AOC Admits Woke 1 Was Crazy

On today’s edition of The Scott Jennings Show, Scott examines the ideological battle within the Democratic Party, reacting to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s comments about the excesses of “Woke 1.0” and efforts by Democrats to present a more moderate image ahead of the midterms. Rep. Russell Fry joined the program to preview South Carolina’s closely watched Republican Senate primary and make his case to succeed the late Sen. Lindsey Graham, while Democratic strategist Julian Epstein explained why he is breaking with his party’s nominee Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan and supporting Republican Mike Rogers. Later, Sen. Jim Banks discussed the latest developments involving Iran and recapped the Senate’s work before the August recess, including the Todd Blanche confirmation, government funding, birthright citizenship, voter ID legislation, and the SAVE America Act. Scott also weighed in on the latest WNBA controversy involving Sophie Cunningham and remembered former Congressman and Dukes of Hazzard actor Ben Jones, who died at age 84.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The voice of free speech, the truth delivered common sense
for the American people.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
Welcome to the Scott Jennings Show. AOC appears on ABC
and boy was it revealing. We have audio and commentary ahead.
Senator Jim Banks of Indiana is here. We'll talk about
the Senate landscape for the fall, and Congressman Russell Fry
from South Carolina's coming by. He's on the ballot tomorrow

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as South Carolina Republicans choose a replacement for Lindsey Graham.
Today is Monday, August the tenth. I'm Scott Jennings Broadcasting
for Salem and we come to you live from Louisville,
Kentucky today this weekend. By the way, I was up
in Washington, d C. And stop by the Young America's Foundation.
They invited me to give their keynote address on Saturday night.

Speaker 1 (00:54):
It's the annual conference. Over a thousand kids.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
I think their biggest group ever there at the j
W Mary terrific group. Here's what I told them about
the stakes of American politics.

Speaker 1 (01:04):
Cut seven. Make no mistake.

Speaker 2 (01:07):
The DSA is the captain now and that is why
American politics, this year's midterms and your work at yaf.
They are fundamentally about one thing, defending Western civilization and
our American way of life, and we must defend it

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against a range of ideologies and on holy alliance of communism, socialism,
radical Islamism, transgenderism, anti Semitism, any other ism that's been
devised in the faculty lounges of Columbia in Berkeley. You'll

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notice that some of these ideologies even believe opposite things.
It is curious, isn't it. And I'm sure you've wondered
why are they in cahoots? Why are people who would
be thrown off of a building in the Middle East
marching down Fifth Avenue with a sign that says queers

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for hamas.

Speaker 1 (02:24):
Well?

Speaker 2 (02:24):
Think back to your history classes. What unites people better
than anything else a common enemy, and this toxic brew
of ideologies has a common enemy, and that enemy is

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all of you.

Speaker 1 (02:48):
That enemy is.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
All of us who love America, all of us who
defend the West and what it stands for. I want
to thank the Young America's Foundation for the chance to
speak to these great college conservatives this weekend. And then
I woke up on Sunday morning and had a little
crossover appearance on ABC's This Week program, and I tangled

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with Democratic strategist Donna Brazil over the nature of the
socialist takeover of the Democratic Party.

Speaker 1 (03:17):
Listen to this exchange cut eight.

Speaker 3 (03:19):
I've been in this big ten party probably longer than
most people, and I can tell you we're having the
same kind of growing pains I saw on the Republican side,
whether it was through to Tea Party and twenty ten,
the activists who helped to bring about the Maga movements.

Speaker 2 (03:33):
And with all due respect to my friend Donna, there's
nothing like You can't draw any equivalents between the Tea
Party movement and the socialist For one, the Tea Party
folks weren't trying to bring about the downfall of Western
civilization and the United States of America abolished the police,
abolish ice, abolished borders, abolished the Senate, abolished the Constitution.
There was nothing like this in the Republican Party. So

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it's an extreme political ideology that is gaining traction. The
Democrat leadership has lost control. They know it, and people
like Alexandria Ocassio Cortez Hong in Wisconsin. Abdua l sayed
in Michigan, if you talk about the Big Tent. The
Democrat Jewish Attorney General of Michigan cannot even go to

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her party's nominating convention because she says I won't be
safe there because of the supporters of abdul l sayed
this phrase the big Tent. A lot of Democrats are
using it right now. I hope the inside of that
tent has padded walls because the people they've led in
to run the place are crazy. I do want to

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thank the good people over at ABC News for heaving
me in this weekend. I enjoyed my visit, and don't worry,
I'll be back on CNN for the rest of the week.
On this day, by the way, nineteen seventy seven, one
of New York City's most frustrating man hunts came to
an end when police arrested a twenty four year old
postal worker. Now New York City was terrorized, six were murdered,

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seven more injured, and this postal worker taunted the cops
in the media with a series of cryptic letters for
over a year, but the postal worker finally pleaded guilty
to all of it and got three hundred and sixty
five years in prison.

Speaker 1 (05:15):
David Berkowitz was his name.

Speaker 2 (05:16):
You probably remember him as the son of Sam Today's news. Honestly,
the most interesting thing going on right now is the
civil war inside the Democratic Party. The Socialists have the
momentum and the energy. They are now trying to introduce
a new political tactic, which is to laugh and lie
their way through the crazy things that they have said

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and that they prefer over the years. Alexandria Ocassio Cortes
appeared on ABC on Sunday morning.

Speaker 1 (05:46):
I want you to listen to this cut number two.

Speaker 4 (05:48):
I have a local city councilman that has this.

Speaker 1 (05:53):
Saying Woke one was crazy.

Speaker 2 (05:58):
Well, we agree on one thing, Woke one was crazy,
But just wait until you get a load of woke
two and listen carefully.

Speaker 1 (06:08):
Listen carefully to AOC with cut eleven. I mean too
far with some of those positions.

Speaker 5 (06:14):
I mean you briefly supported the idea of defunding the police.

Speaker 4 (06:17):
Of course, rhetoric in that time is not rhetoric that
we would use today. And I'm grateful that these candidates
have the opportunity to present who they are to their
electorate and what they're campaigning on in this moment.

Speaker 2 (06:30):
Listen carefully to that. AOC says, that's not rhetoric that
we would use anymore. In other words, she's saying, well,
we're smarter than we used to be. We just won't
say out loud what we think or what we would
do if you handed us power. But make no mistake,
not only do they still believe all the crazy things

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they said back during WOKE one, they have added to it.
We are well beyond defund the police. At this point.
The Democratics Socialists of America platform is very clear. Abolish
the police, Abolish the border, abolished prisons, abolish ice, Abolish
all immigration enforcement, Abolish the US Senate, abolish the presidency.

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They want to abolish our country and our constitution as
we know it.

Speaker 1 (07:18):
Now.

Speaker 2 (07:18):
The good people over at the DSA haven't gotten AOC's
memo just yet. The national co chair of the DSA
is a woman named Megan Roamer. She did an interview
a few days ago. Well, I'll let you take a
listen to this cut five.

Speaker 6 (07:34):
But we do believe in taxing the hell out of millionaires.

Speaker 7 (07:37):
Yeah, absolutely, Well what is taxing the hell out of them?

Speaker 8 (07:40):
Mean?

Speaker 1 (07:42):
Uh? Yeah, you know again, I don't have like a
solid but should I think, But shouldn't you.

Speaker 9 (07:49):
I mean, if you're the co chair, if you're the
co chair of the DSA, shouldn't you be more specific
than just taxing the hell out of something?

Speaker 7 (07:56):
What exactly do you mean?

Speaker 6 (07:59):
So again, it's democracy, right, and we have to look
at what we need to spend and what we need.

Speaker 1 (08:04):
We don't want to depend on the existence.

Speaker 6 (08:06):
Of millionaires because that means people are still getting exploited.
So yeah, we need to look at what we need
to pay for in the interim, what sort of tax
base we need for that to happen, and then and
build from there.

Speaker 2 (08:18):
Now, I want you to imagine this person serving as
White House chief of staff, or as a Cabinet secretary,
or as a senator or a congressman. This is what's
coming if you don't wake up, America. This is what
is in store for your country. Other news, the Ukrainians

(08:38):
are striking deep into Russian territory a long range drone
attack at a major oil hub in central Russia, some
seven hundred and fifty miles from Ukraine. They killed thirteen
and injured seventy five more. Kiev says it targeted a
refinery as part of a campaign to cripple Russia's energy
industry and to force Vladimir Hooton to the negotiating table,

(09:01):
and you can file this under Finally, the Trump administration
is continuing to tighten the screws on foreign nationals who
violate the terms of entering this country. The State Department,
it's been announced, has revoked more than one hundred and
seventy five thousand visas since Trump returned to office. The
leading reasons overstaying visasrunk driving and assault, and theft. Thousands

(09:26):
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Speaker 1 (10:53):
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Speaker 2 (10:57):
In my Hands article in which the headline reads democrats
new plan to win in November. Just be normal. That's
literally the headline of this article. I'm going to discuss
it in just a moment. First a word and at

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you'd like to do something meaningful with lasting impact during
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principles that made this country exceptional dignity, freedom, opportunity, self government.
The Declaration tells us that all men are created equal
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These truths, friends, are not for displays at a museum.

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In our household. We're going to read the Declaration out loud.
You know, I'm going to do it with my kids. Actually,

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AFP is leading the charge to secure our founding principles
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this excellent idea about reading a declaration of independence. All right,
this article, this caught my attention today, written by a

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reporter named Alex Rority. I've talked to him before. I
know Alex, and he's in the news organization called Notice
n ot Us News of the United States.

Speaker 1 (13:28):
Democrats new plan to win in November.

Speaker 2 (13:33):
Just be normal. Here is the problem with this plan.
They've not nominated anybody that's normal. Their party is anything
but normal. Their leaders are not normal. Have you seen

(13:55):
Chuck Schumer try to grill a cheeseburger? Even he he
is not normal. Hakeem Jeffries a weirdo of the highest order.
He's not normal in all these candidates around the country, weirdo.

Speaker 1 (14:15):
After weirdo after weirdo.

Speaker 2 (14:19):
New York City Darre Eliza Avila Chevalier, New York thirteen. No,
it means ending policing, full stop period. No more police
at all, ever, does that sound normal to you? Francesca Hong,
who's likely going to get the Democratic nomination for governor

(14:42):
in Wisconsin this very week, cancel Thanksgiving. Should have done
this in sixteen twenty one. She called Thanksgiving a colonizer
holiday and quote the original super spreader event. This is
who they're running for governor in Wisconsin. Does this sound

(15:04):
normal to you? Colorado one me lot Cairos. She took
out an incumbent in a primary. She called the Hamas
October seventh massacre quote the inevitable consequence of apartheid. It
was just inevitable. They had to come over and rape

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and murder and kidnap.

Speaker 1 (15:26):
All these people.

Speaker 2 (15:29):
She has suggested that America is to blame for September
the eleventh. Claire Valdez, another nominee, accusing ICE agents of
kidnapping immigrants. Well, they're illegal immigrants. They're in our country illegally.
They're enforcing the law. But if you want to call
that kidnapping, it makes me wonder what she thinks about

(15:51):
other laws. Like what if you I don't know, Rob
Debank and the police arrested you, have they kidnapped you.

Speaker 1 (15:59):
You'd be lad to believe that. Perhaps that's what they think.

Speaker 2 (16:03):
You should read this article Democrats new plan to win
in November Just be normal. The problem is is that
they aren't normal, and so what you're gonna have are
a bunch of people trying to act normal because that's
what they are, theater kids who act like things. I
have a feeling the American people are going to be

(16:25):
able to smell this garbage from a mile away.

Speaker 1 (16:28):
More news after this Scott Jennings on Salem. Stay with us.

Speaker 8 (16:31):
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Speaker 1 (16:36):
It's the Scott Jennings Show.

Speaker 2 (16:39):
It is Monday, August tenth, here on Salem. I'm Scott Jennings,
common sense for the American people. Tomorrow, by the way,
another primary election day across our nation. Some of the
primaries will be decided in critical states like Wisconsin and Minnesota,
and also South Carolina has an interesting campaign going on.

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Was a race that no one expected due to the
tragic death of Senator Lindsey Graham. So the Republicans are
choosing a replacement for Senator Graham on tomorrow's ballot, and
one of the candidates for that is joining us in
just a moment. Let's hear what he is telling the
people of South Carolina.

Speaker 1 (17:18):
Cut one, I'm.

Speaker 10 (17:20):
Running because I believe that South Carolina's best days and
America's best days are still ahead of them. Fight alongside
President Trump to secure the border, restore American energy dominance,
reign in Washington spending, strengthen our military, and create an
economy where families can finally feel like they can get

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ahead again, not just get by. God blessed South Carolina
and God bless the United States.

Speaker 7 (17:47):
Russell fry and I approved this.

Speaker 2 (17:48):
Message and the voice you were hearing there joins us
Live Congressman Russell Frye. He currently represents the seventh District
of South Carolina.

Speaker 1 (17:57):
Welcome back into the Scott Jenning Show. Russell.

Speaker 7 (18:00):
Great to be here, Scott, thanks for having me on today.

Speaker 2 (18:04):
Well, I'm glad you're here because you know, we've known
each other for a while now, and I'm fascinated by
this campaign. First of all, the circumstances of it are tragic.

Speaker 1 (18:15):
Senator Graham passes away.

Speaker 2 (18:17):
He was supposed to be on the ballot for the
US Senate in November. So now the Republicans have to
choose a replacement for him, and a whole bunch of
people have filed. President Trump has weighed in, and he
initially appointed the governor of South Carolina. Initially appointed Darlene Graham,
Senator Graham's sister, as the caretaker for this final few

(18:40):
months of this term, but then she decided to run
for a full six year term, which I think surprised
a lot of people. But she's got that Trump endorsement
and obviously carries the familial tie there with Lindsey Graham.

Speaker 1 (18:55):
You're running from a different angle. Why don't you tell
us about it?

Speaker 5 (19:00):
I think people are hungry right now in South Carolina
and really across the country. They want a new generation
of conservative leadership. That they want somebody who's battle tested,
to be a fighter, to be in the arena in
kind of the most heady Roosevelt type of way, that
you're tested, that.

Speaker 7 (19:14):
You're in this for the long haul.

Speaker 5 (19:17):
But they also want somebody who can produce results, who
has put together coalitions, and they want people to work
with President Trump and not against them. They want people
to not grandstand, They want things to get done. One
of the biggest critiques that I hear from the conservative
activists around the state and around the country is why
can't Republicans stand together?

Speaker 7 (19:36):
Why does it always seem like that they're fractured.

Speaker 5 (19:39):
I've got a record of putting people together, passing legislative
agenda items in furtherance of the president's agenda.

Speaker 7 (19:46):
So, look, this country is a remarkable place.

Speaker 5 (19:49):
It survived two hundred and fifty years through depressions, recessions, a.

Speaker 7 (19:53):
Civil war, two World wars.

Speaker 5 (19:56):
I think our calling right now is what does the
next two hundred and fifty look like? Are we going
to allow socialism to take root in our society? Are
we going to allow this country to fail? Are we
going to allow our children to inherit less than we
were given when we took the mantle? And I think
resoundingly people say no. But they want a fighter and
they want somebody to produce results. And I think that's

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really kind of the mix of what we offer to
this field.

Speaker 1 (20:21):
Russell Fry as our guest.

Speaker 2 (20:23):
He's running to take up the Republican line on the
November ballot to replace the former senator tragically passed away,
Lindsey Graham. Russell, this has been a weird campaign. It's
been going on for like two weeks, and that's all
the time that there was for voters to consider this.
I know you obviously are in great contact with your

(20:43):
congressional district, but you're getting out around the rest of
South Carolina. What are the top one or two things
that you're hearing from people? They're processing the news, they're
watching the Democrats, they're watching the Republicans. Need to boil
it down to one or two things you hear most
often from Conservatives Reublicans.

Speaker 1 (21:00):
What is it?

Speaker 5 (21:02):
Well, conservatives want a chance to elect their senator and
not necessarily have it selected for them.

Speaker 7 (21:06):
I think that's a big distinguishing thing.

Speaker 5 (21:08):
But on the issues, look, everybody's focused on what are
we going to do to allow the middle class to thrive?
How are we going to help provide some relief to
working families and not from a socialist vantage point, what
are we going to do?

Speaker 7 (21:21):
And people can talk about that.

Speaker 5 (21:23):
Everyone, i think collectively is talking about affordability. What I'm
trying to offer, and I think our steps that you
could take right that we protect certainly our constitutional liberties,
that we create in further, a protax environment that allow
or excuse me, a pro growth environment that allows you
to keep more money, not send as much to Washington,

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d C. For your family, that you create a regulatory
environment that allows you to maybe build some nuclear generation
facilities or some power plants, because people hate paying a
little electric bill. So look, it always boils down to
the pocketbook issues. And that's how I grew up. We
didn't have much growing up. You know, we were considered
poor in this small little town in coastal South Carolina by.

Speaker 7 (22:08):
Every stretch of the imagination. And so I get how
that pinch feels. I know it. And so my mission
has always been, how can we create.

Speaker 5 (22:15):
That upward lift, that that wind in the sales to
the middle class so that they can, you know, have
an optimistic view of tomorrow, so they could save.

Speaker 7 (22:23):
A little bit of money for their child's education. These
are things that I hear the most.

Speaker 2 (22:27):
Scott Russell Fry running for the US Senate Republican nomination
in South Carolina as our special guest today. So you're
running against Darlene Graham, who is Lindsey Graham's sister. Mentioned
that also in the race is another name that'll be
familiar to a lot of our audience around the country,
and that's Ralph Norman. He's also a congressman you serve

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with Ralph Norman affiliated with the House Freedom Caucus, and
he just ran for governor but did not do that
well in that particular primary. I've seen some polling and
I'm a little look, I'm a little leary of what
polling may or may not be able to reveal for
a two week, you know, snap campaign like this. But
it seems to me that the people that have the

(23:09):
best chance to finish in the top two, which if
nobody gets fifty percent it will go to a runoff,
are Graham, You and then Ralph Norman seems to be
right there. Where do you differ from Ralph Norman? What
makes you a better choice for US Senate?

Speaker 5 (23:24):
Well, I think from a conservative vote perspective in Congress,
we're pretty We're pretty similar, I think stylistically though, we're
very different, which is, you know, I want to build
coalitions and put things together. I think, you know, age obviously,
we just lost a seventy one year old senator, So
people are you know talking about that is who has
the most runway if you will to deliver the best results.

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Who's got the energy, the tenacity, the grit, the fight
to deliver results that we expect. It's not enough, I
think for anyone in South Carolina or across the country.
It's not enough to cast conservative votes. You need that,
but you also needservative results. We've done that in the Congress,
have been there just a few brief period, if you will,
but we've passed substantive legislation in furtherance of the president's agenda.

(24:09):
You know, we've helped bring resources back to the state
in areas that need it. We've been there, We've battle
tested and ready to go. Look on the big issues
of the day. We're equipped to talk about that and
make the case for conservative governance. But we also get
things done in the most blue collar way. That's kind

(24:29):
of what I bring to the table and maybe what
distinguishes me from some others in this race.

Speaker 2 (24:36):
So, as we noted, President Trump has gone for Darlene
Graham here. But you are and have been a close
ally of President Trump. You've been in regular touch with
President Trump over the years. You've been a strong supporter
of his agenda in the US House. So you're in
a situation now where you're saying to Republican voters who
love the president and want to follow his lead on

(24:57):
most issues, I'm actually the best choice. How are you
making that case to that cohort of voters who really
looked to him for advice on how to cast their balance.

Speaker 5 (25:08):
Well, it's like the same thing in politics or anything else.
Everyone's with you when you won or when you win.
But we were there with the president from the beginning
when it was somewhat politically perilous or unpopular to do so.
I thought this man had done a remarkable job in
his first term, and when he was gearing up to run,
we stood with him when not a lot of people were.

Speaker 7 (25:27):
And so people kind.

Speaker 5 (25:28):
Of cloaked themselves in the MAGA banner right now, and
we're happy to have strengthen numbers. But you know, I
took on a Trump impeacher just a few years ago,
one of the ten Republicans that voted to impeach Trump.
I didn't have the President's endorsement right out the gate.
In fact, it took me a couple months to earn it.
But when we did, it was lights out. We were
off to the races. So in every measure of the sense,

(25:51):
you know, I didn't endorse somebody else for president.

Speaker 7 (25:54):
I endorsed Trump.

Speaker 5 (25:55):
I didn't run for president against Trump, as Mark Sanford
had done, and I showed up to vote in the
presidential preference primary, which is something that Darling had not done.
So we've been with the President through thick and thin,
and he needs allies in the Senate most of all.
Right now, it seems to be a body that doesn't
have a lot of strength with the President's agenda, and

(26:16):
he needs those people and they're helping because his success
is our success. If he is successful as our commander
in chief and as our president, then the American people
are ultimately successful. We want to kind of work in
tandem with the White House to enact good legislation, and
we're ready to do it.

Speaker 2 (26:32):
I think you raise an issue that should be on
the minds of voters, and that is with Lindsey Graham
gone that bridge between Donald Trump and his administration a
lot of the US Senate, his fingerprints were often on
getting people together and trying to get an outcome. He
was an outcomes base guy. I'm not sure currently in

(26:55):
the Senate that person exists to replace him. Do you
feel like because of your relationship of President Trump and
your coalition building experience in the House, you could eventually
fill those shoes and be someone who's kind of a
glue for all the different parts of the party that
you need to put together to get anything done in
the Senate.

Speaker 7 (27:14):
I think so. And certainly Lindsay was phenomenal at this.

Speaker 5 (27:17):
I mean, he really did work with the administration, with
the President, and he was that glue.

Speaker 7 (27:21):
He was that cement.

Speaker 5 (27:22):
And so we stand ready and able to help however
we can. Again, we have to row together. We've been
afforded this wonderful opportunity where Republicans control the House, Senate
and White House, and sometimes we get in our own way,
and in the Senate in particular, you know, you've got
to have allies of the president that are willing to
kind of triangulate efforts to push things through. I mean,

(27:43):
at the end of the day, this is a legislative exercise.
We have to get stuff done that the American people
care about. We've had great success. Let's keep our let's
keep the foot on the gas pedal. But we need
to make sure that he has allies in the Senate
that are able to do that.

Speaker 2 (27:58):
Russell Frym and I gave you the last word Obviously
you're running against a bunch of Republicans tomorrow, but the
true enemy is these are these socialists who've taken over
the Democratic Party. I'm sure you've seen some of what
they've been out running on. Abolish the police, abolish ice,
abolished porters. AOC on ABC this weekend said, well, you

(28:19):
know that's not rhetoric that we should be saying out loud.
What's your message to the people of South Carolina about
the stakes of this election.

Speaker 5 (28:27):
People want to fight or they want somebody who can
advocate for their interests. People feel the pinch right now,
and I think the choice between before us is really
what is the road that this country will take. Are
we going to go down the slow road of socialism
and destruction and despair where we replace God with government
and ruin the middle class?

Speaker 7 (28:46):
Are we going to do that?

Speaker 5 (28:48):
That seems to be what the other side wants to do.
So send a fighter to Washington, d C. Somebody who
can confront this right in its face and beat it back.
We have survived, and we have a great opportunity to
have in this country off to our kids and our
grandkids better than we found it. That path is before us,
right now, but only if we elect the right people

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to take that fight in Washington, DC or your state capital.

Speaker 7 (29:13):
It doesn't matter. Make sure we go get the job done.
It's that important.

Speaker 2 (29:18):
Congressman Russell Frye from South Carolina seven, good luck tomorrow,
will be tracking the results.

Speaker 1 (29:22):
Appreciate your time today.

Speaker 7 (29:23):
Thank you, sir. Appreciate it all right.

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Speaker 2 (32:28):
Let's tackle a story that has been unfolding over the
last few days. And I can't believe I'm having to
talk about the w NBA as much as I am.
I typically talk about profitable companies on this show, love
profitable organizations. This is a decidedly unprofitable operation. They lose

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money every year, does the w NBA. And part of
the reason they do is because the league is made
up of a bunch of coaches and players who were
either terrible at their jobs or and or are more
interested in grinding political actses and apparently perpetrating a race

(33:15):
or in America, there was a play last week where
a player named Djona Carrington clotheslined Sophie Cunningham who was
going up for a layup, and Dja Carrington was hit
with what they call a flagrant two, which means basically,

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you committed a WWE style or UFC style maneuver that
had nothing to do with basketball, and not only have
you committed a foul, but were throwing you out of
the game. That's how bad it was. You've probably seen it.
Complete attempted decapitation of Sophie Cunningham and this player, Dja Carrington.

(34:00):
I went back to the locker room and immediately sent
out a social media post white privilege. She put out
on social media. Here's what I found crazy. So the Fever,
that's one of the teams. That's the team with Sophie Cunningham.

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They have a head coach. Now, if you were the
head coach of a team and you had a player
like Sophie Cunningham and she was darn near had her
neck broken on the court by a player from the
other team.

Speaker 1 (34:38):
What would you do?

Speaker 2 (34:40):
You'd probably go to a press conference and say this
is terrible. I love Sophie Cunningham. I love my player.
She is a good player and she doesn't deserve to
be treated this way. But what did the coach of
the Indiana Fever do listen to this and cut ten
one of the.

Speaker 11 (34:59):
Things about she's gonna play her butt off, man, she's
gonna compete, nobody's gonna go walking in for a layup.
And so I don't oppose the hard foul, but I
also don't think that she intentionally went.

Speaker 9 (35:09):
For the name.

Speaker 2 (35:12):
Stephanie White is her name. So instead of defending her player,
she defends Djona Carrington, who tried to, let's be honest,
badly injure Sophie Cunningham. And she's getting defended by this coach.
If you watch the press conference, you see Caitlin Clark

(35:34):
with her head in her hands.

Speaker 1 (35:35):
She knows how bad that answer was.

Speaker 2 (35:38):
Just another story in the long, bizarre saga of how
the WNBA is the worst run sports organization in the world.
More news after this come back, It's Scott Jennings on Salem.
Quick check of the headlines here on Monday, August tenth,
and this just end of the Scott Jenny Show, the
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and Senator Darlene Graham in

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South Carolina have officially unveiled the newly named Joint Base
Lindsey Graham. That was Joint based Charleston, but they've now
changed it to Joint Base Lindsey Graham. Something they said
they were going to do and now that is complete.
A nice gesture to the former senator. As we reported
to you last hour, Republicans going to the polls tomorrow

(36:24):
in South Carolina to choose a successor Republican to appear
on the ballot in November.

Speaker 1 (36:31):
Here's a story that blows a hole.

Speaker 2 (36:34):
In the propaganda campaign accusing Israel of deliberately starving Gaza.
According to a new UNISEF report, acute malnutrition rates in
Gaza now stand between just two tenths and eight tenths
of one percent, lower than in many countries across the
Middle East, and roughly the same as several in Western Europe,

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including Germany. The data says more than two million tons
of food Gaza since the ceasefire which exceeds humanitarian requirements.
So in Gaza, food prices are falling, markets are offering
greater variety, bakeries and community kitchens are operating.

Speaker 1 (37:12):
And you should remember all of this the.

Speaker 2 (37:14):
Next time someone tells you that Israel is currently perpetrating
a genocide. The data simply does not support the talking
point or the propaganda. There continues to be fallout from
the Michigan primary that occurred just a week ago. Several
prominent Democrats are refusing to line up behind their controversial

(37:34):
nominee for Senate, Abdual Lsied, joining us to discuss this.
One of those Democrats, Julian Epstein, is here. Julian, thanks
for coming back on the Scott Jennings Show. I caught
your op ed that you wrote for Fox News. You
say that Democrats aren't coddling Scandinavian style socialists, They're getting

(37:55):
into bed with a neolistic, deconstructionist brand of third world.
You say you are raising money for Mike Rogers, the
Republican in Michigan. I assume ninety nine percent of the
time in your life you have voted and supported Democrats,
but that's changing.

Speaker 1 (38:09):
Tell us about your views.

Speaker 12 (38:12):
Well, Scott, thanks for having me on. Yes, I am
going to be supporting Mike Rogers and opposing Al Sayad
because I think Sayad represents a radical and very destructive
movement on the left that is a vowedly Marxist Leninist.
If you listen to DSA's own members talk about what

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they believe and put together with a radical Islamist movement
that is anti Semitic at its core, and that is
very anti American as well. And you know, you can
go back to the Kennedy administration in the nineteen sixties,
Scott and Neil Kinnick in Britain in the nineteen nineties,

(38:56):
George Herbert Walker Bush who said no to the Akka
and the Paduke, and Bill Clinton who said no to
Sister Soldia cop killing rap singers. And in each case
you saw the party leaders take a bold and courageous
stand that not only made sense politically, but also made
sense morally in terms of what the party represented, and

(39:18):
they took a stand against extremism. And I think what
you're seeing happening inside the Democratic Party, I'm sorry to say,
is the party is a shrinking party. It's losing the
middle class at hemorrhage black and Hispanic vote in the
last election, and it's increasingly siding on issues that are
eighty twenty ninety ten, which I think the DSA agenda is,
and that would be being generous to DSA, and the

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party leaders no longer have the guts to sort of
stand up and say, this is lunatic hour, this is
a big tent. Does not mean welcoming bigotry into your tent.
A big tent does not mean welcoming an ideology that
wants to destroy your cultural and your political acad institutions.
And the party leaders just no longer have the guts,

(40:03):
sort of the confidence to be able to stand up
and say this is not who we are.

Speaker 2 (40:08):
Longtime Democratic strategists dating back to the Clinton era. Julian
Epstein is our guest. Julian, you just used a phrase
that I think we ought to talk about, and that
is big tent. I was on ABC yesterday morning with
Donna Brazil. She used the word big ten. I've heard
Pete Bootage use the phrase big tent. This is their

(40:29):
attempt to try to, I guess, put their arms around
these socialists, these radicals, and I'm not certain that the
radicals want them in the tent when all.

Speaker 1 (40:42):
Is said and done.

Speaker 2 (40:43):
I think one of the problems for the Democratic Party
regulars or the people who came before this radicalism is
they may say, welcome into the big tent, but I
think the people they're letting in are going to throw
them out, and have in some cases already in primaries,
thrown them out at the earth earliest possible opportunity.

Speaker 1 (41:01):
What do you think about that?

Speaker 12 (41:04):
I think you're exactly right. The piece I wrote, by
the way, a small point. It was in the New
York Post on Friday. I think Fox News picked up
pieces of it. They did, but yes, yes, I think
you know. Going back to Kennedy for a second, he
had in his inaugural address the famous line that those
that try to ride the back of a tiger wind

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up inside. What he meant by that was that those
that tolerate and try to appease the rise of authoritarian
communism end up being next on the dinner menu. Churchill
had a similar line that said, the appeaser is the
guy who believes that by feeding the alligator, he'll be

(41:47):
the last one the alligator eats. And this is sort
of the mentality you go back to this extremism. You
know the Jacobins and the French Revolution, the Bolsheviks who
went after the Mensheviks and the Russian Revolution. This is
always the ideology of the far left, sort of Marxist
Leninist movement, which is to use the moderates as long
as they can to get into the power, and once

(42:08):
they're in power, to give them the guillotine. So I
think this is a suicide march for the party establishment
that thinks that they can sort of came this extremist movement.
So yes, I think it is foolish from that point
of view. I also think that what they are doing

(42:29):
is they're making an incredible political miscalculation. What you're talking
about with this movement, Scott is mostly privileged, white college
educated kids that don't want to do what their parents'
generation did, which is build for the future. We have
a lot of challenges with AI and so on, and

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they don't want to take that challenge on it. Instead,
what they want is a confiscatory policy that takes from
the most successful people so that they can create sort
of a moucher culture, amuture society that anybody understands economics
one on one knows that will collapse in a short time.
But you know there's a if you look at what

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happened in all of these primaries, you're talking about these
socialists getting elected, these or Marxist Leninists. I think Free
Press has done a great piece on this, reporting that
over fifty percent of DSA members consider themselves Marxist Leninists.
But what I think you see is an elector at
these people being elected with about ten percent twelve percent

(43:38):
of the vote. Sayad got about twelve percent of the
vote in Michigan, and I think you're going to see
a lot of Democrats like myself saying I don't want
any part of this. I don't want any part of
tearing down you know, open borders is sort of the
new Marxist idea of saying, let's unify the global proletariat, right,
and that's how we will defeat the free market. Let's

(44:01):
get rid of all our I think most normies, and
I think Rogers is a normy. That's why I'm supporting him.
Look at this stuff and say this is a freak show,
and I don't want to be part of it. And
so you hear euphemisms from Donna who's a friend, and
others saying big tent, big tent. This is just a
euphemism for saying we are going to allow anti American

(44:22):
deconstructionists that believe in the neal racist bigotry on the left,
which is particularly targeted at anti Semitism. And by the way,
you've been just magnificent on this issue, so I said
thank you to you for that. But it's a euphemism
for saying we are going to let these lunatics into
the party because we're so desperate to get votes. I mean,

(44:44):
look at what the Democratic Party has done in the
last six seven, eight years. I mean Russia Gate, which
I fell for. I don't have clean hands on that
issue because I was the chief counsel on impeachment in
the late nineties with Clinton, and so I was getting
a lot of cop interview requests on impeachment in twenty eighteen,

(45:05):
twenty nineteen, and I initially fell for it. But that
was a complete fabrication that I think Obama has dirty
hands on and the Democratic Party has dirty hands on.
And they all knew it was a fabrication. They all
knew it was a grand conspiracy theory that had no
merit immigration. Similarly, by letting you know, ten twelve undocumented

(45:25):
immigrations just sort of invade the porter with the hopes
that they would eventually become Democratic voters because the Democratic
Party is shrinking now for only twenty six twenty seven
percent of the public actually identify as Democrats. That was
a way of trying to hold onto power. The tolerance
of this Marxist Leninist radical Islamic movement, and that's what

(45:47):
it is. You got the Sayad's on state right and
you can see on alignment with radical Islam. The tolerance
of this kind of thing is can only be explained,
in my view, by a raw thirst for power and
a hold on to power on a party that's shrinking
because postmodern liberalism is failing.

Speaker 2 (46:07):
Julian Epstein is a longtime Democratic strategist and a lot
of experience in the Democratic Party. But I think they've
gone too far for you, Julian, And you're supporting Mike
Rogers up in Michigan because he's the normy in this
particular election. Thanks for your time today. Check out his
piece that was printed originally in the New York Post.
More after this on Salem's stay with Us one man

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Speaker 7 (46:32):
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Here's what we know down in Colombia. At least eight
people are dead in that nation after a powerful seven
point four magnitude earthquake happened in western Colombia. I'm looking
at some details that have been published by my employer CNN.

(48:48):
They're talking to local officials and the affected areas. Again,
at least eighty people are dead. Tragic situation. This all
happened at the epicenter they say was in San Jose
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two hundred and forty kilometers or one hundred and fifty
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(49:11):
very strong earthquake. They did feel it in the nation's
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interesting in Colombia, they have a new president. This guy
just took office on Friday. His name is Ablardo de
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(49:35):
and he has convened an emergency committee to address the
damage from this powerful earthquake. The Colombian government has declared
a state of national disasters. But again the headline here
eighty people at least are dead in this seven point
four earthquake in Columbia. CNN has excellent coverage of this
rolling at cnn dot com.

Speaker 1 (49:55):
You could check that out.

Speaker 2 (49:56):
Also, President Trump, in the last little bit has issued
a statement. Now you may have read that. In this
back and forth between the United States and Iran over
who is going to control the strad and how we're
going to end the war that they've been saying, they
meaning Iran, we want reparations. We want reparations for all

(50:18):
the damage you cause. Well, Trump has responded to this.
He says, I see that representatives of the Islamic Republic
of Iran are asking for compensation for the damage done
during the last five month military conflict started because they
will not have a nuclear weapon, even though it was
never mentioned in any of our negotiations or meetings. And

(50:40):
here is Trump again. It is an interesting idea because
now I am likewise demanding compensation from Iran for all
of the people that they have killed and gravely wounded
with their roadside bombs in many conflicts for which they
are famous as led initially by General Solomani, including the
families of those killed on the USS coal and thousands

(51:03):
of others killed in combat. Additional compensation should be paid
to the families of the hundreds of thousands of innocent
protesters that Iran has killed over the last fifty years,
not to mention the fifty two thousand that have been
killed in the last five months. Trump continuing, I have
instructed my representatives to put this firmly into any and

(51:24):
all future negotiations. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Good for you, mister President. Don't let these Iranians get
away with anything on this front. The idea that after
fifty years of Iran waging war against Western civilization, trying
to obtain a nuclear weapon, killing and maiming thousands of people,

(51:47):
their role in destabilizing the Middle East, their role in
funding and training and equipping Hamas and the hoothy rebels,
and on and on and on Hezbola, and they want compation.

Speaker 1 (52:02):
Outrageous. I don't know how it's going to end.

Speaker 2 (52:05):
Sounds like President Trump says, compensation not on my watch.
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Speaker 9 (53:24):
It's the Scott Jennings Show.

Speaker 2 (53:27):
While I was over at ABC News on Sunday morning
carrying the flag for all of you, my next guest
was over on NBC at Meet the Press and gave
a terrific answer when asked about why the Iran war
is so important.

Speaker 1 (53:47):
Let's hear that cut three.

Speaker 13 (53:49):
I do not want my kids to grow up in
a world where Iran has a nuclear weapon that will
be pointed directly at the United States of America, at
our trips abroad, at our allies, and President Trump is
the first president of forty seven years who's had the
guts to stand up to the regime there and tell
them that they're not going to get away with it.
There's been lots of good news of what's happened the

(54:11):
greatest military and the world. As an Afghanistan veteran myself,
watching what our military has accomplished wiping out eighty five
percent of Iron's ballistic missiles and making sure that they
can never achieve their ultimate goal to have that nuclear weapon,
that's all good news.

Speaker 2 (54:28):
That voice you're hearing there on Meet the Press is
Our next guest is Senator Jim Banks from the great
State of Indiana. He joins US live from Fort Wayne today. Senator,
thanks for coming back here on the Scott Jennings Show.
I thought you gave a great, force full answer. I
thought Senator Sheihi from Montana gave a great floor speech
the other day. We've had some I think you guys

(54:48):
in the Republican Conference there have been giving very forceful
and unsubtle, straightforward analysis of why this fight against Iran
is necessary. And you're doing it in the face of
Democrats who seem to be cheerleading American defeat or cheerleading
for the IRGC.

Speaker 1 (55:06):
Talk to us about that right now.

Speaker 2 (55:07):
It's kind of shocking to me where Democrats and media
have come down rooting against the US military.

Speaker 13 (55:14):
Yeah, Scott's a great point, because every single Democrat in
the Senate has voted to tie President Trump's hands from
blocking Iran from ever having a nuclear weapon. If you
think about what that means, if Iran had a nuclear weapon,
as I said on Meet the Press, it would be
pointed directly at US, it would be pointed at Israel,
it would be pointed at our bases and our troops

(55:34):
around the world. And every Democrat in Congress wants to
stop President Trump from doing something that is so important
for the future of not just our country but the
whole world, and blocking the Iranians from getting that nuclear weapon. So,
to me, it's common sense, but to the Democrats is not.
They hate President Trump so much that they're willing to

(55:56):
block him from doing something that's good for America from
the and for the world. They're also blocking the NDAA.
We've never seen this very bipartisan bill run into as
many problems. Is what it is. The NDAA is all
about supporting our military and our troops in so many ways.
They're blocking defense funding in the Supplemental and the Reconciliation bills.

(56:18):
They don't want to pass any plus up for defense funding,
even though all of the branches of the military are
the ones who are at It's not President Trump, it's
the Navy, the Army, the Air Force, the Marines coming
to us and saying we need more money to support
our troops and to advance our military capabilities, to make

(56:39):
sure that the United States of America is never in
a fair fight, but that we always have the strategic
edge in any war or conflict that we're part of.
And the Democrats are all against it. I mean, that's
how crazy these Democrats have become. That's on full display
for the for all of America to see at this point,
how radical, how out of touch they are, how extreme
they are. We can't let them get away with.

Speaker 1 (57:00):
That, you know.

Speaker 2 (57:01):
I see connection between those votes and those policy positions
that you just laid out that's happening in Congress today.
I see connection between that and these Democrats Socialists for
America candidates because part of Their platform is to defund
and abolish the Department of Defense. They don't want any

(57:21):
national defense for the United States of America. Basically, what
you're laying out, though, is that democrats in Congress are
already moving us in that direction, and the more of
these democratic socialists that get elected, that's where we're going
to head. People like Abdul Lsied just to the north
of you there in Michigan.

Speaker 1 (57:39):
I have no doubt.

Speaker 2 (57:40):
I have no doubt he will take this a step
further if he goes to the United States Senate. What
do you think about that as a vector for the
fall campaign? People, I think don't realize just how radical
these socialist Democrats have become on something very basic, something
very fundamental, like national security, national defense.

Speaker 7 (58:00):
It's so true.

Speaker 13 (58:02):
El Sayed in Michigan campaigned with a guy named Hussan Piker,
who's a loud left wing socialist podcaster and voice who
said that America deserved nine to eleven, and El Sayed
campaigned with them, and on Meet the Press yesterday right
before I spoke that you that you carried a minute ago,

(58:23):
the host asked Abdul l Sayed, do you do you
denounce this? Do you think that America deserved nine to eleven,
and he refused to separate himself from Hussan Piker. I mean,
that's that's really to me, that's really crazy. It's really
dangerous that Democrats could become that extreme, that they would
associate with with anti American voices like that. The said

(58:46):
America deserved nine to eleven. He also was asked about
the military funding and he said, we need less funding
for the military and more funding for Medicare for all
government run healthcare. I mean, Mike Rogers, the Republican ring
in Michigan is an Army veteran, and l saied the
Democrat wants to defund the army. I mean, that's that's
a pretty stark difference that you see in that race.

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This upcoming week in Wisconsin, the candidate who is expected
to win the Democrat primary for governor in Wisconsin is
anti Thanksgiving. She hates the Thanksgiving holiday because of because
of its American roots and what Thanksgiving means to our country.
They hate it because it's what's good about America and

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about our founding and our founding principles and a time
of Thanksgiving. And she hates Thanksgiving. I mean that this
is not just any more about a difference in political
opinions or political positions with the socialist taking over the
Democrat Party. This is about our system of government and
our way of life in America. And they many of

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these voices on the socialists left hate America and they
want to destroy They want a revolution in America. They
want to abolish prisons and defund the police, and they
want a revolution in America to change America. And that's
what that's what's at stake in this midterm election. I
mean that that's why the upcoming midterm is so important.

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We can't let candidates like that win.

Speaker 2 (01:00:13):
If you and I sat down with a typewriter and
we're tasked with writing a comedy for Hollywood, Like, what's
the funniest or craziest, zaniest comedy you could write about
American politics. We might write a character who was running
on the platform of eliminating Thanksgiving. And you might think, well,

(01:00:33):
that's that's even too crazy for Hollywood. It's literally happening
over in Wisconsin. It's it's I mean, I think people
hear this stuff sometimes, Senator and then they go, oh,
that's how could anybody possibly be for getting rid of Thanksgiving.

Speaker 1 (01:00:49):
Oh yeah, what's crazy. They say it out.

Speaker 2 (01:00:51):
Loud, they put it on their website, they make videos,
and they're just very open about it.

Speaker 1 (01:00:57):
And it's not it's not made up. It's real life.

Speaker 2 (01:01:01):
And these are the people who are going to hold,
if they win, real positions of authority in our country.
And it's you know, the mint terms. Look, I think
Mike Rodgers has an excellent chance to win. We got
a lot of these candidates around the country. But this
is all leading up, I think, to an epic battle
in twenty twenty eight.

Speaker 1 (01:01:18):
It's a clash of world views.

Speaker 2 (01:01:19):
It's a clash of civilizations, and you're either going to
be for the West or you're going to be for
this third worldism that they stand for. That's the clash
that's coming. Whether they nominate AOC or Kamala Harris, that's
what those people are going to stand for. And I
think you're going to see former Democrats across this country
say this is way a bridge, way too far for me.

(01:01:39):
I assume you hear from some old Democrats in Indiana
who say, I don't even recognize this party anymore.

Speaker 13 (01:01:45):
For sure, you hear it every day. This is not
my Grandpa's Democrat party. But in Michigan. Go back to
Michigan for a moment. The former press secretary to Jill
Biden when she was the first Lady, just came out
and endorsed Mike Rodgers and said I can he said,
I cannot support El Sayed. And then and he also
and and also other Democrat voices. Uh uh have call

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Julian Epstein, a well known Democrat voice in Washington, d C.
He came out and said he endorsed Mike Rogers over
El Sayed. And he said the Democrats have lost their
moral authority by nominating someone like El Sayed. And then
Tom Swazi, a more moderate Democrat congressman in New York.

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Just a couple of weeks ago, he and a couple
of other more more moderate leaning Democrats came out with
a with a new pledge that they circulated among their
colleagues in the House. And the pledge was this, we
are Democrats, we support capitalism, we do not support socialism.
That Scott, I kid you not. That was their pledge.
They circulated it and only got six members of the

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on the Democrat side in Congress. I mean that it
is unbelievable. But this is this socialist infection of the
Democrat Party by the DSA wing, the communist wing of
the Democrat Party. They have taken over. And you're right
when AOC is leading the Democrats in the twenty twenty
eight presidential race against JD Vance leading it on our side,

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it's going to be an epic battle between two totally
fundamentally different worldviews about what America is, is America good
or not? And where America is going? And that's going
to be on full display in twenty twenty eight, but
it's on full display in this midterm election in twenty
twenty six as well.

Speaker 2 (01:03:37):
Senator Jim Banks of Indiana is our special guest today. Senator,
you've been on top of this issue of birthright citizenship.
You have a bill called the Citizenship Act that would
codify President Trump's executive orders and end birthright citizenship for
the children of birth tourists. The President just made this
announcement the other day. I think the Supreme Court got

(01:03:59):
it wrong on his initial executive order, but he's come back.
Talk to us about your legislation, the President's new executive orders,
and the real problem, the real scandal of birth tourism.
This is way out of control. I think most people
don't know about it, but you've been on top of it.
Tell us about it.

Speaker 13 (01:04:16):
Two hundred and fifty thousand babies of illegals are granted
birthright citizenship in America every year, and that's wrong. It's
not fair. They're immediately eligible for welfare. They become voters
in eighteen years when they turn that age. It's not
I don't think our founders, I don't think anybody ever
intended for illegals to flood our country and have babies,

(01:04:39):
and those babies become immediately American citizens. Then the Supreme
Court decision I think was the worst Supreme Court decision
of my lifetime. It was it struck down President Trump's
executive order, the first one to ban birthright citizenship. But
in the Supreme Court decision, this is important because Justice
Kavanaugh was on the wrong side of the decision. But

(01:04:59):
in his in his opinion, he wrote that if Congress
declared an invasion, and and and and named these illegals
as invaders, their babies would not be eligible for birthright citizenships.
So he took it. He gave us a bit of
a hint in his opinion, and that's what my that's
what I want to do. Citizenship Act. Okay, that's great

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because in the past, in the past we've named pirates,
Nazi spies, terrorists as invaders. Well, that's a drop in
the bucket to the tens of millions of illegals in
our country having babies. So and President Trump last week
signed more executive orders to do this as well that
I think will meet constitutional muscles. Congress can pass my
bill and make it permanent.

Speaker 2 (01:05:44):
Well, you've got the right idea, you're on the right track,
and you're obviously doing it in a way that'll pass
constitutional muster with this Supreme Court.

Speaker 1 (01:05:51):
We salute you for that.

Speaker 2 (01:05:52):
Senator Jim Banks, one of the greatest members of the
Senate Republican Conference, Thanks for joining us today. We got
to take a break. We'll round out the show right
after this. Scott Jennings on Salem.

Speaker 1 (01:06:02):
Stay with us, common sense for the American people.

Speaker 7 (01:06:05):
This is the Scott Jenny Show.

Speaker 2 (01:06:08):
You know, Hollywood Sean, I love that show, The Dukes
of Hazzard, watch it with my grandparents. Every character on
that show was just terrific. And I was thumbing through
the clippings this morning and noted that one of the
actors from that show.

Speaker 1 (01:06:31):
Has passed away.

Speaker 2 (01:06:32):
His name was Ben Jones, and you probably remember him
as Cooder the Mechanic. He died at the age of
eighty four. He had a heart attack. According to his wife,
he had a crazy life. He had and he talked
about this, two decades of alcoholism.

Speaker 1 (01:06:53):
He had three divorces.

Speaker 2 (01:06:54):
He had been arrested numerous times and thrown in jail,
all before he got cast as Cooter Devenport on the
Dukes of Hazard Cut nine.

Speaker 9 (01:07:11):
The Jew's over there Done switched the jugs to shine water.

Speaker 1 (01:07:26):
Cooter he was.

Speaker 2 (01:07:28):
He was a funny character. He was always fixing the
general lee on the show. But anyway, after Cooter left
the show, he was very popular and he gets recruited
in nineteen eighty six by the Democratic Party to run
for Congress in Georgia. There was a young Republican incumbent there,

(01:07:53):
Pat Swindell was his name. So the Democrats go out
and they get Cooter and he discloses his past asked
and anyway, the whole Cooter Ben Jones' story becomes basically
an asset. I mean, you'd think, like if you'd had
all these problems. Maybe voters wouldn't like it, but he
was upfront about it and talked about it, and anyway,

(01:08:14):
they trusted Cooter. He did not win. It was close,
he did not win. But what happened He ran again
two years later and Pat Swindell actually wound up being
indicted on multiple charges of lying to a grand jury

(01:08:36):
before the election. It was a really negative campaign and
Couter won the second time around, and he wound up
serving two terms in Congress. Then he lost his seat
in redistricting. But then he came back and tried to
take out Newt Gingrich down in Georgia. After that that

(01:08:57):
was not successful. Then he moved to Virginia and he
tried to take out Eric Canter. That did not work.
So you know, he tried to come back a couple
of times. But then after all that didn't pan out.
Cooter wound up opening a museum in Virginia devoted to

(01:09:19):
the Dukes of Hazzard. So rip to an American original.
Ben Jones aka Cooter Devenport from the Dukes of Hazzard.

Speaker 1 (01:09:30):
He's dead at the age of eighty four.

Speaker 2 (01:09:33):
Another story I caught over the weekend that is just
too good not to bring to you a golden retriever.
And this, by the way, comes from CBS News, and
this is a great story for a network to cover.
A golden retriever named Barley was having seizures and his
family ultimately fixed it by getting him a friend, a

(01:09:54):
duck cut six.

Speaker 1 (01:09:56):
A friendship built pack by pack.

Speaker 6 (01:10:00):
She started smiling again, She started wagging her tail, She
started having personality again.

Speaker 8 (01:10:08):
Today the two remain virtually inseparable. Louis pecks at Barley.
Barley Chase's Louis. They wrestle and relax together.

Speaker 2 (01:10:19):
Look, a lot of political stories out there, a lot
of stories that are like, this person's mad at that person.
This is bad, that's bad, this is negative. We're ripping
each other apart. And CBS News goes out and finds
the story of a golden retriever who was basically depressed
and gets cheered up by a duck, and they have

(01:10:40):
all this amazing video of the duck and the dog
playing together.

Speaker 1 (01:10:46):
Scott Jennings, thanks for listening.