1 00:00:05,200 --> 00:00:10,800 Speaker 1: Lie from baal Hartbiner and the Crossroads of America. It's 2 00:00:10,840 --> 00:00:15,560 Speaker 1: Tony Katz today. The most interesting storyline to come out 3 00:00:15,640 --> 00:00:20,400 Speaker 1: of President Trump engaging in Washington, d C. As he 4 00:00:20,480 --> 00:00:27,360 Speaker 1: has is this idea that somehow everything was fine. Crime's 5 00:00:27,440 --> 00:00:31,160 Speaker 1: not a problem. Why is President Trump doing this? It's 6 00:00:31,600 --> 00:00:37,800 Speaker 1: very peculiar, It is surreal in many ways. Why not 7 00:00:38,120 --> 00:00:41,880 Speaker 1: just admit what you know to be true, that there 8 00:00:42,040 --> 00:00:47,919 Speaker 1: is an issue across the country, in a multiplicity of states, 9 00:00:48,520 --> 00:00:51,880 Speaker 1: in a multiplicity of cities, progressive run cities where crime 10 00:00:51,960 --> 00:00:54,800 Speaker 1: is a problem. It's because you have the wrong approach, 11 00:00:54,840 --> 00:00:57,840 Speaker 1: in an unwillingness. It's because you believe that police are 12 00:00:57,880 --> 00:01:00,400 Speaker 1: the problem as opposed to the criminals being the problem. Now, 13 00:01:00,440 --> 00:01:02,800 Speaker 1: I'll agree with you that there are police who are problems, 14 00:01:02,960 --> 00:01:05,840 Speaker 1: and I favor throwing those guys off the force. I 15 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:07,880 Speaker 1: favor throwing some of them in jail for some of 16 00:01:07,880 --> 00:01:10,640 Speaker 1: the things that they do. But it doesn't take away 17 00:01:10,640 --> 00:01:13,200 Speaker 1: from the fact that the crime is the issue, and 18 00:01:13,319 --> 00:01:19,839 Speaker 1: allowing the crime to transpire without repercussion that only encourages 19 00:01:19,920 --> 00:01:23,240 Speaker 1: more crime. I believe the data on that is solid. 20 00:01:23,319 --> 00:01:26,280 Speaker 1: Tony Katz. Tony Katz today, good to be with you 21 00:01:26,319 --> 00:01:29,560 Speaker 1: find everything at Tony Katz dot com. I'd appreciate it 22 00:01:30,040 --> 00:01:33,800 Speaker 1: if you would. They refuse to accept it, and you 23 00:01:33,840 --> 00:01:37,720 Speaker 1: get into conversations like this on CNN. 24 00:01:39,560 --> 00:01:42,480 Speaker 2: We know the president for two things. To your point, sure, Michael, right, 25 00:01:42,760 --> 00:01:45,480 Speaker 2: it is the feelings versus the facts. We saw that 26 00:01:45,680 --> 00:01:47,440 Speaker 2: in the twenty twenty four election, of course, when it 27 00:01:47,480 --> 00:01:49,880 Speaker 2: came to the economy and how people actually felt about 28 00:01:49,920 --> 00:01:52,040 Speaker 2: it despite the numbers. We know how challenging that was 29 00:01:52,040 --> 00:01:55,000 Speaker 2: for Democrats. Karen, It's also true that Donald Trump is 30 00:01:55,480 --> 00:01:58,440 Speaker 2: masterful when it comes to controlling a narrative. The question 31 00:01:58,520 --> 00:02:00,640 Speaker 2: for you, which I know you're sick of. But as 32 00:02:00,680 --> 00:02:04,200 Speaker 2: we talk about the messaging, are Democrats starting to find 33 00:02:04,240 --> 00:02:06,680 Speaker 2: their footing here or is this still a matter of 34 00:02:07,320 --> 00:02:11,240 Speaker 2: straddling this line between not taking the bait and also 35 00:02:11,280 --> 00:02:11,919 Speaker 2: hitting back. 36 00:02:14,520 --> 00:02:17,079 Speaker 3: Well, I think it's about speaking to the concerns of 37 00:02:17,120 --> 00:02:18,120 Speaker 3: the American people. 38 00:02:19,080 --> 00:02:21,080 Speaker 1: And you know, here's what I would say. 39 00:02:21,240 --> 00:02:25,360 Speaker 3: The way people are actually feeling in some places is 40 00:02:26,080 --> 00:02:29,520 Speaker 3: they're happy about the fact that crime rates are actually 41 00:02:29,720 --> 00:02:32,520 Speaker 3: going down. I've seen it in my own neighborhood here 42 00:02:32,560 --> 00:02:36,919 Speaker 3: in DC, and so it's really actually about being smart 43 00:02:36,919 --> 00:02:39,480 Speaker 3: on crime and Donald Trump always wants to make it 44 00:02:39,520 --> 00:02:44,600 Speaker 3: about tough on crime and this performative putting the National Guard, 45 00:02:44,800 --> 00:02:46,080 Speaker 3: you know, on the streets. 46 00:02:46,560 --> 00:02:51,399 Speaker 1: It's not performative. Sorry, it's the allergies. It's the allergies 47 00:02:51,400 --> 00:02:55,000 Speaker 1: screwn with my voice. I'm fine, I am healthy as 48 00:02:55,040 --> 00:02:57,400 Speaker 1: can be. I right now could do a burpie in 49 00:02:57,440 --> 00:03:01,000 Speaker 1: three pushups. Honestly, I might be fit. I might be 50 00:03:01,080 --> 00:03:05,239 Speaker 1: more fit than Robert Kennedy. That's how strong I am. 51 00:03:05,600 --> 00:03:08,040 Speaker 1: But the allergy screw with the voice. And it happened 52 00:03:08,040 --> 00:03:09,840 Speaker 1: when I moved to the Midwest. And if that's the 53 00:03:09,919 --> 00:03:12,359 Speaker 1: only bad thing about living in the Midwest, I'll take it. 54 00:03:13,160 --> 00:03:15,560 Speaker 1: I will take. Yeah, you lose your voice like twice 55 00:03:15,560 --> 00:03:19,640 Speaker 1: a year, but you can afford your house sold stll 56 00:03:19,760 --> 00:03:22,720 Speaker 1: what else? What else you got for me? Low taxes? Okay, 57 00:03:23,200 --> 00:03:25,720 Speaker 1: I'll take this Midwest living any day of the week 58 00:03:25,760 --> 00:03:32,200 Speaker 1: and twice on Sunday. Oh good gosh, small price to pay. Indeed. 59 00:03:34,080 --> 00:03:38,680 Speaker 1: But this continual idea that it's performative. So he says 60 00:03:38,760 --> 00:03:42,240 Speaker 1: tough on crime, how should he say it? Like a 61 00:03:42,280 --> 00:03:45,640 Speaker 1: beta male freak? To wear your own think tanks on 62 00:03:45,680 --> 00:03:48,840 Speaker 1: the left tell you. Karen Finney of CNN not to 63 00:03:48,920 --> 00:03:52,480 Speaker 1: talk that way. It was the group third way. It 64 00:03:52,600 --> 00:03:55,160 Speaker 1: was published in an article by Politico saying, hey, here 65 00:03:55,160 --> 00:03:57,840 Speaker 1: are forty seven terms that the left should stop using, 66 00:03:58,240 --> 00:04:05,040 Speaker 1: like unhoused they're homeless, right, don't use undocumented they are 67 00:04:05,120 --> 00:04:08,640 Speaker 1: legal immigrants. There's real words for these things. And then 68 00:04:08,640 --> 00:04:11,680 Speaker 1: there's the nonsense that the left throws at you, as 69 00:04:11,760 --> 00:04:14,720 Speaker 1: if somehow it's intellectual. But really, what it's meant to 70 00:04:14,800 --> 00:04:17,400 Speaker 1: do is prevent you from having an honest conversation. And 71 00:04:17,440 --> 00:04:21,440 Speaker 1: Americans very gladly and finally have seen through that I'm 72 00:04:21,440 --> 00:04:23,240 Speaker 1: not just talking I'm not talking about you, I'm talking 73 00:04:23,240 --> 00:04:26,720 Speaker 1: about others. And so now it's so backfired on the 74 00:04:26,800 --> 00:04:29,360 Speaker 1: left that they're saying, don't use this terminology, and that's 75 00:04:29,400 --> 00:04:33,240 Speaker 1: good news. Now they'll invent other nonsense, bull crapt terminology. 76 00:04:33,279 --> 00:04:35,240 Speaker 1: You can know that as well as I do. That's 77 00:04:35,279 --> 00:04:38,719 Speaker 1: exactly what they're gonna do, because honesty is not allowed 78 00:04:39,120 --> 00:04:44,280 Speaker 1: in their ideology. But it's not performative when arrests are 79 00:04:44,320 --> 00:04:47,960 Speaker 1: taking place, when illegal immigrants and criminals are being taken 80 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:51,320 Speaker 1: off the streets. Just because they're an illegal immigrant doesn't 81 00:04:51,320 --> 00:04:53,640 Speaker 1: mean they've engage in other criminal activity. But there are 82 00:04:53,640 --> 00:04:56,279 Speaker 1: definitely people who are here illegally who have engaged in 83 00:04:56,360 --> 00:05:00,279 Speaker 1: other illegal activity. And then Karen Kinney, Karen f he 84 00:05:00,279 --> 00:05:02,520 Speaker 1: goes into this, Many of us. 85 00:05:02,440 --> 00:05:05,920 Speaker 3: In DC do not feel like that's actually making us safer. 86 00:05:05,960 --> 00:05:09,719 Speaker 3: For one, they're not actually going to the places where 87 00:05:09,760 --> 00:05:11,960 Speaker 3: crime is the worst. And if you look at cities 88 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:15,960 Speaker 3: like Baltimore, like Chicago, they're not just blue cities. They 89 00:05:15,960 --> 00:05:18,680 Speaker 3: are also sanctuary cities. And there are also all cities 90 00:05:18,760 --> 00:05:23,160 Speaker 3: run by black mayors and have large Black and Latino population. 91 00:05:23,800 --> 00:05:26,880 Speaker 1: Then we should wonder why they're sanctuary cities. Is there 92 00:05:26,880 --> 00:05:30,440 Speaker 1: something about being black and being a sanctuary city. I mean, 93 00:05:30,440 --> 00:05:33,000 Speaker 1: that's the argument that she's making. I want her to 94 00:05:33,080 --> 00:05:35,800 Speaker 1: explain that. But there is an argument about being a 95 00:05:35,839 --> 00:05:39,440 Speaker 1: progressive and engaging in sanctuary cities and a true hatred 96 00:05:39,560 --> 00:05:42,040 Speaker 1: for America and for the American way of life and 97 00:05:42,120 --> 00:05:45,400 Speaker 1: for safety insecurity. And so yes, we go at those cities. 98 00:05:45,440 --> 00:05:47,960 Speaker 1: And if you want to claim it racism, I must 99 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:51,880 Speaker 1: tell you, Karen, we don't care. We don't care that 100 00:05:51,920 --> 00:05:53,920 Speaker 1: you call it racism. You know who else doesn't care? 101 00:05:54,080 --> 00:05:56,200 Speaker 1: The black people who live in those cities who would 102 00:05:56,240 --> 00:05:59,080 Speaker 1: like to see somebody help them because the mayor shore 103 00:05:59,120 --> 00:06:02,760 Speaker 1: as Hell isn't and you sure as hell isn't isn't 104 00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:05,520 Speaker 1: aren't you sure as hell aren't you? Shore as Hell 105 00:06:05,560 --> 00:06:10,280 Speaker 1: aren't much better? Tony, thank you. You're not helping, You 106 00:06:10,360 --> 00:06:13,119 Speaker 1: don't care, and if you don't feel like it's making 107 00:06:13,120 --> 00:06:19,120 Speaker 1: you safer, that's wonderful. Didn't ask your feelings are based 108 00:06:19,160 --> 00:06:22,000 Speaker 1: on what you do when you show up at CNN. 109 00:06:22,520 --> 00:06:26,839 Speaker 1: They're not based on anything real. That brings us to 110 00:06:27,080 --> 00:06:32,400 Speaker 1: this commentary on Late Night CNN, which is once again 111 00:06:33,120 --> 00:06:37,360 Speaker 1: a prime example of your right and they're lying to you. 112 00:06:37,640 --> 00:06:40,320 Speaker 1: We start with Scott Jennings just laying out the situation. 113 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:43,400 Speaker 4: Are people saying, Scott that they'd like to have a 114 00:06:43,440 --> 00:06:44,799 Speaker 4: dictator if it stops crime? 115 00:06:45,080 --> 00:06:47,360 Speaker 5: Well, I think people are certainly saying that they'd like 116 00:06:47,400 --> 00:06:49,800 Speaker 5: to stop crime, whatever you call it. I saw Harvard 117 00:06:50,040 --> 00:06:52,760 Speaker 5: a Harris poll today. I think fifty four percent of 118 00:06:52,800 --> 00:06:56,000 Speaker 5: Americans thought what he did and Washington, DC was justified. 119 00:06:56,040 --> 00:06:58,360 Speaker 5: Fifty six percent of Americans think crime is a major 120 00:06:58,400 --> 00:07:03,719 Speaker 5: problem in larger fifty fifty six percent thought major crime 121 00:07:03,760 --> 00:07:07,919 Speaker 5: in large cities was a problem. So he seems to 122 00:07:07,960 --> 00:07:11,520 Speaker 5: have some political support for this. Uh and look, I mean, 123 00:07:11,680 --> 00:07:14,360 Speaker 5: it's kind of a bread and butter political issue that 124 00:07:14,400 --> 00:07:17,120 Speaker 5: gets debated all the time. And what he has done 125 00:07:17,160 --> 00:07:19,800 Speaker 5: here is he's put himself on the side of I 126 00:07:19,880 --> 00:07:22,920 Speaker 5: want to do what I can do and even if 127 00:07:22,960 --> 00:07:25,080 Speaker 5: I have to test my authority to stop crime, and 128 00:07:25,160 --> 00:07:28,640 Speaker 5: my political opponents are now out having a meltdown because 129 00:07:28,640 --> 00:07:31,720 Speaker 5: I guess they want to support the ongoing crimes in 130 00:07:31,760 --> 00:07:35,600 Speaker 5: their blue cities. So he's created a real political bright 131 00:07:35,680 --> 00:07:38,560 Speaker 5: line between the two parties. However, it works that legally 132 00:07:39,040 --> 00:07:40,920 Speaker 5: is going to work for him politically, and. 133 00:07:40,880 --> 00:07:44,080 Speaker 1: I think that's one hundred percent accurate. It's working for 134 00:07:44,160 --> 00:07:48,800 Speaker 1: him politically, drawing this line between the political right and 135 00:07:48,960 --> 00:07:51,480 Speaker 1: rational people who might not be on the political right 136 00:07:52,240 --> 00:07:54,680 Speaker 1: just want the crime to end, they want things to 137 00:07:54,720 --> 00:07:57,680 Speaker 1: be better, and people who are only political on the 138 00:07:57,720 --> 00:08:01,560 Speaker 1: political left. Saying how dare Trump wants to stop crime? 139 00:08:02,600 --> 00:08:07,440 Speaker 1: Now comes from CNN, from one of their people, the 140 00:08:07,560 --> 00:08:09,720 Speaker 1: honesty that they did not mean to say. 141 00:08:10,960 --> 00:08:14,000 Speaker 4: On the right line, I think that people want crime 142 00:08:14,040 --> 00:08:16,080 Speaker 4: to go down. No one wants crime in their communities. 143 00:08:16,120 --> 00:08:18,640 Speaker 4: That is clear. We saw that, We've seen that over 144 00:08:18,640 --> 00:08:21,760 Speaker 4: the next last few months. People don't want the National 145 00:08:21,800 --> 00:08:25,440 Speaker 4: Guard in their communities. That's completely different. And just as 146 00:08:25,440 --> 00:08:28,040 Speaker 4: you pointed out, there are other mechanisms for the federal 147 00:08:28,080 --> 00:08:31,000 Speaker 4: government to come in and to help communities, and that 148 00:08:31,120 --> 00:08:36,920 Speaker 4: is FBI and DEA and providing grants to educational grants 149 00:08:36,960 --> 00:08:39,920 Speaker 4: so that we are providing educational services to young you 150 00:08:40,080 --> 00:08:42,000 Speaker 4: to get them off the streets. There are things like 151 00:08:42,040 --> 00:08:44,920 Speaker 4: that that the federal government can do and that will 152 00:08:44,960 --> 00:08:48,280 Speaker 4: actually help in the long term reduced crime. It was 153 00:08:48,320 --> 00:08:51,720 Speaker 4: already reducing crime in the Biden administration. Biden didn't go 154 00:08:51,760 --> 00:08:53,760 Speaker 4: out and put the National Guard everywhere, but you know what, 155 00:08:53,920 --> 00:08:56,080 Speaker 4: they did have a strategy to bring down crime, and 156 00:08:56,160 --> 00:08:58,679 Speaker 4: crime started to go down. And what's going to happen 157 00:08:58,720 --> 00:09:01,440 Speaker 4: here is in one month and once the National Guard leaves, 158 00:09:01,720 --> 00:09:03,240 Speaker 4: crime will go up again. 159 00:09:03,360 --> 00:09:07,959 Speaker 1: And that's the honesty, and of course Scott Jennings picks 160 00:09:08,080 --> 00:09:11,480 Speaker 1: up on it immediately. If you're saying the card does 161 00:09:11,600 --> 00:09:12,199 Speaker 1: bring down. 162 00:09:12,040 --> 00:09:14,960 Speaker 4: Crime, well, right now they're arresting everyone in anyone and 163 00:09:14,960 --> 00:09:16,559 Speaker 4: trying to figure out what they're going. 164 00:09:16,520 --> 00:09:19,760 Speaker 1: To bring They're not arresting everyone in anyone. That's just 165 00:09:19,920 --> 00:09:25,319 Speaker 1: not the case. Of course, crime is going down because 166 00:09:25,400 --> 00:09:29,320 Speaker 1: you're seeing so much happening on the streets. But the 167 00:09:29,360 --> 00:09:31,920 Speaker 1: real admission here is that crime is there. It didn't 168 00:09:31,960 --> 00:09:34,719 Speaker 1: go down with Joe Biden. It didn't go away. It 169 00:09:34,840 --> 00:09:39,200 Speaker 1: wasn't manageable or reasonable. It was a problem. Why not 170 00:09:39,480 --> 00:09:45,000 Speaker 1: say so? Now, if you ask me whether or not 171 00:09:46,120 --> 00:09:50,920 Speaker 1: I favor soldiers on street corners, the answer is no. 172 00:09:51,600 --> 00:09:56,360 Speaker 1: I think that's the sign of an unhealthy society. Listen, 173 00:09:56,480 --> 00:10:00,360 Speaker 1: I'm a guy who likes to go to Israel. Been 174 00:10:01,679 --> 00:10:03,520 Speaker 1: I'm supposed to go back in October. I don't know 175 00:10:03,520 --> 00:10:05,680 Speaker 1: if I'm going to make that happen. I might hold 176 00:10:05,720 --> 00:10:11,160 Speaker 1: off on that trip, and you'll see soldiers everywhere, and 177 00:10:11,200 --> 00:10:13,960 Speaker 1: the soldiers are there to maintain as much safety as 178 00:10:13,720 --> 00:10:17,960 Speaker 1: as they can. I understand this. I accept this. I 179 00:10:18,280 --> 00:10:23,240 Speaker 1: understand why. This is their society. That's not a healthy society. 180 00:10:23,280 --> 00:10:26,200 Speaker 1: You know that, right. I mean, for anything we want 181 00:10:26,240 --> 00:10:30,240 Speaker 1: to discuss about Israel, let's be clear that the way 182 00:10:30,320 --> 00:10:36,160 Speaker 1: they live is totally unhealthy. They have to live this way. 183 00:10:36,320 --> 00:10:40,320 Speaker 1: They have to force people into the military. They have to. 184 00:10:41,440 --> 00:10:46,240 Speaker 1: We understand why, and the vast majority of Israelis have 185 00:10:46,280 --> 00:10:49,040 Speaker 1: no problem with this, believe this is a part of 186 00:10:49,840 --> 00:10:54,160 Speaker 1: their national pride identity. However, you want to call that 187 00:10:55,320 --> 00:10:58,320 Speaker 1: and are happy to serve, except for the ultra Orthodox, 188 00:10:58,360 --> 00:11:02,920 Speaker 1: whom I am disgusted with the ultra Orthodox of Israel, 189 00:11:03,120 --> 00:11:07,120 Speaker 1: Ultra Orthodox Jews. They's wrong as wrong can be. They're embarrassing, 190 00:11:07,160 --> 00:11:10,040 Speaker 1: they are shameful, they are ridiculous. Anybody's got a problem 191 00:11:10,080 --> 00:11:12,760 Speaker 1: with it, Email me Tony atnykats dot com and I 192 00:11:12,800 --> 00:11:15,959 Speaker 1: will tell you with all bits of clarity, got kakam 193 00:11:15,960 --> 00:11:17,960 Speaker 1: off of you on I will You don't have to 194 00:11:17,960 --> 00:11:21,319 Speaker 1: worry about what it meant. Trust me, I'm not interested 195 00:11:21,840 --> 00:11:27,600 Speaker 1: in your nonsense. If you believe that your job is 196 00:11:27,679 --> 00:11:31,200 Speaker 1: solely and exclusively to study the Bible, to study Torah, 197 00:11:31,960 --> 00:11:35,079 Speaker 1: that's hard to do when you're dead. Now, some people 198 00:11:35,120 --> 00:11:37,200 Speaker 1: will tell you no, no, no, we want them doing that 199 00:11:37,679 --> 00:11:39,920 Speaker 1: because we don't want them in this other thing. And 200 00:11:40,000 --> 00:11:43,360 Speaker 1: there's also a belief that that study is actually helpful. Right, 201 00:11:43,400 --> 00:11:48,079 Speaker 1: so there's a really interesting religious faith part in this. 202 00:11:48,880 --> 00:11:52,040 Speaker 1: I argue, you cannot study if you are not alive. 203 00:11:53,280 --> 00:11:55,400 Speaker 1: So I don't know why I just went off on 204 00:11:55,400 --> 00:11:57,840 Speaker 1: a tangent there about the ultra Orthodox. I read an 205 00:11:57,880 --> 00:11:59,640 Speaker 1: article the other day and it's just been on my mind. 206 00:11:59,720 --> 00:12:02,880 Speaker 1: But please don't think I'm Okay, with everything that Israel 207 00:12:02,960 --> 00:12:06,480 Speaker 1: does that is not the case. But it is the 208 00:12:06,559 --> 00:12:10,200 Speaker 1: sign of a serious issue when you have to recruit 209 00:12:10,240 --> 00:12:13,559 Speaker 1: women into the military. I don't mind women in the military. 210 00:12:14,080 --> 00:12:15,640 Speaker 1: I think it's a sign of a serious issue when 211 00:12:15,679 --> 00:12:17,560 Speaker 1: you have to recruit them into the military. I think 212 00:12:17,559 --> 00:12:19,040 Speaker 1: it's a sign of a serious issue when you have 213 00:12:19,040 --> 00:12:20,960 Speaker 1: to have a draft. I think it is a sign 214 00:12:21,280 --> 00:12:26,800 Speaker 1: of a serious, serious societal wrong. That we are a 215 00:12:27,440 --> 00:12:33,720 Speaker 1: volunteer force is everything that makes us great in America. 216 00:12:33,960 --> 00:12:36,560 Speaker 1: If we needed to engage a draft, I'm not saying 217 00:12:36,600 --> 00:12:39,560 Speaker 1: we shouldn't. I am just saying that if that moment 218 00:12:39,640 --> 00:12:44,000 Speaker 1: ever came again, that's the sign of a problem. That's 219 00:12:44,040 --> 00:12:47,840 Speaker 1: the sign that we have failed in some major capacity. 220 00:12:48,640 --> 00:12:52,360 Speaker 1: But going back to the levels of crime here, the 221 00:12:52,480 --> 00:12:56,760 Speaker 1: National Guard brings down crime, the show of force brings 222 00:12:56,800 --> 00:13:00,079 Speaker 1: down crime. And what really we can actually break this 223 00:13:00,240 --> 00:13:03,760 Speaker 1: down to even further is that the willingness to do 224 00:13:03,840 --> 00:13:08,319 Speaker 1: something about the crime brings down crime. Everyone who wanted 225 00:13:08,360 --> 00:13:11,040 Speaker 1: to cause a problem in DC now knows there is 226 00:13:11,080 --> 00:13:17,160 Speaker 1: a consequence to cause a problem in DC. That's correct. 227 00:13:17,440 --> 00:13:20,040 Speaker 1: You right now are shaking your head being like, who 228 00:13:20,040 --> 00:13:23,320 Speaker 1: didn't know this? You have to have. You have to 229 00:13:23,480 --> 00:13:25,960 Speaker 1: not only draw the line, you have to stand to 230 00:13:26,000 --> 00:13:29,000 Speaker 1: the line, and you have to wrap people in the 231 00:13:29,080 --> 00:13:32,040 Speaker 1: knuckles when they step over the line. That's how they 232 00:13:32,080 --> 00:13:35,120 Speaker 1: know there's a line. You have to live up to 233 00:13:35,200 --> 00:13:38,679 Speaker 1: your word. You have to say we don't allow this 234 00:13:38,720 --> 00:13:40,480 Speaker 1: and then not allow it. And what the left has 235 00:13:40,520 --> 00:13:45,040 Speaker 1: done is they have allowed everything. I don't oppose the 236 00:13:45,080 --> 00:13:50,000 Speaker 1: idea of, for example, social workers in a police force. 237 00:13:50,800 --> 00:13:53,720 Speaker 1: I oppose the idea of social workers. When you need 238 00:13:53,760 --> 00:13:56,720 Speaker 1: to stop the violent thing happening, you won't talk them 239 00:13:56,760 --> 00:14:00,480 Speaker 1: off the ledge. I have seen people get tayed and 240 00:14:00,600 --> 00:14:02,959 Speaker 1: walk right through it. You'd think the social worker is 241 00:14:03,000 --> 00:14:06,440 Speaker 1: going to get through. That's not how it works. And 242 00:14:06,559 --> 00:14:09,280 Speaker 1: yet you have these people who want to say, we've 243 00:14:09,320 --> 00:14:11,560 Speaker 1: got a problem with policing and we need to do 244 00:14:11,600 --> 00:14:18,920 Speaker 1: something about policing. This is the mayor of Chicago, Brandon Johnson, 245 00:14:19,400 --> 00:14:25,120 Speaker 1: the absolute fool that he is engaged in a conversation 246 00:14:25,240 --> 00:14:27,720 Speaker 1: of the last thing in the world that we need 247 00:14:28,320 --> 00:14:32,200 Speaker 1: is more policing. It's policing. That's the problem. We've seen 248 00:14:32,240 --> 00:14:36,080 Speaker 1: this before. It doesn't work. He's screaming and yelling about 249 00:14:36,120 --> 00:14:40,440 Speaker 1: how it doesn't work. What are you referring to that 250 00:14:40,680 --> 00:14:42,720 Speaker 1: somehow policing doesn't work. 251 00:14:44,360 --> 00:14:46,600 Speaker 6: As the mayor of the city, I can tell you 252 00:14:47,000 --> 00:14:51,960 Speaker 6: that Chicagoans are not calling for military occupation. They are 253 00:14:51,960 --> 00:14:54,600 Speaker 6: calling for the same thing that we've been calling for 254 00:14:54,600 --> 00:14:58,800 Speaker 6: for some time, and that's investment. What safe cities across 255 00:14:58,800 --> 00:15:02,400 Speaker 6: America all have co they invest in people, and that's 256 00:15:02,440 --> 00:15:05,840 Speaker 6: what we're doing in Chicago. We need the federal resources 257 00:15:06,040 --> 00:15:09,240 Speaker 6: to make sure that we're building more affordable housing, expanding 258 00:15:09,280 --> 00:15:12,800 Speaker 6: mental and behavioral health care, education, all of these things 259 00:15:12,800 --> 00:15:17,120 Speaker 6: that could reduce crime and provide real community safety. Instead 260 00:15:17,120 --> 00:15:20,240 Speaker 6: of spending hundreds of millions of dollars for a publicity 261 00:15:20,280 --> 00:15:23,840 Speaker 6: stunt to invoke chaos and tearor the federal government should 262 00:15:23,880 --> 00:15:28,240 Speaker 6: spend that money on proven solutions to crime and violence reduction. 263 00:15:28,920 --> 00:15:33,520 Speaker 6: We cannot incarcerate our way out of violence. We've already 264 00:15:33,560 --> 00:15:36,280 Speaker 6: tried that, and we've ended up with the largest prison 265 00:15:36,360 --> 00:15:39,960 Speaker 6: population in the world without solving the problems of crime 266 00:15:40,000 --> 00:15:44,680 Speaker 6: and violence. The addiction on jails and incarceration in this country. 267 00:15:44,840 --> 00:15:48,320 Speaker 1: We have moved past that. It is racist, it is immoral, 268 00:15:48,560 --> 00:15:51,120 Speaker 1: it is unholy, and it is not the way to 269 00:15:51,240 --> 00:15:56,920 Speaker 1: drive violence down. Well, your way certainly doesn't work. Your 270 00:15:56,960 --> 00:16:01,680 Speaker 1: way doesn't work. Certainly getting people off the streets does. 271 00:16:01,800 --> 00:16:05,760 Speaker 1: Certainly getting illegal immigrants off the streets will would reduce 272 00:16:05,800 --> 00:16:08,280 Speaker 1: crime because it would prevent the ability from crime to happen. 273 00:16:10,760 --> 00:16:14,200 Speaker 1: But it's about an approach. It's about a philosophy, and 274 00:16:14,240 --> 00:16:22,160 Speaker 1: your philosophy is don't police, And the working philosophy is 275 00:16:22,760 --> 00:16:28,720 Speaker 1: do something about the crime, engage a deterrent, engage strength. 276 00:16:30,960 --> 00:16:34,720 Speaker 1: So yes, Scott Jennings point is it holds. That's the line, 277 00:16:35,720 --> 00:16:38,840 Speaker 1: that's the bright line. Who knows if Trump will be 278 00:16:38,840 --> 00:16:41,320 Speaker 1: able to continue this past thirty days. Who knows if 279 00:16:41,320 --> 00:16:43,920 Speaker 1: he'll be able to engage the National Guard in Chicago. 280 00:16:44,800 --> 00:16:48,480 Speaker 1: But the left does come out against crime. And by 281 00:16:48,480 --> 00:16:50,960 Speaker 1: the way, jails are not the issue. What we put 282 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:57,480 Speaker 1: people in jail for is the issue. That's what we criminalize. See, 283 00:16:57,560 --> 00:16:59,920 Speaker 1: if we said we're not going to criminalize, holding it out, 284 00:17:00,000 --> 00:17:05,119 Speaker 1: it's a pot, okay, should we criminalize theft and rape 285 00:17:05,560 --> 00:17:08,760 Speaker 1: and assault? Because if you say no to that, well 286 00:17:08,800 --> 00:17:12,280 Speaker 1: then my point's even further proven. I'm Tony Katz, this 287 00:17:12,359 --> 00:17:15,880 Speaker 1: is Tony Kats Today. Frontier Airlines taken over routes from 288 00:17:15,920 --> 00:17:20,440 Speaker 1: Spirit Airlines. It's only oh, listen to that voice. It's 289 00:17:20,520 --> 00:17:23,520 Speaker 1: only a matter of when it's it's the alogies, guys, 290 00:17:23,520 --> 00:17:25,760 Speaker 1: it is Tony Kats, Tony Kats today, good to be 291 00:17:25,840 --> 00:17:28,720 Speaker 1: with you. Spirit. It doesn't think they're going to be 292 00:17:28,720 --> 00:17:31,560 Speaker 1: able to continue operations. They said so a few weeks ago. 293 00:17:32,880 --> 00:17:38,680 Speaker 1: They've got in a in the second quarter of their 294 00:17:38,680 --> 00:17:41,800 Speaker 1: fiscal year two hundred and forty six million dollar loss, 295 00:17:42,640 --> 00:17:45,400 Speaker 1: two hundred and forty six million. The stock is down 296 00:17:45,480 --> 00:17:48,880 Speaker 1: forty percent. I should have shorted. Full disclosure. I don't 297 00:17:48,880 --> 00:17:51,040 Speaker 1: own the stock that I know of at all. I'm 298 00:17:51,040 --> 00:17:53,359 Speaker 1: not giving you stock advice. Please do not listen to 299 00:17:53,400 --> 00:17:56,560 Speaker 1: me when it comes to stocks. Only things political, cultural, 300 00:17:56,560 --> 00:18:01,360 Speaker 1: bourbon and cigars, steaks, food in general. Of course, how 301 00:18:01,440 --> 00:18:04,440 Speaker 1: to make the sweet sweet love. After that, you don't 302 00:18:04,480 --> 00:18:08,320 Speaker 1: have to listen. I'm just here to handle the important stuff, 303 00:18:08,440 --> 00:18:11,840 Speaker 1: not your stock portfolio. It's only a matter of time. 304 00:18:13,040 --> 00:18:17,480 Speaker 1: It can't work, it can't exist. Now, it's interesting I 305 00:18:17,520 --> 00:18:19,399 Speaker 1: had not paid too much attention to this, although I'm 306 00:18:19,400 --> 00:18:23,159 Speaker 1: sure I've mentioned it in the past. Frontier was trying 307 00:18:23,200 --> 00:18:26,640 Speaker 1: to buy Spirit, but they haven't been able to come 308 00:18:26,680 --> 00:18:29,560 Speaker 1: to a deal. Is that because of the government, or 309 00:18:29,600 --> 00:18:33,400 Speaker 1: is that because of them because now it doesn't matter. 310 00:18:33,400 --> 00:18:35,680 Speaker 1: There won't even be a deal, but there will still 311 00:18:35,720 --> 00:18:39,680 Speaker 1: be some routes that this airline travels that well. People 312 00:18:39,720 --> 00:18:41,879 Speaker 1: are still going to want to travel on, so taking 313 00:18:41,920 --> 00:18:44,960 Speaker 1: over the routes make sense. They've taken over twenty routes 314 00:18:44,960 --> 00:18:48,560 Speaker 1: so far. This then couples with a story about Southwest 315 00:18:48,880 --> 00:18:55,959 Speaker 1: that I am tracking. Southwest Airlines will soon require that 316 00:18:56,080 --> 00:18:58,600 Speaker 1: travelers who don't fit within the arm rest of their 317 00:18:58,640 --> 00:19:06,280 Speaker 1: seats to pay or an extra one in advance. If 318 00:19:06,359 --> 00:19:08,959 Speaker 1: you are too big to fit in the seat, you 319 00:19:09,040 --> 00:19:12,240 Speaker 1: have to buy two seats. That's it. We don't owe 320 00:19:12,280 --> 00:19:17,040 Speaker 1: you anything. Nobody has to necessarily feel for you. You 321 00:19:17,359 --> 00:19:20,400 Speaker 1: have to do what is necessary and responsible for you. 322 00:19:21,480 --> 00:19:25,200 Speaker 1: Reality is reality is reality. It goes into effect starting 323 00:19:25,280 --> 00:19:29,320 Speaker 1: January twenty seventh, which is when Southwest starts assigning seats. 324 00:19:30,480 --> 00:19:32,760 Speaker 1: I love every bit of this. I am in favor 325 00:19:32,800 --> 00:19:35,240 Speaker 1: of every bit of this, and no, I don't need 326 00:19:35,280 --> 00:19:40,479 Speaker 1: two seats. Thank you. Keep it here. I'm Tony Katz. 327 00:19:40,640 --> 00:19:46,440 Speaker 1: This is Tony Kats today. So one of the stories 328 00:19:46,440 --> 00:19:50,960 Speaker 1: we've been following today is a shooting at a Minneapolis 329 00:19:50,960 --> 00:19:54,560 Speaker 1: Catholic school. Tony Katz, Tony Katz today, good to be 330 00:19:54,640 --> 00:19:59,119 Speaker 1: with you. We've seen at Villanova and then it was 331 00:19:59,200 --> 00:20:02,080 Speaker 1: University of South Carolina where they claim there was an 332 00:20:02,080 --> 00:20:05,440 Speaker 1: active shooter and it was a hoax. They made it up. 333 00:20:05,480 --> 00:20:09,879 Speaker 1: This is not that case. The shooter, as the first 334 00:20:09,960 --> 00:20:16,080 Speaker 1: reporting stated, contained no threat at all anymore. They say 335 00:20:16,240 --> 00:20:18,520 Speaker 1: to the community, that was the first reporting of it. 336 00:20:18,840 --> 00:20:22,960 Speaker 1: Then I immediately checked in with a John Justice, who 337 00:20:23,200 --> 00:20:28,320 Speaker 1: is a fellow radio host in Minneapolis, referring to the 338 00:20:28,320 --> 00:20:32,840 Speaker 1: fact that there are reported deaths and critical victims in 339 00:20:33,000 --> 00:20:38,400 Speaker 1: all of these situations, the news changes quickly. The initial 340 00:20:38,440 --> 00:20:45,040 Speaker 1: reporting is not necessarily the accurate reporting. And we are 341 00:20:45,200 --> 00:20:48,680 Speaker 1: absolutely in the place now in these first few hours. Now, 342 00:20:48,680 --> 00:20:50,919 Speaker 1: depending some people get the podcast version of this, some 343 00:20:50,920 --> 00:20:52,840 Speaker 1: people get a delayed version of the show. So it 344 00:20:52,880 --> 00:20:56,320 Speaker 1: really depends on when you hear it. This is just 345 00:20:56,640 --> 00:20:59,280 Speaker 1: the first bit of the reporting. We haven't gotten the 346 00:20:59,320 --> 00:21:03,080 Speaker 1: totality yet. Sometimes it takes hours, sometimes it takes days. 347 00:21:03,359 --> 00:21:05,080 Speaker 1: Sometimes they don't give it to us at all. And 348 00:21:05,160 --> 00:21:08,080 Speaker 1: we are all aware of that. Infuriated by that that 349 00:21:08,200 --> 00:21:13,800 Speaker 1: last part. Uh So, the we we understand that there 350 00:21:13,840 --> 00:21:17,520 Speaker 1: are fatalities. We understand that the governor Tim Walls for 351 00:21:17,560 --> 00:21:22,000 Speaker 1: all his lunacy has stated that the shooting has taken place. 352 00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:25,959 Speaker 1: We're gonna find out more. There are people who are 353 00:21:25,960 --> 00:21:29,000 Speaker 1: gonna be desperate to be first. We see this time 354 00:21:29,440 --> 00:21:32,119 Speaker 1: and time and time again. I have no interest in 355 00:21:32,160 --> 00:21:34,720 Speaker 1: being first. I have an interest in being right. If 356 00:21:34,720 --> 00:21:38,200 Speaker 1: I can be right and be first, well that's that's 357 00:21:38,240 --> 00:21:41,399 Speaker 1: pretty great. I do. I do always love that moment, 358 00:21:41,880 --> 00:21:45,080 Speaker 1: but I'd much rather be right. Get the information so 359 00:21:45,200 --> 00:21:47,239 Speaker 1: as we as we have, and there's been a lot 360 00:21:47,280 --> 00:21:51,000 Speaker 1: of talk about it so far today, we know that 361 00:21:51,119 --> 00:21:54,119 Speaker 1: there are we believe there are fatalities. We believe there 362 00:21:54,160 --> 00:21:56,800 Speaker 1: are people in critical condition. We believe that the shooter 363 00:21:56,880 --> 00:21:59,479 Speaker 1: is contained. That's what we know. We're gonna find out 364 00:21:59,480 --> 00:22:02,959 Speaker 1: more information. Could already be information out there about oh, 365 00:22:02,960 --> 00:22:05,040 Speaker 1: who the shooter is and what it's all about. I'm 366 00:22:05,080 --> 00:22:08,439 Speaker 1: gonna give it some time, make sure that that stuff 367 00:22:08,480 --> 00:22:10,720 Speaker 1: is accurate before we start bringing down with what this 368 00:22:10,840 --> 00:22:12,679 Speaker 1: is and what it's all about. Because you know, as 369 00:22:12,680 --> 00:22:16,120 Speaker 1: well as I do, all someone has to hear is shooting, 370 00:22:16,480 --> 00:22:19,199 Speaker 1: and all you hear is gun control. We don't know 371 00:22:19,320 --> 00:22:23,440 Speaker 1: anything that has happened yet. We don't have levels of 372 00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:28,640 Speaker 1: calm confirmation about what has taken place, but they won't care. 373 00:22:29,480 --> 00:22:33,359 Speaker 1: They don't care, they never care. They'll say gun control, 374 00:22:34,320 --> 00:22:36,880 Speaker 1: it's it's ugly and it's gross, and you know it's 375 00:22:36,880 --> 00:22:39,520 Speaker 1: a case. So I leave that thererist as to what 376 00:22:39,760 --> 00:22:43,920 Speaker 1: is going on, what's happening. Then I want to go 377 00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:46,800 Speaker 1: back and recap something I was discussing yesterday, if it's 378 00:22:46,800 --> 00:22:50,960 Speaker 1: all right with you, which is the story of President 379 00:22:51,040 --> 00:22:56,640 Speaker 1: Trump and the executive order regarding flag burning. And I'm 380 00:22:56,680 --> 00:22:59,560 Speaker 1: gonna say it again, I oppose this executive order. I 381 00:22:59,560 --> 00:23:03,679 Speaker 1: think flag bag burning is dopey, but it's allowed. And 382 00:23:03,880 --> 00:23:06,119 Speaker 1: I don't want the President taking his eye off the ball. 383 00:23:06,359 --> 00:23:08,520 Speaker 1: I don't want him focused on this in any way, 384 00:23:08,560 --> 00:23:12,480 Speaker 1: shape or form. I want him focused on the border, 385 00:23:13,160 --> 00:23:15,240 Speaker 1: which seems to be going well. And you have a 386 00:23:15,240 --> 00:23:19,320 Speaker 1: Secretary Nome saying that we haven't had an illegal crossing 387 00:23:19,359 --> 00:23:22,560 Speaker 1: in three months, which I mean, that's kind of hard 388 00:23:22,560 --> 00:23:25,760 Speaker 1: to believe. That's that is kind of hard to believe. No, 389 00:23:25,800 --> 00:23:27,680 Speaker 1: not not that we're not having an effect on the border. 390 00:23:27,720 --> 00:23:32,200 Speaker 1: Please don't get me wrong. One you might not know it, 391 00:23:32,920 --> 00:23:35,879 Speaker 1: but I'm not gonna I'm not gonna get too angry 392 00:23:35,880 --> 00:23:38,480 Speaker 1: with every boy saying things are so good that we're 393 00:23:38,480 --> 00:23:43,200 Speaker 1: not having crossings. It's it is incredible what willpower has done. 394 00:23:43,240 --> 00:23:45,000 Speaker 1: You don't need you didn't even need new legislation. You 395 00:23:45,080 --> 00:23:46,960 Speaker 1: just had to have the will to actually utilize the 396 00:23:47,040 --> 00:23:48,720 Speaker 1: legislation that is in place. 397 00:23:49,680 --> 00:23:50,040 Speaker 6: All right. 398 00:23:50,359 --> 00:23:53,040 Speaker 1: So there are things that I like, and then there 399 00:23:53,040 --> 00:23:54,760 Speaker 1: are things I think that take our eye off the ball. 400 00:23:55,160 --> 00:23:57,080 Speaker 1: I think a flag burning thing takes her eye off 401 00:23:57,119 --> 00:24:02,080 Speaker 1: the ball. And some people will disagree with me. And 402 00:24:02,400 --> 00:24:07,320 Speaker 1: someone sent me this post from Christopher Rufo, who wrote, 403 00:24:07,359 --> 00:24:09,920 Speaker 1: I'm sorry, but as long as this is the status quo, 404 00:24:10,320 --> 00:24:12,280 Speaker 1: I'm not going to work myself into a state of 405 00:24:12,320 --> 00:24:15,720 Speaker 1: hysteria about Trump's executive order. I'm burning the American flag. 406 00:24:15,800 --> 00:24:19,200 Speaker 1: And he shares two stories. One is from the BBC 407 00:24:20,160 --> 00:24:22,680 Speaker 1: where a person got fifteen years in an Iowa jail 408 00:24:22,960 --> 00:24:27,000 Speaker 1: for burning the Pride flag. That is from twenty nineteen. 409 00:24:27,320 --> 00:24:28,920 Speaker 1: And then a story from just a couple of years 410 00:24:28,920 --> 00:24:32,920 Speaker 1: ago about how three teenagers in Washington State are facing 411 00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:35,919 Speaker 1: ten years in jail because they were writing e scooters 412 00:24:36,240 --> 00:24:39,760 Speaker 1: and they made marks on the street and street happened 413 00:24:39,760 --> 00:24:43,480 Speaker 1: to be painted with a rainbow flag. Please let us 414 00:24:43,600 --> 00:24:49,720 Speaker 1: not be people who confuse our subjects. I think flag 415 00:24:49,760 --> 00:24:55,680 Speaker 1: burning is gross. I think it is a legally protected practice. 416 00:24:57,200 --> 00:25:01,560 Speaker 1: I think that anybody who thinks that a burning or 417 00:25:01,600 --> 00:25:04,720 Speaker 1: destroying a gay pride flag is a hate crime is 418 00:25:04,760 --> 00:25:09,760 Speaker 1: a ridiculous child should be laughed at and dismissed. I 419 00:25:09,920 --> 00:25:13,520 Speaker 1: for forever have said that the very concept of the 420 00:25:13,560 --> 00:25:17,720 Speaker 1: hate crime is wrong. All crimes are crimes, are crimes 421 00:25:17,720 --> 00:25:20,240 Speaker 1: of hate, and there is no crime that is worse 422 00:25:20,320 --> 00:25:23,400 Speaker 1: because it happens to a particular group. If it happens 423 00:25:23,400 --> 00:25:24,960 Speaker 1: to me because I'm Jewish, if it happens to you 424 00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:26,680 Speaker 1: because you're gay, it happens to you because you're black, 425 00:25:26,720 --> 00:25:28,240 Speaker 1: and it happens to you because you're a woman, it 426 00:25:28,320 --> 00:25:31,159 Speaker 1: is not a worse crime. If it happens to a 427 00:25:31,200 --> 00:25:33,680 Speaker 1: white man, oh well. If it happens to a white woman, 428 00:25:33,760 --> 00:25:35,840 Speaker 1: oh well, if it happens to a black woman, it's 429 00:25:35,880 --> 00:25:39,920 Speaker 1: the worst thing that ever happened. That's pure, raw, unadult 430 00:25:39,960 --> 00:25:43,840 Speaker 1: raated bigotry. Count me out. Also, I am not a flower. 431 00:25:44,080 --> 00:25:47,240 Speaker 1: I don't need special laws and special rules. I've got 432 00:25:47,240 --> 00:25:52,480 Speaker 1: the constitution. Booboo. I'm good now. This is somehow shocking 433 00:25:52,520 --> 00:25:55,800 Speaker 1: to people when I say this. Certainly it's been shocking. 434 00:25:55,840 --> 00:25:58,720 Speaker 1: I have opposed hate crimes in my state, Indiana, since 435 00:25:58,760 --> 00:26:02,600 Speaker 1: I moved to Indiana years ago. And oh, there there 436 00:26:02,600 --> 00:26:04,800 Speaker 1: are Jews who are not happy with me. But I'm 437 00:26:04,880 --> 00:26:06,399 Speaker 1: right and they're wrong, and I'm willing to say that 438 00:26:06,440 --> 00:26:10,000 Speaker 1: directly to them. This is a fighting subject. Once you 439 00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:13,520 Speaker 1: introduce the concept of hate crimes, you are saying that 440 00:26:13,560 --> 00:26:15,680 Speaker 1: all the animals are equal, but some are more equal 441 00:26:15,720 --> 00:26:19,919 Speaker 1: than others. You are talking about giving special rights to 442 00:26:20,119 --> 00:26:23,400 Speaker 1: sub sets. And that's not the American way. Count me out. 443 00:26:24,480 --> 00:26:26,840 Speaker 1: Now this is said differently. Let me give you one 444 00:26:26,840 --> 00:26:29,280 Speaker 1: of the ways it can be said differently. Hey, gay 445 00:26:29,320 --> 00:26:35,600 Speaker 1: men and gay women, you're not special. But you're not. 446 00:26:36,720 --> 00:26:39,760 Speaker 1: You're Americans. You're covered by the Constitution. You don't get 447 00:26:39,800 --> 00:26:43,520 Speaker 1: any special protections. Don't care if it makes you happy. No, 448 00:26:44,680 --> 00:26:47,640 Speaker 1: I would laugh at you on the street in front 449 00:26:47,640 --> 00:26:51,520 Speaker 1: of your mother. You don't get any special protections. I 450 00:26:51,520 --> 00:26:55,040 Speaker 1: don't get any special protections. You don't get any special protections. 451 00:26:55,400 --> 00:26:59,320 Speaker 1: We have protections granted to us by the Constitution and 452 00:26:59,440 --> 00:27:05,080 Speaker 1: nature and name's law. That's it. You're black, no special protections. 453 00:27:06,520 --> 00:27:09,520 Speaker 1: You have a problem with that. Don't care your Asian 454 00:27:09,720 --> 00:27:15,440 Speaker 1: you're Hispanic you're Muslim, you're Christian, don't care. There ain't 455 00:27:15,480 --> 00:27:19,560 Speaker 1: nothing special about you. Nowhing's so special that the law 456 00:27:19,560 --> 00:27:26,879 Speaker 1: should treat you differently. Nope, burning the gay Pride flag 457 00:27:27,640 --> 00:27:30,320 Speaker 1: is allowed. It's not a hate crime. And if you 458 00:27:30,359 --> 00:27:32,720 Speaker 1: think it's a hate crime, well those people are wrong. 459 00:27:33,119 --> 00:27:36,200 Speaker 1: Those people are ridiculous, those people are children. Those people 460 00:27:36,200 --> 00:27:38,639 Speaker 1: shouldn't be allowed to operate heavy machinery. And your sure's 461 00:27:38,640 --> 00:27:41,960 Speaker 1: bloody hell shouldn't vote for those people. It's not a 462 00:27:41,960 --> 00:27:45,800 Speaker 1: hate crime. I agree that it's dopey. I also agree 463 00:27:45,960 --> 00:27:48,840 Speaker 1: that the whole thing with the flag has just gotten ridiculous. 464 00:27:49,119 --> 00:27:53,480 Speaker 1: And for the LGBT world whatever they call themselves, would 465 00:27:53,520 --> 00:27:55,440 Speaker 1: you do me a favorite LGNB, would you drop the 466 00:27:55,480 --> 00:27:58,600 Speaker 1: t that's where your politics are coming from. You don't 467 00:27:58,600 --> 00:28:03,040 Speaker 1: need that garbage. It's bringing you down. The TEA has 468 00:28:03,040 --> 00:28:05,359 Speaker 1: proven to be a political movement that's interested in the 469 00:28:05,359 --> 00:28:10,800 Speaker 1: destruction of Western civilization. And they gotta go no, no, no, no, no, 470 00:28:10,880 --> 00:28:13,440 Speaker 1: not special, no no no. We don't allow children to 471 00:28:13,520 --> 00:28:16,040 Speaker 1: mutilate themselves. No, no, no, no. You can't threaten us by 472 00:28:16,040 --> 00:28:18,560 Speaker 1: saying if we don't allow this surgery, they'll kill themselves. 473 00:28:18,880 --> 00:28:22,560 Speaker 1: Stop buying into and feeding into a child's mental illness 474 00:28:22,720 --> 00:28:25,320 Speaker 1: and actually help the children, because any society that doesn't 475 00:28:25,320 --> 00:28:27,320 Speaker 1: help children is not a society that's worth a damn 476 00:28:28,840 --> 00:28:32,800 Speaker 1: But not special to the tee. You ain't special, booboo. 477 00:28:33,480 --> 00:28:36,640 Speaker 1: I don't care if you like me. It's the facts. 478 00:28:37,040 --> 00:28:41,040 Speaker 1: You're not special, which is why men cannot plan women's sports. 479 00:28:41,240 --> 00:28:42,840 Speaker 1: You made a decision. You don't get to tell other 480 00:28:42,880 --> 00:28:45,320 Speaker 1: people they have to live with a decision. Screw your decision. 481 00:28:46,080 --> 00:28:49,040 Speaker 1: Don't care. I didn't say you couldn't make the decision. 482 00:28:49,400 --> 00:28:51,440 Speaker 1: I said you can't force me to live with your decision. 483 00:28:52,160 --> 00:28:56,719 Speaker 1: And I mean that if you can't burn an American flag, 484 00:28:57,080 --> 00:28:59,080 Speaker 1: can't burn any other flag. But if you can burn 485 00:28:59,120 --> 00:29:03,600 Speaker 1: an American flag, you can burn every other flag. You 486 00:29:03,640 --> 00:29:06,360 Speaker 1: know what, that's probably said wrong. Someone would probably argue, 487 00:29:06,400 --> 00:29:09,240 Speaker 1: you can't burn the American flag, but no other flag matters. 488 00:29:09,720 --> 00:29:14,320 Speaker 1: But if you can, if it's a crime to burn 489 00:29:14,400 --> 00:29:17,160 Speaker 1: a gay pride flag but not an American flag, that's insane. 490 00:29:17,320 --> 00:29:21,720 Speaker 1: That's better said. That's better said there, that's accurate. You 491 00:29:21,760 --> 00:29:25,680 Speaker 1: don't get jail time for making donuts on an e 492 00:29:25,840 --> 00:29:29,360 Speaker 1: scooter on a part of the street that's painted purple. 493 00:29:30,320 --> 00:29:33,640 Speaker 1: Don't paint the streets, which is what Sean Duffy, the 494 00:29:33,680 --> 00:29:38,640 Speaker 1: Transportation Secretary said, and rightfully so, don't paint the streets. 495 00:29:38,760 --> 00:29:44,240 Speaker 1: Nobody wants your sloganeering crap. No one cares. In the main, 496 00:29:45,640 --> 00:29:48,520 Speaker 1: I believe that Americans are amongst the most caring and 497 00:29:48,560 --> 00:29:53,360 Speaker 1: the most decent people out there. That when it comes 498 00:29:53,440 --> 00:29:59,920 Speaker 1: to compassion, when it comes to generosity, Americans are unre 499 00:30:00,160 --> 00:30:05,600 Speaker 1: rivaled people in that regard. What I would like Americans 500 00:30:05,640 --> 00:30:12,000 Speaker 1: to be equally unrivaled in is being left alone. The 501 00:30:12,120 --> 00:30:15,640 Speaker 1: truth is is that if you were somebody who's a 502 00:30:15,680 --> 00:30:18,440 Speaker 1: man who wants to claim they're a woman, the vast 503 00:30:18,480 --> 00:30:22,480 Speaker 1: majority of Americans wouldn't give you the time of day 504 00:30:22,520 --> 00:30:25,680 Speaker 1: and wouldn't bother you about what you do. They wouldn't. 505 00:30:26,040 --> 00:30:28,960 Speaker 1: They would move They might stare, but they would move on. 506 00:30:30,560 --> 00:30:33,360 Speaker 1: It's when you said you're allowed to be in the 507 00:30:33,400 --> 00:30:35,560 Speaker 1: women's bathroom, in the women's locker room, and there's nothing 508 00:30:35,600 --> 00:30:38,560 Speaker 1: you could do about it. When people said, well, that's 509 00:30:38,600 --> 00:30:41,560 Speaker 1: not going to work, and then the political left said, 510 00:30:41,640 --> 00:30:44,080 Speaker 1: how dare you? You transphobed you. There's no such thing 511 00:30:44,080 --> 00:30:47,680 Speaker 1: as a transfer, you bigots, and and so that's where 512 00:30:47,680 --> 00:30:51,000 Speaker 1: they tried to shut people down, shut people up, engage 513 00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:55,200 Speaker 1: in violence actually about the subject, and people had to 514 00:30:55,320 --> 00:30:58,000 Speaker 1: refine themselves and find their core and find their strength 515 00:30:58,040 --> 00:31:01,480 Speaker 1: and find their spine and back against it. And I'm 516 00:31:01,520 --> 00:31:05,880 Speaker 1: thrilled that it's working because it has to. And the 517 00:31:05,920 --> 00:31:08,880 Speaker 1: people who favor calling you a transphobe whatever that is, 518 00:31:08,880 --> 00:31:10,840 Speaker 1: that total lie of a thing, this, that, and the other, 519 00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:13,560 Speaker 1: they cannot be allowed to win elected office, etc. They 520 00:31:13,560 --> 00:31:18,600 Speaker 1: can't be allowed any power. So on this subject of 521 00:31:18,640 --> 00:31:21,480 Speaker 1: the flags. Allow me to make sure that I am clear. 522 00:31:23,480 --> 00:31:26,800 Speaker 1: I do not believe that we should engage any bit 523 00:31:26,800 --> 00:31:29,720 Speaker 1: of legislation or executive order that says you cannot burn 524 00:31:29,760 --> 00:31:32,960 Speaker 1: the American flag. It is a free speech conversation. And 525 00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:36,240 Speaker 1: while I think it is dopey, I think it is allowable. 526 00:31:36,440 --> 00:31:38,440 Speaker 1: And I think the President made a mistake by going 527 00:31:38,480 --> 00:31:42,520 Speaker 1: down this road. I want him to focus. But anybody 528 00:31:42,560 --> 00:31:44,719 Speaker 1: who thinks that it's okay to burn the American flag 529 00:31:45,040 --> 00:31:46,880 Speaker 1: and it's somehow I hate crime to burn a gay 530 00:31:46,920 --> 00:31:51,040 Speaker 1: pride flag is nuts. They're wrong, They'll always be wrong. 531 00:31:51,080 --> 00:31:55,080 Speaker 1: They should be told that they're wrong. It's not a crime, 532 00:31:55,360 --> 00:31:57,400 Speaker 1: and there should be no such thing as hate crimes. 533 00:31:57,720 --> 00:32:03,200 Speaker 1: That's just messed up stuff. Hate crimes are about saying 534 00:32:03,200 --> 00:32:05,600 Speaker 1: that some group of people are more important than others, 535 00:32:05,920 --> 00:32:08,680 Speaker 1: and that's not true. If you're gay, you're not more important. 536 00:32:08,760 --> 00:32:10,480 Speaker 1: If you're straight, you're not more important. If you're Jewish, 537 00:32:10,480 --> 00:32:12,520 Speaker 1: you're not more important. If you're Christian, you're not more important. 538 00:32:12,840 --> 00:32:19,160 Speaker 1: You're not We're Americans, and that is that. But I 539 00:32:19,200 --> 00:32:23,720 Speaker 1: will get into one more part of this. How do 540 00:32:23,800 --> 00:32:27,960 Speaker 1: you get people not to burn the flag? You start 541 00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:31,360 Speaker 1: by saying and explaining to your own kids what the 542 00:32:31,400 --> 00:32:34,200 Speaker 1: flag is and what it represents, and why it's valuable 543 00:32:34,440 --> 00:32:38,160 Speaker 1: and why it's important. And when you hear the national anthem, 544 00:32:38,760 --> 00:32:42,120 Speaker 1: you stop wherever you are and you point in that direction. 545 00:32:42,240 --> 00:32:44,920 Speaker 1: You show the respect, and you take off your hat. 546 00:32:45,880 --> 00:32:48,240 Speaker 1: You don't talk through it, you don't scroll on your 547 00:32:48,280 --> 00:32:50,840 Speaker 1: phone through it. And if your kids are doing that stuff, 548 00:32:50,920 --> 00:32:53,040 Speaker 1: you take the phone out of their hand, You point 549 00:32:53,040 --> 00:32:54,680 Speaker 1: them at the American flag and tell them to shut 550 00:32:54,720 --> 00:32:59,440 Speaker 1: their mouths and pay attention, and they'll learn. Oh, you 551 00:32:59,440 --> 00:33:01,000 Speaker 1: could say and that if you want. I mean, it's 552 00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:04,600 Speaker 1: your kid. Who am I to judge? But you show 553 00:33:04,640 --> 00:33:07,000 Speaker 1: the reverence for the flag by showing the reverence for 554 00:33:07,040 --> 00:33:10,680 Speaker 1: the flag. You show the love of the flag by 555 00:33:10,720 --> 00:33:12,400 Speaker 1: showing the love of the flag and what it is 556 00:33:12,440 --> 00:33:16,320 Speaker 1: it represents. Nobody will burn the thing that they love. 557 00:33:17,520 --> 00:33:21,400 Speaker 1: And I think that's how we win this this concept, 558 00:33:21,400 --> 00:33:25,720 Speaker 1: that's how you create this value system, the one that 559 00:33:25,920 --> 00:33:29,760 Speaker 1: ensures that the flag was still there and our nation 560 00:33:29,840 --> 00:33:34,000 Speaker 1: will endure. Just one man's theory. I'm Tony Katz. This 561 00:33:34,080 --> 00:33:37,320 Speaker 1: is Tony Katz today. Leave it to the political left 562 00:33:37,320 --> 00:33:41,480 Speaker 1: to decide that lying on a mortgage application is not 563 00:33:41,640 --> 00:33:42,200 Speaker 1: a crime. 564 00:33:43,400 --> 00:33:46,600 Speaker 7: What I care most about is that we follow the 565 00:33:46,720 --> 00:33:51,360 Speaker 7: law here, and the law is pretty clear that firing 566 00:33:51,560 --> 00:33:56,920 Speaker 7: for cause means job related, like someone who has been 567 00:33:57,160 --> 00:34:00,480 Speaker 7: inefficient or someone who's been corrupt in doing this job. 568 00:34:01,400 --> 00:34:05,600 Speaker 7: That is the history of what four cause means here. 569 00:34:05,800 --> 00:34:09,680 Speaker 1: So you can't be fired for murder. I'm only following 570 00:34:09,719 --> 00:34:16,239 Speaker 1: Elizabeth Warren's thought process here. Lisa Cook, the governor of 571 00:34:16,280 --> 00:34:18,960 Speaker 1: the Federal Reserve, one of the members of the Board 572 00:34:18,960 --> 00:34:26,080 Speaker 1: of Governors, allegedly falsified a mortgage document an application. You 573 00:34:26,440 --> 00:34:30,720 Speaker 1: can't get fired for that. How about being fired for cause? 574 00:34:31,320 --> 00:34:35,080 Speaker 1: Is you not living up to ethical standards? You can't 575 00:34:35,080 --> 00:34:38,080 Speaker 1: get fired for that. That's not fired for cause, you 576 00:34:38,120 --> 00:34:41,080 Speaker 1: know what, I'll let the lawyers decide. Tony Katz, Tony 577 00:34:41,160 --> 00:34:43,799 Speaker 1: Katz today, good to be with you. What I can 578 00:34:43,840 --> 00:34:48,480 Speaker 1: tell you is that Elizabeth Warren is always on the 579 00:34:48,640 --> 00:34:52,719 Speaker 1: side of what does Trump not want? Whatever it is 580 00:34:52,719 --> 00:34:55,080 Speaker 1: is the opposite of his desires. That's what I'm in 581 00:34:55,120 --> 00:35:00,760 Speaker 1: favor of. Who would favor keeping somebody on who engaged 582 00:35:00,800 --> 00:35:04,480 Speaker 1: in fraud? Well maybe Elizabeth Warren, who did the same thing. 583 00:35:04,719 --> 00:35:07,920 Speaker 1: Remember when she told everybody she was Native American. Oh, oh, 584 00:35:08,440 --> 00:35:13,640 Speaker 1: that was funny, because she's not and she never has been. 585 00:35:14,080 --> 00:35:17,399 Speaker 1: And she lied so she can get social currency, so 586 00:35:17,440 --> 00:35:19,920 Speaker 1: she can be seen as interesting, so she can get 587 00:35:19,960 --> 00:35:23,880 Speaker 1: herself elevated in her career, so she can get herself 588 00:35:24,080 --> 00:35:28,479 Speaker 1: some upward mobility. She lied, That's who she is, that's 589 00:35:28,520 --> 00:35:31,440 Speaker 1: what she did. So she must have a soft spot 590 00:35:31,760 --> 00:35:34,760 Speaker 1: in her heart for the people who engage in fraud, because, 591 00:35:34,840 --> 00:35:38,480 Speaker 1: after all, it's kind of what she's built on. The 592 00:35:38,560 --> 00:35:42,560 Speaker 1: rational person knows that what Lisa Cook is accused of here, 593 00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:46,040 Speaker 1: this governor from the Federal Reserve, who she's refusing to leave, 594 00:35:46,080 --> 00:35:48,360 Speaker 1: by the way, saying that Trump doesn't have the authority 595 00:35:48,400 --> 00:35:51,439 Speaker 1: and that the FED is an independent agency. Neither here 596 00:35:51,800 --> 00:35:56,200 Speaker 1: nor there, but that the Left wants to now engage 597 00:35:56,200 --> 00:35:58,400 Speaker 1: in cover for people who are guilty of fraud or 598 00:35:58,480 --> 00:36:01,440 Speaker 1: accused of fraud. I mean that just that is just 599 00:36:01,520 --> 00:36:05,080 Speaker 1: too perfect. 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