Speaker 1: Live from Vaal Hartbeiner and the Crossroads of America. It's
Speaker 1: Tony Katz today.
Speaker 2: It's a press conference from the newly minted Attorney General,
Speaker 2: Todd blanche. He is there with some of his people.
Speaker 2: Me I'm Tony Katz. The show is Tony Katz today.
Speaker 2: Good to be here, Good to be with you. Let's
Speaker 2: take it to the Attorney general.
Speaker 3: We are announcing the arrests and unseiling of an indictment
Speaker 3: out of the Southern District of New York charging eleven
Speaker 3: individuals for allegedly overseeing an extensive, decade long marriage fraud
Speaker 3: scheme involving more than one thousand sham marriages between Chinese
Speaker 3: nationals and United States citizens.
Speaker 2: And holy crap, Okay, guys, was not expecting this sham marriages?
Speaker 4: Did he say a thousand?
Speaker 2: Hold on a second, I'm going to back that up
Speaker 2: a little bit. Did he say a thousand.
Speaker 3: Marriage fraud scheme involving more than one thousand sham marriages
Speaker 3: between Chinese nationals.
Speaker 4: And United States citizens?
Speaker 3: And then the submission of fraudulent applications for green cards.
Speaker 3: This is one of the largest marriage frauds prosecutions in
Speaker 3: the United States history.
Speaker 4: This scheme was not a.
Speaker 3: Quick, fly by night operation, but rather a year's long,
Speaker 3: multimillion dollar cottage industry to criminally assist people who would
Speaker 3: not or legally could not otherwise become citizens of the
Speaker 3: United States.
Speaker 2: Right now, I'm willing to bet you any amount of
Speaker 2: money that you and I are actually having the same
Speaker 2: conversation in our heads, and that conversation is well. Of
Speaker 2: course people were doing this. We knew people were doing this.
Speaker 2: Of Course people get married to get somebody a Green card.
Speaker 2: We one thousand percent knew this was happening. You have
Speaker 2: had this conversation over Thanksgiving dinner, you had it with
Speaker 2: your uncle, you've had it at work, you've had it
Speaker 2: with friends over beer. Absolutely, you knew this was happening.
Speaker 2: Yet somehow when you hear it, you still say, what
Speaker 2: the hell? Because we think of it as a one off.
Speaker 2: We think of it as somebody doing something illicted over there.
Speaker 2: We think of it as Ilhanomh and her brother, which
Speaker 2: I believe happened organized.
Speaker 4: That's the part that really blows us away.
Speaker 3: The men and women who facilitated this scheme were all
Speaker 3: naturalized citizens originally from China, and one Green card holder
Speaker 3: under President Trump's leadership, the Department of Justice is working
Speaker 3: alongside our partners at DHS to secure the border and
Speaker 3: protect American communities.
Speaker 4: Let's go back over that, because that's the line.
Speaker 2: Let's make sure everybody heard it exactly the way the
Speaker 2: Attorney General Todd Blanche said it.
Speaker 4: Out of states.
Speaker 3: The men and women who facilitated this scheme were all
Speaker 3: naturalized citizens originally from China, and one Green card holder.
Speaker 3: Under President Trump's leadership, the Department of Justice is working
Speaker 3: alongside our partners at DHS to secure the border and
Speaker 3: protect American communities.
Speaker 2: The only answer I'm going to accept from Todd Blanche
Speaker 2: is to denaturalize those people and deport those people. And
Speaker 2: then I want to find China twenty billion dollars do
Speaker 2: me a favorite producer land. Will you look up what
Speaker 2: our debt is to China right now? Yeah, look, look
Speaker 2: look that up. China must pay the price for doing this.
Speaker 2: Tell me more about how a birthright citizenship isn't an
Speaker 2: issue any more that this is. Oh, you're just you're
Speaker 2: just being a racist towards Chinese nationals, Kitten.
Speaker 4: When I see Chinese nationals grown.
Speaker 2: Men, single men, able bodied men trying to get into
Speaker 2: the United States. If you admit them into the United States,
Speaker 2: you are for cocta crazy, You are out of your mind. Nuts,
Speaker 2: You're deranged. You know I'm saying you, and I apologize.
Speaker 2: They're deranged. They're deranged, and they can't be allowed power.
Speaker 2: By the way, the number is six hundred and fifty
Speaker 2: three point nine billion dollars. That's what we owe China.
Speaker 2: Did I say twenty billion? I'm sorry, I meant two
Speaker 2: hundred billion, thirty percent off the top. That's what it
Speaker 2: costs you. It's paid. No, no, no, no, don't care if
Speaker 2: you like it or you don't like it. It means absolutely nothing.
Speaker 4: China. You want to fight about it, I say, we
Speaker 4: fight about it.
Speaker 2: Of course, you don't think that this constitutes invasion, honey,
Speaker 2: pooky boo boo, kitten shmoo. Chinese nationals cannot be allowed
Speaker 2: to be US citizens.
Speaker 4: Nope.
Speaker 2: Now you say to me, Tony, that's a It might
Speaker 2: be going a little bit overboard right there. We have
Speaker 2: to be able to prove hardships, real hardships, because there
Speaker 2: are plenty of Hong Kongers who got absolutely abused, abused.
Speaker 4: By the Chinese government.
Speaker 2: Remember when they were fighting for their freedom, and we
Speaker 2: just let China put their boot on their neck. And
Speaker 2: everybody in the NBA said, Hey, when's our next game
Speaker 2: in China? Love that money, right, Lebron. Of course it's
Speaker 2: an invasion. Of course it's an attack. Of course it's
Speaker 2: a threat, and we should deal with it accordingly. Back
Speaker 2: to the Attorney General Todd Blanche, with this announcement an
Speaker 2: arrest of a ring to coordinate and facilitate sham marriages,
Speaker 2: people could become citizens, involving naturalized citizens from China, over
Speaker 2: one thousand sham marriages. And I'd like to know of
Speaker 2: those one thousand sham marriages, plus how many of them
Speaker 2: applied for some kind of welfare or other benefit from
Speaker 2: the United States.
Speaker 3: Something that was ignored during the last administration. Not only
Speaker 3: are we protecting our physical borders from unlawful crossings, but
Speaker 3: we are also preventing immigration fraud schemes that are just
Speaker 3: another way to skirt the immigration laws of the United States.
Speaker 4: As alleged, some of.
Speaker 3: The charge defendants acted as facilitators who orchestrated the marriage
Speaker 3: fraud scheme, pairing foreign nationals seeking immigration status with United
Speaker 3: States citizens willing to participate and engage in a sham marriage.
Speaker 3: These facilitators employed attorneys, tax preparers, and marriage officiants. Some
Speaker 3: of the other charge defendants acted as recruiters by finding
Speaker 3: and recruiting United States citizens to participate in the scheme,
Speaker 3: and other defendants acted as officiants, officiating dozens of these
Speaker 3: alleged fake marriages. Now, the way that this scheme allegedly
Speaker 3: worked is the facilitators used social media and other forms
Speaker 3: of advertising to market fraudulent immigration services to foreign nationals,
Speaker 3: primarily from China, and Chinese nationals would pay these facilitators
Speaker 3: as much as one hundred thousand dollars for assistance in
Speaker 3: obtaining a marriage, which then allowed them to apply for
Speaker 3: a green card. The facilitators also paid willing US citizens
Speaker 3: as much as thirty thousand dollars to engage in the
Speaker 3: sham marriage with the foreign national. Now, often after these
Speaker 3: phony ceremonies, defendants would stage images of families at restaurants
Speaker 3: to create the appearance of a legitimate wedding, and some
Speaker 3: of the defendants also facilitated sham marriages overseas in China.
Speaker 3: After the marriages took place, the actual ceremony that then
Speaker 3: married couples would visit a local office affiliated with the scheme,
Speaker 3: sign forms for submission to the US Citizen and Immigration Services,
Speaker 3: learn about the USCIS interview process to apply for a
Speaker 3: green card, and then execute prenuptial agreements, which, not surprisingly
Speaker 3: given the allegation these were sham marriages, waived their rights
Speaker 3: to share in the others a state upon death, child
Speaker 3: support and other claims and marital property.
Speaker 2: At this moment, I people ask me why I drink bourbon.
Speaker 4: This is ugly. This is ugly.
Speaker 2: I this I wasn't He wasn't actually on the system
Speaker 2: today to give any presser.
Speaker 4: So this was a bit of a surprise.
Speaker 2: Over one thousand sham marriages busted the purpose to allow
Speaker 2: Chinese nationals to become citizens. Money paid over in cases
Speaker 2: one hundred thousand dollars, and Americans who are implicated may
Speaker 2: have gotten paid thirty thousand dollars. All those people have
Speaker 2: to go to jail who are Americans, and all those
Speaker 2: naturalized citizens have to be denaturalized and deported today in
Speaker 2: any lower court that wants to get involved, those activist
Speaker 2: judges need to be thrown off the bench.
Speaker 4: Innocent until proven guilty.
Speaker 2: Sure, absolutely, when they're proven guilty, goodbye. And with all
Speaker 2: of this, Stephanie White, coach of the Indiana Fever, her
Speaker 2: presser is even crazier.
Speaker 4: I've got that story coming up. Keep it here. This
Speaker 4: is Tony Katz today.
Speaker 2: Stephanie White is the coach of the Indiana Fever and
Speaker 2: she made a statement before the game that the Fever
Speaker 2: played against the New York Liberty. That did not help her,
Speaker 2: did not help the Indiana Fever, did not help the WNBA.
Speaker 2: If anything, it made her look weak, it made the
Speaker 2: team look weak, and it made the WNBA look like
Speaker 2: they don't.
Speaker 4: Quite understand what the issue is.
Speaker 2: Tony Katz, Tony Katz today and for the Jamel Hills
Speaker 2: and everybody else who wants to say that we don't
Speaker 2: have the right to talk about this and we're just
Speaker 2: obsessing over this because of race. The WNBA has a
Speaker 2: choice to make. The WNBA can decide that they are
Speaker 2: in the business of being a league, or the WNBA
Speaker 2: can decide that they are in the business of being
Speaker 2: a welfare recipient. Four years the WNBA was a welfare recipient.
Speaker 2: The NBA wanted to create a league for women. The
Speaker 2: league never made any money, the league never got any
Speaker 2: traction and yet it's still got funded. Now, living in
Speaker 2: Indiana might be different our team than other teams because
Speaker 2: this is a basketball state, right the expression here is
Speaker 2: in forty nine other states it's just basketball.
Speaker 4: But this is Indiana.
Speaker 2: They take it at a level I cannot describe to you.
Speaker 4: It's unbelievable.
Speaker 2: Right, It's in the same way this state views the
Speaker 2: month of May because that's when the Indianapols five hundred happens. Now,
Speaker 2: every state has something that connects for the people who
Speaker 2: live it is a thing for them.
Speaker 4: Basketball for sure, for sure.
Speaker 2: And so we did pay attention to the Indiana fever
Speaker 2: and we had great Tamika Catchings was a great ambassador
Speaker 2: for the league and was.
Speaker 4: A star of her time. And then Caitlyn Clark came
Speaker 4: to town.
Speaker 2: Well the rest is history, as you know, and more
Speaker 2: people paid attention, and that upsets some people because this
Speaker 2: girl was getting attention and these weren't getting attention. And
Speaker 2: this was big a tree, and that's when the crazy
Speaker 2: fouls would start. Some things I think Caitlyn Clark complained
Speaker 2: about that weren't worth complaining about. And some things she
Speaker 2: was absolutely right and everybody saw it. But with Caitlyn
Speaker 2: Clark came the opportunity to become a league that could
Speaker 2: be self sufficient.
Speaker 4: They went from commercial.
Speaker 2: Flights to charter flights, private, better hotels, They started to
Speaker 2: play in real arenas, they moved games, and people are like, well,
Speaker 2: if you're gonna put on a show, we want to
Speaker 2: see it. If it's gonna be entertaining, we want to
Speaker 2: see it. My daughters now want to go. Absolutely, I'm
Speaker 2: taking them fantastic. The w NBA has on every level
Speaker 2: shown that they were not up to the moment, because
Speaker 2: it's not that they could control the criticism criticisms from without.
Speaker 2: It has nothing to do with the criticisms from without.
Speaker 2: They could not handle the criticisms from within the players,
Speaker 2: the coaches and the media that.
Speaker 4: Clearly didn't want this for their little league.
Speaker 2: And so there's been a lot of talk and with
Speaker 2: the Sophie Cunningham conversations about how girls sports would be
Speaker 2: for girls, they don't like that either. And now going
Speaker 2: after Sophie Cunningham and the clothesline tackle if you will
Speaker 2: from uh De Johnny uh dejohn De, Janna is it
Speaker 2: Dijana Jena djon a thank you Djna carryon and people
Speaker 2: have been talking about this more. Well, this became a
Speaker 2: thing because it was a clothesline. By the way, Sophie
Speaker 2: Cunningham has done this before. She's tackled people on court
Speaker 2: before she.
Speaker 4: Got thrown out of the game.
Speaker 2: Carrington got thrown out of the game, and then she
Speaker 2: immediately put White privilege. Good lord, she's trying to backtrack
Speaker 2: that a lot of criticism. That brings us to the
Speaker 2: coach of the Indiana Fever, Stephanie White, who, when first
Speaker 2: asked about the foul against her player Sophie Cunningham, was like, listen,
Speaker 2: these girls are going to play hard. And now she
Speaker 2: comes to have a presser where she is going after
Speaker 2: the detractors and claiming she never saw the play.
Speaker 5: You know, this isn't necessarily for those people that are
Speaker 5: in this room. This is more for an online community
Speaker 5: that's trying to create narratives that simply don't exist. We
Speaker 5: ate a fabrication or disortion of who I am, what
Speaker 5: I'm about our players, success, our players, health and wellness,
Speaker 5: our players safety is always a top priority for me.
Speaker 5: One of the things I pride myself on is my
Speaker 5: relationships with players. For those who have anything to say
Speaker 5: about the play in the last game, I didn't see
Speaker 5: the play in real time. I went straight to a
Speaker 5: press conference. I thought the play got called right, thankfully
Speaker 5: Sophie's Okay, was it egregious? Absolutely? When you have a
Speaker 5: chance to watch that over and over and over on replay,
Speaker 5: you can see that I didn't have that in real time.
Speaker 4: But I take personally sorry.
Speaker 5: Any suggestions that I don't one hundred always have my
Speaker 5: players back. I ride with them ten toes down all
Speaker 5: the time, all.
Speaker 4: Of the time.
Speaker 5: They know that it's a shame that we can't have
Speaker 5: an opportunity to talk about what great basketball they're playing
Speaker 5: because they are team playing.
Speaker 6: The reality is with me, I will always lead with love,
Speaker 6: I will always lead with grace, I will always lead
Speaker 6: with humility, and I will always.
Speaker 5: Lead with integrity. Doesn't mean I'll always get a writer.
Speaker 4: I'm also human.
Speaker 5: The hate, the fear mongering, the divisiveness, the stuff that's
Speaker 5: trying to hijack our league will not win.
Speaker 4: It won't win.
Speaker 5: We are united, we are connected.
Speaker 4: We will not be divided. Every day.
Speaker 5: These women put their ass on the line every day.
Speaker 4: When they go low, we go high.
Speaker 5: Love go win, Grace will win, Humility will win, and
Speaker 5: kindness will win.
Speaker 4: I stand by them.
Speaker 5: I will always stand by them.
Speaker 4: Everybody else can.
Speaker 2: Oh, okay, I'm going to start where I start. That
Speaker 2: was poorly done, That was poorly advised. She embarrassed herself,
Speaker 2: She embarrassed the Fever organization. She embarrassed the WNBA. If
Speaker 2: you allow your emotions to control you, there is nothing
Speaker 2: else that can happen. Now, it's possible that men see
Speaker 2: this differently than women looking at my chat room. Nope,
Speaker 2: we all see it the same way. But I want
Speaker 2: to break down a couple of things she said, just
Speaker 2: to show how disconnected it is from reality.
Speaker 4: The online community has an issue.
Speaker 2: You mean the fan You mean the people who want
Speaker 2: to show up and want to pay you.
Speaker 4: They want to give you their money. And you're making
Speaker 4: it more and more difficult.
Speaker 2: Because you won't admit that they targeted Caitlin Clark, and
Speaker 2: you won't admit that there's a real racism within the WNBA.
Speaker 4: And you won't say the W stands for women.
Speaker 2: If you did not see the foul in real time,
Speaker 2: Coach White, why did you comment on it?
Speaker 4: I think that's a very legitimate criticism.
Speaker 2: Why'd you comment on it? Why not say I didn't
Speaker 2: see it. I need to go back and watch it.
Speaker 2: You defended Carrington, you defended Djona. Shouldn't have You should
Speaker 2: have admitted to that You're going to lead with love, grace, humility,
Speaker 2: and integrity and hate. Fear mongering and divisiveness will not win.
Speaker 2: Tell that to the players in the WNBA. Tell that
Speaker 2: to the coaches in the WNBA. Tell that to the
Speaker 2: media in the WNBA, not me. Love will win, grace
Speaker 2: and kindness will win, and everybody else can go to hell. Well,
Speaker 2: if you wanted to take a big giant crap on
Speaker 2: your own message, Coach White, bravo.
Speaker 4: You did no favors here for yourself, for your team,
Speaker 4: or the league.
Speaker 2: And I think there should be a conversation about whether
Speaker 2: or not you have the temperament to be a coach,
Speaker 2: because as a fan, you just told them to.
Speaker 4: Go to help. I'm Tony Kats.
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Speaker 2: guys enough for showing up today. Three more things. So
Speaker 2: these are stories that should be front page news, but
Speaker 2: because of everything on the front page doesn't make the
Speaker 2: front pages. Of course, we still have a war going
Speaker 2: with Iran. I'll get to updates coming up in a
Speaker 2: little bit. And we just heard from the Attorney General,
Speaker 2: that is Todd Blanche talking about charges that have come
Speaker 2: in a Chinese national marriage fraud screen. I'm gonna try
Speaker 2: to say this again, Chinese national marriage fraud scheme.
Speaker 4: That ain't easy.
Speaker 2: Over a thousand plus sham marriages that the Department of
Speaker 2: Justice has identified where people spent one hundred thousand dollars
Speaker 2: to be able to get a green card here in
Speaker 2: the United States, involving mainly a Chinese nationals.
Speaker 4: This is massive.
Speaker 2: This has to change who we allow into the country.
Speaker 2: We have to start saying no. This plays in the
Speaker 2: conversation of what Senator Jim Banks discusses as invasion, as
Speaker 2: he wants to change the laws and better define what
Speaker 2: it is to be an invader. Therefore, to work within
Speaker 2: the Supreme Court decision on birthright citizenship, everybody when I
Speaker 2: talk about this, everyone says, Tony, the Supreme Court already
Speaker 2: rules if you're born in the United States or a
Speaker 2: United States citizen.
Speaker 4: Why don't you understand this? I understand what it is
Speaker 4: that Justice.
Speaker 2: Kavanaugh said, the Fourteenth Amendment born in the United States
Speaker 2: and subjects to the jurisdiction thereof the Court, I think
Speaker 2: improperly ruled. Improperly ruled that to be born here is enough.
Speaker 2: But there was no conversation about whether or not Congress can,
Speaker 2: through legislation make the determination of who is an invader
Speaker 2: because the Court was did not make any change just
Speaker 2: to what we already know to be factual that if
Speaker 2: someone is considered a threat invader, they cannot be a citizen.
Speaker 2: They do not fall into that category. Aren't regarding being
Speaker 2: born in the United States? You can change this. People
Speaker 2: don't like hearing the word invader. A thousand plus sham marriages.
Speaker 2: Is there anything else we have to discuss? Could we
Speaker 2: all just be rational for five minutes? It's all I ask.
Speaker 2: It's a simple request. Normal, normal, normal for five minutes.
Speaker 2: If we had normal in the United States for five minutes,
Speaker 2: people would actually.
Speaker 4: Not know what to do with themselves. They'd completely lose
Speaker 4: their minds.
Speaker 2: So while this is going on and that all just
Speaker 2: got released today, Todd blanche I wasn't expecting the presser.
Speaker 4: All of a sudden, he.
Speaker 2: Comes to the microphone and man, this for cable news
Speaker 2: outside of MS. Now, this is going to be the
Speaker 2: top story tonight. Oh, this is going to be This
Speaker 2: is is a big one. But there are other stories
Speaker 2: and I absolutely want to get to them because they
Speaker 2: are very, very big stories, but they just aren't going
Speaker 2: to make the front page. And we start with the
Speaker 2: Michigan The University of Michigan. Did I mention I am
Speaker 2: not a fan of blue it's the radicalness of the politics.
Speaker 2: They can't be denied.
Speaker 4: Not a fan in any way, shape or form.
Speaker 2: The University of Michigan is going to eliminate traditional letter
Speaker 2: grades for first semester freshmen beginning in the fall of
Speaker 2: twenty twenty seven. It's going to address what is described
Speaker 2: as a growing mental health crisis among college students. So
Speaker 2: what's going to happen is that students in the university's
Speaker 2: College of Literature, Science, and the Arts will get pass
Speaker 2: or no credit on transcripts. That college enrolls about four
Speaker 2: thousand students every year. It will help the freshmen quote
Speaker 2: acclimate to the demands of college and allow intrinsic motivations
Speaker 2: to guide personally meaningful academic journeys. I'm not quite sure
Speaker 2: what that means, but after reading it, I need a
Speaker 2: shower acclimate to the demands of college and allow intrinsic
Speaker 2: motivations to guide personally meaningful academic journeys. Now, the grades
Speaker 2: will not be on transcripts, they will not be utilized
Speaker 2: in calculating grade point averages, but professors will still give
Speaker 2: the grades and those will be used to determine scholarship
Speaker 2: eligibility other academic awards. So the issue here, as we
Speaker 2: understand it, is that kids get to college, they are
Speaker 2: not prepared for the riggers, and they collapse because it's
Speaker 2: the first time in their life they've ever been told no,
Speaker 2: we have a problem, and the problem has to be fixed,
Speaker 2: and we if we want to argue that the problem
Speaker 2: is lower education.
Speaker 4: Well that's absolutely correct.
Speaker 2: You see, I see the comments, Mike, I see your
Speaker 2: comment translation the kids are weak. I am not actually
Speaker 2: saying no. I'll agree with you there, but I like
Speaker 2: to take a different approach, in a different tact which
Speaker 2: is the education system has failed to do its job,
Speaker 2: and that's why we need to break the teachers' union
Speaker 2: into and end public education as we know it. It
Speaker 2: does not create good students, it does not prepare students
Speaker 2: for the future.
Speaker 4: Now we can argue.
Speaker 2: As well that this is also a cultural problem where
Speaker 2: parents have failed to provide for their children.
Speaker 4: Part of what that.
Speaker 2: Issue is is that we have parents, in large measure,
Speaker 2: in large swaths, who are trying to be friends with
Speaker 2: their children. Your child is not your friends. You love
Speaker 2: your child, not your friend. You are mom or you
Speaker 2: are dad. You are not the friend, and you are
Speaker 2: never going to be their friend. You can have a
Speaker 2: great relationship with your kid, you can hang with your kid.
Speaker 2: As you get older, you can have a different.
Speaker 4: Relationship with your kid, but in.
Speaker 2: Those formative years, in those growth years, you're not their friend.
Speaker 4: The role is that of parents.
Speaker 2: It's a different role, and it is thankless at times,
Speaker 2: and it is tough. Often it's absolutely rewarding. I have
Speaker 2: explained to my children more than once that I am
Speaker 2: not your friend. I am your father. And there is
Speaker 2: a difference. And I take it seriously and I love
Speaker 2: doing it. Love doing it. I didn't know I was
Speaker 2: gonna love doing it, but I do because I take
Speaker 2: the responsibility seriously. It's a pleasure to have this opportunity.
Speaker 2: Your friend will tell you everything will be okay. I'm
Speaker 2: your father. Sometimes this crap won't be okay, and you're
Speaker 2: gonna have to figure out how to handle that. You're
Speaker 2: gonna have to get your emotions in check and deal
Speaker 2: with it. You have to be stronger than the moment.
Speaker 2: That's part of the deal. That is the deal. The
Speaker 2: schools are failing the kids. The parents are failing the
Speaker 2: kids because we don't push for the strength, which is
Speaker 2: why when Pete Hegsat, the Secretary of Defense talks about lethality,
Speaker 2: talks about physical fitness, talks about the strength of mind
Speaker 2: one needs to be in the military, people are flocking
Speaker 2: to it because they want it. The standard is good,
Speaker 2: the standard is valuable, the standard is necessary, The standard
Speaker 2: is everything. We don't hold the kids to the standards
Speaker 2: that they are craving. We don't hold them to responsibility
Speaker 2: that they are craving. They want to prove that they
Speaker 2: are worthy because they are alive, because that is the
Speaker 2: human condition, and we don't give them the opportunity It
Speaker 2: is parents and teachers and these unions and culture ripping
Speaker 2: it from them, and then they look for something, and
Speaker 2: then the state steps in and says, we've got this.
Speaker 2: You should be part of the revolution, because look at
Speaker 2: all this system that fails you.
Speaker 4: You don't think that all connects, all connects.
Speaker 2: It's all right there, It's all played out right in
Speaker 2: front of you. All you have to do is be
Speaker 2: willing to put those pieces together and it will set
Speaker 2: a course.
Speaker 4: It will show you what we have done wrong, and
Speaker 4: it will show you a way to do it better.
Speaker 2: This we could talk about the kids being weak and
Speaker 2: the kids being.
Speaker 4: This, that and the other.
Speaker 2: It is the parents, it is the teachers, It is
Speaker 2: the teachers' unions.
Speaker 4: It is the culture.
Speaker 2: It is what we have allowed to happen, what we
Speaker 2: have put upon, forced upon, abused our kids.
Speaker 4: With, and it's what we have to undo.
Speaker 2: And when parents started undoing that, trying to undo that,
Speaker 2: seeing the insanity of COVID, seeing what was actually being taught,
Speaker 2: that Merrick Garland and that Attorney General under Joe Biden,
Speaker 2: who actually maybe never was president, was a cabal, designated
Speaker 2: those parents as what domestic terrorists to keep them to
Speaker 2: try and stifle them and keep them from being the
Speaker 2: people who could make the changes. You have to break
Speaker 2: the teachers union too. You have to break these people
Speaker 2: in half. One of the other stories headline stories, is
Speaker 2: that Samuel Alito has stated that he is sticking around.
Speaker 2: President Trump thrilled that Alito has said he's going to
Speaker 2: remain for another term.
Speaker 4: He's not going to retire. Now, I wonder if that
Speaker 4: means that.
Speaker 2: Justice Alito sees that the opportunity for the Republicans to
Speaker 2: be victorious in the midterms is real, because if the
Speaker 2: Senate is controlled by Democrats, President Trump's gonna have a
Speaker 2: hard time replacing anybody.
Speaker 4: On the Court.
Speaker 2: If Todd Blanche cannot get a single Democrat to vote
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Speaker 4: It's a recall from Chrysler.
Speaker 2: Fifty thousand vehicles.
Speaker 4: Are being recalled Tony Katz. Tony Katz today. This over
Speaker 4: seat belts.
Speaker 2: This is the twenty twenty three to twenty twenty five
Speaker 2: Dodge Hornet. The twenty twenty three through twenty twenty six
Speaker 2: Alfa Romeo tanal tn Ali is a pronounced toanal. By
Speaker 2: the way, this happens to me a lot with pronunciations.
Speaker 2: It's not that I don't know how to speak. It's
Speaker 2: that I read and I'm not watching videos and clips
Speaker 2: and everything else. And what happens is I sometimes mispronounce
Speaker 2: because I haven't heard it said before.
Speaker 4: I do feel bad about it.
Speaker 2: I have to now put it upon myself to to
Speaker 2: make sure I check, double check, and recheck. So sometimes
Speaker 2: I mispronounced and I apologize for that not trying to.
Speaker 2: So the recall is about a seat belt defect that
Speaker 2: could increase the risk of injury in a crash. Approximately
Speaker 2: one point six percent of the vehicles have the defect.
Speaker 2: The rear outboard seat belts may become twisted and failed
Speaker 2: to retract properly, so therefore it's not gonna hold you
Speaker 2: in if there's an accent that brakes get hit hard
Speaker 2: and whoop, you go flying.
Speaker 4: So there's the recall there.
Speaker 2: I have a larger question for Chrysler and Stillantis, which
Speaker 2: is how are they doing as a company. There were
Speaker 2: some years there, COVID years, et cetera, where they weren't
Speaker 2: building a vehicle that was working, weren't building a vehicle
Speaker 2: that was connecting, and they.
Speaker 4: Were just the quality had gone down. And then they
Speaker 4: got rid of the CEO.
Speaker 2: The CEO is actually like, well the problem isn't me,
Speaker 2: The problem is with you at the dealerships, and the dealers.
Speaker 4: Were like, are you out of your skull? And then
Speaker 4: the next thing you know, the CEO was gone.
Speaker 2: And so I think there is this rebuild at play,
Speaker 2: but I've not really heard anything about them. I hear
Speaker 2: about moves from GM, really interesting move for their supply chains.
Speaker 2: Four and a half billion dollars moved from Ford as
Speaker 2: they're betting again on electric vehicles, but at a thirty
Speaker 2: thousand dollars price point.
Speaker 4: I don't hear about Stilantis. I don't hear about Chrysler.
Speaker 4: This is Tony Katz today,