1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:03,360 Speaker 1: So it was a busy morning on the hill. The 2 00:00:03,400 --> 00:00:05,880 Speaker 1: Supreme Court is hearing a case on transportation law, and 3 00:00:05,920 --> 00:00:08,520 Speaker 1: I'm trying to figure out the case they heard yesterday 4 00:00:08,920 --> 00:00:13,480 Speaker 1: on guns and weed. I cannot make hide nor hair 5 00:00:13,520 --> 00:00:15,200 Speaker 1: of it. So I've got a little more research to 6 00:00:15,240 --> 00:00:17,680 Speaker 1: do before I bring in some people to be able 7 00:00:17,680 --> 00:00:21,080 Speaker 1: to ask the right questions. Tony Katz, Tony Katz Today, 8 00:00:21,239 --> 00:00:24,680 Speaker 1: good to be with you. I've got the story. If 9 00:00:24,720 --> 00:00:27,520 Speaker 1: you are part of tonykats dot com and you get 10 00:00:27,520 --> 00:00:32,479 Speaker 1: the show sheet every single day Monday through Friday, Shooting 11 00:00:32,680 --> 00:00:36,320 Speaker 1: Newsweekly has it it appears the Supreme Court is likely 12 00:00:36,680 --> 00:00:41,600 Speaker 1: to let marijuana users own guns. I'm telling you, I 13 00:00:41,680 --> 00:00:44,760 Speaker 1: need the background. That's the problem here. I don't have 14 00:00:45,040 --> 00:00:49,839 Speaker 1: the background on this to be able to kind of 15 00:00:50,240 --> 00:00:53,960 Speaker 1: play how this should go forward. And the conversation is 16 00:00:54,360 --> 00:00:56,800 Speaker 1: you're somebody who's smoking weed at home and are you 17 00:00:57,440 --> 00:00:59,440 Speaker 1: somehow do you give up your first year, I'm sorry, 18 00:00:59,440 --> 00:01:03,200 Speaker 1: your second amount rights? Is this? Is this the the argument? 19 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:08,120 Speaker 1: So what's interesting is is that these guys see it 20 00:01:08,160 --> 00:01:12,360 Speaker 1: as it seemed like the Court was leaning in that direction. 21 00:01:13,680 --> 00:01:16,440 Speaker 1: And then you even have Vox, which is left leaning. 22 00:01:16,760 --> 00:01:20,080 Speaker 1: The Supreme Court appears likely to let Stoner's own guns. 23 00:01:21,400 --> 00:01:24,440 Speaker 1: I gotta understand the story before I am able to 24 00:01:24,440 --> 00:01:26,640 Speaker 1: ask the right questions, to get the right people in here, 25 00:01:26,680 --> 00:01:28,600 Speaker 1: to be able to explain to us what exactly just 26 00:01:28,720 --> 00:01:31,520 Speaker 1: happened here. So have you got any thoughts, I'll take them. 27 00:01:31,760 --> 00:01:33,840 Speaker 1: Tony at Tony kats dot com love to hear what 28 00:01:33,880 --> 00:01:37,600 Speaker 1: you have to say. Remember, I'm a Second Amendment guy, 29 00:01:38,160 --> 00:01:41,880 Speaker 1: not a gun guy. So in this conversation, I'm very 30 00:01:41,959 --> 00:01:46,200 Speaker 1: focused on how we view the rights of the Second 31 00:01:46,240 --> 00:01:50,840 Speaker 1: Amendment and are they ever impeded by other activities that 32 00:01:50,880 --> 00:01:56,120 Speaker 1: we have deemed to be illegal activities? Is the is 33 00:01:56,160 --> 00:02:00,680 Speaker 1: the action of X changing the right of Why? If 34 00:02:01,120 --> 00:02:04,680 Speaker 1: one would ask the question if you are defending your 35 00:02:04,680 --> 00:02:07,640 Speaker 1: home or defending your loved ones and in that defense 36 00:02:07,720 --> 00:02:11,480 Speaker 1: you shoot and kill somebody, that is seen differently one 37 00:02:11,480 --> 00:02:14,639 Speaker 1: would assume than if you were defending your loved ones 38 00:02:14,760 --> 00:02:17,560 Speaker 1: or defending yourself and you were drunk and killed somebody. 39 00:02:18,600 --> 00:02:21,360 Speaker 1: So that's my question. What already exists on the books? 40 00:02:21,480 --> 00:02:23,760 Speaker 1: What is it that we're actually asking here? And I've 41 00:02:23,760 --> 00:02:26,120 Speaker 1: got a couple people that I'm gonna bring to you 42 00:02:26,160 --> 00:02:28,200 Speaker 1: guys to be able to kind of break that down further. 43 00:02:28,600 --> 00:02:33,360 Speaker 1: So that happened yesterday. And then you have Christinome testifying. 44 00:02:33,400 --> 00:02:36,520 Speaker 1: She's testifying in front of the House, I believe, a 45 00:02:36,639 --> 00:02:43,640 Speaker 1: House Judiciary committee about oversight of homeland security. So you 46 00:02:43,639 --> 00:02:46,760 Speaker 1: know that's going to be a very contested and angry 47 00:02:46,880 --> 00:02:50,440 Speaker 1: kind of event with leftists trying to get in all 48 00:02:50,440 --> 00:02:56,079 Speaker 1: the talking points they can about ice. Then you have 49 00:02:56,720 --> 00:03:01,320 Speaker 1: what we talked about earlier, regarding the press conference from 50 00:03:01,320 --> 00:03:05,400 Speaker 1: the Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. Tim Walls, the governor 51 00:03:05,480 --> 00:03:08,680 Speaker 1: of Minnesota. He's talking in front of Congress about the 52 00:03:08,680 --> 00:03:12,880 Speaker 1: misuse of federal funds, the fraud. Can I tell you 53 00:03:12,960 --> 00:03:20,480 Speaker 1: I had the most retweeted or most liked tweet post 54 00:03:21,040 --> 00:03:27,040 Speaker 1: of my life the other day. It is weird how 55 00:03:27,080 --> 00:03:32,200 Speaker 1: things hit. It is very very strange. And I saw 56 00:03:32,240 --> 00:03:40,560 Speaker 1: that Tim Walls he had posted after it was announced 57 00:03:40,720 --> 00:03:45,080 Speaker 1: that you know, we had engaged these hits on on Iran, 58 00:03:46,120 --> 00:03:51,000 Speaker 1: he wrote, no new wars. Right, so brave, so brave 59 00:03:51,360 --> 00:03:57,120 Speaker 1: that he wrote no new wars. I responded with what's 60 00:03:57,160 --> 00:04:01,080 Speaker 1: called the quote tweet, and I responded with no new fraud, 61 00:04:03,160 --> 00:04:06,280 Speaker 1: no new fraud. I thought it was a good remark 62 00:04:07,800 --> 00:04:11,320 Speaker 1: and it's absolutely something that I favored. I think you 63 00:04:11,360 --> 00:04:16,680 Speaker 1: favor twelve thousand likes that that is the most of 64 00:04:16,720 --> 00:04:20,560 Speaker 1: my career. I don't I don't understand how the social 65 00:04:20,600 --> 00:04:24,600 Speaker 1: media works. I really am bamboozled by all of it. 66 00:04:24,800 --> 00:04:29,160 Speaker 1: How does that connect? I have written things that I 67 00:04:29,200 --> 00:04:34,920 Speaker 1: think are pure genius. Quite literally Shakespeare would say, bravo, sir, 68 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:44,919 Speaker 1: just just goal poetry summit worthy five likes. I swear 69 00:04:44,960 --> 00:04:49,040 Speaker 1: to you, I have no idea why these things connect 70 00:04:49,200 --> 00:04:54,640 Speaker 1: as they do. So Walls is engaged there and I'll 71 00:04:54,680 --> 00:04:59,840 Speaker 1: share that more with you tomorrow. But the House Republican 72 00:05:00,360 --> 00:05:02,719 Speaker 1: held a news conference, and of course there's a lot 73 00:05:02,760 --> 00:05:07,159 Speaker 1: to talk about because within everything we just mentioned, Warren 74 00:05:07,200 --> 00:05:15,799 Speaker 1: Iran fraud in Minnesota, Ice, everything leads to the midterms. 75 00:05:17,160 --> 00:05:19,880 Speaker 1: These people have to win the midterms. So when they're 76 00:05:19,920 --> 00:05:23,760 Speaker 1: now engaged in these conversations and speaking in front of 77 00:05:23,800 --> 00:05:27,200 Speaker 1: the press and in front of America, everything has to 78 00:05:27,240 --> 00:05:30,560 Speaker 1: be midterm directed. And you know that I'm a guy 79 00:05:30,600 --> 00:05:35,200 Speaker 1: who sees the path if they fight prove a couple 80 00:05:35,240 --> 00:05:39,160 Speaker 1: of their economic policies accurate, actually lower some costs they 81 00:05:39,160 --> 00:05:41,800 Speaker 1: have on gas, and they will again gas prices are 82 00:05:41,839 --> 00:05:44,240 Speaker 1: going to go up. It was up eleven cents nationwide. 83 00:05:44,480 --> 00:05:46,760 Speaker 1: Because of what's happening in Iran. You're already seeing a 84 00:05:46,800 --> 00:05:51,600 Speaker 1: little bit of stabilization in the oil prices. The big 85 00:05:51,680 --> 00:05:55,920 Speaker 1: jumps went down a little bit, and I've done much right. 86 00:05:56,000 --> 00:05:58,640 Speaker 1: You do have West Texas crewed that for the majority 87 00:05:58,680 --> 00:06:00,720 Speaker 1: of the day was under seventy five dollars a barrel. 88 00:06:00,839 --> 00:06:02,800 Speaker 1: The Brent crude, which is out of the oceans, was 89 00:06:02,880 --> 00:06:05,359 Speaker 1: under eighty five dollars a barrel. These days it was 90 00:06:05,520 --> 00:06:09,720 Speaker 1: over eighty seven. So everything's calmed a little bit. The 91 00:06:09,760 --> 00:06:17,279 Speaker 1: futures market this morning had was positive. The markets were up. Yes, 92 00:06:17,400 --> 00:06:20,719 Speaker 1: they were down four hundred yesterday, agreed, But they were 93 00:06:20,720 --> 00:06:25,000 Speaker 1: down twelve hundred yesterday and they only closed down four hundred, 94 00:06:25,240 --> 00:06:30,400 Speaker 1: which is to say that everybody has calmed down a 95 00:06:30,440 --> 00:06:32,280 Speaker 1: little bit and they're taking a look at what's happening 96 00:06:32,320 --> 00:06:36,160 Speaker 1: and they're absorbing it. And then you've got Bessent saying 97 00:06:36,200 --> 00:06:38,640 Speaker 1: there's going to be a global fifteen percent tariff that's 98 00:06:38,680 --> 00:06:41,320 Speaker 1: going to go into effect this week, even with everything 99 00:06:41,320 --> 00:06:44,000 Speaker 1: else going on. And I will tell you, and I 100 00:06:44,040 --> 00:06:46,400 Speaker 1: haven't spoken to any of my economics people yet. I 101 00:06:46,400 --> 00:06:49,039 Speaker 1: haven't spoken to doctor Wills, or Charles Payne or some 102 00:06:49,040 --> 00:06:52,000 Speaker 1: of the other people that I chat with. I think 103 00:06:52,160 --> 00:06:54,280 Speaker 1: that people are going to very much like this idea 104 00:06:54,400 --> 00:06:57,400 Speaker 1: of Okay, it's fifteen percent across the board. Now, we 105 00:06:57,480 --> 00:06:59,919 Speaker 1: still have different tariffs on automotive and some other things, 106 00:07:00,760 --> 00:07:04,160 Speaker 1: but there's certainty in that number. And I think one 107 00:07:04,160 --> 00:07:06,160 Speaker 1: of the things the market I shouldn't say. I think 108 00:07:06,200 --> 00:07:09,000 Speaker 1: I think we would all agree. One of the things 109 00:07:09,160 --> 00:07:13,120 Speaker 1: that the market likes is certainty, so they know how 110 00:07:13,200 --> 00:07:17,680 Speaker 1: to act, they know what's coming, they can work within it. 111 00:07:18,600 --> 00:07:21,000 Speaker 1: So all of this is still backdrop. And you know, 112 00:07:21,040 --> 00:07:22,560 Speaker 1: I hate tariffs. I do. 113 00:07:22,880 --> 00:07:23,080 Speaker 2: I do. 114 00:07:23,320 --> 00:07:26,560 Speaker 1: All this is backdrop for everything Republicans say between now 115 00:07:26,560 --> 00:07:30,920 Speaker 1: and November three, because everything plays into the reelection game, 116 00:07:31,280 --> 00:07:35,760 Speaker 1: plays into the midterms. So when they gather as they 117 00:07:35,800 --> 00:07:39,880 Speaker 1: did with the Speaker of the House, Brian mast is there, 118 00:07:39,960 --> 00:07:45,560 Speaker 1: Tom Emmer, you've got the majority leader in Steve's scalise, 119 00:07:45,680 --> 00:07:49,080 Speaker 1: you have the majority whip Tom Emmer, and oh, I 120 00:07:49,120 --> 00:07:51,640 Speaker 1: forget her name right there, I'm gonna get yelled at 121 00:07:51,680 --> 00:07:55,320 Speaker 1: for forgetting her name. They have to be addressing the war, 122 00:07:55,680 --> 00:07:59,360 Speaker 1: the economy, all of it, to say our policies are 123 00:07:59,400 --> 00:08:04,320 Speaker 1: working in our strength is working. Everything is a midterm conversation. 124 00:08:04,680 --> 00:08:07,920 Speaker 3: Well, our brave men and women are risking their lives 125 00:08:07,960 --> 00:08:14,200 Speaker 3: overseas to keep America safe. Democrats here are tearing down 126 00:08:14,240 --> 00:08:21,600 Speaker 3: our defenses. Nearly every single Democrat voted to shut down 127 00:08:21,880 --> 00:08:28,000 Speaker 3: the Department of Homeland Security. This wasn't a messaging mistake. 128 00:08:28,600 --> 00:08:33,880 Speaker 3: It was a deliberate policy choice, and a very dangerous. 129 00:08:33,360 --> 00:08:38,040 Speaker 1: One in that I love this. I love everything about 130 00:08:38,600 --> 00:08:42,440 Speaker 1: this right here because I talk about the lack of 131 00:08:42,480 --> 00:08:45,800 Speaker 1: fight and Republicans and how it's supposed to work. And 132 00:08:45,880 --> 00:08:51,120 Speaker 1: fighting is not about, you know, worrying about civility. People 133 00:08:51,160 --> 00:08:55,280 Speaker 1: get civility all sorts of wrong. Civility is not the 134 00:08:55,320 --> 00:08:58,480 Speaker 1: absence of fighting. You have to go at these people 135 00:08:58,679 --> 00:09:02,680 Speaker 1: who are endangering the law of Americans with everything in you. 136 00:09:02,679 --> 00:09:05,520 Speaker 1: You still having funded the Department of Homeland Security. Well, 137 00:09:05,559 --> 00:09:08,079 Speaker 1: that means the fentael can get into the country. That 138 00:09:08,160 --> 00:09:11,320 Speaker 1: means we don't have the Coastguard doing its job properly 139 00:09:11,360 --> 00:09:14,440 Speaker 1: because people aren't getting paid and Lord only knows what 140 00:09:14,679 --> 00:09:17,640 Speaker 1: terrorist cells are trying to make their way our way. 141 00:09:17,920 --> 00:09:21,680 Speaker 1: This is dangerous stuff that the Democrats are allowing to happen. 142 00:09:21,960 --> 00:09:25,000 Speaker 1: These Democrats are going to get people killed. These democrats 143 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:28,120 Speaker 1: have blood on their hands. These Democrats aren't serious about 144 00:09:28,120 --> 00:09:31,200 Speaker 1: American safety and security. These are democrats don't even care 145 00:09:31,240 --> 00:09:33,480 Speaker 1: about the country. They don't care about your kids, they 146 00:09:33,480 --> 00:09:35,360 Speaker 1: don't care about your wife, they don't care about your 147 00:09:35,360 --> 00:09:39,400 Speaker 1: mem While these Democrats cannot be in power, they're too dangerous. 148 00:09:40,240 --> 00:09:45,160 Speaker 1: I want more of that talk. I want them on defense. 149 00:09:45,520 --> 00:09:48,240 Speaker 1: I want them explaining. As the old adage goes, if 150 00:09:48,240 --> 00:09:52,280 Speaker 1: you're in politics, if you're explaining, you're losing. So I 151 00:09:52,480 --> 00:09:54,680 Speaker 1: like this approach very much. 152 00:09:55,720 --> 00:09:59,040 Speaker 3: Between twenty and twenty one and twenty twenty four, the 153 00:09:59,120 --> 00:10:04,960 Speaker 3: Biden ministryation's open border borders allowed more than three hundred 154 00:10:05,080 --> 00:10:10,400 Speaker 3: and eighty individuals on the terrorist watch list to be 155 00:10:10,559 --> 00:10:14,359 Speaker 3: apprehended attempting to cross our borders illegally. 156 00:10:15,440 --> 00:10:16,440 Speaker 1: We also know that. 157 00:10:16,360 --> 00:10:22,280 Speaker 3: Biden released more than seven hundred Iranians into the interior 158 00:10:22,480 --> 00:10:28,320 Speaker 3: of our country after crossing our border illegally. Now that's 159 00:10:28,360 --> 00:10:33,160 Speaker 3: just what we know. President Trump didn't waste one second 160 00:10:33,400 --> 00:10:37,480 Speaker 3: cleaning up that mess. Within days of taking office, President 161 00:10:37,559 --> 00:10:41,920 Speaker 3: Trump got to work deporting Iranian terrorists who had entered 162 00:10:42,360 --> 00:10:49,320 Speaker 3: under Biden. They weren't overseas they were here on American soil. 163 00:10:50,080 --> 00:10:55,199 Speaker 3: The job isn't finished. The threat is real, and when 164 00:10:55,280 --> 00:11:02,320 Speaker 3: the world's leading sponsor of terrorism is promising retaliation, this 165 00:11:02,559 --> 00:11:06,520 Speaker 3: is the moment Democrats decide to shut down the very 166 00:11:06,679 --> 00:11:12,640 Speaker 3: agency created after nine eleven to prevent another attack. 167 00:11:13,760 --> 00:11:17,400 Speaker 1: I like this approach. I like it a lot. Now 168 00:11:17,480 --> 00:11:22,400 Speaker 1: I'm a guy who would be very okay if this 169 00:11:22,480 --> 00:11:25,280 Speaker 1: Partment of Homeland Security was gone. I think we could 170 00:11:25,280 --> 00:11:32,360 Speaker 1: do this all under defense. I absolutely do. Then speaking 171 00:11:32,720 --> 00:11:37,280 Speaker 1: was Representative Brian mast who, as you know, lost his legs, 172 00:11:37,480 --> 00:11:40,520 Speaker 1: a man who served in the military. They bring him 173 00:11:40,600 --> 00:11:41,080 Speaker 1: up next. 174 00:11:44,040 --> 00:11:47,000 Speaker 2: Let's start by speaking about our faign service members as well. 175 00:11:47,960 --> 00:11:49,439 Speaker 1: Representative Zinki and myself. 176 00:11:49,440 --> 00:11:54,080 Speaker 2: We were discussing this literally heartbreaking to us, and I 177 00:11:54,120 --> 00:11:56,360 Speaker 2: mean that it's something that can bring us to tears 178 00:11:56,360 --> 00:11:59,080 Speaker 2: as we think about taps and we think about that 179 00:11:59,440 --> 00:12:01,480 Speaker 2: crack of a twenty one gun salute, and you think 180 00:12:01,520 --> 00:12:05,440 Speaker 2: about seeing our friends, spouses, families handed flags. You know, 181 00:12:05,720 --> 00:12:08,320 Speaker 2: when you when you think about those things, it literally 182 00:12:08,480 --> 00:12:10,680 Speaker 2: it brings you to tears when you think about old 183 00:12:10,720 --> 00:12:13,160 Speaker 2: friends and we have families that are about to go 184 00:12:13,200 --> 00:12:15,920 Speaker 2: through that. It's a very serious thing. For our country. 185 00:12:18,520 --> 00:12:20,959 Speaker 2: But what our reflection is also about that is that 186 00:12:22,679 --> 00:12:26,880 Speaker 2: we can't even count the number of friends that we 187 00:12:26,960 --> 00:12:29,800 Speaker 2: have buried because of the hand of Iran. 188 00:12:30,800 --> 00:12:31,720 Speaker 1: Year after year. 189 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:34,440 Speaker 2: There's an estimate that one in six service members that 190 00:12:34,480 --> 00:12:37,480 Speaker 2: were killed from you know, roughly two thousand and three 191 00:12:37,600 --> 00:12:39,559 Speaker 2: to thirteen fourteen that window. 192 00:12:39,760 --> 00:12:40,920 Speaker 1: Killed by the hand of Iran. 193 00:12:40,960 --> 00:12:44,840 Speaker 2: Those were our friends. And Finally, and that's why the 194 00:12:44,880 --> 00:12:48,800 Speaker 2: thanks goes to President Trump. Finally we have a commander 195 00:12:48,840 --> 00:12:53,040 Speaker 2: in chief that's willing to say that that comes to 196 00:12:53,080 --> 00:12:57,720 Speaker 2: an end. We're no longer going to face this imminent 197 00:12:57,800 --> 00:13:00,360 Speaker 2: threat year after year after year. 198 00:13:01,120 --> 00:13:02,760 Speaker 1: What does that imminent threat look like? 199 00:13:02,840 --> 00:13:06,400 Speaker 2: What has it been beyond just the last four days, 200 00:13:06,440 --> 00:13:08,160 Speaker 2: What has it been for the last forty years or 201 00:13:08,200 --> 00:13:11,360 Speaker 2: the last couple of years that President Trump decided he 202 00:13:11,440 --> 00:13:15,439 Speaker 2: needed to act against it. Almost every member of Congress 203 00:13:16,120 --> 00:13:19,080 Speaker 2: has voted to say that Iran is the largest state 204 00:13:19,120 --> 00:13:23,480 Speaker 2: sponsor of terror because they're an imminent threat. Almost unanimous 205 00:13:23,559 --> 00:13:30,359 Speaker 2: votes condemning their continuous support for proxies that are attacking America, 206 00:13:30,640 --> 00:13:34,079 Speaker 2: our people, our merchant marine fleets, our navy vessels. Almost 207 00:13:34,200 --> 00:13:38,520 Speaker 2: unanimous votes condemning that almost unanimous votes calling their nuclear 208 00:13:38,559 --> 00:13:42,000 Speaker 2: program a massive threat to the United States of America. 209 00:13:42,120 --> 00:13:47,000 Speaker 2: Almost unanimous votes designating the Iran Revolutionary Guard as a 210 00:13:47,120 --> 00:13:53,600 Speaker 2: terrorist organization. All of those votes, they weren't almost unanimous 211 00:13:54,559 --> 00:13:58,920 Speaker 2: for no reason at all. They paint a clear picture 212 00:13:59,559 --> 00:14:04,120 Speaker 2: of what everybody has concluded to be an imminent threat 213 00:14:04,280 --> 00:14:08,960 Speaker 2: against the United States of America year in, year out. 214 00:14:09,920 --> 00:14:13,400 Speaker 2: Iran has been an imminent threat against US because they 215 00:14:13,440 --> 00:14:17,800 Speaker 2: have never faced an imminent response until President Trump. 216 00:14:19,320 --> 00:14:20,000 Speaker 1: What did they face? 217 00:14:20,080 --> 00:14:25,240 Speaker 2: Instead, they faced negotiations that told them how much uranium 218 00:14:25,280 --> 00:14:28,320 Speaker 2: they could enrich when they could reach their nuclear weapon 219 00:14:28,360 --> 00:14:34,360 Speaker 2: instead of never literally received palettes of cash. 220 00:14:34,680 --> 00:14:38,480 Speaker 1: That's what Obama did. And I like this too. Brian 221 00:14:38,600 --> 00:14:42,560 Speaker 1: mast is making the clear distinction between the weakness of 222 00:14:42,640 --> 00:14:45,880 Speaker 1: the old and the strength of the new. That the 223 00:14:45,920 --> 00:14:49,320 Speaker 1: weakness failed and led us into more danger, but this 224 00:14:49,480 --> 00:14:53,000 Speaker 1: strength will prevail and lead us to more peace. It's 225 00:14:53,040 --> 00:14:56,320 Speaker 1: a good message that can resonate. This is Tony Katz today.