Scott Jennings is an American conservative political strategist and writer. He worked in the George W. Bush administration and has been described as an adviser to Senator Mitch McConnell. He is an opinion contributor for CNN, USA Today, and the Los Angeles Times. President George W. Bush appointed Jennings to the position of special assistant to the president and deputy director of political affairs in February 2006. Jennings had previously served as a staff member of Bush's presidential campaign in Kentucky in 2000 and executive director of Bush's 2004 re-election campaign in New Mexico in 2004. Jennings is a founding partner of RunSwitch Public Relations, Kentucky's largest public relations firm, since 2013. He has been writing a regular column for the Louisville Courier-Journal since 2013, and was signed as an on-air contributor by CNN in 2017. Scott is routinely cited as an adviser to Senator Mitch McConnell, and was part of McConnell's campaigns for the U.S. Senate in 2002, 2008, and 2014. Mr. Jennings joined the Los Angeles Times as a columnist in 2019.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is a podcast from wor Now the WR Saturday
Morning Show.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Here's Larry Minty. Good morning and.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Welcome this Saturday morning. On today's show, the conservative star
of CNN who disposes a gang of liberals like Bruce Lee,
Scott Jennings is with us today. Scott, thanks so much
for joining the show today. I appreciate your time.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
I'm so flattered to hear that introduction. Thanks for having
me and love your news round up. There's a ton
of stuff going on out there. Look forward to the discussion.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Oh there is. Let me just tell people about you.
CNN's conservative senior political contributor and author of the upcoming
book Revolution of Common Sense, How Donald Trump stormed Washington
and fought for Western Civilization. Is the book out now
or is it coming out? Can you pre order it?
Speaker 2 (00:50):
You can pre order it on Amazon and it'll come out.
I think they're moving it up to November the eighteenth,
so it's makes an amazing Christmas gift. It's got Donald
Trump on the cover, coming out of the south door
of the White House there and it really just kind
of covers the first hundred plus days of the new administration.
And I was inspired to write it by this line
a revolution of common sense, which he used in the
(01:12):
inaugural address, and he uses it a lot because it's
kind of the new branding of the Republican Party under Trump,
and I picked out some issues that I thought were
indicative of this new branding. And I think people will
like it. If you love Trump, you're gonna like it.
If you don't, or if you're curious, I think you'll
learn something from it. But would be honored if you
pre ordered it today. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Well, I'm a super fan of you and of Donald Trump,
and I know a lot of people that are listening
right now are as well. So it does. It makes
a great Christmas present. Let's talk about the Biden cover
up and what you just heard from Jake Tapp for
a second ago. I know it might be uncomfortable with
you because you work at CNN and CNN was like
(01:52):
media Central for the cover up. How have you dealt
with this on your show?
Speaker 2 (01:58):
On the show, well, I'll tell you how I've dealt
with it for years, which is I had consistently stated
for years and whenever given the chance that I thought
Joe Biden was not in control of his own faculties,
and it was a scandal, and of course people fought
with me. Anchors and other contributors fought with me over this.
They participated in, you know, following the White House line,
(02:19):
which was everything is fine. You know, behind closed doors,
he's riding unicycles and juggling knives and doing trigonometry, and
you know, they went along with the cheap fake thing
that Karine Jean Pierre put out during the twenty twenty
four elections. So I fought this for years. Now everybody
is kind of seeing what a lot of conservatives, like
you and like me, we're calling out. And I'm truthfully
(02:40):
glad they are better late than never, is my view.
And I think this book and all these revelations are
a vital part of the historical record because I actually
agree with what Jake said there and one of the
clips you play it is worse than Watergate because what
we now know is that you had unelected people running
the White House making decisions on behalf for the elected president.
(03:02):
And that's not the way our constitution works. Okay, that's
not the way it works. Not only were they doing it,
that they were lying to the American people about it.
Every senior Democrat in this country participated in the cover up,
from Chuck Schumer all the way down, Keem, Jeffries, you
name it, every media person participated in it. This is
the biggest conspiracy in modern American political history, and so
(03:25):
I'm glad for the historical record of it. We need
to explore, and I think the next thing that needs
to happen is congressional hearings, because these unelected people in
the White House who are making decisions and running the
auto pens need to be held to account.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Oh, I agree with you one thousand percent. I also
wonder if there's any criminality here whatsoever, and if there
isn't there should be because as you pointed out, this
is a group of unelected official and not confirmed not
confirmed by the Senate or the House either that we're
running the country and that cannot ever happen again. So
(03:59):
I hope that they're there is also an FBI investigation
or a Homeland Security investigation just to find out if
there was any criminality in this. I think it right now.
Is that big of a deal? You cover this more
than I do. Is that a possibility?
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Well, I believe for the congressional piece. Yes, I'm from Kentucky,
where Congressman James Comer is the head of the House
Oversight Committee, and he is already making signals that he
is going to be calling people in issuing subpoenas I believe,
and he you know, he's the person who coined the
original phrase the Biden crime family. He got to the
bottom of the Bidens first. I trust Jenie Comer to
(04:40):
do this. I believe they will do it. It needs
to happen because, look, this is the core of our
constitucial republic. The people elect you know, presidents and others
to govern. We don't elect their advisors. Everybody has advisors,
and that's fine, but the core of it is the
president himself has to be the one making the decisions,
signing the documents. He has to be aware of what's
(05:02):
going on. And if that's not what was happening here,
it is the biggest scandal in modern American political history
that you had. You know, somebody called it a pollt
Bureau was running the White House like this cabal of
people that included Hunter Biden, Jill Biden, you know, some
of these staffers like this is not this is not
the way it works. So I believe that you're at
(05:24):
a minimum, going to get congressional oversight here out of
the Republicans, and we need it. Yeah, it's because it
does beg the question some of these decisions may not
have been legal if Biden himself was not aware that
they were being made.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
There that's a show though there's no consequences. There's no
consequences at the end of a hearing, and they're not
going to be able to stop it from ever happening again.
That's why there has to be something more. People have
to be held accountable, and I just I'm not positive
there can be something more, but I wish there was
something more they could do.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
I'll tell you that the one piece of accountability and
consequences that you will get out of this is political accountability.
I mean, the Democratic Party in Congress is already sitting
at like a twenty twenty one percent approval rating. I
think this Biden stuff is driving the party down even further.
And if we get to the bottom of it even
further with hearings, I mean, the American people are going
(06:12):
to be left with an interesting choice in twenty twenty
six and twenty twenty eight, which is that we really
want to put the people back in power who engaged
in the largest conspiracy in modern American political history. So
if you don't have legal consequences, then you could be right,
and I don't you know, I don't know how how
that would go. You will have political consequences, because I
do think the American people feel like they were absolutely
(06:34):
one hundred percent lied to by one of the two
major parties and certainly most of the mainstream media. The
consequence there is Republicans are going to get a chance
to continue to govern. And so you know, that is
a large scale political consequence that I think could come
out of getting to the bottom of it even further.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Yeah, no, I understand that, I get that completely. I
just it's such a big deal. It can never ever
happen again. I do hope that there's some criminality. I
do hope at least we scared them with an FBI investigation,
because I just believe it's that big of a deal.
Scott Jennings, CNN's conservative senior political contributor and author of
the upcoming book Revolution of Common Sense. How Donald Trump
(07:15):
stormed Washington and fought for Western civilization. This has been
a podcast from wor
This is a podcast from wor Now the WR Saturday
Morning Show.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Here's Larry Minty. Good morning and.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Welcome this Saturday morning. On today's show, the conservative star
of CNN who disposes a gang of liberals like Bruce Lee,
Scott Jennings is with us today. Scott, thanks so much
for joining the show today. I appreciate your time.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
I'm so flattered to hear that introduction. Thanks for having
me and love your news round up. There's a ton
of stuff going on out there. Look forward to the discussion.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Oh there is. Let me just tell people about you.
CNN's conservative senior political contributor and author of the upcoming
book Revolution of Common Sense, How Donald Trump stormed Washington
and fought for Western Civilization. Is the book out now
or is it coming out? Can you pre order it?
Speaker 2 (00:50):
You can pre order it on Amazon and it'll come out.
I think they're moving it up to November the eighteenth,
so it's makes an amazing Christmas gift. It's got Donald
Trump on the cover, coming out of the south door
of the White House there and it really just kind
of covers the first hundred plus days of the new administration.
And I was inspired to write it by this line
a revolution of common sense, which he used in the
(01:12):
inaugural address, and he uses it a lot because it's
kind of the new branding of the Republican Party under Trump,
and I picked out some issues that I thought were
indicative of this new branding. And I think people will
like it. If you love Trump, you're gonna like it.
If you don't, or if you're curious, I think you'll
learn something from it. But would be honored if you
pre ordered it today. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Well, I'm a super fan of you and of Donald Trump,
and I know a lot of people that are listening
right now are as well. So it does. It makes
a great Christmas present. Let's talk about the Biden cover
up and what you just heard from Jake Tapp for
a second ago. I know it might be uncomfortable with
you because you work at CNN and CNN was like
(01:52):
media Central for the cover up. How have you dealt
with this on your show?
Speaker 2 (01:58):
On the show, well, I'll tell you how I've dealt
with it for years, which is I had consistently stated
for years and whenever given the chance that I thought
Joe Biden was not in control of his own faculties,
and it was a scandal, and of course people fought
with me. Anchors and other contributors fought with me over this.
They participated in, you know, following the White House line,
(02:19):
which was everything is fine. You know, behind closed doors,
he's riding unicycles and juggling knives and doing trigonometry, and
you know, they went along with the cheap fake thing
that Karine Jean Pierre put out during the twenty twenty
four elections. So I fought this for years. Now everybody
is kind of seeing what a lot of conservatives, like
you and like me, we're calling out. And I'm truthfully
(02:40):
glad they are better late than never, is my view.
And I think this book and all these revelations are
a vital part of the historical record because I actually
agree with what Jake said there and one of the
clips you play it is worse than Watergate because what
we now know is that you had unelected people running
the White House making decisions on behalf for the elected president.
(03:02):
And that's not the way our constitution works. Okay, that's
not the way it works. Not only were they doing it,
that they were lying to the American people about it.
Every senior Democrat in this country participated in the cover up,
from Chuck Schumer all the way down, Keem, Jeffries, you
name it, every media person participated in it. This is
the biggest conspiracy in modern American political history, and so
(03:25):
I'm glad for the historical record of it. We need
to explore, and I think the next thing that needs
to happen is congressional hearings, because these unelected people in
the White House who are making decisions and running the
auto pens need to be held to account.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Oh, I agree with you one thousand percent. I also
wonder if there's any criminality here whatsoever, and if there
isn't there should be because as you pointed out, this
is a group of unelected official and not confirmed not
confirmed by the Senate or the House either that we're
running the country and that cannot ever happen again. So
(03:59):
I hope that they're there is also an FBI investigation
or a Homeland Security investigation just to find out if
there was any criminality in this. I think it right now.
Is that big of a deal? You cover this more
than I do. Is that a possibility?
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Well, I believe for the congressional piece. Yes, I'm from Kentucky,
where Congressman James Comer is the head of the House
Oversight Committee, and he is already making signals that he
is going to be calling people in issuing subpoenas I believe,
and he you know, he's the person who coined the
original phrase the Biden crime family. He got to the
bottom of the Bidens first. I trust Jenie Comer to
(04:40):
do this. I believe they will do it. It needs
to happen because, look, this is the core of our
constitucial republic. The people elect you know, presidents and others
to govern. We don't elect their advisors. Everybody has advisors,
and that's fine, but the core of it is the
president himself has to be the one making the decisions,
signing the documents. He has to be aware of what's
(05:02):
going on. And if that's not what was happening here,
it is the biggest scandal in modern American political history
that you had. You know, somebody called it a pollt
Bureau was running the White House like this cabal of
people that included Hunter Biden, Jill Biden, you know, some
of these staffers like this is not this is not
the way it works. So I believe that you're at
(05:24):
a minimum, going to get congressional oversight here out of
the Republicans, and we need it. Yeah, it's because it
does beg the question some of these decisions may not
have been legal if Biden himself was not aware that
they were being made.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
There that's a show though there's no consequences. There's no
consequences at the end of a hearing, and they're not
going to be able to stop it from ever happening again.
That's why there has to be something more. People have
to be held accountable, and I just I'm not positive
there can be something more, but I wish there was
something more they could do.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
I'll tell you that the one piece of accountability and
consequences that you will get out of this is political accountability.
I mean, the Democratic Party in Congress is already sitting
at like a twenty twenty one percent approval rating. I
think this Biden stuff is driving the party down even further.
And if we get to the bottom of it even
further with hearings, I mean, the American people are going
(06:12):
to be left with an interesting choice in twenty twenty
six and twenty twenty eight, which is that we really
want to put the people back in power who engaged
in the largest conspiracy in modern American political history. So
if you don't have legal consequences, then you could be right,
and I don't you know, I don't know how how
that would go. You will have political consequences, because I
do think the American people feel like they were absolutely
(06:34):
one hundred percent lied to by one of the two
major parties and certainly most of the mainstream media. The
consequence there is Republicans are going to get a chance
to continue to govern. And so you know, that is
a large scale political consequence that I think could come
out of getting to the bottom of it even further.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Yeah, no, I understand that, I get that completely. I
just it's such a big deal. It can never ever
happen again. I do hope that there's some criminality. I
do hope at least we scared them with an FBI investigation,
because I just believe it's that big of a deal.
Scott Jennings, CNN's conservative senior political contributor and author of
the upcoming book Revolution of Common Sense. How Donald Trump
(07:15):
stormed Washington and fought for Western civilization. This has been
a podcast from wor
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