Guest/Panelist (7:28)

Where's it coming from?

Tony Kennett (7:30)

So here a Lot of confusion and shots coming out because he fired at Secret Service agents as he moved by them with a shotgun. He was also carrying a handgun. We will get to some of that. Meanwhile, in the room, Vice President J.D. vance was being pulled away. You see, there are a couple of spaces. There is an exit door to the left in this shot that goes kind of off the front stage. There is an exit door to the right that goes to the backstage that is mirrored on the right side of the room. There were in a total five exits that different administration officials in that moment were evacuated eventually to a holding room. Now, again, we're gonna get to some of that because, I mean, unfortunately, you're actually going to hear me live in the moment, kind of narrate what's going on. So as this individual is rushing forward, Secret Service agents in special armor or, well, just, you know, plate carriers and thigh carriers as well, move out. And for probably one of the first times that I've ever seen this, drew their M4 carbines over and essentially we're sweeping zones over the crowd. Now by this point, again, Cole Thomas Allen was tackled. We actually have the security camera footage now. I'll actually try to make this full screen so that you can see it correctly. Was that Hudson? You modernize. So they're just standing there kind of taking down the metal detector. And then he sprints past them. He fires at one of the agents, hitting him in the bulletproof vest in the chest as he sprints by. And then agents start trying to draw a bead on him. They do not end up hitting him now on the inside again, you guys already at that point, knew more than we did. And the reason I say that is, is because I'm going to heap a little bit of scorn here in a couple of. A couple of minutes from the inside of the room. Here's what things were like from my perspective. Secret Service agents have just evacuated several individuals from the area. Several individuals who are suspected of being high value individuals have been escorted out of the rear entrance of the room. The President, the senior staff, the Vice President of the United States have been. Sorry about the beard shot there. My finger slipped. What you see behind me is where I was in the room I was standing next to, along with Elizabeth Mitchell, Tim Kennedy, our digital director, and then Keith Koffler, our managing editor. Again, I'm sorry, it's not a very flattering shot of me. We were standing next to a table of. We were sitting at a table with Univision down in Mexico. And they were also up alongside yours truly. Kind of narrating this in rapid fire Spanish. It was, it was quite bizarre. Evacuated from the room as well. Individuals who are on the ground are still low as other journalists are reaching up to cover. Now you're about to hear me turn to my right and ask a clarifying question. Were there shots or was it an individual rushing? So what you see is the guy in front of me kind of shaking his head at the girl. No, no, there weren't shots. And the young lady at a table next to us was really aggravated with me. Said shots? What are you talking about, shots? That's ridiculous. Well, as it turns out, yes, there were shots. Radio crew, we're gonna send you guys over to the commercial and continue here on the live stream. It's the Tony Kinnid cast. Lotta get through tonight. All right, while they're over at the commercial break, a couple of details. Now let's actually talk about what started moving forward afterward. There was a lot of waiting on the inside. We had no idea what was going on for an hour. For an hour. In fact, the rumor on the inside of the room is that there was a bomb threat. There had been an explosion upstairs is what we were told. And then we were told there was an explosion and gunfire originating as kind of a rumor from the center of the room against cell phone towers. The service was just non existent. There was one individual who was actually communicating via a VHF kind of handheld radio with someone outside of the premises to get updates. I found out later. So it was very, very bizarre from the inside of the room. Here you go. Tony Kinna here with the Daily Signal. Our White House correspondent Elizabeth Mitchell. We still have very little information about what's going on. And by that I mean many of us in the room are getting text messages and calls that can somehow get through the signal. So limited here because everyone's on their phones at once. We're finding out after those of you out there have already heard about this. So any of the information that people are getting in real time is trickling in here. There are individuals that are still being escorted out. Some are being brought back in. So Russ Vote from the omb and then also Sean Duffy, Secretary of Transportation. They came back in because we heard initially that Trump was going to come back. They have not told anyone, not told anyone at all about. They didn't tell any of us whether there was a shooter, whether he had been stopped, whether he was still out there, whether there were any individuals that are dead. We had no idea. That is a Major problem. Why? Because all of the people doing the media on the left wing and the right, because there are more right wing members of the media there than ever before in history that are, they're there sitting there, essentially. Just again, my initial thoughts, and I'm not trying to garner sympathy, I'm not trying to make, oh, you're Brit, whatever, I don't mean that at all, my initial thought was that I, that there was a bomb threat, that there was someone who had rushed the president and on his chest he had an ied. That's what it looked like. As they moved forward, we had no idea at all. And when they said an explosion up in the room, I thought again, sorry, you can probably hear that, the rain, the thunderstorm in the background. My initial thought was that, oh my gosh, there's going to be shrapnel. And so I'd stood up, instinct had kicked in and I immediately thought to look for individuals in the room. Well, thought it more just came. Are there any individuals in the room who are trying to look casual and nonchalant? Because it is in those kinds of instances where if there is a large distraction, the actual attacker will then stand up and once he sees it, where everyone is going, will start doing his thing. And it was an encouragement to me to see a lot of those who are obviously veterans, former law enforcement, perhaps contractors, that also had kind of that same appearance about them. So we stood there for an hour and we sat there for an hour. And this is one of the, the reason I'm telling you this, by the way. I'm sure you've all heard the entire story from start to finish from now. But what you haven't heard are a couple of things that I think are wildly undercovered. Wildly, wildly undercovered. So first and foremost is that we had no idea in that room at all, at all what was going on. We had, we had no clarity as to whether or not the shooter was still out there. Eventually, after a couple of minutes, we got an update where Ms. Zhang, the president of the WHCA, got up in front of the crowd and said, president Trump might be coming back. We're going to continue. There were about one fourth of the room that started clapping because it is really coming down out there. Because like any normal individual, my initial thought was that this is over, it's done, because the mood was killed. There's no reason to do this. There's this weird kind of almost sexual tension between the White House and the White House Correspondents Association. I don't mind using that terminology whatsoever here because what one does the other feel like they have to one up to impress the other. And it's strange, to be clear. I never feel more disconnected from the news in the country than when I am Washington in Washington, D.C. and when I was in that room, there is this very strange sort of arrogance that emanates collectively. I don't care for it, I don't like it. And that's going to come up in a second. I'm not just saying this for kicks and giggles. We have a lot more to talk about tonight. Way more news. It's the Tony Kennett cast. Don't go anywhere. Welcome back to the Tony Kennett cast here on the Daily Signal. We apologize. Some of the bumper track music isn't quite working the way that it's supposed to this evening. So we really appreciate your sticking around with us as we, you know, kind of figure out what that nonsense is. But regarding the very strange situation in the United States Capitol, Washington, D.C. there are several very unsettling situations that didn't get any better. Primarily, first and foremost, when I talk about the experience that we had in the WHCA dinner, everyone else in the country was dealing with something completely different than we were. Completely different. And that's not to say that that made us anyone in the media in the room better or worse. So when there was a final announcement an hour later, after we were locked in there, not allowed to leave, had no idea what was going on because of the cell service that was trickling in. Finally, CBS. Ms. Zhang, the president of the White House Correspondents association got up and made this announcement. And I will never forget this as long as I live. Okay, this is a room full of reporters. So I know you've already seen the president's tweet, my apologies, his post on truth social and law enforcement has requested that we leave the premises consistent with protocol.

Elizabeth Mitchell (17:10)

And

Tony Kennett (17:13)

he wanted to emphasize that nobody was hurt. He and the first lady, the Cabinet, everybody safe. The president will be having a press

Elizabeth Mitchell (17:34)

briefing at the White House in 30 minutes.

Tony Kennett (17:40)

And then there was not a joke. So, so, I mean, I, I've all, I've seen some people griping at her because there, there was laughter from the room. I was one of the people that was laughing at this moment because things in Washington, D.C. are not exactly right next to each other. It's not all like right there. And so a lot of these people in, you know, gowns and tuxes, we're going to have to hoof it in 30 minutes to the President of the United States. And that's. Guys, it's bizarre. It was bizarre. It was a bizarre thing. That's not what bothered me because obviously it's funny. It's like, oh, it's his classic Trump. We're going to do a press conference in 30 minutes. Get you running, Suzanne, because it's not like Uber was going to come get us. What a lot of us didn't know right now is that the National Guard had at least a platoon and a half outside. I mean, streets were shut down. You couldn't get an Uber in block, say, oh, that sounds so, you know, so difficult. I'm not saying it for, you know, kind of a sympathy garner here. I'm saying it because it was a very bizarre thing for the President, you know, to call a press conference right away, which, again, not. Not bad, good thing on him, but that's why it was funny. And he insists that we will reschedule this event in the next 30 days. Again, cheering from the press, because we will not be determined. He wanted to do it tonight. He wanted to continue despite the news, but has to follow security protocol. I said earlier tonight that journalism is

Elizabeth Mitchell (19:07)

a public service because when there is

Tony Kennett (19:10)

an emergency, we run to the crisis,

Elizabeth Mitchell (19:14)

not away from it.

Tony Kennett (19:15)

And on a night when we are

Elizabeth Mitchell (19:17)

thinking about the freedoms in the First Amendment, we must also think about how fragile they are. I saw all of you reporting, and

Tony Kennett (19:27)

this is the part where I don't care for it. Right here. This has not been reported on all day. We haven't talked about it. We haven't discussed this kind of a thing. Right here is the moment where my stomach turned and I'm not playing my audio of this because I'll. I'm gonna level with you. I swore and I did not swear quietly, and that's what we do. So thank God everybody is safe and thank you for coming together tonight. We will do this again. Thank you. And that's it. They told us we had to evacuate the building. Here's my issue with that. Sorry, do I have an issue with that? Absolutely. Have a very big issue with that. I don't care at all for doing a big round of self applause. She's like, oh, we're so brave. We're journalists. We always. We rush to the crisis. He's been kind of clipped a few things there. We rush to the crisis. We go right to it. And then, oh, wow, it's amazing. You know, a lot of, you know, Clapter. Wow. So brave. Incredible. Oh, wow. It's. That's awesome. No, no. Why? Because no mention at all of the killer or the attempted assassin of the shooter. No mention of whether they had been apprehended? No. Again, she referenced this tweet by the President, this true social post. A lot of us in the room hadn't seen. There was no cell service, no thanking of the law enforcement that got him. No idea. Just we have to evacuate the building. We're not. No. No statement about what is or isn't or rumored happening. CNN was reporting something different than tmz, which is reporting something different than Fox News, which is importance from the Associated Press, than Reuters. No one had any idea. Again, when I say that you guys had more of an idea. That was it. Just, oh, we're so brave. We're journalists. Yeah. And. And then that was it. Go now out into the crowd. I don't care for that at all. I don't. I didn't need glad handing hour at that moment. No one in the country needed that whatsoever. Not useful. Now we're going to get over to some of the press conference stuff because what came out of that now were a lot of questions from the country. A lot of questions were what about Secret Service? It seems like, man, every time there's an attempted assassination, Secret Service is just, you know, holding open the door. Yeah, right this way. That's kind of a concern. Other questions were about, again, the media coverage of this. The questions that I had about why on earth was that? The statement from the whca, what was actually going to happen to the press conferences? Were we going to see any arrests? We have an acting Attorney general, you know, the Department of Homeland Security is shut down. What is going on? And that brings us over to the press conference side of things. So first and foremost, the question that everyone, at least in the media side is. Elizabeth Mitchell, our White House correspondent, grabbed the train of her gown and moved as quickly as she could over to the White House. The President got in front of the media, the entire administration that was present, from Secretary Marco Rubio to Vice President Vance, other members. Here is what the President of the United States said just again regarding some of the questions on the scene.

Guest/Panelist (22:37)

It's a dangerous profession, but I don't view it that way. Look, I'm here to do a job as part of the job. It is a dangerous. I can't imagine that there's any profession that's more dangerous. But I love the country and I'm very proud. I'm very proud of the job we've done. You see what's happened we have a great country. We have got, I think, the most successful, the hottest country anywhere in the world. This happened over a period of just a year. And we're going to do great things. But with that come risks. There's no question about it. Yeah.

Tony Kennett (23:09)

So the president of the United States making it clear there are risks. These things do, in fact, happen for the president of the United States. His primary responsibility here is again, governing the country. He also made a statement about the Secret Service.

Guest/Panelist (23:24)

Well, thank you very much. That was very unexpected but incredibly acted upon by Secret Service and law enforcement. And this was an event dedicated to freedom of speech that was supposed to bring together members of both parties with members of the press. And in a certain way it did, because the fact that they just unified. I saw a room that was just totally unified. It was in one way very beautiful, a very beautiful thing to see. A man charged a security checkpoint armed with multiple weapons, and he was taken down by some very brave members of Secret Service. And they.

Tony Kennett (24:10)

We're going to talk about some of this as well as some of these press conferences here in a minute. Radio crew, we'll catch you on the other side of your commercial break. Don't go anywhere. It's the Tony Kinnit cast here on the Daily Signal. Let's pivot over a second to Elizabeth Mitchell. She is our White House correspondent joining us live this evening. Elizabeth, checking the audio. Can you hear us?

Elizabeth Mitchell (24:30)

Hey, Tony, I can hear you.

Tony Kennett (24:32)

Hot dog. I love it when things work. All right. So obviously took a lot of effort to get over there very quickly. What was the attitude kind of the air of the press at this first press conference after getting over there again, kind of piling in very quickly? What was kind of the stuff that came out of that that was notable to you?

Elizabeth Mitchell (24:51)

Yeah. We had a surprise briefing from press secretary Caroline Levitt. It should be noted she was supposed to be starting her maternity leave today. She's supposed to give birth this week, but she came out to address the nation on this important topic. And it's funny because almost a very similar thing happened to her when she had her first baby. She had her first baby right around the time of the first assassination attempt in Butler and had to cut her leave short. And now it's happened again. And she came out of maternity leave, just had the baby yet. So we're hoping she can get some time to rest with the baby. But she this was such an important thing to dress the nation about that she came out of maternity leave. The press was I think there was A lot of interest, of course, in what happened, because we all were there. We all experienced it firsthand. This is not just a news story we're reading about. This is a news story we all live through. And a lot of people are still very rattled by what happened, hearing gunshots and the like. And so people had a lot of more personal questions than what we're used to seeing.

Tony Kennett (25:45)

Well, let's talk for just a quick second here about that assassin. We haven't actually had a chance to get there in the show because I've been taking my sweet, meandering time, not that I've met to, but in this case, Cole Thomas Allen from California, you saw Acting Attorney General Todd Blanch. He took the podium and a lot of the country saw him address this for the first time. This is really the first test of actually seeing Blanche in action. As the head of the Department of Justice, what was your impression of him then? And then after that, we'll focus on today's press conference.

Elizabeth Mitchell (26:16)

It was quite a busy day for me. I went straight from the White House press conference to the DOJ press conference, where we heard from Todd Blanche, Jeanine P. And Cash Patel as well. And that was a very interesting press conference. I think I learned a lot. They showed us the weapons that were used. There was a gun, knives. It was very clear he had intention of killing the president and others. They said that he has been charged for attempting to assassinate a president, for carrying a gun across state lines, and for another charge as well. And so he has three charges. He faces life in prison, plus more for what he's done. And I noticed I'm used to going to the White House press conferences, but this is my first time going to a DOJ press conference. And it's pretty different dealing with lawyers like this. They're very to the point, straight to the answer, nothing more, nothing less. And so that was an interesting difference for me, for sure.

Tony Kennett (27:06)

We're going to cover some of U.S. attorney Pirro's response to some of that stuff here in a minute. But again, our time running a little bit short as it is. I want to get one final point from you. The question came out of a real Clear Investigations piece, as well as the New York Post, that this assassin may have had ties to Black Lives Matter and a Stacey Abrams group. You asked Acting Attorney General Blanche about this today?

Elizabeth Mitchell (27:30)

Yes, I did. So that was kind of the basis of my question today at the press conference, was that we're hearing that there are ties maybe to Black Lives Matter, maybe to another group called Wide Awake, I believe. And so I wanted to know is something they're investigating because this comes just a week after we found out the SPLC investigation. So we're used to hearing about these left wing groups. And so I wanted to hear what role this is playing in the investigation. And Todd Blanche gave me a very emphatic yes, of course we are looking into this. I didn't get any more details. Look forward to hearing more. I think this is probably something they're investigating in a major way and I look forward to learning more. But glad to know this is something that we're taking very seriously.

Tony Kennett (28:07)

Well, we have to cut over and pick up our radio crew from commercial break. We'll probably bring it back tomorrow. There are so many other questions. And not to mention, that wasn't the only big interview that you did today. We have a ton to to tackle. Elizabeth Mitchell, our White House correspondent, thanks for joining us.

Elizabeth Mitchell (28:21)

Thanks, Tony.

Tony Kennett (28:21)

We'll be back in a second. It's the Tony Kennett cast here on the Daily Signal, the Tony Kennett cast on 93 WIBC. Welcome back to the Tony Kenneth cast here on the Daily Signal. We have more than enough to cover this evening and we might end up going over a while because it it's when there's this much news, I refuse to just bluster on through it and leave things out. Let's talk a little bit, actually about this assassin. Elizabeth Mitchell, our White House correspondent, alluded to a couple of reports that came out of real clear investigation. Our friend over there on a series of possible connections regarding this Allen character, Cole Thomas Allen. Again, let's take a look at this guy because right after some kind of an assassination attempt, the first thing that you hear is that, oh, it's clearly it's a crazy person. It's a crazy, they're crazy. And this is a mental illness issue right up front. Before we even dig into this, I'm going to give you my one word analysis. Is this man crazy? Nope. No, he is not. Nope. Not crazy. Not even a little bit. Nope. This is a highly educated and stable individual who made a choice based on information that was presented to him and that matters. We're going to get into that here in this segment particularly. So first of all, a little bit of background on this guy. He earned a mechanical engineering degree from Caltech in 2017 and a master's in computer science from California State University, Dominguez Hills in 2025. He once interned for NASA. That was back in 2014, I believe. He worked for six years at an education tutoring, college prep firm and was named a teacher of the month back in December of 24. And he's also, he was, he is I, well, formerly a part time video game developer, he donated $25 to Act Blue in October 2024 intended for Kamala Harris. And in his manifesto, which of course, you know, there, there has to be a manifesto, he made it very clear exactly what he intended to do. He made it clear he was targeting Trump officials. He said, quote, I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes. He said he considered himself a friendly federal assassin, like a kind of a play on Spider man, like friendly neighborhood Spider man friendly federal assassin. And his goal was to shoot as many Trump admin officials as he could get away with. That was his plan. Now, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that exactly what he was planning to do. I mean, he wasn't running in there to gun me down. He was running in there to go after the place the President of the United States was known to be. And this is something that U.S. attorney Jeanine Pirro pointed out today in the Department of Justice presser on this burgeoning, this developing investigation. Here she is. Now, the facts make it very clear what this intent was. You may recall that it was on March 2 that the President indicated that he would be attending this public event at the Hilton. And on April 6, that's when Cole Allen first made a hotel reservation at the Washington Hilton for three nights, the 24th, the 25th and the 26th. So according to my own documents that I have, we were told if you want to be in the, the hotel, the Marriott, you need to be there by 2pm on the 25th Saturday. And he scheduled his stay so that he would be there by that time. Huge security flaw. Again, we'll talk about some of the security flaws in a bit. I, I, I have kind of a slightly different take maybe than, than some of the rest of the media. Well, you'll judge that for yourself. This was absolutely premeditated. He knew exactly what he was doing. Now, there are some in the comments right now that understandably so say, well, I mean, it sounds like to me this guy's crazy. No mental health in this case. This is not someone super schizophrenic. This is an individual who in the American public sphere has been told, like everyone else in this country over the last several years, that Donald Trump is a pedophile Nazi rapist. Like any Bad thing you can think of. He is it. He's essentially Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin mixed with. With the, you know. Oh, man. He's also Jack the Ripper, and he's probably Hades, voiced by. What is that Jeff? No, not Jeff Goldblum from Hercules. You know what I'm talking about, like, all the bad guys rolled into one. I'm pretty sure he's also thrown an ax through a door and said, here's Johnny, all right. This is. I mean, he's all these bad things. And have not the American people been told over the last several years that the Nazi Gestapo are coming to get you? They will throw you in an unmarked van without any charges, even if you're a citizen. Especially if you're a citizen. And then they'll haul you off to a concentration camp, even though that's all complete bull. Have you not heard from Akeem Jeffries that we are in total warfare here in this country? I have. You have. He did. It is only a matter of time when you are told every single day from the elementary level, all the way through the postgraduate level and in general society that you are under existential threat from a shadow Nazi force that is coming to get you. And they cite things like the Charlottesville Alt Right rally, which, gee, it just so happened to be funded by the splc. But that's not very important right now. I mean, at some point, if you. If you truly believe that this country is run by Nazis and you are just sitting here doing nothing, that that's not the mentally healthy thing. An actual individual who believes what he's been told all the time. That's not a mental health issue. You say, well, I don't. I think it's crazy. That's true. You may think it's crazy, but there are people who are told by everyone around them what you think California's got, like, all of the balance to. Everybody in Torrance is out there being really chill about things. If in an Ohio school playground at the elementary level, a group of students beat the living crap out of a child for not raising their fist to do the Black Lives Matter salute, then I guarantee you that same type of social pressure exists. We've seen it. You've seen it. Now, that brings us over to the actual investigation in and of itself and also some of the calls to action after this. So I don't want to get away from this Todd Blanche making. Well, he made this case at the original press conference. This is the first time that we actually got to see Todd Blanche really taking it to task in front of the country very much. Mr. President, tonight you saw the very worst and the very best of this country. You saw the very worst by the actions of that coward that the president just talked about. But you also saw the very best because you saw law enforcement do exactly what they're supposed to do. And you'll see the videos come out, I expect, very shortly, and you'll see law enforcement do exactly what we want them to do. And so I echo what Mr. President, what President Trump just said, that we are extraordinarily grateful and appreciative of the men and women of law enforcement that that did their jobs tonight, including one who was who was injured. That'd be the Secret Service agent who was shot in the chest and he was taken by the bulletproof vest. He's recovering now. This has a lot of people upset because you said, well, I think the law enforcement failed. Guys, two things can be true at once. So I've used this analogy today. I'll finally address this. So as someone who was in the room where the guy was headed to shoot people until he ran out of shot, I do not feel as though if I were in a burning building and the fire department showed up two minutes later than they were supp supposed to because of a decision made by the fire chief and the firemen still came into my burning house and they pulled me out of that burning building, I don't really feel as though I'm going to get out and criticize the fire department. Now, does that mean that the chief is exonerated from all of their planning actions on how the fire department is supposed to operate? Nope. But if you're looking for Tony Kennett to sit here and criticize the Secret Service right here and now, after they kept me from witnessing individuals being murdered and possibly being one of the individuals shot myself, I'm not gonna do that. Now, do I think that the event should have been taking place like that? No. No, I don't. Do I think there was a major security failure? Yes. But was that the fault of the individual agents on the ground who stopped the guy? No. You think that the dude standing in the hallway who ended up firing a couple of shots at the guy or the guy who tackled him, that agent was responsible for the planning and the setup? No. And so that I think bears a little bit of understanding. Now we're going to get to some of the security failures. Actually, we're going to get into some of this right now. The president made this case about it not being a secure building it's correct. Hosting events in the Marriott, that's dumb. A friend of mine today asked me the question, said, well, they couldn't just, you know, shut down the hotel. I mean, after all, there's an active bar and there's other people staying there. Yes, they could. I'm sorry. I remember after the first Donald Trump assassination attempt that when I went to drive, I was driving to Milwaukee for the RNC when this occurred. And while I was driving there, plans were changing. They shut half of the city of Milwaukee down. Like the whole Third Ward was just like locked. And they changed the map like eight times. Roadways were changing. Like I was playing Frogger on a hard difficulty level. It was nuts. They shut down the whole, whole chunks of the city. You're telling me they couldn't have shut down a hotel? Oh, I'm sorry. I know you really want to go drink in the Marriott. Woohoo. But you can't do that today because we're kind of hosting a big event with the President and the next three to four members of the line of succession. No, no. Also yes. The ballroom needs to be built. It needs to be built. You need to host large events. Yes. Including with the press in a place where it is secure enough to do so. This has been a security failure of the United States for far too long. And if it's able to be privately funded, get over it. Build the ballroom.

Guest/Panelist (38:27)

It's not a particularly secure building and I didn't want to say this, but this is why we have to have all of the attributes of what we're planning at the White House. It's actually a larger room and it's much more secure. It's got, it's drone proof, it's bulletproof glass. We need the ballroom. That's why Secret Service, that's why the military are demanding it. They've wanted the ballroom for 150 years for lots of different reasons. But today is a little bit different because today we need levels of security that probably nobody's ever seen before.

Tony Kennett (39:06)

Now this upset a lot of people. We're going to get into that because we're not even close to being done with the news tonight. Radio crew, sorry though. The FCC says I'm going to get slapped if I don't send you to commercial break. So we'll see you in a second. It's the Tony Kinnit cast. We're going to continue here on the live stream. Stream. All right, so a couple of things. There was a crowd on the left that thinks that Trump did all of this. It was staged. Staged? Ooh, super spooky. It was all. It was all a ruse so that he could build the ballroom or because his. His polling numbers were really low. And there's a crew of individuals who is not really on the right. They're just. Who thinks that it was staged because Trump wanted a distraction from Epstein. Ah, yes. Ah, yeah, lots of tinfoil there. Those people are idiots. Those people are idiots. And I'm sorry. I don't care. There are people in the comments section. They're arguing right now. They're idiots. They should be mocked and scorned because they're stupid. Oh, no one could ever assassinate boy man. We've never seen the left do anything like that or openly call for weeks and months and years for this kind of thing. No one could ever. The only way it could happen is if it was staged. Ooh, don't be retarded. If you're going to be stupid, do so quietly. Or at least provide me your parents home address so that I can send them a sympathy card on your birthday. Don't be dumb. But that hasn't stopped a lot of people. Marjorie Taylor Greene. She thinks it's really suspicious. The guy had a manifesto. She says, hey, why did they release the manifesto so fast? Well, again, as we know, this guy sent his manifesto to friends and family, who told the cops, as we've seen before, and the Trump administration, unlike the Biden administration, released the manifesto right away. Because it's not a state investigation, it's immediately federal. So what does that have to do with Marjorie Taylor Green? Well, she was complaining during the transgender shooting up the Nashville school that the government did not release the manifesto. So, I mean, you got to choose one or the other. Marge, again, arguing with someone who doesn't know how to tie her shoes. You know, I mean, hey, so dumb, dumb, dumb, stupid stuff all the time. Now, this brings us over to some of the calls. So, first of all, people pointed out a couple of early things. There was a clip going around that Carolyn Levitt said there were going to be shots fired this evening. And so therefore, they were, like, predicting it like it was all a plan. That's not how that works. You realize that life isn't a sitcom, right? That, like, you don't actually have somebody go, oh, this evening we're going to rob the bank. I mean, say thanks. That's not how that work, people. No, no, sweetie, baby, you all. You and I know what shots fired means. Now, in matters of poor taste, there's a little Bit of a difference because while Carolyn Levitt, clearly joking and then later, you know, something going, you know, kind of foot in mouth. We've seen this before, by the way. We've seen. I'm sure you have been privy to a situation in which someone said something like, you see what I mean? To a blind person. Those things do, in fact happen. What you don't do, though, is suggest that the President's wife has the look of an expectant widow. That's what Jimmy Kimmel did earlier this week. Our first lady, Melania is here. Look at me. So beautiful. Mrs. Trump, you have a glow like an expectant widow. Now, that's in very poor taste. Not only because again, the President has been under a number of assassination attempts, because also, that's just very gross in general. And I seem to remember all of the left in their con, you know, conversation about stochastic terrorism, saying that this kind of rhetoric is like calling for someone's death, remember? So, I mean, isn't that, you know, wishing for somebody to be dead? I mean, oh, no one on the left wants that. Come on now, again, right after the assassination attempt, you had like, you know, garbage pubs in Wisconsin announcing, oh, man, we didn't get to do free beer day because he's still alive. Well, better luck next time. Time dumb. Now, of course, the President of the United States said he wanted Jimmy Kimmel to be fired. And there are people who are freaking out over this. I just don't see that. I mean, yeah, I would, you know, if a guy said that they wanted my wife to be a widow, I'd probably want him fired from their job, too. More news to come in a second. We got to bring up the radio crew from commercial. It's the Tony Kenneth cast here on the Daily Signal. The Tony Kenneth cast on 93 WYPC. Well, oh, well, we get to a couple of really angry comments from just everybody. Everyone decides we are now to today we're going to get into the monkeys throwing poop stage, which is always a very exciting time anytime. So the President of the United States, he gets out there and again says some things that I would argue are pretty okay. I don't, I don't have a big issue with the President saying a couple of these things. He tweets out a picture of, again, this complete clown, this guy, this Cole Allen Thomas, or excuse me, Cole Thomas Allen. You know, nothing like thinking you're gonna go down like John Wilkes Booth and the President sharing a picture of you wrapped in Qdoba tinfoil. So Very, very exciting. Well, the President of the United States also got out there and said a couple of things. But so a lot of the other people out there in the media did as well. You had people like Barack Obama, the New York Times trying to get out there and argue that we really had no way of knowing. No way, no, just, Aw, man. No way to know what the motive of the shooter may be. And again, to people who are doing that, just like the whole staged thing, don't be dumb. Don't be that extra kind of dumb. You don't have to do it. Bad liar we ever again, a guy attempts to break in and shoot up the event the President, the Vice President are at. Gee, I wonder what his motive is. He's probably really mad at the catering. No, no, no, no, no. Now let's get into some of the extra stuff from today. Cause again, a lot of press conference things. I want to talk a little bit about some of the, the Post things. So first of all, there were some members of the media who, despite themselves, had to admit the President did some pretty decent stuff. One of the things that Trump does do after events like this is he calls to check on people. That man was up late into the night, early into the morning, calling people that hate him to make sure they were okay after this ordeal. For example, Jonathan Karl over at abc, here he is talking to on Sunday, George Stephanopoulos.

Guest/Panelist (45:32)

John, your phone rang early this morning. Yeah, my phone rang shortly after 7:00am My landline, George.

Tony Kennett (45:39)

Actually a number that few people call

Guest/Panelist (45:41)

and it was President Trump calling. He was, he said at first he was calling to see if I was okay with what happened last night. Are you okay?

Tony Kennett (45:50)

And then he reiterated many of the

Guest/Panelist (45:52)

things he said in his press conference last night, emphasizing the unity that he

Tony Kennett (45:57)

felt in that moment, that he felt at the dinner before the shooting and certainly after with the people who reached out to him. And he said, absolutely, and he was

Guest/Panelist (46:08)

quite firm about this.

Tony Kennett (46:10)

That dinner must be rescheduled.

Guest/Panelist (46:13)

It must be rescheduled.

Tony Kennett (46:14)

He knows that I was a former

Guest/Panelist (46:16)

president of the White House Correspondents association

Tony Kennett (46:17)

and worked with him on a dinner that never actually happened back during COVID And he was saying, we've got to

Guest/Panelist (46:24)

get this dinner back on. It has to happen.

Tony Kennett (46:27)

I'm sorry. Just calling somebody to make sure they're okay like that, even if they don't like it. That's class act. It's class act. Say what you want. We saw this, you know, in a number of ways. But the President of the United States as large as his ego is, as much as he sometimes shoves his foot a little close to his mouth, he is still quite often quite a class act. And that deserves praise. And this has been a thing for his character for a long time. You can hate the man and, and you have to admit when, like for example, when, when Ozzy Osbourne died and he called the family, even those that hated him and said, I'm so sorry, if there's anything we can do, let me know. You know, I knew Ozzy for this amount of time, that kind of a thing. The man is quite a class act when it comes to that kind of stuff. Then we get to the 60 Minutes interview with Nora O'. Donnell. This had a lot of left wing ladies really, really upset. So he gets into a 60 minute interview again right after this kind of thing, and she asks a really bizarre question. So she reads part of the manifesto, you know, the one that the New York Times and Barack Obama couldn't seem to find, and asks him a question as though he's going to comment on, like, hey, this person who just tried to kill you called you Hitler. So tell me, Mr. President, are you Hitler? I'm pretty sure this is how Glee would depict a reporter. This is embarrassing. This is a caricature from some Tumblr fan fiction. Anyway, here's Norm McDonald and then the president's response, which again I'm going to argue is rather measured.

Guest/Panelist (47:59)

Well, first of all, I have to say it's not a safe ballroom. I'm building a safe ballroom. And one of the reasons I'm building it is exactly what happened last night. We're building a room right there. If you walk out and move 20 yards to the left, you'll be right at the entrance to the ballroom. And that ballroom is being built on the safest piece of property in this country, probably one of the safest pieces of land in the world we have.

Tony Kennett (48:27)

But that's owned.

Elizabeth Mitchell (48:28)

That's the White House. The White House Correspondence center can't use White House property.

Guest/Panelist (48:32)

It's able to be used by certainly the White House. It says the White House correspondents. Well, that's the White House press. I'm sure that it's available. You know, it's up to the President, but that would be a made available. And this has bulletproof glasses.

Tony Kennett (48:45)

So he starts talking about the White House ballroom. And again she said, well, they can't, you know, the press can't use that. Yes, they can. Again, if you want the President in attendance, the president needs to be safe. So after that she follows it up with this exchange. Bizarre. The so called manifesto is a stunning

Elizabeth Mitchell (49:01)

thing to read, Mr. President. He appears to reference a motive in it. He wrote.

Tony Kennett (49:07)

He appears. He appears to reference a motive. He. Yes, journalism, such good journalism, writes this,

Elizabeth Mitchell (49:14)

quote, administration officials, they are targets.

Tony Kennett (49:18)

And he also wrote this.

Elizabeth Mitchell (49:19)

I am no longer willing to permit

Tony Kennett (49:21)

a pedophile, rapist and traitor to coat

Elizabeth Mitchell (49:24)

my hands with his crimes.

Tony Kennett (49:26)

What's your reaction to that?

Guest/Panelist (49:27)

Well, I was waiting for you to read that because I knew you would because you're, you're. You're horrible people. Horrible people. Yeah, he did write that.

Tony Kennett (49:35)

It's. It's bizarre to me that that's what she. Oh, hey, he called you the devil. What's your response to that? What are you, what are you feeling? Do you think maybe that you might be, you know, kind of a pedophile rapist man?

Elizabeth Mitchell (49:46)

Hmm?

Tony Kennett (49:47)

That's not how you do journalism, folks. You don't go, I think you're the devil and I wish you'd die. Hey, do you care to comment on that? That's. No, no, boys and girls, that's not how you do this. The man's response here, you would. Again, there have been individuals ask questions far less intensive than this. Like, hey, how did you go from being worth 18 grand to being worth $30 million, Ms. Omar? And then, you know, she says, like, I have to call my brother husband, and then like, runs off. I mean, I don't see the man running off here. I don't see him sprinting away into the wild jubilee.

Guest/Panelist (50:24)

I'm not a rapist. I didn't rape anybody.

Tony Kennett (50:27)

Oh, you think he was referring to you?

Guest/Panelist (50:29)

Excuse me?

Tony Kennett (50:30)

Do you think he was referring to you? Again, why the middle fingers didn't come out. So again, those social media people said, well, Trump is the rapist. The jury found him liable. No. No, they did not. In the very first statement of that jury statement, do we find that Trump raped Gene Carroll? Nope. That's the box checked. Nope. Unanimous decision from the jury. Nope. I'm sorry. I know a lot of people struggle with reading, but struggling with literacy is not an excuse to be stupid. A lot of, you know, Dory the fish, short term memory, not an idiot. You know, radio crew, we'll catch you guys later. We know you have a lot to get to. It's the Tony Kinnit cast here on the Daily Signal. We're going to continue on the live stream. All right, so let's, let's get in. The President has a couple of other statements to make. Here to Nora again, he's like. Was he. Was he talking about you, do you think? Yes, Sherlock, excellent work. You've cracked the case.

Guest/Panelist (51:22)

I'm not a pedophile. You read that crap from some sick person? I got associated with all stuff that has nothing to do with me. I was totally exonerated. Your friends on the other side of the, the plate are the ones that were involved with, let's say, Epstein or other things. But I said to myself, you know, I'll do this interview and they'll probably. I read the manifesto. You know, he's a sick person. But you should be ashamed of yourself reading that, because I'm not any of those things, Mr. President, and I was never.

Tony Kennett (51:57)

Excuse me.

Guest/Panelist (51:58)

Excuse me. You should.

Tony Kennett (52:00)

And by the way, the response to this, the outrage, the pearl clutching, is just diggity darn delightful, because again, yeah, I mean, if someone insinuates that about you right then and there, yeah, you might go, wow, you're really awful and bad at this. That's kind of embarrassing. I'm embarrassed to be in the same room with you. It's kind of disgusting. But again, that's, that's just what we're going to try over and over and over. There was an entire group of disaffected, really angry people who are, you know, by the way, upset that their viewer numbers are really low, or, you know, they've just been caught, you know, having a double standard on, you know, like, like sex offenders, you know, shout out to Megyn Kelly or, you know, maybe they're the kind of person who, you know, just got embarrassed and humiliated. Both the Middle east stuff, you know, like Tucker Carlson or, you know, maybe you're over on the far left and, I don't know, you've been caught calling for. Well, not caught. You openly call for assassinations all the time. You think it's great and wonderful, and then everyone points out you're a little rich fat boy on a horse and that you're a big fraud. And also you shock your dog like Hasan Piker. I mean, I'm sorry, I just. I just. I don't have an issue with this. But you know who does have a problem? Gavin Newsom's latest wife. So Gavin Newsom's latest wife, Jennifer Cybelle Newsom, who is another blonde in her middle ages who looks a lot like Jennifer Welch or Nicole Wallace or, you know what I mean? Again, every lady on the left looks like one of three things. She looks like Nicole Wallace. She looks like, you know, like the over Botoxed blonde. She looks like Pumbaa from the Lion King. Or she looks like Michael Scott from the office with gray hair and round glasses. Those are your three options. So anyway, this would be the first. Jennifer Cybell Newsom says, my family and I watched the 60 Minutes interview with Donald Trump and Norah O' Donnell last night and we were shocked. Hold on, let me. There are the pearls. Seeing a president speak to a woman journalist. Amazing how we suddenly know what a woman is always. Presto. Amazing. Anyway, it just, with that level of contempt and a clear allergy to facts, it's just disturbing. So at this point, non expected given his pattern of behavior. She rambled like a drunken cousin on Facebook for like a full three tweets. Add in rhetoric rooted in political division, amplified by a digital ecosystem that reward. Uh huh. Finally, she said thank you to Nora. And so, like all the female journalists and frankly, to all of you who continue to be brave and speak truth to power, the culture of misogyny is on all of us and it has to end. Oh, it's so brave and stunning and stunning and brave. Oh, wow. You go girl. Wow. Wow. The power of having a vagina. It's incredible. Wow. Just the estrogen is so powerful right now. So that brings us to the rest of the media. So the rest of the media was very, very, very stupid right off the bat. Did not get any better at any point in time. And boy, howdy, do we have places that we could go with this. So you had, you know, Ms. Now immediately blaming the president for his own assassination attempt going, well, like, it's Donald Trump gonna be Mr. Unity again. I will remind you, you have people like Hakeem Jeffries who have said, we're at total war with the President of the United States. You have people calling for assassinations constantly. But, you know, the real problem is that Donald Trump is building a ballroom. That bastard. How could he do it? He's out there dancing to the Village People. Terrible, horrible. I mean, it's really inhumane when you think about it. He's bombing the ayatollah and austere scholar and goat lover. How could he do it? Mississippi now reporting the news.

Guest/Panelist (55:54)

But in light of this evening's events, I ask that all Americans recommit with their hearts and resolving our difference peacefully. We have to, we have to resolve our differences.

Tony Kennett (56:07)

That was President Trump calling on Americans to resolve their differences following the shooting that took place at tonight's White House Correspondents Dinner. The question always, will the President lead in that effort? Uh huh. Will the President lead. Is he gonna do anything about it? How could he? How. Just terrible. Now over to this panel where we're gonna call him Adolf Hitler. Incredible stuff. Hakeem Jeffries again, the minority Leader of the House, the head of the Democrats, the love child of Barack Obama and William Shatner. He's been under a lot of fire because earlier this week he was. Mr. We're at full warfare with Donald Trump. Super ultra warfare. People called out and they said, hey, you gonna maybe like, tone it down just a little? You kind of maybe like take it down a notch, you know, Again, you're out here right after the president shot at. There have been a lot of people lately that have performed some acts of violence against the right wing of this country, whether they be direct assassination attempts, whether they be open and violent arson, and on and on and on. In one of these cases, he was asked by a reporter, I believe, initially from cbs if he maybe regretted his original comments, if he was going to tone it down, maybe if he was going to call out the left again, people like Hassan Piker, saying, hey, maybe, maybe we don't get out here and scream insane, violent, bloodthirsty rhetoric again about people in the United States. Well, here was his response. He said, and I quote, this was yesterday, quote, america will not be lectured about civility by far right extremists in Congress. Ooh. Particularly those who provide aid and comfort to hundreds of violent rioters who brutally beat police officers on January 6th. We're going to pull this out again. Again, there have been multiple assassination attempts and arson, violent terrorism since that point. Since that moment. No, no, no, no. We got to bring up January 6th. Remember when the right, during January 6th, again, the right, the group with the most guns in the United States. And not just any kind of guns, long guns and assault rifles with 300 round magazines shooting 850 million rounds a second. Sorry. And that's how some idiots on the left describe them, the groups with all of those guns. Remember the time they shot up D.C. oh, that didn't happen. Hold on, I'm just now hearing that didn't happen, but see people who actually do shoot up things, you know, and then the same comments. What about that? Melissa Hortman in that. Okay, so let's play by the rules of that argument for a second. The one legislator and her husband in Minnesota. That is one act of political terror. Absolutely. If you are going to assign it to a Republican. Again, we're going to play by the rules before we, you know, debunk that crap. But in that case, one compared to multiple assassination attempts, arson, the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the blatant and rampant political violence, not to mention all of the threats, the swattings, and on and on and on. Now, again, of course, the individual who shot Melissa Hortman, appointed by Tim Walls and has quite a sketchy and mixed political history. But even in that case, no. So Akeem Jeffries was mocked very openly for this, and he was asked again by reporters today. Hey, do you maybe want to, like, tone it back? It is a midterm year, after all, as it relates to anything that has been said, certainly as it relates to the comment related to maximum warfare everywhere, all the time, in connection with the redistricting battle that Republicans launched. I stand by it. You can continue to criticize me for it. Oh, it's all about it. I don't give a damn about your criticism. Oh, I don't. I don't give a damn about you making fun of me for calling me bad for. I love it. I'm sorry, I'm gonna point this out one more time because Jasmine Crockett does this all the time. If you need to code switch to act tough, I find that pretty sad. I find that pretty sad. You have to get out there and like, again, you start getting mad, and all of a sudden you start, like, lilting into the accent. I grew up in eastern central Indiana. My father is a rustic sort of guy. And so I did, in fact, grow up saying words like crick instead of creek and a little bit of. A little bit of wash instead of wash, although that's not necessarily as common right where I am. And instead of didn't dudden kind of a thing. I never get mad and, like, drop into an accent from childhood. Like, that's. That's not a thing. There's a. There's a meme about a British guy calling his friend and saying he has the Indian variant of COVID And as he's leaving the voicemail, he's like, hey, I just wanted to let you know I have the Indian brand of COVID It's not going to be pretty bad, but keep an eye. And as he goes through the voicemail, his accent becomes, like, more and more stereotypical Indian accent. That's not how things work in real life. Like, if you grew up on the. No, you don't. Like, all of a sudden, you get out there and you start, like, getting all tough, man. Hey, yo, man, I'm as the Kim Jeffries in the house. Like, you don't stop. That's Not. Stop it, stop it. I hate that so much. It's stereotypical garbage. Like, oh, man, I'm a white guy. That's really mad. I better go put on my bib overalls and shove some straw in my teeth. Super good. Good luck to you, Hakeem Jeffries. Just retarded. Well, and if we're talking retarded, we got to talk to ladies of the View because, you know, the. The demographics of the left had to get out there and say, you know, it's really a good thing that the Trump administration officials were targeted. It's good. Maybe it'll make them think about their actions. You know, that when I was in the room with all of these journalists. Well, again, we'll get there. We'll let the ladies of the View menopause all over the place.

Guest/Panelist (61:54)

But, you know, now.

Tony Kennett (61:55)

Now that. So that room was full of some of the most important political leaders in the country. Right. Thank you.

Guest/Panelist (62:03)

Now, right.

Tony Kennett (62:04)

Now they know. They've lived it in their own flesh, the fear that our school children go through. Now they know what it's like to have to jump under a table the way that school children jump under a desk. And we are a country. This is without a doubt one of the dumbest things I've ever heard in my entire life. Well, now they know what school children. Every single. First of all, no. As a former teacher, also, no. I've been in a school under lockdown before. No. Number three, may I make this entirely and perfectly clear? Going out there and going, well, you know what? They don't do the thing I want on this policy area. So you know what? They need to be threatened with murder. One of the reasons the President of the United States made the thing, made the statement that he did about the unity, the whole unity thing, was that after the initial shock of the event, again, a lot of us who were in that room, there was a lot of fear, a lot of people got down, and again, some of us stood up and started scanning for threats. But it's not something that needs to be expected of people or anything like that. You know, again, a little strange after, you know, all the clapping for themselves and things. But, alas, a bit strange, I would say, to start talking about how it's really good that they experienced, again, the trauma of expecting that death might be coming at any moment. That's a scary time. I don't wish that on anybody. No, it's not a thing to do. It's not pleasant. Again, the initial fear being an explosion. There was an idea that there maybe it was some kind of coordinated attack. And in the initial moments, you don't know if it's coordinated. And there's multiple people. They were, by the way, for those that say, guys, it was all like staged in fake. They were escorting protesters out who tried to sneak in all afternoon. As we were walking down, there was like a code pink lady that was being dragged out and then there was like this angry guy writhing and foaming at the mouth they were dragging out. This was all afternoon. So we, we had no idea. The reason there's unity is once something like that happens, you're like, man, you know what? I really, I can see why they may not want to be shot at. I, I, I get it. I, I understand here. Maybe, you know, we're not going to use this as some tool to bash the guy who's now gone through three assassination attempts, who at that point just kind of looked over at Melania like, this your first time? I mean it. Good. Sweet heavens. So incredible. One of the weirdest though, from Jake Tapper. And again, I have kind of a front row seat to this because I walked out of the Marriott right next to Jake Tapper. So to give you a bit of perspective here, as I was walking out, I was with Tim and Elizabeth who were about to hoof it over to the White House as fast as they could. So they kind of ran ahead. And I stopped back to talk with, from the Ruthless podcast, John Ashbrook, great guy. The Ruthless podcast, highly recommend it. We had kind of were chatting about some of the things. There was also a guy from Google to my left ended up getting to talk to a little bit. And then on my right was Jake Tapper of cnn. Now today on cnn, he was talking in kind of a different tone. See, he didn't really like all of this. You know, people on the right saying, gee, there's a lot of leftist violence and it's continuing to ramp up. Now, hold on a second here. Let me actually pull up the exact Jake Tapper clip here because I have a specific one that's not the puro response. There you go. Here you go. It is a big problem of calls for violence and dehumanization and it's getting worse. But it is not a problem to be wielded like a cudgel to try to stop journalism or jokes. Journalism and jokes are not calls for violence. Call journalism and jokes, he says, are not calls for violence. Journal. Okay, so, so again, cnn, who had, by the way, to delay a documentary by one of their reporters. One of their documentariat, one of their analysts, he had to announce that the CNN documentary that they were preparing. Let me actually, let me scroll down here and find this because just called quote, the imperial presidency, end quote. So like, you know, dictator emperor stuff by Fareed Zakaria has, has been delayed and it will now be aired at a later date. He says we'll keep you posted because it's entirely inappropriate activism again that CNN has a guy who did this entire documentary in which he laughed alongside Taylor Lorenz, who's a festering piece of garbage as a human being over the murder of United CEO Brian Thompson at the hands of Luigi Mangione. They sat there and laughed about it while also doing essentially this big expose saying right wing people responsible for all the political violence in the country. So that kind of reporting, Jake Tapper stands by, that's journalism. And again the criticism, you know, Trump saying, I don't really like that Melania Trump was called an expectant widow. That's a personal attack on my wife. That's disgusting. And I hope, I think that ABC should fire her. Which by the way, I'm sorry, I don't care who you are in the country. That's your right to say. That's your right to say. I supported this at the time when Will Smith got up on stage and slapped the guy in the face. I supported that. Someone starts talking about your wife. Yeah, clock him. Oh, that's not very legal and nice, Tony. I don't care. I don't care. That's dumb now. It's not legal advice. Should you be cognizant of legal things before you, you know, assault and batter someone? Absolutely. I don't recommend it. Am I saying, as Hasan Piker would say, that I understand it? Yes. So anyway, Mr. Jake Tapper and his ethicals of journalism and comedy. Calls for violence are calls for violence. And far too many Americans in positions of power and influence are too blase and too glib about those who make them. Too blase. Too glib about those who make them. Thanks to news busters for providing that clip. You know, when we were leaving the room and Jake Tapper was to my right, he wasn't that cocky. And Mr. You know what we need to do? We need all of the people who may have encouraged this, this cold guy to commit this, you know, attempted assassination. You know, all of the rhetoric that he is referencing when he calls Trump a rapist and a pedophile, the things that Jake Tapper can't say on cnn cuz he'll get sued out his ass for defamation, that guy. Well, we got, we. I didn't remember hearing him say anything about protecting the, the speech and the comedy and the. The what? I don't know. He was kind of scared and shaken like a lot of people in that room were. Oh, all of a sudden Jake Tapper is. Mr. Oh, we gotta protect all that. He wasn't so cocky when he was walking out of the Hill or the Marriott when it was being evacuated. Hmm. Happened to notice. Just so happened to notice strutting next to him wasn't all. Mr. Oh, quick, man, I sure hope there's protesters calling for my death outside. You know, I, I don't remember when we walked out. Any complaints from Jake Tapper when we walked outside about the National Guard being there.

Elizabeth Mitchell (68:54)

Hmm.

Tony Kennett (68:55)

Gee, why was that? Oh, man. Oh, maybe it's because the rhetoric of this country that has been radically amplified by the left calling for murder, mocking and laughing, encouraging murder, looking forward to the deaths. Well, Donald Trump said that he really didn't care that someone else was murdered. He didn't really care. Or not even murder. He really didn't care. When Robert Reich died, he said, I'm glad he's dead. Okay. Saying that you are glad someone is dead, that's gross. Absolutely. Saying you wish someone would die, that's a little bit worse. Both things are bad. One's a lot worse because one, you are essentially praying for God to damn them. That's kind of bad. Not allowed. So I'm not seeing this little moral equivalency that's being drawn everywhere. All of the sudden, now that the journalists are done hiding under the tables under a real threat. Oh, now we're ready to gallivanter out. We're so brave and amazing. We're on our white horse, protected behind all of our other layers of security. Give me a break. Give me a break. I saw all of you on the ground. I don't, I don't begrudge you for getting on the ground. There was an active threat. By all means, get under the table and protect yourself. That's where I shoved Elizabeth under the, Onto the ground. But don't. Oh, sorry. Not Robert Reich. Robert Reich's life. Who's the other. Who's the Project Lincoln individual? Who, who, who? The. The. Or the, the. The former right wing person. Producer Daniel, Throw that over here. Who's the other person? I, I'm just, I'm, I'm absolutely. And, and just unequivocally not. Oh, there was a comment that was upset that I, that I, I said a, a slightly unfriendly word. Well, I'm, I'm sorry, I'm a little, I'm on, a little bit happier with that one. But if you want to talk about, you know, the St. Paul standards for particular sorts of language, we'll schedule a Bible study and chat it out. So that all said Rob Reiner. Thank you guys. Not Rob, not Robert Reich. Rob Reiner. Thank you for, for the correction there. I wanted to make sure that, that I, that I, that I got that right. Again. Still, still the case in this particular incident. So again, and, or Robert, or Robert Mueller. So, you know, I'm sure. I agree. The robber. I'm sorry, and the Hilton, not the Marriott. The Marriott would in fact be where we were in Milwaukee. And sorry, had to make sure that was also clear though, the difference between the Marriott and Milwaukee. Excuse me, the Marriott and the Hilton. So aside from the media nonsense on all of this, I see us getting to kind of the end of the show. We might have to cover some of the Iranian stuff a little bit tomorrow as well as some of the Supreme Court things on a whole. At the end of this, what do we actually do about this? Because there are all of these calls that we need unity and that we need closeness and amazing. All of the, the hugs and the cuddles and the closeness and all this extra stuff. Unity's not coming. Unity is not coming for two reasons. Number one, because there is no common foundation for the American people to stand on at large. It's not. The polling numbers are split on every single issue, including loving the country and cheering for foreign nations. The United States right now is at a particularly low point in unity. So it's not going to be organic. So what's actually going to bring about the standards for unit? You know, what's actually going to bring out, you know, the, the standards for unity here? Well, you know, Consequences. And I don't mean consequences as in we need to go through a multiple year long super trial and all this other stuff. No, this individual who was charged today on attempted assassination, he should also be charged with terrorism because according to his manifesto, it's clearly what he was trying to do. Achieving political ends by violence. This individual should be hanged. He should be hanged. He should be hanged publicly. Not for spectacle, not for sport. He should be hanged. Not put in front of a firing squad. Not the electric chair, not lethal injection. Here is why. When an individual attempts a capital level crime, capital level crimes like molesting a child or I would also argue Violent and domestic abuse, or in the case of like an attempted assassination or murdering of an official, that is the kind of capital crime that deserves the noose. Why? Because these types of crimes go against every kind of fundamental basis and foundation that society is built upon. They are deeply immoral because they are not only acting in a crim, in the criminal mean of, of improving oneself or like, like trying to get to gain more. They are also attempting to strip and steal the rights of innocence and life from others. And like an assassination that's in a very premeditated thing as opposed to like a. A second or third degree murder situation. Those instances require the noose. And they require the noose because it is humiliating. It is a humiliating death. It must be. It must be. It must be public. It must be the noose. Because a firing squad carries with a dignity. Give me the cigarette. Put the blindfold on. You stand very proudly while you are waiting on the bullet to end your life. I don't care for that. The same with the electric chair. Same with, with the lethal injection stuff. No, it needs to be the hangman's noose. Because that is throughout all of human history. That is the best and most effective way to communicate. We as a culture, as a people, will strip any honor that you have out of attempting to commit this crime again. Not for spectacle, not for leaving his body to rotten to the carrying foul, nothing like that. This isn't meant to be an entertaining thing. It is meant to be a warning. And until there are consequences. This gentle parenting age of the country, or the 1970s age, gentle parenting that came out, that started to really take heed where if you spank your child it's gonna cause psychological damage. So just put them in timeout forever. That's the way our country is now. There's no corporal punishment anywhere. You don't get 10, 20 lashes for drunk driving. You get thrown in jail on the taxpayer dime for taxpayer funded babysitting so you can take classes and work out and you know, have gal pal good fun time. And if you're in California, get a free sex change and then you get released to do it again. Nope. Punishment of that nature must include pain, humiliation, and then making sure it never happens again. You say tony, I don't like that. Too bad. This here's my show. That is exactly. I'm consistent on that. And after this I believe it more than ever. More than ever. That's how the country is. The only way the country is going to be unified is if parents start acting like parents again. And the federal government has to make it clear if you fa, you will fo. And that means, and again, this is one of the reasons that I'm pleased with how Todd Blanche is handling this so far. He's making it clear this is not, we're not going to put up with this. This is why we don't need little style mommy at the podium. Pam Bondi things. By the way, U.S. attorney Janine Pirro, incredible, fiery, to the point, no Barbie stuff. No, hey, guys, I'm Ms. Piro. And the Trump administration, nope, this is what we're going to do. I'm not going to put up with it. Punishments coming and they're investigating further ties to other organizations. Now, some of you may say, hey, that is, you know, that's never going to happen. This, you know, Tony got kind of a pipe dream. You know what, that's fine. That's okay. My role here as the analyst, as the guy who's bringing you the news report and then my take on it is to deliver to you what I believe would be the best solution. And even if, even if it's not on the floor of Congress tomorrow as, as a bill, which by the way, I believe Lindsey Graham is putting forward a measure along with Katie Britt, Senator Katie Britt, to fully fund the White House and tell the D.C. district court that they need to screw off and go ahead and build the ballroom. Again, personally quite fond of that argument from Lindsey Graham and Katie. Brittany, I'm not sure if we have that clip. Excuse me. I'm not sure if we have that clip necessarily ready to go, but that call was made today, so it is good to see the Senate pushing those kinds of things forward. Oh, we do have it ready to go. All right, here is, here's that clip. We're going to introduce legislation that would authorize $400 million to be spent to secure the, to build the Presidential Ballroom. Underneath there will be a lot of military stuff. There will be a Secret Service annex and we've paid for it by offsetting it with custom fees. But the estimate is 332 million. We're going to do 400 million because I think it's probably going to take. More private donations can be used, but I think they should be used for buying China and stuff like that. Underneath this ballroom will be infrastructure that is national security centric. The ballroom itself will avoid the dilemma of having to leave the White House grounds with future presidents and this presidents to go downtown in a place that's less secure. President Trump said to me this morning. So of course, we already know what the President said regarding the construction of the ballroom. Again, it is. It is a good thing. It is fine for America to have nice buildings. It is fine for those buildings to be big. Yes, we should be building more national monuments. Yes, we should be improving things. The east wing sucked. I've been in there. And also I was in that ballroom in the basement of the Hilton. And you know what? It sucked. It was awful. Didn't like it, didn't care for it. Wasn't that great. Felt like a can of sardines wasn't big enough to do anything and clearly was not secure. The age of playing these silly legalistic kind of all sue you, you sue me games has to come to an end. It does, because eventually someone will get lucky. Eventually, an assassination attempt will get through, not necessarily just on the President, but a member of the administration, a prominent senator. This will happen there. Is there. Tell me. And for those, well, maybe, just maybe, we just American people are gonna wake up one day and they're just gonna go, oh, wow, we need to like, unify. Nope, it's not happening. You tell me who out there is like, you know what? We need to kill these republic. We need to get out there and, you know, they're. They're killing us through health care. And the Nazis are going to ship you off to a concentration camp. Who's the person that gets out there? Oh, our power might go out in a second. Just to let you know, we had a little lights flicker in there. So just in case our power goes out. Thanks for tuning in this evening. I'm just letting you know. Oh, lights be flickering. Just giving you a little, little heads up there. Lights be flickering a lot. I better wrap this up here in a second. Yeah. Or we're gonna lose power here in a second to wrap things up. If you believe that all of a sudden, because Trump says it's time for unity, we're gonna meet, we're gonna talk, and it's gonna be friendship. My Little Pony. Friendship is magic. That's not gonna be a thing. You have Bernie Sanders and Trump go out there hand in hand. I like the President. He's very good man. I think we're gonna work together forever. That's not gonna be a thing. It doesn't matter. Then the left will simply throw Bernie Sanders to the wolves because they are a bunch of young radical Marxists who seek to commit acts of violence to overthrow the country. That is literally what they are advocating for. They are calling for it. They desire it. And they're in the middle of, just like the previous Democrat generation before them, shiving those who brought them up and then replacing them. And that's where we are. And again, to those who are out there doing the, the weird, goofy, staged nonsense here, there and the other. Yeah, very goofy stuff. All right. Again, one of the better things that I do have to say regarding this entire mess in kerfuffle is that there is a growing movement of individuals who are on the right side of the aisle who are doing quite a bit to make sure that rights of Americans are retained. Now, again, this isn't necessarily something that only has to be fought at the federal level. It has to be fought at the state level. It's a very, very important thing. And that does bring us over to our friends at the Alliance Defending Freedom Colorado, State of Colorado. We'll talk about this a little bit more tomorrow night. They're at it again, trying to silence free speech in the United States. Again, only for one party. Shocker. A law in Colorado which forces businesses to use customers preferred pronouns even if they're completely biologically inaccurate and even if using those incorrect pronouns would violate a person's religious beliefs or conscience. That's a clear violation of free speech in the First Amendment. But as Colorado has proved time and time and time and time again, very little concern for the First Amendment whatsoever. The Alliance Defending Freedom is challenging this law on behalf of a Christian bookstore and a Colorado based sports apparel company. But a court recently ruled against them. Now, with the ADF's help, the appealing has been, or excuse me, the rule has been appealed and they'll continue fighting to ensure that Colorado doesn't get away with this next attempt to skirt the First Amendment. So this brings us to the important side of it. If you choose to, your gift helps protect free speech in cases like this all over the country. And for a limited time, your first gift to the Alliance Defending Freedom is doubled by a special matching grant while funds last text Tony to 83848 or go to ADF.com Tony to have your gift doubled. Again, that's text Tony to 83848 or go To ADF.com Excuse me, joinADF.com Tony to have your gift doubled. Very, very thankful that they are sponsoring the show. And I will say I understand that it is a little strange for me to have a show that is just essentially straight rather annoyance and kind of biting sarcasm as opposed to kind of my usual laid back manner. But yeah, being in the room, I, I would say I I probably couldn't sleep the next night. Night and a half, a little bit because of the adrenaline, but mostly just because of the jet lag and transparency we like to do here on the Tony Kinnacast, Something about this. I, I really was unimpressed. I was unimpressed by a lot of things. I don't like seeing of course those that I loved and care about in the room. I not again, not in the least. Keith Koffler, our managing editor, Tim Kennedy, our digital director, Elizabeth Mitchell, our White House correspondent, several other dear friends in the room, friends and colleagues who I disagree with and then yeah, some people in there that I despise that I would never ever want to see hurt or killed. This kind of stuff is, is genuinely only going to get worse until a series of consequences are meted out consistently. Because to rebuild institutional trust will take a long time. And that's why this is a marathon to run. It is. It's a marathon to run and it's going to take us, it's going to take us doing so. So I will take a couple, we'll take a couple of questions here or some comments before we leave just because again it's been a very one sided kind of show tonight from Elaine Taylor said look I agree with you on the news but I don't think that I could watch. I very much don't disagree. I don't think you need to watch. I don't think it should be a spectacle. I've, I've equipped with Jason Hammer who's a host on wibc. He, Hammer and Nigel. I kind of the, the spiritual successors to Bob and Tom. Hammer's always said that this would be the kind of thing that's on like pay per View. He's joking. I, I really don't agree with that. I don't think it should be something that's fun. It's a warning and it doesn't need to be something just by the noose being there in the public square and the, the whipping post as well. You know, again, as I believe corporal punishment again this would be the, this would be Starship Troopers yet again that kind of stuff kind of rolling forward. The book, not the movie but that's kind of the philosophy behind that. All right, just a couple of other mailtime questions here. Again, if you want to throw a mailtime question at us over in our Discord, there's a link to that in the description. That's where you can find some of our excellent community all the livelong day. And then of course we try to get to some of those mailtime questions as quickly as we can. Why doesn't there appear to be any video of the actual takedown of the perp? So, first of all, because the Hilton doesn't actually have security cameras and angles covering absolutely everything. I don't know. Nor do a lot of individuals know at this point how he was taken down. I mean, there's a lot of suspicion that he. He tripped, he was shot at, and then he kind of fell. Something may have caught him off guard. He wasn't hit. I'm not sure. I. There was broken glass that was shattered that we weren't allowed to go up that particular way and that. That exit. So I think that'll come out in the investigation to answer that question. Now, a lot of people, again, are taking this as evidence that, oh, see, that means that it was fake. So there's another question that we got during the show, and I'm sure a ton of times during the live stream. Why won't you accept the idea that this was staged? First of all, for a couple of reasons. There is a crew of people who, no matter what happens, anytime is just going to say that it's staged or fake, because that's edgy. Because that's kind of cool. You're like, oh, wow, you think it's staged? And you can be like, ooh, it's Israel, dude. Trump doesn't like his look. People are always going to be dumb, and they're just. That's where they're going to go to. Always. Always. It's a shame and a waste and a good way of separating wheat from the chaff, by the way. But if they had released his manifesto, he was going to get criticized for it. If they didn't release the manifesto, they'd say, why aren't they releasing the manifesto? What are they hiding? Was it fake? All right, if he was white, then it was going to be staged. If he was black, which it appears this guy was, then it was staged. If he was a Trump voter ages ago, oh, he was hired. Uh, if he was a Kamala Harris votes. He was a voter. He was a plant. Mm, exciting. Uh, if he made a donation, then it was faked. If he didn't make a donation, then, see, oh, all of a sudden, he cares. Doesn't matter. If they were. If, you know, they told police in advance, well, then that's fake. So they could get the manifesto out early. Uh, or if they didn't tell anyone, then it was a total fake and they invented this guy. Out of thin air. If Charlie was shot, oh, well, then he's actually secretly alive on an island. If they don't have an open casket funeral, then, oh, is that. Those people are always going to be here, and there's a really great way to handle them. I learned this in my special education classes in college. You nod slowly, you don't encourage them, and you just say, okay, that's the way to handle. That's the way to handle it. Only that's not really all the way apt here, because children who have mental and learning disabilities have far greater intelligence than those who are going. Actually, Carolyn Levitt was saying that it was some kind of secret. Oh, man. The. The. Oh, all of the other. Don't be dumb. Don't be dumb. There's a lot of stuff to call them. You don't. You don't have to be dumb yourself. Just. Just cool, cool, cool friends and thoughts there at the end. All right, we'll take one final male question here. And then I'm gonna. I'm gonna hop away from High Turbine. Did I have to take a shower afterwards, Tony? Yes, I did, but not because I was. I mean, not because I was, like, disgusted with those around me or anything like that. After we got out of there, I had to walk, like, three miles in crappy shoes. And I mean, when you're just sitting there in a hot, stuffy room full of a bunch of halitosis not eating, you sweat a bunch. And so it's like, ew, gross. And I'd worn an undershirt, so I didn't get wonderful, lovely neck garbage on the inside of my very nice white tuck shirt. And I didn't. I've already had to, like, clean and iron that thing so many times. I hate it. And so I was already sweating up a storm. So I got back to the hotel and ordered fast food. Boy, I sure loved flying to D.C. to eat two overly expensive fast food orders for a day. That sucked. And so while I was waiting on that to get there, yes, I did take a shower and just kind of sat there and I think the words that I said in the shower after I. I had already thanked God several times on the way out of there into the hotel and made sure I checked in with family. And very huge thanks to producer Daniel and producer Jen for updating those over on the discord and things like that. I think my actual words when I got into the shower were just. And then. I don't think I said anything for the rest of the night. And then I woke up with a stomachache because eating Shake Shack late at night is probably not great for your health. So. From, let's see, one, one other question from David macern. And the wind is really picking up. I'm probably going to need to get out of the studio, probably for my own safety. I've not heard the wind this bad out here. The weather station says 46 mile an hour gusts. Yeah, that's not fun. I'm sure you can probably hear some of the wind in the background. Are those that engage in stochastic amplification terrorists. Those that say, I understand violence, unless you're explicitly calling for it, I don't think you can be hit with a terrorism charge. But there's also the, come on, we all know what game you're playing where there probably should be a greater outrage and fewer favors passed out for it to be transparent with you. I'm still kind of thinking through that myself. So at what point when someone is saying, you know, it's good the president needed to experience that, do you suggest they're actually advocating for that kind of violence? Let me read on that one and probably talk to a few friends legally about like some of the, the speech laws there and get back to you because that's what we do. I don't try to tell you things I don't know. I'm still kind of rationalizing that one out because just because I don't like what someone says doesn't mean that we just need to get rid of the First Amendment. No, not at all. No. You know, and obviously it would be bad if, you know, the next administration gets in and they're on the left and they're like, gee, I really don't like what this Tony guy is saying. I think he's actually saying, yeah, that's not good either. You do have to protect free speech. But also I think we do need to make a more clear standard for what calling for and encouraging and celebrating violence looks like. And that needs to be made a little more explicit on that side of things. What was the word? Amplification. What's that first word? Stochastic. So, so that's, that's a kind of my shortening stochastic terrorism is that term coined by the left where if you say, I don't like, pick a random person on the, oh, I'm not going to play that game. I don't like John Smith. I think John Smith is evil. I think John Smith is very bad and they probably are really terrible. The left said, that's stochastic terrorism. They said that's, that's, that's saying really mean thing, really bad thing, something bad's going to happen to them. And then they went out and started encouraging all of the stuff that again inflamed the rhetoric. And is it responsible for the murders of individuals? No, but they, they did all but beg individuals to commit the murder. So that kind of stochastic means engaging in, engaging in open proclamation and demand. So stochastic terrorism, meaning you, your, your discourse is inflaming individuals to act. Again, it's completely made up garbage. But when I say stochastic inflammation of the rhetoric, you are calling for things that increases the political temperature. And so that's my, that's my particular take on that one. So that all said, it's 8:39pm Hope you guys have a wonderful evening. We'll be back tomorrow with more of the news coverage. Again, sorry we didn't get anything else tonight. I wanted to unpack this one and not do a half baked job. And I'm not exactly pleased with the whole way that we broke this down, but hey, tis the nature of being human and being absolutely fallible. Have a wonderful evening. Take care. Hope you guys are safe. If there are storms in your area, we'll see you tomorrow, 7pm Eastern here on the Tony Kennett Cast, nationally syndicated and first on 93 WIBC. Y' all take care.

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