Speaker 1: Welcome to the Tutor Dixon Podcast.
Speaker 2: We have a guy who is out there every single
Speaker 2: day who is a champion for common sense and we
Speaker 2: consider him a national treasure and he agreed to come.
Speaker 1: On the podcast today.
Speaker 2: I'm so excited because we have Scott Jennings with us.
Speaker 2: He is a senior political commentator on CNN, but he's
Speaker 2: also I mean, the reason he's so smart is he's
Speaker 2: been a former special assistant to the President of the
Speaker 2: United States George W. Bush, a former advisor to Senator
Speaker 2: Mitch McConnell. And you are a fighter every single day, Scott,
Speaker 2: thanks for joining me.
Speaker 3: Well, thank you, And it's an honor to meet you
Speaker 3: and to be here with you Tutor on your podcast.
Speaker 3: I've been a fan from Afar and yeah, I'm out here.
Speaker 3: I'm out here trying to light a candle in a
Speaker 3: dark room every day. And boy, we got plenty to
Speaker 3: talk about in the news right now, don't.
Speaker 1: We so much? So much? And actually I watch what
Speaker 1: you're doing.
Speaker 2: Obviously we all are watching it, and a lot of
Speaker 2: times we see those viral clips of you. But I
Speaker 2: was wondering, behind the scenes, do you ever have someone
Speaker 2: reach out to you and say wow, I had no idea.
Speaker 3: Well, you know, I hear from all kinds of people actually,
Speaker 3: and it's one of the great things about working at CNN.
Speaker 3: We actually have internally a great community. You know, most
Speaker 3: of us who are commentators here, we do get along
Speaker 3: and we do you know, I think we educate each
Speaker 3: other sometimes, you know. Van Jones and I on Saturday
Speaker 3: had an interesting discussion actually where he admitted that, you know,
Speaker 3: maybe there was some information that he wasn't getting because
Speaker 3: of the information silo that he is in on.
Speaker 1: The masks on ice agents.
Speaker 2: That to me, I found that really interesting because I
Speaker 2: think that that happens so often. People are like man,
Speaker 2: so I just so the audience knows you. He was
Speaker 2: asking you if you thought it was right that these
Speaker 2: guys were wearing masks when they go and they apprehend
Speaker 2: illegal aliens. And you explained to him that the masks
Speaker 2: are for their protection, and he was I was.
Speaker 1: I appreciated his honesty.
Speaker 3: Well, yes, it was a good discussion, and he said, look,
Speaker 3: I think maybe in my information silo, I'm just not
Speaker 3: hearing about that. And so Van is an example, and
Speaker 3: he's one of my best friends here, but he's one
Speaker 3: of He's an example of a thoughtful person. He's a
Speaker 3: thoughtful liberal. He has an open heart and he has
Speaker 3: open ears. Not all liberals are like that, maybe most aren't,
Speaker 3: but Van is an exception. And that's why I've come
Speaker 3: to really admire him, and I like being on the
Speaker 3: air with him because he listens and we do have
Speaker 3: engagement with each other. We don't always agree, of course,
Speaker 3: and he has strong point of view about the President's
Speaker 3: immigration policies, but in that particular case, you know, that's
Speaker 3: a situation and an example of why I'm doing this
Speaker 3: job at CNN, because I'm one of the few people
Speaker 3: here who's going to bring up a topic like that
Speaker 3: and a new angle like that. No one else at
Speaker 3: the network is going to do that, and I think
Speaker 3: that's valuable for our audience. And you know, we're sort
Speaker 3: of popping bubbles. We're trying to break those information silos,
Speaker 3: and you know, that's why I value the job. This
Speaker 3: is my This month is my eighth anniversary at the network,
Speaker 3: and you know, in the last year, I think that role,
Speaker 3: you know, that bubble popper has been more valuable than ever.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, because we we I think on the right, we
Speaker 2: are in an information silo. We put ourselves into those silos, right,
Speaker 2: and so this is a that's a place where we
Speaker 2: actually see differences of opinion. I know you had a
Speaker 2: congressional candidate on Newsnight at Gosh, I don't know. It
Speaker 2: was a few weeks ago, now, I think from Illinois,
Speaker 2: and I love the way that you asked her, really
Speaker 2: think about it. Do you want illegal aliens to get
Speaker 2: free healthcare? And she openly said, yeah, I do. But
Speaker 2: the debate it makes people think, well, gosh, maybe you
Speaker 2: are taking away you pointed.
Speaker 1: Out so well, you're taking it away from an American.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was a cat from Illinois. I think that's
Speaker 3: the Jan Shankowski steat up there. I subsequently found out
Speaker 3: that she's not actually from that district, and so she's
Speaker 3: some sort of an online influencer and they're just sort
Speaker 3: of finding a congressional district for her to run in.
Speaker 3: I don't know what will happen in the Democratic product interesting,
Speaker 3: but the conversation was valuable because she matter of factly
Speaker 3: said yes, the position of the Democratic Party is that
Speaker 3: all illegal aliens should receive free health care benefits from
Speaker 3: the federal government. And then my other's barring partner, BUTCARI
Speaker 3: sellers use the term undocumented citizens to describe illegal aliens.
Speaker 3: And so you know, sometimes people ask me, like, you know,
Speaker 3: why do you go into this torture chamber every night?
Speaker 3: That is why, because these conversations that we're allowing to unschool.
Speaker 3: And I have to credit CNN. You know, we're the
Speaker 3: only network putting a real debating show on the air
Speaker 3: right now. When you let these things on school and
Speaker 3: you ask very simple questions, you get very revealing answers
Speaker 3: from the left about how they really feel about things
Speaker 3: and what we've been able to uncover on that show
Speaker 3: from people like that congressional candidate and others. I think
Speaker 3: I think it's overall it's good for American public discourse.
Speaker 3: But it helps our viewers understand what are the actual
Speaker 3: positions of the Democratic Party, what is the actual ideology
Speaker 3: the left? And maybe this has gone a little too far.
Speaker 2: Right now, Well, it's I mean, you have a special
Speaker 2: talent for this, I have to say, it's people watch it.
Speaker 2: And for people who are watching, when you are out
Speaker 2: there with your sparring partners as you call them, it
Speaker 2: is not easy to be as quick on your feet
Speaker 2: as you are and the amount of knowledge that you have,
Speaker 2: and clearly it is a lot due to your experience,
Speaker 2: but the ability to push back on these people, especially
Speaker 2: when it comes to what's going on in Iran right now,
Speaker 2: because obviously you've got these folks on there that are saying,
Speaker 2: oh my gosh, he's declared war. That in and of itself,
Speaker 2: the Civics lessons that you have to put out in
Speaker 2: and of themselves. No, he did not declare war. This
Speaker 2: was a strike. Yes, it had to be secret. And
Speaker 2: he did a great job with deception. And you've done
Speaker 2: a great job pointing that out.
Speaker 1: What's that like, Well, you know.
Speaker 3: It's predictable because unfortunately, and you probably experienced this, you know,
Speaker 3: and some of the people you talk to. Unfortunately, the
Speaker 3: main ideology of the left and the Democratic Party right
Speaker 3: now is if Donald Trump is for something, or if
Speaker 3: he does something, I must suppose it must be wrong.
Speaker 3: And what I pointed out last night on the air,
Speaker 3: in fact, is that you know, occasionally for the left,
Speaker 3: for Democrats, the correct answer is good job, mister president.
Speaker 3: This was a smart one. It would be so much
Speaker 3: wiser just to go with that than what they're currently doing,
Speaker 3: which is raising all sorts of nonsensical arguments forgetting about
Speaker 3: their past with Barack Obama. I mean, I was on last.
Speaker 1: Night anti war president. Remember said, yeah?
Speaker 3: She said, she said, well, I work for an anti
Speaker 3: war president. I mean, you know the amount of bombs
Speaker 3: and countries and drones that Barack Obama, you know, sent
Speaker 3: across the world versus what Donald Trump is trying to do.
Speaker 3: And so you know, I just I counseled them. I've
Speaker 3: put a post on X yesterday. Maybe just say good job,
Speaker 3: mister president. And you know, this was a good decision
Speaker 3: because they all will, ultimately most of them will say
Speaker 3: Iran should not have a nuclear weapon, which is the
Speaker 3: correct answer. Well, in this case, we had a window
Speaker 3: to stop them, and Donald Trump took advantage of that window.
Speaker 3: A lot of American presidents of both parties have said it.
Speaker 3: Only Trump did something about it. And now Iran is
Speaker 3: weak and wouldn't it be better to negotiate with a
Speaker 3: weekend Iran than Iran with a nuclear weapon? Of course
Speaker 3: it would. So this is undoubtedly a good move by
Speaker 3: the president. We're in a stronger position. Why can't they
Speaker 3: just say that?
Speaker 2: And I don't love to live in the past, but
Speaker 2: I do think that when people are pointing these things
Speaker 2: out or saying things like I would work for the
Speaker 2: anti war president, I think it is important to go
Speaker 2: back and say what you just said, that he was
Speaker 2: dropping bombs in many different countries. But also, okay, let's
Speaker 2: unpack if you worked for him, what was the strategy there?
Speaker 2: Because he was dropping bombs on civilians And we see
Speaker 2: Donald Trump very strategically with very few people knowing, but
Speaker 2: a very strategic attack on specific facilities meant to eliminate
Speaker 2: a nuclear program. So what was the method of strategy
Speaker 2: for Obama when he did what he did and killed civilians.
Speaker 3: Well, look, he inherited the global war on terror from
Speaker 3: President Bush, and I have no doubt that he had
Speaker 3: at times military leaders and intel legence officials saying, you know,
Speaker 3: here's a bad person. We need to eliminate this bad person. Look,
Speaker 3: that happens when you're the president. People walk in and
Speaker 3: tell you those things. But if you look over eight
Speaker 3: years the volume of bombing and the volume of drone
Speaker 3: strikes that he ordered, you know, you could have a
Speaker 3: debate about whether that was right or whether that was wrong.
Speaker 3: But what you cannot have a debate about is Barack
Speaker 3: Obama's disposition. He was not anti war, he was not
Speaker 3: anti strike, he was not anti using American power when
Speaker 3: given every opportunity to do so. And now the mythology
Speaker 3: around him is kind of weird to me. All these
Speaker 3: Obama people, they're constantly arguing, Oh, he's a man of peace,
Speaker 3: he was an anti war. He really wasn't. You know.
Speaker 3: You don't have to change history. We can all look
Speaker 3: back on the news and see what he did. Now.
Speaker 3: Contrast that with Donald Trump. He really is I think.
Speaker 3: You know, he's changed our conversation from war in peace
Speaker 3: to peace and war. And in this case, as you
Speaker 3: pointed out correctly, he took a strategic targeted action here,
Speaker 3: not against individuals, but against nuclear facilities, which everybody seems
Speaker 3: to agree was good and righteous because we don't want
Speaker 3: Ron to have a nuclear weapon. But he has not
Speaker 3: just indiscriminately bombed several countries. That's not really been his disposition.
Speaker 3: He's used the military when it made sense, he's shown
Speaker 3: restraint when it makes sense, and he's always always talking
Speaker 3: about the need for peace. That's really different, I think
Speaker 3: than what Obama you know, did over his eight years.
Speaker 2: You were in a conversation not too long ago, and
Speaker 2: Debbie Dingle was there. She's a congresswoman from the state
Speaker 2: of Michigan, from my state, and she was pointing out
Speaker 2: that the Democrats need to not just be against Donald Trump,
Speaker 2: but be four things.
Speaker 1: I love that you said, oh no, you are four things.
Speaker 2: Your four girls in boys sports, you're four illegal aliens.
Speaker 2: But you also pointed out that the leaders of their
Speaker 2: party right now are Jasmine Crockett and AOC, which she
Speaker 2: just lost.
Speaker 1: I mean, you could.
Speaker 2: Tell I know her expressions, I'm familiar with her. You
Speaker 2: could tell she was just beside herself by that comment. Now, obviously,
Speaker 2: you know, Debbie is seventy one. She took her husband's
Speaker 2: congressional seat. She's been in there with Nancy Pelosi, and
Speaker 2: they have not stepped aside for new leadership. And therefore
Speaker 2: the aocs and the Jasmine Crockets have kind of taken
Speaker 2: up all the error in the room. AOC is right
Speaker 2: now campaigning with this a lunatic socialist in New York.
Speaker 2: But Jasmine Crockett has been interesting in the past few
Speaker 2: days because she comes out and she's like, why did
Speaker 2: President Trump do this?
Speaker 1: Over the weekend, Like we're working on Monday, call us
Speaker 1: at during.
Speaker 2: Work hours and let us know which she has no
Speaker 2: idea what the Constitution says, what the War Powers Act says.
Speaker 2: She has no idea anything about law, and yet she
Speaker 2: is a law maker, which to me is very scary.
Speaker 2: But in this country, you can campaign and you can win,
Speaker 2: and that's why people are out there calling out what
Speaker 2: they're saying. I don't know if you saw last night
Speaker 2: she said I make this decision. People don't understand I
Speaker 2: make this decision, and I wasn't. Nobody asked me my opinion.
Speaker 2: How do you get around this?
Speaker 3: I did see that clip, and you know your reference
Speaker 3: Congresswoman Dingle, who I'm on with from time to time.
Speaker 3: She does a lot of TV. I actually feel a
Speaker 3: little bad for her because I think deep down she
Speaker 3: knows that it is crushing and destroying her political party
Speaker 3: from AOC and Jasmine Crockett and these absolute radicals to
Speaker 3: be taking over the party. I mean, if you just
Speaker 3: turn on your television, turn on any media, what Democrats
Speaker 3: are you likely to see? AOC and Crockett. They are
Speaker 3: the unquestioned spokespeople or leaders of the Democratic Party, and
Speaker 3: they're radical and they're out of the mainstream. And for
Speaker 3: people like Debbie Dingle, who probably thinks of herself as
Speaker 3: more of a mainstream Democrat, she's been totally shoved aside,
Speaker 3: and the party has been completely hijacked by these radicals.
Speaker 3: I don't really think they've learned anything from the twenty
Speaker 3: twenty four election. The American people rejected this radicalism, they
Speaker 3: rejected this kind of left wing cultural and political lurch,
Speaker 3: and now they appear to be doubling down on it.
Speaker 3: And like you pointed out in New York City, if
Speaker 3: this you know, radical socialist communist wins in New York City,
Speaker 3: I mean you can see the Democratic Party has learned
Speaker 3: the wrong lesson. They're moving farther and farther to the left,
Speaker 3: which means through the Republicans, they could probably OutKick their
Speaker 3: historical coverage in the twenty twenty six midterm and maybe
Speaker 3: elect another Republican president in twenty twenty eight. The Democrats,
Speaker 3: I think, are making a grave mistake right now. The
Speaker 3: American people don't want radicalism, they want normalcy, and I
Speaker 3: think that's what Trump is doing. He's restoring common sense
Speaker 3: and normalcy, and the Democrats are going in the opposite direction.
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Speaker 2: Now stay tuned. We've got more after this. While you
Speaker 2: look at the Zoron who is running for mayor in
Speaker 2: New York City, and you aptly pointed out socialists but
Speaker 2: actually communists, and I think that's that has been the
Speaker 2: trend of the Democrat Party. You've watched David Hogg come
Speaker 2: out and he campaigns for all these socialist values, but
Speaker 2: he's out there saying I'm a capitalist. I'm a capitalist,
Speaker 2: and he's stepped over that line now because he's openly
Speaker 2: indoorsed Zorin, who's come out and said I'm a socialist.
Speaker 2: And I think that what you're hearing when they say
Speaker 2: one thing, they're just that next level. Because Zorin is
Speaker 2: out there saying I'm a socialist, and then he's telling
Speaker 2: you he wants city owned grocery stores. It blows my
Speaker 2: mind that people are rallying around us, Yes, I want
Speaker 2: the government to own my grocery store.
Speaker 1: How did that happen?
Speaker 3: You know, I watched this guy, Zorin, and I saw
Speaker 3: this video this morning actually where they've pieced together his
Speaker 3: career and he's using all these different accents over time,
Speaker 3: different sort of different characters. And then you look at
Speaker 3: Jasmine Crockett, same thing. You know, they sort of invent
Speaker 3: these characters, even Kamala Harris during the election last year,
Speaker 3: depending on who she was talking to, they would sort
Speaker 3: of invent these voices and these characters to try to
Speaker 3: meet the audience or meet the moment. And then you've
Speaker 3: got this character Padia, who I still couldn't pick out
Speaker 3: of a lineup. If you are a million dollars trying
Speaker 3: to lunge at Christy noanan a press conference, it's all theater,
Speaker 3: you know, It's all a bunch of theater. And I
Speaker 3: don't know. I can never tell do they really believe
Speaker 3: these things or are they just being theatrical with these
Speaker 3: positions in the moment because they think that's where the
Speaker 3: energy is among their base. I don't know what they
Speaker 3: actually believe, because they keep inventing these characters in these voices,
Speaker 3: and I don't know who they really are. But what
Speaker 3: I believe is they've settled on this idea that people
Speaker 3: want you to be more left winging, more radical, more progressive,
Speaker 3: more socialists, and you know, that's what we've got right now.
Speaker 3: We've got one political party that's largely running on common
Speaker 3: sense and normalcy, and one political party where all the
Speaker 3: energy is behind socialism and left wing radicalism and you know,
Speaker 3: frankly violent tendencies. If you look at the energy on
Speaker 3: the left and this Free Palestine movement, which I think
Speaker 3: is a domestic terrorism organization, there's a lot of energy
Speaker 3: right now behind people who are borderline or sometimes over
Speaker 3: the line violent. I think it's very dangerous.
Speaker 2: I think that's the frustration when I hear this Zoron
Speaker 2: guy come out and say, this is not.
Speaker 1: With any money. I'm doing this with no money. This
Speaker 1: is just the people. This has been kind of his mantra.
Speaker 2: Well, no, he has these movements behind him that have
Speaker 2: hundreds of millions of dollars, and the Free Palestine movement
Speaker 2: has a massive amount of money. What was the most
Speaker 2: recent and the No King's Movement, which is just those
Speaker 2: people moving into a new arena and the pro Iran
Speaker 2: people moving from pre Palestine into to let's support these
Speaker 2: dictator butchers. It's crazy. Where is the funding coming from?
Speaker 2: Because Zorin's not doing this because he's just massively popular.
Speaker 1: There is money behind him.
Speaker 3: Of course, if you look at all these gatherings, I mean,
Speaker 3: nobody can print that many flags for free, and nobody
Speaker 3: can change the flags they're printing that quickly. You look
Speaker 3: at what happened in LA. You know, somebody pulling up
Speaker 3: in a pickup truck in the middle of the riots
Speaker 3: in LA handing out gas masks. I mean, they didn't
Speaker 3: order those off Amazon. These are being provided to the
Speaker 3: people who are showing up at these demonstrations. And so
Speaker 3: it's a great question and we should get to the
Speaker 3: bottom of it, because obviously there are people out there
Speaker 3: who would like to see the downfall of American culture.
Speaker 3: They would like to see the downfall of the West.
Speaker 3: I mean, I've said many times, and the title of
Speaker 3: my book is references the fight for Western Civilization. I
Speaker 3: think we're on the cusp of the fight for the
Speaker 3: future of the West right now. I mean, there are
Speaker 3: massive amounts of people in the United States who would
Speaker 3: love to see the West go down, who would love
Speaker 3: to see America as we know it fundamentally be destroyed
Speaker 3: and built back into something that none of us would recognize.
Speaker 3: And I think those people have money, and I think
Speaker 3: they have ambition. And I think when you see these demonstrations,
Speaker 3: whether it's Free Palestine or the riots in la or
Speaker 3: people behind this guy in New York City, at their core,
Speaker 3: what do they believe? That America's rotten, that the West
Speaker 3: is rotten, and that we got to tear it down
Speaker 3: and start over. It's not good. I think the American
Speaker 3: people are ultimately going to reject this ideaology. But you
Speaker 3: can see there is money and there is energy behind it.
Speaker 1: So I agree.
Speaker 2: I keep thinking that the American people are going to
Speaker 2: reject it, but I do think that money is power,
Speaker 2: and there is We've seen this throughout history. If you
Speaker 2: get to the youth, you can eventually change it over years.
Speaker 2: In a generation, you can kick the old people out.
Speaker 2: And you see that rhetoric online too. Pretty soon all
Speaker 2: of these boomers are going to die off, and then
Speaker 2: it'll be the Gen xers are going to die off,
Speaker 2: and the new generation believes in complete communism. And I
Speaker 2: know that people say, oh, that's that's a radical theory.
Speaker 2: But the fact that New York City is on edge
Speaker 2: right now because they think this guy is going to
Speaker 2: win the primary tells me that there is a lot
Speaker 2: of support for this.
Speaker 3: So a couple things. Number One, the age thing is
Speaker 3: interesting to me because if you look at some of
Speaker 3: the big protests on the left right now, if you
Speaker 3: actually look at the video, are these a lot of
Speaker 3: boomers out there, like a lot of boomers out there?
Speaker 3: You know, first they're you know, they're going after Elon.
Speaker 3: Then it's free Palestine. And at the same time, there
Speaker 3: is some polling to indicate that younger voters, especially the
Speaker 3: youngest age eighteen to twenty one, are actually some of
Speaker 3: the more conservative people in the country. And I chalk
Speaker 3: it up to this. We close their schools and we
Speaker 3: wouldn't let them in school. We ruined their childhoods. And
Speaker 3: they know exactly who did it to them, People like
Speaker 3: Gretchen Whitmer where you live. She did it to them.
Speaker 3: These democratic governors close their schools and ruined their childhoods
Speaker 3: and set back their education. We warned them open the schools,
Speaker 3: and they wouldn't do it. And now the kids are pissed,
Speaker 3: and I think a lot of them are actually conservative.
Speaker 3: I think the energy that you see on the left
Speaker 3: right now behind this radicalism is it's not all age related.
Speaker 3: Some of It is just that we have people in
Speaker 3: the country who fundamentally want to destroy what the core
Speaker 3: of American life really is. They want to destroy Western values.
Speaker 3: They don't believe in the the values that built this
Speaker 3: country and that, you know, the pillars on which Western
Speaker 3: civilization have stood. They don't believe in it. They believe
Speaker 3: in this oppressed oppress or framework. You're either oppressed or
Speaker 3: you're an oppressor, and they believe the United States is
Speaker 3: fundamentally oppressive. They believe the people, you know that Donald Trump, Republicans,
Speaker 3: you know whatever, are fundamentally oppressive and they must be destroyed.
Speaker 3: That's what they believe. And this ideology, of course, is
Speaker 3: taught and fomented on college campuses. I think there are
Speaker 3: some young kids who don't believe that, they reject it,
Speaker 3: but there's a lot of people in America right now
Speaker 3: who are buying into it. You know, we settle these
Speaker 3: things at election time. I think we had the first
Speaker 3: test in November. That's why Donald Trump won the election,
Speaker 3: and I think convincing fashion. We're going to have it
Speaker 3: out again in the midterms, and we'll have it out
Speaker 3: again in twenty twenty eight. But the fight for the
Speaker 3: West and the fight for America's future is real because
Speaker 3: it's not just over a little policy differences. It's about
Speaker 3: the core. Who are we as Americans? Is the West
Speaker 3: going to survive? Those are the questions I think we'll
Speaker 3: be asking in the next elections.
Speaker 2: So there are powerful people that we don't vote for
Speaker 2: that and I hate to admit that they're powerful. But
Speaker 2: you recently had a conversation with Randy Weingarten, and if
Speaker 2: you don't know who she is, she's the president of
Speaker 2: the American Federation for Teachers and that's the second largest
Speaker 2: teachers union. She kept kids out of school. She now
Speaker 2: is saying, oh, no, I tried to open schools. I
Speaker 2: was this great person. But recently she stepped away from
Speaker 2: the DNC, and I think that conservatives were kind of
Speaker 2: going way a minute.
Speaker 1: She had an.
Speaker 2: Actual position at the DNC because she is in a
Speaker 2: unique position where she gets to siphon the funds out
Speaker 2: of the public schools because she's taking money from teachers
Speaker 2: that aren't allowed to opt out of her union, so
Speaker 2: she just siphons their right off of their paycheck, which
Speaker 2: is taxpayers are paying them, so it's a public union.
Speaker 2: She decides to put that money into the DNC, where
Speaker 2: she apparently has a.
Speaker 1: Position, and she is meeting with the CDC.
Speaker 2: We find out she is helping the CDC come up
Speaker 2: with decison visions of what they're going to do when
Speaker 2: COVID hits and keeping kids out of school. So she's
Speaker 2: very influential with the federal government. She's very influential with
Speaker 2: one party. I mean she's a member, and she's a
Speaker 2: member of their committee. She's on the rules committee. She
Speaker 2: stepped away because David Hog got kicked out, and you
Speaker 2: could kind of see how this was going because she
Speaker 2: resigns on June fifth. That was obviously going through the
Speaker 2: rules committee. They're making up this Oh he's the wrong gender,
Speaker 2: so we got to kick him out. But the reason
Speaker 2: they were kicking him out was he was going to
Speaker 2: primary these Democrats. So he's like, I'm going to put
Speaker 2: twenty million dollars into primary safe Democrats with these radical socialists.
Speaker 1: She was pro David Hogg.
Speaker 2: These people are not elected, but they have power over
Speaker 2: our kids.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Randy wine Garten is one of the most destructive
Speaker 3: people in American politics. What she did during COVID to
Speaker 3: help keep the schools closed to the detriment of millions
Speaker 3: of school children, including mine. I have four. I will
Speaker 3: never forgive and I will never forget, and I don't
Speaker 3: think millions of parents will ever forgive or ever forget
Speaker 3: what she did when she went on this tour to
Speaker 3: try to rewrite history. Oh, I was trying to open
Speaker 3: the schools. I mean, it would be funny if it
Speaker 3: weren't so tragically ridiculous what she did to set back
Speaker 3: a generation of children. I mean, we destroyed their futures.
Speaker 3: I mean, and it's not the rich kids. Let's be honest.
Speaker 3: People with resources, people with means. You know, you can
Speaker 3: sometimes buy your way out of things. Poor kids, working
Speaker 3: class kids, black kids, brown kids, the kids who have nothing,
Speaker 3: the kids who have you know, are already behind to
Speaker 3: begin with. Those are the ones that she destroyed. Those
Speaker 3: are the kids that the Democratic Party claims to fight for,
Speaker 3: and she and the Democrats and the Democrat officials. Those
Speaker 3: are the ones that they really really destroyed their futures.
Speaker 3: And there's been no apology, no admission, no guilt to nothing,
Speaker 3: just a bunch of lies about what they actually did.
Speaker 3: I cannot believe she continues to try to rewrite history
Speaker 3: on this The people who were fighting so hard to
Speaker 3: keep the schools closed, and now kids can't read, they
Speaker 3: can't do math. We have kids going off to college
Speaker 3: who can't achieve basic levels of reading in math in
Speaker 3: order to participate in college. It's an outright rolling disaster
Speaker 3: laid at the feet of Randy Winingarten and the people
Speaker 3: who enable her in the Democratic Party. It's despicable. We
Speaker 3: should never forget it.
Speaker 2: I have four kids too, and one of the things
Speaker 2: that I notice is the speech issues.
Speaker 1: That we have.
Speaker 2: My kids, my youngest were My youngest are twins, and
Speaker 2: they were in gosh, they must have been in second
Speaker 2: grade when the pandemic hit, and the kids in their
Speaker 2: class and older. My middle daughter is two years older,
Speaker 2: so second and fourth grade. It's been surprising to me
Speaker 2: the speech issues that those kids have because being out
Speaker 2: of school for that period of time for a year
Speaker 2: and a half, where it was critical that they learn,
Speaker 2: that they change how they were speaking, and that they
Speaker 2: have that speech therapist available. Those specialties were so critical,
Speaker 2: and those kids are going to suffer for years to
Speaker 2: come because of those decisions that they now say, Oh,
Speaker 2: that's not that's a decision we made.
Speaker 3: I totally agree with you. Two of my children have
Speaker 3: learning differences and have gone to special schools for that,
Speaker 3: classrooms that are specifically designed to make sure that they
Speaker 3: can learn how to read, that they can overcome their
Speaker 3: learning differences. To close their schools was a tragedy for them,
Speaker 3: a tragedy for any kid out there who had any
Speaker 3: kind of special need in their educational You know, these
Speaker 3: kids are as smart as anybody, but they can overcome
Speaker 3: it with the special eyed learning environment. Closing their schools,
Speaker 3: I mean, this is not a trivial thing, and they
Speaker 3: gave no thought to it whatsoever. And I just the
Speaker 3: lack of remorse. I mean, if one person would just
Speaker 3: come up and say, you know what, we overdid it.
Speaker 3: We overreached, we overreach acted, We didn't listen to the evidence.
Speaker 3: Look what happened around the world Western Europe, basically every
Speaker 3: other civilized country realized you could open the schools and
Speaker 3: they all did it and we didn't. And why did
Speaker 3: we not do it? One reason? Teachers unions. That is
Speaker 3: why it happened. And Randy Weingarten was the top of
Speaker 3: that pyramid of those that constellation of teachers unions, and
Speaker 3: I just you know the fact that they can't even
Speaker 3: admit today. Yeah, you know, a little remorse, how about
Speaker 3: a little humility, Like, listen, we did the best we could,
Speaker 3: and we were operating with imperfect information, and we you know,
Speaker 3: we overreacted. Any of that would be better than what
Speaker 3: they're doing now, which is to ignore the problems they
Speaker 3: caused and to deny that they had anything to do
Speaker 3: with it. It's outrageous. And yet Democrats, you know, they
Speaker 3: continue to prop these people up. And you know, if
Speaker 3: they made those terrible decisions, then imagine what they would
Speaker 3: do to your kids on some other issue in the future.
Speaker 1: Right, and you and you talk about the political theater.
Speaker 2: I mean, think about back then you had you had
Speaker 2: the nurses and the doctors doing these coordinated dan and
Speaker 2: posting them on social media. And you had the teachers
Speaker 2: writing their own obituaries and telling people how much danger
Speaker 2: they were in even though kids were proven, like you said,
Speaker 2: in other countries, kids were proven that they weren't spreading
Speaker 2: the disease.
Speaker 1: Let's take a quick commercial break. We'll continue next on
Speaker 1: the Tutor Dixon Podcast. One last thing I want to
Speaker 1: get to.
Speaker 2: You did talk about the caricature of the politician and
Speaker 2: the you know, creating characters. That's what we've seen in
Speaker 2: Michigan with Gretchen Whitmer, with all of her social media.
Speaker 2: Governor Barbie, we went through that whole scenario for a
Speaker 2: long time. Karine Jean Pierre, though, she has been a
Speaker 2: very interesting one because she was kind of like this.
Speaker 1: You know, she was a historical figure.
Speaker 2: She told us multiple times she's a historical figure, the
Speaker 2: first black, lesbian press secretary that there was, and gosh,
Speaker 2: she was making history.
Speaker 1: She was absolutely lying. We know she knew.
Speaker 2: I mean, gosh, it would be criminal if she didn't
Speaker 2: know that the president was incapacitated, and now she's going
Speaker 2: to try to make money off of it.
Speaker 3: I agree she is historical. I think there have been
Speaker 3: thirty six White House Press secretaries, and historically she's the
Speaker 3: worst one. So congratulations on your historic achievement of being
Speaker 3: the literal worst person to ever hold that job. Standing
Speaker 3: up there behind that podium, which is a special podium
Speaker 3: because it has to seal on it. You're in the
Speaker 3: White House, don't You're not a political actor. You work
Speaker 3: for the government, You work for the people of the
Speaker 3: United States. You uphold, you know, that special trust. And
Speaker 3: she stood there every day and lied, lied, lied, And
Speaker 3: you know, one of the worst examples, of course, as
Speaker 3: you well remember, the whole cheap fake episode. We've got
Speaker 3: videos of Joe Biden clearly wandering around, clearly out of it,
Speaker 3: clearly incapacitated, and went up to that podium and told
Speaker 3: reporters and told the world, oh, these are invented videos,
Speaker 3: these are doctored videos, These are cheap fakes. That episode
Speaker 3: alone ought to get her banished from all politics and
Speaker 3: government forever and ever and ever. Now she has this
Speaker 3: book coming out, she says she's left the Democratic Party,
Speaker 3: which congratulations, Democrats, you got rid of somebody that you
Speaker 3: don't really need. But the fact that Joe Biden put
Speaker 3: her in as press secretary and then elevated her gave
Speaker 3: it her another promotion at the end of his administration
Speaker 3: tells you that he knew he needed an outright liar
Speaker 3: and propagandist to stand at that podium to cover up
Speaker 3: for him what they did to hide from the American
Speaker 3: people the president's condition. I mean, it can all be
Speaker 3: told now, right, we have the books, We have everybody
Speaker 3: coming forward and saying, oh, yeah, he was totally out
Speaker 3: of it. But at the time people talk about constitutional
Speaker 3: crisis or the big lie. Let me tell you what
Speaker 3: the crisis is an incapacitated president and unelected people around
Speaker 3: him making decisions. Let me tell you what the big
Speaker 3: lie was that Joe Biden was up to the job
Speaker 3: of president of the United States. That's a fact. And
Speaker 3: the people who perpetrated that crisis on this need to
Speaker 3: be held to account. There has to be accountability for this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that the American people. I just think
Speaker 2: about this in the history books. How will it be
Speaker 2: portrayed that we had a president who was completely mentally
Speaker 2: incapable of having that position, and yet there was an
Speaker 2: entire staff that pretended like he was capable. You before
Speaker 2: I let you go, you have a book coming out.
Speaker 2: I want to talk about that. It's a revolution of
Speaker 2: common sense, which is right absolutely how Donald Trump stormed
Speaker 2: Washington and fought for Western civilization.
Speaker 1: Tell us about that really quick.
Speaker 3: Yes, well, I thought of it in January. I was
Speaker 3: watching the president's inaugural address and he used that phrase,
Speaker 3: a revolution of common sense, and I thought at the time, well,
Speaker 3: that would be a great title for a book. And
Speaker 3: then over the next few weeks I was thinking of
Speaker 3: writing a book and then just like I figured that
Speaker 3: should be the title, because when you think about the
Speaker 3: branding of the Republican Party right now, is a conservative
Speaker 3: what is it? Right now? That's the branding. We're the
Speaker 3: Party of common sense, and conversely, the Democrats are the
Speaker 3: Party of uncommon nonsense. But I think this whole branding
Speaker 3: of common sense is what allows Trump to have this broad,
Speaker 3: ideologically diverse coalition. And you've got everybody from Elon to
Speaker 3: RFK to you know, the traditional Republicans to the Libertarians.
Speaker 3: I mean, he has brought together this coalition of people
Speaker 3: and it's all around this concept of common sense. And
Speaker 3: I think it's common sense in service of fighting for
Speaker 3: the future of Western civilization. So I had an idea
Speaker 3: for the book. I went to the Oval Office in February.
Speaker 3: I asked the President if he would cooperate. He said yes.
Speaker 3: So the book is largely revolves around big issues he
Speaker 3: tackled in the first one hundred or so days. And
Speaker 3: you know, it's hard to stop writing a book like
Speaker 3: this because the minute you stop writing, something else happened.
Speaker 3: So it'll come out in November and there'll be things
Speaker 3: in there that I didn't quite get to because of
Speaker 3: the way book publishing works. But it's got Donald Trump
Speaker 3: on the cover. You can go to Amazon right now
Speaker 3: and type in Scott Jennings Revolution of Common Sense. You
Speaker 3: can pre order it. You'll have it in November. You'll
Speaker 3: have it in time for Christmas. It has a beautiful
Speaker 3: photo of Donald Trump on the cover, coming out of
Speaker 3: the White House. And I think if you love Trump,
Speaker 3: you'll love the book. And if you don't, you might
Speaker 3: learn a little bit about how he makes decisions, how
Speaker 3: he executes leadership in the White House. It might make
Speaker 3: you a little smarter about his presidency.
Speaker 1: Well, that's actually what I was going to say.
Speaker 2: I think that right now so many of us are
Speaker 2: trying to figure out how to have those conversations. We
Speaker 2: started this by me telling you. I mean, you amaze
Speaker 2: me every single day. Every time I see a clip,
Speaker 2: I'm like, how can I be more like Scott Jennings?
Speaker 2: And then I see that you're writing a book, and
Speaker 2: I'm like, that's how you know? But I think we
Speaker 2: all need to understand that it's time to push back.
Speaker 2: And you don't push back nasty, You're not aggressive. You
Speaker 2: push back with facts, and so I appreciate that you
Speaker 2: are writing this because it gives us something to have
Speaker 2: in our arsenal to go after the liberals who are
Speaker 2: yelling at us and just calmly respond.
Speaker 1: So I encourage everybody to go get it.
Speaker 3: Thank you very much. I told the President at the
Speaker 3: time that I thought a hundred of you know, the
Speaker 3: normal Washington insider types would write books crapping all over
Speaker 3: him and everything he wants to do. But there needs
Speaker 3: to be one book that could tell one of his
Speaker 3: supporters or anyone in this country truth about the first
Speaker 3: hundred days, why he arrived at some of the decisions
Speaker 3: that he did, and do it in an unvarnished way.
Speaker 3: I write from the perspective of a common sense view,
Speaker 3: a conservative view, a Middle America view. So thank you
Speaker 3: for the book promotion. It's called a Revolution of common Sense.
Speaker 3: I look forward to you reading it. I'd love to
Speaker 3: hear your thoughts on it. But thanks to the President
Speaker 3: and his staff and the cabinet secretaries for participating in it.
Speaker 3: I think you're gonna find some great nuggets in there.
Speaker 2: Wonderful well, thank you, thank you so much for coming on.
Speaker 2: Scott Jennings. Everybody get that book and check him out.
Speaker 1: He's a Warrior for us.
Speaker 2: Thank you, thanks Tutor, and thank you all for joining
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