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Ep. 565 - BREAKING: Ilhan Omar Under Investigation, Gallrein Beats Massie, Trump Bucks Sen. Leader Thune
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Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minnesota) has been referred to House Ethics Committee and Department of Justice investigation, per multiple reports and Vice President JD Vance. We bring you the results from the record-breaking primary in Kentucky's 4th, Rep. Thomas Massie vs. Ed Gallrein, and updates on other races from Georgia, Alabama, Kentucky, and Pennsylvania.
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Tony Kennett. Tony Kennett. Tony Kennett, host of the Tony Kennett cast. Let's have a show. You're listening to the Tony Kennett cast on 93 Wibcy TV here on the Daily Signal. Good evening and welcome to the Tony Kennett cast here on the Daily Signal, nationally syndicated, first on 93 WIBC. We have election results that are as quick as possible. So the Senate race for the Kentucky primary, one of many primaries today. There are Alabama, Georgia, Idaho, Kentucky, Oregon and Pennsylvania, all with results that are trickling in. Of course, Idaho is going to take a little bit and Oregon as well, because they're not in this wing of the country. So as for Kentucky, the news I referenced, Andy Barr, has been called by, I believe Fox News as the US Senate candidate to replace Mitch McConnell, who is retiring. Cameron did not win. Again, this race is called it's very early, only 5% in. But Fox News is calling that race for Andy Barr. And I'll, I'll, I'll be quite clear with you. I like Andy Barr. I think he's, he's got a pretty excellent background on a lot of different things so far, it appears, although, again, it's very early, given that only 13% of the vote is in. Ed Galrain is Gallerain is in a sizable lead so far over incumbent Thomas Massie. So right now, with only 13.3% of the vote in, it is 9,400 to Thomas Massie's 7,157 to 43. Now, this is the race that everyone's eyes are on because all of the money has flown into this particular election for one reason and one reason only, and that is Thomas Massie has been the point of obstinance against a lot of Trump policies. Now, given some of the TV commercials and things down in Kentucky, that hasn't really been the story. Both candidates are trying to claim that Trump has endorsed them. Both candidates are trying to claim that they're Donald Trump's man and that led the president of the United States to post this today. On truth, social horrible. Congressman Thomas Massie put out an old endorsement from many years ago of him by me, long before I found out that he was the worst congressman in the history of our country. I endorsed Ed Gallerain, a true American patriot, which Massey knows full well. So the statement that he put out is fraudulent, just like he is fraudulent. Withdraw your fake statement, Massey, right now. President Donald J. Trump. So that statement that President Trump is referring to, that, that old endorsement is back from 2022. So the president really not a fan of Massie for a number of reasons, of course. Massie has voted along with Democrats on a number of things, from domestic policy, border policy, financial policy over to foreign policy. And I believe we have a clip. John Cooper, Democrat strategist and the head of Barack Obama's Long island campaign. So exciting. Anyway, he got the last interview today with Thomas Massie outside of the polls. Here you go. How you're feeling right now? We're going into the final hours here,
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getting ready for tomorrow. I'm feeling good. The ground game is ours. If the ground game counts for anything, we're blowing it out. My opponent canceled events on Saturday because he couldn't get people to show up and the optics of it would look bad. We had an event with 300 people on Saturday, and we're doing this little whistle stop tour and we're going to the small towns and picking up 100 people at every event.
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Tony Kennett
Okay, so a very interesting bout of confidence there from Thomas Massie says, hey, Galrain's canceling events. Not a lot of stuff going on there. Not looking too super duper. We're pulling events with 300 people. And that brings us to kind of the outside influence here. There is money upon money upon money, tens of millions of dollars that is flowing into this primary for Kentucky's 4th House district. And the reasons behind this and all of the conspiracizing and are the Jews trying to avoid Thomas Mass disease replacer, that kind of a thing. It turns out that not only was a lot of money coming outside of the Commonwealth for Ed Gallrane, but also 92% of Thomas Massie's money was also coming from outside the state. This is a big bellwether primary because it is a sign of is the House momentum against President Trump going to continue or is it going to kind of fall by the wayside in the age of Marjorie Taylor Greene and. And Thomas Massie going to come to an end? That, in part is going to be answered this evening. Now, as far as Massie on the congressional Record, which, between you, me, and Dupree, I think is probably going to play the biggest role in this election. Again, what did Massie actually go out and vote for? And then what did he say about his colleagues when he disagreed with him? This was answered by, of all places, somebody that Laura Loomer, who, to be transparent, not a huge fan of, sent someone to interview him. And this was his response to that.
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So, Congressman, in the last two weeks,
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you repeated AOC talking points of Venezuela, and Jasmine Crockett has retweeted you, when will you change your party affiliation to Democrat? Leading question, to be fair. Right. When are you going to change. You're awful. When are you going to change your leading party to Democrat? Okay, so after the leading question out of the way, we're going to talk about that a little bit later this evening. Don't take that as an endorsement or a decry. Just obvious where it's obvious. Here's his response. I thought you knew. I vote with Republicans 91% of the time, and the 9% I don't. They're taken up for pedophiles starting another war or bankrupting our country. Okay. Calling every like. So I mostly vote with them, except when they're being pedophiles. Probably not. The move to go with. Probably not. And that's how Massey's taken his entire step. He's made this huge campaign with Ron of California suggesting that everyone is hiding all of the Jeffrey Epstein stuff, up to and including doxing men who are just lookalikes in an FBI lineup. Because, you know, why are these eight people not allowed to be? Well, because some of them were, in fact, part of an FBI lineup. Their names weren't released to the public. Massie did distance himself from. Distance himself from Ro Khanna before the State of the Union address in which Ro Khanna sat next to one of the ladies hunting down victims for Epstein. But alas, that's what Massey's made his entire shtick about. So we'll see if that. Everyone is a pedophile except for when I vote with them. We'll see how that goes. Gallerain is running a slightly more lackluster campaign, but he is running the Congressional Record argument kind of on the other side. Here was Gallrane.
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That's easy. These folks are moving to remove misrepresentative Massie from Congress. What I hear when I talk to the good people, these 21 counties out here in Kentucky, congressional district four, is
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they recognize he has gone to Washington,
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D.C. and betrayed them. He has blocked the President's attempt to unleash our economy, reduce taxes, build the border wall, restore national security. He even joined ranks with the radical Democrats to restrict the president's responsibilities as a commander in chief of what's going on in the Mid East. Now, at every turn, he has betrayed us.
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Okay, so again, not the most exciting. Just like, wow, look at all the charisma. But we'll see what it is that Kentucky voters are looking for. And it truly may come down to a question of does the average Trump voter, who, believe it or not, does in fact pay attention to what Donald J. Trump has to say about things, then if that's still the outsized factor here, then it probably is going to go in Gallerian's favor again, we don't know yet. Because as of right now, it's 7:14pm on Tuesday, May 19. With 13% of the vote in, Gallerain is over Thomas Massie By 2033, 2200 votes. So we're going to keep an eye on that throughout the evening. That brings us over to not the Senate side, and we're going to get there, I promise. This brings us to Ilhan Omar. Oh, boy. All right. Ilhan Omar is, well, she's under investigation. Boys, girls and squirrels. So, first of all, the House Oversight Committee has officially referred Ilhan Omar to the House Ethics Committee to investigate her revised net worth. So, as you may recall, she originally claimed that her net worth is really like almost $30 million. And, you know, really, she only has a net worth of 100,000 or less. Maybe it's really $18,000. I mean, who knows? It's way, way smaller than that 30 million mark. And that was due to an error. So what is this error in question? Ilhan Omar's husband had this winery. Now you say, wait a minute. Aren't Ilhan Omar and her husband Muslims? And isn't alcohol haram? Yes, yes, it is. And yes, they are. Although he supposedly owned this winery that also didn't exist, didn't have any vineyards, you know, didn't exactly have the beautiful, wonderful California hills running forth with the fermented welshes. No, nope. Not. Not a thing. And so a lot of people had some questions after this. Ilhan Omar decided to do the thing where, you know, you pretend you're not hearing the reporter kind of stuff. This. This clip from a couple of weeks
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ago under President Trump.
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Hang on a second there. I actually have this one ready to go. I'm not going to give this particular clip up. Watch her as she runs away from the I believe the FOX News Digital team.
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Tell us about your net worth. Dropping. Dropping down to about a hundred thousand. Can you just elaborate on what mistake was made, Congresswoman? What mistake was made on your financial disclosure forms to bring it down to 100,000? From up to 30 million.
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So, again, exciting stuff here for sure. We're going to get into some of the more details on this stuff. Again, we've got a lot of election stuff that we're tracking. Don't go anywhere. Radio crew, we're going to send you to the commercial and continue on the live stream. In the meantime, it's the Tony Kinnit cast here on the Daily Signal. All right. While all of those radio and TV nerds are in their commercial breaks, if you're watching the show live, we don't really cut away to that. We have like one sponsor read, and then hesto, presto, we cover more news. So what about all of this investigatory stuff? The Daily Caller asked Vice President J.D. vance today, is the DOJ actually digging into Ilhan Omar of the Definitely not worth $30 million in fake winery vintage. A little pun there. And also didn't marry her brother, you know, kind of vintage. Totally. Here's what the vice President had to say. Okay, I figured out finally how the seating chart works. Sorry, I should have clarified. Vance did the press conference because while Carolyn Levitt is out with her new baby, they're rotating in guest appearances. So every single person that comes in has to figure out the seating chart. Having been in that room, that seating chart is both convoluted and retarded. All right, the vice President, who is definitely not me, I want to ask you about the Anti Fraud Task Force. You previously mentioned that Ilhan Omar seemed to have committed immigration fraud. Do you anticipate an indictment against her? An indictment related to that situation? Yes. So, Reagan, I don't want to prejudge an investigation. I mean, you read the things about Ilhan Omar and about who she married and whether she didn't marry this person or that person. It certainly seems like something fishy is there. But everybody's entitled to equal justice under the laws. So we're going to investigate it, we're going to take a look at it. If we think that there's a crime, we're going to prosecute that crime. By the way, when it comes to looking back, you know, looking back over the wonderful, great times of prior political news, this is how you answer that question. This is. This is a politically correct. I don't mean politically correct as in Hollywood's politically correct. I mean, this is the correct way to politically go about answering this question from the administration. Hey, I think some of this stuff is kind of fishy, all right? But everyone's entitled to justice. We're going to investigate it. And if the investigation comes out that she was involved in brotherly, sisterly shenanigans, financial shenanigans, fraud and immigrant fraud shenanigans, or all of the above, we're gonna prosecute. That's the way that you answer it. Kristi Noem, take notes. So good stuff there from the vice president. What is in this investigation? Well, according to the New York Post, federal investigators and congressional Republicans have been examining the finances of Ilhan Omar after the questions were raised about a large increase reported in household wealth. You know how, like, you've got a couple of $10,000 and then all of a sudden you're reporting a net worth of $30 million. Haven't we all? So these reports focused on financial disclosure filings tied to Omar's husband's businesses, including venture capital. It's amazing how, again, the left is against venture capital until it's time for them to participate in it. And winery interests. Ooh, winery interests whose reported valuation ranges fueled claims that the family was worth tens of millions of dollars. So here's what Omar fired back at. She said Omar denied wrongdoing. Shocker. And said critics were misrepresenting disclosure forms by confusing total company valuations with her husband's actual ownership stake. Okay, couple of questions here for kicks and giggles. Why did you screw up on reporting your husband's stake in valuation of the winery? These aren't easy. These aren't easy forms to mess up. And we've talked about this on the show ad nauseam, infinitum. All right? We have discussed that. These forms have very clear checkboxes that say, hey, please pay the attention because you need to know what you're doing here when you fill this stuff out. Important, for sure. Doesn't appear that she did. So we'll have to see how this investigation turns out. But there is one thing in this article that was rather, rather bizarre. And I, when I was reading through it, I had my team dig up this article and pull it up for us here. According to follow up reporting, a prior Justice Department inquiry reportedly began during the Biden administration in 2024, but it had stalled because, quote, investigators had not found sufficient evidence, end quote. Now, this sounds rather strange because there are now a couple of investigations at the Biden Department of Justice began and then suddenly like the Southern Poverty Law center just erased from existence, nothing at all. And they claimed that it's for a total lack of evidence. But there isn't anything that I have seen so far that suggests this. The original New York Times article actually cites a couple of things that Omar's office says they weren't even asked about. Omar's office said to the New York Times they'd received no official inquiries from the DOJ or the House Oversight Committee, meaning this, the Biden DOJ investigated Omar and then never asked her about it. So now she's under investigation again. We've got plenty of more room, lots more to talk about Senate stuff. Don't go anywhere. Huge votes happening. It's the Tony Kennett cast here on the Daily Signal. Dancing in the moonlight, everybody. This is the Tony Kennett cast on 93 WYBC. Everybody dancing. Welcome back to the Tony Kennett cast here on this Tuesday, May 19th. Again, Alabama, Georgia, Idaho, Kentucky, Oregon and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania are bringing forth their primary elections today so that you as Americans can be disappointed yet again. We've got a lot of elections that we're following so far. With 16.3% of the vote in down in Kentucky, ed gallerain is up 11. 2 to Thomas Massie's 8 6. So again, 11,200 for galrain. Thomas Massie, the incumbent, 8,600. Gallerain seems to be maintaining a pretty decent lead, although it is going to be rather close. Right now, though, an update from the Senate War Powers Resolution. This is actually some pretty sizable news from today. So Schumer reported on X. I know you all are so excited to hear Chuck Schumer talk about what he is excited over. He said this morning for the eighth time, we will be bringing our War Powers resolution to the floor to end Trump's war with Iran. Republicans have a choice to stop catering to Trump and end this deeply unpopular war. They must vote yes. And vote yes. Many of them did. In fact, Tim Kaine's War powers resolution advanced 50 to 47. And this is due to a couple of reasons. First of all, there were some absences. Some senators were not there to cast a ballot. There were, however, four votes in this instance that that are particularly important here. So Bill Cassidy of Louisiana is the, I would say shocking with beautiful air quotes around it. Vote yes. Collins of Maine, Murkowski of Alaska told you. And then Rand Paul of Kentucky, who you know, of course, the one Democrat who voted no was John Fetterman. So 50 to 47. This is now going to advance. Um, it's gonna go forward. Is it gonna pass the House? Very, very, very unlikely. Uh, now, the reason this is important is that, of course, Senator Cassidy from Louisiana has been throwing his toys in anger since he lost his primary and came in third. Didn't even come in second. Came in third. Doesn't even qualify for the runoff election in Louisiana. And Cassidy's mad about it. And so literally, just to spite, because up until this point, he said, I'm not interested in this. I, you know, I support our troops. I support the, again, the current state of radical Islam, permanently ending the OPEC nightmare in Iran, getting to threaten to cut off oil whenever it wants, that kind of a thing. Those stated goals. Now, he's just. He's just mad in general, which is a move for sure. And then Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins. Now, I have said before, and we'll get to this a little bit later, John Thune is the Senate Majority leader. Cannot necessarily bring forward a vote to get rid of the filibuster, which is where you need 60 votes to get things through that rule. Unless he has a simple majority that wants to get rid of the filibuster. 51 or 50, plus the vice president's vote. I'm actually not quite sure if the vice president can vote on a tiebreaker in rule changes. It's never been done before. I know that should work. It would depend on, of course, the Senate parliamentarian, who is a lot like Raj from Monsters, Inc. She's always watching. Anyway, so Susan Collins of Maine is in a pretty heated election, and we're going to talk about Graham Platner, main Fuker, as he's called a little bit later. One would think, though, that it would be incumbent on Senate Majority Leader John Thune to put pressure on Collins not to be playing goofy games when she's really in a tighter race in Maine than one might think. And if she's subject to the auntschluss, then maybe she should be a little more careful. That doesn't appear to be how Thune is taking this. And that didn't get any better for Thune, uh, when President Trump finally came forward and endorsed for next week's primary Ken Paxton, the Attorney General of Texas, over incumbent Senator John Cornyn. And no one had more of a sour puss face than John Thune. So John Thune came forward to the podium and, well, here you go. Given.
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Given that you've spent months trying to encourage, persuade the president to endorse John Cornyn, the Texas primary, and given that the NRSC has invested heavily to help
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Cornyn win that primary.
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How personally disappointed or frustrated are you
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with the president's decision to endorse Ken Paxton today? Now, hold on. Before he answers, two little fun things here. The reporter asks, given that Republican committees have thrown in oodles canoodles and toaster strudels of freshly printed funds over to the Cornyn campaign. There's a reason why for that and it was a miscalculation. I said it at the time. What's your take on this? So the reason I bring that up now, Thune doesn't actually answer this. He goes in a different direction. But I wanted to let you know we're going to come back to that Jen Psaki style.
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Well, I think you all know my
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position on this issue.
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I've made it very clear for months now. And Senator Cornyn is a principal conservative.
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He is a very effective senator for
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the state of Texas. And, but I don't none of us control what the president does.
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He made his decision about that. That doesn't change the way I feel.
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And I am certainly supportive. I will continue to be supportive of Senator Cornyn and his re election. How much harder he made it to keep the majority. How much harder?
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Tony Kennett
All right, so he, he's, he's very praise like, you know, Cornyn is the reliable choice. He's, you know, he's the guy that, you know, we can rely on. He's very principled, conservative guy. Okay. He, here's the issue. A lot of people in the country, so what we're seeing right now are a lot of Americans who are starting to care more about Congress. And instead of caring about the House of Representatives or really caring about the Senate in a way that I expected them to, Americans are starting to treat Senate elections like mini presidential elections. It's very strange. It's something that I think is good for the country because if senators are going to be directly, popularly elected by their states, which was a horrible amendment to the Constitution, then obviously they should be given a lot of attention by their state. The people of Texas appear to be rather annoyed at large with the fact that Cornyn didn't go in and throw a couple of fists. Now, we're going to be talking about this hopefully by the end of the week with Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, a friend of the show and a frequent guest. People really expect you as the senator to get out there and do things. And in every state, there's one senator that everyone knows and kind of likes. And they're usually the recent senator that's elected. And, and then there's that senator in red states who everyone's like, ah, they exist. Okay, okay. So, for example, in Indiana, Senator Jim Banks is rather popular with a lot of Republicans. Senator Todd Young is not. Senator Mike Lee is popular with a lot of people. In Utah, Senator John Curtis is not. And in the same way Senator Ted Cruz does a lot of fighting on the Texas side of things, oftentimes you don't see Cornyn stepping up to the plate to doing that. And Attorney General Ken Paxton has appeared to overcome quite a bit of baggage that he brought into this. Here he was on Will Kane today right after Donald Trump gave him that DJT endorsement supreme.
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And then, of course, when he announced, when supposedly Everybody thought Ron DeSantis was going to get it and Donald Trump was in legal trouble, I showed up with Troy and Ellis to be the first two elected officials to show up at his announcement. There was no other elected official there, so we have stuck with him. John Cornyn, at the very same time was not at his trial, was criticizing Trump, Donald Trump saying he might be guilty and also suggesting that he is not, should not be our nominee and that he would go with somebody, that
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John Cornyn would go with somebody else. I mean, again, looking at the values the president looks for, Cornyn, again, is going to be kind of a boisterous fighter. Now, I'm going to be clear. I've heard all of this before. I've heard all. And by heard all this before, I mean I've heard all of the, the pearl clutching that, oh, Trump has endorsed this. Oh, with. It's going to isolate everybody. I've heard this before. And it is only true when there are competent Democrats that are facing off against the Republican. We're going to talk about that over on the live stream because James Talarico has been a bet that is not exactly panned out. Radio Crew will catch you on the flip side. It's the Tony Kinit cast. Will continue here on the live stream. So James Talarico is who the Republican Senate committees put all of their campaign funding. The Hathaway Strategies groups. You've heard me talk about this before. Hathaway Strategies is one of these Republican advisory strategy firms from Chicago. And their record, it sucks. It does. They're the same kinds of people who say, oh, you're running for mayor in a big city, then endorse abortion and gun control if you're a Republican because that's the only way that the suburban mom will vote for you. Well, it turns out it's not 2004 and elections are a bit different now in how they're carried out. So one might think that you wouldn't listen to the groups that are consistently putting up losers and you would put up someone that can both a not embarrass themselves and then be actually deliver an election. So this hasn't always been a guaranteed thing for Republicans. You may remember obviously running Dr. Oz, that did not go well in Pennsylvania. Running Herschel Walker did not go well in Georgia. I know some of you disagree with me on this. That's okay. That's fine. Kerry Lake in Arizona, these kinds of things. Running Paxton in this case is different. And the reason it's different is largely in part due to the fact that James Talarico sucks. He's not good that he was going to be the Mr. Moderate. Remember, he announced, oh, he's going to be this moderate, gently spoken, kind of evangelical Democrat. You know, the thing that exists right next to unicorns and fairy whispers. And then once we played five minutes of footage of him talking like, I think Jesus is trans and also illegal immigrants should be allowed to do whatever. And honestly, God is non binary and all this stuff, it turns out that's really not popular in Texas. And so his chances of bringing out the big voters is diminishing rather quickly. And it turns out based on the polling, Paxton's not actually polling as poorly as a lot of people think. And that's the real secret to this primary. There are a lot of people that think that, oh man, if we get rid of the Susan Collins, obviously her primary is already over. It's now Susan Collins time. If we get rid of the moderate person, no one else could possibly win. And it's the same that we saw back in the 2022 midterms as well, where, oh man, you know, we had, you know, if the populist candidate isn't on the ballot, then they're not going to win. Neither is true. The quality of the candidates do, in fact, matter a little bit more here than a lot of are giving them credit. So here's an update on the, the polling stuff because we had a couple of great questions over in the, you know, the comments section. David, Herschel Walker was your neighbor. That's wild. Wow, that's, that's a pretty cool factoid. I should stop looking at the live chat during the, during the broadcast. All right, so for Kentucky, polls have already closed. They closed at 6pm Eastern on the Senate Democrat primary side. Amy McGrath is currently up 43% the most insufferable woman not running in Indiana politics. But in Kentucky politics, Amy McGrath is up over Charles Booker at 38%. In Georgia, polls closed at 7. The biggest race tonight, and you guys may disagree with me, in the Georgia Senate primary, Mike Collins is up currently 44% to Buddy Carter's 28%. Seven percent are in. There's gubernatorial primaries on both sides. I'm not going to touch that with a ten foot pole right now. Why? Well, because I haven't done all of the reading on the gubernatorial primary side. Now, the Daily Signal has a Georgia newsletter and some reporting over there. We're going to be covering that a lot more. But I firmly disagree with covering something that I don't know enough about to give you actual news on. Alabama and Pennsylvania Polls close at 8pm 26 minutes away. Idaho polls close at 10. Oregon polls close at 11. So we'll get to some of that stuff in a bit. Before we get there, a little bit of the Capitol Hill updates from Rob Bluey. We'll cover some of the Iran developments. The British are getting involved. Yay. And a lot more. Don't go anywhere. It's the Tony Kennid cast here on the Daily Signal. Dance. Bingo. It's the Tony Kinnit cast with special guest Rob Bluey. All right, you've heard the music. It's time to bring on Rob Bluey, the president of the Daily Signal from our nation's sometimes beautiful capital. We've got a lot to talk about. We really could just run through the field on all of the things going on. The vice president, big press conference today. Tell us some of the things that we can kind of expect on the fraud investigation side from the administration.
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Rob Bluey
Well, you bet. So, Tony, as, as I'm sure that everybody remembers, Caroline Levitt is out on maternity leave after after giving birth. So the White House has a rotating crew going through and doing the press briefings in her absence as opposed to having somebody step up into that role. So the vice president obviously, as you indicated, has a pretty prominent role here when it comes to the fraud investigations that are going on in places like California and Minnesota and places like Ohio, which our very own Mahek and Rebecca Downs have covered for the Daily Signal. This is an area where I think the vice president can hopefully show some great progress. Waste, fraud and abuse has always been one of those talking points that you hear, particularly from Republican presidents. I mean, sometimes Democrats bring it up too, but they never seem to really fully get their hands around how to solve this. And put in place some controls to prevent abuse in the future. And so Vice President Vance, obviously, with political aspirations of his own for 2028, has an opportunity here, right in his home state to show that he's been able to make a difference. And I think it's the next step in the iteration of doge, which obviously had big aspirations for what it wanted to cut and make reforms to government. Well, let's actually see things happen. And that's going to be a combination, I think, of both the executive BRANCH and what J.D. vance is doing, and then Congress putting into law to make sure that these things and abuses don't happen in the future.
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Tony Kennett
Well, you started mentioning a couple of states in the middle of the country. Let's actually tackle a few of those, shall we? Obviously, of course, you have Massey's primary today. Those results are already finished by the time we're airing this, so I'm going to button my lip on that matter. But we see, of course, President Trump also endorsing Ken Paxton finally. We also see, of course, Bill Cassidy losing his primary. It looks like, at least from Texas to Louisiana, the Senate's gonna be an interesting place, even more so than it already has been for Republicans over the next couple of months over on Capitol Hill. What are your first thoughts and insights here?
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Rob Bluey
Well, Tony, the president's announcement today was a long time coming. I mean, we were expecting something shortly after the first round of voting took place in Texas. And the president decided to wait until a week before the Texas vote takes place on next Tuesday, May 26th. Obviously, this is a big boost to Ken Paxton, who was already showing a strong performance. The president always wants to be in the court of the winner. And that's, I think, ultimately what what he was waiting to see here. And he's probably feeling fairly confident that Ken Paxton's going to pull it out and defeat John Corden. John Corden is somebody who I covered when I first came to Washington to cover Congress. I believe he was first elected in 2002. He's somebody who's had his run ins with with the conservative movement in the past, but in this particular case tried to tack to the right and take some positions most recently on the Save America act that I think we're trying to shore up some of that conservative support. So I' not sure if he'll go the same way of Bill Cassidy, but it seems to be headed in that direction. But, Tony, you're absolutely right. The Senate is going to have a markedly different look when they reconvene in 2027. And that's because not only do you have a changing cast of characters among Republican senators, but you also have this new polling out from the New York Times in Siena showing that Republicans are Underwater by about 11% on the generic ballot. Now, some people say that's an outlier, but usually when you have that percentage as big as it is, that could spell trouble for some Republican incumbents like John Husted in Ohio or Dan Sullivan in, in, in Alaska or Susan Collins even in Maine, which didn't seem like a race that was necessarily going to, to be that competitive when Graham Planter was the presumed Democrat nominee.
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Tony Kennett
So I obviously diving into Graham Platner is just the wildest dive into a dumpster that one could look for. Our, our intern Andrew, has been providing updates on this dossier because the story is just getting worse and worse and worse as this election unfolds. And, and this kind of brings around an idea of what it is that in order to energize Americans to vote for Congress, first of all, you need a miracle. But saving the miracle to energize Americans about voting for Congress, you would think they need some things to go to bat for Susan Collins for in Maine on the Senate side are on the House side voting for any member of the Republican House. What do you think, based on some of the research that you're seeing, some of what our colleagues are riding over at the Daily Signal, what is it that Americans are actually looking for Congress to take a swing at doing between now and November? I've asked this question before, but these do change from time to time. So that's kind of why I hit you up for the update.
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Rob Bluey
It's a great question, Tony, and I think it's for as much as the Republicans accomplished last year with the one big beautiful bill. And it was important to do that at the time they did, because the executive branch needed time to implement all of the changes to the law, particularly tax law, and Americans saw some of the benefits, particularly when it came to their tax returns this spring. The problem is that you have so many other elements of Trump's agenda that just simply have not been legislated yet that are waiting for Congress to do something that has everything to do with energy. It has healthcare reform, obviously, we talked about it already, the Save America act and making some changes to our electoral system to secure elections. So I think those are probably the things that are most top of mind for the American people, because two of those obviously intersect with the cost of living, healthcare premiums and the cost of Energy in this country and the other being elections is consistently at the top of the chart for Republicans who believe that too many states have election laws that are not secure and lead to fraudulent voting.
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Tony Kennett
So the last factor that I wanted to dive into with you really hinges around what a lot of the larger corporate structure is doing in regard to its relationship with Congress and the White House. And it's something that we've been taking a closer look at at the Daily Signal is kind of big tech swivels around into rather interesting positions. I know Hans Zorg Weiss, the leftist Swiss billionaire, has been pumping money into kind of the anti AI side of things. And some companies that are, that used to be considered like big enemies of the right have now been trying to make amends. I feel like the field is shifting very quickly and it's shifting so fast that a lot of American voters may not know at this point really who's on whose side or really what's going on. Are there any telltale signs, anything that you know, when you kind of put your ear to the ground there in D.C. which I wouldn't recommend, the streets are not exactly very clean. When you do put your ear to the ground though, what are you hearing regarding the administration and its kind of moves toward both tech and manufacturing? Because those go hand in hand these days.
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Rob Bluey
They do. And it's one of those conflicting points because obviously a lot of the manufacture that's happening in this country is around the construction of data centers and communities which a lot of residents are opposed to. They don't want them in their backyard. And so you do have this conflict. Now the Trump administration has generally taken a hands off approach and they've told the states and our Elizabeth Mitchell has done a lot of reporting on this. This is an issue that we want to address at the national level. States should not get involved. Now that runs into some conflicts that conservatives generally believe that federalism and state should be a laboratory of democracies. And so I think that's an it is, as you indicated, an unsettled issue. What, what I'm watching and what I think all of us here in Washington D.C. will be interested to see is how do some of these big players in the AI space decide to spend their, their, their money in Washington, whether that be on lobbying or for political causes or perhaps certain political candidates, and how that ultimately shakes out as we head into the next presidential election, which is just going to be right around the corner?
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Tony Kennett
Well, these things I think are deeply fascinating because these are going to be the groups that are are bringing forward policy proposals for the executive branch side of things. And committee is, I mean, again, committees are really where everything is going to get sliced and diced over the next couple of weeks. Rob Blueie, president of the Daily Signal, thanks for giving us a couple of insights. I know it's a strange time with a lot of things shifting under your feet. But we'll be back next week for a little bit more.
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Rob Bluey
Thanks, Tony. It's always great to see you.
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Tony Kennett
All right, radio crew, we're going to send you guys over to the commercial side of things. Before we do, though, it does appear that Ed Galrain is starting to pull away pretty comfortably here, about 7,000 vote lead now with some of the stuff coming in. We're going to keep track of it over here on the live stream. See you guys. On the other side of that commercial break, it's the Tony Kinnit castle. All right, before we get over to some of the updates on, again, this whole Senate war powers resolution and where that leaves things with Iran on some of the Kentucky primary results in and of themselves, you should see some of the major network coverage. It is for a lot of those all the way from the Atlantic over to msnbc, Mississippi, now, whatever you want to call them, the candidates are a lot of the groups that have endorsed Massie because it would be a thorn in the side of President Trump are not exactly having a rather great time at the moment. And Ed Gallerin seems to be outperforming
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almost in all of the districts you're seeing so far, with the exception of
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Tony Kennett
the small district you just. Yeah.
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And the question mark here in Oldham county, just because, you know, Massey did
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Tony Kennett
a little bit better with that update.
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But again, Massey needs to be winning. They're not coming close. Well, we have, we have you all night. And if people are wondering, what's that big stick? That's the Kornacki cam.
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Tony Kennett
Oh, excellent. I mean, the big stick. I'm so excited. Thank you very much, NBC News. So, again, there's some other stuff. The chart guy on Ms. Now is currently pointing out that Massie isn't delivering in the suburbs of Cincinnati and then Louisville, where he's going where he really needs to. But again, we'll get to that here in a couple of moments. Actually, no, I think actually producer Josiah has come through. We have this for you right here and right now. So really good stuff. Thanks to my producer crew who's doing an excellent job of pulling some of these things here for us on the show. Yeah, excellent, excellent. Bizarre to be Fair, but some excellent stuff. Check it out.
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Up to a quarter of the vote
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Tony Kennett
now in Kentucky for here.
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What we just got a big one here. We said that third county right outside
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Tony Kennett
Cincinnati where Massie, the pressure really is
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on Massie to start producing some numbers here. We're getting the early vote from there. And you can see again, it's a
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Tony Kennett
continuation of this trend. Gowrine leading by nine points in that early vote here.
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And again, remember right next door in
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Tony Kennett
Kenton, this is where the night started.
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Gowrine leading there and in Boone, the
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Tony Kennett
biggest in the district, Gal rhein leading
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by 15 points there.
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Tony Kennett
Now you don't hear me calling anything yet. And that is for a couple of reasons. Number one, because we use kind of a blend of the AP and the decision desk headquarters along with a couple of other minor outliers that don't normally play into local elections like this for our results. And number two, because it's not been called yet, I mean I'm still, I'm going to hold my tongue better that I wait a little bit and I don't impress you with the, you know, the first call in this per instance and then not be proven wrong later. So far again, yes, Gal Rhein is performing above what was expected according to some of these outlet projections. Also significantly, we just got some more
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vote here out of Oldham County. Remember what we said about Oldham here, this is the wealthiest county in Kentucky.
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Tony Kennett
This has a lot of those voters,
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you know, professional class, college educated voters, suburbs of Louisville. And you can see here the update. If you remember earlier, it was a
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Tony Kennett
wider margin with the initial vote out of here.
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So what's come in since Massie's done better here. Massie needs to be winning Oldham county if he's going to have a chance tonight. He needs to win Oldham, he needs to win next door here in Shelby county and he's got to come up with a win.
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Tony Kennett
You know, up here he's got to win the election day vote up here
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in the Cincinnati suburbs because elsewhere, you
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Tony Kennett
know what we've seen come in, we've
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seen some new votes come in. These are small rural counties here. But again everything is kind of going. These small rural counties, you think of them as pro Trump and they've been delivering for Trump's candidates tonight.
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Tony Kennett
That's the wrong way to view. Sorry, just to break from him, it says, oh, these rural county is pro Trump. That's not why. We'll talk about this in a second. We got to bring the radio crew back from commercial one more time. It's the Tony Kennett Gas. Don't go anywhere. Tons more tonight. This is the tony kennett cast on 93 wibc. All right. We've got plenty to discuss tonight. We're keeping an eye on the primary election in Kentucky's 4th. We're keeping an eye on those Pennsylvania polls, the Georgia polls, which are again starting to deliver some things. But we're not quite there yet for the deep dive. So Georgia closed at 7pm Eastern. We've got Alabama and Pennsylvania at 8 and then Idaho and Oregon out there at 10 and 11 Eastern, respectively. So let's dive into some of the other big news here because there's plenty to touch on. If the Senate War Powers Resolution has now advanced 50 to 47, is it finally going to make it out of the House? And does that or does this mean that we're going to see some type of move from the president either to speed things up or try to back things down? So far, it doesn't appear that the Trump administration is trying to hustle things up. I don't think they were expecting that Bill Cassidy was going to flip today. But at least as far as the current situation stands, According to the Wall street journal, citing three U.S. officials, the United States seized an Iran linked oil tanker in the Indian Ocean overnight, per the report. The tanker in question, the Skywave, was targeted by US Sanctions subordinate to Operation Economic Fury. The Majestic X and the Tefani were also seized by the US in the Indian Ocean back in April, according to a release from United States Central Command. The current blockade in the Persian Gulf, the Strait of Hormuz, traveling to and from the Iranian ports, 89 vessels have so far been redirected. And this involves a lot of helicopters getting up close and personal and delivering a little bit of kinetic love or love taps, as the president has referred to them. So U.S. central Command has suggested that Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis are cut off from Iran's weapons supply and support. So far that appears to be true. In the House, the Central Command, again, Admiral Bradley Cooper appearing before the House was a really bizarre series of moves from the Democrats. So, so again, to kind of talk about how things should be carried out with prestige and grace and all of those things, principles, as they say. Normally you don't attack those who are actually serving in the positions. You attack the politicals. So in an administration, you have those who are hired to a position or promoted on the military side because they are considered officers with dignified service. And then you have politicals, those who are appointed who are nominated and confirmed by the President of the United States and the Senate. The politicals are usually. Who's up for the old slice and dice on the committee side? It's not usually normal, at least it wasn't until the last decade or so to start going after normal members of the military because they serve under Commander in Chief Donald Trump. So Democrat Representative Seth Moulton, whose hobbies include being a thumb and being the target of a meme about Jimmy John's. That's another story for another time. Here he is going after Admiral Bradley Cooper of centcom and some rather just egregious stuff. Here you go.
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Of the straight open. The President has called for unconditional surrender. Is that part of the plan? Congressman, we achieved all our military objectives. We're presently in a ceasefire, we're executing a blockade, and we're prepared for a broad range of contingencies. Well, it doesn't seem to be going well. And I would like to know, okay,
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Tony Kennett
so he said it doesn't seem to be going well. So again, right now, what's going on as far as the intelligence reports from the United States have confirmed? Yes, it's actually going rather well. So if you take yourself out of it for just a second, just a second, and accepting that here at home, yes, people in the United States are hit with some higher gas prices and there are some other issues on the economic side, as far as a military perspective is concerned. This is probably one of the most successful complete diplomatic and military routes that we've seen. The IRGC is cut off from itself. Iran is cut off from its proxies, although the Internet blackout is still in existence. Iran is issuing totally different statements each and every day. A ton of their military capacity is gone. Their entire naval capacity, their air force capacity that Pakistan wasn't sheltering is gone. And the economic blockade by Iranian sources, not just the economic assessments from the United States and Europe and Africa and the other Middle Eastern countries, says that the administration, the regime in Iran is completely wrecked by this economic blockade. So again, if you're going to go into all of this and hit up the Admiral on some things, you don't have to make up stuff to hit people with. There are things that a lot of Republicans have questions about. Absolutely. And you should have questions and you should get answers. But just saying that, like, just lying about how we're doing is, is really, really bizarre. It's, it doesn't play well with the American voter as we're seeing play out in, for example, a lot of primaries across the country. But Seth Moulton doesn't know that. So anyway, we're doing really terribly, oh so horribly, I mean, just awful. The worst war ever.
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How many more Americans we have to
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Tony Kennett
ask to die for this mistake? How many more have to die? Stop it. That's disgusting. That is a disgusting thing to say. First of all, as a clarification here, those in the United States military and I know because I have seen members of the United States military, I have seen conventionals, friends of mine up close who have been shot and who have died, every single one of those individuals who I knew, two of whom they're in right in my mind at this exact time, genuinely, clearly and specifically volunteered, understanding that is a risk that is to be carried out for the United States and to use that as a political. How many more have to. Your pearl clutching menopause is disgusting and it is noted. So then we'll have you. Cooper's response.
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No.
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Tony Kennett
How many more Americans we have to ask to die for this mistake?
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Do you know, I think it's an entirely inappropriate statement from you, sir.
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Tony Kennett
With all duer, it's not a statement, it's a.
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You're not Rick.
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Tony Kennett
Some, just some disgusting, some disgusting stuff. So again, regarding the foreign policy stuff, we'll cover some more of that here kind of in a bit. One last little update I should say before we send the radio crew off to the commercial break. I know you guys have been waiting for this. I know you've been on hand. You just bounce in on the balls of your feet in excitement. The edge of your seat has become just your seat. The Royal Navy is finally, finally entering the Persian Gulf and perhaps about to take part in reopening the Strait of Hormuz. Yeah, I know you were so excited. So the, the Royal Navy destroyer, the HMS Dragon, the one that had to turn around twice like an angry parent driving a minivan in this case because the HMS Dragon appears to be made out of duct tape and urinal cakes, had to go back to get repaired twice before it finally made its way now through the Suez Canal and is headed towards the Strait of Hormuz. So there are a couple of other information points here that are probably necessary to note. The biggest achievement for the Trump administration on the diplomatic side here is first of all, the UAE leaving opec, The United States shifting a lot of its military cooperation from Israel to the uae, diversifying and expanding partnerships. The Saudis, the uae, Bahrain, Qatar, casting out the Iranians and kind of reshaping global power. The Abraham Accords, Trump's big diplomatic and economic vision for the region coming into play early. And now what might be an actual coalition attack against Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz permanently. That is going to be something. So we'll see. It is just may. We'll, we'll see how that proceeds on the energy side, because a lot of you have asked questions about this. Here is Energy Secretary Chris Wright talking about some of the things that the Trump administration is doing, again, because they're not Congress. So Congress does have the ability to change a lot of things permanently regarding oil production, gas production, refining, how that's distributed, transportation rules and regulations. The executives can only do so much. But here is Chris Wright talking about what it is the administration can do from the DOE side. Tell us about your See, that's the issue. That's what the clip I played earlier when I replaced the Ilhan Omar thing. See, I'm figuring out where it is that I replace things. Give me a second here. I'll find that particular clip from Energy Secretary Wright in just a little bit. Radio Crew, I know that you guys are on your way out for the evening. And on that particular matter, head over to the Tony Kennett cast. It's on Daily Signal. You can find that YouTube.com daily signal and there's a ton of excellent stuff you can find over there. And we'll kind of send you guys off just a bit earlier. On the radio side this evening. It's the Tony Kinnit cast here on the Daily Signal. We're going to continue on the live stream right now. All right, I got that other clip. Sorry about that. Here you go.
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Under President Trump's leadership, you know, we're at record US Oil production today, record refining capacity. We changed the blending requirements this summer to allow us to produce even more gasoline than we would normally produce for the peak summer driving season. And with 30 other nations around the world, we've released extra crude in the market during this disruption because, yes, there is a disruption. Prices are higher than they would otherwise be. But I think President Trump summarized it well, this is a price we're all having to pay, but the cost of inaction is vastly, vastly larger than this price.
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Tony Kennett
Now, he is correct. And the other reason I had to send the radio crew away for what I would argue is a pretty good reason is because I get to play the we are now prepared to make our official call here. Galrain, Ed Galrain has been declared the winner in Kentucky's 4th House District. So with 72% of that vote in, 74% in now it is Gal Rain so far, 45,623 to Thomas Massey's 38,245 so far. With these array of calls in from the Associated Press, from the decision desk headquarters, a couple of other secondary outlets reporting this, Ed Galrain has triumphed and he has kicked out Thomas Massie, the incumbent. So a lot of analysis is going to come out here, there and everywhere. I'm going to step in right up front and point out as far as the NBC graphist, you know, election analyst, whatever was saying he mentioned, well, these rural counties are really coming out for Trump. The Republican Party in Kentucky comes out for Trump. That's a known thing. Not surprising. Shouldn't be surprising to you, me or anybody in the sisterhood of the traveling pants. However, what's important here is what I posited today to John Bachmann over on Newsmax, which is if the people of Kentucky have paid attention to Thomas Massie's voting record all the way from the youths to our very dear baby boomers, if they have paid attention to Thomas Massie's voting record, what they have seen on media time and time and time again is that you had all of these Republicans who voted for something and then Thomas Massie and then all of these Republicans would vote for something on fiscal policy and it was never good enough. It's not. Well, you know, there are some libertarian leaning members of the Republican caucus in the House and they know that you can't always get what you want, you know, that kind of a thing. But you're going to do what is best to accomplish things incrementally. Thomas Massey didn't have that approach unless you gave him everything, then he was going to vote no. And then after a couple of months of just voting no, no, no, no, no. And again, I used to be friendly with Thomas Massie after he voted no several times, I reached out to Thomas Massie in kind of in a direct message and I said, hey, why just like continually voting no on everything, what's the purpose? And the answer that he gave me is he said things are in motion. Three words, things or forward? Things are in motion. That was all he gave me. That's really the last the two of us have spoken now since then. I did say a couple of things. He was hit with a bizarre kind of sexual scandal allegation that I didn't think had a lot of merit to it at all. And I said that because Victoria Spartz office in Indiana, who I guess the accusation went that he was accused of collaborating with Victoria Spartz to pay an NDA to a lady that Massie got a job for that he started flirting with and dating after his wife passed away. And I said that accusation was gross. I didn't like it. And Victoria Sparks, her staff don't often stay for very long because Victoria is very, very, very intense. So it's not uncommon for, like, the whole NDA thing on that side. Regarding Massie, though, when you get in front of the American people after voting no against President Trump a ton of times, and you say it's because there are pedophiles everywhere, pedophiles and Israel and the Jews. O and then right before the election, you take a big hugging photo with the guy with, like, the American Reich sweatshirt on. Dude. So Thomas Massie now appearing to go on the same Marjorie Taylor Greene new respect. There you go. Now again, Ed Gallerain. Is he exciting? Is he like, oh, wow, incredible. No. But again, for a member of the House, you don't necessarily need to be. And I say that regarding my own Representative Jefferson Shreve. The man's not out there giving huge speeches, but when I send a couple of messages into his office and the man actually goes over a couple of things, I mean, hey, he did say, and I quote, piss off, end quote, to Maria Salazar regarding the Dignidad act, the Dignity act of 2025 and now 2026. So we're gonna talk a little bit about that here in just a couple of minutes because we actually got one of the co sponsors for the Dignity Act, Marlon Stutzman from Indiana's third, again, one of the co sponsors of the Dignity act, into an interview. And we got to ask a couple of questions like, hey, a lot of stuff in this bill sucks. Why co sponsor it? What kind of calculus do you make? And we end up getting into something that I think has not been revealed as news yet. So that's coming up in just a couple of minutes. But before we get to that, I wanted a chance to talk about some of the kind of cultural moves over on the left side of the aisle because it's not just Republican primary stuff this evening. It's now 8.02-which means that all of the polls have now closed for what's the net? Was it, was it Georgia that that is that has closed its, its polls so far this evening? I thought that was the list that I had up. No, excuse me. Alabama closed its polls at 8. Georgia closed its polls at 7. Pennsylvania also closed its polls. My team is feeding me some fantastic election data. Coming in here. So I'm going to keep an eye on that. But. Oh, well, yeah, I mean, producer Josiah has just informed me on the whole strange new respects thing. And ms, now Democrat on the panel is literally saying that Massey is going to be on the, quote, right side of history, end quote. Well, there you go. So before we get to that, a little bit more on some of the bizarre, very, very bizarre stuff on the left side of the aisle. So Gavin Newsom on the California side has made it clear that we need to stand up and if we don't, we're gonna, we're gonna lose our country if we don't stand up and, and fight fire with fire. Oh, exciting stuff from. From Gavin Newsom. Here you go. We have agency. We have a responsibility. It's just like the issue of redistricting. We could have decided it to write an op ed. We could have decided, you know, hold
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Co-host/Guest Commentator
hands, have a candlelight visual, win the argument.
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Tony Kennett
These guys are ruthless on the other side. I mean, sure, when I look at the actual crimes on the political matter, what I see is Republicans consistently that are being attacked and gunned down and are the target of political based violence because the left accuses them of social murder. I mean, as we're going to get to here in a second, you have guys like Graham Platner, who, while pushing this really bizarre LGBTQ2IA stranger agenda kind of a thing, you've got the openly calling for violent revolution. Gavin Newsom knows exactly what he's doing here. Trump's not screwing around and nor can we. Yeah, it's uncomfortable. Fighting fire with fire. Yes, we all want the better angels. Yes, we want the Sorkin sound and music, a little West Wing. I do. But we'll lose our country. We will lose our country. That is the stage set for midterms. That's the argument that's gonna be made. It's yet another. We're all gonna die if we don't get out there. And if we don't win this election, then it's stolen. And Republicans, they stole it from us, the precious, and we have to get out there and burn it all down. Can I get a Kenosha in a Minneapolis? So that brings us over to Maine of all godforsaken places. Graham Platner is just a real, real special character. So we've talked about him a little bit on the show before. This is the guy who Elizabeth Warren has chosen as her golden pony boy here. I'm here today because I've just endorsed Graham Platner for Senate in May. Yeah, the lady who's considered awful by everyone, and especially those of us who are actually cherokee and not 1124th whatever nonsense. So this is their new golden boy. This is going to beat Susan Collins in Maine, which again, given Susan Collins record, not exactly thrilling. Should be a. Simply, should be a pretty simple tactic. Instead, Graham Platner is who the Democrats are putting forward, who has some of the most insane, easy to knock down baggage that one could possibly find. And the Democrats have been suckered into going with this man because he fights. He gets out there and he fights well. What's the kind of stuff that he gets out there and fights? Well, he echoes a lot of the same nonsense that we heard coming from Representative Massie in Kentucky.
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Like right now, the Trump administration breaks the law every single day. The Trump administration does not use funds have been appropriated by Congress by law. The Trump administration has started, by the
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Tony Kennett
way, that that whole thing that the Trump administration is using appropriated funds illegally. That's, that's not true. I mean, really. I sat down and I'm usually pretty skeptical when it comes to the Trump administration using money every which way from Sunday correctly. I looked through. And by the way, the lady that he's interviewing with is Lulu Garcia Navarro. I had the opportunity to sit next to her on a CNN panel less than a month ago and we got a chance to actually talk about her interviews with Graham Platner that were upcoming and then with Tucker Carlson. And it was very strange to watch on the panel as we were talking about Graham Platner's wild history. And I mean a yikes history if there ever was one. It was a bit fascinating for me to see Lulu essentially go from, well, I mean, you know, he's kind of a Democrat. Shouldn't we kind of, you know, stand up and stick together to watching him say these things?
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What I would call an unconstitutional war overseas in Iran. You know, there are.
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Tony Kennett
The Trump administration has been sending ice
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out to terrorize American communities and murder American citizens with at this point, no accountability.
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Tony Kennett
What I want to see is a
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creative use of constitutional power.
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Tony Kennett
Okay? A creative. A creative use of constitutional power. Again, the same thing. You blend Thomas Massie with Gavin Newsom together. Really bizarre stuff. There you go. Now Graham Platner gets a lot of, a lot worse. And you can see this in a different Lulu interview over at the New York Times. There are controversial statements also on social media. You posted over 1800 comments under the username P Hustle from 2009 to November 2020. 1. And some of them are objectively concerning. You said roll Mainers are racist and stupid. You said that sexual assault victims should take responsibility for themselves. This all came out in the national press. Yeah. Why didn't you disclose this stuff first?
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I mean, we did. We. We released all of the comments.
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Tony Kennett
You did not, by the way. When people came to us, they're like,
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oh, we've got these very. We've got a couple little ones. And we were like, I mean, there's
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Tony Kennett
a lot more than a couple.
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So we just put everything out there.
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Tony Kennett
You did delete them though, before the campaign launched.
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Co-host/Guest Commentator
I deleted them a while ago.
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Tony Kennett
All right, so. So they were. Oh, we actually came forward after we were caught with everything. Then we were releasing. So what are these things? I mean, just some bizarre, very weird things that are rather concerning. So praising. So again, this guy again with his, his totem cough tattoo that he can't. He said, oh, we all got him. We were in the Marines. He can't list any of the other guys in his unit who got this supposed tattoo. Oh, and we couldn't even list anyone from his unit in general because he's also called the Marines, like a terrible organization. This violent macho organization. All this other nonsense and PTSD totally made him like, say racist stuff. And Also in one March 2017 post, Platner responded to a discussion about nostalgic military smell. Guys, there's a lot of nostalgic smells when it comes to the military. There are some that everyone. I mean, the awful cancer causing smell of burning, just the burn pits. I mean, I mean, the smell of an, of an Afghani Haji Mart is something you'll never quite forget. While that air conditioner, that's, that's. That 18th generation air conditioner is trying its hardest to keep up with the day outside. That kind of a thing, you know, and then the same owner who calls everyone colonel no matter what anyway, so like, those kinds of things, they are endeared to you. Here's his like, big nostalgia thing. The smell of like Porta Potties, he says. And this is, this is a rather gross thing. So he's like, I still have to. He's. I still have to jerk off every time I sit in a Porta. The blue water smell conditioned me. So saying that, like you. You feel the need to masturbate whenever you're in a Porta Potty. Nope, that's gonna be a no from me, dog.
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Co-host/Guest Commentator
Ew.
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Tony Kennett
Um, also, people have been mocking this all day because, you know, it's kind of really Creepy and disgusting. So who comes out to defend him over this? Senator Ruben Gallego of Arizona. I'm not joking. He said, did Fox News even talk to any grunt or deployed Marine before they posted this? If the goal is to make him more re. Relatable to veterans, then mission accomplished. Guys, I, look, I know there are a lot of times where there are those who are in service or have been in service, whether contract or conventional, that have participated in gross things that are kind of commonly understood. Guys running around and saying, oh, hey, I do the really weird nasty thing is not endearing. It's not endearing. The whole Amy Schumer style of comedy where you run out there and like, you know what's really disgusting? My vagina. And then like, you're supposed to clap for that. Is that like, supposed to endear people? Gross. And of course, then there's all of his, his bizarre turn towards like the, the weird LGBTQ plus 2 IA nonsense. Now there are a lot of suspicions about this man and that thing. I'm not going to get into those because, because I, I don't have, you know, firm evidence of this just yet. But on this particular matter, while we, while we're on kind of, you know, this general idea here, what would, you know, what would you say if you found out that some of America's biggest companies, the ones that you use and support, are paying for gender transition drugs and surgeries for kids? Of course. This kind of thing is really happening. So our friends at the Alliance Defending Freedom are doing something about it. Companies like American Express and Home Depot appear to cover irreversible experimental gender transition procedures for minors in their employee health care plans. The very kind of plans that senator candidate running for office guys like Graham Platner want to federally enshrine as available. What would this mean? It means that kids would be able to get puberty blockers, cross sex hormones, life altering surgeries. And the companies that some of you guys support are currently footing the bill. It has to stop. And there is something that you can do about it. Sign the Alliance Defending Freedoms petition telling corporate America to stop covering these procedures. Your voice will be heard by leaders at these major companies whose decision to end coverage for these procedures could impact other companies across the country. Visit joinadf.comtony or text T O N Y Tony to 83848 to sign the petition today. So on the last kind of note on the really creepy, gross Graham Platner stuff, again, this is their guy that they have decided to make their, their front runner. Boy, that's going to fight for the election upcoming. He just openly endorses violent revolution and communist stuff. I mean, openly, clearly endorses it. Here was a clip that has been making the rounds consistently. It's an audio clip where he's just calling for, yeah, I mean, you know, violent revolution. In this case, it's necessary.
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Co-host/Guest Commentator
Welcome back to Levittime.
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Tony Kennett
I'm still on the road speaking with Graham platner.
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Co-host/Guest Commentator
I do 100% believe that a political
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Tony Kennett
revolution is entirely necessary. Yeah, Bernie does too. So he makes this statement, oh, I think, you know, political revolution, violent revolution. This stuff's very, very important here. Political revolution. In all of the comments he's made about political revolution in its entirety, he has stated that this kind of fight, this political revolution needs to inherently be done with a good semiautomatic rifle on the communist side, this being the Kalashnikov side of things. And again said, you know, according to a Newsweek article, as he became older, you just kind of embraced the whole communist thing. So best of luck to them with this. The other side of the left is still very hell bent on keeping a lot of the borders open as quickly as possible. Now, one of the things that's come into a lot of Republican scorn, and I'd say rightfully so, includes the Dignity Act. So a lot of elements, of course, Maria Salazar of Florida has brought forward the Dignity act as being this measure that she claims is, oh, it's never been about amnesty. It's not about amnesty at all. Now there are some other Republicans that have co signed on this piece of legislation and we sat down to talk with Representative Marlon Stutzman to go into some of the details because he claims there are a couple of things that are in this bill, while a lot of them he didn't add that are still good and a plan for a lot of the garbage that's still in there and what he expects to happen to them. So we're going to swing out, we're going to come back in and cover that interview and then when we come back in from that, a couple of details. Because if you listen to this interview, there are a few bits of interest that I, I think you'll. No one's reported on these yet, at least that I can hear. Then we'll cover some of the other electoral results as they come in. Don't go anywhere. Tons. Tonight, it's the Tony Kinid cast here on the Daily section signal. It's the Tony Kenneth cast on 93 WYPC. We go over to Representative Marlon Stutzman of Indiana's third good to have you. Representative, Great to be with you today.
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Co-host/Guest Commentator
Thanks for having me.
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Tony Kennett
So there's a lot of stuff that we can dive into. I haven't seen a ton in the last couple of weeks on some of the Dignity act stuff making its way through committee. I know there's a lot of contention on this. What's the status of that bill kind of at the moment, and is it going to get brought up or is this kind of going to fade away?
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Co-host/Guest Commentator
Well, Tony, a lot of this is going to depend on President Trump. You know, President Trump has been the strongest voice on closing the border, which I have supported. We have needed to secure the border for a long time. And, you know, unfortunately, President BIDEN Let in 10 million American, 10 million illegals into America during his presidency. And so now we're dealing with the aftermath and what to do. So really, the Dignity act is still being we're getting co sponsors, we're explaining it. And one of the things that one of the reasons I was willing to sign on to it is that it doesn't give citizenship, it doesn't give amnesty. And, and that's what I think is important here, is that while people are here in this country illegally, if we're going to deport them, we should start deporting because it's there's 20 million illegals in the United States, roughly, that's what we estimate. And but in the Dignity act, the 10 million that came in under Joe Biden, they would not be eligible to stay. They would still be subject to deportation. But it's those who were here before, during the Trump administration, one and before that, that would have some sort of path to legalization, not a path to citizenship.
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Tony Kennett
So one of the things that, that I wanted to ask you about regarding that, because the last time that you and I actually got a chance to chat, you know, we were in Fort Wayne talking about some of this stuff back when it was still right in the public view. On, on the matter of citizenship, there's kind of two things that I wanted to bring up to your your question here. So the first is if we give individuals here who have come in illegally a path to stay for a while even though they're not given citizenship, doesn't this, as it's clearly alluded to by some other co sponsors of the bill, doesn't this give an opportunity for Democrats at some other point to say, well, they're already here, so we might as well make them citizens anyway? I mean, we've seen this with making drugs that were higher on the schedule list, a lot lower, because after all, it's already been reduced. So now why not reduce it even further? We've seen it on carrying out certain sentences for less harsh punishments before. Why aren't we going to see maybe this kind of, kind of like permission structure carried on in, in the further.
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Co-host/Guest Commentator
Well, I mean, there's always going to be others that have a different opinion than I do. And that's why I think we as conservatives should address this matter rather than letting the Democrats. If we let the Democrats handle this, they will let every person that came in under the Biden administration have a pathway to citizenship. I do not believe they should have a path to citizenship. There will be Democrats that will likely support the Dignity act currently hoping they can get to that point. But I'll tell you, Tony, if we play this right and we do this right, with President Trump's strong leadership, we can be sure that those who came here illegally that the Democrats let in, you know, flooding into this country, they will never have a chance to vote in the elections. That's why the Democrats did what they did. They wanted to change this country fundamentally. Letting the illegals come in, make them Democrat voters. And if you watch Democrats today, they go to the wall, they will shut the government down for illegals, thinking that someday they can change them into voters. That's why I believe we, as conservatives and Republicans, we should fix this matter rather than letting them.
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Tony Kennett
So this is something that fascinates me because Congress is a mess, right? And you do actually have to make sure that there are bills that you negotiate on, that you try to be diplomatic on, that you get things through in order to achieve a number of things that you're looking to fix for you. I know we've talked about this. It's national security, meaning that those who are here, we need to see who they are. They came in, we have no record of them. That is obviously, as we've seen in a number of horrific incidents, they were here illegally. We really had no idea who they are or where they have been for years. That's an issue. The question that I have is what is the standard that you set? This is different from every representative. I'm really just curious to kind of get inside your head here. The author of this bill, like the actual original author, before you had co sponsored, had originally set this up as the pathway for the 22 million to citizenship. And we've seen this, you know, back in 2017, that was the figure. Then there's Also, language in the bill that says that the Secretary of Homeland Security can essentially just waive whatever parts of the bill that they want in order to do things. Essentially what I'm saying is there's a lot of weird poison pills that got thrown in that didn't come from your pet pen. And I know because I can see whose pen added it to the bill. Yeah. How do you make the choice? And again, this fascinates me. I'm not looking for a specific answer here. How do you choose which legislation to sign on with even though people are going to be tossing in poison pills or, or garbage revisions or amendments that are just silly? How do you weigh those kind of things when you're, you're signing on to this?
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Co-host/Guest Commentator
Yeah. Well, you know, here's a couple of things that I would say to that, is that, please, first of all, if we let, as I said, if we let the Democrats handle any sort of immigration policy, they're going to make it open free citizenship to anybody they want to make them voters. That's why I think we as Republicans, we as conservatives with President Trump right now, we need to fix this matter before Democrats take control. And they will change the fabric of Texas, they will change the fabric of Arizona, Nevada, the swing states that have a lot of Latino voters. I believe Latino voters primarily they are religious, they're family oriented, they are hard working. Many of them came here. It's very difficult and expensive to get through the process. I think that's designed and it should be that way. But because of what's happened and the fact that we're at 4% unemployment, if we deport 20 million people, 10 million people, there's going to be a vacuum, especially where I come from in northeast Indiana. We have agriculture, we have manufacturing, we have hospitality. And the economy has absorbed those people into the workforce. Well, that's not the way that it should have been done. The federal government failed us as citizens by allowing this to happen. I'll blame the Democrats. The Democrats failed us and that's why it's a cleanup process right now. So I look at this, there's several principles. No citizenship, let's take the politics out of it. No ability to vote ever. And yes, could a Congress down the road change that? Absolutely. But that's why I think we need to step ahead now and get in front of this before we do let another Congress change it to open up for citizenship and for voting. But also the federal government needs to handle this matter. I had four men who were killed in Indiana, in my district by a truck driver who was from Ukraine, who was illegal. He wasn't even supposed to be in this country. He got a cdl, he got a driver's license in Pennsylvania. And so if we're going to let states, sanctuary states like California, Pennsylvania and other states, Illinois, New York, they'll all do it. They'd be happy to do it. If they do it, then we're going to have a patchwork quilt of people who are here illegally. We don't know who they are, why they're here, do they have criminal backgrounds? The federal government and us, as conservative Republicans, we need to fix this and not let the liberal Democrats.
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Tony Kennett
I think that one of the bizarre things that I've seen in this entire situation that's unfolded is almost kind of this false bifurcation, kind of an either or, the idea that obviously we're on a ticking clock. Yes. If Republicans don't solve the immigration system now, then when the other hands are on the wheel, it's going to be a disaster. Absolutely and clearly correct. But one of the questions that I've gotten kind of in response to this bill and some others kind of along the same line is we're kind of forcing an either or at a time when that may not be necessary. Are there not a number of Republicans who aren't putting forward some of the measures that are poison pills and some good legislation that your office has written? And this is one of the things that, again, I'm not even asking. I'm not asking you to throw anybody under the bus, although I really want to. You know, this is one of the things.
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Co-host/Guest Commentator
Give me some examples. I'd be happy to talk about that.
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Tony Kennett
Yeah, sure, sure. So. So one of the, One of the positions here, and I'm just looking through my notes here because I didn't want to just show up and talk from the hip here. So one of the, One of the provisions in the bill does not allow Immigration Customs Enforcement to carry out deportations, not just, you know, at areas in your polling places, but a number of institutions. So anywhere that social welfare may be given out, and that includes places that sell based on ebt. I mean, so like all convenience stores and grocery stores and schools are now off of. See, you didn't write that, and I know you didn't write that. So, so it frustrates me to see, like, actual decent measures that I understand that are. That are worthwhile in cataloging and orienting being written with. Again, as I already mentioned, the. Oh, excuse me. As I already mentioned, the Secretary of Homeland Security essentially being able to decide on a whim that someone doesn't qualify to be deported. I mean, these are. These are bizarre things. How do you argue about these things behind closed doors in the author? And yeah, is there a point that it would become so egregious that you might pull sponsorship, like that kind of thing?
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Co-host/Guest Commentator
I would say right now that the Department of Homeland Security is making decisions daily on people that they're not deporting that are here illegally, because they are arresting people who are here illegally and they're going through a process and they're not deporting them immediately. And so I think that's already happening. I don't like that language. I don't think that the Department of Homeland Security director should have that sort of power. They need to follow the law that we pass. And that's the thing, is the bill moves through committee and then gets to the floor of the House or of course, goes through the Senate. I'm not going to get everything that I want. But I think that at the end of the day, the principles that we need to really follow for here, no citizenship. There's got to be fees. I want to see a sponsorship program. I want to see the farmer in Indiana say, you know what, I'll sponsor this. This person and his family, because I know them. They've worked for me for 10 years. Maybe they came over on a work visa and they overstayed their visa. I've had farmers who haven't filled out the paperwork correctly for people who were here illegally. And they said, well, we're going to take our chances. And, you know, I tell them, you're breaking the law, just so you know that. But people are saying, well, it's so hard to go out and then to come back in. They didn't want to take that chance. They're going to be separating their families. You know, their kids are here. The kids are legal, but the parents are not. You know, I know a situation where, you know, a family came over from Mexico 20 some years ago. The son was 2 years old. He is now here. His father's gone. He was on daca. Now he's not eligible for DACA anymore. He says, I don't even know where they would send me. So I think that, you know, every situation is a little different, but I want to stick to those basic principles. No citizenship. You cannot, we cannot reward illegal crossings with citizenship. That's just a deal breaker for me. And I think that that's where most people in the country would be at as well, but I think that. But, you know, there's a lot of people here that would say they can stay as long as they don't have a criminal background. They can prove that they've been here for, you know, five plus years. And also they're going to pay back taxes. And the other piece that I'm going to fight for is that they can't be on welfare. You can't come here and then just go right on the welfare program. You have to come here and work. If you're not here working, then you might as well go back.
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Tony Kennett
The reason that I, that I bring this up and that I ask you these things specifically is not only because obviously it's very important that, you know, we ask about certain pieces of legislation that are being brought through, of course, and that's obviously something that we do. But I will admit to being deeply fascinated by how the strategy works when it comes to putting a bill forward, signing on to a bill, because in this case, as you've discussed, actually expecting that some of the worst in this bill is going to be cut off or cut out by committees and then the House floor as it moves through, that in and of itself is, Is something no one talks about because obviously could bring you on. We could do a big adversarial interview or we could just do a big Palin morale interview, whatever, of course, as every radio and TV interview is want to do. But to actually get inside your head for a minute and say, so you know, that some of these things you didn't write are not preferable. You know, some of the individuals that have put it in. But what, what's behind the calculation of the risk that the House committees that this is going to go through into the floor and then over to the Senate is going to amend this so that those bad things that, you know, are objectively unacceptable get cut off. That's fascinating. It is. And that's valuable because it gives a little bit of insight to why decisions are made past the Facebook rumor mill, if that makes any sense at all.
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Co-host/Guest Commentator
Sure. No, absolutely. I mean, you know, one of the things, when I first started looking at the Dignity act, previous drafts of the bill had citizenship as a, as a part of that, that. And I told Congresswoman Maria Salazar I absolutely would not sign on to the bill, but she wanted my support because I told her of the situations that I have within agriculture and manufacturing, the economic side. And I want to try to find some sort of solution here. But if we agree as a country that we want 20 million people deported, I mean, then that's the decision. And I will support that decision, but I think it's very difficult to deport. I mean, we've deported about 2 million so far. The other thing that I would point out is because, and it was President Trump made such a great line, I think it was maybe during his State of the Union to Congress, that we have had basically zero illegal crossings at the border. And he said it wasn't that we needed new laws, it was that we needed a new president. So President Trump has proven, along with our amazing border patrol, that we can control the border. I mean, we've got, we're the greatest military in the world. We're the greatest country in the world. We can surely control our own borders. Democrats don't want that. Republicans do. Let's control our borders. And then those who are here in the country illegally, they need to be processed. We need to know who they are. They need to be registered, because if they're here illegally without any proper documentation, they're going to have fake IDs, and they're going to end up causing problems across the country. And, and so if someone does it commits any crime, they should be arrested whether they're a citizen or not a citizen, either way, and then they can be processed accordingly. But that's why I think the federal government has to continue to follow this out and say, okay, now if, you know, we're going to deport as many as we can. And again, the Dignity act requires all those who came during the Biden administration to be deported. They would not be eligible for the process. It was only for Trump one and before, which is estimated to be about 10 million people. But that's why I think, you know, inside my head, I am not going to support any sort of pathway to citizenship. I will support something that, with a work sponsor, if there are people that are here working, they cannot be on welfare. They, they should find it a privilege just to stay. Residents pay all the penalties. Correct?
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Tony Kennett
Yeah. Well, Representative Marlon Stutzman, thank you for giving us more than a couple minutes here. And, and again, I know it's kind of a strange way to walk through this, but that's what I ordered from the kitchen. That, that's the kind of thing that, that I, I, I think is, is really worthwhile when it comes to walking through these things, because if we're actually going to have a discussion on the merits of a bill, then I would rather not go to kind of the rumor mill posting, and I'd rather actually get some info from the source. So thanks very much for giving us a couple minutes.
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Co-host/Guest Commentator
Absolutely. Thanks for having me on.
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Tony Kennett
All right, so a couple of things here now that we're back live. It's 8:32pm Eastern on Tuesday, May 19th. Okay. So, so couple of comments, couple of questions on what's going on because they've not particularly received super well and not surprisingly, so so a couple of answers to your questions that have been coming in right up front. First of all, why do the interview? Why not adversarial? You guys obviously know, if you've joined us before, you know that I despise the Dignity DOT Act. I don't like it. I don't like most of it. So why do the interview? Why not, you know, spend the time, get Representative Marlin Stutzman on and then, and then say, well, you know, why are you, you know, why are you awful? Kind of go through and say, why? Why have you done all of these things? Because all of those clips and all those things already exist. I wanted to know something that I have always wondered. When you have a Republican who makes the decision to sign on to a bill like this, what's the purpose? What's the reason? And not like that. Not the, not the public reason that you give to everyone. Well, I believe in insecurity and oh, we got to be realistic, not those things. Why make the decision to sign on to something that you know is going to get you a lot of rather justified scorn? Because this bill, the Dignity act, written, cobbled together, is garbage. It is. It's a horrible bill. It is an awful piece of legislation. It should never be passed. It's not. If it makes it from the committees to the House floor, I will be very surprised. And the key reason alone is because, as you heard from Stutzman's mouth, Maria Salazar lied. She lied. So she said, oh, it's not about amnesty. It's never been about amnesty. As he said earlier drafts of the bill, she was the hardest pusher for mass amnesty in the bill. So that would be a problem. Number two, there are and producer Josiah and I have gone through this. There are more, more, more than more than more horrible, absolutely terrible measures that are all over this bill. So to go over with you some of the things that are in this particular piece here, it forbids Immigration Customs Enforcement from being anywhere at all that, that any kind of social care is being distributed. So that's any place that distributes SNAP benefits all the way to convenience stores and restaurants and grocery stores. ICE can't set foot in There or any kind of a school or any kind of a hospital or any kind of anywhere. That's obviously awful. There's a ton of other stuff that's terrible. There's like a commission of 30 members that's to be appointed. Uh, it doesn't forbid, it doesn't instantly kick out those who are members of gangs. That's obviously a horrible thing to include in there. Um, there's also requiring the Secretary of Homeland Security, which remember Alejandro Mayorkas, has the authority to waive all legal requirements that the secretary determines necessary. It's a horrible bill. So why even, why even do this interview? I am fascinated with why certain individuals make these kinds of decisions and weigh these decisions. The argument that was made by Marlin Stutzman was a two parter. So we had a national security element where he said he wanted people that are here to be written down and documented. That part that facet. You could see me in the interview. That part I understand. The part that I do not understand and that I don't agree with the representative here is the argument that the economy and the culture here are linked. In the part that we have to make sacrifices in order to prop up what is being argued is otherwise you can't save it on the economic level. So the argument that Stutz made was that that there would be a major. Those who are from the illegal immigrant part of the people that have come into this country because not statistically supposed to be a part of the population, but illegal immigrants in the country. He made the case that the economy had already factored in those people, that they'd already been factored into the economy and therefore if they were all to be deported. He even said there were farmers who had reached out to him and said, well, maybe we'd either look the other way or done some other things. I now have additional questions there. But then what would they do? Well, the answer, as many of you in the comments have pointed out, as you do regarding what was done with Goya foods in Omaha. So there were these illegal immigrants that were working in the Goya food canning plant, where they're not. And then after they were deported, ICE came through and did a raid, or not a Goya food canning plant, a different canning plant, but a Hispanic food canning operation. Sorry, not the Goya plan plan, but immediately Americans filled out job applications to work there. So I'm not really seeing a huge labor shortage. And again, necessity is the mother of invention. Propping up economic systems with cheap imported labor, or in a lot of cases, slave labor. Conditions, as we've seen in California, I can't support that. That's obviously a problem. So why kind of go over this? Because I want you guys to see not just the really quick automatic presto, hesto, hey, here are the talking points kind of a thing from someone else. I don't want you to see that. I think that you here on the show should get to see if I can dive down to the actual core reasons behind. If you know a lot of this stuff is bad and you never would support it, then what's the answer you're gonna give me for why sign your name onto it anyway? Jefferson Shreve is not considered the most hardcore Republican in Congress. And yet when Maria Salazar asked him to co sponsor and sign onto the bill, he said, and I quote, piss off because she sits next to him on the Foreign Affairs Committee in the House. So, so what's the difference here? The argument from Stutzman, as you heard, was he thinks that it will make its way through the amendments process and get a lot of that stuff cut out. Do I agree with that strategy? No, but the point of the interview was not for me to tell him. I don't agree with that. I disagree with that, that. Because that's not going to change your mind. As I expected, a lot of you watching that interview clearly made up your minds over on the live chat and were expressing them in full front, which I wanted to see. I did. Because as you know, the show is not about me telling you what you should think, but I want you to know exactly the argument that's being made. I do. I want you to see the argument not so that you can be convinced by it, but so that you can see the argument that is being made in favor of or against the Dignity Act. You should know, you absolutely should be aware. Now, again, I very much agree, you know, a lot of the, you know, the comments there and I understand very much so that, you know, there are a lot of arguments that are, that are made. I'm still very much of the opinion on this particular instance that, yes, if you've come into the country illegally, that you should be deported. You say, what about children and things like that? We can have a conversation once those individuals are in the process of being deported. Yes, sorry. I think that the law has to be upheld because there are a lot of legal immigrants to this country who have been screwed over in the process. Now, there's a lot else that we could discuss kind of on this. We'll have to save that for another night. Because it's 8:38, we have gotten a lot of your mail time questions in and I plan to dive right into this this week and answer a lot of these upfront want, you know, no third rails on that. So those things aside in the, in the comment section or not the comment section, in the description of the show, there's a link to the discord. You can join us and chat there. Would love to hear from you guys. There's a little mail time channel where we take a lot of those in. Also I saw that there are a couple of other people who did some very kind like gifting of memberships here on the channel as well. That's very, very kind. Very, very kind of you. Really do appreciate that. So thank you to those who are doing so again. Also lastly, and I cannot stress this enough, it is beyond bonkers to me that Salazar ran around to the country saying oh, there's nothing to do with amnesty. I never wanted amnesty. And then earlier drafts of this bill included just directly direct amnesty to everyone. I mean I'm not surprised. But, but it's some shocker stuff. Okay. On the primary update side of things, courtesy of the excellent data dives of producer Daniel who just graduated with his Masters of Economics. Again another fine congratulation or two to our producer Daniel. Again, as a reminder here, Thomas Massie has lost the Trump backed Ed Gallerin defeated the eight term incumbent in Kentucky for Trump's already celebrated on truth Social big hurrahs in play. Andy Barr wins the GOP Senate primary to replace retiring Mitch McConnell. He beat Daniel Cameron after Trump endorsed Barr and then a third candidate pulled out of the race with an ambassadorship offer from the president. In Georgia, the GOP Senate primary is still developing. Mike Collins leads 48 to 28. Excuse me, 41 to 28 to 26. But a runoff is very likely on June 16th. No Trump endorsement in that race. Of note, several Cobb county and one Fulton county precinct stayed open late due to a police manhunt and pole pad issues. A Fulton county election staying open late. Wow. How about that. So then forward there. Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro wins his uncontested primary. Stacy Garrity on the Republican side wins her primary election for the gubernatorial uncontested did. Yeah. Uh, the Pennsylvania House races pa, 1, 7, 10 and 3, not in that order. The results are still coming in and obviously it's very critical for House majority. Um, Alabama Senate governor results still incoming. And then of course, as you may remember, Idaho closes at 10pm Eastern, Oregon at 11pm Eastern. And Oregon is the mail ballot state, so yeah, I'm not sticking around for that nonsense. Oh, for the love of God. Apparently Thomas Massie's little concession included a nice little Israel and the Jews joke. Same with Cassidy. You don't have to embarrass yourself in a primary. But Thomas Massie, here's his. His concession again. Getting out in front of the crowd and saying things. Again, don't particularly recommend it. I think we might have to grab this from another, you know, another source here. Oh, there we go. Thomas Massey and his con concession here. Here it is. I would have come out sooner, but I had to call my opponent and concede and it took a while to
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Co-host/Guest Commentator
find Ed Galrian in Tel Aviv.
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Tony Kennett
Get it. Because israel and the jews. Good one. I did get the call through though. I have.
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Co-host/Guest Commentator
I have called and conceded the race.
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Tony Kennett
We've been honorable the whole time. Nope, you threw the honor out right there. Called and conceded. It was a good race. Said, look, there was a lot of money that came in here. Was sorry to see all this money and attention came through. I still think I was the best jaw guy for the job. So good night Kentucky. God bless you. Yee haw. And drive up to Indianapolis for the Indy 500. Sure, whatever. You could have done that. You could have done that. Did that happen? No. Nope, didn't do that. Instead got out there and said, oh, it took a while to call him an Israel.
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Co-host/Guest Commentator
Okay.
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Tony Kennett
Same with Bill Cassidy over on the Louisiana side. Throwing your toys out on the way out. I mean Massey can't do this because he already votes no on everything. But you know, and then yeah, I again sending out. But again why he's making the case that Trump is Tel Aviv. He sent out an old Trump endorsement this morning. So claiming that you're with the. The guy that you're simultaneously claiming is an Israeli super pedophile. Amazing. Incredible. Yeah, excellent, excellent stuff there. So a big hand for Thomas Massie. Just way to go. Love it. Exciting. Enjoy your job on Ms. Now with Marjorie Taylor Greene. The last little bit here because we don't have time to dive into a lot. One comment from JD Vance today that I really appreciated, that I really liked. I thought it was good it was an exchange regarding the press because we've talked and I've been pretty consistent, I hope at least. I hate leading questions. I hate them from Republicans, hate them from Democrats, from conservatives, populists, socialists, corporatists, whatever. I hate leading questions. Here's how the Vice President responded today. I think this is excellent and I Can't finish the show without sharing this with you. You and your administration argue to Americans
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Rob Bluey
that you're cleaning up corruption, you're preventing fraud, you're fighting the sorts of things that harm people and people's financial situations.
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Tony Kennett
When the president seems to be talking
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Rob Bluey
up stocks that he owns, sells them and enriching himself.
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Tony Kennett
Okay, so here, let me, let me, let me answer your question here. That was a doozy. Before I answer your question, I want to just observe there are different ways to ask a question. Okay? You can just ask a question and try to get your answer. Or you could do like a speech where you say, you know, Mr. Vice President, every, you know, you're a terrible human being and so is the president, so is the entire cabinet. And then I'm like, what's your question? And then your question is how, how dare you, come on, man, have a little bit of objectivity in the way that you ask these questions. Because there were a lot of things in that speech masquerading as a question that didn't actually get asked. Okay, Number one, the president. So then he answers the question. Again, I'm going to be quite clear. I try not to ask hyper leading questions because I actually want the answer and I want you guys to be given the answer. A lot of people out there in kind of the broad sphere, they don't do that. They're like, hey, you're really terrible. How come you kill babies and women and, and you feed dogs to crocodiles. When did you stop beating your wife, sir? Yeah, it's exciting stuff. I agree with the vice president there. That's exactly the kind of stuff that this should be brought forward just on that side so that, yeah, Morris Knowles says this quite clearly. Just because you take an accusation and put a question mark at the end of it doesn't make you clever. Yes. Snaps. Yes, I agree. High praise for that one for sure. So all of those things said and aside, hopefully you guys have an excellent evening. We will be back tomorrow 7pm eastern time for more hoots, hollers and yes, if you thought we've Shannon before, we will Shenan again. It's the Tony Kennett cast here on the Daily Signal, nationally syndicated, first on 93 WIBC and dignity. Act free. I'm just kidding. Please, please don't take care of.