WEBVTT - Episode 4648: Tony Katz Today Hour 3 - 08/04/26 0:00:05.160 --> 0:00:09.119 Lie from Baal Heartland and the crossroads of America. 0:00:10.560 --> 0:00:13.680 It's Tony Katz today, party line vote. 0:00:13.720 --> 0:00:17.440 We are going to advance out of this committee, probably 0:00:17.480 --> 0:00:21.840 the most discreditable person ever to seek the office of 0:00:21.920 --> 0:00:26.640 Attorney General of the United States. The reasons to vote 0:00:26.640 --> 0:00:30.920 against him number in the hundreds. But let's just focus 0:00:31.040 --> 0:00:36.519 on a few where my Republican colleagues purport to have 0:00:36.640 --> 0:00:45.400 great concern. Let's start with the Epstein files, where Todd 0:00:45.440 --> 0:00:54.520 Blanche participated in the cover up, continues to participate in 0:00:54.600 --> 0:00:59.120 the cover up, and is responsible for a massive screw 0:00:59.240 --> 0:01:03.520 up of the release of the documents. 0:01:04.280 --> 0:01:08.520 That's Sheldon Whitehouse, the bigoted senator from Rhode Island who 0:01:08.640 --> 0:01:11.920 joins the all White country clubs, saying there's no way 0:01:12.120 --> 0:01:15.400 Todd Blanch should be confirmed as Attorney General. But he 0:01:15.520 --> 0:01:17.360 just admitted that he will get out of committee and 0:01:17.360 --> 0:01:20.920 he will be confirmed. Tony Katz, Tony Katz Today, so 0:01:20.959 --> 0:01:22.480 good to be with you. Find everything I do at 0:01:22.480 --> 0:01:26.760 Tony katz dot com. Also the YouTube and the rumble 0:01:26.800 --> 0:01:29.759 Tony Katz. If you subscribe, I'd appreciate that. It's helpful. 0:01:30.240 --> 0:01:32.319 I know if you're a radio host these days, you 0:01:32.360 --> 0:01:34.160 also have to be doing all the video. It's just 0:01:34.200 --> 0:01:37.080 the way it goes. Everybody's multitasking. You're doing it as 0:01:37.120 --> 0:01:40.880 well as I am. There's no doubt that Epstein was 0:01:40.920 --> 0:01:42.720 going to come up, and this is going to be 0:01:42.720 --> 0:01:45.640 a pretext for Democrats to say absolutely not. They're not 0:01:45.680 --> 0:01:48.720 saying absolutely not to Todd Blanche, They're saying absolutely not 0:01:48.760 --> 0:01:52.720 to Donald Trump. On every level, I argue, if Merrick 0:01:52.800 --> 0:01:56.520 Garland can be confirmed as Attorney General, Todd Blanch could 0:01:56.520 --> 0:02:00.040 be confirmed as Attorney general. But we have lost this 0:02:00.240 --> 0:02:05.120 capacity on the role of advising consent, to engage anything 0:02:05.200 --> 0:02:07.400 other than what do the politics of the day tell 0:02:07.480 --> 0:02:11.079 us to do. One of the great lines the late 0:02:11.120 --> 0:02:15.239 Senator Lindsay Graham used in the confirmation of Justice Kavanaugh 0:02:15.440 --> 0:02:19.320 was when you see Kagan, soda Mayor, tell him, Lindsay 0:02:19.320 --> 0:02:24.320 says hello, because he voted for them, because he knew 0:02:24.360 --> 0:02:26.960 his role of advisor consent. And I'm not so sure 0:02:27.520 --> 0:02:33.919 I would have confirmed Soda Mayor Kagan a different story, especially. 0:02:33.520 --> 0:02:34.720 During the confirmation hearing. 0:02:34.800 --> 0:02:37.840 I do not know if I would have confirmed somebody 0:02:38.000 --> 0:02:40.960 who relied on the richness of her Latina heritage to 0:02:41.000 --> 0:02:45.560 come up with decisions regarding the constitution, not what my 0:02:45.680 --> 0:02:46.360 interest is. 0:02:46.480 --> 0:02:47.480 Thank you very much. 0:02:48.120 --> 0:02:50.560 I never looked to Scalia and said, tell me about 0:02:50.600 --> 0:02:53.119 the richness of your Italian heritage, so you can come 0:02:53.160 --> 0:02:57.240 to good conclusions regarding cases brought before you and how 0:02:57.280 --> 0:02:59.280 they work within the constitutional framework. 0:02:59.320 --> 0:03:02.600 That we have never once, never once. 0:03:04.320 --> 0:03:09.359 But those days are indeed over that conversation, that concept 0:03:09.400 --> 0:03:15.200 that philosophy is indeed lost. Instead, what we have is 0:03:15.360 --> 0:03:21.560 the radicalness of position that says politics before all things. 0:03:21.840 --> 0:03:25.400 This was center Dick Durbin of Illinois, a man most 0:03:25.400 --> 0:03:26.880 aptly named heks. 0:03:26.680 --> 0:03:31.040 Mister Chairman, reflect on the fact that as we meet today, 0:03:31.160 --> 0:03:34.800 there are thousands, literally tens of thousands of men and 0:03:34.840 --> 0:03:38.040 women in the United States who got up this morning 0:03:38.040 --> 0:03:40.240 and put on a badge or picked up their briefcase 0:03:40.280 --> 0:03:42.560 and went to work to make sure that we would 0:03:42.600 --> 0:03:45.480 be saved. They are in law enforcement all across the 0:03:45.560 --> 0:03:49.320 United States of America. They count on the system of 0:03:49.480 --> 0:03:51.600 justice as we all do, to give us not only 0:03:51.640 --> 0:03:54.680 safety in our homes, but also fairness when it comes 0:03:54.720 --> 0:03:57.840 to treatment by the government. The man we are discussing 0:03:57.880 --> 0:04:01.320 this morning seeks to be the number one law enforcement 0:04:01.920 --> 0:04:05.800 enforcer of the United States of America, the Attorney General 0:04:05.880 --> 0:04:09.760 of the United States, the highest ranking law enforcement position. 0:04:10.440 --> 0:04:12.480 And what have we learned in the last few weeks 0:04:12.480 --> 0:04:15.680 when it comes to Todd Blanche? We have learned that 0:04:16.360 --> 0:04:19.360 simply his word is not enough for most of us, 0:04:19.920 --> 0:04:22.920 not even for some of my Republican friends. Even his 0:04:22.960 --> 0:04:27.120 word under oath is not credible enough. We have a 0:04:27.240 --> 0:04:31.760 demand by colleagues that I support a demand that mister Blanche, 0:04:31.760 --> 0:04:35.080 when it comes to important promises to American people, put 0:04:35.120 --> 0:04:38.640 it in writing, put it in writing. And in fact 0:04:38.680 --> 0:04:42.960 he did. Mister Chairman, The political escapade of the last 0:04:43.000 --> 0:04:45.400 week has made it clearer than ever that Todd Blanche 0:04:45.400 --> 0:04:49.479 has no business serving as our nation's chief law enforcement officer. 0:04:49.800 --> 0:04:52.000 So what happened in the past week. What happened in 0:04:52.000 --> 0:04:54.760 the past week was this concept of the Weaponization Fund, 0:04:54.760 --> 0:04:58.000 which in mid July, Todd Blanche said wasn't going to 0:04:58.000 --> 0:05:00.400 be a thing, this one point seven seven six billion 0:05:00.520 --> 0:05:03.960 dollar fund. And I opposed the fund. You were abused 0:05:03.960 --> 0:05:05.719 by your government, by our government. 0:05:05.880 --> 0:05:07.880 I think you can sue. I think that's fine. 0:05:08.040 --> 0:05:10.359 If you create a fund, you have the opportunity for 0:05:10.400 --> 0:05:13.360 the fund to be abused. Same reason by the way, 0:05:13.360 --> 0:05:18.960 same basic philosophy. I'm thrilled with the elimination of usaid. Oh, 0:05:19.000 --> 0:05:21.279 they can complain and moan and can catch all they want. 0:05:21.520 --> 0:05:22.720 Look at all the people you killed. 0:05:22.800 --> 0:05:23.560 No no, no, no, no no. 0:05:24.200 --> 0:05:27.359 Look at all the organizations no longer being funded to 0:05:27.400 --> 0:05:30.279 do damage to us. Look at all the slush fund 0:05:30.360 --> 0:05:34.479 that is gone going to organizations where it never should 0:05:34.520 --> 0:05:36.920 have gone to begin with. And that does not put 0:05:36.920 --> 0:05:41.320 Americans on the hook for lives being lost, madness, It 0:05:41.480 --> 0:05:44.039 does say that America said we are not going to 0:05:44.040 --> 0:05:47.080 pay for our own destruction, and so progressives can have 0:05:47.120 --> 0:05:52.800 a government funded slush fund. Absolutely not good. You know, 0:05:53.080 --> 0:05:55.800 I'm one of the Maybe I'm maybe it's few, Maybe 0:05:55.839 --> 0:05:58.719 I'm wrong right, Maybe maybe there's more of us than 0:05:58.760 --> 0:06:02.560 I know. I believe that Doe should come back, and 0:06:02.560 --> 0:06:05.760 should come back in a huge, massive way. We're nowhere 0:06:05.760 --> 0:06:10.240 near done cutting, nowhere near done. We are nuts for 0:06:10.320 --> 0:06:13.840 abandoning this. Who cares if the left is happy or not? 0:06:14.400 --> 0:06:16.440 Who cares if they scream about and yell about it. 0:06:16.760 --> 0:06:19.080 There are cuts, there is fraud, and it all has 0:06:19.120 --> 0:06:23.320 to be removed. Unnecessary government removed. Oh, and there's a 0:06:23.360 --> 0:06:25.120 lot of unnecessary governments. 0:06:26.080 --> 0:06:27.480 You've got a bigger list than to me. I know, 0:06:27.720 --> 0:06:29.800 I know, But there's a lot of fraud. 0:06:29.839 --> 0:06:31.880 Why aren't we getting rid of it? All this talk 0:06:31.920 --> 0:06:33.120 about what happened in Minneapolis. 0:06:33.160 --> 0:06:33.919 Where's the movement? 0:06:33.960 --> 0:06:36.880 There is some? I will admit that there is some. 0:06:37.160 --> 0:06:41.400 We don't talk about it enough. I want more because 0:06:41.440 --> 0:06:44.760 there's more fraud. That's one state. There are forty nine 0:06:44.800 --> 0:06:48.080 other states and they've all got an issue. Let's go 0:06:48.120 --> 0:06:50.120 get rid of the fraud. Let's take a look at 0:06:50.160 --> 0:06:53.320 the government organizations that are set up and what kind 0:06:53.320 --> 0:06:56.320 of deals they're getting, and say no, and no and no, and. 0:06:56.279 --> 0:06:57.559 Let's get rid of the fraud. 0:06:57.960 --> 0:07:01.560 Let's stop this money train, keep it where it belongs, 0:07:01.600 --> 0:07:04.120 in the pocket to the people. Pay down some debt, 0:07:04.320 --> 0:07:06.920 A million things we can do, but we don't need 0:07:07.000 --> 0:07:08.960 to pay for these people. We don't need their life 0:07:09.000 --> 0:07:15.000 to be easier. Good ah, hell no, let's end this madness. 0:07:15.040 --> 0:07:18.600 So I'm a believer in more doughe not less. But 0:07:18.720 --> 0:07:23.440 because this Weaponization Fund conversation, it took Todd Blanche to 0:07:23.480 --> 0:07:25.720 come out again and say that the Weaponization. 0:07:25.240 --> 0:07:25.920 Fund is dead. 0:07:26.280 --> 0:07:29.120 And that's what caused Tom Tillis of North Carolina and 0:07:29.240 --> 0:07:34.680 John Cornyn of Texas, both Republicans, to say, Okay, we'll 0:07:34.800 --> 0:07:36.600 vote on Todd Blanche. 0:07:36.640 --> 0:07:37.760 Now they wanted this gun. 0:07:38.240 --> 0:07:42.480 So to Dick Durbin's mind, getting what you wanted is 0:07:42.600 --> 0:07:46.920 proof that the guy is unworthy. Todd Blanche is fine. 0:07:48.280 --> 0:07:51.640 Todd Blanche is fine. And if you were to say 0:07:51.680 --> 0:07:53.880 to me, we can't have Todd Blanche, and I gave 0:07:53.960 --> 0:07:57.640 you a hundred other names, the left would say all 0:07:57.680 --> 0:08:01.360 of them are unacceptable. And that's the point. None of 0:08:01.440 --> 0:08:08.200 this charade matters. This is all political nonsense. It's why 0:08:08.280 --> 0:08:12.360 people hate politicians and government, and it's why I'll pay 0:08:12.480 --> 0:08:17.560 no mind whatsoever to Dick Durbin, nor will I pay 0:08:17.600 --> 0:08:23.360 any mind to the absolutely vicious and wholly unacceptable Sheldon Whitehouse. 0:08:23.960 --> 0:08:29.600 Cover up and screw up on the Epstein Files. What 0:08:29.640 --> 0:08:36.280 do I mean by cover up? Well, first, they looked 0:08:36.320 --> 0:08:43.360 at four FBI three oh two's that were the testimony 0:08:43.960 --> 0:08:47.440 of a woman who told the FBI in a formal 0:08:47.520 --> 0:08:51.920 statement that she had been sexually assaulted and physically assaulted 0:08:52.320 --> 0:08:58.160 by Donald Trump around thirteen or fourteen years of age. 0:08:59.400 --> 0:09:06.200 Of those for three O two's, they released one, the 0:09:06.240 --> 0:09:15.280 one that did not mention Donald Trump. Well, fortunately for transparency, 0:09:15.520 --> 0:09:19.800 these documents had been released in other areas and bait stamped, 0:09:22.720 --> 0:09:26.320 so people figured out that some were missing, and with 0:09:26.440 --> 0:09:30.520 that the other three O twos that mentioned Donald Trump 0:09:31.040 --> 0:09:36.160 had to be produced. Only because they got caught were 0:09:36.200 --> 0:09:40.440 those three O twos produced. And right now as we 0:09:40.520 --> 0:09:44.280 sit here, Todd Blanche is still sitting on thirty seven 0:09:44.360 --> 0:09:51.600 pages that are almost certainly the agent's notes off of 0:09:51.640 --> 0:09:54.400 which the three O twos were taken. 0:09:55.480 --> 0:09:56.120 If you don't know what. 0:09:56.080 --> 0:09:58.360 A three O two is, a form FD three oh two, 0:09:58.520 --> 0:10:01.240 it's an internal document that you by the FBI and 0:10:01.320 --> 0:10:06.360 it summarizes interviews, witnesses, suspects of the irrelevant information. It 0:10:06.440 --> 0:10:10.600 is not a verbatim transcript. It's a narrative memorandum. That's 0:10:10.640 --> 0:10:14.560 the terminology that's used around a three oh two. No 0:10:14.679 --> 0:10:17.280 part of a three oh two is testimony. No part 0:10:17.320 --> 0:10:20.080 of a three O two is under oath. That's not 0:10:20.280 --> 0:10:24.200 how a three oh two works. It is not a 0:10:24.280 --> 0:10:30.480 sworn statement, not at all. Now they're utilized investigations and 0:10:30.520 --> 0:10:33.840 you can use that information to say, Okay, we were 0:10:33.880 --> 0:10:35.679 going to use this, Okay you said this, but then 0:10:35.720 --> 0:10:37.240 we found out this and now you said this, and 0:10:37.240 --> 0:10:39.200 that's differently what you said here. And you can go 0:10:39.320 --> 0:10:43.960 after someone's credibility. 0:10:43.000 --> 0:10:44.120 Right, And. 0:10:45.600 --> 0:10:48.400 We understand that that's how prosecutors work, and that's how 0:10:48.720 --> 0:10:51.240 FBI agents work, et ceter And we can talk about 0:10:51.280 --> 0:10:54.360 that another time. The three O two doesn't prove guilt. 0:10:55.520 --> 0:10:59.240 Three O two doesn't prove anything at all. And we 0:10:59.360 --> 0:11:03.240 also know that when it comes to allegations against President Trump, 0:11:03.600 --> 0:11:07.320 regarding these things that witnesses have been shown to be uncredible, 0:11:09.040 --> 0:11:14.839 that does not concern Sheldon Whitehouse. What concerns him is 0:11:14.880 --> 0:11:19.560 how can he attack No part of this about Todd Planche. 0:11:19.720 --> 0:11:22.680 And you're talking about a guy and me who said 0:11:22.720 --> 0:11:28.120 to release everything redacted. Yes, I don't want innocent people 0:11:28.200 --> 0:11:29.679 to be caught up in these things, but. 0:11:29.679 --> 0:11:30.680 Release the files. 0:11:31.360 --> 0:11:34.440 And yes, you're talking to the guy me who said 0:11:34.440 --> 0:11:37.000 that President Trump handled this wrong. From the beginning. The 0:11:37.080 --> 0:11:43.880 administration screwed this up. They did misread the room, misreadware. 0:11:43.920 --> 0:11:48.280 Republicans and conservatives were and gave Democrats the opening and 0:11:48.400 --> 0:11:49.720 they're still taking it. 0:11:50.160 --> 0:11:53.280 Trump did this. It was a miss and. 0:11:53.280 --> 0:11:57.560 A very poor job in recovery. By the way, none 0:11:57.640 --> 0:12:01.960 of this says that Todd Blanch shouldn't be Attorney general. 0:12:03.480 --> 0:12:09.160 None of this says that at all. Release what you 0:12:09.200 --> 0:12:13.160 can release, redact what needs to be redacted. You know, 0:12:13.440 --> 0:12:15.680 let me take that back, redact what needs to be redacted. 0:12:15.840 --> 0:12:20.640 Release it all, fine with that. But just because someone's 0:12:20.640 --> 0:12:24.000 got a name in an Epstein file doesn't mean that 0:12:24.040 --> 0:12:26.560 they're guilty. Something we've said on the show from the beginning. 0:12:26.920 --> 0:12:30.319 That's not how Sheldon white House views it. Sheldon white 0:12:30.360 --> 0:12:35.359 House says, everyone I don't like is guilty. That's his argument, 0:12:36.640 --> 0:12:40.520 and it's not one sufficient to say Todd Blanch shouldn't 0:12:40.520 --> 0:12:41.400 be Attorney general. 0:12:42.640 --> 0:12:44.920 But it wouldn't matter if it was Todd Blanch or not. 0:12:46.920 --> 0:12:49.440 If it wasn't Todd Blanch would be somebody else, and 0:12:49.480 --> 0:12:52.480 there would be Sheldon white House, the guy who joins 0:12:52.520 --> 0:12:53.800 all white country. 0:12:53.400 --> 0:12:59.160 Clubs to disapprove, to say no. That's the point. 0:13:00.920 --> 0:13:05.360 It's all political, all the time on something that you know, 0:13:05.920 --> 0:13:10.160 to paraphrase Senator John Cornyn, we want somebody who's leading 0:13:10.160 --> 0:13:12.640 the d DOJ. We don't want somebody in the interim, and 0:13:13.040 --> 0:13:16.760 leading to a question of where the leadership is. The 0:13:16.760 --> 0:13:19.440 President of the United States gets to appoint the attorney 0:13:19.440 --> 0:13:24.240 general the end. And unless that attorney general has us 0:13:24.640 --> 0:13:28.960 is a sworn communist, what are we doing here. I'll 0:13:28.960 --> 0:13:31.400 tell you what we're doing here. We're playing pure politics. 0:13:32.520 --> 0:13:35.560 Blanche is going to get confirmed. Let's move on to 0:13:35.600 --> 0:13:39.880 the next subject. That's my plan. This is Tony Katz today. 0:13:40.280 --> 0:13:42.679 I didn't hit this in three more things, but it 0:13:43.200 --> 0:13:48.960 still matters quite a bit, this cyber attack, conversation on 0:13:49.360 --> 0:13:52.360 water systems. Like there's a part of me that things 0:13:52.360 --> 0:13:54.360 I shouldn't be talking about it at all, Like I 0:13:54.360 --> 0:13:56.040 shouldn't I shouldn't bring it up. 0:13:56.080 --> 0:13:58.560 You know. It's like History of the World, it's mel Brooks, 0:13:58.720 --> 0:14:01.480 Get off Fat, Get off Fat. But that wasn't actually 0:14:01.520 --> 0:14:02.679 mel Brooks. That was the side kick. 0:14:02.800 --> 0:14:07.120 Doesn't matter, groovous Tony Kats, Tony Katz today, good. 0:14:06.880 --> 0:14:07.400 To be with you. 0:14:07.559 --> 0:14:09.400 I will do all the history of the world part 0:14:09.400 --> 0:14:11.040 one thing for you, gladly. 0:14:11.240 --> 0:14:13.760 I will act out the whole thing. I will do 0:14:13.840 --> 0:14:18.200 the Ethiopian shimsham, all of it. The problem is when you. 0:14:18.080 --> 0:14:22.680 Say Ethiopian shimsham, that's also a I found this out 0:14:22.720 --> 0:14:27.160 the hard way. It's a strain of marijuana. I go 0:14:27.280 --> 0:14:31.040 with the mel Brooks version. Please, thank you very much. 0:14:32.040 --> 0:14:35.680 Gregory Hines. Oh so good. So that's not the story. 0:14:35.800 --> 0:14:38.040 Where was I? What was I talking about? Oh? That's right, 0:14:38.360 --> 0:14:39.800 the water is being attacked. 0:14:41.040 --> 0:14:46.920 It's a really, really freaky story that seven states have 0:14:47.080 --> 0:14:50.640 reported cyber attacks on their water systems to the FBI. 0:14:52.240 --> 0:14:55.200 The FBI said in a statement they're aware of the attacks. 0:14:55.280 --> 0:14:58.480 Quote, the FBI and our inter agency partners are fully 0:14:58.480 --> 0:15:01.320 engaged to protect critical impa structure, and we remain well 0:15:01.360 --> 0:15:05.640 equipped to protect against cyber threats of all varieties. Now, 0:15:05.800 --> 0:15:09.680 the FBI is not discussing who is behind the attack. 0:15:09.760 --> 0:15:18.240 Although the FBI and the Cybersecurity Infrastructure Agency they've warned 0:15:18.320 --> 0:15:22.640 that Iranian hackers have targeted water systems. Let's keep these 0:15:22.680 --> 0:15:26.280 two things separate for just a moment. First, I don't think. 0:15:26.120 --> 0:15:28.640 There's any of us. It was you and me having 0:15:28.640 --> 0:15:29.360 a bourbon. 0:15:29.120 --> 0:15:31.920 On a barstool and someone said you, well, you know, 0:15:31.960 --> 0:15:35.360 the Iranians are trying to hack into our water systems. 0:15:36.040 --> 0:15:41.080 We'd be like, well, yeah, every terrorist entity out there 0:15:41.120 --> 0:15:44.000 today is trying to hack into our water systems and 0:15:44.040 --> 0:15:47.840 our power grids and everything. We would without having had 0:15:47.840 --> 0:15:52.560 any prediscussion about it, not having spent thirty seconds discussing 0:15:52.600 --> 0:15:55.040 it with each other or on our own, we would 0:15:55.080 --> 0:15:58.000 be able to go on a fifteen minute bender conversation 0:15:58.520 --> 0:16:01.560 of all the things that terrorists out there are trying 0:16:01.560 --> 0:16:04.480 to get their hands on and trying to create damage 0:16:05.000 --> 0:16:09.960 for us. With right water systems, power systems, communications systems, 0:16:10.240 --> 0:16:15.480 medical systems, we could go on fifteen minutes, non stop. 0:16:15.600 --> 0:16:18.160 You and I bourbon on a barstool, right, you pick 0:16:18.200 --> 0:16:21.720 your friend. Fifteen minutes. Of course we could, because no 0:16:21.920 --> 0:16:26.800 part of that is shocking or surprising. Now, President Trump, 0:16:28.040 --> 0:16:34.760 he came out to say that the issue here is Minnesota. 0:16:34.880 --> 0:16:35.240 Today. 0:16:35.640 --> 0:16:38.480 He said, I just want to mention that we heard 0:16:38.480 --> 0:16:41.360 of Minnesota. There was a cyber attack, and they blame 0:16:41.400 --> 0:16:43.680 it on Iran. I don't think so. I think I 0:16:43.760 --> 0:16:46.920 blame it on Minnesota because they're grossly incompetent. There was 0:16:46.920 --> 0:16:49.960 a cyber attack thirty water plants. They like to say, Oh, 0:16:50.000 --> 0:16:52.680 it was Iran. Iran should be so lucky. Iran's got 0:16:52.680 --> 0:16:55.960 bigger problems than worrying about Minnesota. So this was Tim 0:16:56.000 --> 0:16:59.680 Walls blaming the Trump administration. Could everyone stop being a 0:16:59.760 --> 0:17:04.000 loose a tick? How did I end up in the position. 0:17:04.119 --> 0:17:06.960 How are we here? We're All we want people to 0:17:06.960 --> 0:17:11.000 do is be normal. It is cyber attacks against critical infrastructure. 0:17:11.080 --> 0:17:16.560 What's our plan? Less spider man finger pointing, meme stuff 0:17:16.880 --> 0:17:19.959 and more, what's our plan? If Tim Walls is blaming 0:17:20.000 --> 0:17:23.280 blaming Donald Trump, Tim Walls is a schmuck. I don't 0:17:23.280 --> 0:17:25.760 want the President to play into this. They may be 0:17:25.880 --> 0:17:29.120 incompetent Minnesota, but it doesn't mean that that's. 0:17:28.960 --> 0:17:32.760 The issue here. We need to be aggressive. 0:17:33.840 --> 0:17:36.399 We need to be asking ourselves who is bringing this 0:17:36.520 --> 0:17:39.320 about and how do we deal with these things? 0:17:40.320 --> 0:17:41.280 The threat was. 0:17:41.600 --> 0:17:47.680 Identified as programmable logic controllers PLCs. It's in the water systems, 0:17:47.920 --> 0:17:52.080 and it urged infrastructure owners to remove these publicly exposed 0:17:52.119 --> 0:17:56.320 PLCs from the Internet. Right, So that's what the advice 0:17:56.359 --> 0:17:58.320 that's being given. I don't know if I want that 0:17:58.359 --> 0:18:00.399 advice given publicly, but there it is. And did what 0:18:00.440 --> 0:18:01.240 am I supposed to do? 0:18:02.480 --> 0:18:05.400 Can't we just focus on the thing in front of us? 0:18:06.200 --> 0:18:08.240 Can't we just note that this is a problem. 0:18:09.640 --> 0:18:13.120 Can we identify who is bringing the threat and how 0:18:13.119 --> 0:18:14.120 can we deal with them? 0:18:14.200 --> 0:18:14.520 Now? 0:18:14.640 --> 0:18:20.040 I am a guy with a theory. My theory is 0:18:20.520 --> 0:18:25.520 you have to pick one group, one group that is 0:18:25.600 --> 0:18:30.000 engaged in this activity, and you must so harm them 0:18:30.320 --> 0:18:34.320 that everybody else starts to be concerned. I get called 0:18:34.359 --> 0:18:36.160 all sorts of things. You may get called all sorts 0:18:36.160 --> 0:18:36.440 of things. 0:18:36.480 --> 0:18:36.879 I don't know. 0:18:38.080 --> 0:18:41.679 I am not a warmonger. I do not seek to 0:18:41.720 --> 0:18:44.320 start any issue. I would rather be left alone. I've 0:18:44.359 --> 0:18:46.359 often said, the only things I want to do in 0:18:46.359 --> 0:18:49.600 this life eat a steak, smoke a cigar, have sex 0:18:49.640 --> 0:18:52.240 with my wife, and sometimes I don't even need steak. 0:18:52.840 --> 0:18:55.360 These are all the things I want to do in 0:18:55.400 --> 0:18:57.000 this life, and these people. 0:18:56.720 --> 0:19:00.120 Won't leave me alone. I would rather be left alone. 0:19:00.440 --> 0:19:03.239 Let's find one of these groups where we know this 0:19:03.320 --> 0:19:06.680 activity is coming from, and let us do them such 0:19:06.720 --> 0:19:09.439 harm that the nation that they are located in begs 0:19:09.520 --> 0:19:12.399 us to stop and promises it will never happen again. 0:19:12.760 --> 0:19:16.520 Quite literally sends us a gift to apologize. 0:19:17.160 --> 0:19:19.480 Maybe, well, you won't eliminate the issue. 0:19:19.520 --> 0:19:21.200 You're not going to eliminate the hacker, but maybe you 0:19:21.359 --> 0:19:24.879 have less problems for a decade. That is how I 0:19:24.920 --> 0:19:30.879 believe we should use strength overwhelmingly to make the enemy 0:19:30.920 --> 0:19:35.159 regret bothering us so we can be left alone and 0:19:35.200 --> 0:19:36.960 smoke a cigar and other things. 0:19:37.560 --> 0:19:46.400 This is Tony Kats today. Let's start with Michigan. 0:19:46.440 --> 0:19:49.119 It's now a battleground for the soul of the Democrat Party. 0:19:49.200 --> 0:19:53.200 Tony does socialism went out today? Now? 0:19:53.400 --> 0:19:56.320 The answer to that question is a little more involved 0:19:56.320 --> 0:19:57.960 than what you can do on a TV hit. But 0:19:58.000 --> 0:20:04.160 I was on Newsmas earlier today they pitted me against 0:20:04.200 --> 0:20:07.880 Dennis Cassinich, who I admit to you I didn't know. 0:20:07.960 --> 0:20:08.680 Was still alive. 0:20:09.480 --> 0:20:12.639 Tony Katz, Tony Katz today, so good to be with you. 0:20:12.720 --> 0:20:15.800 Find everything I do at Tony Katz dot com. You 0:20:15.880 --> 0:20:19.359 remember the name Dennis Kassinich was one time in the 0:20:19.440 --> 0:20:24.480 nineteen seventies, he was the mayor of Cleveland, and then 0:20:24.800 --> 0:20:28.760 he was a longtime congressman until he was defeated I 0:20:28.760 --> 0:20:31.960 think in twenty twelve by Marcy Captor, who is still 0:20:31.960 --> 0:20:34.800 the member of Congress. Marcy Captor was the one who, 0:20:34.880 --> 0:20:37.119 like two days ago, was involved in a hit and 0:20:37.200 --> 0:20:41.920 run a she's a Democrat, represents that area of Ohio. 0:20:42.440 --> 0:20:44.800 Someone who hit her car as she was going to church. 0:20:44.840 --> 0:20:47.480 She had the person driving her hit the car, She 0:20:47.600 --> 0:20:49.160 got really injured and. 0:20:49.119 --> 0:20:53.760 Then ran off. Crazy crazy story. I'm glad she's okay. 0:20:53.800 --> 0:20:56.040 I mean, we may disagree politically, but tell I don't 0:20:56.080 --> 0:20:58.159 want her getting hurt in a car accident. 0:20:58.280 --> 0:21:01.399 Someone reminded me that it was four years ago that 0:21:01.400 --> 0:21:04.360 Congresswoman Jackie Wilarski was killed in a car accident. 0:21:04.480 --> 0:21:05.800 She was in Indiana. 0:21:05.920 --> 0:21:10.800 She was lovely. Jackie Wilarski was lovely, Republican, really really nice, 0:21:10.880 --> 0:21:13.560 very nice to me. But she was in the car 0:21:13.600 --> 0:21:16.560 where somebody else was driving in two other staffers, and 0:21:17.000 --> 0:21:19.360 whether her car, I think it was the car she 0:21:19.560 --> 0:21:23.760 was in went over the lines and the other car 0:21:23.800 --> 0:21:24.560 came head on. 0:21:24.720 --> 0:21:29.320 And everybody was killed. Aul awful story. So it's Dennis Caercentach. 0:21:29.920 --> 0:21:30.440 I swear to you. 0:21:30.480 --> 0:21:33.639 I didn't know Dennis Coccinach was still alive. Dennis Cascinach's 0:21:33.680 --> 0:21:39.080 claim to fame was that Dennis Caercentach was a radicalized 0:21:39.119 --> 0:21:44.120 progressive before it was cool. Dennis Cascinach was doing this 0:21:44.680 --> 0:21:49.480 before Bernie Sanders. Dennis Cascinach has been on this for 0:21:49.640 --> 0:21:50.200 a tick. 0:21:50.320 --> 0:21:50.679 Oh. 0:21:50.920 --> 0:21:56.120 He is wrong about everything, but he comes from an 0:21:56.200 --> 0:22:01.560 older school of thought where you can actually talk. And 0:22:01.640 --> 0:22:03.840 I knew this imediate like I did not know I 0:22:03.920 --> 0:22:07.159 was on with Dennis until like ten minutes before I 0:22:07.840 --> 0:22:09.879 was on because I knew that the topic, but I 0:22:09.880 --> 0:22:12.400 didn't know the person. I was like, oh my gosh, 0:22:12.560 --> 0:22:18.000 the original Kamie og Like that's who he is. But 0:22:18.359 --> 0:22:25.120 it's a different, different, different mentality. Where I'm I'm vehemently 0:22:25.160 --> 0:22:29.360 opposed to the politics, I don't have to be vehemently 0:22:29.359 --> 0:22:33.040 opposed to the human beings. It's like, Okay, this is very, 0:22:33.160 --> 0:22:35.760 very interesting. So we're talking about the Michigan race. Of course, 0:22:36.000 --> 0:22:39.560 we've got that primary Abduel l Saeed against Haley Stevens. 0:22:39.560 --> 0:22:44.239 Haley Stevens is the representative Abdula l Sad is the 0:22:44.600 --> 0:22:48.639 communist who claims to not believe in monopolies but absolutely 0:22:48.640 --> 0:22:53.040 wants force universal healthcare right medicare for all, but doesn't 0:22:53.040 --> 0:22:59.240 believe in monopolies, which is so so adorable, so adorable. Oh, 0:22:59.280 --> 0:23:03.560 and speak in mosques where people are violent against Jews 0:23:03.600 --> 0:23:05.439 and call Jews parasites. 0:23:04.880 --> 0:23:05.440 And the whole thing. 0:23:05.720 --> 0:23:08.439 Yeah, not my guy. And I'd asked some people I 0:23:08.520 --> 0:23:12.159 know in the area, you know, Michigan itself, where do 0:23:12.200 --> 0:23:15.600 they think things are going? And if you're basing things 0:23:15.640 --> 0:23:18.320 on your Facebook feed, your Facebook feed isn't going to 0:23:18.320 --> 0:23:20.760 give you a good story, and so I was listening, 0:23:20.800 --> 0:23:22.639 I'm like, Okay, I appreciate that. I appreciate that. But 0:23:22.680 --> 0:23:24.600 out of that is going to tell me do I 0:23:24.640 --> 0:23:26.600 think the polling is right? Do I think the polling 0:23:26.640 --> 0:23:29.959 that had been lately trending for LSIED is accurate. Some 0:23:30.080 --> 0:23:32.080 of those polls, like five or six of them had 0:23:32.160 --> 0:23:36.040 him up double digits plus thirteen and plus sixteen. I 0:23:36.240 --> 0:23:40.480 don't buy that. Do I believe he could win? Yes, 0:23:41.440 --> 0:23:44.440 I do believe he could win. But I was asked, 0:23:44.720 --> 0:23:47.040 let's start here. So this is from my appearance, It 0:23:47.080 --> 0:23:49.960