1 00:00:05,200 --> 00:00:10,240 Speaker 1: Lie from Vaal, Hartland and the Crossroads of America. 2 00:00:10,560 --> 00:00:14,840 Speaker 2: It's Tony Katz today. I've got the shutdown, I've got 3 00:00:14,880 --> 00:00:18,759 Speaker 2: the attempted redmass terror attack. There's a lot that we 4 00:00:18,800 --> 00:00:21,400 Speaker 2: have discussed, a lot still to discuss. But can I 5 00:00:21,400 --> 00:00:23,799 Speaker 2: share quickly because I want to get to Ed Morrissey 6 00:00:23,800 --> 00:00:26,520 Speaker 2: off hotair dot com. Can I share a story that 7 00:00:26,600 --> 00:00:28,600 Speaker 2: I don't think anybody's gonna talk about that I think 8 00:00:28,680 --> 00:00:32,880 Speaker 2: is incredibly telling. Tony Katz, Tony Katz today, so good 9 00:00:32,880 --> 00:00:35,839 Speaker 2: to be with you. Find everything going on over at 10 00:00:35,920 --> 00:00:41,400 Speaker 2: Tony Katz dot com. This is the story of Donald 11 00:00:41,440 --> 00:00:48,760 Speaker 2: Trump's library. There is a guy suing Miami Dade College 12 00:00:49,720 --> 00:00:53,800 Speaker 2: because he says they violated Florida transparency law in gifting 13 00:00:53,920 --> 00:01:00,320 Speaker 2: land in downtown Miami for President Trump's presidential library. Suit 14 00:01:00,360 --> 00:01:03,080 Speaker 2: by guy by the name of doctor Marvin Dunn alleges 15 00:01:03,120 --> 00:01:06,440 Speaker 2: that the community college board violated Florida Sunshine Law by 16 00:01:06,440 --> 00:01:10,200 Speaker 2: providing an inadequate notice of the meeting saying only it 17 00:01:10,200 --> 00:01:14,600 Speaker 2: would quote discuss potential real estate transactions. Now, I can't 18 00:01:14,600 --> 00:01:16,720 Speaker 2: tell you whether they did or whether they didn't, whether 19 00:01:16,760 --> 00:01:20,360 Speaker 2: they followed the letter of the law perfectly. That part 20 00:01:20,720 --> 00:01:23,160 Speaker 2: I'm going to leave a secondary and I'll let others 21 00:01:23,200 --> 00:01:26,399 Speaker 2: deal with that, the courts, etc. The story here is 22 00:01:26,480 --> 00:01:30,200 Speaker 2: going to be they are going to throw lawsuit after 23 00:01:30,319 --> 00:01:36,680 Speaker 2: lawsuit after lawsuit at Trump for building a library. This 24 00:01:36,800 --> 00:01:40,720 Speaker 2: abomination of a testament to the abomination that was Obama's 25 00:01:40,720 --> 00:01:44,440 Speaker 2: two terms in office, going up at Chicago has destroyed 26 00:01:44,480 --> 00:01:47,840 Speaker 2: the properties values there, is ruining skylines. The thing as 27 00:01:47,960 --> 00:01:52,800 Speaker 2: ugly as sin. It looks like a giant alien turd, 28 00:01:53,240 --> 00:01:56,880 Speaker 2: That's what it looks like. It's terrible. Trump's you know, 29 00:01:56,960 --> 00:01:58,520 Speaker 2: the thing that's going to be made of gold. It's 30 00:01:58,560 --> 00:02:01,280 Speaker 2: going to be nuts, and they are going to fight 31 00:02:01,360 --> 00:02:06,280 Speaker 2: that tooth and nail. Obama's library, by every measure, is 32 00:02:06,320 --> 00:02:08,440 Speaker 2: a disaster, and they will cheer it as the greatest 33 00:02:08,440 --> 00:02:11,399 Speaker 2: thing that ever existed. They're gonna fight Trump's library because 34 00:02:11,400 --> 00:02:13,760 Speaker 2: they're not going to want Trump to have any legacy 35 00:02:13,760 --> 00:02:18,000 Speaker 2: at all. This is the start. This was the firing pistol. 36 00:02:19,040 --> 00:02:21,160 Speaker 2: All you're going to see now are lawsuits about this. 37 00:02:21,840 --> 00:02:25,799 Speaker 2: It's coming. This is just the opening salvo. Keep it here. 38 00:02:25,960 --> 00:02:29,080 Speaker 2: This is Tony Kats today. So here we are day 39 00:02:29,160 --> 00:02:32,799 Speaker 2: eight of a shutdown, and I'm telling you, no one cares. 40 00:02:33,720 --> 00:02:36,880 Speaker 2: This has not engaged a ripple. Media is not really 41 00:02:36,960 --> 00:02:39,400 Speaker 2: talking about it. Maybe it's because some people are still 42 00:02:39,440 --> 00:02:42,280 Speaker 2: getting paid. When they stop getting paychecks, maybe we'll hear 43 00:02:42,320 --> 00:02:45,680 Speaker 2: more about it. Or maybe the media, which it is 44 00:02:45,680 --> 00:02:48,320 Speaker 2: the CNN's and the msnbcs, the New York Times, the 45 00:02:48,360 --> 00:02:51,119 Speaker 2: Washington Post of the world, realize they have no way 46 00:02:51,120 --> 00:02:55,200 Speaker 2: of winning this. Schumer is an indefensible type of character, 47 00:02:55,480 --> 00:02:59,760 Speaker 2: an unlikable kind of character, a guy who makes people say, wow, 48 00:02:59,800 --> 00:03:04,280 Speaker 2: that Gollum is really attractive, and there is no reason 49 00:03:04,880 --> 00:03:08,360 Speaker 2: to engage any support of him. Tony Katz, Tony Katz today, 50 00:03:08,480 --> 00:03:10,840 Speaker 2: good to be with you. That is right, people. That 51 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:14,000 Speaker 2: was the Lord of the Rings reference. Ed Marcy joined 52 00:03:14,080 --> 00:03:17,160 Speaker 2: us right now from hotair dot com. You can catch 53 00:03:17,240 --> 00:03:20,160 Speaker 2: him there all the time, the kapatituti coppo over at 54 00:03:20,160 --> 00:03:23,120 Speaker 2: hot air dot com. Let's start with the fundamentals of 55 00:03:23,160 --> 00:03:27,120 Speaker 2: this shutdown, which is the Democrats have not been able 56 00:03:27,120 --> 00:03:30,440 Speaker 2: to shake the blame. It's theirs, and rather than talk 57 00:03:30,480 --> 00:03:33,160 Speaker 2: about it, the media seems to ignore it. So therefore 58 00:03:33,200 --> 00:03:36,640 Speaker 2: nobody's talking about it, and therefore it just continues with 59 00:03:37,480 --> 00:03:39,120 Speaker 2: seemingly ed no end in sight. 60 00:03:41,120 --> 00:03:43,720 Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean again, the stakes here are so low. 61 00:03:44,200 --> 00:03:46,320 Speaker 1: This part of the problem is that shutdowns are just 62 00:03:46,440 --> 00:03:48,040 Speaker 1: generally dumb ideas. 63 00:03:48,360 --> 00:03:49,040 Speaker 2: It was dumb. 64 00:03:49,200 --> 00:03:51,600 Speaker 1: It was dumb when the Republicans did it, it's dumb 65 00:03:51,600 --> 00:03:54,680 Speaker 1: when Democrats are It's actually dumber when Democrats are doing it. 66 00:03:54,920 --> 00:03:57,360 Speaker 2: They're the party of big government. 67 00:03:57,640 --> 00:04:00,240 Speaker 1: They're the party that says government is the solution to 68 00:04:00,280 --> 00:04:02,160 Speaker 1: these to these problems. Whether or not you and I 69 00:04:02,160 --> 00:04:04,240 Speaker 1: agree with that, of course, is a different matter. But 70 00:04:04,280 --> 00:04:06,400 Speaker 1: they're the party that argues that you have to have 71 00:04:06,480 --> 00:04:09,400 Speaker 1: government involved in all of these different solutions, and so 72 00:04:09,480 --> 00:04:13,760 Speaker 1: to allow them to shut down as part of a 73 00:04:13,880 --> 00:04:20,120 Speaker 1: funding you know, stunt is pretty self destructive, I would 74 00:04:20,120 --> 00:04:21,840 Speaker 1: think from the Democrat point of view. But the problem 75 00:04:21,960 --> 00:04:23,560 Speaker 1: is is that voters. 76 00:04:23,120 --> 00:04:25,600 Speaker 2: Don't really care. They don't really have a stake in this. 77 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:29,280 Speaker 1: They're not gonna this is inside the Beltway stuff unless 78 00:04:29,320 --> 00:04:33,240 Speaker 1: and until they actually experience some pain from it themselves. 79 00:04:33,240 --> 00:04:35,520 Speaker 1: And even the people who are actually going to be 80 00:04:35,760 --> 00:04:40,640 Speaker 1: directly impacted by this, the federal employees, you know, and 81 00:04:40,680 --> 00:04:42,200 Speaker 1: these are bad people. I'm not going to say, oh, 82 00:04:42,760 --> 00:04:46,640 Speaker 1: it's too bad for them. This is this is their jobs, right, 83 00:04:46,680 --> 00:04:49,719 Speaker 1: These are jobs that they took they're they're doing these jobs. 84 00:04:51,200 --> 00:04:53,279 Speaker 1: If you're going to eliminate these jobs, there should be 85 00:04:53,279 --> 00:04:54,480 Speaker 1: a process to do that. 86 00:04:54,680 --> 00:04:56,039 Speaker 2: So this is not fair to them. 87 00:04:56,400 --> 00:04:59,040 Speaker 1: But it's Democrats that are doing it, not Republicans the 88 00:04:59,160 --> 00:05:00,719 Speaker 1: c And look. 89 00:05:01,880 --> 00:05:05,160 Speaker 2: I'm just interrupt. I never buy into that. Right you 90 00:05:05,160 --> 00:05:07,440 Speaker 2: can lose your job at any moment. There is no 91 00:05:07,480 --> 00:05:10,080 Speaker 2: process for you losing your job. It's just town hall 92 00:05:10,120 --> 00:05:12,440 Speaker 2: coming to you and saying goodbye. I could lose my 93 00:05:12,560 --> 00:05:14,880 Speaker 2: job by someone coming to me and saying goodbye. This 94 00:05:15,120 --> 00:05:17,840 Speaker 2: very concept of process that somehow the government employee needs 95 00:05:17,880 --> 00:05:20,960 Speaker 2: to be treated with kids glove I always find problematic 96 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:25,160 Speaker 2: because it says they deserve something different and better than 97 00:05:25,200 --> 00:05:28,960 Speaker 2: those in the private sector who are paying the salary. 98 00:05:29,240 --> 00:05:31,960 Speaker 1: But to the point you can make that argument, but 99 00:05:31,960 --> 00:05:35,719 Speaker 1: they have civil service protections. That's the expectation of taking 100 00:05:35,760 --> 00:05:39,240 Speaker 1: that job, right, they have civil service protections. Whether or 101 00:05:39,279 --> 00:05:42,080 Speaker 1: not we like that or not, they do, and that's 102 00:05:42,080 --> 00:05:45,560 Speaker 1: an expectation they have going into this. Technically, it's one 103 00:05:45,600 --> 00:05:47,520 Speaker 1: of the benefits of the job is that you've got 104 00:05:47,640 --> 00:05:51,159 Speaker 1: better job security, regardless of whether they should have it 105 00:05:51,240 --> 00:05:51,440 Speaker 1: or not. 106 00:05:51,680 --> 00:05:55,720 Speaker 2: But this was the deal that they made, right, I 107 00:05:55,760 --> 00:05:59,039 Speaker 2: get that it's the deal that they made. I understand 108 00:05:59,440 --> 00:06:03,080 Speaker 2: that you have these impediments, Mott. What I'm saying is 109 00:06:03,080 --> 00:06:05,680 Speaker 2: is that as an argument to the American people, it 110 00:06:05,800 --> 00:06:10,159 Speaker 2: doesn't work, it doesn't fly. They have this deal doesn't 111 00:06:10,160 --> 00:06:11,680 Speaker 2: mean that it works. And this is where it goes 112 00:06:11,720 --> 00:06:14,200 Speaker 2: back to the left because the argument they're making is 113 00:06:14,480 --> 00:06:17,560 Speaker 2: we need to extend the subsidies in Obamacare, which don't 114 00:06:17,600 --> 00:06:19,560 Speaker 2: inspire till the end of the year, and this is 115 00:06:19,600 --> 00:06:22,080 Speaker 2: only a cr that gets a student November twenty. First, 116 00:06:22,279 --> 00:06:25,480 Speaker 2: the Republicans have been outrageously adept in saying, you want 117 00:06:25,520 --> 00:06:28,920 Speaker 2: to provide healthcare for illegal immigrants, which Americans are not 118 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:31,920 Speaker 2: in favor of, but it is indeed what they want 119 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:36,520 Speaker 2: to provide. So how is Schumer seen in the navigation 120 00:06:37,360 --> 00:06:40,760 Speaker 2: of this shutdown, which we call the Schumer shut down, 121 00:06:40,839 --> 00:06:43,240 Speaker 2: the Schumer Cso whatever it is you want to call it, 122 00:06:43,880 --> 00:06:48,120 Speaker 2: and does his political career long term survive this in 123 00:06:48,360 --> 00:06:50,240 Speaker 2: at least let's start within leadership. 124 00:06:50,520 --> 00:06:53,320 Speaker 1: I think he's doing this to protect his position in leadership. 125 00:06:54,040 --> 00:06:57,839 Speaker 1: The progressive left has been wanting him to fight Donald 126 00:06:57,839 --> 00:07:01,559 Speaker 1: Trump all along. Had the opportunity to do this in March, 127 00:07:01,680 --> 00:07:04,000 Speaker 1: and he didn't do it because he knew it wasn't 128 00:07:04,040 --> 00:07:07,080 Speaker 1: going to work. He knew that they didn't have leverage. 129 00:07:07,080 --> 00:07:09,720 Speaker 1: They don't have leverage now, But he almost lost his 130 00:07:09,800 --> 00:07:13,480 Speaker 1: position as leader because he refused to fight Donald Trump. 131 00:07:14,000 --> 00:07:17,600 Speaker 1: These people are insane That Trump arrangement syndrome has completely 132 00:07:17,640 --> 00:07:21,360 Speaker 1: taken over all of their strategic faculties. I guess you 133 00:07:21,400 --> 00:07:23,480 Speaker 1: can say. And all they want to do is have 134 00:07:23,520 --> 00:07:26,000 Speaker 1: a fight with Donald Trump. And so Chuck Schumer is 135 00:07:26,040 --> 00:07:30,120 Speaker 1: basically protecting himself by leading him into this box canyon, 136 00:07:31,120 --> 00:07:34,320 Speaker 1: you know, right in front of the Russian artillery. Allah 137 00:07:34,400 --> 00:07:36,400 Speaker 1: the charge of the lifergate. These guys are going to 138 00:07:36,440 --> 00:07:39,320 Speaker 1: get decimated as a result of this. There's no way 139 00:07:39,320 --> 00:07:42,720 Speaker 1: they can win it. It's a lose lose situation. This 140 00:07:43,240 --> 00:07:47,240 Speaker 1: is the wargame strategy should have been the prevailing one. 141 00:07:47,280 --> 00:07:48,880 Speaker 1: The only way to win this game is not to 142 00:07:48,920 --> 00:07:51,600 Speaker 1: play it. They should have just passed the cr and 143 00:07:51,680 --> 00:07:53,360 Speaker 1: continued the negotiations. 144 00:07:53,480 --> 00:07:56,280 Speaker 2: If you didn't catch it there, that's Ed Morrissey quoting 145 00:07:56,360 --> 00:08:01,679 Speaker 2: Joshua and the Whopper. Nicely done. Played with the Matthew 146 00:08:01,720 --> 00:08:06,160 Speaker 2: Broderick Ali Sheety wargames reference. Maybe Dabney Coleman's finest work. 147 00:08:07,560 --> 00:08:10,640 Speaker 1: I actually loved Jetney Coleman in that, and yet actually 148 00:08:10,680 --> 00:08:12,040 Speaker 1: a pretty layered character. 149 00:08:11,800 --> 00:08:13,559 Speaker 2: In that as opposed to some of the other stuff 150 00:08:13,600 --> 00:08:16,560 Speaker 2: that he did. So yes, and I love Datney Coleman anyway, 151 00:08:16,600 --> 00:08:20,920 Speaker 2: So as I want to get into where we see 152 00:08:20,920 --> 00:08:23,920 Speaker 2: some things from the Democratic Party, specifically you know, Pam 153 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:26,600 Speaker 2: Bondi testifying in front of this so judiciary and it 154 00:08:26,680 --> 00:08:29,320 Speaker 2: got hot and heated, and a lot of talk about 155 00:08:29,440 --> 00:08:33,760 Speaker 2: the weaponization of the FBI under Donald Trump, and look 156 00:08:33,800 --> 00:08:38,359 Speaker 2: at what he's done. We see that the Biden administration, 157 00:08:39,920 --> 00:08:43,000 Speaker 2: we saw their weaponization. We saw how they utilized Merrick Garland. 158 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:45,960 Speaker 2: We saw they utilized the FBI arresting Peter Navarro in 159 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:48,880 Speaker 2: an airport at Reagan National as opposed to his homework 160 00:08:48,920 --> 00:08:51,200 Speaker 2: could have been more private, more secluded. They wanted to 161 00:08:51,200 --> 00:08:53,800 Speaker 2: embarrass him, they wanted to shame him. That's an abuse 162 00:08:53,880 --> 00:08:57,000 Speaker 2: of power. We see the reporting National Review putting out 163 00:08:57,320 --> 00:09:00,640 Speaker 2: as what's where I first read it that Biden in 164 00:09:00,720 --> 00:09:03,360 Speaker 2: twenty fifteen, after that visit to Ukraine where he said 165 00:09:03,360 --> 00:09:06,720 Speaker 2: fire the prosecutor, the CIA put out a report that 166 00:09:06,800 --> 00:09:08,960 Speaker 2: said that the Ukrainians didn't like this. It made it 167 00:09:09,200 --> 00:09:12,080 Speaker 2: Hunter Biden working with Bariza made it look like that 168 00:09:12,160 --> 00:09:15,720 Speaker 2: they were hypocrites regarding levels of security, and Biden wanted 169 00:09:15,760 --> 00:09:18,679 Speaker 2: that report hidden. There seems to be no place as 170 00:09:18,720 --> 00:09:22,160 Speaker 2: we learn more about Joe Biden. Certainly Biden's team running 171 00:09:22,160 --> 00:09:24,320 Speaker 2: the country without his knowledge for the last couple of years. 172 00:09:24,320 --> 00:09:26,000 Speaker 2: And I believe the autto pen is just one of 173 00:09:26,040 --> 00:09:28,640 Speaker 2: the many, many pieces of proof of that that the 174 00:09:28,720 --> 00:09:33,800 Speaker 2: level of corruption duplicitousness from the Biden administration knows no bounds, 175 00:09:34,240 --> 00:09:37,000 Speaker 2: Ed Morrissey. And there's no way to escape the fact 176 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:40,040 Speaker 2: that this was not only a corrupt four years, but 177 00:09:40,160 --> 00:09:43,080 Speaker 2: Obama's eight years were equally as corrupt. 178 00:09:43,760 --> 00:09:46,679 Speaker 1: Absolutely, and in large part because with Joe Biden, right, 179 00:09:46,760 --> 00:09:49,960 Speaker 1: I mean, Joe Biden was using those eight years to 180 00:09:50,120 --> 00:09:51,040 Speaker 1: enrich his family. 181 00:09:51,679 --> 00:09:53,160 Speaker 2: I'm not necessarily sure that. 182 00:09:53,120 --> 00:09:57,080 Speaker 1: You can point to Barack Obama profiting off of his 183 00:09:57,200 --> 00:10:00,560 Speaker 1: presidency or Michelle Obama profiting off of his presidence, except 184 00:10:00,559 --> 00:10:03,479 Speaker 1: in the normal ways. Right, you write memoirs, you you 185 00:10:03,679 --> 00:10:07,480 Speaker 1: get millions of dollars from memoirs. That's that's a little corrupt, 186 00:10:07,480 --> 00:10:11,360 Speaker 1: but it's it's it applies across the board. This is 187 00:10:11,400 --> 00:10:14,360 Speaker 1: something Joe Biden has always been different. His family has 188 00:10:14,400 --> 00:10:18,640 Speaker 1: been selling access to him for decades, and it ramped 189 00:10:18,720 --> 00:10:20,680 Speaker 1: up during the eight years that Joe Biden was Vice 190 00:10:20,679 --> 00:10:24,920 Speaker 1: president in Obama's administration, and it continued when Joe Biden 191 00:10:24,960 --> 00:10:28,760 Speaker 1: became president and even in between because there was an 192 00:10:28,760 --> 00:10:31,280 Speaker 1: anticipation that Joe Biden was going to return to office 193 00:10:31,280 --> 00:10:33,920 Speaker 1: at some point. And so, yeah, this guy is one 194 00:10:33,920 --> 00:10:39,040 Speaker 1: of the most corrupt, personally corrupt high ranking officials that 195 00:10:39,240 --> 00:10:43,080 Speaker 1: America has ever produced. And what we saw in terms 196 00:10:43,080 --> 00:10:48,560 Speaker 1: of censorship of Americans, in terms of UH, in terms 197 00:10:48,760 --> 00:10:55,280 Speaker 1: of UH fascism, really the sort of marrying of government 198 00:10:55,480 --> 00:10:59,840 Speaker 1: and big industry, especially in tech during the UH, during 199 00:10:59,880 --> 00:11:03,040 Speaker 1: the Biden administration, and that's that's the actual definition of 200 00:11:03,120 --> 00:11:07,280 Speaker 1: fectionism as opposed to what academics like to toss around. 201 00:11:07,800 --> 00:11:11,000 Speaker 1: It was, it's off the scale. And we're seeing this now. 202 00:11:11,040 --> 00:11:14,240 Speaker 1: You've got you know, Biden administration was spying on eight 203 00:11:14,280 --> 00:11:18,520 Speaker 1: different Republican senators, right, the FBI was co opted into 204 00:11:18,559 --> 00:11:23,920 Speaker 1: doing basically domestic surveillance on the opposition party and its members. 205 00:11:24,400 --> 00:11:27,520 Speaker 1: This is terrible stuff. It's worse than Watergate, and the 206 00:11:27,600 --> 00:11:29,120 Speaker 1: media is not really even covering it. 207 00:11:29,400 --> 00:11:30,800 Speaker 2: By the by You're going to get a lot of 208 00:11:30,800 --> 00:11:33,320 Speaker 2: heat for saying worse than Watergate because Watergate is now 209 00:11:33,440 --> 00:11:36,679 Speaker 2: low and religion for many people. And how dare you? 210 00:11:36,679 --> 00:11:38,880 Speaker 2: You don't understand? But I want to get into the 211 00:11:38,960 --> 00:11:42,000 Speaker 2: spying thing, because that is the correct term. What the 212 00:11:42,080 --> 00:11:45,280 Speaker 2: left will say is all they did was access call logs. 213 00:11:45,320 --> 00:11:49,360 Speaker 2: That's not spying. That's their response. That what the what 214 00:11:49,400 --> 00:11:52,560 Speaker 2: the Biden administration did, what Jacksonith did as special counsel 215 00:11:52,640 --> 00:11:57,000 Speaker 2: was access call logs of seven senators and one congressman, 216 00:11:57,080 --> 00:12:01,400 Speaker 2: all Republicans. That's not spying. I that's a nice bit 217 00:12:01,440 --> 00:12:06,120 Speaker 2: of sophistry. What say you? Sophistry, absolute sophistry. 218 00:12:06,520 --> 00:12:10,400 Speaker 1: There's unless they were actually unless there was a reasonable 219 00:12:10,600 --> 00:12:13,800 Speaker 1: suspicion that these people were engaged in criminal behavior. The 220 00:12:13,880 --> 00:12:18,160 Speaker 1: FBI and the Department of Justice shouldn't be tracking the 221 00:12:19,600 --> 00:12:23,760 Speaker 1: call logues of senators and congressmen. It's a completely separate 222 00:12:23,800 --> 00:12:26,199 Speaker 1: branch of government. Don't forget in the House of Representatives 223 00:12:26,200 --> 00:12:28,600 Speaker 1: in the US Senate has its own rules in dealing 224 00:12:28,679 --> 00:12:32,800 Speaker 1: with misconduct for its members. The FBI isn't supposed to 225 00:12:32,840 --> 00:12:35,120 Speaker 1: be involved in that. This is ant, This is a 226 00:12:35,520 --> 00:12:40,920 Speaker 1: this is a core violation of the separation of powers 227 00:12:41,520 --> 00:12:45,440 Speaker 1: doctrine in the US Constitution. The legislative branch and the 228 00:12:45,440 --> 00:12:49,040 Speaker 1: executive branch are co equal, and they can they can 229 00:12:49,080 --> 00:12:52,559 Speaker 1: do oversight on each other, but only under certain conditions, 230 00:12:52,720 --> 00:12:52,960 Speaker 1: you know. 231 00:12:53,080 --> 00:12:53,960 Speaker 2: And this is and. 232 00:12:55,559 --> 00:12:59,679 Speaker 1: Getting call logs from US senators and congressmen, especially when 233 00:12:59,679 --> 00:13:03,520 Speaker 1: you're just doing it to the opposition, is spying. It 234 00:13:03,679 --> 00:13:05,600 Speaker 1: is spying on their communications. 235 00:13:06,640 --> 00:13:10,440 Speaker 2: Talking Ed Marcy of hotair dot com. Let me move 236 00:13:10,480 --> 00:13:13,880 Speaker 2: it to part three, is I've got my list here? 237 00:13:15,960 --> 00:13:19,760 Speaker 2: President Trump first saying that the tariff dollars. First of all, 238 00:13:19,760 --> 00:13:22,400 Speaker 2: he's never never so happy is when he's talking about 239 00:13:22,480 --> 00:13:25,199 Speaker 2: tariffs and the amount of money that's coming in. I argue, 240 00:13:25,240 --> 00:13:27,640 Speaker 2: tariffs are attacks and it's what we're paying. People can 241 00:13:27,640 --> 00:13:31,040 Speaker 2: disagree with it all they want. The data's on my side. 242 00:13:31,200 --> 00:13:34,000 Speaker 2: He loves tariffs as tactic. I can live with it. 243 00:13:34,080 --> 00:13:36,840 Speaker 2: As a policy. I have problems with it. But he's 244 00:13:36,840 --> 00:13:39,440 Speaker 2: started by saying here, you know, maybe we'll use the 245 00:13:39,440 --> 00:13:41,520 Speaker 2: tariffs as a way of a rebate and give it 246 00:13:41,520 --> 00:13:43,640 Speaker 2: back to the people. Maybe we'll use it to pay 247 00:13:43,679 --> 00:13:46,200 Speaker 2: down a debt. I thought that was the whole plan. 248 00:13:46,720 --> 00:13:48,400 Speaker 2: Then it was, well, you know what, we'll give it 249 00:13:48,440 --> 00:13:52,480 Speaker 2: to farmers as a way of subsidies because of issues 250 00:13:52,559 --> 00:13:54,559 Speaker 2: with some of the trade deals we don't have done yet. 251 00:13:54,679 --> 00:13:56,760 Speaker 2: And then the latest is we're going to provide it 252 00:13:56,760 --> 00:14:01,000 Speaker 2: as to supplemental nutritional program dollars. I'm and infantite children 253 00:14:01,200 --> 00:14:05,200 Speaker 2: the WICK program, so it doesn't suffer. As I read 254 00:14:05,280 --> 00:14:08,800 Speaker 2: the tea leaves and all these conversations, what I see 255 00:14:08,880 --> 00:14:12,400 Speaker 2: is we've engaged a tax increase, and now we're going 256 00:14:12,480 --> 00:14:14,960 Speaker 2: to give the president unilateral authority to spend it on 257 00:14:15,040 --> 00:14:18,320 Speaker 2: pet projects. I voted for Trump, but I didn't vote 258 00:14:18,360 --> 00:14:19,960 Speaker 2: for this part of it. Lots of other end I 259 00:14:19,960 --> 00:14:23,880 Speaker 2: did not this. How is the left not overjoyed with 260 00:14:24,040 --> 00:14:26,600 Speaker 2: this new tax? How is Bernie Sanders not sitting at 261 00:14:26,640 --> 00:14:29,600 Speaker 2: home wearing mittens and saying, this is a great idea, 262 00:14:29,960 --> 00:14:33,960 Speaker 2: How this is quite by the way, world class. I 263 00:14:34,040 --> 00:14:36,240 Speaker 2: got the hands up here, you dums it everything, you 264 00:14:36,400 --> 00:14:40,440 Speaker 2: do it great, Bernie sings. Honestly, this is the kind 265 00:14:40,480 --> 00:14:42,360 Speaker 2: of thing Bernie would have cooked up and people would 266 00:14:42,360 --> 00:14:45,400 Speaker 2: have said, are you crazy? Yet here it is happening, 267 00:14:45,880 --> 00:14:48,960 Speaker 2: and no one's getting on Trump's case about it. 268 00:14:50,720 --> 00:14:52,480 Speaker 1: Well, I don't know that no one's getting on Trump's 269 00:14:52,520 --> 00:14:54,120 Speaker 1: case about it. I think this is one of the 270 00:14:54,160 --> 00:14:57,080 Speaker 1: things that some people are getting on Trump's case about this. 271 00:14:57,200 --> 00:14:59,240 Speaker 1: You can you can find people who are who are 272 00:14:59,280 --> 00:15:03,720 Speaker 1: dissenting fro the tariff thing. I've always had two minds 273 00:15:03,720 --> 00:15:07,960 Speaker 1: about tariffs. One is I'm opposed to them, but the 274 00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:11,760 Speaker 1: second is that I was willing to see how it 275 00:15:11,800 --> 00:15:14,640 Speaker 1: would work because we've done no tariffs now for a 276 00:15:14,680 --> 00:15:18,040 Speaker 1: long time, and we're not getting free trade. We're not 277 00:15:18,080 --> 00:15:21,440 Speaker 1: getting fair trade. We're getting abused in this process. And 278 00:15:21,480 --> 00:15:24,800 Speaker 1: I think Trump actually is right about that part of it. 279 00:15:25,480 --> 00:15:29,440 Speaker 2: The problem is is that the tariff regime has implemented 280 00:15:29,640 --> 00:15:30,600 Speaker 2: is all over the place. 281 00:15:30,680 --> 00:15:33,520 Speaker 1: It's ad hoc right, There's no there's no rhyme or 282 00:15:33,600 --> 00:15:36,760 Speaker 1: reason to it. It seems to be based off of 283 00:15:37,560 --> 00:15:44,960 Speaker 1: the idea that trade deficits with countries is an inherent unfairness. 284 00:15:44,360 --> 00:15:45,000 Speaker 2: Which it is not. 285 00:15:45,040 --> 00:15:50,600 Speaker 1: I don't want I don't want balance trade with Luxembourg, right, Switzerland, right, 286 00:15:50,640 --> 00:15:52,920 Speaker 1: I mean, I don't really care. Now, if you're talking 287 00:15:52,920 --> 00:15:56,880 Speaker 1: about China and India, that may be a little closer 288 00:15:56,920 --> 00:15:59,880 Speaker 1: to the truth, But I'm more interested in the abuses 289 00:16:00,080 --> 00:16:03,200 Speaker 1: that especially in China, where they're using slave labor to 290 00:16:03,280 --> 00:16:07,080 Speaker 1: keep prices low. That to me is a violation that 291 00:16:07,120 --> 00:16:09,840 Speaker 1: needs to be addressed. And if if you have a 292 00:16:10,200 --> 00:16:17,360 Speaker 1: coherent strategy where tariffs can apply that everybody understands, so 293 00:16:17,400 --> 00:16:20,960 Speaker 1: that everybody can react to that, I was and I 294 00:16:21,080 --> 00:16:23,600 Speaker 1: still am willing to see how that would work. But this, 295 00:16:24,080 --> 00:16:28,280 Speaker 1: the way it's being applied now is nonsense. And by 296 00:16:28,320 --> 00:16:29,920 Speaker 1: the way, the way that they're going to use the 297 00:16:30,000 --> 00:16:36,360 Speaker 1: revenues from this is basically how anybody, Republican or Democrat, 298 00:16:36,400 --> 00:16:38,800 Speaker 1: any administration would use windfalls. They're going to use it 299 00:16:38,840 --> 00:16:42,000 Speaker 1: to bolster their own position, and there's no rhyme or 300 00:16:42,040 --> 00:16:44,600 Speaker 1: reason to that either. There's no point in handing it 301 00:16:44,640 --> 00:16:47,440 Speaker 1: back to people if that was the issue. If you 302 00:16:47,480 --> 00:16:51,280 Speaker 1: need to subsidize the impact that tariffs, don't do the tariffs. 303 00:16:51,080 --> 00:16:56,560 Speaker 2: Which is exactly exactly the point that I make. I 304 00:16:57,160 --> 00:17:00,520 Speaker 2: sometimes think I'm alone on that eye, and I want 305 00:17:00,560 --> 00:17:02,160 Speaker 2: to talk more about tyres, but I'm up against it. 306 00:17:02,200 --> 00:17:03,160 Speaker 2: But before I. 307 00:17:03,200 --> 00:17:07,960 Speaker 3: Let you go, going back to the shutdown, I was 308 00:17:08,080 --> 00:17:12,879 Speaker 3: told that the shutdown, to paraphrase Rama manual, created a 309 00:17:12,880 --> 00:17:15,320 Speaker 3: great opportunity right, never let a crisis. 310 00:17:15,000 --> 00:17:16,439 Speaker 2: Go to waste, because it allows you to do things 311 00:17:16,480 --> 00:17:18,800 Speaker 2: you otherwise could not do. It's that second part that 312 00:17:18,880 --> 00:17:21,679 Speaker 2: is the most important part of that quote from the 313 00:17:21,680 --> 00:17:24,960 Speaker 2: then Chief of staff to Barack Obama, Rama Manual. I 314 00:17:25,000 --> 00:17:27,760 Speaker 2: was told that this would allow this shutdown, would allow 315 00:17:27,800 --> 00:17:30,760 Speaker 2: for mass firings to take place, and none of these 316 00:17:30,760 --> 00:17:33,200 Speaker 2: people have to be rehired. You rehire them with your people. 317 00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:37,760 Speaker 2: So the question before us is we've been in a shutdown, 318 00:17:37,800 --> 00:17:40,600 Speaker 2: now we're on day eight. How come no one's been 319 00:17:40,600 --> 00:17:41,040 Speaker 2: fired yet? 320 00:17:41,160 --> 00:17:41,240 Speaker 4: Ed? 321 00:17:42,200 --> 00:17:45,760 Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I mean this is a great question. I 322 00:17:45,840 --> 00:17:48,719 Speaker 1: expected this to happen over the weekend. I thought they 323 00:17:48,720 --> 00:17:50,640 Speaker 1: were going to give them a few days, the Democrats 324 00:17:50,640 --> 00:17:52,240 Speaker 1: a few days, and then they were going to start 325 00:17:52,800 --> 00:17:55,160 Speaker 1: marching through some of the institutions, maybe one a day, 326 00:17:56,080 --> 00:17:59,879 Speaker 1: and start doing these mass layoffs, not furloughs, but layoffs. 327 00:18:00,040 --> 00:18:00,159 Speaker 2: Right. 328 00:18:00,160 --> 00:18:03,000 Speaker 1: Instead, they were talking about fighting over back pay, which 329 00:18:03,160 --> 00:18:06,919 Speaker 1: is sort of the opposite of what their threat was 330 00:18:07,080 --> 00:18:09,920 Speaker 1: is we're not talking about back pay. If you're talking 331 00:18:09,920 --> 00:18:11,920 Speaker 1: about back pay, then you're not talking about firing people. 332 00:18:11,920 --> 00:18:14,120 Speaker 1: You're just talking about doing the normal furlough, which they 333 00:18:14,160 --> 00:18:15,280 Speaker 1: had said they weren't. 334 00:18:15,080 --> 00:18:15,560 Speaker 2: Going to do. 335 00:18:17,280 --> 00:18:19,840 Speaker 1: You know, Donald Trump today apparently or late last night 336 00:18:19,880 --> 00:18:22,320 Speaker 1: apparently said something about the firings are going to start 337 00:18:22,359 --> 00:18:27,159 Speaker 1: pretty soon and that Democrats were going to be sorry 338 00:18:27,440 --> 00:18:30,480 Speaker 1: until you actually pull that trigger, right, nobody's going to 339 00:18:30,520 --> 00:18:33,200 Speaker 1: take it seriously. And I think what they were hoping 340 00:18:33,240 --> 00:18:36,920 Speaker 1: for was that Democrats would exhaust themselves on this cr 341 00:18:37,600 --> 00:18:39,560 Speaker 1: and then eventually get to a point where they were 342 00:18:39,600 --> 00:18:41,320 Speaker 1: just going to say, Okay, let's get this thing off 343 00:18:41,320 --> 00:18:44,359 Speaker 1: the table so we can get back to business. We've 344 00:18:44,400 --> 00:18:47,320 Speaker 1: made our point, whatever point that might have been. But 345 00:18:47,440 --> 00:18:51,639 Speaker 1: they're not interested in doing that, and so you're going 346 00:18:51,720 --> 00:18:53,159 Speaker 1: to have to You're going to have to provide a 347 00:18:53,160 --> 00:18:55,840 Speaker 1: few more sticks. You said you were going to do it, 348 00:18:56,160 --> 00:18:57,640 Speaker 1: you have to do it. I agree. 349 00:18:57,880 --> 00:19:00,439 Speaker 2: And the point of this shutdown, the point is the 350 00:19:00,480 --> 00:19:03,280 Speaker 2: same point that Corey Booker made in a twenty five 351 00:19:03,359 --> 00:19:10,000 Speaker 2: hour filibuster. It's the same exact point. There was no 352 00:19:10,040 --> 00:19:11,840 Speaker 2: point in the filibuster, guy, so there was no point 353 00:19:11,880 --> 00:19:15,159 Speaker 2: to it. Yes, Basically, basically what we're saying here is 354 00:19:15,160 --> 00:19:19,680 Speaker 2: that this is pointless. Every shutdown is pointless. 355 00:19:19,840 --> 00:19:23,199 Speaker 1: Every shut down is pointless, and so yes, but the 356 00:19:23,280 --> 00:19:26,520 Speaker 1: center they get to that point at pointlessness, maybe we 357 00:19:26,520 --> 00:19:28,720 Speaker 1: can move on and get some negotiations done. 358 00:19:28,760 --> 00:19:32,200 Speaker 2: He is the King of pointless. He is Ed Morrissey 359 00:19:32,880 --> 00:19:35,280 Speaker 2: of hotair dot com. Be sure to check him out 360 00:19:35,280 --> 00:19:37,600 Speaker 2: at hot air dot com at always a pleasure. More 361 00:19:37,720 --> 00:19:44,680 Speaker 2: to get you on. Tony Katz. This is Tony kats today. 362 00:19:45,600 --> 00:19:50,400 Speaker 2: Two trillion dollars in savings. Yes, please, that would be fantastic. 363 00:19:50,840 --> 00:19:54,200 Speaker 2: Tony Katz. That is me. What's up everybody, Tony Katz today. 364 00:19:54,720 --> 00:19:57,080 Speaker 2: Good to be with you. Find everything I do over 365 00:19:57,119 --> 00:19:59,439 Speaker 2: at Tony Katz dot com. And you can get the 366 00:19:59,440 --> 00:20:02,600 Speaker 2: show sheet every Monday through Friday, brought to you by 367 00:20:02,720 --> 00:20:06,359 Speaker 2: Defiancebeef dot com. 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Joni Ernst, who is the Senator from 375 00:20:34,680 --> 00:20:40,080 Speaker 2: Iowa she is not running for reelection Republican, said Hey, 376 00:20:40,920 --> 00:20:48,679 Speaker 2: I am the dojecaucus founder and I think there's a 377 00:20:48,720 --> 00:20:53,359 Speaker 2: way to utilize the shot the shutdown that can save 378 00:20:53,440 --> 00:20:57,280 Speaker 2: taxpayers two trillion dollars. Well, I'm all ears. As we 379 00:20:57,280 --> 00:21:01,320 Speaker 2: were just discussing with Ed Morrissey, you told me the 380 00:21:01,359 --> 00:21:04,960 Speaker 2: shutdown meant people would be laid off. Let's go. Let's go. 381 00:21:05,560 --> 00:21:08,720 Speaker 2: If these jobs are not necessary, let us remove these jobs. 382 00:21:08,920 --> 00:21:11,960 Speaker 2: If these jobs have to be replaced, let us replace 383 00:21:12,040 --> 00:21:16,480 Speaker 2: them with people who are not in absolute lockstep opposition 384 00:21:16,600 --> 00:21:20,280 Speaker 2: to everything that we do. I don't want people who 385 00:21:20,320 --> 00:21:24,480 Speaker 2: are lifelong leftists being in positions that number ones can 386 00:21:24,520 --> 00:21:28,480 Speaker 2: be challenged. That seems like a terrible idea. Why don't 387 00:21:28,480 --> 00:21:30,639 Speaker 2: we put our people in there, People who believe in 388 00:21:30,720 --> 00:21:34,360 Speaker 2: saving the people a dollar, people who believe in free speech, 389 00:21:34,560 --> 00:21:36,919 Speaker 2: people who don't think that they should use their position 390 00:21:37,040 --> 00:21:41,520 Speaker 2: or their power to usurp duly elected officials nor the 391 00:21:41,560 --> 00:21:44,959 Speaker 2: people who vote for them. So get rid of them. 392 00:21:45,359 --> 00:21:49,040 Speaker 2: I'm all in. I didn't cause this shutdown. I can't 393 00:21:49,080 --> 00:21:51,320 Speaker 2: start it, I can't stop it. All I can do 394 00:21:51,400 --> 00:21:53,439 Speaker 2: is talk about it. But I'm not getting worked up 395 00:21:53,440 --> 00:21:57,080 Speaker 2: about it. Democrats did this. Democrats can deal with the ramifications. 396 00:21:57,520 --> 00:22:02,320 Speaker 2: Actions and elections have consequence, says here you go, and 397 00:22:02,400 --> 00:22:08,000 Speaker 2: she wrote a letter October third to russ vote, who 398 00:22:08,119 --> 00:22:10,760 Speaker 2: is the guy who runs the Office of Management Budget? 399 00:22:11,760 --> 00:22:14,280 Speaker 2: And she writes and I'm quoting while Senator Schumer and 400 00:22:14,320 --> 00:22:18,720 Speaker 2: House Minority Leader Jeffries and Congressional Democrats have decided shutting 401 00:22:18,760 --> 00:22:23,520 Speaker 2: down the federal government over pipe dream political priorities is productive. Wow, 402 00:22:23,560 --> 00:22:26,800 Speaker 2: it's a lot of alliteration there. Shutting down the federal 403 00:22:26,880 --> 00:22:30,119 Speaker 2: government over pipe dream political priorities is productive. See, I 404 00:22:30,160 --> 00:22:33,400 Speaker 2: can do it. In practice, they are providing the Trump 405 00:22:33,440 --> 00:22:38,280 Speaker 2: administration an amazing opportunity to save taxpayers from putting a 406 00:22:38,400 --> 00:22:43,040 Speaker 2: four hundred million dollar daily bill by eliminating non essential 407 00:22:43,080 --> 00:22:47,919 Speaker 2: federal workers, trimming wasteful federal programs, and taking critical steps 408 00:22:47,960 --> 00:22:51,400 Speaker 2: and curtailing Washington's out of control spending that are put 409 00:22:51,600 --> 00:22:55,600 Speaker 2: our nation's thirty seven trillion dollars in debt. That put 410 00:22:55,640 --> 00:22:58,840 Speaker 2: our nation thirty seven trillion dollars in debt. There's no 411 00:22:58,960 --> 00:23:02,760 Speaker 2: better symbol of washington wasteful spending then paying non essential 412 00:23:02,800 --> 00:23:06,560 Speaker 2: bureaucrats four hundred million dollars a day not to work. 413 00:23:06,960 --> 00:23:11,400 Speaker 2: As of today, the bill to provide do nothing pay 414 00:23:11,520 --> 00:23:15,680 Speaker 2: for federal employees furloughed by Schumer's shutdown is one point 415 00:23:15,720 --> 00:23:19,080 Speaker 2: two billion. Remember that was a couple days ago. Where 416 00:23:19,160 --> 00:23:26,680 Speaker 2: we're further into this. So she's saying, here's the opportunity. 417 00:23:27,280 --> 00:23:30,800 Speaker 2: Here's this. There's the sixty five billion dollars that's been 418 00:23:30,840 --> 00:23:34,840 Speaker 2: identified by the GAO in funds appropriated about Congress to 419 00:23:34,880 --> 00:23:38,880 Speaker 2: fight COVID that were never spent. It was appropriated. Engage 420 00:23:38,880 --> 00:23:42,120 Speaker 2: the recision bill, bring it back. That should have happened already. 421 00:23:42,240 --> 00:23:45,240 Speaker 2: That should happen. Now, sixty five billion not spent on 422 00:23:45,320 --> 00:23:49,399 Speaker 2: COVID that we can bring back to the people. Absolutely. 423 00:23:50,359 --> 00:23:54,160 Speaker 2: Then she talks about omb a technical summary of Trump's 424 00:23:54,200 --> 00:23:57,880 Speaker 2: twenty twenty six budget revision and focuses on the one 425 00:23:57,920 --> 00:24:02,480 Speaker 2: point six trillion Congress appropriate for no specific purpose. Now 426 00:24:02,520 --> 00:24:04,919 Speaker 2: that's an interesting thing, right that could be seen as 427 00:24:04,920 --> 00:24:09,159 Speaker 2: an objective statement or would not be a subjective statement. 428 00:24:09,160 --> 00:24:12,000 Speaker 2: People can say differently. I'd say subjective statement. She writes, 429 00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:14,520 Speaker 2: with tillions of dollars dashed away in secret slush funds, 430 00:24:14,720 --> 00:24:17,720 Speaker 2: why is Washington borrowing another dime? These accounts should be 431 00:24:17,720 --> 00:24:22,480 Speaker 2: thoroughly scrubbed with unnecessary funds canceled. Oh hell, yes, that 432 00:24:22,520 --> 00:24:26,640 Speaker 2: should happen. Absolutely, that should happen. What are those funds 433 00:24:26,680 --> 00:24:30,160 Speaker 2: when they kind of look like USAID? What value did 434 00:24:30,240 --> 00:24:34,040 Speaker 2: USAID actually bring If you want to tell me we 435 00:24:34,080 --> 00:24:39,440 Speaker 2: should be funding PEP far right, which is about AIDS drugs, 436 00:24:39,920 --> 00:24:43,320 Speaker 2: I'd see that there's a value there. And AIDS has 437 00:24:43,320 --> 00:24:45,040 Speaker 2: been on the decline and it's been kind of an 438 00:24:45,080 --> 00:24:49,840 Speaker 2: incredible success story in a lot of ways. Certainly it's 439 00:24:49,880 --> 00:24:52,199 Speaker 2: not something you want to see increase world Why that 440 00:24:52,240 --> 00:24:55,640 Speaker 2: could create problems all the way across the board. Well, 441 00:24:55,680 --> 00:24:57,760 Speaker 2: we don't want to have entanglements with other nations. We 442 00:24:57,880 --> 00:25:02,960 Speaker 2: can clearly see that better health health outcomes in other 443 00:25:03,040 --> 00:25:09,200 Speaker 2: nations are better for us. But USAID didn't provide anything better. 444 00:25:10,359 --> 00:25:14,760 Speaker 2: It was a way to fund pet projects for the 445 00:25:14,840 --> 00:25:18,400 Speaker 2: purpose of narrative and to support those who they decided 446 00:25:18,440 --> 00:25:21,960 Speaker 2: ideologically deserve financial support. And the answer to that is aw, 447 00:25:22,040 --> 00:25:24,480 Speaker 2: hell no. And I say this because never once did 448 00:25:24,480 --> 00:25:27,640 Speaker 2: they say we should really provide assistance to radio hosts, 449 00:25:28,320 --> 00:25:32,200 Speaker 2: specifically those in the Midwest who are on mid days, 450 00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:38,160 Speaker 2: who have beards, love cigars and are great in bed. 451 00:25:40,280 --> 00:25:43,159 Speaker 2: What I was just describing a radio host in the 452 00:25:43,160 --> 00:25:46,440 Speaker 2: Midwest who smoke cigars and it's great in bed. I 453 00:25:46,480 --> 00:25:51,720 Speaker 2: don't think what well, that could be anybody. Don't don't. Wow, Wow, 454 00:25:52,560 --> 00:25:57,199 Speaker 2: I'm flattered. But this is correct, This is accurate. The 455 00:25:57,240 --> 00:25:59,800 Speaker 2: money doesn't need to be spent on these programs because 456 00:25:59,840 --> 00:26:01,760 Speaker 2: they all go in one direction. They all exist for 457 00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:10,280 Speaker 2: one purpose and one purpose only. Absolutely, absolutely do away 458 00:26:10,280 --> 00:26:16,320 Speaker 2: with it. And she discusses wasteful Pentagon spending that the 459 00:26:16,359 --> 00:26:18,760 Speaker 2: Department of War is not passing on it and continues 460 00:26:18,840 --> 00:26:22,919 Speaker 2: multiple practices such as overpaying for spare parts, including quote 461 00:26:23,119 --> 00:26:26,960 Speaker 2: a nearly eight thousand percent off the shelf markup for 462 00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:30,080 Speaker 2: a soap dispenser and twelve hundred and twenty dollars for 463 00:26:30,119 --> 00:26:32,800 Speaker 2: a coffee cup. Hold on a second, I need to 464 00:26:32,800 --> 00:26:36,359 Speaker 2: see this coffee cup, I Producer Landon, you need to 465 00:26:36,440 --> 00:26:40,320 Speaker 2: reach out to Senator Joni Ernst. I must see said 466 00:26:40,359 --> 00:26:44,359 Speaker 2: coffee cup. I want to know does the coffee taste better? 467 00:26:44,840 --> 00:26:49,080 Speaker 2: Is it hotter? What happens? What does this coffee cup do? 468 00:26:50,359 --> 00:26:52,760 Speaker 2: I must see it. I must feel it in my hands. 469 00:26:52,800 --> 00:26:57,600 Speaker 2: I must taste a rich, robust roast from it. Twelve 470 00:26:57,640 --> 00:27:00,520 Speaker 2: hundred and twenty dollars for a coffee cup. I'm not 471 00:27:00,560 --> 00:27:02,000 Speaker 2: the only one, right. You got to see it too. 472 00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:05,760 Speaker 2: But this is a great argument, if we have this 473 00:27:05,880 --> 00:27:09,520 Speaker 2: opportunity because of the shutdown, let's take it. Let's do 474 00:27:09,680 --> 00:27:12,399 Speaker 2: some good with it. We're not violating the law. Here's 475 00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:14,920 Speaker 2: what's happening, so here's the action we can take. Let's 476 00:27:14,920 --> 00:27:19,560 Speaker 2: take it. It was Rama Magnuel. Never let a crisis 477 00:27:19,560 --> 00:27:21,840 Speaker 2: go to waste, right, because it allows you to do 478 00:27:21,920 --> 00:27:26,080 Speaker 2: things you otherwise could not do. Let's go take advantage. 479 00:27:26,480 --> 00:27:29,000 Speaker 2: People are taking advantage of the Prime Day deals. I 480 00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:30,600 Speaker 2: don't know. There always seems to be a Prime Day 481 00:27:30,640 --> 00:27:33,399 Speaker 2: deal from Amazon, but now Walmart is trying to go 482 00:27:33,480 --> 00:27:36,240 Speaker 2: up against them, and best bias going up against them, 483 00:27:36,280 --> 00:27:43,480 Speaker 2: and wayfair. My experience is with the Amazon Prime Day 484 00:27:43,520 --> 00:27:48,120 Speaker 2: sales that the sale prices aren't that great. My experience 485 00:27:48,359 --> 00:27:53,320 Speaker 2: is I do not see an incredible deal. I don't 486 00:27:53,359 --> 00:27:58,200 Speaker 2: see where I'm saving money. But everybody is doing this. 487 00:27:59,040 --> 00:28:04,160 Speaker 2: Everybody right now is putting out deals left and right. 488 00:28:04,240 --> 00:28:08,240 Speaker 2: So Prime has got a bunch of them. By the way, 489 00:28:08,240 --> 00:28:10,440 Speaker 2: did you know that being a Prime member went up 490 00:28:11,320 --> 00:28:13,960 Speaker 2: used to be ninety nine dollars, then I think it 491 00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:16,760 Speaker 2: went to one hundred and nine. Now it's fifteen dollars 492 00:28:16,800 --> 00:28:21,640 Speaker 2: a month. That's one hundred and eighty bucks kids fifteen 493 00:28:21,640 --> 00:28:24,600 Speaker 2: times twelve. I did them at momme. All right, fine, 494 00:28:24,640 --> 00:28:28,119 Speaker 2: I'll pull out a calculator. I know I'm right. I 495 00:28:28,160 --> 00:28:32,119 Speaker 2: don't know why anybody's arguing with me. Fifteen times twelve. 496 00:28:32,240 --> 00:28:37,480 Speaker 2: One hundred and eighty gosh, no faith in me at all. 497 00:28:37,640 --> 00:28:40,560 Speaker 2: One hundred and eighty dollars to be a prime member really 498 00:28:40,600 --> 00:28:45,120 Speaker 2: for that delivery and sometimes same day delivery. Now you 499 00:28:45,200 --> 00:28:47,040 Speaker 2: get the other things with it. You're going to get 500 00:28:47,080 --> 00:28:50,440 Speaker 2: the streaming service and all that jazz. But I don't know. 501 00:28:51,080 --> 00:28:56,720 Speaker 2: Eventually you can't afford all these services. Walmart is running 502 00:28:56,760 --> 00:29:01,320 Speaker 2: deals right now fifty percent off across electronics, home kitchen, toys, 503 00:29:01,360 --> 00:29:07,360 Speaker 2: and seasonal decore. Seasonal decor I'm assuming that means Halloween 504 00:29:07,440 --> 00:29:10,680 Speaker 2: decorations and Christmas decorations. That's what they mean, right, Yeah, 505 00:29:10,680 --> 00:29:14,880 Speaker 2: that's definitely what they mean. Best Buy, they are doing 506 00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:21,760 Speaker 2: something called Tectober, as opposed to October markdowns on TVs, laptops, headphones. 507 00:29:21,800 --> 00:29:23,680 Speaker 2: Hold on, I want to see this now. I am 508 00:29:23,720 --> 00:29:25,520 Speaker 2: no way in a market for a TV at all, 509 00:29:25,560 --> 00:29:27,120 Speaker 2: and as you know, I'm never going to lift the 510 00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:30,960 Speaker 2: TV again in my life. I ruined my left arm. 511 00:29:31,080 --> 00:29:33,040 Speaker 2: It's by the way, So I had surgery and I 512 00:29:33,040 --> 00:29:35,000 Speaker 2: tore the bicep ten and this was back in April. 513 00:29:36,120 --> 00:29:38,160 Speaker 2: The surgery went very very well. It just takes a 514 00:29:38,160 --> 00:29:40,600 Speaker 2: long time. So now I'm back to lifting weights with it, 515 00:29:41,800 --> 00:29:46,120 Speaker 2: which which is good. And I make the assumption in 516 00:29:46,160 --> 00:29:48,120 Speaker 2: a couple of weeks I'll be back to okay, feeling 517 00:29:48,160 --> 00:29:51,040 Speaker 2: like I can do anything. But I still won't lift 518 00:29:51,440 --> 00:29:55,040 Speaker 2: a thing. Won't lift a thing. So hold on, I 519 00:29:55,040 --> 00:29:59,200 Speaker 2: want to see I want to see the deals on Tectober, Like, 520 00:29:59,240 --> 00:30:02,200 Speaker 2: do I look for a t TV deal? Here? Here's 521 00:30:02,320 --> 00:30:04,720 Speaker 2: this is not a TV, but oh, here's a TV 522 00:30:05,320 --> 00:30:09,880 Speaker 2: a sixty five inch. Oh, okay, that is a deal. 523 00:30:10,920 --> 00:30:14,880 Speaker 2: So oled is the very very good screen sixty five 524 00:30:14,920 --> 00:30:20,160 Speaker 2: inch O lead normally nineteen hundred and ninety nine dollars 525 00:30:20,400 --> 00:30:24,040 Speaker 2: now nine ninety nine. Okay, you now have my complete 526 00:30:24,080 --> 00:30:27,840 Speaker 2: and total attention, Like I think, I think that's a 527 00:30:27,880 --> 00:30:29,560 Speaker 2: good deal, but someone can show me. I know they're 528 00:30:29,560 --> 00:30:31,880 Speaker 2: all that price these days. So now I'm gonna look 529 00:30:31,880 --> 00:30:33,960 Speaker 2: it up. We're gonna do this together. And I happen 530 00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:35,960 Speaker 2: to like Samsung. So this is a twenty twenty five, 531 00:30:36,040 --> 00:30:38,800 Speaker 2: by the way, So now I'll do a search for 532 00:30:38,880 --> 00:30:41,840 Speaker 2: this no, no, no, that's not it. That's not it. 533 00:30:41,880 --> 00:30:46,440 Speaker 2: I'll do a search for this right here, and let's 534 00:30:46,480 --> 00:30:51,360 Speaker 2: see what comes up in terms of pricing. So I 535 00:30:51,360 --> 00:30:55,040 Speaker 2: gave you the best Buy price, which was nine hundred 536 00:30:55,040 --> 00:31:00,360 Speaker 2: and ninety nine dollars. All right, that price is five 537 00:31:00,440 --> 00:31:03,520 Speaker 2: hundred dollars. That was Crutchfield. Now maybe it's not the 538 00:31:03,560 --> 00:31:06,600 Speaker 2: same one. Maybe it's not the same one. Let me 539 00:31:06,640 --> 00:31:12,640 Speaker 2: see if anybody else is selling this. Wait, can you 540 00:31:12,640 --> 00:31:15,160 Speaker 2: buy it directly from the Samsung? Okay, I'm looking at 541 00:31:15,200 --> 00:31:18,800 Speaker 2: the Samsung website. It seems to be the same one, 542 00:31:18,960 --> 00:31:21,680 Speaker 2: sixty five inch, all right. It's a different class. It's 543 00:31:21,680 --> 00:31:25,160 Speaker 2: a little bit more upgraded, and it's thirteen hundred dollars. 544 00:31:25,880 --> 00:31:27,920 Speaker 2: So they're having a sale too because it's normally two 545 00:31:27,960 --> 00:31:30,800 Speaker 2: thousand dollars. It seems to me that's a pretty dang 546 00:31:30,840 --> 00:31:33,959 Speaker 2: good price. That's what it seems to me. But others 547 00:31:34,040 --> 00:31:36,720 Speaker 2: can can can check. I just don't know if this 548 00:31:36,760 --> 00:31:39,600 Speaker 2: stuff works now as I'm describing it, I'm describing a 549 00:31:39,600 --> 00:31:42,240 Speaker 2: great deal on TV. Full disclosure, best Buy is not 550 00:31:42,440 --> 00:31:45,200 Speaker 2: a sponsor mine at this time. I have I get 551 00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:49,600 Speaker 2: no financial enumeration from best Buy whatsoever, nor Samsung, and 552 00:31:49,680 --> 00:31:51,120 Speaker 2: I think it's a shame. But I just want to 553 00:31:51,160 --> 00:31:52,640 Speaker 2: let you know. I'm not bringing it up because hey, 554 00:31:52,680 --> 00:31:56,680 Speaker 2: I get a couple of bucks. I just I just 555 00:31:56,680 --> 00:32:00,640 Speaker 2: don't know if these things work because I want, like 556 00:32:00,680 --> 00:32:02,040 Speaker 2: on the TV. I don't have a need for a 557 00:32:02,120 --> 00:32:05,000 Speaker 2: TV at all, but I'm looking at that price and 558 00:32:05,040 --> 00:32:13,160 Speaker 2: I'm like, huh huh, maybe maybe I want that. By 559 00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:16,480 Speaker 2: the way, the seventy seven inch version is thirteen hundred, 560 00:32:16,880 --> 00:32:22,680 Speaker 2: normally three thousand. I have a seventy five inch TV 561 00:32:23,120 --> 00:32:25,840 Speaker 2: in my studio and when I first put it up, 562 00:32:25,840 --> 00:32:27,840 Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, it's too big. That's too big. I 563 00:32:27,880 --> 00:32:30,400 Speaker 2: gotta go change it out. And then I watched football 564 00:32:30,440 --> 00:32:33,200 Speaker 2: on it, and I said, this is fine, this is 565 00:32:33,200 --> 00:32:35,520 Speaker 2: gonna be true. You know what, Just leave it, guys, 566 00:32:35,880 --> 00:32:39,840 Speaker 2: just leave it, okay, bye bye, and now watch football. 567 00:32:39,960 --> 00:32:42,320 Speaker 2: So I'm in the studio right and I smoke cigars 568 00:32:42,320 --> 00:32:45,400 Speaker 2: in here. So I have adult kids and watch football 569 00:32:45,400 --> 00:32:49,160 Speaker 2: with them. We've had we entertain in here. Sometimes the 570 00:32:49,200 --> 00:32:51,120 Speaker 2: other the family comes in here, they watch movies. I'm 571 00:32:51,160 --> 00:32:54,000 Speaker 2: not even in here. Oh it's been fantastic. It's great. 572 00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:57,520 Speaker 2: It is great. Although admittedly I do have the soundbar 573 00:32:57,640 --> 00:32:59,239 Speaker 2: I have a do I have a Samsung sound bar? 574 00:32:59,320 --> 00:33:02,040 Speaker 2: I do. I think that makes all the difference because 575 00:33:02,040 --> 00:33:06,120 Speaker 2: you get to a certain age and the dialogue is 576 00:33:06,120 --> 00:33:08,360 Speaker 2: a little harder to pick up, so you need a 577 00:33:08,400 --> 00:33:11,760 Speaker 2: soundbar with a center channel so it runs the dialogue, 578 00:33:11,800 --> 00:33:16,080 Speaker 2: so whatever is happening, you hear things. It so enhances 579 00:33:16,280 --> 00:33:20,440 Speaker 2: the experience. It's hard, it's I don't think I could 580 00:33:20,440 --> 00:33:22,560 Speaker 2: go back the other way. It's just so much better. 581 00:33:23,560 --> 00:33:26,200 Speaker 2: I just don't know if this stuff works. Like, there 582 00:33:26,200 --> 00:33:28,959 Speaker 2: are so many times we see so many deals and 583 00:33:29,040 --> 00:33:32,160 Speaker 2: so many things and check out this and check out that. 584 00:33:32,400 --> 00:33:35,640 Speaker 2: I'm not saying sales don't work. I'm saying there gos 585 00:33:35,680 --> 00:33:38,400 Speaker 2: to come a moment where this is just like it's 586 00:33:38,520 --> 00:33:42,560 Speaker 2: just too much. It's just too much crap. We have 587 00:33:42,680 --> 00:33:47,120 Speaker 2: it all, we don't need anymore. Yeah, I'm wrong, aren't I? 588 00:33:47,120 --> 00:33:50,720 Speaker 2: I'm totally wrong. Keep it here. This is Tony Katz. Today, 589 00:33:51,080 --> 00:33:53,120 Speaker 2: we've got the most controlled border we've ever had in 590 00:33:53,160 --> 00:33:56,360 Speaker 2: the history in my lifetime. In the Border Patrol an 591 00:33:56,400 --> 00:33:57,640 Speaker 2: Eagle past Texas. 592 00:33:57,720 --> 00:34:00,920 Speaker 5: During the Biden administration, more than two one thousand migrants 593 00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:04,240 Speaker 5: crossed into the US in a single day. But now 594 00:34:04,320 --> 00:34:08,600 Speaker 5: under President Trump's policies, officers encounter just twenty migrants a 595 00:34:08,680 --> 00:34:12,960 Speaker 5: day here. Tonight, DHS touting the lowest number of illegal 596 00:34:12,960 --> 00:34:17,120 Speaker 5: border crossings since nineteen seventy and Border Patrol chief Mike 597 00:34:17,200 --> 00:34:20,360 Speaker 5: Banks tells us they'll expand the one mile of defensive 598 00:34:20,440 --> 00:34:22,239 Speaker 5: buoys on the Rio Grande. 599 00:34:22,320 --> 00:34:25,200 Speaker 1: We've got about five hundred miles identified across the entire 600 00:34:25,239 --> 00:34:25,960 Speaker 1: Texas border. 601 00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:27,920 Speaker 2: Where we're going to place these in the river? Is 602 00:34:27,920 --> 00:34:31,839 Speaker 2: this the new wall? It's defense in depth. Were the 603 00:34:31,880 --> 00:34:35,000 Speaker 2: wall in and of itself was never about stopping people 604 00:34:35,040 --> 00:34:39,840 Speaker 2: from crossing. That was always a mistake, misnomer and a 605 00:34:39,840 --> 00:34:43,279 Speaker 2: purposeful lie. Tony Katz, Tony Katz today, good to be 606 00:34:43,320 --> 00:34:46,000 Speaker 2: with you find everything over at tonycats dot com. The 607 00:34:46,040 --> 00:34:48,880 Speaker 2: wall was meant to slow people down. Now, sure, some 608 00:34:48,920 --> 00:34:51,640 Speaker 2: people wouldn't be able to get over it, some people could, 609 00:34:51,880 --> 00:34:54,800 Speaker 2: some people could get through it around it. The wall 610 00:34:54,840 --> 00:34:57,120 Speaker 2: was meant to slow people down, to give border patrol 611 00:34:57,160 --> 00:35:01,279 Speaker 2: more of a chance to apprehend them. Its purpose. When 612 00:35:01,320 --> 00:35:03,520 Speaker 2: you go down to the wall, which I've done before, 613 00:35:03,800 --> 00:35:07,080 Speaker 2: you'll note that the wall is inland, it's well into 614 00:35:07,080 --> 00:35:10,279 Speaker 2: the United States. You're like, what is happening here? It 615 00:35:10,640 --> 00:35:13,959 Speaker 2: freaks out at first, and then you learn what it's for. 616 00:35:14,520 --> 00:35:19,600 Speaker 2: It's purpose. So putting buoys in the water slows people down, 617 00:35:20,040 --> 00:35:23,879 Speaker 2: easier to apprehend. But now they're not even coming. Now 618 00:35:23,880 --> 00:35:27,000 Speaker 2: they're not even crossing because they know that there's no 619 00:35:27,840 --> 00:35:29,120 Speaker 2: save harbor for them. 620 00:35:29,440 --> 00:35:31,520 Speaker 4: We were here two years ago, were migrants used to 621 00:35:31,600 --> 00:35:34,239 Speaker 4: carry children on their backs to get across this river 622 00:35:34,560 --> 00:35:36,600 Speaker 4: and cut through this barbed wire to get to the 623 00:35:36,719 --> 00:35:40,000 Speaker 4: United States. They would see hundreds, even thousands a day 624 00:35:40,040 --> 00:35:43,360 Speaker 4: in this very spot. But today it's silent. 625 00:35:43,600 --> 00:35:47,080 Speaker 5: North and Del Rio border residents telling us they're thrilled 626 00:35:47,200 --> 00:35:48,120 Speaker 5: crossings are down. 627 00:35:48,719 --> 00:35:53,120 Speaker 2: Of course they are. It's success. It is what we 628 00:35:53,239 --> 00:35:56,480 Speaker 2: voted for, and it's what Democrats told us we couldn't have. 629 00:35:57,560 --> 00:36:01,280 Speaker 2: Remember that going into twenty twenty six, Republicans remind everybody 630 00:36:01,360 --> 00:36:04,520 Speaker 2: of it. Find everything at tonycats dot com. Tomorrow. Everyone 631 00:36:04,719 --> 00:36:05,080 Speaker 2: take care