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On today’s edition of The Scott Jennings Show, Scott closes out the week with the latest developments from Capitol Hill, including a roundup of Senate news and the political stories driving Washington. Washington Free Beacon reporter Adam Kredo joined the program to discuss his reporting on allegations that the United Nations is obstructing a U.S. investigation into potential links between Gaza relief organizations and Hamas, along with ongoing concerns surrounding UNRWA. Later, Greg Cunningham broke down the race for New Mexico’s 2nd Congressional District and its importance in the battle for control of the House, while Scott’s “Pain of the Week” focused on Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate Francesca Hong. Siraj Hashmi joined the show for Friday Punditry, offering his take on the week’s biggest political and cultural headlines and the stories to watch in the days ahead.

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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.
We have breaking news out of Washington today.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
Todd Blanche's nomination for Attorney General hangs in the balance,
and so does construction of the White House Ballroom. There
is news on both, and we'll bring you the latest
in just a moment. Tennesseeans went to the polls last
night in their state's primary and there was a surprise loser.
Who was it, we'll tell you. And President Trump tries

(00:37):
again to curtail birthright citizenship. He has two new executive
orders and we have the details of that as well.

Speaker 3 (00:44):
Today is Friday, August the seventh.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
I'm Scott Jennings broadcasting for Salem and we're coming to
you from Louisville, Kentucky.

Speaker 3 (00:51):
On this day.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
In two thousand and seven, baseball history changed. With one
swing of the bat, Barry Bonds stepped into the play
in San Francisco against Washington Nationals pitcher Mike Bassick.

Speaker 3 (01:05):
The count went full and then this cut.

Speaker 4 (01:07):
For three balls and two strikes.

Speaker 5 (01:11):
The overshift design and Bassic deals and Bonds pits.

Speaker 6 (01:18):
Its seventy fifty Bond stands as I'm top on the
all time.

Speaker 4 (01:36):
Bron West.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
Barry Bonds launching home runs seven fifty six into the
right center field seats, breaking the record that had long
been held by Hank Aaron. The game stopped, the fireworks exploded,
and Aaron himself appeared on the scoreboard with a recorded
message congratulating Bonds. But this was no ordinary celebration because

(01:59):
by then Bonds was at the center of baseball's steroid scandal,
and his pursuit of Hank Aaron had become one of
the most controversial record chases in sports history. Bonds would
finish his career with seven hundred and sixty two home runs.
Nearly two decades later, the record still stands Barry Bonds
home run number seven five six on this day in

(02:22):
two thousand and seven. Breaking news to begin the show today,
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche appears to have enough votes
for confirmation despite losing a couple of Republicans this week.
This morning, Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy announced that he will
support Blanche and that locks in or at least it

(02:43):
appears to lock in fifty votes. JD Vans can break
the tie should be done by this weekend. And more
breaking news just into the show here. A federal appeals
court has ordered the Trump administration to stop above ground
construction of the new four hundred million million dollar White
House Ballroom. In a two to one decision, the DC

(03:04):
Circuit ruled that President Trump cannot build the massive ninety
thousand square foot edition without congressional approval. Underground work on
bunkers and other national security facilities can continue.

Speaker 7 (03:17):
Now.

Speaker 2 (03:17):
The court is delaying its ruling for two weeks. That
gives Trump time to appeal it to the Supreme Court,
and you know he will. Now down to Tennessee, where
the primary last night produced a couple of noteworthy results. First,
in the Republican primary for governor, Marsha Blackburn, currently US Senator,
defeated two opponents with forty three percent of the vote.

(03:40):
She'll face Democrat Jerry Green in the fall. It's Blackburn
versus Green for governor. I'd say advantage Blackburn in that race. Elsewhere,
something of an upset here. Congressman Andy Ogels of the
House Freedom Caucus lost his primary against a man named
Charlie Hatcher, who's a former Agriculture Commissioner Ogles had the

(04:02):
support of President Trump, but a Clean Energy Superpack spent
about two million dollars opposing Ogles and supporting Hatcher. Ogles
was criticized by some Republicans for not campaigning hard enough
or raising the money necessary to win. Ogles found himself
running in a new congressional district after Republicans redrew the

(04:23):
lines earlier this year. The district, which once included part
of Nashville, now stretches from a cluster of suburbs outside
of Nashville all the way down to Memphis. As for
mister Hatcher, he's well like dairy farmer, who had the
support of several prominent Republicans in the state, including the
outgoing Governor Bill Lee. Although Trump went for Ogles here,

(04:44):
Hatcher had emphasized his support for Trump even without the endorsement.
Yesterday afternoon, President Trump signed a couple of executive orders
dealing with birthright citizenship. This comes after the Supreme Court
struck down his original executive order on the matter. Trump
versus Barbara was that case, So what did the President

(05:05):
do yesterday? The first order non exhaustively identifies certain categories
of children of aliens who are not entitled to birthright
citizenship consistent with historical exceptions to birthright citizenship recognized by
the Supreme Court in the Barber case. The second order
delegates presidential authorities to the Secretary of State and Secretary

(05:27):
of Homeland Security and directs them to halt the practice
of birth tourism.

Speaker 3 (05:34):
Here's the president on that. Cut five.

Speaker 8 (05:36):
We had a very unfortunate decision in the Supreme Court
concerning birthright was close, but a very very unfortunate decision.
So we're making adjustments because it's very unfair. This was
done for a different reason. This was done right after
the Civil War. This was for the babies of slaves.

(05:58):
And what's happening now If people are building businesses around
it from wealthy people are building businesses around birthright citizenship,
that's out the ware are supposed to work.

Speaker 4 (06:08):
It's a disgrace.

Speaker 8 (06:09):
They're buying their way in and we're not going to
let it happen.

Speaker 2 (06:14):
Trump, of course, is right about this. Birth tourism has
turned the Fourteenth Amendment into a travel package. White House
Staff Secretary Will Sharf laid out the facts in the
Oval Office about why this is necessary.

Speaker 3 (06:26):
Cut seven.

Speaker 4 (06:27):
The law is absolutely clear.

Speaker 9 (06:28):
What we're talking about, as Steven said, with respect to
birth tourism, something that used to happen, incidentally, where somebody
who happened to be on vacation here went into labor
early and had a baby. This was sort of a
a relatively small problem. What we've seen in recent years, though,
is organized rings, at times criminal rings, setting up a
system whereby tens hundreds thousands, tens of thousands of people

(06:52):
can come to this country in an organized fashion and
give birth here purely for the sake of obtaining birthright citizenship.
This order takes a number of different actions intended to
combat those sorts of organized practices. We look very heavily
at denying visus to people that we have reason to
believe are coming here for that purpose. Visas both for

(07:14):
computative parents but also for the people organizing these rings.
There's also obviously a law enforcement component.

Speaker 2 (07:21):
You know, whatever you think of the broader birthright citizenship debate, surely,
surely the fourteenth Amendment was never intended to create an
international birth tourism industry. Back to Michigan, fallout from the
state's primary on Tuesday continues. There's a real split in
the Democratic Party, with many supporters of Hailey Stevens wondering

(07:42):
how they could ever support a radical for Senate like
Abdul Lsied, and Republican Mike Rogers is moving to take
advantage of the split. He has issued an appeal this morning.
Take a listen to this in full cut fifteen.

Speaker 10 (07:56):
If you're among the majority of Democratic voters that woke
up on Wednesday feeling well hopeless because the person who
won does not represent your values.

Speaker 4 (08:06):
Well just know there is still hope.

Speaker 10 (08:08):
Michigan deserves a senator who is ready to sit with you,
hear from you, and represent you. The parents across Michigan
who want an education system that sets up their kids
for success, You have a home with us. To grandparents
across Michigan who are heartbroken from watching their kids and
grandkids leave the state. You have a home with us.

(08:29):
To young people who are looking for real solutions to
solve our housing affordability crisis.

Speaker 4 (08:35):
You have a home with us.

Speaker 10 (08:37):
To working families who don't want higher taxes and lower paychecks.

Speaker 4 (08:41):
Well, you have a home with us, and to the.

Speaker 10 (08:44):
Vast majority of people across Michigan who do not want
to throw their support behind a campaign filled with anger divisiveness,
calls for violence, and the views that are out of
touch with your values. Well, you have a home with us.
The fight is far greater and then just left versus right.
The fight is for the very soul of our nation.

(09:04):
Over the next ninety days, I'm going to work hard
to earn your trust, to earn your support, and earn
your vote. We have a state to say, Michigan, let's
get to work now.

Speaker 2 (09:14):
Our friend Julian Epstein, longtime Democratic strategist, announced this morning
he was donating to and supporting Mike Rogers for Senate.
He writes in an op ed for Fox News, Democrats
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Speaker 2 (10:53):
All right, Friday, August the seventh, Common Sense for the
American people. Thanks for joining us here on Salem. I'm Scotts.
Thought i'd take a few minutes here and just go
over what is happening in the United States Senate today.
They are trying to clear a backlog of several issues
before they wrap up, and the Senate would not come

(11:14):
back until September fourteenth. This will be the August recess
in DC parlance, sometimes they call it the August district
or state work period. So this is the Senate working
through a number of issues today. First of all, here's
what President Trump has said he wants the Senate to do.
Let's listen to President cut nine.

Speaker 12 (11:34):
So I believe strongly in terminating the filibuster and by
the way, getting Save America Act approved immediately, and about
four hundred other things in every.

Speaker 4 (11:45):
Hour of every day. Boom boom, boom, you get whatever
you want.

Speaker 3 (11:49):
You Okay, that's the President's desires.

Speaker 2 (11:52):
I don't believe they are going to be terminating the
filibuster or passing the Save Act today, So that continues
to be outstanding. However, the President, although he'll be disappointed
with that, did get some welcome news today and that
is on his nominee for Attorney General, Todd Blanche. Todd

(12:13):
Blanche has been the acting Attorney General for several months,
he's been angling for the top job, and he's been
working through the Senate confirmation process. It was a bit
of drama about whether he was going to get the
votes because Republicans Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins have announced
their opposition to Blanche. That minute all came down to

(12:36):
Bill Cassidy of Louisiana. Senator Cassidy, you might recall, lost
a primary this year because President Trump had backed someone else.
So there was some drama about whether Cassidy would fall
in line with the President's agenda here and back Todd Blanche.

Speaker 3 (12:54):
But ultimately he said that he will. Here's cut ten.

Speaker 13 (12:58):
So we mister Blanche in another act, an attorney general
who may not run the department effectively under President Trump.

Speaker 4 (13:04):
And who.

Speaker 13 (13:07):
Indeed may not be as good as mister Blanche. This
puts at risk the progress made fighting violent crime, human
and drug trafficking, and fraud. And this does not serve
the American people. Well, this is not a referendum on
President Trump. It is a decision regarding mister Blanche in
very specific circumstances. All considered, I will vote for mister Blanche.

Speaker 3 (13:32):
All right.

Speaker 2 (13:32):
Bill Cassidy's saving the nomination of Todd Blanche and that
should get done today. In addition to that, Senate leadership
is moving to clear a heavy backlog of executive and
judicial nominees before they break here for August, and they
should be having a vote on what I believe will
be seventy four nominations in blocks, so all sorts of things.

(13:56):
The President gets to a point and the Senate has
to confirm those should today in block. Also other issues,
and this is I'm just going to do a quick
check while we're talking here. So we're looking at the
Senate floor right now, and on the Senate floor they
have a vote open on the Russia sanctions bill. You

(14:17):
may have been reading about this and it got renewed
interest after the death of Senator Lindsey Graham, who had
been pushing this very hard. But Russia sanctions bill is
being voted on as we speak, and I do see
some action on the Senate floor. It looks like they're
reading some names right now now. There was an amendment

(14:40):
vote on this this morning, and the amendment was offered
by Ran Paul of Kentucky and Ron Wyden, so it
was a bipartisan amendment and it would have taken away
some of the tariff authority that this bill gives to
Donald Trump. This bill gives him vast tariff of authority,

(15:01):
so they wanted to take that out.

Speaker 3 (15:03):
The vote failed.

Speaker 2 (15:04):
It was final thirty two in the affirmative and sixty
four were again, so that did not work out. So
now we're on the final passage of the Russia Sanctions Bill,
and they've renamed it, by the way, the Lindsey Graham Bill.
This would allow President Trump and future presidents to impose

(15:24):
tariffs of up to one hundred percent on major importers
of Russian energy. It would give the president greater flexibility
to raise import taxes on major economies like India, China,
and the European Union without the legal limits and ambiguity
of the tools the tariff tools that he has used

(15:44):
thus far.

Speaker 3 (15:45):
So this was actually a big deal.

Speaker 2 (15:47):
But this certainly strength strengthens the president's hand when it
comes to using tariffs for the purposes of national security.
The expectation here is that this bill is going to
pass this afternoon. It passed a key procedural hurdle last
week by an eighty six to twelve votes, so it
doesn't feel like it's going to be unanimous, but we

(16:07):
are expecting the Russia Sanctions bill named for Lindsey Graham
to pass. Doesn't feel like they're going to get to
the Clarity Act. That's the cryptocurrency bill. There's a bill
on college athletics hanging out there that does have bipartisan support.
The President does say he'll sign it. Unclear. Farm bill
still unclear. So still some things to do in the Senate,
but some work is getting done. We're going to take

(16:29):
a break. We'll talk more news when you come back.
Scott Jennings on Salem.

Speaker 11 (16:32):
Stupid news comments and the stories in facts the mainstream media.

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Refuses to discuss. It's the Scott Jennings Show.

Speaker 3 (16:41):
Friday, August the seventh.

Speaker 2 (16:42):
Thanks for joining us here common sense for the American people.
A quick update to our previous reporting on the US
Senate while we were in commercial. The Senate is overwhelmingly
passed the bipartisan Russian sanctions legislation, champion by the late
Lindsey Graham of South Caro Line of the final vote
eighty six to eleven, and that'll send it over to

(17:03):
the House for consideration. So as predicted, this is passed
and the attempt to strip out the tariff authority for
the president was defeated. In other news, when something is
important in the Middle East, Adam Credo, our next guest,
is usually one of the first reporters to uncover it.
He covers national security and foreign policy and has built

(17:26):
a reputation for breaking stories that the legacy media often misses.
His latest in The Free Beacon looks at whether the
United Nations is obstructing an American investigation into possible Hamas
infiltration of its Gaza operations. Adam, welcome into the Scott
Sheenning Show.

Speaker 14 (17:47):
Appreciate you having me, always a pleasure.

Speaker 2 (17:50):
Yeah, thanks for the work that you do. Let's dive
into this latest story that you have. You have an
article here about a UN group in Gaza that many
people believe has been infiltrated by Hamas. What is this
group and what are the accusations? What is the nature
of the story.

Speaker 14 (18:07):
Sure, so, this is the United Nations Relief and Works Agency.
This is a humanitarian group that has operated in Gaza
for quite some time, decades now, and there have always
been reports of them being a bit too cozy with Hamas,
letting them store weapons in their facilities, letting them use
their facilities to fire onto Israel and commit acts of terrorism.

(18:32):
The questions became even more pronounced in the wake of
the October seventh massacre when it was actually determined by
Israel first and then others that UNRA actually employed more
than one hundred people who participate in those October seventh attacks.
Now what's interesting here is the USAID Inspector General that

(18:57):
is not USAID itself. It's the Inspector GENUNERAL that's responsible
for monitoring how American foreign assistance is dolled out across
the globe. It's an important distinction their law enforcement agency,
and they're separate from the USAID, which is largely defunct.
Now what they found is that yes, in fact, more
than one hundred employees were members of HAMAS. And they

(19:20):
also found through the course of their investigation that the
un including unrean at least six other agencies don't really
want to provide information about those employees or cooperate into
their ongoing investigation surrounding HAMAS interference into aid delivery.

Speaker 2 (19:39):
Adam, here is why your story caught my attention, because
there is still a propaganda war going on around October
the seventh around the plight of the people in Gaza,
and the accusation is is that Israel and even the
United States were obstructing or stopping or prohibiting aid from

(20:03):
getting to people in Gaza. Now, Israel, as you pointed out,
and others have said, that's the opposite of what's happening.
Israel in the United States are trying to get the
aid into the Palestinian people, but it's the Hamas that
in fact is doing the obstruction, or they're stealing it
and then stealing it and selling it. I thought your
story was interesting because to me, this speaks to this

(20:26):
sort of ongoing propaganda war. It sounds like what's going
on here is that Hamas has in fact infiltrated the
aid distribution system and was the problem here is that
how you see it, Yeah.

Speaker 14 (20:38):
There's very much a propaganda war, and this is one
of the most important aspects of the story that once
you put the propaganda war aside, the accusations he said,
she said, Israel's obstructing aid, you're left with facts and
the facts of the matter according to the US investigation
that's been going on for more than a year and
is ongoing, and continuing and even expanding to I believe

(20:59):
over a thousand members of UNRA who are actually affiliated
with HAMAS. Again, this is the United Nations paying salaries
of HAMAS members. And what you find is that it's
exactly HAMAS who's stealing aid. Hamas is interfering in delivery.
They're infiltrating aid groups, whether they're affiliated with the United
Nations or otherwise outside nonprofit charities that operate there. That

(21:23):
evidence is clear. The Inspector General itself found late last
year that United Nations trucks were common deer by HAMAS.
Hamas embedded its personnel into key positions in US aid
orgacy organizations to ensure that aid went directly to them.
These are the facts of the matter. Israel's allowing trucks in,

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but the un has a consistent problem with stopping HAMAS
from stealing the aid, and that's exactly what the Inspector
General is out there to figure out. It's also why,
by the way, we stop giving money to UNRA specifically
for this reason.

Speaker 2 (21:57):
Adam Credo is with Washington Free Beacon Hand a new
investigation out. I suggest you read it about what's going
on here with the United Nations and being infiltrated by
Hamas in Gaza. You're talking about United Nations here, agencies
we pay. The United States pays money to the United Nations,

(22:20):
and you're talking about Hamas having infiltrated this whole structure.
I have to ask, has American taxpayer money found its
way into the hands of Hamas in Gaza.

Speaker 14 (22:31):
Most likely, particularly under the Biden administration and programs going
back to that era. I actually reported separately during the
time of the Biden administration that there was a move
internally from the early days of the administration at the
State Department to get specific permission from the Treasury Department,
that is OPHAK, who oversees funds that might be going

(22:55):
to terrorist groups, and they issued a determination that while
it's incredibly likely that this usaid and money will be
siphoned by Hamas, diverted by Hamas, they wanted to find
a way to go ahead with it anyway. And that's
exactly what they did. That's why the Inspector General has
stepped in now, particularly under the Trump administration, to OnEarth
exactly what happened to that money and to ensure that

(23:17):
that never happens again. The Trump administration has been pretty
strong and very clear about restricting the way US funds
are spent. But there's a lot of work for the
Inspector General to do prior to this administration, what was
happening in the Obama administration, in the Biden administration, and
going back even further, and during those times, there's clear
evidence that they knew aid and money would be diverted,

(23:41):
but they wanted to push that priority anyway.

Speaker 2 (23:44):
Well, I think they were more interested in giving in
to the propaganda and giving in to all these free
Palestine radicals in their political base. I mean, recall that
Joe Biden built that crazy peer project, you know, the
to Nowhere, which cost hundreds of millions of dollars. I
think a US soldier at least one died trying to

(24:06):
fix it. But no aid was ever delivered, and it
was literally a project to satisfy these people who were
claiming that no aid was going in to the Palestinian people,
and of course that wasn't true. I find that they
did a lot of things for window dressing, Adam, they
didn't do things for good reasons. They did a lot
of things for pr purposes or window dressing, and it
turned out exactly as you might imagine. You also have

(24:29):
some information here in the story about how Hamas used
its police force, it's notoriously brutal police force to intimidate
AID workers who were trying to help in Gaza.

Speaker 3 (24:41):
Tell us about that, correct, So this.

Speaker 14 (24:43):
Is another piece of the Inspector General's investigation. It was
a confidential report that I obtained a copy of in
and essentially looked at several US funded NGOs that were
operating Gozen. Now these NGOs themselves were not accused of
any wrongdoing, but the Inspector and wanted to know what
the conditions are like on the ground, what they're operating

(25:06):
against over there. And mostly all of these aid organizations
admitted that the Hamas Ministry of Interior, which again is Hamas.
It might not be its armed wing, but it very
much is Hamas and it does their bidding, intimidated AID workers,
threaten to obtain copies of their confidential employee data, threatened
to sick the police on them if they did not

(25:27):
allow them to establish personnel at AID sites, including most
notably hospitals, which are very important to Hamas. They want
to patrol those sites, and they use hospitals as I
also reported just recently to torture, beat, and interrogate Gaza
civilians that they see as against hamas's effort. So this
is all part of that network that HAMAS polices and

(25:49):
make sure is under its thumb. These aid groups were
operating in an environment where their every move was tracked
by HAMAS. And there are additional reports watchdog groups, not
the Inspector General itself, that there are many agencies that
worked tand in glove with HAMAS in order to perform
their aid operations. That is allowing HAMAS officials to use

(26:13):
sites at hospitals. There were reports that HAMAS used a
command and control center in a hospital that was located
literally next door to an AID organization. So this is
done for cover AMAS once Isra're out to bomb civilian sites,
so they can then say that Israel is targeting civilians
when in fact HAMAS is embedded in these sites.

Speaker 3 (26:33):
All right, Adam.

Speaker 2 (26:34):
So we know that the United Nations denied for a
very long time that HAMAS was interfering with aid delivery.
We now know that simply wasn't true, and we know
that they've been interfering with this investigation as we sit
here today. Is the United Nations now cooperating at all.

Speaker 4 (26:54):
Yes and no.

Speaker 14 (26:55):
They've responded to pieces of the investigation. I think most
notably what they won't have and over his lists in
their employees. The Inspector General would use these lists to
determine if they're actually members of Hamas. They have methods
and means to investigate and check back whether these individuals
or who they say they are, whether these individuals in
many cases that we've documented throughout the war are actually

(27:18):
doubling as members of HAMAS. That's a big piece of it,
and that information has not been furnished. There's a lot
of other internal documentation that the Inspector General has requested
but has not yet got in its hands on. I
suspect the reason for that is the information will show
exactly what you expect, that there is a comfortable relationship
of either aid officials being HAMAS members or HAMAS members

(27:43):
making sure that they can infiltrate this.

Speaker 8 (27:45):
You know.

Speaker 14 (27:45):
It's also very interesting some HAMAS Ministry of Interior documents
recently came to Earth and what they showed is HAMAS
kits keeps lists of aid workers and they make notes
on there. It's very interesting to see we can work
with this person. This person has expressed support for Hermas.
This person is not willing to work with us. So

(28:05):
they had a really thorough system and extensive system for
checking how they could manufacture support within aid agencies.

Speaker 2 (28:16):
All right, final question, I'll give you the last word
fifteen seconds. Bottom line, Can we as we sit here today,
safely deliver humanitarian aid into Gaza without Hamas benefiting from it?

Speaker 3 (28:29):
Right now?

Speaker 14 (28:31):
There's one primary solution. That's to remove Hamas control from
the Gaza strip. That's the only way to fully ensure
Hamas does not get its hands on it. The only
way to ensure it is for Hermas to go, for
all of its officials to lay down their arms, remove
themselves from government, and potentially go elsewhere depending on what
the final peace plan is. But if AMAS is there,

(28:53):
Amas will try to steal eight. They're doing it now.

Speaker 2 (28:56):
Adam Grido with a Washington Free Beacon. Thanks for your work,
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More after this.

Speaker 11 (30:19):
Ready for more common sense here, CNN Senior political commentator
New York Times best selling author at America's favorite political punditi,
Scott Jennings.

Speaker 3 (30:31):
All right, I've had.

Speaker 2 (30:32):
This one on my pile of things to discuss with
you for several days now, but then I went on
my great Western sojourn and left it on the pile.

Speaker 3 (30:44):
But I remembered it today because this.

Speaker 2 (30:47):
Morning I went outside and looked into my own chicken
coop and the Jennings backyard, and we keep over thirty
chickens in the Jennings backyard area. We love our chickens.
We've been doing the chickens now for several years. We
started with six. Now we have over thirty. They call

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it chicken math. Sure some of you out there know
what it's like. But I was more than pleased recently
when the Vice President of the United States had a
chicken coop of his own constructed at the Naval Observatory
in Northwest Washington.

Speaker 3 (31:24):
This is where the Vice President lives.

Speaker 2 (31:26):
Finally, we paragons of poultry have true representation in the
executive branch.

Speaker 3 (31:36):
This is unequivocally a good thing.

Speaker 2 (31:38):
For many years, chicken owners of America have suffered in silence.
We have no lobbyists, no pack no Cabinet secretary, not
even a lousy commission. Now we have the vice president.
Now we're cooking with gas, not the chickens, but metaphorically.

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So I was pleased about this. And then, of course,
because jad Vance decided to do something incredibly normal these
days and get some chickens, the Washington Post swooped in
and decided, we need to attempt to ruin this. We

(32:24):
need to investigate this. Questions, they say, have been raised
about the coop and whether all the proper historical preservation
protocols were followed. It's a chicken coop. Now, it's a
nice one. I saw it. And if you're within the

(32:47):
sound of my voice and you have a chicken coop
in your backyard, dare I say?

Speaker 3 (32:52):
It's likely not.

Speaker 2 (32:54):
As nice or expensive as the one that Jady Vance got.
But you know what, but he's the vice president. I
want him to have a nice chicken coop. So the
Washington Post swoops in. The first thing they did was
they called the city of DC and they tried to

(33:15):
get the vice president cited for zoning infractions. They called
up the zoning people to complain. Here's part of the article.
I tried to confirm the regulations with a few people

(33:35):
at DC Health. No one returned my calls or responded
to my emails, but one city official said DC regulations
don't typically apply to federal property. He spoke on condition
of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to talk to the media.
But locals don't follow the rules either, the official said,

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I know we have plenty of people in the city
raising chickens on properties that don't meet the requirement. So
that was the first thing they tried to do. They
wanted the zoning people in Washington to come and interrupt
the e Vance family chicken operation. So not satisfied with
that vector, the Washington Post then called up a chicken expert.

(34:21):
Now the chicken expert that they called and it's hard
to believe it, Well, is it? Maybe it's not hard
to believe they called up a chicken expert, someone who
uses they them pronouns and uses their chicken as an

(34:43):
emotional support animal because they have long COVID.

Speaker 3 (34:51):
Bowers.

Speaker 2 (34:52):
The Utah Chicken keeper thinks of their hens. This is crazy.
It's a single person, like a singular human being that
we have to refer to as there because of the
pronouns Bowers, the Utah chicken keeper, thinks of their hens,
especially a bearded white silky bantam named Karen, of course,

(35:16):
almost as emotional support animals. When Bowers is having a
particularly bad day, they meaning the person suffer chronic pain
from several autoimmune disorders, they cuddle up with care and
the chicken so zoning and they them. That's who the

(35:38):
Washington Post called to try to make trouble for JD.

Speaker 3 (35:41):
Vanswell.

Speaker 2 (35:42):
I salute the Vice president on this. Godspeed, mister Vice President,
and to your chickens, best wishes.

Speaker 3 (35:49):
It's a great hobby.

Speaker 2 (35:50):
More after this, before we do a quick check of
the headlines. Sometimes people write me questions. One of the questions,
believe it or not, is often Scott, what do you
do in the commercial breaks? When you're just sitting there
and we're listening to the commercials and we're waiting for you.

Speaker 3 (36:07):
To come back on, what do you do? Let me
tell you what I'm doing. I sign books.

Speaker 2 (36:14):
Literally, I have lists upon lists of books that people
want me to sign.

Speaker 3 (36:21):
A Revolution of Common Sense. Now.

Speaker 2 (36:22):
It came out last November. It was a New York
Times bestseller. You can still get it on Amazon, I'm
sure at a fair price these days. But I signed books,
and I'm sitting here. How many we got to sign?

Speaker 3 (36:35):
Like one hundred?

Speaker 2 (36:36):
Literally, I'm going to sign like one hundred books. Anyway,
that's what we're doing. Quick check of the headlines. The
Senate has honored Lindsey Graham by passing the final significant
bill that he was authoring a series of major sanctions
on Russia and some that target Iran, in a landslide
eighty six to eleven vote. Key issue here is that
the President is authorized in this legislation to levy a

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one hundred percent tariff on imported Russian oil. The critical
bill now goes over to the House. Hope it passes there.
Power is changing hands. In Columbia, the second largest country
in South America, today, Ablardo de la Epraia was inaugurated
as the country's thirty sixth president. He's a fire brand conservative,
ardently pro Israel, anti cartel, anti Marxist, and he's taking

(37:25):
over for a communist named Gustavo Petro. This is another country,
yet another country, I should say, in South and Central
America rejecting communism in favor of common sense. And as
the midterms get closer and closer here in the United States,
we hear at the Scott Jennings Show are going to
be covering the most competitive house races that will determine

(37:46):
who controls Congress after November. Today we take you to
the land of Enchantment, New Mexico, to cover one of
the most competitive House elections this cycle.

Speaker 3 (37:57):
It is the second district in New Mexico CO.

Speaker 2 (38:00):
The candidates are Greg Cunningham, the Republican, versus Gabe Vasquez,
the incumbent Democrat. Let's take a listen to what Greg
Cunningham is telling the people of New Mexico.

Speaker 3 (38:12):
Cut one.

Speaker 7 (38:14):
We need someone in there that one they look you
in the eye and they tell you something that you know.
They need the old adage that say what you mean?
You mean what you say. I made a career on
a life on that and so i have a job
to do, a mission to finish, and I'm committed to
doing that.

Speaker 4 (38:32):
From the sea.

Speaker 2 (38:38):
And joining me now to discuss the campaign is that
Republican named Greg Cunningham. This is New Mexico's second district. Greg,
welcome in to the Scott Jennings Show.

Speaker 7 (38:47):
Oh well, thank you for having me. I'm honored.

Speaker 2 (38:50):
Well I'm glad you're here and glad you're running now.
You have an interesting background. You are a in the Marines,
you're a lieutenant colonel, You're a combat veteran.

Speaker 3 (38:58):
You've been a small business owner.

Speaker 2 (39:00):
You were even once embedded undercover with the cartel.

Speaker 3 (39:06):
I want you to talk to us about your.

Speaker 2 (39:08):
Life story and what led up to you getting into
this political campaign.

Speaker 7 (39:14):
Ah, well, thank you. I was the only thing I
will take umbrage with. And I was an enlisted man
in the Marines. I was not an officer. I actually
worked for a living. That's what we say in the Marine.

Speaker 3 (39:28):
Got it all right?

Speaker 7 (39:29):
I understood, yes, sir, and again. Born and raised in Albuquerque,
A former combat Marine. I was in Desert Storm and
got my combat action ribbon there Albuquerque and police farment
twenty two years, started my own business, six children, nine grandchildren.

Speaker 4 (39:48):
My path here is.

Speaker 7 (39:49):
A blue collar working path, and I'm very proud of that.
I did a lot of undercover work to include work
with we called it Black Block at the time, was
the precursor to Antifa. So I have actually done undercover
with what people are calling now protesters, which we know
really they are anarchists. They're paid agitators. I have done

(40:14):
undercover work at the border. I have done Title threes,
which are wire taps. So I have a very personal
hands on experience with the border and how to get
control of that and how to provide a safe future
for our children and grandchildren.

Speaker 2 (40:32):
Well, this issue of the border and border control and
border security and what we're going to do about it
has become a central issue in your campaign. Your opponent,
Gabe Vesquez, says the border wall is a ridiculous waste
of money. I want you to listen to this and
we'll get your reaction.

Speaker 3 (40:48):
Cut three.

Speaker 6 (40:51):
I also read that you're opposed to some border wall construction.
We know the transport wall construction in New Mexicolachlin, the
Solon Park, New Mexico area, but there's also a new
construction that was announced in a very remote part of
the state. The board is a very remote, remote part
of Mexico as well, and that is a bookshel of

(41:12):
New Mexico. Can you tell us about your concerns there?

Speaker 4 (41:16):
Yeah, I can tell you it's a ridiculous waste of money.

Speaker 3 (41:20):
Ridiculous waste of money or necessary? What do you think, Greg?

Speaker 7 (41:25):
Oh, my gosh, I can tell you from first hand experience,
it is necessary, absolutely necessary. It's and again a ridiculous
waste of money. How much what is our safety worth?
What are our wives going to the store and our

(41:46):
children in school and are being able to walk your
neighborhood at night? How much is that worth? What's the
cost that we put on that? And so I would
say that anything we do to provide those things for
our family and our people here in New Mexico, it's
not about cost.

Speaker 4 (42:03):
For me.

Speaker 2 (42:05):
Yeah, I think of all the things that the government
spends money on, and the thing that you would want
it to spend money on always and the most is
the security of the American people. I mean, what else
is the purpose of government, you know, if we're not
going to secure our border and protect our people.

Speaker 3 (42:22):
And of course New Mexico, I mean.

Speaker 2 (42:23):
How many how many miles of border does your district
have here? Like it's got to be one hundred and
two hundred miles something And so this isn't a far
away issue for people in this district. This is something
happening every single day.

Speaker 7 (42:39):
I don't know the exact number, and I don't want
to guess because as a detective, I've learned guessing is
a bad thing. I know, it's over four hundred miles,
so it's vast. We have a ton here.

Speaker 10 (42:51):
And.

Speaker 7 (42:52):
The cartels utilize every mile of that to their advantage.
I mean, people American needs to understand and that the
cartels are a national security threat. You know, the administration
did a great job at ending the catch and release
people coming across the border, the open border, that's step one,

(43:14):
but the same challenges and obstacles that I faced as
a detective are still there and the cartels. Again, people
America just needs to understand. We Please remember I'm a
former marine, so my verbiage can be we're at war
with them. I mean, if we're going to call it

(43:34):
the war on drugs, let's extrapolate that to the reality.
The reality is is we're at war with the cartels.
They are in essence, they are poisoning our children in
the name of profit, and I won't allow it anymore.

Speaker 3 (43:51):
All Right.

Speaker 2 (43:51):
Our guest today is Greg Cunningham, running for Congress in
New Mexico's second district. We've got about a minute left here, Greg,
I want to give you the last word. I know,
border security and immigration control is a big issue but
also the economy, quality of life. These things are also
important to you give us the pitch. Why should voters
here throw out the Democrat and go back to the Republicans.

Speaker 7 (44:13):
Well, I think a lot of times sometimes and I'll
try to speak quickly, which I'm half Tennessee, and so
that's hard for me. Is basically, nothing happens until we
have the chaos ended, until we have our border secure,
our street secure, the chaos done. Business, school, education, none

(44:37):
of those things are going to matter. And so my wheelhouse,
my expertise is public safety and getting things done. I'm
a problem solver and so and so when people talk
about what are your policies, it's it's so it's tempting
me to just to look at gay Boscaz and say,
whatever that guy is, I'm the exact opposite. And that's

(44:58):
the truth. And it only is that simple. I am
the exact I'm the antithesis of Gaye Bosca is in
every way, shape and form, and I take great pride
in that.

Speaker 2 (45:09):
Well, it's hard to have prosperity without safety, and obviously
you embody that. Greg Cunningham running for Congress in New Mexico.
Thanks for sharing some time with us today on the
Scott Jennings Show. We're going to take a break. When
we come back the relief Factor Pain of the Week.
Who will it be? Find out after this?

Speaker 4 (45:25):
If the leftists haven't had enough yet? There's more. This
is the Scott Jenny Show.

Speaker 2 (45:31):
It's Friday, August the seventh, Common Sense for the American People.
Scott Jennings broadcasting for Salem and happy to be broadcasting
from Louisville, Kentucky today. Although I will be heading up
to Washington this weekend. If you're at the Young America's Foundation,
I'll be delivering the big speech Saturday night in Washington,
d C.

Speaker 3 (45:51):
We'll look forward to doing that.

Speaker 2 (45:53):
But it is Friday afternoon, and it is twenty two
minutes past the hour, and you know what that means.
Means Hollywood, Shawn, It's time for the Relief Factor Pain
of the Week.

Speaker 6 (46:05):
And no, the.

Speaker 4 (46:07):
Relief Factor Pain of the Week.

Speaker 2 (46:13):
All right, this week's relief Factor Pain of the Week
comes to us from the great state of Wisconsin, where
Democrats are apparently looking at everything that has gone wrong
for their party over the last few years and saying,
you know what, we just haven't quite.

Speaker 3 (46:30):
Gone far enough.

Speaker 2 (46:32):
I want you to meet Francesca Hong, state legislator, chef
Democratic Socialist and currently leading in the race to become
the Democratic nominee for governor of Wisconsin. And boy does
Francesca have a record. Back in twenty twenty, she declared,

(46:53):
I support defunding the police as a first step towards
abolishing the police. She said police exists to quote uphold
white supremacy. She supports abolishing ice, She talks about abolishing prisons.
She's called for abolishing the United States Senate, which, frankly,

(47:16):
you're running for governor of Wisconsin, seems a little ambitious
to me. But she's got big dreams and big plans
for our country. So police gone, immigration control gone, prisons gone,
Senate gone.

Speaker 3 (47:35):
But don't worry. There's more.

Speaker 2 (47:39):
She also said that she hated Thanksgiving so much, in fact,
that it should be canceled.

Speaker 3 (47:45):
Let's hear that in cut eleven.

Speaker 7 (47:46):
Thanksgiving is also a time that's incredibly painful for many
people in our communities.

Speaker 2 (47:52):
Painful. I mean, I'm gonna be honest. I was talking
about this with some people. There are people out there
that have to spend Thanksgiving with people that yeah, it
is painful for them. I don't think that's what she means. However,
but she got a lot of flak for saying she
wanted to cancel Thanksgiving. Now, after that criticism came in,

(48:14):
she says, you know what, I actually love Thanksgiving?

Speaker 3 (48:16):
Cut thirteen.

Speaker 12 (48:17):
My favorite holiday is.

Speaker 14 (48:22):
Thanksgiving because I have it.

Speaker 4 (48:27):
Yep, I don't want to cancel it. I actually love it.

Speaker 2 (48:32):
Okay, we went from hating and canceling Thanksgiving to you
know what, I love Thanksgiving. I'll let you decide in
which case she's letting out her true feelings. It is
amazing what running statewide in Wisconsin can do for your
appreciation of pumpkin pie. I guess she's doing the same thing.
On policing, however, she said that defunding the police was

(48:55):
the first step towards abolishing the police. Now she says, oh, no,
I'm serious about public safety. Well, congratulations. So we're about
ninety eight percent of everybody in America. This woman is
a socialist, Hong, She's running as a socialist. You would

(49:16):
think that the most famous socialist in America right now
would be thrilled. Hey, we got a socialist running for
governor with a chance to win. In Wisconsin. I'm happy,
but no, that's actually not the case. Bernie Sanders was
asked about endorsing this woman this week, and he said, basically,

(49:41):
I don't know enough about the race to get involved.
Do you know how crazy you have to be for
Bernie Sanders to back away from endorsing you if you
are expressing his socialist views? How far left off the
reservation do you have to wander before Bernie Sanders pretends

(50:05):
he's never heard of Wisconsin. It's like getting kicked off
of Willie Nelson's concert bus tour for smelling like marijuana.
I mean, Francesca Hong the perfect avatar for the Democratic
Party's problem right now. They said crazy things when they

(50:26):
thought crazy things were fashionable, and they said that because
they believe it. Defund the police, abolish ice, canceled Thanksgiving.
Now that voters are paying attention and we've all come
to our senses again, suddenly everybody wants to run away
from their true feelings and say.

Speaker 3 (50:42):
No, no, no, no, I just care about affordability. I don't
necessarily want you to get murdered in the streets. They say.

Speaker 2 (50:51):
You know, the great thing about the Internet is that
it keeps receipts, and this week Francesca Hong is learning
a painful lesson. You can delete the tweets, but you
cannot elite the crazy. And that is why Francesca Hong,
you are the relief factor Pain of the week.

Speaker 4 (51:06):
That's their relief factor. Pain of the Week.

Speaker 11 (51:10):
Scott Juttings surial pain and the agenda for the lefties?
Do you want to drive a leftist crazy? Tell the
truth and keep smiling. This is the Scott Jetting.

Speaker 2 (51:20):
Show, Friday, August, the seventh home stretch of the week
that was, and to go over it all, we'll engage
in our traditional Friday punditry.

Speaker 3 (51:32):
Our pundit of the week this week is.

Speaker 2 (51:34):
Saraj Hashmi, who is I think one of the funnier
guys on the Internet. Long history of expertly trolling the
left and occasionally some on the right, all part of
his job as these senior media strategists, senior digital strategist,
digital media strategist.

Speaker 3 (51:53):
Now that I butchered that down Hall News.

Speaker 2 (51:57):
Making his inaugural appearance on the Scot Jetting Show, Sarage Hashmi, Sarage,
welcome in here, Thanks for doing.

Speaker 3 (52:03):
This with us.

Speaker 4 (52:05):
Thank you so much. For having me brother.

Speaker 3 (52:07):
Yeah, this is great.

Speaker 2 (52:08):
You know I should tell the audience we don't really
know each other. I know you from the Internet, and
I am constantly chuckling at your insights and takes and observations.
And then I was pleased to see that our friends
at town Hall had decided to bring you in. Why
don't we start there. Let's get the Sarage story. You
haven't always been a conservative. You've had You've been on

(52:31):
a little journey, but now you find yourself at one
of the most important conservative websites, town Hall.

Speaker 3 (52:37):
Tell us about yourself.

Speaker 5 (52:40):
It's an interesting journey. I don't know how much time
you want me to share and spend on it, but
I'll be very brief. I started off as very liberal,
you know, very very much, protesting the Iraq War in
the two thousands, you know, voting for Barack Obama twice,
even voting for Hillary Clinton in twenty sixteen, and slowly

(53:00):
but surely things that Democrats did, Like in twenty sixteen,
if you remember the Pulse nightclub shooting, they had this proposal,
the no fly, no by Gum proposal, And originally, you know,
with a name like mine, that probably would get swept
up in that based on the arbitrary government watch list, right,
So that was the first crack in the damn. And
then I became very much pro to Second Amendment. And yeah,

(53:23):
I still had a lot of more liberal leanings, and
I bought into sort of the misinformation and disinformation just
straight up you know, media slander of Donald Trump. And
then over the course of Trump's first term, what really
sort of, you know, I couldn't deny was that Trump
was actually really funny and everything he did, whether it
was wittingly or unwittingly, the guy was just hysterical. And

(53:45):
from there it sort of boiled over to COVID happening.
Realizing that once as soon as we talk about this
deal with Fauci in his contempt of Congress, he kind
of go back all the way to those years and
specifically when there was everyone has to be on lockdown,
no one can go out. And then all of a sudden,
George Floyd happens and it's like all the public health

(54:07):
officials are like, go protest because systemic racism and white
supremacy is more of a public health threat than come
And I was like, that's it. I can't I can't
do this.

Speaker 3 (54:19):
That moment and nobody wants to talk about it.

Speaker 2 (54:21):
I'm glad you brought it up, but basically, you had
people with the word doctor in their titles saying, effectively
arguing that the COVID virus could discern your politics and
would give you a pass if you went out in
the street to protest something as long as that something

(54:42):
was judged to be politically moral. At that time, that
was literally what they were saying out loud to the
American people. And at that moment, I think a lot
of us, you, and I think millions of Americans started
to think, wait a minute, if you're willing to say
with a st eight phase that out loud to me,
what of the rest of this is complete in total?

Speaker 3 (55:05):
BS?

Speaker 2 (55:05):
And as we found out from the Anthony Fauci diary,
a lot of it was BS. Let's start there for
our Friday punditry, Saraj. I know this was a big
issue for you back when it was going on. You've
been following this and making a lot of commentary about it.

Speaker 3 (55:20):
I'll just ask you this question.

Speaker 2 (55:22):
Should Anthony Fauci have answered questions or was he smart
to take the fifth in front of the Senate Committee.

Speaker 5 (55:31):
I will say, Scott, the one thing that kind of
gives me pause is that even his liberal champions in
the media are sort of lamenting the fact that Anthony
Fauci pled the Fifth one hundred and eleven times in
front of the Senate Homeland Security Committee because he was granted.
He was granted the pardon by President Biden on his
way out, all the way from twenty fourteen up until

(55:54):
the end of his presidency, so that's a span of
ten years. That was when the gain of Function research
really started Muhan Laboratory. And as I think Josh Holly
so there Josh Holly pointed out, is that you can't
beleave the Fifth if you've been granted the pardon because legally, like,
what are you incriminating from incriminating yourself with when you've

(56:15):
already been given that pardon, So legally speaking, it should
not hold up the fact that he's being held in
contempt of Congress. I agree with I think that's the
right move. I'm kind of disappointed in sending. There's like
John Featherman, who's been pretty reasonable as of the last
couple of years to kind of vote along party lines
and to not hold Fauci and contempt. But that you know,
that's besides the point, right, Those are you know, little

(56:36):
side notes. The bigger picture here is that what exactly
is Fauci hiding? I mean, we have his we have
his diary, we have a good chunk of it. We
have specifically the areas where he highlighted it. The death
toll just supposed with Man, the media just loves me,
And I don't know what it is. They just you know,
they just can't get.

Speaker 9 (56:57):
Enough of me.

Speaker 5 (56:58):
I just you know they think about me. I think,
oh yeah, Dick tapper oo WU like that these are
the type of like love notes that he's sort of
writing in his diary. And you're thinking, to yourself, this
is a this is at the time acceptagenarian, almost an
octogenarian aged man, Like what are you doing? Like even
if you were writing a memoir like and that comes out,

(57:20):
everyone's gonna be like, what wtf? Mate? Like whether at
the time you were supposed to be leading the pandemic
response And you know who I don't think is not
getting enough scorn out of this. You know who is
leading the task force during the COVID pandemic. Vice President
Mike Pence.

Speaker 3 (57:37):
You think needs much talk about it.

Speaker 2 (57:40):
If you, if you were, if you were chairman of
the committee, would you drag him in next?

Speaker 5 (57:45):
I don't see why not. I mean, I don't know
whether I don't know if executive privilege applies to him
in this regard, But like at this point, that's I'm
very surprised nobody's talking about Mike Pence.

Speaker 3 (57:55):
On the on the fat gpiece.

Speaker 2 (57:57):
We had a legal scholar on from Yale this week,
and he absolutely says that they can bypass a full
Senate vote and either Vance or even Chuck Grassley, whoever
is judged to be presiding over the Senate in the moment,
can actually just send this right over to the Department
of Justice. So I suspect he's gonna end up having
to tangle on this because I agree with the lawyers

(58:19):
that you've also talked to, you can't plead the fifth
if you've already gotten a pardon. He got terrible legal advice,
but he also got terrible public relations advice.

Speaker 3 (58:28):
It would have done him a world of good. I
think if he had just.

Speaker 2 (58:31):
Sat in front of the committee and said, you know what,
I made the best decisions with the information I had
at the time. We got some things right, and we
got a lot of things wrong, but it's important for
us to know both. That way we improve for the
next time. If he could have had the humility just
to say that, he would have done himself a world
of good. But instead taking the fifth Boy, was that terrible,

(58:52):
terrible pr advice?

Speaker 3 (58:53):
All right, let's move on.

Speaker 2 (58:54):
I want to talk about one of my favorite Yeah, yeah,
go ahead.

Speaker 5 (58:58):
I was just going to say it was very disappointing.
Is that every doctor takes the hippocratic oath, you know,
do no harm, and yet the only harm that he's
focused on is not doing any harm to his own image.

Speaker 3 (59:08):
Oh yeah, well he did a lot of harm.

Speaker 2 (59:11):
Uh, And I just it's it's amazing to me that
he I mean, this is a guy who sat in
front of committees, has sat for countless thousands of media interviews.
You know, he's he's never not been willing to talk
ad nauseum, and so to sit there in Stonewall Congress
like that, boy, it was a a rough look. All right,

(59:31):
I want to move on to the Mayor of New
York City. He's having an interesting week. First of all,
he went to an event with a bunch of cops
in Staten Island, and I want to play this for
you and get your reaction to it.

Speaker 3 (59:42):
Mom Donnie getting booed off the stage cut six.

Speaker 4 (59:48):
Gentlemen, Are you ready for some work camp day?

Speaker 15 (59:53):
No, we're not.

Speaker 8 (59:53):
We're not.

Speaker 3 (59:54):
We're goett even work. Somebody getting on work.

Speaker 2 (01:00:00):
He had that PR debacle, Saraj, and he also is,
I think, sort of presiding over a debacle as it
relates to these government owned grocery stores, saying that we're
gonna have to have ID in order to get into
the grocery stores. And of course a lot of us
on the right have had fun with that. Do you

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feel like maybe the honeymoon is wearing off a little
bit from Mom Donnie?

Speaker 3 (01:00:26):
What's your take?

Speaker 5 (01:00:29):
You know, at this point he's been the mayor for
more than half a year. There are going to be
his proponents who say that he's doing a great job.
He's finally focusing on, you know, the working people of
New York. But at the same time, who's driving the
most sort of economic benefit to New York i e.

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The business owners and everyone who's actually like created the
economic capital that New York City is. They're leaving and
they're they're they're pissed off. They can't understand why they
would why any any New Yorker would would support this guy,
right because you have the government run grocery stores, all

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the bodega owners, They're like, how is it possible that
we have to now compete with a government subsidized grocery
store that now also requires a library card if you
want to call it that, But it's really just an
identification card. I mean, how are you going to prevent
people from Recently? Of course Costco has you know, membership,
Sam's Club has membership. They're private enterprises, they have an

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entity where like they can probably hedge against a lot
of resiling. But at the same time, like, how are
you going to prevent people from really abusing the system?

Speaker 4 (01:01:44):
And it costs a lot of money.

Speaker 3 (01:01:45):
If he's haventy million.

Speaker 4 (01:01:46):
Dollars, it's crazy.

Speaker 2 (01:01:47):
I know, it's great and in the press conference like
he's holding up like this.

Speaker 3 (01:01:51):
Bananas.

Speaker 2 (01:01:52):
Bananas are the greatest miracle of capitalism. You can grow
a banana in whatever, Argentina, wherever they can from and
have it here in the United States the next day,
and it costs like thirty cents. I mean, is anybody
out there saying, boy, these bananas are breaking me.

Speaker 3 (01:02:08):
That's not, of course not.

Speaker 2 (01:02:09):
But he's like standing up at this press conference holding
the bananas up like he's getting ready to throw it
up at the tip of a basketball game. You know
one other thing that happened to him this week? What
didn't happen to him? I guess it happened to the
people who supported him. He puts out the list of
all the people, the property owners in New York that
he wants to tax, and all the people that supported

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him realized their names were on it, including this moron,
Scott Galloway, who has this podcast with.

Speaker 3 (01:02:37):
Kara Swisher, and he gets on the podcast and he's like,
I don't know what happened.

Speaker 2 (01:02:44):
I supported him, and now they've dosed to me on
the property tax list. Do you think the rich liberals
in New York sarag have realized that, yes, the leopard
will also eat my face too, or do you think
it's going to take some more pain?

Speaker 3 (01:02:59):
Give you the last one in the segment.

Speaker 5 (01:03:02):
It will be a little bit more pain, because I
think I don't think people look at Scott Galloway and
think he's sort of like the voice of reason amongst
the left. I mean, I think, yeah, maybe Ars Sweatsher's podcast,
having that sort of joint venture with her is helpful
to his brand, but ultimately, like it's going to take
a prominent figure in the American society to really be like,

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you know what, I once supported Zora Mandani, but I
can't take it anymore.

Speaker 2 (01:03:28):
Yeah, it's that that whole you know that, plus the
fact that he was saying five million, and then the
properties on there were one million. And oh, by the way,
a lot of the properties on there people live in
every day.

Speaker 3 (01:03:38):
These weren't second homes.

Speaker 1 (01:03:40):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:03:42):
I think a lot of people got to wake up
the fact.

Speaker 5 (01:03:44):
That the property value in New York City is so
high already.

Speaker 2 (01:03:47):
I know it's that whole thing, total debacle, but I
think a lot of people are getting a lesson in
what it's like to live under a socialist More Friday
punitry with Saraj When we come back on the Scott
Jetting Show, stayed with me.

Speaker 11 (01:03:59):
Well left arguments with truth and common sense.

Speaker 4 (01:04:02):
They hate that this does this Scott Jenny Shall, all.

Speaker 3 (01:04:07):
Right, we'll wrap up the week.

Speaker 2 (01:04:08):
Here are pundit of the Week Sarage Hashmi, the senior
digital media strategist for town Hall. A great website you
should visit for interesting content. Sarage, I gotta do this story.

Speaker 3 (01:04:20):
We haven't.

Speaker 2 (01:04:21):
I did a little WNBA before I went on my vacation.
Now I'm back, and I see the WNBA as even
crazier than it was before I left. There's a player
named Gabby Williams. She plays for the Golden State Valkyries.
Pretty good fourteen point seven points a game this season,
and she says she wants to play against dudes.

Speaker 3 (01:04:40):
Let's hear Gabby Williams, Cut eight.

Speaker 12 (01:04:43):
I would welcome trans out there on my team more
against my team anytime.

Speaker 4 (01:04:47):
I don't think it's a problem in the world.

Speaker 2 (01:04:50):
Okay, So Gabby says she wants to play against dudes, Well,
there is, as luck would have it, a dude who's
willing to do this. You may have heard of him.
His name is Enis Canter or Enu's Freedom. I guess
he changed his name. Former NBA player. He's like seven
feet tall today. He declared for the w NBA draft
cut sixty.

Speaker 15 (01:05:11):
After careful concenteration and reviewing the current eligibility guidelines. I
am officially declaring myself a WNBA prospect. If simply declaring
who you are is all that's required, that I meet
every single requirement necessary to compete in the WNBA. My
Tim and I have carefully examined the WA's eligibility criteria
and governing framework surrounding self identification and inclusion. Based on

(01:05:34):
the current guidelines, I can and am officially declaring my
eligibility for the upcoming WNBA Draft in May twenty twenty seven.
I am definitely not here to muck, make fun of,
or disuspect any community or personal choices. I am simply
asking that the current rules be applied equally to everyone,
the rules that represent the very values many WNBA players

(01:05:54):
and coaches have publicly advocated for. My Tim and I
are prepared to ensure these guidelines are applied equally, consistently
and redot exception, and I'll look forward thro the WNBA
honoring its stated principles to your training camp.

Speaker 2 (01:06:09):
What do you think, Saraj should they should somebody in
the w NBA draft inenus freedom? I mean it would
give them well, I would say you would have games
that were like literally like two hundred to nothing if
they If they had one dude on the team, That's
what would happened.

Speaker 3 (01:06:23):
What do you think I think somebody should do it?
Tell me.

Speaker 5 (01:06:27):
I recalled Donald Trump saying back in twenty twenty two
that if he were to buy a WNBA team, he
would ask Lebron James if he had any interest in
becoming a woman. And it's just you know, and it's freedom,
And don't underestimate the sort of detact and sort of
the determination of someone who's wont to changed their last name.
That takes a lot of work, right, So someone who

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went from Nscanter and his freedom, that's a that's a
big deal. And also, you know, as a Celtics fan,
he played he played fairly well for the Celtics in
the short stit that he was there. But I will
say he has been one of the more impressive members
of the NBA post NBA career, considering how he's actually
trying to make a change in our society, and he

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brings up a valuable point. He's not actually in it
to mock anyone, but he does want to make sure
that the WNBA is adhering to the rules that they
put forward, and if the rules that they put forward
has a massive loophole that allows men to join their sport.
Then I don't see why anyone shouldn't.

Speaker 4 (01:07:27):
Be exploiting that.

Speaker 5 (01:07:27):
And if he's doing it with all sincerity, my hat's
off to him.

Speaker 2 (01:07:32):
Well, there's been coaches. There's that one coach who wore
a shirt saying, you know that she wanted to be
inclusive of anybody who wanted to play in the WNBA.
You've got numerous players saying absolutely, let's have some of
these dudes come into the league. I think there's going
to be a groundswell of support for Enus' freedom.

Speaker 3 (01:07:52):
You know, we know him here in Kentucky a little bit.

Speaker 2 (01:07:54):
He tried to play for the University of Kentucky Wildcats
and the NCAA screwed him out of it and he
never got to play for Kentucky, which was very said
because he was sort of a heralded recruit for the
Cats at the time. But anyway, crazy the WNBA every
week gets crazier and crazyer. All right, we got about
a minute left, sarag We got to do our winners
and losers. I'll give you the honor. Who is the

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winner of the week In American politics?

Speaker 5 (01:08:19):
Mike Rogers, a Republican Senate nominee from Michigan. He has
the opportunity to become the first Republican elected for the
US Sennessee in Michigan since nineteen ninety four. It's thirty
two years, and he's been gifted basically a silver platter
with Abdul l Sayet, who has just so many receipts

(01:08:40):
out there, so many clips of him saying how much
he he hates this, that, and the third about Michigan,
how much he cares about things that have nothing to
do with Michigan. And the simplest ploy that he has
to go is, Mike Rodgers is for Michigan. Abdul as
Abdula al Sayet is for Palestine. Mike Rodgers is for you.
That's all he has to do.

Speaker 2 (01:09:00):
Yeah, he had a great week overall, the socialist march
in Michigan may turn a purple state a little more red.
Here in twenty six I'm gonna give you my loser,
and it's in the same bucket Chuck Schumer. He and
the establishment wanted Haley Stevens, they got Abdua Lsied. He
then says, Okay, I'll be for abduall lsied, who then

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immediately endorses like Chris van Holland from Majority Leader Chuck
Schumer at a rough week, saraj Hashbe from town Hall,
You've been a great pundit, you're a great audience.

Speaker 3 (01:09:31):
Have a great weekend, and we'll see you Monday. Thanks
for listening.