1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:01,280 Speaker 1: Three more hadens. 2 00:00:02,400 --> 00:00:08,200 Speaker 2: There is a lot going on today, including the Washington 3 00:00:08,240 --> 00:00:14,800 Speaker 2: Post layoffs. Earlier today, Tony Katz, Tony Katz today. 4 00:00:14,640 --> 00:00:15,360 Speaker 1: Good to be with you. 5 00:00:16,680 --> 00:00:20,079 Speaker 2: People who work at the Washington Post got an email. 6 00:00:21,920 --> 00:00:24,800 Speaker 2: The email was from the publisher. 7 00:00:24,880 --> 00:00:26,720 Speaker 1: I think it was from the publisher. 8 00:00:28,360 --> 00:00:34,200 Speaker 2: And from the head of HR. And the letter basically read, 9 00:00:34,240 --> 00:00:39,880 Speaker 2: and I'm paraphrasing here, Hey, stay home, We're gonna have 10 00:00:39,920 --> 00:00:40,600 Speaker 2: a zoom meeting. 11 00:00:42,800 --> 00:00:42,879 Speaker 3: What. 12 00:00:44,040 --> 00:00:46,120 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we're gonna have a zoom meeting. 13 00:00:46,120 --> 00:00:52,840 Speaker 2: The executive editor, Matt Murray and the HR chief send 14 00:00:52,840 --> 00:00:54,440 Speaker 2: out this email. 15 00:00:54,840 --> 00:00:58,720 Speaker 1: Stay home. We're gonna get everybody together on zoom. 16 00:00:59,240 --> 00:01:04,480 Speaker 2: Now, if you're not in newspaper business or in the 17 00:01:04,480 --> 00:01:07,000 Speaker 2: media business, you might be like. 18 00:01:06,959 --> 00:01:08,240 Speaker 1: Okay, that's weird. 19 00:01:09,280 --> 00:01:11,759 Speaker 2: If you have ever worked in any kind of corporate setting, 20 00:01:11,760 --> 00:01:14,679 Speaker 2: you know immediately, oh, they're gonna start laying people off. 21 00:01:16,240 --> 00:01:18,679 Speaker 1: This has been rumored, This has been discussed. 22 00:01:21,160 --> 00:01:26,119 Speaker 2: The plan, as now employees were informed, was to lay 23 00:01:26,120 --> 00:01:34,319 Speaker 2: off a significant portion of its staff. According to Jeff Stein, 24 00:01:34,360 --> 00:01:37,800 Speaker 2: the chief economics correspondent for the Post, this is a 25 00:01:37,840 --> 00:01:40,800 Speaker 2: tragic day for American journalism, the city of Washington, and 26 00:01:40,840 --> 00:01:43,560 Speaker 2: the country as a whole. I'm grieving for reporters I 27 00:01:43,600 --> 00:01:46,360 Speaker 2: love and his work upheld the truest, most noble callings 28 00:01:46,400 --> 00:01:49,920 Speaker 2: of the profession. They are being punished for mistakes they 29 00:01:49,960 --> 00:01:56,000 Speaker 2: did not cause. Now, remember that The Washington Post was 30 00:01:56,040 --> 00:02:01,240 Speaker 2: purchased by Jeff Bezos in twenty thirteen. Bezos hired a 31 00:02:01,240 --> 00:02:05,400 Speaker 2: different management team in twenty twenty four, trying to get 32 00:02:05,400 --> 00:02:08,440 Speaker 2: the paper to stop being so outrageously left, even though 33 00:02:08,560 --> 00:02:14,000 Speaker 2: definitely left, start engaging different opinions, trying to disrupt the culture. 34 00:02:15,360 --> 00:02:19,119 Speaker 2: So newspapers have lots of problems as it is. Now 35 00:02:19,120 --> 00:02:22,200 Speaker 2: you're trying to change the culture of progressives who only 36 00:02:22,240 --> 00:02:22,560 Speaker 2: want to. 37 00:02:22,480 --> 00:02:28,000 Speaker 1: Move narrative or not news. And here it is. 38 00:02:32,520 --> 00:02:37,680 Speaker 2: So these cuts got announced and then shortly after the call, 39 00:02:38,600 --> 00:02:39,960 Speaker 2: employees start getting. 40 00:02:39,720 --> 00:02:42,799 Speaker 1: Emails about whether or not they were affected. 41 00:02:45,960 --> 00:02:48,400 Speaker 2: So the international desk, as we had heard about, is 42 00:02:48,440 --> 00:02:52,920 Speaker 2: going to be affected, and their daily podcast, Post Reports 43 00:02:53,440 --> 00:02:54,160 Speaker 2: is getting cut. 44 00:02:55,840 --> 00:03:02,680 Speaker 4: They cut the podcast. Now, hold on second, they cut 45 00:03:02,720 --> 00:03:10,800 Speaker 4: the podcast. What you mean you cut something that was digital? 46 00:03:12,880 --> 00:03:14,880 Speaker 4: You mean your podcast wasn't even working. 47 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:22,520 Speaker 1: Oh, that's a that's a bad, bad scene right there. 48 00:03:26,400 --> 00:03:30,480 Speaker 2: The Washington Post Guild has said, stating that the paper 49 00:03:30,560 --> 00:03:34,640 Speaker 2: has shrunk their workforce by approximately four hundred people in 50 00:03:34,680 --> 00:03:39,960 Speaker 2: the last three years. The union is upset with Bezos 51 00:03:40,200 --> 00:03:42,800 Speaker 2: because it will no longer He's no longer willing to 52 00:03:42,840 --> 00:03:45,600 Speaker 2: invest in the mission they write that has defined this 53 00:03:45,640 --> 00:03:48,400 Speaker 2: paper for generations that serve the millions to depend on 54 00:03:48,440 --> 00:03:53,520 Speaker 2: post journalism. So now the push is going to be 55 00:03:53,520 --> 00:03:57,720 Speaker 2: on for Bezos to sell the paper to somebody who 56 00:03:57,720 --> 00:04:00,840 Speaker 2: will give them all the money and not care about results. 57 00:04:03,120 --> 00:04:08,840 Speaker 1: That brings us to this. I did not. 58 00:04:10,560 --> 00:04:16,200 Speaker 2: See this story at all. Don't know where I missed it, 59 00:04:18,760 --> 00:04:23,360 Speaker 2: but I clearly missed it. Chinese linked biolab discovered in 60 00:04:23,440 --> 00:04:30,880 Speaker 2: Las Vegas home. SWAT officers serve a search work. So 61 00:04:30,960 --> 00:04:35,520 Speaker 2: this takes place over last weekend. This is on the 62 00:04:35,560 --> 00:04:39,440 Speaker 2: East side. What's the tip of biolabs operating in the home? 63 00:04:39,520 --> 00:04:39,719 Speaker 3: Now? 64 00:04:39,839 --> 00:04:41,200 Speaker 1: I gotta assume. 65 00:04:42,520 --> 00:04:46,280 Speaker 2: That when people heard biolab, they immediately went to breaking 66 00:04:46,320 --> 00:04:48,000 Speaker 2: bad and said, wait a second, that's supposed to be 67 00:04:48,080 --> 00:04:53,520 Speaker 2: in New Mexico, and some of them thought meth police 68 00:04:53,520 --> 00:04:59,799 Speaker 2: center and more than a thousand pieces of evidence located 69 00:04:59,839 --> 00:05:10,679 Speaker 2: on a locked garage with quote potential biological and hazardous materials. 70 00:05:12,279 --> 00:05:14,960 Speaker 1: The story becomes more interesting. 71 00:05:17,279 --> 00:05:28,200 Speaker 2: That the home is owned by jib Beiju. Jia Beiju, 72 00:05:30,040 --> 00:05:38,239 Speaker 2: I think it's gmbg Jia is in federal custody. Why 73 00:05:39,320 --> 00:05:43,599 Speaker 2: the discovery of an unauthorized biolab in Reedley, California in 74 00:05:43,680 --> 00:05:48,359 Speaker 2: twenty twenty three. Arrested in that case on federal charges 75 00:05:48,760 --> 00:05:53,600 Speaker 2: that he manufactured, distributed misbranded medical devices, including tests for 76 00:05:53,680 --> 00:05:57,760 Speaker 2: COVID nineteen pregnancy and HIV, without the proper permits, and 77 00:05:57,839 --> 00:06:02,359 Speaker 2: made false statements to the FDA. I'm gonna say this 78 00:06:02,400 --> 00:06:06,719 Speaker 2: again for the people in the cheap seats. Number one, 79 00:06:07,279 --> 00:06:11,400 Speaker 2: some cultures are incompatible with American culture. And number two, 80 00:06:12,200 --> 00:06:17,320 Speaker 2: you cannot allow Chinese nationals to own land in the 81 00:06:17,440 --> 00:06:21,200 Speaker 2: United States. That has to stop. You cannot own land, 82 00:06:21,760 --> 00:06:28,440 Speaker 2: you cannot own businesses. The answer is no. Don't want 83 00:06:28,440 --> 00:06:33,520 Speaker 2: to hear it. Don't care if you're happy, don't care 84 00:06:33,520 --> 00:06:35,880 Speaker 2: if you're angry, don't care if you call me a bigot. 85 00:06:36,680 --> 00:06:40,680 Speaker 2: Blah blah blah blah blah. When you come to work 86 00:06:40,720 --> 00:06:44,360 Speaker 2: at the labs we have at universities, you're bringing in 87 00:06:44,920 --> 00:06:47,480 Speaker 2: things with you stuffed into your socks that could kill 88 00:06:47,520 --> 00:06:48,200 Speaker 2: a lot of people. 89 00:06:49,120 --> 00:06:50,440 Speaker 1: That certainly is questionable. 90 00:06:50,440 --> 00:06:54,080 Speaker 2: Material we've seen this, now this, How many more of 91 00:06:54,080 --> 00:06:55,839 Speaker 2: these are out there? How many more of these do 92 00:06:55,880 --> 00:06:57,920 Speaker 2: we have to figure out? How many more of these 93 00:06:58,160 --> 00:06:59,960 Speaker 2: do we think we should allow into the country, because 94 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:03,839 Speaker 2: I would say zero. And so the President is wrong 95 00:07:04,600 --> 00:07:07,640 Speaker 2: when he says we should still be allowing student visas 96 00:07:07,640 --> 00:07:09,479 Speaker 2: from China. Absolutely not. 97 00:07:10,040 --> 00:07:12,840 Speaker 1: He's wrong. Donald Trump is wrong there. 98 00:07:12,880 --> 00:07:16,520 Speaker 2: It is another example of being able to say that 99 00:07:16,560 --> 00:07:19,320 Speaker 2: the president is wrong and yet somehow still be able 100 00:07:19,320 --> 00:07:20,160 Speaker 2: to stand upright. 101 00:07:23,240 --> 00:07:27,160 Speaker 1: You can't let these people in the United States. You're 102 00:07:27,200 --> 00:07:28,400 Speaker 1: out of your mind if you do. 103 00:07:31,400 --> 00:07:36,040 Speaker 2: I have no interest in pretending that somehow I'm going 104 00:07:36,080 --> 00:07:39,560 Speaker 2: to care if someone calls me a xenophobe. 105 00:07:39,760 --> 00:07:40,680 Speaker 1: What does it matter to me. 106 00:07:42,800 --> 00:07:47,880 Speaker 2: They're willing to let people die, These people who refuse 107 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:54,960 Speaker 2: to call things out for what they are. Thankfully we 108 00:07:55,200 --> 00:08:00,560 Speaker 2: have Scott Besant who is not afraid to call out 109 00:08:01,680 --> 00:08:03,440 Speaker 2: for what they are. 110 00:08:04,840 --> 00:08:09,320 Speaker 3: Ten and twenty million immigrants cut the housing housing stock 111 00:08:09,720 --> 00:08:12,880 Speaker 3: of working Americans and can you maintain some level of 112 00:08:12,960 --> 00:08:14,040 Speaker 3: dating His time. 113 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:15,000 Speaker 1: Is expelled. 114 00:08:16,400 --> 00:08:20,200 Speaker 2: Thatssant and Maxine Waters going back and forth in a 115 00:08:20,240 --> 00:08:24,240 Speaker 2: hearing today as the Treasury Secretary is testifying, and she 116 00:08:24,440 --> 00:08:27,920 Speaker 2: doesn't like that he's answering the question and wants him 117 00:08:27,960 --> 00:08:30,800 Speaker 2: to stop talking, and says, can you get him to 118 00:08:30,880 --> 00:08:31,400 Speaker 2: shut up? 119 00:08:31,600 --> 00:08:35,760 Speaker 3: To A chief responds, ten and twenty million immigrants shout 120 00:08:35,840 --> 00:08:39,880 Speaker 3: the housing housing stock of working Americans? And can you 121 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:42,840 Speaker 3: maintain some level a dating his time has expelled? 122 00:08:51,880 --> 00:08:54,600 Speaker 2: Can you maintain some level of dignity that is just 123 00:08:54,640 --> 00:09:03,640 Speaker 2: so great? That is just so good? Scott Bessens doesn't disappoint. 124 00:09:05,320 --> 00:09:09,080 Speaker 2: And here again he doesn't disappoint. But you know what, 125 00:09:09,240 --> 00:09:11,640 Speaker 2: I haven't heard this whole clip yet, So how about 126 00:09:11,800 --> 00:09:12,679 Speaker 2: justin case. 127 00:09:12,640 --> 00:09:14,440 Speaker 1: Finger on the dumb button that producer landing. 128 00:09:15,559 --> 00:09:19,520 Speaker 3: I take you not want to answer that. 129 00:09:20,480 --> 00:09:23,960 Speaker 1: I take that as a note for a seven ask 130 00:09:24,080 --> 00:09:25,120 Speaker 1: you to do your. 131 00:09:25,200 --> 00:09:28,200 Speaker 4: Responsibility as Secretary of the Treasure. 132 00:09:29,280 --> 00:09:30,079 Speaker 1: You do not. 133 00:09:36,080 --> 00:09:39,000 Speaker 3: Pass your time, mister cham and he did not answer 134 00:09:39,040 --> 00:09:41,200 Speaker 3: my question or he wouldn't. 135 00:09:41,120 --> 00:09:45,640 Speaker 1: Take Gregory makes is pretty angry. Oh a lot of 136 00:09:45,720 --> 00:09:48,760 Speaker 1: yelling there. Do they think this makes them look good? 137 00:09:50,320 --> 00:09:52,720 Speaker 2: Listen, in all these questions that are asked of Cabinet 138 00:09:52,760 --> 00:09:57,200 Speaker 2: Secretary is or anybody else, when the member of Congress 139 00:09:57,240 --> 00:10:01,439 Speaker 2: asking the question is only interested and the question asked 140 00:10:01,440 --> 00:10:02,600 Speaker 2: and not the answer. 141 00:10:02,280 --> 00:10:07,240 Speaker 1: Received, I don't know what makes anybody look good. It's just. 142 00:10:08,880 --> 00:10:11,920 Speaker 2: It's all just such a clown show and people look 143 00:10:11,960 --> 00:10:13,760 Speaker 2: at the stuff and they're like, how does anything get done? 144 00:10:14,320 --> 00:10:17,079 Speaker 5: He had six seconds left to try to answer your question, 145 00:10:17,240 --> 00:10:18,280 Speaker 5: and it was a. 146 00:10:18,280 --> 00:10:20,440 Speaker 1: Yes and no. It was a yes and no answer. 147 00:10:20,520 --> 00:10:26,840 Speaker 3: I asked him, will the. 148 00:10:26,760 --> 00:10:31,280 Speaker 4: President well stop being his flunky and. 149 00:10:31,440 --> 00:10:33,480 Speaker 1: Stop being his flunky? 150 00:10:33,720 --> 00:10:37,160 Speaker 2: And now Maxine Waters wants to try and calm everybody down. 151 00:10:37,800 --> 00:10:47,480 Speaker 5: Gentlemen, gentlemen responding the president, don't be a fucking work 152 00:10:47,600 --> 00:10:48,800 Speaker 5: for the American beat. 153 00:10:50,840 --> 00:10:59,360 Speaker 1: Yep, that went great. Ah, but so much of these hearings. 154 00:10:59,360 --> 00:11:01,720 Speaker 2: I mean, that's that's clearly what it's all about, right, 155 00:11:03,080 --> 00:11:04,959 Speaker 2: What sound bite can you get? 156 00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:08,800 Speaker 1: What clip can you get? What? And then how do 157 00:11:08,840 --> 00:11:14,920 Speaker 1: you use it for your fundraise? But maybe the news 158 00:11:14,920 --> 00:11:19,479 Speaker 1: of the day is this. 159 00:11:19,480 --> 00:11:34,920 Speaker 2: This is I believe Massachusetts. It's an elementary school classroom 160 00:11:35,040 --> 00:11:40,439 Speaker 2: that is children six years old. I don't know, people 161 00:11:40,480 --> 00:11:44,440 Speaker 2: watching the live stream, how old are those kids? How 162 00:11:44,480 --> 00:11:48,840 Speaker 2: old do you think they are? And they're holding signs 163 00:11:50,320 --> 00:11:54,560 Speaker 2: that they made pieces of paper that they decorated and 164 00:11:54,600 --> 00:11:57,559 Speaker 2: they like glued it to like a popsicle stick. 165 00:11:57,400 --> 00:11:57,840 Speaker 1: It looks like. 166 00:11:59,520 --> 00:12:04,880 Speaker 2: And there's seven or eight kids, boys, and girls. They're 167 00:12:04,920 --> 00:12:09,080 Speaker 2: like six, They look like kindergarteners, but it could be 168 00:12:09,080 --> 00:12:20,080 Speaker 2: first grade for all in them. And they're chanting. They're chanting. No, 169 00:12:20,240 --> 00:12:42,439 Speaker 2: Donald Trump, if you think that's okay in a school classroom, 170 00:12:42,640 --> 00:12:48,200 Speaker 2: I don't think I can respond on radio. That is 171 00:12:48,240 --> 00:12:52,400 Speaker 2: not education. That is indoctrination. As we have been discussing 172 00:12:52,480 --> 00:12:56,800 Speaker 2: four years, we need to break the teacher's union INTWO, 173 00:12:57,520 --> 00:13:00,640 Speaker 2: we need to stop funding these schools. We need to 174 00:13:00,760 --> 00:13:04,160 Speaker 2: fire these teachers and then not allow them near children. 175 00:13:04,720 --> 00:13:09,760 Speaker 2: This is abuse, This is indoctrination. This is the kind 176 00:13:09,800 --> 00:13:16,319 Speaker 2: of stuff that you would see from nineteen seventies Soviet Union, 177 00:13:17,840 --> 00:13:21,960 Speaker 2: not what you would expect in the United States, and 178 00:13:22,040 --> 00:13:23,160 Speaker 2: we have to stop it. 179 00:13:24,960 --> 00:13:27,640 Speaker 1: Today. This is Tony Kats today.