Tony Katz and the Morning News 1st Hr 7-28-26

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It has been a wild couple days. We get the diaries from Anthony Fauci, where we learn that the vaunted Dr. Anthony Fauci was a liar and a fraud. Let people die alone. Nothing mattered as long as he got his TV time. The people who idolized him are the lowest form of people. Tony Katz, 93, WIBC, good morning. We all knew it. We all saw what he was. We learned quickly. People like Dr. Scott Atlas were people on our side, and Anthony Fauci was on Anthony Fauci's side. But the left, wanting to be afraid of COVID every second of every minute, of every hour of every day, Anthony Fauci was God. Which is weird because these are people who don't actually believe. And the release of this diary, the release of this information, that we know exactly the kind of human being. He is, in my view, Anthony Fauci should be in jail. He is subpoenaed this week by Senator Rand Paul, who has done incredible work in getting this information out. I truly hope he goes to jail. I don't think it's going to happen. The problem is no one ever goes to jail. But this is going to bring us to Joe Biden. This is going to bring us to Joe Biden and the one after another revelation that there he was talking to a ghost writer for a book back in 2017. A book called Promise Me Dad. And he was releasing to this ghostwriter classified information where he knew the information was classified. And he didn't know what was happening from one sentence to the next. It was back then he was already falling apart.

He's classified. It's all the books from the 17th. He's, that's him. His words telling his ghostwriter, well, this thing is classified. It happened time and again and again. Why did they run Joe Biden from the basement? Because they already knew. The fraud. We knew. We weren't sure at that time, but we knew. And then after about a half a year, a year, we totally knew. And the only people who didn't know are named Jake Tapper. Jake Tapper, by the way, from CNN, not only didn't know about Joe Biden's condition. Oh, was he shocked? He was reporting on Anthony Fauci while hosting Anthony Fauci for dinner. I don't think there's anything wrong with having dinner with somebody. I really don't. I have the chance to have dinner with a doctor or a member of Congress or the president. I'm going to go do it. It's in public. It's out there in the view. Fine. Private stuff? You're taking notes from somebody while not disclosing what it is the note that they passed you?

My gosh. We're going to trust you as a newsman? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no of those, no of those shows. All of it, all of it is doing something good. Jake Tapper, stop it. Abby Phillips, stop, none of those shows. All of it, all of it is propaganda. It needs to be walked away from, and the sponsors need to be walked away from. But this on Biden, I've got it all. It is. And if you want to hear it on your own time, Judiciary GOP, just follow them on Twitter, on X there. It's all there. It's all there. Joe Biden didn't know where he was then. He shared classified information. Then, now who goes to jail? I'm going to keep asking that question because Harvey Keitel is right. Somebody's got to go to jail. Tony Katz 93 WIBC. Good morning. What is Toyota affordability? It all starts with buying smart, and your Toyota dealer has great deals available to qualified customers on reliable cars and SUVs, including the redesigned RAV-4, spacious Grand Highlander, sporty Camrys, and Corolla's. It means driving for less, with efficient hybrid and plug-in hybrid options available throughout the lineup, extending your overall driving range and delivering great MPGs, saving you money at the pump. And it means trading for more. Toyota is known for building long-lasting vehicles. And as the best resale value brand, according to Kelly Blue Book, your Toyota can be worth thousands more than average when it's time to trade in. That's Toyota Fordability. Buy smart, drive for less, and trade for more. Shop Toyota.com or your local dealer for deals and details. Vehicles projected resale value is specific to the 2026 model year. For more information, visit Kelly BlueBooks, KB.com. Toyota brand average resale value is 53% versus the average vehicle at 45%. Toyota, let's go places. I'm not sure exactly what the president is getting at here. That we're going to be making moves on Iran if the talks don't work. I'm sorry, what is this? What the bloody heck is this if stuff? The only reason they want to meet is because we've been hitting them very hard. How much patience do you have left? I have a lot of patients. I have plenty of time. Plenty of time. Their whole pure lines wiped out. The straight is in very good shape. And we're talking right now. You know, they wanted to talk. Their people said, please don't drop, don't shoot last night, the night before, two nights. Don't do it. You know, we're having good talks. So we'll see what happens. I think there's a good chance that something could happen. And if it does good, if it does it, we go back to doing what we were doing two days ago.

The talks aren't going to work, and we've already been through the talks. We went through a memorandum of understanding. They kept attacking ships. Nothing's going to work. What are we doing? Mr. President, who are you talking to? We're right here. We talk about this every day. We see you. Who are you talking to when you say this stuff? Tony Katz, that's me, by the way. 93 WIBC, guys, an absolute pleasure. Find everything, find the podcast, wherever it is you get your podcast. Just look for Tony Katz of the morning news or Tony Katz today. Find everything at Tony Katz.com. You have patience. All right. I don't know for what. But if you want to have patience, you knock yourself out. But the idea that you're ready for military action if talks fail, the talks have failed. Oh, you want to keep talking. Oh, I don't know you want to keep talking. Well, I guess we just reset the clock then. We don't do anything. We let the talks fail. And then we just go back to this. Sure. That's what the American people want. See, I don't believe that they're actually concerned about the idea of Forever War. I think that's just Tucker Carlson and Marjorie Taylor Greene's silliness. It's something they say. It's Pavlovian response. It's like Rashida Tlaib Slebe screaming about genocide. It's Bernie Sanders talking about health care for all. It's all reflexive nonsense. They've never once actually put any thought into it. They know that they're wrong. They know that they're lying. They know that there's no genocide being committed by Israel, proven time and again. They don't care. It just gins people up. They know if they institute Medicare for all, they institute universal health care. It's enslaving doctors. Now, but they, those people actually want that. They're totally fine with the enslaving of doctors. Don't ever forget. They're totally fine with enslaving doctors. Good Lord. No talk is ever going to work. No talk is ever going to work with this regime. But if you want to just say it like it's something, I guess you can. I can't stop it from happening. But don't ask me to be on board with this. Don't ask me to say, well, see, here's the 5D chess at play. Sure, it's 5D chess. It's all the D's you want. It is so many D's we're going to call this Dolly Parton diplomacy. That's how many D's we've got in this from President Trump. You got it. Guys, don't get angry. Don't get angry if you're in Magaville. Cool. Cool. He's talking. That's great. That's great. No, I don't know. He's Tony's the warmonger and Trump's got it all set. Sure. Except, of course, that's not true in the slightest. I don't know what we're waiting for. I don't know what we think these deep conversations are. These deep negotiations are. I have no idea who we're negotiating with. They put out the posts that the Ayatollah allegedly says that the only way forward is jihad. I don't believe the Ayatollah is even alive, but that's neither here nor there. And if he's not alive, who in the world are he negotiating with? We keep going through this, right? We keep going to this. This is nonsense.

But I'm not going to convince the president. That's quite obvious. It's too bad. And yes, I think that his team is not leading him down a good road. He's not leading himself down a good road. And I think he looks weak in all of this conversation. But on Benjamin Netanyahu, who is coming to visit this week, the prime minister, He has been very, very clear. I'll sell F-35s to anybody I want to sell F-35s to. Thank you very much. Benjamin Netanyahu does not want him to sell F-35s to the Turks. Just like Greece does not want him selling F-35s to Turkey. And Trump is saying, listen carefully, I'll sell what I want to whomever I want anytime I want. So thanks. I've got this. This is my choice. I don't question this at all, by the way. Do I think we should sell F-35s to Turkey? Not after they bought the Russian missile system. I don't think the punishment is enough yet.

Are we feeling that we could trust Turkey as a NATO ally? Is Recep Tayyip Erdogan the trustworthy cat? And I'm in the camp of, no. No. Maybe if it was somebody else, maybe if it was different. Maybe if they actually showed it through their actions. They already have a lot of NATO hardware. But I have no problem with the president saying to Benjamin Netanyahu or anybody else will sell what we want to sell, to whom we want to sell it. But thanks for your input. Really appreciate that. One more bit of input to get to. You may have heard the story of the guy, this was France, just walking around stabbing people. He was just walking around, uh, stabbing people. Well, he wasn't just, uh, he wasn't stabbing people. He was stabbing women. Just walking by and sliced him. He had two knives on him. Knives, sorry, two knives. And so you have three women who are stabbed. And when people finally get them on the ground, as he's now whining, don't hurt me, don't hurt me. Why? Why was he doing this? It is Allah who commanded me. That's a, that's pretty messed up. That's pretty messed up. I mean, don't get me wrong. I'm not saying it's messed up that he thought this. It's messed up that Allah commands that and people believe that. And we see this the world over time and again year in and year out. Decade in and decade out. Maybe there's some connectivity here. Maybe there's something to say about this system. Maybe there's a reason in some places where you have a large scale Islamic populations that women don't go out at night. They're too afraid. Oh, somebody wants to tell me that what I'm saying is rude or bigoted or Islamophobic. Ah! I'm looking at data. These people have no argument other than to scream emotionally. And then, of course, maybe one day something else. Let's hope no one ever gets to that. Never be so involved that one day you've got to physically attack somebody, unless you're protecting your family quite literally physically protecting them. What are we doing? From personal experience, don't do it. Good gosh. But commanded to, that's a thing. That's a thing. That's a problem. And society has to ask itself what it wants to do with that. That's a problem. And it would be best if people of all stripes came out and said, yeah, we don't do that. And we don't put up with that. You know what I mean by all stripes? Good, good. I mean, everybody. The silence is kind of deafening. When these types of attacks happen, whether it's in Paris or whether it's in Berlin. The silence. I mean, it's just silence is violence, right? Yeah. Yeah, you get it.

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I want an old man on a rocking chair at all times. If I don't have it, ooh. What? You can't be that angry at the world. You just can't do it. You can't live like that. Holy cow. Her annual compensation was $6.4 million, including a base salary of a million plus stock awards. By the, I have no issue with her salary. Whatever, they were willing to pay it. They thought she was worth it. That's, that's fine. And it's absolutely fine. She'll stay on in an advisory role until October 9th. And then you've got a new CEO coming who has pledged to never wear anything but overalls during his tenure. I think the story is partially fascinating. Some of it is, okay, the new leadership, fine. But if the brand didn't suffer long-term damage, if sales were up, what was the issue? Also, $5 million payout? Can someone check my contract to see what my payout is? Because I'm, I can be convinced. Oh, and there are a lot of trolls who would like to see me walk. If the trolls would like to put together a Go fund me or something, They can make an offer. You can make an offer and we'll see. We'll see whether or not it's good enough. I'm happy to entertain those things right there. For sure. $6 million a year is the CEO of Cracker Bow. Not bad. Tony Katz, that's me, by the way. It's good to be with you. 93 WIBC. Good morning. that is changing because I placed historic tariffs on foreign producers and manufacturers, including a 25% tariff on foreign automobile, something that no other president had the courage to ever do. He's a communist. He's a communist.

Trump's in Michigan. He's talking. There's a heckler. He points at the guy and says he's a communist. Works for me. Tony Katz. 93 WIBC. Good morning. Guys, good to be here. Good to be with you. Find everything at Tonycats.com live streaming. Just go to YouTube. Look for WIBC and subscribe. And the next thing you know, you'll get the show every single morning. And today I'm wearing solid. This shirt is a solid. We play the game every morning when we go live. Solid Graham Platner Toga. What is Tony wearing? Today, it is solid. One day it's going to be Toga. And you're all going to be like, what? Yeah, it's going to look awesome. I show great shoulder. You're welcome. The rally in in Michigan, Trump rally kind of thing, well attended, mostly well presented. And it was a lot of conversation about, of course, auto and auto manufacturing and what other nations are doing. And we've taken in hundreds of billions of dollars for the country aside from it. But we keep a lot. As an example, Europe is being taken over by the Chinese cars. You know that, right? Mercedes-Benz is being absolutely decimated. BMW, good companies decimated, Volkswagen decimated. They don't do anything about it. We don't have to, the best of my knowledge, marry one Chinese car in the country. They have 100% tariff. And our auto makers are doing, I think, business like you've never done before, right? Right? Talk about Mary Barrow there. One would assume the CEO of General Motors. You have to actually be a little more proactive in keeping Chinese vehicles out of the United States because it is Canada that is going to welcome in the China EVs if they have not already. Not only can they not be allowed for sale in the United States, they can't be allowed for transportation in the United States. They're not welcome. You think it's acceptable? Someone thinks it's acceptable to let a Chinese EV into the country. These are rolling spy machines. Who in the world would think that this is a good idea? Yes, we limit your movement if you're in a communist Chinese electric vehicle. Of course we do. We don't allow them in the United States.

I didn't know that this would even be remotely a controversial subject. You simply can't trust. And Canada right now is making massive mistakes by engaging trust. Of people cannot be trusted. The UAW there at the microphone speaking to President Trump and very, very pleased. And my, come here, get up here, Brian, will you please? He's the only guy that believe me. But boy, did he believe me. I wanted to just hop over. Come on, don't worry about it, Secret Service. He's okay. Come on up here, Brian. See the way he can do that? Look at that. He evaded secret. I'm sure they're thrilled. Thank you. Say a few words. Thank you, Mr. President. Well, we can thank this gentleman right here for all these jobs coming back, and I hear it all the time. From all my connections and all the different auto plants around the Metro Detroit area, jobs are coming back to America.

Is this brawn not appreciating the arts? That's how it's going to get played. Was this the historical society not thinking about its long-term future and just saying, well, the state writes a check, so it's fine. We're never going to have to think in another way. You can do competitions amongst high schoolers through donations. You can find a way to do this stuff. You just might have to work harder at it. Now, I like the historical society. I love the building. We've done a night at W. IBC there a couple times, which they stopped doing. I'm not involved in those things. I don't have an answer for you there. Great building. Great spot. Great theater. Great everything. Can't answer that for you as to what they can hire, like what I think about how they're going to maneuver. But this idea of, well, they were getting the money and they should get the money and how dare us not give them the money. I like the museum and I don't believe that. You should be asking how you don't have these kinds of funds coming in and survive. We'll dig into it. What is Toyota affordability? It's buying smart. Your local Toyota dealer has great deals available today on RAV4, Grand Highlander, Camry, and Corolla with the features and style you deserve. It means driving for less with hybrid and plug-in hybrid options across the lineup, delivering great MPGs. And it means trading for more. Toyota is known for building long-lasting vehicles, meaning your car will hold its value for years to come. Shop Toyota.com to find out more. Toyota, let's go places.