that's not so true. The NYPD making an arrest in Monday's snowball attack on police in Washington Square Park. The 27 year old Guzman Collaboli is. Ah, yes, yeah, yeah, you know, just a regular child. Just, just a little guy. 27 year old Usman Calaboli, you know, under arrest for his role in Monday's attack that left two New York police officers injured. Koulibaly is no stranger to police. He was arrested just a few weeks ago for an attempted robbery in the transit system. You'll what? No way. You mean the people who were clearly throwing chunks of ice at cops who just showed up and said, hey, can you guys like stay in the park and not run out in traffic, please? Honestly, I kind of wish cops would have just let him run out in traffic just to, you know, level with you here. But man, he is a 27 year old man and then also has a bunch of prior run ins with the police. The Daily Double. How about that? Remember, this is how Mayor Mamdani describe Mundy's incident. I can just tell you from the video I saw, it looked like kids at a snowball fight. This is embarrassing because you know those movies like remember Grease? Trying to shoehorn a bunch of 30 and 40 year olds and telling you, hey, they're teenagers. Man's out there singing Summer Lovin and he's like his hips popping. Okay, no, I don't think you get to play that game here. Don't get me wrong, it doesn't look bad for 27, but he ain't some child. I mean, unless he's out there going, does anybody want to buy some cookies? I doubt it. I strongly, strongly doubt it. So a very large L to be handed to Mamdani now on the national security news side of things, because we're getting ready to pivot over to some of the situations surrounding Iran, Pakistan. We have some updates from there. A U.S. air Force officer and former F35 Lightning 2 instructor pilot Gerald Eddie Brown Jr. Has been arrested in Jeffersonville, Indiana for allegedly training Chinese military pilots to fight against the United States. Couple of things here. The word treason has become so common that it no longer really carries a lot of weight in which anytime someone does something that's considered by a lot of individuals against the interests of the country, people say treason. And what that means is you're acting against the interests of the country. But there is a legal definition for treason. A legal definition meaning giving aid, training, abetting or furthering the enemies of the United States. And by the way the enemy here does not mean Congress has declared them an enemy. Like, you don't actually need Mitch McConnell to get out the chisel and, like, go over to the Washington Monument and go, china is our enemy. Like, that's not a thing, okay? This is a legal case of treason. If he is convicted, he should be hanged in the public square in front of God and everybody by the neck until dead. That is a genuine case of treason. An F35 pilot training the Chinese how to evade F35s, how to perhaps steal them, disable them. That is treasonous by its very nature. Radio crew will see you on the other side of the commercial break. Try not to change any, you know, try not to train any Chinese pilots while we're gone. It's the Tony Kennett cast here on the Daily Signal. All right. Over on the live stream side of things here, I'm constantly, constantly shocked by the number of revelations from the Department of Homeland Security office. This is from Secretary Kristi Noem today on her allegations that and I want to make sure I get this right, spyware was installed by Homeland Security staffers onto her phone and computer. It's a serious allegation. Let's check it out.
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Believe what I found since I've been in this department. I just found the other day a whole room on this campus that was a secret skiff secure facility that had files nobody knew existed. So we just happened to have an employee walk by a door and wonder what it was and started asking questions. We went in there. There was individuals working there that had secret files that nobody knew about on some of these most controversial topics like that. And now I've got that turned over to attorneys, and we're getting to the bottom of what exactly happened there. You know, we have cbp, which is Customs and Border Protection. They know every traveler that comes into this country, every good that comes in, they're the ones who assess and collect all of the tariffs. But the information that they had on travelers that came in during COVID What are national labs, which I also have national labs under my jurisdiction. They're scientists that participated with that Wuhan lab. How they were traveling back and forth between each other and working on those experiments, it's been eye opening. And I'll tell you, Patrick, even from the time I came into this office, it was, you know, Elon and his team were extremely helpful to me. They helped me identify that, that some of my own employees in my department had downloaded software on my phone and my laptop to spy on me, stop it, to Record our meetings.
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Wow.
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Tony Kennett
They had done that to several of the politicals.
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Tony Kennett (Host)
Wow.
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Tony Kennett
And so we ended up bringing in people and. And that was something that. If you didn't have those technology experts here.
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Tony Kennett (Host)
I do want to make this clear right here as she's making these allegations, that first of all, this should have been a major, major national news story. Maybe you guys remember this story, and I'm lapsing on it. Uh, but something like that, that would not be a case of treason. That would be a case of violating the Espionage act. Of violating. Well, that would actually, again, be a case of obstructing law enforcement. There are, of course, some spying and some wiretapping violations there. There is a litany of federal. A litany of federal precedent and statutes that forbid that kind of stuff. Now, to make it very, very, very clear, this is super common in the administration. Super common. It's all. It's extremely common in state administrations too. When you have a new administration come in and all of the bureaucrats who've been a part of agencies since nigh on eternity are sitting in there and they don't want to be bothered, they will obstruct. You hear the term malicious compliance often. That's another way that those who are in the non political, ahem, positions interfere with those who are the elected representatives to lead those agencies. So they'll say, all right, I want you to clean out anything in this, this particular list recommendations that's racist. And then they'll go, delete all of the information on the website about Rosa Parks. And they'll go, I was just doing what you told me. That's malicious compliance. In this case, openly recording your boss to leak things to Gee. Hmm. Where it's not like we have any cases of administrations leaking things to the New York Times, the Washington Post, Axios. I would like to know when we are going to see some kind of statute to where, if you are aware that someone is perhaps recording the Secretary of Homeland Security, I would like to see a piece of legislation which is passed that says, yeah, you know, a crime like that is being recorded, a threat to national security. You have a duty to report that, even if it is just after you publish the story. You then say, oh, hey, by the way, this is how I got it. This is who gave it to me, this idea that, well, I can just leak national security secrets and put US Agents, soldiers, sailors, marines, airmen, lives at risk. That is a very, very serious problem. And given the amount of assaults on federal law enforcement, given the assassination attempts up to and including last week as a terrible situation. We're going to cut to the commercial break and then we're going to get into some of this foreign policy stuff. Pakistan and Afghanistan are on fire. It's the Tony Kenned cast. Foreign. 93WIPC welcome back to the Tony Kennett cast. Foreign policy is, I mean, the world is a little warmer this evening on the diplomatic and foreign policy stage. First of all, a an updated story as of 7:29pm that's six minutes ago. If you're watching this later. According to CBS News, Americans were among those killed on the speedboat in Cuban waters. The White House confirms. So about a 14 person speedboat was off the northern coast of Cuba about a nautical mile away from the island, reportedly there to try to smuggle the relatives of those Americans, or excuse me, relatives, yes, of the Americans out of Cuba and help them escape to the United States. The Cuban coast guard showed up. The Cuban coast guard says that the Americans fired on them first. But of the four that were killed, at least one of those is American, according to the White House. Confirming this news to cbs and then of course, first reported, though not confirmed by Axios. So four people were killed. Six people aboard the boat were wounded and arrested. This is according to Cuba's Interior Ministry. So taking some of that with a grain of salt. In addition to this news, the White House has learned that at least one of the boat's occupants had a K1 visa, the official said, allowing a citizen's fiance to travel to the United States to get married. Others are believed to be legal permanent residents of the United States, although it was not clear how many. There are still not enough answers that we have whether or not this was perhaps a drug running operation, whether people were attempting to smuggle relatives out of Cuba and into the United States, according to an official and incident report from the Monroe County Sheriff's Office in Florida. So this would be some decent investigative journalism. Good job to CBS on this. The boat's owner alleged that the vessel had been stolen by an employee. Now this is the last thing and then this is. This just smacks of Soviet era nonsense. The Interior ministry claimed the 10 people aboard the boat were armed with assault rifles, handguns, Molotov cocktails, bulletproof vests, telescopic sights and camouflage uniforms and were attempting to carry out an infiltration for terrorist purposes.
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Kevin Stitt
Uh huh. Uh huh.
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Tony Kennett (Host)
Yeah, yeah, it's like the Bay of Pigs, but with like 1/100th of the people. Yes, I'm sure that one bass boat was gonna take down Cuba. Okay, that's real special. So communists are as stupid as you had previously thought. Over to the other side of the world, Pakistan and Afghanistan. In other words, the Taliban. Things are heating up. The Pakistani government has launched a series of airstrikes in the eastern border regions of Afghanistan and as well as on the capital city of Kabul. Again, these are under the control of the Taliban. A big hearty thank you to Joseph R. Biden for that. The Kabul strike has now been confirmed over on Pakistani state media and through several intelligence reports, through some private contracting agencies that I often speak with through these particular events. Number two, there are also a series of gunfights which are heard that have now been confirmed in the city of Kabul and in the surrounding areas. Ah, nothing like the sound of Kalashnikovs. I, I tell you, you hear that sound once, you remember it forever. So things are, are not looking particularly excellent over there. The Taliban are growing in size and strength. The Pakistanis, which are a different class of Muslim that have flirted with danger for too long, are really not enjoying things now. The relationship between Pakistan and India is still not too great. That doesn't have anything, however, to do with the situation over between Israel and kind of Iran. So the Israeli Air Force has also begun striking Hezbollah's last weapon storages. In Hezbollah, that would be in southern Lebanon. The reason that the Israelis are believed to be striking these particular rocket sites. We're going to play that clip one more time. It's just very interesting explosions. You can see the ammunition dumps blowing up because there's a lot of boom, boom in that tomb. Tomb. All right. The Israelis are likely targeting those particular sites, attempting to put out of play as many rockets as possible in case of a US Action against Iran, in which then Hezbollah, as again the last satellite terrorist organization for Iran, would then just fire all the last rockets that they have against the regime before they run out of money because Iran won't be paying them anymore, to be fair. Not that Iran is paying them a lot now because the currency is still so hyper inflated, they're starting to speak German, which is, you know, usually pretty exciting and difficult. So regarding the Iranian situation at the moment, Israel is considering its own series of strikes, which might be what the United States wants Israel to do first. However, it should be noted that according to multiple reports not necessarily friendly to the Israeli government, Israel originally told the United States to hold off on an initial series of strikes. And after the videos of the protesters being gunned down reached social media and intelligence circles and of course, well, that brings us to Iran. Virginia Allen, our national security correspondent. The situation in Iran is getting more tense by the day and all sides are saying different things about the negotiation process. What can you tell us kind of through the smoke and mirrors?
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Virginia Allen
I think the very short answer, Tony, in a nutshell is we don't have a deal. This is the third round of negotiations concluded Thursday in Geneva. And I wish I could say I'm surprised, but I quite frankly, I don't think anyone is surprised that Iran is not willing to say the U.S. we will never have a nuclear weapon and we will stop seeking to gain a nuclear weapon. There was no mention. The Iranian Foreign Ministry put out a long statement following about six hours of discussions today with U.S. officials. Both Jared Kushner, President's son in law and former advisor, as well as US Special envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff were representing the US during these negotiations that were mediated by Oman. And what we got out from this read on from Iran was that two things were mainly discussed that was sanctions. The US has employed a lot of sanctions against Iran. Iran wants those that sanctions relief. And then we know that their nuclear program was discussed, but it's not clear what, if anything was agreed upon related to the nuclear program. We know that the US Also wanted to discuss missiles, Iran's missiles, long range missiles that they are developing. No word on whether or not that even was, was something that Iran was willing to talk about. They've said before the meeting that they were not willing to talk about it and they said nothing about it in their readout. So it's unlikely.
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Tony Kennett (Host)
Now the Foreign Minister from Iran is claiming that there are going to be another series of attacks in a few days, maybe a few weeks. This would make the fourth series of negotiations in recent weeks and months. The President also said that a 10 day time period in which Iran had one last extra final chance to make some kind of a change was supposed to be today, I believe, Thursday. Any word on either of those? Again, a lot of smoke and mirrors at the moment.
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Virginia Allen
It is. We're really waiting to get some official word whether from Steve Witkoff, from Secretary Rubio on what exactly the US Position is right now. You know, I think many Americans were looking at this as, okay, this is the last chance for Iran to really come to the table. And yet we just sort of heard from Iran. Talks were good. We're meeting again in Vienna on Monday. We'll see if that happens. But you gotta keep in mind the backdrop of all this is the US Continuing to build up this massive amount of US military and our largest aircraft carrier in the region that appears ready to go at any moment as needed.
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Tony Kennett (Host)
Virginia Allen, our national security correspondent, didn't know. A lot of quick news right to the point. Really appreciate you giving us a bit of insight.
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Virginia Allen
Absolutely. Thanks, Tony.
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Tony Kennett (Host)
Now we're going to send the radio crew off to commercial. We're going to continue on the live stream. Catch you all in a second. It's the Tony Kennedcast. Now to the meantime, the Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Ismail Bekwe. Again, don't care. I'm pronouncing his name, don't care. He's from the Iranian regime, after all. He said, quote, the topic of negotiations is the only nuclear issue. Any agreement must include lifting sanctions, end quote. So the Iranians are claiming we want everything and Donald Trump is essentially saying, no, we have a big, big armada headed right for Tehran. Don't go for nukes and you won't be bombed. And the Iranians are going, no, death to America. Hey, Ahmed, give me that goat. You know, normal Iranian regime nonsense. And it's not going to save me in the end. It's not. Now, the question we've seen in the comments asking about the extent of Israeli United States cooperation, I'm not entirely sure yet. There's also a chance that the Saudis are also going to get involved. It's also very likely that Jordan is going to be the recipients of Iranian ballistic missiles or hypersonic missiles. Even again, they can't aim these things just for love or money. So it's likely Jordan might issue some kind of response as well. With Afghanistan on the other side of Iran, the thermostat increasing, it's going to be an interesting couple of weeks in the Middle East. But I mean, hey, when isn't it? All right, that brings us to a couple of other interesting pieces on the foreign policy military news side. This just 27 minutes ago reciting the Washington Post, although I have a couple of other sources here to keep some of these things in relevance. Anthropic, which is the intelligence company, essentially has now rejected the Pentagon's terms for the headline is so biased, Lethal use of its chatbot Claude. So Claude is probably one of the best AI tools right now. Google's Gemini and then Claude from Anthropic have just rocketed into the stratosphere. The ChatGPT OpenAI model kind of sucks. Grok is really, really starting to lag behind. And so the, the new AI structure is a prime target for state contracting. Now, you say state contracting, like the government giving contracts to Certain technologies and businesses and the tinfoil hats come on and a lot of people start screaming and running in circles. The room catches on fire. So I want to kind of explain how this works here for just a little bit. During the Cold War, the United States said, hmm, I don't like that ball with legs. The Soviets launched into the sky. We need to put a little more effort into this. And so the United States gave a lot of grants not to lesbian dance groups in Colombia, but instead to these small out of the garage rocket organizations that helped NASA do all kinds of really cool stuff and eventually beat the Soviets. And we as the American people benefited quite incredibly from the private industry that was given special access and rights by the government to do really, really cool things. This is one of the reasons that we ended up getting Apple and you know, pervert Russian girl loving weirdos. Bill Gates aside, some of the great innovations from Microsoft and IBM, China has stolen a lot of those things. And in this case, AI seems to be the same thing. Now what Anthropic is alleging is that they really don't want the Pentagon going, how do we kill Al Khomeini? They're not comfortable, so they're restricting the Pentagon's full access of the code. So the Pentagon is saying, hey, maybe you don't need any federal money. So we'll see how that goes in a minute. We're going to swing back with some more news in a second. Got to pick up the radio crew one last time. It's the Tony Kenned cast. You're listening to the Tony Kenneth cast on 93 WIBC. All right, we're going to skip our conversation about Target paying $110 million to exit their lease in Minneapolis due to the rioting crazy Karen morons. You know, the same kind of rioting crazy Karen morons that you, You know, that kind of BLM nonsense. We're going to leave that alone for a bit. And also the Hillary Clinton Epstein stuff. We'll come back to that probably in the bonus tone of section of the show because we have some other big news to discuss. John Thom Tillis, supposedly Senator Cassidy and then a couple of others that are can kind of influx are holding up the Save America Voter ID act from utilizing the talking filibuster. So as a reminder, the talking filibuster, which requires a couple of weeks of procedure once you decide to go down this road, would force the Democrats to filibuster. It's what it's for. The filibuster does not actually mean 60 vote threshold. No, the filibuster means you talk and delay as long as you can. And so Cory Booker eventually, about two weeks from now would get out there, he'd take a couple of modium, he'd drink a bottle of water and then he would, you know, walk out there in his nice suit and he'd, as some of our fellow conservative pundits say, put it on his angry eyes. And he would then talk until his little lungs gave out. And then the Senate would pass the Save America voter ID act by a smaller than 60 vote margin. Something that is wildly popular with American people. Wildly popular. Like so popular that there are black women who are tired of being called stupid by skinny beta testosterone less white men in town halls. Yeah, that, that is one of the things that happened over on a FOX News town hall. Check it out. An act like the SAVE act is very likely more aimed at voter suppression and at keeping key demographics that the Republican Party does not want voting. Now, if you can't tell by the sound of his voice, this is a young man who has a haircut from about 2003 that he ripped off a Tony Hawk game. He's just very skinny, scrawny dude. Brett Trussell, Democrat voter. There's a shock. And he's trying to say Republicans want to suppress voters because if you ask for id, black women couldn't get a passport. They're too stupid and poor. Everyone knows that. Says the young Democrat voter. He just forgot he's sitting in a town hall with black women to not show out, I think very often minority demographics. That's not true.
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Tony Kennett
No.
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Tony Kennett (Host)
This is the thing where the suggestion is it's going to keep the black vote down. I've got two black panelists here. Ajwa that's not true. You have ID and proof of citizenship. Yeah. And if I need a copy of my birth certificate, it's just a matter of going online or going up to the department and asking, asking for it and showing my information to get it. I mean, to say that it would negatively affect a minority group because they're somehow not educated enough to get these documents is completely outrageous, Annie. Now, I don't know if you caught the look of that young man while she was reaming him a new place to toot from. That poor young man looked like he had nowhere to go. Because he didn't. It turns out that once you actually start listening to what individuals who you totally know what's best for start telling you what it is that they want. Oh, man. Chuck Schumer really told me that you were dumb and poor. I'm so uncomfortable. So best of luck with this. John Thune and Thom Tillis have been under an especially heavy amount of criticism because originally, Senate Majority Leader John Thune had said, well, we really don't have enough time to vote for the Save America Act. And anyway, we're not going to do anything until the DHS partial government shutdown is over. And then, as our political editor Bradley Devlin pointed out, that's kind of ridiculous because now John Thune has put on the schedule for next week a housing bill. So so much for waiting until the end of the shutdown. That appears not to have been true. Now he's suggesting, well, there's just not enough time. I'm busy. I'm running around everywhere. Thom Tillis is also one of these people from North Carolina. Thom Tillis I'm pretty sure might have been useful at one time as a doorstop. But anyway, Thune and Thom Tillis are seen on video again, these guys saying, there's not enough time to bring the talking filibuster forward for the Save America Act. Why? Oh, well, because the Senate had a dog show. You have been hanging around the Senate much?
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CBS2 Reporter
Come on.
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Tony Kennett (Host)
Him. There he is. Your tax dollars, ladies and gentlemen. Now, I have nothing wrong with people holding a little bit of a dog show. Nothing wrong at all. It doesn't bother me. That's great. I don't even care if someone. It's the same. I don't care. You know, Ted Cruz, he wants to go to Cancun on a little bit of vacation. Yeah, sure, if he works really hard, he can go. Trump wants to go golf, absolutely fine. If Joe Biden was alive and, you know, once every month or two, he wanted to go sit on Rehoboth beach, sure, I wouldn't have had an issue with it. The problem is that when there are things to do, and instead of doing those things while telling everyone, I have no time, if I walk into the room and you're doing a dog show, gotta wonder where your priorities are. If my kid makes a mess, like a really bad mess, like a, oh, my gosh, our floors are gonna be ruined because of the various liquids seeping through the floorboards. And I'd say, oh, I'd really love to deal with this right now, babe, but I'm just so busy. And then I, you know, come out to the studio and I, you know, boot up a classic game of Halo 3. My wife has every right to chuck me through a stained glass window. And Americans, when they See this? Thom Tillis fired back and said, what? You don't think we can talk and chew gum at the same time? Meaning I can do both at once. Well, Thom, I can't help but notice that you're not doing anything regarding the Save America act right now. You're one of the four senators who's holding it up. So to put it in a rather academic fashion, crap or get off the pot, because otherwise, Republicans should choose other people in the primary to vote for. And this brings us, of course, over to the conversation regarding the midterms. And, you know, whenever you are placed between two primary candidates, either the goofy clown idiot who embarrasses you and you don't want to be seen in public because they get out there and tell everyone they lick lizards and frogs, or it's the person who does nothing and they end up working against you. Well, who do you choose? That's a really hard position to be in. But alas, we'll have to come back to some of that stuff later. Kilmer, Abrego Garcia, The El Salvadorian ms.13 gang member who illegally entered the United States and did some human trafficking and allegedly some wife beating. He's been released again. You know, Paula Zinnis really doesn't like that the Trump administration didn't have, like, a special house purchased for him in other countries, places to go. So they said, well, until you decide where you're going to send him and everyone on earth agrees to it. In other words, we can't just show up at some random country and like, dump them off. There's. I think we should. That's what they do in Europe. I say we just send Marco Rubio out, get him a nice boat. We put Kilmar Abrego Garcia in the back in a box. Also, this Azerbaijani immigrant who's. Whose visa expired. We go to London and we drop that off there. Then I get a crunchy bar because those are delicious. He comes back to the United States and we're all happy. And the British, they don't care. They're not going to bother. Usually this time of year, the Muslim mayor of London is so terrified that he accidentally said the word Jesus that he's like, hiding in shame. So, you know, that aside, let's go over to another piece of financial news that I thought was a little interesting before we say goodbye to the radio crew. Netflix has finally decided they are not interested in spending a bajillion dollars to buy Warner Bros. So we're gonna get into that over on the live stream side. Of things. Radio Crew. It's been real, it's been fun. We'll see y' all tomorrow at 7 and continue over on the live stream YouTube.com daily signal. That's where you should go to find us. It's a good time. Plus you get to see the videos. It's good stuff. We'll catch Radio Crew later. Take care. Now onto the live stream side of things. My favorite people, I must share with you that Netflix is having kind of a rough time. So Netflix today announced that it has declined to raise an offer for Warner Brothers. Netflix said he earlier received notice from Warner Brothers that its board of directors had determined Paramount Skydance latest proposal constitutes a superior proposal under the terms of Warner Brothers. What does this all mean? Essentially what this means is, is that Netflix where it expected to invest 20 some billion, $30 billion into this purchase of the Warner Brothers brand to essentially create Cable 2 Electric Boogaloo. Paramount Skydance said, hmm, maybe, just maybe, just maybe that's not really what we want to see. We don't want to be boxed out of the market. And Netflix entertainment model is really starting to become unpalatable. So we can take this and use it in other ways. I'm sure that we're going to see some bleeding from kind of the Democrats on the finance committees about this. We'll get into these particular types of mergers. I'm sure they'll claim that this is all some elaborate ruse to cancel Jimmy Kimmel or Stephen Colbert or whatever. We'll have to stay tuned on that information. Other big news of the day as we get into the bonus Tonus section of the show. Target has also paid lots of money, albeit slightly less than a Kajabugga jabillion dollars. Target has paid 110 million to exit their lease early in Minneapolis following months long sustained protests by leftists across Minnesota in which they occupied stores and office spaces in an attempt to hold everything up until Target acquiesced to their various demands. Brian Cornell hi Brian. My name is Pastor Martha Bardwell and I'm here with a bunch of clergy
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Virginia Allen
in the lobby of corporate headquarters.
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Tony Kennett (Host)
We are waiting here to speak with you. So essentially a lot of the most insufferable people on planet earth. You know, I'm like Ms. Super Pastor Master and we're like in corporate headquarters and I know that your secretary said that you're actually three states away and in meetings. But, but see I'm a very entitled middle aged woman on the left, so if you could meet with me because I really don't like that you allow people to shop there normally. Give me one second. Just the right. Brian Cornell, you're out of town here. I'm putting you on speakerphone so we can all hear you.
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Harmony Dhillon
Go ahead.
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Matt Davis
I am out of town right now
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Tony Kennett (Host)
and heading into a meeting, but I know our local group going to be happy to talk to you, so thanks.
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Virginia Allen
Okay.
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Tony Kennett (Host)
Can we get you on Zoom? Can we get on Zoom after that meeting? Sorry, no. No, you can't. Hi. I demand you speak to me. It's like the ultimate. Karen, I demand to speak to the ultimate manager. Can you go on Zoom? No, no, no.
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Matt Davis
That.
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Tony Kennett (Host)
That thing where your husband can't stand you. Yeah. That's not just him, that's everybody. Again, just beautiful. Craziest stuff I've ever seen right now. I can't believe Target wouldn't want to stay in Minneapolis. Look, this is Target right now. You know, a little smoke, a little damaging. Now this is obviously an older clip, but, you know, still incredible. Beautiful. Just majestic. I really do enjoy watching all of these places. That said, Walmart's going to have to suck it up and stay here in Portland, you know, or in California, in various cities like San Fran for Walgreens, for instance. Oh, man. Target's going to have to sit here. And then the companies leave because people act as though they are appearing as the subject of a Jane Goodall episode. And they run through the place and stampede water buffalo in and rhinoceros and orangutan and zebra in around. And then they act shocked and dismayed. Oh, why does Targu want to leave? Hmm, I can't possibly fathom. So big congratulations to those in the Target corporate office. Feel free to, you know, go. Go full hog and just move out of all of the crappy blue cities and, you know, go to places where people are fun to kind of shop around. A little business advice there. Speaking of business advice, it's time to get to the Hillary Clinton stuff. So, as you recall, the House Oversight Committee said they're going to get Bill and Hillary in front of the committee. They were going to hold him in contempt and they were going to ask him questions about Epstein. Now, the only reason they were asking questions to them about Epstein at all is because back in February, Pam Bondi got out and announced they were going to do super duper alley Ooper ultra expose binders on all of these Epstein files. They invited a bunch of influencers out in front of the White House and they gave them the binders, or I shouldn't say in front of the White House. They invited them in front of the Department of Justice offices and they gave him the binders. And then all of the influencers, trusting that Bondi was telling the truth, took a bunch of photos and then were humiliated by what was in the binders already having been publicly released. And then the DOJ did a big looky through and said, hmm, yeah, it turns out that what we've been promising you is definitely there. You just have to trust us. We don't have any evidence, but there's like this old Facebook post somebody showed me that said Epstein is secretly a lizard from Zetrion 5. We gotta keep looking. And then they released a bunch of stuff that Rokhanna and Massey doxxed a couple of innocent people for and released the names of certain victims. Then Ro Khanna invited a co predator of Epstein to stay to the union. Huh? And we finally got around to the Hillary Clinton little special oversight committee where they're gonna ask him questions. Now, I said from the beginning, this is stupid. And the reason it's stupid is because congressional committees are worthless. They're worthless. First of all, you get one of two kinds of committees. Either number one, you get the televised committee where you go in and you have representative so and so who decides they really want some camera time. They start going, did you know witness person that you're actually evil and terrible and we should probably hit you with sticks. And then the witness goes, no, actually you're terrible and you smell bad too. And then C SPAN runs it and everyone's like, wow, this is so incredible. So that's the first kind of congressional committee. Then you have the closed door media stay out hearings. And every one of these always happens the same way. The congressional people come up there and they, you know, they, they. The glasses are down at the end of the nose. That's how I'm gonna look when I'm a congressperson. I'm gonna wear my glasses down here to show you that I' very smart. And they get out the paperwork and they go, ah, yes, you know, Professor General academically, Hillary, Secretary, did you do the thing? And then she goes, I don't recall. I go, oh, oh, I didn't have a backup strategy for this. Hold on, let me look on Twitter. Is the Internet a series of tubes? And then Hillary goes, I don't recall. And then that happens again and again and again for about an hour and no one gets anything at all. That's it. Yeah. And I love James Comer. I love a lot of people on the oversight committee that's all this was gonna be. And wouldn't you know it. Wouldn't you know it. That is exactly what ended up happening here. As though. As though anyone is gonna show up for a committee like this and play into a gotcha. Oh, yeah. Oh, okay. Yeah. Anyway, here's. Here's Hillary Clinton getting to do her little whirlwind tour after the. The committee hearing. Again, not even at the Capitol. Like a totally different location. Like a little public arts kind of a building.
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Tony Kennett
But anyway, I never met Jeffrey Epstein. Never had any connection or communication with him. I knew Ghislaine Maxwell casually as an acquaintance, but whatever they asked me, I did my very best to respond.
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Tony Kennett (Host)
Yep. And the answer was a lot of. I don't recall. I didn't know. Oh, there's a big surprise. That's an incredible. I think I'm gonna have a heart attack and die from that surprise. Now, there was one thing that a little bit funny thing, a little bit of a funnier thing here, and it does lead to the real use of these particular investigations because believe it or not, in the Epstein stuff around the rest of the world, there are some investigations and arrests being made about some legitimately interesting stuff. Because there's been a question that's been asked for years and years and years. Where did Epstein get his money? Where did he get the money? And so now that we are digging into the records and information of people like, for example, Prince Andrew or Bill Gates, we're starting to find out who gave him the money and who leaked a bunch of secrets, state secrets to him because he coveted those things. Those are the trinkets he desired he. So that he could afford his little girl habit. He wanted a lot of influence secrets and he wanted a lot of money. So the question who gave him that? That's a. That's a really worthwhile thing going. Did you meet him at a pizza hut in 1992? Yeah. Guess what? That's not worth anything for anybody. You reading the Speedway gas station anonymous tip where they. They announced that the Oklahoma City bomber was actually a panda named dengue and that Donald Trump and Epstein went to Mars together. Guess what? That's a big waste of everyone's time. But usually at this point, Thomas Massie's licking his own elbows. So there is one interesting part here. Again, we could have asked questions about this. We could have had investigations about this. We didn't do that because up until the 2024 election, a lot of people told you they knew things about Epstein and they knew nothing. But anyway, here's the missed opportunity with Hillary Clinton. She walks away after being asked a very interesting question about Chelsea Clinton's wedding. Can I ask, why was Colleen Maxwell invited Chelsea Clinton's wedding in 2010? So what was asked, why was Ghislaine Maxwell, after a bunch of the Epstein stuff had already come out, invited to Chelsea Clinton's wedding in 2010? If you didn't hear kind of the AI upped, uh, question from the reporter here, here's how Hillary Clinton responds. She'd already been mentioned in a civil lawsuit by Virginia Giuffre before that. Jeffrey Epstein had already been convicted before that. She's just outlining. You said you didn't know any of these people and you said, oh, you had a casual friendship back in the Noah's Ark days with Jelaine, you know, you, you, you, you guys were waitresses together or some nonsense. What's up with this?
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Tony Kennett
She came as the plus one, the guest of someone who was invited.
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Tony Kennett (Host)
Thank you all. Oh, wow. And then presto, hesto, wow. Now the press conference is over. Why do I say all of this? The thing to hit Hillary Clinton with was business connections. The Clinton foundation, boys and girls, has a lot of money, and a lot of things flow in and out of the Clinton foundation with both Hillary Clinton and. And Bill Clinton had a lot to do with. So investigating those financial ties. You know what, actually, here's what you're going to do. Take Pam Bondi's super duper Epstein squad, stick them in the nearest Nike shoebox, get Scott Besant, Vice President Vance and the fraud team, and do some financial digging. There you go. That's your answer. Instead of all of this hyper conspiracy nonsense that essentially has all of the intellectual quality of Tucker Carlson laughing into sweet tea. Perhaps, perhaps we could do something useful. So we have dog shows and traveling up to hear Hillary Clinton go, I don't recall for, you know, several hours. Well done. Just stellar. Stellar st. Now, I do want to address one thing there. So what about all of the victim statements in the Epstein files about the Clintons? Okay, great question. I'm glad you asked that. Of the victims in the files that reportedly said something, none of them, and I repeat, none of them have been willing to come out and continue making those particular statements. None of them are making any more. None of them are making any other big allegations. All we have are a couple of anonymous tips that in the second half of the tip that isn't shared on Twitter or Facebook, say, and then I have to hang up the phone, I have to Go dance with Grover Cleveland. And. And that's in the FBI is like, we determine this person might be on meth. We looked into it anyway and it turns out no, Hillary Clinton was not at Saturday Night boogie fever in 1947 with Jeffrey Epstein. Again, should we look into the Clintons? Absolutely. Clinton Foundation. Hundred percent. But the idea that we have to say, oh, well, because this one thing is true. Everyone, everyone out there, we're secretly all run by pedophiles. If you really truly believe that, which you don't. If you really truly believe that and you're wasting your time sitting here online, this is why the crazy people end up going and shooting up things. Because when you go into mental delusion territory, you kind of slip and fall down really hard. Great example of this, obviously is Candace Owens, who is a horrible, terrible woman. And I genuinely hope deep down to the bottom of my being, and I want to make no bones about this, I hope that Erica Kirk someday smacks her with a full sized stop sign. I hope upon hope because Candace Owens, who, first of all, I've said on the show for over a year at least that she is illiterate. And now that's of course a very popular meme that she can't pronounce or read or do anything correctly. But Candace Owens has released a brand new series exposing, investigating that Erica did it all along. You guys do realize that they have children together, that Erica and Charlie have children, little children. There are copious amounts of footage. And I, who only met Erica once before Charlie passed, she was lovely. There was literally nothing assuming about her. She was just nice. Candace is upset and outraged and angry that Charlie didn't choose Candace over Erica. Candace has released a brand new series and there's a bunch of people that are complaining about it. I think the best summary of this and the individuals who are over on that site just asking questions. Yeah. Huh. I think Matt Walsh has probably one of the best outlines of this. This is his clip from the over show on the Daily Wire. Oh.
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Kevin Stitt
The innuendos about Erica may be compelling fodder for YouTube videos. They would not be compelling to a grand jury or a prosecutor or a judge. If you took everything that's been said about Erica or implied and tried to present it as evidence in a court of law, you would be laughed out of the room. There's no case here. There's no evidence of anything. Now, these attacks on Erica by Candace and by everyone else engaged in this campaign are wrong, Deeply, desperately wrong. Wrong morally and factually, they are wrong. Morally, because they are wrong factually. The whole crux of the matter here is not just that Erica is a grieving widow, but that she is innocent of the accusations that are being made or implied against her.
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Tony Kennett (Host)
And as a kind of a cherry on that, I hear this all the time from people who make the case, well, look at this picture I found of her smiling. I've never seen a widow smile before. If you're going to tell us that you're retarded, just say that. You don't have to find other ways to tell us. You don't actually know how some widows pick up and move on and carry burdens in a way to deal with their grief, that they're not recording videos of themselves sobbing and sending them to you. I guess our thoughts and prayers with how difficult it must have been for your parents to cope with whatever you struggled with as a child. But aside from those things, huge props to Matt, obviously. I know that you know some, a lot of folks, former colleagues of hers, Ben Shapiro at the Daily Wire, for example, a lot of people have made it very clear that she is insane and stupid. And some of us have called this out for years. Some of us have pointed out that the soup sucking, elbow licking, drivel, snorting, nonsensical imbeciles who have suggested that because Candace said I have a dream that Egypt fighter jet pilots and a cactus jumped over the moon, there's a running joke in our discord about moon lemons specifically making fun of Candace because of how obviously ridiculous she is. And now the Washington Post is like running cover for her and agreeing with her in op eds. Same with people like Marjorie Taylor Greene, the age of influencer grifters who say, I saw this interesting photo and they don't want you to know it, so it must be true. Guys, we got real stuff going on. And I enjoy, you know, a little bit of the fun and the goof as much as anybody else. Absolutely. I, I do, I enjoy getting out there, the memory of it. I, I solicited from the broader social media sphere this afternoon, if we conquer Cuba, what are we going to name the territory? We're going to leave it Cuba. We're going to call it something different. You know, of course, get out there, have a good time. Don't be an awful, horrible creature as you do. So now I am actually curious what you guys are, you know, would think regarding liberating Cuba, bringing it back into the American empire. I'm partial to extra. South Carolina, Grande Rico, you got Puerto Rico, you got Grande Rico. In honor of the Secretary of State, Marco Cubio. Huh? Huh? All right, I got here comment section. You know those in the live chat. If you're going to rename Cuba, what are you going for? You know, South Florida, I've heard. Not bad. A lot of really great West Bahama Tangling Florida. There's a lot of good ones. So I don't know. I'm interested in hearing what it is. And by the way, don't give me that H and B left Cuba. It's a joke. Relax. Come up with something creative or don't come up with something creative. And that'll be fun, too. So that said, I do want to get a couple of questions from mail time this evening. Checking the news update stuff. Oh, breaking actors. Actress Kristen Stewart says Americans need to stop buying burgers during the daytime to protest the crackdown on illegal immigrants. Oh, that's about right. That's incredible. All right, well, I'm, I'm amazed you sent that to me. Producer Jen has revolutionized how we do this particular show. Time for a bit of mail time. All right, Number one, my, my personal, you know, favorite here, David says question for Tony. When the president asked those who want to protect American stand up Dems did not. They chose illegals to protect, would you have asked the sergeant at arms to remove them? No, and here's why. I, first of all have no problem with people not doing something. Doing something offensive is when someone can be removed. So the lady who claimed that she gets overstimulated and that's why it was bad that ICE officers asked her to get out of the car or drive away. And so she came to the State of the Union with Ilhan Omar and stood up and started acting like an idiot and then was ejected, you know, because she did something worth being ejected for. So, you know, that's, that's something just sitting there. No. Now also, I do not have the same opinion. I know there are commercials that are being cut all over for the State of the Union style thing that. Oh, wow, that's so amazing. I can't believe Trump. This is going to be the greatest campaign ad ever because Trump said you should stand with Americans instead of illegal immigrants. And by the way, I agree with him. I think the Democrats who didn't stand up were stupid. To be clear, Trump was doing the Facebook like for Jesus, ignored for Satan. If you don't share this post, you're letting children die. Send to 13 friends or the little girl from the ring will crawl through your window. That was really what it was. It was low effort kind of baiting. Now, it was smart because they took the bait, he dangled the stake, they went for the stake, and it looked really bad. But, like, should that be made, like a really huge thing? No, I just think it's embarrassing and stupid because it shows that they're really politically unintelligent. And then it also shows that, yeah, they do value illegal immigrants more than perhaps, or at least as much as American citizens. So that's a moral issue. That's not illegal. If you're an American citizen here and you don't love Americans, that doesn't mean that you're violating the law. That just means you're stupid. So, you know that kind of. That, you know, that kind of a thing here. Have I seen, according to Blue Arrow, have you seen that Oregon is trying to ban hunting, fishing and trapping and then will also ban pest control if it passes? It's called the Peace act, proposed on the 2026 ballot, aiming to redefine animal cruelty laws by eliminating legal exemptions for essentially everything. I have actually seen this, and there's no way that even makes it out of committee. Don't get me wrong. Oregon is a. Essentially, Oregon is the biggest disappointment to what you were told the really cool liberal chick in college was going to grow up to be. That's the entire western half of Oregon. I just don't think that goes anywhere. I don't. There's no legal precedent to do that either. I don't think there's any constitutional rights necessarily that enshrine that particular thing. But once you get into the damages caused by property environments. I mean, I shot a coyote a couple of weeks ago. I mean, you just. And that was pretty close to the city limits of where I live. Nobody cared. You just, you know, shooting varmint vermin. Those that are going to cause problems. Some lesbian in Oregon that thinks they can stop that. Yeah, I don't think so, personally. So, I mean, again, I guess I could be wrong on the other side of that, but. And they can always. They can always impress me. This is an interesting thing from a viewer named Sherry. I'm getting a lot of hate from people on the SAVE act suggesting that a marriage license in Russian or any other language than English is not acceptable and therefore we are being poll text. Yeah, that's not true. That's just very much not true. That's not a thing. No one's ever suggested that. But then again, if people are giving you grief over on like the Facebook side of things. Yeah. Debating Things on social media doesn't usually go very well. The idea that you're going to convince somebody that way, I doubt it. No one, no one has ever scrolled through Facebook and seen a meme that was posted. And then all of a sudden they're like, that changes everything. That's not a thing. The influencer age of, like, that being the driving force. It's on its way out. You'll notice the Trump administration is already starting to kind of lessen the amount of memes and, like, funny posts that it's sending out, because there's work to do. Americans want adults. They're really not. And by the way, that doesn't mean they won't do nothings. Like Thom Tillis are saying, oh, we don't have enough time for the Save America Act. That's not what they want. But they definitely are not in the mood for the silly, goofy, I'm quirky stuff either. So, you know, on that side of things, Roselle points out, you can't get an English version of your marriage certificate. I mean. Yeah, I mean, it's also a good question. Also, I don't really know of any time that someone has said, oh, hey, here's my marriage certificate. And the government has got out like the jeweler's loop and been like, hey, wait a minute. This here's a fake. This is printed on the back of a Chuck E. Cheese certificate. That's never happened. Again, I could be wrong, but I don't think anyone has ever submitted their marriage license to the government for something to change their name, Social Security. And so they're like, oh, no, this is first time we've ever seen marriage certificate in Russian. Oh, what are we going to do? And like, all of a sudden, at the Social Security office, there's a bunch of secretaries running around in a circle with their hair on fire going, it's not in English. That's not a thing that's ever happened. Thinking through some of these things in real time is a great way to avoid a lot of the nonsense. You know, just throwing, just throwing that out there. Like comments earlier pointing out, yeah, I mean, I guess that the young lady whose visa expired would be a missing person because she is no longer where her visa said she would be. She is therefore missing and illegal if she. She's missing from the register. Yeah, that's correct. That is absolutely correct. Again, thinking through those things. Did you see. Ah, so I cited a CBS report earlier, and one of the comments was a little critical because I, I haven't referenced that CBS Morning show which totally different groups of people. The, the cbs like editorial and news crews are not the same people that are like the, the writers and the hosts of the CBS Morning show. They had, they had just spent a large chunk of their time today, or excuse me, yesterday morning complaining about Donald Trump making the joke at the Olympics. I think we actually have that clip loaded for the show, don't we? Oh, yeah, here it is. Okay. Moving on to the members of the US Hockey team. They're talking now about President Trump's joke that did not land well for some. The men's team visited the White House Tuesday after an invite from the president.
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Kevin Stitt
In a phone call to the the
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Tony Kennett (Host)
US Locker room after Sunday's final game, the president seemed to put down the US Women's team which had also won gold. Let's. Okay, I'm just going to level with you. This is one of the reasons that I don't do morning shows. None of this at all wants me, wants to get me out of bed and like ready for the day. We've received comments before asking that I take over other kind of time slots on, on various networks that are kind of more morning hours so we have more time together. No way. No way. I love getting to do the news and writing it later in the day. That's our secret. It's a very high stakes game, but somebody's got to do it. And getting up in the morning with you, can you imagine me trying to tell you news in the morning when you're a little bit tired, a little bit slower to the uptake? I know I am. And me doing all of my sarcastic stupid pun nonsense. That sounds awful. That sounds like a great way to upset people. So yeah, CBS Mornings, which I didn't even know existed. I didn't up until a couple months ago, I knew there was the Today show and I just thought that after that there were just a bunch of regional morning news. I didn't know CBS had something. I've never seen that bald man in a three piece suit more than in the last couple of weeks. I still don't know his name. I don't care. But discount Cory Booker is not exactly impressing me on his his excitement over obvious jokes and just laughing with the winners of the gold medal for Olympic hockey. So that side of thing, I think we'll take one more, one more male question. Did we get any good alternate names for Cuba from the comments section? Marco Cubio. I'm glad that we do like that. I'm glad Tony rehearsing for Star Trek's Chekhov. Engine two is not responding. I like that. That's. That's, that's pretty funny. That's very much. That's pretty good. We don't have a lot of really great. Don't have a lot of really great Cuban names, guys. This may be the very first time in all of history that I have been let down. South Greenland. Thank you. Thank you. Rebecca Downs, our Ohio correspondent. That's stellar. Ruba. I like it. I do. A lot of people said Ruba Key Southwest. I do. I like the extra names like calling Alberta north or Dakota. Yeah, I like that kind of stuff. I don't know. Some of those are good. The key of the Gulf of America. Is there like a Kaga is what we'd call it. Yeah. All right. I'm here for it. St. Marco Island. Ooh, a little sainthood there. Might upset the Catholics. Baptist, not so much. The state of Bacardi. Yeah, I like that. That's good. That's great. Little South Wales. Those are good. You guys did come. You brought it to Florida Junior. Now, that's it. That's an answer. Florida Junior. That's funny. That's a good one. That's 10 out of 10. Ameristan. That's excellent. Cubanism. Trumpland, Fernando. All right. Not bad, not bad. Bragg Island. Her Spinolia. Excited. I'm seeing a lot of Cuba Libre, like free Cuba. Yeah, I get it. But also I want it to be kind of funny. I do. Or just something about. Something about that Baba Lewistan. That. That's pretty good. All right, Florida Junior, we're gonna go with that cigar island. You can. You can save that for all of the conservatives that make cigars their personality. All right. Oh, this crew is fantastic. I really do appreciate each and every one of y'. All. We think that you guys are great. Appreciate all that you do over here on the show. Want to, very briefly before the end, thank Darth Bobcat. A very kind $2 super chat. Her Spinola again, really great. Another. Oh, two super chats in a row. Seven dollar total. Really kind of you. You guys really do not need to do super chats. Oh, from Agni or from agnes. Excuse me. $5 super chat asking about my take on John Thune. Let me make sure there's no other super chats. Linda Cutlip joined a membership. Really appreciate that. Again, you guys don't need to spend any money on the show. Stop it. From Agnes, though, what's your take on John Thune? I have a very mixed feelings about him. Republicans need to get to work. We're too weak. Love your show. Well, thank you very much. I don't know how I feel about Jonathan. That's my honest answer. And I'm not trying to thread any needles there. Some of the stuff that he said is great. It's been far more effective than what Mitch McConnell turned into in his old age. But some of the stuff that he's done, I'm not really seeing a reason for it. I would prefer if you're a leader, sometimes you need to be rather blunt and say, look, I don't think it's politically astute to do this right now and here's why. Here's what I'm afraid of and you just say it. Well, then that's fine. Then we, as the voters can say, hey, yeah, let's talk about whether or not that's, you know, actually got any merit to it or it's just ridiculous or you're being silly if you just sit there and you play your card so close to the chest that you're like, hey, why don't we pass the SAVE Act? And essentially like, I'm not telling. Okay, well, that's useless, dude. So my answer is I don't really know because I, I still haven't seen enough. This is actually a big topic of discussion at the kind of into the Daily Signal editorial side of things, which is in our coverage of the Save America Act. There are mixed signals coming out of his office and that's also annoying. I don't like it when staffers do whatever they want in an office. I don't care for that. How about no? So, all right. Those things said really appreciate each and every one of you here on the Tony Kennett cast. Again, you guys are welcome to join us over on the Discord side link in the description. A joy to get to do this. I can't believe that the Daily Signal allows me to do this kind of thing. So we'll be back to do it one more time tomorrow at least and keep on going after that. 7pm Eastern. It's the Tony Kennett cast here on the Daily Signal, nationally syndicated and first on 93 WIBC. Y' all take care.
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Matt Davis
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Tony Kennett (Host)
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