Speaker 1: Todd Blanche makes it through.
Speaker 2: The Senate, well, I should say, at least to the
Speaker 2: Senate Committee, and now his nomination will go to the
Speaker 2: full Senate. Tony Katz, Tony Katz today, an absolute pleasure
Speaker 2: to be with you, guys. That's Todd Blanche. He is
Speaker 2: the acting Attorney General and everything is moving along as
Speaker 2: it should. We knew this was going to come. We
Speaker 2: knew this was going to be handled, and we knew
Speaker 2: it was going to be handled because he wrote, hey,
Speaker 2: the weaponization fund is gone, and that seemed to satisfy
Speaker 2: and mullify Senator Tom Tillis of North Carolina and Senator
Speaker 2: John Cornyn of Texas. That seems to have proven to
Speaker 2: people like Dick Durbin that Todd Blanche cannot be trusted.
Speaker 2: The confirmation is nothing more than a political nonsense. And
Speaker 2: everybody's screaming and yelling and moving on the Senate actually
Speaker 2: thinks that their advisor consent role is more than it is.
Speaker 1: It is not.
Speaker 2: We don't now take a look at confirming nominees based
Speaker 2: on a skill set. We look at confirming nominees or
Speaker 2: not based on politics and politics alone. Every Attorney general
Speaker 2: is a hand picked Attorney General. Merrick Garland was the
Speaker 2: hand picked attorney general of whoever was running the country
Speaker 2: for Joe Biden, Right, That's always the.
Speaker 1: Way it is.
Speaker 2: Eric Holder was the hand picked attorney general of Barack Obama.
Speaker 2: That's always the way it is. So this idea of
Speaker 2: handpicked is just too silly for words. Nothing wrong with
Speaker 2: Todd Blanche. Oh, the Epstein files. Ah, the Epstein file.
Speaker 2: And yes, there were people there saying that they wish
Speaker 2: that Todd Blanche wasn't confirmed because he didn't release this
Speaker 2: and didn't release that.
Speaker 1: I have from the beginning on the.
Speaker 2: Record, no question, favored releasing everything, and came around to
Speaker 2: one of the things we must do is we must
Speaker 2: redact the innocent. Just because your name in the Epstein
Speaker 2: files isn't me he did anything wrong. Just because there's
Speaker 2: a three O two the FBI did an investigation or
Speaker 2: ask some questions.
Speaker 1: Doesn't mean you did anything wrong. It's not a charge.
Speaker 2: It's not a document that does anything other than say,
Speaker 2: here's my summation as an FBI agent of our conversation.
Speaker 2: That's a three O two FD dash three O two.
Speaker 2: The idea that Trump did this and Trump did that,
Speaker 2: release everything release it all. That's been my map, thematics
Speaker 2: since day one. And yes, Trump screwed it up by
Speaker 2: not doing that. Todd Blanche can't be Attorney general because
Speaker 2: of that.
Speaker 1: No no, no, no, no no. Don't be silly. Don't be silly.
Speaker 2: But I think the more interesting story here is the
Speaker 2: one about Jean Piro. I say, Jean Jeaneine Piro. Janine
Speaker 2: Piro is the US attorney. She was, of course on
Speaker 2: Fox News Judge Janine. She is the US attorney for
Speaker 2: the District of Columbia, and she decided to drop the
Speaker 2: case against the alleged vandal of the reflecting pool, this
Speaker 2: guy they named David Hearn, who is a US Olympian.
Speaker 2: She said, we're going to drop the case. Trump is angry.
Speaker 2: Trump was in the Oval yesterday. He was signing an
Speaker 2: executive order for military families.
Speaker 1: And he was.
Speaker 2: He said, you know what, you know what, I think.
Speaker 2: I'm very mad at her. I'm very upset with her.
Speaker 2: I think she choked, really to Janine.
Speaker 3: And frankly, I think she choked because the judge was
Speaker 3: really vicious. Instead of going after the people that did it,
Speaker 3: the judge went after her and went after her department
Speaker 3: and I guess she choked. I don't know what the
Speaker 3: hell happened. I don't know what your fake news. Don't
Speaker 3: ever talk again. You're fake news, one of the one
Speaker 3: of the worst of the business. Fortunately nobody watches you.
Speaker 2: Okay, well, I don't know who he was talking to
Speaker 2: right there, But did Janine Puro choke? I'll start with
Speaker 2: a basic question. Does Janeine Piro seem like the kind
Speaker 2: of woman who chokes?
Speaker 1: Does not seem to me to be that kind of person.
Speaker 2: Piero said that the charges we dropped because the real
Speaker 2: issue with the reflecting pool is the contractors, because overspranging
Speaker 2: and delamination caused the damage. That I live in a
Speaker 2: world where repairing a reflecting pool is a source of
Speaker 2: political angst, twenty twenty six is just I mean, that
Speaker 2: is peak twenty twenty six right there. Why would anybody
Speaker 2: have a problem with him fixing and reflectable. It's like
Speaker 2: being crazy about the idea that we're going to add
Speaker 2: a ballroom to the White House. It's fine, It's not
Speaker 2: the end of the world. The ballroom is fine. All
Speaker 2: of the gold all over the oval less, Oh, trust me,
Speaker 2: when I'm president, that's all coming down. All coming down.
Speaker 2: Keeping the Constitution in there or the declaration in there. Fine, Absolutely,
Speaker 2: you need a good reminder. Photos of the founding fathers,
Speaker 2: photos from the revolution, what it took to be here,
Speaker 2: photos of e Regima, a landscape shot of the beaches
Speaker 2: at Normandy, a reminder of where are dead or buried
Speaker 2: and what sacrifice they made for all of us.
Speaker 1: Oh, that's going to be there.
Speaker 2: The gold adornments are not going to be there, humidor
Speaker 2: he you better believe it. And they will be filled
Speaker 2: with Dabodov Churchills. Now I could be convinced to go
Speaker 2: with something else. I don't worry. I will have a
Speaker 2: box of the American from J. C.
Speaker 1: Newman.
Speaker 2: I'll have the American cigar there, I'll have the I'll
Speaker 2: have the davit Off Churchill's the Late Hours if you
Speaker 2: never had the Late Hour, no great cigar boo.
Speaker 1: And that'll be that. But none of that, none of
Speaker 1: the adornments. That's that's not going to happen. The ballroom.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say, hey, thanks for the ballroom that it
Speaker 2: became and still is. Too many to some extent of
Speaker 2: political hot potato is a proof of the level of broken.
Speaker 2: It's a ridiculous thing to be angry about. If you
Speaker 2: hired a contractor and the contractor messes up, you go
Speaker 2: back to the contractor and you say, fix us. It's
Speaker 2: impossible that a contractor messed up. I'm gonna say for
Speaker 2: the record, no, it's not. Now. Two things can be
Speaker 2: happening at the same time. This guy, this hern fellow,
Speaker 2: David Hearn, he could have engaged in some vandalism, because
Speaker 2: Trump's point is, we have video, we have photographic evidence.
Speaker 2: Of course he did this. Look at what people did.
Speaker 2: They tried to slice the bottom of the reflecting pool.
Speaker 2: Two things can happen in a at the same time.
Speaker 1: But here is Juine Pierro saying we don't have a
Speaker 1: case here.
Speaker 2: I would argue that if she's saying we don't have
Speaker 2: a case here, she doesn't have a case. If she
Speaker 2: knows that the case, the story is a installation issue.
Speaker 1: She's not supposed to say so. Do you think she
Speaker 1: didn't know.
Speaker 2: That she would get a lot of pushback, a lot
Speaker 2: of anger from the President, possibly lose her job by
Speaker 2: doing this. Of course she would. Absolutely, you're doing it anyway,
Speaker 2: I'm not that angry with her. If the reflecting pool
Speaker 2: was done wrong. Would everyone just do me a favor
Speaker 2: and do it right.
Speaker 1: That's all.
Speaker 2: So we understand each other. We announced four million dollars
Speaker 2: of fraud being found and nineteen people arrested in Pennsylvania,
Speaker 2: and people are more angry and upset and worked up
Speaker 2: over this reflecting pool story.
Speaker 1: We're all nuts. You know, I'm going to I'm going to.
Speaker 2: Stay focused on what matters here, and what matters here
Speaker 2: is that the reflecting pool being fixed is a smart idea.
Speaker 2: If a guy didn't engage in vandalism, he didn't engage
Speaker 2: in vandalism. That doesn't mean he isn't possibly a scumbag
Speaker 2: who tried to engage in something criminal, but maybe what
Speaker 2: he did wasn't the criminal thing. Fix the reflecting pool.
Speaker 2: Why would abay be opposed to it? Build a ballroom?
Speaker 2: Why would an abay be opposed to it? Oh, and
Speaker 2: the idea of cleaning up the art around DC. Good
Speaker 2: art is supposed to be grander and tell the story
Speaker 2: of who we are. It's supposed to be inspirational. You
Speaker 2: want it to be broken and dirty and mismanaged. Good Lord,
Speaker 2: sculptures and statues should all be brought back to their
Speaker 2: brilliance and Trump doing this is excellent and the artists
Speaker 2: of a America should be cheering him on for actually
Speaker 2: caring about art and not just pretending to be about
Speaker 2: the arts.
Speaker 1: Excellent work.
Speaker 2: Is Jannine Perro going to be fired? I don't know.
Speaker 2: I think if he does. If he does fire her,
Speaker 2: I think it's a mistake. But she choked, don't I
Speaker 2: don't think that that's it. I think that is just
Speaker 2: temporary anger and we're on to the next thing.
Speaker 1: At least that's my hope. Keep it here. I'm Tony Katz,
Speaker 1: and this is Tony Katz today.