Speaker 1: Why from ball Hartbiner and the Crossroads of America.
Speaker 2: It's Tony Katz today. Good morning.
Speaker 3: My name is Colin MacDonald, Assistant Attorney General for the
Speaker 3: National Fraud Enforcement Division at the Department of Justice. Everywhere
Speaker 3: we look, we find fraud. Hundreds of billions of taxpayer
Speaker 3: dollars taken from our pockets by criminals every year. For
Speaker 3: that reason, President Trump, Vice President Vance, and Acting Attorney
Speaker 3: General Blanche have rightly activated the DOJ and our fraud
Speaker 3: fighting partners to combat this fraud epidemic head on, because
Speaker 3: no one should be able to rip off the United
Speaker 3: States of America and get away with it. I am
Speaker 3: honored to be joined today by some of our best
Speaker 3: fraud fighters. CMS Administrator doctor mat oz Us, Attorney David Metcalf,
Speaker 3: Pennsylvania Attorney General David Sunday, HHS Inspector.
Speaker 2: General Marsh Bell. Yes, yes, yes, it's a lot of people.
Speaker 2: Get to the fraud. Who's going to jail? That's all
Speaker 2: I want to know, That's all I want to see.
Speaker 2: It's all I care about. Don't want to hear about
Speaker 2: the rest. Yeah, you got a whole panel flee of people.
Speaker 2: I'm sure they're absolutely excellent everybody goes out for ice cream. Afterwards,
Speaker 2: you get a stick, and you get a stick. It's
Speaker 2: full on shorsey. Who goes to jail, That's the only
Speaker 2: question we have. Stop talking about everything else. Who committed
Speaker 2: the fraud? How much fraud did they commit? Who goes
Speaker 2: to jail? What are we going to do to them
Speaker 2: in jail? Because a bunch of us because of the fraud.
Speaker 2: We've got a list, because someone we know didn't get
Speaker 2: the care they were supposed to get. An American we
Speaker 2: know didn't get the care they were supposed to get,
Speaker 2: and we want to take these fraudsters, and man, we
Speaker 2: want to treat them bad. Thank goodness, we've got a
Speaker 2: system of justice that doesn't allow for that kind of vengeance.
Speaker 2: So we're just gonna have to think about those things
Speaker 2: in our head while they spend time in jail. Now,
Speaker 2: who goes to jail? That's the only question. Everything else
Speaker 2: is nonsense, pablem ridiculousness. Tony Katz, Tony Katz Today, Good
Speaker 2: to be here, Good to be with you. Find everything
Speaker 2: I do over at Tony Katz dot com. T O
Speaker 2: n Y Katz, Tony Katz dot com. Collin McDonald's Assistant
Speaker 2: ag and they are announcing fraud in Pennsylvania where nineteen
Speaker 2: people got charged, nineteen different people. They're referring to it
Speaker 2: as a major, major takedown of these fraudsters. What did
Speaker 2: they say?
Speaker 3: Public servants is committed to looking further, digging deeper, working
Speaker 3: night and day. Tell me about the haves, the fraudsters
Speaker 3: stealing the wealth of America and bring them to justice.
Speaker 2: Tell me about it.
Speaker 3: And this commitment is reaping dividends right here and right
Speaker 3: now in Pennsylvania. Today, we are announcing criminal charges against
Speaker 3: nineteen defendants for fraudulent home health care schemes that targeted
Speaker 3: Pennsylvania's Medicaid fraud program and resulted in over four million
Speaker 3: dollars of fraud. Eighteen of these defendants were charged in
Speaker 3: the last twelve days as part of a strategically coordinated
Speaker 3: law enforcement operation between the Fraud Division, the US Attorney's Office,
Speaker 3: and the Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office. The cases today build
Speaker 3: on the work that we recently announced in Minnesota, where
Speaker 3: we charge fifteen defendants for systematically looting seven state managed
Speaker 3: Medicaid programs out of more than ninety million dollars treating
Speaker 3: those programs like a piggy bank until one of them
Speaker 3: had to be shut down entirely because there was nothing left.
Speaker 2: The shelves were empty. When do they go to jail?
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, broken record, Am I repeating myself?
Speaker 4: You know?
Speaker 2: I think I'm one of the few I could be wrong.
Speaker 2: I think I'm one of the few people who says
Speaker 2: out loud that shutting down DOGE was an absolutely terrible mistake.
Speaker 2: Shutting down DOGE was wrong. Doj is good, dog is right,
Speaker 2: Dog is proper. We have fraud, Let's get rid of
Speaker 2: the fraud. Let's throw the fraudsters in jail, and let's
Speaker 2: keep the money for the American people. Put it back
Speaker 2: in their pocket. We can pay down some debt. I'll
Speaker 2: let you do either one. Why in the world would
Speaker 2: we ever stop getting rid of fraud because we shut
Speaker 2: down USAID. Good well tony people died with all due respect.
Speaker 2: No no, no, no, no, no, no no no. It
Speaker 2: was a slush fund utilized for political purpose. That's not
Speaker 2: enough of a reason to keep it afloat. You could
Speaker 2: have kept specific programs afloat utilizing other methodologies, like we
Speaker 2: kept amfAR afloat. So don't tell me USAID had to
Speaker 2: be there. It never had to be there. It had
Speaker 2: to be shut down. I say good, and I will
Speaker 2: say it anywhere, anytime, any place. You could have handled
Speaker 2: these things like normal people, but nope, had to be
Speaker 2: political first, and somehow USAID has to stay because you
Speaker 2: want to engage in these politics. Screw that and screw off.
Speaker 2: And now we tell jokes about your mother and they
Speaker 2: will be unkind. When do these people go to jail?
Speaker 2: Nineteen people involved in the fraud. Now this is four
Speaker 2: million dollars and someone's going to say, oh wow, four
Speaker 2: million dollars. I want to meet the person who's a
Speaker 2: part of this show day in and day out, who
Speaker 2: is going to take a look at four million dollars
Speaker 2: and say I don't need that. And then I'm going
Speaker 2: to say when did Elon start listening to the show,
Speaker 2: Because everybody else is going to say, yeah, I want
Speaker 2: my four million dollars. It's full on, say anything, I
Speaker 2: want my two dollars, I want my four million dollars.
Speaker 2: You better believe it. This is nineteen people and four
Speaker 2: million dollars. How many people out there do we think
Speaker 2: are engaged in these acts of fraud? How about we
Speaker 2: do it this way. I'll even pull out a calculator
Speaker 2: just to make it easy. If I can have nineteen
Speaker 2: people right there in Pennsylvania doing four million dollars with
Speaker 2: a fraud, I'll take a four million right there, right
Speaker 2: four million, four million, right right right there? Okay, And
Speaker 2: how many states are their their producer land? And how
Speaker 2: many states do we have in the United States of America.
Speaker 2: I believe the correct answer is fifty Now, correct answer
Speaker 2: is fifty seven. Barack Obama said, so you don't know anything.
Speaker 2: Back to middle school. You go fifty states times the
Speaker 2: four million that is, that's that's two hundred million dollars, right,
Speaker 2: Just so I understand it's two hundred million dollars. I
Speaker 2: did the math correctly, even used a calculator. That's our
Speaker 2: two hundred million dollars. Now, I'm gonna look something up.
Speaker 2: How many homeless veterans in the United States? Now, the
Speaker 2: number is not going to be perfect, but according to
Speaker 2: recent data, there are thirty two thousand, four hundred and
Speaker 2: ninety five veterans experiencing homelessness in the United States. So
Speaker 2: if we take our two hundred million and we divide
Speaker 2: it by thirty two thousand, four hundred and ninety five.
Speaker 2: That would give well, that would start by giving what
Speaker 2: six thousand dollars to every homeless person. I don't know
Speaker 2: what to start. If I took a look at how
Speaker 2: many nurses we have in the United States, and there
Speaker 2: are four point three million people working as nurses, can
Speaker 2: I have a system by which we pick some and
Speaker 2: we pay up their student loan debt. I'm I'm spitballing here, guys.
Speaker 2: I'm thinking of all the things we can do with
Speaker 2: two hundred million dollars. Can we just give it back
Speaker 2: to the Americans who paid for this. The people who
Speaker 2: want to act like this is small, like this is nothing,
Speaker 2: Like this is no big deal, they are the worst.
Speaker 2: This is a big deal. This is a massive deal.
Speaker 2: Every time we can find these people, every time we
Speaker 2: can pluck them out, every time we can get this
Speaker 2: money back, we are doing a bit of good. We're
Speaker 2: doing the right thing. This is, in its entirety what
Speaker 2: I voted for. I don't know about you. I honestly
Speaker 2: we don't know what you voted for. It's sure as
Speaker 2: hell what I voted for. But I also want the
Speaker 2: funders in jail. I want them in jail. It's not
Speaker 2: enough to just say we found this money. Jail Now,
Speaker 2: I admit, I admit I want worse. I want worse
Speaker 2: for them, but we have a justice system and that's
Speaker 2: what I'm going to work with.
Speaker 1: So jail it is. What did doctor Oz have to
Speaker 1: say here? Services crisis around the country. The surge in
Speaker 1: enrollment of individuals in these and programs is stunning, so shocking.
Speaker 1: We have to double check our numbers. We don't think
Speaker 1: it's possible that is happening, but it is. In California
Speaker 1: and New York, the number one job in the entire
Speaker 1: state is personal care services. Guess what's good to be home?
Speaker 1: Because it's true in Pennsylvania to fifty percent dramatic, maybe
Speaker 1: more people serving in the personal care services space. That's
Speaker 1: home care, that is in retail. That's where Pennsylvanians are going.
Speaker 1: It's becoming a jobs program. Medicaid fraud in the state
Speaker 1: is costing taxpayers for care that was never delivered or
Speaker 1: even worse, harmful. It's costing patients their health, their trust
Speaker 1: in a system, a system that was built on a
Speaker 1: high trust environment, a place we all thought that we
Speaker 1: would be able to be safe because who would steal
Speaker 1: from the poor has callin outlined. Many people, unfortunately, are
Speaker 1: doing just that, and we're coming after them. What we're
Speaker 1: exposing today is a diabolical breach of trust, a violation
Speaker 1: of the sacred bond between patient and hair and caregiver.
Speaker 1: It is a catastrophe that can only be dealt with
Speaker 1: in the way will be outlined for the rest of
Speaker 1: this presentation.
Speaker 2: Now, you may be asking the same question that I'm asking,
Speaker 2: who are the fraudsters? Who were the fraudsters? According to
Speaker 2: the Attorney General of Pennsylvania, the two of these people,
Speaker 2: women Ashley Griffin and you longed to write Home Health Aids,
Speaker 2: accused of defrauding Medicaid by submitting nearly one point five
Speaker 2: million in reimbursements were work not performed and on more
Speaker 2: than one thousand occasions. Griffin, who's twenty seven, submitted entries
Speaker 2: time entries exceeding twenty four hour work hours for a
Speaker 2: single day. She reported one hundred and twenty six work
Speaker 2: hours on one day. And then this other woman said, hey,
Speaker 2: you could submit entries using my name. I want to
Speaker 2: know how long this was going on. You heard me,
Speaker 2: and you're doing the same head scratch. I am twenty
Speaker 2: four hours in a day, and you submitted for one
Speaker 2: hundred and twenty six hours in a day, and you
Speaker 2: thought no one was going in a notice. But you're
Speaker 2: not totally wrong because it's government, and government doesn't notice anything.
Speaker 2: They just write a check because it's not their money.
Speaker 2: You get double charged for Netflix. You know what's going on.
Speaker 2: Someone's billing one hundred and twenty six hours a day.
Speaker 2: She's not even a lawyer, and the government's like, here,
Speaker 2: here's a check. Who goes to jail, Who goes to jail. Oh,
Speaker 2: if they're not citizens, immediately deported. They can challenge it
Speaker 2: from whatever country they're from. If they're not a citizen,
Speaker 2: immediately deported. We don't even waste time. Whoop out. This
Speaker 2: is good, This is extremely important stuff. But it will
Speaker 2: only matter if there are consequences. It will only matter
Speaker 2: if there's jail time for American citizens. It will only
Speaker 2: matter if there's deportation for non Americans. And I don't
Speaker 2: give a good holy damn what country they go back to.
Speaker 2: I don't want to hear judge tell me, oh, it's
Speaker 2: too violent. Violence is stealing from Americans. Violence is being
Speaker 2: allowed into this country and stealing from Americans. Violence is
Speaker 2: taking an oath saying you will be a citizen and
Speaker 2: then stealing from Americans. Gone. I can't do anything about
Speaker 2: the person born here except jail. And if the left
Speaker 2: or anybody else is up for a fight on this,
Speaker 2: cool by me. Any support of fraudsters. Those people need
Speaker 2: to be dealt with. You can't be voted for, you
Speaker 2: can't be respected, you can't be like, you can't come
Speaker 2: to Thanksgiving dinner. And no, we can't hang out for
Speaker 2: a cigar. Your persona non grada bitch. Get out. That's
Speaker 2: the answer, I swear. If we can't agree on just
Speaker 2: the basics, on the basics of you can't steal from Americans,
Speaker 2: we've gotten nothing nothing, So yeah, we got to uphold
Speaker 2: the standard. Some people got to go to jail. Like
Speaker 2: Harvey Kaiitel said in National Treasure, someone's got to go
Speaker 2: to jail, and the rest need to be deported. I'm
Speaker 2: Tony Katz. This is Tony kats today. The Iran update
Speaker 2: goes as follows, we're not hitting anybody with any bombs.
Speaker 2: We can hit people with bombs. We've chosen not to
Speaker 2: hit people with bombs. We might still hit people with
Speaker 2: bombs and if we bomb them. They will know that
Speaker 2: they have been bombed, but we're not bombing them yet
Speaker 2: because we don't necessarily want to bomb them. I actually
Speaker 2: think I have a full understanding of our foreign policy. Now,
Speaker 2: Tony Katz, Tony Katz today, guys, good to be with you.
Speaker 2: I hope you're doing well. This was President Trump yesterday.
Speaker 2: In the old.
Speaker 5: Atast a fifth time you turn off air struts.
Speaker 3: To shoot what is your mississtudior and people who are
Speaker 3: what are loved has changed this time?
Speaker 2: Why should be Well, you don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 4: I think we're going to maybe get something, but I
Speaker 4: want to give them every last chance for decapitation. Very
Speaker 4: tough to do with what we have planned still planned.
Speaker 4: We'll see what happens, but it's a very very tough
Speaker 4: thing to do. I think I'm very proud of the
Speaker 4: fact that I will give people.
Speaker 2: I'll give you a chance.
Speaker 4: This is a big move to do an attack that
Speaker 4: big o a country, and I'd rather not do. And
Speaker 4: now we've already through lots of large attacks, but they
Speaker 4: were normal large. Hopefully they'll come to their senses because
Speaker 4: what happened can cannot have a nuclear weapon, but hopefully
Speaker 4: they'll come to their senses.
Speaker 2: So they called me. And now before we get to
Speaker 2: how the phone call went, mister president, they're never going
Speaker 2: to come to their senses. They want you dead, they
Speaker 2: want me dead, they want everybody as part of this
Speaker 2: show dead. They want America destroyed, and they want to
Speaker 2: rule in an as loam as hell escape. So let's
Speaker 2: not talked about come to their senses. But if you
Speaker 2: want to tell me how they came to you said, well,
Speaker 2: I'm listening. I do love a good story. How did
Speaker 2: that happen? Said, police, own attack.
Speaker 4: We'll make a deal. That's the real truth. And everyone
Speaker 4: knows it. And who wouldn't call them? And they found
Speaker 4: out through leaks and sleeves bags, you know, a lot
Speaker 4: of sleeves bags, leakers.
Speaker 2: Leakers should be put in jail. They should.
Speaker 4: They have to strengthen up the laws for the leakers.
Speaker 4: But in this case, leakers helped because they said the
Speaker 4: severity of the attack and ran knew it, They knew
Speaker 4: what was coming. It was going to come last night,
Speaker 4: and it would have gone on for a long time
Speaker 4: and they'd be essentially very little left, there'd be nothing left.
Speaker 2: And so what leaked, what leaked was the plan to
Speaker 2: beat the limits, not out of them. No, I have
Speaker 2: questions about who this stuff, and absolutely I'm totally fine
Speaker 2: with saying let's put those people in jail. I question
Speaker 2: whether or not it leaked or it was leaked. I
Speaker 2: can't answer that right what kind of game are we
Speaker 2: playing here? But whether leaked or not leaked is inconsequential.
Speaker 2: I know what you're saying, Tony. Leaks matter greatly Red
Speaker 2: State with the story about what happened here, and it's
Speaker 2: got the reporting from Trey Yinks over there of Fox News,
Speaker 2: who is in Israel. If I can make it play,
Speaker 2: I would be super dangerous. So we know that it
Speaker 2: did leak, We know that there are those who are
Speaker 2: taking it quite seriously. The question before us is whether
Speaker 2: or not it's going to lead to anything that they're
Speaker 2: taking it seriously at.
Speaker 5: The Middle East waits to see if a deal will
Speaker 5: be reached or we'll see a return to wary.
Speaker 2: So trade real quickly.
Speaker 6: The President talked about the military operation that was leaked
Speaker 6: over the weekend. It's obviously they need to figure out
Speaker 6: who's leaking from the White House. That has to be
Speaker 6: someone high within government that put that out there. To sources,
Speaker 6: it's our jobs has the press to cover that. But
Speaker 6: I'm curious from your perspective and your sources on the.
Speaker 2: State of play that league played.
Speaker 6: Out in the Middle East, and who then phoned the
Speaker 6: White House to get some negotiating table.
Speaker 5: It's a great question because these leaks can be substantial,
Speaker 5: and when you're looking at a situation with fifty thousand
Speaker 5: US service members destroyers, refuse rulers, fighter jets across the region,
Speaker 5: the operational security is very significant whenever there are plans
Speaker 5: being made to strike Iran, and the President indicated he
Speaker 5: called off the plan strikes at the request not only
Speaker 5: of Iran but also of golf allies.
Speaker 2: Like the golf allies is where I always put it now,
Speaker 2: because I think the golf allies are who we're actually
Speaker 2: negotiating with. Yes, it's possible that it leaked. It's possible
Speaker 2: that it was leaked. If the Pentagon has been good
Speaker 2: to anything, it's a misdirection. Who knows if this was
Speaker 2: even a plan, But who's going to believe that any
Speaker 2: negotiation could take place? And so we're same as it
Speaker 2: ever was. This is Tony Katz today. Todd Blanche makes
Speaker 2: it through the Senate. Well, I should say, at least
Speaker 2: se the Senate Committee, and now his nomination will go
Speaker 2: to the full Senate. Tony Katz, Tony Katz today, an
Speaker 2: absolute pleasure to be with you, guys. That's Todd Blanche.
Speaker 2: He is the acting Attorney General and everything is moving
Speaker 2: along as it should. We knew this was going to come.
Speaker 2: We knew this was going to be handled, and we
Speaker 2: knew it was going to be handled because he wrote, hey,
Speaker 2: the weaponization fund is gone, and that seemed to satisfy
Speaker 2: and mullify Senator Tom Tillis of North Carolina and Senator
Speaker 2: John Cornyn of Texas. That seems to have proven to
Speaker 2: people like Dick Durbin that Todd Blanche cannot be trusted.
Speaker 2: The confirmation is nothing more than a political nonsense. And
Speaker 2: everybody's screaming and yelling and moving on the Senate actually
Speaker 2: thinks that their advisor consent role is more than it is.
Speaker 2: It is not. We don't now take a look at
Speaker 2: confirming nominees based on a skill set. We look at
Speaker 2: confirming nominees or not based on politics and politics alone.
Speaker 2: Every attorney general is a hand picked attorney general. Merrick
Speaker 2: Garland was the hand picked attorney general of whoever was
Speaker 2: running the country for Joe Biden. Right, That's always the
Speaker 2: way it is. Eric Holder was the hand picked attorney
Speaker 2: general of Barack Obama. That's always the way it is.
Speaker 2: So this idea of hand picked is just too silly
Speaker 2: for words. Nothing wrong with Todd Blanche. Oh, the Epstein files. Ah,
Speaker 2: the Epstein files. And yes, there were people there saying
Speaker 2: that they wish that Todd Blanche wasn't confirmed because he
Speaker 2: didn't release this and didn't release that. I have from
Speaker 2: the beginning on the record, no question, favored releasing everything,
Speaker 2: and came around to one of the things we must
Speaker 2: do is we must redact the innocent. Just because your
Speaker 2: name in the Epstein filews DO isn't me you did
Speaker 2: anything wrong. Just because there's a three oh two the
Speaker 2: FBI did an investigation or asked some questions doesn't mean
Speaker 2: you did anything wrong. It's not a charge. It's not
Speaker 2: a document that does anything other than say, here's my
Speaker 2: summation as an FBI agent of our conversation. That's a
Speaker 2: three O two fd dash three o two. The idea
Speaker 2: that Trump did this and Trump did that, release everything,
Speaker 2: release it all. That's been my mathematics since day one.
Speaker 2: And yes, Trump screwed it up by not doing that.
Speaker 2: Todd Blanche can't be Attorney general because of that. No no, no,
Speaker 2: no, no no. Don't be silly. Don't be silly. But I
Speaker 2: think the more interesting story here is the one about
Speaker 2: Jean Piro. I say, Jean Jeaneine Piro. Janine Piro is
Speaker 2: the US attorney. She was, of course on Fox News
Speaker 2: Judge Janine. She is the US attorney for the District
Speaker 2: of Columbia, and she decided to drop the case against
Speaker 2: the alleged vandal of the reflecting pool. This guy they
Speaker 2: named it, David Hearn, who is a US Olympian. She said,
Speaker 2: we're going to drop the case. Trump is angry. Trump
Speaker 2: was in the Oval yesterday. He was signing an executive
Speaker 2: order for military families and he was he said, you
Speaker 2: know what, you know what, I think. I'm very mad
Speaker 2: at her. I'm very upset with her. I think she choked,
Speaker 2: really did Janine.
Speaker 4: And frankly, I think she choked because the judge was
Speaker 4: really vicious.
Speaker 2: Instead of going after the people that did it, the judge.
Speaker 4: Went after her and went after her department, and I
Speaker 4: guess she choked.
Speaker 2: I don't know what the hell happened. I don't know what.
Speaker 2: You're fake news. Don't ever talk again.
Speaker 4: You're fake news of one of the worst of the business.
Speaker 2: Fortunately nobody watches you. Okay, well, I don't know who
Speaker 2: he was talking to right there, But did Janine Pierro choke?
Speaker 2: I'll start with a basic question. Does Janine Pierro seem
Speaker 2: like the kind of woman who chokes? Does not seem
Speaker 2: to me to be that kind of person. Piro said
Speaker 2: that the charges we dropped because the real issue with
Speaker 2: the reflecting pool is the contractors, because overspraying and delamination
Speaker 2: caused the damage. That I live in a world where
Speaker 2: repairing a reflecting pool is a source of political angst,
Speaker 2: twenty twenty six is just I mean, that is peak
Speaker 2: twenty twenty six right there. Why would anybody have a
Speaker 2: problem with him fixing and reflectable. It's like being crazy
Speaker 2: about the idea that we're going to add a ballroom
Speaker 2: to the White House. It's fine, It's not the end
Speaker 2: of the world. The ballroom is fine. All of the
Speaker 2: gold all over the oval less, Oh, trust me, when
Speaker 2: I'm president, that's all coming down, all coming down. Keeping
Speaker 2: the Constitution in there or the declaration in there. Fine,
Speaker 2: Absolutely you need a good reminder. Photos of the founding Fathers,
Speaker 2: photos from the revolution, what it took to be here,
Speaker 2: photos of e Regima, a landscape shot of the beaches
Speaker 2: at Normandy, a reminder of where are dead or buried
Speaker 2: and what sacrifice they made for all of us. Oh,
Speaker 2: that's going to be there. The golden doornments are not
Speaker 2: going to be there, humidor you better believe it, and
Speaker 2: they will be filled with dabodof Churchhills. Now I could
Speaker 2: be convinced to go with something else, right, don't worry.
Speaker 2: I will have a box of the American from J. C. Newman.
Speaker 2: I'll have the American cigar there, I'll have the I'll
Speaker 2: have the Davidoff Churchills the Late Hours if you never
Speaker 2: had the Late Hour, no great cigar. And that'll be that.
Speaker 2: But none of that, none of the adornments. That's that's
Speaker 2: not going to happen. The ballroom. I'm gonna say, hey,
Speaker 2: thanks for the ballroom that it became and still is.
Speaker 2: Too many to some extent of political hot potato is
Speaker 2: a proof of the level of broken. It's a ridiculous
Speaker 2: thing to be angry about. If you hired a contractor
Speaker 2: and the contractor messes up, you go back to the
Speaker 2: contractor and you say, fix us. It's impossible that a
Speaker 2: contractor messed up. I'm gonna say for the record, no,
Speaker 2: it's not. Now. Two things can be happening at the
Speaker 2: same time. This guy, this Hearn fellow, David Hearn, he
Speaker 2: could have engaged in some vandalism. Because Trump's point is,
Speaker 2: we have video, we have photographic evidence. Of course he
Speaker 2: did this. Look at what people did. They tried to
Speaker 2: slice the bottom above their reflecting pool. Two things can
Speaker 2: happen in at the same time. But here is Juine
Speaker 2: Pierro saying we don't have a case here. I would
Speaker 2: argue that if she's saying we don't have a case here,
Speaker 2: she doesn't have a case. If she knows that the
Speaker 2: case the story is a installation issue, she's not supposed
Speaker 2: to say so. Do you think she didn't know that
Speaker 2: she would get a lot of pushback, a lot of
Speaker 2: anger from the President, possibly lose her job by doing this.
Speaker 2: Of course she would. Absolutely, you're doing it anyway. I'm
Speaker 2: not that angry with her. If the reflecting pool was
Speaker 2: done wrong, would everyone just do me a favor and
Speaker 2: do it right. That's all so we understand each other.
Speaker 2: We announced four million dollars of fraud being found and
Speaker 2: nineteen people arrested in Pennsylvania, and people are more angry
Speaker 2: and upset and worked up over this reflecting pool story.
Speaker 2: We're all nuts. You know, I'm going to I'm going
Speaker 2: to stay focused on what matters here, and what matters
Speaker 2: here is that the reflecting pool being fixed is a
Speaker 2: smart idea. If a guy didn't engage in vandalism, he
Speaker 2: didn't engage in vandalism, That doesn't mean he isn't possibly
Speaker 2: a scumbag who tried to engage in something criminal, but
Speaker 2: maybe what he did wasn't the criminal thing. Fix the
Speaker 2: reflecting pool. Why would any bay be opposed to it?
Speaker 2: Build a ballroom? Why would any bay be opposed to it? Oh,
Speaker 2: and the idea of cleaning up the art around d C.
Speaker 2: Good art is supposed to be grander and tell the
Speaker 2: story of who we are, and it's supposed to be inspirational.
Speaker 2: You want it to be broken and dirty and mismanaged.
Speaker 2: Good Lord, sculptures and statues should all be brought back
Speaker 2: to their brilliance. And Trump doing this is excellent and
Speaker 2: the artists of America should be cheering him on for
Speaker 2: actually caring about art and not just pretending to be
Speaker 2: about the arts. Excellent work. Is j name Pero going
Speaker 2: to be fired? I don't know. I think if he does.
Speaker 2: If he does fire, I think it's a mistake. But
Speaker 2: she choked, don't I I don't think that that's it.
Speaker 2: I think that is just temporary anger and we're on
Speaker 2: to the next thing. At least that's my hope. Keep
Speaker 2: it here. I'm Tony Katz, and this is Tony Kats today.
Speaker 2: Having grown up in New Jersey, there is not much
Speaker 2: that I miss. I don't actually miss pizza from New Jersey.
Speaker 2: Tony Kats, Tony Kats Today. Good to be with you.
Speaker 2: And I was never a thin crust guy. Never never,
Speaker 2: never give me a what Brooklyn has to offer, give
Speaker 2: me a regular slice. I happen to always like Sicilian
Speaker 2: down Sicilian, different than Chicago style, different than Detroit, which
Speaker 2: is cheese baked into the crust. But I always liked
Speaker 2: the thicker, doughier slices. Always have And I can point
Speaker 2: to places where, like on One Street, I know where
Speaker 2: I'd get the pizza. I know where i'd get the deli.
Speaker 2: I know where i'd get desserts, right, I know exactly
Speaker 2: where i'd go. The thing that I miss more than
Speaker 2: anything is a diner, a true Greek diner. I like
Speaker 2: the idea that I could walk in at eight thirty
Speaker 2: in the morning or eleven thirty in the evening and
Speaker 2: I can still get a Western omelet or a lobster thermidor.
Speaker 2: I love this. There's nothing greater it. I shouldn't say
Speaker 2: it's a great American invention. I'm pretty sure it's a
Speaker 2: great Greek convention. But it's fantastic New Jersey. Whether we're
Speaker 2: talking about diners or anything else. They are trying to
Speaker 2: make it more and more annoying to partake of grabbing
Speaker 2: food to go, whether it's from a diner, from any
Speaker 2: place else. And they signed a law. The governor, then
Speaker 2: Governor Phil Murphy signed a law which went into effect
Speaker 2: on August first. It's called the skip the Stuff Law.
Speaker 2: What is the skip the stuff law? I'll tell you.
Speaker 2: The skip the stuff law is you get it to
Speaker 2: go item and the restaurant is now not allowed to
Speaker 2: put in their straws, plastic utensils, condom and packets, napkins, no, no, no,
Speaker 2: none of that. You have to request it. That is
Speaker 2: now a law. I could agree that. There's a lot
Speaker 2: of times that there's stuff put in that I don't need. Right,
Speaker 2: there's stuff thrown in there. I get it. Chinese restaurant,
Speaker 2: that's a lot of soy sauce. No, thank you. No
Speaker 2: one needs that much sodium, no one. I agree that
Speaker 2: I could ask for it, but that would be up
Speaker 2: to the restaurant. That would be up to the owners.
Speaker 2: Why is government deciding the marketing for restaurants. I feel
Speaker 2: the same way about these laws that say no smoking
Speaker 2: in restaurants. Who the hell are you government to get involved? Well,
Speaker 2: we have to protect the health of the people who
Speaker 2: work there. No, you don't. You want to stick your
Speaker 2: nose in and you want to determine how this restaurant
Speaker 2: engages its marketing. No one has to work there. You're wrong,
Speaker 2: You'll always be wrong, and we should fight these things
Speaker 2: because it's nuts. This is the government to the state
Speaker 2: of New Jersey saying we're now your marketing partner, and
Speaker 2: this is how you do your marketing, and you do
Speaker 2: that under threat of losing your license. See what licensing is?
Speaker 2: Licensing is the government being able to take your rights
Speaker 2: away from you. You pay for the rights that you
Speaker 2: already had, and you allow a government entity to take
Speaker 2: those rights away from you if you don't do exactly
Speaker 2: what they say and when they say it. Oh, ask
Speaker 2: me if I believe in licensing. The answer is I
Speaker 2: totally do. But if you want to do it without
Speaker 2: a license, I say, go ahead. You just gotta let
Speaker 2: everybody know. Oh yeah, oh h yeah, you only think
Speaker 2: you know, live and let live people kittingo the skip
Speaker 2: the stuff law. You can't just put things in there.
Speaker 2: They have to be asked for. No one needs this law.
Speaker 2: If that's what restaurants want to do, they would do it.
Speaker 2: Why are you getting in their way? You didn't do
Speaker 2: anything good. You didn't help anybody in New Jersey. You
Speaker 2: just made life more litigious and annoying for the rest
Speaker 2: of us. And now I really want a dinery like now,
Speaker 2: right now. This is Tony cats forda