Speaker 1: The voice of free speech and the truth delivered common
Speaker 1: sense for the American people. Welcome to the Scott Jenning Show.
Speaker 2: Senator John Asoff of Georgia is being ripped for a sexist,
Speaker 2: misogynistic remark at the expense of a young female White
Speaker 2: House staffer. Will bring you the audio and my commentary
Speaker 2: in just a few seconds. James Tallerico running for Senate
Speaker 2: down in Texas is insulting the intelligence of black voters.
Speaker 2: We have audio of that as well. And we talked
Speaker 2: to Senator Rick Scott of Florida, big primary down in
Speaker 2: the Sunshine State. We'll see what's going on down there.
Speaker 2: We have a pack show, lots to discuss here on Tuesday,
Speaker 2: August the eighteenth, I'm Scott Jennings broadcasting for Salemon, coming
Speaker 2: to you live from Washington, d C.
Speaker 3: On this day, nineteen twenty.
Speaker 2: Let me take you inside the Tennessee State Capitol where
Speaker 2: the battle lines were marked by roses. Supporters of women's
Speaker 2: suffrage wore yellow, opponents war red, and among the men
Speaker 2: wearing red was twenty four year old State Representative Harry Byrne,
Speaker 2: the youngest member of the Tennessee State Legislature thirty five
Speaker 2: states had already ratified the Nineteenth Amendment. Tennessee would make
Speaker 2: thirty six enough to make it part of the Constitution,
Speaker 2: but the opponents of suffrage believed they had the votes
Speaker 2: to stop it. But then came the decisive roll call.
Speaker 2: When the clerk reached Harry Burns his name, the young
Speaker 2: man wearing the red rose surprised everyone by voting I
Speaker 2: for Hidden inside his coat pocket was a seventh page
Speaker 2: letter from his mother, Miss fed Byrne of Nyota, Tennessee.
Speaker 2: Most of it contained ordinary news from home, but near
Speaker 2: the end she had written, Hurrah and vote for suffrage.
Speaker 2: Don't forget to be a good boy. Well, her son
Speaker 2: followed her advice. The amendment passed forty nine to forty seven,
Speaker 2: making Tennessee the final state required for ratification. The next day,
Speaker 2: mister Byrd explained himself. He said, quote, I know that
Speaker 2: a mother's advice is always safest for her boy to follow.
Speaker 2: One mother, one letter, and one vote that delivered the
Speaker 2: franchise to millions of American women. The Nineteenth Amendment ratified
Speaker 2: on this day, August the eighteenth, nineteen twenty. Women in
Speaker 2: politics have come a long way since that vote. In
Speaker 2: the Tennessee State Capitol. Miss Pebb would be amazed at
Speaker 2: the incredible women who've been elected to office and even
Speaker 2: advise our national leaders at the highest levels. But today
Speaker 2: I'm sad to report to you that there are Democrat
Speaker 2: men trying to tear them down and reduce them to
Speaker 2: nothing more than sex objects. I bring you the story
Speaker 2: of Georgia Senator John Ossoff. He is the current Democratic
Speaker 2: Party flavor of the month, young senator from a purple
Speaker 2: state in the South. People are even talking about him
Speaker 2: running for president. But yesterday, at a pre planned event,
Speaker 2: with a pre planned speech, he unleashed a comment so
Speaker 2: vile against a young Republican woman working in politics that
Speaker 2: every woman in this country, no matter your ideology, ought
Speaker 2: to listen carefully and never forget it. This all has
Speaker 2: to do with President Donald Trump and a woman who
Speaker 2: works for him named Natalie Hart. She's a personal aid
Speaker 2: to the President. And you have to understand that Asoff
Speaker 2: is afflicted with Trump derangement syndrome combined with a level
Speaker 2: of smugness and egomania that should be written about in
Speaker 2: psychology journals. Now, mss Harp spends a lot of time
Speaker 2: around President Trump because he trusts her with important matters
Speaker 2: related to the operations of the President of the United States.
Speaker 2: She is there in her job because she is a smart,
Speaker 2: talented person who wants to serve her country and the president.
Speaker 2: But for John Ossoff and the Democrats, well, she's there
Speaker 2: because she's a pretty blonde who must be sleeping with
Speaker 2: her boss. How else would she have gotten a job
Speaker 2: like that? Listen to this garbage human John Ossoff cut
Speaker 2: one and while.
Speaker 4: The sailors on the Lincoln fight his war, while he
Speaker 4: fruitlessly drains our munitions and oil reserves, the President sleeps
Speaker 4: through his meetings, He golfs in trade stocks. See, he
Speaker 4: doesn't want to do the job. He wants to build
Speaker 4: his ballroom and travel with Natalie on their apparently defenseless
Speaker 4: flying palace gifted by the Emir of Qatar.
Speaker 2: Now John Ossoff wants to run for president. He's talked
Speaker 2: up as the future of the Democratic Party by all
Speaker 2: the pundits on cable TV, and he thinks the way
Speaker 2: to cement his path to the Oval office is to
Speaker 2: slander a talented young woman is nothing more than a
Speaker 2: pretty young companion for the president, all to please the
Speaker 2: nastiest parts of the very online liberal base. When John
Speaker 2: Osof walks into office buildings, there is a non zero
Speaker 2: chance that he looks around at the women and says, well,
Speaker 2: I know how you got here. After Osoff made this
Speaker 2: disgusting comment, he then went on MS now to do
Speaker 2: damage control. And I want you to listen to how
Speaker 2: this Osoff tried to explain it.
Speaker 5: Cut six, Why did you decide to invoke Natalie Harp specifically.
Speaker 3: In that speech?
Speaker 6: The commander in chief has mired us in this geopolitical disaster.
Speaker 6: People have lost their lives, Our naval logistics are afraid,
Speaker 6: the global energy system is in crisis. And he retreats
Speaker 6: into this bubble of West wing aides who are his
Speaker 6: security blanket to make him feel good about himself.
Speaker 3: Absolute coward.
Speaker 2: He was willing to make the statement about Harp, and
Speaker 2: like an absolute weak coward, he wouldn't even own it
Speaker 2: when asked about it later. The presidential campaign spotlight reveals
Speaker 2: your character Asoff hasn't even filed yet and we already
Speaker 2: are now fully aware of his Now, I did some
Speaker 2: research this morning on just how many women have worked
Speaker 2: for on Osof since he came to the Senate at
Speaker 2: twenty twenty one. Turns out he's had dozens of female
Speaker 2: staff members, ranging from interns all the way to senior
Speaker 2: level staff positions. Now I could read you their first names,
Speaker 2: it's public record. I could give you their titles and salaries,
Speaker 2: and I could just ask one by one why Osoff
Speaker 2: felt the need to be staffed by this particular woman
Speaker 2: or that.
Speaker 3: But I'm not going to do that, because.
Speaker 2: Each of these women deserves better treatment than what Asoff
Speaker 2: is willing to give Natalie Hart. I guess we shouldn't
Speaker 2: be surprised at this behavior, though Osoff is a Democrat,
Speaker 2: And what do we know about Democrats and how they
Speaker 2: treat women these days. Well, we know how Graham Platner
Speaker 2: up in Maine treated them, and we know that the
Speaker 2: Democrats denied and ignored abuse allegations against Platner when they
Speaker 2: were coming from a Republican woman. What we are learning
Speaker 2: from Democratic men right now is that if you're a
Speaker 2: conservative woman in politics, you are less than human. You
Speaker 2: are not to be believed, and it is to be
Speaker 2: assumed that you're nothing more than a concubine for some
Speaker 2: male politician. That's what Democrat men think when they see
Speaker 2: a pretty girl in a government building. According to John Ossof,
Speaker 2: the implication is that a professional woman couldn't possibly have
Speaker 2: earned her position of trust in the White House without
Speaker 2: sleeping her way to the top, and when asked to
Speaker 2: defend it asoff, slinked away from it, no apology and
Speaker 2: no defense, like a sucker punching coward, which is apparently
Speaker 2: what it takes to be a Democrat in good standing
Speaker 2: these days. Oh, they like to build themselves as the
Speaker 2: Party of women, But is there anything uglier than the
Speaker 2: Party of women? Explaining to a bunch of clapping seals
Speaker 2: at a rally, how female political staffers are really only
Speaker 2: good for one thing win. They talk about us Off
Speaker 2: like he's the next Bill Clinton. Sounds like he shares
Speaker 2: Clinton's views about women in the workplace.
Speaker 3: Maybe they're right.
Speaker 2: Donald Trump's done more to elevate women to the highest
Speaker 2: levels of our politics than any previous president. First woman
Speaker 2: to manage a winning presidential campaign work for Trump, Kelly
Speaker 2: Ann Conway, first female White House chief of staff, work
Speaker 2: for Trump, Susie Wiles, Sarah Sanders, first term press secretary
Speaker 2: now governor of Arkansas, More than a viable future president
Speaker 2: or vice president in her own right.
Speaker 3: I could go on, but Trump.
Speaker 2: Has a clear track record of elevating women in American politics.
Speaker 2: But for John Ossoff and his party, they apparently just
Speaker 2: wanted to grade them. Oh, people like Osoff like to
Speaker 2: talk about women's rights and so on, but when it
Speaker 2: comes right down to it, men like asof are despicable
Speaker 2: cowards who use sexism and misogyny as a joke, who
Speaker 2: think they can get ahead by smearing a can it's
Speaker 2: her survivor and a loyal American who is simply serving
Speaker 2: her government. What he said devalued every woman who goes
Speaker 2: to Washington to serve our country, and it sent a
Speaker 2: signal to every young lady out there who aspires to
Speaker 2: serve that even in the year of our Lord twenty
Speaker 2: twenty six, with men like John Ossoff around, you'll never
Speaker 2: be truly viewed is anything other than a sex object.
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Speaker 2: Which to think about what's going on in the Democratic
Speaker 2: Party right now, Absolutely despicable what they have to do
Speaker 2: to make themselves viable to run for president of the
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Speaker 2: The Texas Senate race is interesting. It's very close. I'm
Speaker 2: not going to lie. Republicans are in danger here. This
Speaker 2: seat's held by John Cornyn and he lost the primary
Speaker 2: to Ken Paxton, and the polling down there shows it close.
Speaker 2: I personally believe Republicans will have an advantage here, but
Speaker 2: tall Rico, the Democrat, is going to have a ton
Speaker 2: of money and there's a lot of energy behind trying
Speaker 2: to get rid of Paxton. Absolutely, those are the conditions
Speaker 2: on the ground. Tallarica, though, has a lot of problems,
Speaker 2: and we've talked about those on the show. He thinks
Speaker 2: there are six genders. He's had some very crazy things
Speaker 2: to say about Christianity, particularly when you consider that he
Speaker 2: bills himself as a Christian pastor. He is among the
Speaker 2: most liberal candidates for federal office in the entire country,
Speaker 2: and he's running in Texas. And I assume the Republican
Speaker 2: campaign is going to make all this clear. We certainly
Speaker 2: have here at the show. But I heard a couple
Speaker 2: of comments come out from Tallo Rico today that really,
Speaker 2: to me are beyond just political ideology liberal conservative. They
Speaker 2: go to the core of what I think, and I
Speaker 2: think a lot of liberals do this. They say things
Speaker 2: out loud that are so racist, and yet they have
Speaker 2: no idea. I want to play a clip for you
Speaker 2: of Tallo Rico talking about the Save America Act and
Speaker 2: wiring voter ID. I'm just going to set it up
Speaker 2: that way now. I want you to listen to him cut.
Speaker 13: To we as human beings have the right to shape
Speaker 13: our own destinies, and we do that through the vote.
Speaker 13: And so many brave Americans, so many brave Black Americans,
Speaker 13: have fought and died for that right. And so for
Speaker 13: politicians in Austin or in Washington, as they're now doing
Speaker 13: with this Save Act, they are trying to rob our neighbors.
Speaker 13: It's particularly our black neighbors of those God given rights.
Speaker 13: So I have a track record of using every tool
Speaker 13: in my toolbox to protect voting rights.
Speaker 2: There's not a black person in this country who would
Speaker 2: be inconvenienced or prevented the franchise by the Save Act.
Speaker 3: None.
Speaker 2: What tall Rico is saying is that if you require
Speaker 2: voter ID in an election, all these black voters are
Speaker 2: too stupid to figure it out. We've heard the same arguments,
Speaker 2: by the way, about married women. Oh, they'll never be
Speaker 2: able to figure out how to get an ID and vote.
Speaker 2: You hear yourself? Do you hear yourself? It's a voter ID.
Speaker 2: It costs a few bucks to get one. If you
Speaker 2: don't have a driver's license. It cost a few bucks
Speaker 2: to get an ID. In Texas. You can get an ID.
Speaker 2: You have to have an ID to do anything in
Speaker 2: this country. I flew up to Washington today on an airplane,
Speaker 2: showed an ID. There were other people on the plane,
Speaker 2: they all had IDs. But Tallerco and the rest of
Speaker 2: these liberals who default to this talking point, well, you
Speaker 2: can't have voter ID. We can't ensure that only citizens
Speaker 2: are voting in our election. If we do that, black
Speaker 2: people won't be able to vote. Do you hear your self?
Speaker 2: You are saying to black voters, to Black Americans.
Speaker 3: You're too stupid to.
Speaker 2: Figure out how to use an ID when you go
Speaker 2: to the polls and vote. And because you're so stupid,
Speaker 2: I will protect you from your own stupidity. That's the
Speaker 2: core of liberalism. All these people out there, black voters,
Speaker 2: married women, you you, you will slice and dice you
Speaker 2: because you're too stupid to think for yourself, and we
Speaker 2: must show up and save you from your own stupidity.
Speaker 3: Every black voter ought to hear this.
Speaker 2: Every one of them ought to be outraged about Tall
Speaker 2: Rico and the way he talks about you.
Speaker 3: More news after this, come on back slaying the leftist
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Speaker 2: You know something, I'm not done with Tall Rico yet.
Speaker 2: I'm not done with this guy yet. There's more. In addition,
Speaker 2: In addition to believing that black people, it is still
Speaker 2: amazing to me that they look into a camera and
Speaker 2: they just glide right through it. Well, you know, if
Speaker 2: you require an ID to vote, no black person will
Speaker 2: be able to vote. Literally, you'll be taking away their
Speaker 2: right to vote. If you require IDs.
Speaker 3: Do they not.
Speaker 7: Here?
Speaker 3: How racist that is? But there's more.
Speaker 2: Tall Rico is also out making racial arguments around the
Speaker 2: issue of school choice, which I know for any of
Speaker 2: you in Texas, out there and across the country, is
Speaker 2: a big deal. You support school choice. Let's listen to
Speaker 2: tall Rico comparing school choice to segregation cut three.
Speaker 13: And I love the fight against this private school voucher bill,
Speaker 13: which has its roots in school segregation. The first voucher
Speaker 13: bill was proposed in Texas in nineteen fifty seven, which
Speaker 13: was just a few years after Brown v. Board And
Speaker 13: it was a deliberate attempt to allow white parents to
Speaker 13: take their kids out of newly integrated public schools and
Speaker 13: send their kids to wide only private schools. And so
Speaker 13: I fought tooth and nail to prevent that voucher bill
Speaker 13: from passing because it would hurt our students, but it
Speaker 13: would particularly hurt our black students across the state. Because
Speaker 13: we know that public education is underfunded in Texas.
Speaker 2: First of all, public education is not underfunded. James Tallerico
Speaker 2: is parroting the same talking point. I've heard Abdul l
Speaker 2: Sied make a similar argument. You know, Abduel l sied says,
Speaker 2: you know, because we spent one hundred million dollars on
Speaker 2: the Iron Dome in Israel, that we can't have good
Speaker 2: schools in America. We spent a trillion dollars in America
Speaker 2: on public education, one trillion. Education spending keeps going up,
Speaker 2: and in a lot of places, test scores keep going down.
Speaker 3: Not everywhere.
Speaker 2: A lot of red states are seeing test scores going up,
Speaker 2: like Mississippi, for instance, they got a Republican governor down there,
Speaker 2: Republican legislature. Public education is not underfunded. Vouchers and school
Speaker 2: choice do nothing to take away the funding from public education.
Speaker 2: That's also a canard. But listen to what Osof is
Speaker 2: arguing that somehow giving parents a choice would somehow, and
Speaker 2: it's not clear how, but somehow that would take away
Speaker 2: educational opportunities for black students, that it would somehow injure them,
Speaker 2: that it would somehow hurt their ability to get an education.
Speaker 2: Osof may not be aware. He may not be aware,
Speaker 2: and it sounds like he's not that a great many
Speaker 2: of the biggest champions for school choice in this country
Speaker 2: are actually black parents whose children have been trapped in
Speaker 2: failing public schools with nowhere else to go. It's black
Speaker 2: parents who often lead the charge for school choice because
Speaker 2: they want something better for their kids. They don't want
Speaker 2: to be trapped in a failing public school run by
Speaker 2: a failing teachers union. They don't want it, so they say,
Speaker 2: I need a choice, I need something better, and I'm
Speaker 2: paying my taxes and my kids going to a failing
Speaker 2: public school, and you trap me there in the name
Speaker 2: of your political idea. That doesn't help my kid get
Speaker 2: into college. That doesn't help my kid learn to read,
Speaker 2: that doesn't help my kid do math, That doesn't help
Speaker 2: my kid have a better economic outcome. It might help
Speaker 2: you get elected, Maybe it makes you feel better about yourself,
Speaker 2: James Tallerco, but it does nothing for me. I hope
Speaker 2: James Tallerco meets some of these black parents in Texas
Speaker 2: and around the country who are leading on school choice
Speaker 2: in their communities. I doubt that he will, because these
Speaker 2: Democratic candidates never meet anybody who pops their little ideological
Speaker 2: bubble who might give them some contrary information to the
Speaker 2: things that they have to say. The boxes they have
Speaker 2: to check in order to exist in the Democratic Party.
Speaker 2: This is one of them, this little racial attack box.
Speaker 2: You have to check that because he has to please
Speaker 2: the teachers' unions. Understand, John Ossoff says these things because
Speaker 2: there's any data or any truth. He says these things
Speaker 2: because he's more scared of the teachers' unions than he
Speaker 2: is worried about a black kid in Dallas or Houston
Speaker 2: or San Antonio or anywhere else learning how to read,
Speaker 2: or learning how to do math, or getting a good education.
Speaker 2: The teachers' unions are in charge. They are in charge
Speaker 2: of James tall Rico, the education lobby. That's who's in
Speaker 2: charge of tall Rico. Who should be in charge the parents.
Speaker 2: They ought to have the choices, they ought to be
Speaker 2: able to do what's best for their kids. But that's
Speaker 2: what he wants to take away, and he tries to
Speaker 2: wrap it around this crazy racial politics. And the only
Speaker 2: people who get hurt are these kids who are trapped
Speaker 2: year after year in failing public schools. And they listen
Speaker 2: to the politician say, oh, you're the problem is we
Speaker 2: just haven't spent enough money yet. Do we spend enough?
Speaker 2: We spend a lot. It's the policy. It's the people
Speaker 2: who are in charge that's your problem. It's not the spending.
Speaker 2: It's the Policy. Scott Jennings is here on Salem. Our
Speaker 2: first guest today Evan Barker, a former Democratic campaign operative
Speaker 2: and political strategist who spent years raising millions of dollars
Speaker 2: for progressive candidate. She has a new book called Nothing
Speaker 2: Left Confessions of a Democratic Operative. Evan Barker takes readers
Speaker 2: behind the scenes of democratic politics and explains why she
Speaker 2: believes the party abandoned working class Americans and moved too
Speaker 2: far to the left. Evan, we don't know each other,
Speaker 2: but I'm glad to welcome you into the Scott Jettings Show.
Speaker 2: Congratulations on publishing your book. Thanks for being here.
Speaker 14: Thank you, Thank you so much.
Speaker 11: Scott.
Speaker 10: I've seen you so many times on TV, so it's
Speaker 10: cool to to meet you here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's very nice to meet you as well. I
Speaker 2: want to ask you why did you write the book?
Speaker 2: This is a fascinating sort of concept about you know,
Speaker 2: from where you came and now to publish this book.
Speaker 3: I see it.
Speaker 2: We have it on our screen here. I know, great cover. Yeah,
Speaker 2: why'd you crazy?
Speaker 14: Yeah?
Speaker 10: So I'm from the middle of the country. Originally I'm
Speaker 10: from Kansas slash Missouri. I claim both sides of the
Speaker 10: state line Kansas City, and I grew up in a
Speaker 10: mostly working class union family, and over time I saw
Speaker 10: a lot of my family members who voted for Democrats
Speaker 10: switch and leave and vote for Donald Trump. Starting in
Speaker 10: around twenty sixteen, they started supporting the GOP. And I
Speaker 10: came into Democratic politics because I had a pre existing
Speaker 10: health condition similar to sistic vibrosis. As a child, it
Speaker 10: was hard for me to always have insurance. My parents
Speaker 10: couldn't always afford to put me on high risk pools,
Speaker 10: and so I was activated by the.
Speaker 14: Barack Obama campaign.
Speaker 10: And after college, I ended up finding the Bernie Sanders movement.
Speaker 10: I was actually there with AOC and Bernie the first
Speaker 10: day they ever met, believe it or not, and it
Speaker 10: happened to be in Kansas, and I spent the whole
Speaker 10: day with them, and I, uh, yeah, I didn't realize
Speaker 10: what I was witnessing at that point in time, but
Speaker 10: you know, I kind of over time got disillusioned with
Speaker 10: establishment Democrats, and so that's kind of what made the
Speaker 10: Bernie movement so appealing. I felt like they were stylistically
Speaker 10: at least truth tellers about the Democratic Party.
Speaker 14: But then I, you know, soon figured.
Speaker 10: Out that that movement really wasn't about fighting for economic
Speaker 10: popularism or you know, giving more people health care. It
Speaker 10: was actually just about identity politics and hating white people
Speaker 10: and hating men, and uh, defunding the police and kind
Speaker 10: of like open borders, you know, stuff like that. And
Speaker 10: so I got disaffected from that movement as well. And
Speaker 10: then on day three of the convention at the dncent
Speaker 10: I ended up leaving a day early before Kamala Harris
Speaker 10: even spoke, because I realized that she was going to
Speaker 10: lose and the Democratic Party wasn't going to change, at
Speaker 10: least not anytime soon. And so I ended up going viral,
Speaker 10: kind of by accident, just posted a video expressing my
Speaker 10: frustrations with the DNC. Thought it was going to be
Speaker 10: a resignation video. It ended up getting millions and millions
Speaker 10: of views, and it kind of led to me writing
Speaker 10: this book.
Speaker 14: And I want to write this.
Speaker 10: I wanted to write this book because nobody inside the
Speaker 10: progressive movement or inside the Democratic Party has been honest
Speaker 10: about what happened during those years. And we've seen a
Speaker 10: lot of postmortems, we've seen a lot of autopsy reports.
Speaker 10: We've seen some of the autopsy report, but they haven't
Speaker 10: really been honest about what led to all of these
Speaker 10: crazy decisions.
Speaker 14: And what was happening. And so that's why I wrote
Speaker 14: the book.
Speaker 2: Evan Barker AT's the voiceer hearing. She's got a book
Speaker 2: out called Nothing Left Confessions of a Democratic Operative. Evan,
Speaker 2: I want to ask you where you think your party
Speaker 2: is headed in twenty twenty eight. You've seen your party
Speaker 2: change over the year. By the way, you and I
Speaker 2: share a background. I have a lot of a Democratic Union,
Speaker 2: working class background in my family too. Interestingly that part
Speaker 2: of my family, they've all become Republicans over the years.
Speaker 2: I was the first one. I like to think I
Speaker 2: was a trailblazer, but they're all there now. And you
Speaker 2: says you voted for President Trumping in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2: But I'm kind of interested in your take on the
Speaker 2: future because we're seeing this debate capitalism or socialism, the
Speaker 2: cultural stuff is still out there. What's your view who's
Speaker 2: going to win out the socialists and the radicals or
Speaker 2: do you think the Democrats could steer back to the middle.
Speaker 3: What's your thinking?
Speaker 10: Well, that's the interesting thing, Scott, is that my book
Speaker 10: also charts the growth of the progressive movement over the
Speaker 10: line ten years, and how we really built out infrastructure,
Speaker 10: and how they became so strong. The Democratic Party used
Speaker 10: to fight back against them. Actually, I was actually blacklisted
Speaker 10: in twenty nineteen.
Speaker 14: My firm was.
Speaker 10: Blacklisted for many years because of our helping.
Speaker 14: Primary Democratic incumbents.
Speaker 10: And I think that the Democratic establishment thought that they
Speaker 10: would just sort of squeeze us out and get rid
Speaker 10: of us, but it actually backfired and it made the progressives,
Speaker 10: the DSA movement grow to be extremely strong. I mean,
Speaker 10: we ended up recruiting our own donors, billionaire donors, very
Speaker 10: very wealthy people, George Soros, back to a lot of
Speaker 10: the Justice Democrats candidates, these other groups called Way to Win,
Speaker 10: which the public's not really.
Speaker 14: Doesn't know about.
Speaker 10: But I think at this point, the progressive movement has
Speaker 10: grown so strong, and at the same time, the base
Speaker 10: of the Democratic Party, the voter base, is fed up
Speaker 10: because they feel like the establish has failed multiple times
Speaker 10: and they have to be fair. They have you know,
Speaker 10: Donald Trump is one now multiple times, and so they're
Speaker 10: looking for alternatives. And the only built in alternatives, Scott
Speaker 10: is the far left, progressive Bernie wing of the party.
Speaker 10: And the fact that they have now so much experience,
Speaker 10: and they have so much infrastructure, and they have real
Speaker 10: money behind them.
Speaker 14: I think that we're kind of in this moment right now.
Speaker 10: Where the Centrists and the moderates are becoming out numbered
Speaker 10: and the progressive wing is actually becoming the new establishment.
Speaker 10: And I think that if Abdul Sayed pulls off a
Speaker 10: win in Michigan, it will only embolden them, because up
Speaker 10: until this point they have not been able to prove
Speaker 10: that their theory of change works in swing states. So
Speaker 10: if he wins in that state, it will set the
Speaker 10: tone for twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 2: I could not agree with you more that that race
Speaker 2: is going to tell us a lot, a lot about
Speaker 2: where Democrats are headed, about where twenty twenty eight is headed.
Speaker 2: The book is called Nothing Left, Confessions of a Democratic Operative.
Speaker 2: The author is Evan Barker. I cannot wait to get
Speaker 2: my hands on this and read it. I'm glad to
Speaker 2: hear your description of it, but I'm looking forward to
Speaker 2: reading it even more. Evan, thanks for coming by. We
Speaker 2: got to take a break. It's Scott Jennings on Salem.
Speaker 7: Stay with us, straight talk without the bluster when you
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Speaker 3: This is where you come the scot Jetting Show. It's
Speaker 3: Primary day down in Florida.
Speaker 2: There's some interesting new polling out from our friends at
Speaker 2: the James Madison Institute. Bob McClure is here in sixty
Speaker 2: seconds to talk about that really interesting issue polling.
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Speaker 2: DVD at Salemnow dot com. All right, Bobaklure is here
Speaker 2: from the James Madison Institute. It's primary day for you, Bob,
Speaker 2: down in Florida. You all have done some polling that
Speaker 2: I think voters in Florida are going to be interested in. Certainly,
Speaker 2: these issues are on the minds of a lot of
Speaker 2: the candidates who are running today, particularly the candidates for governor.
Speaker 2: Let's start with the polling you have on property taxes
Speaker 2: down in Florida.
Speaker 3: Bob. What'd you find out?
Speaker 5: You know, it is a big day, Scott, and thanks
Speaker 5: for having me. It's what we found is that.
Speaker 9: Floridians across party lines really believe that property taxes in
Speaker 9: Florida have gotten too high.
Speaker 5: Surprise surprise.
Speaker 9: Right, Local governments spend too much money and then continue
Speaker 9: to surf the rise of property values without lowering the
Speaker 9: military and so property taxes continue to rise across the
Speaker 9: state and Floridians a little bit tired of it.
Speaker 5: Not a little bit, They're a lot tired of it.
Speaker 9: So in our poll, we found that affordability is the
Speaker 9: single biggest concern of all Floridians, and within that particular issue,
Speaker 9: property taxes by seventy five percent. Flirtians think property taxes
Speaker 9: are too high.
Speaker 2: And the governor's race is going on, they got to
Speaker 2: replace Ryan DeSantis down there, who I know you strongly
Speaker 2: support and have worked with a lot on different policy issues.
Speaker 2: As a Republican primary going on, did you poll the
Speaker 2: race and how do you see the candidates right now
Speaker 2: who are in the running.
Speaker 3: We did pull the race.
Speaker 9: There are about four candidates that I would say are
Speaker 9: quote unquote serious candidates. But right now, Scott, I would
Speaker 9: are polling is showing that Byron Donalds is hovering around
Speaker 9: fifty percent in that primary. On the Republican side, he's
Speaker 9: been endorsed by Donald Trump. That's a big plus in
Speaker 9: a red state like Florida. And on the Democratic side,
Speaker 9: it's David Jolly, who's been a Republican an independent and
Speaker 9: is now running as a Democrat. He's polling in the
Speaker 9: mid forties. So it looks like, barring some unforeseen circumstance,
Speaker 9: that Byron Donald's is going to be the Republican nominee
Speaker 9: and David Jolly will be the Democratic nominee.
Speaker 2: And based on your experience in Florida policy circles, based
Speaker 2: on what you know today, which of these guys is
Speaker 2: going to be better on the issue of getting those
Speaker 2: property taxes and overall cost of living issues down for Floridians.
Speaker 3: Oh, I think without a doubt it's Byron Donald's.
Speaker 15: Byron is a strong believer in the free market economic
Speaker 15: view and the way of the world, So we're excited
Speaker 15: about that possibility.
Speaker 9: Obviously, we're nonpartisan, so we focus on policy. We believe
Speaker 9: good policy is good politics, and so I personally believe
Speaker 9: that Byron is going to be the stronger in terms
Speaker 9: of his economic platform. He believes that government typically is
Speaker 9: the problem with affordability. It's not typically free market capitalism.
Speaker 9: When you allow the market to do its job, prices
Speaker 9: come down, efficiency improves in Floridians and Americans get a
Speaker 9: better product. It's government that is typically the problem.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 2: That's Bob McClure. He's head of the James Madison Institute.
Speaker 2: They've got a big poll of what voters in Florida
Speaker 2: are thinking right now as they head into the election season.
Speaker 2: If you want to read it, and I would recommend
Speaker 2: Florida is an important state, you might want to look
Speaker 2: into this. If you care about the politics of the
Speaker 2: Sunshine State. Go to jmipoll dot com. Jmipoll dot com.
Speaker 2: You can read about how they feel about property taxes,
Speaker 2: and healthcare and affordability. Some data center polling in here
Speaker 2: that you might want to see. Bob, thanks for coming by.
Speaker 2: We go to a break. More news after this. It's
Speaker 2: Scott Jennings on Salem.
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Speaker 2: Full effect and voters are heading to the polls in
Speaker 2: Florida among other places today, but the Sunshine State primary
Speaker 2: is of interest to us right now. And our next
Speaker 2: guest is Senator Rick Scott, who served two terms as
Speaker 2: Florida governor and is now US Senator. There, Senator Scott,
Speaker 2: thanks for joining US primary day governor's race to replace
Speaker 2: Ron DeSantis. You've got a little experience in that office.
Speaker 2: I think you've been out on the campaign trail with
Speaker 2: one of the candidates. What's your view on what Florida
Speaker 2: is looking for and a new governor?
Speaker 5: Well, but first topic, exciting day. You know election days
Speaker 5: are exciting days. Sixteen years ago, all the polls that
Speaker 5: I would lose and actually won the governors the Republican primary.
Speaker 5: No one thought I could win. So I've been out
Speaker 5: with a variety of people. I've been campaigning with Byron Donalds.
Speaker 5: I've been doing a variety of things with other candidates.
Speaker 5: Actually it was up in Georgia campaign with Rick Jackson,
Speaker 5: My Collins. I've been around the state of Florida campaign
Speaker 5: with people like Brandy Fine. So I tell everybody you know,
Speaker 5: pick your favorite candidate, but get out there and vote
Speaker 5: and make sure that that we win. On the Democrat side,
Speaker 5: we've got some Democrats socialists running and actually those primaries
Speaker 5: it doesn't really matter because it doesn't matter who wins
Speaker 5: because they all vote the way Chuck Schumer and Jeffreys
Speaker 5: tell them to vote, and they're voting the way Mandami
Speaker 5: and Hassan Piker and Bernie Sanders tell them to vote.
Speaker 2: Yeah, these socialists running in these Democratic primaries are interesting.
Speaker 2: Both Jared Moskowitz and and Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
Speaker 3: Those are the two Democrats they're really targeting.
Speaker 2: And it just so happens they're both Jewish and they've
Speaker 2: both been proponents of the idea that you know, Israel
Speaker 2: has a right to exist. And then in the Republican side,
Speaker 2: this Randy Fine, he's a Republican. This primary, there's a
Speaker 2: character in that race named Dan Bil'sarian. You have seen
Speaker 2: in Florida this primary season, some real anti Semitic campaign activity.
Speaker 2: You represent a lot of Jewish voters there in Florida.
Speaker 2: What are you hearing from them right now? Even ones
Speaker 2: who've been Democrats their whole lives.
Speaker 5: Well, it's a scary time. First off, it's a scary
Speaker 5: time to be a Jew in this country because you've
Speaker 5: got people that just hate Jews and out they're spewing
Speaker 5: horrible hatred. It's just pure hatred. So you know, I've been,
Speaker 5: you know, part of the Randy Fine race and what
Speaker 5: his opponent has done in a Republican primary is just
Speaker 5: a complete hatred towards Randy Fine for being Jewish. So
Speaker 5: we've got it both on the Republican side and the
Speaker 5: Democrats side. And we got a governor candidate Fishback and
Speaker 5: he's anti Semitic. So we have to call this out.
Speaker 5: But you know what, Chuck Schumer, Jeffries, they never call
Speaker 5: out and I symmetism. The Democrats never call it out.
Speaker 5: We call it out. I call it out every day
Speaker 5: I see it. But the Democrats never do because they
Speaker 5: have become the anti Semitic party. But today is election day.
Speaker 5: I guess everybody, go vote, make your voices heard, and
Speaker 5: get to know as much as you can about these
Speaker 5: candidates and then go vote for your favorite.
Speaker 2: Rick Scott, Us, Senator from Florida, is our guest. Speaking
Speaker 2: of voting, You, Senator, have been one of the strongest
Speaker 2: proponents in the Senate of the Save America Act, and
Speaker 2: I want to play something for you. This is the
Speaker 2: Democratic candidate for Senate over in Texas, James Tallerico. I
Speaker 2: just I'm going to play it cold for you, and
Speaker 2: then I want your immediate reaction.
Speaker 13: Cut number two, We as human beings, have the right
Speaker 13: to shape our own destinies, and we do that through
Speaker 13: the vote. And so many brave Americans, so many brave
Speaker 13: Black Americans, have fought and died for that right. And
Speaker 13: so for politicians in Austin or in Washington, as they're
Speaker 13: now doing with this, say that they are trying to
Speaker 13: rob our neighbors, particularly are black neighbors, of those God
Speaker 13: given rights. So I have a track record of using
Speaker 13: every tool in my toolbox to protect voting rights.
Speaker 2: You've heard tall Rico there with this bogus talking point.
Speaker 2: What's your reaction.
Speaker 5: It's condescending to blacks. So he must be saying blacks
Speaker 5: can't fly because you have to have an ID. Blacks
Speaker 5: can't go to the doctor's office because they don't have
Speaker 5: an ID. He must think is so condescending to Black
Speaker 5: Americans that he's not. He doesn't think they're smart enough
Speaker 5: to be able to register to vote right improve their
Speaker 5: American citizen and show an ID to vote. That's what
Speaker 5: the that's what the Democrat Party thinks of minorities. They
Speaker 5: think they're too stupid to be able to vote. So
Speaker 5: it's it's it's unbelievable condescending.
Speaker 7: It is.
Speaker 3: And I don't even think they hear their own racism.
Speaker 2: They say these things, and it's incredibly racist what he's saying,
Speaker 2: I mean effectively saying they're too stupid to figure out
Speaker 2: how to get an idea and vote, and they just
Speaker 2: breeze right past it as though it's just part of
Speaker 2: the normal discourse. Senator Scott, I want to change direction
Speaker 2: of foreign affairs. We've got the situation I ran still
Speaker 2: going on the sixty day Memorandum of Understanding period that expired.
Speaker 2: We have the naval blockade going on. According to President,
Speaker 2: how is this going to end? What's your advice to
Speaker 2: the president on what to do next year with the Iranians.
Speaker 5: Well, he doesn't really have much of a choice. You
Speaker 5: would he didn't choose to go to war. This guy
Speaker 5: never wants to go to war. He doesn want to
Speaker 5: put troops in harm's way, but he does have to.
Speaker 5: He has an obligation to defend us that Iranians have
Speaker 5: been killing us for forty seven years. They're close to
Speaker 5: a nuclear weapon. They cannot have a newcre weapon. They
Speaker 5: will use it in this country to kill us, and
Speaker 5: so he has no choice. But they do everything can
Speaker 5: to make sure they don't have a NEWCRE weapon. So
Speaker 5: part of this is the I hope it works. If
Speaker 5: it takes to destroy their economy, have at it. So
Speaker 5: I support what the President's doing. It's a tough time
Speaker 5: because none of us like high gas prices and none
Speaker 5: of us like war, but we don't want to be
Speaker 5: killed by a nuclear weapons. So President Trump is doing
Speaker 5: the right thing.
Speaker 2: Back on the domestic front, I was reading in the
Speaker 2: Washington Post Friday, of all places, they admitted that government
Speaker 2: data shows that prescription drug prices are falling in this
Speaker 2: country at the highest rate since nineteen sixty. That's actually
Speaker 2: good news on the affordability front. Is this an issue
Speaker 2: that you think the Republican Party can and should run
Speaker 2: on this fall. I think it's got to be part
Speaker 2: of the strategy. But I'm interested in your reaction to
Speaker 2: the data that's just come out. Absolutely, the biggest issue
Speaker 2: we've got right now in this country is as a
Speaker 2: result of this wasteful government spending, and there's unbelievable waste
Speaker 2: during the Biden years.
Speaker 5: Inflation's out of control. We now at thirty year high,
Speaker 5: in the nineteen year high, and our thirty year treasury
Speaker 5: all because the government's wasting their money. So this president's
Speaker 5: doing everything he can to get prices down. Look at
Speaker 5: what he's done with drug prices. He's doing everything can
Speaker 5: to drive the costs of things down. So we ought
Speaker 5: to be running on this. We ought to be running
Speaker 5: on what are we doing to drive down prices and
Speaker 5: poor families. I grew up in a very poor family,
Speaker 5: a lot of Americans did. Prices are killing are just
Speaker 5: destroying the lives of our poor families in this country
Speaker 5: because they can't afford the inflation.
Speaker 2: Final question for Senator Rick Scott of Florida. You guys
Speaker 2: in the Congress are out on the August recess right now,
Speaker 2: the work period I assume you've been traveling around.
Speaker 3: And meeting with your constituents.
Speaker 2: What are you hearing from them about what they want
Speaker 2: you to do when you get back to Congress and
Speaker 2: what must the Republicans achieve in the September October timeframe
Speaker 2: before voters go to the polls.
Speaker 5: Well, number one is election security the Save America Act,
Speaker 5: and number two is an affordability. They say, why can't
Speaker 5: you get this passed? You know, you have Republicans, one, Democrats,
Speaker 5: and Independence all wanted. The one people don't want it
Speaker 5: is elected Democrats. And so we're going to have at
Speaker 5: least two votes on it in September. We're going to
Speaker 5: have it as part of the inside of trading bill
Speaker 5: to pass the House in a bipartisan manner. We're also
Speaker 5: going to do reconciliation, which only takes Republican votes, to
Speaker 5: see what we can get in there on election security.
Speaker 5: Ron Johnson will be leading that effort. So that's the
Speaker 5: number one. Number two is what are you going to
Speaker 5: get do to get prices down? And I tell them
Speaker 5: the biggest thing we've got to do is we got
Speaker 5: to start balancing the budget. We can't keep running two
Speaker 5: trillion dollars deficits. You know, when I ran for governor,
Speaker 5: I ran on a balanced budget. Florida had not bounced
Speaker 5: his budget forty years but one time, and so we
Speaker 5: balanced it ever since. So the fold government should be
Speaker 5: doing the same thing. Families have to do it. That's
Speaker 5: what's going to drive inflation down and the cost of
Speaker 5: living down. Those are the two big you're hearing. Security, Yeah, prices,
Speaker 5: I agree.
Speaker 3: I agree with you.
Speaker 2: By the way, Senator, I've been by the way, I'll
Speaker 2: just I've been around you know, thirty five forty states
Speaker 2: in the last several months. That the things that come
Speaker 2: up every single time Save America Act. Republicans absolutely want
Speaker 2: the party to focus on that affordability issues. But those
Speaker 2: two things right there, and look, you know there's not
Speaker 2: many excuses here. I know the Democrats are against it,
Speaker 2: but boy, the Republican the voting bases out there fired
Speaker 2: up about this.
Speaker 3: Senator Rick Scott of Florida, thanks for joining us.
Speaker 2: And we'll see how the election results turn out tonight
Speaker 2: in Florida for the big primary.
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Speaker 2: It is primary day down in Florida and in some
Speaker 2: other states. We'll be tracking that tonight over at CNN.
Speaker 2: I've become up at eleven Eastern tonight, Laura Coates. I'll
Speaker 2: be sitting out there going over the election results. I guess,
Speaker 2: really paying attention to what's going on in Florida. This
Speaker 2: governor's race is interesting. Rick Scott alluded to that he
Speaker 2: likes Byron Donalds. I think Byron's highly likely to win
Speaker 2: the primary and starts as a favorite. I think in
Speaker 2: the general election, Democrats I think are going to try
Speaker 2: to contest it. But you know, it's a Republican state.
Speaker 2: We'll see what happens. I'm also paying attention and Senator
Speaker 2: Scott referred to this as well to some of these
Speaker 2: congressional campaigns, particularly the one in Florida's sixth congressional district.
Speaker 2: It's currently represented by a Jewish Republican named Randy Fine,
Speaker 2: and he's being challenged by a anti Semite social media Well,
Speaker 2: what are you personality? An influencer, a podcaster, you know,
Speaker 2: one of those types named Dan Bill Zirian. Now I'm
Speaker 2: going to read to you from ABC News about Bill Zirian.
Speaker 2: He has long spread provocative language and anti Semitism. He
Speaker 2: has ramped up his rhetoric with a slew of anti
Speaker 2: Semitic ads and verbal attacks targeting Randy Fine. His content
Speaker 2: also included references to Adolf Hitler and explicit anti Semitic tropes.
Speaker 2: I've seen some of the videos. You may have seen
Speaker 2: them circulating online. I'm not going to play them if
Speaker 2: you're watching the stream. It's garbage. It's garbage stuff from
Speaker 2: a garbage person. But it has attracted the attention of
Speaker 2: leaders in both parties. Interestingly, Speaker Mike Johnson Republican and
Speaker 2: Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries Democrat have both condemned Bilzarian's rhetoric
Speaker 2: and his candidacy. Again, I'm citing ABC News here. The
Speaker 2: vile attack ads against Congressman Randy Fine are disgusting and
Speaker 2: should be condemned by all political leaders on the right
Speaker 2: and left. Anti Semitism and outward hatred of Jewish communities
Speaker 2: have no place in our politics or in America, and
Speaker 2: we will continue to call them out wherever they arise.
Speaker 3: That's Mike Johnson.
Speaker 2: Jeffries said it was a quote hateful campaign, which he
Speaker 2: calls quote blatantly anti Semitic and shocks the conscience. Lots
Speaker 2: of people are condemning this Bilzarian from across the Republican spectrum,
Speaker 2: all the way from Don Bacon, who's been more on
Speaker 2: the on the outs with Trump, I guess, so to speak,
Speaker 2: that side, all the way over to Ted Cruz. They've
Speaker 2: expressed their revulsion. Our ambassador to Israel, the Great Mike Huckabee,
Speaker 2: called Bilzarian's rhetoric quote possibly the most disgusting political thread
Speaker 2: I've seen.
Speaker 3: It's ugly.
Speaker 2: What's going on in this district. I'm glad people are
Speaker 2: calling it out, I really am. I wish though, for
Speaker 2: the Democrats who are calling out Bilzarian, I wish they
Speaker 2: had a little more courage on their own side of
Speaker 2: the ball though, because there are other campaigns where maybe
Speaker 2: the anti Semitism isn't quite as explicit and blatant. It's
Speaker 2: still very clear what's going on. I mean, even down
Speaker 2: in Florida, you've got two Jewish Democrats on the ballot today,
Speaker 2: Jared Moskowitz and Debbie Wasserman Schultz. Their great sin is
Speaker 2: that they think Israel has a right to exist, and
Speaker 2: for that, they have Democratic Socialists of America opponents and
Speaker 2: their Democratic primaries. They have ilhan Omar down in Florida,
Speaker 2: or at least she was trying to go campaigning against them.
Speaker 2: She's in the Democratic Conference with them, and she's out
Speaker 2: there trying to take them out. I think that we
Speaker 2: need to understand what's happening here. The Democratic Party has
Speaker 2: completely become obsessed with this anti Israel position, and they're
Speaker 2: willing to take out their own people who don't believe
Speaker 2: in it. It's going to be a litmus test for
Speaker 2: twenty twenty eight. I'm not ignoring the anti Semitic people
Speaker 2: who come along in the Republican Party. Bilzarian is one,
Speaker 2: this fishback running for governors another.
Speaker 3: They need to be called out as well.
Speaker 2: But it seems to me that Republicans are doing a
Speaker 2: much better job of banishing this hatefulness and anti Semitism
Speaker 2: than the Democrats.
Speaker 3: We'll see what happens in Florida.
Speaker 2: Tonight, but if you live down there around where Randy
Speaker 2: Fine represents, don't be taken in by this Bill'sarian hatefulness.
Speaker 2: Some of the ugliest stuff we've seen in politics this year.
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Speaker 2: You know I am a fan of the Saint Louis Cardinals.
Speaker 3: If you listen regularly, you know that.
Speaker 2: In fact, I was in Cincinnati last night. Cardinals lost
Speaker 2: the nightcat but won the day side of a double header.
Speaker 2: It's fun to be at the ballpark. I'm a Cardinals fan. Okay,
Speaker 2: we're genteel for the best fans in baseball, and we
Speaker 2: don't typically do things like this. Hollywood Sean, give me
Speaker 2: that tape cut seven last night at Wrigley Field in Chicago,
Speaker 2: White Sox versus Cubs and an absolute all out Mealy
Speaker 2: in the stands. If you're watching the stream, you can
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Speaker 2: and you know what I'm thinking to myself, Hollywood Sewan,
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Speaker 2: middle of it. But some people were got cups flying.
Speaker 2: Come on, people, I know we're on the air in Chicago.
Speaker 2: By the way, you guys got to get a ConTroll
Speaker 2: of your people out there at these games.
Speaker 3: I know they're both good.
Speaker 2: I know tensions are high and the lowly cardinals are
Speaker 2: scraping to try to look up and see into the
Speaker 2: bottom of the wild car, But come on, unbelievable. All right,
Speaker 2: let's get back to business here. The other day, we
Speaker 2: didn't get a chance to cover this when it happened,
Speaker 2: but it seems to me that something we need to
Speaker 2: talk about. Major deal for our national security. The other day,
Speaker 2: President Trump signed a National Security Presidential memorandum targeting US
Speaker 2: naval shipbuilding. It orders future aircraft carriers to ditch modern
Speaker 2: electromagnetic catapults and elevators for old school steam and hydraulic
Speaker 2: system It also allows foreign builders to construct a couple
Speaker 2: of initial US ships abroad to catch up on backlogs
Speaker 2: provided that they invest in domestic shipyards. This is a
Speaker 2: major deal getting the US fleet built out and up
Speaker 2: to speed. Joining us to discuss this and other matters
Speaker 2: of international affairs, Doctor James Robbins, Senior VP for Research
Speaker 2: at the Institute of World Politics, former Special Assistant in
Speaker 2: the Office of the Secretary of Defense. Doctor Robbins, thanks
Speaker 2: for sharing your expertise with us yet again here on
Speaker 2: the Scott Jennings Show. I asked you to come on
Speaker 2: and talk about the shipbuilding. This was all aimed by
Speaker 2: the way at keeping pace with China. Can you help
Speaker 2: educate our audience about this? What was your view of
Speaker 2: the President's memorandum on shipbuilding? Where do we stand and
Speaker 2: where do we have to get to to keep pace
Speaker 2: with our adversaries?
Speaker 16: Oh well, thanks for having me on, Scott. Yeah, us,
Speaker 16: I mean we used to be a preeminent shipbuilder in
Speaker 16: the world and now we aren't. I mean to put
Speaker 16: it mildly, when you look at commercial shipbuilding, for example,
Speaker 16: China builds about half the world ships. Now South Korea
Speaker 16: and Japan to about forty five percent, we're down at
Speaker 16: a fraction of a percent. That's on the commercial side.
Speaker 16: On the military side, we also haven't kept pace. We
Speaker 16: haven't done the investments we need. And you know, the
Speaker 16: United States is dominant in the maritime realm. China's trying
Speaker 16: to catch up to US. China's trying to make a
Speaker 16: bid to challenge US, as see, and they're not quite
Speaker 16: there yet on the military side, but they're getting there.
Speaker 16: They're in the race. And to the extent, we've let
Speaker 16: this capability lapse in our country in terms of both
Speaker 16: the ability to build ships and also having the technical
Speaker 16: skill the manpower to do it, you know, the welders
Speaker 16: and the ship designers and people.
Speaker 3: We really got to get back to that in order
Speaker 3: to maintain our edge.
Speaker 16: So it's great that President Trump is taking care of
Speaker 16: this like President Reagan did back in his day, and
Speaker 16: now it's President Trump's turn.
Speaker 2: To do it. Yeah, Reagan engaged in a massive ship
Speaker 2: building He had what did he call it, the sixth
Speaker 2: one hundred ship Navy Initiative, and so this was something
Speaker 2: that President Reagan took seriously and he massively expanded the fleet.
Speaker 2: I think they added seventy one warships during Reagan's years. Now,
Speaker 2: President Trump has undergone some criticism here for allowing some
Speaker 2: foreign engagement in the shipbuilding. Is that something he should
Speaker 2: be criticized for. How do you view that engagement with
Speaker 2: these ships possibly being built at least in part by
Speaker 2: some of our allies.
Speaker 16: Well, I think if we're going to spool this up quickly,
Speaker 16: we're going to have to engage some of our allies.
Speaker 16: He is instructing that we build a fifth shipyard. We
Speaker 16: have four military shipyards right now, he's going to add
Speaker 16: another one. But when we're talking about a build up
Speaker 16: at the speed and scale that we need, we just
Speaker 16: don't have the capacity to do it. So engaging some
Speaker 16: of our allies to help out with this is important.
Speaker 16: And again the human side of that, it's just having
Speaker 16: the people to do it. We need to train up
Speaker 16: a whole nother generation of shipbuilders in order to be
Speaker 16: able to do these things. So part of this deal
Speaker 16: is that our workers will be able to work with
Speaker 16: the foreign workers in order to get these skills and
Speaker 16: then bring them back as private investment in our domestic side,
Speaker 16: which our foreign allies are also going to help with.
Speaker 2: Now, some people doctor Robbins are out there arguing that
Speaker 2: we already spend too much money on national defense in fact,
Speaker 2: a lot of these Democrats who are running in primaries
Speaker 2: around the country this year are arguing for massive reductions
Speaker 2: in defense spending.
Speaker 3: What's your view? You know, they say, we ought to
Speaker 3: spend this money on other things.
Speaker 2: There's other you know, spending hawks that want to dial
Speaker 2: back defense spending as part of a larger, you know,
Speaker 2: austerity program. What's your view. Can we afford to do
Speaker 2: this right now or is it something that we can't
Speaker 2: afford not.
Speaker 5: To do.
Speaker 11: Well.
Speaker 3: I'd put it more in the latter category.
Speaker 16: I mean, we're spending more on an interest on the
Speaker 16: debt than we are on national security right now. And
Speaker 16: when you look at it as all of the budget,
Speaker 16: not just the discretionary spending, but even the non discretionary
Speaker 16: all the other things that people like, you know, these
Speaker 16: progressives want to spend more money on, national security is
Speaker 16: just a fraction of that. So yeah, I think it
Speaker 16: would be good to be able to make these investments now,
Speaker 16: not only in terms of building up what we need
Speaker 16: right now, but also investing in future technology to be
Speaker 16: able to do more for lower costs, which seems to
Speaker 16: be the way things are trending with missile technology and
Speaker 16: drones and cyber and space technology. We really can't afford
Speaker 16: to get behind on any of these things, and we
Speaker 16: kind of are a little bit behind on some of them.
Speaker 16: So to say that, well, we could better spend this
Speaker 16: on something else, well, on what I mean.
Speaker 3: When you look at.
Speaker 16: The federal budget as a whole, most of the money
Speaker 16: is being spent on other things. A lot of these
Speaker 16: are the kind of social programs and add ons that
Speaker 16: the progressives want to see.
Speaker 3: They just want more of it.
Speaker 16: I think some of them would be happy if we
Speaker 16: just got rid of defense, but you know, obviously we
Speaker 16: can't do that.
Speaker 3: Agree.
Speaker 2: Doctor James Robbins is with the Institute of World Politics,
Speaker 2: national security expert, long career in the field. One more
Speaker 2: question on the ships France and China are moving toward
Speaker 2: electromagnetic carrier launch systems. President likes the steam hydraulic launch systems.
Speaker 2: He got some criticism. I was watching some of the
Speaker 2: cable back and forth on this. I'm not a shipbuilding expert,
Speaker 2: nor do I have any real idea what impact this
Speaker 2: would have on a ship's capability in a war zone.
Speaker 2: What's your view? Is President right or wrong? Or does
Speaker 2: it matter as it relates to this launching systems that
Speaker 2: he prefers.
Speaker 16: Well, I got to talk to some of my naval
Speaker 16: aviator friends about this, But what I suspect the problem
Speaker 16: is is that with the new electromagnetic launch systems and
Speaker 16: other electronic based systems for these ships, they present vulnerabilities
Speaker 16: where they can be interdicted or you know, with EMP
Speaker 16: or other things that can disable them. Whereas some of
Speaker 16: the hydraulic and steam systems they're older, they're reliable, they're
Speaker 16: time tested, and they're mechanical, so they're not going to
Speaker 16: break down in the same way that some of these
Speaker 16: other things can. And when we have a supply chain
Speaker 16: where a lot of our chips are coming from countries
Speaker 16: that you know some of them are friends, maybe you
Speaker 16: know some of them aren't, and we don't exactly know
Speaker 16: where some of them are coming from, it's probably a
Speaker 16: good idea to maintain at least a few critical systems
Speaker 16: that are resistant to those types of problems.
Speaker 2: See that's the kind of sober analysis you're not getting
Speaker 2: on cable right now. The problem with this is nobody
Speaker 2: sitting out there is an expert, and so the president
Speaker 2: does something, so they have to reflexively come up with
Speaker 2: a reason why. It's a terrible idea. You come on
Speaker 2: here and say, wait a minute, there's actually a several
Speaker 2: good iyea good reasons why do you want to do this?
Speaker 2: So thank you for your expertise, doctor Robins. We've got
Speaker 2: a couple of minutes. I got to do a quick
Speaker 2: round robin with you on some other international affairs matters.
Speaker 2: Let's skip over to Russia Ukraine. It's amazing Ukrainians are
Speaker 2: pushing the Russians back and they're striking deep into Russian territory.
Speaker 2: What's your view of the conflict right now? Are we
Speaker 2: anywhere near the possibility of getting this settled or do
Speaker 2: you think the war's going to last for a long
Speaker 2: time still?
Speaker 3: Well, I don't think it's going to get settled.
Speaker 16: Putin shows absolutely no willingness to come to any kind
Speaker 16: of reasonable deal. I think the Ukrainians might want to deal,
Speaker 16: but they're just not getting that from the Russians. But
Speaker 16: Ukrainians have been doing an amazing job with their deep
Speaker 16: strike kind of operations, interdicting the Russians, just really creating
Speaker 16: havoc for them with their drund strikes. We're seeing casualty
Speaker 16: rates on the Russian side now of like over forty
Speaker 16: five thousand people a month.
Speaker 3: I mean, think about that.
Speaker 16: Think if you're losing casualties fifteen hundred a day, that
Speaker 16: if that was our situation with a conflict we were in,
Speaker 16: I mean, that wouldn't keep going. We would just end it.
Speaker 16: But Putin doesn't seem to care. So I think this
Speaker 16: is just going to continue, and Russia's just going to
Speaker 16: continue to be punished.
Speaker 3: Korean Peninsula.
Speaker 2: The President scaling back significantly some wargame efforts we had
Speaker 2: with the South Koreans.
Speaker 3: You saw what he said about his relationship with Kim
Speaker 3: Jong un. What do you make of that?
Speaker 16: Well, here's an angle on this. I mean, number one,
Speaker 16: the South Koreans probably should have been a little bit
Speaker 16: forthcoming about the President asking for assistance with respect to Iran.
Speaker 16: After all, they're the ones who import energy through the
Speaker 16: straight of horror moves, not us. But the other side
Speaker 16: of this is North Korea has been one of Iran's
Speaker 16: major partners in terms of developing their nuclear technology.
Speaker 3: So it's probably a.
Speaker 16: Pretty good idea to get you back in discussions with
Speaker 16: North Korea in order to interdict that side of Iran's
Speaker 16: nuclear I mean, it'd be nice if the South Koreans
Speaker 16: we're a little more cooperative, But if we can get
Speaker 16: North Quid to cooperate, that'll really cripple where Ron can do.
Speaker 2: All right, that boys, Doctor James Robbins, Senior Vice president
Speaker 2: for Research at the Institute of World Politics, former Special
Speaker 2: Assistant in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, long
Speaker 2: history advocating for American national security. Doctor Robbins, thanks as
Speaker 2: always for your expertise.
Speaker 3: Thanks Scott, It's my pleasure, all right, see you soon,
Speaker 3: my friend.
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Speaker 2: To wrap up the show here on Tuesday, August the eighteenth,
Speaker 2: by asking you all for a favor. I have a
Speaker 2: friend named Brad Todd. You may know Brad. He's been
Speaker 2: on the show a few times. You see him on
Speaker 2: CNN sometimes. He is a Republican political strategist. If you're
Speaker 2: watching the stream, you can see him there on the
Speaker 2: set with Casey Hunt over at CNN. He's on the
Speaker 2: X platform, by the way. At Brad on Message. His
Speaker 2: firm is called on message. Brad and I are great friends.
Speaker 2: We've known each other for a very long time. And
Speaker 2: what I would like to ask you all to do
Speaker 2: is to pray for my friend Brad. He's out now,
Speaker 2: but yesterday he went in for cancer surgery. I'm going
Speaker 2: to actually, I'm want to read this to you. Brad
Speaker 2: posted this yesterday. This afternoon, maybe even as you read this.
Speaker 2: I'll be in a long surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital
Speaker 2: to remove a nasty, high grade malignant tumor from my
Speaker 2: fmoid sinus. It's a distant cousin of the cancer blob
Speaker 2: that I had cut out in twenty twenty.
Speaker 3: This is interesting. Actually this happened in twenty twenty.
Speaker 2: Brad says after an unnecessary COVID test speared loose a
Speaker 2: hunk of tumor I did not know was there.
Speaker 3: I remember this.
Speaker 2: Brad went to get a COVID test and it speared
Speaker 2: a chunk of this tumor. That's how he found out
Speaker 2: he had it. So, he says, the pandemic saved my
Speaker 2: life once, and it put me in contact with the
Speaker 2: Crackerjack medical team at the world's best autorinology unit that
Speaker 2: will save it again. Sinus tumors are rare, though I
Speaker 2: prefer the term exceptional, as only hundreds of people a
Speaker 2: year battle the kinds of tumors. After what will be
Speaker 2: a rough post surgery recovery, I.
Speaker 3: Will get radiation and maybe some chemotherapy.
Speaker 2: So Brad goes on on his blog to talk about
Speaker 2: his experience. I bring this up because Brad's one of
Speaker 2: the good guys. Brads, He's a good Republican consultant. He
Speaker 2: fights hard for his party, he fights hard for conservative values.
Speaker 3: From Tennessee, by the way.
Speaker 2: But you know, you meet people in Washington, and Brad's
Speaker 2: one of the good guys, and it's a reminder that
Speaker 2: we fight these battles. We fight hard against each other.
Speaker 2: We go at each other and we do what we
Speaker 2: think is right for the country, and we say hard things,
Speaker 2: and we say things with sharp edges. Politicians say things
Speaker 2: about each other. You know, it gets nasty. Election is
Speaker 2: going to get nasty. I'm certainly going to be guilty
Speaker 2: of saying sharp edged things, true things. I'll give you
Speaker 2: the facts, but they're going to be sharp. I won't
Speaker 2: pull any punches when it comes to saving America and
Speaker 2: saving Western civilization. But I bring up Brad's story because
Speaker 2: I'd love for you to pray for Brad and his recovery.
Speaker 2: But I also think we should remember that even as
Speaker 2: we're battling people, we're all just people. Yes we're political people.
Speaker 2: Yes the politicians represent a party, but underneath it all,
Speaker 2: they're just human beings and they all live their lives and
Speaker 2: they all go through the same things that any ordinary
Speaker 2: American goes through. People get cancer, other illnesses, people have
Speaker 2: things that go on in their households and in their
Speaker 2: families that they're just like us. And I think sometimes
Speaker 2: in politics it's easy to dehumanize folks who work in it.
Speaker 2: It's easy to commoditize them, treat them like something other
Speaker 2: than just a human being. And so I've just wanted
Speaker 2: to close the show today by telling you about my
Speaker 2: friend Brad Todd. Hope to get a few prayers from
Speaker 2: you all out there for Brad's recovery, and it's a
Speaker 2: good chance for us to remember that amidst all the
Speaker 2: ranker in politics, we can still be humans to each
Speaker 2: other and pray for each other when something goes awry,
Speaker 2: like this cancer for Brad Todd. One other story that
Speaker 2: we're tracking here I don't think I have time to
Speaker 2: play it now. Well, maybe Trump had the kid lifeguard
Speaker 2: the Oval. Let's get it in real quick cut five.
Speaker 2: This is a.
Speaker 12: Great story and it's an honor to be with writer Williams,
Speaker 12: who is a sixteen year old lifeguard California, the Santa
Speaker 12: Cruz area. And I understand he was a winner right
Speaker 12: from the time they first saw him as a lifeguard
Speaker 12: and a lot of training, a lot of work, and
Speaker 12: he saved this young gentleman.
Speaker 7: Boy.
Speaker 12: Had a long talk with I said, would you have
Speaker 12: made it without him? And you said not really right.
Speaker 3: Great moment in the Oval.
Speaker 2: President Trump brought in the young lifeguard who saved the
Speaker 2: life of that other young man. Happened a few weeks ago.
Speaker 2: Really great use of the Oval. We're done for the day,
Speaker 2: see you tomorrow. It's Scott Jennings on Salem.