Brandon Gill Perfectly Prosecutes the Left

On today’s edition of The Scott Jennings Show, Scott examines the Secret Service briefing on the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, renewed scrutiny of ActBlue, and the key votes facing Congress this week. Scott also takes a look at Rep. Brandon Gill’s exchanges with the Left during recent congressional hearings and the political implications of the closely watched House race in Colorado’s 8th Congressional District. Rep. Tom McClintock joined the show to discuss his House floor speech contrasting freedom and socialism, as well as the broader debate surrounding New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s policy agenda. Later, Rep. James Comer provided an update on pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) reform and his recent Oval Office visit, while Adam Gelb discussed the latest approaches to criminal justice reform and public safety policy. 

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

Speaker 2 (00:14):
WNBA player Sophie Cunningham standing firm and standing against men
being allowed to play in women's sports. Fresh audio from
the Indiana Fever Star. You don't want to miss that.
Lots going on up on Capitol Hill the last several hours,
all the latest, plus we have two members of the
House calling in to discuss these issues. Important conversations coming

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along today, and a campaign finance scandal brewing with Democrats
taking advantage of the elderly, especially in Michigan. Shocking details
you don't want to miss today, Thursday, July the twenty third,
I'm Scott Hittings broadcasting for Salem and we come to
you live today from the nation's capital. On this day,

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eighteen eighty five, Ulysses S. Grant died at the age
of sixty three. The Great Civil War general and former
president had defeated the Confederacy and preserve the Union. But
now Grant was fighting two final battles. The first was
against terminal throat cancer, the second against personal bankruptcy. A
dishonest business partner had wiped him out, and Grant knew

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that he was dying. He feared he would leave his
wife Julia with nothing. So, unable to speak and suffering
terrible pain, Grant began furiously writing his memoirs. Someone with
a fair amount of experience in the publishing industry learned
that Grant was about to sign a book contract paying
him only ten percent of the profits. Now, Grant was

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never very good in business. It was a failing that
plagued him his entire life outside of his military and
political service. So the man from the publishing industry rushed
to Grant's home to try to stop this bad deal
and to offer him a better one. This man said,
I can give you seventy percent of theits. The man
encouraged him, reviewed the pages and recognized immediately that Grant's

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plainspoken account of the Civil War in his life was
something very special. Grant agreed to the new deal. He
finished the three hundred and thirty six thousand word manuscript,
and then he died just a few days after completion,
on July the twenty third. Then, his mysterious benefactor, well,
he devised a brilliant campaign. Ten thousand salesmen, many of

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them Union veterans would go door to door selling this
two volume memoir, mostly across the North. It became one
of the greatest publishing successes of the nineteenth century, eventually
earning President Grant's widow, Julius, some four hundred and fifty
thousand dollars, which is the equivalent of more than fourteen
million dollars today. Who was the man that saved Grant's

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family and gave America one of its greatest memoirs. Well,
his name was Samuel Clemens. Of course you know him
better as marked as for today's news. A stunning warning
today from the US Secret Service. The agency has already
investigated more than ten thousand threats against President Trump and

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other elected officials and protected officials this year. That's a
forty percent increase in threats over the same time last year.
Secret Service Director Sean Kerran tells The New York Post
that the threat environment is quote off the charts, the
worst he has seen in twenty four years. Do we
have a left wing violence problem in this country?

Speaker 3 (03:36):
You bet we do.

Speaker 4 (03:37):
That.

Speaker 2 (03:37):
Our president and other senior officials are constantly in danger.
Of course, when politicians and pundits constantly portray them as
tyrants and existential threats and his nazis, what do you
expect other than violent outcomes. Here's one from the world
of sports. WNBA star Sophie Cunningham standing out today as

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a beacon of common sense in a league that is
often fueled by absolute nonsense. Cunningham plays for the Indiana Fever,
same team as Caitlin Clark, and she Cunningham is taking
a stand against allowing men to play in women's sports,
something with which the vast majority of the country agrees.

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But as you know, the sports world is often an
upside down world, and this has set off all sorts
of controversy. But Sophie Cunningham refuses to back down, even
when hounded hounded by woke sports journalists. I want you
to listen to this interaction cut six.

Speaker 5 (04:36):
I'm that same vein and that story with the ESPN
you talked about wanting to protect young girls who shouldn't
have to go against biological men.

Speaker 3 (04:42):
Just can you expand your viewpoint on that.

Speaker 6 (04:43):
I mean, I think I said what I said.

Speaker 5 (04:45):
I think it's kind of common sense, and I think
I always believe in that. I think it's really important
to protect children and that's little girls who are also
involved in that category. And so I stand on what
I said, and I'm always do you see.

Speaker 3 (05:01):
Your advocacy on that like taking any form going forward?
You know, I don't know. I didn't.

Speaker 5 (05:05):
I'm not a very political person, but I do have beliefs,
I have morals, and I'll always stand on those and
be true true to who I am. And I think
people are going to take it how they want to
take it. But I've never even really said anything about that,
And so when it comes just to protecting young girls
in sport and women in sport, I feel very strongly
about that. I think that's why you have Title nine,

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That's why you have some of the greats in women's sports.
If Title nine and women's sports weren't protected, then you
wouldn't hear about any type of women in sport. And
so I think in the future it's just really important
to protect Sophie Cunningham.

Speaker 2 (05:41):
I like her, good head on her shoulders, a common sense,
critical thinker working in a world of woke lunatics. Good player,
too good for her, and good for the Indiana Fever.
A few weeks ago we told you about Act Blue.
The Democrat fundraising platform. They're in trouble, they're under investigation.
The company's leader took the Fifth Amendment before Congress. Well,

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there is an update today and this is an absolute scandal.

Speaker 7 (06:06):
Now.

Speaker 2 (06:06):
This is coming in from our friend Charlie Leduff, who
has a great podcast up in Michigan called the no
BS News Hour, and he has a new site called
The Michigan Enjoyer. Charlie found eighty eight year old Elizabeth
Waffle living on a modest pension in a rundown trailer.
Her house had burned down two years ago. She owns

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no computer and has but spotty internet service, and yet
campaign finance records list this eighty eight year old woman
as making fourteen thousand, six hundred and ninety six political
donations through Act Blue, totaling more than one hundred and
fifty thousand dollars over five years. That would mean nearly

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eight donations every single day. Her response, when confronted with
the records, quote one hundred and fifty thousand. Hell no,
I don't have that kind of money.

Speaker 8 (07:02):
Now.

Speaker 2 (07:03):
She acknowledges making a few small democratic donations, but the
records reportedly show contributions from multiple addresses, sometimes both on
the same day and donations to candidates that she says
she's never even heard of. They also show forty seven
donations to Michigan's Socialist Senate candidate Abdul l Sied over

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the past two years. Now l Sied proudly claims to
reject corporate pack money, and he boasts about his small
dollar fundraising operation. Well, now he and Act Blue have
some questions to answer. Taking advantage of an elderly widow
to create the appearance of a grassroots fundraising operation would

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not merely be a campaign finance scandal. It would be
a disgusting act of exploitation. The party that claims it
wants to protect seniors, they have some explaining to do.
I recommend you read all about this from our friend
Charlie Leduff in the Michigan Enjoyer Capitol Hill. A little
while ago, the US House voted to stop President Trump

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from waging war against Iran. All Democrats voted yes, so
did four Republicans Barrett Fitzpatrick Massey and Davidson now Over.

Speaker 3 (08:13):
In the Senate.

Speaker 2 (08:14):
Same resolution just failed a little while ago, forty seven
to forty nine.

Speaker 3 (08:18):
So the President's powers continue.

Speaker 2 (08:19):
But still the House rebuke has to sting a little
bit on the plus side for Trump. The House Republicans,
under the leadership of Magic Mike Johnson the Speaker, did
clear the decks of several issues yesterday. In one day,
the Republicans passed three major bills, the Annual Defense Policy
Package they call it the NDAA, a ban on lawmakers

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trading stocks, and a budget resolution to allow for reconciliation
three point zero and that does include the Save America Act. Now,
our friend, Congressman Brandon Gill points out that ninety percent
of Americans agree that members of Congress should not be
able to trade stocks and that you should have to
show an ID to vote. Yet, and yet one hundred

(09:02):
and ninety eight Democrats just voted against both of those things.
We'll assume that we'll hear more about that in the
fall election, or at least we should.

Speaker 3 (09:11):
I think it would be good strategy.

Speaker 2 (09:13):
Pretty clear though, that Senate Republicans won't be taking up
the reconciliation bill before election day. Leader Thune says his
chamber wants to solve the September thirtieth funding fight.

Speaker 3 (09:23):
First.

Speaker 2 (09:23):
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So as usual, we have high drama up on Capitol Hill.
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It is Thursday, July the twenty third, Common Sense for
the American people. Scott Jennings is here, broadcasting from your
nation's capital.

Speaker 3 (12:04):
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of the show, you know that a great friend of
our show here is the great Congressman from Texas, Brandon Gill.
Brandon is in his first term and already, you know,
sometimes people call him a rising star. I don't think
he's rising anymore. I think he has achieved the top
of the heap in Washington, at least as it relates

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to making the Libs look ridiculous in front of congressional committees.
I sometimes watch these committees and I think, what are
these people doing this is a wasted opportunity. Brandon Gill
never misses, and he never wastes an opportunity. He had
the Smithsonian hearings this week. He made the Smithsonian people
look ridiculous. And yesterday he had the president of the

(13:12):
American Bar Association up there to testify. And boy did
Brandon Gill do some work. Got a couple of clips
for you. Let's listen. First, they're sparring over transgender justices
on the scotis the Supreme Court cut number four, so.

Speaker 10 (13:27):
Transgenders haven't been represented on the Supreme Court. Do you
think that it's important that the next Supreme Court justice
be transgender?

Speaker 6 (13:35):
The ABA does not subscribe to any particular quotas.

Speaker 10 (13:40):
I'm not asking about a quote. I'm asking about representation, diversity, equity,
and inclusion.

Speaker 6 (13:45):
The ABA supports diversity in all of its forms, and.

Speaker 10 (13:49):
If transgender has been included on the US Supreme Court.

Speaker 6 (13:53):
The ABA supports the full spectrum of.

Speaker 10 (13:57):
You think that it's a problem that the transgender community
is never had representation on the US Supreme Court.

Speaker 6 (14:02):
The ABA believes in diversity, equity and inclusion.

Speaker 10 (14:06):
And I'm asking you about diversity equity and inclusion. I'm
asking you about inclusion of the transgender community.

Speaker 6 (14:14):
We believe that people ought to bring their entire self
to whatever role they're surveying.

Speaker 10 (14:20):
You're refusing to answer my question. Do you think that
it's important that we have a transgender Supreme Court justice?
I believe that it's in order to include that community.

Speaker 6 (14:28):
I believe that it is always important. The ABA believes
that is always important to support and encourage diversity.

Speaker 10 (14:35):
So we should have a transgender Supreme Court justice.

Speaker 6 (14:38):
Diversity has many forms, and we believe.

Speaker 10 (14:41):
That you think if you're not answering in a straightforward way,
do you think that's because of your own implicit bias?

Speaker 6 (14:47):
I believe that I'm trying to explain that the ABA
does not set quotas and does not believe that you
have implicit transphobia. The ABA believes that diversity in all
of its forms is important and helps the profession more globally.

Speaker 2 (15:03):
Now, the term implicit bias, This is where brand and
Gil really dug in, because the ABA has an official
policy that says we all we all have implicit biases.
So Brandon Gil lasered in on this, and here's the
next round.

Speaker 3 (15:23):
Cut Number eight According.

Speaker 10 (15:25):
To the ABA's website, quote all of us have implicit biases?

Speaker 11 (15:29):
Would you agree with that statement?

Speaker 6 (15:31):
The ABA believes that diversity, equity inclusion improves.

Speaker 10 (15:37):
Would you agree with the statement that quote all of
us have implicit biases?

Speaker 11 (15:41):
From the ABA's website.

Speaker 6 (15:42):
The ABA believes that diversity in all of.

Speaker 10 (15:44):
It is that a yes. It's a yes or no question.
Do you believe that all of us have implicit biases?
As your website says, the ABA.

Speaker 6 (15:52):
Looks to remove barriers and we exist that It's.

Speaker 10 (15:55):
Not my question, ma'am, do you believe that all of
us have implicit biases?

Speaker 11 (16:00):
Expressed?

Speaker 6 (16:00):
I've expressed what the AGA is doing.

Speaker 10 (16:02):
That is that is the ABA's position, as expressed by
their their website.

Speaker 11 (16:08):
Against which groups do you have implicit biases?

Speaker 6 (16:11):
The ABA believes that it's important to always ex.

Speaker 10 (16:14):
Are you going to fail a buster? Because it doesn't
make you sound very good. I'm going to ask you again,
which against which groups do you have implicit biases?

Speaker 6 (16:21):
It's important to always examine everyone's point of view and
where they may.

Speaker 11 (16:28):
Need to consider what about your point of view?

Speaker 6 (16:31):
I am here as the president of the American Bar Association.

Speaker 10 (16:34):
And I'm asking you what what your implicit biases are?

Speaker 6 (16:37):
The ABA is an Have you.

Speaker 11 (16:39):
Reflected on your implicit biases?

Speaker 6 (16:41):
I think about how I what are they? World constantly?

Speaker 11 (16:45):
Would you like to explain to us what they are?

Speaker 6 (16:48):
I am here speaking on behalf of the A BA
and the Aba.

Speaker 2 (16:52):
There is nobody alive walking this earth better at exposing
the ridiculousness so of the American left than Brandon Gill
of Texas, I think, and I thank God for placing
Brandon Gill in this job in Congress, in this moment

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in time to expose these utter morons for who they
really are. They say things and they think we'll never
be called on this, and then they run into Brandon
Gill and it's absolutely glorious. Our hats off to Brandon
Gill for a great week upon Capitol Hill.

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to common Sense for the American people. I'm Scott Jennings,
broadcasting for Salem.

Speaker 12 (20:10):
Our.

Speaker 2 (20:10):
Next guest just gave a phenomenal and I mean phenomenal
speech on the floor of the United States House. He
was laying out for us in stark terms, the battle
that we face today freedom versus socialism, and the dangers
coming out of New York under the failed leadership and

(20:31):
the radical, dangerous leadership and rhetoric of Zoron Mamdani. Let's
listen to a little bit of that floor speech. Cut one,
mister speaker.

Speaker 4 (20:40):
If America follows mister Mandanny, it will not be the
first civilization to succumb to the siren song of a benevolent,
all powerful government. But every civilization that's done so is
awakened one morning to discover that the benevolence is gone
and that the all powerful government remained. Names the American

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founders feared that one day a generation might emerge that
it has lost the memory of freedom. Let that not
be the legacy of our generation.

Speaker 3 (21:11):
Joining us now.

Speaker 2 (21:12):
The man who gave that speech, the congressman from California's
fifth District, Tom McClintock. Congressman, thank you for your time,
Welcome back to the show, and let's start here. You
represent California, mom GANI is in New York City. I
recognize he's become a national figure. But what inspired you
to give this speech to your colleagues on the House floor.

Speaker 4 (21:33):
Well, I think this is becoming the great question of
our age. I think back to Lincoln's address in eighteen
fifty eight, the House Divided Speech, where he said, a
house divided against the self cannot stand, and this government
cannot endure permanently. Half slave and half free. He said,
I do not expect the government to dissolve. I do
not expect the House to fall, but I do expect
it will cease to be divided. It must become all

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one thing or all the other. He understood that there
were two anesthetical principles buying for the soul of our country,
freedom and slavery. You can't compromise in their polar opposites,
and he realized that ultimately one would triumph over the other.

Speaker 13 (22:09):
I think that wheels come full circle.

Speaker 4 (22:11):
And now the great question of our age is between
two antithetical principles, freedom and socialism. And if you stop
and think about it, socialism and slavery sprang from exactly
the same poisonous principle. A. Lincoln described it as the
same spirit that says you work and toil and make
bread and I will eat it. That's the moment that

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we come to as a country. And I think that's
why the politics are becoming so intense and so polarized,
because we're dealing with two principles that simply cannot coexist.

Speaker 2 (22:43):
I think that is extremely well said Congressman. I was
watching a video the other day some of these organizers
of the Democratic Socialists of America. We're talking about what
their goals and what their aims are. These are people
who hold positions in this socialist organization. One of them said,
this is stuff with me. We aim to destroy the
American Empire from the inside out. And that chilled me

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when I heard it, and I think about it every day.

Speaker 3 (23:09):
But I think when I hear Mom, Donnie and the.

Speaker 2 (23:11):
Rest of these socialists and the way they describe our
country and what they want to do, I think they
are making it very clear that's in fact the ultimate
goal destroy the United States of America as we've known it.
Do you think people in your district do you think
Americans are waking up to this existential threat to our country,
to our constitution.

Speaker 4 (23:32):
Oh, they're certainly going to wake up to it. The
only question is whether they wake up to it too late.
You know the siren song we keep hearing from the
left as well, capitalism, that's dog eat dog, look out
for yourself, selfishness. You remember what Walt said about socialism,
his neighborliness. It's taking care of one another, and they've
got it exactly backwards.

Speaker 13 (23:53):
The only way to succeed in.

Speaker 4 (23:54):
A capitalist system is you've got to figure out what
your neighbor needs and how to get it for them
better than they can get it for themselves. It might
be mowing their law and might be doing brain surgery
on their child, but whatever it is, you have to
help your neighbor. Socialism is taking what one person is
earned by helping others and giving it to someone who's not.
It is true if I take a dollar from Peter
and give it to Paul, Paul's got an extra dollar

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to spend I've helped Paul, I've hurt Peter to the
exact same amount. But what I've really done is I've
taken from both of them a dollar's worth of incentive
to help each other. Paul no longer needs to help Peter.
He now has his dollar. Peter no longer profits from
helping Paul. And you dissolve the glue that holds a
society to gether and it requires enormous amounts of force.

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Freedom capitalism requires no force because each individual makes their
own decisions to their mutual betterment. Socialism requires nothing but force,
because you have to compel people to act against their
own interests, in their own judgment. And that's why it's
faled wherever it has been applied in any period of
history part of the world, including.

Speaker 13 (25:01):
In this country.

Speaker 4 (25:02):
We can see how the socialist regimes that we're seeing
slowly appear in places like California, what they do to
destroy the quality of life of the most beautiful states
of the twentieth century, most beautiful cities of the twentieth century.
Socialism doesn't work any better here than everywhere.

Speaker 13 (25:19):
Else in the world has ever been tried.

Speaker 2 (25:22):
Congressman Tom mcclint talk of California is our guest as
you speak to us about the dangers of socialism. I'm
looking over my shoulder here, well, over my desk. I
see a headline I've CNN on New Hampshire poll. Alexandria
Ocassio Cortes leads twenty twenty eight Democratic presidential field in

(25:43):
New Hampshire. I saw this pop out from the University
of New Hampshire last night. You know, sometimes congressmen, I
hear people say, well, you might work in an individual district,
but ultimately you know the country. You know they're going
to reject this. So all the whole party nationally, there's
no way they would fall for this. You right now,
she could win. She could win a place like New Hampshire.

Speaker 3 (26:05):
She could win. And if you don't think that socialism.

Speaker 2 (26:08):
Is on the doorstep, or that the barbarians are already
inside the gates, think again. AOC is leading a serious
poll in one of the most serious states, New Hampshire,
for twenty twenty eight. It's chilling, but the stakes of
it are high. And what we do is Republicans to
fight this. I mean, we have to stand up for

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our country now, because once you cross the threshold, it's
hard to go back.

Speaker 4 (26:33):
Well, we have to help people connect the dots between
the votes, say cast, and the policies that affect their
quality of life. And all you need to do look
at the states where socialism has already been well interdu Is, California, Illinois,
New York.

Speaker 13 (26:48):
What do you see there?

Speaker 4 (26:49):
And for that matter, all of the beautiful cities they've
destroyed San Francisco, Baltimore.

Speaker 8 (26:54):
Or St.

Speaker 13 (26:54):
Louis, Washington, d C. New York City.

Speaker 4 (26:57):
You can go on and on, all of the same
social and economic pathologies. Sky high taxes, of failing schools,
rising crime, rampant homelessness. You see a scarcity of basic
things like energy, water, housing, and sky high prices for

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all of those things. Ultimately you see failing businesses and
then families fleeing. We're seeing an enormous population exodus out
of the blue states for the red ones as people
begin to vote with their feet in desperation. That's the
consistent lesson wherever you look, that you cannot help but

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draw if you simply observe what these systems produce.

Speaker 13 (27:43):
And it's always the same.

Speaker 4 (27:44):
You know, Churchill, I think said at best, he said
the inherent advice of capitalism is the equal sharing of blessings.
The inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. Well,
that's that's the universal principle.

Speaker 2 (28:00):
I was on television Sunday morning with this guy. I
had not met him before. He actually had to work
for AOC as a staffer. And he was arguing for socialism.
And you know, he turns to me and he says,
you know, I'm from Tennessee and we had the TVA,
and you know, we have post offices and this and
that and this, and I hear more of them making
this argument that if you have any basic level of
government services or government programming, that that necessarily means you're

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already living in a socialist society. This attempt to redefine
what socialism is. I you know, he was, you know,
as a happy guy. Mom Donni smiles a lot. These
are the smiling instruments of our destruction. People should not
fall for this argument. Having some basic level of government
is not socialism. Seizing the means of production in vast
portions of our economy that is socialism.

Speaker 3 (28:46):
That is the intention.

Speaker 2 (28:48):
But the gateway here is to try to redefine it
and make you feel better about it so that you
have no idea what you're voting for. They're trying to
take advantage of the ignorance of the American people, and
that's I think you're right. Republicans have to correct at
and educate folks exactly right.

Speaker 4 (29:03):
And it doesn't do any good just to say, you know,
communism is bad, socialism is bad. You have to have
you have to lay out the case, and the case
should be the easiest ever made, because the entire history
of mankind can comes down to four words. Freedom works,
socialism sucks.

Speaker 3 (29:20):
I love that.

Speaker 2 (29:21):
Congressman Tom McClintock of California, we've got about a minute
here before I let you go. A lot going on
on Capitol Hill. The House last night passed a budget resolution,
you did the NDA a uh, and one or two
other things, so you've you've you've done a little bit
of work here.

Speaker 3 (29:36):
The Senate seems to be a hang up right now.

Speaker 2 (29:39):
Any indication about whether the leadership in the House and
the Senate, all from the same party, can get together
on any of these priorities that the Republicans want to
do here before the fall elections, well, I.

Speaker 4 (29:49):
Think Ultimately, the Senate has to and they have this
annoying tendency to do not see things our way but
in the House. But ultimately, necessity, I think is going
to compel them to take the actions that are necessary
to replenish our armaments, to secure the integrity of our
elections at a time when confidence in those elections is

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an all time low. These are critical issues that have
to be addressed, and I believe the Senators will rise
to the occasion.

Speaker 2 (30:19):
I hope you're right, and I hope we get some
common ground and some common strategic viewpoint here that I
think the American people they're not buying what the Democrats
are selling. They're not in love with Democrats, but they
need to see that the Republicans are working on their
behalf and there's a few things being thrown out of
the House right now that would show them that. And
so if we can get the Senate to come around

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on it, all the better for our electoral prospects later
this fall. Congressman Tom McClintock, one of the great fighters
for freedom and against socialism in the House, thanks for
coming by today.

Speaker 4 (30:50):
Well, Scott is always a pleasure and honor. Thank you
for all of your commentaries on sin and it's wonderful.

Speaker 2 (30:57):
We fight them every day. We fight the good fight
every day. Nice to know, so nice to know we
have folks like you out there carrying the torch as well.
All Right, I want to talk to you all for
a moment about Alzheimer's disease. This is an actual economic
time bomb for our country. We are not ready. The
cases are going to double to fourteen million by the
year twenty sixty. This is a huge burden on American families.

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We're simply not dealing with it as a country. Our
competitors in the world are China. They've got a program
going on there to do more early diagnosis and treatment.
But here we're still waiting until it's too late. But
we can turn this around. We have the tools. We
have simple blood tests that can spot the early signs
of Alzheimer's that'll keep people healthier, longer and in the workforce.

(31:41):
That would be good for families, it's good for the economy,
it's good common sense.

Speaker 3 (31:45):
That's good politically.

Speaker 2 (31:46):
Most voters say, if you're in favor of Alzheimer's detection
and diagnosis and treatment, they would look kindly upon that.

Speaker 3 (31:52):
At the ballot box.

Speaker 2 (31:53):
If you want to know more about this fight to
control this economic time bomb known as Alzheimer's go to
our friends at Marketinstitute dot org. That's Marketinstitute dot org.
More to come after this. It's Scott Jennings on Salem.

Speaker 14 (32:07):
Stay with us one matter, standing tall against the leftist mob.

Speaker 9 (32:12):
Here's Scott Jennings.

Speaker 2 (32:14):
All right, Thursday, July twenty third, Common sense for the
American people. As you know, I have this political theory
that even though the generic political environment may favor Democrats
a little, and historically it would favor the party out
of power, I think it's some of the closest congressional
districts in the nation, Democrats have nominated candidates that simply

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exist so far outside the main stream that they may
take an otherwise competitive situation and make it non competitive.
Done a couple of these this week. Here's the next one.
It's Colorado's eighth district. This seat is one of, if
not the most evenly divided districts in the nation.

Speaker 3 (32:57):
The COOKPVII, which.

Speaker 2 (32:59):
Is a political analyst term for trying to describe the
tilt or lean of the district, is dead, even dead.
Even that means it is exactly even with the nation's
voting pattern. The district has voted for the winner of
the past five presidential elections. So today it's held by
the Republicans, specifically by freshman Congressman Gabe Evans, who's a

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former police officer and army officer. He was one of
only four Republicans to oust an incumbent House.

Speaker 3 (33:28):
Democrat in twenty twenty four.

Speaker 2 (33:30):
However, Congressman evans opponent does not have I think the
same stellar record.

Speaker 3 (33:36):
This person's name is Manny Rootinell.

Speaker 2 (33:40):
He's a Democrat state representative, and to be candid, his
story and record is quite wild and weird. He's an
anti agriculture Democrat running in one of the biggest agriculture
districts in the country, certainly in Colorado. Let's talk about
Manny Rootinell for this little bit on the agriculture front.

Speaker 3 (34:01):
Again.

Speaker 2 (34:02):
Agriculture big deal in this district. But root and now
the Democrat. Again, this is a mainstream district, a dead
even district. This liberal Democrat Rootnel says, you know what
I'm going to run on. We're going to give up
meat and instead you should eat nuts and berries.

Speaker 3 (34:20):
Only cut two The.

Speaker 15 (34:21):
ITCC recently concluded that agricultural emissions will increase by forty
percent by twenty fifty without strong interventions. Simply put, achieving
the goals of the Paris Agreement will not be possible
without a substantial transition in the global food system from
environmentally damaging foods to more sustainable choices. To address the
critical environmental problems of agriculture, a team of leeding scientists

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from very scientific backgrounds and nations created a report known
as the Planetary Health Diet, which outlines the ideal food
production levels that optimize both health and sustainability. With their
goal of nutritions FOOIT feeding ten billion people in twenty
fifty while maintaining the our mental objectives of the Paris Agreement.
The report concludes that the globe must dramatically shift away

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from animal products and towards fruits, vegetables, legoons, pull grains,
and nuts.

Speaker 2 (35:12):
You know they're doing this with Tallarico in Texas as well.
You have this crop of weirdo democrats running in heavy
meat and dairy cattle places saying now we're gonna get
We're gonna get rid of the meat, nuts and berries.
For you people of Colorado, but he describes himself as
a former vegan. By the way, this Routinelle and again
I cannot stress to you enough this is an agriculture district.

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Some of the biggest meat and dairy producers in the
country are in this district. So that's Manny Rootinell. Some
breaking news on Rootnel's come out just today. This comes
from the reporters over at the Washington Free Beacon. In fact,
this just, oh goodness, this is just coming out in
the last hour. I'm just looking at this. I'm going
to give it to you as i'm getting it. So

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the Washington Free Beacon says that they have uncovered Deleete
did reddit comments. Reddit is a social platform or people
comment on lots of things. So Routnel says in these
deleted comments that he wants animals to have the same
rights as people, and that in turn, that means we

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would prohibit using animals for food. He also was advocating
in these comments that you should feed your dog a
vegetarian diet and that animals will be taken to sanctuaries
when they pass the animal liberation legislation that he has

(36:39):
in mind. So I guess we need to bone up
on animal farm because if Manny Routnel gets to Congress,
I guess that's what we're gonna have, animal farm where
the animals have more rights than the people.

Speaker 3 (36:56):
This is the reason I bring this up.

Speaker 2 (36:58):
It sounds ridiculous because it is ridiculous, But what the
political malpractice of the Democrats here is so obscene to
a practitioner. Take this dead even district. You know these
are mainstream, middle of the road people. It's not an
extremely partisan district. And you take the most weirdo liberal

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leftist lunatic you can find and try to present that
as a reasonable congressman for a dead even district. Colorado
eight Gave Evans is a good one, and he's running
against one of the most radical leftists in the country
who's got some strange ideas. Rootnel not good for Colorado,
not good for America. Take a break, come back with

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more after this. It's Scott Jennings stayed with us, no voice.

Speaker 1 (37:45):
Of free speech, the truth delivered common sense for the
American people.

Speaker 2 (37:54):
Well I the Scott Jennior Show ely the twenty third.
Let's take a quick check of the headline. President Trump
speaking last night in Georgia. Long speech covered a lot
of issues, but still the president is out there touting
those Trump accounts for your children.

Speaker 3 (38:10):
Cut thirteen.

Speaker 9 (38:11):
It's called the Trump accounts.

Speaker 11 (38:12):
That is hot as a pistol.

Speaker 9 (38:14):
Wow, it's hot as a pistol.

Speaker 12 (38:19):
And under this groudbreaking new policy, every American child gets
a tax free investment savings account that can grow over
the course of their childhood.

Speaker 2 (38:30):
Likely going to be one of the biggest legacy items
for the Trump presidency is these Trump accounts. You can
if you haven't signed up, do if you have kids
of any age, go to Trump Accounts dot gov. Everybody
will tell you this is a good idea. We have
more migrant crime going on in Minnesota. This is a
gruesome story. An Ethiopian born man accused of executing three

(38:52):
employees inside a Saint Paul apartment complex leasing office over
a sixty five dollars a month parking contract dispute. Police
say sigab Benisou shot Adam will Wording and Dana Silcox
six times each, and then he killed twenty five year
old Nancy Zambrano as she tried to escape through the window.

(39:17):
Investigators recovered twenty one shell casings Benisou was arrested two
hundred miles away, and he was driving one of the
victim's cars. According to documents in court, he told police, quote,
I hate the American system, and he blamed the American
system for his personal problems. He now faces three counts
of second degree murder. We'll see if Minnesota Governor Tim

(39:40):
Walls wants to intervene on his behalf the way he
did that child sex abuser. The other day, back on
Capitol Hill, always striving here to bring you the most
up to date information about policy making in Washington, I
was perusing my social media feed and came across an
interesting comment from our next guest, the chairman of the
Oversight Committee, Jamie Congressman Comber of Kentucky's first District.

Speaker 3 (40:03):
Welcome into the show.

Speaker 2 (40:04):
You were talking about I think one of the most
critical healthcare policy reforms that the Republicans have been able
to accomplish, and you've been the leader on it, and
it is PBM reform, Pharmacy benefit manager reform. These PBMs
were the middlemen and the pharmaceutical system and basically it
made it cost more for people to get prescription drugs.

(40:26):
You and the Republicans stepped in on PBMs. You were
talking about this yesterday. Give us the latest on that.

Speaker 7 (40:32):
Yeah, the PBMs were created with good intentions, Scott. Everything
in government has created with good intentions. But over time
the PBMs have evolved. And what PBMs were created to
do was negotiate grug prices for on behalf of health
insurers and consumers and Medicare and Medicaid. These were supposed

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to negotiate prices between the consumer and the parmaceutical companies.
But over time, these TBMs have become profit centers. And
I'm a Republican, I'm all about making money. But what's
happened is they've done opposite of what Republicans want. Republicans
want more competition in healthcare and hope that the competition

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drives prices down. But PBMs have become profit centers and
they've become vertically integrated. They pushed a lot of independent
pharmacies out. If you think about wherever you live in
the United States, how many independent pharmacies they work in
years ago versus today. The reason that these independent pharmacies
have disappeared is because the PBMs have put them out

(41:39):
of business. The pharmacies had to negotiate with the PBMs
to buy drugs. Well, then the PBM said, you know what,
We'll just put in our own mail order pharmacy and
we'll get a monopoly on the pharmacy market. And another
problem with the PBNs, in addition to driving their competition
out of the marketplace, is that PBMs, when an oncology

(42:04):
doctor or something like that, prescribes a medication for their patient,
they usually try to prescribe the generic equivalent if that's available. Well,
the TBMs make more money off the brand name drugs
than the generic drugs, so they're steering patients and rejecting
doctors prescriptions for certain medications and steering them towards a

(42:27):
more expensive medication for the consumer that they can make
more money on. This has been happening. We had three
Overset Committee hearings about it. When we started this issue,
there weren't many people in Congress that knew what a
pharmacy benefit manager was. Now they're overwhelming support to kind
of rain these guys in, and that's what we did
this week.

Speaker 2 (42:48):
One of the things I like about this is that
the Republicans took the time here to make sure that
you didn't do anything with unintended consequences, and you looked
at individual niche situations. One of those is in the
long term care pharmacy. They're a little different, these long
term care pharmacies. And during the Biden administration, you know,

(43:10):
they sort of did these sweeping, you know, one size
fits all regulations and it put long term care pharmacies
and a real bind. Republicans have taken care here to
try to get it right and recognize that there are
certain parts of this. You know, there's little niche angles
that have to be attended to. So if you're out
there and you've been dealing with, say long term care,

(43:31):
I think I think one of the core messages is
Republicans they hear you, they see you, and they're and
they're going to enact policies and regulations here that recognize,
you know, a one size fits all just isn't going
to work.

Speaker 3 (43:44):
Talk to us about that a.

Speaker 7 (43:45):
Little bit exactly that you know, healthcare is so different.
Everybody's healthcare situations, different marketplaces are different. Long term care
pharmacy is obviously very different than your your local corner
drug store, and we have a tremendous long term care
provider in Kentucky. We've worked very closely with them to

(44:07):
ensure that this legislation doesn't have any unintended consequences on
their business model. We're primarily focused on the three big PBMs.
They control over eighty percent of the marketplace. Now they're
vertically integrated, and we have highlighted instance after instance where

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they have gouged consumers and instead of giving a generic equivalent,
gave them the more profitable one. They delayed through their
bureaucracy the beginning of medication for people with cancer. If
you get diagnosed with cancer, you want to get on
medication that day. You want to start fighting that day.

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But some of the PBMs drag their feet, and every
day is a matter of life and death when you
have cancer. But we've worked closely with the long term
care pharmacies to ensure that this doesn't have anything that
will impact them negatively. We'll want to keep them doing
what they're doing, because that's time is of the essence

(45:10):
with that situation.

Speaker 2 (45:12):
Congressman Jamie Comber, Chairman of the House Oversight Committee, is
our guest. Congressman. One other issue on which you've been
very active has to do with the Post Office postal reform.
The Inspector General from the Post Office has been up
on Capitol Hill several times recently talking with this report
that she has issued, and in it it says there
is two billion dollars in mail package fraud.

Speaker 3 (45:35):
Some of that's coming from China. I know you keep
tabs on.

Speaker 2 (45:39):
The Post Office, and I know you work very hard
to protect rural postal service. Your district at Kentucky's got
a lot of rural routes out there for the Post Office.

Speaker 3 (45:47):
But it's pretty clear we've got billions of.

Speaker 2 (45:48):
Dollars in fraud over at the post Office. Are you
looking into that right now? You're talking to the Post
Office about how to solve that at the moment.

Speaker 7 (45:56):
Yeah, the post Office is it aster right now. I
think the President said that I'm going to quote Jim,
He's exactly right. They're losing billions of dollars that it
takes forever to get your mail, a lot of mail
gets lost. And then on top of it, now we
have these reports that we suspected if there's massive amounts
of fraud, you have drugs being smuggled in, you have uh,

(46:18):
you know a lot of uh these these uh healthcare providers.
They're they're manipulating the These fraudulent health care providers are
manipulating the Postal Service, UH to be able to obviously
commit their fraud. Then you have theft, and that's a
big issue at a lot of the mail sorting facilities.

(46:40):
You have, you know, a lot of hot turnover with
with employees. Uh, there's there's just you know, unfortunately ninety
napers of the employees that work for the Postal Service
or outstanding. But there are some bad actors that have
been hired recently with one intention to go in it's
organized crime in certain cities and where there's been just

(47:01):
a lot of theft in these mail sorting facilities. These
postal employees that were recently hired, and they were hired
for one purpose. The employees had one purpose, and that
was not to deliver the mail efficiently or sort the
mail efficiently, but to steal as much as they could
before they got caught. So there's just a lot of

(47:24):
internal problems with the Postal Service. And this IG report
just highlights the fraud and the theft that's taking place
every day in the Postal Service.

Speaker 3 (47:34):
I know it seems a little off the beaten path.

Speaker 2 (47:37):
But I brought these issues up with you today because
you know you're one of the foremost Republican communicators out there.
People see you on TV almost every day. But it
seems to me that a Republican messaging plan for the
fall election might do well to include the fact that
it's Republicans and Trump that have lowered prescription drug prices,
done smart things on policy to lower prescription drug prices,

(48:00):
and that it's Republicans who continue to root out the waste, fraud,
and abuse out of government. And that fraud certainly extends
to something in your jurisdiction, which is the US Postal Service.
Congressman Comber, I know you're traveling. Appreciate your time stopping
at the airport to say hello to us today.

Speaker 7 (48:17):
Thank you, Scott, Appreciate you.

Speaker 2 (48:19):
All right, Congressman Jamie Comber, Congressman from the first District
of Kentucky, Chairman of House Oversight. We take a break
and come back with more after this. It's Scott Jennings.

Speaker 3 (48:26):
Stay with us.

Speaker 9 (48:27):
He's the author of the best selling book A Revolution
of Common Sense. Here's Scott Jennings.

Speaker 2 (48:35):
If we are having a revolution of common sense, the
left is engaged in a revolution.

Speaker 3 (48:41):
Of uncommon nonsense.

Speaker 2 (48:43):
If you've wondered what these people, these socialists, talk to
each other about when they get together privately, well we
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common sense for the American people.

Speaker 3 (51:01):
Some reporting here. This is from Fox News.

Speaker 2 (51:05):
And I find this to be so illuminating because I've
noticed this lately in my appearances on CNN, and I've noticed.

Speaker 3 (51:15):
A few like celebrity types.

Speaker 2 (51:17):
You know, it's sort of like the smiling instruments of
our destruction. You know, they're smiling and happy. You know,
Socialism did this, Socialism did that. They're trying to put
a happy face on all this. There's nothing happy about this,
by the way. They're trying. They're trying to market socialism
to you in a happy way. But it makes you

(51:38):
wonder what do they say to each other when they're
getting together.

Speaker 3 (51:41):
Here's the reporting.

Speaker 2 (51:42):
Several prominent Democrats were caught on camera participating in a
progressive political video call, which began with one speaker comparing
America to a Nazi regime ruled by quote dead eye
psychopaths end quote bloodthirsty imperialists. Well that doesn't sound like

(52:06):
very happy marketing, but here we go. Participants on the call,
which was hosted by an organization called Progressive Victory in March,
and they included, oh, I guess the call was in March.
The group is Progressive Victory. The call was in March.
Who was on the call, Well, Rocanna, you've seen him

(52:27):
out there. He's become a lunatic. He might even run
for president. He was on the call. And then you
had several of these Democratic Socialists of America endorsed candidates,
including we talk about him a lot on the show,
Abdul l Saied of Michigan, Corey Bush, and dare Eliza

(52:49):
Avila Chevalier. That's the lunatic socialist in New York City
who says she's going to abolish prisons, abolish the police,
abolish Ice, abolished borders, abolished the Senate, abolish, abolish, abolish America.

Speaker 3 (53:02):
That's that's their platform.

Speaker 2 (53:05):
So yet all these people on the call, by the way,
these people are presented as reasonable people, particularly Rokana. At
the start of the call, organizers introduced left wing podcaster
Kyle Kulinski, who they called an up and comer. He
launched into a diatribe in which he said the US
and Israel are creating the Fourth Reich. Probably become as

(53:29):
a surprise to the Jews in Israel that they were
creating the Fourth Reich. They're not very smart over there
on the left, are they. These are genuinely repulsive, disgusting, wretched,
depraved human beings. They enjoy the pain and the violence
and the suffering and the death into the destruction and
on the rest of the world.

Speaker 3 (53:49):
Koulinsky railed, all this is this is what they talk about.

Speaker 2 (53:55):
What you see publicly, the smiling instruments of our destruction,
Mamdani and whatever. Behind the scenes when they're talking to
each other. This craziness. Thanks for Fox News for digging
this up. Take a break.

Speaker 3 (54:08):
More after this, it's Scott Jennings on Salem.

Speaker 12 (54:10):
Stay with Us conversation said, stories you simply won't hear
from the mainstream media.

Speaker 9 (54:16):
It's the Scott Jenny Show.

Speaker 3 (54:19):
Little breaking news on the crime front.

Speaker 2 (54:21):
Turns out, based on the latest statistics, you, my fellow Americans,
are living in a lot less violent country.

Speaker 3 (54:29):
That's according to the data.

Speaker 2 (54:30):
We're going to get the low down from Adam Gelb
in just a moment. He's CEO of Council on Criminal Justice.
He's standing by.

Speaker 3 (54:38):
First.

Speaker 2 (54:38):
I want to talk to you about something that the
bureaucrats really don't want you to know about or what
all want to talk about because they're failing at it,
and that is that Alzheimer's is becoming an economic time
bomb and our country is simply not ready. Cases are
on track to nearly double to fourteen million by twenty sixty.
This will put pressure on families, our workforce, Medicare, Medicaid,

(55:00):
cross the board, bad outcomes if we do nothing about this.
Here's what should get your tension. American families shoulder most
of the burden on this. They cover about seventy percent
of the lifetime care cost of about four hundred thousand dollars.
This is a disaster for families, and it's a disaster
for our country because we're standing still and our competitors

(55:21):
in the world are dealing with.

Speaker 3 (55:23):
It right now.

Speaker 2 (55:23):
Shinea, in fact, has launched a national priority to aggressively
expand early diagnosis and treatment. We're just, honestly, we're just
waiting until it's too late. We had tools, we have
these blood tests that can spot the early signs of
Alzheimer's that keep you healthier, longer and than the workforce.
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dot org. All right, Thursday, July the twenty third, let's
talk crime. This a little bit of breaking news here
on the show. Bringing in now Adam Gelb. He's former
reporter aid on Capitol Hill and now the CEO of
the Council on Criminal Justice. They've got their latest report
on crime in America's biggest cities. We have major new

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findings on just how well that under the Trump administration
we have been doing when it comes to dramatically reducing
violent crime. Adam, welcome into the Scott Jennings Show. The
numbers are just out. What do we know about violent
crime in America based on your research?

Speaker 8 (56:46):
Thanks Scott, it's good to be with you.

Speaker 14 (56:47):
Let me just give you some of the top lines
here crime has been following the last couple of years,
and we're seeing it drop further in the first half
of twenty twenty six. Our new numbers out today show
that homicide is dropping further. We predicted at the end
of last year that the twenty twenty five homicide total

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would be the lowest in recorded history going all the
way back to nineteen hundred, something President Trump mentioned in
his State of the Union address earlier this year. And
we're looking at through the first half of this year
another eighteen percent drop in homicide, So that would take
us to a new historic low. And at the same time,

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if you look at it just over the past few years,
we peaked in about twenty twenty one and it's been
coming down since twenty twenty one, and alahamicide rate we
think through that first half of this year will be
half of what it was just a few years ago.

Speaker 8 (57:45):
It's a dramatic drop.

Speaker 14 (57:46):
And we talk about the numbers, and we have some
more numbers to talk about, Scott, but this is really
about lives.

Speaker 8 (57:52):
It's about saving lives.

Speaker 14 (57:53):
Thousands of lives saved here and community life improved. So
there's a lot behind the numbers that we've got to
recognize that even though it's come way down, there are
still far too many people who fall victim to homicide,
and these numbers are cold comfort to folks still living
in hard head communities.

Speaker 3 (58:14):
Well, I agree with you.

Speaker 2 (58:15):
It's about lives, and I would just add on to that,
it's about quality of life. I mean, if you're living
in one of these places. I'm thinking of a place
like Memphis, Tennessee. You know terrible, couldn't even go downtown.
And thanks to this federal, state and local task force
that Trump is put together down there, you're seeing huge
reductions in crime in a place like Memphis. I think
it's also true for like Washington, d C. Talk to

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me about but you know, quality of life in those places.
I mean it's getting better. Yes, any violent crime is bad,
but if you're seeing these kinds of massive reductions, you
feel better about where you're living. If you're just seeing
less of this violent crime on the street. Talk to
our listeners about this. Where do you get this data?
How do we measure this? And I know we're talking
about this being in the largest cities. Is this data

(59:00):
also applicable to rural areas in our country? Kind of
give us an idea of how the data breaks out
and where it comes from.

Speaker 14 (59:06):
Right right, We started right in the summer of twenty
twenty taking a snapshot of what was happening in big
cities because, as you and your viewers will remember, well, violence.

Speaker 8 (59:17):
Did start to spike as COVID broke out and as.

Speaker 14 (59:20):
The social racial justice protests start happening in the aftermath of.

Speaker 8 (59:24):
The killing of George Floyd.

Speaker 14 (59:26):
And so these are about three dozen cities that we've
been tracking now for six years, and they are larger cities.
So straight up answer your question is, we're not looking
at rural jurisdictions, but it is fascinating kind of how
closely the trends in urban and suburban and urban areas

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have tracked each other over the past few years.

Speaker 8 (59:50):
I have not been not been big disrepancy.

Speaker 14 (59:52):
So the data is directly from law enforcement websites in
these cities.

Speaker 8 (01:00:00):
We we're just.

Speaker 14 (01:00:02):
Pleased that they're providing that data to the public and
we're able to scrape it off of their sites and
provide these snapshots so that we have a sense in
real time of what is actually happening.

Speaker 2 (01:00:13):
There's another ail, but Adam let me let me let
me just tell the listeners here that voice you're hearing
is Adam Gelp, Council on Criminal Justice. Look, I'm a
lay person at this. I read the stats. I see
people like you. You've got you know, you're living this
every day. I'm anxious to know that the numbers are
going down. But I'm also anxious to know, and I

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suspect much of our audiences why, you know, what are
the factors that would lead to these massive reductions in
violent crime. I have my theories and I have my question,
So I'm going to start with one, if you'll answer
it for me. Do you think that there is a
correlation between the deporting of violent illegal aliens and violent

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crimes going down in major metropolitan areas.

Speaker 14 (01:01:00):
Scott There is no single easy explanation. And if we
default to saying it's it's this, if the if the
right of folks on the right say well, it's immigration
and enforcement and deportation, of the folks on the left
say well, it's more community programs and community violence interruption programs,

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we're really going to miss the opportunity to understand what
is really going on behind behind this and and and
to learn the lessons that we need to learn in
order to make sure that these gains that we're seeing
endure and don't evaporate. And so there are there are
so many things that are happening here, long term and
short term in the system and uh and not.

Speaker 8 (01:01:43):
What we're seeing.

Speaker 14 (01:01:44):
Scott is a very broad reduction of crime in cities
and jurisdictions across the country. And these are cities that
that have different policing and prosecution and violence reduction models.
They are cities with different philosophies of their mayors and councils.

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There are different housing and economic conditions, and they have
very different levels of federal enforcement activity. And so when
we see that kind of variance along many of the
factors that you would think would be driving these drops,
then it suggests that there are some really macro level

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forces that are at work here beyond individual policy practice
and program So.

Speaker 2 (01:02:32):
It's important for people like me not to get fixated
on one possible thing that could be a reducing crime.
But I do have questions about things we hear about
in the news. Let me go to number two. Do
you believe that states and jurisdictions that keep violent criminals
in jail longer are experiencing greater reductions. We've heard a

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lot of news stories where you've got local prosecutors and
judges that seem to be interested in putting violent criminals
back out on the street as soon as possib but
in some places they don't do that. I'm wondering if
you detect a difference keeping violent people in jail, it
would seem to me would be helpful in reducing violent crime.

Speaker 3 (01:03:09):
What do you know about that particular correlation.

Speaker 14 (01:03:12):
Yeah, it's a big question you're asking. And the bottom
line is that locking up repeat, dangerous final defenders and
keeping off the streets for a long time is not
only the just thing to do, is an effective thing
to do with respect to reducing crime. Here's where the
argument gets much trickier, Scott, and it's simply is simply this.

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The swiftness and certainty of being apprehended and brought to
justice is a far more effective deterrent and far cheaper
for taxpayers than to throw a lot of people in
prison for a long time and keep them well past
their crime prone and committing gears. You may want to
do that for retributive purposes, and people make sure that

(01:03:57):
people do the crime they need to do the time.
But what we have, unfortunately is in the political system
dialogue of that that pushes the conversation always to just
lengthened sentences, and that actually works against the things that
we know are more effective to reduce crime, which is

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solving more crimes to turing more crimes on the front end.

Speaker 2 (01:04:24):
Final question on policy, and then I want to talk
to you about your organization in general. Are you seeing
any impacts where states and municipalities have invested more resources
in the police. Do they see better outcomes on violent
crime reduction and say places where they've gone through about
of say, reduction in funding for policing agencies.

Speaker 14 (01:04:43):
Right, it's a great question, and it's an analysis that
we would like to do. This report doesn't go there.
We're simply tracking the numbers at this point, but there
is a correlation in the long term research on this
that does show that policing matters for certain. The key

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takeaway though, is that it's really the quality of policing Scott,
not just the quantity. And I think we've seen those
dynamics here where police have been on their back heels,
you know, during twenty twenty and twenty one and staffing
did drop down. We've seen that rebound sum not quite
back to the pre COVID staffing levels, but far more importantly,

(01:05:29):
And a lot of police chiefs would tell you the
same thing. The numbers and staffing levels are important, but
what they think is helping reduce crime is that they
are more precisely targeting the people who are disproportionately driving
the crime problems in their communities.

Speaker 2 (01:05:48):
All right, Adam Gail, that's the voiceher hearing. He's the
CEO of the Council on Criminal Justice. I got about
thirty seconds. Adam, tell us about the CCJ and tell
us who you are, what you do, and where can
people find more information if they want to follow up
and get all this evidence in data that you pull together.

Speaker 3 (01:06:03):
Where can we get it on the internet.

Speaker 14 (01:06:05):
Come see us at counsel on CJ dot org. We're
a nonpartisan research and policy organization. We're part think tank
and part invitational membership organization. We have about three hundred
and fifty five elected members who are sort of the
top leaders in policing and courts and corrections. And the
main thing we do Scott is called balls and strikes.

(01:06:26):
Just like we're just like we're doing here. It's a
rare position that we find ourselves in to be trusted
by folks like you and the White House and also
folks on the left as an organization that is cutting
through the partisan and advocacy talking points and tone it
like it is well.

Speaker 2 (01:06:47):
I think on a topic as serious as this, actual evidence,
actual a data to inform policy decisions is a good thing.
Thank you for providing it, Adam Gelb with a Council
on Criminal Justice. We'll have you back soon. I want
to talk to you all for a moment, just a
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(01:07:52):
some messaging advice from the President on taxes.

Speaker 3 (01:07:55):
We'll be come back. It's Scott Jennings on sale.

Speaker 9 (01:07:57):
Fighting the left with the best weapon we have, common sense.
This is the Scot Jenny Show.

Speaker 2 (01:08:05):
Rounding out the show today here on Thursday, July twenty third.

Speaker 3 (01:08:08):
Thanks for joining us.

Speaker 2 (01:08:09):
A few things still in the inbox for today. The
Great White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt was at the
podium over in the White House for a briefing just
a couple of hours ago. You know she today and
President Trump in his speech last night in Georgia, setting
up a real contrast on taxes Let's do it this way.

(01:08:31):
Let's hear President Trump last night in Georgia laying it
out the number of Georgians saving money thanks to his
tax cuts in the Big Beautiful Bill.

Speaker 3 (01:08:41):
That's cut number twelve.

Speaker 12 (01:08:43):
As an example, seven hundred thousand Georgia workers saved an
average of over three thousand dollars thanks to no tax
on overtime. And five hundred thousand Georgia seniors paid zero
dollars on their Social Security benefits thanks to no tax
on Social Security.

Speaker 2 (01:09:03):
Unequivocally true. Donald Trump in his first term cut taxes.
The Big Beautiful Bill made the Trump tax cuts permanent,
and they added these additional tax cuts to working class
Americans today.

Speaker 3 (01:09:14):
That was punch number one.

Speaker 2 (01:09:15):
The two of this one to two punch was Levitt
at the Press Secretary's podium. She says, if the Democrats
get their way, the opposite will happen.

Speaker 3 (01:09:24):
They'll raise your taxes cut sixteen.

Speaker 16 (01:09:28):
Democrats throw around the word affordability a lot, but when
they had the chance to vote for the largest middle
class tax cuts in history, they refused. If Democrats got
their way, it would have meant the largest tax increase
in history four trillion dollars. Ninety percent of Americans would
have seen their taxes go up, and it would have
been a complete disaster for our economy. That's the Democrat

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solution to quote affordability. It is raising your taxes.

Speaker 2 (01:09:56):
You can see what Trump and Levitt are doing here.
It's a good messag for the White House. But what
they are doing is setting up a lesson. They're setting
up a messaging tool. They're setting up a vector for
every Republican campaign in the country. We talk all the
time on this show about the top races, the ones
going on in the House and the Senate. But if

(01:10:17):
you're a Republican incumbent out there and you voted for
these tax cuts, you voted for affordability, and you can
see Trump and Levitt trying to coach the party. Is
one of the oldest and simplest arguments in campaigns, who's
going to cut taxes and who's going to raise taxes?

Speaker 3 (01:10:37):
And on this the record is very clear.

Speaker 2 (01:10:40):
It's the Republicans who have and will cut your taxes,
and it's the Democrats who have consistently opposed Trump on
cutting taxes. And in fact, you have Democrats now running
on this tax the rich and they say, oh, we
just want to tax the billionaires. Any reasonable person would
look at this and see, you can't just tax the billionaires.

(01:11:03):
If you want to do everything they say they want
to do, nationalize health care and everything else, it won't
be the billionaires. It'll be middle class Americans, average everyday
Americans you get up and go to work every day,
who get nailed with the bill. And in the socialist worldview,

(01:11:24):
it's not just the billionaires who are considered rich. Now,
it's anybody with a job. It's anybody who gets up
and goes to work every day. You'll be considered part
of the wealthy. You'll be considered someone who isn't paying
their fair share. So this is a message Trump and
Leavitt are setting up for the Republicans. I hope the

(01:11:44):
candidates and the incumbents are listening out there, and I
hope they pay attention to the polling because it's a
message that Republicans respond to, and everybody's worried about Republican turnout.
Republicans respond to tax cuts for whatever other issues are
going on in the world and inside the party. Republicans

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of all kinds respond to two tax cuts, and that
is why Donald Trump has the best Republican Party approval
rating of any Republican president in recent memory. Even harryetting
Over at CNN says, so, here's the numbers, cut fourteen twenty.

Speaker 17 (01:12:21):
First century own party approval rating about at this point
the second term. We got Trump, we got Obama, we
got Bush. Look the real fairly popular. But the one
who is the most popular, and we have seen this
time and time out, no matter when you look, is
Donald John Trump. He's the only one who's over eighty percent.
Eighty three percent of Republicans still approve of the job
that Donald Trump is doing as president. He still has

(01:12:41):
that magic touch. We'll see if it carries over to
South Carolina. But we've seen it in primaries this year
centate primaries. And is because he is still a very
popular man, historically popular when it comes to his own
party liking and approving.

Speaker 3 (01:12:53):
Of the job.

Speaker 2 (01:12:54):
Why is Donald Trump popular in the Republican Party, It's
very simple. He does policy things that Republicans and Conservatives
ask for and approve of. He closes the border, he
deports the illegal aliens. He takes on the media. He
is worried about doing something about our corrupt voter systems,

(01:13:16):
and he cuts taxes. He cut them in his first term,
he cut them in his second term. Every Republican ought
to rally around this every single day. Democrats have no
answer for it. We're done for the day. Back tomorrow.
Thanks for listening. Scott Jennings on Salem.

Speaker 3 (01:13:34):
See you then,