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October 4, 2024 45 mins

(Full Show) When tragedy strikes, it's great to see Americans come together. However, there are forces that only look to politicize and capitalize on tragedy. Jesse Kelly explains how Democrats are doing that with Hurricane Helene. Jesse also gets an update from Savanah Hernandez on the ground in Maine, which has suddenly become a border state amidst a port strike. Plus, Senator Eric Schmitt discusses censorship while Sean Spicer takes a look at the 2024 map. 

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Let's talk about the government, America, Americans, the response to
this hurricane stuff. We have Senator Eric Schmidt here, Savannah Hernandez,
Sean Spicer with some October surprise stuff, all that coming up,
and I'm right, all right, let's talk about the government, America, Americans,

(00:29):
the Hurricane Hellene response, the aftermath, the flooding. Let's just
have a chat about all this Before we get specifically
to the hurricane and FEMA and the government and those things.
I want to talk about anti humans. This is going
to be about the government, anti humans, what their motivation is.
Why do they say the things they say, why do

(00:51):
they do what they do, and why do they not
do the things they don't do. I'm sure that's not
how you're supposed to put that, but you understand what
I mean. Why don't they do this? They should do that?
They don't they do this, they shouldn't. Why, Well, we
call them anti humans. I didn't come up with that phrase.
Others have used it before for communists. But why anti human?

(01:14):
Why are they so anti human? Well, we could get
into the demonic nature of the communists, but we don't
need to do that right now. I'm gonna talk I'm
gonna go a different route. Have you ever known somebody
you undoubtedly have. Have you ever known somebody in your
life who is transactional? Ever had a transactional friend, neighbor,

(01:35):
acquaintance kind of guys you never hear from him. Six
months to a year, you don't hear from him. Calls
you up out of the blue one day, Hey Bill,
let's go get a beer on thisia And you're thinking, yeah,
I'll go get a beer with him. And you go
sit down for a beer with him, and within five
minutes he's asking to borrow your tool set and needs
to borrow your car along with it. And then it

(01:57):
dawns on you. Light bulb goes on, Wait a minute,
you want to have a beer with me. I'm transactional.
I'm just I'm used. I'm used for his purposes and
beyond his purposes. He never thinks of me at all.
You've known people like this in your life, You've worked
with people like this. There are people like that. Well,

(02:19):
when your government turns evil, when the people who lead
your country lose any sense of honor or duty to
the people, the government, the people who occupy your government,
they turn transactional. You the American citizen. You're just transactional

(02:41):
to them. And you see this by the differing ways
they respond to differing challenges, disasters that I don't know
what we're going to put on a tragedies. Remember just
a couple of nights ago, when jd. Vance was beating
the crab at a tim wall the debate. Remember when

(03:02):
Sandy Hook came up.

Speaker 2 (03:04):
I think all the parents watching tonight, this is just
your biggest nightmare.

Speaker 1 (03:07):
Look.

Speaker 2 (03:08):
I got a seventeen year old and he witnessed a
shooting at a community center playing volleyball. Those things don't
leave you. As a member of Congress, I sat in
my office surrounded by dozens of the Sandy Oak parents
and they were looking at my seven year old picture
on the wall. Their seven year old were dead, and
they were asking us to do something.

Speaker 3 (03:27):
You previously opposed an assault weapons ban. But it only
later in your political career did you change your position.

Speaker 4 (03:33):
Why?

Speaker 2 (03:33):
Yeah, I set in that office with those Sandy Oak parents.
I've become friends with school shooters. I've seen it.

Speaker 1 (03:40):
We'll set aside that last little verbal hiccup there. Friends
with school shooters, But see what he did there. We're
years removed from Sandy Hook, and not that it's not
still horrible. It's awful. One of the worst days of
my life, to be honest with it. That didn't personally
involve me. Awful. Anyway, we're years removed from Sandy Hook,
and we're at a VP debate in the Year of

(04:03):
Our Lord twenty twenty four, and Walls is bringing it up.
And he even noticed. He brought up the picture of
his son, his seven year old son, and then the parents.
Why do you think Tim Walls goes to sleep at night,
wakes up in the morning and spends even a split
second thinking about Sandy Hook. Well, no, Sandy Hook was

(04:24):
an opportunity, wasn't the tragedy? The communist doesn't think in
those terms. When you're in anti human there's no such
thing as a human tragedy. You understand, no such thing.
It doesn't matter. You think, well, if it got too bad,
they would care. No, no, no, no, no, there's no such thing
as a human tragedy. And to an anti human, because

(04:49):
they're purely transactional, no matter what happens, whether it's great,
whether it's terrible, everything is simply an opportunity, an opportunity
to move the revolution forward. President of the United States
of America, surveying the worst hurricane aftermath since Hurricane Katrina,

(05:09):
and honestly, from the things I'm hearing on the ground,
it may end up being worse. He made it about
climate change. Let me close of this. Nobody can deny
the impact of climate crisis anymore, at least I hope
they don't. They must be brained. And if they do, imagine,

(05:29):
as President of the United States of America, you're surveying
death bodies hanging from the trees, homes wiped out, people
still missing their loved ones, and you bring up climate
change and try to put a little bow on that argument.
And now you can't argue it anymore. How could you

(05:49):
be so cold? Look, they did it at the debate
the other night. This thing happened before that debate, and
this was how it was talked about during the debate.

Speaker 3 (06:00):
Let's turn out to Hurricane Helene. The storm could become
one of the deadliest on record. More than one hundred
and sixty people are dead and hundreds more are missing.
Scientists say climate change makes these hurricanes larger, stronger, and
more deadly because of the historic rainfall.

Speaker 1 (06:25):
It can't help themselves. Why it's a transactional relationship. You
if you're in East Tennessee, you're in North Carolina, your
life's been wiped out, your grandma washed away, you haven't
seen your dog in three days. Still there's no tragedy there.
You're transactional. You see, I can look at your suffering.

(06:48):
If I'm an anti human no matter what you are
going through, if I don't care about humanity or you,
you're just an opportunity for me. Now they know, they
know they can't be two forward about that. They tried
to cover it up in the best of ways, but
it's interesting that even when they try to cover it up,

(07:09):
it kind of comes out of them in the worst ways.
Did you see what they're doing for the victims? Seven
hundred and fifty dollars?

Speaker 5 (07:20):
And the federal relief and assistance that we have been
providing has included FEMA providing seven hundred and fifty dollars
for folks who need immediate needs being.

Speaker 1 (07:31):
Met seven hundred and fifty dollars. Did you know that
FEMA spent six hundred and forty one million dollars this
year alone on illegal immigrants? Did you know that, yes,

(07:53):
that's right. The emergency disaster relief federal government organization took
six hundred and forty one million dollars of your money
this year alone and handed it out to illegals. And
when people American citizens in North Carolina and Tennessee, Georgia,
Florida lost everything, the federal government showed up and handed

(08:18):
them a seven hundred and fifty dollars check. It's so
insulting they might as well have showed up, lined every
single survivor up, and spit in every single one of
their faces. Now, let's be clear about something. It's not
that the federal government actually should be involved in this
at all, because they can't be. They're such a disorganized,

(08:41):
evil disaster they can't be. But now that they are,
normal Americans are seeing just how deeply evil, treasonous, in
disloyal the United States government has become hundreds of millions
of dollars to bring foreigners into your country to take
your job, your school, your health care, and your home.

(09:04):
And if a flood or a hurricane happens to wipe
you out, they'll stroke you a seven hundred and fifty
dollars check and then complain that you're whining a little
bit too much. That is the kind of government we
currently live under. Evil. These people are evil. They're not wrong,
they're not bad. We're dealing with some kind of anti

(09:28):
human evil here that is palpable, and we better accept
it and act on it. Now. That said, I know
it's it's been a lot of terrible tragedy, terrible stories.
The things people are texting me and emailing me from
the ground over there are so so bad. It's so bad,

(09:52):
And as more and more comes out, we will all
see just how bad it's been. Obviously, all that's the bad.
The government's bad, the tragedy, he's bad. It's terrible, but
on the lighter side, on the better side, not lighter,
but on the better side. What I've seen from Americans
since Helene tore through this country has been so amazing.

(10:16):
I haven't felt this inspired. I know that's odd in
the face of so much tragedy and death to feel inspired,
But I haven't felt this inspired about my fellow Americans
since Hurricane Harvey happened. Hurricane Harvey happened in my area,
the Houston area, and the whole place was underwater for days,
and the place did not descend into anarchy, as so

(10:36):
many places around the world would. We cared for each other.
Everybody did everyone. It was universal. People came from other states,
from across the country just to help, food, water, rafts, boats.
We had the Cajun Navy cruising in from Louisiana, like
the Spanish Armada. I was so inspired watching it, watching

(10:57):
neighbor help neighbor. And now you have just devastation. Towns
along the river washed away. There's gone, and Americans from
all over the country, many of them veterans, not all,
but many of them veterans, swooping food, water, medical care, shelter,
repairing bridges. What has been happening over the last few

(11:20):
days not by the federal government. All they can do
is ruin everything and screw everything up. But what has
been happening over the last few days should inspire you
about your fellow Americans. Yes, our government is stupid, evil
and wrong, but the American people are not. And what
America is is the American people. We are not the government.

(11:42):
It's you, it's me, it's all of us. And in
the face of unimaginable tragedy and suffering, Americans once again
stood up for their fellow Americans and will continue to
do so. That is where my hope lies in you.
All that may have made you uncomfortable, but I am

(12:02):
right now. Savannah Hernandez has been all over the reporting
on the impact of illegal immigration on American communities. She
is going to join us next to discuss that for
a few minutes before she does that. I love Pure Talk,
I just do. I love Pure Talk. I always love

(12:23):
them anyway because, look, they share my values. They send
money to veterans, helping get them back on their feet.
They don't spend a bunch of money on putrid filth
like all the other major cell phone carriers do. They
I've always loved Pure Talk, but maybe the thing that
means the most to me is their CEO is a
Vietnam veteran, two tours mac v sag dude is Look,

(12:49):
he loves America, would die for America, has proved it
over and over again. How about Verizon AT and T
T Mobile? Do you get that with Pure Talk? You
get that you can keep your phone, keep your number.
It's the same Vibe G network. You're not sacrificing service.
Make the switch its cake. Spend a few minutes on
a website, puretalk dot com slash JESSETV. You want to

(13:12):
keep your phone keeping, you want to change your phone
changing want it's easy, make the switch, support a company
who shares your values. Well, the bad news is the
border is wide open and murders and rapists are flooding

(13:33):
into the country. But the good news is there are
so many states in this country that are far away
from the border and it's obviously not going to affect
them at all. I mean, think about it, Maine, They're
obviously not struggling with any of this. Joining me now,
Savannah Hernandez one of the real, I mean talented street
reporters I've seen in this country. She's a reporter for

(13:55):
Turning Point USA. Savannah, Look, it's bad here in Texas,
but at least it's okay in Maine, right.

Speaker 6 (14:07):
You know, Jesse, I wish I could say so, but unfortunately,
and we have been to three separate, very small towns
here in Maine, and you're actually seeing the immigration crisis
up this way. So we hit Bangor, we hit Lewiston,
and right now we're in Brunswick, which is closer to
the bigger city here in Maine, and we are seeing
migrants from particularly Africa all the way up here, which

(14:30):
I was very surprised about. They also have a very
big Somalian population up this way, which again was surprising
to me because I wouldn't expect these people to be
all the way up in May.

Speaker 1 (14:42):
Okay, Savannah, you told us right before you got on
that there's something about that apartment complex right there over
your shoulder. What is it?

Speaker 7 (14:51):
All?

Speaker 6 (14:51):
Right, Jesse, so you're actually getting my exclusive. I'm going
to be putting this out later tonight or tomorrow actually,
but I'm currently standing in front of the apartment that
were created initially for main residents but are now being
used to house migrants up here in Maine, and I
just want to kind of pan with you guys. You
guys can see these buildings behind me, but migrants are

(15:12):
getting two years of free rent. The units are completely furnished,
they have balconies, and also they get free utilities. Right,
we went and we spoke to the people who actually
live here, and we asked them, Hey, are you paying
any water bills, any electricity bills? They said, nope, we
are not. And Jesse, I know that FEMA is very
popular in the news right now, so a big surprise

(15:34):
to your guests. This is a county that received funding
from the exact same FEMA program that spent about a
billion dollars sheltering illegal immigrants all across the nation over
the past twenty twenty three to twenty twenty four this
school year. And again, this is the same FEMA that
said that they do not have funding for victims of

(15:55):
Hurricane Helene.

Speaker 1 (15:57):
Okay, I'm sorry, Savan, I just I hate to ask
you to repeat yourself. Did you just say that they
brought in a bunch of people from Africa, gave them
fully furnished apartments, and they're paid.

Speaker 8 (16:08):
For by who.

Speaker 1 (16:10):
Please don't tell me the American taxpayer is paying this
when they can't afford groceries.

Speaker 6 (16:15):
So I, unfortunately do have to say that it is
the taxpayers that is putting the bill for the two
years of free rent for these migrants. And again, Jesse,
there's a caveat here that the migrants, if they do
get a job, that thirty percent of their income does
have to go to their rent. But whether or not
they get that job, they are still guaranteed two years
of free rent. And again we have to ask the question,

(16:36):
at what point as an American, has the government ever
given you a because again, these are marketed as premium apartments. Oh, Jesse,
this one you're gonna love this. As an American, you
want to rent one of these apartments, it's going to
cost you around eighteen hundred dollars for a one bedroom,
twenty three hundred for a two bedroom. But if you
are a migrant up this way from you know, Congo,
Haiti and Goola, you can go ahead and get two

(16:57):
years of free rent.

Speaker 1 (16:59):
Good twenty three hundred for a two bedroom. I am
so old. I couldn't imagine have afforded that. Okay, Savannah,
But before I let you go, I'm sure you've spoken
to people who are actual residents of Maine, residents of
that area. Are they aware, alarmed, angry, happy about all this?
What do they say about any of this?

Speaker 6 (17:19):
Well, as you would imagine, Jesse, because we are on
the East Coast, a lot of the people over here
do have very liberal leanings. I mean, if you even
look into the local news in some of these areas
where I did speak to residents, and they were saying, yeah,
there's an uptick in violence, there's an uptick in shooting.
I had a coworker who was robbed at this very building.
I got that for it, because you know, classic mequ
I'm walking down this city area and this guy's like, hey,

(17:43):
just be careful because our coworker got robbed at that house.
And the house that you're right up to is a
drug dead, so be careful. The residents again very much
talking about the uptick in crime and the uptick in violence,
how they are feeling unstafed. Other residents, however, sharing that
it's not an issue and that they actually want to
welcome war migrants. We talked to a member of Catholic
charities actually, who said they brought one hundred and fifty

(18:04):
migrants up to bang Or, they're bringing one hundred and
fifty more and they are planning to have the door
open so they can continue to keep receiving more and
more migrants.

Speaker 1 (18:12):
Good God, Savannah, please stay safe out there. Be good.
Thank you for what you do. Jeez. Anyway, are you
gonna have trouble sleeping at night after all this? No,
you're not, because even after all this, you're gonna have
dream powder from Beam. You know that dream powder is

(18:32):
the best, and it's not because it puts you to sleep. Yes,
that's nice, but let's be honest, it's nothing that special
about that. There's lots of things you can take that'll
put you to sleep, over the counter things, prescription things.
How many things make you feel good though when you
wake up from that sleep? Not many. In fact, I've

(18:52):
never had any except for dream powder from Beam because
it's natural. It's a couple of hot chocolate, it's got
melotonein natural things in it. It puts you to sleep,
but it's when you wake that actually matters. You wake up,
those eyes of yours flutter open, and you know, oh,
that was good sleep. It's gonna be a good day.
Go get some dream powder from Beam in your life

(19:16):
Shopbeam dot com, slash Jesse Kelly, we'll be back.

Speaker 2 (19:23):
Who did he lose the twenty twenty election.

Speaker 9 (19:31):
Tim, I'm focused on the future. Did Kamala Harris censor
Americans from speaking their mind and the wake of the
twenty twenty COVID situation?

Speaker 2 (19:40):
That is a That is a damning non answer.

Speaker 9 (19:42):
It's a damning non answer for you to not talk
about censorship. But you guys attack us for not believing
in democracy, the most sacred right under the United States
democracy is the first Amendment. You yourself have said, there's no
first amendment right to misinformation. Kamala Harris wants to yearn
the power the government and big tech to silence people
from speaking their minds. That is a threat to democracy

(20:05):
that will long outlive this present political moment.

Speaker 2 (20:07):
You can't yell fire in a crowded theaters. That's the test.
That's the Supreme Court tsk tim fire in a crowded theater.
You guys wanted to kick people off of Facebook for
saying that toddler shouldn't wear a mountain fire and a
crowded theater.

Speaker 9 (20:21):
That is criticizing the policies of the government, which is
the right of every American.

Speaker 1 (20:28):
You'll notice the Kami Hag moderators stomped all over JD.
Vans when he was making the most effective point there
that these people wanted people censored for saying toddlers shouldn't
wear freaking masks. But setting that aside, let's just talk
for a moment about how built in, how I don't know, conditioned,
we are to some of the most insane things. You

(20:49):
realize that an American politician at any level saying you
should be able to censor hate speech that in and
of itself should end your political career. You probably should
have to move your family place and change your name,
because hate speech is the most protective thing. Joining me
now is Senator Eric Schmidt of a State of Missouri. Senator,

(21:09):
if you wouldn't mind, since you're a lot more eloquent
about this stuff than I am, which you explain to
people about the importance of freedom of speech and not
that it's just speech you and I happen to agree with.
If I want to stand up at the rooftop and
say something insane and hateful and awful, I'm an American
and I should be allowed to do so.

Speaker 8 (21:27):
That's right.

Speaker 10 (21:28):
And really the First Amendment is the beating heart of
our constitution. What it means is that you have the
ability to speak your mind. It protects fundamental human expression,
including and especially those ideas that people find really offensive.
And we ought to defend the idea that somebody can
say something like that because in our country, a substitute
for violence that we see around the world, political violence

(21:50):
throughout history and in the world, is supposed to be
us making these decisions at the ballot box, in speaking
our mind in the town square or the virtual town
square as it exists now. And so the real quote
unquote threat to democracy has been the one political party
that's been trying to jail their political opponent, trying to
turn ten to fifteen million illegal immigrants into voters, and

(22:11):
the political party that engage in a vast censorship enterprise
with some of the biggest companies in the history of
the world. And that's Kamala Harris's record, that's Joe Biden's record,
that's Anthony Fauci's record, that's all these all of these agents,
agencies that are engaged in this to shut down speech,
whether it's Hunter biden laptop, whether it was efficacy of masks,

(22:32):
whether it was the Wuhan, you know, the lab origination
of fact that people called the conspiracy theory at the time,
we're supposed to be able to dissent and guys like
Tim Walls, they don't believe in that.

Speaker 8 (22:43):
And that's the real, like I said, threat to democracy.

Speaker 1 (22:48):
It is. And setting aside that goober from Minnesota, I'm
shocked at how pervasive this way of thinking is with
the people who lead Really, I was about to say America,
but really, is all of Western civilization. This video of
John Kerrey has been making the rounds, and it is
frightening if you consider the implications of what he says here.

Speaker 7 (23:09):
But look, if people go to only one source and
the source they go to is sick and you know,
as an agenda and they're putting out disinformation, our First
Amendment stands as a major block to the ability to
be able to just you know, hammer it out of existence.

Speaker 1 (23:29):
Yeah there is John Kerry, Yeah, hammer it out, Senator,
What does he want to do with it? Exactly?

Speaker 10 (23:36):
Well, if we could just get that testy constitution out
of the way, they can all the experts could decide
what we could think it here.

Speaker 8 (23:42):
I mean, it is totally insane. But look at this
guy ran for president.

Speaker 10 (23:45):
John Carey was like, he's the climate zar, he was
Secretary of State. This is not some blogger in his basement. Like,
this is how pervasive this idea is among you know,
twenty twenty four Democrats. This is not your your grandpa's
a liberal where they would actually defend free speech. This
is sort of like the full culmination of a Marxist

(24:07):
ideology where it's focused on total power and control.

Speaker 8 (24:11):
That's what this is all about.

Speaker 10 (24:12):
It's to silence people, it's to intimidate people, and that's
what the First Amendment stands to protect. And by the way,
it's also worth mentioning, Jesse, that the media just sort
of is okay with this now too. They're a mouthpiece
for the left. They don't check any of this stuff
the only fact checking they do. And I'm glad JD

(24:35):
stood up and pushed back against those moderators because again
it was a three on one once again, but he
performed great won that debate and I think made a
really important case as you led with the fight against censorship.

Speaker 1 (24:50):
Senator, you're there in the belly of the beast. I
say oftentimes that the people who lead this country see
themselves not as servants or senators or congressman or presidents
or whatever they happen to be. They see themselves as
kings and queens, and we're the peasants. And they're really
really just kind of aggravated by the fact they can't

(25:10):
rule like kings and queens. But you're there. I'm not
am I wrong.

Speaker 10 (25:15):
Well, I think what you've seen over the last one
hundred years, Jesse, is when we talk about the dangers
of the Administrative State. Look, you know, they had this guy,
Joe Biden, who was mentally incompetent.

Speaker 8 (25:27):
If the poll numbers would have suggested.

Speaker 10 (25:29):
Otherwise and Trump didn't have the knockout blow in that debate,
they would have been perfectly happy having him be the
front man because they knew they could wield all.

Speaker 8 (25:38):
This power through these agencies. Same with Kamala Harris.

Speaker 10 (25:40):
I mean, she's not some Barack Obama meets Elvis Presley
phenomenon or something.

Speaker 8 (25:44):
Right, She's like.

Speaker 10 (25:46):
They were criticizing her just a few months ago, but
they don't really care because as long as they have
somebody as a mouth piece, they can do their bidding
through these agencies that are not accountable to anybody. Again,
that's the threat to democracy. They're totally fine with that.
And the idea that you're hitting on is that in
our republic, we're supposed to be accountable. Like, as a senator,

(26:09):
the people of Missouri, they sent me there.

Speaker 8 (26:11):
They can send me back, or they can send me home.

Speaker 10 (26:14):
We don't vote on stuff anymore because Chuck Schumer does
these omnibus bills. We don't vote on things anymore because
they just let these agencies do their bidding, and that's
why one of the reasons why people are frustrated. In fact,
in my opening speech, the first speech ever gave Jesse
coming from being Attorney General to this job, I talked
about the two real threats to our republic. The first
is we're talking about both of them right now, this

(26:36):
sort of threat to democracy that we have with censorship
and the growth of the administrative state. Those are the
two main reasons, as I see it, why there's so
much frustration out there is because people feel like they
elect people but nothing really changes in their life, except
it gets worse when you have terrible leadership like Joe Biden.

Speaker 1 (26:51):
Kamala Harris Senator. How do we fix that? There are
so many moments that stand out to me. One of
the ones that really drove it home was when Chuck
Grassley was and I think this is before you were there,
you were still dominating in the state of Missouri. But
Chuck Grassley was interrogating Christopher Ray, and Christopher Ray essentially
told him to his face to hurry it up, that

(27:12):
he's got a plane to catch. Grassley sat there, dumbfounded,
and Christopher Ray got up, popped on a plane and
went on vacation. That is not the way the balance
of power is supposed to work. If you're the director
of the FBI, you should be pooping your pants when
the chairman of the Judiciary Committee wants more time with you,
And yet it appears to be flipped. How do we

(27:34):
flip it back?

Speaker 10 (27:36):
Well, I think a couple of things need to happen.
The first is we've got to have a budget process.
I think people think Jesse that we like have individual
appropriation bills and people get to offer amendments and we
get to say, you know what, I got a problem
with this agency. We're going to pull funding from that.
We got to get their attention. There needs to be
a policy change. But instead there's just one big otibus

(27:58):
right before Christmas, very little put in sort of permanent Washington.

Speaker 8 (28:02):
Gets its way. We got to fight against that. Number one.

Speaker 10 (28:04):
Number two, I think getting President Trump into office. He's
got four years. I think he is committed committed to
actually undoing some of these wrongs in being someone who
can have a legacy of defanging these agencies. Because a
lot of presidents of both parties, by the way, have
been perfectly happy to see the executive branch as power grow.
We got to get that away from the executive branch

(28:26):
where they're not really accountable, back in the legislative branch,
where we have to vote on things like if you
want to ban gas stoves, we should have to vote
on it. If you've got some crazy idea that you're
trying to shove down the throats take away their liberty,
we should have to vote on it. Then every two
or six years we come before the voters and we're accountable.
We don't have any of that right now.

Speaker 1 (28:46):
Speaking of accountable Senator, we cannot have John Cornyn, John Thune,
the same old group of losers, system serving losers running
the United States Senate in the GOP. But I under
stand from my sources that Cornan is right now the
leader in the club house because the good guys don't run.

(29:06):
I don't know whether Rick Scott is going to mount
a run or not, but we cannot have this otherwise
nothing ever changes.

Speaker 8 (29:14):
Well, I'm taking this very seriously.

Speaker 10 (29:16):
There's Rick Scott has declared that he's running, John Cornin
is the Clarity's running, and John Thune has declared the running.
I'm talking to each one of them because I want
to see reforms. I want to see a Republican party
that reflects who our voters are, right and so that
when we go back up there in January, we actually
have an agenda we're going to get We're gonna protect

(29:36):
people's pocketbooks, we're going to protect their liberties, and we
don't get caught up in the things that permanent Washington
wants to do. So it's a very important decision. These
kind of opportunities to pick a new leader don't come
up very often.

Speaker 8 (29:48):
About once in a generation.

Speaker 10 (29:49):
There's a whole new group of folks there that I
think share a similar view that I have, and so
it's a very one on one kind of thing right now,
where you're just trying to talk to everybody that's running
a sense of what their plans are.

Speaker 1 (30:03):
Fingers crossed, Senator, you're one of the few good ones
we have. I appreciate you very much on the show.
Thank you. All right, It's October Surprise Time. Sewn Spiceer
is always all over this stuff. He's going to join
us to talk about it next. It's October. I know

(30:28):
that's breaking news, but it's October, and that of course
means it's October Surprise Time. And I'm just going to
prep the ground before we bring in Sean Spicer to
give you all the breakdown of this. But remember this
October surprises somehow still take many political people by surprise.
There are going to be breaking scandals, breaking news. Oh

(30:48):
my gosh, I can't believe this. It happens every single
election cycle. And unless you're prepped and steeled and ready
for it, you're not going to be ready for it.
So here we are. It's October, were a month before
the election, give or take. There are going to be
huge things drop in the news and pushed for purely
political reasons. So get ready joining me now the man

(31:10):
who knows a lot more about this than me and
most of a Sean Spicer of The Incredible Shawn Spicer Show. Sean.
The October surprise is used because the October surprise works.
My friend.

Speaker 11 (31:22):
Yeah, Well, look the bar for an October surprise, he's
gotten pretty high. After you see in a president get
two assassination attempts, the other party president get pushed out
of the way for a person that never got a
single vote. So I feel like the October surprise, like
the bar keeps getting higher for what we're going to
get shocked with. We've already seen a port strike, Israel

(31:43):
under attack, a natural disaster.

Speaker 4 (31:46):
Look, I am concerned.

Speaker 11 (31:47):
I think that in normal circumstances, this Jack Smith filing
yesterday so close to an election would have gotten a
lot more attention. But this we're almost getting numb to
what a surprise you know will mean right now. But
I am concerned because look what we saw in the
last two debates was a message that has gone out

(32:10):
to the media and everybody, which is we have to
stop this guy from getting back in.

Speaker 4 (32:16):
So there's something coming.

Speaker 11 (32:18):
I don't know what it is or when it would
because if that were the case, I'd buy more Powerball tickets.

Speaker 4 (32:23):
But what scares me right now.

Speaker 11 (32:26):
Jesse, is that I think that the establishment world understands
what an existential thront Donald Trump poses to the way
of life that so many of the folks in DC
live by to make money to keep power, and so
I think I worry about it as we get into

(32:46):
these final thirty days. Every day I'm going, Okay, is
this the day that they shock us with something?

Speaker 1 (32:52):
Sean, walk me through the decision making process of the mustache.
I shaved one of those in a couple of years
ago because I'm a huge fan myself, and my wife
through an absolute fit. She didn't like it at all.
I think that's a manly look. That's what a man looks.
A man has a good mustache like that. Walk me
through the decision making process there for me.

Speaker 11 (33:14):
M yeah, I just I do it every July and
then I just kept going. But I think our wives
are probably on the same page. My wife was like, Okay,
this is huge. I tolerate this for a couple of
weeks in July, but can you get rid of it?
And every week I keep saying, all right, I'll get
rid of it.

Speaker 4 (33:32):
I don't know. I don't know.

Speaker 11 (33:34):
Maybe it's because I haven't been able to in the past,
just for professional reasons. But I kind of enjoy it.
It makes the mornings a little bit more easier. But
I will tell you it's not I think you wear
it well. I don't know that. I feel like I'm
treading on Leprechawn territory.

Speaker 1 (33:52):
Well, my wife doesn't think I wear it well. Okay,
back to the serious stuff, Sean. I actually I go
exactly what you just said there. In fact, I just
had a conversation with my wife about that, since we
weren't talking about my mustache last night. That these people
are pushing all their chips to the center of the table.
They have convinced themselves and sadly half the American public

(34:13):
that's stopping Donald Trump is the only thing that matters.
It doesn't matter what rule, what law, whatever you have
to do to throw aside. You must stop him at
any cost. Now, some dirty communists tried to kill him twice.
We've had two straight debates where the moderators honestly, it's
not even biased, Sean, they were always biased. It was
over the top. It was over the top to the

(34:34):
point it was clear the networks are all in as well.
If everyone's all in and we're a month before the election,
I am concerned, my brother, I am I'm safety. I
am yeah.

Speaker 11 (34:46):
I think big tech potentially a Jack Smith thing. I mean,
there's a few of these things that I think are right.
What could big tech do to throw something out there?
I mean, I'll give you two instances. One the Timmy
and Tianum and Square right. First of all, how do
you for decades tell people you're in tiennem and Square
and at one of the largest uprisings in modern history

(35:07):
and suddenly go, you know, the more I think about it,
I was at target outside of Dinah, Like, how do
you not know that you were at there?

Speaker 4 (35:15):
And the CBS folks just let it go.

Speaker 11 (35:17):
It's a pattern of lying over and over again that
any candidate would have to deal with. He lied about IVF,
he lied about carrying weapons of war, he lied about
his command sergeant major thing, he relied about getting an
award in Nebraska.

Speaker 4 (35:28):
And the guy's got a pattern. But then, secondly, the.

Speaker 11 (35:30):
Story that came out in the Daily Mail where Doug Amahoff,
who is now the new standard bearer for max sculinity,
is accused. First a few weeks ago, not accused. He
apparently it's not even an accusation. He got the nanny
knocked up in his first wife and then paid her off.
And then this one there's an actual allegation of abuse.
And the Democratic Party in those around Doug Mhoff, who

(35:53):
they put in this campaign. Just to be clear, I'm
not a big fan of going after families. They decided
that he was going to be the new standard bearer
for masculinity, and now we get told, don't worry, there's
nothing I mean, like, where's Doug m Hoff responding to
the story as a normal person. This is this is
something that should be outraging every woman that says there's
an accusation that he got drunk and he hit a woman,

(36:16):
and yet we're not even having anyone ask a single
question about it. I just I find it ridiculous. And
so surprises come in both ways, Jesse. And so the
issue is we're going to see some surprises that come
out that go after Donald Trump, right, like I said,
big tech election interference and other prosecution.

Speaker 4 (36:35):
But then they're going to.

Speaker 11 (36:37):
Suppress anything that comes out on their side because what
would normally, I mean, this should have been a nightly
news story.

Speaker 4 (36:43):
This should be full on.

Speaker 11 (36:45):
The second gentleman, the person who would be you know,
the new first gentleman, has these massive allegations.

Speaker 4 (36:52):
He has a history of you know, issues.

Speaker 11 (36:54):
With women, and here we go nothing, zero, not a
And they admit it on the first by the way,
with the nanny that they withheld that information or in
the vetting process when she was up for VP. What
else have they lied out? What else is in Doug
Amahoff's background. And I get he's not the president, but
This is continued pattern of people around Kamala Harris that

(37:15):
have problems.

Speaker 1 (37:18):
It's an ugly pattern as well. And as you pointed out,
they held this guy up as the standard of the
new masculinity, which was hilarious with that effeminive dork. But
we're not going there right now, actually because I do
want to ask you about some electoral things. All right,
Obviously we're not going to make politics anything about Hurricane
Helene and the things those people are going through. But

(37:40):
North Carolina is a swing state. It's important. It's hard
to see how this stuff couldn't have some effect on
the election. Donald Trump, to his credit, pause his campaign
to go do some things there. But these kind of
disasters do they affect elections Sean in any way?

Speaker 11 (37:58):
Yeah, So there's two ways that they have affect the
election overall. When you're the incumbent, So Kamala Harris situation,
how do you react to that?

Speaker 4 (38:05):
How do you get aid to folks?

Speaker 11 (38:07):
So you know, you back, you look back through you
know kultrinas Sandy, et cetera. How the incumbent office holder
handled that disaster is important.

Speaker 4 (38:16):
So that's the one hand.

Speaker 11 (38:17):
But then the second point, which I think you're getting
at is the electoral piece itself, right. I mean again,
God bless the people who are dealing with this. I
hope they get the aid that they said. But we're
thirty days out from an election. I think we need
to talk about this. If you're the Democratic Party in
North Carolina where you've relied on early vote and absentee
ballot vote, mail in vote, and.

Speaker 4 (38:36):
Suddenly that's taken off the table, plus the.

Speaker 11 (38:38):
Ability to effectively communicate with them through mail, phones, digital,
et cetera. Right, So if you're down in the Asheville
or western area of North Carolina and suddenly communicating with
you is troublesome getting mail to you you don't have
internet or television, then that that that's a key element
that doesn't exist. But then secondly, how can those people
cast a ballot? Republicans have a huge inherent advantage on

(39:01):
election day voting, and so right now as long as
they you know, it's October. Third, can they get everything
these institutions back up? Because most of these local governments,
these municipalities are dealing with as they should be the
issues at hand. I have a feeling that this could
potentially really hurt the Democrats, But it's going to be interesting.

Speaker 4 (39:21):
To see how it plays out.

Speaker 11 (39:22):
You got a lot of rural area out there in
western North Carolina, So the question is who does it
affect more. But I will say when you're relying largely
on absentee and early vote, not just in North Carolina,
but in Georgia as well, this could really be a
problem for Democrats. And remember this is two of the
seven swing states. I did a road to two seventy

(39:44):
on my show last night. I do it every Wednesday.
Right now, if Trump takes Arizona, Georgia, in North Carolina,
which I believe he will, he only needs to win
one of those Midwest Blue Wall states Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin,
and the game's over. He's back in the White House
with over two hundred and seventy electoral votes.

Speaker 1 (40:05):
Which one of those rust belt states Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin
looked the best for us the last time we talked.
I know I asked you this exact same question, and
I believe you told me Pennsylvania. But does that mean
I don't want to say we're writing off Wisconsin or Michigan.
I'm not saying that at all. But is that kind
of the game here focus on Pennsylvania and just kind
of cross your fingers and hope for Wisconsin or Michigan.

Speaker 11 (40:28):
So I'm going to say something that I haven't even
said on my own show. This is where you just
went out on timing, damn you is Pennsylvania. I think
when you look at the new registration numbers, it's all moving.
I mean, you look at these registration numbers and the
trend and polls. I feel very good about it for Trump.
But I'm going to say this here on your show
before I say it anywhere else. I believe that Trump

(40:50):
is going to carry all three of the Blue Wall states. Now,
somebody may watch this and say, Sean, you're an RNC guy,
You're a Trump guy. But I'm going to tell you
this isn't based on who I want to win. I
would tell you when I do this Road to two seventy.
The last couple of weeks, I've shaded Wisconsin and Michigan
light blue, then moved in the toss up. The trend
is going in Trump's favor. In Michigan. I'll make this

(41:12):
prediction as well. I believe that Mike Rogers will win
the Senate race there over a lease slockin the current
congresswoman there. The trend is moving. Rogers just went up
five in the latest Trifogger poll. Trump is moving in
the right direction. You've got to look at the trend
and where they're headed. And right now, the trend in
all those states. Now we're thirty days out, but the
trend in every one of those states is pro Trump.

Speaker 1 (41:37):
I actually tend to agree with you. That is a
jaw dropping thing to come out and say. I will
give you that, but I agree that everything feels like
it's going Trump's way. And what frightens me back to
what we were talking about in the beginning, is it
seems like democrats see that as well. In a scared
democrat is a scary thing. Okay, Sean, Before I let
you go, I have to ask you this. The ground

(41:57):
game stuff. I get mixed reviews. I have all of
people on the ground in different places with just friends
of mine. I don't have people but friends of mine.
And in some places I hear about we're doing better,
We're doing great, better that we've ever done. In some
places I hear where are they? I don't see the
Trump campaign?

Speaker 11 (42:11):
Where are we Yeah, So this is where you and
I are opposites. I have people, I don't have friends,
so you've got the friends. So maybe we should all
get together at a point because I need the friends,
not the people. But you know, look, I will say this,
you are not wrong to be worried about this. This
is the first time in history where the law now

(42:33):
allows outside groups turning point USA Action America First Works
Action to handle activities that traditionally had been done by
the campaign. And when I asked James Blair, the political
director of the Trump campaign, on my show, if he
had confidence in this, and by the way, I'm gonna
have Michael Wattley, the chair of the RNC, on Friday

(42:53):
on my show, I'm gonna ask him the same question.
He said to me, James Blair, unbelievably honest. I have
more confidence in some than others. That is not a
ringing endorsement, Jesse. That's concerning. The only thing that gives
me hope is when you look at a place like Pennsylvania.
You's got a guy like Scott Presler out there, and
the numbers don't lie. You look at Lucern County and

(43:14):
a bunch of the counties in the middle, the registration
numbers of newly registered people is outsurpassing what.

Speaker 4 (43:21):
The Democrats did.

Speaker 11 (43:22):
Right in Virginia, my state, we got more. We are
trailing them, but we are losing by less than we
did last time. Republicans vote on election day, So if
we can actually just close the gap on early vote,
that's a good.

Speaker 4 (43:37):
Sign for us.

Speaker 11 (43:38):
So as much as I'm concerned, it's sort of like
going to the doctor after a diagnosis. Things look okay,
don't You're not out of the woods yet. But I
think we're moving in the right direction. So I am
cautiously optimistic, is the way i'd probably phrase it to you.
I'm concerned about the reliance on too many third parties.
It just it's not it when you can't control something,

(44:00):
that's a problem. That being said, the numbers are good,
which is what matters.

Speaker 1 (44:08):
Figgers crushed. You want more of that. That's why I
watched the Shawn Spicer show. Go watch a Sewn Spicer show. Sean,
my brother, you your mustache, have a good day. All right,
lighten the mood next. All right, it is time to

(44:28):
lighten the mood. And I just want to once again
say something that I mentioned at the beginning of the show,
Hurricane Helene has been awful. The aftermath is awful as
we speak right now. People are suffering and it's really
really tragic and terrible. But the American people rallying around them,
supporting them, flooding in there to help in every possible way, airlifts,

(44:52):
medical supplies, food, water. Watching it has been so inspiring
to me. So with all the ugliness and our politics,
seen elections and all of that stuff out there, you
should still remember that Americans are good. We are good people.
We are good to each other. Even when our government
is evil, we are good. So keep a hold of that,

(45:14):
all right, all right, let's see them all
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