WEBVTT - Episode 4646: Tony Katz Today Hour 1 - 08/04/26 0:00:05.120 --> 0:00:10.280 Why from ball Hartbiner and the Crossroads of America. 0:00:10.520 --> 0:00:17.840 It's Tony Katz today. Good morning. 0:00:18.480 --> 0:00:21.479 My name is Colin MacDonald, Assistant Attorney General for the 0:00:21.560 --> 0:00:26.840 National Fraud Enforcement Division at the Department of Justice. Everywhere 0:00:26.880 --> 0:00:31.960 we look, we find fraud. Hundreds of billions of taxpayer 0:00:32.000 --> 0:00:37.080 dollars taken from our pockets by criminals every year. For 0:00:37.120 --> 0:00:41.879 that reason, President Trump, Vice President Vance, and Acting Attorney 0:00:41.880 --> 0:00:46.240 General Blanche have rightly activated the DOJ and our fraud 0:00:46.320 --> 0:00:51.320 fighting partners to combat this fraud epidemic head on, because 0:00:51.400 --> 0:00:54.160 no one should be able to rip off the United 0:00:54.160 --> 0:00:57.600 States of America and get away with it. I am 0:00:57.640 --> 0:01:00.440 honored to be joined today by some of our best 0:01:00.720 --> 0:01:07.000 fraud fighters. CMS Administrator doctor mat oz Us, Attorney David Metcalf, 0:01:07.680 --> 0:01:12.360 Pennsylvania Attorney General David Sunday, HHS Inspector. 0:01:11.880 --> 0:01:14.720 General Marsh Bell. Yes, yes, yes, it's a lot of people. 0:01:14.760 --> 0:01:18.560 Get to the fraud. Who's going to jail? That's all 0:01:18.600 --> 0:01:19.880 I want to know, That's all I want to see. 0:01:19.920 --> 0:01:21.800 It's all I care about. Don't want to hear about 0:01:21.800 --> 0:01:23.680 the rest. Yeah, you got a whole panel flee of people. 0:01:23.720 --> 0:01:26.760 I'm sure they're absolutely excellent everybody goes out for ice cream. Afterwards, 0:01:26.840 --> 0:01:28.319 you get a stick, and you get a stick. It's 0:01:28.319 --> 0:01:32.000 full on shorsey. Who goes to jail, That's the only 0:01:32.080 --> 0:01:36.280 question we have. Stop talking about everything else. Who committed 0:01:36.319 --> 0:01:38.679 the fraud? How much fraud did they commit? Who goes 0:01:38.720 --> 0:01:40.440 to jail? What are we going to do to them 0:01:40.440 --> 0:01:42.919 in jail? Because a bunch of us because of the fraud. 0:01:42.959 --> 0:01:45.679 We've got a list, because someone we know didn't get 0:01:45.720 --> 0:01:47.800 the care they were supposed to get. An American we 0:01:47.840 --> 0:01:49.520 know didn't get the care they were supposed to get, 0:01:49.600 --> 0:01:51.360 and we want to take these fraudsters, and man, we 0:01:51.400 --> 0:01:53.320 want to treat them bad. Thank goodness, we've got a 0:01:53.360 --> 0:01:56.440 system of justice that doesn't allow for that kind of vengeance. 0:01:57.080 --> 0:01:59.480 So we're just gonna have to think about those things 0:01:59.480 --> 0:02:01.960 in our head while they spend time in jail. Now, 0:02:02.200 --> 0:02:08.160 who goes to jail? That's the only question. Everything else 0:02:08.639 --> 0:02:14.200 is nonsense, pablem ridiculousness. Tony Katz, Tony Katz Today, Good 0:02:14.240 --> 0:02:16.320 to be here, Good to be with you. Find everything 0:02:16.320 --> 0:02:19.120 I do over at Tony Katz dot com. T O 0:02:19.240 --> 0:02:23.080 n Y Katz, Tony Katz dot com. Collin McDonald's Assistant 0:02:23.080 --> 0:02:28.400 ag and they are announcing fraud in Pennsylvania where nineteen 0:02:28.600 --> 0:02:34.480 people got charged, nineteen different people. They're referring to it 0:02:34.520 --> 0:02:39.560 as a major, major takedown of these fraudsters. What did 0:02:39.560 --> 0:02:40.000 they say? 0:02:40.160 --> 0:02:44.560 Public servants is committed to looking further, digging deeper, working 0:02:44.680 --> 0:02:47.280 night and day. Tell me about the haves, the fraudsters 0:02:47.360 --> 0:02:51.160 stealing the wealth of America and bring them to justice. 0:02:51.200 --> 0:02:51.960 Tell me about it. 0:02:52.120 --> 0:02:55.880 And this commitment is reaping dividends right here and right 0:02:55.919 --> 0:03:01.360 now in Pennsylvania. Today, we are announcing criminal charges against 0:03:01.480 --> 0:03:06.160 nineteen defendants for fraudulent home health care schemes that targeted 0:03:06.160 --> 0:03:11.000 Pennsylvania's Medicaid fraud program and resulted in over four million 0:03:11.080 --> 0:03:15.400 dollars of fraud. Eighteen of these defendants were charged in 0:03:15.480 --> 0:03:19.400 the last twelve days as part of a strategically coordinated 0:03:19.480 --> 0:03:23.840 law enforcement operation between the Fraud Division, the US Attorney's Office, 0:03:24.000 --> 0:03:28.560 and the Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office. The cases today build 0:03:28.600 --> 0:03:31.560 on the work that we recently announced in Minnesota, where 0:03:31.560 --> 0:03:36.040 we charge fifteen defendants for systematically looting seven state managed 0:03:36.040 --> 0:03:40.560 Medicaid programs out of more than ninety million dollars treating 0:03:40.600 --> 0:03:43.560 those programs like a piggy bank until one of them 0:03:43.640 --> 0:03:47.200 had to be shut down entirely because there was nothing left. 0:03:47.520 --> 0:03:52.240 The shelves were empty. When do they go to jail? 0:03:52.480 --> 0:03:55.480 I'm sorry, broken record, Am I repeating myself? 0:03:55.880 --> 0:03:56.080 You know? 0:03:56.680 --> 0:03:59.880 I think I'm one of the few I could be wrong. 0:04:01.000 --> 0:04:03.360 I think I'm one of the few people who says 0:04:03.520 --> 0:04:08.040 out loud that shutting down DOGE was an absolutely terrible mistake. 0:04:10.480 --> 0:04:15.120 Shutting down DOGE was wrong. Doj is good, dog is right, 0:04:15.400 --> 0:04:18.359 Dog is proper. We have fraud, Let's get rid of 0:04:18.360 --> 0:04:20.839 the fraud. Let's throw the fraudsters in jail, and let's 0:04:20.920 --> 0:04:23.120 keep the money for the American people. Put it back 0:04:23.160 --> 0:04:25.279 in their pocket. We can pay down some debt. I'll 0:04:25.360 --> 0:04:29.040 let you do either one. Why in the world would 0:04:29.040 --> 0:04:32.040 we ever stop getting rid of fraud because we shut 0:04:32.080 --> 0:04:37.760 down USAID. Good well tony people died with all due respect. 0:04:38.040 --> 0:04:41.160 No no, no, no, no, no, no no no. It 0:04:41.360 --> 0:04:46.960 was a slush fund utilized for political purpose. That's not 0:04:47.120 --> 0:04:49.599 enough of a reason to keep it afloat. You could 0:04:49.640 --> 0:04:53.400 have kept specific programs afloat utilizing other methodologies, like we 0:04:53.520 --> 0:04:56.560 kept amfAR afloat. So don't tell me USAID had to 0:04:56.600 --> 0:04:58.760 be there. It never had to be there. It had 0:04:58.800 --> 0:05:01.400 to be shut down. I say good, and I will 0:05:01.400 --> 0:05:05.799 say it anywhere, anytime, any place. You could have handled 0:05:05.800 --> 0:05:09.520 these things like normal people, but nope, had to be 0:05:09.560 --> 0:05:13.359 political first, and somehow USAID has to stay because you 0:05:13.440 --> 0:05:16.800 want to engage in these politics. Screw that and screw off. 0:05:16.880 --> 0:05:19.000 And now we tell jokes about your mother and they 0:05:19.040 --> 0:05:21.800 will be unkind. When do these people go to jail? 0:05:22.080 --> 0:05:27.120 Nineteen people involved in the fraud. Now this is four 0:05:27.160 --> 0:05:29.320 million dollars and someone's going to say, oh wow, four 0:05:29.360 --> 0:05:34.560 million dollars. I want to meet the person who's a 0:05:34.560 --> 0:05:38.120 part of this show day in and day out, who 0:05:38.160 --> 0:05:40.040 is going to take a look at four million dollars 0:05:40.040 --> 0:05:43.320 and say I don't need that. And then I'm going 0:05:43.400 --> 0:05:46.000 to say when did Elon start listening to the show, 0:05:46.839 --> 0:05:49.359 Because everybody else is going to say, yeah, I want 0:05:49.360 --> 0:05:53.560 my four million dollars. It's full on, say anything, I 0:05:53.600 --> 0:05:56.400 want my two dollars, I want my four million dollars. 0:05:56.640 --> 0:06:00.880 You better believe it. This is nineteen people and four 0:06:00.920 --> 0:06:03.760 million dollars. How many people out there do we think 0:06:03.760 --> 0:06:06.560 are engaged in these acts of fraud? How about we 0:06:06.600 --> 0:06:08.720 do it this way. I'll even pull out a calculator 0:06:08.760 --> 0:06:12.640 just to make it easy. If I can have nineteen 0:06:12.720 --> 0:06:18.240 people right there in Pennsylvania doing four million dollars with 0:06:18.279 --> 0:06:20.480 a fraud, I'll take a four million right there, right 0:06:20.600 --> 0:06:24.040 four million, four million, right right right there? Okay, And 0:06:24.400 --> 0:06:27.279 how many states are their their producer land? And how 0:06:27.320 --> 0:06:29.200 many states do we have in the United States of America. 0:06:29.400 --> 0:06:32.159 I believe the correct answer is fifty Now, correct answer 0:06:32.160 --> 0:06:35.039 is fifty seven. Barack Obama said, so you don't know anything. 0:06:35.480 --> 0:06:39.640 Back to middle school. You go fifty states times the 0:06:39.800 --> 0:06:43.520 four million that is, that's that's two hundred million dollars, right, 0:06:43.720 --> 0:06:46.000 Just so I understand it's two hundred million dollars. I 0:06:46.040 --> 0:06:50.760 did the math correctly, even used a calculator. That's our 0:06:50.839 --> 0:06:57.000 two hundred million dollars. Now, I'm gonna look something up. 0:06:57.760 --> 0:07:07.040 How many homeless veterans in the United States? Now, the 0:07:07.120 --> 0:07:09.640 number is not going to be perfect, but according to 0:07:09.800 --> 0:07:16.200 recent data, there are thirty two thousand, four hundred and 0:07:16.320 --> 0:07:24.400 ninety five veterans experiencing homelessness in the United States. So 0:07:24.600 --> 0:07:28.560 if we take our two hundred million and we divide 0:07:28.600 --> 0:07:32.920 it by thirty two thousand, four hundred and ninety five. 0:07:34.280 --> 0:07:37.480 That would give well, that would start by giving what 0:07:37.680 --> 0:07:43.000 six thousand dollars to every homeless person. I don't know 0:07:43.000 --> 0:07:49.920 what to start. If I took a look at how 0:07:50.000 --> 0:07:58.960 many nurses we have in the United States, and there 0:07:58.960 --> 0:08:02.440 are four point three million people working as nurses, can 0:08:02.480 --> 0:08:05.600 I have a system by which we pick some and 0:08:05.640 --> 0:08:12.080 we pay up their student loan debt. I'm I'm spitballing here, guys. 0:08:12.920 --> 0:08:15.000 I'm thinking of all the things we can do with 0:08:15.120 --> 0:08:19.320 two hundred million dollars. Can we just give it back 0:08:19.360 --> 0:08:24.280 to the Americans who paid for this. The people who 0:08:24.280 --> 0:08:27.600 want to act like this is small, like this is nothing, 0:08:27.960 --> 0:08:31.640 Like this is no big deal, they are the worst. 0:08:32.200 --> 0:08:36.400 This is a big deal. This is a massive deal. 0:08:38.440 --> 0:08:43.400 Every time we can find these people, every time we 0:08:43.440 --> 0:08:46.640 can pluck them out, every time we can get this 0:08:46.760 --> 0:08:50.560 money back, we are doing a bit of good. We're 0:08:50.600 --> 0:08:55.840 doing the right thing. This is, in its entirety what 0:08:56.200 --> 0:09:00.000 I voted for. I don't know about you. I honestly 0:09:00.000 --> 0:09:02.760 we don't know what you voted for. It's sure as 0:09:02.840 --> 0:09:06.440 hell what I voted for. But I also want the 0:09:06.440 --> 0:09:12.200 funders in jail. I want them in jail. It's not 0:09:12.520 --> 0:09:20.880 enough to just say we found this money. Jail Now, 0:09:21.440 --> 0:09:24.480 I admit, I admit I want worse. I want worse 0:09:24.520 --> 0:09:27.640 for them, but we have a justice system and that's 0:09:27.679 --> 0:09:28.640 what I'm going to work with. 0:09:28.840 --> 0:09:32.440 So jail it is. What did doctor Oz have to 0:09:32.480 --> 0:09:36.560 say here? Services crisis around the country. The surge in 0:09:36.760 --> 0:09:41.560 enrollment of individuals in these and programs is stunning, so shocking. 0:09:41.600 --> 0:09:43.200 We have to double check our numbers. We don't think 0:09:43.240 --> 0:09:45.880 it's possible that is happening, but it is. In California 0:09:45.920 --> 0:09:48.400 and New York, the number one job in the entire 0:09:48.480 --> 0:09:52.480 state is personal care services. Guess what's good to be home? 0:09:52.520 --> 0:09:56.760 Because it's true in Pennsylvania to fifty percent dramatic, maybe 0:09:56.760 --> 0:10:00.360 more people serving in the personal care services space. That's 0:10:00.520 --> 0:10:05.160 home care, that is in retail. That's where Pennsylvanians are going. 0:10:05.200 --> 0:10:08.160 It's becoming a jobs program. Medicaid fraud in the state 0:10:08.480 --> 0:10:12.360 is costing taxpayers for care that was never delivered or 0:10:12.400 --> 0:10:16.120 even worse, harmful. It's costing patients their health, their trust 0:10:16.200 --> 0:10:18.120 in a system, a system that was built on a 0:10:18.200 --> 0:10:20.960 high trust environment, a place we all thought that we 0:10:21.000 --> 0:10:22.880 would be able to be safe because who would steal 0:10:22.920 --> 0:10:26.920 from the poor has callin outlined. Many people, unfortunately, are 0:10:26.920 --> 0:10:29.439 doing just that, and we're coming after them. What we're 0:10:29.440 --> 0:10:32.600 exposing today is a diabolical breach of trust, a violation 0:10:32.720 --> 0:10:35.760 of the sacred bond between patient and hair and caregiver. 0:10:36.320 --> 0:10:39.080 It is a catastrophe that can only be dealt with 0:10:39.120 --> 0:10:41.280 in the way will be outlined for the rest of 0:10:41.320 --> 0:10:42.040 this presentation. 0:10:43.480 --> 0:10:46.280 Now, you may be asking the same question that I'm asking, 0:10:47.480 --> 0:10:54.480 who are the fraudsters? Who were the fraudsters? According to 0:10:55.559 --> 0:11:01.760 the Attorney General of Pennsylvania, the two of these people, 0:11:01.880 --> 0:11:07.200 women Ashley Griffin and you longed to write Home Health Aids, 0:11:08.200 --> 0:11:12.040 accused of defrauding Medicaid by submitting nearly one point five 0:11:12.200 --> 0:11:16.839 million in reimbursements were work not performed and on more 0:11:16.880 --> 0:11:21.520 than one thousand occasions. Griffin, who's twenty seven, submitted entries 0:11:21.800 --> 0:11:25.120 time entries exceeding twenty four hour work hours for a 0:11:25.160 --> 0:11:29.680 single day. She reported one hundred and twenty six work 0:11:29.720 --> 0:11:35.360 hours on one day. And then this other woman said, hey, 0:11:35.400 --> 0:11:42.440 you could submit entries using my name. I want to 0:11:42.520 --> 0:11:49.880 know how long this was going on. You heard me, 0:11:50.160 --> 0:11:54.040 and you're doing the same head scratch. I am twenty 0:11:54.040 --> 0:11:56.920 four hours in a day, and you submitted for one 0:11:57.000 --> 0:11:59.160 hundred and twenty six hours in a day, and you 0:11:59.240 --> 0:12:02.920 thought no one was going in a notice. But you're 0:12:02.960 --> 0:12:07.119 not totally wrong because it's government, and government doesn't notice anything. 0:12:07.640 --> 0:12:12.079 They just write a check because it's not their money. 0:12:12.440 --> 0:12:15.480 You get double charged for Netflix. You know what's going on. 0:12:16.640 --> 0:12:18.839 Someone's billing one hundred and twenty six hours a day. 0:12:18.880 --> 0:12:21.240 She's not even a lawyer, and the government's like, here, 0:12:21.240 --> 0:12:29.080 here's a check. Who goes to jail, Who goes to jail. Oh, 0:12:29.160 --> 0:12:33.160 if they're not citizens, immediately deported. They can challenge it 0:12:33.200 --> 0:12:35.520 from whatever country they're from. If they're not a citizen, 0:12:35.559 --> 0:12:41.040 immediately deported. We don't even waste time. Whoop out. This 0:12:41.559 --> 0:12:47.200 is good, This is extremely important stuff. But it will 0:12:47.240 --> 0:12:51.720 only matter if there are consequences. It will only matter 0:12:51.720 --> 0:12:54.040 if there's jail time for American citizens. It will only 0:12:54.080 --> 0:12:57.040 matter if there's deportation for non Americans. And I don't 0:12:57.080 --> 0:12:59.560 give a good holy damn what country they go back to. 0:13:00.200 --> 0:13:02.079 I don't want to hear judge tell me, oh, it's 0:13:02.120 --> 0:13:07.520 too violent. Violence is stealing from Americans. Violence is being 0:13:07.559 --> 0:13:11.320 allowed into this country and stealing from Americans. Violence is 0:13:11.320 --> 0:13:13.480 taking an oath saying you will be a citizen and 0:13:13.480 --> 0:13:16.920 then stealing from Americans. Gone. I can't do anything about 0:13:16.920 --> 0:13:20.959 the person born here except jail. And if the left 0:13:21.040 --> 0:13:22.640 or anybody else is up for a fight on this, 0:13:23.000 --> 0:13:27.760 cool by me. Any support of fraudsters. Those people need 0:13:27.800 --> 0:13:29.400 to be dealt with. You can't be voted for, you 0:13:29.400 --> 0:13:31.480 can't be respected, you can't be like, you can't come 0:13:31.480 --> 0:13:33.800 to Thanksgiving dinner. And no, we can't hang out for 0:13:33.840 --> 0:13:37.480 a cigar. Your persona non grada bitch. Get out. That's 0:13:37.559 --> 0:13:41.640 the answer, I swear. If we can't agree on just 0:13:41.679 --> 0:13:46.199 the basics, on the basics of you can't steal from Americans, 0:13:46.240 --> 0:13:53.240 we've gotten nothing nothing, So yeah, we got to uphold 0:13:53.240 --> 0:13:56.080 the standard. Some people got to go to jail. Like 0:13:56.120 --> 0:13:59.160 Harvey Kaiitel said in National Treasure, someone's got to go 0:13:59.200 --> 0:14:04.959 to jail, and the rest need to be deported. I'm 0:14:05.040 --> 0:14:07.960 Tony Katz. This is Tony kats today. The Iran update 0:14:08.040 --> 0:14:13.199 goes as follows, we're not hitting anybody with any bombs. 0:14:13.679 --> 0:14:16.720 We can hit people with bombs. We've chosen not to 0:14:16.800 --> 0:14:20.160 hit people with bombs. We might still hit people with 0:14:20.320 --> 0:14:22.880 bombs and if we bomb them. They will know that 0:14:22.960 --> 0:14:25.280 they have been bombed, but we're not bombing them yet 0:14:25.360 --> 0:14:30.080 because we don't necessarily want to bomb them. I actually 0:14:30.160 --> 0:14:32.560 think I have a full understanding of our foreign policy. Now, 0:14:33.400 --> 0:14:37.520 Tony Katz, Tony Katz today, guys, good to be with you. 0:14:37.520 --> 0:14:41.359 I hope you're doing well. This was President Trump yesterday. 0:14:41.440 --> 0:14:42.120 In the old. 0:14:43.920 --> 0:14:47.120 Atast a fifth time you turn off air struts. 0:14:48.640 --> 0:14:51.560 To shoot what is your mississtudior and people who are 0:14:51.600 --> 0:14:53.280 what are loved has changed this time? 0:14:53.320 --> 0:14:55.680 Why should be Well, you don't know. I don't know. 0:14:55.720 --> 0:14:58.400 I think we're going to maybe get something, but I 0:14:58.400 --> 0:15:02.800 want to give them every last chance for decapitation. Very 0:15:02.800 --> 0:15:06.720 tough to do with what we have planned still planned. 0:15:07.120 --> 0:15:10.160 We'll see what happens, but it's a very very tough 0:15:10.160 --> 0:15:14.080 thing to do. I think I'm very proud of the 0:15:14.080 --> 0:15:15.200 fact that I will give people. 0:15:15.240 --> 0:15:16.160 I'll give you a chance. 0:15:16.200 --> 0:15:18.800 This is a big move to do an attack that 0:15:18.880 --> 0:15:22.360 big o a country, and I'd rather not do. And 0:15:22.360 --> 0:15:26.760 now we've already through lots of large attacks, but they 0:15:26.800 --> 0:15:32.800 were normal large. Hopefully they'll come to their senses because 0:15:32.840 --> 0:15:36.640 what happened can cannot have a nuclear weapon, but hopefully 0:15:36.680 --> 0:15:37.920 they'll come to their senses. 0:15:38.640 --> 0:15:44.280 So they called me. And now before we get to 0:15:44.400 --> 0:15:47.040 how the phone call went, mister president, they're never going 0:15:47.120 --> 0:15:50.080 to come to their senses. They want you dead, they 0:15:50.120 --> 0:15:52.400 want me dead, they want everybody as part of this 0:15:52.480 --> 0:15:56.600 show dead. They want America destroyed, and they want to 0:15:56.680 --> 0:16:02.040 rule in an as loam as hell escape. So let's 0:16:02.240 --> 0:16:07.080 not talked about come to their senses. But if you 0:16:07.120 --> 0:16:09.480 want to tell me how they came to you said, well, 0:16:09.560 --> 0:16:11.720 I'm listening. I do love a good story. How did 0:16:11.760 --> 0:16:13.400 that happen? Said, police, own attack. 0:16:13.440 --> 0:16:18.080 We'll make a deal. That's the real truth. And everyone 0:16:18.120 --> 0:16:21.560 knows it. And who wouldn't call them? And they found 0:16:21.600 --> 0:16:25.240 out through leaks and sleeves bags, you know, a lot 0:16:25.280 --> 0:16:26.920 of sleeves bags, leakers. 0:16:27.120 --> 0:16:28.840 Leakers should be put in jail. They should. 0:16:29.000 --> 0:16:31.000 They have to strengthen up the laws for the leakers. 0:16:31.880 --> 0:16:34.360 But in this case, leakers helped because they said the 0:16:34.400 --> 0:16:40.280 severity of the attack and ran knew it, They knew 0:16:40.320 --> 0:16:42.400 what was coming. It was going to come last night, 0:16:43.000 --> 0:16:44.720 and it would have gone on for a long time 0:16:45.600 --> 0:16:49.440 and they'd be essentially very little left, there'd be nothing left. 0:16:50.400 --> 0:16:55.920 And so what leaked, what leaked was the plan to 0:16:56.280 --> 0:16:59.040 beat the limits, not out of them. No, I have 0:16:59.160 --> 0:17:03.480 questions about who this stuff, and absolutely I'm totally fine 0:17:03.600 --> 0:17:08.600 with saying let's put those people in jail. I question 0:17:09.240 --> 0:17:15.200 whether or not it leaked or it was leaked. I 0:17:15.320 --> 0:17:19.960 can't answer that right what kind of game are we 0:17:20.040 --> 0:17:26.080 playing here? But whether leaked or not leaked is inconsequential. 0:17:27.040 --> 0:17:31.960 I know what you're saying, Tony. Leaks matter greatly Red 0:17:32.040 --> 0:17:38.480 State with the story about what happened here, and it's 0:17:38.560 --> 0:17:44.439 got the reporting from Trey Yinks over there of Fox News, 0:17:44.480 --> 0:17:49.800 who is in Israel. If I can make it play, 0:17:49.880 --> 0:17:54.080 I would be super dangerous. So we know that it 0:17:54.280 --> 0:17:57.560 did leak, We know that there are those who are 0:17:57.600 --> 0:18:04.520 taking it quite seriously. The question before us is whether 0:18:04.640 --> 0:18:07.680 or not it's going to lead to anything that they're 0:18:08.040 --> 0:18:10.520 taking it seriously at. 0:18:12.080 --> 0:18:13.800 The Middle East waits to see if a deal will 0:18:13.800 --> 0:18:18.240 be reached or we'll see a return to wary. 0:18:17.320 --> 0:18:18.720 So trade real quickly. 0:18:19.240 --> 0:18:23.600 The President talked about the military operation that was leaked 0:18:23.880 --> 0:18:27.679 over the weekend. It's obviously they need to figure out 0:18:27.680 --> 0:18:30.000 who's leaking from the White House. That has to be 0:18:30.000 --> 0:18:33.159 someone high within government that put that out there. To sources, 0:18:33.160 --> 0:18:35.520 it's our jobs has the press to cover that. But 0:18:35.560 --> 0:18:38.879 I'm curious from your perspective and your sources on the. 0:18:40.680 --> 0:18:43.360 State of play that league played. 0:18:43.480 --> 0:18:46.119 Out in the Middle East, and who then phoned the 0:18:46.160 --> 0:18:48.960 White House to get some negotiating table. 0:18:51.160 --> 0:18:54.160 It's a great question because these leaks can be substantial, 0:18:54.359 --> 0:18:57.520 and when you're looking at a situation with fifty thousand 0:18:57.640 --> 0:19:01.800 US service members destroyers, refuse rulers, fighter jets across the region, 0:19:02.160 --> 0:19:06.639 the operational security is very significant whenever there are plans 0:19:06.680 --> 0:19:09.639 being made to strike Iran, and the President indicated he 0:19:09.720 --> 0:19:12.400 called off the plan strikes at the request not only 0:19:12.400 --> 0:19:14.080 of Iran but also of golf allies. 0:19:14.160 --> 0:19:17.080 Like the golf allies is where I always put it now, 0:19:17.359 --> 0:19:19.479 because I think the golf allies are who we're actually 0:19:19.480 --> 0:19:25.119 negotiating with. Yes, it's possible that it leaked. It's possible 0:19:25.520 --> 0:19:29.359 that it was leaked. If the Pentagon has been good 0:19:29.400 --> 0:19:34.240 to anything, it's a misdirection. Who knows if this was 0:19:34.280 --> 0:19:37.840 even a plan, But who's going to believe that any 0:19:37.880 --> 0:19:40.320 negotiation could take place? And so we're same as it 0:19:40.359 --> 0:19:45.200 ever was. This is Tony Katz today. Todd Blanche makes 0:19:45.240 --> 0:19:51.120 it through the Senate. Well, I should say, at least 0:19:51.119 --> 0:19:56.720 se the Senate Committee, and now his nomination will go 0:19:56.880 --> 0:20:01.240 to the full Senate. Tony Katz, Tony Katz today, an 0:20:01.280 --> 0:20:04.119 absolute pleasure to be with you, guys. That's Todd Blanche. 0:20:05.480 --> 0:20:12.760 He is the acting Attorney General and everything is moving 0:20:12.800 --> 0:20:16.880 along as it should. We knew this was going to come. 0:20:18.080 --> 0:20:20.240 We knew this was going to be handled, and we 0:20:20.320 --> 0:20:22.680 knew it was going to be handled because he wrote, hey, 0:20:23.000 --> 0:20:31.879 the weaponization fund is gone, and that seemed to satisfy 0:20:31.920 --> 0:20:36.760 and mullify Senator Tom Tillis of North Carolina and Senator 0:20:36.840 --> 0:20:41.639 John Cornyn of Texas. That seems to have proven to 0:20:41.920 --> 0:20:46.440 people like Dick Durbin that Todd Blanche cannot be trusted. 0:20:50.320 --> 0:20:53.879 The confirmation is nothing more than a political nonsense. And 0:20:53.920 --> 0:20:57.040 everybody's screaming and yelling and moving on the Senate actually 0:20:57.080 --> 0:21:03.800 thinks that their advisor consent role is more than it is. 0:21:03.480 --> 0:21:07.560 It is not. We don't now take a look at 0:21:07.680 --> 0:21:11.520 confirming nominees based on a skill set. We look at 0:21:11.520 --> 0:21:15.639 confirming nominees or not based on politics and politics alone. 0:21:15.720 --> 0:21:18.640 Every attorney general is a hand picked attorney general. Merrick 0:21:18.680 --> 0:21:21.240 Garland was the hand picked attorney general of whoever was 0:21:21.320 --> 0:21:27.879 running the country for Joe Biden. Right, That's always the 0:21:27.880 --> 0:21:30.800 way it is. Eric Holder was the hand picked attorney 0:21:30.800 --> 0:21:33.960 general of Barack Obama. That's always the way it is. 0:21:34.720 --> 0:21:36.639 So this idea of hand picked is just too silly 0:21:36.680 --> 0:21:41.919 for words. Nothing wrong with Todd Blanche. Oh, the Epstein files. Ah, 0:21:43.040 --> 0:21:47.560 the Epstein files. And yes, there were people there saying 0:21:47.920 --> 0:21:52.119 that they wish that Todd Blanche wasn't confirmed because he 0:21:52.160 --> 0:21:56.320 didn't release this and didn't release that. I have from 0:21:56.359 --> 0:22:00.159 the beginning on the record, no question, favored releasing everything, 0:22:01.000 --> 0:22:04.480 and came around to one of the things we must 0:22:04.560 --> 0:22:08.159 do is we must redact the innocent. Just because your 0:22:08.240 --> 0:22:09.760 name in the Epstein filews DO isn't me you did 0:22:09.800 --> 0:22:14.560 anything wrong. Just because there's a three oh two the 0:22:14.600 --> 0:22:17.280 FBI did an investigation or asked some questions doesn't mean 0:22:17.440 --> 0:22:20.879 you did anything wrong. It's not a charge. It's not 0:22:21.080 --> 0:22:23.639 a document that does anything other than say, here's my 0:22:23.720 --> 0:22:27.720 summation as an FBI agent of our conversation. That's a 0:22:27.800 --> 0:22:35.000 three O two fd dash three o two. The idea 0:22:35.080 --> 0:22:38.280 that Trump did this and Trump did that, release everything, 0:22:40.200 --> 0:22:44.960 release it all. That's been my mathematics since day one. 0:22:45.000 --> 0:22:47.320 And yes, Trump screwed it up by not doing that. 0:22:48.640 --> 0:22:52.199 Todd Blanche can't be Attorney general because of that. No no, no, 0:22:52.200 --> 0:22:58.399 no, no no. Don't be silly. Don't be silly. But I 0:22:58.440 --> 0:23:02.720 think the more interesting story here is the one about 0:23:03.000 --> 0:23:11.959 Jean Piro. I say, Jean Jeaneine Piro. Janine Piro is 0:23:12.480 --> 0:23:17.080 the US attorney. She was, of course on Fox News 0:23:18.560 --> 0:23:22.800 Judge Janine. She is the US attorney for the District 0:23:22.840 --> 0:23:31.520 of Columbia, and she decided to drop the case against 0:23:31.920 --> 0:23:36.080 the alleged vandal of the reflecting pool. This guy they 0:23:36.160 --> 0:23:39.520 named it, David Hearn, who is a US Olympian. She said, 0:23:39.560 --> 0:23:48.320 we're going to drop the case. Trump is angry. Trump 0:23:48.440 --> 0:23:51.800 was in the Oval yesterday. He was signing an executive 0:23:51.920 --> 0:23:58.080 order for military families and he was he said, you 0:23:58.119 --> 0:24:01.640 know what, you know what, I think. I'm very mad 0:24:01.680 --> 0:24:04.520 at her. I'm very upset with her. I think she choked, 0:24:04.760 --> 0:24:06.200 really did Janine. 0:24:06.640 --> 0:24:10.119 And frankly, I think she choked because the judge was 0:24:10.280 --> 0:24:11.840 really vicious. 0:24:12.200 --> 0:24:15.600 Instead of going after the people that did it, the judge. 0:24:15.280 --> 0:24:19.399 Went after her and went after her department, and I 0:24:19.400 --> 0:24:20.320 guess she choked. 0:24:21.359 --> 0:24:24.520 I don't know what the hell happened. I don't know what. 0:24:25.359 --> 0:24:27.760 You're fake news. Don't ever talk again. 0:24:28.040 --> 0:24:30.320 You're fake news of one of the worst of the business. 0:24:30.960 --> 0:24:37.840 Fortunately nobody watches you. Okay, well, I don't know who 0:24:37.880 --> 0:24:43.080 he was talking to right there, But did Janine Pierro choke? 0:24:43.560 --> 0:24:49.760 I'll start with a basic question. Does Janine Pierro seem 0:24:49.800 --> 0:24:57.000 like the kind of woman who chokes? Does not seem 0:24:57.080 --> 0:25:01.480 to me to be that kind of person. Piro said 0:25:01.560 --> 0:25:04.639 that the charges we dropped because the real issue with 0:25:04.720 --> 0:25:11.359 the reflecting pool is the contractors, because overspraying and delamination 0:25:11.680 --> 0:25:17.280 caused the damage. That I live in a world where 0:25:18.240 --> 0:25:25.360 repairing a reflecting pool is a source of political angst, 0:25:26.320 --> 0:25:30.960 twenty twenty six is just I mean, that is peak 0:25:31.040 --> 0:25:37.199 twenty twenty six right there. Why would anybody have a 0:25:37.240 --> 0:25:40.359 problem with him fixing and reflectable. It's like being crazy 0:25:40.600 --> 0:25:42.600 about the idea that we're going to add a ballroom 0:25:42.640 --> 0:25:46.880 to the White House. It's fine, It's not the end 0:25:46.880 --> 0:25:51.199 of the world. The ballroom is fine. All of the 0:25:51.240 --> 0:25:56.040 gold all over the oval less, Oh, trust me, when 0:25:56.080 --> 0:26:02.320 I'm president, that's all coming down, all coming down. Keeping 0:26:02.359 --> 0:26:04.960 the Constitution in there or the declaration in there. Fine, 0:26:06.080 --> 0:26:10.320 Absolutely you need a good reminder. Photos of the founding Fathers, 0:26:12.000 --> 0:26:15.080 photos from the revolution, what it took to be here, 0:26:16.240 --> 0:26:22.919 photos of e Regima, a landscape shot of the beaches 0:26:22.960 --> 0:26:26.600 at Normandy, a reminder of where are dead or buried 0:26:26.640 --> 0:26:29.240 and what sacrifice they made for all of us. Oh, 0:26:29.280 --> 0:26:32.439 that's going to be there. The golden doornments are not 0:26:32.480 --> 0:26:38.359 going to be there, humidor you better believe it, and 0:26:38.400 --> 0:26:41.320 they will be filled with dabodof Churchhills. Now I could 0:26:41.320 --> 0:26:44.760 be convinced to go with something else, right, don't worry. 0:26:44.920 --> 0:26:47.960 I will have a box of the American from J. C. Newman. 0:26:48.440 --> 0:26:51.200