Fauci Pleads the Fifth and Bernie Moreno Goes OFF!

On today’s edition of The Scott Jennings Show, Scott covers the latest developments from Capitol Hill, including the Fauci hearing, the confirmations of Blanche and Jay Clayton, a proposed Russia sanctions bill, and the latest news involving Iran and South Dakota’s gubernatorial runoff. Carrie Buck joined the show to discuss the closely watched race in Nevada’s 1st Congressional District, while Dr. Oliver Hemmers offered insight into the Nevada Policy Institute’s priorities and the Project on Nuclear Fuel Pellets, highlighting the future of American energy policy. Scott also weighed in on lingering COVID-era policies before turning to continued coverage of the Fauci hearing and congressional oversight. Later, Sen. Tim Sheehy discussed his recent speech on Iran, reflected on the Graham funeral, examined the Blanche confirmation, and previewed Congress’s agenda ahead of the August recess. 

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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 Scot Jenny high
drama on Capitol Hill this morning.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
We've gone from two weeks to slow the spread to
using the Fifth Amendment to stonewall Congress and the American people.
The Anthony Fauci hearing took an unexpected turn. We have
the details and the audio for you in just a
few moments. We're talking more Nevada politics today. Lots of
interesting races out here in the Silver State. We'll have

(00:37):
a candidate coming on with us. Find out who in
just a few minutes. And Senator Tim Sheehey of Montana
is coming by today following his incredible floor speech last
week on why the fight against Iran is vital to
our national security. Today is Wednesday, July the twenty ninth.
I'm Scott Jennings broadcasting for Salem and we remain today

(01:01):
in Reno, Nevada. On this day, nineteen fifty eight, President
Dwight Eisenhower signed legislation officially creating the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration NASA. This was in response to the Soviet
Union jump starting the space race by launching Sputnik one

(01:21):
the previous year. These days, NASA's annual budget is little
over twenty four billion dollars, and the agency has launched
hundreds of major robotic and crude exploration missions, planetary probes
and space telescopes. And this year we were all certainly
proud of those NASA astronauts who traveled round the dark

(01:41):
side of the Moon, further than any human has ever
ventured from planet Earth. Washington, DC. This morning, incredible scene
in the United States Senate where Ran Paul of Kentucky
held a hearing of the Committee on Homeland Security and
Government Affairs. The witness today doctor Anthony Fauci, who was

(02:02):
to be questioned about the private notes that he kept
on government computers that conflicted with what he was telling
the general public during the COVID era. Here's how Rand
Paul opened the hearing.

Speaker 3 (02:16):
Cut six.

Speaker 4 (02:17):
President Biden issued to a sweeping pardon extending back to
twenty fourteen, the same pardon he gave to his son Hunter.

Speaker 3 (02:26):
A pardon may protect a person.

Speaker 4 (02:27):
From criminal prosecution, doesn't rewrite history, It does not erase documents.
It does not convert a misleading statement into a truthful one,
and it does not prevent Congress from establishing what happened.
It is secrecy that destroys trust. It is arrogance that
destroys trust. It is censorship that destroys trust. And it

(02:48):
is the refusal to admit error that destroys trust. That
loss of trust may be your most damaging legacy.

Speaker 2 (02:56):
Now Here is where things went off the rails as foul.
She used his opening statement to invoke his Fifth Amendment
right to not answer questions on the grounds that he
might incriminate himself.

Speaker 3 (03:09):
Take a listen to this and cut number ten.

Speaker 4 (03:11):
Limited to the period of your pardon At any point
between January first, twenty fourteen and January nineteenth, two thousand
and twenty five, did you destroy any federal record or
tell anybody else to.

Speaker 5 (03:30):
Under the Advisive Council, I, respectfully the client to answer,
based upon my writes under the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution.

Speaker 4 (03:36):
Given that you have an unlimited presidential pardon, what is
your specific objection that you are making.

Speaker 5 (03:44):
On the Advisive Council, I respectfully the client to answer
based upon my writes under the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution.

Speaker 6 (03:50):
My question was.

Speaker 4 (03:51):
Limited to the period of your pardon only. I find
your objection unsupported and direct you to answer the question.

Speaker 5 (03:58):
On the Advisive Council. I respectfully declined to answer, based
upon my rights under the Fifth Amendments of the Constitution.

Speaker 4 (04:04):
Because you refuse to answer citing a privilege that is
unsupported because of your pardon, and after being denied to
do so, this committee has scheduled to vote next week
on a resolution certifying your contempt.

Speaker 3 (04:17):
Now, let's talk about this issue.

Speaker 2 (04:19):
You might recall that Fauci received a blanket pardon from
former President Joe Biden, which absolves him of anything and
everything he did during the COVID era, but it does
not absolve him of committing perjury when answering questions today.
And that's what's going on here. The only possible excuse
for Fauci invoking the Fifth Amendment is that he is

(04:42):
worried about perjuring himself before Congress. You know, there was
a time when you couldn't get Anthony Fauci to shut up.

Speaker 3 (04:50):
Interviews, hearings, you name it.

Speaker 2 (04:52):
If you had a camera, it was dangerous to get
between that thing and Anthony Fauci. But today he had
nothing of the American people. Despite these damning diaries that
paint a terrible picture of someone who was supposed to
be serving the public but clearly became infatuated with serving
only himself. Now, Ran Paul, as you heard, told Fauci

(05:16):
that based on the Biden pardon, he does.

Speaker 3 (05:19):
Not have a right to refuse to testify.

Speaker 2 (05:21):
And Paul, as you heard, closed the committee saying they'll
come back next week and vote on holding Fauci in
contempt of Congress. But if you can believe it, the
hearing got even crazier than that when one of Fauci's
lawyers wouldn't stop interrupting. It prompted this exchange with Rand Paul,
who had to throw him out.

Speaker 3 (05:42):
Cut seven.

Speaker 4 (05:43):
But the attorneys are not recognized. In fact, the attorney
was told not to sit at the table, and he's
not obeying that recommendation. There's a row behind you, sir,
that's where you were told to sit, and you're not.
And now you're disrupting the proceedings. And so look, this
is the way Anthony Fauci wants to be remembered. For
a lawyer not listening to the rules, that's the way you.

Speaker 3 (06:03):
Want to be remembered.

Speaker 4 (06:04):
And that's where you're going to do you are not recognized, sir, Security,
please remit it in from the room now.

Speaker 2 (06:20):
As you can imagine, tensions ran high throughout the hearing,
and Republican senators did not hold back when questioning Fauci.
I want you to take a listen to Ohio's Bernie Marino,
friend of the show here. He absolutely went off today
on behalf of millions of frustrated Americans.

Speaker 3 (06:39):
Cut eight.

Speaker 7 (06:40):
It was about six years ago today that I decided
I'm going to give up my businesses, sell them all,
run for office, run for the United States Senate. Here
I am sitting in front of you six years later, saying,
who the do you think you were for doing that?

Speaker 6 (06:58):
It is a total race what he did to this country.

Speaker 7 (07:02):
And if my Democrat colleagues are standing there defending you,
I hope the voters the United States of America watched
the clips of every one of you doting on a
guy who was more interested in being a celebrity than
saving American people. I will make it my mission to
make certain that every single one of those republic Democrats

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who did that, we'll see that clip over and over
and over again, because defending there is no defense of
what you did.

Speaker 6 (07:39):
You may have.

Speaker 7 (07:40):
Had a fifty plus year legacy of public service, but
it ends in total and complete disgrace.

Speaker 2 (07:49):
Now we had to bleep out part of what Senator
Marino said there. I'll leave to your imagination what he
had to say to Fauci. So what did we learn
today from Fauci, Well, we learned nothing except that someone
who had nothing to lose by simply telling the truth,
someone who worked for your government, who was the godfather
of masks six feet, school closures, business closures, all of it. Well,

(08:16):
he refused to tell us a darn thing. We'll keep
an eye on this for you. Bernie Marino, by the way,
is coming by the show a little bit later to
talk about what it was like in the room. Elsewhere
in the Senate, some drama around the pending confirmation of
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche. Texas Senator John Cornyn says

(08:36):
he wants a written modification to the settlement agreement that
President Trump entered into with his own administration over the
IRS leaking of his tax returns. Cornn says he's withholding
his vote in the Judiciary Committee until he gets that
the committee is supposed to vote tomorrow, and this morning
Cornan canceled a meeting with Todd Blanche. Now Corn's given

(08:58):
Blanche a four o'clock deadline today. We'll see what happens.
One confirmation was successful last night, Jay Clayton confirmed as
the President's new Director for National Intelligence, and the Senate
also voted yesterday on the Russia sanctions bill that had
been championed by Senator Lindsey Grant. Final score eighty six

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Speaker 2 (11:58):
Wednesday, July twenty ninth, and we are coming to you
live for a second day from Reno, Nevada and we
continue our deep dive into Silver State politics. Nevada's first
congressional district is one of the most targeted in the nation,
currently represented by a Democrat named Dina Titus. Now, this
seat represents the heart of the Las Vegas Strip as

(12:20):
well as the southern suburbs of Henderson. It was narrowly
carried by Kamala Harris in twenty twenty four fifty to
forty eight. Now, Congresswoman Titus has come under fire for
voting against no tax on tips in a district where
a great many of her constituents actually work for tips.
Take a listen to this interaction from c SPAN cut

(12:41):
number nine.

Speaker 9 (12:42):
Congresswoman Titus, I'm just wondering why you voted to not
allowed tipped workers to reduce their tax burden. Well, why
did you vote against no tax on tips?

Speaker 8 (12:58):
I can certainly explain that voted against a bill that
had a temporary relief for tax on tips.

Speaker 6 (13:05):
For a small number of people.

Speaker 3 (13:08):
Joining me now to discuss that.

Speaker 2 (13:10):
Representative Titus's opponent, Republican State Senator Carrie Buck.

Speaker 3 (13:14):
Carrie, welcome to the Scott Jennings Show.

Speaker 2 (13:16):
I'd like to start with your comment on that exchange
between Titus and that voter. Do you think people in
Las Vegas are going to accept her vote against no
tax on tips?

Speaker 6 (13:27):
Absolutely not, Scott.

Speaker 10 (13:29):
It's unfortunate that she voted against that, not only that
it was no tax on overtime and social Security and
also helping all of the families with the child tax credit.

Speaker 3 (13:43):
She voted against that.

Speaker 2 (13:46):
Yeah, it was part of the big beautiful bill, the
Working Family's Tax Credit and tax cut bill that was
passed by the Republicans last summer. I would think in
your district, perhaps per capita, you have the most impact
of these various tax cuts for work people. When you're
out campaigning for this seat, does it come up a
lot in your conversations?

Speaker 6 (14:04):
It absolutely does.

Speaker 10 (14:06):
And I've spent the last thirty years as a teacher
and a principal. I took over a low performing school
and grew it to National Title I school and then
won the Milkin Award. And as I'm out in the
community talking to these families, it absolutely impacts their money

(14:27):
that they get back from taxes.

Speaker 2 (14:29):
Talking to State Senator Carrie Buck of Nevada, she's running
for Congress against Dina Titus in the first congressional district. Now, Carrie,
your state senate career is interesting. You went to the
state legislature by flipping a suburban seat in Henderson. Did
you take a seat that had been held by a
Democrat and move it to the Republican party in twenty twenty.

(14:51):
Is that what I understand it.

Speaker 10 (14:53):
Yes, I flipped a very blue seat in twenty twenty
and then held it strong. I was just on the
ballot in twenty twenty and outperformed by seven points in
twenty four In fact, I outperformed every Republican on my ballot,
and so we're looking to flip CD one in Nevada.
It's absolutely prime for the picking to be able to

(15:16):
flip this.

Speaker 2 (15:18):
Tell me about the other issues that you're encountering with
voters out there. I know the tax cuts are a
big one. What else are people talking about in the
Nevada one?

Speaker 10 (15:27):
Affordability is always important, from fuel prices to gas prices,
fuel gas, kitchen table groceries are also important, lowering the
cost of that, lowering the cost of inflation. I know
Nevada families from classrooms to kitchen tables, That's what I'm hearing.

(15:52):
Energy prices also are something that are constantly going up. Unfortunately,
when it got to fuel prices, we rely so heavily
on California, and they of course have an attack on
fuel fossil fuels, so all of those issues are what
I'm hearing. I know, being married to a police officer

(16:15):
for years and he was deputy chief of Henderson. Safe
communities are also important. I know that having a closed
border and safe communities are also very important to Nevada voters.

Speaker 2 (16:30):
Yeah, I would think the immigration issue would be prominent
in this district. I mean, my personal view, Carrie, is
that it's one of President Trump's greatest successes. I mean
the fact that no new laws were passed, but just
via executive action and executive ordering the federal government to
enforce the existing laws. We have a closed border, we
have people who shouldn't be here being deported, We have

(16:52):
the worst of the worst coming off the street. So
I suspect that's going to be a big issue in
your campaign. At voice, you're hearing State Senator Carrie Buck.
She is in Nevada's first congressional district. This is the
heart of Las Vegas, one of the most targeted congressional
districts in the nation. The Democrat here is Dina Titus,
and seems to me, voting against no tax on tips
along with everything else, is going to possibly come back

(17:14):
to haunt her campaign. Kerrie, Thanks for joining us today.
We'll keep up with your campaign as the general election
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Speaker 2 (18:30):
Wednesday, July twenty ninth, broadcasting on location. Where in the
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we're in Reno, Nevada. Why am I in Reno, Nevada,
you might be wondering, Well, it's because I was invited
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(18:51):
and I want to talk to you about that in
just a few moments with one of the policyfellows from
Nevada Policy.

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(19:41):
let's talk Nevada policies. A great organization here that does
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Speaker 3 (19:51):
It's an interesting state.

Speaker 2 (19:52):
Eighty five percent of Nevada is owned by the federal
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attention from conservative thinkers who know that people deliver prosperity,
not the government. My next guest here is a policy

(20:12):
fellow at Nevada Policy. He's worked for years as a
nuclear physicist and he joins us today to talk about
the institute Nevada Policy and also about the exciting work
and energy that he's doing. Welcome to the Scott Jetting Show,
Doctor Oliver Hammers.

Speaker 6 (20:27):
Well, thank you for having me, Scott.

Speaker 2 (20:29):
Now, I'm glad you're here and it was good to
chat with you a little bit last night. So let's
start with Nevada Policy. It is a really fascinating organization.
We're here in Reno, you have supporters down in Vegas,
really supporters all over the state. But tell us how
Nevada Policy gets involved in state issues here in the
state capital and even some federal issues to try to

(20:51):
make this state a better place.

Speaker 11 (20:53):
Well, Nevada Policy tries to connect people with politicians because ultimately,
the people a busines working all day long, right, they
don't have time to get into the weeds. So Nevada
Policy tries to make it easier by translating to the
general public what's going on, what's planned, maybe what's needed,

(21:14):
so that people can then make a decision when they're
voting what type of politicians support their ideals, and Nevada
Policy as a conduit to help people understand and as.

Speaker 2 (21:25):
I understand it, the organization conducts a tremendous amount of
research and on these various issues like education, economic growth,
land and water, good governance, and then they make that
research available to the general public. But they also make
that research available to legislators in Nevada in the state capital.
Talk to us about that partnership between the Nevada Policy.

Speaker 3 (21:48):
Group and the legislators.

Speaker 2 (21:50):
Do you think you're giving them better information than they
would otherwise have it? Is that leading to better outcomes
in the state capital?

Speaker 11 (21:57):
Definitely, because the legislature actually depends on information. Again, the
legislature sits on the other side of the spectrum. Their
main job is to make good laws and care about
the state and the benefits for its citizens, but they
don't have the time to do the research. So they

(22:18):
like to have information provided to them that has been
thoroughly researched by an institution that they trust, and this
way they can make good decisions in the legislature.

Speaker 2 (22:29):
Oliver, I got to ask you. You don't sound like
you're from around here. What's you tell me about your background?

Speaker 11 (22:34):
I was born and raised in Vierlin. I went to
school there. I got my PhD at the Institute for
Radiation and Nuclear Physics, and after that I came to
the US in nineteen ninety four and to Nevada, actually
to Las Vegas at the time, and I've been there since,
so I'm a naturalized citizen. Been here for thirty two years,

(22:58):
I think, all right.

Speaker 6 (23:00):
So, and I.

Speaker 11 (23:01):
Worked at the university, I worked at Berkeley Laftick doing
radiation experiments, and eventually went into management of scientists and stuff,
and then eventually I went away from that too.

Speaker 6 (23:14):
Well.

Speaker 2 (23:15):
I brought you on here today because I heard a
lot of talk last night at this big dinner lots
of people gathered here in Reno. I heard a lot
of talk about how Nevada policy is pushing nuclear nuclear
energy for the state's future, and you're working on a
project that has to do with these nuclear fuel pellets.

Speaker 3 (23:36):
In fact, you showed me one last night and you've
got it right there.

Speaker 6 (23:40):
Hold it up. Yeah, yeah, that little black thing down there.

Speaker 2 (23:43):
Yeah, and so that's not a very big thing, yeah,
but it might it might have big implications for the
energy future of Nevada.

Speaker 6 (23:52):
Tell me about this.

Speaker 11 (23:53):
Yeah, it's this is a model of the pellet. It's
about ten million as long, eight milliond as dim a.
Thousands and thousands are put in these nuclear reactors that
we currently run. We have ninety four active reactors in
the in this country. And then the reactors pull out
of each pellette the energy equivalent of one ton of coal,

(24:15):
so like burning one ton of coal.

Speaker 6 (24:17):
And then after that.

Speaker 2 (24:18):
Wait, hold on, so you're saying this little pellet, yeah,
is the equivalent of one ton of coal.

Speaker 6 (24:24):
That's right, one time. Okay, that's right.

Speaker 3 (24:26):
Where do you get these pellets?

Speaker 11 (24:28):
Well, you know this one is a model that it's
not a real one.

Speaker 6 (24:32):
But they know we're not.

Speaker 3 (24:33):
Going to be sprouting a third.

Speaker 11 (24:36):
But there's an industry that's mostly located outside the US.
Ninety five percent is imported. Which is a big problem
that the US has because they're running short on fuel
because a lot of it comes from Russia, for example,
and Russia is stopping delivery by the end of the year.
So we kind of need to develop a process to

(24:58):
build these things in this country. Now, what I suggest
is we take those palettes that being used and get
another twenty five tons of coal equivalent out of them
by recycling them. And that program is supported by the
FATS recycling nuclear fuel in a way that we get

(25:20):
more energy out of it, and the waste products is
precious metals and rare earth verse trillions, and the palets
would last the US for two hundred years. Wow, we
could power the whole country plus all the new data centers.

Speaker 2 (25:36):
All right, So let me put a disclaimer on this conversation.
You're talking to a Kentuckian. We're pro coal, but also
I tend to be forward leaning on all of the
above when it comes to energy because of the issue
you just mentioned the data centers. Nevada has over sixty
data centers clustered primarily around Reno in Vegas switch Google advantage.

Speaker 3 (26:00):
They have large facilities in the state.

Speaker 2 (26:02):
We're seeing this conversation about data centers for a lot
of people, is really a conversation about energy. People are
worried we don't have enough energy. People are worried their
energy rates might go up, and so on. So let's
dig into that. Is it your view that these little
pellets could be the answer, or at least part of
the answer, when it comes to supplying energy to the

(26:23):
data centers we're going to have to build.

Speaker 11 (26:25):
They're could this thing is not going to happen over
night just to come down the coal produce US and
the coal use US for power US now they are
not this is this is not going to replace coal
for decades. Okay, so that's not something that happens over night,
But the US is sitting. The value on the SYS
material is one hundred trillion dollars. So I call it

(26:49):
the national treasure because the FATS own it. It's just
that the FATS didn't know until recently what to do
with it. I see, and so, uh, you know you
talked about the national fordy trillion, right, So that's more
than double the national debt and value right here in
form of these pellets.

Speaker 2 (27:07):
Help me understand the pellets? Where are they are? Do
we have some here or would we have to import them?

Speaker 3 (27:13):
How does it work?

Speaker 11 (27:13):
These pellets are right now stored on the reactor sites
that actually use them for power generation, and then they
just store them next to the reactor outside on a
concrete pad and let them just sit.

Speaker 6 (27:26):
So they're sitting there.

Speaker 2 (27:28):
And you said the federal government, I assume the Department
of Energy, they are in support of the theory that
these pellets could be used to provide all this energy.

Speaker 11 (27:38):
You talked about the first guy who talked about it
and made a suggestion to President Kennedy in nineteen sixty
two was the Nobel Laureate Glenn Seaborg, and he said,
it's time that we use all the energy and uranium
and not just one percent. And that's kind of what's
referring to these pellets. And it was sixty four years ago.

Speaker 2 (27:58):
And what is the Trump administration had to say about
this discussion right now?

Speaker 11 (28:02):
Well, the Trump administration is on board with that because
they want to have the problem solved. They don't want
to have the stuff sitting next to the reactors. But
we can put it to good use. And it's not
going to be just one state, and there are already
five states that's signed on to that. So it's going
to be a national program and Nevada can be part

(28:22):
of it if they decide to do it.

Speaker 2 (28:25):
And when you say they decide, you need the Nevada
state legislature to sign off on this idea to make
it okay to do this sort of energy production in
the state.

Speaker 11 (28:34):
Yes, then it's a law, and then we can get
going and produce a lot of energy and valuable metals.

Speaker 3 (28:42):
Well, what's the political conversation?

Speaker 2 (28:44):
Does the political will exist here to do it in Nevada?

Speaker 6 (28:49):
Right now?

Speaker 11 (28:50):
Whoever I talked to said it's a great idea, So
it's bipartisan I think, but you never know what happens
when it really comes to the votes. Right, the idea
is well received by everybody I talked to, and everybody says,
why don't we do that?

Speaker 12 (29:04):
All right?

Speaker 3 (29:05):
I have to ask who?

Speaker 2 (29:06):
So this is clean, yes, and it has a lot
of energy in it, and we need it, and and
and who is.

Speaker 3 (29:14):
Going to come out of the woodwork to oppose this?
In your opinion? Who would be against that?

Speaker 11 (29:19):
Maybe the people that build windmills and solar solar panels, right,
that might know.

Speaker 2 (29:25):
But but but look, I mean it seems to me
energy producers, whoever you are, everybody really ought to know.

Speaker 3 (29:31):
We just got it. We need more electrons. We have
all these.

Speaker 2 (29:34):
Data centers, we need we need more and uh this
has to be part of it, maybe the wind, maybe solar.
Don't talk to President Trump about windmills in the moment,
but it just strikes me that the correct policy posture
here for whoever would be, Hey, we're all of the above.

Speaker 11 (29:49):
You agree with that, that's right, we should, we should
include everything we can. But this is kind of the
material is the only one viable to uh so thoughts
entire us and the projected growth for centuries, all right.

Speaker 6 (30:04):
And we don't need to impart any fuel.

Speaker 2 (30:06):
I love this idea, I love hearing about ideas like this,
and I'm very proud to meet you and discuss it.
Doctor Oliver Hemmers, the man with the pellets. He's part
of the Nevada Policy group out here. I had a
great honor to speak to them last night, but I
wanted to bring you on and talk about this because
there's a lot of policy innovation and a lot of

(30:27):
innovation generally going on in states around the country.

Speaker 3 (30:30):
Some of it's going on here in Nevada.

Speaker 2 (30:32):
People need to know about it, and we appreciate your
bringing your expertise to the Scott Chang Show.

Speaker 6 (30:36):
All right, thanks, all right, Oliver.

Speaker 2 (30:38):
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Speaker 8 (31:46):
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Speaker 6 (31:51):
This is the Scott Jenny.

Speaker 3 (31:52):
Show, speaking of leftist lunacy.

Speaker 2 (31:57):
I was ruminating over this Anthony Fauchi business today, and
as you know from the top of the show, and
if you've seen the news today, doctor Fauci went before
a Senate committee and took the fifth refusing to answer
questions about this private diary that he kept. Ran Paul,
my home state senator from Kentucky, by the way, I

(32:17):
have to say, did a great job, remained very calm,
laid out a great case. In fact, many of the
senators did a great job working through the issues. Fauci
of course signaled right out of the gate he wasn't
going to answer any questions, but it was important to
get some of these things on the record. So I
thought Rand and the Republicans handled the situation extremely well today.

(32:39):
But as I was watching all this unfold, I was
talking to Kayley and some of the other folks on
Team Scott here talking to Hollywood Sean about the issues
and the things that were going on during the COVID
era that in retrospect or maybe even to you at
the time, seen so stupid. Now Fauci was the godfather

(33:02):
of all this. But I was making a list what
was the dumbest, stupidest thing you could possibly do, especially
now in retrospect, how about going to restaurants?

Speaker 3 (33:17):
And apparently during.

Speaker 2 (33:19):
COVID, if you were at a restaurant and you were seated,
the virus was fine, you couldn't touch you take your
mask off, But if you stood up to go to
the bathroom, Oh no, no, now you have to put
your mask on.

Speaker 3 (33:33):
I thought that was ridiculous.

Speaker 2 (33:36):
I recall and still have seen even today, people circulating
videos of children going to music lessons and they.

Speaker 3 (33:43):
Had kids inside these pods.

Speaker 2 (33:47):
They had kids wearing masks, and they were cutting holes
in the masks, as if that were going to solve anything.

Speaker 3 (33:56):
Do you remember what's Hollywood Sean saying, what do you
got for me?

Speaker 6 (34:01):
Sean?

Speaker 5 (34:02):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (34:03):
Six feet?

Speaker 2 (34:04):
Absolutely, they by the way, they later admitted they made
that up. They just thought, well, it sounded like a
good distance, which then led to the conversation we were
having some of us here this morning about what was
on the floor. Do you remember going to like a
grocery store or anywhere where you had to stand in

(34:28):
a line, and they had little circles on the floor,
and you were supposed to stand in the circles, and
if you stood in the circle, this gave you some
magical protection against COVID. Do you remember going somewhere and
they put the plexiglass up. Do you remember the plexiglass.

(34:51):
It's still up in some places, and so there would
be like a sheet of plexiglass, not sealed, mind you,
but just you know, a floating sheet of plexiglass. They
later figured out, by the way, that the plexiglass installation
actually made it worse because it interrupted the airflow in

(35:13):
the places where they put it. I was recalling, you know,
I lived through this in Kentucky for the most part,
and our governor in Kentucky, Andy Basheer, was one of
the most egregious dictators or attempted dictators in COVID. He
was trying to arrest people in church parking lots on
Easter Sunday for goodness sakes. But somebody sent me this

(35:35):
press release that came out from Andy Basheer. Governor Basher
limits out of state travel, offers ten step plan to
fight virus.

Speaker 3 (35:47):
So essentially, if.

Speaker 2 (35:48):
You live in Kentucky, they were trying to literally stop
you from getting in your car and driving across state lines.
Now think about that for a second. This is a
governor of a state. This is not a dictator, this

(36:09):
is not a king. You know, Democrats love the no kings.
But they turned every Democrat governor and Anthony Fauci into kings,
didn't They They tried to give them, and in some
cases did give them all sorts of powers that had
no basis in our law, no basis in our constitution.

(36:31):
Andy Basheer was one of them in Kentucky. But they
were literally, we're trying to make sure people need to
take these steps, don't leave the state.

Speaker 3 (36:45):
I'm just sitting here looking through this. Was it was crazy.
Oh yeah, that's another good one. I still see that today.

Speaker 2 (36:54):
Hollywood sewan people driving cars by themselves wearing masks. So
you're in a car alone and you're wearing a mask.
I still see that today. Anyway, all this faucy stuff today,
all the memories are flooding back, and boy was it crazy.

Speaker 3 (37:13):
You have to laugh a little bit today.

Speaker 6 (37:14):
Anyway.

Speaker 3 (37:15):
More after this, it's Scott Shedding's on Salem.

Speaker 6 (37:17):
Stay with us.

Speaker 2 (37:18):
It's Wednesday, July twenty ninth. Quick check of the headlines.
Some politics news out of South Dakota. The incumbent Republican
governor there, Larry Rodin, easily won his runoff last night,
got more than seventy percent of the vote. Middle East
seems like we're in for an escalation with Iran, American
and Saudy fighter jets attacking Iranian proxy militias in Iraq

(37:40):
today and Iran firing missiles at military bases in Jordan
and against oil tankers. It's all ending a day's long
pause in direct fighting between the United States and Iran.
But this morning President Trump told Fox News he was
quite angry about these Iranian attacks and that the United
States would be responding by hitting them hard. Along with

(38:03):
some other colorful language. The President that tells Trey Yanks
to Fox News, which I will allow you to look
up on your own today on Capitol Hill, real drama.
In the Senate there was a hearing. Anthony Fauci was
the witness. He took the Fifth Amendment one hundred and
eleven times, refusing to answer questions about his private diary,

(38:24):
which shows that he was writing things down in private
that are at odds with what he was telling you
in public. The Republican senators were not happy, including Bernie
Moreno of Ohio. Take a listen to this cut number eight.

Speaker 7 (38:38):
It was about six years ago today that I decided
I'm going to give up my businesses, sell them all,
run for office, run for the United States Senate. Here
I am sitting in front of you, six years later, saying,
who the do you think you were for doing that?

Speaker 6 (38:56):
It is a total disgrace what he did to this country.

Speaker 7 (39:00):
And if my Democrat colleagues are standing there defending you,
I hope the voters the United States of America watched
the clips of every one of you doting on a
guy who was more interested in being a celebrity than
saving American people. I will make it my mission to
make certain that every single one of those republic Democrats

(39:23):
who did that, we'll see that clip over and over
and over again, because defending there is no defense of
what you did.

Speaker 6 (39:37):
You may have had a fifty.

Speaker 7 (39:39):
Plus year legacy of public service, but it ends in
total and complete disgrace.

Speaker 2 (39:48):
Joining me now to discuss this incredible moment is us
Senator Bernie Moreno of the great state of Ohio. Senator Moreno,
you're joining us live from the United States Capital. I
think you were channeling the anger of millions of Americans
right there. Take us inside the room when Fauci was
seated just a few feet away from you and you

(40:10):
went off.

Speaker 12 (40:12):
You know, Scott, that was me being nice, by the way,
that was holding back, trying to be polite, given the
respect that I have for the office of the Institution.
But the reality is this guy did enormous harm to
a lot of people, millions of people, whether it's lost businesses,
schools that were closed. These are kids that will never

(40:32):
be the same as a result of what he did.
And the worst part, Scott, is he knew what he
was doing. He knew what he was doing was wrong,
and he did it for fame, glory, and money. The
fact that the auto pen pardon this guy is just
totally despicable. And by the way, when you have a
complete pardon the way he did, by the way, that
goes back to twenty fourteen, that's the other date that's

(40:53):
by mistake. I believe what he did today was contempt
of Congress, and I hope we hold a vote on
that soon and hold him in contempt. This guy's got
to be held accountable. People paid a price. He needs
to pay a price.

Speaker 2 (41:07):
Yeah, you're raising this issue of the pardon. So Biden
gave him a blanket pardon going back to twenty fourteen,
and the lawyers are saying that because he has that pardon,
he cannot refuse to answer questions. I mean, the only
reason he would have plied the fifth today is because
he was worried about committing perjury.

Speaker 3 (41:25):
I assume that was their justification for it.

Speaker 2 (41:27):
And as I understand at Center, the committee's going to
come back next week and vote on this idea of
holding in contempt him in contempt.

Speaker 3 (41:33):
You think it'll be successful.

Speaker 12 (41:36):
I do think it's going to be successful. It is
pretty obvious. I mean, he wouldn't even answer normal questions
like what day of the week is it. He wouldn't
answer Josh Holly's questions. I asked him what the FITHM
endment even said he didn't know who wrote the FISTHM element.
He didn't know, or he said they would obviously incriminate him.
That's obviously patently absurd. So this is the exact definition

(41:57):
of contempt. And again there needs to be a on
ability for Anthony if actually can't just be that we
turn a blind eye because of the autopen It wasn't Biden.
It was the auto pen that pardoned him. And there's
never been a parton like this where retrospectively back to
a Daily twenty fourteen, I mean that is, this has
never happened. And then to make it even worse, he

(42:19):
brings in the worst most despicable lawyer in America, this
guy who defended Menendez, who as you remember, the guy
taking gold bars in exchange for foreign favors and the
article that I references you only hired this guy if you're.

Speaker 6 (42:31):
In deep do do?

Speaker 12 (42:32):
I didn't say do do, but I will in your
show that respect. And so clearly he knows he's in
jeopardy because he knows he lied. I mean, it's black
and white in his diary.

Speaker 2 (42:43):
Yeah, these diaries, I think for a lot of people
have just been a revelation in that you think about
the way he was treated by mainstream media. Every night
he's getting glowing interviews, he's being put on the cover
of fashion magazines, he's on the late night comedy shows.

Speaker 3 (42:58):
I mean he was.

Speaker 5 (43:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (43:00):
Democrats always say they are no kings. They turned Anthony
Fauci into a king. And what did he do with
his power? He used it to close our schools, close
our businesses and ruin a lot of lives. Excuse me, senator,
And now he won't answer any questions about it. You'll
hold him in content next week if you do what

(43:20):
happens after that, well he should.

Speaker 12 (43:24):
He should be held accountable for anybody who goes a
contempt and they obviously that means jail. Look at the
end of the day, it's not that they, these democrats,
the people that you're on with on CNN, held him
in that kind of seam. They still do, Scott. They
still think this guy was the hero of.

Speaker 6 (43:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 12 (43:43):
What socialist democrats fantasize about is control of people, and
that's what Fauci showed him how to do.

Speaker 2 (43:50):
It is amazing when you look back on everything now,
how much of what people were told was not true.
Made up, and really nobody has come forward to take
responsibility for any of it.

Speaker 3 (44:01):
The masks, the distancing.

Speaker 2 (44:03):
I mean, I remember when they were telling people that
if you got the vaccine, then that would prohibit you
from transferring or spreading COVID, and therefore you could, you know,
do whatever you wanted. That turned out not to be true.
It is incredible that the people who invented this entire
narrative around how we had to live our lives back
then have completely and totally not just escaped accountability, but

(44:25):
they've lived a pretty good life since then. I mean,
Anthony Fauci, I read, has given ten or eleven speeches
just this year.

Speaker 3 (44:30):
I assume those are paid speaking gigs he's getting.

Speaker 2 (44:33):
He's treated pretty well for I think inflicting a lot
of damage on a lot of people.

Speaker 12 (44:39):
Yeah, he's worth tens of millions of dollars. And the
other moment in the testimony, which was by the way,
just absolutely gut wrenching, was I asked the people in
the audience to stand up who are accused of being
racist because they call it China virus. Lost their job
at a school closing, you know, were forced to take
a vaccine or get terminated, et cetera. A friend that
died because of the vaccine. Almost the entire gallery stood up.

(45:02):
Fauci wouldn't even look at them. Scott. He wouldn't turn
his head and look at them. He said, that's the
systhmas and that sith amendment. Just actually turn around. Of course,
he turned around and talked to his lawyers. Then I
asked him, would you be can you just apologize and say,
you know what I was wrong. I gave bad information.
I you know, in the heat of the moment, this
is what happened. He wouldn't do that. And then the

(45:23):
overarching thing with the diaries of Scott do you remember
what COVID, Like, I think every American remembers with COVID
was like, can you imagine at the end of the day,
what this guy's priorities were with the right journal entries
and do.

Speaker 6 (45:34):
A diary.

Speaker 9 (45:37):
Theory.

Speaker 12 (45:38):
I'm the most talked about sexiest man alive. What a depraved,
depraved sob.

Speaker 2 (45:44):
Yeah, it's it's really uh, it's fascinating, it's troubling, it's
shocking the fact that all this information has come out. Well,
thank you for being part of the investigation. Thank you
for holding Fauci accountable. Today, Senator Bernie Mourno of Ohio
is our guest. A couple of quick other issues, budget resolution.
Are we going to see the Senate pass the budget
resolution anytime soon?

Speaker 12 (46:05):
I think we have to stay here before we leave
town to get a budget resolution at least started. As
you know, it's a decently complicated process, and that means
voter id proof us to the ship to vote. It
means helping our farmers, getting some farm provisions done that
the Democrats refuse to do. It means supporting our war fighters,
including the pay increase that they deserve, plus the equipment

(46:26):
that they need to protect themselves. The Democrats are unable
to get past their hatred of President Trump, and they're
hurting real people, farmers, the military. They're allowing illegals to vote,
as we've seen in New Jersey. Obviously, California is an
object disaster. So I don't think we leave here until
we get at least the beginnings of this pleasure resolution done.

Speaker 2 (46:48):
We're hearing that Todd blanche and his confirmation for Attorney
General maybe in trouble. Senator Cornyn is currently saying he
doesn't want to vote for him. In committee until he
gets some written modification of Trump deal that he made
over his tax returns being leaked. Are you getting any
information from Senate leadership about whether Senator Corny is going

(47:09):
to be accommodated and ultimately whether Blanche can be confirmed.

Speaker 12 (47:13):
I'm optimistic that Todd Bline would be confirmed. He's probably
one of the smartest people I've ever met, a brilliant lawyer,
amazing human being. I think he's already in the role
doing a great job. I think obviously confirming him is
a natural extension of having already confirmed him in the
past that that needs to happen. He needs to get done,
and we'll also get into Clarity Act on the floor,

(47:34):
and the Democrats have a choice to decide whether the
Bright for American innovation or not. So I think it's
going to be a busy next few days, but really
really important ones.

Speaker 2 (47:43):
Bernie Moreno, the great Senator from Ohio. Great job in
committee today, Thanks for your time. We take a break.
More after this on The Scott Jenning Show.

Speaker 8 (47:50):
News comment and the stories in facts the mainstream media.

Speaker 6 (47:54):
Refuses to discuss.

Speaker 3 (47:55):
So it's The Scot.

Speaker 2 (47:56):
Jenning Show, Wednesday, July twenty nine, this spouchy story has
captivated America today. I don't know how he's going to
get out of this Fifth Amendment thing. He's already got
a pardon, and you cannot plead the Fifth if you've
already been pardoned for the conduct they plan to ask

(48:17):
you about. So when the committee in the Senate comes
back next week, I think Senator Moreno, who just told
us this, I think he's right. I think it's a
no brainer. They're going to have to hold him in
contempt and refer that over the Department of Justice. But
just as a matter of questions and answers, the idea
that you would get a blanket pardon from the present

(48:38):
the United States blanket pardon and then refuse to answer
questions about not just any old period of time, but
one of the most consequential periods in modern American history.
It's extremely arrogant and I think legally fraud for Anthony Fauci.

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(50:27):
She remains a missing person. Most people presume her deceased.
She was taken on February the first, but the Guthrie
family continues to plead with the kidnappers to return their mother.
Here is part of the latest video from Savannah Guthrie.
Let's hear that cut eleven.

Speaker 13 (50:46):
The world can be a cruel and unforgiving place. And
I know that you have tried to do things the
right way. So I'm asking you, begging you to do.

Speaker 3 (50:58):
The right thing.

Speaker 13 (50:58):
Now, make the right choice. Help us find her, tell
us where to look for her. I truly believe it
is never too late to do the right thing. Help
us bring this situation to an end.

Speaker 2 (51:14):
Six months of agony for the Guthrie family. It's really
incredible how little we really know about this as a
public facing matter. But we can keep the Guthrie family
in our prayers and hope for at least some closure
on this terrible case sooner rather than later. Member of
Congress named Jamie Raskin has gone on television, and well,

(51:35):
you know, he said something out loud that if you're
a Republican and you say this, you immediately get yelled at,
You get called an election denier, you get thrown out
of the TV studio.

Speaker 3 (51:45):
But listen to Raskin here, tell me what you think
of this cut one.

Speaker 14 (51:49):
We see no republic no evidence of Republican activity anywhere.
I don't even see maga hats anymore, which makes me
afraid that they're just focused on trying to undermine the
election or take the election through some kind of strategic mischieffs.

Speaker 2 (52:04):
Now, this man is a lunatic. He's a Democrat member
of Congress. He's on cable television all the time. And
his message today is that because to his eye he
is not seeing people wearing red maga hats as much anymore,
that mega that Republicans must have gone underground, and they've

(52:32):
gone underground because they are planning to steal, or rig
or take the twenty twenty sixth election by nefarious means.
I want you to think about that for a minute.
What kind of a deranged conspiracy theory lunatic must you
be to go on national television and say, boy, I

(52:58):
am not seeing these maga hats anymore?

Speaker 3 (53:03):
What are these people up to?

Speaker 2 (53:06):
I used to see these maga hats all the time,
and at least they were out in public where I could.

Speaker 3 (53:11):
Keep my eye on them. But now.

Speaker 2 (53:16):
They've taken their hats off. They've gone underground, secretly plotting.
I mean, I Matt put the shoe on the other foot.
You went on TV and reversed the roles here, you'd
never be invited back.

Speaker 3 (53:33):
You'd be called a lunatic.

Speaker 2 (53:35):
Instead, Jamie Raskin probably got twenty more invites. Oh, unbelievable.
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It's the Scott Jennings Show.

Speaker 2 (54:43):
Wednesday, July the twenty ninth, broadcasting live from Reno, Nevada today,
and we're on our way by the way to Knoxville, Tennessee.
Will be there tomorrow. The world travels of Scott Jennings continue.
I wanted to return to a topic that we discuss
on the show last week, and I have been thinking
about this for days. I don't think I have ever

(55:06):
been more impressed with a speech on the Senate floor
than I was with the speech of Senator Tim Sheehe
of Montana. We played it in its entirety on the
show the other day when he did it, but he
took to the floor of the Senate and absolutely put
to shame these democrats and pundits and armchair quarterbacks who

(55:31):
were talking down the United States of America, talking down
the US military, and carrying public relations water for the
butchers and the terrorists and Tehran.

Speaker 3 (55:40):
Let's hear a bit of that. Tim Sheehey on the floor.

Speaker 15 (55:45):
Encourage our colleagues on both sides of the aisle. Whatever's
political convenient, whatever plays well on Twitter or Facebook.

Speaker 6 (55:52):
Think about the people who are.

Speaker 15 (55:53):
Deployed right now, standing on that wall with a loaded weapon,
who volunteered to defend our country in our way of
life because they're they're defending us in a just war,
because we did not start a war with the Iranian
Revolutionary Guard. They started with US forty seven years ago,
and their attacks have gone unanswered for half a century.
It's time to fix this problem and make sure another
generations of Americans does not have to fight this murderous,

(56:16):
savage adversary.

Speaker 2 (56:19):
Joining us live to discuss that moment and other issues
is the Senator from Montana. Tim Sheehe is here, Senator,
on behalf of millions of Americans who support the idea
of taking on these butchers.

Speaker 3 (56:32):
Thank you for what you did.

Speaker 2 (56:34):
You went down to the Senate floor and did something
that rarely happens and that is capture the attention of
the American people on such an important topic.

Speaker 3 (56:43):
Take us into that moment.

Speaker 2 (56:44):
What was going on on the Senate floor that day
that caused you to go down there and give that speech.

Speaker 16 (56:51):
Well, Scott, you know, most folks don't understand the pecularer
ongoings of the US Senate. It is a strange place,
as you know. And as a fresh and I'm the
youngest Republican Senator and the most juniors, so we have
to do with something called presiding, which means we have
to sit in the big throne there for hours a
day and basically manage the floor of the Senate.

Speaker 12 (57:11):
And I am.

Speaker 16 (57:11):
The most leading presider as far as I've sat in
that year, more than any other senator this Congress, because
I am the youngest, newest guy, and so I have
to sit there every day and have for the last
you know, several months and listen to the Democrats stand
up and attack our president, our troops defend these lunatic
savages who've been killing Americans in brutal, terrible ways for decades.

(57:36):
And you know this day in particular, as I was
sitting in the last Thursday, just the day prior we
had four warfighters be brought home to Dover Air Force Base.
Our President yet again took a tremendous amount of time
out of his schedule to go and be there with
those families. And you know, I've carried friends off those planes,
I've buried friends in Arlington, and those families watch the news.

(57:59):
You know, they see what senators and congressmen say. And
you know, when pumpits say, that's one thing. But when
elected officials in our and our highest legislative body choose
to stand on the floor and call them a failure,
call them war criminals, which they've done to our generals
and our leaders, which they they question everything about what
they do, and then they essentially side with our adversary.

(58:21):
You know, I was sitting there for two hours that
day listening to this, and I only just couldn't take
it anymore. So I texted the leader soon and said,
I need you to get somebody to come and leave
me in this chair, because somebody has to speak up.

Speaker 6 (58:33):
And right now.

Speaker 16 (58:35):
Unfortunately, Scott, as we know, public opinion in America is
largely apathetic to Middle East conflicts. And I understand that,
you know, listen, I get it. I'm a reasonable person.
I understand that the average American is tired of hearing
about Middle East bad guys killing us. They've been heard
them out since Desert Storm in nineteen ninety and hell
even before that, you know, and they're tired of it.

(58:56):
And I kind of say, what's the point. But the
reality scot is forever. Wars may be unpopular with American people,
but you know what's worse than a forever war in
the Persian Gulf, in Iraq and Iran is forever. We're
right here on our streets, and that's where they want
to bring it. And although we may be done with
the Middle East of American people, we may be sick
of it, they.

Speaker 17 (59:15):
Are not done with us.

Speaker 16 (59:16):
And these psychos want to bring it to our front doorstep.
And I felt it was important for somebody to stand
up and speak for the families of the phone, to
speak for the millions of Americans who faced off against
these savage barbarians, and to remind people that this isn't,
you know, just just an annoyance. These people want all
of us dead. They want you dead, they want me dead,
they want our families dead. Republican Democrat, liberal, conservative, Christian

(59:41):
Jew Maine, Washington, Florida, oh I, Iowa. They don't care.
They want our civilization gone, and they say it every day,
and they do it every day. And if they could,
they'd be running down our streets like October seventh, murdering
us in terrible chain of ways. And I think sometimes
we have the same to remind the American people why

(01:00:02):
we're fighting these people.

Speaker 2 (01:00:04):
A voice you're hearing is Senator Tim Sheehey from the
Great State of Montana. Senator, that's incredibly well said. I'm
interested in your opinion of the day's news. We have
the United States and the Saudi's conducting air strikes. Now
we have a Ran firing missiles at bases in Jordan
and at tankers. It seems like the fighting is intensifying

(01:00:24):
right now. Based on what you know, based on your experience,
what can the average American expect here? What is the
right thing for the president to do? And what do
you foresee happening over the next few months.

Speaker 16 (01:00:37):
The President is doing the right things, Scott, and I
think you know you have people on both sides criticizing
him and his policies. You have obviously hawks on the
right thing. Listen, we shoused to be going full more
and you know in vad Iran, and of course, right
or wrong, the American people, you know, have said they
are done sending our boys and girls in masks to
the land wars in the Middle East, and honestly, we

(01:00:58):
have to listen to that. As elected leaders, we have
to at some point express the will of our people.
They don't want that, but we also can't let this
savagery go unanswered. And I think we all want a
diplomatic solution. We all want our allies in the region's
Saturday at UAE, Israel. Of course, bah Rain has been
a steadfast allyed Kuwait. We want these allies to be

(01:01:19):
in a better spot, and we need to have them
carry some of the weight which they are, especially Ua
and Saudi. You know, bah Rain's been a great basic partner,
and obviously we all know Israel is just a you know,
our closest partner in the region, always has been. So
we have to respond to these We have to not
just respond, we also have to attack the source of
these these strikes, launching sites, factories, key military installations. But

(01:01:42):
of course, as you know, our fight is not with
the Uranian people. The Iranian people are the true victims here.
They're the ones who've been occupied by these murderous lunatics.
They want to be free of this as well. So
I think we have to keep the pressure on. We
have to do what we can to weaken their ability,
most importantly to project power outside their borders via Hesbala

(01:02:03):
Hamasa Huti's and of course the Straits hormoes.

Speaker 2 (01:02:06):
Senator, you have spoken passionately about the fight for the
future of Western civilization. Yesterday in Washington, we laid to
rest had a funeral for Lindsey Graham, who also constantly
I think had his eye on the ball when it
comes to the future of Western civilization. Talk to us
a little bit about the memorials for Lindsey Graham yesterday.

(01:02:27):
I assume you took part in some of those. Talk
to me about some of the conversations that were going
on what he stood for and what our role in
the world is as the United States. I'm sure that
sparked some conversations. How do you think people are feeling
generally about this idea that the West is at stake
and we're either going to fight for it or we're not.

Speaker 16 (01:02:48):
Well, Lindsay was somebody who can ever be replaced. I
was with all these discussions who's going to replace them?
You know, who's going to pick up? The reality is,
as you know, he was such a unique individual who
had really committed his entire life to the spot body
into this role. And nobody can replace Lindsay. And I
don't just say that. You know, people always say over
the top things when people passed, But I mean that

(01:03:08):
guy was truly a force of nature. And you know,
a single guy with no kids. He lived this job
twenty four to seven, three sixty five. So I think
it'll take five or six senators quite honestly to fill,
you know, the shoes that he filled. But the idea
that he stood for, which I think is important because
we hear voices on the left and the right now
questioning it, which is, you know, America's role in the world.

(01:03:31):
You know, our position is the tenth pole of the
canvas of freedom that covers the world. And you know,
we're an American empire, and no America's kind of had
this aversion to the concept of empire.

Speaker 8 (01:03:41):
I get it.

Speaker 16 (01:03:42):
You know, we fought to be, not be a part
of one and and and we've always said, listen, we're
self governing and we're not never going to push ourselves
in any of the civilization. And that's exactly right. That's
why we are an empire or an empire of opportunity,
an empire of freedom, an empire of innovation. We're an
empire that welcomes people into our into our empire. We
don't force them in. And people are not crossing deserts

(01:04:04):
and drowning and oceans moving to China or North Korea
ran They're coming here, and they're coming here for a
reason because we've built the greatest civilization history of mankind.
And unfortunately, Scott, sometimes that means you have to defend
that civilization, that way of life, and oftentimes defending it
comes with spilling blood. And you know, my foreign profession
and my highest responsibility in the US and is making

(01:04:27):
sure that those men and women who volunteered to defend
this way of life have what they need, have the
tools they need, most importantly, have the support they need
from our elected officials, because I'm defending this empire is
not free and it never will be.

Speaker 2 (01:04:43):
Senator Tim she He is from Montana. He speaks with
us today on the Scott Jennings Show. Senator a couple
of current events questions for you, if you don't mind,
It feels like there's a little bit of unsettled nature
in the ranks right now, little dissension in the ranks
among the Republicans on Capitol Hill about what to do
here heading into the August Re says, what do you
foresee happening over the next couple of weeks? Budget Resolution

(01:05:05):
Todd Blanche looking at Save Act is still being discussed.
There's all sorts of things in the water. I think
the average Republican is looking for some clarity. Do you
have any for us today?

Speaker 16 (01:05:16):
And this goes right back to your last point about
losing Lindsay. You know he has such a great relationship
with the President. I mean, I don't know how many
hours a day on he spent on the phone with
the President, but it was a lot. And he was
a key conduit between Capitol Hill and the White House
to make sure we were aligned. And I mean look
at twenty twenty five, Scot, I mean, look at the
winds we delivered, you know, the Working Family Tax Cut Act,
you know, Fastest Confirmation Executive Branch. I mean the amount

(01:05:38):
we got done in twenty twenty five was incredible in
through twenty six. But I don't think it's an accident
that we're seeing a lot of dissension and disagreement between
members and between the White House, between the Capitol Hill
in just the last couple of weeks since Lindsay's pass.
I mean, that's how critical his connection was. So well
many of us members are trying to do now is
build a new bridge with the White House, build a

(01:05:58):
new bridge between members. Say listen, we've got ninety five
ninety six days to midterms. We have got to stay together,
and we're not going to be able to deliver every
win we want, but we've got to be shooting in
the same direction. We've got to be aligned because we
can continue to deliver wins to the midterms and remind
people why they sent Republicans to Washington twenty twenty four,

(01:06:20):
why they gave us both Houses of Congress and the
White House. Because they wanted lower taxes, they wanted common sense.
They want to secure borders, safe streets, cheap gas. Criminals
are bad boys of boys, girls and girls. They wanted
common sense back, and we have delivered that. But we've
got to remember that's why they sent us here. Because
if we fumble over each other in these next ninety days,

(01:06:41):
which as you pointed out, it started to happen, you
know they're going to wonder, well, why A you're there,
If you guys can work together, why you're there? And
we got to work together on what we can actually
get done, what we have the votes for, and that
means we've got to confirm our grade ag. We've got
a passive buzz resolution to make sure our military is fun,
that we can do our jobs. We've got to you know,
get good, good legislation across the line, like the Clarity Act.

(01:07:03):
You know, digital currency is here to stay. Digital currency
is going to be the economic fuel of the future.
We got to be leaders in it. So my hope is,
I know there's a couple of meetings today and tomorrow
about how we structurally align ourselves between the White House
to Hill in the House. It's critical we get ourselves
on the same page because if we deliver more wins,
we're going to win the midterms and keep delivering. But
if we lose the midterms, you know, the present's going

(01:07:26):
to get investigated in peach for the next two years.

Speaker 6 (01:07:28):
It's a disaster.

Speaker 2 (01:07:29):
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(01:08:15):
this call. Talk some polling in the Great State of Georgia.
When we come back, it's Scott Jennings on Salem. Stay
with us, Welcome back to the Scott Jennings Show. Rounding
out the show today on Thanks for coming back on
to the show. You all have conducted some polling in
one of the most important states this year for the

(01:08:35):
November election, that is Georgia, and you've got some really
interesting results. We're going to be featuring AARP polling on
the Scott Jennings Show for the rest of the cycle.
I want the audience to know you use a Republican
pollster and you use a Democrat pollster.

Speaker 3 (01:08:50):
They work together to produce these results.

Speaker 2 (01:08:52):
I think that gives you a lot of credibility with
people across the country. So let's dig into Georgia. There's
a governor's race and a Senate race. Where does the
governor's race, Dan John hide.

Speaker 17 (01:09:02):
So the governor's race is fairly close.

Speaker 18 (01:09:04):
As you know, it's an open seat, so there's no incumbent,
and currently Keisha Lance Bottoms leads Rick Jackson by about
two points. The key to this, as well as the
Senate race, though, just to remind people, is there is
an enormous swing vote, particularly amongst those who are fifty
plus in this election, and so all the candidates are

(01:09:28):
really going to have to pay attention to that swing
vote because, as we like to say, as the fifty
plus goes, particularly at midterm election, so goes the outcome
of the election.

Speaker 2 (01:09:40):
I noticed in the gubernatorial splits here, the overall was
forty eight forty six, the Democrat bottoms over the Republican Jackson,
But among fifty plus voters, Jackson actually stood at fifty
five and Bottoms at forty two. We are seeing a
bit of a generational split here in the race, aren't we.

Speaker 18 (01:09:58):
That's right, and a lot of it. The outcome eventually
will be determined by who shows up ultimately at the bulls,
and so it's important also to note that we always
ask a question about motivation, and every single one of
these races you'll find that fifty plus voters are much

(01:10:18):
more extremely motivated to vote than the eighteen to forty
nine voters.

Speaker 17 (01:10:23):
And that rings true in this poll as well.

Speaker 18 (01:10:25):
I know it's only a snapshot in time, but currently
eighty eight percent of the fifty plus voters are extremely motivated,
compared to only sixty two percent of those under the
age of fifty.

Speaker 2 (01:10:36):
All right, let's shift over to the United States Senate.
The incumbany is Democrat John Ossoff and Mike Collins, congressman
is the Republican.

Speaker 3 (01:10:43):
He won a competitive primary. Where does the Senate race stand?

Speaker 6 (01:10:47):
John so.

Speaker 18 (01:10:49):
The in comment Senator Osoff is up by about ten
or twelve points at this point in the game. Having
said that, what's important is he's also leading among the
fifty plus swing.

Speaker 17 (01:11:01):
Voters as well.

Speaker 18 (01:11:02):
So currently the incumbent has a much more substantial lead.

Speaker 17 (01:11:06):
And so what will be interesting.

Speaker 18 (01:11:07):
About this poll is to see who those jackson asof
voters are right now and whether or not the congressman
can make up any.

Speaker 6 (01:11:16):
Ground or not.

Speaker 2 (01:11:17):
Yeah, you just raised an issue that I think is interesting.
It does appear to me from the data that you're
going to have some voters splitting their ticket.

Speaker 3 (01:11:24):
It's unusual.

Speaker 2 (01:11:25):
You don't see a lot of tickets splitting in American
politics anymore. But it does feel like there's going to
be some folks that vote Republican in one race and
Democrat and the other. Is that true of the fifty
plus crowd? Do you see more discerning voters in the
older set?

Speaker 18 (01:11:40):
Yes, the bottom line is yes, And it will be
interesting to see if that holds as we get closer
to November when it's all said and done.

Speaker 17 (01:11:49):
And I don't know how much of that is related.

Speaker 18 (01:11:50):
To the national scene versus people looking at it through
the prism of this is Georgia in terms of the
governor's race.

Speaker 2 (01:11:58):
So in terms of issue for voters that are fifty plus,
what are the top matters of concern for older Americans
right now?

Speaker 18 (01:12:07):
Overwhelmingly, social Security is extremely important to those over the
age of fifty.

Speaker 17 (01:12:15):
Eighty four percent of the.

Speaker 18 (01:12:16):
Voters believe that that is an important issue for them
when it comes to making their choice.

Speaker 2 (01:12:21):
You and I have talked a few weeks ago about
this report that's come out where social Security is just
a few years away from that trust fund running out,
and there's going to be some voters out there who
want to know from these candidates, what are you doing
to fix a looming problem here?

Speaker 18 (01:12:37):
That's right, and I would say also that since it's
so close, this isn't a theoretical conversation anymore. The people
that we elect to the United States Senate in twenty
twenty six are going to be the decision makers when
it comes to the long term solvency of Social Security,
and so I think it's important for the candidates to

(01:12:58):
speak to that and what their intentions are when the
debate occurs around the future of Social Security, and so
voters are going to want to hear that and they
need to get out there and they need to talk
about it.

Speaker 2 (01:13:10):
Yeah, it's going to be a big debate in the
weeks and months ahead. Looking at the rest of the
issues here, it looks like affordability, immigration, threats to democracy,
social security and Medicare, taxes and government spending and healthcare
all look like important issues also swing voters, although they
have opinions still some undecided. John Hisshte from the AARP,

(01:13:32):
Thanks for this valuable insight into Georgia. We'll be checking
into other swing states in the months ahead here with
AARP and exclusive pulling right here on the Scott Jennings Show.
Thanks for listening, See you tomorrow.