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Tony starts another edition of the show talking about the judge declaring a mistrial in the Lindsay Clancy trial as the jury was deadlocked.
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Tony talks about Elon Musk’s America PAC disclosing the first wave of spending on midterm senate races.
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Tony talks about how the judge’s mistrial pause in the Lindsay Clancy trial has ended, and there is still no word from the court. Tony also talks about the supporters for Lindsay Clancy.
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Tony wraps up the first hour of the show talking about how prosecutors are back in the courtroom for the Lindsay Clancy trial.
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Tony starts the second hour of the show joined to Dr. Matt Will, economist from the University of Indianapolis, to talk about the latest jobs numbers from July 2026.
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Tony talks about Maria Bartiromo getting fired by FOX News.
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Tony gets into three more things: the latest on the mistrial for the Lindsay Clancy trial, more on the supporters of Lindsay Clancy, and a leftist student at Southern Connecticut State University assaulting a Republican student because he upset her.
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Tony wraps up the second hour of the show talking about how data centers will be embraced, town by town.
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Tony starts the final hour of the show talking more about the latest jobs numbers from July 2026 and how AI plays a role into it.
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Tony talks about ICE engaging arrests in Indianapolis.
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Tony talks about two shot and killed at an Arizona gay bar and how there is no information on the shooter.
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Tony wraps up another edition of the show talking more on how the Trump administration has handled the war in Iran.
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Why from the heartband and the crossroads of America? It's Tony Katz today. Well, I would find it under Kaisla, that master's case line statutory law. The jury did not ask to be sent back, which would be a possibility if they had requested it to be sent back to them. But under the statutes in the Kaisla, I don't feel like I have any choice but to declare a mistrial. Well, I'd like to be heard. You want to try it? We heard all you want, but go ahead. Well, that just got the first one and it gets the other one. You run or I would suggest a court that, as we are, pretty much all familiar with under Karen Reed versus the climate wealth, the Supreme Judiciary Court through Justice Judge's back on February of 25 held that under Rule 27B of their Massachusetts rules
of criminal procedure, quote, gives a trial judge discretion to require a jury to return a verdict, but charges on which they have agreed before declaring a mistrial as it relates to, and again, they continue quote, judge may first require the jury to return verdicts on those charges upon which the jury can agree and direct as such verdicts be received and recorded. Now, if you think you can force a jury into doing something, I say good on you, Mr. Reddington. That is the lawyer for Lindsey Clancy. This is done. This has been declared a mistrial. Tony Katz, Tony Katz today, holy mackerel, this happened. I mean, the whole show, everybody, every show in America just got changed because they weren't expecting this. The possibility, sure, the timing, no. The mistrial declared in the case Lindsey Clancy, the allegations of murdering her three children, which if you ask me, yes, she did one at a time while she sent her husband
out to get dinner or whatever it was. Then she slithered her ass, slithered neck, and jumped out the second story window, leaving her in a wheelchair. That's what happened here. Now you have other steps where you've got the lawyer who is now going to the State Supreme Court to try and get some relief, but let's go back to the lawyer, Kevin Reddington, who I'm really conflicted in. I don't know if I think Kevin Reddington should be disbarred for the way he's acting in this case, or this is exactly the lawyer I want because he's fighting for his client. This was all about, allegedly comes down to one juror, right? There's one juror who was a holdout, and they were deadlocked. Hopelessly deadlocked, I believe, would be the bit of the expression. Now was this juror somebody who wanted to find her guilty? Was this a juror somebody who wanted to find her innocent? You tell me that everybody else on the jury was saw this woman as innocent.
Does this have to do with the fact that there are nine women on the jury? I don't have a good answer for you on this. I'm waiting to get that information. I don't really want to engage in some level of speculation on it. What I want to do is understand what that part of the story is because I've got more audio for you where this lawyer is like we need to call that juror out. The juror has to do this, so we need to do that. And yes, as the chatroom is known, these were live streaming on YouTube and rumble. The defense attorney basically threatened the juror. I'm with you. I am absolutely with you. And I have heard the way that this lawyer has spoken to the judge. I didn't know you could be that chummy, Lucy Goosey aggressive tough with a judge. I am a bit surprised by it. Now some people have noted, don't forget that this is taking place in Massachusetts.
And Massachusetts has a burden that is required on the prosecution. The prosecution must never mind beyond a reasonable doubt. But we're talking about where the allegation is a level of mental distress, mental issue out of their right mind, etc. You have to be able to prove that they weren't. That's a level of Massachusetts law that is in existence there. It's a much harder burden to prove. But let's go back now to her lawyer, Lindsey Clancy's lawyer, Kevin Reddington, R-E-D-D-I-N-G-T-O-N, making his statement after the judge says, I got to clear a mistrial. It was on further and I quote, rule 27, D also permits the judge to pull the jury when a verdict is returned and before the verdict is recorded. However, the judge is not required to accept a partial verdict before declaring a mistrial.
I'm asking that the court would entertain a poll of the jurors as to whether or not there has been a decision on murder one, murder two, manslaughter, anything like that. And if that's the case tonight, certainly would argue that double jeopardy is attached and those judges cannot be prosecuted again. I'd come up. I would object to that, Your Honor, if we go into the deliberations, I think we're in a different scenario here, the repeat case. Now, that's her lawyer saying that you can pull the jury. You can force them to make a decision doesn't want the mistrial. This is the prosecution saying I object. This is a mistrial right here. I believe in that case, it did reach a burden on certain charges, not on others. But I think here, where we have a jury who's been deliberating for six and a half days, who has come back on multiple occasions saying that they're deadlocked, who have been given to me. I don't think anything else has required at this point other than the declaration of a mistrial in Portugal. All right.
All right. With a definite objection, I'm going to declare a mistrial at this point. And that's how it went down. The mistrial has been declared. A lot of people are going to lose their ever-loving minds, all sorts of opinions in all sorts of ways on this. Now, it didn't end there. No, no, no, because what her lawyer did is said, hey, we don't want this to be a mistrial. We want to be able to go to the State Supreme Court. And we want to be able to get them to say, no, no, no, no, no, this champion mistrial, and really put it back to you and to this jury to come up with a decision. What's interesting is, in between these two clips, the judge called the jury back into the room. So when this, as I understand it right, when Reddington, the lawyer for Lindsey Clancy,
alleged to have murdered her three children, I think she did it. I said, alleged, I'm telling you where I'm at. When you hear this, he's talking to the judge, and the judge is like, I can't believe you're saying this in front of the jury. It's again, this very challenging methodology, which I don't know whether I'm disgusted by it or I want to hire the dude. The arrests and emotions, the objections. But I further raised the issue of the American with Disabilities Act. I believe that this is a situation where there is a clear and present danger that this individual, for some reason, what it is we don't know. That is taking a position that's intractable. We got it. Oh, I'm sorry. This is the wrong audio. This is the audio where the lawyer for Lindsey Clancy, because she's in a wheelchair, claims that one of the jurors has an issue with people who are disabled. Again, do you desparam or do you hire him?
That's exactly what you just heard right here. I'm going to address the emotions, the objections. But I further raised the issue of the American with Disabilities Act. I believe that this is a situation where there is a clear and present danger that this individual, for some reason, what it is we don't know, but is taking a position that's intractable. We got less of proof beyond a reason. So I want an opportunity to take an appeal to the single justice. What is that opportunity? How much time do you need to do that? I'd have it filed today and argue tomorrow. Now we get into this part where he wants to be able to file with the State Supreme Court to be able to have his motion heard so a mistrial is not going to occur. He doesn't want to have to go through this again. He's trying to make sure he believes that he is one juror away from a knock guilty.
And he isn't willing to let that go away. He's willing to put all the pressure on the juror that he can. So he says I want to be able to go to someone clearly has an issue with my client because they're disabled. And I want to go to this Supreme Court with this. And the judge asks how long it would take. And he says, well, a file today, we could be in court tomorrow. Meaning of course that it's Saturday and led to this. All of this happening in front of the jury. Saturday? They would do it on emergency. I mean, I could, I could say we're going to tell this jury to come back tomorrow. I'm just trying to, I don't care. The reason I'm asking it, I know, but as they're walking in, you're asking for this. I'm just trying to find out what it is that you're asking for. But it's time to file a single justice appeal for this travesty. That's what I'm asking for. So you're asking for emergency stay at this point? Yes. And the jurors don't have to come back tomorrow. They can be told they don't even have to come back if I lose the motion.
But if I win the motion, then obviously they would have to come back to the state. If you want to go up and petition to the S.G.C. for a stay, I'll give you an hour before we bring the jury back down. I think it's just a request for the stay of the decoration of the distra. So I'll hold off for an hour, and then we'll come back in in regards to that. And that's where we are right now. We're on the clock with all this. Or the... My nerdiness exists in other ways. For the court geek, this is full on geek and out time. People are losing their minds. Nancy Grace must be all in her being at this moment. I don't want to lose sight of the fact that three children were murdered.
I don't want to lose sight of the fact that there are these liberal women who are out there being out... Not only supportive, but like some weirdo free child fan club. It's super creepy, and there's a lot going on culturally with this story, which is what... Normally, these are not the kind of things that I cover, but absolutely what's happening here is beyond ugly. It's truly horrifying. And it's not going to go away any time soon. I don't think there's a real understanding on the effect that this has had on men.
Now I wanted to have an effect on fathers who are raising daughters. So we will dig in. Keep it here. I'm Tony Katz, and this is Tony Katz today. We've got more on this Lindsey Clancy cases that Mistral has been declared, and now the defense has less than an hour at this stage of the game. If we're following this real time, to be able to get the Supreme Court to force the jury back to making a decision. Tony Katz, Tony Katz today, Jonathan Turley, George Soundlaw has already come out to say that this is beyond frivolous what the defense attorney is doing. It borders on insane. So we'll get to that in a little bit, but I did have a couple of their pieces that I wanted to get to, including Elon Musk writing checks. And this has the left all sorts of angry. What else is new?
And they are upset that Elon Musk has a pack. It is supporting candidates, and he is now out there spending money. The CNN people got together, and they said, let's do a deep dive into this one right here. The money is obviously huge. You talk to any Republican right now, and they're like, when are they going to spend? You just dropped 800,000 on a Republican primary in South Carolina. Can you spend elsewhere? My sense in Christmas about me, they're going to spend. They have a plan. The timeline that's mapped out, the president was very specific about candidates and timelines and places he wants to physically go. The money will be there as well. What's also interesting is Elon Musk started spending, his super PAC started spending last night. The FEC filing came in late. And while it's less than a million dollars, it's indicative of a pretty sharp strategic sense in terms of the race he was targeting, the fact he's going to spend significant amounts of money. What's your sense of where the money comes in and the next couple weeks? Listen, I mean, money is going to be very important.
And people have been eyeing this $400 million. He hasn't really spent it yet. I think there is reason to doubt how much of that he is going to spend and how much he wants to sort of... Do you think so? I get it. I know the anxiety from Republicans for the case. I kind of sting you with his own money. He's stingy with his own money. So Elon Musk, first of all, upset that he's spending, and now we don't know if he's going to spend any stingy with his own money. And if you do, damn, if you're Elon, if people want to be upset that Elon Musk is spending there more than welcome to be upset, I'm going to be upset that George Soros is spending. Don't tell me about anything other than what is the money that we want in politics. How do we want to handle this? How do we want to go about this? If you tell me you want to get the money out of politics, I'm totally fine. We have to get it out of all the politics. But I'm not going to listen to anybody just be upset with Elon Musk.
Also I don't know about stingy. I don't know where that comes from. It's the first I'd ever heard that and it came from CNN, so I'm not so inclined to believe it as true. I'm just not. I am inclined to say that he bought Twitter for $40 billion. It was $40 billion, right? Yeah, and now you can argue that he didn't put up all the money, he got investors. Yeah, he did that. It's all on him. His mind, his brain, his ideas, his thoughts, his presentation, gets people to believe in him and say, take my money, go do good things with it. Take go to Mars and whatnot. Oh, and bring back free speech to the interwebs, which he did. Never forget how angry the left is about that.
They are angry about that. That it's even possible that they lost their sandbox. Now their sandbox is over there, a blue sky. Blue sky is kind of like having to sit down in a bus terminal bathroom. It's not pretty. It's not. Listen, you can do it, but you are definitely walking out with a disease. That is going to happen. You don't want to lay down like a thickness of paper. You're going to need maybe three in each direction. I think only one, three in each direction as you create it. You know what? Hold it. Just hold it and walk out. That's the best thing to do right there. He's going to spend money on candidates. He has spent in Maine.
He is spending in Texas. I'm okay with this. I would only assume that others are okay with this because it's lawful. It's fine. It's not an issue. The people who are not okay with this for political reasons, well, then you have to not be okay with it for all the reasons. Otherwise don't come to us complaining and moaning, and givething. Whether or not he's spending a lot of money or a little money, maybe he wants to spend the money later. I'm not going to listen to CNN lecture me about whether or not he's doing it right. Let's see what he spends. Let's see what the Republican Party spends. Let's see. I want to know if we're going to look for something. What is Trump's work, and what is he spending? How much will be spent on getting candidates elected? How much is Trump going to spend on ensuring to the best of his ability that there is no
impeachment trial in February of 2027? Because I for one, I'm not looking forward to that. Democrats get control of the house. That's coming. That trial will take place. In February, no question. None, zero, zero. We'll get back to the latest on this decision, the mistrial, in the case of Lindsey Clancy, and just the madness that abounds. Keep it here. I'm Tony Cats. This is Tony Cats today. So the judge gave the defense attorney Kevin Reddington an hour to appeal to the state's Supreme Court for a stay of the declaration of a mistrial. That hour is coming gone. So where are we now?
Tony Cats. Tony Cats today. An absolute pleasure, guys. Good to be here. Good to be with you. I find everything I do at TonyCats.com, live streaming YouTube and rumble come join the show as we dig into this. Never forget that we're talking about three murdered children here. And I'm going to get back to that in a second. The judge declaring a mistrial. There is a juror who simply did not agree with the other jurors. Could not be convinced. Kevin Reddington, the defense attorney, says that this juror, I mean, really tried to call the juror out. I think it seems very obvious that they're trying to intimidate the juror. And today it was, well, that juror clearly has an issue with people with disabilities. Oh my gosh, has a problem with people in wheelchairs. Lindsey Clancy's in a wheelchair. That because after killing her three children, she slid her wrists, cut her throat, and then jumped out of a second story window.
That's what happened. That's what happened. That juror, one way or another, I don't know the way the rest of the jury was going. I have no idea where that jury is going. Was either guilty or not guilty. And everybody else seems to have been the other way. Right? The judge says, hey, these people are locked. They're not going to come to anything. We're going to clear a mistrial. And this is going to start again. It's a last thing that the defense attorney wants. Wants the hour to go to the state Supreme Court to be able to get a stay on this. So therefore, they can force the jury back. Because there seems to be some rulings within Massachusetts law that would allow a judge
to be able to tell the jury, go back and figure this out. We're simply not going to have that. We are not going to do it. That doesn't seem to be the case here. It seems to me that this will be a mistrial. This is going to start over again. I've had the hour. The hour is up. And I have nothing as of right now that tells me that anything is going to change. What I noticed was some people posting some stories. Certainly there's the madness of liberal women supporting Lindsey Clancy. It's that they are supporting. What they are supporting, what they are supporting is the excusing of murder. That's what they are supporting. It's mind-boggling. It's also mind-boggling how many stories there are of mothers killing their kids.
I didn't. I'm like, when is this a thing? And producer Landon asked me about this. And then literally on cue shows up this from Libs of TikTok. This is headlines. Headlines of mother accused of fatally shooting a two-year-old daughter charged with murder. Mother slits throat over three children. It's a different story. It's not this story. The mother indicted on capra murder charges and death of kids found in burning SUV on West Side. Mother accused of killing nine-month-old child after holding blanket over its head as she cried bloody murder. You know what? I should never be doing these stories. I am just, I am so not built for this stuff. Not at all. And so I went to the AI bot. And I said, hey, AI bot, could you do me a favor just to see whether or not we're all
like crazy people? Can you share with me? I went to Claude. Can you share with me how many unique cases there have been? Can you do a search of national stories and local stories of mothers killing their children? Of mothers killing their children? And it lets me know that here's what I found so far. This is a broad disturbing category to track nationally for a full year. So what follows is the illustrative, not exhaustive. We understand what that means. Here are some examples. They're not the only examples. The Lindsay Clancy case as we know. Jeanette McCosland, Wellesley, Massachusetts, also Massachusetts case, arranged May 2026 for allegedly strangling her six and seven year old children. Carly Ayerhard, mandin North Dakota, charged August of 2026 with stabbing three children
two died, one survived. Now I don't know these were her own children enough. A woman was sentenced in March of 2026, 20 years to life for drowning her three children in the ocean off Coney Island, that's Brooklyn, 2022. Julie Hurst in Colquit County, Georgia, indicted August of 2026 alongside her boyfriend in the drowning death of her eight year old son, plus prior physical abuse allegations. Nekia Arborgast, Seattle, Washington, charged July 2026 with manslaughter after her two year old son with Down syndrome drowned in a bathtub. Wow.
And you're going to tell me that culture doesn't do a number on people. I would say to you two things without a level of expertise. There have always been cases of horrible things that have happened in society. We would agree with that. People acting horribly, people doing horrible things. Are we seeing a greater number of those things in a social media leftist world? Now I just gave you a list again, not exhaustive list. And that list is enough to make you sit down. That is the kind of list for which afterwards you sip a bourbon slowly in silence, please, don't bother me. I have to get back to finding my soul, considering so many other people have lost theirs. But now we got to do the next step. We got to take a look. We got to take a look over the last 10 years and the last 20 years.
Are there really more of these? Have we sensationalized this case that this is the way people engage with these cases all the time? These terrible things do happen. These terrible things do happen. This is actually nothing new. It would seem to me that this is something very, very new, outrageously new. Right now, here's what we know. And I'm not going to get into it, you know, for the whole show. The prosecutors are back in the courtroom. The prosecutors are back in the courtroom. This hour is up where the defense attorney was fighting the mistrial as declared by the judge in the Lindsey Clancy case and wanted to go to the State Supreme Court to file a motion to say, hey, don't allow this. Force this jury back in.
You've got one hold out in someone in the chat room. There as we live stream there on YouTube and on rumble, someone said to me, and my question is, how did you know it was 11 to one? You have one person saying not guilty. You have 11 people saying guilty. So I'm sorry, 11 not guilty. Yeah, one person saying guilty. So this was Sandra. And I sometimes I see things and I'm like, I don't know if I can trust that or believe that, but I'll trust you, Sandra, because you're loved. There's pressure being put on the guy, or the woman saying guilty, there's real pressure being put on them and that's not right at all. That is not okay in the slightest. So let me see. The instruction as written by the S.J.C. What the fact is? Okay, that was yesterday. That was yesterday where the lawyer is screaming at the judge that the jury is not listening
to your instructions and you're not instructing them properly. And also your mom's a skank and it was, I'm telling you, I haven't figured out where I'm at on this lawyer. But if they get back to the courtroom, I'm going to bring it to you. And we're going to have to really look deep into exactly what we're seeing here. This is a case of, you know, sometimes people do terrible things or is there a trend, a growing trend of people doing terrible things? Because if asked, is there a growing trend of women, liberal women supporting pure monsters? Yes. On that, anecdotally, we'd all agree. Good here. I'm Tony Katz and this is Tony Katz today. Prosecutors are back in the courtroom. And now we're in the understanding of what happens. Now that this hour is up. Tony Katz, Tony Katz today, great to be with you.
You have a mistrial declared in the Lindsey Clancy case. One juror holding out. Now. She believed that that juror is saying guilty and everybody else is saying not guilty. Part of this has to do with what Massachusetts requires when you are dealing with a case like this, if you are going to say, was she insane? Was she in the grips of psychosis at the time she murdered her three children? That's the question. So there's a burden here that is different than the burden of just murder. Right? That's the conversation at hand. So for those of us on the sideline saying, how is this even remotely possible? What's wrong with everybody? You're dealing with a standard. You're dealing with a burden. And that is not what we do on the street.
This is not the layman having this conversation. So that's number one. However, there seems to have been a move from this lawyer, Kevin Reddington, for Lindsey Clancy to engage in intimidation. That's a view I hold and others with this juror claim that the juror has an issue with people with disabilities because she is in a wheelchair as Lindsey Clancy. This after she killed her three children, slither wrists, slither throat, and then jumped out of a second story window. So there's a lot here. A tremendous amount here. Was she in the grips of psychosis when she did that? She has this claim that she had a voice in her head, commanding her to kill her children. Five years old, three years old, and eight months old.
There is evidence, as is reported by people like Miranda Divine and others, certainly, that she had planned these things out, that she took the kids into the basement one at a time. I read the transcript of her husband on the phone with 911, finding her in the backyard, trying to figure out what happened, the paramedics arrived. He goes looking for the kids and then finds them in the basement. And at that moment, I put down all of the interwebs and said, I'm going to go have a cigar because dear Lord, and as noted in the middle of all of this, her husband had called. He was at CVS, asking her a question. She answered the question, approve the purchase of a generic medicine.
She was able to do that, but somehow it was a psychosis on everything else. Now, you could argue, Tony, the counter to all of this is, she killed her three kids, slid her wrist, slid her neck, and jumped out of a second story window, leaving her in a wheelchair for the rest of her life. Yeah, she's crazy. I would go back to Miranda Divine, who made a very, very good point on the social medias. All murderers are mentally ill to some degree. I would go at a bit larger scale. We're all mentally ill to some degree. But dear Lord, dear Lord is there a bigger story here, even than the murder of the three children, which is the defense and the support that she is getting. So the lawyer, Forlindsey Clancy, wants to appeal the mistrial, if you will,
and say, we don't have to do this, we shouldn't do this. We should force the jury to make a decision. And the judge said, I'll give you an hour. Go ahead. Get the stay. Get it in junction. Get the stay, if you will. Not using the right illegal term there, but go with me on this. And you'll be able to put aside the mistrial, and maybe the court will force them into hanging out all weekend together on a Labor Day weekend. So we are now watching and waiting. That's what's going on. I don't know if we're going to get to an answer. I don't know if we're going to get to a happiness. I got to get on with the show, but keep a little bit of an eye on the courtroom just for a little while longer. And if they do come back, because we know that the prosecutors are back in the courtroom, lawyers are back. And if there's something to bring you, we'll bring you. Keep it here. Sony Cats today.
Why, from the heartland, and the crossroads of America, it's Tony Cats today. So it's a mistrial in the Lindsey Clancy case. Court will reconvene when it reconvenes. When it does, depending on when it does, I'll bring you what I can, because what the judge has said is the jury is not able to come to a decision. I have to declare a mistrial. What Lindsey Clancy's lawyer, Kevin Reddington, has said is, all hell know I want to appeal to the State Supreme Court, Massachusetts, to force you to force the jury back into deliberations to come to a decision.
The belief that there's one juror holdout, whom the defense attorney Reddington has said, hates disabled people, and is trying to intimidate. Oh, there's a lot. Again, this lawyer am I disgusted? Or am I hiring him? Tony Cats. Tony Cats today. Good to be here. Good to be with you. It's not the only news going on, but this is all breaking. And I like to like to share with you what's going on. The economics, the jobs numbers that are there, they are impressive. Now I think they're a touch misleading, but they are indeed impressive. When you take a look at these jobs numbers and you realize that they beat the estimates by triple, triple, payrolls up 162,000 in August.
The expectation, 53,000, that's tripling the expectation. The expectation unemployment would be 4.2%. It was 4.1%. Now even if we want to argue that the unemployment number doesn't really give us a fair assessment of anything, not only did we get, not only did we get the movement regarding this month, they revised up the numbers in July. I think that's more of a story than what we have from these numbers as a whole. Dr. Matt Will joins us right now. He is an economist at the University of Indianapolis and we speak to him on all of the big economic matters. And we look at this report, Dr. Will.
The details do indeed matter, but the top line is the so-called experts got it wrong. We've tripled the number and we even revised the month of July up. Up is a living God when it comes to jobs, all praise his name and that only came from Pete Hexeth. So walk me through what it is these numbers have told you. Well, first of all, I mean, I'm not going to completely disagree with Pete. I mean, he's got an army behind him and I don't. But Pete didn't say that. I made that part up. Keep going. Okay. I mean, it's hard to deny these numbers. I mean, it's some people will say, well, it's only one month. No, it's not really just one month. The month alone was 162,000. Okay. We were expecting 56,000. That's quite a miss. I mean, three times expectations come on people. That's nothing to sneeze at. But then you add on top of that, the up revision.
July was originally down by 23,000. Now July is up by 21,000. That's a nice up revision. Go back to June. That was an up revision again. Can we stop right there for just a moment? I want to stop right there for a moment because we've had many of these conversations, Dr. Will. And we had them during the Biden years too. And what we noticed was that every revision was down. Every revision went down. It wasn't as many jobs as we were told. It's as if the top line number was purposefully lying to us. What makes this fascinating is that we don't often see the revisions up. And you're now talking about two months of revisions up. First, how did that come to be in the revising? And then what does that signal to the market? Because the market responded by going down. Well, we'll talk about why the market responded by going down in a moment. But why the revisions? I'm not a conspiracy person. OK, I don't know. And I don't have dated a proof that there is anything going on behind the scenes to manipulate
it. I'll leave for you and other investigators out there to figure that out. I'm not going to say it didn't happen. But it is interesting that we see upward revisions now versus we had downward revisions later. There's no denying that. That's a fact. Three good months in a row now. But there's a lot more than just the headline here. OK. Yes, we've seen increases across the board. And there are a number of low-level minimums of average tax in restaurants and bars. 59,000. So there is a certain surgeons of people going to retail establishments. Local government education increased by 42,000. In my opinion, that's the only non-positive upnumber. Because I'm not a big fan of when government increases. Construction, 22,000 manufacturing up 16,000. down that was noteworthy in my opinion, there's a few down, was information technology. And why do we say that? Because that's a reflection of the AI. Again, we see the AI movement
out of jobs into other areas. But Tony, my favorite part of this report was that the U6 number, the nerdy U6 number dropped. The U6 number is that number that reflects all unemployment, including people that are involuntarily part-time. So you want a full-time job, but you can't find a full-time job, so you work in part-time. So if you look at the U6, which I like that number better, it dropped. We haven't seen that kind of drop in a significant amount of time. It dropped by 414,000. Okay. I'm impressed. It's hard to find something bad in this report. And it's consistent with the manufacturing report that came out a few days ago. We've got to talk about manufacturing. It's exploding. Now let's talk about manufacturing. Talking to Dr. Matt Will, economist at the University of Indianapolis, the manufacturing is exploding, right? We've seen these, these IMI reports.
We've seen these numbers going up month after month. We've seen inventories that have been growing. The question is for whom does the manufacturing bele toll? Who is buying this equipment? What type of equipment is it? What is it that were manufacturing? And has that manufacturing still been hampered by tariffs that are still affecting us on the other side? Because we can see good things, but we also still have issues. I don't want to discount the issues. So let's walk through this manufacturing. Who's doing the manufacturing? Who's buying the manufactured good? Okay. Well, the who I want to answer after I answer your other question, which was the prices. The prices are still up, aluminum, chemicals, copper, memory components, metal products, oil based components, steel, cold rolled steel, hot rolled steel, semi-conductors. I can go down the list where commodity prices are so worried. There is no shortage of high prices in the world of manufacturing. That
is a problem. But where do we have some really big demand in things that make your copper products, electronic components, memory, printed circuit boards? I mean, all these areas are growing. The things, you know, you talk about a lot that, you know, you're a believer in free trade and, you know, we don't have to make everything here. Well, guess what, Tony, we're making a lot more stuff here now. You can't deny what's been happening in the manufacturing side of this economy except inflation. I mean, even for the second month of the row, we've had manufacturing growth in employment. Manufacturing always grows, but we are more efficient with, because of AI and robots and automation. Now, we see growth in manufacturing and growth in manufacturing employment. Tony, I don't know what else to say other than, other than inflation, this thing's pretty cool. The document doctor Matt will economist at the University of Indianapolis. I am here to say I like the manufacturing growth. I do believe in building things here. I've always
believed in building things here. I make the argument that you don't have to build everything here. In the same way that you shouldn't be outsourcing everything. It's wrong that we develop all our medicines here and we don't manufacture our medicines here. That's insane. You mentioned the government side of this. We seem to have hired a bunch of teachers, what with kids going back to school. You see declines in not in healthcare. Healthcare actually went up. You see declines in technology and there's another space and it alludes me right now. To that end, we're talking about AI, what you would categorize as, of course, economist would, as creative destruction, which I've never been a big fan of, of the terminology, but there is reality. In reality is jobs are shrinking in spaces because they're utilizing the tech to cover it. That may not be true six months from now, but it is true today. It may not be true five years from now, but it is today. We haven't answered the question to why the stock market went down quite a few hundred points. Is it because of just this,
this AI move in terms of the jobs, or did they see something else that made them decide to be sad? I like how you say that to be sad. Yes, the attic is a little bit sad. The reason is, first of all, it's not in all or nothing. Tony, it's a spectrum. What this report showed us was a few things. It showed us that there is more of an incentive to fight inflation and less of an incentive to try to produce employment. How do you produce employment? One of the tools is to cut rates. The market is saying, okay, there is not going to be any rate cuts in the near future. That's what they saw. They were upset that they're not going to get their fix and they're not going to get lower short-term rates because there is no reason to cut rates with a fantastic jobs report like this. We don't need to juice the economy. Wall Street likes to be juiced and they're not going to get the juice right now. I'm sorry, Wall Street. They were a little bit sad about it. I like how you said
that. It's a little bit sad. There's also some good news about inflation in this report. The good news is wage inflation didn't exist. Normally, you would have job growth and you'd have wage pressure. We didn't see it was a very moderate increase in wages. I'm telling you, this is not a report that you can find much flaw in. I'll agree with Pete Hexat. It's pretty darn good. Okay, Pete Hexat didn't say that. I'll be saying again. I don't want to get in trouble with the secretary. Let me give what I think is the only negative of this report. If we're going to put as much to hiring of teachers to government growth as we do, the next report isn't this high. So the report's not bad, but I just temper it with the next report might not be this high. And therefore, but people are going to think that things are worse, but they aren't necessarily. So I just try to, it's a measuring of expectations, I think overall. Yes, Tony, the next report is not likely to be this
phenomenal. I completely agree. Will it be good? I can't predict the future. I'm not going to predict the future, but I can tell you this is a nice broad based report. The private sector, private sector, 86,000 more jobs in the private service sector. That doesn't include manufacturing. So private service sector up, manufacturing up. Okay, we had some government growth. It's not 100% perfect, but you know, hiring teachers. I mean, is anybody can complain about that? I mean, the only downs, like you mentioned, there was a little bit, a little bit contraction in motor vehicles and motor vehicle parts, a little bit of decline there and a little bit decline in financial services. We've had that for a number of months now, financial services declining. I think that's also that information technology issue. I believe financial services is being impacted by AI as well. So that's an AI spin off. But yeah, you say it's not, you know, there's, there's some things that aren't perfect. I agree. There is a less than perfect report, but it's pretty darn close. Look at you, people are noticing that doom and gloom doctor will is all
sort to getty about this, like a schoolgirl who just got a lollipop. I can switch over to if you want to talk deficits and deficit spending and inflation and tariffs, I am right now. No, no, we're not going to give you that. No, no, you're happy. And we're going to take that into a weekend, dang it. And that's the way it's going to be. You leave a doom and gloom for next week. Okay. That's like a plan. Dr. Matt Will economist at the University of Indianapolis. I appreciate you taking the time to be with us. We've got more coming up. I'm Tony Katz and this is Tony Katz today. So when the news came out that Maria Part of Romo was leaving Fox News, I asked a question that I thought was the rational question. She about to be the new press secretary. And then you learn, oh, that doesn't seem to be the case. That's not because Trump has any issue with her. Trump has called her a warrior. It's that she got fired for sending Trump things. Tony Katz, Tony Katz today. As the story goes, she was looking at reporting on
allegations regarding China's involvement in the 2020 election. Right. That's what she was looking at. And what Fox News said is no, no, we're not doing that. We're not going to do that and sent over internal guidance to Maria Part of Romo on this. Maria Part of Romo, according to the allegations that she has hired lawyers and the lawyers are going to it. According to the allegations, she took photos, screenshots of the internal guidance and sent that over to the White House. The White House calls Fox News. Fox News says, I'm sorry, you saw what now? And who sent it to you? You know what? We'll get back to
you on that. And then someone said, someone get me Maria and also someone hold the door open. Because, oh, we're girls are going to need a bouncer. And did she have belt loops if she doesn't just ask quarterback, but she's got belt loops. We're going to try some tossing here and see how it goes. That's how it looks like it happened. So is this a reaction to the Dominion voting settlement, $787 million. And the allegations there regarding voting issues in propriety with voting machines, et cetera. Maybe, maybe that's something to do with that. I don't know about the firing outright. Now, what we've also learned is I'm not
somebody who watches cable news. I'm a peer on it. I don't watch it. She has been off the air until August 9th. 9, not 19 as I have it August 9th. So we're talking about three weeks without Bartiromo, which one could have easily put to, well, it's summer. She could be on vacation for three weeks. Jimmy Kimmel takes off the whole summer. She could be off for three weeks. It's not surprising. Now, as Greg in the chatroom notes, doubt that's the whole story. Greg, I doubt that's the whole story too. The points of the story I tell from that reporting is that it certainly seems that there is more here than we know. And clearly, what there is is this was not the move
to become the next press secretary. That much we now know. We know that's not the case. This is not press secretary talk. This is something else. This is an issue inside of Fox. And what's possible, we have not gotten the full and complete story. Very, very possible. We do not know everything. Wait, we definitely don't know everything, which also leaves us in a place of, well, then who the bloody act is he going to hire his press secretary? No, I have not gotten a call. I am also not going to get a call. But if I get a call, I'm going. I may only last five days, but it's going to be the greatest book over about five days you have ever read in your entire life. By the way, I think that
would be my over under could I last five days? Could I last five days? Yeah, I could easily could. Unquestionable. I got three more things coming up a whole lot to get to. This is Tony Katz today. Find everything at TonyCats.com. Three more things. Tony Katz. Tony Katz today. Good to be here. Good to be with you. What are three more things? These are stories that should be front page news, but because of all the front page news, they don't make the front page. But this one does mistrial mist trial in the case of Lindsey Clancy. I was going to get into the whole thing about how you've got all these liberal white women who are trying to support her and you don't understand what it's like to be a woman. I'm just amazed they can tell me what a woman is, right? Because can a man who claims to be a
woman can they tell me what this postpartum psychosis is like if that actually took place, by the way. She murdered her three children. That's the story. Now, everything else you can argue. You could discuss, but you can't dismiss the murder of the three. So it was Kevin Reddington, who's the lawyer for Lindsey Clancy, who I haven't figured out whether or not I want him to sparred or I want him as my lawyer. You're making this one last plea to the judge and the judge is like, I don't know what you want me to do here. The judge is not required to accept a partial verdict before declaring a mist trial. So I'm asking that the court would entertain a poll of the jurors as to whether or not there has been a decision on murder one, murder two, manslaughter, anything like that. And if that's the case tonight, certainly would argue that double jeopardy is attached and those judges cannot be prosecuted again. I would object to that. You're on over to go into the deliberations. I think we're in a different scenario here than the read case where I believe in that case, they did
reach a verdict on certain charges and not others. But I think here, where we've had a jury, who's been deliberating for six and a half days, who's come back on multiple occasions saying that their deadlock has been given to me. I don't think anything else is required for the declaration of a mist trial in Portugal. Over the defendant's objection, I'm going to declare a mist trial at this point. All right, who being the jury in? Oh my goodness. I mean, it really is something really is quite amazing. I mean, this was this was how it went down in the courtroom just just moments before. Is it is with a heavy heart that we report we are unable to come to unanimous decision and will not be able to. So yeah, everyone's going to lose their minds. Everyone's going to have a position. Everyone's going to have a place. Everyone's going to have a say, I will tell you where I am. I haven't heard enough of the case to know if she's
guilty in the idea of straight out murder or this idea of she was out of her head could come into play. My issue is that we have a part of society, liberal women who want to dismiss the fact that she murdered her kids. And I'm just not willing to do that. I think we need to push back upon these people aggressively. They're broken. These are the same people who fall over Luigi Manjani. These are broken people and liberalism breaks people. It makes of them the very, very worst they can be. So now the defense is going to file a motion and emergency motion in front of the or two, the state Supreme Court and we'll see where it goes how it moves from there. This case, this is going to be the big story, but can I share with you another story? This is about brokenness. Right? We'll stay on this subject of brokenness. This was captured by campus reform or I think
it was campus reform leftism for you. And it was opposed about a leftist student at Southern Connecticut State University, which I did not know existed until now, assaulted and spit on a Republican on campus saying, I hit you because you made me upset now. I had to go through and edit this audio in every single way because she's cursing everywhere. I would say two things. She doesn't seem okay to me. She seems like somebody who has spent a lot of time alone. She sounds to me like somebody who has never once been confronted about her issues and everybody just gives her space because she's emotional. This is not something that is rare. This is emblematic of a lot of what we see in a lot of different ways. These guys could have said, hey, you grab my phone, you punch me, you spit me, I'm going to call the police and walk away from her and just say, hey, that's her right there. They kept video taping her recording her videotape. I'm old school in that way.
Utilizing their phones and she's losing her mind. But she also believes that she's still in control and as you listen to it, what you hear is she thinks that her emotions matter. Let's start where we start. She just kicked me twice. So you kicked me. You just kicked me twice. I'm calling the police. It starts that. You kicked me. She says, I'm sorry. He stays on it. She can't handle anything more than that. The cursing begins. She just assaulted me. She just assaulted me. Get the police over here. She just spit on me. Call the police. You need it. No, you just assaulted me. So now she spits on him and is demanding this guy's phone. She's pouting. She looks like she's going to cry. Give me your phone. What do you mean? Give me your phone. Why in the world would anyone give you their phone? Why what gives you the right to have the phone? You're
not allowed to videotape. This guy isn't allowed to videotape. But she who has no control of her emotions, you can already tell she's somebody who needs the medication. She can hit. She can kick. She can spit and then demands your property. Never forget that anyone who is a socialist and a communist, all of these leftists, they all believe they have divine authority over you. They believe they have divinity over you. They believe that you are the lesser and they are the better and they are allowed to make demands of you. It doesn't matter. Richard Poor, Black or White, that part is all the same. You just assaulted me twice. Freedom of speech is one thing. Give me your phone. It's not freedom of speech. Yeah, call the police because you just assaulted me. This is now
in tears. We were sitting here talking about abortion and she's going to call the police. And he, as you can hear, is still on this. Now this is the part where I object. You're still on this. You're still doing this. It's clear that she's broken. I'm not saying she's right for kicking you or or or grabbing at you or spitting out or none of that. The call the police. I wholeheartedly agree. But now you're staying on it because you want the clicks. This is the part that I don't like. But it does show that she can't just walk away. She has trapped in the thing. And I find that for whoever it happens to you to be awful and horrible. Very often the left does this to people on the political right with with racism conversations and calling people bigots. It's it's the struggle session. And that's what we're waiting. You did this thing leftist. What the leftist feels that
they were entitled to. But the leftist knows they were wrong. But the leftist has never called out on it. Now they're being called out on it. Now they realize there might be a consequence. Well, now they're have to rationalize it. You're evil. So it was okay. And when they can't do that, it actually gets more physical. Just keep me in the light twice. Nope. He's calling campus police. They're going to come over. Now she's asking somebody else for their phone. You do or not just assault me. So you and there it is. I hit you because you made me upset. You want to know how broken society is. That's how broken it is. You made me upset. So I hit you now. The truth is maybe that's the most baseline emotion ever. That's standard. You upset me. I hit you. And we could actually argue we've all been in that position. The question is
what do we learn from this? I have been in that position. I have made mistakes before. Insulted, I responded. Isn't the way you're supposed to act and be. And I try to spend the rest of my life as somebody who's engaged in a better way and a better mentality and a better philosophy. I work hard at this. That your emotions cannot rule you. Sometimes you are well within your rights to knock someone out when they have done something to you. You disagree with what somebody says. They were engaged in a personal attack. A personal attack could actually be seen as different. They were engaged in a discussion of policy or something in culture. And you walked by it. They weren't even necessarily addressing you. You became upset and you attacked. And that's irrational. What you upset me? So therefore you deserved it when adults do this. And when it is
codified that it's okay to do this, that's where it all goes to hell. So now it's you made me have an emotional reaction and that's abuse. I will be pressing charges. You made me there is a purpose. We were talking. You can. You can. You can. You can. So he keeps talking. She is still getting more and more upset. It's all his fault for making her upset. Let me finish my blanking sentence. And she grabs for his phone again. The issue that she has is that she has been caught. She has been shown. She has been exposed. And she simply can't walk away when she has every ability to walk away. You ever hear those stories of where people call someone as a scammer pretending to be a cop or
law enforcement and then get people to give up all sorts of information, do all sorts of things because well the person on the other end of the phone is the cop and you have to listen to authority. It's a phone just hang up. I never understood it. It's a phone just hang up. Just hang up. It's all you have to do. But people will believe and people will have a have a built in. Hey, well, it's authority. You got to listen to authority there and all that jazz. And someone's talking to me so I can't leave that's rude. Oh my gosh. Let me tell you saying I'm done with the conversation and leaving is rude. I'm the rudest person who ever lived because I do that a lot. I am really good at saying guys were done for now. We're just finished. Thank you so much. Hey, it was a pleasure talking to you. I'm going to leave now. I'm when I'm done. I'm done. Oh, maybe maybe that's why I have issues making friends. We may have discovered something but she thought she could grab the phone.
That's what she did. No control over the emotion. This is the part where we have we have to be engaged with this. Now I'll say it again. This guy didn't need to keep being there. He didn't. He could have just stepped back and not engaged. Still videotaped but not engaged but he wanted this. So I she has every capability of walking away. He should have held back but I think the exchange is fascinating from a from a point of view of learning from it and exactly what these people are about. That's another assault. Dude call Anthony. Call campus PD. You were having a conversation. You came over to my table and then you were attacked me. You were intentionally saying things like you know what's on the screen. We were having a conversation. That's it. At this moment you have to realize you're not dealing with somebody who's mentally stable. But this can be applied to liberalism at large. You intentionally said these
things to trigger me and that was abuse. So it's not about free speech as she said earlier. It's only about her free speech and we should say again. Once you see if you see this video you'd be like, oh I know it's only talking about her. She ain't all right. But this is a mindset across all. When they say it it's because they're just and when you say it it is rank bigotry. When you say it it is evil. When you say it it is triggering. When you say it is abuse but when they do it physical or verbal. Well they're well within the rights. That's the learning lesson here. This is what? You and your kids are up against. I'm Tony Katz. This is Tony Katz today. Basically if your community embraces data center you're going to have great economics. You'll have more power will be built in the price of power in your community. We'll go down and you'll have the economic power
of their paying taxes and they're making your community better. So if your community doesn't embrace the data center some other community will. Yes that's correct. If your community doesn't embrace the data center some other community will. Absolutely true. That's Howard Lutnik, the Commerce Secretary. I'm Tony Katz. This is Tony Katz today. I somebody had said to me on on the social Steve on the socials. Tony big time fan here but your comments about data center opposition putting moratoriums in place ventures into shaming and short sightedness. I think that's nuts. You say you're okay evaluating data centers on a case by case basis. I agree and my response is case by case. I oppose moratoriums and I stand against the anti-data center mob mentality. Yeah absolutely and I stick by those words. The data center is not evil. The data center is here. Now the question is what are we going to do with it? I don't believe in
moratoriums because moratoriums are nose and what happens is it never goes away. It's short sightedness based on mob mentality and appeasing it as opposed to rational thought and argument. We already know that China is spending unlimited amounts of money to try and push anti-data center sentiment so they can have the data centers and therefore they have the control. It's a terrible idea to allow China to have control and I think we need to fight it with everything in us but it doesn't mean that it works for every community. I accept this and I don't understand the people who don't accept that. There's a way to be rational in this whole thing and that's all I'm trying to do boo just be rational. The data center is not the enemy just isn't and the mob the mob is wrong in their approach. This is Tony Katz today find everything at Tony Katz.com .
Live from the heartland and the crossroads of America. It's Tony Katz today and we're hitting the pole down to your seats folks. Non-farm payrolls for the month of august up 162k. 162 thousand. That's basically three times what expectations are. Yeah the expectation was in the 50 thousand range like 50 thousand jobs and we hit 162 thousand. Yeah that's incredible. We're saying again yeah they got it really wrong. It's hard to trust anybody any of the so-called experts. Tony Katz, Tony Katz today good to be with you. The numbers are massive. Now that's CNBC telling the story there about the jobs numbers and one could expect that CNBC would tell a story about wow take a look at these jobs numbers. This was CNN. Breaking this morning new data out just out showing the labor market surge last month. The number
of jobs reported more than double expectations at 162 thousand despite growing headwinds like rising energy prices due to the ongoing worth of ron. Tina's Maddie again joining me now to break down what you're seeing in this report. All in all this for job seekers is good news. Yeah absolutely Sarah look it's nice to be here on this Friday morning with some good news on the economy because yeah this report it did crush expectations. So the forecast from economists was for a gain of just 65 thousand jobs in august but look at this 162 thousand as you mentioned more than doubling the forecast unemployment rate was supposed to go up a tick to 4.2 it didn't it stayed at a low level of just 4.1 percent and there were significant revisions in the positive direction for both June and July in particular July was originally reported as a small loss of jobs but now as this chart shows there's been a small gain in jobs stop right there. CNN did two things here. First yes it crushed they got the number on the the expectation was in the 50 thousand range
so it's really a tripling they called it up more than doubling. Not they can choose a different number they argue they didn't get it right totally totally fine. Admitting that the jobs numbers in the other months got revised upward which usually doesn't happen we saw this in the Biden administration repeatedly the jobs numbers got revised downward every time they were lying frontend revised up a little bit this is where by the way as I've been discussing people getting nutty because I agree that the the conflict is real the conflict is here are the gas prices here are the beef prices here are the energy prices here are the insurance prices we have more jobs people have more income because we got to mention the fact that incomes have been going up these two things are in crazy levels of conflict they they they boggle the mind like in in the how do these
two things happen at the same moment it's all just nutty but I was impressed that they're showing this on on the past labor market let let's see an uncook in July this shows how volatile the trend has been month to month there's been a few months of job loss over the last year year and a half or so but again it's nice to see an increase in fact this was the most jobs the economy has added in a single month since March so where are the jobs well that was another positive here is the the job growth has been more widespread than in the past leisure and hospitality adding 62,000 jobs that was mostly bars and restaurants and that's a big improvement from July when there was this rolled cup hangover and a significant amount of jobs that were lost government 35,000 that's all schools public schools local government education significantly increased in jobs in August and that likely reflects a bounce back because in July there was job loss there probably related to some shifts
in school calendars and struggles to try to capture all of that in the BLS models health care only added 13,000 that's kind of a low number for that sector that could reflect some changes on the immigration front we should keep an eye on that information and finance notably those two sectors losing a combined more than 30,000 in fact those are sectors that are adopting jobs they are high paying jobs and their jobs these are industries that are adopting AI aggressively so you got to wonder if that is in part reflecting some of the pressure on jobs because of AI one last point for you wages wages they were up 3.1 percent not a terrible number however that's actually a five-year low this is a continued slowdown in wage growth and that is well shy of the projected August inflation rate of 3.4 so sad that means that for many workers their paychecks are not going up as fast as prices but the paychecks have gone up overall so I will accept the point there also interesting points regarding AI that when you see the job loss in finance and in technology
that's replacement so the the argument is my gosh it's costing jobs you know what let's say yes it is costing jobs some people would refer to that as the concept of creative destruction this is the horse and buggy versus the automobile things go things come new jobs get created opportunities happen that's where we're at right now we're in this this phase of it and it's going to be here for quite a few years but the the overarching is that people look at this and say this is amazing I look at this and say first of all the miss is remarkable but this is okay I know I know I'm gonna get yelled at why aren't you more positive oh I'm positive this is gonna be used is absolutely great news and there's a lot of great stuff to take from it the only thing I would state and I want people to keep in mind is that if it's teachers going back into the workforce it doesn't stay at these numbers don't be surprised when next month
kind of mellows out a little bit but I also think that we need to be looking at some of the other numbers like where we are with manufacturing and where we are with other inflation indicators but overall does this make people feel like you know what things are moving does it create as I said this kind of back and forth it's it's just mental here we see the price of beef here we see what's what's going on with with I said insurance costs other things and then we see this how do you make any sense of this well Kevin Haset is the director of the National Economic Council and he met up with the press corps he was out there on Pebble Beach Superhot Day in DC of course he's cheering these numbers let's hear from him and the questions asked of him it's a labor day weekend present to the American people that presidents the presidents economic policies are working not only are people getting jobs but if you look at average weekly
earnings which is because people not only want to have a high wage but they also want to have the hours that they want average weekly earnings are soaring and inflation is even under control if you look at the last three months Cork CPI the Cork and Superpriced Decks at an annual rate is only at 1.6 percent so we think that while there's a strong growth effect going on it's not inflation so why are people not feeling it why does everyone that we speak to say prices are higher life's a bit harder and cost is more to do the basic things if the economy is so good why wouldn't why is no one feeling the benefit I just don't accept that fact I don't want to feel like the benefit the 90,000 people that have jobs now building factories they're feeling the benefit the people that are seeing their salaries go up so far the cheaper at 4 percent they're feeling the benefit and surveys sometimes don't catch up with the settlement of the barricade people and tend very often to favor democrats and so I'd write now if you look at for example the Michigan survey they actually tell you the party affiliation of the people who are being surveyed and for
democrats they say the economy is like worse than it's been since the Great Depression which is just crazy and republicans say that's great and and so would you take the average of that that it looks like consumer seven is bad but it's just that democrats are very angry as a party about president Trump's success now he's right about that he's certainly right to say that you know I I reject the premise of the question not everybody is is in mystery mystery not everybody says everything is is terrible he's right about that he should not discount that there are prices up and people feeling it and gas prices beef prices and insurance those ones I usually talk about you have have your own if the more the White House discounts that the more ridiculous they look the more the White House doesn't share the good things the more the left is able to run away with a narrative falsely we will get into more on narrative coming up in a little bit
it is absolutely false to say that everything is awful absolutely false to say that it is absolutely insane to say that everything is fine and terrific the problem is just those angry democrats no no no so recognize the issues people are having pushed back on falsehoods and share the other side of the story which is legitimate it's just not getting shared enough order raise raises what what people think is on the table the odds of that right now about 60% we respect the other pets of the fed but I think that it's been under reported something that chairman Worsh has been saying and emphasizing and just did so again at Jackson Hole that growth doesn't require the fed to raise rates it's inflation that they need to really keep their eye on
and so you need to know where the growth comes from if the growth comes from a big positive supply-shighted side effect like we're building factories we've got AI making everybody more productive than that growth could happen without creating inflation and again right now the latest read we have on growth is almost 5% growth the latest read we have jobs is one of the best jobs days ever before labor day and the last three months over inflation our estimate is that it's right I got a rate below the fed's target it's running in a rate about 1.6% that's um wait a second did he say 5% dry on and so you need to know where the growth comes from if the growth comes from a big positive supply-shighted side effect like we're building factories we've got AI making everybody more productive than that growth could happen without creating inflation and again right now the latest read we have on growth is almost 5% growth the latest my gosh that's that is huge 5% is huge now show me the numbers
absolutely they can have a ball with this data and I think that this is good going into the labor day weekend and there's a lot of positives it's just this is going to settle that's where I just want to make make sure everybody is kind of normal it's going to settle and that's that's okay right you still have these other issues which the White House shouldn't ignore we do have plus side things that we also should not ignore things are happening good and yes market things are happening good how does the Dow respond well the Dow is going to respond as it responds like kind of midday mid-morning it was down it was down over 200 I don't know what's going to end they're going to digest it in all the ways they do maybe they were expecting that this would mean the jobs work would mean rate cut it could be that and they're disappointed by something it's the market they're always disappointed by something you know it's it's like they're it's like their Buffalo Bill's fans you know eventually they're going to end up being disappointed or jets
or basically anything that exists in the AFC East outside the Patriots just very very disappointing in general but no it's a pretty strong report it will mellow out nobody should get over their skis and no one should forget that people are still dealing with economic issues that need to get fixed this is Tony Katz today so there's a story out of where I live which very much aligns with stories where Democrats are in charge now I don't live in a city that has a Democrat mayor I live next to a city that has a Democrat mayor and a Democrat city council and a Democrat member of Congress and what you get is the same old same old the thing that you get everywhere an absolute repudiation of the truth and honesty and a complete and total narrative as to what's happening Tony Katz Tony Katz today good to me with you we'll get more into narrative in just a little bit this is a story out of Indianapolis where ice has been doing its work ice has been out and
engaged in arrests now Indianapolis Indiana doesn't get the headlines at some other places get but you'll note that after Minneapolis no place got headlines you haven't heard anything ISIS still been doing their job but you haven't heard anything there have been no large scale rallies of course there's been screaming about a center there in New Jersey where members of Congress are morons but you haven't heard the where's been the writing where's been the this well where is it it's very interesting and some people have noted well you stop the funding of USAID maybe that did it some people noted here came the Secretary of State Marco Rubio head strong into here's what Cuba has been funding and the damage they've been doing to the nation and we've cut that off at all the sudden well where where is it all very interesting correlation pieces there that need a little more study but you've had ice working in Indianapolis and you've had the mayor say we're very concerned what's happening in our city why are you concerned ISIS
doing its job you should be helping them do the job they don't plan on doing that there been other municipalities saying we won't help ice and he puts out a statement that says and I'm quoting in recent days this the mayor of Indianapolis his name is Joe Hogset in recent days Indian apolis has seen an increase in ice activity carried out without any advanced notice to my office and without transparency about procedures or intent what what are they supposed to tell you what transparency is necessary they're following the law and they're removing people are in the country illegally since these operations began my office has contacted federal authorities who declined to provide us with any information specific to this increased enforcement activity I don't know what the rules are what the laws would be about what they would have to tell you but I will bet you anything the reason they don't tell you is because you are the kind of person you run the kind of office that would share this information with people here illegally I know this because
in the same exact post you put on social media you put know your rights according to the immigrant legal resource center you have the rights remain silent remain calm and do not run away if immigrant agents approach you on the street do not run away as this could be a reason to arrest you you have the right to demand a judicial warrant before letting immigration agents into your home you have the right under the US Constitution to be protected from unreasonable searches and seizures you have the right to speak with the lawyer if you are arrested if you are in ice custody do not sign anything without speaking within attorney first as it could eliminate your right to speak with the lawyer or have a hearing in front of an immigration judge they're talking about people who are here illegally right not here illegally this is part of the story and you see this from the left everywhere the purposeful conflating with legal and illegal immigration as if somehow it is the same thing when it is not and that's what the mayor of Indianapolis is doing here putting these things
out in the Indian the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department has made no changes to its policies or directives as it relates to immigration matters i.m.pd is not participating in federal immigration enforcement nor do they plan to this has been a question ever since the governor here might brawn did an executive order saying that you have to when asked to assist you assist so now if the i.m.pd the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department it's called if they're asked to assist will or is the mayor saying we won't assist even if asked we will not assist on any level or in any way my responsibility is to protect the safety and stability of the city and we will continue pressing for the federal practices that respect due process community trust and the dignity of all who call Indianapolis home community trust means you'll get rid of the lawbreakers that's community trust that trust was broken when here like so many places where you live we've seen this of course
in in LA and Philadelphia the prosecutors don't prosecute they don't go after those in the country illegally they don't care they don't go after the lawbreakers who loot the stores and yet they want to talk about community trust the dignity of all who call Indianapolis home you mean the citizens because the indignity is having to share the space the indignity is the violent crime the indignity is the other crimes the indignity is all of it that somehow lawbreakers are protected but other lawbreakers are not protected i don't want to pay my taxes do i get protected by the city that's fine something else isn't if it's against the law it's against the law and your job is to ensure that isn't isn't that part of the elected official create if you will it's just another example it's just another it's not supposed to be local to me but it doesn't mean it's the only example it's just another example of where these progressives are at they don't believe in honesty
they don't make the differentiation between legal and illegal immigration they believe that somehow these people are a deserving of all these constitutional rights but your rights are absolutely up for debate and then they say things like dignity never once concerning themselves with yours and this is happening in the Midwest we got problems too this is Tony Katz today have you all heard about this shooting at a gay bar in Tucson, Arizona? no yeah there are reasons as there always are because in any other situation you would have heard about a shooting at a gay bar in Tucson, Arizona where two people were killed you certainly would have heard of it if it was dubbed a hate crime Tony Katz Tony Katz today guys good to be with you this story is days old the story goes that police there in Tucson say a shooting at this bar that
was known as a gay bar left three people dead including the shooter so two people were killed shot in the parking lot and then there's a suspect the suspect's name is Usman CSA now normally I never bring up names I don't bring up names because I don't believe that we should be taking these people and giving them any type of prestige I say to you in 99% of cases I don't use the name I did today and might be the only time I do because this is someone we should know everything about this should be front page at CNN front page at MS now front page everywhere they've got the Lindsey Clancy trial of course they don't have this they don't have this story there's a story
at CNN about how Jeffrey Epstein you celebrity hairstylist to make his victims look younger all right super creepy not saying it shouldn't be a story I'm saying it's the only it they can talk about that still which is fine but no mention of this Maria Bartiromo being fired at Fox which is certainly a fascinating story it's going to become a massive story two gay men were killed where's the coverage why is it that we don't know anything about this we know from local reports that this was is being viewed as a hate crime this guy was new to the Tucson area did not know the victims that's according to the latest reporting and we know that in a search of of this dudes home they found the note that quote indicated the act it alone and that the shooting was a target
attack motivated by hate toward the LGBTQIA plus community what else do we know about this dude what else do we know how is it possible in today's America two gay men can be killed for being gay and it is not a national story that demands attention from the press corps and from the democratic party I would say that it should demand attention from everybody when two people are killed walking into any bar why did it happen certainly is it a question then the follow up is who did this and why and we barely have a story we barely have a story we know this guy was carrying a note listing other LGBTQIA plus is the way ABC News wrote it businesses in the region he was targeting people who were gay now we should stop for a moment so you understand me that I do not believe in the concept of hate crimes
that is not to say that people don't do things because they hate a person a characteristic etc but a crime is not more of a crime because of the hate if someone hates me because of my religion or you because of the color of your skin etc because they shoot you and kill you or me doesn't make a more of a crime because they shoot somebody else and kill them so it's it's very important I think to eliminate this concept of hate crimes the crime is the crime the hate is the hate regardless of some statement or manifesto but certainly it is acceptable to note a motivation and say they were targeting and this guy seems to have been from the initial reporting targeting and there's no national story here why not I've been looking for a photo of this guy can't find it why can't I find a photo of this guy we've got pictures of everybody we've got every bit of
information this guy we don't have anything it took real searching to find that he was born in Gambia been living in Oklahoma City and recently moved to Tucson no prior connection to the victims no criminal record a speeding ticket in Oklahoma in 2012 and some small claims debt complaints briefly employed by Uber and Lyft he was married briefly they filed for bankruptcy that's what we know this is what we know about the guy I ask the question that you're asking why don't I have a picture why I took me a while to find this information
that they got evicted they didn't pay rent they had accumulated $76,000 in debt unpaid state taxes medical bills various loan obligations I found out through the reporting that he was a registered Democrat why isn't this story on the front of every single news outlet in America this is a story about narrative and isn't that horrible two people are dead who did absolutely nothing wrong I don't know them I don't know their politics I don't know their family I don't I don't know a single thing about them they went to a bar their gay the bar catered to gay customers fine by me they went to a bar they didn't do anything wrong at all they got killed no sorry I apologize they were murdered in cold blood where's the press narrative is about is not about
journalism you understand narrative is never actually about journalism narrative is about stories that are told to move ideals to move ideology not to engage that means the murder of two gay Americans as I know them to be Americans the murder of two gay Americans somehow no longer fits the narrative need isn't anybody else going to say huh that's interesting I will bet you cash that I am amongst 5% of radio talk show hosts in the country that have brought up this story I can't guarantee that I'm the only one I can guarantee that I would be in very small company
yet to search for this yet to want this now I happen to have done what you did have fallen into it that's how I found the story I do a lot of research I do a lot of study to make sure I'm ready for things that are going on especially with stories like this where you have I do have some reporting from ABC news it gave this is a story that was put out in the afternoon that it was confirmed the hate crime but I still have no photo of the suspect why don't I have a photo of the suspect it would be right there easy to see easy to see no question but I don't have it you can argue they didn't have the information you can argue that they didn't have all the facts yet before they got to the story but they knew the basics of the story based on police reports and they got it out there or you can argue what I would argue that I do not believe at all
that any of these things done by the mainstream media are done just because they have earned our suspicion of them as the kids would say the news media be sus now I don't know if they would say be sus but I said it that way and people can mock me later this didn't make front pages this didn't make massive headlines this isn't being talked about in the ether you know how much of this I saw on social media zero I pay attention to a lot of stuff I follow a lot of people zero because it didn't fit the narrative it did not provide what was needed because if someone is going to kill gay Americans at a gay bar they better be a white Christian nationalist isn't that right isn't isn't that right because we can ask the
question this way if it had been a white Christian nationalist would you have heard about the story the day that it happened would the cameras have descended would they've had the live shots from the gay bar for three days talking about how traumatized the community is they would have added a trans angle nothing nothing zero zero and there has to be a reason I'm giving you mine which I will bet you all the money in my pocket against all the money in your pocket is your reason too you know it should be a story about dear lord how terrible how awful and it is terrible and it is awful these people didn't deserve it I don't again we know nothing about them but as human beings what did they deserve they didn't do anything wrong as a story about where our media
is and why they cannot be trusted well there it is you trust these people at your own peril because it is so obvious that they will not share a story that they believe impede their ability to attack denigrate and destroy whom you anybody that might disagree with anybody who doesn't fit their desires they are not about news they are about narrative and not covering a story is the equivalent in the narrative game of covering the stories they choose this is Tony cats today find everything at tonicats.com so what's next in Iran well according to JD Vance and the presser yesterday everything is on the table to force Iran to stop firing at ships Tony cats Tony cats today an absolute pleasure guys glad you're here there are a lot of things that we're doing a lot of things that we're doing of course to try to apply pressure on the Iranians to get them to
stop shooting at commercial shipping accepting that they're still going to try to shoot at commercial shipping obviously we're protecting a lot of ships which is why we have not had a worldwide energy crisis he continued I can't repeat this enough but for the leadership of president Trump and the hard work of our troops we would have had an energy crisis because the Iranians refuse to stop acting like terrorists in the straight of our moves if we're going to call them terrorists to so get a call it a war but yet he wanted to not call it a war that's that's technicality stuff it's a war if we're now admitting that they're terrorists then what is the thing as a matter of policy that we do regarding terrorists now if someone engages in terrorizing in another nation against another group of people we can condemn it it doesn't mean we actually have to go in boots on the ground or planes above etc but when we're the ones and our interests are being attacked we're being attacked what do you do with terrorists there's only one answer and it is
destroy them this is part of the reason why I want to see the president and the vice president and the secretary of state and others changing the conversation on the PR not only did we stop a ran from getting a nuclear weapon they simply can't have a nuclear weapon we showed the world that these islamas can never win we're simply too big for them they're weak they're small they're small minded caveman mentality they're treatment of women they're treatment of gay people they're treatment of the citizenry they're subjugation of free will none of that works compared to freedom and liberty freedom and liberty win the constitution beats the caron once again oh now that's a line that is a line that might get some people in trouble I don't know if they can take that line but the objective I believe the the opportunity is and the objective should be a diminishment of the
islamist a shaming and a mocking of the islamist to which one would argue that every day muslims would be thrilled by because why would they ever want to be associated with the islamist you failed your desires for caliphate your desires to to tax us with the jizya your desire to subjugate the women your desire for conquest all failed once we decided we had enough of you we took you right out you'll never be able to defeat us we are the bright light and you you are the darkness your backwards mentality the way you treat people the societies you ruin I mean you can but not at the expense of us will always win and you will always lose because you lost and we will refer to you as the islamist losers from here on out history will record the islamist lost
losers let it let it ring forth we'll make t-shirts I think that's where they've got to be I think that's the argument that has to be made but I I'm almost impressed to hear him discussing them as terrorists and then saying but everything that could happen is on the table economic pressure military pressure diplomatic pressure covert pressure oh covert pressure explains why people are asking if CIA is doing any work in the area of course these are things these are tools in the president's toolkit but part of the reason they're tools in the toolkit is because the vice president hopefully is not dumb enough to stand up before you before you know all of you in a million Americans watching at home it's exactly what it is we plan on doing correct you get it you keep your powder dry sir find everything at tonicats.com Monday everyone take care
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