WEBVTT - Episode 4658: Tony Katz Today Hour 1 - 08/10/26 0:00:05.160 --> 0:00:10.760 Why from Vall Heartbiner and the Crossroads of America. It's 0:00:10.840 --> 0:00:18.440 Tony Katz today. 0:00:19.560 --> 0:00:22.720 We're talking low key ladies and gentlemen, which may or 0:00:22.760 --> 0:00:25.400 may not be different than a war on the down low. 0:00:27.000 --> 0:00:32.519 I don't actually know if there is a difference. I 0:00:32.560 --> 0:00:36.479 do know that a low key war is not actually 0:00:36.520 --> 0:00:40.200 a thing. I mean, if you just want to sit 0:00:40.280 --> 0:00:46.280 there and keep up the economic sanctions and slowly starve around, 0:00:46.440 --> 0:00:49.360 you can. But these are people who are fine with 0:00:49.479 --> 0:00:58.400 being starved. They're fine with waiting you out. They've actually 0:00:58.480 --> 0:01:03.240 said they're fine with waiting you out. Maybe that's their 0:01:03.280 --> 0:01:05.680 whole plan, the belief that they can, the belief that 0:01:05.800 --> 0:01:08.840 it's no problem, no issue, they can last because the 0:01:08.920 --> 0:01:11.560 United States can't last. Isn't that their game? Isn't that 0:01:11.600 --> 0:01:18.240 their approach? The United States can't handle the idea that 0:01:18.440 --> 0:01:21.319 somehow oil prices will go up. 0:01:22.319 --> 0:01:24.720 I think we can. I just think you have. 0:01:24.680 --> 0:01:27.959 To sell people on the idea, something that President Trump 0:01:28.000 --> 0:01:30.520 did not do. It's amazing the amount of things that 0:01:30.560 --> 0:01:33.120 could have been thwarted in all of this if the 0:01:33.160 --> 0:01:41.240 White House had just done the basics. But dear Lord, 0:01:41.280 --> 0:01:43.399 we actually think that low key is a thing. And 0:01:43.520 --> 0:01:46.240 if it is a thing, exactly how does it work. 0:01:46.280 --> 0:01:50.160 I'm a man with questions. And while Axios is talking 0:01:50.160 --> 0:01:52.560 about low key, how about the Wall Street Journal with 0:01:52.600 --> 0:01:55.400 a story that doesn't connect at all. 0:01:55.920 --> 0:01:57.240 I'm gonna break this down for you. 0:01:57.360 --> 0:01:59.760 Tony Katz, Tony Kats Today, Good to be with you, guys. 0:02:00.360 --> 0:02:02.800 Find everything I do at Tony kats dot com, live 0:02:02.800 --> 0:02:05.840 streaming on YouTube and rumble Tony Katz. Just look for 0:02:05.920 --> 0:02:08.839 Tony Kats Tony Kats Today and get in there, get 0:02:08.880 --> 0:02:11.680 in the chatroom. Good to see everybody. As everything's building 0:02:11.760 --> 0:02:16.680 up and people are piling in. Axios reported that President 0:02:16.720 --> 0:02:21.160 Trump's plan is to be low key. We are only 0:02:21.200 --> 0:02:23.880 seven negotiating with them. We are just watching around with 0:02:23.919 --> 0:02:26.280 its huge inflation and the fact that they have no money. 0:02:26.560 --> 0:02:30.000 Their economy has been in bad shape for forever. It 0:02:30.040 --> 0:02:34.120 hasn't stopped them from engaging in bombings of US bases. 0:02:34.680 --> 0:02:40.000 Can the strategy, the siege mentality actually work, Sure it can, 0:02:41.520 --> 0:02:46.520 of course it can. But anytime the Iranian regime feels uppity, 0:02:47.200 --> 0:02:49.519 are you okay with taking a series of bombs in 0:02:49.560 --> 0:02:52.200 a series of drones to a base in Jordan or 0:02:52.240 --> 0:02:54.640 to an area in Kuwait or somewhere in Saudi Arabia, 0:02:54.680 --> 0:02:58.760 et cetera. That's the question. Low key, that's what you said. 0:02:59.520 --> 0:03:05.040 If that's so low key means okay, that's low key 0:03:06.160 --> 0:03:09.079 all of this. So you can possibly keep the strait 0:03:09.240 --> 0:03:12.480 somewhat open. As long as oil is under seventy five 0:03:12.520 --> 0:03:15.040 dollars a barrel, everything's going to be all right. 0:03:15.320 --> 0:03:17.400 That's not the right approach, mister president. 0:03:18.120 --> 0:03:20.600 By the way, oil is at eighty one dollars and 0:03:20.680 --> 0:03:25.720 fifteen cents a barrel, So again, not the right approach. 0:03:26.840 --> 0:03:29.760 And I know what you're saying, Tony. You got to 0:03:29.800 --> 0:03:32.440 give the president time. You don't understand he's playing nine 0:03:32.560 --> 0:03:35.720 D chess. Sometimes the man can just be wrong. Can 0:03:35.760 --> 0:03:36.240 I help you? 0:03:38.600 --> 0:03:40.480 The people out there are like Senator. 0:03:40.280 --> 0:03:43.560 Chris Murphy and others, these progressives who want to see 0:03:43.600 --> 0:03:47.000 America lose. They're amongst the most disgusting people on planet Earth. 0:03:47.960 --> 0:03:50.400 The President isn't approaching this right, and you got to 0:03:50.400 --> 0:03:53.120 stop pretending that he is. You got to stop loving 0:03:53.120 --> 0:03:55.520 on him so much, doting on him so much that 0:03:55.560 --> 0:03:56.800 you don't look at reality. 0:03:56.840 --> 0:03:57.760 Would you cut it out? 0:03:58.360 --> 0:04:02.000 I get the argument the press never notices when their 0:04:02.000 --> 0:04:06.200 guy is falling apart Joe Biden, as Hunter Biden describes, 0:04:06.240 --> 0:04:11.720 it has prostate cancer and it has spread. It should 0:04:11.720 --> 0:04:16.800 be understood that Democrats were willing to lie to let 0:04:16.839 --> 0:04:19.279 that guy be president. He'd be dying in the Oval 0:04:19.320 --> 0:04:26.520 Office right now. They didn't care. They didn't care near 0:04:26.560 --> 0:04:29.680 a tandent and caringe John Pierre and all the rest. 0:04:29.720 --> 0:04:31.799 They didn't give a good HOLI damn you think Kamala 0:04:31.800 --> 0:04:35.360 Harris gave a damn. They needed that debate to happen 0:04:35.480 --> 0:04:38.200 more than oxygen to move him out. They would have 0:04:38.400 --> 0:04:44.080 let this happen to the country anything for power reason 0:04:44.160 --> 0:04:44.760 number nine. 0:04:44.839 --> 0:04:46.839 But Jillian, why, I'm not one of them. 0:04:48.480 --> 0:04:50.200 I'm not gonna be somebody who looks at the way 0:04:50.200 --> 0:04:53.520 Trump is handling this war and say, hey, he's got 0:04:53.800 --> 0:04:55.360 he's got a maneuver in a plant. 0:04:55.440 --> 0:04:58.320 You just watch how this all works out. I'm watching. 0:05:00.320 --> 0:05:01.839 It's not working out the way I would like. 0:05:03.440 --> 0:05:05.480 Hey, look, if the president wants to continue to go 0:05:05.520 --> 0:05:08.040 down this road, he can. You want to deal with 0:05:08.800 --> 0:05:13.080 an idea of economic pressure and low key, you knock 0:05:13.120 --> 0:05:19.240 yourself out, go right ahead, But don't tell me about 0:05:19.320 --> 0:05:20.600 negotiations anymore. 0:05:20.880 --> 0:05:22.080 Don't tell me about any of it. 0:05:23.040 --> 0:05:25.560 Don't put Scott Besen out there to lie, to mean, 0:05:25.680 --> 0:05:28.920 don't put jd Vance out there to be ridiculous on 0:05:29.040 --> 0:05:32.240 when it comes to foreign policy, don't do it. I 0:05:32.279 --> 0:05:34.800 want to see you win. I don't know why you 0:05:34.800 --> 0:05:38.240 don't want to see you win. I don't know why 0:05:38.320 --> 0:05:39.040 you want. 0:05:38.760 --> 0:05:42.880 This this way. We should be clear that there are 0:05:42.880 --> 0:05:43.840 no deals to be made. 0:05:44.040 --> 0:05:45.680 So if you keep telling me, old man, they want 0:05:45.720 --> 0:05:47.680 to make a deal so badly, it's a lie. 0:05:47.760 --> 0:05:49.440 Stop lying. Stomp it. 0:05:50.760 --> 0:05:53.040 How dare you, tony? President Trump is the guy who 0:05:53.120 --> 0:05:55.200 makes the deals. That's what he does. He makes deals. 0:05:55.360 --> 0:05:58.720 There's no deal to make. Why not grow up? Stop 0:05:58.760 --> 0:06:03.239 being ridiculous, Stop being in the cult, stop buying into 0:06:03.240 --> 0:06:08.280 the klan. No better than all these lefties who told 0:06:08.279 --> 0:06:11.320 me that Joe Biden was of good health. Same garbage. 0:06:11.480 --> 0:06:16.200 Not interested in the garbage. There's no deal to be made. 0:06:16.640 --> 0:06:19.200 There's no one to make a deal with. I have 0:06:19.360 --> 0:06:23.840 been somebody discussing that when you were talking about the 0:06:24.360 --> 0:06:29.200 Iranian regime. These are people who want the caliphate right, 0:06:29.279 --> 0:06:32.120 they want they are Islamists and they want to see 0:06:32.120 --> 0:06:35.680 a total take over, total control. Somebody had written it 0:06:35.720 --> 0:06:41.440 was a really really good piece about the idea that 0:06:41.839 --> 0:06:43.640 and I can't remember they're on substack and I can't 0:06:43.640 --> 0:06:47.560 remember their name. It's killing me that what if it 0:06:47.720 --> 0:06:51.679 isn't about that. It is about power, but a different 0:06:51.760 --> 0:06:55.240 kind of power. It's about staying in power for survival. 0:06:56.080 --> 0:06:57.800 That if we were to take a look at the 0:06:57.839 --> 0:07:01.560 Iranian regime and see how fractured it is, there's nobody 0:07:01.600 --> 0:07:05.359 making decisions there. And we've already discussed this because the 0:07:05.400 --> 0:07:10.720 people making the decisions are the members of the IRGC, 0:07:10.840 --> 0:07:14.480 the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Court. But the IRGC is not 0:07:14.600 --> 0:07:18.040 working in tandem and concert with each other. They're their 0:07:18.080 --> 0:07:22.880 own factions, their own fiefdoms. That seems obvious too that 0:07:22.960 --> 0:07:26.560 what we have had happen here is that because of 0:07:26.640 --> 0:07:29.400 the bombings that we have done, which have been successful, 0:07:29.520 --> 0:07:33.200 let's not kid ourselves. Don't believe the Chris van Hollins 0:07:33.240 --> 0:07:36.320 or the Chris Murphy's or any of these beta male progressives, 0:07:37.760 --> 0:07:41.720 we have done great damage to Iran. To say otherwise 0:07:41.880 --> 0:07:47.080 is laughable in its ignorance. And what we have done 0:07:47.720 --> 0:07:51.200 is we have eliminated the ability for a singular person 0:07:51.280 --> 0:07:54.800 to be a person of power, and so Therefore, the 0:07:54.840 --> 0:07:59.160 idea of a leader or leadership as a whole has 0:07:59.200 --> 0:08:02.520 been replaced by what I guess one could call faction. 0:08:04.600 --> 0:08:06.840 We're dealing with a group of IRGC members. 0:08:06.560 --> 0:08:08.600 Over here, in a group of IERGC members over there, 0:08:08.600 --> 0:08:10.160 and on, then there's this group over there, and then 0:08:10.160 --> 0:08:11.120 there's that guy over there. 0:08:11.160 --> 0:08:11.920 He's just nuts. 0:08:11.960 --> 0:08:15.880 Nobody even talks to that guy, and they're all acting 0:08:15.960 --> 0:08:19.239 in their own best interests to be able to create 0:08:19.360 --> 0:08:24.080 their own wants. Some of these wants are about power 0:08:24.160 --> 0:08:28.880 and control and money. Some of these wants are about power, control, money, 0:08:29.040 --> 0:08:34.680 and the caliphate. Not everybody may be connected on that 0:08:34.800 --> 0:08:38.520 ideological tip when it comes to survival, so they all 0:08:38.559 --> 0:08:40.319 act in independent. 0:08:39.760 --> 0:08:41.960 Ways in order to best achieve this. 0:08:42.320 --> 0:08:45.640 Then there are those parts of the IRGC that are 0:08:45.640 --> 0:08:49.200 working with those outside of Iran to be able to 0:08:49.240 --> 0:08:51.480 move sanctioned oil to them to get sold, as we 0:08:51.520 --> 0:08:56.040 saw from someone in Turkey making millions of dollars that way. 0:08:56.520 --> 0:08:58.040 A lot of people working. 0:08:57.760 --> 0:09:01.280 In a lot of different areas, all for their own interest, 0:09:01.360 --> 0:09:03.920 and none of those interests involved making a deal with 0:09:03.960 --> 0:09:04.880 the United States. 0:09:05.080 --> 0:09:07.839 Who cares about that money's made the other way, the 0:09:07.880 --> 0:09:09.439 other side that doesn't. 0:09:09.160 --> 0:09:13.720 Matter, especially if you're gonna calculate that Trump's gonna be 0:09:13.720 --> 0:09:16.120 all low key on the thing and nobody is going 0:09:16.200 --> 0:09:18.760 to wake up to find that they've been bombed to death. 0:09:19.320 --> 0:09:22.679 No beepers are gonna go off, no buildings are gonna explode. 0:09:22.760 --> 0:09:27.920 There's gonna be no guided missiles or drones from the Israelis. 0:09:28.960 --> 0:09:29.920 Nah. 0:09:30.280 --> 0:09:32.280 Now, there's no pressure at all. There's money to be 0:09:32.280 --> 0:09:39.600 made until there's not until they are stopped, until they 0:09:39.600 --> 0:09:44.280 are thwarted. There is no doubt that the Iranian desire 0:09:44.440 --> 0:09:46.840 is the end of the United States and Israel. But 0:09:46.920 --> 0:09:50.240 if we get a little more granular, they could argue 0:09:50.240 --> 0:09:52.400 that the desire is to get rid of the United 0:09:52.440 --> 0:09:55.640 States and Israel, or certainly US or Israeli power in 0:09:55.720 --> 0:09:58.640 the region, so they can be the power in the region. 0:09:58.800 --> 0:10:00.360 And when you're the power in the re and you 0:10:00.400 --> 0:10:04.440 can set your own price for everything. If you think 0:10:04.480 --> 0:10:07.240 Iran is a problem without a nuclear weapon, imagine them 0:10:07.280 --> 0:10:10.000 with a nuclear weapon. Which is why when we go 0:10:10.080 --> 0:10:13.040 back to Tucker Carlson, or we go back to Marjorie 0:10:13.080 --> 0:10:16.880 Taylor Green or Thomas Massey, none of them are America. First. 0:10:17.080 --> 0:10:20.200 They're so full of crap it's to be believed. They're 0:10:20.240 --> 0:10:23.320 full of it. They're not America first. If you don't 0:10:23.320 --> 0:10:26.920 believe in ending this regime, you are non America first. 0:10:28.679 --> 0:10:31.880 Now I don't know how other people define America first. 0:10:33.280 --> 0:10:37.240 I define it as us over the terrorists. I didn't 0:10:37.280 --> 0:10:41.559 know that that was such a huge stretch. But Oran 0:10:41.679 --> 0:10:44.360 never did anything to us. We shouldn't bother with them. 0:10:44.440 --> 0:10:45.600 This is a forever war. 0:10:46.679 --> 0:10:51.240 That is Marjorie Taylor Green is the Karen of her generation. 0:10:53.520 --> 0:10:55.880 She might as well be a leftist wine mom from 0:10:55.920 --> 0:11:01.080 the suburbs. Oran never did anything to us. It is 0:11:01.080 --> 0:11:08.720 an argument too stupid to actually be taken seriously. Taking 0:11:08.800 --> 0:11:13.440 out the regime matters. It's my take. I don't think 0:11:13.559 --> 0:11:17.520 low Key does that. I think it actually allows them 0:11:17.520 --> 0:11:18.880 to figure out other ways. 0:11:18.600 --> 0:11:20.520 To profit and to be a problem. 0:11:21.280 --> 0:11:23.960 Now we could take in another direction and we could 0:11:23.960 --> 0:11:26.600 discuss the fact that their economy is cracking. They have 0:11:26.760 --> 0:11:29.800 massive problems. We do have huge economic sanctions. We've applied 0:11:29.840 --> 0:11:32.640 massive economic pressure. Maybe we shouldn't have given them any 0:11:32.640 --> 0:11:37.280 money when we signed the memorandum of understanding. And certainly 0:11:37.640 --> 0:11:40.880 we can't listen to the Wall Street Journal when they say, oh, 0:11:40.920 --> 0:11:43.679 the Iranians want one hundreds of billions of dollars in 0:11:43.800 --> 0:11:45.040 order to reopen the straight. 0:11:45.160 --> 0:11:46.120 This is their argument. 0:11:47.040 --> 0:11:52.920 This was the Wall Street Journal headline, and it read 0:11:53.440 --> 0:11:57.040 Trump thought opening the Straight of Hormuz was imminent. Iran 0:11:57.200 --> 0:12:04.360 had other plans. Start with the baseline. Don't you ever 0:12:06.080 --> 0:12:10.079 take an article from the Wall Street Journal at face value, 0:12:11.800 --> 0:12:19.000 especially an article that only discusses sources. Senior AIDS, I 0:12:19.040 --> 0:12:25.360 don't know what their sources are. I must tell you 0:12:25.400 --> 0:12:30.000 that I don't know what their sources are. For weeks, 0:12:30.000 --> 0:12:32.600 President Trump has been laying the groundwork to declare victory 0:12:32.600 --> 0:12:38.280 in Iran should Tehran fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz, 0:12:38.679 --> 0:12:42.520 even floating the idea privately to Senior AIDS that he's 0:12:42.520 --> 0:12:46.720 willing to walk away without a nuclear deal. At that moment, 0:12:47.480 --> 0:12:51.719 I stopped. I have always known, like you've always known, 0:12:51.800 --> 0:12:54.600 the President Trump could declare victory at any time. He'll 0:12:54.600 --> 0:12:57.480 call anything he wants victory. This is nothing new. We 0:12:57.520 --> 0:13:00.560 are people who understand the two rules of Trump. The 0:13:00.600 --> 0:13:03.240 first rule of TRUMPSM is Trump wins. The second rule 0:13:03.280 --> 0:13:04.360 of TRUMPSM. 0:13:03.920 --> 0:13:05.679 Is that a deal can always be made as long 0:13:05.720 --> 0:13:07.720 as it adheres to the first rule of trump Ism. 0:13:08.080 --> 0:13:11.920 We know this, We're all down for this, we understand it. 0:13:14.520 --> 0:13:18.040 Walk away without a nuclear deal. But he can't do that. 0:13:19.120 --> 0:13:21.320 He said, uh Aaran will never have a nuclear weapon. 0:13:22.800 --> 0:13:25.640 This is a legacy he's talking about here. He's willing 0:13:25.640 --> 0:13:28.640 to tarnish the whole legacy by allowing them to enrich uranium. 0:13:29.760 --> 0:13:33.960 So we're clear, he leaves the area and they start 0:13:34.040 --> 0:13:38.719 enriching uranium, legacy, shot to hell, John, I don't care 0:13:38.760 --> 0:13:39.840 what his supporters say. 0:13:40.160 --> 0:13:42.840 I don't care what he says. I would laugh in 0:13:42.920 --> 0:13:43.560 his face. 0:13:46.520 --> 0:13:53.079 No legacy if they enrich uranium, if they rebuild a centrifuge. 0:13:53.720 --> 0:13:57.360 None. So, no, he can't be willing. 0:13:57.040 --> 0:13:59.400 To leave even if they have a nuclear weapon or 0:13:59.440 --> 0:14:02.520 the ability to make a nuclear weapon. Now you say 0:14:02.600 --> 0:14:06.359 to me, Tony, I thought he obliterated their nuclear capability 0:14:06.520 --> 0:14:09.280 at Naton's at Fourdeaux and Isfahan. 0:14:10.320 --> 0:14:11.120 That's what he said. 0:14:13.280 --> 0:14:16.160 Words coming back to haunt him because he couldn't keep 0:14:16.160 --> 0:14:19.920 his powder dry on the subject. Oh please, don't get 0:14:19.960 --> 0:14:23.160 me wrong in my frustration, don't get me wrong in 0:14:23.200 --> 0:14:27.040 my pleasure of seeing those three areas bomb da hell. 0:14:28.440 --> 0:14:31.880 Making it more difficult. This is a good thing. I 0:14:31.960 --> 0:14:35.320 supported it, then I support it now, and I say bravo. 0:14:38.000 --> 0:14:40.320 But don't say obliterated and then come back to the 0:14:40.360 --> 0:14:45.520 idea that you got to keep doing it. Don't double 0:14:45.560 --> 0:14:47.880 speak and triple speaking and talk about deals and all 0:14:47.960 --> 0:14:51.200 the jazz. You just sound ridiculous and you're making yourself 0:14:51.240 --> 0:14:56.320 look look weak. You are, you are, But I am 0:14:56.360 --> 0:15:00.760 not about to buy into these The story this reporting 0:15:00.800 --> 0:15:06.080 from the Wall Street Journal that Iran has got all 0:15:06.160 --> 0:15:08.280 the cards and they want hundreds of billions of dollars 0:15:08.360 --> 0:15:10.040 in the US to pull out and then they'll open 0:15:10.080 --> 0:15:12.960 the straight Because Trump is so desperate for lower oil 0:15:13.040 --> 0:15:17.680 prices that'll do anything going into the midterms. I could 0:15:17.800 --> 0:15:20.560 argue that he's willing to let things sit for a 0:15:20.560 --> 0:15:23.280 few months until the midterms are over and try and 0:15:23.320 --> 0:15:25.000 have fairly okay oil prices. 0:15:25.600 --> 0:15:27.160 They could argue that's even a strategy. 0:15:27.440 --> 0:15:30.480 I could argue that the low key and just waiting 0:15:30.520 --> 0:15:36.200 them out economically is a strategy. It's not a strategy 0:15:36.240 --> 0:15:41.160 for the long term. Walking away is not a strategy. 0:15:41.680 --> 0:15:44.520 Low key is not a strategy for the long term. 0:15:44.960 --> 0:15:47.680 In the end, the deal doesn't have to be made 0:15:47.680 --> 0:15:50.120 with Iran. The deal has to be made with Saudi 0:15:50.160 --> 0:15:54.800 Arabia and Bakrain and the UAE and Jordan. They are 0:15:54.880 --> 0:15:58.520 the ones who have to get this problem done with 0:15:58.840 --> 0:16:03.160 because it's theirs. Just like we made Russia NATO's problem. 0:16:03.560 --> 0:16:07.080 We have to make Goran the Middle East problem. They 0:16:07.400 --> 0:16:10.240 have to handle it. We were discussing this last week 0:16:10.360 --> 0:16:12.760 and I'm more and more convinced that this is the 0:16:12.880 --> 0:16:17.160 right course. You have to get them out, you have 0:16:17.240 --> 0:16:20.560 to get the regime out, and that's the deal that 0:16:20.560 --> 0:16:23.680 the President has to make. But if he walks away 0:16:24.040 --> 0:16:26.840 with them being able to even think about a nuclear weapon, 0:16:28.360 --> 0:16:33.000 that is legacy shattered and not Trump's want. 0:16:33.760 --> 0:16:35.000 This is Tony Katz today. 0:16:35.080 --> 0:16:37.560 I'll keep it in the military family and talk about 0:16:37.600 --> 0:16:46.200 this leaker, the story of this secretary where the Pentagon 0:16:46.280 --> 0:16:49.760 has accused the former Secretary of I believe Secretary of 0:16:49.760 --> 0:16:55.000 the Air Force of leaking information about Air Force one, 0:16:55.400 --> 0:16:59.920 Tony Katz. Tony Katz today an absolute pleasure. Sean Park 0:17:00.000 --> 0:17:04.119 now as Pentagon spokespersons that effective immediately, the Department of 0:17:04.119 --> 0:17:06.800 Wars revoked former Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall's 0:17:06.840 --> 0:17:10.480 eligibility for access to classified information and his ability to 0:17:10.520 --> 0:17:15.359 hold any sensitive position. This action follows his unauthorized disclosure 0:17:15.359 --> 0:17:20.080 of classified information regarding Air Force one's capabilities to a 0:17:20.119 --> 0:17:27.280 media outlet. Safeguarding classified information is a non negotiable duty. Well, 0:17:27.320 --> 0:17:32.000 that's correct, that is absolutely correct. Now this goes back 0:17:32.040 --> 0:17:35.720 to Trump and the administration putting out a subpoena for 0:17:35.760 --> 0:17:39.359 New York Times journalists because the New York Times, remember 0:17:39.400 --> 0:17:41.960 we talked about this at the press conference when the 0:17:41.960 --> 0:17:45.719 President was in Turkey, he was in Achora, and we're like, 0:17:46.000 --> 0:17:47.960 are they trying to get him killed by talking about 0:17:47.960 --> 0:17:49.399 Air Force one? And why aren't you doing this? And 0:17:49.400 --> 0:17:51.240 why aren't doing that? What's wrong with Air Force one? 0:17:51.600 --> 0:17:52.399 What were they doing? 0:17:55.040 --> 0:17:59.359 Because they reported that the new seven seven gifted by 0:17:59.440 --> 0:18:05.920 Katar was swapped out because of security precaution, and then 0:18:06.440 --> 0:18:09.000 the reporters were like, well it wasn't retrofitted with sufficient 0:18:09.000 --> 0:18:12.960 security measures, and then there are questions about whether it 0:18:13.040 --> 0:18:17.600 had the proper missile defense systems and other modifications. If 0:18:17.640 --> 0:18:22.440 that information was leaked out, yeah, goodbye, and I think 0:18:22.480 --> 0:18:25.399 it should be jail time. And then of course we 0:18:25.440 --> 0:18:27.520 asked the question, It's one thing to have the information, 0:18:27.520 --> 0:18:31.720 it's another thing to report the information. Yes, in a world, 0:18:32.119 --> 0:18:33.840 in a nation of free speech, not a world of 0:18:33.840 --> 0:18:36.520 free speech. The reporter can report they didn't get it 0:18:36.520 --> 0:18:38.480 through any illicit mean got the information? 0:18:39.480 --> 0:18:42.360 Should they? Well, that's a conversation for a bourbon. 0:18:44.520 --> 0:18:47.200 But it's not enough to just take away the classified 0:18:47.280 --> 0:18:50.240 opportunities of the leak or they've got to be charges. 0:18:51.960 --> 0:18:54.199 They got to be put through hell and then some 0:18:56.080 --> 0:19:01.520 in a very very large scale way. Leaking information is 0:19:01.640 --> 0:19:04.840 just not acceptable on any level, and we need to 0:19:04.880 --> 0:19:07.840 go after leakers with everything in us. And they have 0:19:07.880 --> 0:19:13.159 to suffer. They have to suffer terribly. Absolutely, they have 0:19:13.240 --> 0:19:18.880 to suffer, and so they should. Oh, we never should 0:19:18.880 --> 0:19:21.359 have taken the plane from Qatar, and the idea that 0:19:21.400 --> 0:19:23.119 we would fly at air Force one that doesn't have 0:19:23.200 --> 0:19:27.840 all the proper safety protocols criminally insane. 0:19:28.440 --> 0:19:33.320 If indeed that's the way it flew. Uh representative of 0:19:33.359 --> 0:19:36.600 COSU Cortez wants to change the game. Keep it here. 0:19:36.640 --> 0:19:37.760 This is Tony KX today. 0:19:38.000 --> 0:19:43.720 Nothing says everything is going super well for the political left. 0:19:44.080 --> 0:19:47.679 Nothing says everything is going super well. That's not what 0:19:47.720 --> 0:19:48.159 I wanted. 0:19:50.080 --> 0:19:54.160 Nothing says, as things repeat themselves, everything is going super 0:19:54.160 --> 0:19:58.359 well for Tony. Tony Katz today, guys, a pleasure, Sorry 0:19:58.359 --> 0:20:02.960 about that. Uh, nothing says everything is going super well 0:20:03.119 --> 0:20:09.399 for the political left, like Joe Scarborough on MS now 0:20:09.680 --> 0:20:11.160 screaming at Democrats. 0:20:11.480 --> 0:20:15.639 But please, I don't need people telling me, oh, you 0:20:16.760 --> 0:20:19.159 have to just turn a blind eye to people saying 0:20:19.200 --> 0:20:24.399 that women getting rate on October seventh didn't matter in 0:20:24.480 --> 0:20:28.080 the grand scheme of things that no Americans aren't going 0:20:28.080 --> 0:20:28.760 to support that. 0:20:28.760 --> 0:20:32.720 This is not about me. This is about the Democrats 0:20:33.080 --> 0:20:35.199 once again fumbling. 0:20:34.720 --> 0:20:37.240 The football on the two yard. 0:20:37.000 --> 0:20:40.440 Line when they have a chance to make great gains 0:20:40.760 --> 0:20:42.159 but being so woke. 0:20:42.440 --> 0:20:43.320 I don't know if you want to. 0:20:43.240 --> 0:20:46.200 Call it woke one, woke two, or woke three, but 0:20:46.359 --> 0:20:49.920 being too woke to call out the obvious. 0:20:50.800 --> 0:20:55.280 I swear to God, it's really it's crazy that we're 0:20:55.359 --> 0:20:56.960 even having this conversation. 0:20:57.880 --> 0:21:03.720 He's yelling, and I think he's yelling because he understands 0:21:05.119 --> 0:21:09.600 that the madness is coming from inside the house and 0:21:09.640 --> 0:21:11.840 it's going to cost them the midterms. Now, I'm going 0:21:11.880 --> 0:21:15.919 to dig into this in a little bit, what the 0:21:16.040 --> 0:21:18.320 numbers say versus what the reality says. 0:21:18.359 --> 0:21:20.480 But what is he talking about? Woke one, woke two, 0:21:20.520 --> 0:21:31.680 woke three? So glad you woke asked. This was Alexandria A. 0:21:31.760 --> 0:21:40.600 Cassio Cortes. She was on with Jonathan Carl on ABC. 0:21:41.520 --> 0:21:45.000 And it should be understood that this is, I believe, 0:21:47.080 --> 0:21:51.320 the first time she has done a sit down TV interview, 0:21:53.080 --> 0:21:53.880 network interview. 0:21:54.840 --> 0:21:59.960 I think in two years, you understand that she sees 0:22:00.160 --> 0:22:02.679 herself and it can't have been two years, could have 0:22:02.680 --> 0:22:03.320 been two years. 0:22:03.560 --> 0:22:07.440 She sees herself as a presidential contender. There's a twenty 0:22:07.480 --> 0:22:17.719 twenty eight conversation about alexandri Acasio Cortez. There's a Senate conversation. 0:22:17.880 --> 0:22:20.879 She could run against Chuck Schumer and send him packing. 0:22:20.920 --> 0:22:22.960 That much I believe could happen. I think the presidency 0:22:23.000 --> 0:22:26.800 thing is still kind of dreamy, which is to say, 0:22:26.800 --> 0:22:28.080 a dream for her, a nightmare for. 0:22:28.040 --> 0:22:33.960 The rest of us. But she said this. She's talking 0:22:33.960 --> 0:22:37.720 to Jonathan Carl on ABC and she said this, by. 0:22:37.560 --> 0:22:40.479 The way, just a quick definitional thing. What, in your 0:22:40.520 --> 0:22:42.879 mind is the difference between socialism and communism? 0:22:43.400 --> 0:22:45.800 Oh oh wait, wait, wait wait, I'll get to this. 0:22:46.960 --> 0:22:49.000 I will get to this, but I need to get 0:22:49.240 --> 0:22:54.159 to where she's talking about. Woke one, did you or 0:22:54.160 --> 0:22:57.880 did you not hear about this where she's talking about 0:22:58.160 --> 0:22:59.600 woke one point. 0:22:59.760 --> 0:23:01.640 Oh, it's a true thing. 0:23:02.200 --> 0:23:07.360 Here here she is right here, and we'll play it all. 0:23:07.440 --> 0:23:10.840 I'll get to it, I promise. Let's start where we start. 0:23:11.680 --> 0:23:15.360 So you have Wisconsin coming up next, Francesca Hong, who 0:23:15.400 --> 0:23:21.760 is the Democratic Socialist of America supporting candidate for governor. 0:23:21.840 --> 0:23:23.919 Are you you haven't endorsed her? Are you going to? 0:23:24.160 --> 0:23:26.920 No, I haven't endorsed in that race. My focus has 0:23:27.040 --> 0:23:30.040 been in winning back to Congress, winning back the House, 0:23:30.080 --> 0:23:35.000 and positioning ourselves to have the best chance possible to 0:23:35.600 --> 0:23:38.720 win the Senate. So I've been focused on those legislative 0:23:38.920 --> 0:23:39.160 What do. 0:23:39.080 --> 0:23:41.120 You make of those controversial statements. I'm sure you've seen. 0:23:41.200 --> 0:23:45.360 I mean, she's you know, the Thanksgiving dust up, she says, 0:23:45.440 --> 0:23:48.399 she doesn't you know, still believe that. But you know 0:23:49.040 --> 0:23:52.919 the abolished prisons, abolished police, which is also positions that 0:23:52.960 --> 0:23:55.760 have been taken by a lot of the progressive candidates 0:23:55.760 --> 0:23:58.840 who have won. How do you get around that? Yeah, 0:23:59.119 --> 0:24:01.600 not positions that are by right. 0:24:02.000 --> 0:24:04.080 I mean I think that a lot of these races, 0:24:05.400 --> 0:24:08.720 even right now, they'll have a tendency to be nationalized. 0:24:09.359 --> 0:24:14.720 But these races ultimately are local and all politics are local. 0:24:14.800 --> 0:24:20.040 My understanding is that is that Francesca Hang has made 0:24:20.119 --> 0:24:22.560 clear her present stances. 0:24:22.040 --> 0:24:24.880 To her moved away from one, right, she's. 0:24:24.760 --> 0:24:25.680 Moved away from it. 0:24:25.840 --> 0:24:29.639 And I have a local city councilman that has this 0:24:31.440 --> 0:24:33.400