December 16, 2025 • 37 mins
Today on the Scott Jennings Show: Live from Alexandria, VA, Scott brings a sharp, news-driven show focused on health care reform, a bombshell crime report out of Washington, and a major push to rebuild American shipbuilding—with two top congressional voices weighing in KY Rep. James Comer and IN Sen. Todd Young.
Stream it now, live on X, YouTube & Facebook. Follow @ScottJenningsKY
ScottJenningsShow.com Common Sense for the AMERICAN PEOPLE.
Keep up with the Trump Administration when you subscribe to The Trump Report. This email brings you daily highlights from the Oval Office, right to your inbox, 5 days a week. Subscribe today at http://salempodcastnetwork.com/trump
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Cheers Scott Jennings.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
It is Tuesday, December the sixteenth, Scott Shennings. Here in
your nation's capital, well right outside of it. We're over
in Alexandria, Virginia. The Revolution of Common Sense book tour continues.
Sign some books this morning up on Capitol Hill over
in Alexandria for lunch. Want to thank my friend Brad
Todd at on message for the book event just a
(00:27):
little while ago. And to our friends here if you're
watching on the stream, we're in the offices of Capital
six Advisors, so they're giving us some broadcast space for
the day and we're appreciative. The Scott Shennings Show is
sponsored by Ease Total Health. Health insurance is broken. We
know that, don't we Ease Ease fixes it with no deductibles,
(00:48):
no red tape, and real benefits from day one. Visit
easefo everyone dot com slash Scott.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
I encourage you to do it. It might be for you,
big week for healthcare.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
By the way, we've got Senator Todd Young of Indiana
coming up at thirty three minutes past the hour. We'll
ask him about what's going to happen with healthcare. Also,
we got Rubio and Hegseth up on Capitol Hill briefing
congressman and senators today on the strikes against the Narco terrorists.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
We'll ask Todd Young about that as well. A little
bit of scoop.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Here on the Scott Chenning Show. I do want to
talk about healthcare for a second. Democrats are fear mongering again,
blaming all of this healthcare debate on Republicans. But here's
what's going to happen. Here's the scoop from the Scott
Jenning Show. The Republicans are going to put forward a
bill in the House this week that lowers Obamacare premiums
(01:39):
by more than double what the Democrats are proposing, more
than double. So yes, the Democrats created this mess with
Obamacare and the sunset on the subsidies. It's Republicans who've
come along with the brooms and the pans. This is
from the Congressional Budget Office. The Republican plan lowers healthcare
premiums by eleven percent, the Democrat plan only five percent.
(02:03):
Spare me, spare me the talking points about Republicans making
healthcare more expensive. This proposal is being led by Chairman
Brett Guthrie of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. He's
out of Kentucky. They're going to lower premiums. There's also
other stuff in here about association health plans, PBM transparency
(02:25):
that exposes the middleman and all this look. Bottom line
is Republicans are coming to the table. They've got a
plan to lower insurance rates. The Democrats are carping. If
they were serious about solving a problem, they'd get on
board with the Republican solutions. Now joining me live from
Capitol Hill, also of Kentucky, Congressman Jamie Comber, chairman of
(02:49):
the House Oversight Committee. Jamie, your committee released a bombshell
report yesterday on crime statistics in Washington, d C. They
are cooking the books in Washington to downplay the violence
in the streets. Congressman Comber, what is the story and
welcome to the show.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
Well, thanks for having me, Scott. You know, we were
blessed in this investigation. We had a lot of whistleblowers
come forward. The whistle blowers were Metro Washington, D C.
Police officers. They came forward because they were sick and
tired of lying. They were sick and tired of the
police chief who was going on the camera saying that
the crime statistics were going down in Washington, d C.
(03:33):
When they knew, in fact, they were going up. They
knew Washington, d C was a crime infested city. Yet
they were sick and tired of Democrats taking in the
liberal media taking their talking points from these falsified statistics
saying that crime in fact put down. We saw when
President Trump put the National Guard in Washington, d C.
(03:53):
The Democrats and their friends in the left wing media,
they all immediately start citing these crime statistics, saying crime
actually gone down, when we all knew it hadn't. But
thanks to the brave police officers who were brave enough
to step forward and we gave him whistle for status
protection status. They all said this was a complete lie,
(04:13):
that crime has actually gone up. It just shows that
the Democrat activist in Washington, DC, whether they work for
the Washington d C Metro government or where they work
in some bureaucracy here in Washington, they just lie all
the time to create false narratives to hurt Republicans.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
So this is a fascinating report because when you go
on CNN like I have to, and you debate these
crime issues in these blue cities and you debate whether
Trump should have or can he deploy the National Guard.
The first thing you always hear an anchor or some
Democrat pundit say, is, well, you know, Scott, the crime
(04:54):
has been going down for years. You know there really
is no violent crime. And of course, anybody with eyes
and ears who walks around Washington, d c. Knows that's
not true. And now we know the truth thanks to
the Oversight Committee. They're cooking the books, they're falsifying the statistics.
So is it just they want to mislead the American
people about what's going on in the street.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Why in the world, Why in the world.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Would they be doing this other than just out of
sheer politics and trying to mislead people who have to
live and work in and around the Capitol.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
It's one hundred percent political, Scott, you know this better
than anyone. When you asked about the major issues in
any presidential election, one of the biggest issues here lately
has been crime, especially in the cities, and it's an
issue that Democrats do poorly on. I would argue there's
no issue in America that the Democrats pull worse on
(05:49):
than crime. So what's their solution to eliminate crime, cooking
the books, lying about crime statistics to create false narrative
that crime's actually going down when we all know what's
going to going up. So again, the Democrats don't have
a plan on crime. You can't be for this liberal
woke criminal justice reform and be lenient on criminals and
(06:10):
expect crime to go down. You can't be fund the
police and expect crime to go down. So what's the answer.
Their answer is to lie on the crime statistics. I
don't think Washington, d C. Is an isolated incident. I
think we're seeing this in other cities, and we're welcoming
w's the blowers in other cities. If there's evidence of
this in Chicago or New York or Boston, please feel
(06:33):
free to reach out to the House Oversight Committee. We
would love to sit down and talk with you, because
again we think that this is a pattern of lying
about crime statistics in a lot of cities that are
interested with crime.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Well, then the issue is you nailed it.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
The Democrats have for years advocated for these policies where
they let violent criminals out of jail to roam the
streets of America. They then recommit. Violent crimes happens everywhere.
The only way to cover this up is to lie
about the statistics. And then you raised the next great question,
(07:08):
is it happening in other cities? My bet is yes.
And then the final question I'll put to you on
this topic is have any laws been broken? I mean, essentially,
you have people holding positions of public trust who are
falsifying official government reports, sending that out to the taxpayers,
to the citizens of Washington and all of America. Are
they breaking laws? Will there be any criminal referrals here
(07:31):
for this absolute line that's gone on in Washington and
probably in other cities.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
We sent this report to the Attorney General Bondy. We
would like to get her input on this. I would
love to give a criminal referral on the police chief.
We know the police chief's resigning. She announced her resignation
shortly before my report came out because she knew what
we were going to report. But I don't think that's enough.
I don't think losing your job is enough. But again, Scott,
(08:01):
we send a lot of criminal referrals to the Department
of Justice that are just sitting over there collecting dusts.
So I'm not in the that mood on doing criminal
referrals if we're not going to see the Department Justice
move on them. But again, you know, the one win
I will say is that the police chief's no longer
going to be in that position, she's no longer will
(08:22):
be employed by the hard working taxpayers. That's a partial win.
But you know, I think most people listening to your
show would a group babe. We need to see some
accountability because if people aren't held accountable, then you know
this is going to repeat itself, and we need to
know the true statistics. It's not hard to keep up
(08:42):
with how many murders, it's not hard to keep up
with how many carjackings there are in a week's period.
But when you have situations where they're just blatantly lying,
where the police chiefs telling the police officers spilling out
the report, do not put that down. I think that's
a crime in my book.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Yeah, no kidding, no kidding. That's Jamie Komer, Chairman of
the House Oversight Committee. We're gonna hold you over, mister chairman,
because I want to ask you about what's going to
happen on healthcare on the House floor this week. Plush,
I think you postponed some interviews for the Clintons. I
want to ask you about that as well. We're gonna
take a break. We'll do it on the other side.
A word from our friends at Relief Factor. Look, if
(09:24):
you're living with everyday pain and you've sort of given
up on it, like well, this is just my life,
you need to get rid of that attitude. You don't
have to think that way. You can break up with
the pain, George. We get letters, by the way, here's
one from George. Hard working guy, ten hours a day
in a garbage truck, a tough job. He had a
sore right knee. He couldn't bend it. He's going to
(09:45):
work the knees killing him. He starts taking Relief Factor
and he says, and I quote, I can bend my
knee again with very little pain.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
We're using it in the Jennings household. Mom and dad
are using it. They love it.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
If you're living with aches and pains, see how really
fact a daily drug free supplement can help you feel better.
The three week quick start is nineteen ninety five. Go
to relief Factor dot com or call one eight hundred
and four relief I encourage it. You won't regret it.
Comber coming back after this. It's Scott Jennings on the
Salem Or Radio Network. Hey, it's Scott Jennings. You know
(10:24):
I spend all day long preparing for my debates on CNN,
and you know it's not easy. I'm out there four
on one debating folks, and I got to be ready. I
have to be prepared. I have to know where's the
discussion heading. It turns out there's a tool that helps
me get better prepared than I've ever been in my
entire life. The tool is called free Spoke, and you
can go there and search out the news of the
day and you get all the angles left right, the
(10:47):
non mainstream independent sources, even podcast insights.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
You get it all from free spoke. And you know
something else.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
When you use free spoke, you get a guarantee they
are not going to sell your data.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
It's something. It is fast, it is private, it is unbiased.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
Free spoke helps me yours, truly, Scott Jennings, research and
understand the full picture. And if you're one of my listeners,
use promo code Jennings get thirty five percent off the
premium version. Go to freespoke dot com. Slash Jennings to
download their app for free. Don't rely on incomplete information,
take control, use free spoke and know more about the
news in your everyday.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Life, Saving Western civilization. One busted leftist narrative at a time.
It's the Scott Jenny.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Show, Tuesday, December the sixteenth, Scott Jennings here, health insurance
in the news, the news. It's interesting right now on
Capitol Hill. I've got something for you though. It's not
traditional insurance. It's something better. It's called Ease Total Health Ease.
It's better than traditional insure. I'm telling you benefits you
(11:55):
can use on day one, No deductibles, no restrictions on
what doctors or hospitals. You can choose a range of options.
If you're sick of getting the run around from insurance
companies and the government on health insurance, check out my
buddies at Ease e A S E easefo everyone dot com,
slash Scott or call them up eight eight eight e
(12:17):
A S E one two three. The insurance companies are
not gonna help you. I'm just telling you that right now.
Ease just might easefo everyone dot com, slash Scott or
call eight eight eight E A S.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
E one two three.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Congressman Jamie Comer, Chairman of the House Oversight Committee, is
our special guest today. Congressman Comer, some breaking news that
I thought you might have an opinion on. There are
reports today that during the Biden administration, when they decided
to raid President Trump's house at Mar A Lago, the
(12:51):
FBI thought there was no probable cause to do so,
but did it anyway because of political pressure from Joe Biden.
Doj maybe from the Biden White House. Have you seen
these reports and do you have a reaction to that.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
Sir, I have seen the reports, and I believe that. Look,
it all started with the National Archives claiming that that
Donald Trump had broken a law. This is the National
Archives is basically a group of librarians that store documents.
They don't have the authority to order a raid on
(13:27):
the former president of the United States. In fact, President
Trump was working with National Archives on doing an inventory
of what documents he had in his possession. He was
being very transparent with the National Archives, and he was
he was cooperating with them. And then all of a sudden,
you know, the the FBI notifies, they notify CNN, they
(13:49):
go in and raid marl Argo in a mad for
TV moment, and it was one hundred percent political. There
was never justification to do that. And I applied cash
Bettel for making those documents transparent. And it's just more
proof of how politicized Merritt Garland's Department of Justice was
under Joe Biden.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
Yeah, every time I have to debate these DOJ issues
on TV, somebody always says to me, you know, there's
no evidence that the Biden people ever politicized anything, And
of course we know that's a lie, and now we
have hard evidence on that. Let me go to the
Epstein situation. You had sent out subpoenas for the Clintons
to come in, Bill and Hillary you have, I think,
(14:30):
according to the news reports, delayed that until January. But
you're saying and warning them if they don't show up
for their depositions on this, they are going to face
contempt of Congress charges. What's the situation with the Clintons.
Do you think we'll see him in the chair in
front of the House Oversight Committee.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
I hope. So it's very difficult to get a former
president in and a lot of the Twitter warriors that
are critical of postponing that. You have to give them
ample opportunities if you're going to win a subpoena battle
in court. And one thing I will put my record
on in two years as Sherman OVERSAC Committee, we won
every subpoena battle in court. And a lot of the
(15:10):
people that they are critical, you know, they don't do
very well in court. We're seeing there's people that are
winning in court in some of these cases of going
up against the weaponized government, and there are people are
who lose every single time we win. We're going to
get Clinton to answer questions. So the date for them
(15:31):
to do the deposition is supposed to be tomorrow. Well,
they've notified us they're going to a funeral tomorrow Bill
and Hillary Clinton, and they are. We've got the healthcare
votes this week and all that. We've given them another date.
We've spent hours on the phone going back and forth
with their lawyers, my lawyers and their lawyers from getting date. Obviously,
Clinton's slow vallin it, doesn't want to do it. But
(15:55):
at the end of the day, this next date in January,
that's their final chance. And if if they don't, we're
going to have legislation te to hold them in contempt
of Congress. We couldn't have done that this week anyway,
with all the healthcare votes and all the debate that
we've got to have on the floor for the healthcare votes.
But in January, after we've given them ample opportunities, and
(16:15):
after every attorney general that we subpoenaed, both Republican and
Democrats have come in, and after the fact that this
subpoena issue to Bill Clinton was voted on in a
bipartisan manner. Democrats voted for this subpoena as well. So
I think we're in a position to winning court. So
hopefully January and we can see him or at least
(16:37):
total him in contempt of Congress.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Sounds great.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Congressman Jamie Comer of the Great Commonwealth of Kentucky, Chairman
of the House Oversight Committee, thanks for the news, and folks,
I encourage you to go to the committee's website and
check out this bombshell report on the cooking the books
on the DC crime stats. This is a scandal of
epic proportions Comber has uncovered. We'll take a break when
(17:00):
we come back. Senator Todd Young of Indiana is coming by.
It's common sense for the American people. Scott Jennings on
the Salem Radio Network Angeltree Christmas campaign with our friends
at the nonprofit Prison Fellowship. You know, there are literally
thousands of children all over America who have a mom
or a dad in prison. That means they won't see
(17:22):
their parent on Christmas. That's why angeltree is so important.
You can put smiles on the faces of children who,
through no fault of their own, are often struggling at
a time of year that's supposed to be full of joy.
There is an Angeltree banner up at Scott jenningshow dot com.
You can make a donation right there. It only takes
thirty dollars to bless a child who will receive a
special present, a gospel message, and a personal note from
(17:44):
their incarcerated parent. Again, the cost to help bless one
child with Angeltree is only thirty dollars, less than a
pizza and a Diet Coke somewhere. Or if you're feeling generous,
one hundred and fifty dollars will bless five children of
prisoners with an extra special Christmas. Just go to Scott
jenningshow dot com make your generous gift online or phone
our special donation number eight eight eight two O six
(18:04):
two eight five five. That's eight eight eight two O
six two eight five five, and show the love of
Christ through your donation to angel Tree. It's Tuesday, December
the sixteenth. Thanks to Congressman Jamie Comer of Kentucky for
coming on. In just one second, we're gonna hear from
my friend from Indiana, Senator Todd Young is stopping by
(18:25):
to cover a range of issues.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
But first Christmas is just.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Nine days away, and I want to say thank you
to everybody out there in the Salem listening audience who's
helping us with our Angel Tree campaign. We've helped thousands
of children who have a mom or a dad in prison.
As of late yesterday, our network wide donations for angel
Tree was closing in on four hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
I mean, we're really doing it. Thanks to you guys.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
But even at this late date, you can still get
in on this amazing opportunity to save a Christmas for
a kid who did no They did nothing wrong. They're
going to have a miserable Christmas. So we step in
and we save it. You save it more accurately thirty
dollars is all it really takes to reach one child.
I would be honored if you join me in donating
to the Angel Tree campaign. I did it personally and
(19:16):
yesterday coach Bruce Pearl, who was on the show, he
did it right as he was on the show.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Everybody who hears about this does it. You should be next.
They get a gift.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
These kids get a gift, They get a personalized note
from their parent, and they get a brand new Bible.
That's what a thirty dollars donation does every year. Every year,
Salem listeners open their hearts and their wallets to help
these kids. Your generosity is so touching to me. So
go right now. Go to Scott jenningshow dot com click
on the Angeltree banner at the top of the page.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
That's one way to do it.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Or pick up your phone make a generous donation by
calling this number, write it down or remember it eight
eight eight two o six two seven And that's the
other way to do it. Angel Tree Campaign. Help these
kids have a great Christmas. I know you want to
do it. If you haven't done it, but you're hearing
about it and you say I need to do that
(20:11):
don't delay, do it right now. It's Scott Jennings on
the Salem Radio Network my big conversation today with Indiana
Senator Todd Young. Todd, Senator Young, thank you so much
for carving out a little space for us here on
the Scott Jenning Show.
Speaker 5 (20:24):
Oh, Scott, it's great to be with you, and thanks
for having me on, my friend. I love the show.
And what a great message to start off with here
the Angel Tree campaign. I'm gonna sign up. I'm gonna
sign up, and I would also tout not to be
in competition, but to be complementary to your efforts. The
(20:48):
Marine course Toys for Tot's program. For those who want
to drop a toy off, you can find the Marines
drop off spots. They'll be I'm in the Greater Louisville
area where you live, and they're all around the country.
The Marines have been doing this for generations. Now you
drop off the toy and help out a kid that
(21:11):
doesn't have the resources to enjoy the sort of Christmas
that I grew up with. Another way, for the.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Note about the Marines, Yeah, thank you for the note
about the Marines and the toy drive, and thank you
for your words about the Angel treat campaign. I mean,
I think the message is this is the time of
year when we open our hearts to each other as Americans,
and these kids, you know, the kids that don't have
as much, the kids that have a mom or a
dad in prison.
Speaker 5 (21:37):
You know.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
The through line is it's no fault of theirs and
if you have the capacity to help a child at
Christmas time, that's what we're asking you to do. Senator Young,
we got a lot going on in Washington, a lot
going on on the Hill today. Secretary Hegseth and Secretary
Rubio up briefing members of Congress about our attacks on
(21:59):
these Narco rist In fact, Sean, let's listen to Secretary Rubio.
Let's listen to Rubio, and then I want to get
Senator Young's reaction.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Here's Rubio on the Hill.
Speaker 6 (22:09):
You to engage with Congress on this. We're headed to
the House now to do a similar briefing and provide
updates on this counter drug mission, which is focused on
dismantling the infrastructure of these terrorist organizations that are operating
in our hemisphere, undermining the security of Americans, threat killing Americans,
poisoning Americans, and this has been a highly successful mission
(22:30):
that's ongoing and continued, and we're pleased to be here
today to update Congress on how that's developing and how
that's moving forward. As I said, I believe it's our
twenty second, twenty third such engagement. Certainly been at least
a fourth or fifth that I've been involved in, and
those will remain and be ongoing.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
Senator Young, you've been in some of these briefings.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
I know some of it's classified and you can't talk
about some of it, but just generally, are you happy
with the administration's attacks on the narco terrorist and is
the administration giving Congress enough trans parncy into what they're
doing off the coast of Venezuela and last night in
the Eastern Pacific.
Speaker 5 (23:06):
Well, hats off to Secretary of Rubio, Secretary of War,
hegseeth to our Coast Guard commandant who was in on
the briefing this morning, to an all hands US senator briefing,
again classified setting, to the attorneys who are present, this
is what self confident administrations do. This is what administrations
(23:28):
who are looking for buy in from the people's representatives
do when they're engaged in military operations of any kind.
And this is what they did today. They each offered
a presentation about our strategy, our operations, the legal dimensions
(23:51):
to the operations. There's been a lot of good questions
about this, why we are taking a military approach as
opposed to to a law enforcement approach. Here that they
explained how this is an extension of the president's border
security efforts. So this is really important to me as
(24:13):
someone who not only wore the uniform as a US Marine,
but has really emphasized the importance of congressional involvement in
decisions about when we make peace, when we make war.
We of course have ongoing resourcing decisions, and we're members
of the country's boarded of Directors and boards of directors.
(24:36):
They ask a lot of hard questions. Uh, they try
and get command of the subject matter, and they work
with whomever the executive is, in this case our country's
chief executive, President Trump, so that he can make better decisions.
And so today this process was you know, just really
flourishing and and and and I think everyone of the
(24:59):
prereciated the briefing. As you indicated, they're going over to
the House. There will be follow up meetings and oversight
is a function of this briefing that the House Armed
Services Senate Armed Services Committee will get visibility into certain
videos about which they, at least some members have an interest.
And I know this. I know when I go back
(25:21):
to the Greater Indianapolis area where I live. My constituents
want this administration to do take every reasonable and responsible
measure to carry out this war on drugs, and we
have not done enough ever. And this president's to be
commended for taking this seriously.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
As someone who wore the uniform, and thank you, sir
for serving our country both in the military and now
in your political service. When you saw some of your
colleagues like Mark Kelly and Slatkin and some of these
other Democratic members who were raising the specter that the
commander in chief was giving illegal orders and therefore these
(26:02):
orders shouldn't.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
Be followed, how did that hit you?
Speaker 3 (26:05):
As both a former marine, but of course as someone
who holds the high responsibility of being a US senator.
Speaker 5 (26:10):
Right now, you know, if they had something to say,
they should just say it, right. If they regarded any
of the orders that are given by the President or
one of his cabinet members as something other than legal,
(26:31):
they should have identified what that order was, but just
to vaguely restate what every service member knows, which is
that they take an oath to uphold and defend the
Constitution of the United States, that that is their charge,
that's understood. For them to restate it in such a
provocative fashion struck me as not just peculiar, but maybe
(26:55):
even inviting some sort of misbehavior. And so I think
that's the point that Secretary Hegsath in particular has made.
I know members of the administration have made that time
and again. Look, it's one thing to take very seriously
our war powers. You know, I've certainly done that during
my time here. Senator Kine and myself have just authored
(27:19):
provisions that will go into this year's National Defense Bill
that would repeal the nineteen ninety one in two thousand
and two AUMFS the Golf in Iraq Wars, officially bringing
to an end those forever wars. Presidents one hundred percent
on board. So you know, that just demonstrates that I
take these sorts of things seriously. But you've got to
(27:42):
be specific. If you have problems with the ways we're
carrying out these attacks with our broader strategy, we owe
it to the American people to make that known. We
should not encourage misbehavior in the rank. I would not
ever contemplate doing that.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
Is it your anticipation?
Speaker 3 (28:05):
I see the House pass the National Defense Authorization Act
last week and looks like the Senate will take it
up this week. You think you'll get it done and
off to the President's desk before Christmas?
Speaker 5 (28:15):
Here, Well, I do. There are a lot of important
things in there between supporting the defense companies that outfit
our war fighters. They're located in every congressional district around
the country, every state around the country. There will be
a lot of member or interest in that, but more importantly,
(28:36):
providing the certainty that our war fighters need to know
that we will spare nothing to make sure that they
are safe and secure and have reliable programming so that
they can go out and defend our way of life
and do all that we ask of them. So this
is consistently a bill that we pass every year without
(29:00):
high drama. There hasn't been a lot of high drama
this year, even amidst you know, sometimes a highly divided
political atmosphere, and you know, the White House deserves a
lot of credit for that. They made enormous changes culturally
in terms of procurement and even in terms of their
point of emphasis over at a DoD But even amidst
(29:23):
all that, they have worked with Congress to usher this
piece of legislation through the process, and I think it's
really it's going to pay dividends before the week is out.
I think on Thursday, we'll wrap up business here in Washington.
We can go home and wake up another day, fight
about issues we disagree on, and hopefully, you know, rally
(29:46):
around some issues we can agree on. So feeling good
about it, but you know, there is more work to do.
There's always more work to do. There's more savings to
be wrung out of the Pentagon. There are are some
threats that remain, I think on a dressed and we
need to take those more seriously. But this has been
a major improvement under the Trump administration on some of
(30:08):
the ndaa's national defense bills that we see in recent years.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
And I want to talk to you, Senator after we
take this break, about the effort that you are leading
to help the United States build more ships ships and
keep up with the Chinese military on the other side.
We'll ask you about that first first, a quick word
from our friends at pure Talk. You know, as a consumer,
(30:34):
you carry the success or failure of any business in
the palm of your hand. You choose to buy it,
you choose not to, you choose to spend money with
somebody else. It's all really up to you, the consumer.
And at pure Talk, which is my wireless company, we
want to say thank you for everybody who chose pure
Talk this year for your wireless needs. Because of you,
pure Talk had a record breaking year and that allowed
(30:57):
them to be even more generous through their charity program.
They've donated half a million dollars to America's Warrior Partnership.
They stand on the front lines of preventing veterans suicide.
So Pure Talk is a good company that gives back
to people like our veterans community. When you choose pure Talk,
you're supporting American jobs. That's an American company. The customer
(31:19):
service team is based in the good old US of a.
Pure Talk is a good company. They save you money,
they are charitable, They support Americans, they support American veterans.
When you support them, they do good things. So the
message right now from me, thank you from the pure
Talk family. Thank you for your trust in the company,
(31:40):
and God bless America. More with Todd Young when we
come back. It's Scott Jennings on the Salem Radio.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
Network the.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
Tuesday, December the sixteenth. More with Indiana Senator Todd Young
in just a second. But first a quick word from
our friends at Americans for Free Markets and we're still
talking about it. D banking, you know, when these regulators
take away your bank account and restrict you from having
financial services because they don't like your politics.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
Happens more than you think.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
In fact, they did it to the Trump family after
in the last administration. So President Trump comes back and
he signs an executive order out, you know, kind of
trying to do away with this d banking. But there's
only one real way to fix this permanently, and that's
for Congress to codify the president's executive order, work with
the administration to fix these outdated laws and to increase
(32:32):
transparency and accountability and financial regulations so that future administrations
can never ever again weaponize our financial system. We need
lawmakers here to get on this and work with the
Trump administration to stop dbanking and update these laws. We
need a national standard prohibiting any financial institution from denying
(32:54):
services based on politics or religion. Get involved in this fight.
Go to for free markets fr free markets dot org.
It's Scott Jennings on Salem Radio Network, coming down the
home stretch here with Indiana Senator Todd Young. Senator, you
are leading the effort in Congress to build more ships.
(33:15):
We need more ships to keep up with China. President
Trump signaled his intent to end our shipbuilding decline.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
You're working on this.
Speaker 3 (33:24):
You've got the Ships for America Act, comprehensive legislation meant
to revitalize you as shipbuilding. Where are we in this
fight to get America ship building back on track?
Speaker 5 (33:38):
Well, we are far down the road in terms of
addressing what has become an acute national security challenge has
become an issue of economic security, meaning our supply chains
can be interrupted any day or threatened of interruption by
(33:58):
our leading adversary, China, and we just can't continue to
depend on other countries to make all the vessels we
need to run a modern economy. Certainly we can't depend
on other countries to produce many of our US Navy
vessels and to help us with key components. So I've
(34:20):
worked together working with the White House, working with colleagues
on both sides of the aisle, working with our labor
unions and members of the private sector, and even foreign
governments who want to invest in this project, friendly governments
like South Korea and Japan, to revitalize our entire shipbuilding industry,
(34:43):
to train the requisite workforce so that we could build
two hundred and fifty merchant vessels over the next ten
years in this country, as we rebuild the United States Navy,
and to train the next generation of merchant mariners so
that they can work on the vessels. And here again,
we are not depending on foreign nationals to carry out
(35:06):
this critical activity, especially in time of war scott We
depend on our merchant marine. We depend on our merchant
vessels to move our men and materiel into harm's way
whenever conflicts happen. It's not primarily through airlift capacity, it's
(35:27):
instead on the sea. We also depend on the sea
for so much of our commercial activity. In fact, that's
the leading and most efficient way for us to move
our fiber to market, for us to move inputs into
this country so that we can assemble them into manufactured
(35:47):
goods and move our goods out into the world, and
this is very much at threat. We have. We have
the capacity to manufacture one merchant vessel a year. In fact,
last year we manufactured just one whole vessel in the
United States. We have the capacity and I'm sorry, did
(36:08):
you ask me why or why?
Speaker 3 (36:10):
I said, wow, honestly, I can't believe it. One vessels.
Speaker 5 (36:15):
It's really pretty remarkable that we've lost this ability. It
goes back a number of decades. There are a lot
of reasons for this. But first the Japanese started subsidizing
their shipbuilding capacities, and they did it for issues of
national and economic security. Then the Japanese started to lose
business to our friends in South Koreans who also subsidized
(36:38):
their shipping industry. We need to reshore much of that.
China has a remarkable capacity to make ships. They can
produce over one thousand vessels a year. They have fifty
five hundred vessels in ocean going traffic. We have eighty,
so by producing another two fifty.
Speaker 3 (37:00):
Yeah, yeah, Well, I hate to cut you off. The
show is coming to an end. What you have just
laid out is shocking to me. But I'm glad you're
on it because we got to make more ships. That's
Todd Young from Indiana. Come back tomorrow. We're broadcasting from
the White House Scott Jennings here on the Salem Radio
Networks
Ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Cheers Scott Jennings.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
It is Tuesday, December the sixteenth, Scott Shennings. Here in
your nation's capital, well right outside of it. We're over
in Alexandria, Virginia. The Revolution of Common Sense book tour continues.
Sign some books this morning up on Capitol Hill over
in Alexandria for lunch. Want to thank my friend Brad
Todd at on message for the book event just a
(00:27):
little while ago. And to our friends here if you're
watching on the stream, we're in the offices of Capital
six Advisors, so they're giving us some broadcast space for
the day and we're appreciative. The Scott Shennings Show is
sponsored by Ease Total Health. Health insurance is broken. We
know that, don't we Ease Ease fixes it with no deductibles,
(00:48):
no red tape, and real benefits from day one. Visit
easefo everyone dot com slash Scott.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
I encourage you to do it. It might be for you,
big week for healthcare.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
By the way, we've got Senator Todd Young of Indiana
coming up at thirty three minutes past the hour. We'll
ask him about what's going to happen with healthcare. Also,
we got Rubio and Hegseth up on Capitol Hill briefing
congressman and senators today on the strikes against the Narco terrorists.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
We'll ask Todd Young about that as well. A little
bit of scoop.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Here on the Scott Chenning Show. I do want to
talk about healthcare for a second. Democrats are fear mongering again,
blaming all of this healthcare debate on Republicans. But here's
what's going to happen. Here's the scoop from the Scott
Jenning Show. The Republicans are going to put forward a
bill in the House this week that lowers Obamacare premiums
(01:39):
by more than double what the Democrats are proposing, more
than double. So yes, the Democrats created this mess with
Obamacare and the sunset on the subsidies. It's Republicans who've
come along with the brooms and the pans. This is
from the Congressional Budget Office. The Republican plan lowers healthcare
premiums by eleven percent, the Democrat plan only five percent.
(02:03):
Spare me, spare me the talking points about Republicans making
healthcare more expensive. This proposal is being led by Chairman
Brett Guthrie of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. He's
out of Kentucky. They're going to lower premiums. There's also
other stuff in here about association health plans, PBM transparency
(02:25):
that exposes the middleman and all this look. Bottom line
is Republicans are coming to the table. They've got a
plan to lower insurance rates. The Democrats are carping. If
they were serious about solving a problem, they'd get on
board with the Republican solutions. Now joining me live from
Capitol Hill, also of Kentucky, Congressman Jamie Comber, chairman of
(02:49):
the House Oversight Committee. Jamie, your committee released a bombshell
report yesterday on crime statistics in Washington, d C. They
are cooking the books in Washington to downplay the violence
in the streets. Congressman Comber, what is the story and
welcome to the show.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
Well, thanks for having me, Scott. You know, we were
blessed in this investigation. We had a lot of whistleblowers
come forward. The whistle blowers were Metro Washington, D C.
Police officers. They came forward because they were sick and
tired of lying. They were sick and tired of the
police chief who was going on the camera saying that
the crime statistics were going down in Washington, d C.
(03:33):
When they knew, in fact, they were going up. They
knew Washington, d C was a crime infested city. Yet
they were sick and tired of Democrats taking in the
liberal media taking their talking points from these falsified statistics
saying that crime in fact put down. We saw when
President Trump put the National Guard in Washington, d C.
(03:53):
The Democrats and their friends in the left wing media,
they all immediately start citing these crime statistics, saying crime
actually gone down, when we all knew it hadn't. But
thanks to the brave police officers who were brave enough
to step forward and we gave him whistle for status
protection status. They all said this was a complete lie,
(04:13):
that crime has actually gone up. It just shows that
the Democrat activist in Washington, DC, whether they work for
the Washington d C Metro government or where they work
in some bureaucracy here in Washington, they just lie all
the time to create false narratives to hurt Republicans.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
So this is a fascinating report because when you go
on CNN like I have to, and you debate these
crime issues in these blue cities and you debate whether
Trump should have or can he deploy the National Guard.
The first thing you always hear an anchor or some
Democrat pundit say, is, well, you know, Scott, the crime
(04:54):
has been going down for years. You know there really
is no violent crime. And of course, anybody with eyes
and ears who walks around Washington, d c. Knows that's
not true. And now we know the truth thanks to
the Oversight Committee. They're cooking the books, they're falsifying the statistics.
So is it just they want to mislead the American
people about what's going on in the street.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Why in the world, Why in the world.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Would they be doing this other than just out of
sheer politics and trying to mislead people who have to
live and work in and around the Capitol.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
It's one hundred percent political, Scott, you know this better
than anyone. When you asked about the major issues in
any presidential election, one of the biggest issues here lately
has been crime, especially in the cities, and it's an
issue that Democrats do poorly on. I would argue there's
no issue in America that the Democrats pull worse on
(05:49):
than crime. So what's their solution to eliminate crime, cooking
the books, lying about crime statistics to create false narrative
that crime's actually going down when we all know what's
going to going up. So again, the Democrats don't have
a plan on crime. You can't be for this liberal
woke criminal justice reform and be lenient on criminals and
(06:10):
expect crime to go down. You can't be fund the
police and expect crime to go down. So what's the answer.
Their answer is to lie on the crime statistics. I
don't think Washington, d C. Is an isolated incident. I
think we're seeing this in other cities, and we're welcoming
w's the blowers in other cities. If there's evidence of
this in Chicago or New York or Boston, please feel
(06:33):
free to reach out to the House Oversight Committee. We
would love to sit down and talk with you, because
again we think that this is a pattern of lying
about crime statistics in a lot of cities that are
interested with crime.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Well, then the issue is you nailed it.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
The Democrats have for years advocated for these policies where
they let violent criminals out of jail to roam the
streets of America. They then recommit. Violent crimes happens everywhere.
The only way to cover this up is to lie
about the statistics. And then you raised the next great question,
(07:08):
is it happening in other cities? My bet is yes.
And then the final question I'll put to you on
this topic is have any laws been broken? I mean, essentially,
you have people holding positions of public trust who are
falsifying official government reports, sending that out to the taxpayers,
to the citizens of Washington and all of America. Are
they breaking laws? Will there be any criminal referrals here
(07:31):
for this absolute line that's gone on in Washington and
probably in other cities.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
We sent this report to the Attorney General Bondy. We
would like to get her input on this. I would
love to give a criminal referral on the police chief.
We know the police chief's resigning. She announced her resignation
shortly before my report came out because she knew what
we were going to report. But I don't think that's enough.
I don't think losing your job is enough. But again, Scott,
(08:01):
we send a lot of criminal referrals to the Department
of Justice that are just sitting over there collecting dusts.
So I'm not in the that mood on doing criminal
referrals if we're not going to see the Department Justice
move on them. But again, you know, the one win
I will say is that the police chief's no longer
going to be in that position, she's no longer will
(08:22):
be employed by the hard working taxpayers. That's a partial win.
But you know, I think most people listening to your
show would a group babe. We need to see some
accountability because if people aren't held accountable, then you know
this is going to repeat itself, and we need to
know the true statistics. It's not hard to keep up
(08:42):
with how many murders, it's not hard to keep up
with how many carjackings there are in a week's period.
But when you have situations where they're just blatantly lying,
where the police chiefs telling the police officers spilling out
the report, do not put that down. I think that's
a crime in my book.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Yeah, no kidding, no kidding. That's Jamie Komer, Chairman of
the House Oversight Committee. We're gonna hold you over, mister chairman,
because I want to ask you about what's going to
happen on healthcare on the House floor this week. Plush,
I think you postponed some interviews for the Clintons. I
want to ask you about that as well. We're gonna
take a break. We'll do it on the other side.
A word from our friends at Relief Factor. Look, if
(09:24):
you're living with everyday pain and you've sort of given
up on it, like well, this is just my life,
you need to get rid of that attitude. You don't
have to think that way. You can break up with
the pain, George. We get letters, by the way, here's
one from George. Hard working guy, ten hours a day
in a garbage truck, a tough job. He had a
sore right knee. He couldn't bend it. He's going to
(09:45):
work the knees killing him. He starts taking Relief Factor
and he says, and I quote, I can bend my
knee again with very little pain.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
We're using it in the Jennings household. Mom and dad
are using it. They love it.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
If you're living with aches and pains, see how really
fact a daily drug free supplement can help you feel better.
The three week quick start is nineteen ninety five. Go
to relief Factor dot com or call one eight hundred
and four relief I encourage it. You won't regret it.
Comber coming back after this. It's Scott Jennings on the
Salem Or Radio Network. Hey, it's Scott Jennings. You know
(10:24):
I spend all day long preparing for my debates on CNN,
and you know it's not easy. I'm out there four
on one debating folks, and I got to be ready. I
have to be prepared. I have to know where's the
discussion heading. It turns out there's a tool that helps
me get better prepared than I've ever been in my
entire life. The tool is called free Spoke, and you
can go there and search out the news of the
day and you get all the angles left right, the
(10:47):
non mainstream independent sources, even podcast insights.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
You get it all from free spoke. And you know
something else.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
When you use free spoke, you get a guarantee they
are not going to sell your data.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
It's something. It is fast, it is private, it is unbiased.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
Free spoke helps me yours, truly, Scott Jennings, research and
understand the full picture. And if you're one of my listeners,
use promo code Jennings get thirty five percent off the
premium version. Go to freespoke dot com. Slash Jennings to
download their app for free. Don't rely on incomplete information,
take control, use free spoke and know more about the
news in your everyday.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Life, Saving Western civilization. One busted leftist narrative at a time.
It's the Scott Jenny.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Show, Tuesday, December the sixteenth, Scott Jennings here, health insurance
in the news, the news. It's interesting right now on
Capitol Hill. I've got something for you though. It's not
traditional insurance. It's something better. It's called Ease Total Health Ease.
It's better than traditional insure. I'm telling you benefits you
(11:55):
can use on day one, No deductibles, no restrictions on
what doctors or hospitals. You can choose a range of options.
If you're sick of getting the run around from insurance
companies and the government on health insurance, check out my
buddies at Ease e A S E easefo everyone dot com,
slash Scott or call them up eight eight eight e
(12:17):
A S E one two three. The insurance companies are
not gonna help you. I'm just telling you that right now.
Ease just might easefo everyone dot com, slash Scott or
call eight eight eight E A S.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
E one two three.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Congressman Jamie Comer, Chairman of the House Oversight Committee, is
our special guest today. Congressman Comer, some breaking news that
I thought you might have an opinion on. There are
reports today that during the Biden administration, when they decided
to raid President Trump's house at Mar A Lago, the
(12:51):
FBI thought there was no probable cause to do so,
but did it anyway because of political pressure from Joe Biden.
Doj maybe from the Biden White House. Have you seen
these reports and do you have a reaction to that.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
Sir, I have seen the reports, and I believe that. Look,
it all started with the National Archives claiming that that
Donald Trump had broken a law. This is the National
Archives is basically a group of librarians that store documents.
They don't have the authority to order a raid on
(13:27):
the former president of the United States. In fact, President
Trump was working with National Archives on doing an inventory
of what documents he had in his possession. He was
being very transparent with the National Archives, and he was
he was cooperating with them. And then all of a sudden,
you know, the the FBI notifies, they notify CNN, they
(13:49):
go in and raid marl Argo in a mad for
TV moment, and it was one hundred percent political. There
was never justification to do that. And I applied cash
Bettel for making those documents transparent. And it's just more
proof of how politicized Merritt Garland's Department of Justice was
under Joe Biden.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
Yeah, every time I have to debate these DOJ issues
on TV, somebody always says to me, you know, there's
no evidence that the Biden people ever politicized anything, And
of course we know that's a lie, and now we
have hard evidence on that. Let me go to the
Epstein situation. You had sent out subpoenas for the Clintons
to come in, Bill and Hillary you have, I think,
(14:30):
according to the news reports, delayed that until January. But
you're saying and warning them if they don't show up
for their depositions on this, they are going to face
contempt of Congress charges. What's the situation with the Clintons.
Do you think we'll see him in the chair in
front of the House Oversight Committee.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
I hope. So it's very difficult to get a former
president in and a lot of the Twitter warriors that
are critical of postponing that. You have to give them
ample opportunities if you're going to win a subpoena battle
in court. And one thing I will put my record
on in two years as Sherman OVERSAC Committee, we won
every subpoena battle in court. And a lot of the
(15:10):
people that they are critical, you know, they don't do
very well in court. We're seeing there's people that are
winning in court in some of these cases of going
up against the weaponized government, and there are people are
who lose every single time we win. We're going to
get Clinton to answer questions. So the date for them
(15:31):
to do the deposition is supposed to be tomorrow. Well,
they've notified us they're going to a funeral tomorrow Bill
and Hillary Clinton, and they are. We've got the healthcare
votes this week and all that. We've given them another date.
We've spent hours on the phone going back and forth
with their lawyers, my lawyers and their lawyers from getting date. Obviously,
Clinton's slow vallin it, doesn't want to do it. But
(15:55):
at the end of the day, this next date in January,
that's their final chance. And if if they don't, we're
going to have legislation te to hold them in contempt
of Congress. We couldn't have done that this week anyway,
with all the healthcare votes and all the debate that
we've got to have on the floor for the healthcare votes.
But in January, after we've given them ample opportunities, and
(16:15):
after every attorney general that we subpoenaed, both Republican and
Democrats have come in, and after the fact that this
subpoena issue to Bill Clinton was voted on in a
bipartisan manner. Democrats voted for this subpoena as well. So
I think we're in a position to winning court. So
hopefully January and we can see him or at least
(16:37):
total him in contempt of Congress.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Sounds great.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Congressman Jamie Comer of the Great Commonwealth of Kentucky, Chairman
of the House Oversight Committee, thanks for the news, and folks,
I encourage you to go to the committee's website and
check out this bombshell report on the cooking the books
on the DC crime stats. This is a scandal of
epic proportions Comber has uncovered. We'll take a break when
(17:00):
we come back. Senator Todd Young of Indiana is coming by.
It's common sense for the American people. Scott Jennings on
the Salem Radio Network Angeltree Christmas campaign with our friends
at the nonprofit Prison Fellowship. You know, there are literally
thousands of children all over America who have a mom
or a dad in prison. That means they won't see
(17:22):
their parent on Christmas. That's why angeltree is so important.
You can put smiles on the faces of children who,
through no fault of their own, are often struggling at
a time of year that's supposed to be full of joy.
There is an Angeltree banner up at Scott jenningshow dot com.
You can make a donation right there. It only takes
thirty dollars to bless a child who will receive a
special present, a gospel message, and a personal note from
(17:44):
their incarcerated parent. Again, the cost to help bless one
child with Angeltree is only thirty dollars, less than a
pizza and a Diet Coke somewhere. Or if you're feeling generous,
one hundred and fifty dollars will bless five children of
prisoners with an extra special Christmas. Just go to Scott
jenningshow dot com make your generous gift online or phone
our special donation number eight eight eight two O six
(18:04):
two eight five five. That's eight eight eight two O
six two eight five five, and show the love of
Christ through your donation to angel Tree. It's Tuesday, December
the sixteenth. Thanks to Congressman Jamie Comer of Kentucky for
coming on. In just one second, we're gonna hear from
my friend from Indiana, Senator Todd Young is stopping by
(18:25):
to cover a range of issues.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
But first Christmas is just.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Nine days away, and I want to say thank you
to everybody out there in the Salem listening audience who's
helping us with our Angel Tree campaign. We've helped thousands
of children who have a mom or a dad in prison.
As of late yesterday, our network wide donations for angel
Tree was closing in on four hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
I mean, we're really doing it. Thanks to you guys.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
But even at this late date, you can still get
in on this amazing opportunity to save a Christmas for
a kid who did no They did nothing wrong. They're
going to have a miserable Christmas. So we step in
and we save it. You save it more accurately thirty
dollars is all it really takes to reach one child.
I would be honored if you join me in donating
to the Angel Tree campaign. I did it personally and
(19:16):
yesterday coach Bruce Pearl, who was on the show, he
did it right as he was on the show.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Everybody who hears about this does it. You should be next.
They get a gift.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
These kids get a gift, They get a personalized note
from their parent, and they get a brand new Bible.
That's what a thirty dollars donation does every year. Every year,
Salem listeners open their hearts and their wallets to help
these kids. Your generosity is so touching to me. So
go right now. Go to Scott jenningshow dot com click
on the Angeltree banner at the top of the page.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
That's one way to do it.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Or pick up your phone make a generous donation by
calling this number, write it down or remember it eight
eight eight two o six two seven And that's the
other way to do it. Angel Tree Campaign. Help these
kids have a great Christmas. I know you want to
do it. If you haven't done it, but you're hearing
about it and you say I need to do that
(20:11):
don't delay, do it right now. It's Scott Jennings on
the Salem Radio Network my big conversation today with Indiana
Senator Todd Young. Todd, Senator Young, thank you so much
for carving out a little space for us here on
the Scott Jenning Show.
Speaker 5 (20:24):
Oh, Scott, it's great to be with you, and thanks
for having me on, my friend. I love the show.
And what a great message to start off with here
the Angel Tree campaign. I'm gonna sign up. I'm gonna
sign up, and I would also tout not to be
in competition, but to be complementary to your efforts. The
(20:48):
Marine course Toys for Tot's program. For those who want
to drop a toy off, you can find the Marines
drop off spots. They'll be I'm in the Greater Louisville
area where you live, and they're all around the country.
The Marines have been doing this for generations. Now you
drop off the toy and help out a kid that
(21:11):
doesn't have the resources to enjoy the sort of Christmas
that I grew up with. Another way, for the.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Note about the Marines, Yeah, thank you for the note
about the Marines and the toy drive, and thank you
for your words about the Angel treat campaign. I mean,
I think the message is this is the time of
year when we open our hearts to each other as Americans,
and these kids, you know, the kids that don't have
as much, the kids that have a mom or a
dad in prison.
Speaker 5 (21:37):
You know.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
The through line is it's no fault of theirs and
if you have the capacity to help a child at
Christmas time, that's what we're asking you to do. Senator Young,
we got a lot going on in Washington, a lot
going on on the Hill today. Secretary Hegseth and Secretary
Rubio up briefing members of Congress about our attacks on
(21:59):
these Narco rist In fact, Sean, let's listen to Secretary Rubio.
Let's listen to Rubio, and then I want to get
Senator Young's reaction.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Here's Rubio on the Hill.
Speaker 6 (22:09):
You to engage with Congress on this. We're headed to
the House now to do a similar briefing and provide
updates on this counter drug mission, which is focused on
dismantling the infrastructure of these terrorist organizations that are operating
in our hemisphere, undermining the security of Americans, threat killing Americans,
poisoning Americans, and this has been a highly successful mission
(22:30):
that's ongoing and continued, and we're pleased to be here
today to update Congress on how that's developing and how
that's moving forward. As I said, I believe it's our
twenty second, twenty third such engagement. Certainly been at least
a fourth or fifth that I've been involved in, and
those will remain and be ongoing.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
Senator Young, you've been in some of these briefings.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
I know some of it's classified and you can't talk
about some of it, but just generally, are you happy
with the administration's attacks on the narco terrorist and is
the administration giving Congress enough trans parncy into what they're
doing off the coast of Venezuela and last night in
the Eastern Pacific.
Speaker 5 (23:06):
Well, hats off to Secretary of Rubio, Secretary of War,
hegseeth to our Coast Guard commandant who was in on
the briefing this morning, to an all hands US senator briefing,
again classified setting, to the attorneys who are present, this
is what self confident administrations do. This is what administrations
(23:28):
who are looking for buy in from the people's representatives
do when they're engaged in military operations of any kind.
And this is what they did today. They each offered
a presentation about our strategy, our operations, the legal dimensions
(23:51):
to the operations. There's been a lot of good questions
about this, why we are taking a military approach as
opposed to to a law enforcement approach. Here that they
explained how this is an extension of the president's border
security efforts. So this is really important to me as
(24:13):
someone who not only wore the uniform as a US Marine,
but has really emphasized the importance of congressional involvement in
decisions about when we make peace, when we make war.
We of course have ongoing resourcing decisions, and we're members
of the country's boarded of Directors and boards of directors.
(24:36):
They ask a lot of hard questions. Uh, they try
and get command of the subject matter, and they work
with whomever the executive is, in this case our country's
chief executive, President Trump, so that he can make better decisions.
And so today this process was you know, just really
flourishing and and and and I think everyone of the
(24:59):
prereciated the briefing. As you indicated, they're going over to
the House. There will be follow up meetings and oversight
is a function of this briefing that the House Armed
Services Senate Armed Services Committee will get visibility into certain
videos about which they, at least some members have an interest.
And I know this. I know when I go back
(25:21):
to the Greater Indianapolis area where I live. My constituents
want this administration to do take every reasonable and responsible
measure to carry out this war on drugs, and we
have not done enough ever. And this president's to be
commended for taking this seriously.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
As someone who wore the uniform, and thank you, sir
for serving our country both in the military and now
in your political service. When you saw some of your
colleagues like Mark Kelly and Slatkin and some of these
other Democratic members who were raising the specter that the
commander in chief was giving illegal orders and therefore these
(26:02):
orders shouldn't.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
Be followed, how did that hit you?
Speaker 3 (26:05):
As both a former marine, but of course as someone
who holds the high responsibility of being a US senator.
Speaker 5 (26:10):
Right now, you know, if they had something to say,
they should just say it, right. If they regarded any
of the orders that are given by the President or
one of his cabinet members as something other than legal,
(26:31):
they should have identified what that order was, but just
to vaguely restate what every service member knows, which is
that they take an oath to uphold and defend the
Constitution of the United States, that that is their charge,
that's understood. For them to restate it in such a
provocative fashion struck me as not just peculiar, but maybe
(26:55):
even inviting some sort of misbehavior. And so I think
that's the point that Secretary Hegsath in particular has made.
I know members of the administration have made that time
and again. Look, it's one thing to take very seriously
our war powers. You know, I've certainly done that during
my time here. Senator Kine and myself have just authored
(27:19):
provisions that will go into this year's National Defense Bill
that would repeal the nineteen ninety one in two thousand
and two AUMFS the Golf in Iraq Wars, officially bringing
to an end those forever wars. Presidents one hundred percent
on board. So you know, that just demonstrates that I
take these sorts of things seriously. But you've got to
(27:42):
be specific. If you have problems with the ways we're
carrying out these attacks with our broader strategy, we owe
it to the American people to make that known. We
should not encourage misbehavior in the rank. I would not
ever contemplate doing that.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
Is it your anticipation?
Speaker 3 (28:05):
I see the House pass the National Defense Authorization Act
last week and looks like the Senate will take it
up this week. You think you'll get it done and
off to the President's desk before Christmas?
Speaker 5 (28:15):
Here, Well, I do. There are a lot of important
things in there between supporting the defense companies that outfit
our war fighters. They're located in every congressional district around
the country, every state around the country. There will be
a lot of member or interest in that, but more importantly,
(28:36):
providing the certainty that our war fighters need to know
that we will spare nothing to make sure that they
are safe and secure and have reliable programming so that
they can go out and defend our way of life
and do all that we ask of them. So this
is consistently a bill that we pass every year without
(29:00):
high drama. There hasn't been a lot of high drama
this year, even amidst you know, sometimes a highly divided
political atmosphere, and you know, the White House deserves a
lot of credit for that. They made enormous changes culturally
in terms of procurement and even in terms of their
point of emphasis over at a DoD But even amidst
(29:23):
all that, they have worked with Congress to usher this
piece of legislation through the process, and I think it's
really it's going to pay dividends before the week is out.
I think on Thursday, we'll wrap up business here in Washington.
We can go home and wake up another day, fight
about issues we disagree on, and hopefully, you know, rally
(29:46):
around some issues we can agree on. So feeling good
about it, but you know, there is more work to do.
There's always more work to do. There's more savings to
be wrung out of the Pentagon. There are are some
threats that remain, I think on a dressed and we
need to take those more seriously. But this has been
a major improvement under the Trump administration on some of
(30:08):
the ndaa's national defense bills that we see in recent years.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
And I want to talk to you, Senator after we
take this break, about the effort that you are leading
to help the United States build more ships ships and
keep up with the Chinese military on the other side.
We'll ask you about that first first, a quick word
from our friends at pure Talk. You know, as a consumer,
(30:34):
you carry the success or failure of any business in
the palm of your hand. You choose to buy it,
you choose not to, you choose to spend money with
somebody else. It's all really up to you, the consumer.
And at pure Talk, which is my wireless company, we
want to say thank you for everybody who chose pure
Talk this year for your wireless needs. Because of you,
pure Talk had a record breaking year and that allowed
(30:57):
them to be even more generous through their charity program.
They've donated half a million dollars to America's Warrior Partnership.
They stand on the front lines of preventing veterans suicide.
So Pure Talk is a good company that gives back
to people like our veterans community. When you choose pure Talk,
you're supporting American jobs. That's an American company. The customer
(31:19):
service team is based in the good old US of a.
Pure Talk is a good company. They save you money,
they are charitable, They support Americans, they support American veterans.
When you support them, they do good things. So the
message right now from me, thank you from the pure
Talk family. Thank you for your trust in the company,
(31:40):
and God bless America. More with Todd Young when we
come back. It's Scott Jennings on the Salem Radio.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
Network the.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
Tuesday, December the sixteenth. More with Indiana Senator Todd Young
in just a second. But first a quick word from
our friends at Americans for Free Markets and we're still
talking about it. D banking, you know, when these regulators
take away your bank account and restrict you from having
financial services because they don't like your politics.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
Happens more than you think.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
In fact, they did it to the Trump family after
in the last administration. So President Trump comes back and
he signs an executive order out, you know, kind of
trying to do away with this d banking. But there's
only one real way to fix this permanently, and that's
for Congress to codify the president's executive order, work with
the administration to fix these outdated laws and to increase
(32:32):
transparency and accountability and financial regulations so that future administrations
can never ever again weaponize our financial system. We need
lawmakers here to get on this and work with the
Trump administration to stop dbanking and update these laws. We
need a national standard prohibiting any financial institution from denying
(32:54):
services based on politics or religion. Get involved in this fight.
Go to for free markets fr free markets dot org.
It's Scott Jennings on Salem Radio Network, coming down the
home stretch here with Indiana Senator Todd Young. Senator, you
are leading the effort in Congress to build more ships.
(33:15):
We need more ships to keep up with China. President
Trump signaled his intent to end our shipbuilding decline.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
You're working on this.
Speaker 3 (33:24):
You've got the Ships for America Act, comprehensive legislation meant
to revitalize you as shipbuilding. Where are we in this
fight to get America ship building back on track?
Speaker 5 (33:38):
Well, we are far down the road in terms of
addressing what has become an acute national security challenge has
become an issue of economic security, meaning our supply chains
can be interrupted any day or threatened of interruption by
(33:58):
our leading adversary, China, and we just can't continue to
depend on other countries to make all the vessels we
need to run a modern economy. Certainly we can't depend
on other countries to produce many of our US Navy
vessels and to help us with key components. So I've
(34:20):
worked together working with the White House, working with colleagues
on both sides of the aisle, working with our labor
unions and members of the private sector, and even foreign
governments who want to invest in this project, friendly governments
like South Korea and Japan, to revitalize our entire shipbuilding industry,
(34:43):
to train the requisite workforce so that we could build
two hundred and fifty merchant vessels over the next ten
years in this country, as we rebuild the United States Navy,
and to train the next generation of merchant mariners so
that they can work on the vessels. And here again,
we are not depending on foreign nationals to carry out
(35:06):
this critical activity, especially in time of war scott We
depend on our merchant marine. We depend on our merchant
vessels to move our men and materiel into harm's way
whenever conflicts happen. It's not primarily through airlift capacity, it's
(35:27):
instead on the sea. We also depend on the sea
for so much of our commercial activity. In fact, that's
the leading and most efficient way for us to move
our fiber to market, for us to move inputs into
this country so that we can assemble them into manufactured
(35:47):
goods and move our goods out into the world, and
this is very much at threat. We have. We have
the capacity to manufacture one merchant vessel a year. In fact,
last year we manufactured just one whole vessel in the
United States. We have the capacity and I'm sorry, did
(36:08):
you ask me why or why?
Speaker 3 (36:10):
I said, wow, honestly, I can't believe it. One vessels.
Speaker 5 (36:15):
It's really pretty remarkable that we've lost this ability. It
goes back a number of decades. There are a lot
of reasons for this. But first the Japanese started subsidizing
their shipbuilding capacities, and they did it for issues of
national and economic security. Then the Japanese started to lose
business to our friends in South Koreans who also subsidized
(36:38):
their shipping industry. We need to reshore much of that.
China has a remarkable capacity to make ships. They can
produce over one thousand vessels a year. They have fifty
five hundred vessels in ocean going traffic. We have eighty,
so by producing another two fifty.
Speaker 3 (37:00):
Yeah, yeah, Well, I hate to cut you off. The
show is coming to an end. What you have just
laid out is shocking to me. But I'm glad you're
on it because we got to make more ships. That's
Todd Young from Indiana. Come back tomorrow. We're broadcasting from
the White House Scott Jennings here on the Salem Radio
Networks
Popular Podcasts
Stuff You Should Know
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.
The Joe Rogan Experience
The official podcast of comedian Joe Rogan.
Two Guys, Five Rings: Matt, Bowen & The Olympics
Two Guys (Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers). Five Rings (you know, from the Olympics logo). One essential podcast for the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics. Bowen Yang (SNL, Wicked) and Matt Rogers (Palm Royale, No Good Deed) of Las Culturistas are back for a second season of Two Guys, Five Rings, a collaboration with NBC Sports and iHeartRadio. In this 15-episode event, Bowen and Matt discuss the top storylines, obsess over Italian culture, and find out what really goes on in the Olympic Village.