The Daily Signal - Rubio Spites the UN, National Guard to Louisiana, RFK Jr. & Senate Dems Fight | Sept. 5, 2025

Episode Date: September 5, 2025

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Updates on Venezuela, the United Nations, and the National Guard from our White House correspondent Elizabeth Mitchell. And Secretary RFK Jr. returns fire to Senate Democrats in an overheated finance committee. I'm Tony Kinnett, host of the Daily Signals Tony Kinnett cast, syndicated nationally at 7 p.m. Eastern. It is Friday, September 5, 2025. This is the Daily Signals top news in 10. Secretary of State Marco Rubio was abroad yesterday in Mexico issuing statements against the United Nations concern over the U.S. strike against the Venezuelan Trendi Aragua drugboat, which was struck by a missile earlier this week. Here was Marco Rubio's response. No, no, you're wrong in your question. Number one, Venezuela is a major source, and the reason why is the following. And I've seen a lot of this reporting, and it's fake reporting, and I'll tell you why. It says that somehow Venezuela is not involved in the drug trade because the UN says they're not involved in the U.

I don't care what the U.N. says. The U.N. doesn't know what they're talking about. Maduro is indicted by a grand jury in the Southern District of New York. That means the Southern District of New York presented the evidence to a grand jury, and a grand jury indicted him. And then a superseding indictment came out that was unsealed about a year and a half ago that specifically detailed Maduro's actions. So, number one, let there be no doubt. Nicholas Maduro is an indicted drug trafficker in the United States and he's a fugitive of American justice. For more on this, as well as how the National Guard and the Louisiana situation, the Illinois situation, how courts might be ruling in or fitting into it, we headed over to Elizabeth Mitchell, our White House correspondent at the Daily Signal, for a bit more insight from there in the White House press briefing room. That's true. So, of course, we know the Trump administration cracked out on that drug boat.

They've called Maduro a criminal and a terrorist. And Rubio had a great line today. He said in Mexico that he doesn't care what the UN says. We know that this man is a criminal. We know that these drugs coming into our country are extremely dangerous for Americans. And no matter what the UN says, the U.S. is going to do something about it. Well, the rest of the American media is not really focused on standing up to Venezuelan leaders or leaders over at the UN. They're more focused on standing up to the Trump administration.

I know that the National Guard conversation around what Trump's DOJ and, of course, the Joint Chiefs of Staff are looking at maybe Louisiana, less than Chicago. What's the latest in that arena? So we found out this week that D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, a Democrat, was supporting the Trump administration in their crackdown on D.C. crime in releasing the National Guard, federalizing the police. She said that she would support that beyond the 30-day limit for which the Trump administration is authorized to federalize the police and agreed to part. partner with the administration. However, a different Democrat, the attorney general of D.C. is suing the Trump administration for letting loose the National Guard in D.C. saying that it is unconstitutional. And so that's a new lawsuit. But the Trump administration is continuing to defend its stance on this. Hang on a second here. Isn't this like the second lawsuit from that particular office in like a month

trying to sue the Trump administration over the National Guard, the Federal City National Guard, in the federal city, Washington, D.C. That is true. In the Trump administration, the White House gave me a statement today saying they stand with what they're doing. They absolutely have the authority under the Home Rule Act

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In the vaunted capital building, RFK fenced with Democrat senators for a good couple of hours, talking about issues all the way from medical policy and recommendations to firing and staffing changes over the Centers for Disease Control. To summarize how most of the hearing went, a Democrat senator who had the microphone would begin a lecture. Secretary of Health and Human Services, RFK Jr. would then interject and then be told to sit quietly and wait for the senator to finish talking. For example, Minnesota Senator Tina Smith. what you have said has contradicted yourself and others. I mean, I don't even know where to start. So I'm going to start here.

Over the last eight months, you have claimed to make America healthy again. But in actual fact, you have led the charge in the Trump administration to destroy what is best in our health care system. And your denials and your evasion and your lies here do not change that. You are the Secretary of the Health and Human Services. Yet you're trafficking in these fringe-up. idea and discredited theories that are completely out of step with the scientific consensus. And you seem to be willing to say anything in the moment, even if it's untrue. So last time you were before Congress, Secretary Kennedy, you claimed, and I quote, I have never been anti-vax, I have never

told the public to avoid a vaccination. But in a podcast, you said the opposite. You said there's no vaccine that is safe and effective. So that sure sounds anti-vax to me, Secretary Kennedy. So let me ask you, when were you lying, sir? When you told this committee that you were not anti-IVax or when you told Americans that there's no safe and effective vaccine? Both things are true. Oh, so more denial, more back and forth. I mean, here's what I know. Here's what I know. Don't me explain why, Senator, you just want to. No, actually, I want you to listen to me. Okay, go ahead. Some of the Senate Democrats got into rather strange arguments and statements to RFK Jr. during the hearing, Senator Ben Ray Lujan from New Mexico started.

talking about how he was not going to give RFK Jr. a very important starfish pin. Look, two young ladies in Las Crucese, New Mexico to town hall recently gave me this starfish pin. I was going to give it to you today. But after your questioning today, I don't think you deserve it. Because what this represents is to remember that every one of us can make a difference, sir, something as small as a starfish on a beach that maybe got washed up, you throw it back in the ocean. You might not save them all, but you can save one. I'm sorry that you're not worthy of this nice little pins. Sir, as a nice reminder, I'm going to pray for you, Secretary Kennedy.

I hope we do better. I want you to do better. But today was a failure for you, man. I yield back. Senator Lujan was later fact-checked on a story about doctors by the health secretary. Mr. Kennedy, you hired a man named David Geyer to conduct this study. Is that correct? No.

Is Mr. David Geyer working for HHS? He's a contractor, but he's not conducting a study. He's a contractor? He's a contractor. Do you know who works for you, Mr. Kennedy? Yeah. Do you know that Mr. Geyer is listed as an HHS on the employee directory as a senior data analyst? Not a contractor.

He's a contractor. He's not an SGE. So is your website wrong? He's not an SGE. I don't know what. I'm going to pull up the website for you? He's a contractor. If the website says he is a senior data analyst, will you at least admit to the committee?

I don't know if a contractor can be classified as a senior data analysis or not. Is Mr. Dyer a doctor? No. Did you know he never went to medical school? He's not practicing medicine. Did you know that he got caught in Maryland and was charged for practicing medicine without a medical license? He was charged by a medical board. sued the medical board and the medical board was found to have acted in actual malice and was fined

$2.6 million by a judge in Maryland for doing that. See, so you choose to know a lot when you want to know a lot. It's incredible, Mr. Kennedy. Senator, you're ridiculous. So here's the question. To summarize the entire hearing, though, at least from the Democrat side of the aisle, it encapsulated a lot of yelling, and then Secretary Kennedy saying things like, you haven't reached out to me or called me or said anything over the last 25 years you've been in office. That, he said specifically to Senator Robert Wyden of Oregon. Senator, you've sat in that chair for how long, 20, 25 years, while the chronic disease and our children went up to 76%.

And you said nothing. You never asked the question, why it's happening? Why is this happening? Today, for the first time in 20 years, we learned that infant mortality has increased in our country. It's not because I came in here. It's because of what happened during the Biden administration that we're going to end. To Senator Sheldon White House of Rhode Island, Kennedy intimated that you've never called me and expressed any issues so far. I'd like it to end and get some progress.

Yeah, you know, Senator, you raised this during my confirmation hearing. And I said to you then, and you know, you were very civil. you raise something that makes a lot of sense. To the extent, we have the power to fix it as CMS. I'd like to do it. We've had the same kind of complaints from Vermont. But I said to you at that time, call me and let's come talk about this. You have my cell phone.

You can call me any time. I've never heard from you in seven months. And as a cherry on top, Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts being reminded by Secretary Kennedy that she took over $800,000 from pharmaceutical companies for her campaigns. Is that what I should be doing? What you should be doing is honoring your promise that you made when you were looking to get confirmed in this job. You're going like this.

And that is you promised that you would not take away vaccines from anyone who wanted them. You just changed the classification of the COVID vaccine. I'm not taking them away from people, Senator. It takes it away if you can. can't get it from your pharmacist. Well, most Americans are going to be able to get it from their pharmacy for free. Most Americans will be able to get it from their pharmacy free. The question is everyone who wants it.

That was your promise. I never promised that I was going to recommend products with which there is no indication. When you said, and I know you've taken $855,000 from pharmaceutical companies, Senator. While there is a lot more to dig into on that, fiasco, considering Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont and RFK fenced for a good couple of minutes on whether or not the other was corrupt due to neither of those two taking specific funds from pharmaceutical companies, but accusing the other of being corrupt. That's in last night's episode of the Tony Kennedcast, which will include in a link in the description down below, where you can

also find a link to subscribe to the Tony Kennedcast before you go, so you can join us. this evening at 7 p.m. Eastern for a roundup of the weeks, news and nonsense and a couple of extra surprises just for those tuning in over on the live stream. I'm Tony Kinnett and this has been the Daily Signals. Top News in 10. Take care.