The Daily Signal - Democrats Yell at Each Other, New York Times Caught Lying about Starvation & Israel | July 30, 2025

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Starting point is 00:00:25 We'd love to talk, business. The Senate floor is a mess as Democrats bicker and scream amongst themselves. In the rest of the country, they're blaming guns for the shooting in New York City, and the New York Times finally corrects an article pushing overt Hamas propaganda. I'm Tony Kinnett, host of the Daily Signals Tony Kinnett cast, syndicated nationally at 7 p.m. Eastern. It is Wednesday, July 30th, 2025. This is the Daily Signals, top news in 10. A lot of discordance into the United States Senate yesterday as Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer took to the streets to complain that the United

Starting point is 00:01:08 States was imposing a new era of Jim Crow laws. Check it out. It's been clear. When we fight for democracy, when we protect democracy, we've got to fight fire with fire. We're not going to stand idly by, as Maya said. We're not going to let them revert to Jim Crow. If you don't think they want to revert to Jim Crow, just look what they did in the Save Act, which went back to took Jim Crow for the whole nation. By so making it hard, they said you need ID, and they made it so hard to show ID that probably half the people in America couldn't vote.

Starting point is 00:01:45 We wouldn't let it pass. Democrats, they needed our vote. They went to court. Many of us, Durbin, myself, and others will lead plaintiffs and we beat them in court. But it shows why we need legislation. Because these guys are undoing everything in every way they can.

Starting point is 00:02:02 They don't want bullies. poor people to vote. They don't want people of color to vote. They don't want Democrats to vote. They don't believe in democracy. We do. And that brings us over to the floor of the Senate. So the Democrats, along with many Republicans, were getting ready to push through a series of measures in a couple of different bills that would provide federal funding to various police departments around the country, both for major metropolitan areas, as well as state and Commonwealth polices. This very much upset. Democrat Senator from New Jersey, Corey Booker, who took to the floor of the Senate under the presiding

Starting point is 00:02:39 officer, Senator Jim Banks of Indiana, to object and suggest that there needed to be an immediate amendment to the bill that he then suggests has to be added right away. Check it out. With this important provision that safeguards these grants from politicization and ensures that all law enforcement agencies have their fair chance to secure these important. grants or officers have the hardest job in America every day they put their lives on the line. Why would we do something today that's playing into the president's politics and is going to hurt the officers in states like mine? Pass my amendment and make sure that all officers in America who put their lives on the line have access to these grants. This prompts Senator Cortez Mastro of

Starting point is 00:03:29 Nevada to respond with her own objections as well as objections from Amy Klobuchar and an entire back and forth proceeds on the floor of the Senate. It's a rather wild thing to see. Here's a little bit of an edit of some of these moments stitched together. One of the things I don't understand here is that we have committees for a reason and we have hearings for a reason. And you can't do one thing on Police Week and not show up and not object and let these bills go through and then say another a few weeks later and a big speech on the floor. I was just called out by name and I want to respond.

Starting point is 00:04:08 This is what frustrates me. I passed numerous pieces of legislation for our police officers. I partnered with Chuck Grassley, the incredible senator from Iowa, on a bill very similar to the one I support about police officers who fall in the line of duty. In this case, it was COVID. Police officers who got COVID and died had difficulty proving it was a line of duty death. We passed that legislation to make sure those families get the benefits. I'm standing today.

Starting point is 00:04:40 Mr. President. The senator from Nevada. Mr. President, let me try to refocus this on the bills that are for us today. I'm not sure the answer here is to stop bipartisan legislation that gives tools to law enforcement across the community to keep our community safe. That stopping those is the answer moving forward here. I just, I don't know of anyone across this community that when they have a concern, that when they make that 911 call,

Starting point is 00:05:09 they want law enforcement to respond. I don't care with the Republican, Democrat, I don't care you're nonpartisan, I don't care where you live. You want law enforcement to respond if there's something happening in your community. Now, amid this grand debate of objections and complaints about poison pills

Starting point is 00:05:26 and all other kinds of nonsense, Senator Cory Booker then decided to make an impassioned speech about how the Democrat Party deserves to lose. Democratic Party needs a wake up, I see law firms bending a knee to this president, not caring about the larger principles, that those free speech rights that you can take on any client, why are you bending the knee? I see universities that should be bastions of free speech bending at the knee to this president.

Starting point is 00:05:59 I see businesses taking late-night talk show hosts off the air because they dare to insult a president. I see people who want mergers suddenly think that they have to pay tribute to this president. And what are the very people here elected to defend the Constitution of the United States saying, oh, well, today, let's look the other way and pass some resources that won't go to Connecticut, that won't go to Illinois, that won't go to New York, that will go to the states he likes? That is complicity with an authoritarian leader who is trashing our Constitution. It's time for Democrats have a backbone. It's time for us to fight.

Starting point is 00:06:40 It's time for us to draw lines. And when it comes to the safety of my state being denied these grants, that's why I'm standing here. Don't question my integrity. Don't question my motives. I'm standing for Jersey. I am standing for my police officers. I'm standing for the Constitution.

Starting point is 00:06:56 And I'm standing for what's right. And dear God, if you want to come up to be that way, you're going to have to take it up with me. Because there's too much on the line right now in America. As people's due process rights and freedom of the speech rights and secret police are running around this country, picking people up off the streets who have a legal right to be here, there's too much going on in this country. When are we going to stand together for principles that I just heard that were agreed with? When are we going to stand together?

Starting point is 00:07:28 If we don't stand as Democrats, we deserve to lose. According to sources over at Punch Bowl News, Democrat leadership is very, unhappy with the growing factionism and splitting apart inside the party which is only exacerbated they say by Cory Booker's speeches like those on the floor of the Senate today in the rest of the country major Democrat officials and pundits former candidates are blaming the horrible mass shooting in New York City on the ability to own firearms now we don't have any information just yet that says whether or not the shooter in New York actually obtained the gun legally

Starting point is 00:08:06 He was already violating gun laws that say you are not allowed to carry a firearm in that portion of Manhattan and really Manhattan in general. So gun laws didn't particularly stop the shooter in this case. That doesn't stop CNN from framing the entire situation around gun control. And then New York Governor Kathy Hockel essentially takes it and runs with it. Check it out. But governor, even when Joe Biden was president and Democrats controlled Congress, your party did not pay. a ban on semi-automatic rifles, even in the wake of really horrific mass shootings like this one. So what makes you think that anything would be different now?

Starting point is 00:08:47 And do you fault your own party for not acting on this when you were in charge? I'm looking for political courage. I'm looking for people to stand up for the people of this nation and say, enough is enough. How much more slaughter do we have to endure because of these assault weapons? We had this happen in my hometown of Buffalo in 2022. You remember 10 people shopping at a Topps grocery store in a black part of our city.

Starting point is 00:09:15 This targeted, this individual targeted them, a white supremacist because of the color of their skin. They were slaughtered, gunned down with the same kind of weapon. We sprung into action. We made sure that our laws were tougher and tighter and we're doing much more to keep people safe in the state of New York. But I don't want to be having my residents

Starting point is 00:09:34 affected by someone coming from another state who could easily get their hands on this assault weapon, travel across multiple states and do what they did just yesterday. So I want to be able to protect New Yorkers. It's my number one priority. And it's hard to do it when other states aren't stepping up. And certainly Congress has let us down. And last but not least, after the New York Times published a huge photo on the cover of their Friday, July 25th edition, which showed an emaciated child held by his mother and suggesting that this is due to starvation,

Starting point is 00:10:04 in Gaza using a photo of Muhammad al-Matawakh, a child with a muscular disorder, not one who is currently facing starvation, cutting the more healthily fed child out of the photo so that they could pose this particular picture and suggest that Israel is a terrible government that is starving millions of people at the moment. Well, the New York Times has now sort of appended what they call an editor's note to the story. they haven't taken down the story. They haven't taken down the photograph. They've just appended an editor's note,

Starting point is 00:10:38 saying that, again, this particular child they had suggested to the masses, was an emaciated child from starvation, was actually emaciated because of a severe, muscular issue. We have since learned new information, including from the hospital that treated him and his medical records, and have updated our story to add context about his pre-existing health problems. This additional detail gives us. readers a greater understanding of a situation, our reporters and photographers continue to report from

Starting point is 00:11:07 Gaza, bravely, sensitively, and at personal risk so that readers can see firsthand the consequences of the war. This is tripe. This is drivel. From a journalistic perspective, if I ever reported on a story like this and got a detail this wrong, I would be fired so quickly, you wouldn't even see a Tony-shaped puff of smoke left behind. The New York Times has also been criticized quite a bit over the last couple of weeks for suggesting that there is no proof that Hamas is stealing aid from the civilians in Gaza that Israel is currently orchestrating a massive effort to provide this kind of relief to. Here is a grandmother from Palestine saying something quite the opposite. The reporter says the situation is difficult. Aid is not coming. The grandmother in Gaza says

Starting point is 00:11:54 all aid goes down underground into the tunnels of Hamas. The reporter pushes back and says, lot is coming, what comes is only a little and it is distributed so they say. The grandmother wags her finger in the reporter's face saying everything goes to Hamas houses. They take it, they will even shoot me and do whatever they want to me, Hamas. Oh, by the way, here's some footage of semi-trucks being driven by Hamas wielding automatic rifles and stealing the aid from the people in Gaza. 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'll talk a little bit about some of the

Starting point is 00:12:36 tsunami warnings that were issued last night, some additional information on attorneys general from many states suing the Trump administration over filing data regarding the SNAP and food stamp programs. And I'm sure a lot more in the news and nonsense realm that is sure to break by then. I'm Tony Kinnett and this has been the Daily Signals top news in 10. Take care.

The Daily Signal - Democrats Yell at Each Other, New York Times Caught Lying about Starvation & Israel | July 30, 2025

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