Speaker 1: The voice of free speech.
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Speaker 2: to the Scott Jennings Show.
Speaker 3: The race to control the United States Senate may run
Speaker 3: through a state that nobody is thinking all that much about,
Speaker 3: New Hampshire. Some new polling there shows Republicans moving up
Speaker 3: and scrambling Democratic plans.
Speaker 4: We've got the details.
Speaker 3: There's a major SpaceX announcement in Louisiana, a $ 100 billion
Speaker 3: investment into a spaceport there that will transform that state.
Speaker 4: We have a live report from Louisiana this hour. And U.S.
Speaker 3: Senate candidate Andy Barr of Kentucky drops by to talk
Speaker 3: about his pro-growth message in the bluegrass. It is Thursday,
Speaker 3: August the 27th. I'm Scott Jennings, broadcasting for Salem, coming
Speaker 3: to you live from New York City. In 1883, in
Speaker 3: the narrow strait between the Indonesian islands of Java and Sumatra, no,
Speaker 3: they weren't brewing any coffee there. In fact, they were
Speaker 3: watching a volcano awaken. Its name was Krakatoa. For months,
Speaker 3: it had rumbled, throwing smoke and steam and ash into
Speaker 3: the sky. But on the morning of August the 27th,
Speaker 3: a mountain erupted. finally exploded. Four terrifying blasts that tore
Speaker 3: through the island. And the final one at 10.02 in
Speaker 3: the morning produced what is believed to be the loudest
Speaker 3: sound in recorded history. Sailors who were 40 miles away
Speaker 3: suffered ruptured eardrums. 3,000 miles away, people thought they were
Speaker 3: hearing the distant fire of heavy artillery. And the pressure
Speaker 3: wave traveled around the entire planet. Not once, but three
Speaker 3: times at least. Barometers continued recording it for days. And
Speaker 3: then came the water. Much of Krakatoa collapsed into the sea,
Speaker 3: generating tsunamis that reached more than 100 feet high. Many
Speaker 3: Javan and Sumatran coastal communities simply disappeared. More than 36,000
Speaker 3: people were killed, mostly swept away by the sea. For
Speaker 3: months afterward, particles spewed high into the atmosphere and produced
Speaker 3: strange and brilliant sunsets around the world. Krakatoa roared so
Speaker 3: loudly that the entire planet heard it. And it happened
Speaker 3: on this day, August the 27th, 1883. Mother Nature often
Speaker 3: reminds us, who's the boss? That's happening today along the
Speaker 3: Nepal-Tibet border, where a catastrophic flash flood has killed at
Speaker 3: least 270 people, with more than 1,300 still missing.
Speaker 4: Including hundreds missing.
Speaker 3: Here is a story that leaves you wondering yet again,
Speaker 3: why do the socialists always seem to have so much
Speaker 3: violence in their heart?
Speaker 4: This one's from the desk of.
Speaker 3: New York City Mayor Zoran Mamdani, who issued a social
Speaker 3: media post that he was, quote, deeply saddened by the
Speaker 3: death of a man named Clarence Woodward at Rikers Island.
Speaker 3: He called him simply a New Yorker in city custody. Well,
Speaker 3: that description of Mr. Woodward leaves out a few pertinent details.
Speaker 3: Woodward was awaiting trial for allegedly walking into a Bronx
Speaker 3: laundromat and attacking two strangers with a meat cleaver. Jose Miranda,
Speaker 3: a 45-year-old father of two, was killed. Another man was wounded. Now,
Speaker 3: Woodward was charged with murder and manslaughter and assault. He's
Speaker 3: not yet been convicted. Mom Donnie offered condolences to Woodward's
Speaker 3: family and used his death to promote closing Rikers Island,
Speaker 3: where these violent people are warehoused. Now, I may have
Speaker 3: just missed the mayor's equally emotional tribute to Jose Miranda,
Speaker 3: who is actually the victim in this case. But this
Speaker 3: is the socialist hierarchy of sympathy. The guy with the
Speaker 3: meat cleaver, well, he's a victim of the system. And
Speaker 3: the man hacked to death becomes nothing more than a footnote.
Speaker 3: The socialist heart full of sadness when a violent person
Speaker 3: who has wrought chaos on the streets dies. The murder
Speaker 3: trial of Massachusetts mother Lindsay Clancy is about to go
Speaker 3: to the jury.
Speaker 4: Closing arguments concluded this morning.
Speaker 3: The judge has been instructing jurors for the last little bit.
Speaker 3: Clancy admits to strangling her three young children in 2023,
Speaker 3: but her lawyers say she was suffering from postpartum psychosis
Speaker 3: and is therefore not criminally responsible. Prosecutors, on the other hand,
Speaker 3: say the killings were planned and deliberate. Let's hear some
Speaker 3: of that back and forth of the closing.
Speaker 4: Here's the defense.
Speaker 5: Cut 11.
Speaker 4: This young lady.
Speaker 6: Did nothing wrong in her life. She was a nurse,
Speaker 6: a daughter, a wife, and.
Speaker 7: A darn good mother.
Speaker 4: Did nothing wrong in her life, the defense says.
Speaker 3: Three young children might beg to differ. Now for the prosecution,
Speaker 3: cut 12.
Speaker 8: You know from all of the evidence that you have,
Speaker 8: putting aside the experts, but all the evidence you have
Speaker 8: in terms of crime scene photos and videos, and the
Speaker 8: witness testimony and all the medical records, you know how
Speaker 8: she killed them, where she killed them, what time she
Speaker 8: killed them, and the order that she killed them in.
Speaker 3: Jurors may consider first-degree murder or manslaughter or a verdict
Speaker 3: of not guilty by reason of insanity. We'll be watching
Speaker 3: this closely. Now, the judge shocked the courtroom today by
Speaker 3: allowing the jury to consider manslaughter. That was considered a
Speaker 3: win for the defense, according to our friend Jonathan Turley,
Speaker 3: but one that could lead to an unintelligible verdict, he says. Politics,
Speaker 3: something is going on in New Hampshire, and this may
Speaker 3: be the sleeper Senate race of the whole map in 2026.
Speaker 3: The political media is largely ignoring it, perhaps because it
Speaker 3: runs directly against the prevailing narrative of overwhelming Democratic momentum
Speaker 3: in these midterms. But take a look at the new
Speaker 3: University of New Hampshire poll results. That just popped out
Speaker 3: this week. Former Republican Senator John Sununu leads Democratic Congressman
Speaker 3: Chris Pappas 46 to 44 percent. That's technically within the
Speaker 3: margin of error. But the trend line here is terrible
Speaker 3: for Pappas. In April, Pappas led Sununu by seven points,
Speaker 3: 49 to 42. In June, that advantage fell to just three,
Speaker 3: 47 to 44. And now they have Sununu ahead by
Speaker 3: two points. That is nine points of movement in the Republicans'
Speaker 3: direction in the last four months. Sununu in the survey
Speaker 3: had the support of 92% of Republicans, and he leads
Speaker 3: among independent voters, an absolutely critical constituency in New Hampshire.
Speaker 3: And you have to remember, Sununu is not an unknown quantity.
Speaker 3: He represented New Hampshire in the U.S. Senate before, and
Speaker 3: the Sununu name is one of the most durable Republican
Speaker 3: brands in the state. His father was governor. His brother,
Speaker 3: Chris Sununu, was elected governor four times. And, of course,
Speaker 3: he was in the Senate for a term as well.
Speaker 3: But this race is moving, and right now it is
Speaker 3: moving towards the Republicans, at least according to the polls.
Speaker 3: There's also a gubernatorial race in New Hampshire, and Republican
Speaker 3: Governor Kelly Ayotte is well-liked and has a comfortable lead herself.
Speaker 3: The primary in New Hampshire comes on September the 8th.
Speaker 3: Sununu has to get by Scott Brown. the former Massachusetts
Speaker 3: senator who's also running in that state's primary, and Pappas
Speaker 3: is tangling with a socialist challenger. But provided this turns
Speaker 3: out as people expect, and it turns out Sununu versus Pappas,
Speaker 3: you need to keep your eye on New Hampshire. I
Speaker 3: think maybe the sleeper race of 2026, it appears, to
Speaker 3: be waking up. Now, I was on CNN yesterday to
Speaker 3: talk a little midterm politics with Casey Hunt, anchor of
Speaker 3: the arena. And what should the Republicans be talking about? Well,
Speaker 3: they aren't without evidence and messages that they're getting things
Speaker 3: done for the American people, as I pointed out.
Speaker 4: Cut 13.
Speaker 3: If I were running ads in any campaign this fall, and,
Speaker 3: you know, if the president decides to unload some of
Speaker 3: his war chests, which I understand he's going to, I
Speaker 3: would focus on a few things that are absolutely going right.
Speaker 4: The border is closed.
Speaker 3: Drug prices are falling faster than they have in 60 years.
Speaker 4: Taxes are cut.
Speaker 3: And crime in this country is lower and violent crime
Speaker 3: is lower than it's been in 100 years.
Speaker 4: These are all quality of life issues.
Speaker 6: He's 13 points underwater on crime.
Speaker 3: That's the purpose of a campaign is you have to
Speaker 3: tell people and you have to stay relentlessly focused on it.
Speaker 3: And that's what ad campaigns are for. And this is
Speaker 3: where the Republicans do have an advantage. They have a
Speaker 3: massive war chest at the committee level, at the independent
Speaker 3: expenditure level and even nationally.
Speaker 4: At the candidate level.
Speaker 3: The purpose of a campaign is to refocus the electorate
Speaker 3: on the things that you're doing that are going right
Speaker 3: in the zones that they care about. I'll be back
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Speaker 3: All right, let's zoom down to Louisiana, which is about
Speaker 3: to enter the space race in a very big way.
Speaker 3: SpaceX announced plans this week to build what they say
Speaker 3: will be the largest rocket launching facility on Earth. The
Speaker 3: project is called Starbase Louisiana. It will be constructed on
Speaker 3: 125,000 acres near Pecan Island in Vermilion Parish. SpaceX intends
Speaker 3: to invest at least $ 100 billion and create 3,000 direct
Speaker 3: jobs over the next decade. To learn more about this,
Speaker 3: joining us live, the Louisiana House Majority Leader Michael Echols
Speaker 3: is here. He played a role in bringing this deal
Speaker 3: to his home state.
Speaker 7: Mr.
Speaker 3: Echols, welcome back to the Scott Jennings Show. I want
Speaker 3: you to put this in perspective for us. How big
Speaker 3: of a deal is this for Louisiana?
Speaker 11: You know, Louisiana's on fire right now as it relates
Speaker 11: to economic development from artificial intelligence, LNG, and now a spaceport,
Speaker 11: if you will. So we're out of this world at
Speaker 11: this point. We're really excited about it. It's going to
Speaker 11: create thousands of new jobs and create opportunity all throughout
Speaker 11: our state. So we're excited to be a part of
Speaker 11: Elon Musk's broader vision of going to Mars and I
Speaker 11: guess going there often.
Speaker 3: And did I read this right, Michael, that this spaceport
Speaker 3: would be the place where If we go to Mars,
Speaker 3: they'll launch the ship right there from Louisiana.
Speaker 11: You know, they're talking about building 10 different launch pads
Speaker 11: at least over a period of years, and they'll be
Speaker 11: able to go in and out of space three or
Speaker 11: four times a day. So you're talking about deployment of
Speaker 11: not only their Starlink systems and major satellite systems, but
Speaker 11: you're talking about sending humans from this place as well.
Speaker 1: So it's an exciting thing. We think back as kids
Speaker 1: going back to Cape Canaveral.
Speaker 11: We'll have that resource here in Louisiana. So it'll be
Speaker 11: a big deal for jobs and tourism. Well, I wanted
Speaker 11: to ask you, we have space facilities in Florida. We've
Speaker 11: got them in Texas. You know, there's some stuff in Alabama.
Speaker 3: What was it about Louisiana that allowed you all to
Speaker 3: beat out other more established places to get this massive
Speaker 3: SpaceX facility?
Speaker 11: Well, to find 130,000 contiguous acres on the oceanfront, if
Speaker 11: you will, is a very rare thing to be able
Speaker 11: to find. So I would give credit to Secretary Bourgeois
Speaker 11: over Louisiana Economic Development, our governor, who's aggressively working to
Speaker 11: grow Louisiana jobs. And so I think between our culture,
Speaker 11: the opportunity, the land and, you know, just a very
Speaker 11: unique site. It made Louisiana the forefront of this, and
Speaker 11: we've worked hard as conservative legislators to make it a
Speaker 11: more business-friendly state over the last few years.
Speaker 1: So I think that puts Louisiana on top of the list.
Speaker 12: All right.
Speaker 3: SpaceX says that it's 3,000 direct jobs with an average
Speaker 3: salary above $ 92, 000.
Speaker 4: These are obviously people like.
Speaker 3: Engineers and technicians and welders and construction workers. Do you
Speaker 3: have enough folks in Louisiana to do this, or are
Speaker 3: you going to have to make investments in workforce training,
Speaker 3: or will you have to import people?
Speaker 11: So the last two years, we've been heavily focused on
Speaker 11: our economic development and our workforce development. So we know
Speaker 11: that we don't have a bunch of rocket ship drivers
Speaker 11: here currently in Louisiana, but we sure as heck can
Speaker 11: work on creating those.
Speaker 1: We've got a great community college system.
Speaker 11: They're going to be developing fuels here. Obviously, lots of
Speaker 11: aircraft and the parts and pieces that go with that.
Speaker 11: We're really good at manufacturing in Louisiana. So I think
Speaker 11: we'll grow that workforce and we'll also recruit from out
Speaker 11: of state. I mean, we want to bring our best
Speaker 11: and brightest back to Louisiana. We've been doing that work
Speaker 11: over the last couple of years legislatively, and now we're
Speaker 11: putting proof in the pudding, if you will, by bringing
Speaker 11: back those jobs and our best and brightest.
Speaker 5: All right.
Speaker 3: SpaceX says, Michael Eccles is our guest, by the way.
Speaker 3: He's the House Majority Floor Leader in Louisiana. SpaceX says, Michael,
Speaker 3: they want to start construction in 2027, and they'd like
Speaker 3: to do the first launch in 2029. That's going to
Speaker 3: be a lot of construction work. between now and 2029.
Speaker 3: There has to be a lot of infrastructure put in
Speaker 3: down there in such a remote area, roads and all
Speaker 3: that sort of thing, water infrastructure. What is the Louisiana
Speaker 3: plan to get that done? That's going to be a
Speaker 3: massive ramp up, probably the biggest in state history, I assume,
Speaker 3: when you think about the scale and the speed you've
Speaker 3: got to go here.
Speaker 1: Well, it tells me Louisiana can move fast.
Speaker 11: We started working on this deal in February of 2026,
Speaker 11: able to package it up and get it out by
Speaker 11: this week's announcement. But we've been working with our Department
Speaker 11: of Transportation. We move very quickly now with infrastructure and
Speaker 11: infrastructure improvements based on projects like this. But also you've
Speaker 11: got to look at the company we're dealing with. Elon
Speaker 11: Musk is a mastermind of getting things done quickly. He
Speaker 11: sets really high standards, and he normally accomplishes those. So
Speaker 11: between his work ethic and our work ethic, I think
Speaker 11: we're going to get the job done and be blasting
Speaker 11: off by.
Speaker 1: What their scheduled deadline is.
Speaker 3: All right, that's Michael Echols. He's the House Majority Floor
Speaker 3: Leader in Louisiana. And Michael, you're running for Congress. You're
Speaker 3: on the ballot in November. Remind me of the district.
Speaker 11: Yeah, so the 5th Congressional District, it's more like an L-shaped.
Speaker 11: It's 24 parishes, counties to the rest of America. But
Speaker 11: it's a great district, very agricultural, but a lot of
Speaker 11: industrial and just great, great people.
Speaker 1: And I look forward to serving them in Congress coming
Speaker 1: up next year.
Speaker 3: All right, that's Michael Eccles from the great state of Louisiana.
Speaker 3: Major investment, $ 100 billion spaceport.
Speaker 4: Louisiana is going to Mars. It's quite a thing. All right,
Speaker 4: we take a break.
Speaker 3: When we come back, we go check in with Andy Barr,
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Speaker 3: All right, coming up in 60 seconds, the Republican nominee
Speaker 3: for U.S. Senate in Kentucky, Andy Barr, will join us.
Speaker 3: And hopefully, old buddy Rodney Davis from the United States
Speaker 3: Chamber of Commerce will be along as well. But first,
Speaker 3: a quick message from our friends at Americans for Prosperity.
Speaker 3: They remind us that for nearly 250 years, America's founding
Speaker 3: principles have given people the freedom to dream big and
Speaker 3: take risks and build something great. of their own, and
Speaker 3: that spirit is alive in American small businesses today. This month,
Speaker 3: Americans for Prosperity is celebrating the entrepreneurs who took a chance,
Speaker 3: overcame the odds, and created jobs, because sometimes it all
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Speaker 3: It's Thursday, August the 27th. Scott Jennings broadcasting live from
Speaker 3: New York City today. I'm going to be on It's
Speaker 3: not altogether clear to me who is and isn't ready
Speaker 3: to go here, Hollywood Sean. So why don't you tell
Speaker 3: me and then I'll tell the people.
Speaker 5: Oh, do we?
Speaker 13: Oh, good.
Speaker 5: All right.
Speaker 4: So we're going to go to Kentucky, my home state.
Speaker 3: And joining us now are a couple of folks who, speaking,
Speaker 3: by the way, of entrepreneurs and small businesses and job creation,
Speaker 3: these two guys know that job creation and a booming
Speaker 3: economy are absolutely key to the American dream.
Speaker 4: Rodney Davis is here from the U.S.
Speaker 3: Chamber of Commerce, as is my old friend, Congressman Andy
Speaker 3: Barr from Lexington, Kentucky. Rodney and Andy, welcome into the
Speaker 3: Scott Jennings Show.
Speaker 12: Hey, thanks, Scott. Always glad to be in Kentucky with
Speaker 12: my good friend, Andy.
Speaker 3: Well, let's start here with you, Rodney, because you've gone
Speaker 3: to Kentucky to support Andy Barr running for the United
Speaker 3: States Senate.
Speaker 4: And the U.S.
Speaker 3: Chamber is endorsing Andy Barr in this race that is
Speaker 3: to fill the seat of the retiring Mitch McConnell. So
Speaker 3: I'll just start here. Why is the chamber supporting Andy Barr?
Speaker 3: What about his candidacy is exciting to you?
Speaker 12: Andy Barr's got a career, a career that started with
Speaker 12: my career in Congress. Heck, Andy and I were freshman
Speaker 12: colleagues in the House together, both getting elected in 2012.
Speaker 12: So I got to see Andy Barr from day one
Speaker 12: as a representative of Kentucky. And there is not a
Speaker 12: better person. that thinks about growing our economy, thinks about
Speaker 12: the impact of decisions today, and how policies can have
Speaker 12: a positive effect on the next generation. Nobody is better
Speaker 12: at that than Andy Barr. He's going to be a
Speaker 12: great senator. He's been with the chamber. He's got 100%
Speaker 12: voting record with us right now. There's no other choice
Speaker 12: besides Andy Barr to be the next senator of the
Speaker 12: great state of Kentucky.
Speaker 3: All right, Rodney, let's talk about Let's talk about what's
Speaker 3: going on at the chamber and generally within the business
Speaker 3: community right now.
Speaker 4: Obviously, you all fight for pro-growth policies.
Speaker 3: You want to cut red tape and lower taxes and
Speaker 3: support small businesses. But all that capitalism is being challenged
Speaker 3: right now in these times. How are you, I mean,
Speaker 3: you've run races and now you're with the chamber. How
Speaker 3: are you viewing this fight this fall, Rodney, between the
Speaker 3: capitalists and the socialists out there. And I think it's,
Speaker 3: I know that's unsubtle, but I think that's what we've
Speaker 3: got on our hands.
Speaker 12: Well, Scott, you're dead on. We don't need subtlety right now.
Speaker 12: This is a race between the America that we know,
Speaker 12: the free enterprise system that has allowed generation after generation
Speaker 12: to do better than the previous ones. It's a fight
Speaker 12: against people who want to take us backwards. The Democrat
Speaker 12: socialists are taking over the Democratic Party in many parts
Speaker 12: of this country. And we have to stand up with
Speaker 12: pro-growth Republicans like Andy Barr and pro-growth Democrats when we
Speaker 12: can find them to make sure that our free enterprise
Speaker 12: system survives. And we're appreciative of messengers like you who
Speaker 12: continue to stand up and fight against some of the
Speaker 12: crazy things that we've witnessed in our country over the
Speaker 12: last few election cycles.
Speaker 3: Joining us now is Congressman Andy Barr. Congressman, you're getting
Speaker 3: the endorsement of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce here in
Speaker 3: this race. And Rodney and I were just discussing this
Speaker 3: whole battle. It's capitalism versus socialism. And certainly in your race,
Speaker 3: I think, Andy, for the United States Senate, that's what's happening.
Speaker 4: You've got a pretty radical Democrat opponent there.
Speaker 3: These radical socialists, they're not just in New York City
Speaker 3: and a handful of.
Speaker 4: Precincts here and there. They're pretty much everywhere.
Speaker 3: But talk to us about getting the chamber endorsement and
Speaker 3: talk to us about sort of what your economic message
Speaker 3: is for the people of Kentucky.
Speaker 9: Scott, it's great to be with you and great to
Speaker 9: be on a program that is all about common sense.
Speaker 9: And great to be with my former colleague and good buddy, Mr.
Speaker 8: Davis.
Speaker 9: Rodney and I served together in the Congress. Rodney was
Speaker 9: a great member and doing great work with the U.S.
Speaker 7: Chamber.
Speaker 9: Now I'm honored to have the endorsement of the business
Speaker 9: community of this country and the private sector because that's
Speaker 9: really what's on the line in this race, as is
Speaker 9: the case in so many other U.S. Senate positions. races
Speaker 9: around the country. It's common sense versus crazy. Socialism is
Speaker 9: alive and well in this country, sadly, in places like
Speaker 9: New York with Mamdani, Michigan, where the Democrats have nominated
Speaker 9: a full-blown socialist in El Sayed, and in Kentucky, where
Speaker 9: the Kentucky Democratic Party, for whatever reason... They've lost their minds,
Speaker 9: and they've nominated a socialist in Charles Booker. We will
Speaker 9: not let socialism come to Kentucky. Common sense versus crazy
Speaker 9: is what is on the ballot. It's free enterprise versus socialism.
Speaker 9: It's open borders versus secure borders. It is whether we
Speaker 9: protect our daughters or force biological men into girls' sports.
Speaker 9: It is either the radicalism of the Green New Deal
Speaker 9: or continuing the energy dominance policies. But look, in order
Speaker 9: to continue the American dream and to have another 250
Speaker 9: years of this great experiment in freedom, like the last
Speaker 9: 250 years, we have to fight for limited government, free enterprise,
Speaker 9: less taxes, less regulation, more freedom for the American people.
Speaker 9: That literally is what is on the ballot.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I couldn't agree with you more.
Speaker 3: And we're seeing it play out in campaigns across the country,
Speaker 3: even in a place like Kentucky, which is basically a
Speaker 3: red state and a lot of conservative voters there. You
Speaker 3: wouldn't think there would be an interest in this socialist mindset,
Speaker 3: but that's what the Democrats did. They had a primary
Speaker 3: and they've nominated somebody who's at a minimum friendly with
Speaker 3: this platform. Andy, you serve with some of these socialists
Speaker 3: up in the House right now. And you're, as you
Speaker 3: pointed out, you're watching them sort of flourish in races
Speaker 3: around the country. What does that tell you about today's
Speaker 3: Democratic Party versus the Democratic Party that, you know, you
Speaker 3: grew up with in Lexington, Kentucky, that my family was
Speaker 3: part of in western Kentucky when I was growing up?
Speaker 3: It seems like we are far, far away from your
Speaker 3: dad's or your granddad's old school Democrats, aren't we?
Speaker 9: Yeah, my father was a Democrat, you know, and there
Speaker 9: was a lot of, in Kentucky at least, Democrats could
Speaker 9: be proud of centrists and some sensible leaders that they
Speaker 9: had over the years. But now those Democrats are now Republicans.
Speaker 9: And many of the Democrats, you know, one would hope
Speaker 9: or think maybe it's just a temper tantrum. Their Trump
Speaker 9: derangement syndrome has gone off the rails. It's metastasized into
Speaker 9: a full-blown disease now. So their temper tantrum is just
Speaker 9: to go radical left and embrace socialism. And people have forgotten,
Speaker 9: I think, in this country the dangers of what socialism
Speaker 9: really means. If you look at places like Cuba, it's authoritarianism.
Speaker 9: And they've tried to rebrand it as, quote-unquote, democratic socialism
Speaker 9: because they know that socialism has a bad reputation. But
Speaker 9: they're totally incompatible. There's nothing that is consistent with a
Speaker 9: free and open democratic society when you're advocating for state
Speaker 9: control of the economy. Economic freedom is what has delivered
Speaker 9: us a prosperous and free society, and you cannot have
Speaker 9: democracy and have socialism separately. at the same time. They're
Speaker 9: totally and completely incompatible. Economic freedom is a prerequisite to
Speaker 9: political freedom, and that is really what the message that
Speaker 9: we have to carry forward in this election is.
Speaker 7: Don't be fooled.
Speaker 9: The best way to lower the cost of living is
Speaker 9: to get government out of the way, more supply. The
Speaker 9: more the government intervenes, more regulations, higher taxes, Medicare for all,
Speaker 9: all the ideas of the socialists will massively increase the
Speaker 9: cost of doing business and therefore increase the cost of groceries,
Speaker 9: of utilities, of the price at the pump, and it'll
Speaker 9: make life harder. Socialism, in the course of human history,
Speaker 9: socialism has only brought misery, poverty, and death. It does
Speaker 9: not bring prosperity to anyone.
Speaker 4: That's Andy Barr.
Speaker 3: He's congressman right now from Kentucky 6th District from Lexington.
Speaker 4: That's the bluegrass region of the state.
Speaker 3: But he is the Republican nominee for United States Senate
Speaker 3: down in Kentucky.
Speaker 4: Andy, you've been a real advocate for all of the
Speaker 4: above energy.
Speaker 3: Kentucky is an energy state, coal producing state, natural gas
Speaker 3: and other things.
Speaker 4: And of course, energy is key to everything, including.
Speaker 3: Whether we're going to grow and win this race on
Speaker 3: artificial intelligence. There's a lot of energy issues wrapped up
Speaker 3: in that. Talk to us about your priorities in the U.S.
Speaker 3: Senate and where you think we need to go as
Speaker 3: a country on producing enough energy to power the economy
Speaker 3: that we have today and to fuel the economy that
Speaker 3: we want tomorrow.
Speaker 9: Well, Scott, the state that you and I call home,
Speaker 9: the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is really a blessed place. It's
Speaker 9: blessed for many, many reasons, all the reasons why we
Speaker 9: love Kentucky. But we're blessed because of our geology. Our
Speaker 9: geology is remarkable. We still have, after 125 years of
Speaker 9: mining coal in Kentucky, we still literally have centuries of
Speaker 9: coal under our feet in both western and eastern Kentucky.
Speaker 9: And we made a terrible strategic mistake in this country
Speaker 9: over the last 16 years, starting with Barack Obama's war
Speaker 9: on coal, where we prematurely retired about 290 coal-fired power plants,
Speaker 9: precisely at the time where we're entering a multi-decade strategic
Speaker 9: competition with the Chinese Communist Party. The Chinese are racing
Speaker 9: ahead for AI leadership opportunities. Thank you very much. And
Speaker 9: what do you need for the technologies of the future,
Speaker 9: including artificial intelligence? You need massive amounts of baseload dispatchable
Speaker 9: firm power. There is no source, there is no fuel source,
Speaker 9: even nuclear, that can compare to what coal can give us.
Speaker 9: So we need to bring back coal. We need to
Speaker 9: put our coal miners back to work in Kentucky and
Speaker 9: places like West Virginia and Wyoming and Pennsylvania. We need
Speaker 9: to put our coal miners back to work to connect
Speaker 9: our legacy industry with the technologies of the future. That
Speaker 9: will help us win the race for AI dominance. deter China,
Speaker 9: advance the productivity of our country, and help economic growth
Speaker 9: in this country. Kentucky is well positioned to do that,
Speaker 9: but we need the right policies in place. That's my
Speaker 9: vision for Kentucky, is to restore energy dominance to Kentucky
Speaker 9: and to our country.
Speaker 4: That's Andy Barr, that voice you're hearing.
Speaker 3: He's congressman from Kentucky right now, but he is the
Speaker 3: Republican nominee for the U.S.
Speaker 7: Senate.
Speaker 3: This is the race to replace the retiring Senator Mitch McConnell.
Speaker 3: You can learn more about Andy Barr at Barr, with
Speaker 3: two R's, B-A-R-R for Senate.com. Rodney Davis from the U.S. Chamber,
Speaker 3: thank you as well. We take a break. More news
Speaker 3: when we come back. It's Scott Jennings on Salem.
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Speaker 4: It is Thursday, August the 27th.
Speaker 3: Rounding out our number one here on common sense for
Speaker 3: the American people, keeping an eye on the breaking news
Speaker 3: of the day.
Speaker 4: And there is some breaking news.
Speaker 3: Up in Massachusetts, the jury has heard the closing arguments
Speaker 3: in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial, and they now have
Speaker 3: the case. I'm going to consult with NBC10 out of
Speaker 3: Boston today. They're tracking the case very closely. The Lindsey
Speaker 3: Clancy case is now in the hands of the jury.
Speaker 3: They report the defense and prosecutions wrapped up their closing
Speaker 3: arguments and testimony finished yesterday. They had an FBI forensic
Speaker 3: psychiatrist named Gregory Sathoff. And after he finished yesterday, the
Speaker 3: jurors were dismissed. They came back this morning. They got
Speaker 3: the closing arguments. And then the judge gave them the instructions,
Speaker 3: rather lengthy instructions there in this case. I'm sure you've
Speaker 3: been following it. Prosecutors say that Clancy strangled her children,
Speaker 3: age 5, 3, and 8 months, on January 24, 2023,
Speaker 3: in their Duxbury, Massachusetts, home after sending her husband out
Speaker 3: to run some errands. She then jumped out of the
Speaker 3: home's second-story window, and she was paralyzed from the waist
Speaker 3: down in the fall.
Speaker 4: The defense is arguing.
Speaker 3: that she was in the grip of bipolar disorder and
Speaker 3: postpartum psychosis, and that she was taking all sorts of drugs, pharmaceutical,
Speaker 3: prescription drug type things, and that therefore she should not
Speaker 3: be held criminally responsible. The prosecution says she should be
Speaker 3: held responsible for murdering her three children. Now, interesting, in
Speaker 3: the jury instructions today, the judge is allowing a manslaughter charge.
Speaker 3: So it's a murder case, or the idea was possibly
Speaker 3: that she could be found not guilty by reason of insanity.
Speaker 3: But today the judge introduced the idea that maybe you
Speaker 3: could find her guilty of manslaughter instead of murder. This
Speaker 3: has set off all sorts of discussion among the legal
Speaker 3: eagles in my algorithm here. In fact, our friend Jonathan Turley,
Speaker 3: who you may know, said he remains mystified at how
Speaker 3: strangling three children could be manslaughter rather than murder. He
Speaker 3: says it's an effort to have the sentence drive the verdict.
Speaker 3: It's akin to demand of the Queen of Hearts for
Speaker 3: sentence first, verdict afterwards. So Jonathan Turley very critical of
Speaker 3: what the judge is doing here. Very surprising instruction to
Speaker 3: the jurors this morning.
Speaker 4: We're going to keep an eye on this. Obviously hard
Speaker 4: to know.
Speaker 3: When the jury will come back or if they come
Speaker 3: back today, but we will be keeping an eye on this.
Speaker 4: We're also keeping an eye on the Oval Office right now.
Speaker 3: The president is in there signing some executive orders, and
Speaker 3: it does look like the president has signed an executive
Speaker 3: order changing the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America. Hollywood, Sean,
Speaker 3: do we have the president up yet on this or no?
Speaker 3: All right, I'm told we'll have the video and audio
Speaker 3: of the president signing this executive order in just a moment.
Speaker 4: But the president had threatened to do this.
Speaker 3: This, of course, is part of the back and forth
Speaker 3: that the president's having with Canada over the trade negotiations
Speaker 3: that broke down a few days ago. The president installed
Speaker 3: 50 percent tariffs on lots of products.
Speaker 4: The Canadians retaliated.
Speaker 3: They say they've got 50 percent tariffs coming on September
Speaker 3: the 8th.
Speaker 4: And the president in the Oval Office today did this.
Speaker 4: Let's hear the president on Lake Ontario.
Speaker 16: Changing the name of Lake Ontario, effective immediately to Lake America.
Speaker 4: That's going to take place.
Speaker 16: Right now, as I sign the order, do you have
Speaker 16: anything to say about it, Ben?
Speaker 10: Yes, sir.
Speaker 15: So this is a straightforward but important executive order. It
Speaker 15: directs Secretary Burgum and the Department of the Interior to
Speaker 15: update the Geographic Names Information Service to reflect that the
Speaker 15: lake once known as Lake Ontario will, from this day forward,
Speaker 15: be known as Lake America. This is a lake that
Speaker 15: has most of its volume in the United States. The
Speaker 15: deepest parts of the lake sit in United States territory,
Speaker 15: so this will reflect that.
Speaker 3: Okay, so obviously most people are going to say, well,
Speaker 3: can the president do this? The order directs Interior Secretary
Speaker 3: Doug Burgum to update the Geographic Names Information System, also
Speaker 3: known as the GNIS, to reflect the name change.
Speaker 4: And they work with the U.S.
Speaker 3: Board on Geographic Names to standardize geographic names for federal use.
Speaker 3: The president cannot force other countries, I suppose, or international
Speaker 3: bodies to call it Lake America, but he can certainly
Speaker 3: require the U.S.
Speaker 4: Federal government to do so.
Speaker 3: The president was asked today what message he's sending to Canada.
Speaker 3: He said, no message, but as you know, Canada has
Speaker 3: been ripping us off for a long time on trade,
Speaker 3: very sadly. So he had some harsh words for the
Speaker 3: Canadians as he signed an executive order today.
Speaker 4: Changing Lake Ontario to Lake America.
Speaker 3: All right, we'll keep checking in on all this breaking
Speaker 3: news after this. It's Scott Jennings on Salem.
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Speaker 3: All right, quick check of the headlines here on Thursday,
Speaker 3: August the 27th. It is official after toying with the
Speaker 3: idea for several days. In just the last few minutes,
Speaker 3: President Trump has signed an executive order renaming Lake Ontario
Speaker 3: as Lake America. This comes as a trade war is
Speaker 3: brewing between the United States and Canada following a breakdown
Speaker 3: in free trade agreement negotiations. We'll keep you updated later.
Speaker 3: on this situation over the next few days. This is
Speaker 3: just the end of the show. The Trump administration reportedly
Speaker 3: close to a massive oil deal with Venezuela.
Speaker 4: Axios reporting the U.S.
Speaker 3: Is negotiating for ownership stakes in more than a dozen,
Speaker 3: over a dozen, Venezuelan oil fields. The agreement could more
Speaker 3: than double America's oil reserves, tapping into the largest proven
Speaker 3: oil reserves on Earth. Secretary of State Marco Rubio leading
Speaker 3: those negotiations. And the Democratic Socialists continue their long march
Speaker 3: to try to take over the Democrat Party. And they
Speaker 3: are elevating some of the most radical candidates and radical
Speaker 3: voices in recent political history. And those people are bringing
Speaker 3: with them some of their worst traits, mainly a horrible
Speaker 3: amount of anti-Semitism. Our guest this hour to discuss it
Speaker 3: has a stark warning for his party on this very subject.
Speaker 4: Our next guest is Joel Rubin. He was a Jewish.
Speaker 3: Outreach director for Bernie Sanders for president and is a
Speaker 3: friend of mine from Television Green Rooms. Joel, welcome into
Speaker 3: the Scott Jennings Show. Thanks for doing this interview today.
Speaker 3: We've tangled on the air on a number of things,
Speaker 3: but on this, my friend, we are united. There is
Speaker 3: something very, very wrong on the radical left right now
Speaker 3: as it relates to anti-Semitism.
Speaker 4: Give us your perspective.
Speaker 14: Yeah, Scott, it's great to be with you and thank
Speaker 14: you for all of your leadership and your strong, powerful
Speaker 14: voice in support of the Jewish community and Israel.
Speaker 5: It is highly noticed and I'm grateful for it.
Speaker 14: And I'm going to tell you quite bluntly, we're now
Speaker 14: in the midst of a full on fight inside the
Speaker 14: democratic party for the soul of the party and for
Speaker 14: whether or not American Jews can continue to be part
Speaker 14: of it. And that's because the antisemitism right now coming
Speaker 14: from the base of the party is through the newest candidates,
Speaker 14: some being elected, some waiting, of course, after their primaries
Speaker 14: to get fully elected, and we'll see, but some in
Speaker 14: safe blue seats and they'll get into Congress. They are
Speaker 14: the leading tip of the spear of what is a
Speaker 14: movement to try to tell American Jews that to continue
Speaker 14: to participate in the Democratic Party, we must drop our
Speaker 14: concern for and care for the state of Israel. And
Speaker 14: that's just deeply anti-Semitic. It creates an atmosphere of incitement.
Speaker 14: We have seen anti-Semitism off the charts here in the
Speaker 14: United States, and we can get into that data if
Speaker 14: you want. But my top line message is that no
Speaker 14: political party is a healthy party if it kicks out
Speaker 14: the Jews. And for the Democratic Party, where the American Jews,
Speaker 14: we have called it home for almost 100 years, three
Speaker 14: quarters of us vote for Democrats consistently.
Speaker 5: This is a real pinnacle moment.
Speaker 3: I want to set up your credentials, Joel, for our audience.
Speaker 3: In addition to being Jewish Outreach Director for Bernie Sanders
Speaker 3: for President. You were and have been a foreign policy
Speaker 3: expert within the Democratic Party. You were Deputy Assistant Secretary
Speaker 3: of State, in fact, under former President Obama. You were
Speaker 3: a founding political director of J Street, which is a
Speaker 3: Democratic-aligned Jewish organization. So you're not some Johnny-come-lately to the
Speaker 3: Democratic Party.
Speaker 4: This has been... your whole career.
Speaker 3: But what you're seeing prompted you to write this piece
Speaker 3: for the free press. I work for Bernie Sanders. The
Speaker 3: Democratic Party is turning against the Jews. And of course,
Speaker 3: that's what it looks like to us on the right. Now,
Speaker 3: I debate people on TV who tell me this is
Speaker 3: all overblown and this is, you know, you're making this up.
Speaker 3: You're exaggerating this. But that's not how you see it.
Speaker 3: This is a very real and present danger to a
Speaker 3: durable constituency group for the Democrats. American Jews have voted
Speaker 3: heavily Democratic for 100 years.
Speaker 14: Yeah, you know, Scott, for the audience, just a little
Speaker 14: tiny background on Jewish participation in the Democratic Party.
Speaker 5: Not only, as we discussed, about.
Speaker 14: Three quarters typically vote for the Democratic nominee for president,
Speaker 14: but the overwhelming preponderance of members of Congress who are
Speaker 14: Jewish are Democrats. I think it's like 28 to four
Speaker 14: right now. It's always been that kind of lopsided amount.
Speaker 14: Throughout history and progressive organizations, Jewish Americans have have been
Speaker 14: leading voices. In my piece in the Free Press, I
Speaker 14: talk about two luminaries in Jewish political life, Ruth Bader
Speaker 14: Ginsburg and Louis Brandeis, the first Jewish Supreme Court justice,
Speaker 14: and then Bader Ginsburg, of course, more recently. Those two
Speaker 14: individuals were Zionists, proudly Zionists, proudly pro-Israel, and very progressive,
Speaker 14: leading lights of the left.
Speaker 5: Today, they would not be allowed.
Speaker 14: Into the progressive movement because of their overt Zionism. Today,
Speaker 14: they would be castigated and they would be shunned and told,
Speaker 14: drop that Israel support that you've got if you want
Speaker 14: to participate. And just imagine what that would have meant
Speaker 14: to the country and certainly to the progressive movement if
Speaker 14: they could not have participated. And so you're leading an
Speaker 14: argument on CNN and elsewhere and you're pointing out these
Speaker 14: failures inside the party. And the problem is, is that
Speaker 14: people in the party don't want to talk about it.
Speaker 14: They don't want to recognize it. I have talked to
Speaker 14: a lot of folks in leadership and members of Congress,
Speaker 14: leaders of organizations. As you mentioned, I've been working in
Speaker 14: the party and in and out of it and on
Speaker 14: Capitol Hill and elsewhere for almost three decades. I know
Speaker 14: a lot of folks in D.C. who are in these
Speaker 14: leading roles. And they just keep on saying, you know,
Speaker 14: if you don't talk about it, it'll go away. Let's
Speaker 14: just act as.
Speaker 5: If it's not real. It's not a problem. But the response,
Speaker 5: and I'll close with this, the response to the piece
Speaker 5: that I wrote has been overwhelmingly positive.
Speaker 14: Overwhelmingly full of gratitude, particularly from American Jews across the
Speaker 14: country who feel as if they've been abandoned by the
Speaker 14: leadership of their party who are not saying, here's the line,
Speaker 14: that Hassan Piker guy, he's out. He's an anti-Semite. He
Speaker 14: should not be on the stage with our candidates. The
Speaker 14: leaders aren't doing that. And the result is that Jewish
Speaker 14: American voters feel abandoned. The peace spoke to them. And
Speaker 14: I really think we have to talk about our problems
Speaker 14: if we're going to deal with our problems.
Speaker 3: That's Joel Rubin, and the piece he refers to that
Speaker 3: he wrote is called I Worked for Bernie Sanders. The
Speaker 3: Democratic Party is turning against the Jews. Sub-headline, my former
Speaker 3: boss and the broader left-wing activist infrastructure that surrounds him
Speaker 3: are actively fueling anti-Semitism in this country.
Speaker 4: Joel, I want to turn our attention to Michigan.
Speaker 3: Obviously, this is a major flashpoint in this whole conversation
Speaker 3: with the Democrats nominating Abdul El-Sayed and his affiliation with
Speaker 3: the streamer Hassan Piker. There is a Jewish Democrat attorney
Speaker 3: general in Michigan. Dana Nessel is her name. She has
Speaker 3: previously said that she fears for her safety from El-Sayed's
Speaker 3: supporters if she goes to the Democratic nominating convention. And
Speaker 3: she is directly calling out El-Sayed for what he has
Speaker 3: been dabbling in here. I want to play that and
Speaker 3: then get your reaction.
Speaker 7: Cut nine.
Speaker 9: Cut nine.
Speaker 17: If Iran were to attack, you know, whether it would
Speaker 17: be a government building or a church or a mall
Speaker 17: or what have you, that we would just deserve those
Speaker 17: attacks because, of course, we are engaged in this war
Speaker 17: in Iran. And really, the list goes on and on
Speaker 17: as to how you could make excuses for acts of
Speaker 17: domestic terrorism.
Speaker 4: I don't think we should ever do that.
Speaker 6: Be making those kinds of excuses and in a way
Speaker 6: propping up people who maybe seek to commit those crimes.
Speaker 6: It's a dangerous, dangerous world to live in where you
Speaker 6: have somebody who supports that kind of logic.
Speaker 3: She's referring to the attack on the Jewish synagogue in Michigan,
Speaker 3: the school there where somebody drove their car in there
Speaker 3: and tried to kill children and others who were there.
Speaker 3: And when asked about it, Abdul El-Sayed said, well, hurt
Speaker 3: people hurt people as a way to kind of deflect attention.
Speaker 4: Joel, I'll give you the last word on this. Is
Speaker 4: Dana Nessel right?
Speaker 3: Are people in the Democratic Party like Abdul El-Sayed looking
Speaker 3: the other way on anti-Semitic terrorism?
Speaker 14: General Nestle is absolutely right. The failure of our candidate
Speaker 14: in Michigan to outwardly condemn that attack and not qualify it,
Speaker 14: not make sort of wink and nod excuses about, well,
Speaker 14: hurt people have a right to respond. You know, this
Speaker 14: is the way things are. I'll say bollocks from my
Speaker 14: British friends. That is hate speech. That's incitement that makes
Speaker 14: the Jews of Michigan fear for their safety.
Speaker 5: That's why they're not on board with this candidate.
Speaker 14: If he wants to win and I'll just get political,
Speaker 14: he has to explain to them about how he's going.
Speaker 5: To protect them.
Speaker 14: Just saying I care about them like I care about
Speaker 14: my children is not enough. You need to stop the incitement.
Speaker 14: You need to kick out the haters. That means Hassan
Speaker 14: Piker in this case. And that means to be unequivocal
Speaker 14: in your condemnation of violent attacks against innocent children.
Speaker 5: There is no excuse.
Speaker 14: We should not have empathy, more empathy for the attacker
Speaker 14: than for the victims.
Speaker 4: Joel Rubin is our guest. Joel, why don't you hang on?
Speaker 3: I want to talk about Piker on the other side
Speaker 3: of this break because he's become a major problem, I think,
Speaker 3: for the Democratic Party.
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Speaker 5: Stay with us.
Speaker 10: Now, for America's favorite pundit, it's Scott Jennings.
Speaker 3: Thanks for being with us here on Common Sense for
Speaker 3: the American People. Conversation continues with our friend Joel Rubin.
Speaker 4: Joel is a serious Democrat. He worked for Bernie Sanders.
Speaker 4: He worked for Barack Obama.
Speaker 3: He's one of their party's foreign policy and national security experts.
Speaker 3: And Joel, you've been quite clear about your concerns about
Speaker 3: what's happening on the left with these Democratic socialists and
Speaker 3: the dipping into anti-Israel and anti-Semitism type rhetoric. One of
Speaker 3: the people who obviously is a flashpoint in this debate
Speaker 3: is this Twitch streamer named Hassan Piker. The other day,
Speaker 3: he said this about American Jews cut six.
Speaker 18: And if Jews in America keep putting this idea out
Speaker 18: there that they are singularly invested in Israel, eventually someone's
Speaker 18: going to come around And take action, not against the
Speaker 18: state of Israel, mind you, but against American Jews.
Speaker 14: Joel, I think he's talking about you. What's your reaction
Speaker 14: to that? Hey, Hassan, have you been looking around? They're
Speaker 14: already doing it, man. And they're doing it because people
Speaker 14: like you are creating an environment where people like me...
Speaker 14: are scared, all right? The good news is I'm not scared.
Speaker 14: I'm just going to say that bluntly. We Jews, we're
Speaker 14: a little thick-skinned. We've been through a lot in our history,
Speaker 14: and we have come through it, and we're stronger today
Speaker 14: than we've ever been. But when you see a son
Speaker 14: piker saying things like that, where it's sort of victim
Speaker 14: blaming that I'm sorry, I'm beating you in the face.
Speaker 14: Can you just stop staring at me? You know, it's
Speaker 14: an incredible moment. It's a moment that should have been
Speaker 14: the end of him in his association with any Democratic candidate.
Speaker 14: This should be like the moment where all Democrats vote.
Speaker 14: have a little mini version of the Jeremiah Wright speech
Speaker 14: in their head that President Obama had as a candidate
Speaker 14: where he disassociated from a person who was making extraordinarily
Speaker 14: hostile statements, a priest who he had been associated with
Speaker 14: for years. It's time for that right now. We cannot
Speaker 14: have people like him on the stage. We can't have
Speaker 14: our candidates partying with Piker, hanging out, socializing, and winking
Speaker 14: and nodding and laughing with him. He needs to be
Speaker 14: out of any Democratic opportunity and actions.
Speaker 3: Well, one of the campaigns he's most closely aligned with
Speaker 3: is Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan, and even that caused El-Sayed's
Speaker 3: campaign to issue something of an attempt to try to
Speaker 3: distance themselves from Piker. But then Piker responded to that.
Speaker 3: Let's hear Piker's response to El-Sayed on Israel.
Speaker 4: Cut number eight. There are going to.
Speaker 18: Be a lot of people who are already questioning Abdullah
Speaker 18: El-Sayed's sincerity on these issues that will then turn around
Speaker 18: and say, oh, he's, you know, he's moderating his position
Speaker 18: on Israel, all this stuff.
Speaker 4: I don't think he is.
Speaker 3: Hassan Piker has been the principal surrogate for Abdul El-Sayed
Speaker 3: up until now anyway.
Speaker 4: Who's right?
Speaker 3: Is Hassan Piker right that Abdul El-Sayed is not.
Speaker 4: Moderating his position?
Speaker 3: And how are, look, American Jews, as we established, traditionally
Speaker 3: vote Democrat. If you were a Jewish Democrat in Michigan,
Speaker 3: how would you be viewing this whole Piker-El-Sayed back and
Speaker 3: forth here, Joel?
Speaker 5: Man, Scott, with friends like that, right, who needs enemies?
Speaker 14: You know, for El-Sayed, he has essentially a person here
Speaker 14: who is undermining any possible message that El-Sayed would have
Speaker 14: in his engagement with the Jewish community of Michigan. And remember,
Speaker 14: the Jewish community of Michigan is over 100,000 voters. And
Speaker 14: only a couple of years ago, Mike Rogers lost by roughly, what, 20,000?
Speaker 14: You can't lose Jewish voters, especially when you didn't even
Speaker 14: win a majority in your own primary a few weeks ago.
Speaker 14: But I do think that Piker is right in this case.
Speaker 14: I don't think that El Sayed has changed his tune
Speaker 14: on Israel. And to be short, his position on Israel
Speaker 14: is one that essentially means Israel as it currently is
Speaker 14: constituted should not exist.
Speaker 5: That's his position.
Speaker 14: And that to the Jewish community of Michigan, and I
Speaker 14: know those folks, it's Midwest. I grew up in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 14: I went to summer camp with Jewish kids from Detroit area.
Speaker 14: That idea reeks of anti-Semitism, telling Jews that that a
Speaker 14: country that we are connected to, that is our ancestral homeland,
Speaker 14: that we care about, should not exist, is essentially saying
Speaker 14: it's time to delete a state that's recognized by the UN,
Speaker 14: that's a member of good standing of the international community.
Speaker 5: It's horrific.
Speaker 14: El-Sayed needs to distance himself right now from Piker, but
Speaker 14: he hasn't. He's afraid to. He doesn't want to. Maybe
Speaker 14: he agrees with Piker.
Speaker 5: I don't know. But it's a real albatross around his neck.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I agree with you.
Speaker 3: I think now they're realizing that what might have worked
Speaker 3: in the Democratic primary to rally a lot of these
Speaker 3: radicals is simply not going to fly in the general
Speaker 3: election in a purple state like Michigan. Our conversation has
Speaker 3: been with Joel Rubin, who is a serious Democrat political
Speaker 3: operative and national security and foreign policy analyst from the left.
Speaker 3: He has a piece in the Free Press article. which
Speaker 3: I heavily recommend you read. It's called I Work for
Speaker 3: Bernie Sanders. The Democratic Party is turning against the Jews.
Speaker 3: My former boss and the broader left-wing activist infrastructure that
Speaker 3: surrounds him are actively fueling anti-Semitism in this country. Joel,
Speaker 3: you're a great American. We don't agree on much, but
Speaker 3: I do know this. You believe in the future of
Speaker 3: Western civilization. And on that, we can unite.
Speaker 4: We'll take a break.
Speaker 3: When we come back, I've got Bruce Blakeman in New
Speaker 3: York stopping by.
Speaker 4: Stay with us.
Speaker 10: The very definition of never back down.
Speaker 6: Here's Scott Jennings.
Speaker 4: All right, it's Thursday, August the 27th.
Speaker 3: Common Sense for the American People broadcasting live today from
Speaker 3: New York City and There is a governor's race going
Speaker 3: on here in the state of New York. My next
Speaker 3: guest has served as the Nassau County Executive since 2022.
Speaker 3: He's had a very successful administration, and he's made his
Speaker 3: county one of the safest in the nation. He is
Speaker 3: presently waging a political battle against one of the worst
Speaker 3: governors in America, Kathy Hochul, and he is trying to
Speaker 3: unseat her and undo the failures of her administration today.
Speaker 4: It's coming out of Albany.
Speaker 3: Let's listen to Bruce Blakeman's latest cut number one.
Speaker 13: Young black kids growing up in the Bronx who don't
Speaker 13: even know what the word computer is.
Speaker 19: Young black kids don't know what a computer is? Get
Speaker 19: a grip, Kathy Hochul. You don't know black kids. You
Speaker 19: don't get to define their potential with tired stereotypes.
Speaker 13: Young black kids growing up in the Bronx who don't
Speaker 13: even know what the word computer is.
Speaker 19: Shame on you, Kathy Hochul. You are the worst governor
Speaker 19: in America. Bruce Blakeman believes in every kid in every neighborhood.
Speaker 19: Bruce Blakeman for a better New York.
Speaker 4: All right, our next guest is Bruce Blakeman.
Speaker 10: Mr.
Speaker 3: Blakeman, thanks for coming back on the Scott Jennings Show.
Speaker 3: I know you're out running around New York. Give us
Speaker 3: an update on the campaign. Are people responding to a
Speaker 3: message out there that it's time for Hochul to go?
Speaker 7: Yeah, well, I just got back from a four-day swing
Speaker 7: in upstate New York, Binghamton, Sullivan County, Rochester, Buffalo, and
Speaker 7: all points in between. And I got to tell you, Scott,
Speaker 7: the energy level of my campaign and our supporters is
Speaker 7: off the charts. Three of the county chairmen that I
Speaker 7: saw up there just this past couple of days told
Speaker 7: me they've never seen anything like it. My My lawn
Speaker 7: signs are going out the door like hotcakes. And they
Speaker 7: said that people are walking in and asking for lawn signs.
Speaker 7: And they've never seen these people before. They're not party operatives.
Speaker 7: They're independents. They're Democrats who've had enough with their party.
Speaker 7: So we've got a tremendous amount of momentum. I understand
Speaker 7: Kathy Hochul got a very bad poll the other day
Speaker 7: that has me in the margin of error. So we
Speaker 7: are neck and neck. We are doing much better with
Speaker 7: our fundraising. And we're going to win this election because
Speaker 7: she is the worst governor in America. We're the most
Speaker 7: overtaxed state in the nation. Our electric bills are 70
Speaker 7: percent higher than the national average. And she's the most
Speaker 7: pro-criminal governor in the United States. She just banned local
Speaker 7: law enforcement from cooperating with ICE, which is insane because
Speaker 7: we've gotten thousands of illegal migrants with criminal records like
Speaker 7: attempted murder, rape, robbery, burglary, drug dealing, gang activity out
Speaker 7: of our community because we do cooperate with ICE. So
Speaker 7: she's out of touch. And now she has her new friend,
Speaker 7: Mondami the commie. So we call her Comrade Kathy now.
Speaker 7: And we're waging this battle to take back our state.
Speaker 3: That's Bruce Blakeman, the Republican candidate for governor in New York. Bruce,
Speaker 3: I wanted to talk to you about the polling in
Speaker 3: the race. Some public polling came out. You have cut
Speaker 3: her lead in half since June, so you're moving up
Speaker 3: right now, and she seems to have a little bit
Speaker 3: of a ceiling. I don't think New Yorkers, even a
Speaker 3: lot of Democrats, are all that happy with her, and
Speaker 3: there's been some private rumorings that her internal polling has
Speaker 3: gotten very close. Do you feel out there as you're
Speaker 3: driving around that people are saying, you know what? This
Speaker 3: might be the time we need to toss out a
Speaker 3: Democrat and go with a Republican. Are you picking that
Speaker 3: up from constituencies that wouldn't traditionally be saying something like that?
Speaker 7: Well, every day, Scott, I have Democrats come up to
Speaker 7: me that say, I've never voted Republican in my life,
Speaker 7: but I'm voting for you and I'm voting Republican this year.
Speaker 7: Our party is insane. We don't recognize our party anymore.
Speaker 7: Zoran Mondami, Kathy Hochul, and all the DSA crowd, They
Speaker 7: are un-American in their values. They are dangerous. And Democrats
Speaker 7: realize that. As a matter of fact, I have a
Speaker 7: fundraiser this Sunday being given by the widow of Senator
Speaker 7: Frank Lautenberg, one of the stalwarts in the Democratic Party
Speaker 7: when he was alive. Bonnie Lautenberg is a lifelong Democrat.
Speaker 7: She is inviting Democrats to her house to raise money
Speaker 7: for me because they don't like the direction the Democratic
Speaker 7: Party's gone in. As you know, Scott, you know, Daniel
Speaker 7: Patrick Moynihan, Ed Koch, Hugh Carey, Mario Cuomo, even Bill Clinton.
Speaker 7: We had philosophical differences. We would disagree on policy. But
Speaker 7: we always knew that they loved America. This new crowd
Speaker 7: of Democrats, they hate America. Zoran Mondami hates America. Kathy
Speaker 7: Hochul endorsed him. He endorsed her. They're anti-Semitic, anti-Christian, and
Speaker 7: they're anti-American. And that's what we're battling here in New York.
Speaker 3: I just had a guest on Bruce, named Joel Rubin.
Speaker 3: He was a Bernie Sanders campaign official. He worked in
Speaker 3: the State Department of Barack Obama. He's a serious Democrat,
Speaker 3: and he has written this piece in the free press
Speaker 3: we were discussing about how the Democratic Party is turning
Speaker 3: against the Jews. There are a lot of Jewish New
Speaker 3: Yorkers who have been voting Democrat their entire lives. I
Speaker 3: assume you are running into more than a handful of
Speaker 3: them out there who are saying, I can't do this anymore.
Speaker 3: Talk to us about some of those interactions.
Speaker 7: Well, yeah. Look, first of all, Zoran Mondami is an anti-Semite,
Speaker 7: and Kathy Hochul endorsed him. There are other anti-Semites in
Speaker 7: their party. But, Scott, they're also anti-Christian. I mean, Zoran
Speaker 7: Mondami and Kathy Hochul couldn't find an hour out of
Speaker 7: their day to go to the installation of a new
Speaker 7: archbishop of the largest religion in the city of New York,
Speaker 7: the Catholic Church. I mean, it's just unbelievable. And there
Speaker 7: are other things that they've done that's anti-Christian. Leaving the
Speaker 7: two little Italys that we have here in New York
Speaker 7: off their immigration tourist map, that was intentional. Not having
Speaker 7: the Puerto Rican Day breakfast at the Gracie Mansion, that
Speaker 7: was intentional. I asked my Puerto Rican friends, why would
Speaker 7: they cancel the breakfast for the leaders of the Puerto
Speaker 7: Rican Day parade? They've done that every year since they've
Speaker 7: had the parade. Every mayor has done it. And my
Speaker 7: Puerto Rican friend said that the rumor is he didn't
Speaker 7: want Christians in his house. So they're anti-Semitic, but they're
Speaker 7: also anti-Christian and anti-American.
Speaker 3: Bruce Blakeman, our guest today, running for governor of New
Speaker 3: York on the Republican ticket.
Speaker 4: Bruce, you brought up.
Speaker 3: This issue of cooperating with ICE and this issue of
Speaker 3: public safety. Hochul, of course, refuses to cooperate with ICE.
Speaker 3: There was a legal challenge on that, I think, and
Speaker 3: you joined it. What is the situation with the governor
Speaker 3: right now and ICE? I assume it's your view first.
Speaker 3: that there are all sorts of criminals, violent people from
Speaker 3: other countries who shouldn't be here that are being allowed
Speaker 3: to roam free because of Hochul and the rest of
Speaker 3: the Democrats here?
Speaker 7: Scott, in the last few months alone, we've had two
Speaker 7: murders in my county by an illegal migrant. We've had
Speaker 7: the rape of a 14-year-old girl by an illegal migrant.
Speaker 7: My police department did an outstanding job They arrested three
Speaker 7: illegal migrants who had 47 illegal guns and a lot
Speaker 7: of cocaine and heroin and other drugs that would have
Speaker 7: gone to the kids in our neighborhood and peddled to
Speaker 7: the kids in our neighborhood. So this is something where
Speaker 7: I said yesterday to Kathy Hochul, you're going to have
Speaker 7: blood on your hands because... by not letting the local
Speaker 7: law enforcement cooperate with ICE, and I'm not talking about
Speaker 7: raiding churches or schools or daycare centers. We did none
Speaker 7: of that. We just worked in a coordinated effort to
Speaker 7: get criminals off the street. And with cashless bail now,
Speaker 7: illegal migrants, we can't hold them on bail for most crimes.
Speaker 7: That's insane. Can you think of a bigger flight risk
Speaker 7: than an illegal migrant? So we have to get back
Speaker 7: to common sense and American values. I will change those laws.
Speaker 7: We will go back to common sense and American values.
Speaker 7: I will cut taxes. We will drill on the Marcella Shale,
Speaker 7: one of the largest natural gas reserves in the world.
Speaker 7: We'll bring down electric costs in half. And we will
Speaker 7: stop the overregulation of business. We'll welcome business. And I
Speaker 7: won't chase out high net worth individuals like Zoran Mondami
Speaker 7: and Kathy Hochul are doing now.
Speaker 3: Bruce, I want to ask you about something that's coming
Speaker 3: up in just a few days, and that is the
Speaker 3: 25th anniversary of 9-11. Obviously, it's a big moment for
Speaker 3: New York City to look back on what happened on
Speaker 3: September the 11th of 2001. And there's a lot of
Speaker 3: debate in the community about what's changed in New York City.
Speaker 3: And I remember back in those days, everybody always said,
Speaker 3: never forget. And a lot of people are wondering if
Speaker 3: we did forget. How do you see this 25th anniversary changing?
Speaker 3: in the context of the campaign that you're running for governor?
Speaker 7: Well, Scott, it's very personal to me because my nephew,
Speaker 7: who was an Army veteran, he was a medic in
Speaker 7: the United States Army, he was a volunteer firefighter, and
Speaker 7: he was a New York State court officer who was
Speaker 7: stationed three blocks away from the World Trade Center. He
Speaker 7: went to help with the evacuation of the South Tower.
Speaker 7: He was administering first aid to a woman who was
Speaker 7: severely burned. The tower fell on him. We never recovered
Speaker 7: his body or his DNA, only his sidearm and his badge.
Speaker 7: So for me, it's incredibly personal. We have forgotten. Zoran
Speaker 7: Mondami is now the mayor of the city, and this
Speaker 7: is somebody who's an apologist for people who commit acts
Speaker 7: in the name of Islam, extremism. So it's very personal
Speaker 7: to me. I go every year without fail to the
Speaker 7: memorial because that's my nephew's final resting ground. It was
Speaker 7: my sister Linda's oldest boy, wonderful kid, and it's a very,
Speaker 7: very sad day, but it's an upsetting day for me
Speaker 7: this year because Zohra Mondami is the mayor of the city,
Speaker 7: and he seems to associate himself with people who take
Speaker 7: up the cause of Islamic extremism.
Speaker 3: Bruce Blakeman, Republican candidate for governor in New York. Bruce,
Speaker 3: I'm going to give you the last word on this.
Speaker 3: I'm going to ask it this way. You hop on
Speaker 3: an elevator in New York and you realize the person
Speaker 3: that you're riding with is an undecided Democrat. Maybe they're
Speaker 3: not the biggest Trump fan in the world. Maybe they rarely,
Speaker 3: if ever, vote Republican. Give them a little pitch. Why
Speaker 3: should they vote for you over the Democrats they're used
Speaker 3: to voting for to run this state?
Speaker 7: Would you like a governor that cut your taxes? Would
Speaker 7: you like a governor that reduced your electric bills in half?
Speaker 7: Would you like a governor that creates more jobs, economic prosperity,
Speaker 7: and made for safer communities? If you do, that's my
Speaker 7: track record as county executive of a county larger than
Speaker 7: eight states in population. Compare that with Kathy Hochul, the
Speaker 7: most overtaxed, overregulated state in America, number 50 in economic outlook,
Speaker 7: and electric bills that are 70% higher than the national average,
Speaker 7: and the most pro-criminal governor in the United States. If
Speaker 7: you compare the two, I'm sure that on Election Day,
Speaker 7: I will get your support.
Speaker 5: All right.
Speaker 3: That's Bruce Blakeman out driving around New York, doing a
Speaker 3: lot of events out there. Bruce, where can folks find
Speaker 3: you on the Internet if they want to reach out
Speaker 3: to your campaign?
Speaker 7: Sure. Please go to BlakemanForNewYork.com, BlakemanForNewYork.com. Contribute, volunteer, get a
Speaker 7: lawn sign. That's the best endorsement a candidate can get.
Speaker 7: When you put a lawn sign, that's a great endorsement,
Speaker 7: and we're encouraging it. And we've given out tens of
Speaker 7: thousands of them. So come to my website, get a
Speaker 7: launch site, make a contribution, and volunteer.
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Speaker 4: This is the Scott Jennings Show.
Speaker 14: All right.
Speaker 3: Rounding out the show here on Thursday, August the 27th.
Speaker 3: Scott Jennings broadcasting from New York City. We'll see you
Speaker 3: on CNN tonight at 10 Eastern. We'll be with Abby
Speaker 3: at the debating table. We'll see what issues of the
Speaker 3: day bubble up tonight. President Trump made little news in
Speaker 3: the Oval Office today. He signed an executive order changing
Speaker 3: Lake Ontario to Lake America. And he also took some
Speaker 3: questions from the crowd of reporters that were gathered there.
Speaker 4: And he is on his way, by the way, to Texas.
Speaker 3: And the reason he's headed to Texas is he is
Speaker 3: supporting Ken Paxton, the Republican candidate for Senate, who's running
Speaker 3: against this Democrat named James Tallarico.
Speaker 4: We've done a number of reports on Tallarico. I will
Speaker 4: be honest with you.
Speaker 3: You talk to anybody in the know in Republican politics
Speaker 3: right now, they're worried about this race and they're worried
Speaker 3: about Ken Paxton. So President Trump is on his way
Speaker 3: down there. In fact, there's a Texas public opinion research
Speaker 3: poll out today that has a lot of folks buzzing.
Speaker 3: And there's a Senate race in Texas, and there is
Speaker 3: a governor's race. So in the Senate race, this poll
Speaker 3: found the Democrat, Tallarico, leading Paxton, 48 to 42. That's
Speaker 3: a six-point lead. But it found the incumbent Republican governor,
Speaker 3: Greg Abbott, leading his Democratic opponent, Gina Hinojosa, 49 to 40.
Speaker 5: 42.
Speaker 3: So that is a significant split and a major split decision,
Speaker 3: at least in this survey. Ken Paxton obviously has some
Speaker 3: work to do to get right in this race with
Speaker 3: the people down in Texas, and he's getting Donald Trump's
Speaker 3: help today. Let's hear from the president a few moments
Speaker 3: ago from the Oval Office.
Speaker 4: Cut 17.
Speaker 16: So I'll be going to Texas and we're working very hard.
Speaker 1: We want to win that race.
Speaker 16: He's running against a man who should not never be.
Speaker 16: We have a very good candidate, Ken Paxton, and he's
Speaker 16: running against Telefrico, they call him, because he is a
Speaker 16: little freaky. And that's not a man that represents the
Speaker 16: value of Texas. So I'm going to help Ken Paxton.
Speaker 16: And I'm going to spend a lot of time in Texas.
Speaker 16: I have the all-time highest vote in the history of
Speaker 16: Texas also. And I'm going to spend some time there.
Speaker 16: We'll be going tonight. Some of you are going with me.
Speaker 16: Thank you very much, everyone.
Speaker 14: All right.
Speaker 3: That was President Trump on his way out the door
Speaker 3: to head down to Texas. He also made some comments
Speaker 3: on another story. We discussed this with you briefly yesterday,
Speaker 3: but I think it's worth talking about again.
Speaker 4: The U.S.
Speaker 3: Justice Department and the FBI have disrupted a major Chinese
Speaker 3: state-sponsored cyber espionage campaign that was targeting critical U.S. infrastructure
Speaker 3: and sensitive government networks. And this campaign had been going
Speaker 3: on since at least 2018. The hackers were breaching these
Speaker 3: networks over at NASA, the Federal Reserve, the United States Senate,
Speaker 3: at the Department of Justice. They got into defense contractors, hospitals,
Speaker 3: and power companies. This was a widespread state-sanctioned cyber espionage
Speaker 3: campaign going on by the Chinese inside the United States.
Speaker 3: And the Department of Justice has disrupted this. They're arresting people.
Speaker 3: And that's a good thing. It was raised to the
Speaker 3: president today in the Oval Office.
Speaker 4: And here's what he had to say about it. Cut 19.
Speaker 4: So will you.
Speaker 12: Punish Putin or Russia if they.
Speaker 1: Continue to do business with Russia?
Speaker 12: Well, it depends.
Speaker 7: It depends.
Speaker 16: So far, I think Russia's behaved quite well having to
Speaker 16: do with the Strait of Hormuz.
Speaker 4: And you have to understand, for everything they do, we
Speaker 4: do also.
Speaker 1: You know, somebody was saying about China. What about China?
Speaker 4: We hear they're spying.
Speaker 1: We spy on them, too. That's the way it goes.
Speaker 19: Why not sanction Chinese banks, though?
Speaker 3: So the president was downplaying this a little bit in
Speaker 3: the Oval Office just a few minutes ago. This story, though,
Speaker 3: it's really kind of a fascinating thing. You think about it,
Speaker 3: going back to 2018, that's eight years worth of espionage
Speaker 3: out there going on at some of the highest levels
Speaker 3: of our government. But the Department of Justice is on
Speaker 3: top of it. And lots of activity on this front.
Speaker 3: The president today was Downplaying a little bit, Chinese government is,
Speaker 3: of course, as they are wont to do, denying involvement
Speaker 3: in these cyber attack allegations. You can read about this
Speaker 3: over at CNN. They've got a pretty extensive story on it.
Speaker 3: But the Department seized three, Department of Justice, that is,
Speaker 3: seized three Internet domains affiliated with this Chinese company that
Speaker 3: they had identified that was the principal culprit here. in
Speaker 3: these cyber attacks. So President Trump making a little news
Speaker 3: today in the Oval Office.
Speaker 4: It's been a bit of a breaking news day.
Speaker 3: Not sure if we have any word out of the
Speaker 3: Lindsey Clancy jury yet. That happened today, and I think
Speaker 3: they're still deliberating. But on that front, the jury has
Speaker 3: its instructions, and they've got the case. And we'll be
Speaker 3: finding out very soon what happens to Lindsey Clancy, who
Speaker 3: killed those three precious men.
Speaker 4: Little children.
Speaker 3: We're done for the day. We'll have more news tomorrow.
Speaker 3: It's Scott Jennings on Salem. Thanks for being with us.