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Ep. 520 - BREAKING: KHARG ISLAND BOMBED, Democrats CAVE on Shutdown, Judge Boasberg Blocks Powell Subpoenas
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A few Senate Democrats flake from Chuck Schumer's leadership, indicating they are now willing to FLIP and vote in favor of funding the Department of Homeland Security. Washington DC District Court Judge James Boasberg blocks the Trump Administration from grand jury subpoenas for Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell.
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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. Welcome to the Tony Kenned cast here on the Daily Signal, nationally syndicated, first on 93 WIBC. Whether you're joining us from radio TV, the live streams, the podcast stuff, we're glad that you are here. We have to dig right into the news because there's even more than we had originally ready for the show. A jury has now found the eight defendants guilty of terrorism charges who attacked a Texas ICE detention center last year that was in Prairieland in Texas. The individuals, the eight defendants in this particular case in their assault on the ICE detention center had succeeded in injuring ICE officers. Again, the terrorism from the left in the United States continues and the networks that perpetuate them, whether they be antifa, whether they be LGBTQ affiliated groups or whether they be Islamists, are very present, including the kind of stories that aren't being broadcast to the rest of the country. And that includes 3 days ago an individual named Muhi Mohammed Najeem went into an elementary school in Klein, Texas. He was wearing tactical gear and fully armed with stuff that you are very much not supposed to be carrying inside an elementary school. Here's the original report, I believe from KHOU 11 out of Houston. New details on a security breach at Zwink elementary in Klein. ASD clarification, Fox 26 out of Houston that put the school safety protocols to the test. Police say an armed man in tactical gear managed to slip into the front office through an unlatched door. Fox 26's McKenna Earnhardt live at the school with more details. It's pretty scary situation.
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McKenna.
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Yeah. So what we've learned is that on Tuesday a parent was leaving Zwink Elementary School right here and did not fully latch that door behind them. And so then 39 year old Kyle Chris was able to sneak in behind them in just a 15 second period.
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So, so she's not naming him. She says, you know, 39 year old Kyle Kris, his name is Kyle Najeem Chris and is also known, and this is according to KHOU 11, as Muhi Muhanad Najeem. So just to clarify here, because she's not reading the entire name, Chris was
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dressed in full tactical gear and according to court records, he was armed with both a handgun and a Taser Now, Chris allegedly told police he was a security guard, but prosecutors revealed today that he is unemployed and is not a licensed guard or peace officer. Now, I spoke with the district about the 24 hour delay in notifying parents and they tell me it was a tactical decision.
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Ah, tactical decision. Wouldn't want people to be concerned amid the Islamic terror attacks that you stopped a man with a, again, his name and then the Islamic name that he's given and then, you know, strutting into the school through a slip in through the side door. That sounds kind of suspicious.
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They were working with both the FBI and DPS to keep Chris under constant surveillance.
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Why would you need to keep Chris under constant surveillance?
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They say Tippi off the public could have tipped off the suspect and jeopardized the arrest. The arrest did happen at his home just four minutes from the school. It's alleged this 39 year old defendant
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entered an elementary school dressed in tactical
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gear, armed with a taser as well as a handgun.
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He fled quickly when asked for identification. Oh, oh. As soon as someone was like, hey, what are you doing here? He got out of there really quickly. Again, remarkably suspicious. Things are going on. If you see something, say something. Also, there was a bomb threat alert today at George Mason University. The Fenwick Library on George Mason University's Fairfax, Virginia campus closed until further notice to allow university police to investigate the potential threat. Now, to be clear here, the threat has not yet been confirmed. This is the last update that George Mason sent out. They say an investigation was being concluded out of an abundance of caution. Caution in the interest of public safety. There are a lot of up in the air concerns about additional terror attacks for a couple of reasons. One of them is because those in the United States on the left side of the aisle refuse to name the source of the terror attacks. Refuse and in fact openly are now making excuses. Muslim immigrant officials in this country, I have yet to see one, not a single one of them, who is an immigrant to this country and also of the religion of Islam. Not a single one has been able to condemn the violent terror attacks. Four of them in the last two weeks, without whitewashing the event. And when I mean whitewashing the event, I mean either they are making excuses for the terror attack, which again, we're gonna, we're gonna talk about here in a moment with one particular instance. But you also have individuals like Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib, like Andre Carson, representative from Indiana, who will mention that they really don't like that the terror attack occurred, but they don't actually mention where it came from. So, for example, if there was a white supremacist who assaults something, everyone says white supremacy is illegal. Even heard Zoran Mamdani, who, when he condemned sort of the Islamic terror attack in New York city, which threw IEDs outside his house at a group of anti Muslim protesters. He first started out by condemning white supremacy. You condemn the origin of the terrorist act, but that's not who committed the terrorist attack outside of Gracie Mansion. It wasn't the anti Muslims out there doing so. Instead it was the guy who shouted Al Hu Akbar and then chucked IEDs. Or of course, the multiple attempted shootings or the ramming the vehicle through with explosives, as we saw at the synagogue in Michigan. This kind of stuff. Consistently and repeatedly, you find excuses being made over and over and over again ad infinitum. Amen. Through what? Through how? Why? Where? Well, because if you actually mention that radical Islam is a bit of a problem, then you kind of encourage those in the Islamic community to start keeping an eye on their own and maintaining a semblance of safety and order. And that's absolutely not being done. In fact, quite the opposite. One of the examples, the mayor of Dearborn Heights, a. Abdullah Hamoud, has well, just openly begun advocating for the terrorist from Dearborn, Michigan, who went over to the synagogue and drove through the preschool wall attempting to kill those in the synagogue and the children attending, with explosives in his back seat rigged to blow. Now, how does the mayor of Dearborn from which this particular terrorist come from, where is this? Where? What does he. What does he say? He posts an official statement and says, earlier today we learned the individual responsible for the incident that took place at the Temple Israel Synagogue in West Bloomfield was a resident of Dearborn Heights. He died at the scene. Again, not actually talking a little bit about what the individual was trying to do. But here's the worst part. Says earlier this month he lost several members of his own family, including his niece and nephew, in an Israeli attack on their home in Lebanon. What on God's green earth does that have to do with ramming your car through a preschool wall at a synagogue in Dearborn, Michigan? Please. I mean, of course, we all know the answer to that. It's because the radical Islamists in this country deeply desire to kill as many Jews and Christians as they possibly can. And then blame it on. If it's Israelis, they blame it just on the Jews openly. And then if it's an individual who is a Christian who they kill, they say, well, it's the Zionists and the evil of the big Satan America. Now, you can see this in a couple of different places, not just from this absolute garbage bag mayor who, by the way, also went after recently a constituent of his, supposedly in Dearborn, Michigan, who had simply protested lightly and respectfully against the Dearborn Heights choice to name a street after Hezbollah fighter Osama Siblani. Now, speaking of Hezbollah, the two individuals that this particular terrorist lost in his family in Lebanon, they were Hezbollah fighters launching rockets at, you guessed it, civilian populations. So the mayor of Dearborn making excuses for those who, again, another country killed, who are active terrorists, by the way, the same terrorist group that has killed American citizens, which is, by the way, what this individual here in Dearborn Heights was protesting when he ended up getting this response from the mayor of Dearborn after saying, hey, maybe we don't name a street after Hezbollah fighter Osama Sublani. And then Abdullah Khamud responded in this way, I mean, Hezbollah, you know, bo, the embassy in Beirut, and including many Americans. So I just feel it's quite inappropriate. You are an Islamophobe. And although you live here, I want you to know as mayor, you are not welcome here. And the day you move out of the city will be the day that I launch a parade celebrating the fact that you moved out of the city because you are not somebody who believes in coexistence. Oh, they're just like us guys. If you don't name the street after the Hezbollah terrorists, well, then it's Islamophobic. And you're terrible. How dare you. Interesting stuff indeed. Radio crew, we have to send you over to the commercial. More on this line on the live stream. It's the Tony Kinnit cast here on the Daily Signal. Now, again, amid this entire nightmare of individuals on the left making open excuses, and I do want to be clear, all over the country and the world, individuals making these particular excuses are everywhere. Stephen Kent, you know, he's been a guest on the show a number of times for what you watch, and he was a guest panelist on GB News. Listen to the people try to make excuses for the terrorists and why killing Jews makes sense in this instance, this situation. This was an Israeli temple. It was aligned with Israel. I will say that a Jewish temple. A Jewish temple. A Jewish synagogue is not an Israeli temple. It's called the Real Israel Temple. They're Jewish. They're the people of Israel. How do you feel? Let me just finish my point. It was wrong from the premise. They're not Israeli, they're Jewish, so they're called the real Israeli temple. Yes. And they do align with Israel and their beliefs. So this was so the stupid hag making the case. Oh, well, actually, you know, the temple's name is Ezrael, so therefore, you can ram a car through a preschool wall in an attempt to blow up children in the United States. Hang on a second here. Of course, that doesn't make any sense, but the left has to get out there and make excuses, because if you question radical Islam, well, then you need to really start looking at. Wait, what makes it radical Islam. Because in Christianity, we actually make it very clear based on, for example, on the Protestant side, based on the Koine Greek of the New Testament and the Aramaic and then the Hebrew of the Old Testament, that some people who translate things incorrectly and do garbage have to cut junk out of the Bible to make things work and do awful things. But in Islam, the Quran's like, really specific and very, very, very clear. And jihadists, that's what. That's. Again, that is what that jihad means. People trying to water down saying, no, actually, it means that you should just, you know, really look at yourself. No, not in any way, shape or form. Again, in Dearborn Heights, where they are constantly chanting death to America. Not really hiding the ball here. Not at all. But alas, this does continue. Now, at the same time, Democrats have made it their number one priority to keep the Department of Homeland Security closed because ice, even though ICE is fully funded already, this funding bill would not do anything at all regarding ice. But they were very, very mad. They said, well, we want you to put body cameras on the ICE officers, which Republicans are like, really? You got it? No problem. I remember how this went in 2020, and then they also threw offense and you need to get rid of Kristi Noem. Well, Trump was tired of Corey Lewandowski whoring around with Kristi Noem anyway, so he got rid of her. He sideways promoted her out of the picture. And Democrats still said, no, we're going to keep the Department of Homeland Security shut down. We don't care that there have been four Islamic terror attacks in the last two weeks. Instead, you have Chuck Schumer yelling at Senator Tommy Tuberville from Alabama because the Alabaman said, hey, you know, maybe Islamist behavior isn't really compatible with the states. Which is true, by the way. Well, now, finally, we do have Senator Elisa Slotkin from Michigan, who had a moment of clarity and, oh, my God, if I don't actually pay attention, someone is going to kneecap me. She says, you know, we do fund the Department of Homeland Security, you know, here she was today, kind of DHS folks, cbp.
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and they are, they are doing their jobs.
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Certainly we need to fund the Department
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of Homeland Security and we need, in my view, to cut away all the conversation on ice, which is its own conversation, from all the core missions of
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the Department of Homeland Security.
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But they're essential. They're on the job. They're working today. Now, hey there, wait a second. After you just voted the previous day to say no, all of a sudden you're like, wow, you know, I'm kind of nuking all of the political momentum that Democrats have enjoyed for like the last two weeks. Last three weeks. They had a little sliver at the, at the Broad at the end of January through a little bit of February, they had a little bit of momentum ready to go. And they have now wasted all of it by instead defending those committing Islamic terror attacks by whitewashing the incidents, not calling it out, just like vague statements about anti Semitism. And then also, what is it? They're keeping the Department of Homeland Security shut down. Hmm. We gotta bring the radio crew back from commercial. Way more to cover. Don't go anywhere. It's the Tony Kenned cast here on the Daily Signal. This is the Tony Kenneth cast on 93 WYBC. Welcome back to the Tony Kenneth cast here on the Daily Signal. There is a lot more news going around the entire country than just the terror incidents and the international community as well. There is a very, very big announcement from yesterday evening. That was right after we got off of the air. The President of the United States had begun a series of talks with Cuba. Of course, we have reported that President Diaz Canal, who is remarkably nervous seeing the United States get rid of the threat of Venezuela and then get rid of the threat of Iran. Now Cuba's sitting there going, oh, we have no more, no more allies there. Things are not looking so good. And so President A. Diaz Canal, one of the latest, well, the latest puppet of the Castro family, has now announced in an exciting turn of events, he says, we have expressed our willingness to continue this process, this process being communication and negotiation with the United States based on the principles of equality and respect for the political systems of both countries for sovereignty and self determination. Ah, yeah. Dude's nervous. Dudes nervous because if President Trump can just grab Maduro just like that, put him in a bag. And Iran's supreme leader Junior, which we're going to get to here in a second, has apparently still not woken up, man's, comatose somewhere. Well, then, gee, man, I don't think that JFK is going to leave Cuba to the communists. I don't. I don't. I think that they're gonna do a little more than the Bay of Pigs this time if the US does something.
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So now they are negotiating with the United States. As a result, Cuba has now announced they will release 51 people from their political prisons. Now, CBS calls this an unexpected move amid pressure from Trump. Folks, this ain't unexpected. What you couldn't see on the camera when President Diaz Canal was making his statements is that he was in the middle of wedding himself. The age of foreign leaders in these small micro countries believing that Russia or China is going to come to their aid. No, it ain't happening. Where's Russia? Where's China? I was told they were here right now. And brics, the Great Economic alliance of Brazil, Russia, India, China, they were going to swoop in and save all of that. Nope, didn't happen. It didn't happen. Now, that said, there are a couple of Iranian updates that need to be brought to bear because the Strait of Hormuz is what everyone is talking about again. It is which 20% of the world's petroleum flows through. It is a primary point for Iran to cause a lot of what the kids call problems. And so here was Secretary of War Pete Hegseth answering a question today. And, you know, rather salty. So when the media asks, well, did you even, like, think about the Strait of Hormuz before you struck Iran? Did you even think about it first? Which again, the academic arrogance of journos asking questions of any administration official, left or right, never fails to amaze me. But anyway, ships through the Strait of Fort Muth. Why? How did you not plan for this?
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We planned for it. We recognize it because ultimately we want to do it sequentially in a way that makes the most sense for what we want to achieve and ensure that we're sending the right signals to the world when we do so. So when Chris Wright speaks or we speak, it's based on a full assessment of what we're up against, what we want to say to the world, how we want them to see and understand the conflict. It's like this whole idea of the war widening. That's what the press wants to make it look like. Like it's widening and chaos is ensuing. No, we're actually closing in on grabbing hold of and controlling what objectives we want to achieve and how we want to achieve them. It's called shaping operations and setting the conditions. But when you shape the environment, you don't always tell. I mean, foolish political leaders and foolish military leaders of the past will hang an exact deadline on it, or here's exactly when we'll do what we're going to do, or here's how long it's going to take us. And then if you meet that, maybe you meet it. But if you don't, you fail. And if you're far beyond. We know exactly what we're shaping and why.
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Now, to be very clear, this is an appropriate and clear response from the administration who has been very clear about their goals so far in this particular strike. Now, what makes me laugh is that he has to outline the most elementary basics on these things. In this era of instant gratification with social media, journalists have decided, and a lot of people who are really angry have decided that this, the president needs to tell me exactly what he's gonna do 10 steps ahead and he needs to tell me for sure. And I don't want anything longer than three minutes and then I want to go microwave my Hot Pocket and I want to be happy while I'm watching Dancing with the Stars. And that is the weird kind of over fascination with the instant gratification culture that we have right now here in this country and then abroad who have suggested that because Trump isn't doing the Biden approach of we're gonna try the Houthis in 72 hours and then all the Houthis leave, or when Obama or Hillary Clinton from her State Department perch would suggest the United States was going to do X, Y and Z and then put US Troops in danger. Because now everyone knows exactly what the US Is going to do. Everyone knows the US Cards. So there's no negotiation that takes place. It turns out that's not actually good way to do business. And again, the idea right now that, oh wow, the. Oh, the Brent, the oil went up today, that means it's all falling apart. Explain to me how, explain to me how, by all means, please share with me how this spike that after the United States clears the Straits of Hormuz and the Iranian military is no longer firing rockets in, how is that going to skyrocket the price of oil? Exactly. Individuals from the far left in the European economic analyst category all the way over to the Southeast Asian market, analysts from South Korea, from Japan, even from Vietnam and Laos, I didn't even know Laos had senior economic analysts until last week have made it quite clear that after the threat of Iran is removed, oil prices are going to drop. Far below their normal $80 a barrel for crude oil Mark called calculated risk. It doesn't all happen at once. The instant gratification idea that's come from the American public and as well as kind of the left public abroad is really bizarre. And I'm kind of tired of pointing at the scoreboard and going, guys, we've been through this. Let the man cook. Speaking of let the man cook, Motaba Khamenei. He's cooking, he's cooking and it ain't pretty. So first of all, from Secretary Hegseth.
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So we're shooting down and destroying what missiles they still have in stock, but more importantly, ensuring that they have no ability to make more. Their production lines, their military plants, their defense innovation centers, defeated. Iran's leadership is in no better shape. Desperate and hiding. They've gone underground. Cowering. That's what rats do. We know the new so called not so Supreme Leader is wounded and likely disfigured. He put out a statement yesterday, a weak one actually, but there was no voice and there was no video. It was a written statement. He called for unity. Apparently killing tens of thousands of protesters is his kind of unity.
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Now, by the way, I do want to make this clear. The next line is the best. There are several open source intelligence accounts across the social media sphere who pride themselves on clipping things. A lot of them cut their clip right here. So it just sounds as though he's, he's kind of making kind of vague statements. He makes a pretty key point here that's rather useful in an intelligence perspective, in a journalistic perspective.
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Iran has plenty of cameras and plenty of voice recorders. Why a written statement? I think you know why.
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Here's why, according to a new Daily Mail report that we just happen to have a little accompanying video for. While the political leaders in Iran today, as the United States and Israel were striking blocks away, use human shields, forced people into the square to kind of protest and, and cheer on the few regime officials that they could get out there. By the way, we are getting reports that already two of those whose faces were marked and tracked from that particular rally are already dead. But alas, the Mukhtaba Supreme Leader, according to the Daily Mail, is unaware of the ongoing war in the Middle east because he is comatose and has been comatose since the initial strike that killed his father. He may have not just one leg blown off, but two. He has no idea he's even Iran's supreme leader. Radio crew, we're gonna send you off to the commercial. Try not to, you know, get drone struck for bad decisions. In the meantime, it's the Tony Kinit cast here on the Daily Signal. I'll read more of this article because it's great here. Due to his condition, he does not know of the ongoing war, the death of his family members, including his wife and his son. Of his own election as supreme leader. The source said Muktaba is also reportedly in intensive care. Well, I sure would hope so. Surrounded by security officials while a large section of the hospital has been sealed off to guard Iran's new supreme leader. Now a separate source told the sun through messages sent to an exiled dissident based in London, quote, one or two of his legs have been cut off. His liver or his stomach has also ruptured. Folks, if your liver has ruptured and all you have to hang on for dear life is an Iranian hospital. I hate to tell you this, but you ain't, you ain't sticking around. Nope. There. It's gonna be a real moment for you there, bud. So I, I really, really do appreciate the updates as they go forward. And, and, and by the way, I, I am not alone in enjoying these particular updates. There are a lot of service members and veterans who have been waiting for this moment for 47 years now. Also, I'm going to brag on the US army artillery here for a second because no one ever gets to brag on the US army and artillery. A shout out to Captain Former Captain Nate Lamar of Henry County, Indiana, the man who inspired me to admire the brilliance of US Artillery. Here's General Raisin Kane today talking about the first artillery strike that has sunk a submarine. I didn't even know this was possible. Is on to project power beyond their borders and protect our deployed. In just the first 13 days of this operation, our artillery forces have made history. They fired the first precision strike missiles ever used in combat. Reaching deep into enemy territory. They've used army atacms to sink multiple ships, including a submarine. And they've done all of this with the precision and determination that comes from relentless training and trust in each other and in their weapon systems. So for all of the individuals out there who like to say over and over and over again that the greatest evil known to man is the defense industrial complex. Absolutely not. The very first precision missile strikes ever used in combat, reaching deep inside enemy territory, are currently eliminating on the street certain individuals without harming civilians. We are now seeing a level of targeted warfare in a manner that is only contrasted by Iranians continuing to attempt to lob missiles at Cyprus fewer every day. Now, 90% expected of their missile capacity has been removed at Cyprus and at Turkey as well as an expected suicide drone that was intercepted very, very early on by reportedly a loitering MQ1C which hearing a gray eagle take down a suicide drone just warms my cold dead heart. But was apparently bound for Azerbaijan. Now there are no Iranian drones that have a range that that high or that long, but they're still trying as hard as they can. Now speaking of Cyprus, the British are finally coming. Somebody get Paul Revere. The HMS Dragon, which is now leaving the United Kingdom bound for Cyprus, traveling at a leisurely slow as Frick is finally on its way to protect the British protectorate that they are supposed to be keeping watch on, which is again very, very stupid, that Keir Starmer, the prime minister of the United Kingdom has largely abandoned Cyprus. Supposedly they have a couple of helicopters that are there to be anti drone measures. But as of right now, the biggest development from Cyprus is that they are beginning major natural gas exports. So that by early 2028, Cronos Field, the Aphrodite field, which is under negotiation with Chevron for the United States Block 10, which is being conducted in resource partners by Exxon Mobil. Excuse me, I should have mentioned that in Kronos Field any from Italy and Total energies from France are going to be creating new oil and natural gas export pipelines to the rest of the world, which you guessed it is going to lower energy prices considerably. Saudi Arabia is also in the process of removing a lot of its reliance on the Straits of Hormuz in general. Now speaking of that, we got to talk about the Marines and the rumors surrounding it. We got to bring the radio crew back from commercial. And a little bit about Car Island. It's the Tony Kenneth cast here on the Daily Signal. This is the Tony Kennett cast on 93 WIBC. Welcome back to the Tony Kenneth Cast where I regret to inform you that finally I am having a little bit of fun. So in, in what must be one of the greatest just duh pieces of news that I think I've seen in a very long time, President Donald Trump, according to the Iranian International, has rejected an offer by Russian President Vladimir Putin to move Iran's highly enriched uranium stockpiles to Russia as part of a deal to end the war. That's Axios reporting the cited sources. Now the U.S. official quoted this to the Iran International, quote, the U.S. position is that we need to see the uranium secured. Yeah, I like that. I love that from Putin. Just give US Uranium. We'll take it. We'll take very good care of uranium. We'll give very good care if you just stop it. This is Russia trying to end the war. By the way, there's your reinforcements. So now even Russia is saying Iran's just got to give up any hopes of uranium or anything forever. Guys, I'm going to, I'm going to repeat that. It is Russia that was supposed to be the guarantor of the Iranian nuclear program. Now it is so bad for the regime. Mahtaba's torn liver and stomach as he's lieutenant danning it around in a coma somewhere. Russia's little saving grace here is we'll try to get them to stop killing your regime momentarily if you give us all of your nuclear material, period. Yeah, so much for the Russian cavalry that was supposed to triumphantly ride in, you know, like usual here. The paper tigers of Russia and China doing exactly that. And by the way, here's what this means. This means that if the United States were to send a small force, which by the way, if you didn't know that the United States has operator teams and also contracting operator teams, these would be civilians now, but probably former military individuals that are operating in and around Iran. Please go touch some grass. But there is a particular island, a coral island, in fact, that goes by the name of Kharg Karg Island. I'm sorry. And on Car island, this particular coral outcropping here is 92% of Iran's oil capacity in the Strait of Hormuz. 90% of how Iran Fs with international oil prices happens on this one little piece of coral that is 15 miles off the coastline of a coastline, by the way, which has not only been particularly crap beaten out of it by the Reagan administration, but now also by the Trump administration. Now, Carg island is really cool because Carg island here in its little, little spot here would give the United States, Iran to the north of it there, essentially the run of the mill for the Straits of Hormuz. Now, you've been told before the United States really can't mess with foreign powers oil supplies. We could never, you know, just take Venezuelan oil and put it into the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. They said I couldn't do it and I did it anyway. There's a very good chance the United States takes Car Island. And now. Why do I say that? Well, for a couple of reasons, the President of the United States was asked about this by Brian Kilmeade over on Fox News. I believe today it could be later Yesterday, but I believe today here was how the President responded. Now, here in 2026, you are president. Are you thinking about taking Carg island, where 90% of the Iranian oil goes through, and what do you think about. Do you remember that interview and that school of thought?
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Yeah, but, Brian, I can't answer a question like that. And you shouldn't ask and you shouldn't be even asking it. It's one of so many different things. It's not high on the list, but it's one of so many different things. And I can change my mind in seconds. But, you know, if he had asked a question, who would answer a question like that?
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First of all, I want to make this clear, guys. My fellow broadcasters out there, pundits, reporters, analysts, I understand asking these questions. I've asked a few of these questions myself. But they're not going to tell you the next move. They're not going to tell you the next step. It would be wholly irresponsible to do so. I will say, though, from a speculative little, little frame here, that's the kind of answer that Trump gives before Carg island flies a different flag. And now I want to make this clear because you're saying, oh, that means boots on the ground. Boots on the ground. Okay, so boots on the ground is a reference to the idea where if we invade Iran, like from Iraq, we like put up a couple of army companies, a couple of battalions and Mohammed and start marching across the country. That's boots on the ground. The United States Marines seizing an island is something that we have done dozens of times in our nation's history. In the last 50 years, the United States has seized with the Marines or other small micro forces, micro deployment, you might call them, over a hundred islands in our nation's great and glorious history, not including the Second World War because, you know, a lot of island hopping in the Second World War, that's kind of an unfair thing to include there. So let's get into the rumor. All right, let's give you the some of the stuff that's being cited here. So ABC News reported today a Marine expeditionary unit with 2,200 Marines, not 5,000. It was also reported today, but 2200 Marines aboard three US Navy amphibious ships. They didn't report this originally. This is part of the Tripoli Amphibious Ready Group, that. It's the Tripoli Amphibious Ready Group. I just, I'm sorry, I do, I do love that. Anyway, which consists of the USS Tripoli, the USS San Diego and the USS New Orleans. The USS New Orleans is a honey of an amphibious craft. That is, I have, I have seen the New Orleans in person. I would, I would not consider throwing something around at that. And also roughly 20 F35B lightning twos. Now, I do want to excuse me very very briefly for a moment. There is another terror attack threat that has just been made in Massachusetts and Connecticut today. We're going to get to that here in a couple of minutes. I want to finish this particular point before we shift over to it. So right now regarding the Marines being deployed, I don't know if the Marines are going to be deployed to take Harg. No one does at this point. They could be replacing or allowing a group to rotate out which expeditionary forces have done in, in high tense conflicts before. For all we know at this point, that expeditionary force could very much go to replace one of the garrisons, for example, some of the airmen over in Djibouti. Absolutely could be, we don't know because the United States has cut off aid to Somalia. It could be a reshoring of assets off the coast of Somalia which I have seen from a particular camera vantage point that I'm not allowed to talk about on air. So in this particular instance, I wouldn't get a little bit nervous just yet. There, there is still quite a lot of time. But if the United States is successful in getting Russia out of the picture or luring Russia out of the picture with a 60 day restraint on the oil embargo and sanctions, you really could see Iran in a position where there's no money, there's no funding, there's no ammunition. Already it's rumored, according to a couple of sources. This is the speculation part, reported to other media sources, that Iranians are now down to giving the IRGC 10 bullets per weapon. And I mean, if you know anything about the Middle east to be short on Kalashnikovs and their ammunition, wow, things must not be going well. Now Gavin Newsom has announced from the Newsweek side that Trump is fundraising off of dead soldiers and it's sick. I've read this Newsweek article and there is nothing in there that the Trump administration is fundraising off of regarding dead soldiers. It's very gross. And from the Newsom administration in California right now, which is attempting to undermine the United States government in a military operation is sick. And that is treasonous stuff. That is treasonous stuff. If you've been a part or watched this show for any period in time. You know, I don't use that phrase lightly in any way, shape or form, but to undermine the United States because you want cheap shots of the president of the United States. That's some enemy within the gates type stuff. And if Gavin Newsom has any kind of aspirations for 2028, he will fire everyone associated with that Gavin Newsom press account. Of course, he won't immediately. Now, there are a lot of charges that are coming in very quickly and we're going to send the radio crew over to commercial so I can dive into these without a break in doing so. It's the Tony Knitt. Excuse me, it's the Tony Kinnit cast here on the Daily Signal. Sorry, you can see me gauging my, my time here as we hop into that break for them. So first of all, a Virginia man has now been charged with illegally selling the firearm which was used in the campus shooting this week at Old Dominion University when as this veteran of the National Guard and convicted of previously aiding ISIS was let out of jail early in a light sentence by a George W. Bush judge and the Biden Department of Justice, the individual who has sold the firearm to that terrorist, who by the way, was stabbed in the neck by a bunch of ROTC cadets. Well done, cadets. Excellent stuff. Attorney General Pam Bondi reported, quote, left wing soft on crime policies consistently costs lives. But the Department of Justice here doesn't tolerate crime. We punish it. And the individuals who are selling various weapons to those who commit terrorist acts. Yeah, that is going to be upheld. And might I say while Mazie Hirono, senator of Hawaii, is claiming that if the Save America act passes that you're going to need more voter register, it's going to take more to register to vote than it is to buy a gun. This kind of stuff from the Department of Justice is an excellent refutation of that. Specifically. Now regarding Massachusetts and Connecticut, FBI Boston has arrested and charged Devin Austin Bishop of Manchester, Connecticut with forcibly assaulting a Border Patrol officer at the Lubeck Port of entry in Maine on February 22nd and for failing to report his arrival and present for inspection. Additionally, FBI's Boston Joint Terrorism Task Force, somebody at the FBI Boston office, a couple of boxes of Duncan's has arrested Alden Welch Rummel of Cambridge, Massachusetts today for making terrorist threats. Rummel allegedly emailed the victims referring to them in obscene terms and stated that he would be happy when their faces were canoed by an assault rifle. And just, goodness gracious. Also on the run today, FBI's also busted convenience store clerks in Massachusetts for staged armed robberies to apply for immigration benefits. Goodness gracious. So there are quite a few arrests that are being made And I'm, I'm going to level with you. I'm really pleased to see law enforcement doing their job. You notice again, you do not see the media covering broadly the thwarted terror attack from the Muslim man in, outside the Klein ISD School district in Texas today. That'd be in Spring, Texas. You don't see a lot of media coverage, of course, of the Boston terror attempts also being thwarted. So huge amount of praise to our law enforcement officers. Also, folks, again, please keep your head on a swivel. If you go to a church or a synagogue or a Mormon tabernacle, any kind of religious organization or building, especially if there's a school involved, encourage a security team, encourage them to have security team carry and carry responsibly. Um, so in a minute here, we're going to talk about the Save America Act a little bit here as well as a comment from Vance along some of the same lines. And then a little bit on Judge Jeanine or, excuse me, U.S. attorney Jeanine Pirro and the judge of the Washington District Court blocking some grand jury investigations in the Federal Reserve. Don't go anywhere. Still way more to cover than we have time for, but we'll make it fit. It's the Tony Kennett cast here on the Daily Signal. It's the Tony Kennett cast on 93 WYPCing. Chief Judge James Boasberg of the Washington, D.C. district Federal Court has today blocked a grand jury set of subpoenas for the Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, which is, is pretty incredible. It's pretty incredible. Essentially, Judge James Boasberg has now, before any full investigation, before indictments were even levied, we're still in the subpoena territory here. He has thrown these out. This the same judge, the same James Boasberg who signed off on just hidden subpoena after hidden subpoena after FISA warrant, after, after tapping record request from Jack Smith on sitting U.S. senators and representatives as well as members of the prior Trump campaign without letting them know tapping a US Senator or con or a congressperson in general's phone without letting their office know is a federal crime. Judge James Boasberg committed that federal crime by granting a hush order to Verizon and AT&T, or excuse me, against AT&T and Verizon who said we don't want to violate federal law. We should really let these senators know they're being wiretapped and tracked. That was by Jack Smith's office. That same Judge James Boasberg has now blocked two subpoenas because he says that there's really no reason to be going after Jerome Powell. So it's quote, did prosecutors issue those subpoenas for a proper purpose? The court finds that they did not. There's abundant evidence that the subpoena's dominant, if not sole, purpose is to harass and pressure Powell to either yield or to resign. So in this case, you have J. Edge James Boasberg, before any investigation is complete, saying, I don't like the people prosecuting an investigation or even issuing subpoenas for the records of Jerome Powell. And whether or not he may have lied or told the truth regarding Federal Reserve building renovations, whether or not he was clear or accurate on statements made before Congress, Judge James Boasberg, he doesn't really care. And so he's granting immunity to an individual before they have even been fully investigated, which is insane. This is a disservice to Jerome Powell, and here's why. If Jerome Powell comes through that a series of investigations and is clean, then that is a stain on the Trump administration in his Department of Justice. And Jerome Powell looks a lot better. But now we'll never know. Now, U.S. district, excuse me. The U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C. jeanine Pirro, she was, as the kids say, remarkably salty with this, as one would expect. Here you go.
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Booting cost overruns is a grand jury subpoena. Today, however, in Washington, an activist judge has taken that tool away from us. By inserting himself and preventing the grand jury from even obtaining, let alone hearing evidence, he has neutered the grand jury's ability to investigate crime. As a result, Jerome Powell today is now bathed in immunity, preventing my office from investigating the Federal Reserve.
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That is true and is a major problem. I once again point out that only Representative Brandon Gill of Texas, friend of the show, just as a matter of transparency, that I have seen one of the only representatives in the House to file an investigation. And in trying to begin proceedings to get James Boasberg impeached. This is not how a judge acts. I don't even care about the ruling in this case as much as ruling that you just don't like the subpoenas, so you're gonna throw em out. Now, again, any grand jury out there can issue subpoenas. That's often rested upon, as you know, it's easy to, you know, get a jury to throw out subpoenas, but it the problem then would be with a system that says the grand jury voted on it. What authority does James Boasberg have to overturn a grand jury in this way? It's taking some Article 3, constitutional authority and throwing it into the blender.
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This is wrong and it is without legal authority.
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Now, I do want to make this clear. The journalists in the room then got very spicy and started saying, well, aren't you just like the worst person ever. And so there was this exchange. It's worth playing.
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Oh, cut it out. Do you know how many convictions we've got? Cut it out. You're in one lane. We have cleaned up this city.
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Yeah.
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Historic, really. I'll tell you what's historic. What's historic is that I prosecute everything other than 10% of the cases where the United States Attorney before me didn't prosecute 67% of the cases. That's what's historic.
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That is, by the way, in this particular instance. That's true. That, that's true. You should have prosecutors that prosecute things. This weird type of George Soros backed DA nonsense where you get a DA and you bring them out and they say, I think Republicans are bad because they have guns. That kind of crap. Like we saw from the Iranian yesterday, from the, the, the Commonwealth attorney up in Nova. I would rather have a prosecutor who prosecutes things left, right, center. I don't care what crime it's for. I want to prosecute it because that's what you're there for.
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I'm willing to take a not guilty. I'm willing to take a no true bill because I'll take all the crimes and put them in.
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That's the correct answer. If he's not guilty, then let it play out. My dude, you're one of the judges here. Knowing how you assign random cases, it's likely you'll get the case when you spin the wheel of which like two thirds of it is your own face. Come on. Eroding trust in the judicial system. This is how you do it. It's like Paula Zinnis quoting a lesbian adaptation of a Shakespeare film. I. Why, why, why, why would, why would you do this? Don't do these things when you are under scrutiny. You make it worse for yourselves. The left is not helping them out. Pissing away all, all of their political capital that they had. Now this brings us over to the Vice President of the United States who is also now getting out there and talking a lot about both the Congress. A lot of people have suggested that Vance can just swing in and control the United States Senate and get it moving, guys. He doesn't have the authority to do that. That's not. And don't take my word for it. The very first president of the United States Senate, Vice President John Adams said he wanted to do exactly what a lot of people online have been making up about J.D. vance citing statutes and procedures incorrectly. It's not how that works. The parliamentarians made it clear. The first Vice President of the United States has made that clear. He is, however, making it very clear on the Save America Act. That I think is again, a pretty great move from the Vice President.
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Anyway, here's the thing though. Even if you take the Democrats at their word, even if illegal aliens voting is very rare, then why don't we ban it anyway? It's not that complicated. It is one thing to say, I don't get it. The Democrats say this never happens or it happens only very rarely on the one hand, and on the other hand we must not stop it. It doesn't make a damn bit of sense. We need to get all illegal aliens stopping from voting in our elections. It's very common sense stuff.
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I had this exact same response when the Secretary of State here in Indiana, who's a very controversial figure, Diego Morales, a lot of people don't like him, even on the Republican side of the aisle. He, along with I believe Attorney General Todd Rakita, launched an investigation into the voting rolls and they found like 20 violations. And a lot of people thought they had some kindred, said haha, you only found 20 violations? I'm sorry, is that not 20 cases of violating the law? When, when, when the cops catch one rapist, you go, that's just one. Why did you even catch him? No, the law is the law. I, I'm confused in this weird judicial attitude that people have where it's whether or not I think it's important enough to actually do the thing. And by the way, I, I, even though it, it may have turned out well, I felt the same way about the President of the United States when he didn't enforce the TikTok ban passed by Congress. Now again, did it end up well and fine? Yeah, I think it did. I still disagree. I don't like the picking and choosing kind of nonsense. Either the law is the law or it's not. When you take that away from Congress and you decide that it doesn't matter and judges or the President's gonna rule things anytime they want. That's an issue. We're gonna continue on the livestream. Way more to get into. It's the Tony Knittcast here on the Daily Signal Radio Crew. Have a great weekend. Boy, we are moving fast, aren't we? All right, now we're out of the FCC broadcast time, so I can finally play all of those clips that have a few of those less friendly words in them and as well, some of the things that my production team is about to torture me with before we do so, I do want to say that Vance, who has been positioned as the antithesis to Trump and Rubio in the foreign policy department, even though I have said multiple times that Vance, who was a bit of an isolationist and now appears to kind of be coming around and is openly being, I would say, volunteering to be the guy who goes out and, and, and says, all right, I am totally against stuff. We're gonna do diplomacy forever and ever. Amen. And then that's right before the Trump administration throws a punch. That's happened like five times now. Now, Vance also acts the same way regarding getting questions about what the United States is going to do next. Pay attention to how he answers this question, because this matters a lot. For the 2028 primaries, the Republican Party didn't have the clip loaded. See, that's my bad. See, it's not really a Tony Kenneth cast until because of the crazy news, I don't have a clip in the right spot. You know, tale is oldest time. Here we have it, though. Here we go. Vanson, the reporter Press. What did you advise the president initially as he considered his actions in Iran and what are you urging him to do now, especially with Americans seeing higher prices at the pump and some of the fallout from that across the economy? Do you express any concerns like those you've expressed in the past on the possibility of these extra extended wars?
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Well, Bill, I appreciate the question. I know you guys have to ask it. But, but, but imagine the situation. We're, we're in the situation Room where you can't even take your, you know, ipod in there or your, your AirPods,
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I guess what they're called.
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You can't take your iPhone in there. You can't take anything in there because it is the most classified space anywhere in the world. And I sit there with Pete Hegseth and General Kane and Marco Rubio and the entire White House team, and the president and I and the entire senior team are talking about the options and about what we need to do and about how we must best protect the American people. I hate to disappoint you, but I'm not going to show up here and in front of God and everybody else tell you exactly what I said in that classified room, partially because I don't want to go to prison and partially because I think it's important for the President of the United States to be able to talk to his advisors without those advisors running their mouth to the American media.
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That's the correct answer. Now, if you don't like that, tough, tough. The idea that, like, transparency means that you get to know what we do 10 steps before it happens, therefore completely removing the effectiveness of the action. Let me put it this way. If Trump goes all right, By Friday, March, October 1st, I'm gonna cancel it all. You've got exactly 12 days. 12 days, we're done. Then what does the Iran administration now know they have to do? They just gotta hide in some deep, dark hole in the ground for 12 days and then it's over. See, when you reveal your cards, you can't place bets. And for all of the people praising the diplomacy only option, I might remind you that diplomacy relies on you having levers to pull. If everyone knows what you're doing, then you can't engage in diplomatic strategy and negotiation. And I said the same thing about, oh, wow, why is Trump even a 60 day kind of a lift to the Russian oil sanctions? I mean, gee, I could think of at least 15 reasons off the front, but just because Trump hasn't come out and spelled it out for you in Expo, dry erase marker, everyone sit down. We're gonna talk about it from the top. Like, that's not how these things work. That's not how they're supposed to work. You say, well, I don't like that. Okay, you leave, start your own country, you tell all of your own citizens how you're going to do it. You know what, run for office. You do it. Every time we've seen a president do what those who are against this are describing, people die. And by that I mean specifically the United States forces are put under severe security threat because the Obama or the Biden administration revealed the cards out and it leaked all to the press, and then we couldn't do anything. You like aircraft drone. Aircraft should loiter. Infantry shouldn't loiter. But alas, that's. That stuff aside, I am rather pleased from the way the White House has done a lot of their communication in the last couple of weeks. I do, I do appreciate that kind of, that kind of communication from the administration because we are finally from, least from where I'm at, we are, are finally in a position where I don't feel embarrassed at what the individuals from the administration are trotting out to say. Allow me to explain. There's, there's kind of a cringe moment. For example, when you have some guy like Cash Patel come out and announce that, oh, the FBI is gonna be trained by former fighters, no, that's not as useful. What I do appreciate, though, is when he comes out and he's very quiet, calm to the point, we got him, we arrested him, they're off to jail. Don't do crimes. We'll get you. That's good stuff. Vance Rubio, Scott Besant are doing a lot more of the talking now. There was a little period where Rubio was doing most of the talking along with Scott Besant and Peter Navarro and Howard Lutnick were just like, shh, go, go sit somewhere. And even Vance for a while was a little bit quieter. Now we're seeing some of the rest of the administration pick up the same kind of lines that we got from Tulsi Gabbard, Linda McMahon, secretary Brooke Rollins of Agriculture. You see Chris Wright coming around on some of these things, talking a lot of the same way. Now that Lee Zeldin talks about environmental regulation and deregulation, you see Sean Duffy mirroring the kind of cadence that you see coming from Marco Rubio from the Secretary of State side into the Department of Transportation side, I like this. You can have kind of the technocratic people who know what they are doing and communicate it in a way that still doesn't balk and cower before reporters and go, okay, I promise I won't be bad. You don't have to. It's not a binary. You can have competency and the fire of passion and conviction and, and this where I, I think, comes into play the, the Trump White House and the way they've documented some of their memes. Before we do talk about that, though, I do have to talk about one final story on another breaking story from this evening. I'm so sorry. I. Another story. U.S. congresswoman Jasmine Crockett's security officer has been shot and killed by Dallas police SWAT officers while under investigation for impersonating a law enforcement officer, according to CBS News. J.D. miles, I'm reading this from the report, quote, a man shot and killed by Dallas police earlier this week was a familiar figure in North Texas law enforcement and part of the security detail for U.S. representative Jasmine Crockett, sources told CBS News Texas. Multiple law enforcement sources tell CBS News Texas that the man publicly known as Mike King had been using aliases while running businesses that placed officers in off duty jobs. Are you telling me that a Democrat was using fake ID to get benefits? No way. I'm told that never happens. Or Tim Walls tells me they're arresting everyone, doing that. Another case of Democrats faking their ID to do scurrilous things. What? What a surprise. King was killed Wednesday night after a standoff with Dallas police SWAT officers. Police say he fled into a hospital parking garage, barricaded himself inside a vehicle and was forced out by tear gas before pulling a gun on officers. Ah, there you go. So you can't even claim that it was in self defense. The dude got tear gassed out of the vehicle. I don't know how to tell you this, but it's not like the cartels are running operations up into Dallas, man. With the tear gas, you know, we get it in there, we pull the pin. There you go. I mean that. So you can't really prove it's that or you can't suggest that pulled his gun on cops. Well, congratulations on receiving your very own FO to the FA that you participated in. Gee, many. Can we stop on the breaking news story? Producer Josiah, I see you typing right now in the slack. You stop that. No more. No more stories. I want to. It's Friday, man. No, obviously keep sharing the stories. I'll just, I guess be the Baptist who takes up drinking in public. Yikes. All right, so that said, there's another story from today that I wanted to get to from cnn. So this is sent over to me from Nicholas Fondacaro. Nicholas Fondacaro is the associate editor over at the Media Research center in Newsbusters. CNN officials Andrew Roy, the London bureau chief of cnn, and Matthew Chance, the CNN chief global affairs correspondent. According to footage. We don't have this particular footage loaded and ready to go right now. They have been caught celebrating the Iranian regime at the Iranian embassy in the United Kingdom. Holy crap. That is. That is patently insane. Now CNN's also in pretty severe hot water already because as you recall, Abby Phillips with her own little evening show that, you know, Scott Jennings just happens to take most of the attention on. Abby Phillips was already caught trying to frame the IED Islamic terror attack in New York as a supposed almost attack on Zoran Mandani. She had to make a correction for that. Now there's yet another. Now another CNN story in this particular frame. This is according to Dominic Pattern over at Deadline. Also this evening, last time it was updated. The White House escalates a war of words with the S word CNN over Iran coverage. CNN is lying to undermine Operation Epic Fury's crushing success. Essentially, the administration is making the case that David Ellison better fix CNN rather quickly because they're just setting themselves up for defamation lawsuit after defamation lawsuit because CNN is, has been caught multiple times now, by the way, making continued reports and posts all over social media. We stand by our reporting, we stand by our reporters. And then going on air and making a bunch of corrections because they're getting things wrong, making correct statements. And you, in fact, do get the horns. I mean, you do have to issue corrections when you go out and say stupid things. You do win stupid prizes. So, again, I'm happy to see the Trump administration holding CNN to task here, and I do hope that the defamation suits and others continue. But that is another story for another day. We're going to go very quickly to commercial break. And then my producers have said I've been a little too high strung this week. I've been a little too aggressive and aggravated. And to be fair, I think the news has kind of borne that out. And so this next section of the show is under duress. Just, just want to make that perfectly clear. It's the Tony Kinit cast here on the Daily Signal. Don't go anywhere. This is the Tony Kenneth cast on 93 WIBC. All right, so my smart mouth, I got myself into a little bit of trouble. You're on the Tony Kenneth cast because I, you know, decided to make the case that a particular Wii Sports video from the White House, that the left is melting, and I mean melting down over Tammy Duckworth, the senator who uses her veteran status as a way to beat others about the head. I, I just, I find it particularly disgusting. But, you know, one story among many is angry because the White House posted a, an edited meme video, essentially putting in bits of the Operation Epic Fury footage, putting that in with some Wii Sports videos. And Senator Tammy Duckworth made the case and, or I should say, quote, tweeted it and said war is not an effing video game. Oh, no. She says a war is not a effing video game. Bad grammar. And then says it three times. Seven Americans are dead. Okay, right off the top of the bat, guys. Just because there are casualties in war does not mean that it is dishonorable to those casualties to praise the success of your country in said war. It is, believe it or not, honorable to our troops to suggest that the sacrifices that they made, that they signed up for are not in vain, but in honor and pursuit to the interests of the United States of America and her territories. I'm going to need a little bit of clarification on that from my team. I'm seeing a super chat, a $5 super chat saying the US just hit kharg island according to Fox News. Is this true? It is true. Guys, I'm. I'm so sorry. We're going to have to delay this. I'm getting this information together. Excuse me. I have to alert WIBC and we have to break this particular piece of news given the update on this certain information. Give me just a second. I have to do something very specific for the rules as we hop onto FCC air. Excuse me. I know this is interesting. Give me just a moment to talk with my team. We will be back in just a second. Don't go anywhere. It's the Tony Knitcast here on the Daily Signal. This is the Tony Kennett cast on 93 WIPC. Welcome back to the Tony Kinnit cast. Sorry we have to postpone a little bit of the merriment here. We have a breaking update. The United States has confirmed via the White House that Kharg island has been struck from the President of the United States. And I quote, moments ago, at my direction, United States Central Command executed one of the most powerful bombing raids in the history of the Middle east and totally obliterated every military target in Iran's crown jewel, Kharg Island. We're going to put up the picture of Kharg island here on the screen. Kharg island is in the north of that very tippy top, the Persian Gulf there past the Strait of Hormuz, right underneath Iran, 15 miles off its coast. It used to look like this. It does no longer look like this. According to the President of the United States, quote, unquote, our weapons are the most powerful and sophisticated that the world has ever known. But for reasons of decency, I have chosen not to wipe out the oil infrastructure on the island. I am assuming that the president is talking about the oil tankers right here on the southern portion of the Coral Island. However, should Iran or anyone else do anything to interfere with the free and safe passage of ships through the Strait of Hormuz, I will immediately reconsider this decision. So this is. This is a resource hostage maneuver, this was. You've heard of blackmail. Now there's Trump mail delivered to you. Trump mail, Priority Express. If you take out another ship in the Strait of Hormuz, you fire a rocket, I'll blow this little pocket of oil to hell and gone anyway. That, that's just my impression. Ahem. I will immediately reconsider this decision. Quote, during my first term and currently, I rebuilt our military into the most lethal and powerful and effective force by far anywhere in the world. Iran has no ability to defend anything that we want to attack and there is nothing that they can do about it. Iran will never have a nuclear weapon, nor will it have the ability to threaten the United States of America, the Middle east, or for that matter, the world. Quote, Iran's military and all others involved with this terrorist regime would be wise to lay down their arms and save what's left of their country, which isn't much. Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. Trump so for a lot of individuals who are not yet aware the Carg island strike, this is Iran's oil export hub. 90% of Iranian oil export Sports Boy, I'm glad I did my homework on Carg island today. 90% of Iran's oil exports occur on this teeny tiny coral island 15 miles off the coast of Iran. U.S. air Force bombers struck missile storage sites as well as sites that housed Iranian mines, according to a US Official saying the United States did not target the economic infrastructure on the island. I'll get to my speculation on that just in a second. Again, here is where Carg island is now. Again, the president of the United States, when asked about this today by Bill Kilmeade over on Fox, he was asked about whether or not he was going to do this. But first, I want to make this clear to Brooke Ruff. Brooke Ruff is a friend of the channel. I'm not sure if we can grant someone specifically YouTube membership. We're going to find a way to grant it for her. Brooke Ruff is the watcher of the week. We don't even have that. But we do now. The the YouTube watcher of the week, Brooke Ruff, who from a super chat, she spent her own money to prioritize this in front of our faces and did get the news from Fox News over to us that Iran, their Carg island, literally the hub of their oil infrastructure, has been struck by the United States. She then sent a $20 super chat afterward, which Brooke, you don't have to do. Quit spending money. You have done more than enough. Said glad I saw something useful. You sure did incredible, incredible work from Brooke, who then says also, I didn't even know what the island was until the show. So I'm glad we got your heart and mind on Carg island, which very much might be under the United States control, which by the way, if you want to know how here, there and everywhere the price of oil drops right through the floor, that would be Carg Island. I would not be surprised given that this is a strike that has occurred in the late 7 o' clock hour Eastern Time, the 1900 hour, if you're a big nerd on Friday evening, is because now the oil prices won't be able to change until Monday morning. There is a very good chance that even now Iran is probably going to lose this island to special operators in the United States or from the United States. I would probably put a good amount of money on it. In fact, producer Daniel remind me later to. I don't know. I've never put money on something before in polymarket. Today might very much be that day. I really should throw at least a couple of dollars on that particular poly market that we will own Carg island by Monday. Because I'm just going to say the United States owning Venezuelan and Iranian oil and then being able to do absolutely nothing about it, that'll sink the price of crude oil down to $60 a barrel. That would also put Chinese. Oh, I can't use that expression on air. Well, I was, I was going to say would really put their cojones in a vice, but instead, let's say it really puts them between Iraq and a hard place. Huh? Huh? Yeah. Okay. No, all right, I'm sorry. All right. So right now, the United States again from the president of the United States has struck Carg Island. This was the president's response earlier today when asked by Brian Kilmeade. I think this is clip nine. Yes. Now here in 2026, you are president. Are you thinking about taking Carg island, where 90% of the Iranian oil goes through? And what do you think about. Do you remember that interview and that school of thought?
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Who would ask a question like that and what fool would answer it? Okay, let's say I was going to do it or let's say I wasn't going to do it. Why would I tell you? Oh, yes, Brian, I'm thinking about doing it. Let me, let me let you know what time and when it'll take place. It's not, you know, it's sort of a foolish question, a little surprising for
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you because you're I'm going to level with you. Earlier on in the show, I'm sorry, this. This grin right here. This is the stupid, smug. Tony was right again. Somebody get the jar of coins. I did say at the beginning, that sounds like Trump getting ready hot. I'm not going to tell you, but if you're on Carg Island, I hope you have a lead umbrella. Yeah, there you go. So the President of the United States essentially putting Carg island under Trump mail blackmail here, meaning Iran. You mess with anything in the Persian Gulf, you mess with anything in the Strait of Hormuz, I'm going to take all of this oil and I'm going to blow it to kingdom come. Yeah, I mean, that would. That'd be kind of neat. It's not like the Iranian navy can send over boats to reinforce the island. There's no navy left. So again, the President of the United States announcing that the US has struck the military infrastructure on Carg Island. I'd say a pretty decent chance that we see by the end of this weekend a different flag flying on said island. And again, if, like with Venezuela, the United States runs, there was an airstrip on the island. Again, I'm going to put up this. This particular photo of the island again here, not the, you know, map photo again, where you can see Carg island is, but you can see on the north there that beautiful Runway going the wrong way. Well, you got to guess, place islands or, you know, runways where you can. On. On coral strips there. If the United States is, in fact, managing this by Monday, oil prices are going to sink. I'm sorry, I could. I would again guess, and I don't usually speculate like this with y', all, but I would guess that we see crude oil hit like 65 to $70 on Monday. If the United States is controlling this now, oilmen prefer the price of oil to be around 80, 85 a barrel, but I'm just saying that's. That's gonna. That's gonna throw quite a bit in there. So given that as one comment point, one comment, one commenter points out, Carg island charges a lot for the processing. That is very, very, very true. Oh, this is a cool, fun one here for you guys. This is where Venezuela wanted to send their oil. This is. This is where Venezuela wanted to send their oil here to be processed. All right, you know, just a little fun facts here on the Tony Kinid cast. All right, we will keep an eye on that. Have I fulfilled all of my FCC obligations? I have. Okay, radio crew who has been yanked back from the brink of the other side of the fcc. Interwaves, a very kind apology to Chad Benson syndication show which I've now bumped out of Whack. It's okay, it wasn't recorded live. Anyway, we're gonna now kick it back off to the fun part of the show which I'm not allowed to play on FCC air. So you guys have a very fun evening. Please, no more breaking news updates from your friends here over at the Tony Kennett cast on the Daily Signal, nationally syndicated and first on 93 WIBC and our affiliate radio syndication partners according to FCC regulations, wherever those may be, the Tony Kenneth cast on 93 WIPC. Welcome back to the Tony Kenned cast where my show notes are essentially useless because everything changes due to breaking news updates. This is why for those who are just joining us now for maybe the first time, the entire idea for this particular show was was not how it ended up. Originally I was offered this time slot after Hammer and Nigel in Indianapolis when this was just on one radio station. And I said I didn't want a three hour show because I wanted to put my kids to bed or at least see them at some point during the day. And then also I didn't really, you know, want to spend all day just recording a bunch of stuff to have it play and be out of date. Once we got started writing the show, I noticed that a lot of our competitors in this particular evening time slot, a lot of their shows are written by 11:30am so what you are likely to see on a lot of the major networks around the country are a lot of really out of date stuff that has been completely ripped away from its broadcast notes by the breaking news team. Now we start the bulk of our writing each day at around 3:30 to 4:30 so that it's fresh for you. We continue adding stories to cover up to and including inside the show. So that all said, hopefully for just a couple of brief seconds here we can get over to again some of the communication from the White House that I personally found pretty excellent. So now over to some of the things that my production team has decided I've been way too serious and way too high strung this week. Can you blame me? So after I mentioned that Tammy Duckworth lost her ever loving marbles tweeting video war is not a effing video game three times in a row and losing herself like she's on the View or with Jennifer Welch, I said, you know what, this particular Wii sports video from the White House is pretty great and so producer Josiah, producer Daniel, producer Jen, producer Lou. They have accumulated a bunch of the White House Iran war memes for me, and they are reporting that I have to. All the reporting. They are requiring me here to rate them for you here. Now, I don't have any kind of tier rating system, so I'm going to make that up on the fly. And then producer Josiah later, he'll. He'll craft the tier system as his. His punishment for doing this to me. So up first and foremost, we have from the White House social media accounts
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A good old spongebob meme for the Iran war here. You want to see me do it again?
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Okay. All right. That one's not bad. I'm. I'm gonna. I'm gonna rate that one a. A. I'm gonna rate that A. Pretty good. Pretty good to start out with. I think that's. That's. That's the rating that I'm. I'm. I'm given there. So I. I know. Again, that's exciting. Not bad. Little spongebob meme to start things out with the Quickster from the. The Super Friends episode. Not bad. You can. Striking repeated targets effectively. I do hate that one of those that was shown in There is an F4 Phantom, which should be in a museum and breaks my heart. But other than that, stellar stuff. This next one is. Is called Movies. So just so that you know that I am. I'm not fooling you here. I'm not fibbing. This is all I have. I haven't seen these. It's just one word to describe. So I'm really going into a lot of these blind, so I apologize if they're awful. All right, here we go. Movies. Wake up, daddy.
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Welcome home, sir. Strength and honor. Strength and honor. What will you do without freedom? Maverick's in doubt. You can't conceive of what I'm capable of finishing this fight. Yeah, I'm thinking I'm back. I'm here to fight for truth and justice in the American way. I am the danger fa. Time to find out. Maximum effort. Here it comes now. And this flawless victory. That's a lot of references packed into one. So I'm. I am rating this A. Makes my ADHD happy. Makes my ADHD happy. Really, really good. Love it. This one is. Is excellent. And the reason this one is excellent. I feel like I'm Ben Shapiro reviewing movies for the Oscars. Okay, folks, first up here on this particular one, Right off the top of the bat. What I love about this one is it starts off with Iron Man, Daddy's Home, Jarvis and then it goes through all kinds of both video game and movie references. Really good stuff. Stellar. Enjoy it. It's that American feeling that is fitting the moment because just like the Gulf war in the 90s got rid of Vietnam syndrome, where America can never win anything before. Hey, we're never gonna win anything again. We're just gonna get mogged and mired down this particular series of military actions. This is the cure to the Iraq and Afghanistan syndrome. That's how I feel on that so far. And yes, you should like rip Free Bird as loud as you can and enjoy American stuff like this and be dominant. I'm a Teddy Rooseveltian kind of foreign policy guy, so seeing America just take what it wants, that's America first. I do like that a lot. So really, really good. That's a. It satisfies my ADHD out of 10. I heard that the guy who voice acted, the Spartan. Spartan John. The only thing I'd heard about that one so far. He complained about it and he's a real wuss. But apparently the composer of the Halo music thinks it's freaking sweet, so. Hey, I don't know, I mean, you know, I see it come out pretty even there. Alright, this next one is called Grand Theft Auto. I think I know what this one is. Oh, here we go again. Oh, here we go again. Oh, here we go again. Hey, that's mq9 footage. Oh, you could tell by the way that it's swiveling that that's an MQ9. That's loitering. Here we go again. Oh, they just let it, let it play out there a little bit. I'm giving that one a. I came looking for copper and I found gold. That's. That's great because when you see that, you're thinking, first thing pops in my mind. It's kind of a meme mismatch because that particular quote from Grand Soft Auto, or excuse me, Grand Theft Auto 3, I believe, San Andreas. That's all right, here we go again. Things are not going to be so great. And then they played it over and over. But so, you know, I wasn't really excited going into it and then it was great. Again, straight to my heart. You show me footage of an AGM fired from a reaper or a slightly, slightly smaller AGM fired from an MQ1C gray eagle. Man, that's the way to my heart. That and the delicious medium rare ribeye that my darling wife prepared for me right before the show this evening. Those are the two ways to make me a very, very happy Baptist indeed. This next one is called baseball. All right, let's see it. Back. Back. Foreign. I'm giving that one a. I came looking for copper, and I found platinum. And here's why. First of all, America's pastime. Right there, baby. Americans, pastime, man. Baseball. Let's go. Beautiful footage from all over. Several great eras of modern baseball. Phenomenal. The. The. The. The music. Also on point, explosions. Great editing. Right to the point. I love it. I do. That's good there. That. That's. That's what I'm talking about. Right? You don't even. You don't need a USO show to get the American vibes off that right there. Yeah, that's an. I came looking for copper, and I found platinum. This next one is called Football. I like it. The sports stuff is. Is good. I'm. It's about time. Let's see. Sam. All right, all right. I'm gonna give that one a Suck it. Roger Goodell, the commissioner of the National Football League, who's. Who's all about, like, togetherness and friendship, and I just think he's gonna bring everyone together. Yeah, I'm giving that one a Suck it, Roger Goodell, because that was absolutely stellar. Fantastic. More of it. And all the people who are trying to make football really lame and gay need to remember that. NFL. Any kind of game, the super bowl included, any NFL game is enhanced with a flyover. Any of them. I'm. In fact, I don't know how many events would not be improved by a military flyover. I'm just saying. I think that if you're awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, then you should get one free military flyover. Your choice. Anytime. Could be. Could be anytime. Birth of your child. Fly over, you know, run out into the parking lot with your new child and be like, look, a B2. You know what I'm saying? Think of all you can. Obviously, there are a lot of great, incredibly honorable funerals that already have military flyovers. I don't know. Just so many great. You get the Medal of Freedom, you get one free military flyover. Maybe, I don't know. You want to follow up the first NFL flyover with a second flyover right after, you know, someone on the Patriots gets racked and thrown onto the ground. Just kind of. Kind of a. Kind of cool thing there. This next one is called Bowling. This will make producer Lou happy because he's quite the bowler. Which one is this? Number six. Strike to claim it. A strike to claim it. And he got it. Here comes the heat from the usa. Let's freaking go. Oh, I'm gonna have to give this one a rating. I forgot I'm giving this one A. Makes me want to nuke France. That's what I'm giving that one A. Makes me want to nuke France out of 10. And the reason, a couple of things. First of all, if you've ever been to a bowling alley and they play like the really weird animations after a strike or a gutterball or spare and there's like these really weird low quality CGI films of like a sniper shooting bowling pins or like a bowling pin watching the bowling ball, like kissing his girlfriend. Bowling pins. They're weird stuff in bowling alleys, man. The people make those CGI things are strange, that kind of a thing to see that. Because I thought this is just gonna be like the other two, you know, really great moments. No. Pulled out the CGI and it's got Freebird with it. That's an automatic two point bonus. So yeah, that one gets I want to nuke France out of 10. Really stellar. All right, the last one here, I have not seen all of this. I've seen the first like 20 seconds of it because I needed to know if I could make fun of Tammy Duckworth for quacking about it. Sorry. All right, anyway, Wii Sports here, here's. This is the last one. Holy water.
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Yeah. All right. That last one is getting three, three. Three eagle noises. Just incredible. Phenomenal. Obviously the Wii theme music, the game, the, the, the way that the, the Wii Sports, you know, the out of the park, the hole in one that was the strike was displayed on the screen. Excellent. Three eagle noises. The reason though that it is receiving the, that final. That third eagle noise. I love for some reason the meme like strike, hole in one. Nice on. I appreciate that. I think that's great. That. That would have won my heart over. Anyway, really good stuff from the White House. This to me, this to me is an appropriate use of the meming because it's not, it's not too much. Some of them, some of them are a little bit, a little bit too much. Like they, they took like a, like. And there's a new Pokemon game for like really, I don't know people who, who think that Pokemon still makes really good games and they released a little graphic for it. I thought that was like, ah, why I didn't. I don't care for that. But this, sports explosions, good music and just, I mean, come on, accurate movie and video game, you know, implementation. That's good. So I hope that you like my rating system. I am going to forget all of those and never use those again because I'm just, I'm just not that good. All right, we're going to go to a few mail time questions here at the end of the show a little bit before the weekend. I mean, hey, I mean, if, if we do in fact occupy Carg island, we're gonna go live for that. That'll be fun. That'll be good. If we do that by Sunday, then would the, would the cops on the side of i70 be really nice if I fly by at mach speeds to get home and go live for that little wink, wink. You to me. Well, you to me. Friend friendship there. All right. Anywho. All right, let's do a little bit of mail time here. Again, if you do have a question for the show, every show's got to have a viewer, user and engagement kind of section. I would suggest that you either number one in our description, the show description on our YouTube or the podcast side, there is a link to Discord. You can join that. And there's a mail time channel and they get first priority. So I read those first. Then our YouTube members, if we can. It's hard to keep track of all of these. I'm going to level with you because, you know, great, you know, great reason to. Or it's a great problem to have when there's a lot of comments rolling in. Otherwise you can throw something in over@tonykinnit.com or in the YouTube chat itself. We're gonna try our best. We're gonna gonna try, try our best to get to all of them. So let's see if there are any new particular questions on the Discord side. All right. From Doug Hickey. Um, didn't Vance, didn't our Vice President Vance destroy Ilhan at the congressional hearing? I'm just asking if, if that's true. I mean, Ilhan Omar has not been effectively, quote unquote, destroyed until she's denaturalized and deported for immigration fraud and for supporting terrorist entities that are against the wishes of the United States. So, I mean, you know, I like, I like Vance, you know, not only because he's the most handsome vice president that we've ever had, but, you know, I don't think she's effectively destroyed until she's actually been removed from the country. From David at what point. Do we just ignore the decisions of. Do we ignore the decisions and judgments of activist federal judges that are not based on the precedent of the law and the Constitution, but rather biased activism? It. At what point it will be something that hopefully is going to be so blisteringly obvious as an unconstitutional decision, and then you will need an appeals court to choose not to rule on it because there's also a, perhaps a biased group over at that particular appeals court majority. Then until the Supreme Court steps in and issues like an emergency stay, that's where you'll see the president avoid it. A point of order that the Democrats really can't use against the Trump administration is that he tries to play by the rules and just does things, things differently in the meantime. The answer to the question is not ignoring federal judges. The answer to that question is impeaching federal judges. That's the answer. The answer is not a totally different group of. I mean, the executive branch of the government already takes a lot of liberties regarding the initial framing of the Constitution. If Congress, you know, sacked up and as Mulan became a man and, you know, did their jobs and impeached judges for doing crap like blocking subpoenas before an investigation's been even concluded, or obviously, you know, investigating Jack Smith and Boasberg for the illegal wiretapping and tracking of senators and representatives, well, then, yeah, I mean, it, it, it's not really, it's not really gonna be done, at least in any efficient way at all. Um, from Dorian Billing. Are the Democrats just looking for, for civil war? Oh, I will say this from producer Josiah, who has an excellent idea on top of that, Ignore the judges you are impeaching. That, I think is good. If you have, like, James Boasberg, you say, look, Congress needs to impeach him from now on, because we believe James Boasberg, he sucks. He's unconstitutional, he's no good, he's terrible, and he smells awful. That, and then just, we're going to ignore everything from James until now. That would be fun. That would be. Yeah, I, I would enjoy that. That'd be a good one. I, I, Yeah, so maybe, maybe that way. Uh, anyway, from Dorian Billing, Are the Democrats just looking for civil war? I don't think so. I think that Democrats and their entitlement, part of entitlement, believes that your opponent is just gonna bow down before you. And the Democrats, especially their youth, are just so entitled that they just believe they can do whatever they want and there will be no consequences for it. Which is why the last, well, all Right. I'll say it. The last expression you saw on Renee Goode's face was shock at the consequences for her actions. That is why immediately afterward, her lesbian life partner said, and I quote, it's my fault. It's my fault. Because it was the entitlement. You never think the consequences were. Actually, as a Chicago police officer told me at the dnc, when they showed me their federation of police, and they actually showed me the same, like, 1892 mahogany truncheons that they have kept nice and polished there for the smacking of rioters. As one said, they never expect they are going to wear the bruise that comes from their mouth. I don't. I don't know. That is rather poetic from a, you know, crotchety old Chicago police officer showing me the fop. So, hey, you know, I. And I think that that's probably more astute on that side. From guilty Bridges. What has America won so far? If you're talking about the Iran war, I will remind you that for 47 years, the Iranians have supplied every single terrorist threat in the Muslim world. Every single one of them. They have given Russia and China countless low manufacturer arms. They have supplied oil to our geopolitical foes. They have killed Americans directly and through proxy. They have also massacred for people saying, well, the United States struck a girl at school again on a Saturday morning with no, by the way, there's no photograph at all or list of the victims of this incident so far. By the way, whether or not the United States or the Iranians actually went through with doing this, there are a lot of AI. There's a lot of AI slop that's going around, like, suggesting there's like a Made in USA piece of shrapnel. Guys, that's not how shrapnel works. Anywho, the Iranians have claimed first that 12 died and there were 12 in the building, and then 15 and then 20 and then 28 and then 75, and then 100 and then 150, and now over 200. So, no, but before that, the Iranian regime slaughtered 35,000 of their own people. So if you're going for the humanitarian angle, which a lot of people like Tucker said, well, think about, you know, Gaza before he, you know, says stupid things like usual. He'll. He'll cite the humanitarian concern. A lot of people are dying. And he has said before that the United States needs to act like dad to intervene and stop people. Now, he meant stop Israel and Hamas. But in this case, from the humanitarian perspective, from usually the coastal elites, which Tucker is one, you could say, well, they've killed 35,000 people. What have Americans want out of this? I mean, Iran not being able to close the Strait of Hormuz whenever they want and jack up oil prices 5, 10 years from now that the United States decides what oil is, that is a major win for your wallet forever. Jacob Oledore over from the America First Policy Institute has made that perfectly clear. Again, we cited earlier in the show numerous economic analysts from the left and from the right, libertarian and more interventionist from the United States, from South America, from Europe, even from Southeast Asian countries that you didn't even think had. Economic analysts have made it quite clear that the United States and America stands to gain quite a bit from removing Iran's terror capacity to remove oil. Also their ballistic missiles kind of a problem. Their nuclear program, which they had not stopped even after we bombed Fordo, they still said we're going to enrich uranium 58% past the level of civilian nuclear enrichment. Yeah. Americans are gaining quite a bit. Also paying back the Kurds because we've screwed over the Kurds of Kurdistan several times. Finally letting the Kurds, them having their own land, that's a good thing. A secular regime instead of a radical Islamist regime, also remarkably good. Lots of those things are very, very good for Americans specifically. And if you don't like that, then you know. Yeah. One of the comments saying, oh, he's taking a page out of Netanyahu's playbook. Okay, good luck with that. Good luck with that. I'm sure that this your 37th time making predictions that don't pan out and just blaming everything on Israel. I'm sure you'll be right some this time. You just, just keep on trying. Maybe one day you'll be right someday. Maybe. But you know the things that people will say to ignore the threat of, of Islamic violence here and abroad. So next question from Gail Fisher. Why are Democrats objecting to Hegsets spending money to buy the troops lobster and ribeye steaks for dinner the night before that they go into battle? Okay, so the reason that they did this. So here's a fun fact. Open the books, which is a political transparency federal government funding and campaign finance watchdog group. Right. They're one of the, We've cited them before. I've cited them in my own writing before. They release records on spending regarding politics and influence and things like that. And in this particular instance regarding the, regarding the story, Open the books launched a substack like a little journalistic page and wrote an opinion piece. And the opinion piece went off on steak and lobster and salmon and. And things that they do serve the troops before big meals. And whoever had opened the books wrote this particular article because it just says open the book staff. They haven't actually said, oh, this is. Which one of our staff wrote this opinion piece. All of these media outlets saw that and picked that up and said, oh, wow, look, these are decadent things. And even in the open the books article, they talk about caviar as being the most. That used to be the most expensive hotel food, which has nothing at all to do with the story at all. And there are no big Getty image photographs, by the way, of Hegseth or Defense Department officials eating lobster. Have you ever noticed that? Oh, you haven't noticed that? That there are no big journalist photos from big public events where Department of War officials are eating steak and lobster? Gee, why Is the reason they thought they had a cheap gotcha and easy gotcha and instead they stepped in dog crap, which was covering a landmine. Because they're idiots. They don't think things through before they just run to publish the thing. Like people trusting Iran's statistics on the number of people killed on a Saturday morning in a school that they haven't shown any evidence for, or saying, oh, our supreme leader is totally alive and he's fine, even though no one's seen him. And insiders from Iran are saying the dude has lost one or two legs and is in a coma. People who just immediately go out to trust either just either way, trust but verify is good whether it's a Republican or a Democrat. I said this when Gnome had made statements that I didn't like. I don't believe that yet. We're gonna wait. We're gonna get evidence for this before we run it. People on the left side of the aisle that are currently saying, it's about Trump and I don't like it, so therefore it must be the Jews in Israel and exeth as a corrupt. He's eating all of these lobster is one idiot reporter over at Reason magazine, a libertarian outlet, got an AI image to generate Pete Hegseth eating lobster because he couldn't find any photos of him doing that. When you do that kind of stuff, you kill your own credibility. As I told a friend of the show, Rob Carson, who's the protege and a former writer for Rush Limbaugh, today on his show, as I am once a week, that one of the reasons that this show is growing is not because I'm special At all. I am a former science teacher and administrator from Indiana. I'm, I, I still brought, even though all my colleagues are in D.C. the rest of the Daily Signal, I'm still, I'm not special at all. It's just that a lot of my colleagues and other people in this space are making complete fools and asses of themselves. They are, they're humiliating themselves on the left and on the right. I've watched a guy that I even respected a bit, Kurt Bardella over on the left who broadcasts on News Nation. I have watched him go from a pretty fair minded center left reporter to someone who retweets the most insane conspiracy theories of all time in a matter of weeks. The brain worm is eating a lot of people's minds. And this is one of the reasons why I despise a lot of influencers. But you know, that's, that's why we, we try very hard, very, very, very hard here. Over on the, the Tony Kenneth cast to, you know, bring you trustworthy news sources. That's just, you know, that's just something that I, that I find particularly important when we bring that and also being transparent with you guys when I don't know something. Does it impress you when I tell you that I know something that isn't proven? I probably doubt it. If I just tell you that I don't know something, then you can't hold me accountable for being a big moron idiot. Now, one other video I didn't get to play today, it's from Freedom News. That's the name of their camera guy. They do a lot of on screen reporting at the Al Hoods march in New York City. So a pro Islamic march right now in New York amid all of the, you know, really stupid and insane and awful decisions that are being made by the left regarding the Iran situation and the Islamic terror attacks, there is a group that has now started chanting in Times Square in New York City and I quote, we support Hezbollah here. We support Hamas here. Which. Here you go. Hezbollah has killed hundreds of Americans, including Marines, consistently keeping every other country out of it.
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Later on in the video, they, they say, we support Hamas here. Every one of those people denaturalized and deported. Every one of them. Every one of them. Now, as, as Representative Andy Ogles of Tennessee, who's been castigated endlessly this week because he dared to say, what everyone understands is that Islam is incompatible with the United States, period. The Hart Cellar Immigration act of 1965. And the Immigration act of 1990, in which America decided that we need to import a bunch of people from dangerous countries without proper vetting. I will remind you that United States never vetted immigrants from Somalia. Kenya vetted people from Somalia for us, one of the most corrupt nations in Africa. Not just Somalia, but Kenya. Kenya being the corrupt nation in question here. But essentially there are now measures to push for the repeal of the Hart Cellar Immigration act, meaning that, you know what, you come here, you're married, and you come to the United States and you become a citizen. You can't bring over somebody just because you're married or related to them. It's free passes for immigration. No. And also essentially a soft ban on Islamic countries for cultural reasons. That's a good thing. That's a very, very good thing. The founding fathers did not set up freedom to terrorize others and call it religion. You can't rob a bank and go, oh, actually my God says I'm allowed to rob banks. That's not a thing. You can't come to the United States and chant and cheer for the terrorist destruction if you're here on a visa and you can't aid and abet terror organizations. That absolutely should be a case for. And if you're someone who clutches pearls over that, you're part of the problem. All right, next question here. And then I think we'll probably wrap it up for tonight. I did tell producer Daniel I was going to try to stop doing two hour shows this weekend. Here we are. From Mark V11, a very kind five dollar super chat. You guys do not have to give super chats. You don't have to do that here. Gavin is using the Hanoi Jane playbook or the John John. I voted for it before I voted against it, Kerry. That's very, very true, Mark. Quite accurate. From Rita. Question. Can treason laws be enforced against political individuals in this day? If so, how could it be enforced and what would it entail? Faith with a very kind super chat. Guys, stop. Stop it. You don't have to do any of that anyway. It's very kind of you. We really appreciate it. From Rita. She says, question the treason laws. Can they be enforced against political individuals to this day? Okay, I am very, very precise on actual legal definition of treason. So when something is treasonous does not make it legally treason. There is moral connotative treason, which is the way that we as average people describe things that are against the interests in the people of the United States doesn't meet the legal definition of treason. The legal Definition of treason is to aid and abet the enemies of the United States. So there was an Air Force official from Jeffersonville, Indiana, who was just arrested for training Chinese pilots how to engage and fight the United States. And the weak points, the very few that there are, of the F35, F35 Lightning to. Excuse me. F35 Bravo Lightning 2. Sorry about that. And so regarding this particular question, he can and should be charged with treason, hanged by the neck until dead in public because he is aiding and abetting an enemy of the United States. And to be an enemy of the United States does not mean they have to have war declared on them. That's never been stated in legal precedent in the Constitution or in any law. That's not a thing. So that can be enforced. Political leaders and treason is different. So let us say that Gavin Newsom, who's undermining the United States and calling for things, if he calls for people to resist the United States amid a time of military action or war, that could absolutely be considered an accessory to treason. But, for example, James Boasberg here, ruling unconstitutional things. That's not treason. Now, that's like the connotative. He's acting against the United States. Sure. There are already very specific laws on the books, though, for the kinds of things that he is doing and violating, like obstruction of the law, falsification of federal documents, aiding in illegal activities, and the monitoring of a US Senator without their consent. Those are laws on the books for him. If you go around saying everyone needs to be charged with treason, this is just the left saying everything is fascism, but with a different shade. That's not how it works. We have laws that have very specific definitions. Sedition is very different from treason, which is very different from espionage. And we need to make these distinctions clear. Now, in the same way that we can say, you know, something can be murder, even though on the legal definition, it may not actually be murder. It may be a kind of manslaughter. It may be a different kind of indirect homicide or a secondary or tertiary homicide based on kind of a cause and effect there, or recklessness that leads to homicide, for example, even though that's not murder, we still use the term. So that, that. And that important that that point here that I want to. I want to, you know, kind of level that out. So what do you call your government who is active in seditious conspiracies? See, that's not helpful. And I understand and I agree with you here that we've reached a point in society where it's a lot easier to just go, I don't trust everything and everything is awful than to dig through the massive spaghetti bowl of garbage that has been set up for 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 years and pick it apart piece by piece. One of the biggest cultural erosions for Americans has been that we have grown so used to victory and we have been so placid and lazy for so long regarding our responsibilities, not just, you know, in legally, but also, I would say, morally as citizens of the United States, that it. There are a lot of people who want to take the lazy way out and say, just burn it all down. Just burn it all down and start over. You don't know what you're asking for. You do not know. People who have not been outside of the United States and seen hell on earth from things that have been burnt down do not know what they are asking for. And I think that while it is true that there are those who are engaging in behavior that could be seen as seditious and should therefore be kept an eye on so that when they do commit a crime that meets the legal definition of sedition, they are charged immediately and they are charged in a manner that gets them out. Because otherwise, if there is no method to do so, this is what I say. People who, who say nothing's ever going to get done and, and the votes are, the elections are all rigged anyway. If you truly believe every single election from the primary to the general is rigged and all you're doing is sitting here watching a show, you're part of the problem. Why aren't you overthrowing the government then? You truly believe every single election, every one of them, no matter what laws pass, even the primaries, your local county Republican primary, it's rigged. My state's Republican Senate election, it's rigged. Then what are you doing? You're sitting here watching the show instead of, you know, doing more second amendment things. This is the parlor pink thing. There were a lot of. So first of all, Reagan used to make fun of the parlor pinks who would say, oh, America, like the left does now. Oh, America's so fascist, it's terrible. We're on stolen land. You don't actually believe that because if you really did, you would do something about it. Now. The temperature is absolutely rising here in, you know, the, the, you know, temperature is rising here in the United States. Absolutely wholly agree with you here. But I, I, I, I do want to make it perfectly clear that sometimes it is useful to kind of delineate the words and make it very clear and specific. What exactly is going on? Because I'm going to be here for a while. So I've decided right now, at least from the evidence in front of me, yeah, I should probably take time to pick through the problems and hopefully slowly get the country to a better place. Slowly meaning gradual. It's a marathon. It's not a sprint. Because to assume that fixing America is a sprint is laziness. A marathon is required of the citizen, careful tending of the tree of liberty, and, yeah, maybe that'll mean watering the tree with the blood of patriots and tyrants. Those things are absolutely necessary. But also, just saying we're going to chop down the tree and plant a new one isn't always necessary either. So that all said, I hope that you have a wonderful weekend. If the United States takes Carg island and raises the American flag. First of all, that photo is going to go super hard, and I hope that we have it for a thumbnail of that show. Have a wonderful evening. Say a prayer for our country. Say a prayer for those who have fallen for the United States. Say a prayer for those who have been affected by these horrible terror attacks. And first and foremost, take care. 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