Speaker 1: The voice of free speech, the truth delivered common sense
Speaker 1: for the American people.
Speaker 2: Welcome to the Scott Jennings Show. AOC appears on ABC
Speaker 2: and boy was it revealing. We have audio and commentary ahead.
Speaker 2: Senator Jim Banks of Indiana is here. We'll talk about
Speaker 2: the Senate landscape for the fall, and Congressman Russell Fry
Speaker 2: from South Carolina's coming by. He's on the ballot tomorrow
Speaker 2: as South Carolina Republicans choose a replacement for Lindsey Graham.
Speaker 2: Today is Monday, August the tenth. I'm Scott Jennings Broadcasting
Speaker 2: for Salem and we come to you live from Louisville,
Speaker 2: Kentucky today this weekend. By the way, I was up
Speaker 2: in Washington, d C. And stop by the Young America's Foundation.
Speaker 2: They invited me to give their keynote address on Saturday night.
Speaker 1: It's the annual conference. Over a thousand kids.
Speaker 2: I think their biggest group ever there at the j
Speaker 2: W Mary terrific group. Here's what I told them about
Speaker 2: the stakes of American politics.
Speaker 1: Cut seven. Make no mistake.
Speaker 2: The DSA is the captain now and that is why
Speaker 2: American politics, this year's midterms and your work at yaf.
Speaker 2: They are fundamentally about one thing, defending Western civilization and
Speaker 2: our American way of life, and we must defend it
Speaker 2: against a range of ideologies and on holy alliance of communism, socialism,
Speaker 2: radical Islamism, transgenderism, anti Semitism, any other ism that's been
Speaker 2: devised in the faculty lounges of Columbia in Berkeley. You'll
Speaker 2: notice that some of these ideologies even believe opposite things.
Speaker 2: It is curious, isn't it. And I'm sure you've wondered
Speaker 2: why are they in cahoots? Why are people who would
Speaker 2: be thrown off of a building in the Middle East
Speaker 2: marching down Fifth Avenue with a sign that says queers
Speaker 2: for hamas.
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 2: Think back to your history classes. What unites people better
Speaker 2: than anything else a common enemy, and this toxic brew
Speaker 2: of ideologies has a common enemy, and that enemy is
Speaker 2: all of you.
Speaker 1: That enemy is.
Speaker 2: All of us who love America, all of us who
Speaker 2: defend the West and what it stands for. I want
Speaker 2: to thank the Young America's Foundation for the chance to
Speaker 2: speak to these great college conservatives this weekend. And then
Speaker 2: I woke up on Sunday morning and had a little
Speaker 2: crossover appearance on ABC's This Week program, and I tangled
Speaker 2: with Democratic strategist Donna Brazil over the nature of the
Speaker 2: socialist takeover of the Democratic Party.
Speaker 1: Listen to this exchange cut eight.
Speaker 3: I've been in this big ten party probably longer than
Speaker 3: most people, and I can tell you we're having the
Speaker 3: same kind of growing pains I saw on the Republican side,
Speaker 3: whether it was through to Tea Party and twenty ten,
Speaker 3: the activists who helped to bring about the Maga movements.
Speaker 2: And with all due respect to my friend Donna, there's
Speaker 2: nothing like You can't draw any equivalents between the Tea
Speaker 2: Party movement and the socialist For one, the Tea Party
Speaker 2: folks weren't trying to bring about the downfall of Western
Speaker 2: civilization and the United States of America abolished the police,
Speaker 2: abolish ice, abolished borders, abolished the Senate, abolished the Constitution.
Speaker 2: There was nothing like this in the Republican Party. So
Speaker 2: it's an extreme political ideology that is gaining traction. The
Speaker 2: Democrat leadership has lost control. They know it, and people
Speaker 2: like Alexandria Ocassio Cortez Hong in Wisconsin. Abdua l sayed
Speaker 2: in Michigan, if you talk about the Big Tent. The
Speaker 2: Democrat Jewish Attorney General of Michigan cannot even go to
Speaker 2: her party's nominating convention because she says I won't be
Speaker 2: safe there because of the supporters of abdul l sayed
Speaker 2: this phrase the big Tent. A lot of Democrats are
Speaker 2: using it right now. I hope the inside of that
Speaker 2: tent has padded walls because the people they've led in
Speaker 2: to run the place are crazy. I do want to
Speaker 2: thank the good people over at ABC News for heaving
Speaker 2: me in this weekend. I enjoyed my visit, and don't worry,
Speaker 2: I'll be back on CNN for the rest of the week.
Speaker 2: On this day, by the way, nineteen seventy seven, one
Speaker 2: of New York City's most frustrating man hunts came to
Speaker 2: an end when police arrested a twenty four year old
Speaker 2: postal worker. Now New York City was terrorized, six were murdered,
Speaker 2: seven more injured, and this postal worker taunted the cops
Speaker 2: in the media with a series of cryptic letters for
Speaker 2: over a year, but the postal worker finally pleaded guilty
Speaker 2: to all of it and got three hundred and sixty
Speaker 2: five years in prison.
Speaker 1: David Berkowitz was his name.
Speaker 2: You probably remember him as the son of Sam Today's news. Honestly,
Speaker 2: the most interesting thing going on right now is the
Speaker 2: civil war inside the Democratic Party. The Socialists have the
Speaker 2: momentum and the energy. They are now trying to introduce
Speaker 2: a new political tactic, which is to laugh and lie
Speaker 2: their way through the crazy things that they have said
Speaker 2: and that they prefer over the years. Alexandria Ocassio Cortes
Speaker 2: appeared on ABC on Sunday morning.
Speaker 1: I want you to listen to this cut number two.
Speaker 4: I have a local city councilman that has this.
Speaker 1: Saying Woke one was crazy.
Speaker 2: Well, we agree on one thing, Woke one was crazy,
Speaker 2: But just wait until you get a load of woke
Speaker 2: two and listen carefully.
Speaker 1: Listen carefully to AOC with cut eleven. I mean too
Speaker 1: far with some of those positions.
Speaker 5: I mean you briefly supported the idea of defunding the police.
Speaker 4: Of course, rhetoric in that time is not rhetoric that
Speaker 4: we would use today. And I'm grateful that these candidates
Speaker 4: have the opportunity to present who they are to their
Speaker 4: electorate and what they're campaigning on in this moment.
Speaker 2: Listen carefully to that. AOC says, that's not rhetoric that
Speaker 2: we would use anymore. In other words, she's saying, well,
Speaker 2: we're smarter than we used to be. We just won't
Speaker 2: say out loud what we think or what we would
Speaker 2: do if you handed us power. But make no mistake,
Speaker 2: not only do they still believe all the crazy things
Speaker 2: they said back during WOKE one, they have added to it.
Speaker 2: We are well beyond defund the police. At this point.
Speaker 2: The Democratics Socialists of America platform is very clear. Abolish
Speaker 2: the police, Abolish the border, abolished prisons, abolish ice, Abolish
Speaker 2: all immigration enforcement, Abolish the US Senate, abolish the presidency.
Speaker 2: They want to abolish our country and our constitution as
Speaker 2: we know it.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: The good people over at the DSA haven't gotten AOC's
Speaker 2: memo just yet. The national co chair of the DSA
Speaker 2: is a woman named Megan Roamer. She did an interview
Speaker 2: a few days ago. Well, I'll let you take a
Speaker 2: listen to this cut five.
Speaker 6: But we do believe in taxing the hell out of millionaires.
Speaker 7: Yeah, absolutely, Well what is taxing the hell out of them?
Speaker 8: Mean?
Speaker 1: Uh? Yeah, you know again, I don't have like a
Speaker 1: solid but should I think, But shouldn't you.
Speaker 9: I mean, if you're the co chair, if you're the
Speaker 9: co chair of the DSA, shouldn't you be more specific
Speaker 9: than just taxing the hell out of something?
Speaker 7: What exactly do you mean?
Speaker 6: So again, it's democracy, right, and we have to look
Speaker 6: at what we need to spend and what we need.
Speaker 1: We don't want to depend on the existence.
Speaker 6: Of millionaires because that means people are still getting exploited.
Speaker 6: So yeah, we need to look at what we need
Speaker 6: to pay for in the interim, what sort of tax
Speaker 6: base we need for that to happen, and then and
Speaker 6: build from there.
Speaker 2: Now, I want you to imagine this person serving as
Speaker 2: White House chief of staff, or as a Cabinet secretary,
Speaker 2: or as a senator or a congressman. This is what's
Speaker 2: coming if you don't wake up, America. This is what
Speaker 2: is in store for your country. Other news, the Ukrainians
Speaker 2: are striking deep into Russian territory a long range drone
Speaker 2: attack at a major oil hub in central Russia, some
Speaker 2: seven hundred and fifty miles from Ukraine. They killed thirteen
Speaker 2: and injured seventy five more. Kiev says it targeted a
Speaker 2: refinery as part of a campaign to cripple Russia's energy
Speaker 2: industry and to force Vladimir Hooton to the negotiating table,
Speaker 2: and you can file this under Finally, the Trump administration
Speaker 2: is continuing to tighten the screws on foreign nationals who
Speaker 2: violate the terms of entering this country. The State Department,
Speaker 2: it's been announced, has revoked more than one hundred and
Speaker 2: seventy five thousand visas since Trump returned to office. The
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Speaker 2: In my Hands article in which the headline reads democrats
Speaker 2: new plan to win in November. Just be normal. That's
Speaker 2: literally the headline of this article. I'm going to discuss
Speaker 2: it in just a moment. First a word and at
Speaker 2: a suggestion from our friends at Americans for Prosperity, if
Speaker 2: you'd like to do something meaningful with lasting impact during
Speaker 2: this America two fifty celebration. AFP thinks you ought to
Speaker 2: do this, and I agree, take less than ten minutes
Speaker 2: and read the Declaration of Independence. AFP has launched the
Speaker 2: Declaration Project, a nationwide effort to help Americans rediscover the
Speaker 2: principles that made this country exceptional dignity, freedom, opportunity, self government.
Speaker 2: The Declaration tells us that all men are created equal
Speaker 2: and that our rights come from our creator, and government
Speaker 2: derives its just powers from the consent of the governed.
Speaker 2: These truths, friends, are not for displays at a museum.
Speaker 2: They are the foundation of American liberty. So this summer,
Speaker 2: and by the way, your kids are about to go
Speaker 2: back to school, why don't you take this back to
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Speaker 2: it's a good time to do it. Read the Declaration
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Speaker 2: just do it. Talk about what those words mean to you.
Speaker 2: AFP is leading the charge to secure our founding principles
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Speaker 2: and resources on there about celebrating America two fifty, including
Speaker 2: this excellent idea about reading a declaration of independence. All right,
Speaker 2: this article, this caught my attention today, written by a
Speaker 2: reporter named Alex Rority. I've talked to him before. I
Speaker 2: know Alex, and he's in the news organization called Notice
Speaker 2: n ot Us News of the United States.
Speaker 1: Democrats new plan to win in November.
Speaker 2: Just be normal. Here is the problem with this plan.
Speaker 2: They've not nominated anybody that's normal. Their party is anything
Speaker 2: but normal. Their leaders are not normal. Have you seen
Speaker 2: Chuck Schumer try to grill a cheeseburger? Even he he
Speaker 2: is not normal. Hakeem Jeffries a weirdo of the highest order.
Speaker 2: He's not normal in all these candidates around the country, weirdo.
Speaker 1: After weirdo after weirdo.
Speaker 2: New York City Darre Eliza Avila Chevalier, New York thirteen. No,
Speaker 2: it means ending policing, full stop period. No more police
Speaker 2: at all, ever, does that sound normal to you? Francesca Hong,
Speaker 2: who's likely going to get the Democratic nomination for governor
Speaker 2: in Wisconsin this very week, cancel Thanksgiving. Should have done
Speaker 2: this in sixteen twenty one. She called Thanksgiving a colonizer
Speaker 2: holiday and quote the original super spreader event. This is
Speaker 2: who they're running for governor in Wisconsin. Does this sound
Speaker 2: normal to you? Colorado one me lot Cairos. She took
Speaker 2: out an incumbent in a primary. She called the Hamas
Speaker 2: October seventh massacre quote the inevitable consequence of apartheid. It
Speaker 2: was just inevitable. They had to come over and rape
Speaker 2: and murder and kidnap.
Speaker 1: All these people.
Speaker 2: She has suggested that America is to blame for September
Speaker 2: the eleventh. Claire Valdez, another nominee, accusing ICE agents of
Speaker 2: kidnapping immigrants. Well, they're illegal immigrants. They're in our country illegally.
Speaker 2: They're enforcing the law. But if you want to call
Speaker 2: that kidnapping, it makes me wonder what she thinks about
Speaker 2: other laws. Like what if you I don't know, Rob
Speaker 2: Debank and the police arrested you, have they kidnapped you.
Speaker 1: You'd be lad to believe that. Perhaps that's what they think.
Speaker 2: You should read this article Democrats new plan to win
Speaker 2: in November Just be normal. The problem is is that
Speaker 2: they aren't normal, and so what you're gonna have are
Speaker 2: a bunch of people trying to act normal because that's
Speaker 2: what they are, theater kids who act like things. I
Speaker 2: have a feeling the American people are going to be
Speaker 2: able to smell this garbage from a mile away.
Speaker 1: More news after this Scott Jennings on Salem. Stay with us.
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Speaker 8: mainstream media.
Speaker 1: It's the Scott Jennings Show.
Speaker 2: It is Monday, August tenth, here on Salem. I'm Scott Jennings,
Speaker 2: common sense for the American people. Tomorrow, by the way,
Speaker 2: another primary election day across our nation. Some of the
Speaker 2: primaries will be decided in critical states like Wisconsin and Minnesota,
Speaker 2: and also South Carolina has an interesting campaign going on.
Speaker 2: Was a race that no one expected due to the
Speaker 2: tragic death of Senator Lindsey Graham. So the Republicans are
Speaker 2: choosing a replacement for Senator Graham on tomorrow's ballot, and
Speaker 2: one of the candidates for that is joining us in
Speaker 2: just a moment. Let's hear what he is telling the
Speaker 2: people of South Carolina.
Speaker 1: Cut one, I'm.
Speaker 10: Running because I believe that South Carolina's best days and
Speaker 10: America's best days are still ahead of them. Fight alongside
Speaker 10: President Trump to secure the border, restore American energy dominance,
Speaker 10: reign in Washington spending, strengthen our military, and create an
Speaker 10: economy where families can finally feel like they can get
Speaker 10: ahead again, not just get by. God blessed South Carolina
Speaker 10: and God bless the United States.
Speaker 7: Russell fry and I approved this.
Speaker 2: Message and the voice you were hearing there joins us
Speaker 2: Live Congressman Russell Frye. He currently represents the seventh District
Speaker 2: of South Carolina.
Speaker 1: Welcome back into the Scott Jenning Show. Russell.
Speaker 7: Great to be here, Scott, thanks for having me on today.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm glad you're here because you know, we've known
Speaker 2: each other for a while now, and I'm fascinated by
Speaker 2: this campaign. First of all, the circumstances of it are tragic.
Speaker 1: Senator Graham passes away.
Speaker 2: He was supposed to be on the ballot for the
Speaker 2: US Senate in November. So now the Republicans have to
Speaker 2: choose a replacement for him, and a whole bunch of
Speaker 2: people have filed. President Trump has weighed in, and he
Speaker 2: initially appointed the governor of South Carolina. Initially appointed Darlene Graham,
Speaker 2: Senator Graham's sister, as the caretaker for this final few
Speaker 2: months of this term, but then she decided to run
Speaker 2: for a full six year term, which I think surprised
Speaker 2: a lot of people. But she's got that Trump endorsement
Speaker 2: and obviously carries the familial tie there with Lindsey Graham.
Speaker 1: You're running from a different angle. Why don't you tell
Speaker 1: us about it?
Speaker 5: I think people are hungry right now in South Carolina
Speaker 5: and really across the country. They want a new generation
Speaker 5: of conservative leadership. That they want somebody who's battle tested,
Speaker 5: to be a fighter, to be in the arena in
Speaker 5: kind of the most heady Roosevelt type of way, that
Speaker 5: you're tested, that.
Speaker 7: You're in this for the long haul.
Speaker 5: But they also want somebody who can produce results, who
Speaker 5: has put together coalitions, and they want people to work
Speaker 5: with President Trump and not against them. They want people
Speaker 5: to not grandstand, They want things to get done. One
Speaker 5: of the biggest critiques that I hear from the conservative
Speaker 5: activists around the state and around the country is why
Speaker 5: can't Republicans stand together?
Speaker 7: Why does it always seem like that they're fractured.
Speaker 5: I've got a record of putting people together, passing legislative
Speaker 5: agenda items in furtherance of the president's agenda.
Speaker 7: So, look, this country is a remarkable place.
Speaker 5: It survived two hundred and fifty years through depressions, recessions, a.
Speaker 7: Civil war, two World wars.
Speaker 5: I think our calling right now is what does the
Speaker 5: next two hundred and fifty look like? Are we going
Speaker 5: to allow socialism to take root in our society? Are
Speaker 5: we going to allow this country to fail? Are we
Speaker 5: going to allow our children to inherit less than we
Speaker 5: were given when we took the mantle? And I think
Speaker 5: resoundingly people say no. But they want a fighter and
Speaker 5: they want somebody to produce results. And I think that's
Speaker 5: really kind of the mix of what we offer to
Speaker 5: this field.
Speaker 1: Russell Fry as our guest.
Speaker 2: He's running to take up the Republican line on the
Speaker 2: November ballot to replace the former senator tragically passed away,
Speaker 2: Lindsey Graham. Russell, this has been a weird campaign. It's
Speaker 2: been going on for like two weeks, and that's all
Speaker 2: the time that there was for voters to consider this.
Speaker 2: I know you obviously are in great contact with your
Speaker 2: congressional district, but you're getting out around the rest of
Speaker 2: South Carolina. What are the top one or two things
Speaker 2: that you're hearing from people? They're processing the news, they're
Speaker 2: watching the Democrats, they're watching the Republicans. Need to boil
Speaker 2: it down to one or two things you hear most
Speaker 2: often from Conservatives Reublicans.
Speaker 1: What is it?
Speaker 5: Well, conservatives want a chance to elect their senator and
Speaker 5: not necessarily have it selected for them.
Speaker 7: I think that's a big distinguishing thing.
Speaker 5: But on the issues, look, everybody's focused on what are
Speaker 5: we going to do to allow the middle class to thrive?
Speaker 5: How are we going to help provide some relief to
Speaker 5: working families and not from a socialist vantage point, what
Speaker 5: are we going to do?
Speaker 7: And people can talk about that.
Speaker 5: Everyone, i think collectively is talking about affordability. What I'm
Speaker 5: trying to offer, and I think our steps that you
Speaker 5: could take right that we protect certainly our constitutional liberties,
Speaker 5: that we create in further, a protax environment that allow
Speaker 5: or excuse me, a pro growth environment that allows you
Speaker 5: to keep more money, not send as much to Washington,
Speaker 5: d C. For your family, that you create a regulatory
Speaker 5: environment that allows you to maybe build some nuclear generation
Speaker 5: facilities or some power plants, because people hate paying a
Speaker 5: little electric bill. So look, it always boils down to
Speaker 5: the pocketbook issues. And that's how I grew up. We
Speaker 5: didn't have much growing up. You know, we were considered
Speaker 5: poor in this small little town in coastal South Carolina by.
Speaker 7: Every stretch of the imagination. And so I get how
Speaker 7: that pinch feels. I know it. And so my mission
Speaker 7: has always been, how can we create.
Speaker 5: That upward lift, that that wind in the sales to
Speaker 5: the middle class so that they can, you know, have
Speaker 5: an optimistic view of tomorrow, so they could save.
Speaker 7: A little bit of money for their child's education. These
Speaker 7: are things that I hear the most.
Speaker 2: Scott Russell Fry running for the US Senate Republican nomination
Speaker 2: in South Carolina as our special guest today. So you're
Speaker 2: running against Darlene Graham, who is Lindsey Graham's sister. Mentioned
Speaker 2: that also in the race is another name that'll be
Speaker 2: familiar to a lot of our audience around the country,
Speaker 2: and that's Ralph Norman. He's also a congressman you serve
Speaker 2: with Ralph Norman affiliated with the House Freedom Caucus, and
Speaker 2: he just ran for governor but did not do that
Speaker 2: well in that particular primary. I've seen some polling and
Speaker 2: I'm a little look, I'm a little leary of what
Speaker 2: polling may or may not be able to reveal for
Speaker 2: a two week, you know, snap campaign like this. But
Speaker 2: it seems to me that the people that have the
Speaker 2: best chance to finish in the top two, which if
Speaker 2: nobody gets fifty percent it will go to a runoff,
Speaker 2: are Graham, You and then Ralph Norman seems to be
Speaker 2: right there. Where do you differ from Ralph Norman? What
Speaker 2: makes you a better choice for US Senate?
Speaker 5: Well, I think from a conservative vote perspective in Congress,
Speaker 5: we're pretty We're pretty similar, I think stylistically though, we're
Speaker 5: very different, which is, you know, I want to build
Speaker 5: coalitions and put things together. I think, you know, age obviously,
Speaker 5: we just lost a seventy one year old senator, So
Speaker 5: people are you know talking about that is who has
Speaker 5: the most runway if you will to deliver the best results.
Speaker 5: Who's got the energy, the tenacity, the grit, the fight
Speaker 5: to deliver results that we expect. It's not enough, I
Speaker 5: think for anyone in South Carolina or across the country.
Speaker 5: It's not enough to cast conservative votes. You need that,
Speaker 5: but you also needservative results. We've done that in the Congress,
Speaker 5: have been there just a few brief period, if you will,
Speaker 5: but we've passed substantive legislation in furtherance of the president's agenda.
Speaker 5: You know, we've helped bring resources back to the state
Speaker 5: in areas that need it. We've been there, We've battle
Speaker 5: tested and ready to go. Look on the big issues
Speaker 5: of the day. We're equipped to talk about that and
Speaker 5: make the case for conservative governance. But we also get
Speaker 5: things done in the most blue collar way. That's kind
Speaker 5: of what I bring to the table and maybe what
Speaker 5: distinguishes me from some others in this race.
Speaker 2: So, as we noted, President Trump has gone for Darlene
Speaker 2: Graham here. But you are and have been a close
Speaker 2: ally of President Trump. You've been in regular touch with
Speaker 2: President Trump over the years. You've been a strong supporter
Speaker 2: of his agenda in the US House. So you're in
Speaker 2: a situation now where you're saying to Republican voters who
Speaker 2: love the president and want to follow his lead on
Speaker 2: most issues, I'm actually the best choice. How are you
Speaker 2: making that case to that cohort of voters who really
Speaker 2: looked to him for advice on how to cast their balance.
Speaker 5: Well, it's like the same thing in politics or anything else.
Speaker 5: Everyone's with you when you won or when you win.
Speaker 5: But we were there with the president from the beginning
Speaker 5: when it was somewhat politically perilous or unpopular to do so.
Speaker 5: I thought this man had done a remarkable job in
Speaker 5: his first term, and when he was gearing up to run,
Speaker 5: we stood with him when not a lot of people were.
Speaker 7: And so people kind.
Speaker 5: Of cloaked themselves in the MAGA banner right now, and
Speaker 5: we're happy to have strengthen numbers. But you know, I
Speaker 5: took on a Trump impeacher just a few years ago,
Speaker 5: one of the ten Republicans that voted to impeach Trump.
Speaker 5: I didn't have the President's endorsement right out the gate.
Speaker 5: In fact, it took me a couple months to earn it.
Speaker 5: But when we did, it was lights out. We were
Speaker 5: off to the races. So in every measure of the sense,
Speaker 5: you know, I didn't endorse somebody else for president.
Speaker 7: I endorsed Trump.
Speaker 5: I didn't run for president against Trump, as Mark Sanford
Speaker 5: had done, and I showed up to vote in the
Speaker 5: presidential preference primary, which is something that Darling had not done.
Speaker 5: So we've been with the President through thick and thin,
Speaker 5: and he needs allies in the Senate most of all.
Speaker 5: Right now, it seems to be a body that doesn't
Speaker 5: have a lot of strength with the President's agenda, and
Speaker 5: he needs those people and they're helping because his success
Speaker 5: is our success. If he is successful as our commander
Speaker 5: in chief and as our president, then the American people
Speaker 5: are ultimately successful. We want to kind of work in
Speaker 5: tandem with the White House to enact good legislation, and
Speaker 5: we're ready to do it.
Speaker 2: I think you raise an issue that should be on
Speaker 2: the minds of voters, and that is with Lindsey Graham
Speaker 2: gone that bridge between Donald Trump and his administration a
Speaker 2: lot of the US Senate, his fingerprints were often on
Speaker 2: getting people together and trying to get an outcome. He
Speaker 2: was an outcomes base guy. I'm not sure currently in
Speaker 2: the Senate that person exists to replace him. Do you
Speaker 2: feel like because of your relationship of President Trump and
Speaker 2: your coalition building experience in the House, you could eventually
Speaker 2: fill those shoes and be someone who's kind of a
Speaker 2: glue for all the different parts of the party that
Speaker 2: you need to put together to get anything done in
Speaker 2: the Senate.
Speaker 7: I think so. And certainly Lindsay was phenomenal at this.
Speaker 5: I mean, he really did work with the administration, with
Speaker 5: the President, and he was that glue.
Speaker 7: He was that cement.
Speaker 5: And so we stand ready and able to help however
Speaker 5: we can. Again, we have to row together. We've been
Speaker 5: afforded this wonderful opportunity where Republicans control the House, Senate
Speaker 5: and White House, and sometimes we get in our own way,
Speaker 5: and in the Senate in particular, you know, you've got
Speaker 5: to have allies of the president that are willing to
Speaker 5: kind of triangulate efforts to push things through. I mean,
Speaker 5: at the end of the day, this is a legislative exercise.
Speaker 5: We have to get stuff done that the American people
Speaker 5: care about. We've had great success. Let's keep our let's
Speaker 5: keep the foot on the gas pedal. But we need
Speaker 5: to make sure that he has allies in the Senate
Speaker 5: that are able to do that.
Speaker 2: Russell Frym and I gave you the last word Obviously
Speaker 2: you're running against a bunch of Republicans tomorrow, but the
Speaker 2: true enemy is these are these socialists who've taken over
Speaker 2: the Democratic Party. I'm sure you've seen some of what
Speaker 2: they've been out running on. Abolish the police, abolish ice,
Speaker 2: abolished porters. AOC on ABC this weekend said, well, you
Speaker 2: know that's not rhetoric that we should be saying out loud.
Speaker 2: What's your message to the people of South Carolina about
Speaker 2: the stakes of this election.
Speaker 5: People want to fight or they want somebody who can
Speaker 5: advocate for their interests. People feel the pinch right now,
Speaker 5: and I think the choice between before us is really
Speaker 5: what is the road that this country will take. Are
Speaker 5: we going to go down the slow road of socialism
Speaker 5: and destruction and despair where we replace God with government
Speaker 5: and ruin the middle class?
Speaker 7: Are we going to do that?
Speaker 5: That seems to be what the other side wants to do.
Speaker 5: So send a fighter to Washington, d C. Somebody who
Speaker 5: can confront this right in its face and beat it back.
Speaker 5: We have survived, and we have a great opportunity to
Speaker 5: have in this country off to our kids and our
Speaker 5: grandkids better than we found it. That path is before us,
Speaker 5: right now, but only if we elect the right people
Speaker 5: to take that fight in Washington, DC or your state capital.
Speaker 7: It doesn't matter. Make sure we go get the job done.
Speaker 7: It's that important.
Speaker 2: Congressman Russell Frye from South Carolina seven, good luck tomorrow,
Speaker 2: will be tracking the results.
Speaker 1: Appreciate your time today.
Speaker 7: Thank you, sir. Appreciate it all right.
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Speaker 2: Let's tackle a story that has been unfolding over the
Speaker 2: last few days. And I can't believe I'm having to
Speaker 2: talk about the w NBA as much as I am.
Speaker 2: I typically talk about profitable companies on this show, love
Speaker 2: profitable organizations. This is a decidedly unprofitable operation. They lose
Speaker 2: money every year, does the w NBA. And part of
Speaker 2: the reason they do is because the league is made
Speaker 2: up of a bunch of coaches and players who were
Speaker 2: either terrible at their jobs or and or are more
Speaker 2: interested in grinding political actses and apparently perpetrating a race
Speaker 2: or in America, there was a play last week where
Speaker 2: a player named Djona Carrington clotheslined Sophie Cunningham who was
Speaker 2: going up for a layup, and Dja Carrington was hit
Speaker 2: with what they call a flagrant two, which means basically,
Speaker 2: you committed a WWE style or UFC style maneuver that
Speaker 2: had nothing to do with basketball, and not only have
Speaker 2: you committed a foul, but were throwing you out of
Speaker 2: the game. That's how bad it was. You've probably seen it.
Speaker 2: Complete attempted decapitation of Sophie Cunningham and this player, Dja Carrington.
Speaker 2: I went back to the locker room and immediately sent
Speaker 2: out a social media post white privilege. She put out
Speaker 2: on social media. Here's what I found crazy. So the Fever,
Speaker 2: that's one of the teams. That's the team with Sophie Cunningham.
Speaker 2: They have a head coach. Now, if you were the
Speaker 2: head coach of a team and you had a player
Speaker 2: like Sophie Cunningham and she was darn near had her
Speaker 2: neck broken on the court by a player from the
Speaker 2: other team.
Speaker 1: What would you do?
Speaker 2: You'd probably go to a press conference and say this
Speaker 2: is terrible. I love Sophie Cunningham. I love my player.
Speaker 2: She is a good player and she doesn't deserve to
Speaker 2: be treated this way. But what did the coach of
Speaker 2: the Indiana Fever do listen to this and cut ten
Speaker 2: one of the.
Speaker 11: Things about she's gonna play her butt off, man, she's
Speaker 11: gonna compete, nobody's gonna go walking in for a layup.
Speaker 11: And so I don't oppose the hard foul, but I
Speaker 11: also don't think that she intentionally went.
Speaker 9: For the name.
Speaker 2: Stephanie White is her name. So instead of defending her player,
Speaker 2: she defends Djona Carrington, who tried to, let's be honest,
Speaker 2: badly injure Sophie Cunningham. And she's getting defended by this coach.
Speaker 2: If you watch the press conference, you see Caitlin Clark
Speaker 2: with her head in her hands.
Speaker 1: She knows how bad that answer was.
Speaker 2: Just another story in the long, bizarre saga of how
Speaker 2: the WNBA is the worst run sports organization in the world.
Speaker 2: More news after this come back, It's Scott Jennings on Salem.
Speaker 2: Quick check of the headlines here on Monday, August tenth,
Speaker 2: and this just end of the Scott Jenny Show, the
Speaker 2: Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and Senator Darlene Graham in
Speaker 2: South Carolina have officially unveiled the newly named Joint Base
Speaker 2: Lindsey Graham. That was Joint based Charleston, but they've now
Speaker 2: changed it to Joint Base Lindsey Graham. Something they said
Speaker 2: they were going to do and now that is complete.
Speaker 2: A nice gesture to the former senator. As we reported
Speaker 2: to you last hour, Republicans going to the polls tomorrow
Speaker 2: in South Carolina to choose a successor Republican to appear
Speaker 2: on the ballot in November.
Speaker 1: Here's a story that blows a hole.
Speaker 2: In the propaganda campaign accusing Israel of deliberately starving Gaza.
Speaker 2: According to a new UNISEF report, acute malnutrition rates in
Speaker 2: Gaza now stand between just two tenths and eight tenths
Speaker 2: of one percent, lower than in many countries across the
Speaker 2: Middle East, and roughly the same as several in Western Europe,
Speaker 2: including Germany. The data says more than two million tons
Speaker 2: of food Gaza since the ceasefire which exceeds humanitarian requirements.
Speaker 2: So in Gaza, food prices are falling, markets are offering
Speaker 2: greater variety, bakeries and community kitchens are operating.
Speaker 1: And you should remember all of this the.
Speaker 2: Next time someone tells you that Israel is currently perpetrating
Speaker 2: a genocide. The data simply does not support the talking
Speaker 2: point or the propaganda. There continues to be fallout from
Speaker 2: the Michigan primary that occurred just a week ago. Several
Speaker 2: prominent Democrats are refusing to line up behind their controversial
Speaker 2: nominee for Senate, Abdual Lsied, joining us to discuss this.
Speaker 2: One of those Democrats, Julian Epstein, is here. Julian, thanks
Speaker 2: for coming back on the Scott Jennings Show. I caught
Speaker 2: your op ed that you wrote for Fox News. You
Speaker 2: say that Democrats aren't coddling Scandinavian style socialists, They're getting
Speaker 2: into bed with a neolistic, deconstructionist brand of third world.
Speaker 2: You say you are raising money for Mike Rogers, the
Speaker 2: Republican in Michigan. I assume ninety nine percent of the
Speaker 2: time in your life you have voted and supported Democrats,
Speaker 2: but that's changing.
Speaker 1: Tell us about your views.
Speaker 12: Well, Scott, thanks for having me on. Yes, I am
Speaker 12: going to be supporting Mike Rogers and opposing Al Sayad
Speaker 12: because I think Sayad represents a radical and very destructive
Speaker 12: movement on the left that is a vowedly Marxist Leninist.
Speaker 12: If you listen to DSA's own members talk about what
Speaker 12: they believe and put together with a radical Islamist movement
Speaker 12: that is anti Semitic at its core, and that is
Speaker 12: very anti American as well. And you know, you can
Speaker 12: go back to the Kennedy administration in the nineteen sixties,
Speaker 12: Scott and Neil Kinnick in Britain in the nineteen nineties,
Speaker 12: George Herbert Walker Bush who said no to the Akka
Speaker 12: and the Paduke, and Bill Clinton who said no to
Speaker 12: Sister Soldia cop killing rap singers. And in each case
Speaker 12: you saw the party leaders take a bold and courageous
Speaker 12: stand that not only made sense politically, but also made
Speaker 12: sense morally in terms of what the party represented, and
Speaker 12: they took a stand against extremism. And I think what
Speaker 12: you're seeing happening inside the Democratic Party, I'm sorry to say,
Speaker 12: is the party is a shrinking party. It's losing the
Speaker 12: middle class at hemorrhage black and Hispanic vote in the
Speaker 12: last election, and it's increasingly siding on issues that are
Speaker 12: eighty twenty ninety ten, which I think the DSA agenda is,
Speaker 12: and that would be being generous to DSA, and the
Speaker 12: party leaders no longer have the guts to sort of
Speaker 12: stand up and say, this is lunatic hour, this is
Speaker 12: a big tent. Does not mean welcoming bigotry into your tent.
Speaker 12: A big tent does not mean welcoming an ideology that
Speaker 12: wants to destroy your cultural and your political acad institutions.
Speaker 12: And the party leaders just no longer have the guts,
Speaker 12: sort of the confidence to be able to stand up
Speaker 12: and say this is not who we are.
Speaker 2: Longtime Democratic strategists dating back to the Clinton era. Julian
Speaker 2: Epstein is our guest. Julian, you just used a phrase
Speaker 2: that I think we ought to talk about, and that
Speaker 2: is big tent. I was on ABC yesterday morning with
Speaker 2: Donna Brazil. She used the word big ten. I've heard
Speaker 2: Pete Bootage use the phrase big tent. This is their
Speaker 2: attempt to try to, I guess, put their arms around
Speaker 2: these socialists, these radicals, and I'm not certain that the
Speaker 2: radicals want them in the tent when all.
Speaker 1: Is said and done.
Speaker 2: I think one of the problems for the Democratic Party
Speaker 2: regulars or the people who came before this radicalism is
Speaker 2: they may say, welcome into the big tent, but I
Speaker 2: think the people they're letting in are going to throw
Speaker 2: them out, and have in some cases already in primaries,
Speaker 2: thrown them out at the earth earliest possible opportunity.
Speaker 1: What do you think about that?
Speaker 12: I think you're exactly right. The piece I wrote, by
Speaker 12: the way, a small point. It was in the New
Speaker 12: York Post on Friday. I think Fox News picked up
Speaker 12: pieces of it. They did, but yes, yes, I think
Speaker 12: you know. Going back to Kennedy for a second, he
Speaker 12: had in his inaugural address the famous line that those
Speaker 12: that try to ride the back of a tiger wind
Speaker 12: up inside. What he meant by that was that those
Speaker 12: that tolerate and try to appease the rise of authoritarian
Speaker 12: communism end up being next on the dinner menu. Churchill
Speaker 12: had a similar line that said, the appeaser is the
Speaker 12: guy who believes that by feeding the alligator, he'll be
Speaker 12: the last one the alligator eats. And this is sort
Speaker 12: of the mentality you go back to this extremism. You
Speaker 12: know the Jacobins and the French Revolution, the Bolsheviks who
Speaker 12: went after the Mensheviks and the Russian Revolution. This is
Speaker 12: always the ideology of the far left, sort of Marxist
Speaker 12: Leninist movement, which is to use the moderates as long
Speaker 12: as they can to get into the power, and once
Speaker 12: they're in power, to give them the guillotine. So I
Speaker 12: think this is a suicide march for the party establishment
Speaker 12: that thinks that they can sort of came this extremist movement.
Speaker 12: So yes, I think it is foolish from that point
Speaker 12: of view. I also think that what they are doing
Speaker 12: is they're making an incredible political miscalculation. What you're talking
Speaker 12: about with this movement, Scott is mostly privileged, white college
Speaker 12: educated kids that don't want to do what their parents'
Speaker 12: generation did, which is build for the future. We have
Speaker 12: a lot of challenges with AI and so on, and
Speaker 12: they don't want to take that challenge on it. Instead,
Speaker 12: what they want is a confiscatory policy that takes from
Speaker 12: the most successful people so that they can create sort
Speaker 12: of a moucher culture, amuture society that anybody understands economics
Speaker 12: one on one knows that will collapse in a short time.
Speaker 12: But you know there's a if you look at what
Speaker 12: happened in all of these primaries, you're talking about these
Speaker 12: socialists getting elected, these or Marxist Leninists. I think Free
Speaker 12: Press has done a great piece on this, reporting that
Speaker 12: over fifty percent of DSA members consider themselves Marxist Leninists.
Speaker 12: But what I think you see is an elector at
Speaker 12: these people being elected with about ten percent twelve percent
Speaker 12: of the vote. Sayad got about twelve percent of the
Speaker 12: vote in Michigan, and I think you're going to see
Speaker 12: a lot of Democrats like myself saying I don't want
Speaker 12: any part of this. I don't want any part of
Speaker 12: tearing down you know, open borders is sort of the
Speaker 12: new Marxist idea of saying, let's unify the global proletariat, right,
Speaker 12: and that's how we will defeat the free market. Let's
Speaker 12: get rid of all our I think most normies, and
Speaker 12: I think Rogers is a normy. That's why I'm supporting him.
Speaker 12: Look at this stuff and say this is a freak show,
Speaker 12: and I don't want to be part of it. And
Speaker 12: so you hear euphemisms from Donna who's a friend, and
Speaker 12: others saying big tent, big tent. This is just a
Speaker 12: euphemism for saying we are going to allow anti American
Speaker 12: deconstructionists that believe in the neal racist bigotry on the left,
Speaker 12: which is particularly targeted at anti Semitism. And by the way,
Speaker 12: you've been just magnificent on this issue, so I said
Speaker 12: thank you to you for that. But it's a euphemism
Speaker 12: for saying we are going to let these lunatics into
Speaker 12: the party because we're so desperate to get votes. I mean,
Speaker 12: look at what the Democratic Party has done in the
Speaker 12: last six seven, eight years. I mean Russia Gate, which
Speaker 12: I fell for. I don't have clean hands on that
Speaker 12: issue because I was the chief counsel on impeachment in
Speaker 12: the late nineties with Clinton, and so I was getting
Speaker 12: a lot of cop interview requests on impeachment in twenty eighteen,
Speaker 12: twenty nineteen, and I initially fell for it. But that
Speaker 12: was a complete fabrication that I think Obama has dirty
Speaker 12: hands on and the Democratic Party has dirty hands on.
Speaker 12: And they all knew it was a fabrication. They all
Speaker 12: knew it was a grand conspiracy theory that had no
Speaker 12: merit immigration. Similarly, by letting you know, ten twelve undocumented
Speaker 12: immigrations just sort of invade the porter with the hopes
Speaker 12: that they would eventually become Democratic voters because the Democratic
Speaker 12: Party is shrinking now for only twenty six twenty seven
Speaker 12: percent of the public actually identify as Democrats. That was
Speaker 12: a way of trying to hold onto power. The tolerance
Speaker 12: of this Marxist Leninist radical Islamic movement, and that's what
Speaker 12: it is. You got the Sayad's on state right and
Speaker 12: you can see on alignment with radical Islam. The tolerance
Speaker 12: of this kind of thing is can only be explained,
Speaker 12: in my view, by a raw thirst for power and
Speaker 12: a hold on to power on a party that's shrinking
Speaker 12: because postmodern liberalism is failing.
Speaker 2: Julian Epstein is a longtime Democratic strategist and a lot
Speaker 2: of experience in the Democratic Party. But I think they've
Speaker 2: gone too far for you, Julian, And you're supporting Mike
Speaker 2: Rogers up in Michigan because he's the normy in this
Speaker 2: particular election. Thanks for your time today. Check out his
Speaker 2: piece that was printed originally in the New York Post.
Speaker 2: More after this on Salem's stay with Us one man
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Speaker 2: I am but one man, but we have an army
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Speaker 2: little bit more breaking news into the Scott Jennings Show today.
Speaker 2: Here's what we know down in Colombia. At least eight
Speaker 2: people are dead in that nation after a powerful seven
Speaker 2: point four magnitude earthquake happened in western Colombia. I'm looking
Speaker 2: at some details that have been published by my employer CNN.
Speaker 2: They're talking to local officials and the affected areas. Again,
Speaker 2: at least eighty people are dead. Tragic situation. This all
Speaker 2: happened at the epicenter they say was in San Jose
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Speaker 2: two hundred and forty kilometers or one hundred and fifty
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Speaker 2: the streets there in Bogata as a precaution. Now, it's
Speaker 2: interesting in Colombia, they have a new president. This guy
Speaker 2: just took office on Friday. His name is Ablardo de
Speaker 2: la Espriea. Again, he was just sworn in to office,
Speaker 2: and he has convened an emergency committee to address the
Speaker 2: damage from this powerful earthquake. The Colombian government has declared
Speaker 2: a state of national disasters. But again the headline here
Speaker 2: eighty people at least are dead in this seven point
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Speaker 1: You could check that out.
Speaker 2: Also, President Trump, in the last little bit has issued
Speaker 2: a statement. Now you may have read that. In this
Speaker 2: back and forth between the United States and Iran over
Speaker 2: who is going to control the strad and how we're
Speaker 2: going to end the war that they've been saying, they
Speaker 2: meaning Iran, we want reparations. We want reparations for all
Speaker 2: the damage you cause. Well, Trump has responded to this.
Speaker 2: He says, I see that representatives of the Islamic Republic
Speaker 2: of Iran are asking for compensation for the damage done
Speaker 2: during the last five month military conflict started because they
Speaker 2: will not have a nuclear weapon, even though it was
Speaker 2: never mentioned in any of our negotiations or meetings. And
Speaker 2: here is Trump again. It is an interesting idea because
Speaker 2: now I am likewise demanding compensation from Iran for all
Speaker 2: of the people that they have killed and gravely wounded
Speaker 2: with their roadside bombs in many conflicts for which they
Speaker 2: are famous as led initially by General Solomani, including the
Speaker 2: families of those killed on the USS coal and thousands
Speaker 2: of others killed in combat. Additional compensation should be paid
Speaker 2: to the families of the hundreds of thousands of innocent
Speaker 2: protesters that Iran has killed over the last fifty years,
Speaker 2: not to mention the fifty two thousand that have been
Speaker 2: killed in the last five months. Trump continuing, I have
Speaker 2: instructed my representatives to put this firmly into any and
Speaker 2: all future negotiations. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Speaker 2: Good for you, mister President. Don't let these Iranians get
Speaker 2: away with anything on this front. The idea that after
Speaker 2: fifty years of Iran waging war against Western civilization, trying
Speaker 2: to obtain a nuclear weapon, killing and maiming thousands of people,
Speaker 2: their role in destabilizing the Middle East, their role in
Speaker 2: funding and training and equipping Hamas and the hoothy rebels,
Speaker 2: and on and on and on Hezbola, and they want compation.
Speaker 1: Outrageous. I don't know how it's going to end.
Speaker 2: Sounds like President Trump says, compensation not on my watch.
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Speaker 2: While I was over at ABC News on Sunday morning
Speaker 2: carrying the flag for all of you, my next guest
Speaker 2: was over on NBC at Meet the Press and gave
Speaker 2: a terrific answer when asked about why the Iran war
Speaker 2: is so important.
Speaker 1: Let's hear that cut three.
Speaker 13: I do not want my kids to grow up in
Speaker 13: a world where Iran has a nuclear weapon that will
Speaker 13: be pointed directly at the United States of America, at
Speaker 13: our trips abroad, at our allies, and President Trump is
Speaker 13: the first president of forty seven years who's had the
Speaker 13: guts to stand up to the regime there and tell
Speaker 13: them that they're not going to get away with it.
Speaker 13: There's been lots of good news of what's happened the
Speaker 13: greatest military and the world. As an Afghanistan veteran myself,
Speaker 13: watching what our military has accomplished wiping out eighty five
Speaker 13: percent of Iron's ballistic missiles and making sure that they
Speaker 13: can never achieve their ultimate goal to have that nuclear weapon,
Speaker 13: that's all good news.
Speaker 2: That voice you're hearing there on Meet the Press is
Speaker 2: Our next guest is Senator Jim Banks from the great
Speaker 2: State of Indiana. He joins US live from Fort Wayne today. Senator,
Speaker 2: thanks for coming back here on the Scott Jennings Show.
Speaker 2: I thought you gave a great, force full answer. I
Speaker 2: thought Senator Sheihi from Montana gave a great floor speech
Speaker 2: the other day. We've had some I think you guys
Speaker 2: in the Republican Conference there have been giving very forceful
Speaker 2: and unsubtle, straightforward analysis of why this fight against Iran
Speaker 2: is necessary. And you're doing it in the face of
Speaker 2: Democrats who seem to be cheerleading American defeat or cheerleading
Speaker 2: for the IRGC.
Speaker 1: Talk to us about that right now.
Speaker 2: It's kind of shocking to me where Democrats and media
Speaker 2: have come down rooting against the US military.
Speaker 13: Yeah, Scott's a great point, because every single Democrat in
Speaker 13: the Senate has voted to tie President Trump's hands from
Speaker 13: blocking Iran from ever having a nuclear weapon. If you
Speaker 13: think about what that means, if Iran had a nuclear weapon,
Speaker 13: as I said on Meet the Press, it would be
Speaker 13: pointed directly at US, it would be pointed at Israel,
Speaker 13: it would be pointed at our bases and our troops
Speaker 13: around the world. And every Democrat in Congress wants to
Speaker 13: stop President Trump from doing something that is so important
Speaker 13: for the future of not just our country but the
Speaker 13: whole world, and blocking the Iranians from getting that nuclear weapon. So,
Speaker 13: to me, it's common sense, but to the Democrats is not.
Speaker 13: They hate President Trump so much that they're willing to
Speaker 13: block him from doing something that's good for America from
Speaker 13: the and for the world. They're also blocking the NDAA.
Speaker 13: We've never seen this very bipartisan bill run into as
Speaker 13: many problems. Is what it is. The NDAA is all
Speaker 13: about supporting our military and our troops in so many ways.
Speaker 13: They're blocking defense funding in the Supplemental and the Reconciliation bills.
Speaker 13: They don't want to pass any plus up for defense funding,
Speaker 13: even though all of the branches of the military are
Speaker 13: the ones who are at It's not President Trump, it's
Speaker 13: the Navy, the Army, the Air Force, the Marines coming
Speaker 13: to us and saying we need more money to support
Speaker 13: our troops and to advance our military capabilities, to make
Speaker 13: sure that the United States of America is never in
Speaker 13: a fair fight, but that we always have the strategic
Speaker 13: edge in any war or conflict that we're part of.
Speaker 13: And the Democrats are all against it. I mean, that's
Speaker 13: how crazy these Democrats have become. That's on full display
Speaker 13: for the for all of America to see at this point,
Speaker 13: how radical, how out of touch they are, how extreme
Speaker 13: they are. We can't let them get away with.
Speaker 1: That, you know.
Speaker 2: I see connection between those votes and those policy positions
Speaker 2: that you just laid out that's happening in Congress today.
Speaker 2: I see connection between that and these Democrats Socialists for
Speaker 2: America candidates because part of Their platform is to defund
Speaker 2: and abolish the Department of Defense. They don't want any
Speaker 2: national defense for the United States of America. Basically, what
Speaker 2: you're laying out, though, is that democrats in Congress are
Speaker 2: already moving us in that direction, and the more of
Speaker 2: these democratic socialists that get elected, that's where we're going
Speaker 2: to head. People like Abdul Lsied just to the north
Speaker 2: of you there in Michigan.
Speaker 1: I have no doubt.
Speaker 2: I have no doubt he will take this a step
Speaker 2: further if he goes to the United States Senate. What
Speaker 2: do you think about that as a vector for the
Speaker 2: fall campaign? People, I think don't realize just how radical
Speaker 2: these socialist Democrats have become on something very basic, something
Speaker 2: very fundamental, like national security, national defense.
Speaker 7: It's so true.
Speaker 13: El Sayed in Michigan campaigned with a guy named Hussan Piker,
Speaker 13: who's a loud left wing socialist podcaster and voice who
Speaker 13: said that America deserved nine to eleven, and El Sayed
Speaker 13: campaigned with them, and on Meet the Press yesterday right
Speaker 13: before I spoke that you that you carried a minute ago,
Speaker 13: the host asked Abdul l Sayed, do you do you
Speaker 13: denounce this? Do you think that America deserved nine to eleven,
Speaker 13: and he refused to separate himself from Hussan Piker. I mean,
Speaker 13: that's that's really to me, that's really crazy. It's really
Speaker 13: dangerous that Democrats could become that extreme, that they would
Speaker 13: associate with with anti American voices like that. The said
Speaker 13: America deserved nine to eleven. He also was asked about
Speaker 13: the military funding and he said, we need less funding
Speaker 13: for the military and more funding for Medicare for all
Speaker 13: government run healthcare. I mean, Mike Rogers, the Republican ring
Speaker 13: in Michigan is an Army veteran, and l saied the
Speaker 13: Democrat wants to defund the army. I mean, that's that's
Speaker 13: a pretty stark difference that you see in that race.
Speaker 13: This upcoming week in Wisconsin, the candidate who is expected
Speaker 13: to win the Democrat primary for governor in Wisconsin is
Speaker 13: anti Thanksgiving. She hates the Thanksgiving holiday because of because
Speaker 13: of its American roots and what Thanksgiving means to our country.
Speaker 13: They hate it because it's what's good about America and
Speaker 13: about our founding and our founding principles and a time
Speaker 13: of Thanksgiving. And she hates Thanksgiving. I mean that this
Speaker 13: is not just any more about a difference in political
Speaker 13: opinions or political positions with the socialist taking over the
Speaker 13: Democrat Party. This is about our system of government and
Speaker 13: our way of life in America. And they many of
Speaker 13: these voices on the socialists left hate America and they
Speaker 13: want to destroy They want a revolution in America. They
Speaker 13: want to abolish prisons and defund the police, and they
Speaker 13: want a revolution in America to change America. And that's
Speaker 13: what that's what's at stake in this midterm election. I
Speaker 13: mean that that's why the upcoming midterm is so important.
Speaker 13: We can't let candidates like that win.
Speaker 2: If you and I sat down with a typewriter and
Speaker 2: we're tasked with writing a comedy for Hollywood, Like, what's
Speaker 2: the funniest or craziest, zaniest comedy you could write about
Speaker 2: American politics. We might write a character who was running
Speaker 2: on the platform of eliminating Thanksgiving. And you might think, well,
Speaker 2: that's that's even too crazy for Hollywood. It's literally happening
Speaker 2: over in Wisconsin. It's it's I mean, I think people
Speaker 2: hear this stuff sometimes, Senator and then they go, oh,
Speaker 2: that's how could anybody possibly be for getting rid of Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, what's crazy. They say it out.
Speaker 2: Loud, they put it on their website, they make videos,
Speaker 2: and they're just very open about it.
Speaker 1: And it's not it's not made up. It's real life.
Speaker 2: And these are the people who are going to hold,
Speaker 2: if they win, real positions of authority in our country.
Speaker 2: And it's you know, the mint terms. Look, I think
Speaker 2: Mike Rodgers has an excellent chance to win. We got
Speaker 2: a lot of these candidates around the country. But this
Speaker 2: is all leading up, I think, to an epic battle
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 1: It's a clash of world views.
Speaker 2: It's a clash of civilizations, and you're either going to
Speaker 2: be for the West or you're going to be for
Speaker 2: this third worldism that they stand for. That's the clash
Speaker 2: that's coming. Whether they nominate AOC or Kamala Harris, that's
Speaker 2: what those people are going to stand for. And I
Speaker 2: think you're going to see former Democrats across this country
Speaker 2: say this is way a bridge, way too far for me.
Speaker 2: I assume you hear from some old Democrats in Indiana
Speaker 2: who say, I don't even recognize this party anymore.
Speaker 13: For sure, you hear it every day. This is not
Speaker 13: my Grandpa's Democrat party. But in Michigan. Go back to
Speaker 13: Michigan for a moment. The former press secretary to Jill
Speaker 13: Biden when she was the first Lady, just came out
Speaker 13: and endorsed Mike Rodgers and said I can he said,
Speaker 13: I cannot support El Sayed. And then and he also
Speaker 13: and and also other Democrat voices. Uh uh have call
Speaker 13: Julian Epstein, a well known Democrat voice in Washington, d C.
Speaker 13: He came out and said he endorsed Mike Rogers over
Speaker 13: El Sayed. And he said the Democrats have lost their
Speaker 13: moral authority by nominating someone like El Sayed. And then
Speaker 13: Tom Swazi, a more moderate Democrat congressman in New York.
Speaker 13: Just a couple of weeks ago, he and a couple
Speaker 13: of other more more moderate leaning Democrats came out with
Speaker 13: a with a new pledge that they circulated among their
Speaker 13: colleagues in the House. And the pledge was this, we
Speaker 13: are Democrats, we support capitalism, we do not support socialism.
Speaker 13: That Scott, I kid you not. That was their pledge.
Speaker 13: They circulated it and only got six members of the
Speaker 13: on the Democrat side in Congress. I mean that it
Speaker 13: is unbelievable. But this is this socialist infection of the
Speaker 13: Democrat Party by the DSA wing, the communist wing of
Speaker 13: the Democrat Party. They have taken over. And you're right
Speaker 13: when AOC is leading the Democrats in the twenty twenty
Speaker 13: eight presidential race against JD Vance leading it on our side,
Speaker 13: it's going to be an epic battle between two totally
Speaker 13: fundamentally different worldviews about what America is, is America good
Speaker 13: or not? And where America is going? And that's going
Speaker 13: to be on full display in twenty twenty eight, but
Speaker 13: it's on full display in this midterm election in twenty
Speaker 13: twenty six as well.
Speaker 2: Senator Jim Banks of Indiana is our special guest today. Senator,
Speaker 2: you've been on top of this issue of birthright citizenship.
Speaker 2: You have a bill called the Citizenship Act that would
Speaker 2: codify President Trump's executive orders and end birthright citizenship for
Speaker 2: the children of birth tourists. The President just made this
Speaker 2: announcement the other day. I think the Supreme Court got
Speaker 2: it wrong on his initial executive order, but he's come back.
Speaker 2: Talk to us about your legislation, the President's new executive orders,
Speaker 2: and the real problem, the real scandal of birth tourism.
Speaker 2: This is way out of control. I think most people
Speaker 2: don't know about it, but you've been on top of it.
Speaker 2: Tell us about it.
Speaker 13: Two hundred and fifty thousand babies of illegals are granted
Speaker 13: birthright citizenship in America every year, and that's wrong. It's
Speaker 13: not fair. They're immediately eligible for welfare. They become voters
Speaker 13: in eighteen years when they turn that age. It's not
Speaker 13: I don't think our founders, I don't think anybody ever
Speaker 13: intended for illegals to flood our country and have babies,
Speaker 13: and those babies become immediately American citizens. Then the Supreme
Speaker 13: Court decision I think was the worst Supreme Court decision
Speaker 13: of my lifetime. It was it struck down President Trump's
Speaker 13: executive order, the first one to ban birthright citizenship. But
Speaker 13: in the Supreme Court decision, this is important because Justice
Speaker 13: Kavanaugh was on the wrong side of the decision. But
Speaker 13: in his in his opinion, he wrote that if Congress
Speaker 13: declared an invasion, and and and and named these illegals
Speaker 13: as invaders, their babies would not be eligible for birthright citizenships.
Speaker 13: So he took it. He gave us a bit of
Speaker 13: a hint in his opinion, and that's what my that's
Speaker 13: what I want to do. Citizenship Act. Okay, that's great
Speaker 13: because in the past, in the past we've named pirates,
Speaker 13: Nazi spies, terrorists as invaders. Well, that's a drop in
Speaker 13: the bucket to the tens of millions of illegals in
Speaker 13: our country having babies. So and President Trump last week
Speaker 13: signed more executive orders to do this as well that
Speaker 13: I think will meet constitutional muscles. Congress can pass my
Speaker 13: bill and make it permanent.
Speaker 2: Well, you've got the right idea, you're on the right track,
Speaker 2: and you're obviously doing it in a way that'll pass
Speaker 2: constitutional muster with this Supreme Court.
Speaker 1: We salute you for that.
Speaker 2: Senator Jim Banks, one of the greatest members of the
Speaker 2: Senate Republican Conference, Thanks for joining us today. We got
Speaker 2: to take a break. We'll round out the show right
Speaker 2: after this. Scott Jennings on Salem.
Speaker 1: Stay with us, common sense for the American people.
Speaker 7: This is the Scott Jenny Show.
Speaker 2: You know, Hollywood Sean, I love that show, The Dukes
Speaker 2: of Hazzard, watch it with my grandparents. Every character on
Speaker 2: that show was just terrific. And I was thumbing through
Speaker 2: the clippings this morning and noted that one of the
Speaker 2: actors from that show.
Speaker 1: Has passed away.
Speaker 2: His name was Ben Jones, and you probably remember him
Speaker 2: as Cooder the Mechanic. He died at the age of
Speaker 2: eighty four. He had a heart attack. According to his wife,
Speaker 2: he had a crazy life. He had and he talked
Speaker 2: about this, two decades of alcoholism.
Speaker 1: He had three divorces.
Speaker 2: He had been arrested numerous times and thrown in jail,
Speaker 2: all before he got cast as Cooter Devenport on the
Speaker 2: Dukes of Hazard Cut nine.
Speaker 9: The Jew's over there Done switched the jugs to shine water.
Speaker 1: Cooter he was.
Speaker 2: He was a funny character. He was always fixing the
Speaker 2: general lee on the show. But anyway, after Cooter left
Speaker 2: the show, he was very popular and he gets recruited
Speaker 2: in nineteen eighty six by the Democratic Party to run
Speaker 2: for Congress in Georgia. There was a young Republican incumbent there,
Speaker 2: Pat Swindell was his name. So the Democrats go out
Speaker 2: and they get Cooter and he discloses his past asked
Speaker 2: and anyway, the whole Cooter Ben Jones' story becomes basically
Speaker 2: an asset. I mean, you'd think, like if you'd had
Speaker 2: all these problems. Maybe voters wouldn't like it, but he
Speaker 2: was upfront about it and talked about it, and anyway,
Speaker 2: they trusted Cooter. He did not win. It was close,
Speaker 2: he did not win. But what happened He ran again
Speaker 2: two years later and Pat Swindell actually wound up being
Speaker 2: indicted on multiple charges of lying to a grand jury
Speaker 2: before the election. It was a really negative campaign and
Speaker 2: Couter won the second time around, and he wound up
Speaker 2: serving two terms in Congress. Then he lost his seat
Speaker 2: in redistricting. But then he came back and tried to
Speaker 2: take out Newt Gingrich down in Georgia. After that that
Speaker 2: was not successful. Then he moved to Virginia and he
Speaker 2: tried to take out Eric Canter. That did not work.
Speaker 2: So you know, he tried to come back a couple
Speaker 2: of times. But then after all that didn't pan out.
Speaker 2: Cooter wound up opening a museum in Virginia devoted to
Speaker 2: the Dukes of Hazzard. So rip to an American original.
Speaker 2: Ben Jones aka Cooter Devenport from the Dukes of Hazzard.
Speaker 1: He's dead at the age of eighty four.
Speaker 2: Another story I caught over the weekend that is just
Speaker 2: too good not to bring to you a golden retriever.
Speaker 2: And this, by the way, comes from CBS News, and
Speaker 2: this is a great story for a network to cover.
Speaker 2: A golden retriever named Barley was having seizures and his
Speaker 2: family ultimately fixed it by getting him a friend, a
Speaker 2: duck cut six.
Speaker 1: A friendship built pack by pack.
Speaker 6: She started smiling again, She started wagging her tail, She
Speaker 6: started having personality again.
Speaker 8: Today the two remain virtually inseparable. Louis pecks at Barley.
Speaker 8: Barley Chase's Louis. They wrestle and relax together.
Speaker 2: Look, a lot of political stories out there, a lot
Speaker 2: of stories that are like, this person's mad at that person.
Speaker 2: This is bad, that's bad, this is negative. We're ripping
Speaker 2: each other apart. And CBS News goes out and finds
Speaker 2: the story of a golden retriever who was basically depressed
Speaker 2: and gets cheered up by a duck, and they have
Speaker 2: all this amazing video of the duck and the dog
Speaker 2: playing together.
Speaker 1: Scott Jennings, thanks for listening.