June 25, 2025 • 33 mins
In this episode, Scott Jennings, a senior political commentator on CNN, discusses the role of media in breaking information silos, the radical shift in the Democratic Party, the influence of money in politics, and the impact of COVID-19 on education. He also addresses the accountability of political figures like Randi Weingarten and the role of the press secretary, while promoting his upcoming book, 'A Revolution of Common Sense.' The Tudor Dixon Podcast is part of the Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Podcast Network. For more visit TudorDixonPodcast.com
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the Tutor Dixon Podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
We have a guy who is out there every single
day who is a champion for common sense and we
consider him a national treasure and he agreed to come.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
On the podcast today.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
I'm so excited because we have Scott Jennings with us.
He is a senior political commentator on CNN, but he's
also I mean, the reason he's so smart is he's
been a former special assistant to the President of the
United States George W. Bush, a former advisor to Senator
Mitch McConnell. And you are a fighter every single day, Scott,
thanks for joining me.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Well, thank you, And it's an honor to meet you
and to be here with you Tutor on your podcast.
I've been a fan from Afar and yeah, I'm out here.
I'm out here trying to light a candle in a
dark room every day. And boy, we got plenty to
talk about in the news right now, don't.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
We so much? So much? And actually I watch what
you're doing.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Obviously we all are watching it, and a lot of
times we see those viral clips of you. But I
was wondering, behind the scenes, do you ever have someone
reach out to you and say wow, I had no idea.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Well, you know, I hear from all kinds of people actually,
and it's one of the great things about working at CNN.
We actually have internally a great community. You know, most
of us who are commentators here, we do get along
and we do you know, I think we educate each
other sometimes, you know. Van Jones and I on Saturday
had an interesting discussion actually where he admitted that, you know,
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maybe there was some information that he wasn't getting because
of the information silo that he is in on.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
The masks on ice agents.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
That to me, I found that really interesting because I
think that that happens so often. People are like man,
so I just so the audience knows you. He was
asking you if you thought it was right that these
guys were wearing masks when they go and they apprehend
illegal aliens. And you explained to him that the masks
are for their protection, and he was I was.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
I appreciated his honesty.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Well, yes, it was a good discussion, and he said, look,
I think maybe in my information silo, I'm just not
hearing about that. And so Van is an example, and
he's one of my best friends here, but he's one
of He's an example of a thoughtful person. He's a
thoughtful liberal. He has an open heart and he has
open ears. Not all liberals are like that, maybe most aren't,
but Van is an exception. And that's why I've come
(02:17):
to really admire him, and I like being on the
air with him because he listens and we do have
engagement with each other. We don't always agree, of course,
and he has strong point of view about the President's
immigration policies, but in that particular case, you know, that's
a situation and an example of why I'm doing this
job at CNN, because I'm one of the few people
here who's going to bring up a topic like that
and a new angle like that. No one else at
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the network is going to do that, and I think
that's valuable for our audience. And you know, we're sort
of popping bubbles. We're trying to break those information silos,
and you know, that's why I value the job. This
is my This month is my eighth anniversary at the network,
and you know, in the last year, I think that role,
you know, that bubble popper has been more valuable than ever.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Absolutely, because we we I think on the right, we
are in an information silo. We put ourselves into those silos, right,
and so this is a that's a place where we
actually see differences of opinion. I know you had a
congressional candidate on Newsnight at Gosh, I don't know. It
was a few weeks ago, now, I think from Illinois,
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and I love the way that you asked her, really
think about it. Do you want illegal aliens to get
free healthcare? And she openly said, yeah, I do. But
the debate it makes people think, well, gosh, maybe you
are taking away you pointed.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Out so well, you're taking it away from an American.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Yeah, that was a cat from Illinois. I think that's
the Jan Shankowski steat up there. I subsequently found out
that she's not actually from that district, and so she's
some sort of an online influencer and they're just sort
of finding a congressional district for her to run in.
I don't know what will happen in the Democratic product interesting,
but the conversation was valuable because she matter of factly
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said yes, the position of the Democratic Party is that
all illegal aliens should receive free health care benefits from
the federal government. And then my other's barring partner, BUTCARI
sellers use the term undocumented citizens to describe illegal aliens.
And so you know, sometimes people ask me, like, you know,
why do you go into this torture chamber every night?
(04:20):
That is why, because these conversations that we're allowing to unschool.
And I have to credit CNN. You know, we're the
only network putting a real debating show on the air
right now. When you let these things on school and
you ask very simple questions, you get very revealing answers
from the left about how they really feel about things
and what we've been able to uncover on that show
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from people like that congressional candidate and others. I think
I think it's overall it's good for American public discourse.
But it helps our viewers understand what are the actual
positions of the Democratic Party, what is the actual ideology
the left? And maybe this has gone a little too far.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Right now, Well, it's I mean, you have a special
talent for this, I have to say, it's people watch it.
And for people who are watching, when you are out
there with your sparring partners as you call them, it
is not easy to be as quick on your feet
as you are and the amount of knowledge that you have,
and clearly it is a lot due to your experience,
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but the ability to push back on these people, especially
when it comes to what's going on in Iran right now,
because obviously you've got these folks on there that are saying,
oh my gosh, he's declared war. That in and of itself,
the Civics lessons that you have to put out in
and of themselves. No, he did not declare war. This
was a strike. Yes, it had to be secret. And
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he did a great job with deception. And you've done
a great job pointing that out.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
What's that like, Well, you know.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
It's predictable because unfortunately, and you probably experienced this, you know,
and some of the people you talk to. Unfortunately, the
main ideology of the left and the Democratic Party right
now is if Donald Trump is for something, or if
he does something, I must suppose it must be wrong.
And what I pointed out last night on the air,
in fact, is that you know, occasionally for the left,
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for Democrats, the correct answer is good job, mister president.
This was a smart one. It would be so much
wiser just to go with that than what they're currently doing,
which is raising all sorts of nonsensical arguments forgetting about
their past with Barack Obama. I mean, I was on last.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Night anti war president. Remember said, yeah?
Speaker 3 (06:23):
She said, she said, well, I work for an anti
war president. I mean, you know the amount of bombs
and countries and drones that Barack Obama, you know, sent
across the world versus what Donald Trump is trying to do.
And so you know, I just I counseled them. I've
put a post on X yesterday. Maybe just say good job,
mister president. And you know, this was a good decision
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because they all will, ultimately most of them will say
Iran should not have a nuclear weapon, which is the
correct answer. Well, in this case, we had a window
to stop them, and Donald Trump took advantage of that window.
A lot of American presidents of both parties have said it.
Only Trump did something about it. And now Iran is
weak and wouldn't it be better to negotiate with a
weekend Iran than Iran with a nuclear weapon? Of course
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it would. So this is undoubtedly a good move by
the president. We're in a stronger position. Why can't they
just say that?
Speaker 2 (07:10):
And I don't love to live in the past, but
I do think that when people are pointing these things
out or saying things like I would work for the
anti war president, I think it is important to go
back and say what you just said, that he was
dropping bombs in many different countries. But also, okay, let's
unpack if you worked for him, what was the strategy there?
(07:31):
Because he was dropping bombs on civilians And we see
Donald Trump very strategically with very few people knowing, but
a very strategic attack on specific facilities meant to eliminate
a nuclear program. So what was the method of strategy
for Obama when he did what he did and killed civilians.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Well, look, he inherited the global war on terror from
President Bush, and I have no doubt that he had
at times military leaders and intel legence officials saying, you know,
here's a bad person. We need to eliminate this bad person. Look,
that happens when you're the president. People walk in and
tell you those things. But if you look over eight
years the volume of bombing and the volume of drone
strikes that he ordered, you know, you could have a
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debate about whether that was right or whether that was wrong.
But what you cannot have a debate about is Barack
Obama's disposition. He was not anti war, he was not
anti strike, he was not anti using American power when
given every opportunity to do so. And now the mythology
around him is kind of weird to me. All these
Obama people, they're constantly arguing, Oh, he's a man of peace,
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he was an anti war. He really wasn't. You know.
You don't have to change history. We can all look
back on the news and see what he did. Now.
Contrast that with Donald Trump. He really is I think.
You know, he's changed our conversation from war in peace
to peace and war. And in this case, as you
pointed out correctly, he took a strategic targeted action here,
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not against individuals, but against nuclear facilities, which everybody seems
to agree was good and righteous because we don't want
Ron to have a nuclear weapon. But he has not
just indiscriminately bombed several countries. That's not really been his disposition.
He's used the military when it made sense, he's shown
restraint when it makes sense, and he's always always talking
about the need for peace. That's really different, I think
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than what Obama you know, did over his eight years.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
You were in a conversation not too long ago, and
Debbie Dingle was there. She's a congresswoman from the state
of Michigan, from my state, and she was pointing out
that the Democrats need to not just be against Donald Trump,
but be four things.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
I love that you said, oh no, you are four things.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Your four girls in boys sports, you're four illegal aliens.
But you also pointed out that the leaders of their
party right now are Jasmine Crockett and AOC, which she
just lost.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
I mean, you could.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Tell I know her expressions, I'm familiar with her. You
could tell she was just beside herself by that comment. Now, obviously,
you know, Debbie is seventy one. She took her husband's
congressional seat. She's been in there with Nancy Pelosi, and
they have not stepped aside for new leadership. And therefore
the aocs and the Jasmine Crockets have kind of taken
up all the error in the room. AOC is right
(10:10):
now campaigning with this a lunatic socialist in New York.
But Jasmine Crockett has been interesting in the past few
days because she comes out and she's like, why did
President Trump do this?
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Over the weekend, Like we're working on Monday, call us
at during.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Work hours and let us know which she has no
idea what the Constitution says, what the War Powers Act says.
She has no idea anything about law, and yet she
is a law maker, which to me is very scary.
But in this country, you can campaign and you can win,
and that's why people are out there calling out what
they're saying. I don't know if you saw last night
she said I make this decision. People don't understand I
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make this decision, and I wasn't. Nobody asked me my opinion.
How do you get around this?
Speaker 3 (10:54):
I did see that clip, and you know your reference
Congresswoman Dingle, who I'm on with from time to time.
She does a lot of TV. I actually feel a
little bad for her because I think deep down she
knows that it is crushing and destroying her political party
from AOC and Jasmine Crockett and these absolute radicals to
be taking over the party. I mean, if you just
(11:14):
turn on your television, turn on any media, what Democrats
are you likely to see? AOC and Crockett. They are
the unquestioned spokespeople or leaders of the Democratic Party, and
they're radical and they're out of the mainstream. And for
people like Debbie Dingle, who probably thinks of herself as
more of a mainstream Democrat, she's been totally shoved aside,
and the party has been completely hijacked by these radicals.
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I don't really think they've learned anything from the twenty
twenty four election. The American people rejected this radicalism, they
rejected this kind of left wing cultural and political lurch,
and now they appear to be doubling down on it.
And like you pointed out in New York City, if
this you know, radical socialist communist wins in New York City,
I mean you can see the Democratic Party has learned
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the wrong lesson. They're moving farther and farther to the left,
which means through the Republicans, they could probably OutKick their
historical coverage in the twenty twenty six midterm and maybe
elect another Republican president in twenty twenty eight. The Democrats,
I think, are making a grave mistake right now. The
American people don't want radicalism, they want normalcy, and I
think that's what Trump is doing. He's restoring common sense
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and normalcy, and the Democrats are going in the opposite direction.
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Now stay tuned. We've got more after this. While you
look at the Zoron who is running for mayor in
New York City, and you aptly pointed out socialists but
actually communists, and I think that's that has been the
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trend of the Democrat Party. You've watched David Hogg come
out and he campaigns for all these socialist values, but
he's out there saying I'm a capitalist. I'm a capitalist,
and he's stepped over that line now because he's openly
indoorsed Zorin, who's come out and said I'm a socialist.
And I think that what you're hearing when they say
one thing, they're just that next level. Because Zorin is
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out there saying I'm a socialist, and then he's telling
you he wants city owned grocery stores. It blows my
mind that people are rallying around us, Yes, I want
the government to own my grocery store.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
How did that happen?
Speaker 3 (14:33):
You know, I watched this guy, Zorin, and I saw
this video this morning actually where they've pieced together his
career and he's using all these different accents over time,
different sort of different characters. And then you look at
Jasmine Crockett, same thing. You know, they sort of invent
these characters, even Kamala Harris during the election last year,
depending on who she was talking to, they would sort
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of invent these voices and these characters to try to
meet the audience or meet the moment. And then you've
got this character Padia, who I still couldn't pick out
of a lineup. If you are a million dollars trying
to lunge at Christy noanan a press conference, it's all theater,
you know, It's all a bunch of theater. And I
don't know. I can never tell do they really believe
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these things or are they just being theatrical with these
positions in the moment because they think that's where the
energy is among their base. I don't know what they
actually believe, because they keep inventing these characters in these voices,
and I don't know who they really are. But what
I believe is they've settled on this idea that people
want you to be more left winging, more radical, more progressive,
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more socialists, and you know, that's what we've got right now.
We've got one political party that's largely running on common
sense and normalcy, and one political party where all the
energy is behind socialism and left wing radicalism and you know,
frankly violent tendencies. If you look at the energy on
the left and this Free Palestine movement, which I think
is a domestic terrorism organization, there's a lot of energy
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right now behind people who are borderline or sometimes over
the line violent. I think it's very dangerous.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
I think that's the frustration when I hear this Zoron
guy come out and say, this is not.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
With any money. I'm doing this with no money. This
is just the people. This has been kind of his mantra.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Well, no, he has these movements behind him that have
hundreds of millions of dollars, and the Free Palestine movement
has a massive amount of money. What was the most
recent and the No King's Movement, which is just those
people moving into a new arena and the pro Iran
people moving from pre Palestine into to let's support these
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dictator butchers. It's crazy. Where is the funding coming from?
Because Zorin's not doing this because he's just massively popular.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
There is money behind him.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Of course, if you look at all these gatherings, I mean,
nobody can print that many flags for free, and nobody
can change the flags they're printing that quickly. You look
at what happened in LA. You know, somebody pulling up
in a pickup truck in the middle of the riots
in LA handing out gas masks. I mean, they didn't
order those off Amazon. These are being provided to the
people who are showing up at these demonstrations. And so
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it's a great question and we should get to the
bottom of it, because obviously there are people out there
who would like to see the downfall of American culture.
They would like to see the downfall of the West.
I mean, I've said many times, and the title of
my book is references the fight for Western Civilization. I
think we're on the cusp of the fight for the
future of the West right now. I mean, there are
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massive amounts of people in the United States who would
love to see the West go down, who would love
to see America as we know it fundamentally be destroyed
and built back into something that none of us would recognize.
And I think those people have money, and I think
they have ambition. And I think when you see these demonstrations,
whether it's Free Palestine or the riots in la or
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people behind this guy in New York City, at their core,
what do they believe? That America's rotten, that the West
is rotten, and that we got to tear it down
and start over. It's not good. I think the American
people are ultimately going to reject this ideaology. But you
can see there is money and there is energy behind it.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
So I agree.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
I keep thinking that the American people are going to
reject it, but I do think that money is power,
and there is We've seen this throughout history. If you
get to the youth, you can eventually change it over years.
In a generation, you can kick the old people out.
And you see that rhetoric online too. Pretty soon all
of these boomers are going to die off, and then
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it'll be the Gen xers are going to die off,
and the new generation believes in complete communism. And I
know that people say, oh, that's that's a radical theory.
But the fact that New York City is on edge
right now because they think this guy is going to
win the primary tells me that there is a lot
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of support for this.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
So a couple things. Number One, the age thing is
interesting to me because if you look at some of
the big protests on the left right now, if you
actually look at the video, are these a lot of
boomers out there, like a lot of boomers out there?
You know, first they're you know, they're going after Elon.
Then it's free Palestine. And at the same time, there
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is some polling to indicate that younger voters, especially the
youngest age eighteen to twenty one, are actually some of
the more conservative people in the country. And I chalk
it up to this. We close their schools and we
wouldn't let them in school. We ruined their childhoods. And
they know exactly who did it to them, People like
Gretchen Whitmer where you live. She did it to them.
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These democratic governors close their schools and ruined their childhoods
and set back their education. We warned them open the schools,
and they wouldn't do it. And now the kids are pissed,
and I think a lot of them are actually conservative.
I think the energy that you see on the left
right now behind this radicalism is it's not all age related.
Some of It is just that we have people in
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the country who fundamentally want to destroy what the core
of American life really is. They want to destroy Western values.
They don't believe in the the values that built this
country and that, you know, the pillars on which Western
civilization have stood. They don't believe in it. They believe
in this oppressed oppress or framework. You're either oppressed or
you're an oppressor, and they believe the United States is
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fundamentally oppressive. They believe the people, you know that Donald Trump, Republicans,
you know whatever, are fundamentally oppressive and they must be destroyed.
That's what they believe. And this ideology, of course, is
taught and fomented on college campuses. I think there are
some young kids who don't believe that, they reject it,
but there's a lot of people in America right now
who are buying into it. You know, we settle these
things at election time. I think we had the first
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test in November. That's why Donald Trump won the election,
and I think convincing fashion. We're going to have it
out again in the midterms, and we'll have it out
again in twenty twenty eight. But the fight for the
West and the fight for America's future is real because
it's not just over a little policy differences. It's about
the core. Who are we as Americans? Is the West
going to survive? Those are the questions I think we'll
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be asking in the next elections.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
So there are powerful people that we don't vote for
that and I hate to admit that they're powerful. But
you recently had a conversation with Randy Weingarten, and if
you don't know who she is, she's the president of
the American Federation for Teachers and that's the second largest
teachers union. She kept kids out of school. She now
is saying, oh, no, I tried to open schools. I
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was this great person. But recently she stepped away from
the DNC, and I think that conservatives were kind of
going way a minute.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
She had an.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Actual position at the DNC because she is in a
unique position where she gets to siphon the funds out
of the public schools because she's taking money from teachers
that aren't allowed to opt out of her union, so
she just siphons their right off of their paycheck, which
is taxpayers are paying them, so it's a public union.
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She decides to put that money into the DNC, where
she apparently has a.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Position, and she is meeting with the CDC.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
We find out she is helping the CDC come up
with decison visions of what they're going to do when
COVID hits and keeping kids out of school. So she's
very influential with the federal government. She's very influential with
one party. I mean she's a member, and she's a
member of their committee. She's on the rules committee. She
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stepped away because David Hog got kicked out, and you
could kind of see how this was going because she
resigns on June fifth. That was obviously going through the
rules committee. They're making up this Oh he's the wrong gender,
so we got to kick him out. But the reason
they were kicking him out was he was going to
primary these Democrats. So he's like, I'm going to put
twenty million dollars into primary safe Democrats with these radical socialists.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
She was pro David Hogg.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
These people are not elected, but they have power over
our kids.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
Yeah. Randy wine Garten is one of the most destructive
people in American politics. What she did during COVID to
help keep the schools closed to the detriment of millions
of school children, including mine. I have four. I will
never forgive and I will never forget, and I don't
think millions of parents will ever forgive or ever forget
what she did when she went on this tour to
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try to rewrite history. Oh, I was trying to open
the schools. I mean, it would be funny if it
weren't so tragically ridiculous what she did to set back
a generation of children. I mean, we destroyed their futures.
I mean, and it's not the rich kids. Let's be honest.
People with resources, people with means. You know, you can
sometimes buy your way out of things. Poor kids, working
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class kids, black kids, brown kids, the kids who have nothing,
the kids who have you know, are already behind to
begin with. Those are the ones that she destroyed. Those
are the kids that the Democratic Party claims to fight for,
and she and the Democrats and the Democrat officials. Those
are the ones that they really really destroyed their futures.
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And there's been no apology, no admission, no guilt to nothing,
just a bunch of lies about what they actually did.
I cannot believe she continues to try to rewrite history
on this The people who were fighting so hard to
keep the schools closed, and now kids can't read, they
can't do math. We have kids going off to college
who can't achieve basic levels of reading in math in
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order to participate in college. It's an outright rolling disaster
laid at the feet of Randy Winingarten and the people
who enable her in the Democratic Party. It's despicable. We
should never forget it.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
I have four kids too, and one of the things
that I notice is the speech issues.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
That we have.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
My kids, my youngest were My youngest are twins, and
they were in gosh, they must have been in second
grade when the pandemic hit, and the kids in their
class and older. My middle daughter is two years older,
so second and fourth grade. It's been surprising to me
the speech issues that those kids have because being out
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of school for that period of time for a year
and a half, where it was critical that they learn,
that they change how they were speaking, and that they
have that speech therapist available. Those specialties were so critical,
and those kids are going to suffer for years to
come because of those decisions that they now say, Oh,
that's not that's a decision we made.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
I totally agree with you. Two of my children have
learning differences and have gone to special schools for that,
classrooms that are specifically designed to make sure that they
can learn how to read, that they can overcome their
learning differences. To close their schools was a tragedy for them,
a tragedy for any kid out there who had any
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kind of special need in their educational You know, these
kids are as smart as anybody, but they can overcome
it with the special eyed learning environment. Closing their schools,
I mean, this is not a trivial thing, and they
gave no thought to it whatsoever. And I just the
lack of remorse. I mean, if one person would just
(25:55):
come up and say, you know what, we overdid it.
We overreached, we overreach acted, We didn't listen to the evidence.
Look what happened around the world Western Europe, basically every
other civilized country realized you could open the schools and
they all did it and we didn't. And why did
we not do it? One reason? Teachers unions. That is
why it happened. And Randy Weingarten was the top of
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that pyramid of those that constellation of teachers unions, and
I just you know the fact that they can't even
admit today. Yeah, you know, a little remorse, how about
a little humility, Like, listen, we did the best we could,
and we were operating with imperfect information, and we you know,
we overreacted. Any of that would be better than what
they're doing now, which is to ignore the problems they
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caused and to deny that they had anything to do
with it. It's outrageous. And yet Democrats, you know, they
continue to prop these people up. And you know, if
they made those terrible decisions, then imagine what they would
do to your kids on some other issue in the future.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
Right, and you and you talk about the political theater.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
I mean, think about back then you had you had
the nurses and the doctors doing these coordinated dan and
posting them on social media. And you had the teachers
writing their own obituaries and telling people how much danger
they were in even though kids were proven, like you said,
in other countries, kids were proven that they weren't spreading
the disease.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Let's take a quick commercial break. We'll continue next on
the Tutor Dixon Podcast. One last thing I want to
get to.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
You did talk about the caricature of the politician and
the you know, creating characters. That's what we've seen in
Michigan with Gretchen Whitmer, with all of her social media.
Governor Barbie, we went through that whole scenario for a
long time. Karine Jean Pierre, though, she has been a
very interesting one because she was kind of like this.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
You know, she was a historical figure.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
She told us multiple times she's a historical figure, the
first black, lesbian press secretary that there was, and gosh,
she was making history.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
She was absolutely lying. We know she knew.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
I mean, gosh, it would be criminal if she didn't
know that the president was incapacitated, and now she's going
to try to make money off of it.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
I agree she is historical. I think there have been
thirty six White House Press secretaries, and historically she's the
worst one. So congratulations on your historic achievement of being
the literal worst person to ever hold that job. Standing
up there behind that podium, which is a special podium
because it has to seal on it. You're in the
White House, don't You're not a political actor. You work
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for the government, You work for the people of the
United States. You uphold, you know, that special trust. And
she stood there every day and lied, lied, lied, And
you know, one of the worst examples, of course, as
you well remember, the whole cheap fake episode. We've got
videos of Joe Biden clearly wandering around, clearly out of it,
clearly incapacitated, and went up to that podium and told
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reporters and told the world, oh, these are invented videos,
these are doctored videos, These are cheap fakes. That episode
alone ought to get her banished from all politics and
government forever and ever and ever. Now she has this
book coming out, she says she's left the Democratic Party,
which congratulations, Democrats, you got rid of somebody that you
don't really need. But the fact that Joe Biden put
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her in as press secretary and then elevated her gave
it her another promotion at the end of his administration
tells you that he knew he needed an outright liar
and propagandist to stand at that podium to cover up
for him what they did to hide from the American
people the president's condition. I mean, it can all be
told now, right, we have the books, We have everybody
coming forward and saying, oh, yeah, he was totally out
(29:34):
of it. But at the time people talk about constitutional
crisis or the big lie. Let me tell you what
the crisis is an incapacitated president and unelected people around
him making decisions. Let me tell you what the big
lie was that Joe Biden was up to the job
of president of the United States. That's a fact. And
the people who perpetrated that crisis on this need to
be held to account. There has to be accountability for this.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
Yeah, I think that the American people. I just think
about this in the history books. How will it be
portrayed that we had a president who was completely mentally
incapable of having that position, and yet there was an
entire staff that pretended like he was capable. You before
I let you go, you have a book coming out.
I want to talk about that. It's a revolution of
(30:19):
common sense, which is right absolutely how Donald Trump stormed
Washington and fought for Western civilization.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
Tell us about that really quick.
Speaker 3 (30:26):
Yes, well, I thought of it in January. I was
watching the president's inaugural address and he used that phrase,
a revolution of common sense, and I thought at the time, well,
that would be a great title for a book. And
then over the next few weeks I was thinking of
writing a book and then just like I figured that
should be the title, because when you think about the
branding of the Republican Party right now, is a conservative
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what is it? Right now? That's the branding. We're the
Party of common sense, and conversely, the Democrats are the
Party of uncommon nonsense. But I think this whole branding
of common sense is what allows Trump to have this broad,
ideologically diverse coalition. And you've got everybody from Elon to
RFK to you know, the traditional Republicans to the Libertarians.
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I mean, he has brought together this coalition of people
and it's all around this concept of common sense. And
I think it's common sense in service of fighting for
the future of Western civilization. So I had an idea
for the book. I went to the Oval Office in February.
I asked the President if he would cooperate. He said yes.
So the book is largely revolves around big issues he
(31:31):
tackled in the first one hundred or so days. And
you know, it's hard to stop writing a book like
this because the minute you stop writing, something else happened.
So it'll come out in November and there'll be things
in there that I didn't quite get to because of
the way book publishing works. But it's got Donald Trump
on the cover. You can go to Amazon right now
and type in Scott Jennings Revolution of Common Sense. You
can pre order it. You'll have it in November. You'll
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have it in time for Christmas. It has a beautiful
photo of Donald Trump on the cover, coming out of
the White House. And I think if you love Trump,
you'll love the book. And if you don't, you might
learn a little bit about how he makes decisions, how
he executes leadership in the White House. It might make
you a little smarter about his presidency.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
Well, that's actually what I was going to say.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
I think that right now so many of us are
trying to figure out how to have those conversations. We
started this by me telling you. I mean, you amaze
me every single day. Every time I see a clip,
I'm like, how can I be more like Scott Jennings?
And then I see that you're writing a book, and
I'm like, that's how you know? But I think we
all need to understand that it's time to push back.
(32:28):
And you don't push back nasty, You're not aggressive. You
push back with facts, and so I appreciate that you
are writing this because it gives us something to have
in our arsenal to go after the liberals who are
yelling at us and just calmly respond.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
So I encourage everybody to go get it.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
Thank you very much. I told the President at the
time that I thought a hundred of you know, the
normal Washington insider types would write books crapping all over
him and everything he wants to do. But there needs
to be one book that could tell one of his
supporters or anyone in this country truth about the first
hundred days, why he arrived at some of the decisions
that he did, and do it in an unvarnished way.
(33:07):
I write from the perspective of a common sense view,
a conservative view, a Middle America view. So thank you
for the book promotion. It's called a Revolution of common Sense.
I look forward to you reading it. I'd love to
hear your thoughts on it. But thanks to the President
and his staff and the cabinet secretaries for participating in it.
I think you're gonna find some great nuggets in there.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
Wonderful well, thank you, thank you so much for coming on.
Scott Jennings. Everybody get that book and check him out.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
He's a Warrior for us.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
Thank you, thanks Tutor, and thank you all for joining
us on the Tutor Dixon Podcast.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
For this episode and others, go.
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To Tutor diixonpodcast dot com, the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts,
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Speaker 1 (33:48):
Have a blast day.
Welcome to the Tutor Dixon Podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
We have a guy who is out there every single
day who is a champion for common sense and we
consider him a national treasure and he agreed to come.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
On the podcast today.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
I'm so excited because we have Scott Jennings with us.
He is a senior political commentator on CNN, but he's
also I mean, the reason he's so smart is he's
been a former special assistant to the President of the
United States George W. Bush, a former advisor to Senator
Mitch McConnell. And you are a fighter every single day, Scott,
thanks for joining me.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Well, thank you, And it's an honor to meet you
and to be here with you Tutor on your podcast.
I've been a fan from Afar and yeah, I'm out here.
I'm out here trying to light a candle in a
dark room every day. And boy, we got plenty to
talk about in the news right now, don't.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
We so much? So much? And actually I watch what
you're doing.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Obviously we all are watching it, and a lot of
times we see those viral clips of you. But I
was wondering, behind the scenes, do you ever have someone
reach out to you and say wow, I had no idea.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Well, you know, I hear from all kinds of people actually,
and it's one of the great things about working at CNN.
We actually have internally a great community. You know, most
of us who are commentators here, we do get along
and we do you know, I think we educate each
other sometimes, you know. Van Jones and I on Saturday
had an interesting discussion actually where he admitted that, you know,
(01:25):
maybe there was some information that he wasn't getting because
of the information silo that he is in on.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
The masks on ice agents.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
That to me, I found that really interesting because I
think that that happens so often. People are like man,
so I just so the audience knows you. He was
asking you if you thought it was right that these
guys were wearing masks when they go and they apprehend
illegal aliens. And you explained to him that the masks
are for their protection, and he was I was.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
I appreciated his honesty.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Well, yes, it was a good discussion, and he said, look,
I think maybe in my information silo, I'm just not
hearing about that. And so Van is an example, and
he's one of my best friends here, but he's one
of He's an example of a thoughtful person. He's a
thoughtful liberal. He has an open heart and he has
open ears. Not all liberals are like that, maybe most aren't,
but Van is an exception. And that's why I've come
(02:17):
to really admire him, and I like being on the
air with him because he listens and we do have
engagement with each other. We don't always agree, of course,
and he has strong point of view about the President's
immigration policies, but in that particular case, you know, that's
a situation and an example of why I'm doing this
job at CNN, because I'm one of the few people
here who's going to bring up a topic like that
and a new angle like that. No one else at
(02:38):
the network is going to do that, and I think
that's valuable for our audience. And you know, we're sort
of popping bubbles. We're trying to break those information silos,
and you know, that's why I value the job. This
is my This month is my eighth anniversary at the network,
and you know, in the last year, I think that role,
you know, that bubble popper has been more valuable than ever.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Absolutely, because we we I think on the right, we
are in an information silo. We put ourselves into those silos, right,
and so this is a that's a place where we
actually see differences of opinion. I know you had a
congressional candidate on Newsnight at Gosh, I don't know. It
was a few weeks ago, now, I think from Illinois,
(03:19):
and I love the way that you asked her, really
think about it. Do you want illegal aliens to get
free healthcare? And she openly said, yeah, I do. But
the debate it makes people think, well, gosh, maybe you
are taking away you pointed.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Out so well, you're taking it away from an American.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Yeah, that was a cat from Illinois. I think that's
the Jan Shankowski steat up there. I subsequently found out
that she's not actually from that district, and so she's
some sort of an online influencer and they're just sort
of finding a congressional district for her to run in.
I don't know what will happen in the Democratic product interesting,
but the conversation was valuable because she matter of factly
(03:59):
said yes, the position of the Democratic Party is that
all illegal aliens should receive free health care benefits from
the federal government. And then my other's barring partner, BUTCARI
sellers use the term undocumented citizens to describe illegal aliens.
And so you know, sometimes people ask me, like, you know,
why do you go into this torture chamber every night?
(04:20):
That is why, because these conversations that we're allowing to unschool.
And I have to credit CNN. You know, we're the
only network putting a real debating show on the air
right now. When you let these things on school and
you ask very simple questions, you get very revealing answers
from the left about how they really feel about things
and what we've been able to uncover on that show
(04:41):
from people like that congressional candidate and others. I think
I think it's overall it's good for American public discourse.
But it helps our viewers understand what are the actual
positions of the Democratic Party, what is the actual ideology
the left? And maybe this has gone a little too far.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Right now, Well, it's I mean, you have a special
talent for this, I have to say, it's people watch it.
And for people who are watching, when you are out
there with your sparring partners as you call them, it
is not easy to be as quick on your feet
as you are and the amount of knowledge that you have,
and clearly it is a lot due to your experience,
(05:16):
but the ability to push back on these people, especially
when it comes to what's going on in Iran right now,
because obviously you've got these folks on there that are saying,
oh my gosh, he's declared war. That in and of itself,
the Civics lessons that you have to put out in
and of themselves. No, he did not declare war. This
was a strike. Yes, it had to be secret. And
(05:38):
he did a great job with deception. And you've done
a great job pointing that out.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
What's that like, Well, you know.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
It's predictable because unfortunately, and you probably experienced this, you know,
and some of the people you talk to. Unfortunately, the
main ideology of the left and the Democratic Party right
now is if Donald Trump is for something, or if
he does something, I must suppose it must be wrong.
And what I pointed out last night on the air,
in fact, is that you know, occasionally for the left,
(06:05):
for Democrats, the correct answer is good job, mister president.
This was a smart one. It would be so much
wiser just to go with that than what they're currently doing,
which is raising all sorts of nonsensical arguments forgetting about
their past with Barack Obama. I mean, I was on last.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Night anti war president. Remember said, yeah?
Speaker 3 (06:23):
She said, she said, well, I work for an anti
war president. I mean, you know the amount of bombs
and countries and drones that Barack Obama, you know, sent
across the world versus what Donald Trump is trying to do.
And so you know, I just I counseled them. I've
put a post on X yesterday. Maybe just say good job,
mister president. And you know, this was a good decision
(06:44):
because they all will, ultimately most of them will say
Iran should not have a nuclear weapon, which is the
correct answer. Well, in this case, we had a window
to stop them, and Donald Trump took advantage of that window.
A lot of American presidents of both parties have said it.
Only Trump did something about it. And now Iran is
weak and wouldn't it be better to negotiate with a
weekend Iran than Iran with a nuclear weapon? Of course
(07:05):
it would. So this is undoubtedly a good move by
the president. We're in a stronger position. Why can't they
just say that?
Speaker 2 (07:10):
And I don't love to live in the past, but
I do think that when people are pointing these things
out or saying things like I would work for the
anti war president, I think it is important to go
back and say what you just said, that he was
dropping bombs in many different countries. But also, okay, let's
unpack if you worked for him, what was the strategy there?
(07:31):
Because he was dropping bombs on civilians And we see
Donald Trump very strategically with very few people knowing, but
a very strategic attack on specific facilities meant to eliminate
a nuclear program. So what was the method of strategy
for Obama when he did what he did and killed civilians.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Well, look, he inherited the global war on terror from
President Bush, and I have no doubt that he had
at times military leaders and intel legence officials saying, you know,
here's a bad person. We need to eliminate this bad person. Look,
that happens when you're the president. People walk in and
tell you those things. But if you look over eight
years the volume of bombing and the volume of drone
strikes that he ordered, you know, you could have a
(08:14):
debate about whether that was right or whether that was wrong.
But what you cannot have a debate about is Barack
Obama's disposition. He was not anti war, he was not
anti strike, he was not anti using American power when
given every opportunity to do so. And now the mythology
around him is kind of weird to me. All these
Obama people, they're constantly arguing, Oh, he's a man of peace,
(08:36):
he was an anti war. He really wasn't. You know.
You don't have to change history. We can all look
back on the news and see what he did. Now.
Contrast that with Donald Trump. He really is I think.
You know, he's changed our conversation from war in peace
to peace and war. And in this case, as you
pointed out correctly, he took a strategic targeted action here,
(08:56):
not against individuals, but against nuclear facilities, which everybody seems
to agree was good and righteous because we don't want
Ron to have a nuclear weapon. But he has not
just indiscriminately bombed several countries. That's not really been his disposition.
He's used the military when it made sense, he's shown
restraint when it makes sense, and he's always always talking
about the need for peace. That's really different, I think
(09:19):
than what Obama you know, did over his eight years.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
You were in a conversation not too long ago, and
Debbie Dingle was there. She's a congresswoman from the state
of Michigan, from my state, and she was pointing out
that the Democrats need to not just be against Donald Trump,
but be four things.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
I love that you said, oh no, you are four things.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Your four girls in boys sports, you're four illegal aliens.
But you also pointed out that the leaders of their
party right now are Jasmine Crockett and AOC, which she
just lost.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
I mean, you could.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Tell I know her expressions, I'm familiar with her. You
could tell she was just beside herself by that comment. Now, obviously,
you know, Debbie is seventy one. She took her husband's
congressional seat. She's been in there with Nancy Pelosi, and
they have not stepped aside for new leadership. And therefore
the aocs and the Jasmine Crockets have kind of taken
up all the error in the room. AOC is right
(10:10):
now campaigning with this a lunatic socialist in New York.
But Jasmine Crockett has been interesting in the past few
days because she comes out and she's like, why did
President Trump do this?
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Over the weekend, Like we're working on Monday, call us
at during.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Work hours and let us know which she has no
idea what the Constitution says, what the War Powers Act says.
She has no idea anything about law, and yet she
is a law maker, which to me is very scary.
But in this country, you can campaign and you can win,
and that's why people are out there calling out what
they're saying. I don't know if you saw last night
she said I make this decision. People don't understand I
(10:47):
make this decision, and I wasn't. Nobody asked me my opinion.
How do you get around this?
Speaker 3 (10:54):
I did see that clip, and you know your reference
Congresswoman Dingle, who I'm on with from time to time.
She does a lot of TV. I actually feel a
little bad for her because I think deep down she
knows that it is crushing and destroying her political party
from AOC and Jasmine Crockett and these absolute radicals to
be taking over the party. I mean, if you just
(11:14):
turn on your television, turn on any media, what Democrats
are you likely to see? AOC and Crockett. They are
the unquestioned spokespeople or leaders of the Democratic Party, and
they're radical and they're out of the mainstream. And for
people like Debbie Dingle, who probably thinks of herself as
more of a mainstream Democrat, she's been totally shoved aside,
and the party has been completely hijacked by these radicals.
(11:37):
I don't really think they've learned anything from the twenty
twenty four election. The American people rejected this radicalism, they
rejected this kind of left wing cultural and political lurch,
and now they appear to be doubling down on it.
And like you pointed out in New York City, if
this you know, radical socialist communist wins in New York City,
I mean you can see the Democratic Party has learned
(11:59):
the wrong lesson. They're moving farther and farther to the left,
which means through the Republicans, they could probably OutKick their
historical coverage in the twenty twenty six midterm and maybe
elect another Republican president in twenty twenty eight. The Democrats,
I think, are making a grave mistake right now. The
American people don't want radicalism, they want normalcy, and I
think that's what Trump is doing. He's restoring common sense
(12:20):
and normalcy, and the Democrats are going in the opposite direction.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
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Now stay tuned. We've got more after this. While you
look at the Zoron who is running for mayor in
New York City, and you aptly pointed out socialists but
actually communists, and I think that's that has been the
(13:55):
trend of the Democrat Party. You've watched David Hogg come
out and he campaigns for all these socialist values, but
he's out there saying I'm a capitalist. I'm a capitalist,
and he's stepped over that line now because he's openly
indoorsed Zorin, who's come out and said I'm a socialist.
And I think that what you're hearing when they say
one thing, they're just that next level. Because Zorin is
(14:18):
out there saying I'm a socialist, and then he's telling
you he wants city owned grocery stores. It blows my
mind that people are rallying around us, Yes, I want
the government to own my grocery store.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
How did that happen?
Speaker 3 (14:33):
You know, I watched this guy, Zorin, and I saw
this video this morning actually where they've pieced together his
career and he's using all these different accents over time,
different sort of different characters. And then you look at
Jasmine Crockett, same thing. You know, they sort of invent
these characters, even Kamala Harris during the election last year,
depending on who she was talking to, they would sort
(14:54):
of invent these voices and these characters to try to
meet the audience or meet the moment. And then you've
got this character Padia, who I still couldn't pick out
of a lineup. If you are a million dollars trying
to lunge at Christy noanan a press conference, it's all theater,
you know, It's all a bunch of theater. And I
don't know. I can never tell do they really believe
(15:15):
these things or are they just being theatrical with these
positions in the moment because they think that's where the
energy is among their base. I don't know what they
actually believe, because they keep inventing these characters in these voices,
and I don't know who they really are. But what
I believe is they've settled on this idea that people
want you to be more left winging, more radical, more progressive,
(15:36):
more socialists, and you know, that's what we've got right now.
We've got one political party that's largely running on common
sense and normalcy, and one political party where all the
energy is behind socialism and left wing radicalism and you know,
frankly violent tendencies. If you look at the energy on
the left and this Free Palestine movement, which I think
is a domestic terrorism organization, there's a lot of energy
(15:57):
right now behind people who are borderline or sometimes over
the line violent. I think it's very dangerous.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
I think that's the frustration when I hear this Zoron
guy come out and say, this is not.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
With any money. I'm doing this with no money. This
is just the people. This has been kind of his mantra.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Well, no, he has these movements behind him that have
hundreds of millions of dollars, and the Free Palestine movement
has a massive amount of money. What was the most
recent and the No King's Movement, which is just those
people moving into a new arena and the pro Iran
people moving from pre Palestine into to let's support these
(16:34):
dictator butchers. It's crazy. Where is the funding coming from?
Because Zorin's not doing this because he's just massively popular.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
There is money behind him.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Of course, if you look at all these gatherings, I mean,
nobody can print that many flags for free, and nobody
can change the flags they're printing that quickly. You look
at what happened in LA. You know, somebody pulling up
in a pickup truck in the middle of the riots
in LA handing out gas masks. I mean, they didn't
order those off Amazon. These are being provided to the
people who are showing up at these demonstrations. And so
(17:06):
it's a great question and we should get to the
bottom of it, because obviously there are people out there
who would like to see the downfall of American culture.
They would like to see the downfall of the West.
I mean, I've said many times, and the title of
my book is references the fight for Western Civilization. I
think we're on the cusp of the fight for the
future of the West right now. I mean, there are
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massive amounts of people in the United States who would
love to see the West go down, who would love
to see America as we know it fundamentally be destroyed
and built back into something that none of us would recognize.
And I think those people have money, and I think
they have ambition. And I think when you see these demonstrations,
whether it's Free Palestine or the riots in la or
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people behind this guy in New York City, at their core,
what do they believe? That America's rotten, that the West
is rotten, and that we got to tear it down
and start over. It's not good. I think the American
people are ultimately going to reject this ideaology. But you
can see there is money and there is energy behind it.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
So I agree.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
I keep thinking that the American people are going to
reject it, but I do think that money is power,
and there is We've seen this throughout history. If you
get to the youth, you can eventually change it over years.
In a generation, you can kick the old people out.
And you see that rhetoric online too. Pretty soon all
of these boomers are going to die off, and then
(18:27):
it'll be the Gen xers are going to die off,
and the new generation believes in complete communism. And I
know that people say, oh, that's that's a radical theory.
But the fact that New York City is on edge
right now because they think this guy is going to
win the primary tells me that there is a lot
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of support for this.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
So a couple things. Number One, the age thing is
interesting to me because if you look at some of
the big protests on the left right now, if you
actually look at the video, are these a lot of
boomers out there, like a lot of boomers out there?
You know, first they're you know, they're going after Elon.
Then it's free Palestine. And at the same time, there
(19:10):
is some polling to indicate that younger voters, especially the
youngest age eighteen to twenty one, are actually some of
the more conservative people in the country. And I chalk
it up to this. We close their schools and we
wouldn't let them in school. We ruined their childhoods. And
they know exactly who did it to them, People like
Gretchen Whitmer where you live. She did it to them.
(19:30):
These democratic governors close their schools and ruined their childhoods
and set back their education. We warned them open the schools,
and they wouldn't do it. And now the kids are pissed,
and I think a lot of them are actually conservative.
I think the energy that you see on the left
right now behind this radicalism is it's not all age related.
Some of It is just that we have people in
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the country who fundamentally want to destroy what the core
of American life really is. They want to destroy Western values.
They don't believe in the the values that built this
country and that, you know, the pillars on which Western
civilization have stood. They don't believe in it. They believe
in this oppressed oppress or framework. You're either oppressed or
you're an oppressor, and they believe the United States is
(20:11):
fundamentally oppressive. They believe the people, you know that Donald Trump, Republicans,
you know whatever, are fundamentally oppressive and they must be destroyed.
That's what they believe. And this ideology, of course, is
taught and fomented on college campuses. I think there are
some young kids who don't believe that, they reject it,
but there's a lot of people in America right now
who are buying into it. You know, we settle these
things at election time. I think we had the first
(20:33):
test in November. That's why Donald Trump won the election,
and I think convincing fashion. We're going to have it
out again in the midterms, and we'll have it out
again in twenty twenty eight. But the fight for the
West and the fight for America's future is real because
it's not just over a little policy differences. It's about
the core. Who are we as Americans? Is the West
going to survive? Those are the questions I think we'll
(20:56):
be asking in the next elections.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
So there are powerful people that we don't vote for
that and I hate to admit that they're powerful. But
you recently had a conversation with Randy Weingarten, and if
you don't know who she is, she's the president of
the American Federation for Teachers and that's the second largest
teachers union. She kept kids out of school. She now
is saying, oh, no, I tried to open schools. I
(21:18):
was this great person. But recently she stepped away from
the DNC, and I think that conservatives were kind of
going way a minute.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
She had an.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Actual position at the DNC because she is in a
unique position where she gets to siphon the funds out
of the public schools because she's taking money from teachers
that aren't allowed to opt out of her union, so
she just siphons their right off of their paycheck, which
is taxpayers are paying them, so it's a public union.
(21:48):
She decides to put that money into the DNC, where
she apparently has a.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Position, and she is meeting with the CDC.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
We find out she is helping the CDC come up
with decison visions of what they're going to do when
COVID hits and keeping kids out of school. So she's
very influential with the federal government. She's very influential with
one party. I mean she's a member, and she's a
member of their committee. She's on the rules committee. She
(22:17):
stepped away because David Hog got kicked out, and you
could kind of see how this was going because she
resigns on June fifth. That was obviously going through the
rules committee. They're making up this Oh he's the wrong gender,
so we got to kick him out. But the reason
they were kicking him out was he was going to
primary these Democrats. So he's like, I'm going to put
twenty million dollars into primary safe Democrats with these radical socialists.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
She was pro David Hogg.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
These people are not elected, but they have power over
our kids.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
Yeah. Randy wine Garten is one of the most destructive
people in American politics. What she did during COVID to
help keep the schools closed to the detriment of millions
of school children, including mine. I have four. I will
never forgive and I will never forget, and I don't
think millions of parents will ever forgive or ever forget
what she did when she went on this tour to
(23:08):
try to rewrite history. Oh, I was trying to open
the schools. I mean, it would be funny if it
weren't so tragically ridiculous what she did to set back
a generation of children. I mean, we destroyed their futures.
I mean, and it's not the rich kids. Let's be honest.
People with resources, people with means. You know, you can
sometimes buy your way out of things. Poor kids, working
(23:31):
class kids, black kids, brown kids, the kids who have nothing,
the kids who have you know, are already behind to
begin with. Those are the ones that she destroyed. Those
are the kids that the Democratic Party claims to fight for,
and she and the Democrats and the Democrat officials. Those
are the ones that they really really destroyed their futures.
(23:51):
And there's been no apology, no admission, no guilt to nothing,
just a bunch of lies about what they actually did.
I cannot believe she continues to try to rewrite history
on this The people who were fighting so hard to
keep the schools closed, and now kids can't read, they
can't do math. We have kids going off to college
who can't achieve basic levels of reading in math in
(24:13):
order to participate in college. It's an outright rolling disaster
laid at the feet of Randy Winingarten and the people
who enable her in the Democratic Party. It's despicable. We
should never forget it.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
I have four kids too, and one of the things
that I notice is the speech issues.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
That we have.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
My kids, my youngest were My youngest are twins, and
they were in gosh, they must have been in second
grade when the pandemic hit, and the kids in their
class and older. My middle daughter is two years older,
so second and fourth grade. It's been surprising to me
the speech issues that those kids have because being out
(24:53):
of school for that period of time for a year
and a half, where it was critical that they learn,
that they change how they were speaking, and that they
have that speech therapist available. Those specialties were so critical,
and those kids are going to suffer for years to
come because of those decisions that they now say, Oh,
that's not that's a decision we made.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
I totally agree with you. Two of my children have
learning differences and have gone to special schools for that,
classrooms that are specifically designed to make sure that they
can learn how to read, that they can overcome their
learning differences. To close their schools was a tragedy for them,
a tragedy for any kid out there who had any
(25:35):
kind of special need in their educational You know, these
kids are as smart as anybody, but they can overcome
it with the special eyed learning environment. Closing their schools,
I mean, this is not a trivial thing, and they
gave no thought to it whatsoever. And I just the
lack of remorse. I mean, if one person would just
(25:55):
come up and say, you know what, we overdid it.
We overreached, we overreach acted, We didn't listen to the evidence.
Look what happened around the world Western Europe, basically every
other civilized country realized you could open the schools and
they all did it and we didn't. And why did
we not do it? One reason? Teachers unions. That is
why it happened. And Randy Weingarten was the top of
(26:18):
that pyramid of those that constellation of teachers unions, and
I just you know the fact that they can't even
admit today. Yeah, you know, a little remorse, how about
a little humility, Like, listen, we did the best we could,
and we were operating with imperfect information, and we you know,
we overreacted. Any of that would be better than what
they're doing now, which is to ignore the problems they
(26:40):
caused and to deny that they had anything to do
with it. It's outrageous. And yet Democrats, you know, they
continue to prop these people up. And you know, if
they made those terrible decisions, then imagine what they would
do to your kids on some other issue in the future.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
Right, and you and you talk about the political theater.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
I mean, think about back then you had you had
the nurses and the doctors doing these coordinated dan and
posting them on social media. And you had the teachers
writing their own obituaries and telling people how much danger
they were in even though kids were proven, like you said,
in other countries, kids were proven that they weren't spreading
the disease.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Let's take a quick commercial break. We'll continue next on
the Tutor Dixon Podcast. One last thing I want to
get to.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
You did talk about the caricature of the politician and
the you know, creating characters. That's what we've seen in
Michigan with Gretchen Whitmer, with all of her social media.
Governor Barbie, we went through that whole scenario for a
long time. Karine Jean Pierre, though, she has been a
very interesting one because she was kind of like this.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
You know, she was a historical figure.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
She told us multiple times she's a historical figure, the
first black, lesbian press secretary that there was, and gosh,
she was making history.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
She was absolutely lying. We know she knew.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
I mean, gosh, it would be criminal if she didn't
know that the president was incapacitated, and now she's going
to try to make money off of it.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
I agree she is historical. I think there have been
thirty six White House Press secretaries, and historically she's the
worst one. So congratulations on your historic achievement of being
the literal worst person to ever hold that job. Standing
up there behind that podium, which is a special podium
because it has to seal on it. You're in the
White House, don't You're not a political actor. You work
(28:27):
for the government, You work for the people of the
United States. You uphold, you know, that special trust. And
she stood there every day and lied, lied, lied, And
you know, one of the worst examples, of course, as
you well remember, the whole cheap fake episode. We've got
videos of Joe Biden clearly wandering around, clearly out of it,
clearly incapacitated, and went up to that podium and told
(28:50):
reporters and told the world, oh, these are invented videos,
these are doctored videos, These are cheap fakes. That episode
alone ought to get her banished from all politics and
government forever and ever and ever. Now she has this
book coming out, she says she's left the Democratic Party,
which congratulations, Democrats, you got rid of somebody that you
don't really need. But the fact that Joe Biden put
(29:13):
her in as press secretary and then elevated her gave
it her another promotion at the end of his administration
tells you that he knew he needed an outright liar
and propagandist to stand at that podium to cover up
for him what they did to hide from the American
people the president's condition. I mean, it can all be
told now, right, we have the books, We have everybody
coming forward and saying, oh, yeah, he was totally out
(29:34):
of it. But at the time people talk about constitutional
crisis or the big lie. Let me tell you what
the crisis is an incapacitated president and unelected people around
him making decisions. Let me tell you what the big
lie was that Joe Biden was up to the job
of president of the United States. That's a fact. And
the people who perpetrated that crisis on this need to
be held to account. There has to be accountability for this.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
Yeah, I think that the American people. I just think
about this in the history books. How will it be
portrayed that we had a president who was completely mentally
incapable of having that position, and yet there was an
entire staff that pretended like he was capable. You before
I let you go, you have a book coming out.
I want to talk about that. It's a revolution of
(30:19):
common sense, which is right absolutely how Donald Trump stormed
Washington and fought for Western civilization.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
Tell us about that really quick.
Speaker 3 (30:26):
Yes, well, I thought of it in January. I was
watching the president's inaugural address and he used that phrase,
a revolution of common sense, and I thought at the time, well,
that would be a great title for a book. And
then over the next few weeks I was thinking of
writing a book and then just like I figured that
should be the title, because when you think about the
branding of the Republican Party right now, is a conservative
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what is it? Right now? That's the branding. We're the
Party of common sense, and conversely, the Democrats are the
Party of uncommon nonsense. But I think this whole branding
of common sense is what allows Trump to have this broad,
ideologically diverse coalition. And you've got everybody from Elon to
RFK to you know, the traditional Republicans to the Libertarians.
(31:10):
I mean, he has brought together this coalition of people
and it's all around this concept of common sense. And
I think it's common sense in service of fighting for
the future of Western civilization. So I had an idea
for the book. I went to the Oval Office in February.
I asked the President if he would cooperate. He said yes.
So the book is largely revolves around big issues he
(31:31):
tackled in the first one hundred or so days. And
you know, it's hard to stop writing a book like
this because the minute you stop writing, something else happened.
So it'll come out in November and there'll be things
in there that I didn't quite get to because of
the way book publishing works. But it's got Donald Trump
on the cover. You can go to Amazon right now
and type in Scott Jennings Revolution of Common Sense. You
can pre order it. You'll have it in November. You'll
(31:51):
have it in time for Christmas. It has a beautiful
photo of Donald Trump on the cover, coming out of
the White House. And I think if you love Trump,
you'll love the book. And if you don't, you might
learn a little bit about how he makes decisions, how
he executes leadership in the White House. It might make
you a little smarter about his presidency.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
Well, that's actually what I was going to say.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
I think that right now so many of us are
trying to figure out how to have those conversations. We
started this by me telling you. I mean, you amaze
me every single day. Every time I see a clip,
I'm like, how can I be more like Scott Jennings?
And then I see that you're writing a book, and
I'm like, that's how you know? But I think we
all need to understand that it's time to push back.
(32:28):
And you don't push back nasty, You're not aggressive. You
push back with facts, and so I appreciate that you
are writing this because it gives us something to have
in our arsenal to go after the liberals who are
yelling at us and just calmly respond.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
So I encourage everybody to go get it.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
Thank you very much. I told the President at the
time that I thought a hundred of you know, the
normal Washington insider types would write books crapping all over
him and everything he wants to do. But there needs
to be one book that could tell one of his
supporters or anyone in this country truth about the first
hundred days, why he arrived at some of the decisions
that he did, and do it in an unvarnished way.
(33:07):
I write from the perspective of a common sense view,
a conservative view, a Middle America view. So thank you
for the book promotion. It's called a Revolution of common Sense.
I look forward to you reading it. I'd love to
hear your thoughts on it. But thanks to the President
and his staff and the cabinet secretaries for participating in it.
I think you're gonna find some great nuggets in there.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
Wonderful well, thank you, thank you so much for coming on.
Scott Jennings. Everybody get that book and check him out.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
He's a Warrior for us.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
Thank you, thanks Tutor, and thank you all for joining
us on the Tutor Dixon Podcast.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
For this episode and others, go.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
To Tutor diixonpodcast dot com, the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts,
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it on Rumble and YouTube. Apt Tutor Dixon and join
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Speaker 1 (33:48):
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