Speaker 1: The voice of free speech, the truth delivered common sense
Speaker 1: for the American people. Welcome to the Scott Jenning Show.
Speaker 2: Today we dive into the Michigan Senate race Abdul l
Speaker 2: Sayid versus Mike Rogers. Already l Sayed is threatening Rogers' safety.
Speaker 2: It's a campaign of anger and hate from the radical left,
Speaker 2: and we'll discuss it throughout the show. Today, Doctor Anthony
Speaker 2: Fauci faces contempt charges from the US Senate Committee that
Speaker 2: he stonewalled last week. Details ahead, and the Department of Veterans'
Speaker 2: Affairs continues to hum along in quiet competence, and the
Speaker 2: secretary running the show, Doug Collins, is here to tell
Speaker 2: us about it. Today is Thursday, August the sixth. I'm
Speaker 2: Scott Jennings, broadcasting for Salem, and we're coming to you
Speaker 2: live from Louisville, Kentucky. Today, back in the studio after
Speaker 2: a few days off and seeing some beautiful country out with.
Speaker 2: If you haven't seen the Grand Tetons or the majesty
Speaker 2: of Yellowstone National Park, all I can say is get
Speaker 2: there as soon as you can. On this day, nineteen
Speaker 2: forty five, the world changed because an American president made
Speaker 2: a decision to understand it, you have to go back
Speaker 2: one hundred and sixteen days. Franklin Roosevelt was dead, and
Speaker 2: suddenly his vice president, Harry Truman, a former haberdasher from Independence, Missouri,
Speaker 2: was President of the United States, and he was about
Speaker 2: to learn a national security secret that would eventually lead
Speaker 2: to one of the most important decisions in world history.
Speaker 2: Until he took the oath of office, nobody had told
Speaker 2: mister Truman that the United States was secretly building the
Speaker 2: most powerful weapon in human history. But the day after
Speaker 2: taking over, Truman was finally briefed, and soon the decision
Speaker 2: was his. The war in Europe was over, but Japan
Speaker 2: fought on Oknow in fact, had cost America more than
Speaker 2: twelve thousand dead soldiers, and military planners were preparing for
Speaker 2: an invasion of the Japanese home Islands, a battle that
Speaker 2: everyone expected to exact a horrific cost in American blood.
Speaker 2: But Truman had the other secret option, a secret held
Speaker 2: so close that almost nobody in Washington knew that it existed,
Speaker 2: and Truman chose to use it. At eight fifteen on
Speaker 2: the morning of August the sixth, they be twenty nine
Speaker 2: bomber called the Anola Gay name for the pilot's mother,
Speaker 2: released an atomic bomb over Hiroshima. The city disappeared, tens
Speaker 2: of thousands died, but still Japan refused to quit, and
Speaker 2: three days later Truman authorized the same for Nagasaki, and
Speaker 2: after those two cities were destroyed, on August the fifteenth,
Speaker 2: Japan announced its surrender. The debate over Truman's decision has
Speaker 2: never ended. Good Japan have been forced to surrender another way?
Speaker 2: Or did Truman's decision prevent an invasion that would have
Speaker 2: killed hundreds of thousands Americans and Japanese alike. Truman himself
Speaker 2: never publicly wavered. He believed his duty was to end
Speaker 2: the war and bring American soldiers home, and eighty one
Speaker 2: years ago today, Harry Truman made one of the most
Speaker 2: consequential decisions that any president has ever made. August sixth,
Speaker 2: nineteen forty five. In today's News of War and Peace,
Speaker 2: Iran and Oman are said to be on the brink
Speaker 2: of a deal to open the Strait of Hormuz for
Speaker 2: commercial shipping. The two countries sit on either side of
Speaker 2: the waterway. Still seems to be some haggling over tolls
Speaker 2: and fees. Oil still hovering in the mid seventies per barrel.
Speaker 2: Today average gas price in America four dollars and six cents,
Speaker 2: three fifty four in Indiana, five sixty two in California.
Speaker 2: Capitol Hill. This morning, the Senate Committee on Homeland Security
Speaker 2: Governmental Affairs voted to hold doctor Anthony Fauci in contempt
Speaker 2: for refusing to answer questions last week at a hearing
Speaker 2: on what happened during COVID. Fauci invoked his Fifth Amendment
Speaker 2: rights over one hundred times during that hearing, despite having
Speaker 2: already received a blanket pardon from former President Joe Biden.
Speaker 2: Kentucky Senator Ran Paul chairs the committee. He had this
Speaker 2: to say before the eight to seven vote cut eight.
Speaker 3: We are voting on weather or witness who has received
Speaker 3: the benefit of a sweeping federal pardon can be ordered
Speaker 3: by this committee to answer questions and then defy that
Speaker 3: order without consequence. This committee and the American people have
Speaker 3: a right to know why doctor Fauci's agency funded dangerous
Speaker 3: research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and what role
Speaker 3: he played in approving and overseeing it.
Speaker 2: So now we expect this to be referred to the
Speaker 2: Department of Justice for action. We'll talk with professor of
Speaker 2: Constitutional law at Yale, Jed Rubinfield about it later this hour.
Speaker 2: Up in Michigan, a monumental week in that state's politics,
Speaker 2: as the Democrats on Tuesday nominated Abdul el Sayed, a socialist,
Speaker 2: an acolyte of Bernie Sanders, and a clear anti Semite,
Speaker 2: to carry its Parti's banner in the US Senate race
Speaker 2: this fall. If Mom Donnie is the smiling face of
Speaker 2: the socialist movement in America, El Sayed is the snarling, angry,
Speaker 2: condescending other side of the coin. In his post primary
Speaker 2: press conference, l Sayed is already threatening the safety of
Speaker 2: his Republican opponent, Republican Mike Rogers, take a listen to
Speaker 2: cut six.
Speaker 4: Because at the time we're done, you are not going
Speaker 4: to have safe quarter from people holding you accountable to
Speaker 4: what you've done for them here in Michigan.
Speaker 5: We will send you back to Florida, where you belong.
Speaker 2: No safe quarter, l Sayid says, Now, lest you think
Speaker 2: this is some overheated political rhetoric, understand what's happening in
Speaker 2: Michigan right now. The state has a Democratic Attorney general
Speaker 2: named Dana Nessel. She's Jewish, She says she cannot go
Speaker 2: to the state Democratic Party convention because she won't be
Speaker 2: physically safe from the rabid anti Israel crowd that will
Speaker 2: be in attendance. Now you need to think about that
Speaker 2: for a moment. The top law enforcement officer in the
Speaker 2: state of Michigan isn't safe at a political party meeting. Specifically,
Speaker 2: she's not safe because of the hateful supporters of Abdul
Speaker 2: l Sayed, who's also now threatening the safety of his
Speaker 2: own Republican opponent. Violence, intimidation, and a hate These are
Speaker 2: the tools of the radical Islamists and the socialists who
Speaker 2: seek to overthrow America as we know it. El Sayed's
Speaker 2: best friend is a man named Hassan Piker. He's a
Speaker 2: streamer popular among younger audiencesmpaigned in Michigan for l Sied repeatedly,
Speaker 2: and you need to hear what he thinks of your country.
Speaker 2: Cut fourteen. Yeah, kill them the street, let the streets,
Speaker 2: Let the streets soak in their red capitalist bloods America
Speaker 2: deserved nine to eleven.
Speaker 1: Dude, you are all unbelievably islamophobic pieces issue.
Speaker 2: Day after day after day. The LSIED campaign is projecting
Speaker 2: a culture of violence and intimidation against the people of Michigan,
Speaker 2: and every question he has asked is met with some
Speaker 2: form of attacking Israel or simply the Jews. And it's
Speaker 2: also met with some deep, deep dishonesty. Last night, l
Speaker 2: Saied appeared on CNN and was asked about iron Dome
Speaker 2: funding for Israel. That's their defensive missile shield. Take a
Speaker 2: listen cut four. Some people might hear that and say, well,
Speaker 2: does he support, you know, funding defensive systems like the
Speaker 2: iron Dome in Israel?
Speaker 1: Do you.
Speaker 4: I don't believe that there's really a difference between offensive
Speaker 4: or defensive weapons. And I also don't believe it's my
Speaker 4: responsibility to buy defensive weapons for a foreign government when
Speaker 4: our kids are defenseless against schools that have been underfunded
Speaker 4: for a very, very long time. My responsibility is the
Speaker 4: next senator from Michigan, is children in Michigan, rather than
Speaker 4: thinking about what's in the interest of a foreign government.
Speaker 2: According to abdul l said, if we only allow more
Speaker 2: Jews to be obliterated by Iranian missiles, we could have
Speaker 2: good schools in America. That's the answer to every question.
Speaker 2: All good things are prevented by the existence of the Jews.
Speaker 2: Of course, the facts here make l Sayed look like
Speaker 2: a fool. We spend about one trillion dollars a year
Speaker 2: on public education in this country, and last year we
Speaker 2: spent about one hundred and ten million on the Iron
Speaker 2: Dome Missile defense program. And it protects every Israeli, every Arab,
Speaker 2: and every American who finds him or herself underneath it.
Speaker 2: Take it from me. I've stood under and watched it
Speaker 2: defeat Iranian missiles firsthand. Recall that Abdul l Sayed didn't
Speaker 2: want to make any statements about the Ayatola's death because
Speaker 2: he didn't want to offend his campaign supporters. It's hard
Speaker 2: to escape the idea that this man is a sympathizer
Speaker 2: of the Iranian terrorist regime. Strange times. Will the people
Speaker 2: of Michigan stand for this? El Sayed nearly lost the
Speaker 2: primary Tuesday because working class Democrats voted against him, white
Speaker 2: and black. I might add, his revolution is one of
Speaker 2: over educated, privileged white college kids, along with the Arab
Speaker 2: population of Michigan that is motivated by its hatred of
Speaker 2: Israel and the Jewish people. It's an interesting race We'll
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Speaker 2: All Right, Thursday, August sixth, It is the Scott Jennings
Speaker 2: Show here on Salem. Wanted to talk for a moment
Speaker 2: about this issue in Ohio. If you're following congressional politics
Speaker 2: in Washington, you may have heard recently about a congressman
Speaker 2: from Ohio's seventh district named Max Miller. Max Miller is
Speaker 2: a young guy. I've been in office a short period
Speaker 2: of time. He is facing mounting calls to both resign
Speaker 2: his house seat and to abandon his reelection campaign over
Speaker 2: allegations of domestic abuse. Miller denies the allegations, and I
Speaker 2: want to say up front before we do our commentary
Speaker 2: that he says and has said in his interviews that
Speaker 2: every allegation you've heard about from his current wife, from
Speaker 2: his ex girlfriends, and so on, it's all false. At
Speaker 2: least three women have made accusations against Miller, he says,
Speaker 2: and I want to be clear about this, none of
Speaker 2: it is true. However, one of the strongest voices in
Speaker 2: this entire saga has been the senior senator from Ohio,
Speaker 2: Bernie Marino. Bernie is a friend of the show, and
Speaker 2: he's a friend of mine. And it is his daughter
Speaker 2: who was married to Max Miller. They're now divorced. Who
Speaker 2: is in the middle of this. Bertie Marino says today
Speaker 2: that his family and his daughter are so fearful of
Speaker 2: their safety from Max Miller that he has sent them
Speaker 2: out of the state to live elsewhere while all of
Speaker 2: this is getting sorted out. It is quite a drama
Speaker 2: and quite a saga going on in Ohio. Also at
Speaker 2: the center of this as a little girl two and
Speaker 2: a half years old who is constantly being spoken of
Speaker 2: on television by her father, including in an interview with
Speaker 2: Jake Tapper on CNN just the other day. Let's hear
Speaker 2: that and cut thirteen.
Speaker 8: Now, your ex wife stated to police that your child
Speaker 8: told her in the days leading up to the discovery
Speaker 8: of the injury quote, daddy kill you and your xif
Speaker 8: I've also said your child had said daddy angry and
Speaker 8: Daddy's house is scary you. Now, according to your wife,
Speaker 8: your daughter articulated these statements to Children and Family Services.
Speaker 9: Jake, I wish you could talk to my beautiful baby girl.
Speaker 9: She can't string together sentences like that. She's two and
Speaker 9: a half years old. She doesn't have the ability to
Speaker 9: articulate any of what you just said. That is an
Speaker 9: entire fabrication of the truth.
Speaker 2: Now, Miller, in that thirty minute interview with Jake Tapper,
Speaker 2: contradicted himself a lot and frankly exhibited behavior that tells me,
Speaker 2: regardless of what you think of the allegations, that he
Speaker 2: needs to be doing anything other than running for Congress
Speaker 2: right now, this man needs to take stock of his
Speaker 2: life and take stock of what his responsibilities are as
Speaker 2: a father. It's not good to have this kind of
Speaker 2: thing for a child playing out in the national media
Speaker 2: the way it is. Politically, it's obvious what a Republican
Speaker 2: Party ought to do here, and that's to convince Miller
Speaker 2: to drop President Trump has expressed to Miller that is
Speaker 2: going to be tough. He has not publicly called on
Speaker 2: him to drop out. There's just a few days to
Speaker 2: go before anything could be done about this. We'll see
Speaker 2: what happens, but I hope mister Miller looks at this
Speaker 2: rationally and steps aside for someone who can put their
Speaker 2: full attention into the job. Secretary Doug Collins. After this,
Speaker 2: stay with the one man.
Speaker 7: I'm standing tall against the leftist mob. Here's Scott Jennings.
Speaker 2: It is Thursday, August to sixth, common sense for the
Speaker 2: American people. Scott Jennings is here. I know in our
Speaker 2: audience we have a lot of veterans, and we have
Speaker 2: a lot of family members who are helping take care
Speaker 2: of veterans who are in their family. And so if
Speaker 2: you're in that crowd, you know about the Department of
Speaker 2: Veterans Affairs. It is a cabinet level department in our
Speaker 2: executive branch of the federal government that provides lifelong healthcare,
Speaker 2: disability compensation, education assistance, home loans, and burial benefits to
Speaker 2: eligible military veterans and their qualified family members. It is
Speaker 2: a large agency. It is a big bureaucracy. It takes
Speaker 2: a good manager to make this run well. And under
Speaker 2: Secretary Doug Collins, appointed by President Trump, it cannot be
Speaker 2: argued otherwise, this is one of the best run agencies
Speaker 2: of the federal government or of government at any level,
Speaker 2: and joining us to discuss that is Secretary Doug Collins,
Speaker 2: welcome into the show, Sirus, there'll be ready. Well, thank
Speaker 2: you for taking the time to talk to us today.
Speaker 2: I've been keeping an eye on what's going on over
Speaker 2: at the VA, and you have such a record of
Speaker 2: accomplishment here a year and a half into your service.
Speaker 2: I want to start here. This just came out the
Speaker 2: day day you have all this casework to do at
Speaker 2: the Department of Veterans Affairs. You have significantly reduced the
Speaker 2: disabilities claims backlog. It's now below seventy thousand cases for
Speaker 2: the first time since twenty twenty, and average processing times
Speaker 2: have been cut to seventy eight days. It was one
Speaker 2: hundred and forty days when you took over this job.
Speaker 2: Let's start there.
Speaker 6: How did you do it well, this guy, that's a
Speaker 6: great question because but really was one of focus, and
Speaker 6: what we tried to do from day one was put
Speaker 6: the VA back with one focus, in one focus only.
Speaker 6: We're probably the only retail if you would cabinet agency.
Speaker 6: In other words, if we don't have a veterans show up,
Speaker 6: we don't have a job. And I've reminded all of
Speaker 6: our employees that that they have a job to do
Speaker 6: and to take care of veterans. And one of the
Speaker 6: areas was this slowness of getting We just got lethargic.
Speaker 6: I mean, one hundred and twenty five days was considered backlog,
Speaker 6: and we were well over that number. And so I said,
Speaker 6: what we do is we're gonna put overtime to it,
Speaker 6: We're gonna put people to it. We're gonna say this
Speaker 6: is not acceptable. And so we just knocking it down.
Speaker 6: That number goes lower a good bit. And we're also
Speaker 6: taking the steps to say with work with DW and
Speaker 6: Pete and I've agreed on this. If we get to
Speaker 6: file quicker from DW, which is just right now, I'll
Speaker 6: hold up. It's something that's just been endemic for a while.
Speaker 6: We can actually get those numbers closed claims between thirty
Speaker 6: and forty days. But it's just about putting veterans first,
Speaker 6: and that's what the President told me to do, and
Speaker 6: so we're doing that. So it's like I got a
Speaker 6: lot of great folks who work at the VA. They've
Speaker 6: taken you know, the BA has taken a lot of
Speaker 6: you know, flack over the years, a lot of it deserved,
Speaker 6: a lot of it wasn't deserve. But I put them
Speaker 6: back on the barns and saying, look, you're the largest
Speaker 6: healthcare agency in the country, the largest disability. It's time
Speaker 6: we act like it. And so I'm encouraging them to
Speaker 6: be the you know, the people they should be, and
Speaker 6: they's showing up for our veterans.
Speaker 2: A lot of the results that you've gotten, it seems
Speaker 2: to me, have flowed out of this organizational restructuring that
Speaker 2: you did. You eliminated a lot of the bureaucracy. Has
Speaker 2: that been the key to getting these weight times down
Speaker 2: into uncovering fraud and so on?
Speaker 6: It has? I think one of the things is the
Speaker 6: VA Healthcare in particular was set up on the nineteen
Speaker 6: nineties model. And that's being generous. And you know, over
Speaker 6: the time, we went from you know, taking care of
Speaker 6: you know, a few million investors over nine million veterans
Speaker 6: going from me really a workforce of two hundred thousands,
Speaker 6: almost a workforce of four hundred and fifty thousand. And
Speaker 6: you can't do the same thing the same way. And
Speaker 6: what had happened was we were the absolute if you
Speaker 6: looked up Webster Dictionary in a bureaucracy, all they had
Speaker 6: to do was put the vah picture. We were terrible.
Speaker 6: And so I said, look, I said when I started
Speaker 6: going out and I visited over thirty six states so far,
Speaker 6: almost half or more of our hospitals, which we have
Speaker 6: one hundred and seventy. And the one thing I kept
Speaker 6: asking was what are we doing that stupid? And they
Speaker 6: began to tell me, and they began to say, look,
Speaker 6: we asked for help, but we goes up to the
Speaker 6: higher ups and we never hear from it. So we
Speaker 6: said we got way too much middle upper management away
Speaker 6: from the hospitals. So we just divided things up. We
Speaker 6: put policy under one, we put business line under another,
Speaker 6: and we put a medical center operations to our undersecretary.
Speaker 6: So it has been amazing what happens when you give
Speaker 6: the people the tools they need to get direct answers,
Speaker 6: which in turn says the wait times come down, we're
Speaker 6: getting better results, our care is getting better. And you
Speaker 6: know that's the kind of stuff that they can look
Speaker 6: at you making sure that we're doing what we're supposed
Speaker 6: to be doing. But it's been a real huge break
Speaker 6: for them.
Speaker 2: That voice you're hearing is Doug Collins. He is former
Speaker 2: congressman from Georgia. He's now the Solitary of Veterans' Affairs
Speaker 2: and Secretary of Collins. I've noted on the White House
Speaker 2: website they've unveiled a website today detailing all of the
Speaker 2: efforts to stop fraud in the federal government. You've been
Speaker 2: part of that over at the VA. According to the
Speaker 2: numbers I'm looking at at the VA, you've uncovered one
Speaker 2: hundred and thirty five million dollars in fraudulent activity. You've stopped,
Speaker 2: on an annualized basis, two billion dollars in fraud, and
Speaker 2: you've enforced six hundred and seven million dollars in fraud.
Speaker 2: It's a lot, obviously, when you have a big bureaucracy,
Speaker 2: that's where you're going to find fraud. You've been very
Speaker 2: successful at uncovering it. Talk to us about those efforts,
Speaker 2: the general push to get fraud rooted out of our
Speaker 2: federal government.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean it is, and bus resident's been working
Speaker 6: on us side of the direction of the President and
Speaker 6: for us look at that, I mean those numbers and
Speaker 6: let's let's understand something, you know, the disability benefits. What
Speaker 6: what our veterans have earned, they have earned. It's not
Speaker 6: fraudulent that they've earned it. But what we do have
Speaker 6: is we have you know, sometimes we have actors out
Speaker 6: there that you know from education side or from uh
Speaker 6: you know, outside doctors and bills that are coming in
Speaker 6: that may be getting double bill, that kind of stuff.
Speaker 6: So we just simply again, I can't emphasize to you enough.
Speaker 6: I'm a sexary this shor short straight shooter. We wasn't
Speaker 6: doing some things very good. Accounting wasn't very good. We
Speaker 6: wasn't We were sort of just reconciling things. Towards the end.
Speaker 6: We've put in a whole new management system in our
Speaker 6: operation you know are uh for for operations management from
Speaker 6: budget standpoint that now we actually see months to month
Speaker 6: what we're doing. We actually see, you know, what we're spending,
Speaker 6: what we're not spending, how we can save money, how
Speaker 6: we can spend more money for vesters if we need
Speaker 6: to in other areas. So this has led us to
Speaker 6: having a clear eyed look at what we do. I
Speaker 6: have to tell you funny story. When I first got
Speaker 6: this job last February They couldn't tell me how many
Speaker 6: employees I had.
Speaker 2: That's how that's how out of control the bureaucracy was.
Speaker 2: We don't know how many people work here.
Speaker 6: We don't And we had four and fifty doos. And
Speaker 6: then later in the year what I've got to find
Speaker 6: out on this reorganization part was I also, you know,
Speaker 6: I'm a military guy. I just retired from the Air Force.
Speaker 6: We had a billet and a place for everybody where
Speaker 6: everybody sat. Well, I didn't have that to the A
Speaker 6: and now we do. So now I can tell you
Speaker 6: how many doctors we have, how many nurses we have,
Speaker 6: I tell you where they're located, how many you are
Speaker 6: in a certain facility. We didn't have a basic management
Speaker 6: tools at a facility that large. We didn't have. We
Speaker 6: have it now that lets us look at things like fraud.
Speaker 2: Well, the fight against fraud I think has captivated the
Speaker 2: American people because everybody has a sense that there is
Speaker 2: fraud in government, but they also have sinse that nobody
Speaker 2: ever does anything about it. And I think this Fraud
Speaker 2: Task Force reaching into every agency is making a difference
Speaker 2: and it's convincing people that yes, if you just try
Speaker 2: a little bit you can find these things, and I
Speaker 2: think it's politically it's good for the president, but I
Speaker 2: just think for overall government operations getting rid of the fraud,
Speaker 2: it makes your cabinet obviously run better. I want to
Speaker 2: talk to you about three initiatives that you've got going
Speaker 2: on that I think are really aimed at making a
Speaker 2: better quality of life for veterans. First of all, fighting
Speaker 2: veterans suicide. I know you're passionate about this. I think
Speaker 2: the most recent data shows there's about seventeen and a
Speaker 2: half deaths per day veterans who die by suicide. You
Speaker 2: have revamped how the department has approached fighting this epidemic
Speaker 2: of veterans suicide. Talk to us about that.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we have, Scott. This is one of my ways
Speaker 6: in my heart all the time because I see the
Speaker 6: reports every day and the same thing. Have is probably
Speaker 6: a low number. There's probably run fortunate. There's probably more
Speaker 6: depends on how a lot of these times these are classified.
Speaker 6: But for me, one is too many, and we're going
Speaker 6: to continue to fight to do that. But what I
Speaker 6: got when I got to the VA, what I found
Speaker 6: was is we were sort of gotten into the old
Speaker 6: Baptist preacher and me said, we're preaching to the choir.
Speaker 6: We were sort of aiming our discussion in people who
Speaker 6: were coming to the VA already or people that would listen.
Speaker 6: And what we found was is out of those folks
Speaker 6: who were doing choosing death by suicide, uh, sixty percent
Speaker 6: had no contact with the VA. So we were not
Speaker 6: even reaching the people we should be reaching. So I said, look,
Speaker 6: we're gonna we're gonna redo the whole department. I got
Speaker 6: rid of the you know, the leadership, change the manu
Speaker 6: the way that we do be able to change the manuals,
Speaker 6: so to speak. And now we're reaching out to where
Speaker 6: our especially our newer veterans are. We're going to podcasts,
Speaker 6: We're going to radio shows like yours. We're going to
Speaker 6: I mean, I've been all over you know, I got
Speaker 6: to hunting podcast. I'll go to we We worked with
Speaker 6: Major League Baseball, we worked with you know, UFC, because
Speaker 6: this is where my veterans are. And if we're not
Speaker 6: spending money where our veterans are, to let them know
Speaker 6: that they're not alone. And if you have a veteran
Speaker 6: on this that's listening to their radio right now, they
Speaker 6: hear your voice and there may be they're struggling. Hear
Speaker 6: my voice. There's somebody who loves you and wants to
Speaker 6: help you. Go to any VA facility, walkome and say hey,
Speaker 6: I need to talk to somebody. You will be seen,
Speaker 6: You will be somebody for you, and we're going to
Speaker 6: continue to push that as long as I'm there.
Speaker 2: What is the phone number that a veteran should call
Speaker 2: if they want to get in touch with the VA
Speaker 2: and they're having these feelings and they just heard your message,
Speaker 2: what should they call?
Speaker 6: Yeah, the biggest thing is down nine eight eight and
Speaker 6: that's all they needed. That nine eight eight hit one ninety.
Speaker 2: Al Right, fantastic. Doug Collins is the Secretary of Veterans Affairs.
Speaker 2: We're talking about some programming to improve the quality of
Speaker 2: life for our nation's veterans. The second one I wanted
Speaker 2: to mention to you, and I thought this was fascinating.
Speaker 2: Oftentimes veterans are facing and combating drug addiction. You're involved
Speaker 2: in a study right now testing GLP ones. So these
Speaker 2: are the shots that people have been using for diabetes
Speaker 2: and to control their weight, but you're testing out whether
Speaker 2: these drugs might be able to reduce substance abuse and addiction.
Speaker 2: Talk to us about this when could we expect some
Speaker 2: results from that?
Speaker 6: Well, that's great, I've done something to share and this
Speaker 6: is a good story most of it. Don't realize this.
Speaker 6: Did you know that g l P one was developed
Speaker 6: by the BA the folks that GLP one, the GLP
Speaker 6: one series of drugs was developed by the up in
Speaker 6: the box in the VA and uh, we should getting
Speaker 6: patented it got it got out into the town to
Speaker 6: the community. But it's it's a basically it controls impulses.
Speaker 6: So I mean, yes, a lot of people use it
Speaker 6: for food or you know, the weight loss and diabetes
Speaker 6: I think, but we're experimenting to see, hey for and
Speaker 6: I'm going back to our suicide issue, for depression and
Speaker 6: other things. Can we help people who are on who
Speaker 6: are alcoholics suppress that urge, suppress that need along with
Speaker 6: counseling to get them off of being addicted to alcohol.
Speaker 6: And there's a lot of areas that this may be
Speaker 6: the first place that we look. But you know, we're
Speaker 6: looking at doing six hundred folks all over the country
Speaker 6: to say, hey, is this a possibility? If it worked? Then,
Speaker 6: as I was asked yesterday, maybe this could work with smoking.
Speaker 6: Maybe this could have worked with other things because of
Speaker 6: the way the drug works, it suppresses in you know,
Speaker 6: those kind of urges. So look, I'm very proud of
Speaker 6: what we do at the VA, and I think this
Speaker 6: is just another step out to say, hey, how can
Speaker 6: we help veterans because that's our only job.
Speaker 2: Final topic I wanted to hit and we've got about
Speaker 2: thirty seconds here, Doug, is this Freedom Haulers Initiative. You're
Speaker 2: trying to get veterans matched up with trucking companies. Tell
Speaker 2: us about that.
Speaker 6: Oh, this is a great president. And along with me
Speaker 6: and Sean Duffy, we said, hey, look, we want to
Speaker 6: get veterans on job. We want to get illegals out
Speaker 6: of the driver's seat killing people across country because they
Speaker 6: can't read signs. What better way than to take, you know,
Speaker 6: our veterans who are in military driving big trucks, and
Speaker 6: now put them on the big rigs across country. Ten
Speaker 6: percent of all truck drivers right now already veterans. We're
Speaker 6: just going to add to that. I think it's a
Speaker 6: great win for not only veterans, it's a great win
Speaker 6: for safety, it's a great win for America. I mean
Speaker 6: freedom haulers. I mean, you can't think of a better
Speaker 6: name than that.
Speaker 2: Well, you're doing a great job at the Veterans Affairs Administration, Doug,
Speaker 2: and I also want to congratulate you. I know you
Speaker 2: and your wife recently welcome your first grandchild, Theodor, So
Speaker 2: congrats on that addition to your family. Congratulations on doing
Speaker 2: a good job for our veterans. We'll keep checking in
Speaker 2: with you as we move along here. Really doing a
Speaker 2: terrific job for a population that in that bureaucracy needs
Speaker 2: to work for our veterans. These people deserve the best
Speaker 2: possible services in Doug Collins is giving it to them.
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Speaker 2: This is the Scott Jennings Show. Major news out of Washington,
Speaker 2: DC this morning. A committee in the United States Senate
Speaker 2: has voted eight to seven to hold Anthony Fauci in contempt.
Speaker 2: You probably know that Fauci appeared before this committee last
Speaker 2: week and took the fifth pled the fifth over one
Speaker 2: hundred times, refusing to answer questions about COVID, and so
Speaker 2: that led to today's committee vote. The legal issues here
Speaker 2: are interesting, and I've invited on Jed Rubinfel, professor of
Speaker 2: constitutional law at Yale Law School, to discuss this with us.
Speaker 2: Professor Rubinfel for being with us. One of the questions
Speaker 2: that everybody has is that if Anthony Fauci already had
Speaker 2: a blanket pardon for whatever he might have done during
Speaker 2: COVID from Joe Biden, was it proper for him to
Speaker 2: take the fifth Amendment in front of this committee? That
Speaker 2: seems to be at the heart of today's contempt vote.
Speaker 2: Tell us about it.
Speaker 5: Oh, yeah, that is at the heart.
Speaker 10: Well, it's really it's kind of an interesting issue, but
Speaker 10: there's some stuff people are just totally missing there, just
Speaker 10: not seeing it.
Speaker 5: So here's how it works.
Speaker 10: The pardon covers Fauci for everything he did from twenty
Speaker 10: fourteen to two thousand and twenty five, when January twenty
Speaker 10: twenty five, when the pardon was issued. It does not
Speaker 10: cover him for anything he might do after January.
Speaker 5: Twenty twenty five.
Speaker 10: So if Fauci had committed perjury at last week's hearing,
Speaker 10: he could be prosecuted for that. And that's what everybody
Speaker 10: is saying. That's what Fauci's defenders are saying. He could
Speaker 10: have been prosecuted for perjury despite the pardon, So he
Speaker 10: had a right to plead the fifth because the defenders
Speaker 10: say it was a perjury trap. Whole thing was a
Speaker 10: perjury trap. Now maybe it was a perjury trap. But
Speaker 10: here's the thing. What his lawyers don't seem to know
Speaker 10: what everybody talking about. This doesn't seem to know, the
Speaker 10: law is crystal clear on this point. A person cannot
Speaker 10: plead the fifth because he fears he'll be prosecuted for
Speaker 10: perjury for what he's about to say. I just that
Speaker 10: was a quote from a legal case, and it could
Speaker 10: not be clear. You are not allowed to plead the
Speaker 10: fifth to avoid a perjury trap. Even if it is
Speaker 10: a perjury shop. You can't plead the fifth for that reason.
Speaker 10: So everybody's gotten this wrong so far, and that's a
Speaker 10: big deal.
Speaker 2: So that was Fauci's whole strategy, though, right, was to
Speaker 2: show up and say, well, these committee, you know Rand Paul,
Speaker 2: he doesn't like me, he's out to get me, and
Speaker 2: they're gonna say I committed perjury no matter what. But
Speaker 2: you're saying you just simply can't do that. So is
Speaker 2: is that what makes the contempt today pretty rock solid?
Speaker 2: And I want to talk about the contempt vote today.
Speaker 2: Typically this thing would go to the full Senate. Does
Speaker 2: it have to or can it be directly transmitted to
Speaker 2: the Department of Justice?
Speaker 5: Okay, it's another great question. So here's how it works.
Speaker 10: Contempt of Congress is a criminal offense, okay, and you
Speaker 10: can go to jail from up to twelve months for that.
Speaker 5: Just ask Steve Bannon. He served four months for this.
Speaker 10: But the fact that the committee holds him in contempt,
Speaker 10: that doesn't mean he's guilty. Congress has to refer charges
Speaker 10: to the Department of Justice. DOJ has to prosecute him,
Speaker 10: and a jury eventually decides that he'd commit contempt or not.
Speaker 5: Now here's the thing.
Speaker 10: Normally standard, you know, congressional protocol is the full Senate
Speaker 10: would take a vote on this. By the way, that
Speaker 10: would probably take sixty votes because the filibuster. Probably sixty
Speaker 10: senators aren't going to vote vote a contempt against Fauci.
Speaker 10: But the statute that governs this here, here's the amazing part.
Speaker 10: The statute says, if the Senate is not in session,
Speaker 10: the President of the Senate, the President of the Senate
Speaker 10: can himself refer charge just to the Department of Justice.
Speaker 5: Well, who's the president of the Senate. That's the Vice
Speaker 5: President of the United States. And guess what.
Speaker 10: The Senate is about to go out of session, scheduled
Speaker 10: to go out of session.
Speaker 5: Tomorrow the seventh. They won't be in session.
Speaker 10: Under the statute, it looks like Vice President jd Vance
Speaker 10: or maybe Chuck Gratschley, President pro Tempore can himself refer
Speaker 10: the charges to the DOJ next week.
Speaker 2: And that is as simple as them just sending a
Speaker 2: letter saying this happened in committee under my authority as
Speaker 2: the President of the Senate. Here you go.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's exactly more or less how it works.
Speaker 10: The Senator Paul's committee has to issue a report. They
Speaker 10: got to issue a report that says, look, here's what happened.
Speaker 10: Our witness, doctor Fauci, pleaded the fifth you know, one
Speaker 10: hundred times. He wouldn't answer any questions. That's contempt. It
Speaker 10: happened on such and such a day. And they, you know,
Speaker 10: maybe include the transcript that's the report. Then the President
Speaker 10: of the Senate looks at that report and he has
Speaker 10: to make a decision, does that, you know, in his opinion,
Speaker 10: show contempt or not. He gets to actually make a
Speaker 10: decision about that. And if he, in his judgment, thinks
Speaker 10: that's worthy of a referral of charges to the DOJ,
Speaker 10: he can send it straight to the DOJ.
Speaker 2: All right, we've got about thirty seconds. I'm going to
Speaker 2: ask you a very short question. Do you think they
Speaker 2: will actually do it? Will vance or grassly send this
Speaker 2: over to the DOJ Yes or no.
Speaker 10: Scott, I wish I had an answer to that question.
Speaker 10: I'm so sorry. I don't know what you know. Washington politics.
Speaker 10: You know what a million times better than I do.
Speaker 10: I can't call it.
Speaker 2: Well. You've laid out a compelling case about what they
Speaker 2: should do. I think Fauci made a terrible mistake for
Speaker 2: his own reputation. Sounds like he made a terrible mistake
Speaker 2: by the law as well. Jed Rubinfeld, Professor of law
Speaker 2: at Yale, thanks for laying this out for us today.
Speaker 2: We take a break. More after this on the Scott
Speaker 2: Jenny Shows. David quick check of the headlines here on Thursday,
Speaker 2: August the sixth. The White House leaning into its crackdown
Speaker 2: on fraud and they want the American people to see it.
Speaker 2: They've launched a new website today detailing what they've found
Speaker 2: and what they've done about it. You can check it
Speaker 2: out white house dot gov slash fraud. A lot of
Speaker 2: information in there. One of the worst Democrats running for
Speaker 2: office this year, James Tallerico, has caught in another massive lie.
Speaker 2: Tallerrico's campaign now admitting to The New York Times that
Speaker 2: he started dating his current girlfriend, Brianna Minard, when she
Speaker 2: was still on his payroll as his chief of staff.
Speaker 2: She was his staffer when they started dating, something he
Speaker 2: has denied for months. Massive conflict of interest in something
Speaker 2: Democrats in Congress have actually had to deal with recently
Speaker 2: with other members. Right now in Washington, DC, and important
Speaker 2: conferences going on. The National Conservative Student Conference. It is
Speaker 2: the largest annual conference of the Young America Foundation. This
Speaker 2: is the forty eighth year. Tonight is the main event.
Speaker 2: There's a rally at Mount headlined by our friend Ben Shapiro,
Speaker 2: by former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Andrew claven is
Speaker 2: there and more joining me to discuss all of this.
Speaker 2: The head of YAF and the former governor of Wisconsin,
Speaker 2: Scott Walker, is here. Governor Walker, thanks for joining us
Speaker 2: and thanks for your stewardship of the YAF. It's an
Speaker 2: important organization.
Speaker 11: Oh my pleasure. Thanks for joining us on Saturday. The
Speaker 11: students always love hearing from you.
Speaker 2: I love coming to the YAF events. Always meet a
Speaker 2: lot of great kids there. You've got a great conference
Speaker 2: going on. Talk to us about tonight's event out at
Speaker 2: Mount Vernon. What an inspired idea to do a big
Speaker 2: event at George Washington's home during America two fifty right.
Speaker 11: This is part of our Freedom at two fifties series.
Speaker 11: We started out at the Country Music Hall of Fame,
Speaker 11: filled it up earlier. This year. We've doubled the size
Speaker 11: of all of our major conferences, from Ronald Reagan's ranch
Speaker 11: out in California to the Boy at Home just last
Speaker 11: month at Dixon, Illinois in the heartland of America, to
Speaker 11: this event. We thought, what better way than doing it
Speaker 11: at George Washington's home to think of our founders and
Speaker 11: think about it. I will point this out to the
Speaker 11: kids tonight. You know, on July fourth, seventeen seventy six,
Speaker 11: James Monroe was eighteen, Alexander Hamilton was twenty one, James Madison,
Speaker 11: the primary author of the US Constitution, was twenty five.
Speaker 11: He'd merely be able to rent a car these days.
Speaker 11: And even Thomas Jefferson was a mere thirty three years old.
Speaker 11: So I say that not only for the kids, but
Speaker 11: everybody listening. He's saying, you're never too young to fight
Speaker 11: for freedom. And I know our military families know that
Speaker 11: as well as anyone. So we wanted to be at
Speaker 11: Washington's home to talk about the struggle that our founders
Speaker 11: went through to found this great republic and to reinforce
Speaker 11: to young people here and across the country why it's
Speaker 11: so important that we continue to fight for and defend
Speaker 11: those freedoms.
Speaker 2: Today, you're in touch with all these conservative students from
Speaker 2: around the country, and I am sure you're hearing them
Speaker 2: and their thoughts on this unfolding conversation about socialism and
Speaker 2: capitalism and you know the nature of American government right now,
Speaker 2: and they're being bombarded on their campuses by people who
Speaker 2: are trying to teach them to hate America and to
Speaker 2: tell them that America and the founding is rotten at
Speaker 2: the core. What are you hearing from these kids about
Speaker 2: all of that? How are they processing this debate that's
Speaker 2: going to come to a head this November. Well, there's been.
Speaker 11: A clear awakening with the students we work with others
Speaker 11: like them, with other groups, colleged Republicans, turning point, you
Speaker 11: name it. So many of our students are involved in
Speaker 11: all of those and more because they feel outnumbered and intimidated.
Speaker 11: But I think in the last year, in particular, we've
Speaker 11: seen this awakening to push back. We saw it in
Speaker 11: the twenty twenty four election, where young men went from
Speaker 11: four years earlier being plus fifteen for Biden to plus
Speaker 11: fourteen for President Trump in the twenty four cycle.
Speaker 5: But that's still not enough.
Speaker 11: As you mentioned, Democratic Socialist winning in Michigan this week,
Speaker 11: likely to win a primary in my home of Wisconsin
Speaker 11: next week. We have to push back, and it's why
Speaker 11: some of our most important speakers that these two bring
Speaker 11: to campus, and again they'll be over a thousand people
Speaker 11: there tonight. We bring on campus more speakers in another
Speaker 11: group of America, not only for our chapters, but even
Speaker 11: for college Republicans and others. One of the most popular
Speaker 11: ones is a guy named Daniel di Martino who talks
Speaker 11: about not just economics. He's got a PhDs. He's not
Speaker 11: even thirty years old, he's already got a PhD. But
Speaker 11: more importantly, he talks about his story coming from Venezuela,
Speaker 11: where Democratic socialists freely elected, just like they're talking about here.
Speaker 11: Democratic Socialists ruined that country, imprison their political opponents, shut
Speaker 11: down parts of the media outlets, and worst of all,
Speaker 11: has tried to centralize the government, taking over core industries,
Speaker 11: just like these Democratic Socialists and America talking about it
Speaker 11: ruined Venezuela. It will ruin this country if we don't
Speaker 11: put a halt to it. And that's what these young
Speaker 11: conservatives are talking about.
Speaker 2: Governor Walker, you live through some of the most intense
Speaker 2: political battles in modern American political history during your campaigns
Speaker 2: for governor in Wisconsin. But I feel like the Democrats
Speaker 2: that you faced back in those days, as nasty as
Speaker 2: they were, pale in comparison to these socialists, these radicals,
Speaker 2: these people with violent tendencies like al saied to these
Speaker 2: lunatics like this Democrat that's about to win the nomination
Speaker 2: in Wisconsin. What do you see out of today's Democratic Party?
Speaker 2: Why have they folded to these anti American socialist radicals
Speaker 2: who clearly have nothing but contempt for our country and
Speaker 2: their heart.
Speaker 11: Well years ago we called it Walker derangement system. It's
Speaker 11: gotten even worse with TDS Trump derangement system, and you've
Speaker 11: seen in the past decade. You're absolutely right. The data
Speaker 11: shows us that overwhelmingly primary voters for Democrats in key
Speaker 11: states like Wisconsin and Michigan have moved radically.
Speaker 2: To the left.
Speaker 11: There are far, if any far but few so called
Speaker 11: moderate to even centrist thinking Democrats in their party these days,
Speaker 11: they are almost all extreme. They're angry and Francisco Home,
Speaker 11: the woman you alluded to, who is very likely to
Speaker 11: win going away the primary for the nomination for governor
Speaker 11: Wisconsin on the Democrat side next Tuesday. This is a
Speaker 11: woman whose social media feed is filled with abolish the police,
Speaker 11: defund the police, talking about eighty six, seing Donald Trump,
Speaker 11: talking about wanting to cancel Thanksgiving, hating Christmas heck in Wisconsin.
Speaker 11: Maybe the worst thing she said is she thought Culver's
Speaker 11: cheese curds were mediocre. I mean, this is someone who's
Speaker 11: just violently out of touch with where the mainstream is at.
Speaker 11: Yet in today's Democratic Party, this is what constitutes a
Speaker 11: primary winner, and it shows you just how far left
Speaker 11: they've gone. But we can't take anything for granted. Just
Speaker 11: because she and others on the Democratic Socialist side appear
Speaker 11: to be a lunatic, we can assume, particularly with younger voters,
Speaker 11: that just saying that's going to be enough. We got
Speaker 11: to point back to why these ideas don't work.
Speaker 2: Governor Scott Walker for Wisconsin is our guest. He's head
Speaker 2: of the YAF. They have their big conference going on
Speaker 2: in Washington, DC, and Governor thanks again for inviting me.
Speaker 2: I'll be up there on Saturday night for a speech.
Speaker 2: As you all close out, let me ask you about
Speaker 2: the state of the conservative movement right now. You've been
Speaker 2: involved for a very long time, successful governor, ran for president,
Speaker 2: running this large conservative organization. You're in touch with the
Speaker 2: youth of America. We've got different wings of the conservative
Speaker 2: movement of the Republican Party that have largely been unified
Speaker 2: under President Trump. He can't run again in twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 2: It feels like Vice President Vance, if he wants to
Speaker 2: be the nominee, is going to be the nominee. But
Speaker 2: holding this coalition together in the face of this socialist uprising,
Speaker 2: to me is critical. Can the Republican Party do it?
Speaker 2: Or do you feel like there's a splintering going on
Speaker 2: out there among the factions as we move towards the
Speaker 2: end of the Trump era.
Speaker 11: I think we can. Obviously, I'm an optimist. I've always
Speaker 11: been one. I think it was inspired by run Regan
Speaker 11: as a kid, instill them today in love what President
Speaker 11: Trump is doing on so many levels. But I'd say
Speaker 11: the future of the party to me is look less
Speaker 11: at Washington and more at the states. When you look
Speaker 11: at the work of governors across the country, I think
Speaker 11: of Ron DeSantis, I think of Ken Reynolds, I think
Speaker 11: of all these great you look at Kelly Ayott in
Speaker 11: New Hampshire. I mean, there's just so many great Republican
Speaker 11: leaders in the state houses, governors that are getting the
Speaker 11: job done. Remember in twenty twenty two, four years ago,
Speaker 11: we thought there'd be a red wave, and it was
Speaker 11: kind of a red fizzle. The exception to that was
Speaker 11: every Republican governor standing for election, even in a tough
Speaker 11: state like Georgia, one overwhelmingly strong re election battles. That's
Speaker 11: because they were doers. They were conservatives who took the
Speaker 11: issues on head on, and particularly when young people cost
Speaker 11: of living. You know, the media loves to talk about
Speaker 11: abortion and climate change. Young people today, like so many
Speaker 11: other Americans, aren't concerned about those issues as much as
Speaker 11: they are out cost of living. Governors are getting the
Speaker 11: job done. The folks in Washington and seeking the run
Speaker 11: for office should take a look at our success for
Speaker 11: Republican governors to bring that coalition back in the tack.
Speaker 2: The voice you're hearing Governor Scott Walker from Wisconsin. He's
Speaker 2: head of the Young America's Foundation. Big national conference going
Speaker 2: on right now in Washington, DC. Huge event tonight at
Speaker 2: Mount Vernon and Governor will look forward to seeing you Saturday.
Speaker 2: Thanks for joining us on the show today.
Speaker 11: Thank you my pleasure to folks are interested WHYAF dot
Speaker 11: org not just for these conferences, but if you're under attack,
Speaker 11: we got you back.
Speaker 2: Governor Walker YAF dot org. Thanks for the reminder. Let's
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Speaker 12: Discutch any show headline out of Missouri this week, Chris
Speaker 12: Stigall wins Republican primary for Missouri's sixth congressional district.
Speaker 2: It was a five way primary, Stigall getting forty four
Speaker 2: percent of the vote, beating his nearest rival by twelve
Speaker 2: percentage points. You know this name, Salem family. Chris Stagall
Speaker 2: was our morning host here for quite a while and
Speaker 2: he decided to give up radio and get into public service,
Speaker 2: and that decision is paying off for him and paying
Speaker 2: off for the people of Missouri. Chris de gaul joins
Speaker 2: US Live. Chris, welcome into the Scott Jennings Show, and
Speaker 2: congratulations great victory in your primary.
Speaker 13: Scott, It's an honor to be with you, and you
Speaker 13: were one of the first people I was so honored,
Speaker 13: really and flattered. You were one of the first people
Speaker 13: to reach out to me to say congratulations and encourage
Speaker 13: me in this race, and it was just a thrill
Speaker 13: to have your support. So thank you.
Speaker 2: Well, I knew you were going to be a great candidate,
Speaker 2: and you work really hard and it was you know,
Speaker 2: it's a primary, and there's a lot of people involved
Speaker 2: and a lot of issues involved, and you kind of
Speaker 2: had to gut it out, but you won by twelve
Speaker 2: points in a five way primary. Tell us how you
Speaker 2: did it? I mean, this year, first coming out of
Speaker 2: radio going into politics, what did you learn? What worked
Speaker 2: for you to get the word out and to collect
Speaker 2: this kind of organization that you did.
Speaker 13: You know, what I think summarizes it best is a
Speaker 13: bit that I just saw you post on X yesterday
Speaker 13: and I shared, You've got to be blunt, You've got
Speaker 13: to be bold. It's Reagan right. It's no pale pastels,
Speaker 13: because you got to know what time it is in
Speaker 13: this country. And right now, what we understand is there's
Speaker 13: something radical this country has never faced before actually winning elections. Scott,
Speaker 13: you know it better than anybody. You talk about it
Speaker 13: here all the time. It's a time for very serious
Speaker 13: people to take very seriously what the American left wants
Speaker 13: to do to this country. And so it's not a
Speaker 13: time to flirt with the left. It's a time to
Speaker 13: defeat the left. And I think that's what people are
Speaker 13: hungry for people telling that truth.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I really agree with you. I just think you
Speaker 2: can't really beat around the bush right now. I mean, look, voters,
Speaker 2: they're looking for people who will draw bright lines. They're
Speaker 2: looking for people who can deliver them clear, concise, factual,
Speaker 2: reality based messages. And I think that's what you did
Speaker 2: in your campaign. You've gone through this primary, you're going
Speaker 2: to be congressman. Now as we get past the November election,
Speaker 2: what's on your mind when you think about getting to
Speaker 2: Washington in January. What are the kinds of things you
Speaker 2: want to work on.
Speaker 6: First?
Speaker 13: You know, you probably have traveled the country enough to know.
Speaker 13: I don't know if you've been to North Missouri. By
Speaker 13: the way, I've got to invite you here because I've
Speaker 13: got a lot of folks that would love to meet you.
Speaker 13: So maybe we'll have you here as we ground out
Speaker 13: this campaign through November. But North Missourians are some of
Speaker 13: the best people. They're industrious, they're humble, they're smart. Many
Speaker 13: of them are farmers. The number one business in North
Speaker 13: Missouri's agriculture. Of course, my first item of business is
Speaker 13: to get on the Agriculture Committee in the House Representatives
Speaker 13: because Our farmers need some certainty right now. Input costs
Speaker 13: through the roof, as you know, with fertilizer and the like.
Speaker 13: So we've got some work to do for our farmers
Speaker 13: to give them the certainty that they need. Rural hospitals, Scott,
Speaker 13: are another big thing. These small communities throughout rural America
Speaker 13: and certainly North Missouri, seeing a lot of uncertainty right now.
Speaker 13: They love where they live, but they want to make
Speaker 13: sure that they've got the infrastructure that they need, chiefly
Speaker 13: medical needs. Rural hospitals are being supported. We've seen the fraud,
Speaker 13: the theft, the waste, the abuse in Medicare and Medicaid.
Speaker 13: I've pledged that I want to join Vice President Vance
Speaker 13: and congressional leadership on the House side in rooting out,
Speaker 13: finding and most of all, holding people accountable for the
Speaker 13: billions of theft of our Medicare and Medicaid dollars.
Speaker 2: Scott, let me ask you a final question. Obviously, you
Speaker 2: were engaged in your own primary, but I know you've
Speaker 2: been keeping an eye on the Democratic primaries that have
Speaker 2: been going on around the country and the lurch to
Speaker 2: the radical socialist left of the Democratic Party. When you
Speaker 2: get to Washington, I expect you're going to be facing
Speaker 2: off against some of these other new Democrats who come
Speaker 2: to town who, frankly, Chris I think want to tear
Speaker 2: the country out, root and branch and do something else.
Speaker 2: How do you plan to fight them? And how important
Speaker 2: is it for Republicans to wake up to this existential
Speaker 2: battle that's coming.
Speaker 13: It's everything. The Republican Party cannot rest on simply saying
Speaker 13: they're crazy. The Republican Party must define who they are
Speaker 13: and explain their designs and their desires. Because look, we
Speaker 13: are an economy right now where people are battling, they're struggling,
Speaker 13: they're trying to get their bills paid. We had an
Speaker 13: inflation and just a radical agenda in terms of spending
Speaker 13: that caused the economy to go bonkers. I mean, it's
Speaker 13: been short circuited. And what often happens is the American
Speaker 13: left sabotage is things in order to come in and
Speaker 13: pretend like they're the answer to fixing them. We have
Speaker 13: to explain, particularly to America's young people, that that is
Speaker 13: a clap trap that has never worked anywhere in the world.
Speaker 13: Socialism is the biggest lie. Communism that command and control,
Speaker 13: top down authoritarian thing leads to nothing but abuse and
Speaker 13: misery for everyone. And young people are being wooed in
Speaker 13: certain parts of this country to believe that's the fix.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're being lied to, they're being taught to hate America,
Speaker 2: and we have to have leaders who can clearly communicate. Chris,
Speaker 2: I predict you're going to be one of the best
Speaker 2: communicators for the conference when you get to Washington. Congrats
Speaker 2: on your big win. We take a break. We talked Michigan.
Speaker 2: After this, stay with us. If the leftists haven't had
Speaker 2: enough yet, there's more. This is the Scott Jenny Show,
Speaker 2: common since for the American people. Thursday, August six, Scott
Speaker 2: Jennings back in the saddle here after a few days
Speaker 2: off traveling out west Whitewater, rafting down the Snake River
Speaker 2: in Wyoming, riding horses in the Bridger Teton National Forest,
Speaker 2: I come back to you refreshed and ready for the
Speaker 2: fight ahead. And the fight is going to be located
Speaker 2: largely in the state of Michigan. The Democrats and Republicans
Speaker 2: held their primary on Tuesday. Boy did we learn some
Speaker 2: things about Democrats in Michigan. This week They've nominated medical
Speaker 2: socialists for the United States Senate named Abdul l Sayed.
Speaker 2: The National Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee is out with its
Speaker 2: opening salvo in the race to define El sayed, let's
Speaker 2: hear that cut number nine Duerman.
Speaker 14: Mohammed L Sayeed the most radical Senate candidate in America.
Speaker 14: El Sayette pledged support for the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood,
Speaker 14: a designated foreign terrorist group. He wants to hike taxes
Speaker 14: on Michigan waitresses, delivery drivers, and seniors. On social security,
Speaker 14: he joined a sex offender and a murderer to demand
Speaker 14: the mass release of dangerous prisoners. And when his ally
Speaker 14: claimed America deserved nine eleven.
Speaker 12: American deserved nine to eleven, Dude.
Speaker 2: El Sayed refused to disavow.
Speaker 5: I'm not here to disavow.
Speaker 2: Abdul el sayed. Too radical, too dangerous. Wrong for Michigan
Speaker 2: to discuss this race and everything else going on in Michigan.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of races going on up. There's our
Speaker 2: friend in Michigan, political expert Jason Rowe. Jason, thanks for
Speaker 2: coming back on the Scott Jennings Show's start with the
Speaker 2: Senate race. This was closer than people thought it was
Speaker 2: going to be. The latest polling for the last couple
Speaker 2: of weeks had Abdul l saied with a massive lead
Speaker 2: over the congresswoman Haley Stevens. But it was a nail
Speaker 2: bider on Tuesday night. Why was that?
Speaker 15: I think there was a few reasons, and one of
Speaker 15: them and you know, this is somebody that's done a
Speaker 15: lot of campaigns.
Speaker 2: That's how you close.
Speaker 15: And Abdul Lsi ed spent the last week of the
Speaker 15: campaign parading the state as if he'd already won the campaign.
Speaker 5: He was, you know, at.
Speaker 15: Pool parties with Hassan Piker, he was doing social media
Speaker 15: posts and he exuded kind of an arrogance that this
Speaker 15: thing was already over. And frankly, Haley Stevens was still
Speaker 15: grinding it out all the way to the end. So
Speaker 15: I think that's a big part of it. The other
Speaker 15: part of it is, you know, who tends to turn
Speaker 15: out in primary elections. Now Democrats did turn out at
Speaker 15: a pretty high clip, but you know, the black vote
Speaker 15: in Detroit is very significant. It can be you know,
Speaker 15: more than twenty percent of the primary vote in the
Speaker 15: state of Michigan. And Elsayed did not do well in
Speaker 15: the black community, and Hailey Stevens did. She did very well.
Speaker 15: I think she beat him something like two to one
Speaker 15: in the black vote, and I think she got something
Speaker 15: like sixty percent city of Detroit, So that was a
Speaker 15: big part of it. And then when you look at
Speaker 15: the pockets around the state where he won, it was
Speaker 15: in counties that had colleges or universities almost to the county,
Speaker 15: So you had a lot of the young progressives and
Speaker 15: they don't always, you know, vote at the same clip.
Speaker 15: But you also have a lot of college educated white people.
Speaker 15: In fact, if you look at any video clips of
Speaker 15: El Sayed's rally, it's mostly older white people and college
Speaker 15: students that are at these things.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the coalition here is interesting because Al Saied and
Speaker 2: the rest of these socialist candidates, they present these campaigns
Speaker 2: though they're being run on behalf of the working class,
Speaker 2: but the working class of Michigan, at least the Democrat
Speaker 2: working class, white and black, broke heavily for Haley Stevens.
Speaker 2: The only people who were falling for Lsied were the
Speaker 2: Muslim populations around Dearborn, these young college educated or college
Speaker 2: campus located sort of downwardly mobile privileged white kids. And
Speaker 2: then these boomers who were into socialism all of a sudden.
Speaker 2: But the working class of Michigan, they're not into this.
Speaker 2: So I'm wondering Jason, as a campaign strategist, can Mike
Speaker 2: Rogers the Republican get some of these working class Democrats
Speaker 2: who clearly know they're being sold to bill of goods
Speaker 2: on socialism? Can they be drawn into the Republican tent
Speaker 2: in November?
Speaker 15: I think there's a huge opportunity, and particularly in the
Speaker 15: black community. And let's not forget we also have as
Speaker 15: our nominee for governor at Michigan John James, a black
Speaker 15: congressman right who's well known the state, So that creates
Speaker 15: an opportunity. The one demographic group that has moved more
Speaker 15: towards President Trump since the twenty twenty four election is
Speaker 15: the black community, and it's Black men by something more
Speaker 15: than twenty percent. I talked to two prominent Democrats, one
Speaker 15: an elected Democrat and one a very high ranking party official,
Speaker 15: both black, and I was asking them about how El
Speaker 15: Sayed's dynamics in the black community, particularly in the city
Speaker 15: of Detroit, where both of these women live, and they
Speaker 15: both told me very similar representations of how the black
Speaker 15: community feels towards Elsaia. First of all, you have a
Speaker 15: lot of friction in Detroit between the Arab community and
Speaker 15: the Black community. As the Arab community gets larger in
Speaker 15: Detroit and owns a lot of the businesses, particularly gas
Speaker 15: stations and things like that, there's some friction where the
Speaker 15: Black community feels like their neighborhoods are being taken over.
Speaker 15: And you know, whether that's legit or not, I don't know.
Speaker 15: I don't live there, but you know, this is what's
Speaker 15: represented to me. The other thing is a lot of
Speaker 15: hostility on the uncommitted movement here in Michigan. We had
Speaker 15: a pretty prominent uncommitted movement to not vote for Kamala
Speaker 15: Harris and outside that was one of the leaders. And
Speaker 15: you know, the one party official I talked to yesterday said,
Speaker 15: I know Democrats who will never vote for Elsiah because
Speaker 15: they believe he cost Kamala Harris the state of Michigan
Speaker 15: in the election. Now that margin was much bigger than that,
Speaker 15: but there's a lot of hostility towards him. Mike Rodgers
Speaker 15: went to a Democratic councilwoman from Detroit's Big Seniors Breakfast
Speaker 15: the other day. He got great reception there, So I
Speaker 15: think there's huge opportunities in the city of Detroit, where,
Speaker 15: to be honest, you know, we get maybe ten percent
Speaker 15: of the vote out of the city of Detroit, almost nothing,
Speaker 15: so Republicans don't campaign there. If we can get to
Speaker 15: twenty percent in Detroit, there's hardly any math that Democrats
Speaker 15: can win statewide, and so I think LSIED opens the door.
Speaker 13: For us there.
Speaker 2: Let's talk about some other races in Michigan, because I
Speaker 2: think what happens with l Sied is going to trickle
Speaker 2: down to the other races. You do have a couple
Speaker 2: of house races that are very important, including what I
Speaker 2: think at the beginning of the cycle was fairly being
Speaker 2: portrayed is perhaps the most targeted Republican in the country,
Speaker 2: Congressman Tom Barrett. But he wound up with a socialist
Speaker 2: Democrat out of that primary named William Lawrence. That's the
Speaker 2: seventh district in Michigan. How does the Barrett campaign feel
Speaker 2: now having gotten you know, a fairly radical sort of
Speaker 2: weirdo as an opponent, as opposed to somebody who might
Speaker 2: have been a little bit more middle of the road
Speaker 2: in kind of a purple district.
Speaker 15: Well, William Lawrence born and raised in the district. The
Speaker 15: other two candidates, one backed by Senator Elissa Slot and
Speaker 15: the other by the Democratic establishment in the state or carpetbaggers,
Speaker 15: one had neither had ever lived in the district.
Speaker 5: One of the.
Speaker 15: Bridget br who was Biden's ambassador to Ukraine, moved into
Speaker 15: Lansing and six months later announced for Congress, not having
Speaker 15: lived in the state of Michigan more than three decades.
Speaker 15: The other candidate, Matt Masdam, who carried the nuclear football
Speaker 15: for Obama, lives in ann Arbor, not even in the district,
Speaker 15: and so they had no relationship. But Lawrence, not just
Speaker 15: being a local, is a professional progressive organizer. He has
Speaker 15: worked in progressive politics. He's founded a couple of the
Speaker 15: advocacy groups. He's a very talented grassroots organizer, and he
Speaker 15: ran circles around them. And he got outspent heavily. The
Speaker 15: Congressional Black Caucus out of Washington spent a million dollars
Speaker 15: trying to take him down, and he's still won by
Speaker 15: I think fifteen points over his next closest competitor. But
Speaker 15: if you think Elsayed has an opposition research file worth
Speaker 15: flipping through, you've seen nothing yet. William Lawrence is a
Speaker 15: radical socialist. He embarrassed himself the other night in an
Speaker 15: interview with Caitlyn Collins on CNN. I'm sorry, Manu Raju,
Speaker 15: in which he said he was no longer a socialist.
Speaker 15: And Manu Raju asked him when he left the DSA,
Speaker 15: and he said, well, I let my membership last laps
Speaker 15: within the last month.
Speaker 2: I saw that he led his membership la CREDI I
Speaker 2: doubt he let his views laps though, Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 15: Yeah, so and and he and Alsaia had cross endorsed
Speaker 15: each other during the primary. Bernie Sanders came in and
Speaker 15: campaigned Forum, AOC came in and campaigned Forum. So this
Speaker 15: is one of the true socialists running in a very
Speaker 15: purple seat, which which Congressman Barrett won by three point
Speaker 15: six points last time around. And he's sitting on He's
Speaker 15: already raised close to seven million dollars. And you know,
Speaker 15: we're early ninety days away. So I'd say the Barrett
Speaker 15: campaign feels very bullish about their prospects.
Speaker 2: Governor's race. You mentioned it. John James is the Republican nominee.
Speaker 2: Joscelyn Benson is the day Democrat. Now, this one used
Speaker 2: to have a third candidate a third lane as an independent,
Speaker 2: but that person dropped out, so it's head to head.
Speaker 2: How do you feel about Republicans' chances of the governor's race.
Speaker 15: Well, I tell you, no matter how complicated the political
Speaker 15: environment is nationally, when you look at Michigan and look
Speaker 15: at who the Democrats have nominated for the statewide offices,
Speaker 15: and we've got an open Senate seat and an open
Speaker 15: governor's seat. That rarely happens in any state. I can't
Speaker 15: remember the last time it happened to Michigan.
Speaker 2: But you also have.
Speaker 15: Attorney General and Secretary of State on the ballot. All
Speaker 15: of these are open seats. They have nominated far left
Speaker 15: progressive activists in all of these races, and each of them,
Speaker 15: unto themselves, is incredibly beatable. We have nominated incredibly qualified, likable, competent,
Speaker 15: normal people, and I think the contrast to Michigan between
Speaker 15: the weirdos that the Democrats have chosen and the very normal, competent,
Speaker 15: qualified people that we've chosen couldn't be starker. And I think,
Speaker 15: no matter what's happening on the national level, that ticket
Speaker 15: is just too far out of the mainstream for Michigan values.
Speaker 2: We are not Illinois, we are not.
Speaker 5: New York, we are not California, Oregon.
Speaker 15: And I just don't see a state that is a
Speaker 15: working class state, you know, relying on the automobile industry
Speaker 15: and manufacturing to embrace the socialism that these four will
Speaker 15: be perpetuating.
Speaker 2: Jason, We've got about a minute Togo. One of the
Speaker 2: craziest things I've read in the last several months is
Speaker 2: that the Attorney General of Michigan, Dana Nessel, who is
Speaker 2: a Democrat, is saying that she cannot go to the
Speaker 2: Democrat nominating convention in August because she won't be safe.
Speaker 2: She's Jewish. She has made it clear if she goes there,
Speaker 2: she will be personally in danger from the anti Semites
Speaker 2: and the anti Israel crowd that flocks around a dual
Speaker 2: l sayed. I honestly, if shoes were on other feet,
Speaker 2: this would be twenty four hour cable news coverage of
Speaker 2: it all day every day. I don't think this is
Speaker 2: getting the attention it deserves. This top law enforcement officer
Speaker 2: of Michigan can't go to a party meeting because she
Speaker 2: won't be safe from the violent anti Semites who have
Speaker 2: taken over the party. What do you make of that?
Speaker 2: Give you the last word? Well, you know, for your listeners.
Speaker 15: A couple months ago, the Democrats had a convention nearly
Speaker 15: seven thousand people and it was hijacked by Elsaied and
Speaker 15: his supporters, and so you had a lot of people
Speaker 15: there over the Palestinian issue. One Democratic operative called me
Speaker 15: on their way home from that Sunday convention and said,
Speaker 15: I just attended my last Nazi convention. They quit the party.
Speaker 15: They could not believe what they had witnessed. So, yeah,
Speaker 15: Dana Nessel, a Jewish attorney general, very liberal, openly gay,
Speaker 15: you know, kind of the darling of the left in
Speaker 15: the state up until this last few months when the
Speaker 15: Socialists hijacked the party. For her to say that's extraordinary.
Speaker 15: But it's not just her. The Oakland County Prosecutor Karen MacDonald,
Speaker 15: who ran for attorney general in the nomination at that
Speaker 15: convention a couple months ago, has just this week also
Speaker 15: said there is an anti Semite problem in the Democratic
Speaker 15: Party and there's times it's time that somebody does something
Speaker 15: about it. So it is really a cauldron of hatred,
Speaker 15: and I think there's about one hundred thousand Jewish votes
Speaker 15: in the state of Michigan, and I will be very
Speaker 15: surprised if the Democrats pick up very many of those.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's crazy what's going on. It's not just debates
Speaker 2: over policy around Israel. You've got people out there who
Speaker 2: are so violent and so threatening. The Attorney General can't
Speaker 2: even go to a party convention. It's crazy. I know
Speaker 2: we're going to be talking Michigan every week. Jason will
Speaker 2: draw up on your expertise for the next few months
Speaker 2: if you'll allow it. Thanks for coming on. We got
Speaker 2: to take a break. We'll come back with more. Round
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Speaker 2: Our friends at AFP, they've got a new memo out
Speaker 2: today about the outlook for National Democrats. Caitlin, We've been
Speaker 2: talking all day long about what's going on in Michigan
Speaker 2: and in other races where the Democrats are being overrun
Speaker 2: by these radical socialists. What does it say this Abdul
Speaker 2: Lsied nomination about the future of the Democratic Party to you?
Speaker 16: Well, going into this primary, you know, we were all
Speaker 16: waiting to see if voters chose them establishment candidate or
Speaker 16: the DSA socialist candidate, as it would provide insight into
Speaker 16: where the future of the party is going. As we
Speaker 16: all know now they chose the socialist candidate, and moving forward,
Speaker 16: our grassroots are incredibly fired up. They are ready to
Speaker 16: hold not just him in Michigan accountable, but other candidates
Speaker 16: who are just going lefter and lefter and aligning with
Speaker 16: these socialist agendas.
Speaker 2: All right, I want to talk about what AFP is
Speaker 2: doing in this battle. I think it's existential. The socialists
Speaker 2: are here, the barbarians are inside the gate. We've got
Speaker 2: a big contrast coming in November. What's AFP doing to
Speaker 2: help voters understand the stakes of the election and the difference, right,
Speaker 2: the big difference going on between what you get out
Speaker 2: of Democrats if they ran the place or Republicans.
Speaker 5: Well, I couldn't agree with you more.
Speaker 16: This goes against everything AFP stands for, and we are
Speaker 16: unleashing our grassroots across the country to take this on firsthand.
Speaker 16: We are putting them with all kinds of resource says,
Speaker 16: whether it's to go to town halls when they're talking
Speaker 16: with their families and friends, but mostly when they're going
Speaker 16: and knocking on doors.
Speaker 5: We have been on.
Speaker 16: Doors for months and have already knocked over two million
Speaker 16: doors already all over the country, including in Michigan. And
Speaker 16: what we're doing is we are equipping our leaders to
Speaker 16: talk to them and contrast the policies. So when these
Speaker 16: candidates talk about these horrible policies like rank controls, government
Speaker 16: run grocery stores, we talk to them about other policies,
Speaker 16: whether it's housing reform, permitting reform, healthcare reforms, you name it,
Speaker 16: and we let the voters understand the difference between these
Speaker 16: policies and where they will lead if they go with
Speaker 16: a socialist. And what we're seeing is when we walk
Speaker 16: voters through what This looks like sixty percent of them
Speaker 16: go alongside the Republican candidate.
Speaker 2: This shift in the Democratic Party is remarkable. Your memo
Speaker 2: makes a good point, and that is it's not just
Speaker 2: abdual Lsied, but from Papus in New Hampshire to Peltola
Speaker 2: in Alaska, all these candidates, some of them are going
Speaker 2: to say, well, that's not me, but they all really
Speaker 2: need to be held to the standard, the shifting standard
Speaker 2: of the Democratic Party, don't they.
Speaker 13: Yeah, let's call this.
Speaker 5: What this says. This is an attemptive coup.
Speaker 16: And these candidates, you know, we need to keep in mind,
Speaker 16: these socialist candidates do not need to win over fifty
Speaker 16: one percent of the American population. They need to win primaries,
Speaker 16: and they are and that is what's going to help
Speaker 16: them have control over this Democratic establishment. And that should
Speaker 16: be really concerning. I mean, if I'm a Democratic voter alone,
Speaker 16: I'm asking what the heck is going on. But if
Speaker 16: I'm a Republican voter, I want to know, and I
Speaker 16: want to demand answers across the board, and the answers
Speaker 16: they'll hear from Republicans are exactly what they want to hear.
Speaker 16: They're policies that are freedom and opportunity, competition and innovation based.
Speaker 2: Well, I think a lot of the working class democrats,
Speaker 2: well they used to be democrats, but they're asking some
Speaker 2: hard questions right now. They didn't like what abdul l
Speaker 2: said was selling in Michigan. I think there's more than
Speaker 2: a fighting chance for Republicans to pick up some of
Speaker 2: these working class democrats. They've been moving Republicans direction anyway,
Speaker 2: and now these socialists may make the choice very, very easy.
Speaker 2: So to find out more about what AFP is doing
Speaker 2: in the fall here, visit Americans for Prosperity dot org. Caitlin.
Speaker 2: Always good to see you, always good to hear your voice.
Speaker 2: Thanks for the partnership here with AFP. You do great
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