Guests – Betsy Brantner Smith, Retired Gen. Stephen Mundt
Breaking News and Bold Takes: Crime, Borders, and National Security on Winn Tucson
**Kathleen Winn** – November 20, 2025
Tucson awoke to rare, steady rain, and the mood on *Winn Tucson* matched the weather: urgent, unfiltered, and unapologetic. Host Kathleen Winn, alongside two powerhouse guests — National Police Association spokesperson **Betsy Brantner Smith** and retired U.S. Army Brigadier General **Stephen Mundt** — delivered a two-hour masterclass on the issues dominating southern Arizona and the nation: violent crime spilling into homes, open-border fallout, holiday safety, and the dangerous rhetoric now aimed at America’s military.
Home Invasion Horror: Tucson City Council Candidate Stabbed in His Own House
The show opened with breaking news that should have dominated every local outlet but somehow didn’t.
Kathleen Winn revealed that Tucson Ward 6 city council candidate **Jay Tolkoff** — already a prior victim of home invasion and business break-ins — was assaulted and stabbed inside his own home in the early morning hours of November 19.
“He heard a noise, got up, and was immediately attacked by a Somalian illegal immigrant who claimed, ‘We were told this house was vacant,’” Winn reported. The intruder, described as a young teenager, was accompanied by at least one accomplice outside. Tolkoff fought back, required emergency-room treatment, and is now seriously considering leaving Tucson altogether.
Betsy Brantner Smith didn’t mince words: “If Jay Tolkoff isn’t safe in his own home — in his pajamas — nobody is. And the fact that local media is silent while they would be wall-to-wall if the victim had a ‘D’ next to his name is disgusting.”
Both hosts hammered the larger point: organized groups are apparently instructing criminal aliens to target homes believed to be empty. When the homes aren’t empty, violence follows. Tucson police took 12–15 minutes to respond — not a knock on officers, Winn stressed, but a symptom of a city that has lost control.
The Coyote Pack and the Armed Coffee Date
On a lighter but still armed note, Winn shared her daily 6:30 a.m. coyote parade across her property. Smith immediately volunteered: “I’ll be at your house tomorrow at 6 a.m. with my Smith & Wesson AR-15. Problem solved.” Winn laughed but reminded her co-host about Smith’s “little babies” (grandkids). The exchange set the tone: warm friendship mixed with dead-serious Second Amendment conviction.
Illegal Immigration, Child Trafficking, and the Epstein Distraction
Smith, fresh from multiple Newsmax appearances, laid out the national ICE sweep taking place even as Democrats fight tooth-and-nail against lawful deportation.
Over 70% of those arrested in recent operations have criminal convictions or pending charges — many with prior criminal history in their home countries. Yet the loudest voices, including newly sworn-in Rep. **Adelita Grijalva** (D-AZ), remain obsessed with long-released Epstein files instead of the estimated 300,000 unaccompanied migrant children now missing under the Biden-era policies.
Smith recounted heartbreaking testimony from Rep. Eli Crane and former Border Czar Tom Homan: children calling government hotlines pleading for rescue from nightly sexual abuse, only to be ignored.
“While Democrats scream about Epstein and Trump — who kicked Epstein out of Mar-a-Lago years ago — the real child-trafficking crisis they enabled gets a shrug,” Smith said.
Winn added the local context: the same policies that produced Tren de Aragua gang members now terrorizing Tucson neighborhoods.
Holiday Crime Wave: “Jugging,” Porch Pirates, and Situational Awareness
With Black Friday looming, Smith issued a stark warning about rising “jugging” attacks — criminals tailing shoppers from banks, ATMs, or high-end stores, then robbing them at stoplights or in their driveways.
Her advice was pure law-enforcement gold:
- Lock packages in the trunk or cover them completely.
- Never walk to your car staring at your phone.
- If withdrawing cash, go inside the bank during business hours.
- See something suspicious in a store? Alert staff or call 911 — don’t confront directly.
Both women lamented Pima County’s soft-on-crime policies that leave even locked-display items at drugstores a nuisance to buy, driving honest shoppers online — straight into the arms of porch pirates. Ring cameras, they agreed, are now non-negotiable.
Cyber Extortion and the Return of Real FBI Work
The new FBI leadership under Director **Kash Patel** and Attorney General **Pam Bondi** announced coordinated sanctions with Australia and the UK against Russian ransomware rings.
Smith celebrated the shift: “The FBI is finally doing police work again — going after Russian and former-Soviet cybercriminals instead of parents at school boards or traditional Catholics at Mass.”
From Classroom Predators to Life Sentences
A grim reminder that evil hides in trusted places: a Cocos Pah middle-school teacher in the Scottsdale district was arrested two days ago for possessing child sexual abuse material — images of girls the same age as his sixth-grade students. Winn and Smith agreed psychological screening for educators is now an obvious necessity, and a single district ban is nowhere near enough.
Democrats to Military: Refuse Orders (But We Won’t Say Which Ones)
Retired Brig. Gen. **Stephen Mundt** joined in the second hour to dissect a disturbing new Democratic talking point.
Six Democratic lawmakers — including Arizona Sen. **Mark Kelly** — publicly urged flag officers and admirals to refuse “unlawful orders” from the incoming Trump administration without ever defining what those orders might be.
Mundt was livid: “Every one of us took the exact same oath to defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. I don’t need lectures from politicians about my duty. And notice they very carefully never specified what order should be refused. If a soldier cites a congressman as justification for disobeying a lawful order, that congressman won’t be there to save his pension or his freedom.”
Mundt called the rhetoric a deliberate attempt to sow chaos and potentially treasonous if taken further.
Russia, Ukraine, and the Dangerous Peace Proposal
Mundt expressed deep unease with the current U.S.–Russia “peace” framework being floated for Ukraine.
“The deal reportedly demands Ukraine cede the Donbas, slash its military by 50–70%, surrender long-range missiles, and trust its future security to the U.S. and Europe,” Mundt said. “No sovereign nation that has spilled that much blood would accept those terms. And why would they trust security guarantees from countries that already failed them once under the Budapest Memorandum?”
Hours after a U.S. representative arrived in Kyiv to discuss the plan, Russia launched one of its largest missile-and-drone barrages since 2022, killing at least 25 civilians, including children.
Venezuela, Narco-Terrorism, and Rules of Engagement
Discussion turned south to Venezuela and the growing practice of engaging drug-running “go-fast” boats.
Mundt was blunt: “Narco-terrorists have declared war on the United States via fentanyl and violence. If intelligence confirms a vessel is crewed by armed traffickers bringing poison to our shores, I wouldn’t hesitate to sink it. This isn’t trade; it’s war.”
The Real Disease in Washington: Careerism Without Accountability
In a sweeping final segment, Mundt and Winn diagnosed Congress itself.
Founding Fathers served briefly, then returned home to live under the laws they passed. Today’s professional political class stays forever, amasses hundreds of millions (Nancy Pelosi was cited), and treats lawmaking like a continuing resolution circus.
Term limits, strict conflict-of-interest recusal, and forcing Congress to stay in session until the budget is passed were all floated as immediate cures.
Closing Thought from the Host
As the rain kept falling over Tucson, Kathleen Winn signed off with a warning and a promise:
“We have the solutions. What we need now is the political will to implement them — and the courage to hold everyone, from the schoolteacher to the senator, fully accountable. The reruns of Democratic talking points are over. America is wide awake.”
Same time tomorrow on 1030 The Voice. Stay dry, stay aware, and stay armed with the truth.