Speaker 1: The voice of free speech, the truth delivered common sense
Speaker 1: for the American people. Welcome to the Scott Jennings Show.
Speaker 1: We have breaking news out of Washington today.
Speaker 2: Todd Blanche's nomination for Attorney General hangs in the balance,
Speaker 2: and so does construction of the White House Ballroom. There
Speaker 2: is news on both, and we'll bring you the latest
Speaker 2: in just a moment. Tennesseeans went to the polls last
Speaker 2: night in their state's primary and there was a surprise loser.
Speaker 2: Who was it, we'll tell you. And President Trump tries
Speaker 2: again to curtail birthright citizenship. He has two new executive
Speaker 2: orders and we have the details of that as well.
Speaker 3: Today is Friday, August the seventh.
Speaker 2: I'm Scott Jennings broadcasting for Salem and we're coming to
Speaker 2: you from Louisville, Kentucky.
Speaker 3: On this day.
Speaker 2: In two thousand and seven, baseball history changed. With one
Speaker 2: swing of the bat, Barry Bonds stepped into the play
Speaker 2: in San Francisco against Washington Nationals pitcher Mike Bassick.
Speaker 3: The count went full and then this cut.
Speaker 4: For three balls and two strikes.
Speaker 5: The overshift design and Bassic deals and Bonds pits.
Speaker 6: Its seventy fifty Bond stands as I'm top on the
Speaker 6: all time.
Speaker 4: Bron West.
Speaker 2: Barry Bonds launching home runs seven fifty six into the
Speaker 2: right center field seats, breaking the record that had long
Speaker 2: been held by Hank Aaron. The game stopped, the fireworks exploded,
Speaker 2: and Aaron himself appeared on the scoreboard with a recorded
Speaker 2: message congratulating Bonds. But this was no ordinary celebration because
Speaker 2: by then Bonds was at the center of baseball's steroid scandal,
Speaker 2: and his pursuit of Hank Aaron had become one of
Speaker 2: the most controversial record chases in sports history. Bonds would
Speaker 2: finish his career with seven hundred and sixty two home runs.
Speaker 2: Nearly two decades later, the record still stands Barry Bonds
Speaker 2: home run number seven five six on this day in
Speaker 2: two thousand and seven. Breaking news to begin the show today,
Speaker 2: Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche appears to have enough votes
Speaker 2: for confirmation despite losing a couple of Republicans this week.
Speaker 2: This morning, Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy announced that he will
Speaker 2: support Blanche and that locks in or at least it
Speaker 2: appears to lock in fifty votes. JD Vans can break
Speaker 2: the tie should be done by this weekend. And more
Speaker 2: breaking news just into the show here. A federal appeals
Speaker 2: court has ordered the Trump administration to stop above ground
Speaker 2: construction of the new four hundred million million dollar White
Speaker 2: House Ballroom. In a two to one decision, the DC
Speaker 2: Circuit ruled that President Trump cannot build the massive ninety
Speaker 2: thousand square foot edition without congressional approval. Underground work on
Speaker 2: bunkers and other national security facilities can continue.
Speaker 7: Now.
Speaker 2: The court is delaying its ruling for two weeks. That
Speaker 2: gives Trump time to appeal it to the Supreme Court,
Speaker 2: and you know he will. Now down to Tennessee, where
Speaker 2: the primary last night produced a couple of noteworthy results. First,
Speaker 2: in the Republican primary for governor, Marsha Blackburn, currently US Senator,
Speaker 2: defeated two opponents with forty three percent of the vote.
Speaker 2: She'll face Democrat Jerry Green in the fall. It's Blackburn
Speaker 2: versus Green for governor. I'd say advantage Blackburn in that race. Elsewhere,
Speaker 2: something of an upset here. Congressman Andy Ogels of the
Speaker 2: House Freedom Caucus lost his primary against a man named
Speaker 2: Charlie Hatcher, who's a former Agriculture Commissioner Ogles had the
Speaker 2: support of President Trump, but a Clean Energy Superpack spent
Speaker 2: about two million dollars opposing Ogles and supporting Hatcher. Ogles
Speaker 2: was criticized by some Republicans for not campaigning hard enough
Speaker 2: or raising the money necessary to win. Ogles found himself
Speaker 2: running in a new congressional district after Republicans redrew the
Speaker 2: lines earlier this year. The district, which once included part
Speaker 2: of Nashville, now stretches from a cluster of suburbs outside
Speaker 2: of Nashville all the way down to Memphis. As for
Speaker 2: mister Hatcher, he's well like dairy farmer, who had the
Speaker 2: support of several prominent Republicans in the state, including the
Speaker 2: outgoing Governor Bill Lee. Although Trump went for Ogles here,
Speaker 2: Hatcher had emphasized his support for Trump even without the endorsement.
Speaker 2: Yesterday afternoon, President Trump signed a couple of executive orders
Speaker 2: dealing with birthright citizenship. This comes after the Supreme Court
Speaker 2: struck down his original executive order on the matter. Trump
Speaker 2: versus Barbara was that case, So what did the President
Speaker 2: do yesterday? The first order non exhaustively identifies certain categories
Speaker 2: of children of aliens who are not entitled to birthright
Speaker 2: citizenship consistent with historical exceptions to birthright citizenship recognized by
Speaker 2: the Supreme Court in the Barber case. The second order
Speaker 2: delegates presidential authorities to the Secretary of State and Secretary
Speaker 2: of Homeland Security and directs them to halt the practice
Speaker 2: of birth tourism.
Speaker 3: Here's the president on that. Cut five.
Speaker 8: We had a very unfortunate decision in the Supreme Court
Speaker 8: concerning birthright was close, but a very very unfortunate decision.
Speaker 8: So we're making adjustments because it's very unfair. This was
Speaker 8: done for a different reason. This was done right after
Speaker 8: the Civil War. This was for the babies of slaves.
Speaker 8: And what's happening now If people are building businesses around
Speaker 8: it from wealthy people are building businesses around birthright citizenship,
Speaker 8: that's out the ware are supposed to work.
Speaker 4: It's a disgrace.
Speaker 8: They're buying their way in and we're not going to
Speaker 8: let it happen.
Speaker 2: Trump, of course, is right about this. Birth tourism has
Speaker 2: turned the Fourteenth Amendment into a travel package. White House
Speaker 2: Staff Secretary Will Sharf laid out the facts in the
Speaker 2: Oval Office about why this is necessary.
Speaker 3: Cut seven.
Speaker 4: The law is absolutely clear.
Speaker 9: What we're talking about, as Steven said, with respect to
Speaker 9: birth tourism, something that used to happen, incidentally, where somebody
Speaker 9: who happened to be on vacation here went into labor
Speaker 9: early and had a baby. This was sort of a
Speaker 9: a relatively small problem. What we've seen in recent years, though,
Speaker 9: is organized rings, at times criminal rings, setting up a
Speaker 9: system whereby tens hundreds thousands, tens of thousands of people
Speaker 9: can come to this country in an organized fashion and
Speaker 9: give birth here purely for the sake of obtaining birthright citizenship.
Speaker 9: This order takes a number of different actions intended to
Speaker 9: combat those sorts of organized practices. We look very heavily
Speaker 9: at denying visus to people that we have reason to
Speaker 9: believe are coming here for that purpose. Visas both for
Speaker 9: computative parents but also for the people organizing these rings.
Speaker 9: There's also obviously a law enforcement component.
Speaker 2: You know, whatever you think of the broader birthright citizenship debate, surely,
Speaker 2: surely the fourteenth Amendment was never intended to create an
Speaker 2: international birth tourism industry. Back to Michigan, fallout from the
Speaker 2: state's primary on Tuesday continues. There's a real split in
Speaker 2: the Democratic Party, with many supporters of Hailey Stevens wondering
Speaker 2: how they could ever support a radical for Senate like
Speaker 2: Abdul Lsied, and Republican Mike Rogers is moving to take
Speaker 2: advantage of the split. He has issued an appeal this morning.
Speaker 2: Take a listen to this in full cut fifteen.
Speaker 10: If you're among the majority of Democratic voters that woke
Speaker 10: up on Wednesday feeling well hopeless because the person who
Speaker 10: won does not represent your values.
Speaker 4: Well just know there is still hope.
Speaker 10: Michigan deserves a senator who is ready to sit with you,
Speaker 10: hear from you, and represent you. The parents across Michigan
Speaker 10: who want an education system that sets up their kids
Speaker 10: for success, You have a home with us. To grandparents
Speaker 10: across Michigan who are heartbroken from watching their kids and
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Speaker 4: You have a home with us.
Speaker 10: To working families who don't want higher taxes and lower paychecks.
Speaker 4: Well, you have a home with us, and to the.
Speaker 10: Vast majority of people across Michigan who do not want
Speaker 10: to throw their support behind a campaign filled with anger divisiveness,
Speaker 10: calls for violence, and the views that are out of
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Speaker 10: The fight is far greater and then just left versus right.
Speaker 10: The fight is for the very soul of our nation.
Speaker 10: Over the next ninety days, I'm going to work hard
Speaker 10: to earn your trust, to earn your support, and earn
Speaker 10: your vote. We have a state to say, Michigan, let's
Speaker 10: get to work now.
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Speaker 2: All right, Friday, August the seventh, Common Sense for the
Speaker 2: American people. Thanks for joining us here on Salem. I'm Scotts.
Speaker 2: Thought i'd take a few minutes here and just go
Speaker 2: over what is happening in the United States Senate today.
Speaker 2: They are trying to clear a backlog of several issues
Speaker 2: before they wrap up, and the Senate would not come
Speaker 2: back until September fourteenth. This will be the August recess
Speaker 2: in DC parlance, sometimes they call it the August district
Speaker 2: or state work period. So this is the Senate working
Speaker 2: through a number of issues today. First of all, here's
Speaker 2: what President Trump has said he wants the Senate to do.
Speaker 2: Let's listen to President cut nine.
Speaker 12: So I believe strongly in terminating the filibuster and by
Speaker 12: the way, getting Save America Act approved immediately, and about
Speaker 12: four hundred other things in every.
Speaker 4: Hour of every day. Boom boom, boom, you get whatever
Speaker 4: you want.
Speaker 3: You Okay, that's the President's desires.
Speaker 2: I don't believe they are going to be terminating the
Speaker 2: filibuster or passing the Save Act today, So that continues
Speaker 2: to be outstanding. However, the President, although he'll be disappointed
Speaker 2: with that, did get some welcome news today and that
Speaker 2: is on his nominee for Attorney General, Todd Blanche. Todd
Speaker 2: Blanche has been the acting Attorney General for several months,
Speaker 2: he's been angling for the top job, and he's been
Speaker 2: working through the Senate confirmation process. It was a bit
Speaker 2: of drama about whether he was going to get the
Speaker 2: votes because Republicans Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins have announced
Speaker 2: their opposition to Blanche. That minute all came down to
Speaker 2: Bill Cassidy of Louisiana. Senator Cassidy, you might recall, lost
Speaker 2: a primary this year because President Trump had backed someone else.
Speaker 2: So there was some drama about whether Cassidy would fall
Speaker 2: in line with the President's agenda here and back Todd Blanche.
Speaker 3: But ultimately he said that he will. Here's cut ten.
Speaker 13: So we mister Blanche in another act, an attorney general
Speaker 13: who may not run the department effectively under President Trump.
Speaker 4: And who.
Speaker 13: Indeed may not be as good as mister Blanche. This
Speaker 13: puts at risk the progress made fighting violent crime, human
Speaker 13: and drug trafficking, and fraud. And this does not serve
Speaker 13: the American people. Well, this is not a referendum on
Speaker 13: President Trump. It is a decision regarding mister Blanche in
Speaker 13: very specific circumstances. All considered, I will vote for mister Blanche.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 2: Bill Cassidy's saving the nomination of Todd Blanche and that
Speaker 2: should get done today. In addition to that, Senate leadership
Speaker 2: is moving to clear a heavy backlog of executive and
Speaker 2: judicial nominees before they break here for August, and they
Speaker 2: should be having a vote on what I believe will
Speaker 2: be seventy four nominations in blocks, so all sorts of things.
Speaker 2: The President gets to a point and the Senate has
Speaker 2: to confirm those should today in block. Also other issues,
Speaker 2: and this is I'm just going to do a quick
Speaker 2: check while we're talking here. So we're looking at the
Speaker 2: Senate floor right now, and on the Senate floor they
Speaker 2: have a vote open on the Russia sanctions bill. You
Speaker 2: may have been reading about this and it got renewed
Speaker 2: interest after the death of Senator Lindsey Graham, who had
Speaker 2: been pushing this very hard. But Russia sanctions bill is
Speaker 2: being voted on as we speak, and I do see
Speaker 2: some action on the Senate floor. It looks like they're
Speaker 2: reading some names right now now. There was an amendment
Speaker 2: vote on this this morning, and the amendment was offered
Speaker 2: by Ran Paul of Kentucky and Ron Wyden, so it
Speaker 2: was a bipartisan amendment and it would have taken away
Speaker 2: some of the tariff authority that this bill gives to
Speaker 2: Donald Trump. This bill gives him vast tariff of authority,
Speaker 2: so they wanted to take that out.
Speaker 3: The vote failed.
Speaker 2: It was final thirty two in the affirmative and sixty
Speaker 2: four were again, so that did not work out. So
Speaker 2: now we're on the final passage of the Russia Sanctions Bill,
Speaker 2: and they've renamed it, by the way, the Lindsey Graham Bill.
Speaker 2: This would allow President Trump and future presidents to impose
Speaker 2: tariffs of up to one hundred percent on major importers
Speaker 2: of Russian energy. It would give the president greater flexibility
Speaker 2: to raise import taxes on major economies like India, China,
Speaker 2: and the European Union without the legal limits and ambiguity
Speaker 2: of the tools the tariff tools that he has used
Speaker 2: thus far.
Speaker 3: So this was actually a big deal.
Speaker 2: But this certainly strength strengthens the president's hand when it
Speaker 2: comes to using tariffs for the purposes of national security.
Speaker 2: The expectation here is that this bill is going to
Speaker 2: pass this afternoon. It passed a key procedural hurdle last
Speaker 2: week by an eighty six to twelve votes, so it
Speaker 2: doesn't feel like it's going to be unanimous, but we
Speaker 2: are expecting the Russia Sanctions bill named for Lindsey Graham
Speaker 2: to pass. Doesn't feel like they're going to get to
Speaker 2: the Clarity Act. That's the cryptocurrency bill. There's a bill
Speaker 2: on college athletics hanging out there that does have bipartisan support.
Speaker 2: The President does say he'll sign it. Unclear. Farm bill
Speaker 2: still unclear. So still some things to do in the Senate,
Speaker 2: but some work is getting done. We're going to take
Speaker 2: a break. We'll talk more news when you come back.
Speaker 2: Scott Jennings on Salem.
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Speaker 3: Friday, August the seventh.
Speaker 2: Thanks for joining us here common sense for the American people.
Speaker 2: A quick update to our previous reporting on the US
Speaker 2: Senate while we were in commercial. The Senate is overwhelmingly
Speaker 2: passed the bipartisan Russian sanctions legislation, champion by the late
Speaker 2: Lindsey Graham of South Caro Line of the final vote
Speaker 2: eighty six to eleven, and that'll send it over to
Speaker 2: the House for consideration. So as predicted, this is passed
Speaker 2: and the attempt to strip out the tariff authority for
Speaker 2: the president was defeated. In other news, when something is
Speaker 2: important in the Middle East, Adam Credo, our next guest,
Speaker 2: is usually one of the first reporters to uncover it.
Speaker 2: He covers national security and foreign policy and has built
Speaker 2: a reputation for breaking stories that the legacy media often misses.
Speaker 2: His latest in The Free Beacon looks at whether the
Speaker 2: United Nations is obstructing an American investigation into possible Hamas
Speaker 2: infiltration of its Gaza operations. Adam, welcome into the Scott
Speaker 2: Sheenning Show.
Speaker 14: Appreciate you having me, always a pleasure.
Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks for the work that you do. Let's dive
Speaker 2: into this latest story that you have. You have an
Speaker 2: article here about a UN group in Gaza that many
Speaker 2: people believe has been infiltrated by Hamas. What is this
Speaker 2: group and what are the accusations? What is the nature
Speaker 2: of the story.
Speaker 14: Sure, so, this is the United Nations Relief and Works Agency.
Speaker 14: This is a humanitarian group that has operated in Gaza
Speaker 14: for quite some time, decades now, and there have always
Speaker 14: been reports of them being a bit too cozy with Hamas,
Speaker 14: letting them store weapons in their facilities, letting them use
Speaker 14: their facilities to fire onto Israel and commit acts of terrorism.
Speaker 14: The questions became even more pronounced in the wake of
Speaker 14: the October seventh massacre when it was actually determined by
Speaker 14: Israel first and then others that UNRA actually employed more
Speaker 14: than one hundred people who participate in those October seventh attacks.
Speaker 14: Now what's interesting here is the USAID Inspector General that
Speaker 14: is not USAID itself. It's the Inspector GENUNERAL that's responsible
Speaker 14: for monitoring how American foreign assistance is dolled out across
Speaker 14: the globe. It's an important distinction their law enforcement agency,
Speaker 14: and they're separate from the USAID, which is largely defunct.
Speaker 14: Now what they found is that yes, in fact, more
Speaker 14: than one hundred employees were members of HAMAS. And they
Speaker 14: also found through the course of their investigation that the
Speaker 14: un including unrean at least six other agencies don't really
Speaker 14: want to provide information about those employees or cooperate into
Speaker 14: their ongoing investigation surrounding HAMAS interference into aid delivery.
Speaker 2: Adam, here is why your story caught my attention, because
Speaker 2: there is still a propaganda war going on around October
Speaker 2: the seventh around the plight of the people in Gaza,
Speaker 2: and the accusation is is that Israel and even the
Speaker 2: United States were obstructing or stopping or prohibiting aid from
Speaker 2: getting to people in Gaza. Now, Israel, as you pointed out,
Speaker 2: and others have said, that's the opposite of what's happening.
Speaker 2: Israel in the United States are trying to get the
Speaker 2: aid into the Palestinian people, but it's the Hamas that
Speaker 2: in fact is doing the obstruction, or they're stealing it
Speaker 2: and then stealing it and selling it. I thought your
Speaker 2: story was interesting because to me, this speaks to this
Speaker 2: sort of ongoing propaganda war. It sounds like what's going
Speaker 2: on here is that Hamas has in fact infiltrated the
Speaker 2: aid distribution system and was the problem here is that
Speaker 2: how you see it, Yeah.
Speaker 14: There's very much a propaganda war, and this is one
Speaker 14: of the most important aspects of the story that once
Speaker 14: you put the propaganda war aside, the accusations he said,
Speaker 14: she said, Israel's obstructing aid, you're left with facts and
Speaker 14: the facts of the matter according to the US investigation
Speaker 14: that's been going on for more than a year and
Speaker 14: is ongoing, and continuing and even expanding to I believe
Speaker 14: over a thousand members of UNRA who are actually affiliated
Speaker 14: with HAMAS. Again, this is the United Nations paying salaries
Speaker 14: of HAMAS members. And what you find is that it's
Speaker 14: exactly HAMAS who's stealing aid. Hamas is interfering in delivery.
Speaker 14: They're infiltrating aid groups, whether they're affiliated with the United
Speaker 14: Nations or otherwise outside nonprofit charities that operate there. That
Speaker 14: evidence is clear. The Inspector General itself found late last
Speaker 14: year that United Nations trucks were common deer by HAMAS.
Speaker 14: Hamas embedded its personnel into key positions in US aid
Speaker 14: orgacy organizations to ensure that aid went directly to them.
Speaker 14: These are the facts of the matter. Israel's allowing trucks in,
Speaker 14: but the un has a consistent problem with stopping HAMAS
Speaker 14: from stealing the aid, and that's exactly what the Inspector
Speaker 14: General is out there to figure out. It's also why,
Speaker 14: by the way, we stop giving money to UNRA specifically
Speaker 14: for this reason.
Speaker 2: Adam Credo is with Washington Free Beacon Hand a new
Speaker 2: investigation out. I suggest you read it about what's going
Speaker 2: on here with the United Nations and being infiltrated by
Speaker 2: Hamas in Gaza. You're talking about United Nations here, agencies
Speaker 2: we pay. The United States pays money to the United Nations,
Speaker 2: and you're talking about Hamas having infiltrated this whole structure.
Speaker 2: I have to ask, has American taxpayer money found its
Speaker 2: way into the hands of Hamas in Gaza.
Speaker 14: Most likely, particularly under the Biden administration and programs going
Speaker 14: back to that era. I actually reported separately during the
Speaker 14: time of the Biden administration that there was a move
Speaker 14: internally from the early days of the administration at the
Speaker 14: State Department to get specific permission from the Treasury Department,
Speaker 14: that is OPHAK, who oversees funds that might be going
Speaker 14: to terrorist groups, and they issued a determination that while
Speaker 14: it's incredibly likely that this usaid and money will be
Speaker 14: siphoned by Hamas, diverted by Hamas, they wanted to find
Speaker 14: a way to go ahead with it anyway. And that's
Speaker 14: exactly what they did. That's why the Inspector General has
Speaker 14: stepped in now, particularly under the Trump administration, to OnEarth
Speaker 14: exactly what happened to that money and to ensure that
Speaker 14: that never happens again. The Trump administration has been pretty
Speaker 14: strong and very clear about restricting the way US funds
Speaker 14: are spent. But there's a lot of work for the
Speaker 14: Inspector General to do prior to this administration, what was
Speaker 14: happening in the Obama administration, in the Biden administration, and
Speaker 14: going back even further, and during those times, there's clear
Speaker 14: evidence that they knew aid and money would be diverted,
Speaker 14: but they wanted to push that priority anyway.
Speaker 2: Well, I think they were more interested in giving in
Speaker 2: to the propaganda and giving in to all these free
Speaker 2: Palestine radicals in their political base. I mean, recall that
Speaker 2: Joe Biden built that crazy peer project, you know, the
Speaker 2: to Nowhere, which cost hundreds of millions of dollars. I
Speaker 2: think a US soldier at least one died trying to
Speaker 2: fix it. But no aid was ever delivered, and it
Speaker 2: was literally a project to satisfy these people who were
Speaker 2: claiming that no aid was going in to the Palestinian people,
Speaker 2: and of course that wasn't true. I find that they
Speaker 2: did a lot of things for window dressing, Adam, they
Speaker 2: didn't do things for good reasons. They did a lot
Speaker 2: of things for pr purposes or window dressing, and it
Speaker 2: turned out exactly as you might imagine. You also have
Speaker 2: some information here in the story about how Hamas used
Speaker 2: its police force, it's notoriously brutal police force to intimidate
Speaker 2: AID workers who were trying to help in Gaza.
Speaker 3: Tell us about that, correct, So this.
Speaker 14: Is another piece of the Inspector General's investigation. It was
Speaker 14: a confidential report that I obtained a copy of in
Speaker 14: and essentially looked at several US funded NGOs that were
Speaker 14: operating Gozen. Now these NGOs themselves were not accused of
Speaker 14: any wrongdoing, but the Inspector and wanted to know what
Speaker 14: the conditions are like on the ground, what they're operating
Speaker 14: against over there. And mostly all of these aid organizations
Speaker 14: admitted that the Hamas Ministry of Interior, which again is Hamas.
Speaker 14: It might not be its armed wing, but it very
Speaker 14: much is Hamas and it does their bidding, intimidated AID workers,
Speaker 14: threaten to obtain copies of their confidential employee data, threatened
Speaker 14: to sick the police on them if they did not
Speaker 14: allow them to establish personnel at AID sites, including most
Speaker 14: notably hospitals, which are very important to Hamas. They want
Speaker 14: to patrol those sites, and they use hospitals as I
Speaker 14: also reported just recently to torture, beat, and interrogate Gaza
Speaker 14: civilians that they see as against hamas's effort. So this
Speaker 14: is all part of that network that HAMAS polices and
Speaker 14: make sure is under its thumb. These aid groups were
Speaker 14: operating in an environment where their every move was tracked
Speaker 14: by HAMAS. And there are additional reports watchdog groups, not
Speaker 14: the Inspector General itself, that there are many agencies that
Speaker 14: worked tand in glove with HAMAS in order to perform
Speaker 14: their aid operations. That is allowing HAMAS officials to use
Speaker 14: sites at hospitals. There were reports that HAMAS used a
Speaker 14: command and control center in a hospital that was located
Speaker 14: literally next door to an AID organization. So this is
Speaker 14: done for cover AMAS once Isra're out to bomb civilian sites,
Speaker 14: so they can then say that Israel is targeting civilians
Speaker 14: when in fact HAMAS is embedded in these sites.
Speaker 3: All right, Adam.
Speaker 2: So we know that the United Nations denied for a
Speaker 2: very long time that HAMAS was interfering with aid delivery.
Speaker 2: We now know that simply wasn't true, and we know
Speaker 2: that they've been interfering with this investigation as we sit
Speaker 2: here today. Is the United Nations now cooperating at all.
Speaker 4: Yes and no.
Speaker 14: They've responded to pieces of the investigation. I think most
Speaker 14: notably what they won't have and over his lists in
Speaker 14: their employees. The Inspector General would use these lists to
Speaker 14: determine if they're actually members of Hamas. They have methods
Speaker 14: and means to investigate and check back whether these individuals
Speaker 14: or who they say they are, whether these individuals in
Speaker 14: many cases that we've documented throughout the war are actually
Speaker 14: doubling as members of HAMAS. That's a big piece of it,
Speaker 14: and that information has not been furnished. There's a lot
Speaker 14: of other internal documentation that the Inspector General has requested
Speaker 14: but has not yet got in its hands on. I
Speaker 14: suspect the reason for that is the information will show
Speaker 14: exactly what you expect, that there is a comfortable relationship
Speaker 14: of either aid officials being HAMAS members or HAMAS members
Speaker 14: making sure that they can infiltrate this.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 14: It's also very interesting some HAMAS Ministry of Interior documents
Speaker 14: recently came to Earth and what they showed is HAMAS
Speaker 14: kits keeps lists of aid workers and they make notes
Speaker 14: on there. It's very interesting to see we can work
Speaker 14: with this person. This person has expressed support for Hermas.
Speaker 14: This person is not willing to work with us. So
Speaker 14: they had a really thorough system and extensive system for
Speaker 14: checking how they could manufacture support within aid agencies.
Speaker 2: All right, final question, I'll give you the last word
Speaker 2: fifteen seconds. Bottom line, Can we as we sit here today,
Speaker 2: safely deliver humanitarian aid into Gaza without Hamas benefiting from it?
Speaker 3: Right now?
Speaker 14: There's one primary solution. That's to remove Hamas control from
Speaker 14: the Gaza strip. That's the only way to fully ensure
Speaker 14: Hamas does not get its hands on it. The only
Speaker 14: way to ensure it is for Hermas to go, for
Speaker 14: all of its officials to lay down their arms, remove
Speaker 14: themselves from government, and potentially go elsewhere depending on what
Speaker 14: the final peace plan is. But if AMAS is there,
Speaker 14: Amas will try to steal eight. They're doing it now.
Speaker 2: Adam Grido with a Washington Free Beacon. Thanks for your work,
Speaker 2: great story. We'll have you back, Thank you, sir. All right,
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Speaker 11: Ready for more common sense here, CNN Senior political commentator
Speaker 11: New York Times best selling author at America's favorite political punditi,
Speaker 11: Scott Jennings.
Speaker 3: All right, I've had.
Speaker 2: This one on my pile of things to discuss with
Speaker 2: you for several days now, but then I went on
Speaker 2: my great Western sojourn and left it on the pile.
Speaker 3: But I remembered it today because this.
Speaker 2: Morning I went outside and looked into my own chicken
Speaker 2: coop and the Jennings backyard, and we keep over thirty
Speaker 2: chickens in the Jennings backyard area. We love our chickens.
Speaker 2: We've been doing the chickens now for several years. We
Speaker 2: started with six. Now we have over thirty. They call
Speaker 2: it chicken math. Sure some of you out there know
Speaker 2: what it's like. But I was more than pleased recently
Speaker 2: when the Vice President of the United States had a
Speaker 2: chicken coop of his own constructed at the Naval Observatory
Speaker 2: in Northwest Washington.
Speaker 3: This is where the Vice President lives.
Speaker 2: Finally, we paragons of poultry have true representation in the
Speaker 2: executive branch.
Speaker 3: This is unequivocally a good thing.
Speaker 2: For many years, chicken owners of America have suffered in silence.
Speaker 2: We have no lobbyists, no pack no Cabinet secretary, not
Speaker 2: even a lousy commission. Now we have the vice president.
Speaker 2: Now we're cooking with gas, not the chickens, but metaphorically.
Speaker 2: So I was pleased about this. And then, of course,
Speaker 2: because jad Vance decided to do something incredibly normal these
Speaker 2: days and get some chickens, the Washington Post swooped in
Speaker 2: and decided, we need to attempt to ruin this. We
Speaker 2: need to investigate this. Questions, they say, have been raised
Speaker 2: about the coop and whether all the proper historical preservation
Speaker 2: protocols were followed. It's a chicken coop. Now, it's a
Speaker 2: nice one. I saw it. And if you're within the
Speaker 2: sound of my voice and you have a chicken coop
Speaker 2: in your backyard, dare I say?
Speaker 3: It's likely not.
Speaker 2: As nice or expensive as the one that Jady Vance got.
Speaker 2: But you know what, but he's the vice president. I
Speaker 2: want him to have a nice chicken coop. So the
Speaker 2: Washington Post swoops in. The first thing they did was
Speaker 2: they called the city of DC and they tried to
Speaker 2: get the vice president cited for zoning infractions. They called
Speaker 2: up the zoning people to complain. Here's part of the article.
Speaker 2: I tried to confirm the regulations with a few people
Speaker 2: at DC Health. No one returned my calls or responded
Speaker 2: to my emails, but one city official said DC regulations
Speaker 2: don't typically apply to federal property. He spoke on condition
Speaker 2: of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to talk to the media.
Speaker 2: But locals don't follow the rules either, the official said,
Speaker 2: I know we have plenty of people in the city
Speaker 2: raising chickens on properties that don't meet the requirement. So
Speaker 2: that was the first thing they tried to do. They
Speaker 2: wanted the zoning people in Washington to come and interrupt
Speaker 2: the e Vance family chicken operation. So not satisfied with
Speaker 2: that vector, the Washington Post then called up a chicken expert.
Speaker 2: Now the chicken expert that they called and it's hard
Speaker 2: to believe it, Well, is it? Maybe it's not hard
Speaker 2: to believe they called up a chicken expert, someone who
Speaker 2: uses they them pronouns and uses their chicken as an
Speaker 2: emotional support animal because they have long COVID.
Speaker 3: Bowers.
Speaker 2: The Utah Chicken keeper thinks of their hens. This is crazy.
Speaker 2: It's a single person, like a singular human being that
Speaker 2: we have to refer to as there because of the
Speaker 2: pronouns Bowers, the Utah chicken keeper, thinks of their hens,
Speaker 2: especially a bearded white silky bantam named Karen, of course,
Speaker 2: almost as emotional support animals. When Bowers is having a
Speaker 2: particularly bad day, they meaning the person suffer chronic pain
Speaker 2: from several autoimmune disorders, they cuddle up with care and
Speaker 2: the chicken so zoning and they them. That's who the
Speaker 2: Washington Post called to try to make trouble for JD.
Speaker 3: Vanswell.
Speaker 2: I salute the Vice president on this. Godspeed, mister Vice President,
Speaker 2: and to your chickens, best wishes.
Speaker 3: It's a great hobby.
Speaker 2: More after this, before we do a quick check of
Speaker 2: the headlines. Sometimes people write me questions. One of the questions,
Speaker 2: believe it or not, is often Scott, what do you
Speaker 2: do in the commercial breaks? When you're just sitting there
Speaker 2: and we're listening to the commercials and we're waiting for you.
Speaker 3: To come back on, what do you do? Let me
Speaker 3: tell you what I'm doing. I sign books.
Speaker 2: Literally, I have lists upon lists of books that people
Speaker 2: want me to sign.
Speaker 3: A Revolution of Common Sense. Now.
Speaker 2: It came out last November. It was a New York
Speaker 2: Times bestseller. You can still get it on Amazon, I'm
Speaker 2: sure at a fair price these days. But I signed books,
Speaker 2: and I'm sitting here. How many we got to sign?
Speaker 3: Like one hundred?
Speaker 2: Literally, I'm going to sign like one hundred books. Anyway,
Speaker 2: that's what we're doing. Quick check of the headlines. The
Speaker 2: Senate has honored Lindsey Graham by passing the final significant
Speaker 2: bill that he was authoring a series of major sanctions
Speaker 2: on Russia and some that target Iran, in a landslide
Speaker 2: eighty six to eleven vote. Key issue here is that
Speaker 2: the President is authorized in this legislation to levy a
Speaker 2: one hundred percent tariff on imported Russian oil. The critical
Speaker 2: bill now goes over to the House. Hope it passes there.
Speaker 2: Power is changing hands. In Columbia, the second largest country
Speaker 2: in South America, today, Ablardo de la Epraia was inaugurated
Speaker 2: as the country's thirty sixth president. He's a fire brand conservative,
Speaker 2: ardently pro Israel, anti cartel, anti Marxist, and he's taking
Speaker 2: over for a communist named Gustavo Petro. This is another country,
Speaker 2: yet another country, I should say, in South and Central
Speaker 2: America rejecting communism in favor of common sense. And as
Speaker 2: the midterms get closer and closer here in the United States,
Speaker 2: we hear at the Scott Jennings Show are going to
Speaker 2: be covering the most competitive house races that will determine
Speaker 2: who controls Congress after November. Today we take you to
Speaker 2: the land of Enchantment, New Mexico, to cover one of
Speaker 2: the most competitive House elections this cycle.
Speaker 3: It is the second district in New Mexico CO.
Speaker 2: The candidates are Greg Cunningham, the Republican, versus Gabe Vasquez,
Speaker 2: the incumbent Democrat. Let's take a listen to what Greg
Speaker 2: Cunningham is telling the people of New Mexico.
Speaker 3: Cut one.
Speaker 7: We need someone in there that one they look you
Speaker 7: in the eye and they tell you something that you know.
Speaker 7: They need the old adage that say what you mean?
Speaker 7: You mean what you say. I made a career on
Speaker 7: a life on that and so i have a job
Speaker 7: to do, a mission to finish, and I'm committed to
Speaker 7: doing that.
Speaker 4: From the sea.
Speaker 2: And joining me now to discuss the campaign is that
Speaker 2: Republican named Greg Cunningham. This is New Mexico's second district. Greg,
Speaker 2: welcome in to the Scott Jennings Show.
Speaker 7: Oh well, thank you for having me. I'm honored.
Speaker 2: Well I'm glad you're here and glad you're running now.
Speaker 2: You have an interesting background. You are a in the Marines,
Speaker 2: you're a lieutenant colonel, You're a combat veteran.
Speaker 3: You've been a small business owner.
Speaker 2: You were even once embedded undercover with the cartel.
Speaker 3: I want you to talk to us about your.
Speaker 2: Life story and what led up to you getting into
Speaker 2: this political campaign.
Speaker 7: Ah, well, thank you. I was the only thing I
Speaker 7: will take umbrage with. And I was an enlisted man
Speaker 7: in the Marines. I was not an officer. I actually
Speaker 7: worked for a living. That's what we say in the Marine.
Speaker 3: Got it all right?
Speaker 7: I understood, yes, sir, and again. Born and raised in Albuquerque,
Speaker 7: A former combat Marine. I was in Desert Storm and
Speaker 7: got my combat action ribbon there Albuquerque and police farment
Speaker 7: twenty two years, started my own business, six children, nine grandchildren.
Speaker 4: My path here is.
Speaker 7: A blue collar working path, and I'm very proud of that.
Speaker 7: I did a lot of undercover work to include work
Speaker 7: with we called it Black Block at the time, was
Speaker 7: the precursor to Antifa. So I have actually done undercover
Speaker 7: with what people are calling now protesters, which we know
Speaker 7: really they are anarchists. They're paid agitators. I have done
Speaker 7: undercover work at the border. I have done Title threes,
Speaker 7: which are wire taps. So I have a very personal
Speaker 7: hands on experience with the border and how to get
Speaker 7: control of that and how to provide a safe future
Speaker 7: for our children and grandchildren.
Speaker 2: Well, this issue of the border and border control and
Speaker 2: border security and what we're going to do about it
Speaker 2: has become a central issue in your campaign. Your opponent,
Speaker 2: Gabe Vesquez, says the border wall is a ridiculous waste
Speaker 2: of money. I want you to listen to this and
Speaker 2: we'll get your reaction.
Speaker 3: Cut three.
Speaker 6: I also read that you're opposed to some border wall construction.
Speaker 6: We know the transport wall construction in New Mexicolachlin, the
Speaker 6: Solon Park, New Mexico area, but there's also a new
Speaker 6: construction that was announced in a very remote part of
Speaker 6: the state. The board is a very remote, remote part
Speaker 6: of Mexico as well, and that is a bookshel of
Speaker 6: New Mexico. Can you tell us about your concerns there?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I can tell you it's a ridiculous waste of money.
Speaker 3: Ridiculous waste of money or necessary? What do you think, Greg?
Speaker 7: Oh, my gosh, I can tell you from first hand experience,
Speaker 7: it is necessary, absolutely necessary. It's and again a ridiculous
Speaker 7: waste of money. How much what is our safety worth?
Speaker 7: What are our wives going to the store and our
Speaker 7: children in school and are being able to walk your
Speaker 7: neighborhood at night? How much is that worth? What's the
Speaker 7: cost that we put on that? And so I would
Speaker 7: say that anything we do to provide those things for
Speaker 7: our family and our people here in New Mexico, it's
Speaker 7: not about cost.
Speaker 4: For me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think of all the things that the government
Speaker 2: spends money on, and the thing that you would want
Speaker 2: it to spend money on always and the most is
Speaker 2: the security of the American people. I mean, what else
Speaker 2: is the purpose of government, you know, if we're not
Speaker 2: going to secure our border and protect our people.
Speaker 3: And of course New Mexico, I mean.
Speaker 2: How many how many miles of border does your district
Speaker 2: have here? Like it's got to be one hundred and
Speaker 2: two hundred miles something And so this isn't a far
Speaker 2: away issue for people in this district. This is something
Speaker 2: happening every single day.
Speaker 7: I don't know the exact number, and I don't want
Speaker 7: to guess because as a detective, I've learned guessing is
Speaker 7: a bad thing. I know, it's over four hundred miles,
Speaker 7: so it's vast. We have a ton here.
Speaker 10: And.
Speaker 7: The cartels utilize every mile of that to their advantage.
Speaker 7: I mean, people American needs to understand and that the
Speaker 7: cartels are a national security threat. You know, the administration
Speaker 7: did a great job at ending the catch and release
Speaker 7: people coming across the border, the open border, that's step one,
Speaker 7: but the same challenges and obstacles that I faced as
Speaker 7: a detective are still there and the cartels. Again, people
Speaker 7: America just needs to understand. We Please remember I'm a
Speaker 7: former marine, so my verbiage can be we're at war
Speaker 7: with them. I mean, if we're going to call it
Speaker 7: the war on drugs, let's extrapolate that to the reality.
Speaker 7: The reality is is we're at war with the cartels.
Speaker 7: They are in essence, they are poisoning our children in
Speaker 7: the name of profit, and I won't allow it anymore.
Speaker 3: All Right.
Speaker 2: Our guest today is Greg Cunningham, running for Congress in
Speaker 2: New Mexico's second district. We've got about a minute left here, Greg,
Speaker 2: I want to give you the last word. I know,
Speaker 2: border security and immigration control is a big issue but
Speaker 2: also the economy, quality of life. These things are also
Speaker 2: important to you give us the pitch. Why should voters
Speaker 2: here throw out the Democrat and go back to the Republicans.
Speaker 7: Well, I think a lot of times sometimes and I'll
Speaker 7: try to speak quickly, which I'm half Tennessee, and so
Speaker 7: that's hard for me. Is basically, nothing happens until we
Speaker 7: have the chaos ended, until we have our border secure,
Speaker 7: our street secure, the chaos done. Business, school, education, none
Speaker 7: of those things are going to matter. And so my wheelhouse,
Speaker 7: my expertise is public safety and getting things done. I'm
Speaker 7: a problem solver and so and so when people talk
Speaker 7: about what are your policies, it's it's so it's tempting
Speaker 7: me to just to look at gay Boscaz and say,
Speaker 7: whatever that guy is, I'm the exact opposite. And that's
Speaker 7: the truth. And it only is that simple. I am
Speaker 7: the exact I'm the antithesis of Gaye Bosca is in
Speaker 7: every way, shape and form, and I take great pride
Speaker 7: in that.
Speaker 2: Well, it's hard to have prosperity without safety, and obviously
Speaker 2: you embody that. Greg Cunningham running for Congress in New Mexico.
Speaker 2: Thanks for sharing some time with us today on the
Speaker 2: Scott Jennings Show. We're going to take a break. When
Speaker 2: we come back the relief Factor Pain of the Week.
Speaker 2: Who will it be? Find out after this?
Speaker 4: If the leftists haven't had enough yet? There's more. This
Speaker 4: is the Scott Jenny Show.
Speaker 2: It's Friday, August the seventh, Common Sense for the American People.
Speaker 2: Scott Jennings broadcasting for Salem and happy to be broadcasting
Speaker 2: from Louisville, Kentucky today. Although I will be heading up
Speaker 2: to Washington this weekend. If you're at the Young America's Foundation,
Speaker 2: I'll be delivering the big speech Saturday night in Washington,
Speaker 2: d C.
Speaker 3: We'll look forward to doing that.
Speaker 2: But it is Friday afternoon, and it is twenty two
Speaker 2: minutes past the hour, and you know what that means.
Speaker 2: Means Hollywood, Shawn, It's time for the Relief Factor Pain
Speaker 2: of the Week.
Speaker 6: And no, the.
Speaker 4: Relief Factor Pain of the Week.
Speaker 2: All right, this week's relief Factor Pain of the Week
Speaker 2: comes to us from the great state of Wisconsin, where
Speaker 2: Democrats are apparently looking at everything that has gone wrong
Speaker 2: for their party over the last few years and saying,
Speaker 2: you know what, we just haven't quite.
Speaker 3: Gone far enough.
Speaker 2: I want you to meet Francesca Hong, state legislator, chef
Speaker 2: Democratic Socialist and currently leading in the race to become
Speaker 2: the Democratic nominee for governor of Wisconsin. And boy does
Speaker 2: Francesca have a record. Back in twenty twenty, she declared,
Speaker 2: I support defunding the police as a first step towards
Speaker 2: abolishing the police. She said police exists to quote uphold
Speaker 2: white supremacy. She supports abolishing ice, She talks about abolishing prisons.
Speaker 2: She's called for abolishing the United States Senate, which, frankly,
Speaker 2: you're running for governor of Wisconsin, seems a little ambitious
Speaker 2: to me. But she's got big dreams and big plans
Speaker 2: for our country. So police gone, immigration control gone, prisons gone,
Speaker 2: Senate gone.
Speaker 3: But don't worry. There's more.
Speaker 2: She also said that she hated Thanksgiving so much, in fact,
Speaker 2: that it should be canceled.
Speaker 3: Let's hear that in cut eleven.
Speaker 7: Thanksgiving is also a time that's incredibly painful for many
Speaker 7: people in our communities.
Speaker 2: Painful. I mean, I'm gonna be honest. I was talking
Speaker 2: about this with some people. There are people out there
Speaker 2: that have to spend Thanksgiving with people that yeah, it
Speaker 2: is painful for them. I don't think that's what she means. However,
Speaker 2: but she got a lot of flak for saying she
Speaker 2: wanted to cancel Thanksgiving. Now, after that criticism came in,
Speaker 2: she says, you know what, I actually love Thanksgiving?
Speaker 3: Cut thirteen.
Speaker 12: My favorite holiday is.
Speaker 14: Thanksgiving because I have it.
Speaker 4: Yep, I don't want to cancel it. I actually love it.
Speaker 2: Okay, we went from hating and canceling Thanksgiving to you
Speaker 2: know what, I love Thanksgiving. I'll let you decide in
Speaker 2: which case she's letting out her true feelings. It is
Speaker 2: amazing what running statewide in Wisconsin can do for your
Speaker 2: appreciation of pumpkin pie. I guess she's doing the same thing.
Speaker 2: On policing, however, she said that defunding the police was
Speaker 2: the first step towards abolishing the police. Now she says, oh, no,
Speaker 2: I'm serious about public safety. Well, congratulations. So we're about
Speaker 2: ninety eight percent of everybody in America. This woman is
Speaker 2: a socialist, Hong, She's running as a socialist. You would
Speaker 2: think that the most famous socialist in America right now
Speaker 2: would be thrilled. Hey, we got a socialist running for
Speaker 2: governor with a chance to win. In Wisconsin. I'm happy,
Speaker 2: but no, that's actually not the case. Bernie Sanders was
Speaker 2: asked about endorsing this woman this week, and he said, basically,
Speaker 2: I don't know enough about the race to get involved.
Speaker 2: Do you know how crazy you have to be for
Speaker 2: Bernie Sanders to back away from endorsing you if you
Speaker 2: are expressing his socialist views? How far left off the
Speaker 2: reservation do you have to wander before Bernie Sanders pretends
Speaker 2: he's never heard of Wisconsin. It's like getting kicked off
Speaker 2: of Willie Nelson's concert bus tour for smelling like marijuana.
Speaker 2: I mean, Francesca Hong the perfect avatar for the Democratic
Speaker 2: Party's problem right now. They said crazy things when they
Speaker 2: thought crazy things were fashionable, and they said that because
Speaker 2: they believe it. Defund the police, abolish ice, canceled Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2: Now that voters are paying attention and we've all come
Speaker 2: to our senses again, suddenly everybody wants to run away
Speaker 2: from their true feelings and say.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, no, I just care about affordability. I don't
Speaker 3: necessarily want you to get murdered in the streets. They say.
Speaker 2: You know, the great thing about the Internet is that
Speaker 2: it keeps receipts, and this week Francesca Hong is learning
Speaker 2: a painful lesson. You can delete the tweets, but you
Speaker 2: cannot elite the crazy. And that is why Francesca Hong,
Speaker 2: you are the relief factor Pain of the week.
Speaker 4: That's their relief factor. Pain of the Week.
Speaker 11: Scott Juttings surial pain and the agenda for the lefties?
Speaker 11: Do you want to drive a leftist crazy? Tell the
Speaker 11: truth and keep smiling. This is the Scott Jetting.
Speaker 2: Show, Friday, August, the seventh home stretch of the week
Speaker 2: that was, and to go over it all, we'll engage
Speaker 2: in our traditional Friday punditry.
Speaker 3: Our pundit of the week this week is.
Speaker 2: Saraj Hashmi, who is I think one of the funnier
Speaker 2: guys on the Internet. Long history of expertly trolling the
Speaker 2: left and occasionally some on the right, all part of
Speaker 2: his job as these senior media strategists, senior digital strategist,
Speaker 2: digital media strategist.
Speaker 3: Now that I butchered that down Hall News.
Speaker 2: Making his inaugural appearance on the Scot Jetting Show, Sarage Hashmi, Sarage,
Speaker 2: welcome in here, Thanks for doing.
Speaker 3: This with us.
Speaker 4: Thank you so much. For having me brother.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is great.
Speaker 2: You know I should tell the audience we don't really
Speaker 2: know each other. I know you from the Internet, and
Speaker 2: I am constantly chuckling at your insights and takes and observations.
Speaker 2: And then I was pleased to see that our friends
Speaker 2: at town Hall had decided to bring you in. Why
Speaker 2: don't we start there. Let's get the Sarage story. You
Speaker 2: haven't always been a conservative. You've had You've been on
Speaker 2: a little journey, but now you find yourself at one
Speaker 2: of the most important conservative websites, town Hall.
Speaker 3: Tell us about yourself.
Speaker 5: It's an interesting journey. I don't know how much time
Speaker 5: you want me to share and spend on it, but
Speaker 5: I'll be very brief. I started off as very liberal,
Speaker 5: you know, very very much, protesting the Iraq War in
Speaker 5: the two thousands, you know, voting for Barack Obama twice,
Speaker 5: even voting for Hillary Clinton in twenty sixteen, and slowly
Speaker 5: but surely things that Democrats did, Like in twenty sixteen,
Speaker 5: if you remember the Pulse nightclub shooting, they had this proposal,
Speaker 5: the no fly, no by Gum proposal, And originally, you know,
Speaker 5: with a name like mine, that probably would get swept
Speaker 5: up in that based on the arbitrary government watch list, right,
Speaker 5: So that was the first crack in the damn. And
Speaker 5: then I became very much pro to Second Amendment. And yeah,
Speaker 5: I still had a lot of more liberal leanings, and
Speaker 5: I bought into sort of the misinformation and disinformation just
Speaker 5: straight up you know, media slander of Donald Trump. And
Speaker 5: then over the course of Trump's first term, what really
Speaker 5: sort of, you know, I couldn't deny was that Trump
Speaker 5: was actually really funny and everything he did, whether it
Speaker 5: was wittingly or unwittingly, the guy was just hysterical. And
Speaker 5: from there it sort of boiled over to COVID happening.
Speaker 5: Realizing that once as soon as we talk about this
Speaker 5: deal with Fauci in his contempt of Congress, he kind
Speaker 5: of go back all the way to those years and
Speaker 5: specifically when there was everyone has to be on lockdown,
Speaker 5: no one can go out. And then all of a sudden,
Speaker 5: George Floyd happens and it's like all the public health
Speaker 5: officials are like, go protest because systemic racism and white
Speaker 5: supremacy is more of a public health threat than come
Speaker 5: And I was like, that's it. I can't I can't
Speaker 5: do this.
Speaker 3: That moment and nobody wants to talk about it.
Speaker 2: I'm glad you brought it up, but basically, you had
Speaker 2: people with the word doctor in their titles saying, effectively
Speaker 2: arguing that the COVID virus could discern your politics and
Speaker 2: would give you a pass if you went out in
Speaker 2: the street to protest something as long as that something
Speaker 2: was judged to be politically moral. At that time, that
Speaker 2: was literally what they were saying out loud to the
Speaker 2: American people. And at that moment, I think a lot
Speaker 2: of us, you, and I think millions of Americans started
Speaker 2: to think, wait a minute, if you're willing to say
Speaker 2: with a st eight phase that out loud to me,
Speaker 2: what of the rest of this is complete in total?
Speaker 3: BS?
Speaker 2: And as we found out from the Anthony Fauci diary,
Speaker 2: a lot of it was BS. Let's start there for
Speaker 2: our Friday punditry, Saraj. I know this was a big
Speaker 2: issue for you back when it was going on. You've
Speaker 2: been following this and making a lot of commentary about it.
Speaker 3: I'll just ask you this question.
Speaker 2: Should Anthony Fauci have answered questions or was he smart
Speaker 2: to take the fifth in front of the Senate Committee.
Speaker 5: I will say, Scott, the one thing that kind of
Speaker 5: gives me pause is that even his liberal champions in
Speaker 5: the media are sort of lamenting the fact that Anthony
Speaker 5: Fauci pled the Fifth one hundred and eleven times in
Speaker 5: front of the Senate Homeland Security Committee because he was granted.
Speaker 5: He was granted the pardon by President Biden on his
Speaker 5: way out, all the way from twenty fourteen up until
Speaker 5: the end of his presidency, so that's a span of
Speaker 5: ten years. That was when the gain of Function research
Speaker 5: really started Muhan Laboratory. And as I think Josh Holly
Speaker 5: so there Josh Holly pointed out, is that you can't
Speaker 5: beleave the Fifth if you've been granted the pardon because legally, like,
Speaker 5: what are you incriminating from incriminating yourself with when you've
Speaker 5: already been given that pardon, So legally speaking, it should
Speaker 5: not hold up the fact that he's being held in
Speaker 5: contempt of Congress. I agree with I think that's the
Speaker 5: right move. I'm kind of disappointed in sending. There's like
Speaker 5: John Featherman, who's been pretty reasonable as of the last
Speaker 5: couple of years to kind of vote along party lines
Speaker 5: and to not hold Fauci and contempt. But that you know,
Speaker 5: that's besides the point, right, Those are you know, little
Speaker 5: side notes. The bigger picture here is that what exactly
Speaker 5: is Fauci hiding? I mean, we have his we have
Speaker 5: his diary, we have a good chunk of it. We
Speaker 5: have specifically the areas where he highlighted it. The death
Speaker 5: toll just supposed with Man, the media just loves me,
Speaker 5: And I don't know what it is. They just you know,
Speaker 5: they just can't get.
Speaker 9: Enough of me.
Speaker 5: I just you know they think about me. I think,
Speaker 5: oh yeah, Dick tapper oo WU like that these are
Speaker 5: the type of like love notes that he's sort of
Speaker 5: writing in his diary. And you're thinking, to yourself, this
Speaker 5: is a this is at the time acceptagenarian, almost an
Speaker 5: octogenarian aged man, Like what are you doing? Like even
Speaker 5: if you were writing a memoir like and that comes out,
Speaker 5: everyone's gonna be like, what wtf? Mate? Like whether at
Speaker 5: the time you were supposed to be leading the pandemic
Speaker 5: response And you know who I don't think is not
Speaker 5: getting enough scorn out of this. You know who is
Speaker 5: leading the task force during the COVID pandemic. Vice President
Speaker 5: Mike Pence.
Speaker 3: You think needs much talk about it.
Speaker 2: If you, if you were, if you were chairman of
Speaker 2: the committee, would you drag him in next?
Speaker 5: I don't see why not. I mean, I don't know
Speaker 5: whether I don't know if executive privilege applies to him
Speaker 5: in this regard, But like at this point, that's I'm
Speaker 5: very surprised nobody's talking about Mike Pence.
Speaker 3: On the on the fat gpiece.
Speaker 2: We had a legal scholar on from Yale this week,
Speaker 2: and he absolutely says that they can bypass a full
Speaker 2: Senate vote and either Vance or even Chuck Grassley, whoever
Speaker 2: is judged to be presiding over the Senate in the moment,
Speaker 2: can actually just send this right over to the Department
Speaker 2: of Justice. So I suspect he's gonna end up having
Speaker 2: to tangle on this because I agree with the lawyers
Speaker 2: that you've also talked to, you can't plead the fifth
Speaker 2: if you've already gotten a pardon. He got terrible legal advice,
Speaker 2: but he also got terrible public relations advice.
Speaker 3: It would have done him a world of good. I
Speaker 3: think if he had just.
Speaker 2: Sat in front of the committee and said, you know what,
Speaker 2: I made the best decisions with the information I had
Speaker 2: at the time. We got some things right, and we
Speaker 2: got a lot of things wrong, but it's important for
Speaker 2: us to know both. That way we improve for the
Speaker 2: next time. If he could have had the humility just
Speaker 2: to say that, he would have done himself a world
Speaker 2: of good. But instead taking the fifth Boy, was that terrible,
Speaker 2: terrible pr advice?
Speaker 3: All right, let's move on.
Speaker 2: I want to talk about one of my favorite Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: go ahead.
Speaker 5: I was just going to say it was very disappointing.
Speaker 5: Is that every doctor takes the hippocratic oath, you know,
Speaker 5: do no harm, and yet the only harm that he's
Speaker 5: focused on is not doing any harm to his own image.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, well he did a lot of harm.
Speaker 2: Uh, And I just it's it's amazing to me that
Speaker 2: he I mean, this is a guy who sat in
Speaker 2: front of committees, has sat for countless thousands of media interviews.
Speaker 2: You know, he's he's never not been willing to talk
Speaker 2: ad nauseum, and so to sit there in Stonewall Congress
Speaker 2: like that, boy, it was a a rough look. All right,
Speaker 2: I want to move on to the Mayor of New
Speaker 2: York City. He's having an interesting week. First of all,
Speaker 2: he went to an event with a bunch of cops
Speaker 2: in Staten Island, and I want to play this for
Speaker 2: you and get your reaction to it.
Speaker 3: Mom Donnie getting booed off the stage cut six.
Speaker 4: Gentlemen, Are you ready for some work camp day?
Speaker 15: No, we're not.
Speaker 8: We're not.
Speaker 3: We're goett even work. Somebody getting on work.
Speaker 2: He had that PR debacle, Saraj, and he also is,
Speaker 2: I think, sort of presiding over a debacle as it
Speaker 2: relates to these government owned grocery stores, saying that we're
Speaker 2: gonna have to have ID in order to get into
Speaker 2: the grocery stores. And of course a lot of us
Speaker 2: on the right have had fun with that. Do you
Speaker 2: feel like maybe the honeymoon is wearing off a little
Speaker 2: bit from Mom Donnie?
Speaker 3: What's your take?
Speaker 5: You know, at this point he's been the mayor for
Speaker 5: more than half a year. There are going to be
Speaker 5: his proponents who say that he's doing a great job.
Speaker 5: He's finally focusing on, you know, the working people of
Speaker 5: New York. But at the same time, who's driving the
Speaker 5: most sort of economic benefit to New York i e.
Speaker 5: The business owners and everyone who's actually like created the
Speaker 5: economic capital that New York City is. They're leaving and
Speaker 5: they're they're they're pissed off. They can't understand why they
Speaker 5: would why any any New Yorker would would support this guy,
Speaker 5: right because you have the government run grocery stores, all
Speaker 5: the bodega owners, They're like, how is it possible that
Speaker 5: we have to now compete with a government subsidized grocery
Speaker 5: store that now also requires a library card if you
Speaker 5: want to call it that, But it's really just an
Speaker 5: identification card. I mean, how are you going to prevent
Speaker 5: people from Recently? Of course Costco has you know, membership,
Speaker 5: Sam's Club has membership. They're private enterprises, they have an
Speaker 5: entity where like they can probably hedge against a lot
Speaker 5: of resiling. But at the same time, like, how are
Speaker 5: you going to prevent people from really abusing the system?
Speaker 4: And it costs a lot of money.
Speaker 3: If he's haventy million.
Speaker 4: Dollars, it's crazy.
Speaker 2: I know, it's great and in the press conference like
Speaker 2: he's holding up like this.
Speaker 3: Bananas.
Speaker 2: Bananas are the greatest miracle of capitalism. You can grow
Speaker 2: a banana in whatever, Argentina, wherever they can from and
Speaker 2: have it here in the United States the next day,
Speaker 2: and it costs like thirty cents. I mean, is anybody
Speaker 2: out there saying, boy, these bananas are breaking me.
Speaker 3: That's not, of course not.
Speaker 2: But he's like standing up at this press conference holding
Speaker 2: the bananas up like he's getting ready to throw it
Speaker 2: up at the tip of a basketball game. You know
Speaker 2: one other thing that happened to him this week? What
Speaker 2: didn't happen to him? I guess it happened to the
Speaker 2: people who supported him. He puts out the list of
Speaker 2: all the people, the property owners in New York that
Speaker 2: he wants to tax, and all the people that supported
Speaker 2: him realized their names were on it, including this moron,
Speaker 2: Scott Galloway, who has this podcast with.
Speaker 3: Kara Swisher, and he gets on the podcast and he's like,
Speaker 3: I don't know what happened.
Speaker 2: I supported him, and now they've dosed to me on
Speaker 2: the property tax list. Do you think the rich liberals
Speaker 2: in New York sarag have realized that, yes, the leopard
Speaker 2: will also eat my face too, or do you think
Speaker 2: it's going to take some more pain?
Speaker 3: Give you the last one in the segment.
Speaker 5: It will be a little bit more pain, because I
Speaker 5: think I don't think people look at Scott Galloway and
Speaker 5: think he's sort of like the voice of reason amongst
Speaker 5: the left. I mean, I think, yeah, maybe Ars Sweatsher's podcast,
Speaker 5: having that sort of joint venture with her is helpful
Speaker 5: to his brand, but ultimately, like it's going to take
Speaker 5: a prominent figure in the American society to really be like,
Speaker 5: you know what, I once supported Zora Mandani, but I
Speaker 5: can't take it anymore.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's that that whole you know that, plus the
Speaker 2: fact that he was saying five million, and then the
Speaker 2: properties on there were one million. And oh, by the way,
Speaker 2: a lot of the properties on there people live in
Speaker 2: every day.
Speaker 3: These weren't second homes.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 3: I think a lot of people got to wake up
Speaker 3: the fact.
Speaker 5: That the property value in New York City is so
Speaker 5: high already.
Speaker 2: I know it's that whole thing, total debacle, but I
Speaker 2: think a lot of people are getting a lesson in
Speaker 2: what it's like to live under a socialist More Friday
Speaker 2: punitry with Saraj When we come back on the Scott
Speaker 2: Jetting Show, stayed with me.
Speaker 11: Well left arguments with truth and common sense.
Speaker 4: They hate that this does this Scott Jenny Shall, all.
Speaker 3: Right, we'll wrap up the week.
Speaker 2: Here are pundit of the Week Sarage Hashmi, the senior
Speaker 2: digital media strategist for town Hall. A great website you
Speaker 2: should visit for interesting content. Sarage, I gotta do this story.
Speaker 3: We haven't.
Speaker 2: I did a little WNBA before I went on my vacation.
Speaker 2: Now I'm back, and I see the WNBA as even
Speaker 2: crazier than it was before I left. There's a player
Speaker 2: named Gabby Williams. She plays for the Golden State Valkyries.
Speaker 2: Pretty good fourteen point seven points a game this season,
Speaker 2: and she says she wants to play against dudes.
Speaker 3: Let's hear Gabby Williams, Cut eight.
Speaker 12: I would welcome trans out there on my team more
Speaker 12: against my team anytime.
Speaker 4: I don't think it's a problem in the world.
Speaker 2: Okay, So Gabby says she wants to play against dudes, Well,
Speaker 2: there is, as luck would have it, a dude who's
Speaker 2: willing to do this. You may have heard of him.
Speaker 2: His name is Enis Canter or Enu's Freedom. I guess
Speaker 2: he changed his name. Former NBA player. He's like seven
Speaker 2: feet tall today. He declared for the w NBA draft
Speaker 2: cut sixty.
Speaker 15: After careful concenteration and reviewing the current eligibility guidelines. I
Speaker 15: am officially declaring myself a WNBA prospect. If simply declaring
Speaker 15: who you are is all that's required, that I meet
Speaker 15: every single requirement necessary to compete in the WNBA. My
Speaker 15: Tim and I have carefully examined the WA's eligibility criteria
Speaker 15: and governing framework surrounding self identification and inclusion. Based on
Speaker 15: the current guidelines, I can and am officially declaring my
Speaker 15: eligibility for the upcoming WNBA Draft in May twenty twenty seven.
Speaker 15: I am definitely not here to muck, make fun of,
Speaker 15: or disuspect any community or personal choices. I am simply
Speaker 15: asking that the current rules be applied equally to everyone,
Speaker 15: the rules that represent the very values many WNBA players
Speaker 15: and coaches have publicly advocated for. My Tim and I
Speaker 15: are prepared to ensure these guidelines are applied equally, consistently
Speaker 15: and redot exception, and I'll look forward thro the WNBA
Speaker 15: honoring its stated principles to your training camp.
Speaker 2: What do you think, Saraj should they should somebody in
Speaker 2: the w NBA draft inenus freedom? I mean it would
Speaker 2: give them well, I would say you would have games
Speaker 2: that were like literally like two hundred to nothing if
Speaker 2: they If they had one dude on the team, That's
Speaker 2: what would happened.
Speaker 3: What do you think I think somebody should do it?
Speaker 3: Tell me.
Speaker 5: I recalled Donald Trump saying back in twenty twenty two
Speaker 5: that if he were to buy a WNBA team, he
Speaker 5: would ask Lebron James if he had any interest in
Speaker 5: becoming a woman. And it's just you know, and it's freedom,
Speaker 5: And don't underestimate the sort of detact and sort of
Speaker 5: the determination of someone who's wont to changed their last name.
Speaker 5: That takes a lot of work, right, So someone who
Speaker 5: went from Nscanter and his freedom, that's a that's a
Speaker 5: big deal. And also, you know, as a Celtics fan,
Speaker 5: he played he played fairly well for the Celtics in
Speaker 5: the short stit that he was there. But I will
Speaker 5: say he has been one of the more impressive members
Speaker 5: of the NBA post NBA career, considering how he's actually
Speaker 5: trying to make a change in our society, and he
Speaker 5: brings up a valuable point. He's not actually in it
Speaker 5: to mock anyone, but he does want to make sure
Speaker 5: that the WNBA is adhering to the rules that they
Speaker 5: put forward, and if the rules that they put forward
Speaker 5: has a massive loophole that allows men to join their sport.
Speaker 5: Then I don't see why anyone shouldn't.
Speaker 4: Be exploiting that.
Speaker 5: And if he's doing it with all sincerity, my hat's
Speaker 5: off to him.
Speaker 2: Well, there's been coaches. There's that one coach who wore
Speaker 2: a shirt saying, you know that she wanted to be
Speaker 2: inclusive of anybody who wanted to play in the WNBA.
Speaker 2: You've got numerous players saying absolutely, let's have some of
Speaker 2: these dudes come into the league. I think there's going
Speaker 2: to be a groundswell of support for Enus' freedom.
Speaker 3: You know, we know him here in Kentucky a little bit.
Speaker 2: He tried to play for the University of Kentucky Wildcats
Speaker 2: and the NCAA screwed him out of it and he
Speaker 2: never got to play for Kentucky, which was very said
Speaker 2: because he was sort of a heralded recruit for the
Speaker 2: Cats at the time. But anyway, crazy the WNBA every
Speaker 2: week gets crazier and crazyer. All right, we got about
Speaker 2: a minute left, sarag We got to do our winners
Speaker 2: and losers. I'll give you the honor. Who is the
Speaker 2: winner of the week In American politics?
Speaker 5: Mike Rogers, a Republican Senate nominee from Michigan. He has
Speaker 5: the opportunity to become the first Republican elected for the
Speaker 5: US Sennessee in Michigan since nineteen ninety four. It's thirty
Speaker 5: two years, and he's been gifted basically a silver platter
Speaker 5: with Abdul l Sayet, who has just so many receipts
Speaker 5: out there, so many clips of him saying how much
Speaker 5: he he hates this, that, and the third about Michigan,
Speaker 5: how much he cares about things that have nothing to
Speaker 5: do with Michigan. And the simplest ploy that he has
Speaker 5: to go is, Mike Rodgers is for Michigan. Abdul as
Speaker 5: Abdula al Sayet is for Palestine. Mike Rodgers is for you.
Speaker 5: That's all he has to do.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he had a great week overall, the socialist march
Speaker 2: in Michigan may turn a purple state a little more red.
Speaker 2: Here in twenty six I'm gonna give you my loser,
Speaker 2: and it's in the same bucket Chuck Schumer. He and
Speaker 2: the establishment wanted Haley Stevens, they got Abdua Lsied. He
Speaker 2: then says, Okay, I'll be for abduall lsied, who then
Speaker 2: immediately endorses like Chris van Holland from Majority Leader Chuck
Speaker 2: Schumer at a rough week, saraj Hashbe from town Hall,
Speaker 2: You've been a great pundit, you're a great audience.
Speaker 3: Have a great weekend, and we'll see you Monday. Thanks
Speaker 3: for listening.