The Daily Signal - CNN Promotes App Targeting Law Enforcement, Democrats Promise Millions Will Die | July 1, 2025

Starting point is 00:00:00 CNN showcases an app to track and target federal law enforcement. The Senate marathons the amendment process on the big beautiful bill, as Democrats promise millions will die. I'm Tony Kennett, host of the Daily Signals Tony Kenned cast, syndicated nationally at 7 p.m. Eastern. It is Tuesday, July 1st, 2025. This is the Daily Signal's top news in 10. Yesterday morning, CNN amplified an application that helps docs immigration customs enforcement agents in real time. Check it out. The Trump administration steps up ice raids and mass deportations.

Starting point is 00:00:39 One tech developer is pushing back with an app designed to track ice activity in real time. It's called ice block and it's controversial to say the least. Senator Claire Duffy is with us. Now, how does this work, Claire? And what are the legal implications? Yeah, John, I talked with Joshua Aaron, who is the longtime tech worker who developed this platform, and he said he really wants it to be an early warning system for people about the location of Immigrations and Customs Enforcement Officers. So he says he does not want people interfering with those officers' activity, but he does want people to be able to avoid them altogether if they want.

Starting point is 00:01:17 So you open the app, it looks like a map, and users can tap the map to report an ice siding in their area. and then everybody who uses the platform within five miles of that siding will get a push alert. This is a free iPhone app. It is anonymous. Aaron says he doesn't collect any user data. And what I think is really interesting about this in this moment is we've seen so many of the biggest leaders in tech supporting President Trump. But Aaron is sort of an example of the fact that there are people within the tech industry who are really resistant to Trump's policies. I asked him what he would say to those tech leaders who, for example, were at the inauguration. And here's what he told me. Take a listen.

Starting point is 00:01:56 I understand that you have shareholders to report to you. I understand that you have employees that need their paychecks. But at what point do you say enough is enough? And John, I should say that ICE did not respond when I asked them about this platform and about Aaron's opposition to their activity. Immigration Customs Enforcement issued a statement shortly thereafter saying, quote, CNN never reached out to ICE for comment. If they did, we would have provided. this statement. CNN's promotion of an ice spotting app is reckless and irresponsible.

Starting point is 00:02:29 Advertising an app that basically paints a target on federal law enforcement officers' backs is sickening. My officers and agents are already facing a 500% increase in assaults, going on live television to announce an app that lets anyone zero in on their locations is like inviting violence against them with a national megaphone. CNN is willfully endangering the lives of officers who put their lives on the line every day and enabling danger. criminal aliens to evade U.S. law. Is the simply reckless journalism or overt activism? End quote.

Starting point is 00:03:01 Borders'ar Tom Homan later demanded an investigation. It's disgusting. I mean, I cannot believe we're in a world where the men and women who enforce law are the bad guys, the one who broke the law of their victims. And look, it's already a dangerous job. You know, ice agents are arresting the worst of the worst. President Trump committed from day one. We're going to concentrate our effort on public safety threats and national security threats.

Starting point is 00:03:25 So right there, the job's already dangerous. But when you're out there tracking ice movements and giving people heads up, they're coming, that just puts the danger at an old new level. You know, it's only a matter of time for someone sits in harding and waits for an ice agent and tries to take them out. I mean, this is horrendous that a national media outlet will be out there trying to forecast law enforcement operations throughout the country. I mean, it's incredible. We're at a nation, and I think DOJ needs to look at this and see if they're crossing that line.

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Starting point is 00:04:26 We'd love to talk business. And the U.S. Senate is now moving through the rapid amendment process in a marathon session to try to get the big beautiful bill, the reconciliation measure through the Senate back into the House for a final vote before it heads to President Trump's desk on July 4th. There are two amendments to this big, beautiful bill that were the focal point of a lot of attention today. The first of these, an amendment by John Cornyn, would have removed illegal immigrants from access to Medicaid. Democrat senators Cortez Mastow, Hassan, Asif, and Warnock voted in favor of the amendment, whereas Republican Senator Susan Collins was the sole Republican to vote against it.

Starting point is 00:05:13 According to the advice given by the parliamentarian, they needed a 60% threat. in the Senate to get this amendment approved. The Yays were 56 and the nays were 44. The amendment will not be included. Senator Ed Markey put forward an amendment to fully fund planned parenthood as a part of the big beautiful bill. The vote failed 51 to 49. Republican senators Collins and Murkowski voted with all of the Democrats in favor of the amendment. It did not pass by a margin of two votes. Democrat Senator Raphael Warnock of Georgia put on his reverend cap to lecture Christians and Republicans around the country about certain measures into this bill and amendments that

Starting point is 00:05:58 he claimed were terribly uncharitable. And are we even reading from the same book? And maybe because I was here yesterday and eight years ago for a similar fight with faith leaders, maybe because I'm a preacher and it's Sunday. And I've been here instead of church. I have especially been thinking about those of us who are people of faith, people whose lives are informed by scripture, people of the book. And maybe those of us who have different politics, but read from the same book, ought to spend some time together reading the book. Because I do sometimes wonder, and I say this with all humility, none of us owns the truth.

Starting point is 00:06:51 But if I'm honest, there are days when I have to ask people of my faith tradition as a Christian, are we reading the same book? The book I know says, I was hungry and you fed me. I was sick. I was in prison and you visited me. I was a stranger and you welcomed me. In as much as you've done it to the least of these, you've done it also under me, the book. Now, Senator Warnock was roasted quite considerably over the last 24 hours for this

Starting point is 00:07:34 misapplication of scripture, especially given the context that Christians and Republicans in general are the most likely demographics in this country when compared to their peers to give charitably. Additionally, as the Daily Signals resident neighborhood Bible-thumping Baptist, I did open up the scriptures over to Matthew chapter 25, and when reading verses 31, all the way over to 46, the section on the judgment of sheep and goats when Christ talks about a future judgment of those based on their charity and lack thereof, I found nothing at all, either explicit or implicit, which suggests that an individual's charity that they take part in is dependent on whether or not they leveraged the government to take resources from one person

Starting point is 00:08:21 and then give those resources to someone else, much less taking from one demographic and then given via blanket sweeping decree to a completely different demographic. Charity, as the Christian scriptures define it, is the giving of one's time, resources, energy, mercy, or grace to another individual privately, not through show or self-gratification, but through the compassionate love towards seeing the plight of another individual and wanting to see their state be made better. This is done by a spirit of joy all the way up to and including self-sacrifice. Nowhere in any of the Old Testament or the New Testament does Scripture suggest that we are to use the arm of the government via force to take money from one group

Starting point is 00:09:07 and give it to another group and claim that as some type of charitable magnanimity. Democrat officials in Congress have been making social media posts about this all yesterday. Perhaps none as hyperbolic as this video from Representative Sarah McBride, who took time out of his day to tell you millions are going to die. I know there is a lot going on in the news right now, but I need everyone. I need all of us to focus on the big other. bill right now this week. There's a lot going on. We have a lot of takes on a lot of important issues, but we all need to be sounding the alarm because I cannot, I cannot overstate just how

Starting point is 00:09:44 dangerous and deadly this legislation is. It is perhaps the most heartless bill that has been seriously considered in Congress in decades. Millions will lose health coverage. People will die. millions will lose food assistance. People will see skyrocketing energy bills that they cannot afford to keep up with. All because of this bill and all to just partially, just partially pay for tax breaks for billionaires. The consequences are vast. They are dangerous and they are deadly. And we still have an opportunity to stop this. It is in the Senate right now. It's going to have to come back to the House. But your voice matters. The ACA will, have been repealed in 2017, if not for people across this country speaking out. We need you to reach out to your networks, to lift your voice, to spread this information as far

Starting point is 00:10:42 and as wide as possible to your networks on your social media, because time is of the essence and lives are on the line. And I am not one for hyperbole, but this is the most important issue before us right now. This is the most important thing that we can do and we all have power in this moment. We've been talking about it, many of you have been talking about it, but there's still a lot of people who don't understand just how devastating this will be and just how important their voice is. So please, please take this moment, this week to focus on this big ugly bill and guarantee that people understand what is happening. And if Republicans in Congress go through with this, that people understand that when they lose their health care, when they lose their

Starting point is 00:11:36 food assistance, when they see an increase to their energy bills, they understand that it is because of this bill. And let's not have that happen because we didn't do all we can to stop it. Before you go, head down to the description and make sure you're subscribed to the Tony Kinnettcast. and join us tonight at 7 p.m. Eastern where we dig into the day's news and nonsense. I'm Tony Kennett, and this has been the Daily Signals, top news in 10. Take care.

The Daily Signal - CNN Promotes App Targeting Law Enforcement, Democrats Promise Millions Will Die | July 1, 2025

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