🚨BREAKING: Tim Walz Pardons Illegal for Armed Robbery to Escape Deportation, Democrats Splitting

Good afternoon and welcome to the Tony Kennett cast here on The Daily Signal, nationally syndicated first out of 93 WIBC in Indianapolis.Whether you're joining us on the radio side, the TV side, the podcast or the live stream, we're glad that you're with us because we have a lot of news to dive into a little bit earlier than normally.But trust me, it's going to be well worth your time.So without much further ado, Democrat Governor Tim Walz has pardoned an illegal alien convicted of armed robbery in order to, you guessed it, release him before Immigration Customs Enforcement could deport him to Laos.Here's Governor Tim Walz making this announcement and being very, very, very smug about it.

I now bring this special meeting of the Minnesota Board of Pardons to order.Pursuant to Minnesota Statute 13 Delta .04, required notice has been provided.This is an extraordinary circumstance which brings us together to consider an application we had originally planned to consider at our scheduled June board meeting.On Thursday, and I may add The Board of Pardons, consisting of myself as Governor of Minnesota, Chief Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court, Hudson, and joining us online is Attorney General Keith Ellison, who is with us online.Good morning to you, Attorney General.On Thursday, May 14th, we received notice that one applicant, Jai Vang, was taken into ICE custody and is scheduled to be deported from the United States before the next Board of Pardons meeting.

To preserve and assert Minnesota's sovereign state interest in enforcing our own criminal laws and the constitutional rights through the clemency process, I've called this meeting to consider the application.

So what's actually going on in this particular situation?So this individual here that was convicted of armed robbery.This is Jai Vang, he's an illegal alien from Laos, was convicted of aiding and abetting an armed robbery in Hennepin County in 1994, according to Fox 9.And the incident occurred when he was 18 years old.Now he has sought clemency because Immigration Customs Enforcement, according to the laws of the United States, if you are convicted here while an illegal immigrant of committing a crime, violent crime, then you are to be deported from the United States.If you're not a US citizen, then no, you don't just magically get a golden pass to stay here if you are an illegal immigrant here in the country.

So Governor Tim Walz is saying, well, I mean, yeah, he's an illegal, but we can't just let ICE deport him.And so brought forward this argument, said, well, we were going to pardon him anyway, which is I mean, it is Minnesota, but anyway, we're gonna pardon him anyway, but we're gonna pardon him now.We're gonna rush the pardon so that Immigration Customs Enforcement can't move forward with deporting him.He was arrested by Immigration Customs Enforcement as part of Operation Metro Surge.And again, he had been in prison and he had served his time, but because he was here in the country illegally and he was picked up by Immigration Customs Enforcement, He then, from the ICE detainment, sent a letter to Tim Walz saying, hey, they're going to deport me as an illegal alien already because I've committed crimes while I was here in the United States.Again, that whole Lake and Riley Act coming into play.

So Tim Walz is trying to just expunge and wipe away from the record the thing he was convicted of in court.Because if he's convicted of being a criminal, for example, in this case, armed robbery, then he has to be deported from the United States.So Tim Walz is making the case, well then we're going to, from Minnesota, wipe away any of the stain from his record.because otherwise ICE is going to uphold US federal law.So again, regular scumminess from Governor Tim Walz.During the hearing, Walz inaccurately referred to Vang as a citizen and also said that he had become a quote, critical member of the community.

Hmm.Since his release from prison.Uh, yeah, I, I, I gotta say, um, first of all, great reporting from the New York post.Second of all, Critical member of the community in Minneapolis is nothing special, given that a lot of critical members of Minneapolis are usually doing things like defrauding autism funds, or Medicaid funds, or feeding our children funds, or wiring oodles, canoodles, and toaster strudels of money to Somalia.You know, just old classic Minnesota activities.You guys have probably done some of them yourselves.

Um, no.Absolutely not.Now, Walls did say, quote, I can find no reason how Minnesota will be safer or better if Mr. Vang is deported to a country he's not been to since he was a child.I do not see how it would serve his family nor the economic interest where we have a taxpaying citizen who is creating job growth and living a life free from any criminal activity.It's the last phrase there that I don't particularly care for.Also, just because something would negatively impact a family doesn't mean you ignore federal law.

It doesn't.A guy who is holding his family hostage, maybe it would be worse for the children if that father holding his family hostage.Maybe it would be worse for them if the father wasn't there anymore.That doesn't mean the SWAT team shouldn't go into the house and rescue those who are, again, being held hostage by a father and friend of the community.Having a family doesn't mean that you get to commit more crimes or ignore federal law.Again, at any point in time, any point in time.

including in prison, this individual, this Mr. Vang could have gone through the opening processes of seeking citizenship from the United States.And did he choose to do so?No, he did not.So and this is where, again, the last phrase is two of these last assertions by walls are just complete bullcrap.Number one, we have a taxpaying citizen.No, he's not a citizen.

See, if he was a citizen, he wouldn't be said to be deported to Laos.See, it's kind of cool that Immigration Customs Enforcement is enforcing the law regarding citizens.I know, bizarrely strange indeed.And he's also suggesting that he's creating job growth and living a life free from any criminal activity, free of any criminal activity, except for the armed robbery he chose to commit.Actions do, in fact, have consequences.And if you are here as an illegal immigrant, one of the purposes of things like the Lake and Riley Act and other federal statutes, by the way, suggests that if you are caught and you are in the either the state or the federal prison system and you are found not to be a citizen, the taxpayer should not have to pay money to pay for your room and board here on any more than we already do.

So exciting stuff from again, the major policy proposals and why bring this up as a, you know, kind of the head and beginning story here.This is happening all over the country.It's happening all the way from Los Angeles in the state of California, all the way over to Massachusetts, to Illinois.It's not something that voters are particularly interested in seeing repetitive headlines for moving into the midterm season.Now, on the federal judicial side, because that's, you know, Tim Walz exercising state authority, a federal judge has now temporarily blocked the Trump administration's plans for the Department of Justice Anti -Weaponization Fund that's overabout $1 .2 billion.

And this is an interesting one for a couple of reasons here.And the reason that this is of particular interest is that the way the judge ordered the temporary freeze is, well, I'll look at ABC's reporting here and try to frame it up.The order from U .S.District Judge Leonie Brinkema specifically bars the administration from, quote, taking any further action pursuant to the creation or operation of the Anti -Weaponization Fund, end quote, including transfers of money or consideration of claims from individuals who may argue they are victims of political persecution.So here's the issue with this particular ruling.

There are a lot of people that are taking just a full on victory lap and are suggesting, ah, you know, it's frozen.The Trump administration foiled again.It's a temporary freeze for while this particular process begins to be carried out in court.So essentially, the judge is saying that the Department of Justice is not allowed to start setting up the accounts as a federal judge from Virginia.And The argument is essentially that it's going to be challenged by a diverse coalition of critics and entities.It's a weird temporary freeze, but it is more on the procedural end rather than I'm blocking this because I don't find it to be constitutional.

There is a little bit of concern here that the federal judge in this case is essentially acting just to act as in there haven't been any arguments that oh wait congress is ordering this or the house judiciary or the oversight committee is arguing such and such not really seeing it so far not really seeing it so i mean again going forward there are going to be a coupleof other judicial challenges to this.They're expected.I don't think this is going to be kind of the death knell for this one.But even though the judge is blocking any of the payouts right now, I don't see how the judge is able to say that the Department of Justice can't even go forward with setting up the accounts.And in a couple of days, there's going to be a hearing to discuss this whole matter.

There are means and ways that are set up in Congress right now for the Department of Justice to make restitution style payments.So the argument that Congress hasn't set up anything like this and this is being completely acted in and out of reach, I'm just not seeing the argument play out here.Do I think it's actually gonna reach an appellate court appeal?I don't think so.I think that you're gonna get to the hearing and the judge is probably gonna move forward, even for Virginia.I'm just not seeing something, at least in these terms, that's cause for a bunch of crazy appeals and large Supreme Court style decisions and efforts like that.

Scott Besant commented on state governments like Gavin Newsom of California instituting or announcing a 100 % tax on any Department of Justice reparation payments for, again, prior political weaponization.This was Treasury Secretary Scott Besant making a statement on this yesterday.

No cure for stupid.

All right, Blase, you know, not exactly going into the depths in the detail there, not necessarily unexpected though.So how are the Democrats responding to this?I went looking for all kinds of, you know, success and excitement.and challenges and oh wow, this is incredible.Certainly there are going to be statements and they're already out here from Chuck Schumer and from Hakeem Jeffries and they're all over this and they're saying, wow, I'm so, I'm so glad there's one statement.There is one statement.

It's from Chuck Schumer.He says, quote, of all of Trump's corrupt schemes, his insurrectionist slush fund is one of the most depraved.This ruling is an important win.Again, it's a temporary freeze on a procedure matter.But best of luck to him.Best of luck to him.

The rest of the party is not focused on this.They'd love to be focused on this.They would.The DNC has other priorities right now.And according to Politico, it's really not getting any better because the Democrat Party right now is in full haunt status.And when I mean full haunt status, I mean that the articles over from Politico, the articles from several outlets from Texas all the way up to Maine, have Democrats panicking internally and externally over about two to three things.

So first and foremost, there is a full -scale panic over Jill Biden.Now, we didn't really cover some of the Jill Biden comments about her husband Joe earlier this week, not because they weren't newsworthy, just other things kind of came up first.I'm glad we waited.And the reason that I'm glad we waited for just a couple of minutes to dive into this one.is that the internal freak out over admitting that everyone was lying all along from the wife of the guy who collapsed mentally, physically, socially, politically, every other kind of Lee.is now coming back again to haunt them for the 2026 midterms.

The second thing that they're terrified of is candidate quality.So Democrats are currently going through the exact same thing Republicans went through in 2022 with Grant Platner.They're just going through it regarding James Tallarico, supposedly the new golden boy is not so golden.And now to make matters much moremuch worse, you're seeing Los Angeles become a national focal point as well.So that's the third thing.

So let's talk about some of these haunts.Up first and foremost, over from the political side of the aisle, Democrats are in a just full outrage panic.And the story isn't Republicans pounce.There are some stories that Republicans pounce.Republicans are talking about, Republicans are saying, that's not where this is going.For these stories, Democrats on the inside for the DNC, which is already desperately short on cash.

They have $14 million on hand.They are 17 and a half million dollars in debt.They're going into a midterm where again, the claim yet again, as we've talked about this week is just Donald Trump is bad.And then that's it.Not here's what we're going to do.Here's where we're going to move.

So when old things come out of the closet yet again, because these, these scandals are never completely solved.As Daily Wire's Ben Shapiro has said ages ago, the issue with Obama was never that a scandal was actually settled and put to rest.It's just that a scandal would come up fast and furious, and Obama's Department of Homeland Security running guns to the cartels, for example.And then the scandal would be there for the week, and then it would be replaced by another scandal.And so the media got used to just ignoring scandals the Democrats had, because it was necessary.and nothing was ever truly resolved.

Well, the apparatus that used to come to the defense of Democrats whenever there would be a huge scandal like the Biden, during the COVID scandals, during the Janet Yellen inflation transitory scandals, during the disappearing Secretary of Defense scandals, during the Hunter Biden laptop scandals, during the Joe Biden is perfectly mentally fine scandals, those were never resolved either.But media's influence became considerably weaker with the American public.USA Today and the Gannett outlets started calling.shops from city to city to city.Why?Because in these particular instances, the Democrats haven't actually brought anything forward in an offer that's actually given people a reason to go to kind of the same old watering trough for their news in the media.

The New York Times is held up not by its news reporting.The New York Times is held up by none other than its Wordle subscriptions.So regarding this particular Politico story, what are some of the details?Well, according to the authors, Lisa Kuczynski and then Dasha Burns, kind of the head of the D .C.shenanigans, Democrats want to move on from 2024.

The Bidens won't let them.That is a heck of a statement to begin with.On a Friday.Again, they're supposed to be celebrating a huge win right now.They've got Talarico up against AG Ken Paxton.Graham Platner should be giving him new life and excitement and wonder and merriment.

Zoran Mamdani has been doing little personal super duper victory laps.All this last month over balancing the budget, well, not really.Over securing New York, well, not really.Over lowering crime, well, not really.Over protecting the homeless, well, not really.Over confiscating apartments from dirty landlords, well, not really.

So they don't have anything to run on.So again, to begin, Democrats want to move on from 2024, but the Bidens will not let them.And the reason that the Bidens will not let them is because now, Jill has decided in interviews, that she can't hide it any longer.And again, I'm sure some of you have seen this this week.Here's the original clip.Everywhere from NBC to CNN is roasting them like, I have to explain this to James Tallarico, like a brisket at a barbecue.

Foreign words to you, I know, over this particular stuff.So here's Joe Biden getting into

Were you horrified as you saw it unfold?I wasn't horrified.I was frightened because I had never, ever seen Joe like that.

The COVID, excuse me, with dealing with everything we have to do with.Look, if we finally beat Medicare.

Thank you, President Biden.

Before or since.Never.Or since.Yes.Or since.You've never seen him like that.

Never.No.

No, never.No, just, just, just, just, just happened.I mean, just whoosh and just like, wow, just, just amazingly.

What happened?I don't know what happened.I mean, when I, as I watched it, I thought, oh my God, he's having a stroke.

I thought he's having a stroke.So, okay.First and foremost, and by the way, I had this conversation with my wife yesterday, just talking about how we were going to be discussing this segment on the show, and I pled with her.I said, my dear, my darling, my very hot and attractive wife, if there is ever a moment where all reason leaves me behind and I run for office, and then even worse, on stage, you suspect that I am having a stroke, There is nothing that should stop you, you know, my pride, my ego, my dignity from you rushing up on stage and getting me medical attention.No office is worth that.And you may remember, as many of us do, during the election, some of us said the elder abuse is ridiculous.

The man is clearly dead.Let the man retire, have the man retire, force the man to retire and spend time with like, you know, that grandchild that he never acknowledged.But again, Jill's out here as well.I thought he was having a stroke.And so I just sat there.That doesn't quite add up, but we'll get there.

And it scared me to death.

You did such a great job.You answered every question.

Yeah, that's not how she actually didn't act as though he had a stroke afterwards.She brought him up and humiliated him in front of the country and said, Oh, Joe, you just you little lovable scam.You did such a good job there, you big boy.The other networks this week have not given the Democrats any breathing room here.Again, the media infrastructure that tried to cover this up is broken.It's shattered.

Only a shell of it remains.Here's NBC completely roasting this.

seeing Joe like that before or since?What happened?I don't know what happened.I mean, as I watched it, I thought, my God, he's having a stroke.And it scared me to death.

But that's not how she reacted publicly that night.Instead, before accompanying him to a Waffle House, praising her husband's performance.

Now, first of all, There ain't nothing wrong with accompanying anyone to a Waffle House, amen?There's nothing wrong with that.But I'm thinking if you just had a stroke, the last place that you should be is a Waffle House.You know what I'm saying?All right, the Lord's cholesterol is not for everyone at every time.And I really don't recommend going for smothered and covered right after you just got smothered and covered on stage.

You know what I'm saying?But anywho.

Others around him at the time also insisting that night was a one -off.You never saw anything like what happened at the debate night behind closed doors with him?It was a bad debate.People have bad debates.Even with new questions now, Democrats are largely looking ahead with only brief mentions of that debate in their controversial election autopsy report.

Oh gee whiz, that autopsy's really making things worse now.Tom?Hallie Jackson.Trust Hallie, we thank you.When you look at the Politico article, the reason that I'm bringing this up, this is a moment of panic for those on the left.side of the aisle.

And the reason, so a New Mexico governor, Michelle Grisham, this, according to Politico, said, quote, we don't need to be distracted by what the DNC says about the autopsy.I don't need to be distracted about anyone's book.That's panic, folks.That is, there is nothing else to say about, I don't need, I don't need to, I don't know, I don't, I mean, seriously, when the pearls come out in a Politico interview, I told reporters on the sidelines of a DNC committee meeting in Washington on Thursday, what I need to do is to focus on making a difference in the lives of people.And I think that's what I think they're getting really frustrated about is all this nonsense.I don't think the average Democrat voter, honestly, particularly in New Mexico, gives a damn about that book or the debate anymore.

Clutch, clutch, clutch, clutch, clutch.Best of luck to you.Best of luck to you.You're not fooling anyone.And by the way, what's the actual answer?You're not supposed to necessarily just go hand out answers like party favors.

The answer, the solution, as it were, in this particular instance, would be to actually provide some ways to make the lives of people better.It's not as though Republicans have been running with a magical, fantastic track record.The Senate's more bogged down than a divorce lawyer's inbox, all right?I mean, the Senate in the Republican side of the aisle has some pretty aggressively useless people.But when even the useless people in the United States Senate for the Republican side of the aisle, can I get a Susan Collins anyone, is doing straight up front row volleyball spike to the face style slams against mainline Democrat candidates, when supposedly scandal -ridden AG Ken Paxton is dunking harshly on little Beto O 'Rourke 3 .0 James Tallarico, yeah, I mean, that's not doing too well.And now the old

skeletons are being brought back out of the closet.Why?Because again, the media can't cover it up anymore.And as Dan McLaughlin over at the National Review points out, and I think points out rather fairly here, the reason that this will continue to haunt them is that if Biden's own wife thought he was having a stroke, two of the New York Times columnists had insisted that Biden had fought Donald Trump to a draw.And that same pervasive logic in the media continues over today.And it is getting more desperate, and it's not gonna get any better for them.

We're gonna cover some of that stuff in just a second, because again, that whole media apparatus that I'm talking about goes over to the USA Today and James Tallarico.Before we get to that though, there's some spicier things that are haunting the Democrats right now.And this is that growing split in the Democrat party.Again, there are multiple individuals inside the DNC who are calling internally for Graham Platner to step down from the race, even though he's the presumptive candidate for the Senate in Maine.And that is no small thing, no small thing at all.There are Democrats inside the Maine establishment that are very worried that Graham Platner is going to be skunked at this point by Susan Collins, of all people, Susan Collins.

And it's not just from past stuff.It's not like we're just digging up old, you know, 10 year, 20 year old tweets from the ancient abyss of the beyond.No, no, no.Graham Platner is making it worse for himself.So most recently, he has decided that amidst all of, again, the questions as to why he found it necessary to say he can't pleasure himself without remembering the smell of a port -a -potty.Again, all of the allegations and the scandal over him refusing to apologize to a Purple Heart veteran who took fire

the Taliban in order to give other individuals time to move and seek safety, saying that veteran should have died.During all of that, Graham Plattner has now decided that what he needs to do is go after Susan Collins for supporting the Iraq war.An interesting move for sure, but anyway, here we go.This is what he thinks is gonna save the campaign.

Susan Collins voted to support starting the war in Iraq.On three occasions after that, she voted against withdrawing troops.On at least two occasions, she voted to fund the war.

That was Plattner's decision.

Now we're gonna get to that.So he gets out there, Graham Plattner, he's like, oh, she voted to send me off in the draft.I can't believe, she sent us all, she sent those Americans over.Here's the issue.The United States has not utilized a draft to pull folks in and send them since the Vietnam era, boys, girls, and squirrels.He signed up to do that.

He signed up, and again, please don't take it from me.The person that's spiking the volleyball in his face is not some pundit from the Daily Signal from Indiana.No, no, no.It's Susan Collins herself.Here's that video.

Senator Collins, Mr. Plattner says that you sent him to war.What is your comment on that?

I mean, Susan Collins voted to send me to Iraq.And she's also there to help Donald Trump continue this absolutely insane conflict in the Straits of Hormuz.

Well, first of all, he not only enlisted twice after the war was started.

Uh -oh, he not only, he not only, anytime a candidate, coolly and calmly as Susan Collins is doing, not only did he, that's how you know that this was, like they came locked and loaded with this one.Again, I'm more than happy to be critical of Susan Collins more than again.I just said she's one of the.more useless members of the United States Senate right now standing in the way one of the four five or six in the way of getting rid of the filibuster and passing the Save America Act absolutely.But when a candidate an experienced one like this begins with well not only did he sign up after the war had already begun.

But he also went to work for a security company, a controversial one named Blackwater, after his term in the service was over.

Oh no.That is, I mean, I'm sorry, that's knockout punch.Not only did Grant Mister, oh, I was sent against my will, dragged kicking and screaming off to Iraq.Oh no.So he then, Mr. Oh, I had PTSD, it ruined me.The PTSD I had just shredded my soul.

I was a broken shell, a husk of a man.That's what Bernie Sanders has been painting him.Oh, look, he came back.He made some mistakes because he was all depressed from being sent to Iraq.And oh, the people in the Iraq war, oh, give me lots of money for grand platinum.So after he got done, and I've been waiting for this to be made public, he went to work for Blackwater.

Now, Blackwater is, again, a private security contracting company who later changed its name in part because of a lot of controversy.Now again, I have no issue with contractors, both for personal and professional reasons.I don't have an issue with that.What I do know, and what I can share, is that from those on the inside of Blackwater, which would later be, again, changed into a different name by another company, and would later be acquired in kind of a larger merger by the private security company that took, you know, Constellus, and then a maritime organization, and what Blackwater was became Triple Canopy.Those who knew Graham Platner, since that moment, have considered him the most latecomer.useless individual that ever had signed up to work for Blackwater.

In fact, he had a nickname inside of Blackwater.They called him Stump because he was as useless as a tree stump.Now, don't get me wrong.A lot of nicknames in military, both in the conventional military and then in contracting organizations, nicknames are not supposed to be flattering.That's not, You know, nicknames, ask any guy who's been through basic will tell you that the nickname that you get is when you do something extremely stupid.That's how you know it's a good one.

So stumping it of itself is not exactly, you know, a negative.However, I will say that he was known for being lazy.And how do I know?Because just before the show today, I spoke with one of the individuals who was with him while they were in Blackwater and now is still with Triple Canopy.So, LOL, LMAO even.So, no, you can't claim to be, oh, they dragged me to war.

My dude, you turned around and went to work for a contracting organization.And there's nothing wrong with that.If you said, yeah, I did some contract, I thought the work wasn't done, I wanted to keep going, wanted to keep doing some cool stuff.The USA wants some plausible deniability when the contracting organization does some work.Yeah, I went to do that, absolutely.I think that's great.

Did he do that?Nope.No, he turned around and he lied about it.This will be yet another albatross around his neck.Susan Collins is not the Republicans pounce kind of gal.If Susan Collins can dunk on you, my dude, you are in very hot agua indeed.

Now, speaking of the media doing their covering routine, this brings us over to, oh, James Tallarico.So they are now trying to run all of the cover in the world, but it's too late.It's too late, and here's why.The USA Today, where's the beef?Why the GOP is falsely claiming that James Tallarico is a vegan?They're falsely claiming that James Tallarico is a vegan.

How could they do such a thing?How could you just claim that James Tallarico is a vegan?Well, I mean, first and foremost, it would probably be because he openly told people his whole campaign was meatless.no meat because of climate change and not just well i'm not eating you know meat for personal reasons i'm like a vegetarian the man went full vegan like i need to tell everyone on earth how obnoxious and annoying i am you know kind of like a cyclist or a crossfit kind of a guy uh but anywho We have, I think, heard more and more issues of animal welfare.

I think not just because it's the right thing to do and the moral thing to do, but also it's, as all of you know, necessary to fight climate change.It is now existential that we try to reduce our meat consumption and that we try to respect animals in all aspects of society.And so I am proud to say that our campaign has officially become a non -meat campaign.

Oh, oh, oh.So like a non -meat, let's see, non -meat, so that means you gotta eat other stuff.Oh, so a vegan campaign.So an act like that would be the definition, vegan.

We are only buying vegan products from our local vegan businesses.

We are only buying vegan products from our local vegan businesses.Hmm, how could someone, how could someone have heard that and somehow twisted in a violent conspiracy that he was vegan?I mean, again, look, the USA Today.Oh, wow.Lookie, lookie, lookie.Just falsely claiming.

Incredible, incredible stuff.OK, so so a couple of things are true here.First of all, Rebecca Morin and Brandi D. Addison over at the USA Today, they're retarded.They are bad at their jobs and they area great example of why the USA Today and the Gannett publications are shutting their doors diggity daily.And that's really just around everywhere, everywhere from even in my home state of Indiana, the Indy Star is not doing very well.

So, you know, they've been reduced to the point where they have to send like their super duper chief columnist on like a local podcast that no one watches.So, I mean, you know, best of luck to them.This isn't going to help.And again, it's not even working.They're already switching over to, you guessed it, the Republicans pounce narrative.So Texas Monthly, Republicans have pounced on an old statement.

So now they can't claim the video is fake because again, it's there.It's an old statement as they seek to make all of, and they mentioned the vegan, now gender politics as well.Old statements on gender politics.So what are these statements?What are the old statements they're bringing out?He said, when referring to women, He didn't call them women.

He has the Ketanji Brown Jackson issue where he has no idea what a woman is.He has been calling women neighbors with uteruses, which, um, gross, kind of, kind of weird and creepy, um, without the kinda.Every time we find new clips from his past, cause this guy was very active influence theory on social media here.This man just called women in general, neighbors with uteruses for years, dozens of times.

So most Americans, and I'm talking 90, 95%.do not believe that an embryo is a legal person.Now, the embryo is biologically alive.That is certainly true.But being alive and being a person are two different things.And that's an important distinction to make in these conversations.

So the reason I think you have a lot of pro -choice people who push back against the idea that abortion is immoral is because they believe that it is.is not.That in these situations, when there is an unwanted pregnancy, it is moral for a woman to be able to control her own body or any one of our neighbors with the uterus to be able to control their own body.

There it is.There it is.Oh, well, a woman or and then you can see or any of our neighbors with uterus, uteruses, uteri, uteriple.

Every one of our neighbors with a uterus became the property of a woman.I'm so glad.

I love this.And one of the best parts about social media, you can't get rid of this stuff.You can't.Media tried so hard to get rid of it completely.

Just erase existence.

They can't do it.They can't, it is here and it will continue to haunt him.And it just gets worse.Tallarico is just getting worse.He's also against an extremely popular thing, not just in Texas, but again in the entire United States.He's very much against any kind of voter ID requirement because of course he is.

Are you okay with voter ID?So voter ID is currently required in the state of Texas.I opposed having to - How about for mail -in ballots?

How about having to send your ballot in?Should you have to prove who you are?

Wait a minute, what about for mail -in ballots?How about having to send your ballot in?Should you have to prove...Voter ID is currently required in the state of Texas.I opposed having to have a driver's license to vote.

How about for mail -in ballots?How about having...I opposed having a driver's license to vote.You catch that in there?...to send your ballot in.Should you have to prove who you are?

Because that's what Democrats are opposing.Pete, I just said I oppose voter ID.Currently, it's a law in Texas, but I oppose that law because I think you don't need it.

You oppose voter ID?You don't think the most sacred obligation of our republic you should have to prove?

Ah, memories.I mean, just lovely.I mean, just darling stuff.There you go.I mean, what a gift.What a treat.

What an opportunity.And then we get over to how are the Democrats responding to all of this?Seriously, where they put their time and their efforts and their resources?Right here, right now.This is what will be.the momentum.

You can tell how people are feeling based on how they act when everything is getting really exciting, let's say.And in this case, in this very instance, they are making all of their to -do about one of their media people using the F word on Twitter.I'm not joking, that's where the effort, that's where all of the energy is in.So as a quick reminder here, Stephen Miller was making fun of James Tallarico and his little poses and saying, well, you know, wow, I mean, the Democrats have made history in Texas by nominating their first transgender Senate candidate.You know, I mean, yeah, a little simple social media dig.So that the official Democrats response is shut up, you ugly F. I mean, okay, I mean, sure, whatever, I guess that's your statement.

I don't really care.I didn't really, again, feel the need to get out the pearls and the clutching and, oh, they said the F word.I didn't really care.However, they then decided this is what they needed to do.They needed to take the lady, the young gal who sent that tweet and send her on her own PR media tour over using the F word.This is where the resources are.

They're three and a half million in debt net.You know, they have 14 million on hand, 17 and a half million dollars in owed expenses.And yet the goal, everything is on.We used the F word.We're strong and spicy.

Let's bring in Paulina Magibud, content and creative director at the DNC.So Katie Miller has been posting about you.She went on Fox and she's been talking about you and she's made it very personal about you, Paulina.So I want to give you the opportunity right now to respond to Katie Miller.If she's watching this, what do you want Katie Miller to know?

So first of all, just as a small note, no one is the Midas touch, whatever Goober's, you know, full offense meant to him.When you begin an interview and also look, dude, I'm wearing like an open polo.but can you just button just a little more of that up?My goodness, dude, it's not supposed to be that deep of a V. I don't think that the neck of your shirt should be deeper than your hairline is receding.Just fun tips for life.Number two, though, if you begin, so everyone on Fox has been talking about this, is not projecting the strong energy that you think it is. I want Katie Miller to know that her husband is an ugly f**k.

Stephen Miller is one of the most powerful men in the country right now.He is a White House official who is taking to Twitter to hurl these absolutely false and transphobic attacks against an amazing candidate in Texas, James Tallarico.

Yeah, not buying it.Also, again, if she's like, wow, I'm good on Texas for running their first trans candidate.Again, the very first response that you're going to trot out is you think that's an insult?Do you like the trans or do you not like the trans there, homie?I mean, I don't really think, I'm sorry, I know I should probably unbutton a couple more buttons here so you'll take my amazing takes on James Tallarico.Bizarre, bizarre stuff indeed.

Now, the last albatross around the neck that is not going to go away is Los Angeles.Gavin Newsom thinks that he's just got it in the bag.All he has to do is sit here and impress everyone with just how amazing his campaign has been.And he thinks he's doing an amazing job.I mean, he's on an interview calling himself slick or whatever.He thinks he's great.

The Los Angeles crew in this election is revealing yet again, how fragile a lot of their campaigns are.Spencer Pratt is making quite a few strides in this primary election because Los Angeles has turned into such a festering garbage heap.And to those over on the West Coast, good morning to you.So this brings us over to an excellent work over by our team at the Daily Signal, Los Angeles, a kind of a mini documentary onSkid Row, what Los Angeles has become.Excellent job.

I think we just released it today.Check it out.They're not going to be able to run from this.

The whole city of LA is now Skid Row.That's the reality.I don't think Mayor Bass deserves another term.

Where's the money, Karen?Karen, do you have the receipts?Karen, if you've got the receipts, you win.

Ain't no receipts.As far as Spencer Pratt?He's absolutely correct.

What do you think about the mayor's race right now?You know, Bass is in office, Nithya, who's been on LA City Council, is running, and then you also have Spencer Pratt, who's kind of the underdog in this.Do you have any thoughts on what's going on?

I liked Karen for a while, and then she started screwing up.

What do you think it's gonna take for the streets out here in Skid Row to be cleaned up?

Um...

Do you think that they could?During the day, they're fantastic.Okay.At night, it's...Something else.It's something else.

I don't come out here.

The long night is coming.

So who do you think is going to win?

Not her.

Do you think Nymphia or Spencer?

Everybody else before her, she would not win.

Okay.

And the reason why she would not win, because this woman is constantly lying.How would you like it if I gave it to your brother's sister, Karen, back?If I gave her a pipe or I needed to shoot her in the arm?You wouldn't like that, Karen.But you sponsored it though, Karen.Yeah, you sponsored it.

Look how good you look.Look how good you look, Karen.Karen is getting close to the head buzz.So we ought to go ahead and tell the truth, Karen.Because you looking good.

So that's now available on the YouTube channel for the Daily Signal.Check it out.Excellent work.And seriously, Gomez's reporting in California has really been a lifeline.One other thing that actually the California crew flagged for me this morning, they said, have you seen Katie Porter?Again, one of the gubernatorial candidates you are expecting.

the former Congresswoman and staff and husband abuser, allegedly, wouldn't come out and do stuff this dumb.This is what they've got for 26.This is all they're bringing to the table.

I think this amendment is common sense.I don't know how we go home and look at taxpayers and tell them that we want them to foot the bill knowingly at the outset, at the time we're granting the lease for having to clean up the mess by a company that made a profit off it.We are going to continue to have drilling in this country.

So I really enjoy this.So when she starts that, wow, she's like saying California shouldn't have to pay taxes on.OK, what what she have to say?This is a rant over any drilling, any drilling, any oil drilling at all happening either offshore or inland in one of the most oil rich places on earth, that being California.Just any oil at all.Again, gas prices in California are insane.

Again, gas prices are high in a lot of places.They are coming down now as there starts to be some optimism on the Strait of Hormuz stuff.And then again, as a lot of the oil manufacturers have pointed out and figured out, the U .S.is not relying on any other part of the world, especially on the Strait of Hormuz, for the majority of its gasoline import and refinement.But in California, because of the state's own regulations on gasoline, on refining, on oil production at all, at all.

Gas is $7, $8, $9 a gallon in California.And Katie Porter, again, the Democrats are saying we need to go even further.We need to go even more in on the green energy nonsense, cut oil off completely.

We are gonna continue to have leasing.You always say Democrats wanna stop it, Democrats don't wanna do it.I'm telling you here,I just want, I just don't want to have to pay for the mess of a for -profit multi -millionaire company that walks away, that trade sells the lease to a smaller company, who sells the lease to a smaller company.I was a bankruptcy law professor before I came to Congress.I have seen this dog and pony show and I know where it ends up.

I went ahead and looked up some of her older, you know, law explanations.This woman wrote academically, like Katanji Brown -Jackson writes legal opinions for SCOTUS.They are sketched in one part Crayola and one part monkey feces.It is embarrassing.

It ends up with an orphaned well, often in a low income community of color.There it is.No.Yeah, yeah.The oil.

I love this so much.There's going to be an orphaned well that they built because of it's going to be in a low income community.The blacks and the poor are going to have to look at this a minute.We won't again.allow it to create oil for them to buy at a cost that isn't exorbitant.We won't, again, create systems that don't require hell on earth for companies to operate in California.

We're going to be like, you know what's really going to be bad?There's going to be this well.Black people are going to have to look at it.So sad.When I think about the poors, I mean the blacks, I mean the poors, having these low income communities of color.We're not going to give them the opportunity to profit off of the oil.

No, no.Instead, we're going to say like, you know what's really bad?Real estate.Incredible.

Buddy, but the federal government holding the bag.If you want to lease, buy the ticket, take the ride.Clean up your own mess.Buy the ticket, take the ride.

Play Roller Coaster Tycoon on PC and Mac.It's terrible.

And we have gotten a couple of super chats during the show.So I did want to say a very hearty thank you to some of the peoplewho have been very, very kind.Sandy gave a $20 super chat on the situation regarding birthright citizenship and intentions of the first, the 14th amendment, wholeheartedly agree that that needs to be, you know, Reflected and also needs to be fixed and reparated as well And then another very kind $20 super chat from Sandy you guys don't have to do that by the way You don't have to give super chats like big huge chunks to the show.That's very very kind of you It's very sweet.Just hang out and watch the show like and subscribe that helps us out more than anything And also tell us in the comments how awful Katie Porter is.

That's just enjoyable for me, because we go back and we read them.And to answer a question she has, but do I think that the potential disaster of a tourist birther from China who returns for a couple of years after being a member of the CCP, do I think that's a significant threat in the country?Absolutely.And it's one of the things that, again, in California, they are pushing to make it a staple industry of the state.Again, as we've reported on in the Daily Signal, as other great organizations have reported on, not just from the right, but also from the center, and even a couple of mentions on the left side, the Chinese operations that are allowed to move unfettered in California from birther tourism all the way over to the Chinese agents which operate at local and city government and congressional offices and congressional dating honeypots, and the guy's not molesting his own staff.In California, congressional offices is still a major problem.

And I'm not seeing anything so far that suggests they're running away from it.Now, on the flip side, the Trump administration moving into a couple of the 2026 midterm stuff also has the 250th celebration of the United States.And some news that has been developing this morning is that some of the individuals thatslated to perform for this Freedom 250 concerts in Washington, D .C.,C., they're pulling out.

They're saying, no, we don't want to do it.They've either said it's become way too political or number two, it's there are too many threats.Now, I agree with Matt Walsh.He posted about this earlier today.He said, look, there were a crew of people inviting a bunch of washed up has -beens And now the washed -up has -beens are bailing out because it's become too political.Walsh's take is, why are we inviting a bunch of old has -been performers, many of whom I don't even know?

And again, look, I'm a last -of -the -millennials kind of guy, but Young MC, Martina McBride, Milli Vanilli, the Commodores, Bret Michaels, Morris Day and the Time.have apparently pulled out, they're not doing it.No one knows if the C &C Music Factory is gonna perform.Oh wow, all that's left are Vanilla Ice and Flo Rida, who conveniently are genuinely the only two on here that I know.I know Vanilla Ice and I know Flo Rida, that's it.The rest of the people on here, Martina McBride, I don't care, I don't know, I don't listen to her, I don't care.

Young MC, Bret Michael, why are we going to them?Why are we pulling up all of the washed up old has -beens?I said this is the same criticism that I have of Hollywood, to be clear.Why do we need, to have Zendaya in every bleeping movie.Why do we need to have Elliot Page or Ellie Page or whatever in every single movie?Why do we need to have the same freaking people cast in every single role?

One of the beautiful things about the seventies, the eighties and the nineties is you had a lot of unknown talent that rose to the top cast for these larger movies.that generated PR based on how good the movie was, how good the music was.You had a lot of one hit wonders that came out of the air.Why are we dredging up a bunch?And again, I know there's a lot ofolder generations that watch this show.

My heart to you, I love it.I would be thrilled if I saw, you know, Brooks and Dunn pulling together a crew to run up and do some stuff for this concert.If I got to see a lot of the incredible work of great older stars, Bring up a bunch of washed up has been and I'm sorry I don't want to see kid rocket this thing either I don't want to see where it's gonna find whoever and get them together for what stop it No, either do a good concert pull some up -and -comers.God knows Nashville's full of them to come to a concert.Don't do this Don't do they're gonna pull out.Anyway, don't don't play this garbage game.

It's a waste of time It is.Now, I will say also, and I'm sorry, I do know the Commodores.I'm sorry.I'm seeing some of the complaint.Producer Daniel just about lost himself.Yes, I know the Commodores.

No, I haven't spent a ton of time listening to them.I obviously, I know Commodores.Brickhouse is a classic.Everyone knows it.Don't jump down my throat.Hang on.

I don't listen to a bunch of the others.Sorry.I do know the Commodores.Easy.I see the pitchforks that are coming out.Sorry.

Um, the comment section is like, Oh my God.Hang on there.Chief.Uh, Mike said the criticism that Morris day in the time, Brett Michaels, Martina McBride.I don't care.I'm sorry.

And, and that's, that's my take.So beside that, though, there are a couple of statements on the 250th that are worth pointing out.One of them, we had a chance to bring on Eric Metaxas and dive into a brand new book that he's got coming out on the American Revolution that I've been looking forward to for a bit.So don't go anywhere.We're going to come back out of a quick commercial swap in here at the end of the broadcast hour.And we've got a little bit more here for our Friday show.

Don't go anywhere.It's the Tony Kennedy cast here on The Daily Signal, nationally syndicated and first on 93 WIBC.It's the Tony Kennett cast on 93 WIBC.It's a pleasure to be joined by Eric Metaxas, the author of If You Can Keep It, an excellent book that I've read, actually recommended to me just after college.And may I also say a great former radio host, now podcast host as well.Eric, thank you so much for joining us.

I'm excited to be here in this the 250th year of America.That's the that's the headline.That's why I wrote this book, which you already knew.

That's right.So let's talk about Revolution, because there's a lot of things that are going to be coming out kind of about the 250th.It seems to kind of be the commercial Charlie Brown -a -thon, you know, got to get all the commercial in on the 250th year.Everything's got to be themed that way.What makes Revolution stand out and why dive in at all in this one?

Well, I mean, I've written a bunch of history books and a friend of mine said to me, he read my chapter on George Washington.I wrote a book called Seven Men.And he he said, you got to write about the whole revolutionary because I love your chapter on George Washington.I was moved to tears.I said, you know, when somebody suggests.I write a book, I kind of go, thank you, but I don't have the time to write a book.

But I really thought about it.And then I thought to myself, you know what, there isn't a one volume book that tells the whole story of the American Revolution, the whole thing, you know, from 1763, the end of the French and Indian War that starts the big conflict with, you know, the 13 colonies saying to Great Britain, no, we don't think we're going to pay these taxes.We don't feel that that's right.It's not about the money.It's about the principles.We believe our rights come from God and, you know, all that stuff.

And I didn't really understand that very well.As I did my research, I was frankly astonished.And I said, I need to write a book that tells the whole story, because mostAmericans don't know this story.And it is. scandalous.It is scandalous.

We don't know our story.It is a great story.It's a beautiful story.It's a story of stories.And every single one of us is responsible for this information.If you're an American, you're responsible for the information what happened to Lexington and Concord, what happened in Bunker Hill, what happened.

These are amazing stories with amazing heroes.And it's all true.And it's beautiful.And we should know it.And I thought, you know, there isn't a book that tells the whole story.But Um, there's a million books on the revolution, but you know, what do you, what do you recommend for here's the story of the birth of America?

And so I thought, okay, so I did a lot of reading.And when I told people I'm writing a book on the American revolution, everybody said, virtually everybody said the same thing.So what's your angle.And I said, I don't have an angle.I just want to tell the story because it's an amazing, beautiful story of stories and we should all know this.And so I'm writing a book, but as time passed and I'm doing all my research, certain things emerged.

that I thought, gosh, nobody has really talked about this or this or this.It's kind of like the real story of the revolution has been whitewashed by secular leftists, basically, who want to dare you invoke the name of God with the founding fathers.

After all, they were just disconnected deists who believed that God was a class.

And not only is that not true, it is a vile lie.When you do the research like I did, it is astonishing.It's absolutely mind blowing when you realize this was basically a deeply spiritual religious project.They really believed our rights come from God.And we're not going to be enslaved by people who don't get that, who are going to treat us like, oh, we're the mother country.You better do what you're told.

You better pay your children or chattel.Basically, that's so I was really.astonished a I've written all these bo this stuff and then I de usually I know just enoug the book.But as I'm doin I didn't know this or I f forgot that I learned it It is so beautiful and so inspiring and so true.I said, I've got to write this.I've got every American needs to know this story.

And frankly, you know, there are woke versions.There are leftist PBS versions.Ken Burns is revolutionary revolution.I forced myself to watch it.And, you know, it is almost unbelievable that in 12 hours he could tell the story of the revolution and not have it be exciting.You just kind of act like, OK, It's crazy.

You know, it's like if you watch the first Rocky movie and you'd be like, ah, you know, I didn't really know who to root for.I mean, it's crazy because it's an amazing story.And those are the versions that are out there.I said, I got to write a book that kind of tells it like it is, which is frankly, extremely exciting and beautiful.And so I hope I've done that in my book, Revolution.

So it's bizarre.And when I look at the whole crew that makes the theory of the value of labor argument, that labor in and of itself is inherently valuable.And then when I go and I look at, again, when you're referring to, you know, Ken's little revolutionary series, that is proof positive that that labor theory is complete garbage, because how can you put so much time and effort into something for it to come out extremely boring, when there are fifth grade teachers, as you alluded to, who with less labor, as it were, but simply with more passion, create something that is far more valuable.And the reason I bring this up to you, is that I am bewildered.We're actually setting up a conversation to, you know, sit down and discuss this general idea with Jeremy Boring here in a couple of weeks.And I'm glad that you are bringing revolution to the table.

because this is an excellent example.The production of really important historical events in an age of AI garbage where people believe that they can create some entertainment based phantasmagorical story that is better than what actually happened is such a lie the 1619 project it's boring and it's a lie the revision of memorial day over the weekend from all of the BLM crowd it's it's supposed to be exciting and oh actually the the slaves created the graveyard and it's a lie it's bullcrap yeah this is another case the revolution doesn't need sprucing up.It needs someone to tell the narrative, right, start to finish.

I mean, actually, that was exactly my goal.And again, it's a worthy goal, because our the story of how America came into being is a beautiful story.And it's not just beautiful.And it's not just inspiring.It is epical, e p o c h a l, it is an epical, it's like in the history of the world.No hyperbole.

There's never been anything like it.And so the title is incredibly apropos.It's it's it's not the titles of the American Revolution.It's just revolution.The birth of the greatest nation in the history of the world, because it's the only actual revolution.All the other revolutions are a joke.

The French Revolution, which basically kicks God out.turns into a bloodbath anarchy where they get rid of a king and they replace him with a dictator emperor.It's just failure upon failure.Think of the Bolshevik Revolution.These are not revolutions.These are parodies of revolutions.

The only genuine revolution, epochal moment in world history, occurred 250 years ago.We need to know the story.We need to know that it is an honor and a privilege to get to live in this nation.And if we don't know this story, we can't keep the republic, to refer to my previous book that you referred to, if you can keep it.It is vital that we know.how America came into being, who these players were, what great heroes.

My goodness, I could weep when I think of the greatness of some of these men.At the top of the list, George Washington and John Adams, great heroes.great heroes.We need to know their stories.They suffered.And here we are.

So it's it actually is amazing.And again, there's so many woke leftist versions, or just kind of dead versions.You know, there's a lot of books that are not you go, I don't know, I thought I've got to tell it, you know, in a way that brings it to life.And I think that's, you know, what I'm able to do.Because when you read it, you can't help but want to be a part of the story.And I talked about the revolution after the revolution, that it continues that, you know, we're, we're still that nation, are we are we staying true to our moment of conception to the DNA of, you know, 1776.

And, and that's, that's basically up to us today.And so that's why you need to know the story and you know, the genetic code, so to speak of where we began.

When it actually comes to these kinds of narratives that are told, and I refer back to kind of the modern trend and rediscovering some kinds of histories and the very passionate but often misguided tellings of historical events as if they need to be spruced up or cleaned up or whitewashed or, you know, dressed up for the streaming crowd.I'm bothered because at the same time, it presents the idea that history in and of itself is very boring and it's very troublesome, and it has very little of value for the modern man or woman except scorn.And I think of this because throughout the revivification of kind of the Catholicism versus the Protestantism debate, there has been this idea that, well, the Catholics all know history.They're so amazing and wonderful.They know everything.And then Protestants, they don't know anything about history.

And I've looked at some of those arguments.have been made, and they've been deeply frustrating, not only because they're not true, and I know I might, you know, I'm not trying to make a big, huge theological discourse argument here, but the study of history is deeply fascinating.And the idea that it is some kind of History is this inheritance that you don't have to study because someone else studied it for you is ridiculous.Every man, woman and child has a duty to study the history of their faith, the history of their nation and the history of their people.

Well, that's kind of why I wrote the book, as I said, we're responsible for this information.If you're an American, you you must know this.You must know these stories.You must know who these figures were.It's scandalous and grievous if you do not know who these people are.And I say this is somebody who didn't know some of them myself or I didn't know the full story.

Once you know who they were and the sacrifices they made, you're ashamed that you haven't been celebrating them your whole life and trying to live up to what they gave you.I mean, there are people the story.And by the way, It is a profoundly Protestant story.I did not realize this until I did the research, how the Puritans, I mean, the whole book really comes out, the whole story, I should say, which I put in my book, comes out of the Reformation and the Puritans.It is their theology in Massachusetts in the 17th and then obviously 18th centuries that gives us the birth of America.It doesn't come out anywhere else.

It comes out from people who have a Puritan Reformation -based theology.I didn't understand any of that.And so it really amazed me to, as I say, do the research and to see that this is, it's very plain, it's very clear, and God is at the center.I just didn't know how obvious it was.So when people try to whitewash it or try to make it sort of like a secular French enlightenment kind of thing, that is not only not true, it is a vile lie.It's the opposite of that.

All of the founders.Samuel Adams, John Adams, at the center of it, they knew this is a spiritual project.This is the idea of we're going to go back to the Sinai Covenant.Like in the Bible, we're going to govern ourselves.We will have no king, but the sovereign, the Lord.That was the narrative, and even people that we think of as not so religious like Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, they totally got this is the narrative, that it's the story of the Israelites leaving Egypt, leaving slavery, leaving the king, but not replacing the king with nothing like they did in France, but replacing the king with the king in heaven.

In fact, Samuel Adams gives a speech August 1st, 1776, the day before they signed the Official Declaration of Independence, and you would know this, very few people know this and I didn't know it, and he gives a speech and he says, we have this day restored the sovereign, the king.God is our king.We no longer have George III as our king.But they didn't say we've got rid of the king and now we have nothing like they did in France, which devolves into this bloodbath.It is so extraordinary and it's frankly unique in world history.And so we kind of need to know this story, because we can't possibly write things we can't possibly write the ship, if we don't understand, you know, what direction we're supposed to be headed in.

And I hope that my book tells that story.And with some fun anecdotes, I mean, there's a lot of there's a lot of crazy, funny characters and stories in it.

And I thought, it's such a human, it is such a human story.I don't know, like, again, you don't have to, you know, Hollywood does this world.They'll take like a very serious story and they'll try to graft on 20 teens style character and personality to the people like with little quips and puns and jokes.And it frustrates me because they don't need any addition.I do want to mention this before.Sorry, the full Sam Adams quote, which is just

one of the quote of quotes of all time, quote, we have this day restored the sovereign to whom alone men ought to be obedient.He reigns in heaven and from the rising to the setting sun, may his kingdom come end quote.

I mean, that's a speech given to Congress, to Congress.Think about it.Congress is sitting there.They're on the same page as he is.This is not like some little religious thing.This is a member of Congress giving a speech to Congress about what are we doing here.

Let me explain it to you.This is what we're doing here.To whom alone we ought to be obedient.Wow.And again, that's just one example.But all through my book, I tried not to oversell it, because I thought this is not some Christian telling.

It's just a true telling.But the true telling is dramatically Christian.And I honestly, I did not myself appreciate it.So I think like it is it is a scandal that we have kind of labored under this.Oh, yeah, it was sort of the Enlightenment and they were deists.They were not deists.

That is a preposterous lie.And it's it's one of the reasons I think Jefferson is pushed so much.They kind of have this idea that we need to push this version.It's very sterile.Not true.

Right.Right.Well, hey, I'm unfortunately we're brushing up against the clock in this particular instance.But Eric Metaxas, the book Revolution, it's coming out on June 2nd.I'm excited for it.I very highly recommend it already.

I'm looking forward to it.A great narrative deserves to be told.

Grateful for the time.Thank you so much.

All right, little bit of bonus tone.It's not a ton today, but a smidgen.One thing I wanted to share with you guys is from, of all people, Hillary Clinton.There is a little, one last thing the Democrats are focusing on as we go into this weekend, and that is this photo.There is a photo that on the left part of the photo, you can see in front of the White House, they're getting ready to do afighting championship.

I don't think it's either the WWE or the UFC.I can't remember which.But anyway, they're setting up a stage in front, celebration.There have been those kind of events on the White House long before.Not a problem.Cool stuff.

Neat.I like.So there's that kind of construction going on.And then on the right is the construction of the east wing.So they're working on the military bunker, and then they'll begin above the foundation stuff for the ballroom.So it's just a construction site.

And we understand this.It's UFC.Thank you, Producer Daniel.So this is, you know, Not exactly hyper insanely difficult to grasp for the rather normal American mind.It's construction site.Hillary Clinton, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Hakeem Jeffries, all of them, they're freaking out over this photo.

And they said, this is what Trump's done.Get the pearls.To the people's house, a third of it is rubble.First of all, the White House is not the people's house.We are not a country of the executive.We are a country of the Congress.

The Capitol is the people's building.Anyway, sorry, Hilary Clinton's retarded.So a third of it is rubble.A third of it is a cage match.Oh, the fighting, boxing, martial arts.That's not a refined sport like water polo or posing nude for Jeffrey Epstein.

Oh, the horror.What a metaphor.Just, mm.Thank you very much.Very much Hillary Clinton.Never missing a chance to shout.

So, so very excellent.Now there are two final things here.Um, uh, first of all, you definitely want to come back on Monday, Monday at 7 p .m.Eastern.You have asked us for ages.

Finally, we do have Tony Kinect cast merch.You have dragged me kicking and screaming to this because I said, actually there used to be a little Chiron that ran on theof the screen.Don't ask.You don't need Tony Kennett branded stuff.You have pestered us.

My bosses have pestered us long enough.We have Tony Kennett cast and Daily Signal merch.It's here on Monday.I know if that excites you, then I guess, sure, yeah.That will be on Monday and we're gonna be doing a giveaway because a lot of you guys are really kind and again I'm not interested in like profit maxing on it.We'll do a little bit of a giveaway thing on Monday So be here Monday 7 p .

m.Eastern for that if that's your thing Get a mug that has my face on it for no reason whatsoever Get a t -shirt that I would advise you not to wear get a hat that victor davis hansen himself wears yeah that actually is something to get so tony can it cast on monday sure yeah yippee neato good stuff whatever second more importantly very kind from uh one of our viewers while we were on the interview side of things um clank clank i'm a tank which is quite a username, gave a very kind $5 super chat and asked, why does a Swedish metal band have more songs about American heroes than contemporary American musicians?That's quite simply because it has grown very out of touch to be patriotic in a lot of your music.It's seen as kind of a country music thing rather than something that Again, this is kind of common in the American pop and music industries.So a small bit of mail time, just a smidgen, a wee bit, as they say.Two questions I wanted to dive into.

One from Royce Solberg says, Tony, how many love taps is Donald going to allow with the Iranians before we finish this, the conflict in Iran?And the answer to that question is that's still up for decision.So unlike a lot of my other content -creating colleagues,out there who tell you a deal with Iran is right around the corner I'm not doing that to you.I'm not gonna do that to you I'm not gonna tell you that we're in this forever and we're all gonna die, which is a great clickbait title I'm sure or I'm gonna suggest that oh the deals here click now the deals here the deals tomorrow Benny Johnson I'm not gonna do that to you because first of all, that's not true.And second of all, we'll see we'll see We'll see, I don't see the Iranian government actually cutting a deal.

I don't see him doing that.I also don't see Donald Trump walking away from this with a loss.And so it's at an impasse.I just don't see, I don't see it at that point.So as to the answer on Love Taps, the Iranians are now suggesting that the blockade is hurting them so bad, which is quite the admission, that they are going to charge the U .S.

naval blockade, which is, that's quite a thing to threaten.My first question would be, with what?You have very few boats.And then number two would be, How do you think that's going to go?But anyway, that's the latest threat, you know, very, very exciting, very kind of stuff.So I'm not going to get, I'm not going to tell you all of these magical things and oh yeah, it's going to be fine.

I'm not, I'm not doing that nonsense.That's my answer.That's the transparent.I don't know.I'm not going to tell you that I know something I don't know.There you go.

I have a little bonus question here from Teresa Barrett.Um, she says, Hey Tony, uh, why are, uh, why aren't the detainees in New Jersey Delaney hall being deported rather than just held?You know, they're being held right now.Why aren't they being deported?Well, first of all, because there is a, I know this sounds crazy.There is actually some extra due process that is going on to check a couple of things before they're actually deported.

They're actually checking with several immigration courts.They just don't want the individual now that we have found them to go running off and gallivanting and escaping into the ether.when they are supposed to be processed.Again, a lot of them have final orders of removal.Some of them, they're checking up on a couple of things.That's the honest to God answer there for you.

So you know what?We'll do a little extra bonus that is nothing at all important or serious.It strokes my ego, and so I'll answer it.From Holstein Heffer.which is a great name.No.

The reason is that recalls aren't really supposed to happen.Now, originally in the country, your state legislature was supposed to elect senators to serve on behalf of the state.And then yes, state legislatures could recall senators back if they were awful.Senators are not supposed to be elected representatives.Senators are supposed to be representatives of the state legislature.But then the 17th Amendment made it a popularity contest and like House of Representatives, but more so, and it became a really a useless organization.

So, used to there was that.Now, there are states and commonwealths that have like gubernatorial recalls.I used to work for Governor Scott Walker's office, so it was like everyday ending and why there was another recall that failed.That's a lot of hoopla.I don't really believe in the idea of broad scale recalls anyway, because the point of having a representative republic, which is what we are, we are a representative republic.We're not a democratic republic.

We're not a sort of sometimes republic democracy.No, we are and we are a representative republic.That means the reason your vote matters is this is the person you're going to choose unless they do extra illegal stuff and get kicked out by their own body.then you've chosen them.You're stuck with the decision.And it's meant to suggest that you should take your vote seriously, but that's more a problem.

with how the well I Think that the way that we allot citizenship in the United States is stupid And and this is where our discord chat, which is you can find a link to in the description below is our excellent discord crew this is where they will see me talk about this is where they would see me talk about the Starship Troopers kind of dissertation, the book, not the movie, and talk about how citizenship should, you know, be based on something else entirely.I'm not going to get into that today.So the last question kind of from Holstein, half a year, she had to said, so you're the piano man, the singer and the officiant at the wedding.No, I'm not an official at a wedding.I'm not a, not, not a pastor, not, not something that I would be qualified to do.I'm not singing at the wedding either.

Although I did once do jazz vocals.So I'm just doing piano stuff.And the last question, am I going to dance to?Absolutely not.So first of all, I'm an independent fundamental Baptist.We don't usually dance at weddings.

Also, there's a lot of white people there.So dancing is not really advised.And last but certainly not least, I'm not much of a dancing kind of dude.I've done a little bit of swing dancing, but that was mostly just for dates.That wasn't actually about like being a good dancer.That's not one of mine.

No, absolutely not.So we'll see you guys on the flip side on Monday evening, 7 p .m.Eastern here.Like and subscribe helps us out an absolute metric ton.Um, and that is again why we're doing the early show today is because I have a wedding rehearsal to play at this afternoon and a wedding the following day.

So take care, have a wonderful weekend.Try not to, uh, do any of the crap that Graham Platner and James Tallarico have been doing.Um, eat some meat and touch grass and hang out with your families.God bless.It's the Tony Kinect cast here onthe Daily Signal, nationally syndicated and first on 93 W Y B C. Take care.