WEBVTT - Episode 4665: Tony Katz Today Hour 2 - 08/12/26 0:00:05.160 --> 0:00:10.760 Live from Vaal Hartbeiner and the Crossroads of America. It's 0:00:10.840 --> 0:00:15.560 Tony Katz today. 0:00:16.079 --> 0:00:19.680 It's a press conference from the newly minted Attorney General, 0:00:20.760 --> 0:00:26.160 Todd blanche. He is there with some of his people. 0:00:26.239 --> 0:00:29.280 Me I'm Tony Katz. The show is Tony Katz today. 0:00:29.360 --> 0:00:31.680 Good to be here, Good to be with you. Let's 0:00:31.760 --> 0:00:33.640 take it to the Attorney general. 0:00:33.800 --> 0:00:37.400 We are announcing the arrests and unseiling of an indictment 0:00:37.440 --> 0:00:41.000 out of the Southern District of New York charging eleven 0:00:41.080 --> 0:00:47.240 individuals for allegedly overseeing an extensive, decade long marriage fraud 0:00:47.320 --> 0:00:51.440 scheme involving more than one thousand sham marriages between Chinese 0:00:51.560 --> 0:00:54.200 nationals and United States citizens. 0:00:54.520 --> 0:01:04.520 And holy crap, Okay, guys, was not expecting this sham marriages? 0:01:04.640 --> 0:01:06.240 Did he say a thousand? 0:01:07.200 --> 0:01:09.000 Hold on a second, I'm going to back that up 0:01:09.000 --> 0:01:13.480 a little bit. Did he say a thousand. 0:01:13.440 --> 0:01:17.280 Marriage fraud scheme involving more than one thousand sham marriages 0:01:17.319 --> 0:01:19.600 between Chinese nationals. 0:01:19.440 --> 0:01:20.880 And United States citizens? 0:01:21.440 --> 0:01:25.160 And then the submission of fraudulent applications for green cards. 0:01:26.440 --> 0:01:29.920 This is one of the largest marriage frauds prosecutions in 0:01:29.920 --> 0:01:31.120 the United States history. 0:01:31.240 --> 0:01:33.880 This scheme was not a. 0:01:33.200 --> 0:01:36.759 Quick, fly by night operation, but rather a year's long, 0:01:36.920 --> 0:01:41.240 multimillion dollar cottage industry to criminally assist people who would 0:01:41.240 --> 0:01:45.960 not or legally could not otherwise become citizens of the 0:01:46.040 --> 0:01:46.720 United States. 0:01:47.640 --> 0:01:50.840 Right now, I'm willing to bet you any amount of 0:01:50.880 --> 0:01:52.559 money that you and I are actually having the same 0:01:52.600 --> 0:01:57.400 conversation in our heads, and that conversation is well. Of 0:01:57.520 --> 0:02:00.120 course people were doing this. We knew people were doing this. 0:02:00.280 --> 0:02:02.680 Of Course people get married to get somebody a Green card. 0:02:02.920 --> 0:02:05.640 We one thousand percent knew this was happening. You have 0:02:05.720 --> 0:02:08.920 had this conversation over Thanksgiving dinner, you had it with 0:02:08.960 --> 0:02:11.040 your uncle, you've had it at work, you've had it 0:02:11.040 --> 0:02:14.440 with friends over beer. Absolutely, you knew this was happening. 0:02:14.919 --> 0:02:19.440 Yet somehow when you hear it, you still say, what 0:02:19.520 --> 0:02:24.920 the hell? Because we think of it as a one off. 0:02:25.560 --> 0:02:27.840 We think of it as somebody doing something illicted over there. 0:02:27.880 --> 0:02:30.799 We think of it as Ilhanomh and her brother, which 0:02:31.240 --> 0:02:34.680 I believe happened organized. 0:02:35.919 --> 0:02:38.800 That's the part that really blows us away. 0:02:39.760 --> 0:02:42.720 The men and women who facilitated this scheme were all 0:02:43.400 --> 0:02:47.280 naturalized citizens originally from China, and one Green card holder 0:02:47.960 --> 0:02:51.760 under President Trump's leadership, the Department of Justice is working 0:02:51.760 --> 0:02:55.760 alongside our partners at DHS to secure the border and 0:02:55.840 --> 0:02:57.520 protect American communities. 0:02:58.160 --> 0:03:02.079 Let's go back over that, because that's the line. 0:03:03.320 --> 0:03:06.080 Let's make sure everybody heard it exactly the way the 0:03:06.080 --> 0:03:07.720 Attorney General Todd Blanche said it. 0:03:07.760 --> 0:03:08.480 Out of states. 0:03:09.400 --> 0:03:12.359 The men and women who facilitated this scheme were all 0:03:13.000 --> 0:03:16.799 naturalized citizens originally from China, and one Green card holder. 0:03:17.560 --> 0:03:21.400 Under President Trump's leadership, the Department of Justice is working 0:03:21.400 --> 0:03:25.400 alongside our partners at DHS to secure the border and 0:03:25.480 --> 0:03:27.160 protect American communities. 0:03:28.040 --> 0:03:31.520 The only answer I'm going to accept from Todd Blanche 0:03:31.720 --> 0:03:35.400 is to denaturalize those people and deport those people. And 0:03:35.440 --> 0:03:41.240 then I want to find China twenty billion dollars do 0:03:41.360 --> 0:03:43.640 me a favorite producer land. Will you look up what 0:03:43.840 --> 0:03:49.119 our debt is to China right now? Yeah, look, look 0:03:49.160 --> 0:03:54.000 look that up. China must pay the price for doing this. 0:03:55.400 --> 0:03:59.160 Tell me more about how a birthright citizenship isn't an 0:03:59.200 --> 0:04:02.680 issue any more that this is. Oh, you're just you're 0:04:02.760 --> 0:04:07.960 just being a racist towards Chinese nationals, Kitten. 0:04:08.880 --> 0:04:11.920 When I see Chinese nationals grown. 0:04:11.680 --> 0:04:14.240 Men, single men, able bodied men trying to get into 0:04:14.240 --> 0:04:16.920 the United States. If you admit them into the United States, 0:04:17.080 --> 0:04:22.560 you are for cocta crazy, You are out of your mind. Nuts, 0:04:24.040 --> 0:04:27.360 You're deranged. You know I'm saying you, and I apologize. 0:04:27.520 --> 0:04:31.120 They're deranged. They're deranged, and they can't be allowed power. 0:04:31.320 --> 0:04:33.160 By the way, the number is six hundred and fifty 0:04:33.200 --> 0:04:37.480 three point nine billion dollars. That's what we owe China. 0:04:37.640 --> 0:04:40.240 Did I say twenty billion? I'm sorry, I meant two 0:04:40.320 --> 0:04:44.599 hundred billion, thirty percent off the top. That's what it 0:04:44.680 --> 0:04:48.320 costs you. It's paid. No, no, no, no, don't care if 0:04:48.360 --> 0:04:50.440 you like it or you don't like it. It means absolutely nothing. 0:04:50.520 --> 0:04:52.240 China. You want to fight about it, I say, we 0:04:52.320 --> 0:04:53.040 fight about it. 0:04:56.160 --> 0:05:01.080 Of course, you don't think that this constitutes invasion, honey, 0:05:01.680 --> 0:05:07.679 pooky boo boo, kitten shmoo. Chinese nationals cannot be allowed 0:05:07.680 --> 0:05:08.600 to be US citizens. 0:05:08.680 --> 0:05:09.000 Nope. 0:05:11.640 --> 0:05:14.000 Now you say to me, Tony, that's a It might 0:05:14.000 --> 0:05:17.800 be going a little bit overboard right there. We have 0:05:17.880 --> 0:05:22.440 to be able to prove hardships, real hardships, because there 0:05:22.480 --> 0:05:28.520 are plenty of Hong Kongers who got absolutely abused, abused. 0:05:27.880 --> 0:05:29.000 By the Chinese government. 0:05:29.279 --> 0:05:31.800 Remember when they were fighting for their freedom, and we 0:05:31.960 --> 0:05:34.960 just let China put their boot on their neck. And 0:05:35.080 --> 0:05:37.240 everybody in the NBA said, Hey, when's our next game 0:05:37.279 --> 0:05:44.560 in China? Love that money, right, Lebron. Of course it's 0:05:44.560 --> 0:05:47.520 an invasion. Of course it's an attack. Of course it's 0:05:47.520 --> 0:05:50.520 a threat, and we should deal with it accordingly. Back 0:05:50.600 --> 0:05:54.400 to the Attorney General Todd Blanche, with this announcement an 0:05:54.480 --> 0:05:59.440 arrest of a ring to coordinate and facilitate sham marriages, 0:06:00.000 --> 0:06:05.200 people could become citizens, involving naturalized citizens from China, over 0:06:05.320 --> 0:06:09.480 one thousand sham marriages. And I'd like to know of 0:06:09.480 --> 0:06:12.520 those one thousand sham marriages, plus how many of them 0:06:13.080 --> 0:06:17.800 applied for some kind of welfare or other benefit from 0:06:17.839 --> 0:06:19.120 the United States. 0:06:19.560 --> 0:06:24.080 Something that was ignored during the last administration. Not only 0:06:24.120 --> 0:06:27.839 are we protecting our physical borders from unlawful crossings, but 0:06:27.920 --> 0:06:31.200 we are also preventing immigration fraud schemes that are just 0:06:31.279 --> 0:06:34.880 another way to skirt the immigration laws of the United States. 0:06:36.200 --> 0:06:38.120 As alleged, some of. 0:06:38.040 --> 0:06:42.400 The charge defendants acted as facilitators who orchestrated the marriage 0:06:42.400 --> 0:06:49.040 fraud scheme, pairing foreign nationals seeking immigration status with United 0:06:49.080 --> 0:06:53.680 States citizens willing to participate and engage in a sham marriage. 0:06:54.400 --> 0:07:02.120 These facilitators employed attorneys, tax preparers, and marriage officiants. Some 0:07:02.200 --> 0:07:06.400 of the other charge defendants acted as recruiters by finding 0:07:06.440 --> 0:07:09.400 and recruiting United States citizens to participate in the scheme, 0:07:09.840 --> 0:07:15.760 and other defendants acted as officiants, officiating dozens of these 0:07:15.920 --> 0:07:21.640 alleged fake marriages. Now, the way that this scheme allegedly 0:07:21.680 --> 0:07:25.920 worked is the facilitators used social media and other forms 0:07:25.920 --> 0:07:30.560 of advertising to market fraudulent immigration services to foreign nationals, 0:07:30.600 --> 0:07:34.880 primarily from China, and Chinese nationals would pay these facilitators 0:07:34.880 --> 0:07:38.400 as much as one hundred thousand dollars for assistance in 0:07:38.440 --> 0:07:41.880 obtaining a marriage, which then allowed them to apply for 0:07:41.920 --> 0:07:45.960 a green card. The facilitators also paid willing US citizens 0:07:45.960 --> 0:07:49.120 as much as thirty thousand dollars to engage in the 0:07:49.160 --> 0:07:53.520 sham marriage with the foreign national. Now, often after these 0:07:54.240 --> 0:07:59.320 phony ceremonies, defendants would stage images of families at restaurants 0:08:00.080 --> 0:08:03.200 to create the appearance of a legitimate wedding, and some 0:08:03.240 --> 0:08:07.760 of the defendants also facilitated sham marriages overseas in China. 0:08:08.840 --> 0:08:12.720 After the marriages took place, the actual ceremony that then 0:08:12.880 --> 0:08:17.120 married couples would visit a local office affiliated with the scheme, 0:08:18.120 --> 0:08:22.200 sign forms for submission to the US Citizen and Immigration Services, 0:08:23.280 --> 0:08:26.400 learn about the USCIS interview process to apply for a 0:08:26.440 --> 0:08:33.319 green card, and then execute prenuptial agreements, which, not surprisingly 0:08:33.320 --> 0:08:37.240 given the allegation these were sham marriages, waived their rights 0:08:37.280 --> 0:08:40.320 to share in the others a state upon death, child 0:08:40.360 --> 0:08:43.680 support and other claims and marital property. 0:08:45.000 --> 0:08:49.440 At this moment, I people ask me why I drink bourbon. 0:08:52.679 --> 0:08:56.760 This is ugly. This is ugly. 0:08:57.160 --> 0:09:02.840 I this I wasn't He wasn't actually on the system 0:09:02.880 --> 0:09:04.240 today to give any presser. 0:09:04.360 --> 0:09:06.120 So this was a bit of a surprise. 0:09:07.160 --> 0:09:12.079 Over one thousand sham marriages busted the purpose to allow 0:09:12.200 --> 0:09:18.480 Chinese nationals to become citizens. Money paid over in cases 0:09:18.520 --> 0:09:25.520 one hundred thousand dollars, and Americans who are implicated may 0:09:25.559 --> 0:09:28.240 have gotten paid thirty thousand dollars. All those people have 0:09:28.280 --> 0:09:31.440 to go to jail who are Americans, and all those 0:09:31.559 --> 0:09:38.160 naturalized citizens have to be denaturalized and deported today in 0:09:38.320 --> 0:09:44.040 any lower court that wants to get involved, those activist 0:09:44.160 --> 0:09:47.000 judges need to be thrown off the bench. 0:09:48.880 --> 0:09:50.240 Innocent until proven guilty. 0:09:50.360 --> 0:09:58.720 Sure, absolutely, when they're proven guilty, goodbye. And with all 0:09:58.760 --> 0:10:03.800 of this, Stephanie White, coach of the Indiana Fever, her 0:10:03.920 --> 0:10:06.520 presser is even crazier. 0:10:06.840 --> 0:10:08.960 I've got that story coming up. Keep it here. This 0:10:09.120 --> 0:10:10.120 is Tony Katz today. 0:10:10.240 --> 0:10:14.160 Stephanie White is the coach of the Indiana Fever and 0:10:14.240 --> 0:10:18.240 she made a statement before the game that the Fever 0:10:18.320 --> 0:10:22.800 played against the New York Liberty. That did not help her, 0:10:23.200 --> 0:10:26.040 did not help the Indiana Fever, did not help the WNBA. 0:10:26.920 --> 0:10:31.400 If anything, it made her look weak, it made the 0:10:31.480 --> 0:10:35.000 team look weak, and it made the WNBA look like 0:10:35.080 --> 0:10:35.560 they don't. 0:10:35.480 --> 0:10:37.200 Quite understand what the issue is. 0:10:37.320 --> 0:10:40.520 Tony Katz, Tony Katz today and for the Jamel Hills 0:10:40.520 --> 0:10:44.040 and everybody else who wants to say that we don't 0:10:44.080 --> 0:10:46.080 have the right to talk about this and we're just 0:10:46.120 --> 0:10:53.240 obsessing over this because of race. The WNBA has a 0:10:53.360 --> 0:10:59.040 choice to make. The WNBA can decide that they are 0:10:59.120 --> 0:11:02.679 in the business of being a league, or the WNBA 0:11:02.880 --> 0:11:05.160 can decide that they are in the business of being 0:11:05.200 --> 0:11:11.400 a welfare recipient. Four years the WNBA was a welfare recipient. 0:11:12.200 --> 0:11:17.280 The NBA wanted to create a league for women. The 0:11:17.360 --> 0:11:20.160 league never made any money, the league never got any 0:11:20.240 --> 0:11:26.559 traction and yet it's still got funded. Now, living in 0:11:26.559 --> 0:11:31.680 Indiana might be different our team than other teams because 0:11:31.679 --> 0:11:37.360 this is a basketball state, right the expression here is 0:11:37.760 --> 0:11:40.640 in forty nine other states it's just basketball. 0:11:40.800 --> 0:11:41.800 But this is Indiana. 0:11:42.440 --> 0:11:46.240 They take it at a level I cannot describe to you. 0:11:46.800 --> 0:11:47.880 It's unbelievable. 0:11:49.440 --> 0:11:53.600 Right, It's in the same way this state views the 0:11:53.640 --> 0:11:56.400 month of May because that's when the Indianapols five hundred happens. Now, 0:11:56.400 --> 0:11:59.760 every state has something that connects for the people who 0:11:59.760 --> 0:12:02.599 live it is a thing for them. 0:12:03.160 --> 0:12:07.480 Basketball for sure, for sure. 0:12:08.800 --> 0:12:11.520 And so we did pay attention to the Indiana fever 0:12:11.880 --> 0:12:15.480 and we had great Tamika Catchings was a great ambassador 0:12:15.679 --> 0:12:16.719 for the league and was. 0:12:16.640 --> 0:12:21.400 A star of her time. And then Caitlyn Clark came 0:12:21.400 --> 0:12:21.720 to town. 0:12:21.800 --> 0:12:23.520 Well the rest is history, as you know, and more 0:12:23.559 --> 0:12:26.600 people paid attention, and that upsets some people because this 0:12:26.640 --> 0:12:29.120 girl was getting attention and these weren't getting attention. And 0:12:29.160 --> 0:12:32.480 this was big a tree, and that's when the crazy 0:12:32.520 --> 0:12:35.200 fouls would start. Some things I think Caitlyn Clark complained 0:12:35.200 --> 0:12:37.480 about that weren't worth complaining about. And some things she 0:12:37.600 --> 0:12:42.440 was absolutely right and everybody saw it. But with Caitlyn 0:12:42.480 --> 0:12:46.840 Clark came the opportunity to become a league that could 0:12:46.880 --> 0:12:47.760 be self sufficient. 0:12:48.720 --> 0:12:50.160 They went from commercial. 0:12:49.679 --> 0:12:54.640 Flights to charter flights, private, better hotels, They started to 0:12:54.640 --> 0:13:01.160 play in real arenas, they moved games, and people are like, well, 0:13:01.160 --> 0:13:02.719 if you're gonna put on a show, we want to 0:13:02.720 --> 0:13:05.040 see it. If it's gonna be entertaining, we want to 0:13:05.080 --> 0:13:08.079 see it. My daughters now want to go. Absolutely, I'm 0:13:08.120 --> 0:13:13.720 taking them fantastic. The w NBA has on every level 0:13:15.360 --> 0:13:18.520 shown that they were not up to the moment, because 0:13:18.520 --> 0:13:22.720 it's not that they could control the criticism criticisms from without. 0:13:22.840 --> 0:13:24.880 It has nothing to do with the criticisms from without. 0:13:25.320 --> 0:13:28.480 They could not handle the criticisms from within the players, 0:13:28.480 --> 0:13:30.880 the coaches and the media that. 0:13:31.000 --> 0:13:33.160 Clearly didn't want this for their little league. 0:13:34.320 --> 0:13:35.840 And so there's been a lot of talk and with 0:13:35.920 --> 0:13:39.880 the Sophie Cunningham conversations about how girls sports would be 0:13:39.920 --> 0:13:44.440 for girls, they don't like that either. And now going 0:13:44.440 --> 0:13:49.360 after Sophie Cunningham and the clothesline tackle if you will 0:13:50.679 --> 0:13:54.640 from uh De Johnny uh dejohn De, Janna is it 0:13:54.720 --> 0:14:02.040 Dijana Jena djon a thank you Djna carryon and people 0:14:02.080 --> 0:14:05.560 have been talking about this more. Well, this became a 0:14:05.600 --> 0:14:09.000 thing because it was a clothesline. By the way, Sophie 0:14:09.000 --> 0:14:12.440 Cunningham has done this before. She's tackled people on court 0:14:12.559 --> 0:14:14.000 before she. 0:14:14.040 --> 0:14:15.160 Got thrown out of the game. 0:14:15.800 --> 0:14:17.400 Carrington got thrown out of the game, and then she 0:14:17.440 --> 0:14:22.880 immediately put White privilege. Good lord, she's trying to backtrack 0:14:22.960 --> 0:14:26.640 that a lot of criticism. That brings us to the 0:14:26.680 --> 0:14:31.840 coach of the Indiana Fever, Stephanie White, who, when first 0:14:31.880 --> 0:14:35.400 asked about the foul against her player Sophie Cunningham, was like, listen, 0:14:35.400 --> 0:14:38.120 these girls are going to play hard. And now she 0:14:38.320 --> 0:14:42.320 comes to have a presser where she is going after 0:14:42.560 --> 0:14:46.160 the detractors and claiming she never saw the play. 0:14:46.560 --> 0:14:49.360 You know, this isn't necessarily for those people that are 0:14:49.360 --> 0:14:53.680 in this room. This is more for an online community 0:14:53.920 --> 0:15:00.040 that's trying to create narratives that simply don't exist. We 0:15:00.200 --> 0:15:03.520 ate a fabrication or disortion of who I am, what 0:15:03.560 --> 0:15:08.120 I'm about our players, success, our players, health and wellness, 0:15:08.120 --> 0:15:10.360 our players safety is always a top priority for me. 0:15:10.440 --> 0:15:12.080 One of the things I pride myself on is my 0:15:12.160 --> 0:15:16.480 relationships with players. For those who have anything to say 0:15:16.480 --> 0:15:18.480 about the play in the last game, I didn't see 0:15:18.480 --> 0:15:20.160 the play in real time. I went straight to a 0:15:20.160 --> 0:15:23.040 press conference. I thought the play got called right, thankfully 0:15:23.080 --> 0:15:27.600 Sophie's Okay, was it egregious? Absolutely? When you have a 0:15:27.680 --> 0:15:30.640 chance to watch that over and over and over on replay, 0:15:31.440 --> 0:15:33.920 you can see that I didn't have that in real time. 0:15:37.000 --> 0:15:39.400 But I take personally sorry. 0:15:40.280 --> 0:15:43.200 Any suggestions that I don't one hundred always have my 0:15:43.240 --> 0:15:45.840 players back. I ride with them ten toes down all 0:15:45.880 --> 0:15:47.160 the time, all. 0:15:46.960 --> 0:15:47.480 Of the time. 0:15:48.440 --> 0:15:51.800 They know that it's a shame that we can't have 0:15:51.920 --> 0:15:55.040 an opportunity to talk about what great basketball they're playing 0:15:56.480 --> 0:15:58.040 because they are team playing. 0:16:01.920 --> 0:16:05.640 The reality is with me, I will always lead with love, 0:16:07.080 --> 0:16:10.680 I will always lead with grace, I will always lead 0:16:10.760 --> 0:16:13.200 with humility, and I will always. 0:16:12.920 --> 0:16:16.400 Lead with integrity. Doesn't mean I'll always get a writer. 0:16:17.680 --> 0:16:18.560 I'm also human. 0:16:20.040 --> 0:16:23.840 The hate, the fear mongering, the divisiveness, the stuff that's 0:16:23.840 --> 0:16:26.640 trying to hijack our league will not win. 0:16:29.640 --> 0:16:30.200 It won't win. 0:16:32.480 --> 0:16:34.880 We are united, we are connected. 0:16:36.000 --> 0:16:39.720 We will not be divided. Every day. 0:16:39.760 --> 0:16:46.320 These women put their ass on the line every day. 0:16:46.920 --> 0:16:48.440 When they go low, we go high. 0:16:48.480 --> 0:16:53.240 Love go win, Grace will win, Humility will win, and 0:16:53.440 --> 0:16:54.640 kindness will win. 0:16:56.080 --> 0:16:57.120 I stand by them. 0:16:57.320 --> 0:16:58.920 I will always stand by them. 0:16:59.120 --> 0:16:59.960 Everybody else can. 0:17:03.720 --> 0:17:13.280 Oh, okay, I'm going to start where I start. That 0:17:13.400 --> 0:17:18.880 was poorly done, That was poorly advised. She embarrassed herself, 0:17:19.520 --> 0:17:25.840 She embarrassed the Fever organization. She embarrassed the WNBA. If 0:17:25.840 --> 0:17:29.679 you allow your emotions to control you, there is nothing 0:17:29.680 --> 0:17:34.520 else that can happen. Now, it's possible that men see 0:17:34.520 --> 0:17:37.960 this differently than women looking at my chat room. Nope, 0:17:38.000 --> 0:17:41.000 we all see it the same way. But I want 0:17:41.000 --> 0:17:44.000 to break down a couple of things she said, just 0:17:44.040 --> 0:17:46.440 to show how disconnected it is from reality. 0:17:47.640 --> 0:17:49.760 The online community has an issue. 0:17:50.080 --> 0:17:52.600 You mean the fan You mean the people who want 0:17:52.640 --> 0:17:54.080 to show up and want to pay you. 0:17:55.119 --> 0:17:57.400 They want to give you their money. And you're making 0:17:57.440 --> 0:17:58.920 it more and more difficult. 0:18:00.160 --> 0:18:04.280 Because you won't admit that they targeted Caitlin Clark, and 0:18:04.320 --> 0:18:08.879 you won't admit that there's a real racism within the WNBA. 0:18:08.720 --> 0:18:10.680 And you won't say the W stands for women. 0:18:12.400 --> 0:18:14.960 If you did not see the foul in real time, 0:18:15.080 --> 0:18:17.000 Coach White, why did you comment on it? 0:18:18.480 --> 0:18:21.080 I think that's a very legitimate criticism. 0:18:22.000 --> 0:18:24.879 Why'd you comment on it? Why not say I didn't 0:18:24.920 --> 0:18:26.800 see it. I need to go back and watch it. 0:18:27.520 --> 0:18:34.680 You defended Carrington, you defended Djona. Shouldn't have You should 0:18:34.680 --> 0:18:40.760 have admitted to that You're going to lead with love, grace, humility, 0:18:40.800 --> 0:18:44.720 and integrity and hate. Fear mongering and divisiveness will not win. 0:18:47.440 --> 0:18:52.080 Tell that to the players in the WNBA. Tell that 0:18:52.160 --> 0:18:55.399 to the coaches in the WNBA. Tell that to the 0:18:55.440 --> 0:19:01.280 media in the WNBA, not me. Love will win, grace 0:19:01.359 --> 0:19:07.440 and kindness will win, and everybody else can go to hell. Well, 0:19:07.480 --> 0:19:09.719 if you wanted to take a big giant crap on 0:19:09.760 --> 0:19:12.640 your own message, Coach White, bravo. 0:19:15.359 --> 0:19:18.200 You did no favors here for yourself, for your team, 0:19:18.320 --> 0:19:19.560 or the league. 0:19:19.920 --> 0:19:22.000 And I think there should be a conversation about whether 0:19:22.080 --> 0:19:23.720 or not you have the temperament to be a coach, 0:19:25.359 --> 0:19:27.880 because as a fan, you just told them to. 0:19:27.840 --> 0:19:29.600 Go to help. I'm Tony Kats. 0:19:30.520 --> 0:19:35.120 Three more things Tony Kats Tony Katz Today, Guys, thank 0:19:35.160 --> 0:19:39.720 you for being here. Really do appreciate it. Tony Kats 0:19:39.720 --> 0:19:41.600 Today is the name of the show. Find everything I 0:19:41.640 --> 0:19:43.920 do at Tony Katz dot com. I hope you'll head 0:19:43.920 --> 0:19:46.639 over there. I hope you will subscribe and be a 0:19:46.680 --> 0:19:49.280 part of what it is we're building. Can't thank you 0:19:49.320 --> 0:19:52.119 guys enough for showing up today. Three more things. So 0:19:52.200 --> 0:19:55.000 these are stories that should be front page news, but 0:19:55.040 --> 0:19:59.679 because of everything on the front page doesn't make the 0:19:59.680 --> 0:20:02.399 front pages. Of course, we still have a war going 0:20:03.160 --> 0:20:11.439 with Iran. I'll get to updates coming up in a 0:20:11.440 --> 0:20:15.439 little bit. And we just heard from the Attorney General, 0:20:17.760 --> 0:20:22.080 that is Todd Blanche talking about charges that have come 0:20:22.240 --> 0:20:26.360 in a Chinese national marriage fraud screen. I'm gonna try 0:20:26.359 --> 0:20:29.919 to say this again, Chinese national marriage fraud scheme. 0:20:31.560 --> 0:20:32.280 That ain't easy. 0:20:32.680 --> 0:20:36.439 Over a thousand plus sham marriages that the Department of 0:20:36.520 --> 0:20:39.840 Justice has identified where people spent one hundred thousand dollars 0:20:40.040 --> 0:20:43.520 to be able to get a green card here in 0:20:43.560 --> 0:20:48.560 the United States, involving mainly a Chinese nationals. 0:20:48.880 --> 0:20:51.000 This is massive. 0:20:53.560 --> 0:20:57.560 This has to change who we allow into the country. 0:20:58.240 --> 0:21:01.800 We have to start saying no. This plays in the 0:21:01.840 --> 0:21:06.040 conversation of what Senator Jim Banks discusses as invasion, as 0:21:06.040 --> 0:21:09.480 he wants to change the laws and better define what 0:21:09.520 --> 0:21:13.159 it is to be an invader. Therefore, to work within 0:21:13.280 --> 0:21:16.480 the Supreme Court decision on birthright citizenship, everybody when I 0:21:16.480 --> 0:21:18.960 talk about this, everyone says, Tony, the Supreme Court already 0:21:19.000 --> 0:21:20.399 rules if you're born in the United States or a 0:21:20.440 --> 0:21:21.119 United States citizen. 0:21:21.200 --> 0:21:24.919 Why don't you understand this? I understand what it is 0:21:24.920 --> 0:21:25.560 that Justice. 0:21:25.440 --> 0:21:31.760 Kavanaugh said, the Fourteenth Amendment born in the United States 0:21:31.760 --> 0:21:35.320 and subjects to the jurisdiction thereof the Court, I think 0:21:35.400 --> 0:21:44.280 improperly ruled. Improperly ruled that to be born here is enough. 0:21:45.840 --> 0:21:50.520 But there was no conversation about whether or not Congress can, 0:21:50.760 --> 0:21:56.280 through legislation make the determination of who is an invader 0:21:56.800 --> 0:22:00.199 because the Court was did not make any change just 0:22:00.200 --> 0:22:02.560 to what we already know to be factual that if 0:22:02.600 --> 0:22:05.320 someone is considered a threat invader, they cannot be a citizen. 0:22:05.359 --> 0:22:09.200 They do not fall into that category. Aren't regarding being 0:22:09.200 --> 0:22:13.600 born in the United States? You can change this. People 0:22:13.640 --> 0:22:16.760 don't like hearing the word invader. A thousand plus sham marriages. 0:22:17.119 --> 0:22:20.600 Is there anything else we have to discuss? Could we 0:22:20.680 --> 0:22:23.920 all just be rational for five minutes? It's all I ask. 0:22:24.359 --> 0:22:29.560 It's a simple request. Normal, normal, normal for five minutes. 0:22:30.760 --> 0:22:34.040 If we had normal in the United States for five minutes, 0:22:34.200 --> 0:22:35.520 people would actually. 0:22:35.119 --> 0:22:38.879 Not know what to do with themselves. They'd completely lose 0:22:39.119 --> 0:22:39.719 their minds. 0:22:40.880 --> 0:22:43.679 So while this is going on and that all just 0:22:43.720 --> 0:22:47.399 got released today, Todd blanche I wasn't expecting the presser. 0:22:47.400 --> 0:22:48.120 All of a sudden, he. 0:22:48.080 --> 0:22:53.959 Comes to the microphone and man, this for cable news 0:22:54.240 --> 0:22:56.639 outside of MS. Now, this is going to be the 0:22:56.680 --> 0:22:59.760 top story tonight. Oh, this is going to be This 0:22:59.880 --> 0:23:03.360 is is a big one. But there are other stories 0:23:04.160 --> 0:23:08.000 and I absolutely want to get to them because they 0:23:08.040 --> 0:23:11.639 are very, very big stories, but they just aren't going 0:23:11.720 --> 0:23:14.159 to make the front page. And we start with the 0:23:14.520 --> 0:23:19.560 Michigan The University of Michigan. Did I mention I am 0:23:19.560 --> 0:23:23.720 not a fan of blue it's the radicalness of the politics. 0:23:23.720 --> 0:23:24.560 They can't be denied. 0:23:24.680 --> 0:23:28.160 Not a fan in any way, shape or form. 0:23:29.720 --> 0:23:32.440 The University of Michigan is going to eliminate traditional letter 0:23:32.480 --> 0:23:34.920 grades for first semester freshmen beginning in the fall of 0:23:34.960 --> 0:23:40.280 twenty twenty seven. It's going to address what is described 0:23:40.359 --> 0:23:44.919 as a growing mental health crisis among college students. So 0:23:45.040 --> 0:23:48.399 what's going to happen is that students in the university's 0:23:48.400 --> 0:23:51.879 College of Literature, Science, and the Arts will get pass 0:23:52.000 --> 0:24:01.639 or no credit on transcripts. That college enrolls about four 0:24:01.720 --> 0:24:06.679 thousand students every year. It will help the freshmen quote 0:24:06.880 --> 0:24:10.480 acclimate to the demands of college and allow intrinsic motivations 0:24:10.480 --> 0:24:18.600 to guide personally meaningful academic journeys. I'm not quite sure 0:24:18.640 --> 0:24:21.639 what that means, but after reading it, I need a 0:24:21.680 --> 0:24:29.840 shower acclimate to the demands of college and allow intrinsic 0:24:29.960 --> 0:24:40.640 motivations to guide personally meaningful academic journeys. Now, the grades 0:24:40.800 --> 0:24:44.280 will not be on transcripts, they will not be utilized 0:24:44.600 --> 0:24:48.440 in calculating grade point averages, but professors will still give 0:24:48.520 --> 0:24:51.919 the grades and those will be used to determine scholarship 0:24:51.920 --> 0:24:57.840 eligibility other academic awards. So the issue here, as we 0:24:57.960 --> 0:25:02.800 understand it, is that kids get to college, they are 0:25:02.840 --> 0:25:06.920 not prepared for the riggers, and they collapse because it's 0:25:06.920 --> 0:25:09.000 the first time in their life they've ever been told no, 0:25:12.080 --> 0:25:15.600 we have a problem, and the problem has to be fixed, 0:25:16.720 --> 0:25:22.880 and we if we want to argue that the problem 0:25:23.000 --> 0:25:24.760 is lower education. 0:25:24.800 --> 0:25:26.560 Well that's absolutely correct. 0:25:27.880 --> 0:25:30.200 You see, I see the comments, Mike, I see your 0:25:30.200 --> 0:25:33.840 comment translation the kids are weak. I am not actually 0:25:33.880 --> 0:25:37.040 saying no. I'll agree with you there, but I like 0:25:37.119 --> 0:25:41.320 to take a different approach, in a different tact which 0:25:41.400 --> 0:25:45.960 is the education system has failed to do its job, 0:25:46.880 --> 0:25:49.040 and that's why we need to break the teachers' union 0:25:49.040 --> 0:25:53.320 into and end public education as we know it. It 0:25:53.440 --> 0:26:00.120 does not create good students, it does not prepare students 0:26:00.280 --> 0:26:01.080