WEBVTT - Episode 4644: Tony Katz Today Hour 2 - 08/03/26 0:00:05.120 --> 0:00:09.080 Live from ball Heartbyer and the Crossroads of America. 0:00:10.520 --> 0:00:18.640 It's Tony Katz today. I'm not quite sure there's anything 0:00:18.760 --> 0:00:19.840 left to say. 0:00:21.079 --> 0:00:22.280 About the w NBA. 0:00:26.000 --> 0:00:30.800 I mean, I've got the Telegraph talking about Sophie Cunningham 0:00:31.200 --> 0:00:39.840 has basketball's new anti trans maga poster girl. What when 0:00:39.880 --> 0:00:44.240 did you say she was anti trans? Girls should be 0:00:44.320 --> 0:00:50.560 in girls sports. Girls sports are for girls. That's anti trans. No, no, 0:00:50.560 --> 0:00:51.040 no it's not. 0:00:52.240 --> 0:00:55.400 And who's still fighting this fight? And why? 0:00:56.160 --> 0:00:58.560 You know what we said here from the beginning was 0:00:58.560 --> 0:01:02.040 was that Sophie Cunningham of the India a Fever has done. 0:01:01.840 --> 0:01:06.280 Absolutely nothing wrong. She has said absolutely nothing wrong. 0:01:07.480 --> 0:01:11.440 She said that girl sports should be for girls and 0:01:11.480 --> 0:01:17.399 that children is normal. It's the rational course, Tony Katz, 0:01:17.440 --> 0:01:20.200 Tony Katz today, so good to be with you. Find 0:01:20.240 --> 0:01:24.160 everything I do with Tony kats dot com. 0:01:24.280 --> 0:01:25.720 It was a story from the Guardian. 0:01:26.920 --> 0:01:30.880 Sophie Cunningham isn't rejecting politics, She's cashing in on them. 0:01:32.400 --> 0:01:38.560 This whole article ends in the following manner. Sophie Cunningham 0:01:38.600 --> 0:01:40.560 has been in the league eight years. She'll be thirty 0:01:40.640 --> 0:01:42.680 later this month, five and a half years older than 0:01:42.720 --> 0:01:45.120 Clark and For the large majority of those years, she's 0:01:45.120 --> 0:01:47.920 been a serviceable, unremarkable player who was a top donch 0:01:47.960 --> 0:01:51.360 three point shooter. She wasn't even who the marketers picked 0:01:51.400 --> 0:01:53.760 to sell sex to the boys. The role of the 0:01:53.760 --> 0:01:56.920 glammed up blonde beauty baller belonged to six or four 0:01:56.960 --> 0:02:00.800 inch Cameron Brink. Cunningham needed the culture war to get 0:02:00.800 --> 0:02:03.600 on the map, needing it as much as it needed her, 0:02:03.960 --> 0:02:06.960 and all it took was a silly fingerpoint and being 0:02:07.000 --> 0:02:11.720 in opposition as someone black to the aggrieved whites standing 0:02:11.800 --> 0:02:13.679 up to someone. 0:02:13.440 --> 0:02:14.919 Black men standing up for them. 0:02:15.440 --> 0:02:19.400 Add transphobia to her portfolio, and the result is a star, 0:02:19.840 --> 0:02:23.119 the latest participant in an old game no more complicated 0:02:23.120 --> 0:02:25.280 than checkers, but far less interesting. 0:02:25.880 --> 0:02:27.520 The author of this piece is a guy the name 0:02:27.560 --> 0:02:28.519 of Howard Bryant. 0:02:29.960 --> 0:02:35.720 Now that paragraph tells the story of part of the 0:02:35.800 --> 0:02:40.480 WNBA story, which is the media that covers the WNBA 0:02:41.480 --> 0:02:44.560 is desperate for that league to stay black and gay. 0:02:44.800 --> 0:02:47.560 Now I could get in a whole bunch of trouble 0:02:47.600 --> 0:02:50.160 for saying that. I could have people coming after me 0:02:50.280 --> 0:02:58.880 for saying that. I just quoted the author who said 0:02:59.320 --> 0:03:02.600 that's what we do here and put it in the 0:03:02.639 --> 0:03:07.840 context of white people are just so angry. No, white 0:03:07.880 --> 0:03:12.360 people aren't a group, like black people aren't a group, 0:03:12.639 --> 0:03:14.560 like gay people are in a group. They have their 0:03:14.600 --> 0:03:18.760 own minds and their own thoughts, maybe mister Bryan's or 0:03:18.800 --> 0:03:21.760 anybody else. If they could just stop being bigots for 0:03:21.800 --> 0:03:24.000 five minutes, we could have ourselves a better conversation. 0:03:27.320 --> 0:03:30.240 The issue here is that Caitlin Clark is a star. 0:03:31.000 --> 0:03:32.280 We know the story here. 0:03:33.000 --> 0:03:36.520 She's simply better than the rest. And even if she 0:03:36.680 --> 0:03:40.440 isn't actually better than the rest, she has captured the imagination, 0:03:40.960 --> 0:03:45.360 and that's the way it goes. You think Taylor Swift 0:03:45.400 --> 0:03:48.160 is really a super great songwriter and a super great voice, 0:03:48.400 --> 0:03:51.640 No part of that is true. She has captured the imagination, 0:03:52.080 --> 0:03:54.840 and that's why it's stadium tour after stadium tour after 0:03:54.840 --> 0:03:55.520 stadium tour. 0:03:57.160 --> 0:04:01.160 That's what she was able to do. Cook has sold 0:04:01.200 --> 0:04:02.040 out stadiums. 0:04:02.640 --> 0:04:06.720 Don't ask me captured the imagination for just a moment, 0:04:07.680 --> 0:04:10.600 I'll give you the most unpopular opinion in the history 0:04:10.640 --> 0:04:11.360 of mankind. 0:04:11.880 --> 0:04:16.320 Andrew Dice Clay was never that funny, but it was 0:04:16.360 --> 0:04:17.600 a really good routine. 0:04:18.120 --> 0:04:21.040 Captured the imagination and you wanted to be a part 0:04:21.040 --> 0:04:27.719 of it. The attitude was fun. Stadium tours, Comics in stadiums. Man, 0:04:28.200 --> 0:04:31.320 that's the goal. Because every comic wishes they were a 0:04:31.400 --> 0:04:34.400 rock and roll guy, wishes that they. 0:04:34.279 --> 0:04:37.200 Were a rock star. We know this to be true. 0:04:37.800 --> 0:04:39.960 Rock Stars want to be actors. Actors want to be comics. 0:04:40.000 --> 0:04:41.680 Comics who want to be rock stars. That I believe 0:04:41.760 --> 0:04:50.000 that is the circle of life. The WNBA has every 0:04:50.040 --> 0:04:52.800 opportunity to be better off because of Caitlin Clark. She 0:04:52.960 --> 0:04:56.120 captured the imagination. She brought people to the sport. She 0:04:56.279 --> 0:04:58.400 brought the players from commercial. 0:04:58.360 --> 0:05:00.679 Flights to flights. 0:05:01.240 --> 0:05:04.760 She brought them better hotels, she brought them better contracts, 0:05:04.960 --> 0:05:06.280 she brought them more money. 0:05:06.760 --> 0:05:09.560 She did it. It's a lot to put on a 0:05:09.640 --> 0:05:11.920 twenty four to twenty five year old, but she did it. 0:05:13.600 --> 0:05:17.719 That's the end. Sophie Cunningham. 0:05:18.720 --> 0:05:23.039 Didn't come along to be a star because of Caitlyn Clark. 0:05:24.120 --> 0:05:26.800 She came along to be a star because the. 0:05:26.880 --> 0:05:31.360 WNBA had no interest in having a star like Caitlyn 0:05:31.440 --> 0:05:34.640 Clark because she was too white and too straight. Now 0:05:34.720 --> 0:05:39.320 that's a very rude thing to say, but I'm not 0:05:39.400 --> 0:05:44.960 the one saying it. I notice that they say it 0:05:45.520 --> 0:05:50.760 constantly and consistently, over and over and over and over again, 0:05:51.760 --> 0:05:54.559 overshadowing this one and overshadowing that one. The only reason 0:05:54.560 --> 0:05:56.719 people like hers because she's white in this and then 0:05:57.760 --> 0:06:00.560 the media needs a straight white woman as a post 0:06:00.120 --> 0:06:05.920 that she brought the excitement ride the wave. Call a 0:06:06.000 --> 0:06:09.159 penalty on her when it's her penalty. Call a penalty 0:06:09.160 --> 0:06:14.440 on Sophie Cunningham when it's Sophie Cunningham's penalty. But because 0:06:14.480 --> 0:06:18.520 Sophie Cunningham has decided to be protective of Caitlyn Clark, 0:06:18.880 --> 0:06:22.440 because Sophie Cunningham isn't afraid of a fight, because she's 0:06:22.520 --> 0:06:25.479 able to utilize social media can make a moment like 0:06:25.560 --> 0:06:29.760 the meme of the point right, all the pointing, she 0:06:29.839 --> 0:06:32.839 gets attacked and vilified, and when playing the Minnesota Lynks, 0:06:33.160 --> 0:06:38.000 she gets elbowed in the face and she gets called 0:06:38.040 --> 0:06:39.680 for the penalty. Let me say it again for the 0:06:39.680 --> 0:06:43.120 people in cheap seats. She got elbowed in the face 0:06:45.200 --> 0:06:50.960 and she got called for the penalty. She didn't have 0:06:51.040 --> 0:06:56.200 the ball. The player with the ball elbowed her in 0:06:56.240 --> 0:06:59.039 the face, and Sophie. 0:06:58.760 --> 0:07:00.000 Cunningham got called for the penalty. 0:07:02.440 --> 0:07:08.479 And then she had the audacity, the audacity to say. 0:07:08.279 --> 0:07:10.400 That girls sports should be for girls, and that was it. 0:07:11.120 --> 0:07:12.280 That was it, game over. 0:07:14.120 --> 0:07:19.320 She is a bigot, and she is terrible, and she's 0:07:19.520 --> 0:07:24.840 maga and all the rest of the nonsense. The hate 0:07:24.920 --> 0:07:32.680 machine went full throttle. By the way, not only did 0:07:33.080 --> 0:07:35.600 I believe the Guardian referred to her as anti trans, 0:07:36.280 --> 0:07:40.080 they referred to her as anti black. The media that 0:07:40.120 --> 0:07:42.840 covers the NBA is amongst the most bigoted and the 0:07:42.880 --> 0:07:48.200 most terrible out there. They really are awful, positively awful. 0:07:51.720 --> 0:07:58.400 But what is worse possibly are the coaches, the coaches 0:07:59.000 --> 0:08:04.800 who have put them in a position of being in 0:08:04.920 --> 0:08:08.720 favor of men in their sport. Now, a lot of 0:08:08.800 --> 0:08:14.080 people have been discussing what happens when the WNBA allows this, 0:08:14.200 --> 0:08:20.680 When the WNBA allows men in because they identify as this, 0:08:20.880 --> 0:08:24.240 that or the other, that's going to be the end. 0:08:27.480 --> 0:08:32.959 That's going to be the end of the WNBA. By 0:08:32.960 --> 0:08:34.400 the way, did I call it a penalty and not 0:08:34.440 --> 0:08:38.200 a foul, my mistake. I apologize for that. I was 0:08:38.240 --> 0:08:42.320 looking that the US men's soccer team did just sign 0:08:42.360 --> 0:08:45.520 Pochatino to a long term contract through twenty thirty, and 0:08:45.600 --> 0:08:46.640 maybe that's why I was doing it. 0:08:46.640 --> 0:08:52.439 It just came up foul, not penalty. My apologies. Now. 0:08:54.480 --> 0:08:56.679 Coach after coach after coach. 0:08:57.840 --> 0:09:03.320 Got asked what they think about Sophie Cunningham standing up 0:09:03.320 --> 0:09:07.240 for girls in girls sports, which is a normal position. 0:09:07.480 --> 0:09:10.200 She didn't say a single thing that's political. The people 0:09:10.240 --> 0:09:12.520 who say she says something political are the people who 0:09:12.559 --> 0:09:15.880 are broken. They are fools, and they are in danger 0:09:15.920 --> 0:09:18.400 to themselves and others. Why do I say such a thing, 0:09:18.920 --> 0:09:23.440 Because if you can believe that girl sports are not 0:09:23.559 --> 0:09:29.520 for girls, you'll believe anything. If girls sports are not 0:09:29.640 --> 0:09:32.120 for girls, there are no girl sports. 0:09:33.440 --> 0:09:37.520 The end. It is such a factual. 0:09:37.040 --> 0:09:43.680 Statement, such a clear statement, such an understandable statement. It 0:09:43.760 --> 0:09:46.800 can't be denied. Only the irrational can deny it. And 0:09:46.800 --> 0:09:51.600 those people are irrational, and they should be mocked. People 0:09:51.600 --> 0:09:55.199 who are going through this mental illness, I think should 0:09:55.200 --> 0:09:58.920 be shown respect and love. People who want to push 0:09:59.320 --> 0:10:02.640 mental illness on others or get you to buy into that. 0:10:02.800 --> 0:10:04.360 Somebody else is meant to own. This means you have 0:10:04.400 --> 0:10:05.280 to change the way you live. 0:10:05.720 --> 0:10:11.280 Yeah, those people, those people, they need to be pushed aside, 0:10:11.840 --> 0:10:16.680 mocked them, ridicule to spine. So we get back to 0:10:19.640 --> 0:10:23.560 the coaches, because one by one they're asked, what do 0:10:23.559 --> 0:10:27.959 you think about what Sophie Cunningham said? They can't figure 0:10:28.000 --> 0:10:32.480 out how to be rational. I have got the coach 0:10:32.559 --> 0:10:42.960 of the Minnesota Links quite literally, wearing a she's got 0:10:42.960 --> 0:10:46.880 a shirt on, and what does the shirt say? The 0:10:46.960 --> 0:10:53.560 shirt says trans kids belong? What does that even mean? 0:10:54.960 --> 0:10:59.160 What possibly could that mean? Trans kids belong belong? What 0:11:01.679 --> 0:11:02.600 girls belong in? 0:11:02.640 --> 0:11:02.920 Girls? 0:11:02.960 --> 0:11:08.000 Sports boys who say their girls do not your shirt 0:11:08.120 --> 0:11:13.520 trans kids belong is nothing more than some kind of 0:11:15.200 --> 0:11:20.040 irrational sloganeering. It's virtue signaling. Look at me, I'm nice, 0:11:21.120 --> 0:11:23.120 Look at me I care. You don't care. You sure 0:11:23.160 --> 0:11:26.120 as hell don't care about kids. You don't care about girls. 0:11:26.520 --> 0:11:30.000 And that's the story time and again into the WNBA 0:11:30.240 --> 0:11:32.280 and what has come out of us. It isn't about 0:11:32.320 --> 0:11:35.640 Caitlyn Clark. I'm sorry. It isn't about Sophie Cunningham or 0:11:35.720 --> 0:11:39.199 Caitlyn Clark. It's about the media that covers the WNBA 0:11:39.440 --> 0:11:43.240 and the coaches within the WNBA who don't care about women. 0:11:44.360 --> 0:11:46.800 They are bigots and they are proud of it, and 0:11:46.840 --> 0:11:50.719 they are desperate to see women be demoralized and moved out. 0:11:51.480 --> 0:11:55.240 This is the coach of the Golden State Valkyries. 0:11:56.400 --> 0:12:01.360 Her name is Natalie Nakassi, and she is asked a 0:12:01.559 --> 0:12:03.000 basic question. 0:12:03.640 --> 0:12:06.200 Ever again in the regular season, but coming out of 0:12:06.200 --> 0:12:08.800 the break, one of the big news stories has been 0:12:08.840 --> 0:12:14.400 Sophie Cunningham and the protests for her and protests against her. 0:12:14.600 --> 0:12:17.640 And you know, they had a national televised game today 0:12:17.840 --> 0:12:20.720 in Cheryl, you know, wor A's shirt and it's just 0:12:20.760 --> 0:12:23.679 a conversation. I'm wondering just what do you think about it? 0:12:23.760 --> 0:12:25.720 Do you do you think that's good for the league? 0:12:25.760 --> 0:12:28.680 Does it does it detract from the basketball? Is it? 0:12:29.000 --> 0:12:31.640 Is it just noise? I'm just wondering what your opinion is. 0:12:33.559 --> 0:12:37.600 I think thank you for that question. I think just 0:12:37.640 --> 0:12:43.960 in terms of how I'm seeing it is if I 0:12:44.000 --> 0:12:47.880 could answer, It's like for me, sports, sports is about belonging. 0:12:49.080 --> 0:12:50.239 It's about inclusivity. 0:12:51.040 --> 0:12:55.600 It's about allowing everyone to be their authentic self. You know, 0:12:55.679 --> 0:12:59.160 I'm big on that, just because I have been criticized 0:12:59.559 --> 0:13:03.719 for my for my ethnicity. I've been in those you 0:13:03.760 --> 0:13:08.240 shouldn't belong here many times, and for me, I don't 0:13:08.280 --> 0:13:11.199 want that space, especially going and State, to ever feel 0:13:11.240 --> 0:13:11.520 like that. 0:13:14.640 --> 0:13:18.360 And that is a broken league and a broken coach. 0:13:18.960 --> 0:13:24.360 I would tell her directly what an absolutely surreal argument 0:13:25.320 --> 0:13:30.760 sports is about belonging. I didn't say that somebody who 0:13:31.360 --> 0:13:37.400 thought they were a woman couldn't play basketball. Go play basketball. 0:13:38.520 --> 0:13:42.120 You just can't play organize against other women. If you 0:13:42.160 --> 0:13:43.920 want to play in a league that does that, go 0:13:44.000 --> 0:13:47.080 do that. But if you want to tell women they 0:13:47.120 --> 0:13:51.959 have to take a back seat to men, first of all, 0:13:52.120 --> 0:13:54.840 I don't know what kind of feminism that is. Secondly, 0:13:55.160 --> 0:13:56.600 my gosh, that's bigoted. 0:13:57.679 --> 0:13:58.240 That's ugly. 0:13:59.800 --> 0:14:03.600 But since your ideology comes before your humanity, you lost 0:14:03.679 --> 0:14:06.640 all sense of rationality. 0:14:06.800 --> 0:14:11.440 You can't even stand up for you. Look at me. 0:14:11.520 --> 0:14:13.640 They came after me because of my ethnicity. I don't 0:14:13.640 --> 0:14:15.360 even know what that's supposed to me. And I wasn't 0:14:15.400 --> 0:14:16.079 tall enough. 0:14:15.920 --> 0:14:16.400 This and that. 0:14:16.720 --> 0:14:19.320 And now you're saying that other girls should have to 0:14:19.400 --> 0:14:25.360 sit down because well they're girls. You're saying to me, Tony, 0:14:25.400 --> 0:14:28.040 this conversation isn't making sense. And I'll say to you, 0:14:28.200 --> 0:14:30.920 trying to make sense of the left's arguments is madness. 0:14:31.480 --> 0:14:34.080 Let me give you the baseline of all their arguments. 0:14:34.680 --> 0:14:37.640 They were told that if they don't accept the fact 0:14:37.640 --> 0:14:41.040 that men can be women, they will be excommunicated, and 0:14:41.080 --> 0:14:44.440 they simply can't get excommunicated, so they have no way 0:14:44.440 --> 0:14:47.160 of explaining how it is they really feel. They just 0:14:47.280 --> 0:14:49.720 simply do what they are told so they get to 0:14:49.760 --> 0:14:59.600 stay in the fold. The WNBA is telling you on 0:15:00.000 --> 0:15:02.680 every level, we are a league for. 0:15:02.720 --> 0:15:08.240 Black women and gay women, and that's it, and that if. 0:15:08.080 --> 0:15:11.240 Anything should come around questioning that, we will go to 0:15:11.360 --> 0:15:14.800 further and further extremes to prove it, and we will 0:15:14.840 --> 0:15:21.640 give every nonsense answer, literally no sense, to try and 0:15:21.680 --> 0:15:22.960 get out of the conversation. 0:15:27.040 --> 0:15:28.840 Sports is about belonging. 0:15:31.400 --> 0:15:33.800 Well, sometimes the guy who isn't good enough doesn't make 0:15:33.840 --> 0:15:36.040 the team he wants to belong he doesn't make the team. 0:15:38.520 --> 0:15:45.560 I thought it was about winning, so I thought a 0:15:45.560 --> 0:15:53.440 lot of it was about Sophie Cunningham said absolutely nothing wrong. 0:15:55.440 --> 0:15:59.400 But the WNBA's response is outrageously wrong. 0:16:01.440 --> 0:16:05.120 Maybe this is what we need, Maybe this is what 0:16:05.160 --> 0:16:09.640 we need. Maybe what we need. 0:16:10.480 --> 0:16:13.200 Is for them to be able to out themselves completely 0:16:13.240 --> 0:16:14.720 so we know what it is we're dealing with. 0:16:17.320 --> 0:16:19.240 Now what does it mean for the WNBA. I don't know, 0:16:19.240 --> 0:16:20.920 because it doesn't look to me like the NBA is 0:16:20.920 --> 0:16:22.160 ever going to change the league. 0:16:22.840 --> 0:16:25.120 It doesn't look like they're going to do anything except 0:16:25.120 --> 0:16:33.640 continue this welfare project. Our job, I think, is to 0:16:33.680 --> 0:16:36.560 ask ourselves what this is talking to or doing to 0:16:36.640 --> 0:16:39.760 us via culture, and how do we make changes from there? 0:16:41.720 --> 0:16:43.840 Because right now they're a little girls saying thank you, 0:16:43.880 --> 0:16:46.720 so at Be Cunningham for standing up for us, and 0:16:46.760 --> 0:16:49.400 then they are the coaches saying, how dare you stand 0:16:49.480 --> 0:16:50.160 up for girls? 0:16:52.320 --> 0:16:54.080 I have a couple of theories of where this can go. 0:16:54.840 --> 0:16:57.120 I'll get into those in the days ahead. Keep it here. 0:16:57.520 --> 0:17:00.160 I'm Tony Katz and this is Tony Katz today. 0:17:00.280 --> 0:17:05.760 So as I discussed earlier, maybe you missed it, I 0:17:05.840 --> 0:17:09.119 believe that Todd Blanche will be confirmed as Attorney General. 0:17:09.160 --> 0:17:13.359 Tony Katz, Tony Katz today an absolute pleasure. The word 0:17:13.520 --> 0:17:18.840 on the street was that they were trying to hold 0:17:18.920 --> 0:17:22.479 up his nomination Todd Blanche Interim Attorney General, acting Attorney 0:17:22.600 --> 0:17:28.359 General instead of Pam Bondi, who President Trump dismissed, if 0:17:28.400 --> 0:17:32.040 you will, And it was being held up by Tom 0:17:32.119 --> 0:17:35.280 Tillison North Carolina, John Corner of Texas, both Republicans. Why 0:17:35.800 --> 0:17:39.000 the weaponization fund? This one point seven to seven six 0:17:39.119 --> 0:17:43.520 billion dollars that could be doled out to people who 0:17:44.960 --> 0:17:48.879 who were well abused by our government. On January sixth, 0:17:49.680 --> 0:17:52.040 some people are right gley in jail. Some people engaged 0:17:52.080 --> 0:17:54.680 in act of violence. Many people were invited in, did 0:17:54.760 --> 0:17:57.719 nothing wrong, got prosecuted, had to squeeze but on him, 0:17:57.720 --> 0:18:01.760 spend time in jail. They did nothing wrong. Thing be 0:18:01.760 --> 0:18:04.440 better if we were all honest about that. They can 0:18:04.480 --> 0:18:06.919 sue their government. As far as I'm concerned, this fund 0:18:07.000 --> 0:18:08.480 was supposed to be a place where they can get 0:18:09.280 --> 0:18:12.720 dollars for, you know, in lawsuits and for the abuse 0:18:12.760 --> 0:18:16.080 that they suffered. The feeling was it could be misused, 0:18:16.240 --> 0:18:19.040 and I agree with that feeling. And so Republicans have said, 0:18:19.040 --> 0:18:21.040 we're not going to be a part of this. We're 0:18:21.080 --> 0:18:23.320 not going to move forward on this. As a matter 0:18:23.359 --> 0:18:26.760 of fact, we won't go forward with anything moving your 0:18:26.800 --> 0:18:30.119 nominees out of committee if this is still there. It 0:18:30.280 --> 0:18:34.879 was on the table and Trump was threatening it again, 0:18:35.359 --> 0:18:38.520 do this or I'll do that, and the Republicans, specifically 0:18:38.600 --> 0:18:45.440 Cornyn and Tillis, no fans of Trump, said well no. 0:18:43.840 --> 0:18:44.400 No, no no. 0:18:45.560 --> 0:18:50.159 So Todd Blanche yesterday said that the weaponization Fund is 0:18:50.200 --> 0:18:51.880 done it doesn't exist anymore. 0:18:52.000 --> 0:18:55.000 Gone completely gone. 0:18:55.160 --> 0:19:00.480 And now we're hearing that both Tillis and Cornyn release 0:19:00.520 --> 0:19:04.320 their hold and he will get through committee. And there 0:19:04.400 --> 0:19:08.080 is really no reason, none, that Todd Blanch is not 0:19:08.160 --> 0:19:10.160 confirmed to be the next Attorney General. 0:19:11.200 --> 0:19:12.160 Said more clearly. 0:19:13.040 --> 0:19:19.000 If Merk Garland can get confirmed, if Loretta Lynch can 0:19:19.040 --> 0:19:22.160 get confirmed, Todd Blanch can get confirmed. 0:19:23.200 --> 0:19:26.280 There's no argument. Just that easy. I've got three more 0:19:26.320 --> 0:19:27.640 things coming up. Keep it here. 0:19:27.960 --> 0:19:37.040 This is Tony Kats Today. Three more things Tony Katz, 0:19:37.720 --> 0:19:38.840 Tony Katz Today. 0:19:38.880 --> 0:19:41.280 Guys, thanks for being here. I appreciate it. 0:19:41.359 --> 0:19:44.280 Find everything at Tony kats dot com, live streaming, YouTube 0:19:44.320 --> 0:19:47.600 and rumble, Tony Katz, Twitter, Tony kats which is also 0:19:47.640 --> 0:19:50.280 known as x still the same thing, Tony Katz and Facebook, 0:19:50.320 --> 0:19:51.160 Tony Kats Radio. 0:19:51.480 --> 0:19:53.160 Get in there be a part of what we're doing. 0:19:53.200 --> 0:19:54.040 Three more things. 0:19:54.480 --> 0:19:57.080 These are stories that should be front page news, but 0:19:57.200 --> 0:19:59.200 because of all the things happening on the front pages, 0:19:59.359 --> 0:20:02.480 doesn't make the page. I try to bring it to you. 0:20:03.119 --> 0:20:06.960 Of course, we've got the President saying that there will 0:20:07.000 --> 0:20:10.280 be no big attack on Iran because the neighbors begged 0:20:10.320 --> 0:20:13.200 us not to. But we've got a deal. Look at 0:20:13.240 --> 0:20:16.800 the deal. We have got a deal, and that deal 0:20:16.880 --> 0:20:18.320 is going to open the straight. 0:20:19.600 --> 0:20:20.320 If you say some. 0:20:22.520 --> 0:20:24.400 If you tell me it's going to open the straight 0:20:24.440 --> 0:20:31.560 of hormones, I'll believe you. Except I don't believe it 0:20:31.600 --> 0:20:33.720 because I don't know who you have a deal with. 0:20:35.160 --> 0:20:38.320 West Texas Crewed at this moment is eighty dollars. Brent 0:20:38.400 --> 0:20:40.520 Crude is eighty three. Who knows where it's going to close, 0:20:41.440 --> 0:20:45.080 but it was down in the seventh in the upper seventies, 0:20:45.160 --> 0:20:46.560 so it's crept up a little. 0:20:47.680 --> 0:20:50.240 Let's see it open straight and lots of oil flowing through. 0:20:51.480 --> 0:20:53.320 So that's the top line story. And then of course 0:20:53.359 --> 0:20:57.960 there's a Sophie Cunningham on Saturday, and I my problem 0:20:58.080 --> 0:21:00.280 is is that when talking about that story, there's so 0:21:00.440 --> 0:21:02.000 much and so many pieces. 0:21:02.400 --> 0:21:03.159 I'm trying to. 0:21:03.560 --> 0:21:07.000 Bring it down to where I think is the base crux, 0:21:08.720 --> 0:21:14.000 And the only thing I can come to is for 0:21:14.160 --> 0:21:18.760 the WNBA, the product is inconsequential, The ideology is everything. 0:21:20.680 --> 0:21:23.359 I Mean, there comes a moment where one has to 0:21:23.400 --> 0:21:27.000 ask do they view this as a jobs program? What 0:21:27.040 --> 0:21:29.640 the hell are we looking at here? But we'll get 0:21:29.680 --> 0:21:33.320 to that in the days of head. Then, of course 0:21:33.320 --> 0:21:35.439 you've got the Morocco story where you all of a 0:21:35.440 --> 0:21:42.520 sudden had sixty thousand Moroccans coming into this Spanish city state. 0:21:44.359 --> 0:21:47.000 Seventy four people died, many of them drowned as they 0:21:47.000 --> 0:21:47.640 swam over. 0:21:49.520 --> 0:21:51.919 And then of course there was violence that was engaged. 0:21:53.000 --> 0:21:56.119 People were attacked. How did this happen? 0:21:56.200 --> 0:22:01.080 Well, if I listen to Thomas Massey, which I do not, well, 0:22:01.119 --> 0:22:05.000 it's because the Republicans passed a bill that green lighted 0:22:05.080 --> 0:22:09.680 the transfer of Spanish territory to Morocco. That is, that's 0:22:09.760 --> 0:22:13.120 not what happened. That is a flat out lie from 0:22:14.160 --> 0:22:20.320 Congressman Thomas Massey. It's a committee report. The committee report 0:22:22.560 --> 0:22:26.960 discussed this idea. The House passed nothing. The committee report 0:22:27.040 --> 0:22:29.480 has no force of law. It doesn't show up anywhere 0:22:29.480 --> 0:22:33.040 in the legislation that was eventually passed by the House. 0:22:34.480 --> 0:22:36.760 And Congressman MASSI you vote to know because you vote 0:22:36.760 --> 0:22:37.280 note everything. 0:22:38.160 --> 0:22:42.000 It's what you do, it's who you are. Part of 0:22:42.040 --> 0:22:45.640 your problem. So this. 0:22:47.040 --> 0:22:50.479 Flood of people, which according to sources, the vast majority 0:22:50.520 --> 0:22:54.199 of the returned to Morocco, understand that this area that 0:22:54.320 --> 0:22:57.240 is controlled by Spain is actually on the African continent 0:22:58.320 --> 0:23:01.359 from the other side of the Med. Spain is to 0:23:01.400 --> 0:23:04.880 the north, the Med being the Mediterranean. I just want 0:23:04.920 --> 0:23:08.360 it to sound very continental when I said it, right, 0:23:09.119 --> 0:23:11.520 if you're gonna talk things like the Med, just picture 0:23:11.560 --> 0:23:14.480 whoever's talking wearing a speedo and then you're like, oh, 0:23:14.600 --> 0:23:18.560 that's very European continental of you. I'm on the Med. 0:23:20.520 --> 0:23:22.400 I want to picture me in a speedo. I say, 0:23:23.359 --> 0:23:27.600 reserve some time this evening and enjoy yourself. So no, 0:23:28.119 --> 0:23:31.600 the United States did not transd green light the transfer 0:23:31.640 --> 0:23:34.600 or a Spanish territory to Morocco. As Thomas Massey said, 0:23:35.440 --> 0:23:38.560 you did have this invasion. You did have people engaged 0:23:38.600 --> 0:23:42.920 in violence, and these people are looking for a better life. 0:23:43.600 --> 0:23:46.040 They look for a better life, and they get to 0:23:47.000 --> 0:23:50.600 this Spanish enclave and they go about attacking people and 0:23:50.640 --> 0:23:51.960 stabbing people in the streets. 0:23:53.400 --> 0:23:55.359 Maybe not people you want in your country. 0:23:55.680 --> 0:24:02.080 Spain had to mobilize it's military to make things, you know, calm. 0:24:04.720 --> 0:24:10.560 The second story came from the good people over there 0:24:10.600 --> 0:24:14.959 at Fox. They had on Deborah Brooks. Remember her. She 0:24:15.240 --> 0:24:19.080 was there during the days of COVID, and she is 0:24:19.119 --> 0:24:23.000 telling us what we already knew, which is everything became 0:24:23.080 --> 0:24:25.639 political very very quickly. 0:24:26.119 --> 0:24:29.480 If you get on tests, instead of quarantining people who 0:24:29.480 --> 0:24:31.880 are exposed, you just only tell the people who are 0:24:31.880 --> 0:24:35.800 infected to stay home. That is a very different approach. 0:24:35.840 --> 0:24:39.520 It worked fabulously in universities. It's why we were able 0:24:39.560 --> 0:24:42.080 to keep them open, and Secretary of Devas was working 0:24:42.119 --> 0:24:46.119 and keeping K through twelve open. There were solutions, but 0:24:46.200 --> 0:24:48.520 it became very political, and we all have to be 0:24:48.560 --> 0:24:52.320 aware because it was a presidential election year, it was 0:24:52.359 --> 0:24:56.120 really important for bluestays to show that they were taking 0:24:56.119 --> 0:24:59.040 it very seriously, and they overclosed. 0:25:01.400 --> 0:25:04.399 We know, we know. 0:25:06.200 --> 0:25:08.400 Why didn't anybody say it then? I mean we did, 0:25:08.760 --> 0:25:12.639 But why weren't you saying it then? Why weren't you 0:25:12.680 --> 0:25:16.880 getting up there and saying, sorry, doctor Fauci, we overclosed. 0:25:18.760 --> 0:25:21.639 But understand that if given the opportunity, they will do 0:25:21.760 --> 0:25:27.119 it again. They will absolutely overclose again. 0:25:27.240 --> 0:25:29.840 What makes me say such a thing? I am so 0:25:30.240 --> 0:25:31.640 glad you asked. 0:25:33.359 --> 0:25:43.200 This is Mehdi Hassan, the ridiculous, ridiculous progressive. 0:25:44.880 --> 0:25:46.320 Mehdi Hassan. 0:25:48.119 --> 0:25:53.359 Was responding to a back and forth that took place 0:25:53.400 --> 0:25:54.040 on CNN. 0:25:55.080 --> 0:25:59.520 It was a back and forth between Robert F. 0:25:59.600 --> 0:26:04.760