Socialism Rising in America & Daily Bombing in Iran Continues

On today’s edition of The Scott Jennings Show, Scott examines the latest developments involving Israel and Iran, and the policy debates shaping Washington. The program also covered the backlash surrounding Rick Jackson’s visit to an Atlanta restaurant, the NRCC’s focus on Arizona’s 6th Congressional District, New York City’s “Tax the Rich” experiment, and reaction to recent comments from Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz. Rep. Mike Lawler joined the show to discuss Congress’s agenda for the week, the conflict in the Middle East, and the race for New York’s 17th Congressional District, while Hayden Dublois broke down the growing cost of Medicaid fraud and potential reforms. Later, John Teichert discussed the latest developments involving Iran, concerns over the CLARITY Act and cryptocurrency loopholes, and the national security implications outlined in his newly published Washington Times op-ed.

https://www.chevron.com

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Episode Transcript

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

Speaker 2 (00:10):
Welcome to the Scott Jennings Show.

Speaker 3 (00:14):
Police have made an arrest and the fire bombing terrorist
attack on the Federal Building in New York City. As
you might imagine, he's a deranged anti ice leftist.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
We have the details.

Speaker 3 (00:26):
A restaurant owner in Georgia is facing boycotts after allowing
a Republican to eat in her establishment. Crazy story all
wrapped up in the governor's race down there. We'll bring
that to you in just a little bit. And Congressman
Mike Lawler joins to discuss his race in one of
the most purple districts in America, just outside.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
Of New York City in the Hudson Valley.

Speaker 3 (00:48):
Today is Tuesday, July the twenty first, and we do
broadcast live today from the Big Apple. On this day,
twenty twenty four, despite having overwhelmingly won the Democratic primary
for present Joe Biden announced that he was ending his
reelection campaign. He became the first president since Lyndon Johnson

(01:08):
in sixty eight to not seek re election. Party of
Democracy then pivoted to Kamala Harris, who was anointed her
party's candidate for president without having won a single vote. Now,
the lesson here was instructive. Despite lecturing all of us
about democracy, Democrats now feel quite comfortable disregarding the outcomes

(01:29):
of actual elections. For instance, up in Maine, where primary
winner Graham Platner has now been jettison because of falling
poll numbers and replaced with a guy named Troy Jackson,
another creature of politics who is costplaying as a working
class Maynor party of Democracy. Indeed, other news, for ten

(01:51):
straight nights, the United States has pounded Iranian targets from
the air, even as some mediators are meeting in Pakistan
to attempt to salvage some diplomacy here. President Trump seems
in no mood to listen to any more nonsense or
stonewalling from the Iranians. Body ran is fighting back. They
say they've targeted US assets in Kuwait, Bahrain, and Jordan,

(02:14):
and a vessel in the Strait of Horn moves. There
was no immediate confirmation of any US bases being hit
in the region on Tuesday, though, and.

Speaker 2 (02:23):
War does not come without cost.

Speaker 3 (02:25):
Nearly one hundred American service members had been injured in
multiple Iranian strikes on bases across the Middle East this month,
even before the deadly attack on the Jordanian airbase over
the weekend. According to US officials, seventeen US soldiers have
died in the conflicts so far. They are all American heroes.

(02:45):
From kinetic war to economic President Trump announced yesterday he's
slapping Canada with retaliatory tariffs on cars, dairy, and alcohol
fifty percent tariffs. In fact, Trump using a specific provision
of a nineteen thirty US law that allows the president
to fight back when a country has unfairly singled out

(03:07):
US industries for discrimination. Trump's trade representative is named Jamison Greer.
He was on CNBC this morning to explain it.

Speaker 2 (03:15):
Cut five.

Speaker 4 (03:16):
ME give you just a little bit of history Joe
on this issue. In April of twenty twenty five, as
you know, the President embarked on a new trade policy
really designed at reshoring manufacturing production to the United States
and getting the trade deficit down after exploding for decades
of all the country, and we imposed tariffs on all
the world at varying levels. Of all the countries who

(03:39):
retaliated against the United States, one was the People's Republic
of China and the other was Canada. Some of the
things they did is they banned the sale of US
liquor and other boos on Canadian shelves. They capped and
limited the amount of autos.

Speaker 2 (03:54):
That could be shipped to.

Speaker 4 (03:54):
The United States from companies who were reshoring to the US.
And they also continue to maintain limited space for market
access for US dairy. But importantly, they give other countries
better deals on each of these three issues. And so
it was a natural consequence, after a year of these
measures being a place, and longer in the case of dairy,

(04:15):
for the President to take action. These are responses to
this retaliation. We've been asking for a year for the
Canadians to remove these to modify them, to adjust them.
They haven't done that, and so we have a tailored
action that covers a subset of Canadian goods. We aren't
banning the goods like the Canadians have banned American alcohol.
We're not putting a cap on them. We're limiting them

(04:36):
like they've done to cars and dairy. But we have
a tariff which is again is a natural consequence of
the Canadian retaliation which has endured for a long time.

Speaker 3 (04:48):
Jamison Greer, the trade representative on CNBC this morning. If
you're on the Gulf coast, listen up tropical Storm Bertha
charning about one hundred miles southwest of Panama City, or
watching in warnings up and down the coast from Louisiana
to Florida. Landfall expected sometime on Wednesday. What is going
on in American medical schools? Here's another one that cares

(05:09):
more about nonsense than actual expertise. The Justice Department says,
you see San Diego's medical school illegally discriminated by race,
even after the Supreme Court banned race based admissions. Investigators
found the school using hardship questions as a racial proxy,

(05:30):
steering more black and Hispanic applicants toward interviews while rejecting
higher credentialed white and Asian applicants. Apartment of Justice is
demanding reforms and says it will sue if the school refuses.
Medical schools these days, well, they say your race is
more important than your smarts, and they teach kids that

(05:51):
men can get pregnant. We are a few weeks away
from leeches and bird masks at some of these woke
medical schools. It seems I engage in some debate activity
on CNN last night around the deranged leftist who attacked
the Federal building in New York City yesterday. Clear footage
has emerged of this terrorist attempting to set fire to

(06:12):
the front door area. He was found with anti ICE
signage when taken into custody. Borders are Tom Homan says,
the anti ICE rhetoric from Democrats inspires these violent lunatics.
I couldn't agree more your CNN last night cut seven.

Speaker 5 (06:27):
When you look at this, do you agree with Homan
that this is something that is because of Democrats or
is this a single guy who decided to do something
that was illegal.

Speaker 3 (06:38):
Of course I agree with Holman, and it's not a
single guy. This is another and a long string of
attacks on ICE personnel, ICE facilities. There's been a massive
spike in violence against ICE agents, really against all law enforcements,
specifically federal law enforcement out there. So I think mister
Homan is absolutely correct, and I think you've got members

(06:59):
of Congress, the Mayor of New York City, governors, as
Homan said, all sorts of people out there who are
using language that would lead someone to go do these
kinds of things.

Speaker 2 (07:11):
It's despicable.

Speaker 3 (07:12):
These people are effectively political vigilantes. They've been programmed by
the left to go out and take matters into their
own hands, and it ought to be stopped right now.
I noticed Mamdani today, you know, put out a statement
saying this.

Speaker 2 (07:25):
Is bad, We're going to cooperate.

Speaker 3 (07:27):
You know, this is the same guy who has said
some of the worst things about Ice, who says he
wants to defund the police, and makes a lot of
anti law enforcement rhetoric a staple of his political movement.

Speaker 2 (07:37):
I don't know how you can.

Speaker 3 (07:38):
Reconcile those positions, and I don't suppose they'll even try,
But I think Homan is right. The suspect in the case,
now identified as Andrew Aubrey, reportedly had multiple weapons and
a manifesto to federal employees and one civilian were injured.
Speaking of Mom Donnie, he continues to say he wants
to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin netan Yahoo when he

(08:02):
comes for the next meeting of the United Nations.

Speaker 2 (08:04):
Take a listen to this nonsense. Got six when it.

Speaker 6 (08:07):
Comes to Benjamin Netanyaho, we're speaking about someone who's the
subject of an international criminal court arrest warrant and he's
the subject of this arrest warrant for alleged crimes against humanity,
for war crimes, and he's the architect of the genocide
against Palestinians and Gaza as Israel's Prime minister. These are
not facts of my personal assessment. They are facts of

(08:28):
public record. And I believe that when someone is charged
with an international criminal court warrant, it's something that should
be taken seriously, whether it's Benjamin Netanyaho, or it's Vladimir
Putin or whomever else. What I've also made clear is
that my administration will follow all applicable local laws. That
is our commitment. That is something that we will follow

(08:49):
through on when it comes to an adherence to local law.

Speaker 2 (08:52):
And that's all I have to.

Speaker 4 (08:53):
Add on that.

Speaker 3 (08:55):
It's amazing when outrageous propaganda is presented as quote the
public record by the mayor of New York City. Of course,
the trouble with mom Donnie's position is he's not allowed
to do this, But of course he knows that, and
he knows what he's doing, and that's to continue to
push anti Israel and anti Jewish propaganda in the hopes
of inspiring more violence. And he's getting his wish to

(09:16):
Jewish synagogues in the last few days, vandalized in Queens
with motor oil and feces. Now, one member of Mam
Donnie's administration offered a quote to the paper said, there's
no way they can arrest it and Yahoo, and why
in the world are we still talking about this?

Speaker 2 (09:31):
Just spitballing here, folks.

Speaker 3 (09:33):
But maybe, just maybe it's because the Mayor of New
York City and his supporters are hateful anti Semites. Now,
when it comes to supplements, two things matter the most.

Speaker 2 (09:44):
Does it work? Can you trust it?

Speaker 7 (09:46):
Now?

Speaker 3 (09:46):
Rather than me tell you about it, I'm going to
let the customers of Relief Factor do the talking. We
hear from folks every day whose lives have changed.

Speaker 2 (09:54):
Here's Doug.

Speaker 3 (09:55):
In fact, he took Relief Factor for a year before
convincing his wife she'll need school teacher to try it out.
She'd been using assistance just to get up and down
the hallway at school. Now she's back on her feet,
doesn't have to leave the job that she loves.

Speaker 2 (10:10):
Sounds pretty nice, doesn't it.

Speaker 3 (10:11):
Well, it'll be easy for you to find out if
you could be the next person giving us your Relief
Factor story. Because a three week supply is just seventeen
dollars and seventy six cents.

Speaker 2 (10:21):
You can get it.

Speaker 3 (10:22):
It's waiting for you at relief factor dot com or
by calling one eight hundred and four relief. Our friendly
local team will do everything they can do to help you,
and I hope to soon get your story of how
Relief Factor has changed your life. We have an amazing
show for you today. Lots of political news. Congressman Micha
lawl are coming along in a few minutes. You don't
want to miss that. Also breaking news as it's warranted.

(10:45):
Scott Jennings on Salem common sense for the American people.
Stay with us who answers America's call for more energy? Well,
people do, and Chevron is helping fuel national energy security.
Their US production has increased by nearly sixty percent in
the past three years, and with plans to invest over
ten billion dollars in US energy projects this year, they're

(11:08):
helping boost economies, create better jobs, and build in America
powered by America's own energy.

Speaker 2 (11:15):
Learn more about.

Speaker 3 (11:16):
What Chevron's people do at chevron dot com. Slash America
the man who made CNN is safe for conservatives again,
dear Scott Jennings, it is Tuesday, July the twenty first.
Thanks for listening to common sense for the American people.
Not a lot of common sense going on down in Georgia.

(11:38):
It seems you may have heard they're having a gubernatorial
campaign down there. The Republican candidate is a man named
Rick Jackson and the Democrat is named Keisha Lance Bottoms.
And in this campaign, well really, in any campaign, if
you ever volunteered on a campaign or paid any attention
to campaigns out there, you know that candidates sometimes go

(12:00):
to local businesses. Maybe they go to local factory, or
they pop into the store, or in this case, they
go to a restaurant and they have lunch. That's what
Rick Jackson did the other day. He went to a
place called Toast on Linux for lunch. It's owned by
an African American female, and he made a social media

(12:23):
post about it. Hey, this is a great place. Enjoyed
meeting the owner. Pretty common stuff. This got posted out
on social media. Well, you know what, let's let the
local news tell you about it. Here's Fox five in Atlanta.

Speaker 7 (12:35):
Cut four, an Atlanta business faces backlash from some critics
after a social media post showed one of the owners
with Republican gubernatorial candidate Rick Jackson.

Speaker 2 (12:45):
That went viral.

Speaker 8 (12:46):
Well, that picture got taken last week and has sparked
fierce online debate from both sides. Fox's anti map is
live in Atlanta with the details. Annie, what are you learning? Yeah,
we're talking about toast on Linux.

Speaker 9 (13:00):
It's a black owned brush spot with locations in both
Midtown and Buckhead. Since sap picture was posted, some on
social media are encouraging others not to go. Democrat Kishlan's Bottoms,
who's running for governor against Jackson, didn't stay quiet. She
went on social media to warn other black businesses from
taking the same actions. Jackson's office responded, accusing Bottoms of

(13:25):
wanting to cancel small businesses based on who they let
through the door. I just thought it was kind of
tacky to think you're going to counsel someone who worked
so hard for their business just because she allows someone
to come in their business.

Speaker 2 (13:39):
Well, the last guy talking there is common sense.

Speaker 3 (13:42):
He's got it right. I mean, think about what's happening here.
You have a local eatery. It's a private business, and
basically the mission of a private eatery is to have
quality to the extent that the public likes it and
wants to come. In running a restaurant, I want people

(14:06):
to show up, and I want people to like it,
and if they like it, I want people to tell
people about it. Now, in this case, the local business
owner is in trouble with the Democrats and in trouble
with Keisha Lance Bottoms because she made the sin.

Speaker 2 (14:24):
She committed the sin of allowing a.

Speaker 3 (14:25):
Republican, a Conservative, to come through her doors and eat
the food and tell people about it. This is the
modern Left. If you're watching the stream, you can see
the picture. Nice photo, nice thing to do. Rick Jackson
has a big platform. But the idea that you would

(14:50):
cancel this business owner, it's shocking, but shouldn't come as
a surprise. This is the attitude, disposition, and inclination of
the modern Left and the modern Democratic Party, and that
is to punish anyone who.

Speaker 2 (15:11):
Talks to or engages in dialogue with the other.

Speaker 3 (15:14):
Side, to denigrate anyone who would dare offer hospitality or
basic manners or basic business practices to a Republican. Remember
what happened in New York City back during this city's
primary a few weeks ago, local congressman here named Dan

(15:34):
Goldman was essentially thrown out of and banned from a
coffee shop.

Speaker 2 (15:43):
Because he's Jewish.

Speaker 3 (15:45):
So you have democrats and leftists in New York banning
people because they're Jews, because they have view on Israel
that hey, Israel has a right to exist and defend itself.
You have democrats and leftists in Georgia trying to cancel
and destroy a business because they let a Republican eat inside.

(16:09):
You know what's crazy about Keisha Lance Bottoms. She used
to be the mayor of Atlanta. In fact, she was
mayor during COVID, during the BLM riots. She let Atlanta
burn during the BLM riots. How many small businesses were
destroyed during that and during COVID she was all part
and all four of the draconian policies that canceled and

(16:34):
closed forever dozens and dozens and dozens of restaurants and
other small businesses. Now she's back to her old ways,
the grim reaper of the small business in Georgia, Keisha
Lance Bottoms and her deranged lunatic campaign trying to cancel

(16:54):
a restaurant because a Republican had the to marry her
to show up and eat and say something nice about it.
Understand what we're dealing with. Michaelauller coming up next. Scott
Jennings on Salem statement.

Speaker 7 (17:06):
Ready for some common sense and a little Kentucky wendage.

Speaker 3 (17:10):
Hears Scott Jennings Tuesday, July the twenty first. Let's talk
midterm politics, shall we? The National Republican Congressional Committee. You'll
hear us call that the NRCC is enjoying its best
election year fundraising run ever, with eighty two point six

(17:31):
million dollars raised so far in twenty twenty six. The
NRCC announced on Tuesday that it had raised a record
breaking seventeen point six million dollars in June, getting the
committee ninety two point seven million dollars cash on hand.
As Republicans intensify their efforts to protect the narrow House

(17:54):
majority this November, Republicans at the NRCC now have thirteen
point seven million dollars more than their counterparts over at
the Democrat Congressional Campaign Committee. At the r NC, the
Republican National Committee, it is a wipeout on the money side.
Cash on hand for the RNC after this month's reports

(18:15):
one hundred and twenty eight point five million dollars compared
to the Democrat National Committee.

Speaker 2 (18:21):
While they have negative negative.

Speaker 3 (18:24):
Two point two million dollars, they are massively in debt,
and of course the Republicans will need that money as
there are several targeted districts out there where Republican incumbents
are facing strong Democratic challenges in purple areas. One of
these is in New York's seventeenth district, represented by Congressman
Mike Lawler. The district is located just north of New

(18:46):
York City in the Hudson Valley and encompasses all of
Rockland and Puttingham Counties, most of northern Westchester, and portions
of southern Duchess and Mike Lawler joins US Now Live
to discuss his reelection campaign. Congressman, welcome back at the
Scott Jennings Show.

Speaker 10 (19:02):
Thanks for having me, Scott.

Speaker 11 (19:03):
How you doing.

Speaker 3 (19:05):
I'm doing great and appreciate your time. I know you
guys are back at work in Washington and we can
get to a few issues in just a moment, but
I wanted to talk to you about your reelection campaign today.
I've been taking note lately the Republicans seem to have
a financial advantage and the generic ballot nationally seems to
be narrowing. Historically, Democrats ought to be in a good position.

(19:27):
But I get the feeling of voters out there, especially
independent swing voters, like the kinds of folks that you represent,
are none too pleased with the Democratic Party being taken
over by these socialists and these communists. Are you hearing
much conversation about that in your district.

Speaker 10 (19:43):
Oh, no question. And you know, my district being just
north of New York City, as you outlined, I have
a lot of people who work in New York City
who are impacted by what is happening in New York
City on a daily basis. And you know, we saw
this in twenty twenty when I defeated Sean Patrick Maloney,
and we saw it again in twenty twenty four when

(20:05):
I defeated Mandair Jones in a district that Kamala Harris won.
A lot of voters are disgusted by what is happening
in New York State. They do not like the direction
that the state is headed in. They hate Kathy Hochel.
I mean, she is severely underwater in my district, as
is Chuck Schumer. And you know, obviously the issues of

(20:29):
affordability are top of mind, but a lot of the
unaffordability in New York is driven by Democrat policies in
Albany and New York City, whether it's utility bills which
are up fifty eight percent since Kathy Hochl and Andrew
Cuomo shut down Indian Point Nuclear Power plant, blocked pipelines,
blocked natural gas extraction in the southern tier of Upstate

(20:52):
New York. When you look at, obviously the pro criminal
policies that have been put in place to quality of
life declining, there's a reason New York leads the nation
and out migration. It has nothing to do with the
weather and everything to do with the cost of living
and the quality of life. And so when you talk
to voters about these issues and they see these radical

(21:14):
socialists communists winning election in New York City, it has
a profound negative impact on Democrats in districts like mine.
And I think you're seeing, you know, in our polling,
we're up, despite you know, the Democrats trying to cook
a pole and feed it to the press saying that
my opponent is up. We are in a strong position

(21:36):
because I've delivered for my district I've done the job.
I've stood up to the President when needed, but also
have fought to address the issues most acutely facing my constituents,
delivering the largest tax cut in American history, inclusive of
lifting the cap on salts, securing the border, and stopping
the massive influx of illegal immigration, which New York you know,

(21:58):
took it on the chin with that, and you know,
really trying to address issues like housing, where I just
led the effort to pass the first you know, large
bipartisan housing package in thirty six years. Six of my
provisions were included in the bill. Obviously, we're leading on

(22:19):
issues like energy, where we're going to get permitting reform done,
and I've called for Indian Point to be rebuilt and
reopened to actually bring down the cost of energy and
utilities in our state. So there's a lot of work ahead,
but I'm proud of the work that I've done in
Washington and the leadership I've shown for my district and

(22:40):
really delivered for my constituents. You know, Scott, I've showed
up and done over two thousand in person events in
my district over the last three plus years. We've closed
over nine thousand cases for constituents, brought back over fifty
million dollars in benefits due to constituents, and brought back
over seventy million dollars in community project funding to help

(23:03):
my constituents and municipalities. So we're doing the work and
I feel good as we head into November.

Speaker 3 (23:11):
Congressman Mike Lawler from New York is our guest here
on the Scott Jennings Show.

Speaker 2 (23:15):
You are in a unique position.

Speaker 3 (23:17):
I think you're one of three House Republicans who represents
a district that was won by Kamala Harris. Democrats here
are putting up a woman named Kate Conley. Now they're
trying to portray her as a moderate. I find they
often do this. They take someone with certain credentials and say,
oh see this is a moderate. We're not all crazy.
But tell us the truth about Kate Conley. Does she

(23:39):
inhabit the far left and is trying to hide it?
I suspect that's the case.

Speaker 10 (23:44):
And she's a combat veteran, and I certainly appreciate her
service to our country, and she's trying to run heavily
on that bio and not stake out what her positions
actually are on issues. She refuses to me. I've challenged
her to six debates. I've even offered to go on

(24:04):
NBC News and CNN and CBS and hold the debates.
And you know, territory probably you know, a little bit
more favorable to her, but she refuses to do it
because she can't actually articulate her position on these issues.
But we know what her position is. She supports open borders,
she supports sanctuary jurisdictions. She supports the radical socialists. She

(24:28):
said she would welcome Brad Lander to her district to campaign,
which is crazy. She refuses to push back against the
lunatics that have said things like, you know, America deserved
nine to eleven, which is crazy. She would empower these
people if she became a member of Congress, And so

(24:53):
you know, she has staked out no position that is
different from these folk. She supports medicare for all. And
you know, from my standpoint, she can call herself a moderate.
They can try to say she's not a radical socialist,
but she doesn't disagree with the policy positions. And I

(25:14):
would also note, you know, she was the director of
counter Terrorism on the Biden NSC during the Fall of
Cobble and the terrorist attack at Abbey Gate by ISIS
k She was tasked with, you know, combating ISIS terrorist attacks,
and she has yet to answer for that. She denies

(25:37):
her involvement, says, oh, no, I was focused on the
Middle East. Well that's not good enough. Tell that to
the thirteen gold Star families who lost their loved ones
because of that disastrous withdrawal perpetrated by Joe Biden in
his administration.

Speaker 3 (25:55):
Mike Lawler, Congressman from New York, is our guest. Can
we talk a little about what's going on on the House.
I believe today the House is scheduled for a procedural
rule vote that would tee up a number of issues
that you need to get done this week, says here.
The latest reporting is that Republican leaders are going to
go ahead with this vote that will quote make or

(26:16):
break your ambitious agenda for the week.

Speaker 2 (26:18):
What can you tell us about the vote? Where are
you on this?

Speaker 3 (26:20):
And more broadly, talk to us about reconciliation three point zero.
This is the ninety five billion dollars for military funding
for farm aid and also to try to get the
Save Act done.

Speaker 10 (26:33):
In a different vehicle, well, this is the last week
scheduled before the August recess, and you know, certainly a
lot on the agenda this week, inclusive of getting the
NDAA through the House, a continuing resolution to keep the
government funded into December so that the Democrats don't once

(26:55):
again shut the government down when we come back in September.
Try to get that out of the way right now
on the approach as well as, as you alluded to,
Reconciliation three point zero and advancing the budget forward to
not only ensure that our military has the funding, but

(27:17):
to address some ag issues as well as get the
Save America Act passed so that, you know, issues that
most Americans agree on. You know, it's an eighty twenty
issue voter ID and proof of citizenship. And we just
saw on New Jersey sixty six hundred illegal immigrants, you know,

(27:38):
on the voter rolls in New Jersey, and the governor saying, oh,
we don't know how that happened. It was a mistake
at the DMV. And I've been saying this for years
that that is a problem when you have automatic voter registration.
If you're not showing proof of citizenship, how do you
verify that somebody is not automatically enrolled when they go

(28:00):
to get a motor vehicle license, which New York and
New Jersey. In California, you know, will allow illegal immigrants
the ability to get a driver's license. So you know,
these are real issues to deal with. The rule is
a procedural measure. All Republicans should be voting for the
procedural measure. If you disagree about the bill, if you

(28:21):
disagree about what's in the bill, that's you have the
right to vote your conscience and your district, and you
know people will will react accordingly. But the fact is,
when it comes to a procedural vote, people should be
advancing the floor forward and not turning it over to
the Democrats.

Speaker 3 (28:42):
Congressman Micha Lawler of New York, you mentioned the Save
Act and the common sense measures. You know they say
these things never happen. But this just popped in right
before we went on the air. Here this is from
the governor of New Jersey, Micky Cheryl, a former colleague
of yours, a Democrat. She says, quote, last week, I
learned earned that a serious software error in New Jersey's

(29:03):
motor vehicle system led to the registration of roughly six thousand,
six hundred people who indicated they were not US citizens
between June of twenty three and June of twenty four.
These individuals answered no when asked on a keypad whether
they were a US citizen. When applying for driver's licenses
and identification cards, the system registered.

Speaker 2 (29:23):
Them to vote anyway.

Speaker 3 (29:25):
It seems to me the thing they say never happens
Almost every day, Mike, we find out nope.

Speaker 2 (29:30):
In fact, it is happening. And the President and the
Republicans are not wrong about this.

Speaker 6 (29:34):
All right.

Speaker 3 (29:34):
I know you got to get to the House floor,
Congressman Mike Lawler of New York and one of the
toughest districts in America.

Speaker 2 (29:40):
Thanks for your time today, sir, No.

Speaker 10 (29:42):
I appreciate it. Scotten And just to put a fine
point on it, of the sixty six hundred that got registered,
four hundred voted illegally in our election in twenty twenty four.

Speaker 3 (29:52):
They say it never happens. How can that be, Mike,
They say this never happens. They say it never happens,
and yet here we are again common sense.

Speaker 2 (30:00):
There's nothing about it. I think that's what the American
people wanted it.

Speaker 3 (30:03):
It is crazy when you think about you know, you
see all these pundits and Democratic politicians. They go on
TV with me and with you all day long, every day.
This never happens. This is fear mongering. You have no
evidence of this. Do you have any evidence that this happened.
There's plenty of evidence. And of course then they pivot
to well did it change the outcome of an election?
And that of course is revealing it and of itself

(30:25):
that they are willing to allow some amount of this
to happen in jurisdictions across the country.

Speaker 2 (30:31):
Mich Lawler, thanks for joining us today, sir.

Speaker 10 (30:33):
Thanks Scott, appreciate it. Take care.

Speaker 3 (30:36):
All right, we're going to take a break here on
the Scott Jenny Show. I'm going to keep the political
conversation going. I'm kind of focused on this battle for
the House right now. We have more on that after this.
Common Sense for the American people.

Speaker 7 (30:46):
Stay with us, Common Sense for the American people. This
is the Scott Jenny Show.

Speaker 3 (30:52):
I'll tell you what I think about some of these
midterm House races.

Speaker 2 (30:56):
I think Democrats have nominated.

Speaker 3 (31:01):
Lunatic candidates who were so far outside of the mainstream
that they're going to have a hard time winning in
these swing or purple districts. I want to talk about
several this week. We're going to start today in Arizona.
But first, but first, if you're on Medicare, there's a
good chance you could be overpaying and not even know it.
My mom, in fact, signed up for a plan. It
looked fine, we were dealing with this had good coverage,

(31:23):
there was nothing obviously wrong with it. But then she
talked to my friends at Chapter to see was I
actually on the best plan for my needs?

Speaker 2 (31:33):
That was her question. Turns out she was not.

Speaker 3 (31:35):
Chapter found her the exact same plan G coverage that
she already had, so same benefits, same protection, but they
were able to get it for six hundred dollars less
per year. I suspect there are millions of Americans on
Medicare who have this same condition. There's money to be saved,
but you got to know who to call. The problem
with Medicare is is that most people assume that if

(31:56):
nothing seems wrong, it must be the right plan. But
they made the system so confusing that people rarely, if
ever know what they're missing. This is what happened to
my mom. That's why I partnered with Chapter It's why
I put her on the phone with Chapter. These are
advisors for you, not the insurance companies. They compare every
Medicare plan to find the one that makes sense for you.

(32:18):
If you're already on the best plan, they'll tell you
that that's what happened with my dad. He was fine,
but for my mom, six hundred bucks nothing to sniff at.
It's a free call, there's no pressure. You talk to
a live person. They know how the system works. You
dial pound two five zero and say Medicare plan, or
go to Chapter dot org slash Jennings. Either way, get

(32:42):
in touch with my friends at Chapter. I just recommend
grabbing the phone, dial pound two fifty, say Medicare plan.
It's a few minutes of your time. You may just
find out there's money to be saved. All right, let's
talk about midterm elections. I have been positing this theory
that even in a good environment, even in a genaire environment,
where Democrats have a little bit of an advantage, a

(33:04):
historical advantage. You know, midterms off year, usually the party
out of power does better. But I've been positing a
theory that Democrats are likely to leave some seats on
the table because they are nominating people who are too
crazy and too out of touch with their sort of
moderate independent, purplish district. First one I want to talk about,

(33:26):
and we're going to do one every day for the
rest of the week is Arizona six. This is where
a Democrat named Johanna Mendoza is running opposed. I start
with Arizona because their primary is today. But it is
clear to me that in this very very purple district,
this Democrat Mendoza, is out of touch and focused on

(33:48):
the wrong things. In fact, focused on things that have
been proven electoral poison. She seems to be most focused
on the transgen stuff and says we need to make it.

Speaker 2 (34:06):
So that.

Speaker 3 (34:08):
Boys can go in girls' locker rooms. This is her
principal motivation for running. Let's hear it, and cut ten.

Speaker 12 (34:14):
Would you have supported the bill that prohibited transgender girls
and women for participating on women's sports teams.

Speaker 2 (34:20):
Legislation like the one that you mentioned is harmful.

Speaker 13 (34:24):
It's toxic, it takes away from who we are as Americans.

Speaker 3 (34:30):
Okay, it's harmful and toxic to keep the boys out
of girls' sports and girls' locker rooms. But beyond that,
she's well on the record when it comes to supporting
taxpayer funded transgender surgeries Cut thirteen, Would you.

Speaker 11 (34:45):
Work to make sure that access is fully inclusive for
LGBTQ people, And this is from gender affirmation procedures, things
like hormone therapy and surgeries.

Speaker 2 (34:58):
Yes, I mean there are bring it on a federal level.
We should opt it on.

Speaker 13 (35:02):
This helpful.

Speaker 3 (35:05):
So you know, it's sort of baffling to me why
Democrats continue to do this to themselves. I can only
I'm only left to imagine that the reason they do
it to themselves is because it's legitimately all they care
about transgender stuff, boys and girls' locker rooms, boys and

(35:27):
girls sports, taking your tax money and spending it on
transgender surgeries.

Speaker 2 (35:35):
But the larger political point is.

Speaker 3 (35:36):
This, this is the Democratic agenda, and they are nominating
candidates in moderate House districts around the country where I
think this is going to be poison I think it's
going to be poisoned the Republican out there, as Juan Siscomani.
But this Democrat Mendoza, Joanna Mendoza, I think is emblematic

(36:00):
of so many Democrats in the country who, if they
could just act normal, they'd probably have a chance, but
it seems like they can't take a break more after
this Scott Jennings on Salem, stay with us.

Speaker 2 (36:11):
If the leftists haven't had enough yet, there's more. This
is the Scott Jennings show.

Speaker 3 (36:15):
All right, quick check of the headlines. The thing they
tell you never happens has happened sixty six hundred times.

Speaker 2 (36:23):
In fact, New Jersey is the place.

Speaker 3 (36:25):
Democratic Governor Micky Cheryl says that sixty six hundred non
citizens were registered to vote in her state between June
of twenty twenty three in June of twenty twenty four,
and that four hundred of them at least voted in
the elections. So the next time a Democrat tells you
this doesn't happen, well, you now have sixty six hundred
examples to respond with. Down in Washington, today, House Energy

(36:50):
and Commerce Committee passing the rate Payer Protection Act.

Speaker 2 (36:54):
That's a big priority of President Trump as well.

Speaker 3 (36:57):
Spent a lot of talk about energy use by day centers,
and this legislation advancing today would require data centers to
foot the bill for any upgrades to energy generation, transmission,
and distribution. Congressman Brett Guthrie of Kentucky leading on this one.
The balance here is protecting rate payers while also.

Speaker 2 (37:19):
Beating China in the AI race.

Speaker 3 (37:21):
This bill, I think is a step in both directions,
and we have some bombshell reporting first came out in
the Washington Post last week detailing how state Medicaid fraud
control units mfcus have been underperforming despite increased funding here
from the Foundation for Government Accountability as the man behind

(37:43):
this research, Hayden de Bloy. Hayden, thanks for coming back
on the Scott Jennings Show. First of all, talk to
us about these medicaid fraud detection units. What are they,
how do they work, and what's going on with them
right now?

Speaker 12 (37:58):
Sure, Scott, So, every state has a Medicaid fraud control
unit which is designed to investigate, in issue indictments, and
engage in prosecutions of medicaid fraud. Most of them live
within state attorney general's offices. And considering we spend close
to a trillion dollars now between federal and state money
on Medicaid, spending more than twenty percent of which is improper,

(38:23):
these Medicaid fraud control units have a really important purpose.
That is, they're the last line of defense against provider fraud,
whether that's over billing by a medical equipment provider or
abuse by a nursing home. The problem is that they've
been derelict in their duties for far too long. Roughly,
for every one billion dollars that a state spends on Medicaid,

(38:45):
the average medicaid fraud control unit only conducts fifteen investigations,
one indictment, and only gets one conviction. And since twenty nineteen,
even though grants to these Medicaid fraud control units, funded
by you million every tax pair, are up by forty
percent and their staff is up by ten percent, their convictions, indictments,
and investigations are all down by double digits. So they're

(39:08):
like watchdogs to keep feeding more. But they're barking less
when they see an intruder.

Speaker 3 (39:13):
Yeah, they're barking less, and they're biting no one, it seems, Hayden.
I've been looking through the numbers here in your research,
and not surprisingly, the worst performing states California, New York,
and Illinois.

Speaker 2 (39:28):
Talk to us about these blue states.

Speaker 3 (39:30):
They have Medicaid fraud units, They get a ton of
tax money, so the bureaucracy is funded here, but they
do nothing to root out waste, fraud and abuse.

Speaker 2 (39:40):
Tell us about that.

Speaker 12 (39:42):
Yeah, it's the big blue states in this country that
are really dragging down the performance of the rest of
the nation. So California runs the largest medicaid program nationwide,
yet didn't even hit fifty convictions for medicaid fraud last year.
In Illinois, not a single successful civil conviction for fraud
last year. New York, probably the most egregious instance, more

(40:02):
than half of all provider categories, didn't have a single
open investigation for fraud. That includes hospice, which is one
of the most fraud prone areas in the entire healthcare system.
So you know, New York Attorney General Letitia James always
has time for the cameras, just not time for medicaid
fraud because convictions are down by ninety percent in her
state since twenty nineteen. So the states with the most

(40:25):
money on the table are just playing the least defense.

Speaker 3 (40:28):
And we know from the news out of the federal government,
because they now have a federal task force looking into this,
we know there is plenty of fraud to find. In fact,
there was a recent sweep that resulted in charges against
four hundred and fifty five defendants across forty five states,
including ninety medical professionals, involving six and a half billion

(40:50):
dollars in false claim So there is ample evidence that
fraud is everywhere in every state and is there to
be found. But you have these big blue states with
these offices supposedly looking into fraud that just do nothing.
I'm sort of curious about the state legislatures in these states.

(41:10):
I mean, you'd think as a budgeting matter, they would
want to uncover this fraud. It would make their life
easier if they were uncovering fraud and recovering money on.

Speaker 2 (41:18):
Behalf of the taxpayers.

Speaker 3 (41:19):
Do you get any sins from any of your research
that the state legislatures in these blue states are willing
to conduct any oversight here as to why all this
fraud is going uninvestigated from these medicaid fraud units.

Speaker 12 (41:34):
Well, unfortunately, in a number of these states, particularly blue states,
a lot of the legislators are either unaware or entirely
indifferent to the true nature of medicaid fraud. They either
consider it a myth that's perpetuated by those they disagree with,
or it's something that's not of particular concern for them, which.

Speaker 2 (41:51):
Is part of the problem.

Speaker 12 (41:52):
I mean, not only is this a crisis for taxpayers,
but every dollar that's spent on waste, fraud, or abuse
in Medicaid is a dollar that can't go towards the
truly needy, because behind every mist case of fraud is
a nursing home patient that nobody fought for. And that's
what we really have to remember when we're thinking about
the poor performance of these Medicaid fraud control units.

Speaker 3 (42:13):
Some of these Medicaid fraud control units, it looks to
me like they get federal funding and because they are failing.

Speaker 2 (42:21):
I'm reading here that the US.

Speaker 3 (42:23):
Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General
formally denied recertification and they suspended federal funding for several
state Medicaid fraud control units. So this is part of
the broader federal push to crack down on Medicaid waste
and enforce stricter compliance.

Speaker 2 (42:44):
Is that, right?

Speaker 3 (42:45):
Have we seen the federal government decertify these things and
take away their federal money. If that's true, that's a
good thing, because essentially you're defunding a bureaucracy that's not
working anyway.

Speaker 2 (42:55):
Is that how you see it? That's exactly right, Scott.

Speaker 12 (42:59):
You know, in the past, to the Department of Health
and Human Services, which has the authority to recertify these
medicated fraud control units, has recertified them in the same
way you or I might renew a magnazine subscription or
a subscription to an app on our phone. It kind
of just happens. But the Trump administration and the War
on Fraud and the Fraud Task Force is changing that.
In June, they denied, decertified, and defunded Hawaii's Medicate fraud

(43:24):
control unit. That came after Hawaii only recovered about seventeen
percent of what their units spent to actually recover fraud.
They did the same thing for New York about a
month later, and they put roughly a dozen more states
on notice with conditional recertifications. So, finally, under the leadership
of the Trump administration Secretary Kennedy, doctor Oz, we're seeing

(43:45):
medicaid fraud and medicate fraud control units being taken seriously
for the first time in quite a long time. It's
incumbent upon states to do the same thing, state attorney generals,
state legislators, and frankly, Congress Congress. Can you know, as
you alluded to they get federal funding to these Medicaid
fraud control units, they should start conditioning that on their performance.

(44:07):
So the worst the Medicaid fraud control units to do,
the less taxpayer funding they're going to get. So we're
not subsidizing bad behavior by these units.

Speaker 3 (44:16):
On this topic, you mentioned Rfka Junior. There's a headline
in the New York Post today RFK Junior yanks Medicaid
funds to California and Minnesota and says Democrats opened the
floodgates to theF What I like about this is that,
at least for Trump at his people, it's not business
as usual. This is stuff is just not turnkey anymore.
They're actually looking into it and they're making decisions that

(44:39):
would hopefully alter behavior of these blue states. I've got
about thirty seconds left, Hayden in your research. I know
we're talking about all the negative states out there. What
two or three states are actually doing it right, where
the Medicaid fraud detection units are actually functioning properly and
saving money for the taxpayers.

Speaker 2 (44:58):
Sure well.

Speaker 12 (44:59):
Good example that the federal government's just recertified is actually
right in Indiana, where they received incredibly high grades. In
high marks from HHS for their performance in recovering medicate
fraud and going after fraudsters. So I wish more states
would follow their lead and take Medicaid frauds seriously through
their control units.

Speaker 3 (45:19):
All right, that voice you're hearing on the Scott Jennings
Show Hayden de Bloy. He is with the Foundation for
Government Accountability. You can read about his research a couple
of days ago in the Washington Post. We thank you
for your time today, appreciate you coming by.

Speaker 12 (45:32):
Thanks so much, Scott, appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (45:34):
All right.

Speaker 2 (45:35):
Hey, great researcher, good resource.

Speaker 3 (45:37):
If you're into good government stuff out there, recommend you
follow him. Let's talk about supplements. When you're thinking about them.
Only two things really matter. Do they work? And can
I trust it with relief factor? I'll just tell you
the answer is yes and yes. But don't take it
from me, take it from our customers. We get all
sorts of stories. Here's one from a man named Jim.
Now this is a good story. He ran out of

(45:59):
relief factor twice. Naughty, naughty Jim, but he paid for
it because he said both times, his aches, his stiffness,
and his pain came back once he restarted. Jim says,
I was feeling better again as he puts it, and
I quote, you know something is working when you run
out of it and the aches and pains come back immediately.

(46:21):
Could you be the next person telling us your Relief
Factor story? Well, I hope so. Doesn't cost much to
get started. Three week supply is seventeen dollars and seventy
six cents. You have nothing to lose here but a
lot to gain. Go to relief Factor dot com or
call one eight one hundred and four relief Our friendly
local team will do everything they.

Speaker 2 (46:40):
Can do to help you and maybe, just maybe.

Speaker 3 (46:42):
Your Relief Factor story. We'll be talking about it right
here on the Scott Jennings Show. We'll have more when
we come back. Common sense for the American people, stay.

Speaker 7 (46:50):
With us, saving a Western civilization, One busted leftist narrative
at a time.

Speaker 2 (46:56):
It's the Scott Jenny Show.

Speaker 3 (46:59):
All right, Tuesday, July twenty First, what are we gonna
call this? I guess this is our It's becoming daily
Socialism Watch. We're on the tower here, We're on the
wall guarding against and monitoring these socialists, and boy are
they everywhere. A couple of things have come across my

(47:21):
desk in the last few days. I'm just gonna bring
them to you and let you make of it what
you will.

Speaker 2 (47:28):
Because these people are crazy.

Speaker 3 (47:30):
Okay, they're crazy, but you have to listen carefully because
they'll tell you what they're.

Speaker 2 (47:38):
Gonna do to your country.

Speaker 3 (47:40):
Let me start with this guy, Gustavo Gordillo. This guy
is one of the big wigs in the Democrat Socialists
of America. He's like the co chair of the Democrat
Socialists of America. Now, he did an interview the other day.
Now he agreed to go on Fox News, but he

(48:03):
said flat out nobody, nobody should be making double digit
returns on any investments.

Speaker 2 (48:14):
Listen to this cut too.

Speaker 14 (48:16):
Landlords in New York have been making a twelve percent
return on their investment for on auvert should they make
what's fair for the landlord to make If you don't
like twelve, they're complaining that twelve is not enough, And
we don't think that anyone should have a constitutional right
to double digit returns on their investment. That's why we've
implemented no one should.

Speaker 2 (48:36):
Have a right to a double digit return.

Speaker 12 (48:38):
On their investment.

Speaker 14 (48:38):
No one has a right, no one's in that's not
in the constitution. But what we see is that when
we implement a rent freeze, we have landlords who are
crying that the government is going to put them out
advice that.

Speaker 2 (48:51):
Kind of run a business. Okay, understand something. This is
an influential person.

Speaker 3 (48:58):
Okay, Gustavo Gordillo, like this guy. If the Commies take over,
like he'll be like their main policy advisor or someone
like him. And if you own a business out there,
or you're a landlord, or you're an investor of any kind,
if you're somebody who participates in our capitalist system and
expects to make a reasonable rate of return, Gustavo here, Oh,

(49:23):
he'll be after you. Let's also listen to this other lunatic,
Melot Cairos. Now you may have heard her name recently,
melt Cairos. She's a lawyer, a student, of course, they're
all professional students. She's also a politician. She is also
a member of the Democratic Socialists of America and in

(49:43):
fact she ran for office, and in fact, in Colorado's
first congressional district just a few weeks ago, she defeated
a fifteen term Democratic incumbent named Diana to get Diana
to get by the way, was a she was a
liberal Looney Tunes, but not a she was not lunatic
enough for the voters there in Colorado. You need to

(50:06):
listen to this clip extremely carefully. Melat Cairos, Democrat, Socialist
of America candidate for Congress in Colorado, Cut three.

Speaker 13 (50:18):
I think it's particularly important not just for our community
and Tike Ride, but communities of the Global South period. Right,
there's a certain reckoning that we are going to have
to have with the global world order as it exists
today and the way that it fundamentally will have to
shift going forward. Right, The responsibility that we have as Americans,

(50:39):
the recognition that is going to be required of us
of the exploitative and extractive nature that we play on
the global scale and the global stage, is only going
to be challenged if we are getting represented by people
who understand that on a fundamental level, right, And that
means getting more immigrants into office, That means getting more

(51:00):
people who have heritage in the Global South into office,
because that's where those decisions are made.

Speaker 3 (51:05):
Specifically, I want you to understand what is going on
here America. According to these socialists is evil and is
exploiting everybody else around the world, and the only way
to put a stop to it is to import more

(51:26):
immigrants from the Third world and elect them to office.
That is precisely what she just said me, lot Cairos.

Speaker 2 (51:39):
We're going to have a reckoning with.

Speaker 3 (51:40):
The global world order. Here's the reckoning. Import as many
people from the Third World as we can and then
elect them to office, and then we can do things
like outlaw profits, destroy the American Empire from within. And
these are all stated goals of the Democratic Socialists of America.

(52:05):
It's all in this worldview oppressors versus oppressed. These socialists,
these communists intend to bring all the oppressed so called
into your country, have them vote, have them elected to office,
and then destroy your country from the inside out as
you know it. We're going to talk a little Iran

(52:26):
when we come back. General Tigert coming back on the show.

Speaker 2 (52:28):
Stay with us.

Speaker 3 (52:29):
It's Scott Jennings on Salem. Common sense for the American people.
Don't go anywhere.

Speaker 7 (52:34):
You've heard the narratives, Now get the truth. It's the
Scott Jennings Show, all.

Speaker 3 (52:40):
Right, Tuesday, July twenty. First, I'm going to talk a little.
I ran here in a second, but I have to
say this just came across the desk here. Fox News
has an interview. Did you see the grandfather who was
tossed thrown up into the air by the bison and Yellowstone?
Surely you've seen this. It's been all over my social

(53:02):
media feed. Sixty five year old carl Isa McDaniel was
his name, and he's talking from his hospital bed.

Speaker 2 (53:10):
I encourage you to look it up.

Speaker 3 (53:12):
He could have stomped me, he could have gorged me,
he could have done anything. Carl Isa McDaniel says the landing,
not the launch, caused his fractured hip and broken femur.
He's praising his doctors at nurses and he's got a
long recovery ahead of him. It is a miracle this
guy survived this. But if you haven't seen the video

(53:33):
of the attack, I'm sure you've seen this. That bison.
You know, you go out there to Yellowstone and the
bad Lands and of the place out there, they have shirts,
shirts say don't pet the fluffy cows. This is why
these things are wild.

Speaker 2 (53:48):
They'll throw you right up into the air. Thank goodness.

Speaker 3 (53:50):
Though, mister McDaniel is going to be okay, although he's
got a long recovery ahead. All right, My next guest
coming back to the Scott Jennings Show, Brigadier General Rick
hired John Tigert, former senior defense official to Iraq. This
man flew F fifteen e's and F twenty two's. He's
a prolific author for books. His most recent book is

(54:11):
called In God I Trust. He is an expert on
national security and national defense. General Tigert, Welcome back into
the Scott Jennings Show. Good to see you there at
your home in Annapolis.

Speaker 15 (54:22):
You got it, Scott, thanks again for having me.

Speaker 3 (54:25):
All Right, here's what I want to talk about Iran,
because ten nights now we have been bombing the crap
out of Iran and it seems like it's escalating. Iran
is saying they are attacking US bases in a few
countries and they plan to shoot at commercial ships in
the Strait of Horne Moves. Let me play the Secretary

(54:46):
of Defense Pete Hegseth what he has to say about
that and get your reaction cut eleven.

Speaker 16 (54:51):
Something no president's been willing to do forty seven years.
They build up a conventional capability like the.

Speaker 2 (54:56):
North Koreans did.

Speaker 16 (54:57):
North that's with Korean made their way to a bomb
much weaponry that that no one was willing to stand
up to.

Speaker 2 (55:02):
The President Trump was and he continues to to this day.
Iron has been given.

Speaker 16 (55:07):
Every opportunity to negotiate, to show that they're reasonable in
the straight or four moves. But if they're going to
shoot a commercial shipping, then we're going to hit them,
as the President said, ten times harder, which every night
we're degrading them further and further.

Speaker 2 (55:19):
And the President has all the options necessary.

Speaker 12 (55:22):
If they want to talk, they can talk.

Speaker 2 (55:24):
Otherwise they can deal with the War Department.

Speaker 3 (55:25):
Then we're very good block General Tiger. When Secretary Higgs
says says we're going to hit them ten times harder,
what does that mean to.

Speaker 2 (55:33):
You, Scott.

Speaker 15 (55:36):
I'm still waiting for us to channel our inner Bison
against the regime and Iran. And even during active kinetic
operations in March that we did not strike some of
the most significant targets in that country, the energy sites,
the power plans, some of the major bridges and logistics
and transportation facilities. And when I studied airpower in the

(55:59):
very beginning of my career, we talked about a phrase
called strategic interdiction, which is using air power to strike
the heart of a regime the things they value most,
the sources of their power. And frankly, while we've struck
military targets fairly well in the last ten nights and
during active combat operations, we haven't actually gone after the

(56:20):
sources of the regime's power. And I think it's time
to start.

Speaker 2 (56:24):
Why do you think that is?

Speaker 3 (56:25):
I mean, back during the initial military activity, I mean
we were told we hit over one thousand, well over
one thousand military targets. Now we've been hitting them for
ten straight nights. Sounds like we may be moving into
some infrastructure targets. That's what the Iranians claim. I don't
think we've confirmed that. But why do you think we
left some of that meat on the bone to begin with?

Speaker 2 (56:46):
Scott?

Speaker 15 (56:47):
I think the president had a vision that at some point,
sooner rather than later, someone would rise up in the regime.
That was reasonable, and we wanted to leave them the infrastructure.
So that are wrong. One could flourish under that new regime.
But now that it's looking like there's no chance for
that new regime to come about, they continue to strive

(57:08):
to kill Americans. In fact, tragically they did this weekend
that I think it's time now to set aside that
idea that we need to leave the new regime something
to work with and start to destroy things, especially on
Cargo Island, because that would strangle the regime's ability going
forward to resource themselves. And I think the President needs
to get past that old paradigm and shift to the

(57:29):
new one of how can we do most damage to
the regime.

Speaker 3 (57:33):
General Iran says it's targeting US assets in Kuwait, Bahrain,
and Jordan, and also says it's targeting a vessel in
the Strait of Horne moves. We have seen some Iranian
missiles and attack drones getting through. Tragically, we have lost
some American soldiers now up to seventeen, and the reports
are that one hundred American service members had been injured

(57:55):
in multiple Iranian strikes earlier this month, even for that
attack on the base in Jordan. What does this tell
you about what we have done to degrade Iran's capabilities
and what does it tell you about our missile defense?
Have they figured out a way around this or is
this just you know you're never going to be one
hundred percent perfect when it comes to interceptions on these

(58:17):
missiles and drones.

Speaker 15 (58:19):
Scott, I think it's the latter, which is that even
if our systems kind of like Iron Dome and Israel
are ninety five percent effective, that means five missiles are
getting through for every one hundred that are launched. And
I think especially in Jordan, which is a little bit
further away from Iran, they didn't have the ground defenses
or the dispersal set up so that when a few

(58:42):
of those missiles did get through that no Americans would die.
And you know, it's very difficult, maybe impossible, to degrade
an adversary's ability to project power down to zero, and
they do have some capability to reach out and hurt us,
which is why we need to take the fight not
to military capabilities, but to the regime to dissuade them

(59:02):
from trying to do such things in the future.

Speaker 3 (59:05):
So we've had ten nights of attacks. I assume it's
going to continue on for the foreseeable future. I mean, look,
you mentioned earlier, and I think you're right they were
hoping for someone reasonable in the Iranian regime.

Speaker 2 (59:17):
To rise up.

Speaker 3 (59:19):
It does seem like that we have been talking to
some political operatives in the Iranian regime, but this IRGC
is the problem.

Speaker 2 (59:26):
They don't want any deal.

Speaker 3 (59:27):
They continue to be the people who are trying to
destroy any diplomatic talks.

Speaker 2 (59:31):
They're the ones firing the missiles and drones.

Speaker 3 (59:34):
Is it possible for us to fully completely degrade, debilitate
and destroy the IRGC or they two dug in for
us to ever fully eradicate them?

Speaker 15 (59:44):
Scott, I don't like that word to eradicate, because it basically
means you drive the adversary down to zero. They're going
to have some residual capability, and that's why you target
not the individual military sites because you're never going to
get them all, but you get the source of power
and strength and the funding of the regime. Said, they

(01:00:04):
come to the conclusion that is in their best interests
to stop even the IRGC. And I know the regime
is radical and they're very difficult to deal with, but
every regime wants to stay in power, and if we
hit them so hard that we put that into question,
then now they start to rethink what should they be
doing going forward so that they can retain power, because

(01:00:26):
we are going to keep striking them until they come
to that conclusion.

Speaker 3 (01:00:31):
That voice you're hearing on the Scott Jennings Show retired
Brigadier General from the United States Air Force John Tiger,
General Tiger.

Speaker 2 (01:00:38):
I noticed yesterday last.

Speaker 3 (01:00:40):
Night you posted an opinion piece in the Washington Times
about a piece of legislation called the Clarity Act, and
I'll just read the headline. It says Congress should kill
the Clarity Act. I think you're concerned that this might
offer America's enemies, including Iran, a harm full financial back door.

(01:01:02):
Explain what's going on with a Clarity Act, the issues
at play here with a cryptosystem, and why this legislation,
according to you, needs to be killed off by the Congress.

Speaker 15 (01:01:12):
Scott, this legislation is all about trying to exercise some
level of congressional authority over digital currency or over crypto.
But the problem is, in the last six months, we
have had two great case studies in the national security
realm about regimes that thrive via loopholes and cryptocurrency, the

(01:01:33):
Iranian regime and the IRGC and the maduro Re regime
and Venezuela. And the problem is that this legislation that's
on the verge of passing the Senate, has it been
stress tested against those two case studies such that it
will continue to allow one hundred and fifty billion dollars
of illicit cryptoactivity, which was last year's number, triple them

(01:01:56):
out from the year before. And if we don't slam
shut those loopholes, then transnational criminal organizations and rogue regimes
like the Iranian regime and narco terrorist and human traffickers
are going to have the playbook that we codify into law,
and because there's so many loopholes, they'll know exactly how
to circumnavigate those things that we're trying to establish, and

(01:02:19):
that will hinder our ability to achieve our objectives and
our national security.

Speaker 3 (01:02:25):
Now, the Clarity Act is, I guess what you're trying
to do is come up with a comprehensive federal framework
for regulating the cryptocurrency industry. Probably needs to happen, but
it does seem because of some of the arguments you're
making on national defense, it feels like maybe the Pentagon
and some other elements of the Trump administration have a
problem with it.

Speaker 2 (01:02:46):
Where is the.

Speaker 3 (01:02:46):
Administration on this? Are they trying to put a stop
to the Clarity Act? Or they want to amend it.
Any idea where Trump and Secretary Hegseth are coming down
on this.

Speaker 15 (01:02:56):
I'm not one hundred percent sure on the executive branch,
but it did pass overwhelmingly with bipartisans support the House.
It passed the Senate Banking Committee. But I do think
when the administration takes a step back and looks at
the national security provisions or lack thereof, they will be
highly concerned that now we had a chance to establish
legislation in this area, but we didn't consider our national

(01:03:19):
instruments of power, especially financial instruments of power. And my
concern and likely their concern, will be that while we
did something fairly good in comprehensive regulation, we omitted maybe
one of the most important parts, which is how our
adversaries will use our laws against us unless the legislation
is intentionally designed to prevent, to track, to investigate, and

(01:03:43):
then ultimately to hold accountable those that would do us harm.

Speaker 3 (01:03:47):
All right, The legislation is called the Clarity Act, the
Digital Asset Market Clarity Act. And you know, I look,
this is such a this is such a new thing.
I mean, it's such a new world order. These cryptocurrencies.
I sort of on the one hand, I sort of
want to applaud the effort because I think, you know,
some regulatory oversight is necessary.

Speaker 2 (01:04:08):
But particularly at a.

Speaker 3 (01:04:09):
Time when we are at war where they ran and
we have other bad actors out there, it seems to
me these national security arguments ought to be taken into
into consideration. What's your outlook is it, don't have they
moved it to the Senate floor yet, or or they
haven't done that yet.

Speaker 15 (01:04:26):
I don't think they've done that yet, Scott. And what
I really want to encourage the Senate to do is
consider how every single ship that's transited through the Strait
of Hermus since the start of this conflict likely did
so by paying bribes in crypto to Iran, which is
now financing our adversary. And until we shut that door,
we're just providing them, or enabling them, the means to

(01:04:50):
do us harm and strive to kill Americans.

Speaker 2 (01:04:53):
All Right.

Speaker 3 (01:04:54):
That's General Tikert from the United States Air Force, retired
Great American Patriot in America hero flew F fifteen e's
and F twenty two's and knows as much about national
security and warfare in the Middle East as any man
walking General Tiger.

Speaker 2 (01:05:08):
Thanks for your time today.

Speaker 15 (01:05:10):
You're awesome, Scott, thank you.

Speaker 3 (01:05:12):
All right, we're gonna take a break. We're gonna talk
about that lunatic Tim Walls when we come back. Don't
miss this. Scott Jennings on Salem.

Speaker 7 (01:05:19):
Stay with It's the very definition I've never backed down here,
Scott Jennings.

Speaker 3 (01:05:26):
All right, rounding out the show here on Tuesday, July
the twenty first, I am dedicating the last few minutes
of the broadcast today to the two smartest Democrats that
I know and that exists, Jasmine Crockett and Tim Walls.

(01:05:48):
It's the two smartest Democrats they have, So why shouldn't
we dedicate a segment to them? Let's start with Jasmine Crockett.
I'm feeling bad, Hollywood Sean, because you know, for many months,
Jasmine was a staple of the Scott Chenning Show. Almost
felt like she was a co host. We played so
many of her clips. But after she lost to supposed
male James Tallerico, she kind of fell off the map

(01:06:13):
a little down there in Texas.

Speaker 2 (01:06:15):
But she is back with a vengeance. Today.

Speaker 3 (01:06:21):
She's in some kind of a congressional hearing I think
she's implying that cheering for Argentina is racist in the
World Cup.

Speaker 2 (01:06:32):
I don't know. You listen and tell me.

Speaker 3 (01:06:34):
Here's Jasmine Krockett, the Smartest Democrat cut seventeen.

Speaker 1 (01:06:37):
The World Cup that captured the imaginations of the entire
world when they saw all of these people of color
that was planned for all these teams, and ultimately, if
you recall the last two teams, it was Argentina and Spain,
and it seemed like the vast majority of the world
was rooting for Argentina or actually against Argentine, know.

Speaker 2 (01:07:00):
Right, And why was that?

Speaker 1 (01:07:01):
Just give me an explanation if you could guess, if
you'll just let them finish the answer.

Speaker 7 (01:07:06):
Spanning out the best team, maybe that's why they were
rooting for them.

Speaker 3 (01:07:13):
Okay, I have listened to this. I listened to it
in the break, I'm listening to it now. It's not
entirely clear to me what Jasmine Crockett is saying. This
was positive to me that she believes cheering for Argentina
makes you a racist, but she she said it both
ways in the question. The other thing that's bothering me

(01:07:33):
about this clip, Sean is that she was speaking to
a man named doctor Blight. And I am now wondering
who is doctor Blight, because doctor Blight that sounds like
a that sounds like a villain from a cartoon, And
in fact, when I googled it, it is a villain
from a cartoon. I believe that was the villain and
captain plant doctor Blake. Okay, I don't I honestly, Jasmine,

(01:07:58):
where have you been?

Speaker 2 (01:08:00):
We've missed you. I mean I have honestly missed her.

Speaker 3 (01:08:04):
But what I appreciate about her to this day is
that she and all of her supporters in Texas continue
to attack and harangue James Tallerico. You know she thinks
that election was stolen from her, by the way.

Speaker 2 (01:08:18):
You know it all right?

Speaker 3 (01:08:20):
And Tim Walls, the other smartest person the Democrats have.
Do you remember the story we brought you a few
days ago where Tim Walls gave a pardon to the
illegal immigrant who had sexually abused over a period of
years the ten year old girl.

Speaker 2 (01:08:36):
Walls pardoned this.

Speaker 3 (01:08:37):
Illegal to try to keep him from being deported, and
Secretary of State Marco Rubio stepped in and said, no,
this guy's out of here. Tim Walls is still willing
to die on this hill. Listen to this cut twelve.

Speaker 12 (01:08:54):
I guess the question I would ask is is.

Speaker 2 (01:08:58):
Did that make us any safer?

Speaker 12 (01:09:00):
Did that make the children that are left behind any
more stable?

Speaker 2 (01:09:04):
Did it improve the idea that we can't all be
judged by our worst day? And I want to be
very clear, these are horrific crime We can't all be
judged by our worst day.

Speaker 3 (01:09:18):
You know what, in the case of a child rapist,
I think it's probably okay if we judge you on
your worst day. Tim Walls, what a buffoon? Are we
any safer? Yes, we're safer. The ten year old children
of Minnesota are probably safer that this illegal immigrant abuser

(01:09:41):
is no longer here. It's kind of shocking to me
how democrats get into these worldviews. I mean, think about
what happened here. An illegal immigrant comes to the United
States sexually abuses a little girl over a period of year,

(01:10:01):
So we're not judging him is on his worst day.
We're judging him on his worst period of years, gets convicted,
goes to jail, and Tim Walls knows when he gets
out of jail he's gonna be deported.

Speaker 2 (01:10:15):
So what does he do.

Speaker 3 (01:10:18):
Let's pardon this guy. Thank god for Secretary of Rubio.
But what's crazy and shocking about this is that, now
that this episode is over and this guy is on
his way out, Tim Walls, you know what. We really
shouldn't have done that. Tim Wall says, No one's saved. Yes,
we're much safer. Tim Walls, you absolute buffoon. How did

(01:10:39):
this person ever This guy was vice presidential candidate for
the Democrats. Unbelievab All right, we're done for the day,
Live from Chicago tomorrow, common sense for the American people.

Speaker 2 (01:10:49):
See then,