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The Scott Jennings Podcast - SCOTT JENNINGS AND DAVID AXELROD TALK MIDTERMS AND NEWS OF THE DAY · Stampede of Truth

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  Speaker 1: The voice of free speech. The truth delivered. Common sense
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  Speaker 1: for the American people. Welcome to the Scott Jennings Show.
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  Speaker 2: We start today with breaking news from the world of sports.
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  Speaker 2: Legendary Chicago Bears coach and pro football Hall of Famer.
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  Speaker 3: Mike Dicka has died, 86 years old. Israel or Iran?
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  Speaker 2: Abdul El-Sayed can't give a straight answer as lifelong Democrats
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  Speaker 2: are taking to the airwaves in Michigan for Republican Mike Rogers.
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  Speaker 2: We have audio ahead from last night's explosive debate. New
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  Speaker 2: York Attorney General Letitia James in her debate says prosecutors
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  Speaker 2: don't have to look at the facts in the law.
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  Speaker 4: What?
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  Speaker 3: We have that shocking debate audio as well.
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  Speaker 2: We have big conversations today with Senator Dan Sullivan of
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  Speaker 2: Alaska and former Obama advisor and my CNN colleague, David Axelrod.
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  Speaker 3: And on this day, a World Series victory with a
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  Speaker 3: dark secret. Hello, Americans. It's Friday, and a beautiful fall
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  Speaker 3: weekend is in sight.
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  Speaker 2: Two debates last night, two Republicans who came prepared, and
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  Speaker 2: two Democrats who got mighty uncomfortable when somebody started asking questions.
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  Speaker 3: We'll get to that.
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  Speaker 2: But first, on this day, 1919, more than 32,000 people
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  Speaker 2: came to the ballpark to watch a championship decided. The
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  Speaker 2: home team had been favored to win the series, but
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  Speaker 2: its starting pitcher barely got settled before the visitors started
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  Speaker 2: knocking him around. He lasted but a third of an inning.
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  Speaker 2: The visitors won 10-5, and they were crowned champion. Now,
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  Speaker 2: a bad day on the mound can happen. Any baseball
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  Speaker 2: fan knows that. But this was something else. The following year,
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  Speaker 2: eight players from the losing team were accused of helping
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  Speaker 2: gamblers to fix the World Series. Among them was one
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  Speaker 2: of the finest hitters the game had ever seen. All
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  Speaker 2: eight were acquitted in criminal court, but baseball's new commissioner
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  Speaker 2: banned them anyway. The winners of that series, the Cincinnati Reds.
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  Speaker 2: The losers, of course, the Chicago White Sox. But the
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  Speaker 2: gambling scandal had forever branded them with another name, the
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  Speaker 2: Black Sox. And among the eight was shoeless Joe Jackson,
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  Speaker 2: whose supporters point out actually hit the cover off the
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  Speaker 2: ball during the series. You know, fans can live with losing.
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  Speaker 2: What's harder to swallow is wondering whether the game was
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  Speaker 2: honest in the first place. The Reds beat the Black
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  Speaker 2: Sox to win the World Series on this day, October the.
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  Speaker 3: 9th, 1919.
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  Speaker 2: Now to last night in Michigan. Mike Rogers debated Abdul El-Sayed.
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  Speaker 2: In that campaign for the United States Senate seat there,
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  Speaker 2: in New York, Saritha Komaturetti debated sitting Attorney General Letitia James.
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  Speaker 2: In both cases, the Republican candidate far outclassed the Democrat.
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  Speaker 3: And here's what we learned last night.
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  Speaker 2: Modern liberalism isn't built for contact with the outside political world.
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  Speaker 2: It thrives at its tiny bubble. But when exposed to
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  Speaker 2: the elements of reality, it melts like cotton candy in
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  Speaker 2: the water. Example number one, which is a bigger threat
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  Speaker 2: to America, Israel or Iran?
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  Speaker 3: Take a listen. Cut one.
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  Speaker 5: I'm going to ask you again tonight, who do you
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  Speaker 5: think is a bigger threat to the United States, Israel
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  Speaker 5: or Iran?
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  Speaker 6: You have 60 seconds.
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  Speaker 5: And again, Rick, I'm just going to say that that's
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  Speaker 5: a ridiculous hypothetical because here's what's happening right now. Our
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  Speaker 5: ostensible ally in Israel has lobbied us to go to
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  Speaker 5: war with Iran. We have watched as Iran has responded
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  Speaker 5: by bombing all kinds of countries in the Middle East.
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  Speaker 5: and then choking off the world's energy supply. So this
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  Speaker 5: is a situation in which I don't think we should
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  Speaker 5: be apart. I don't want to be pushed into war
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  Speaker 5: by Israel.
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  Speaker 7: And I.
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  Speaker 2: Syed, unable to identify which is an ally of the
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  Speaker 2: United States, Israel or Iran. You can't tell the difference
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  Speaker 2: between our ally and a brutal dictatorship. Iran, of course,
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  Speaker 2: sponsors Hamas and Hezbollah.
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  Speaker 8: Israel.
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  Speaker 2: is the country that those terrorists want to destroy, along,
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  Speaker 2: of course, with the United States. And he can't tell
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  Speaker 2: you which is the bigger threat? No, it's not a hypothetical.
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  Speaker 2: It's very much a real-world question. But this is modern
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  Speaker 2: liberalism in a nutshell. They can't tell the difference between
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  Speaker 2: the good guys and the bad guys. Rogers wasn't letting
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  Speaker 2: him off the hook, though. Cut number two.
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  Speaker 9: How does a guy who's had less than four years
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  Speaker 9: of work experience, who, by the way, on the campaign
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  Speaker 9: trail said he had ten years, own a luxury property
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  Speaker 9: in the United Arab Emirates. He's worth a million bucks.
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  Speaker 9: Somebody has to tell me how this math works. A,
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  Speaker 9: his facts are wrong. Those are lies. But he is
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  Speaker 9: consistently not telling the truth. Well, let me just say it.
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  Speaker 3: He's lying. So he lied about being a physician.
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  Speaker 9: He lied now about being an Egyptian citizen or not
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  Speaker 9: being an Egyptian citizen.
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  Speaker 3: I can't figure out what he is today.
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  Speaker 9: But this impacts what he's trying to tell you where
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  Speaker 9: he wants you to be.
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  Speaker 3: That's a con man.
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  Speaker 2: El-Sayed's entire personal and political life shows him to be
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  Speaker 2: surrounded by people who are mixed up in anti-American radicalism
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  Speaker 2: and even terrorism.
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  Speaker 3: And Mike Rogers was ready. Cut nine. My friend here just.
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  Speaker 9: Wants to do, as he's kind of like a glitchy
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  Speaker 9: AI chatbot, is say the same thing over and over
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  Speaker 9: and over again.
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  Speaker 3: But let me tell you this.
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  Speaker 9: He has taken money from groups associated and support the
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  Speaker 9: Muslim Brotherhood. He has taken money from individuals on his
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  Speaker 9: campaign who openly support Hamas.
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  Speaker 3: Hezbollah, Al-Qaeda.
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  Speaker 9: He's taken money from the George Soros family. What we
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  Speaker 9: found out is that this thing goes way back. Apparently
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  Speaker 9: they paid for his education in Colombia. Now they're paying
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  Speaker 9: for his campaign. By the way, that's a billionaire, last
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  Speaker 9: I checked.
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  Speaker 2: Even lifelong Democrats in Michigan are now petrified of the
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  Speaker 2: idea of El-Sayed becoming a senator.
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  Speaker 3: Listen to this new ad that just hit the airwaves.
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  Speaker 3: Cut three.
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  Speaker 7: Temple Israel is probably one of the most important places
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  Speaker 7: in our lives.
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  Speaker 10: It is our safe place.
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  Speaker 7: Just afternoon on March 12th, my son Madden was in
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  Speaker 7: his classroom when a terrorist attacked his school. He admitted
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  Speaker 7: his intention was to kill Madden and everyone in that school.
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  Speaker 7: I just felt my whole world crumble. I've never run
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  Speaker 7: faster in my life. I've never screamed or cried harder.
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  Speaker 7: Is my son safe? Are his friends safe? Are his
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  Speaker 7: teachers safe? I think of March 12th every single day.
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  Speaker 7: When Abdul El-Sayed said, hurt people hurt people, he gave
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  Speaker 7: an excuse to someone who wanted to murder children. and
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  Speaker 7: the fact that it's on his website says everything that
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  Speaker 7: we need to know. He put the words out there,
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  Speaker 7: and he cannot take them back. Mike Rogers is here
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  Speaker 7: to listen to us and here to help us feel safe.
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  Speaker 7: I'm a lifelong Democrat, but this election, I'm voting for
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  Speaker 7: Mike Rogers. Abdul El-Sayed should never be our senator.
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  Speaker 3: ad on the air up in Michigan.
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  Speaker 2: You can see why Democrats are crossing the fence after
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  Speaker 2: last night's Debate. Now to New York, where Saritha Comatoretti
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  Speaker 2: is a veteran federal prosecutor. National security issues, narcotics, money laundering,
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  Speaker 2: criminal trials, she has done it all. And the incumbent
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  Speaker 2: is Democrat Letitia James, who gave us this gem last night.
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  Speaker 3: Cut four.
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  Speaker 11: I have to look at the facts in the law
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  Speaker 11: when I'm Attorney General on January 1.
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  Speaker 10: I'll do that. You don't have to look at the
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  Speaker 10: facts in the law. All you have to do is
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  Speaker 10: study what they do.
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  Speaker 3: It is illegal in the state of New York.
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  Speaker 4: Well, there you go.
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  Speaker 2: You don't have to look at the facts in the law, gentlemen.
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  Speaker 10: You're Attorney General.
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  Speaker 4: Ms.
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  Speaker 3: Comatoretti.
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  Speaker 2: So just to recap what you just heard there, the
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  Speaker 2: Democrat sitting attorney general of New York says, you do
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  Speaker 2: not have to look at the facts and the law
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  Speaker 2: when making the choices that prosecutors have to make. With
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  Speaker 2: all due respect, ma'am, that's the job. That's like hiring
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  Speaker 2: somebody to fix your tractor and hearing, well, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I don't fool with engines so much. Your reputation, your business,
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  Speaker 2: your freedom can hang on an attorney general's decisions. Facts
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  Speaker 2: and law keep the power of that office from becoming
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  Speaker 2: somebody's personal weapon. Coming from James, who campaigned on going
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  Speaker 2: after Donald Trump, that line really ought to make every
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  Speaker 2: New Yorker sit up straight. Prosecutors have to follow the evidence.
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  Speaker 2: You don't pick the person and then go shopping for
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  Speaker 2: a case. Another question last night should have been an
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  Speaker 2: easy one. Can you name a previous attorney general that
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  Speaker 2: you admire? Listen to Letitia James. Cut five.
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  Speaker 12: Ms.
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  Speaker 13: James, name a past New York attorney general that you admire.
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  Speaker 6: Um, uh.
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  Speaker 14: TikTok.
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  Speaker 6: She only admires herself.
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  Speaker 4: No, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 10: We admire others.
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  Speaker 9: I admire all of the past attorney generals because it's
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  Speaker 9: a difficult job and you've got to stand up.
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  Speaker 7: Dennis Facco, at a time when New York State needed it,
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  Speaker 7: we had another former federal prosecutor become attorney general and
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  Speaker 7: bring law and order to the state.
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  Speaker 2: If this were a boxing match in New York last night,
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  Speaker 2: somebody would have thrown in the towel in the first
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  Speaker 2: Five minutes. It's pretty obvious after last night's debates that
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  Speaker 2: Rogers and Comitoretti are far more qualified than their Democratic opponents.
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  Speaker 2: Knowing Iran is a greater threat than Israel is a
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  Speaker 2: mainstream view and expecting prosecutors to follow facts and law,
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  Speaker 2: also a mainstream view. Neither of these Democrats, though, is
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  Speaker 2: fit for office when they cannot meet these basic tests
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  Speaker 2: of judgment. Michigan needs somebody who understands civilization is more
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  Speaker 2: important than barbarism, and New York needs somebody who prioritizes
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  Speaker 2: criminal justice over political score settling. As I said, modern
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  Speaker 2: liberalism simply isn't built for contact with the outside world.
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  Speaker 3: All right, more news.
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  Speaker 2: During this campaign season, Democrats are, of course, harping on affordability,
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  Speaker 2: especially when it comes to utility bills. But a new
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  Speaker 2: lawsuit filed by Democrats seeks to restore power plant rules
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  Speaker 2: that the Trump EPA calls costly and burdensome. Wouldn't that
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  Speaker 2: mean higher utility bills? Here to explain it all is
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  Speaker 2: National Review's Andrew Follett. Andrew, welcome back to the show.
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  Speaker 2: You've got a new piece in National Review on this.
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  Speaker 2: What in the world is going on here with these
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  Speaker 2: power plant rules and the Democrats who've gone to court?
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  Speaker 14: Well, the Democrats, 20 different Democrat state attorneys general led
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  Speaker 14: by New York's Letitia James, the lady who just said
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  Speaker 14: she doesn't really care about laws, are suing. to effectively
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  Speaker 14: overturn a pair of recent Supreme Court decisions that prevent
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  Speaker 14: the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating greenhouse gases directly as
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  Speaker 14: if they were pollutants. So these decisions being overturned is
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  Speaker 14: estimated to save Americans about $ 680 billion over the next
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  Speaker 14: couple years. It's arguably the most significant deregulation in U.S.
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  Speaker 4: History.
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  Speaker 14: It will drop The average American's power bill by about
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  Speaker 14: $ 8 per billing cycle. That doesn't sound like a lot,
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  Speaker 14: but it adds up really fast. And Democrats want those
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  Speaker 14: prices to go back up just before the midterms. And
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  Speaker 14: what's really funny is they're doing this at the exact
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  Speaker 14: same time when Letitia James herself is complaining about high
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  Speaker 14: energy prices on Twitter.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the whole debate, Andrew, over who can you trust
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  Speaker 2: on energy prices is fascinating to me. This story is
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  Speaker 2: fascinating because you have Democrat attorneys general using their political
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  Speaker 2: power in these elected offices to go right to court
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  Speaker 2: and say, we want to repeal rules that make your
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  Speaker 2: bill cheaper. So it's in direct contradiction to the campaign rhetoric.
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  Speaker 2: On top of that, I'm not really familiar with any
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  Speaker 2: Democratic plans over the last quarter of a century to
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  Speaker 2: make gas prices cheaper. I hear Democrats complaining about gas prices.
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  Speaker 2: They've never supported more domestic energy production. They don't support
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  Speaker 2: more refinery capacity. In fact, they want to shut down refineries.
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  Speaker 2: I put all this together, and I see a political
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  Speaker 2: party that's willing to say one thing during a campaign
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  Speaker 2: for political expediency, but when given power, they do something
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  Speaker 2: that would give you the direct opposite results.
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  Speaker 3: Is that how you see what's going on with these
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  Speaker 3: attorneys general?
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  Speaker 6: Oh, absolutely.
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  Speaker 14: They're creating a problem. specifically for political advantage. And when
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  Speaker 14: that problem, if they ever do take more power, they'll
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  Speaker 14: just pretend that didn't happen. They want the situation to
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  Speaker 14: be worse for their own selfish political reasons, basically, because
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  Speaker 14: they think they can blame it on Republicans and get
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  Speaker 14: an easy win before the midterms.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Is that really what's going on here?
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  Speaker 2: Is that you have Democrats who are using their power
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  Speaker 2: to make your utility bills higher and And let's say
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  Speaker 2: they succeed and your bills are higher.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it sounds like we agree.
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  Speaker 2: I have no doubt they would turn right around and say, wow,
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  Speaker 2: can you believe your utility bills went up with all
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  Speaker 2: these Republicans in charge? I mean, it is the most cynical,
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  Speaker 2: craven kind of political operation, if you ask me. But
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  Speaker 2: I'm grateful for your piece, Andrew, in the National Review,
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  Speaker 2: because people need to know these attorneys general are using
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  Speaker 2: their power not to throw criminals in jail. They're going
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  Speaker 2: to court. to overturn federal decision-making that would directly lead
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  Speaker 2: to a higher utility bill for you is that what
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  Speaker 2: you want your attorney general to be doing and you
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  Speaker 2: reference the leader here Letitia James her own campaign bears
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  Speaker 2: it out gripes about utility bills yet is in court
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  Speaker 2: right now fighting to make them higher I'll give you
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  Speaker 2: the last word.
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  Speaker 14: Well their entire goal here is to undermine the market
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  Speaker 14: case to build more power plants they want to reduce
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  Speaker 14: the supply of energy And that naturally increases the price.
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  Speaker 14: And they're doing this for what they say are global
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  Speaker 14: warming reasons. But in reality, it's just very clearly selfish.
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  Speaker 14: This would have– all the science says that this would
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  Speaker 14: have literally no detectable impact on global warming. So it's
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  Speaker 14: completely pointless other than to give themselves more political power.
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  Speaker 3: It's pointless.
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  Speaker 2: It is to feed the climate cult beast inside the
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  Speaker 2: Democratic Party.
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  Speaker 3: It is cynical.
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  Speaker 2: It is to make your prices go up so they
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  Speaker 2: can blame Republicans, folks. Understand what you're dealing with in
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  Speaker 2: the modern Democratic Party. Absolute lunacy. Andrew Follett's piece is
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  Speaker 2: in the National Review. Please check it out. We're going
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  Speaker 2: to take a break. When we come back, important conversation.
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  Speaker 2: Senator Dan Sullivan of Alaska is here.
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  Speaker 3: Stay with us.
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  Speaker 17: Common sense for the American people.
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  Speaker 3: This is the Scott Jennings Show.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome back to the Scott Jennings Show. You know, the
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  Speaker 2: battle for the Senate runs through Alaska, where Republican incumbent
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  Speaker 2: Dan Sullivan is facing Democrat Mary Peltola.
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  Speaker 3: And Vice President J.D.
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  Speaker 2: Vance joined Sullivan in Fairbanks, Alaska this week for a rally.
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  Speaker 2: And Alaska's energy future was front and center among the topics.
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  Speaker 2: Here's Sullivan laying into Peltola's record.
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  Speaker 3: Take a listen.
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  Speaker 18: This is what I call the last frontier lockup, right?
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  Speaker 18: The last frontier lockup. What was the last frontier lockup?
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  Speaker 4: It was Joe Biden.
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  Speaker 18: Chuck Schumer's four years in office. And when they got
• 17:53
  Speaker 18: into office, they crushed us. Seventy executive orders by Biden
• 17:59
  Speaker 18: and Schumer. Seventy singularly solely to focus on shutting down Alaska.
• 18:07
  Speaker 18: Never before in history has the federal government used all
• 18:10
  Speaker 18: its power to come after one state, killing thousands of
• 18:14
  Speaker 18: jobs to shut us down. By the way, my opponent, Peltola,
• 18:19
  Speaker 18: did zero to stop it. As a matter of fact,
• 18:21
  Speaker 18: she enabled it.
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: And joining us now live is Senator Dan Sullivan of Alaska.
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: Senator, welcome back to the Scott Jennings Show.
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: Hey, Scott.
• 18:29
  Speaker 12: Great to be back on the program. Thanks for having me.
• 18:31
  Speaker 12: We got a really, really tight race, but we are energized.
• 18:35
  Speaker 12: Vice President was up. Last night we had a great
• 18:40
  Speaker 12: rally in my VFW post for veterans for Dan.
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: You know, we have more veterans per capita in the
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: state and the country.
• 18:48
  Speaker 12: I'm a 30-year Marine. So we got the energy right
• 18:51
  Speaker 12: now and critical race.
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: Well, energy is sort of the buzzword of the week,
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: I think, in this campaign. And I want to pick
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: up on the energy policy question that you referenced there
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: in the rally that you held with Vice President Vance.
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: You said that Peltola has enabled a reduction in energy
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: production and therefore price increases for the American people. Talk
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: to us about the Peltola record. When she was in Washington,
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: what did she do, in your opinion, that disadvantaged Alaskan energy?
• 19:27
  Speaker 12: Well, look, first, what she did in two terms in
• 19:30
  Speaker 12: Washington is actually zero in terms of getting anything done, right?
• 19:34
  Speaker 12: In Alaska, we have a small but mighty congressional delegation
• 19:38
  Speaker 12: that But Alaskans expect their members of Congress to work
• 19:43
  Speaker 12: hard and produce. Paltola had two terms in the House,
• 19:48
  Speaker 12: never got one bill signed into law. i have two
• 19:51
  Speaker 12: terms in the senate have well over 60 bills signed
• 19:54
  Speaker 12: into law and she didn't show up for work she
• 19:57
  Speaker 12: missed 20 of her votes as a house member one
• 20:00
  Speaker 12: of the worst voting records and jd vance said hey
• 20:04
  Speaker 12: showing up to vote is not that hard and scott
• 20:07
  Speaker 12: this was a pattern, right? When she was a state
• 20:11
  Speaker 12: house member in the Alaska legislature, missed.
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: 20% of her votes. When she was a.
• 20:18
  Speaker 12: Bethel City Council member, missed over one-third of her meetings.
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: So here's the thing.
• 20:24
  Speaker 12: When she does show up, she votes with the far left,
• 20:28
  Speaker 12: especially on energy policy. We know that the DC Dems,
• 20:33
  Speaker 12: when they get power, one of the core tenets of
• 20:37
  Speaker 12: their principles is to shut down Alaska.
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: And she voted with them.
• 20:43
  Speaker 12: She had a bill called the Alaska Right to Produce Act.
• 20:47
  Speaker 12: Not a bad bill on producing oil and gas for Alaska.
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: The D.C.
• 20:51
  Speaker 12: Dems, Pelosi and others in the House objected. She lobbied
• 20:56
  Speaker 12: against her own bill and then voted against her own bill. Like,
• 21:00
  Speaker 12: you can't make this stuff up. So at the end
• 21:02
  Speaker 12: of the day, if she were elected, which she won't be,
• 21:06
  Speaker 12: she would empower Chuck Schumer and and the radical far-left
• 21:09
  Speaker 12: Democrats in the Senate, I know every single one of them,
• 21:13
  Speaker 12: and one of their core principles is to shut down Alaska.
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: Look, we got challenges on energy.
• 21:20
  Speaker 12: The best way to address affordability in terms of energy
• 21:23
  Speaker 12: in Alaska and across America.
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: Is to produce more Alaskan energy, by and for Alaskans.
• 21:31
  Speaker 12: Peltola has the exact opposite record and would empower the
• 21:36
  Speaker 12: most anti- Alaska anti-American energy senators in the U.S.
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: Senate. Talking to Senator Dan Sullivan of Alaska here on
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: the Scott Jennings Show. I want to go back to
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: Vice President Vance's.
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: Visit with you this week.
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: You were in Fairbanks, and he made some comments about
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: Peltola's claim that she would be an independent voice for Alaska.
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: Here's what J.D. Vance said.
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: Cut 12.
• 21:59
  Speaker 13: She co-led a bill to roll back radical Biden administration policies,
• 22:03
  Speaker 13: banning new oil and gas leases across America.
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: But here's the crazy thing.
• 22:09
  Speaker 13: That piece of legislation, a piece of legislation that she
• 22:12
  Speaker 13: authored when Nancy Pelosi called and said, vote against your
• 22:17
  Speaker 13: own bill.
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: Vote against the people of Fairbanks.
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: Do you know what she did?
• 22:21
  Speaker 13: She bent the knee to Nancy Pelosi and did exactly
• 22:25
  Speaker 13: what that.
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: Far left radical told her to do.
• 22:32
  Speaker 13: Ladies and gentlemen, if you can't be bothered to vote
• 22:36
  Speaker 13: for your own piece of legislation, then you do not
• 22:39
  Speaker 13: deserve to be a United States senator for the great
• 22:42
  Speaker 13: people of Alaska.
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: Senator Peltola is asking voters to believe now that she'll
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: put Alaska ahead.
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: Of her party.
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: You're obviously making the opposite argument that when given the
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: opportunity to do that before, she put D.C. 's special
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: interests ahead of Alaska. Is that sort of the closing message?
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: up against hers on that front?
• 23:07
  Speaker 12: Look, my record up against hers is what we're doing
• 23:10
  Speaker 12: every single day. And when you don't have a record
• 23:14
  Speaker 12: to run on, you know, all they're doing is kind
• 23:17
  Speaker 12: of slander and false attack ads. As I said in
• 23:21
  Speaker 12: that rally, the shortest ad in any political season in
• 23:26
  Speaker 12: Alaska would be Peltola saying, hey, here, I'm listing my accomplishments,
• 23:31
  Speaker 12: because there aren't any, as I already mentioned, Scott. But
• 23:35
  Speaker 12: to your point and the vice president's point.
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: When she did vote on key issues, I already.
• 23:40
  Speaker 12: Talked about Alaska resource development, but other key issues, building
• 23:45
  Speaker 12: up our military, taking care of our troops, securing the border,
• 23:51
  Speaker 12: stopping the fentanyl flow into Alaska, stopping... boys playing sports
• 23:57
  Speaker 12: against girls in high school. She voted with the far
• 24:02
  Speaker 12: left and against Alaska's interests every single time. So again,
• 24:08
  Speaker 12: she's got the record of being a far lefty and
• 24:12
  Speaker 12: she would empower the most far left folks. Schumer has
• 24:15
  Speaker 12: said his pathway to the majority is through Alaska.
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: And what we, uh, we need to believe him on that.
• 24:24
  Speaker 12: And, um, Make sure that Alaskans know that would be
• 24:28
  Speaker 12: a disaster for Alaska.
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: It would also be a disaster for America.
• 24:32
  Speaker 12: Alaska right now is the firewall for freedom for our
• 24:36
  Speaker 12: great nation, which is why all the Alaskans listening to
• 24:39
  Speaker 12: your great show need to get out and vote.
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: And we got to win this election.
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: Senator Sullivan, the Trump administration announced $ 150 million for new
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: Alaska transmission lines during J.D. Vance's visit this week. Talk
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: to us about how that announcement is playing in Alaska.
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: How does that translate into reliable electricity and lower bills?
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: And beyond this project, what is the most consequential thing
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: that needs to be done right now to bring down
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: the cost of living in Alaska?
• 25:10
  Speaker 12: Well, like I said, producing more Alaskan energy, and we
• 25:14
  Speaker 12: are doing it. And we're doing it because of Republican policies.
• 25:19
  Speaker 12: We have record amounts of oil now being produced on
• 25:23
  Speaker 12: the North Slope. We're going to get back to a
• 25:26
  Speaker 12: million barrels a day because of Republican policies to produce
• 25:31
  Speaker 12: more Alaskan energy. And, Scott, you mentioned that transmission line
• 25:37
  Speaker 12: announcement from the U.S.
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: Department of Energy.
• 25:40
  Speaker 12: That the vice president announced in Fairbanks.
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: This is all.
• 25:44
  Speaker 12: Part of our Republican policies in D.C. to lower the
• 25:50
  Speaker 12: cost of energy in Alaska. But the big thing that
• 25:55
  Speaker 12: we are working on, the goal that we've been trying
• 25:57
  Speaker 12: to get done for almost, no kidding, a half a century,
• 26:01
  Speaker 12: which we've made gigantic progress on, is the big Alaska
• 26:05
  Speaker 12: gas line and the giant Alaska LNG project.
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: We've never been closer.
• 26:11
  Speaker 12: The vice president talked about it in Fairbanks, how we're
• 26:14
  Speaker 12: going to build the line, as we say here. I
• 26:17
  Speaker 12: was in the Oval Office with the president last week
• 26:20
  Speaker 12: where we made a huge announcement on the progress that
• 26:23
  Speaker 12: we've had on the Alaska Gas Line and LNG project.
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: We are going to get that done.
• 26:28
  Speaker 12: That is the most consequential project that we've seen in
• 26:32
  Speaker 12: our state in decades. It will be the project that
• 26:36
  Speaker 12: makes sure our kids survive. and grandkids stay in Alaska
• 26:40
  Speaker 12: for a bright future. Imagine 50 to 100 years of
• 26:45
  Speaker 12: clean burning, low-cost Alaska natural gas for all of our communities,
• 26:50
  Speaker 12: and then export the remainder to our Asian allies, get
• 26:54
  Speaker 12: that gas to.
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: Our military bases.
• 26:57
  Speaker 12: This is a game changer. We're making huge progress on it.
• 27:00
  Speaker 12: And guess who's against it?
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: D.C.
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: Democrats.
• 27:04
  Speaker 14: D.C.
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: Democrats.
• 27:05
  Speaker 12: If Peltola wins, which she won't, and empower Schumer and
• 27:09
  Speaker 12: the far left like they do every time they will
• 27:13
  Speaker 12: come after this giant oil and gas project. So that
• 27:16
  Speaker 12: is a giant difference between me and my opponent. She's
• 27:20
  Speaker 12: never even talked about the Alaska gas line. I am
• 27:23
  Speaker 12: making it happen, and we're going to build the line.
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: Senator Sullivan, the contours of this election in Alaska are
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: somewhat strange. You have ranked choice voting in Alaska, which
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: is weird for most of the country. And Democrats up
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: here recruited an imposter, Dan Sullivan, who's I guess also
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: a Republican. And through a bunch of challenges, he wound
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: up on the ballot and part of this ranked choice
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: system here in November. I'm curious about in your interactions
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: with everyday Alaskans, do they see what's going on here
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: as dirty tricks by the Democrats? Have they sniffed out
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: sort of these shenanigans? What are you hearing on that front?
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: And what's your message to Alaska voters about why they
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: should reject this sort of dirty tricks, dirty politics?
• 28:09
  Speaker 12: Yeah, look, Scott, I mean, when the Democrats complain about
• 28:12
  Speaker 12: elections and you know, integrity, and just say, what.
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: The heck are you guys doing in Alaska? They're all,
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: they're shameless, right? Schumer was behind this.
• 28:26
  Speaker 12: They will do anything to regain power, including, in Alaska,
• 28:31
  Speaker 12: openly cheating. Remember, this guy wasn't a Republican. This guy's
• 28:35
  Speaker 12: a far-left progressive. The Democrat Party recruited him at the
• 28:40
  Speaker 12: last minute. He even tried to register with my middle initial.
• 28:45
  Speaker 12: He stole my website and campaign logo. I mean, and
• 28:49
  Speaker 12: he's coordinating with Peltola and Schumer staff, which, by the way,
• 28:53
  Speaker 12: is illegal. I mean, this is complete just dirty tricks. Now,
• 29:00
  Speaker 12: here's what I think is going on because I'm campaigning
• 29:02
  Speaker 12: harder than can be. That's something else with regard to
• 29:05
  Speaker 12: my opponent. She's kind of gone under the into the
• 29:08
  Speaker 12: bunker like Joe Biden did. when he was campaigning, particularly
• 29:11
  Speaker 12: because of this New York Times article that's showing her
• 29:15
  Speaker 12: true colors and her true character.
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: Wow, you've got to ask me about that, please.
• 29:20
  Speaker 12: But back to the ranked choice voting scam, what I
• 29:23
  Speaker 12: think it shows is the Democrats in D.C., the Democrats
• 29:27
  Speaker 12: certainly in Alaska, have contempt for the Alaskan people, have
• 29:31
  Speaker 12: contempt for the Alaskan voter because they're openly putting a
• 29:35
  Speaker 12: guy on the ballot whose sole purpose is not.
• 29:38
  Speaker 4: To win it, He's not the NFL. win it to
• 29:41
  Speaker 4: win it. He's in it to rig it for Peltola.
• 29:45
  Speaker 4: And it's clear as day.
• 29:46
  Speaker 12: And I think what it's going to do, it's going
• 29:50
  Speaker 12: to turn out voters even more, which is what we
• 29:52
  Speaker 12: need to say. We're not going to let Democrats steal
• 29:56
  Speaker 12: this election by playing dirty tricks. against alaska and um
• 30:01
  Speaker 12: so but you know it's still a big issue the
• 30:03
  Speaker 12: guy's on the ballot we tried to get him off
• 30:06
  Speaker 12: the democrats super lawyer from dc elias came down here
• 30:10
  Speaker 12: who by the way is peltola's lawyer again that's all
• 30:13
  Speaker 12: coordination which is not legal as you know scott they're
• 30:16
  Speaker 12: doing it anyways this just shows that chuck schumer will
• 30:20
  Speaker 12: do anything to regain power including openly cheating in alaska.
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: All right, that's Senator Dan Sullivan of Alaska. He's the
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: incumbent Republican. Close race up there, but one of the
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: most important in the country. Senator, thanks for your time today.
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: Hey, Scott, thanks.
• 30:35
  Speaker 12: And Alaskans are listening.
• 30:36
  Speaker 4: Get out and vote.
• 30:37
  Speaker 12: Talk to your neighbors. Talk to your friends. This is
• 30:39
  Speaker 12: the critical race. We're going to win it, but we
• 30:42
  Speaker 12: need people to get out and vote in November.
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: More on the Scott Jennings Show right after this.
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• 31:07
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• 34:18
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• 36:44
  Speaker 2: Quick check of the headlines here on Friday, October the 9th.
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: There was an ICE shooting in New York City last night.
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: Mayor Zoran Mamdani immediately rushed to the scene to call
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: the man a New Yorker. In reality, the man that
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: was shot is an illegal immigrant with a criminal record
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: and gang ties. According to DHS, Mamdani, of course, has
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: called for abolishing ICE while federal officials say the man...
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: used his car as a weapon, and officers feared for
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: their lives.
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: We'll follow that investigation.
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: Hurricane Izias is now a Category 3 storm, packing 120-mile-an-hour
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• 37:37
  Speaker 2: fiery Senate debate in Michigan last night. The Republican is
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: Mike Rogers. The Democrat is Abdul El-Sayed.
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: Listen to this. Cut 10.
• 37:45
  Speaker 9: He has taken money from groups associated and support the
• 37:48
  Speaker 9: Muslim Brotherhood. He has taken money from individuals on his
• 37:52
  Speaker 9: campaign who openly support Hamas and He's taken money from
• 37:58
  Speaker 9: the George Soros family. What we found out is that
• 38:00
  Speaker 9: this thing goes way back. Apparently they paid for his
• 38:03
  Speaker 9: education in Columbia. Now they're paying for his campaign. Politics
• 38:09
  Speaker 9: ain't beanbag. That's what we learned in Michigan last night.
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: Joining us to discuss is the Detroit News Deputy Editorial
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: Page Editor, Ms. Caitlin Buss. Caitlin, welcome into the Scott
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: Jennings Show. You watch the debate. You cover Michigan politics.
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: It sounded to me like Rodgers was throwing some haymakers
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: last night. First question, who won this debate? Who landed
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: more punches? Who do you think scored more points?
• 38:33
  Speaker 10: Well, it's great to be on your show. Thanks, Scott.
• 38:36
  Speaker 11: I think that Mike Rodgers won this. And I have
• 38:38
  Speaker 11: not been able to probably safely call a winner in
• 38:42
  Speaker 11: many of the past debates.
• 38:44
  Speaker 10: But I think he hands down won this.
• 38:45
  Speaker 11: I think he brought up all the things he needed
• 38:48
  Speaker 11: to bring up about Abdul that are concerning Rodgers. And
• 38:51
  Speaker 11: he did not get Abdul to answer him clearly on
• 38:54
  Speaker 11: a lot of things. He brought the right energy. Yeah,
• 38:57
  Speaker 11: I think he had a good night.
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: El-Sayed, I've been watching some of his interactions with journalists
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: lately and even his interactions on the debate stage last night.
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: It seems to me, Caitlin, he has a habit of
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: when he doesn't like the question that he's been asked
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: or he knows there's no good answer to it, he
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: ends up attacking the journalist.
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: Or attacking the question. He's kind of insulting and condescending.
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: The whole exchange last night where he got asked, what's
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: a bigger threat, Israel or Iran? And I think he
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: called it a ridiculous hypothetical. It's not a hypothetical. There's
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: a war going on. We have an ally and we
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: have an enemy. But he seems to do this all
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: the time. Do you think that's getting on the nerves
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: of Michigan voters who think you ought to have real
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: answers to these questions?
• 39:42
  Speaker 10: I do.
• 39:42
  Speaker 11: I think it's getting on the nerves of people who've
• 39:44
  Speaker 11: interacted with him or watch him a lot. He certainly
• 39:49
  Speaker 11: that that is what that was a jaw dropping moment
• 39:51
  Speaker 11: for me. I think he should have obviously been able
• 39:53
  Speaker 11: to answer that question, even though we know where he stands.
• 39:56
  Speaker 11: I think he could have had a better answer and
• 39:58
  Speaker 11: he was given several opportunities.
• 40:00
  Speaker 10: But he's very glib.
• 40:02
  Speaker 11: And, you know, for those who aren't paying too much attention, they're,
• 40:05
  Speaker 11: I think, still attracted to his overall message. But for
• 40:07
  Speaker 11: those who are, yeah, his personality is starting to rub
• 40:10
  Speaker 11: people the wrong way.
• 40:12
  Speaker 3: Let's take a little listen to that. Actually, we have
• 40:14
  Speaker 3: it here. Cut number one.
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  Speaker 5: I'm going to ask you again tonight, who do you
• 40:19
  Speaker 5: think is a bigger threat to the United States, Israel
• 40:21
  Speaker 5: or Iran?
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: You have 60 seconds.
• 40:23
  Speaker 5: And again, Rick, I'm just going to say that that's
• 40:24
  Speaker 5: a ridiculous hypothetical because here's what's happening right now. Our
• 40:29
  Speaker 5: ostensible ally in Israel has lobbied us to go to
• 40:32
  Speaker 5: war with Iran. We have watched as Iran has responded
• 40:37
  Speaker 5: by bombing all kinds of countries in the Middle East
• 40:40
  Speaker 5: and then choking off the world's energy supply. So this
• 40:45
  Speaker 5: is a situation in which I don't think we should
• 40:47
  Speaker 5: be a part. I don't want to be pushed into
• 40:49
  Speaker 5: war by Israel.
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was shocking to me that he simply couldn't
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: bring himself to say, Caitlin, that Iran is our enemy.
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: I mean, they do chant death to America, after all.
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: This is part of a long pattern here, Caitlin. And
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: I guess my political analysis question for you is this.
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: I suspect there are some pro-America, pro-national security Democrats, some
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: Jewish Democrats in Michigan. Who are petrified of the idea
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: of this guy becoming a senator. How's that playing in
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: that crowd?
• 41:20
  Speaker 11: Yeah, you know, these are positions that I mean, even
• 41:23
  Speaker 11: a year ago, two years ago is when three years
• 41:25
  Speaker 11: ago is when Israel was attacked. So they're very extreme
• 41:28
  Speaker 11: positions to, you know, suddenly be saying this is the
• 41:31
  Speaker 11: mainstream now. I know for a fact that the Jewish
• 41:35
  Speaker 11: community here has been really activated. You know, of course,
• 41:38
  Speaker 11: some of them support Abdul, but largely they're behind Mike Rogers.
• 41:42
  Speaker 11: And they've made that very known. There's a strong presence
• 41:45
  Speaker 11: of Democrats for Mike Rogers, Jews for Mike Rogers around here.
• 41:49
  Speaker 11: You know, I don't know how far outstate that will go,
• 41:51
  Speaker 11: but at least in Metro Detroit, there's a strong tension
• 41:53
  Speaker 11: over this race and democracy. I don't know who will
• 41:57
  Speaker 11: end up winning, but that Israel-Iran question underpins, I think,
• 42:02
  Speaker 11: this entire campaign, which is now the most expensive in
• 42:05
  Speaker 11: Michigan state history.
• 42:06
  Speaker 10: So we just found that out.
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: Talking to Michigan political analyst, editorial page deputy editor Caitlin
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: Buss of the Detroit News. Kaylin, you don't know this,
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: but you're now our official Michigan correspondent for The Scott
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: Jennings Show. It doesn't pay much, but it does come
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: with a lot of prestige. Okay, next question on political
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: coalition building. Take us inside the Democratic coalition. How do
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: you win in Michigan? Because part of it involves turning
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: out African-American voters in Detroit. I've seen a lot of
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: video lately where African-American voters, pastors, community leaders are are
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: openly questioning whether Abdul El-Sayed cares about what they have
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: to say about much of anything.
• 42:47
  Speaker 3: Are you also hearing that?
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: But give us the real ground level politics on is
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: El-Sayed struggling with black voters in Michigan?
• 42:57
  Speaker 11: He absolutely is. And so, you know, I haven't, I
• 42:59
  Speaker 11: don't think we've seen enough of him in Detroit. We've
• 43:01
  Speaker 11: seen John James in Detroit. We've seen a lot of
• 43:03
  Speaker 11: people campaigning down there. I don't know that Abdul has
• 43:05
  Speaker 11: been down there as much as he needs to. But
• 43:08
  Speaker 11: that being said, you know, I think a big problem
• 43:10
  Speaker 11: is turnout. So where Abdul does have a lot of
• 43:13
  Speaker 11: support is in these progressive, affluent, liberal white areas throughout
• 43:17
  Speaker 11: the state, notably on the west side of the state now,
• 43:20
  Speaker 11: the northern part of the state, and then scattered throughout
• 43:22
  Speaker 11: Metro Detroit. So he's able, at least in the primary,
• 43:26
  Speaker 11: he was able to skirt through. Even though Haley Stevens
• 43:28
  Speaker 11: won the tri-county area around Metro Detroit a lot because
• 43:32
  Speaker 11: of that black vote, right? He was still able to
• 43:35
  Speaker 11: win the state because he has these affluent communities. And
• 43:38
  Speaker 11: I live in a well-to-do community as well. And I
• 43:40
  Speaker 11: am shocked to see the number of Abdul signs in
• 43:43
  Speaker 11: front of very nice homes. It makes no sense to me.
• 43:47
  Speaker 11: But that's how he's able to get that coalition, you know,
• 43:50
  Speaker 11: find a coalition that can get him through without shoring
• 43:54
  Speaker 11: up the black vote well enough.
• 43:56
  Speaker 3: Let me ask you about Mike Rogers.
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: In addition to his debate performance last night, which I
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: think was very good and very forceful, he has a
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: new ad out in which he is calling for an
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: end to the tariff war with Canada, breaking with President
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: Trump on this back and forth we've been having with Canada.
• 44:13
  Speaker 3: Do you think.
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: Voters in Michigan appreciate that sort of independence out of
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: Mike Rogers? Is it going to cost him with some Republicans?
• 44:20
  Speaker 3: How do you see that?
• 44:22
  Speaker 10: I don't think it will cost him with Republicans.
• 44:24
  Speaker 11: I think, you know, and I've been in my writing
• 44:27
  Speaker 11: kind of urging Republicans to at least separate in certain
• 44:30
  Speaker 11: areas from Trump just because of his unpopularity.
• 44:33
  Speaker 4: So.
• 44:34
  Speaker 11: It may be too little too late on this tariff issue,
• 44:36
  Speaker 11: which I do think is more acute in Michigan than
• 44:39
  Speaker 11: in other parts of the country. I think just by
• 44:42
  Speaker 11: nature of how close we are to Canada, we have,
• 44:43
  Speaker 11: you know, Canadian relatives, things like that.
• 44:45
  Speaker 10: So you feel it a little.
• 44:47
  Speaker 11: Bit differently than, you know, down south or somewhere farther
• 44:49
  Speaker 11: from the border. So I think it may be effective.
• 44:52
  Speaker 11: I think it may win him perhaps some independence. But
• 44:55
  Speaker 11: I think a lot of people are already decided in
• 44:57
  Speaker 11: this race. So it may just be, you know, too
• 44:59
  Speaker 11: little too late on that particular.
• 45:01
  Speaker 10: Point for him.
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: All right, 30 seconds with Caitlin Buss here. She's on
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: the editorial page at the Detroit News. What is the
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: biggest story going on in this race on the ground
• 45:12
  Speaker 2: in Michigan that's being missed by national political reporters?
• 45:17
  Speaker 10: This is so hard.
• 45:17
  Speaker 11: And I've been asked this a couple of times and
• 45:19
  Speaker 11: I have yet to come up with a great answer.
• 45:21
  Speaker 10: But look, I think this is a change election.
• 45:24
  Speaker 11: I always am amazed at how Michigan becomes the ground
• 45:27
  Speaker 11: zero for these elections. And so I think the Israel-Iran thing,
• 45:32
  Speaker 11: I think that is still a big issue here. And
• 45:34
  Speaker 11: I think affordability and just the convoluted nature of the
• 45:39
  Speaker 11: war plus higher prices, all of that, I still think
• 45:42
  Speaker 11: that may be the biggest thing going on in this race.
• 45:46
  Speaker 3: Before we go, do you consider this to be a
• 45:47
  Speaker 3: dead toss-up right now?
• 45:51
  Speaker 10: I would put it that way after the debate. I
• 45:53
  Speaker 10: think so. Hopefully a lot of people saw it.
• 45:56
  Speaker 11: I think the polling is within the margin of error,
• 45:58
  Speaker 11: and I think it's going to be really close.
• 46:00
  Speaker 9: I do.
• 46:02
  Speaker 2: Caitlin Buss, the Deputy Editorial Page Editor for the Detroit News,
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: we'll have you back soon as we watch one of
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: the biggest races in the nation, the open Senate seat
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: going on in Michigan. The Relief Factor, Pain of the Week,
• 46:14
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• 46:30
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• 46:34
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• 50:58
  Speaker 2: Rubio in Greece. And the only thing anybody wants to
• 51:00
  Speaker 2: talk about are these messages that Kimberly Guilfoyle, our ambassador,
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• 51:09
  Speaker 2: He's a wild man out here making all sorts of
• 51:11
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  Speaker 3: How are we doing with the White Sox right now?
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  Speaker 6: You know, the Pope can only get you so far, Scott.
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  Speaker 6: They've made it miraculously to the divisional playoffs. They had
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• 54:40
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  Speaker 6: those two games. I was at the one last night. So,
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  Speaker 6: you know, hope springs eternal. They've been amazing this year.
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  Speaker 6: but that plan went astray. I love them both, so
• 55:26
  Speaker 6: I'm from New York originally, so I don't have to
• 55:29
  Speaker 6: I don't have the tribal loyalties that Chicagoans have. I
• 55:32
  Speaker 6: got season tickets on both sides of town. Love baseball,
• 55:34
  Speaker 6: as you know. And I'm really happy about the White Sox.
• 55:40
  Speaker 2: Well, we'll keep watching the Major League playoffs here. And
• 55:43
  Speaker 2: I guess we got to hope that they get this
• 55:47
  Speaker 2: labor dispute worked out. I mean, if you listen to
• 55:49
  Speaker 2: the scuttlebutt around baseball, it really feels like there's a
• 55:53
  Speaker 2: very large percentage chance we're going to see at least
• 55:56
  Speaker 2: a delay to next year's season. I know you know
• 55:59
  Speaker 2: a lot of people on baseball. What do you hear
• 56:00
  Speaker 2: about that? You've got a lot of contacts in the sport.
• 56:03
  Speaker 6: Yeah, it sure feels that way. You know, it's interesting.
• 56:06
  Speaker 6: I mean, there is a big movement among a lot
• 56:09
  Speaker 6: of teams in the league to put a salary cap
• 56:12
  Speaker 6: on because you've got teams like the Los Angeles Dodgers
• 56:15
  Speaker 6: who buy up all the talent and a few other teams.
• 56:19
  Speaker 6: The Mets didn't work out well for them. You know,
• 56:22
  Speaker 6: some of Philly, there's some teams that have have just
• 56:26
  Speaker 6: opened up the vault to get star players as free agents.
• 56:32
  Speaker 6: And it puts small market teams as a disadvantage. Here's
• 56:35
  Speaker 6: the irony. We could end up with a World Series
• 56:39
  Speaker 6: this year with the Milwaukee Brewers playing the Tampa Rays.
• 56:46
  Speaker 6: And those are two small market teams with great organizations
• 56:50
  Speaker 6: that So that kind of works against the argument. I
• 56:53
  Speaker 6: don't think it's going to stop this, but that it's
• 57:00
  Speaker 6: going to stop the lockout. I think owners are determined to,
• 57:03
  Speaker 6: because the economics of the game are very strange. And,
• 57:07
  Speaker 6: you know, if you're the Pittsburgh Pirates, you're just basically
• 57:10
  Speaker 6: developing talent for the teams that have money. And so
• 57:15
  Speaker 6: we'll see what happens. But as you know, I spent
• 57:17
  Speaker 6: part of the year in Arizona playing And a lot
• 57:19
  Speaker 6: of the reason I do is because I love spring training.
• 57:23
  Speaker 6: So I am heart sick at the thought that there
• 57:28
  Speaker 6: won't be any spring training, but I'm not optimistic at
• 57:31
  Speaker 6: the moment.
• 57:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not either, sadly. But hope springs eternal, I suppose.
• 57:36
  Speaker 3: We'll keep an eye on that. Let's talk a little politics.
• 57:38
  Speaker 2: Actually, before we get into the midterms, Axe, I want
• 57:40
  Speaker 2: to bring up a news story. I haven't covered this yet,
• 57:42
  Speaker 2: but I thought I would bring it to the audience here.
• 57:46
  Speaker 2: You all probably remember The story of the Fort Hood shooting.
• 57:52
  Speaker 2: This happened all the way back in 2009. A man
• 57:55
  Speaker 2: named Nidal Hassan, a former U.S. Army major, killed 13
• 58:01
  Speaker 2: unarmed soldiers at Fort Hood.
• 58:03
  Speaker 3: This happened back in 2009.
• 58:05
  Speaker 2: And it has been announced that he will be executed
• 58:09
  Speaker 2: for those crimes at Fort Hood. And what took everybody
• 58:15
  Speaker 2: by surprise was the idea that he'll be executed by
• 58:19
  Speaker 2: a firing squad and that it will be live streamed.
• 58:22
  Speaker 2: This was the announcement from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth.
• 58:26
  Speaker 2: This was coming out yesterday. Axe, a couple of questions
• 58:31
  Speaker 2: for you. Number one, you were, well, I guess you
• 58:35
  Speaker 2: all had just taken office when this happened.
• 58:37
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I was there when it happened. I was there
• 58:40
  Speaker 6: when it happened, yeah.
• 58:41
  Speaker 2: And now all these years later, he's going to be executed.
• 58:44
  Speaker 2: What do you make of this announcement that, well, first
• 58:47
  Speaker 2: of all, that he'll be executed by firing SWAT, but second,
• 58:50
  Speaker 2: this idea of live streaming it?
• 58:53
  Speaker 15: Yeah.
• 58:54
  Speaker 6: First of all, I do remember it well, Scott. And
• 58:57
  Speaker 6: that was at the end of the tenure of Bob
• 59:01
  Speaker 6: Mueller as FBI director. And it was really maybe the
• 59:05
  Speaker 6: only time I ever saw Mueller because we did not
• 59:08
  Speaker 6: have communications between political people in the White House and
• 59:12
  Speaker 6: the Justice Department and the FBI other than the White
• 59:15
  Speaker 6: House counsel or chief of staff. Mueller came in to
• 59:20
  Speaker 6: brief the president on what happened. And it was so
• 59:25
  Speaker 6: impressive to me because the first thing he said was, Mr. President,
• 59:30
  Speaker 6: this is on us. We missed this. There were signs
• 59:33
  Speaker 6: we should have caught them. We did not. And we're
• 59:37
  Speaker 6: going to do a thorough investigation as to why that
• 59:41
  Speaker 6: happened to make sure it doesn't happen again. And, you know, Scott,
• 59:43
  Speaker 6: you've been around Washington a long time. Not that customary
• 59:47
  Speaker 6: for people to come in and say this is on us.
• 59:51
  Speaker 6: More often than not, they come in and say this
• 59:53
  Speaker 6: is on someone else. And that always impressed me about Mueller,
• 59:58
  Speaker 6: and it's the one big memory I have about him.
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 6: But it impressed me. So, look, I think it's crazy
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 6: to live stream an execution. I don't think it serves
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 6: any purpose. I assume it's not pay-for-view, but who knows?
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 6: But I.
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 6: I just, you know, the guy is going to pay
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 6: the ultimate price. And I think it's enough to know
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 6: that he did. I don't think that there's some, you know,
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 6: that there's some great benefit to the public of exalting
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 6: the moment. And so, you know, but I mean, one
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 6: thing I, you know, I know about Secretary Hegseth is
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 6: that he he very much lifts up these kinds of moments.
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 6: And so it's not shocking to me, but I think,
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 6: you know, I'm sorry they're doing it. Just execute the prisoner.
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 6: I mean, how do you feel about it?
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 3: I got hit with this. Well, I got hit with.
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 2: This on CNN last night. I just learned about it.
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 2: It was kind of breaking news to me. It was
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 2: on with Caitlin last night. And I Yeah, I'll be honest.
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 2: It strikes me as completely unnecessary. I think I said
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 2: I had very mixed feelings about that last night. I mean, look, truthfully,
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 2: I don't want my kids to be able to access
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 2: more violent.
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 3: Video.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I think this guy deserves to be executed.
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 2: I think a firing squad is a perfectly acceptable way
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 2: to do it, and doing it at Fort Hood seems
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 2: fitting to me.
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  Speaker 3: The live stream... I just– I'm not sure what purpose
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 3: it serves.
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 6: Yeah, well, I mean that's the question I'm raising.
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 2: I mean there will be some people that celebrate the
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 2: bravado of it or, hey, we have to show these
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 2: people what happens when you commit these kinds of acts.
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 2: But as a social matter and as a cultural matter–
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 2: I'm just not sure what purpose it serves. And today,
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 2: I even saw Vice President Vance was asked about it today,
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 2: and he sort of hedged and said, well, I don't
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 2: know if that's going to happen or not. So I
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 2: even started to wonder whether senior officials in the government
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 2: had been surprised by it.
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 6: Hexeth has been sort of, I mean, he has been
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 6: more and more venturesome in indulging his impulses lately. And
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 6: I wonder how much of it is cleared and how
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 6: much of it is a guy who's getting ready to leave.
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 6: But we'll see about that. And maybe a guy who
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 6: has aspirations of his own. But, yeah, I don't think
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 6: live streaming any execution is.
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 4: Appropriate.
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 6: Imagine if they had live streamed the one in Tennessee
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 6: the other day and how horrific that would have been.
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 6: We don't need to– the whole point of these penalties
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 6: is to punish and discourage violence. But I don't think we– punish.
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 6: I don't think the message of exalting violence necessarily stops it.
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 6: I don't think, by the way, most people who commit
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 6: violent crimes are thinking about, well, I just I saw
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 6: a live stream of execution. And so I'm not going
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 6: to do what I plan to do. I think if
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 6: you're to the point where you're planning to do something
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 6: like that, you're well past being influenced about what the
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 6: repercussions of it might be. So You know, I think
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 6: it's a bad idea. I hope the White House steps
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 6: in and suggests that to the secretary.
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 2: Talking to David Axelrod from CNN. Ax, we've got a
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 2: couple of minutes here. I want to shift gears to
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 2: the midterms before all of our time gets away from
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 2: us today. You know, we both read the same polls
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 2: and we both get asked to analyze the same news
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 2: right now. I don't you know, look, I I'm having
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 2: a lot of discussions right now with political consultants and
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 2: pollsters about whether they actually believe the polls, whether this
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 2: non-response bias thing is real. I'm sure some Democrats are
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 2: even wondering that, too. On your side of the ball,
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 2: is that a conversation that's going on about whether people.
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 6: Yeah, well, I tell you the answer. First of all,
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 6: let's stipulate for the audience that we both bear the
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 6: scars of bad midterm elections. You in 2006 in the
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 6: Bush White House, me in 2010. Highly unpleasant experience. I
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 6: remember us coming up with all kinds of theories about
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 6: why what was obviously going to happen wasn't going to happen.
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 6: until it happened and it happened worse than we thought
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 6: it was going to happen. And we knew it was
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 6: going to be probably not very good, but you know,
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 6: the conversation that I hear among pollsters, both Republican and
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 6: Democrat is, uh, even though the midterm polling has been less, um, off, uh,
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 6: than when Trump is on the ballot. I mean, the
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 6: polling two years ago really wasn't, uh, that bad. If anything,
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 6: it was biased, uh, more in favor of Republicans than, uh, than, uh,
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 6: than Democrats. Democrats is a little better than expected. You know,
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 6: all of this is all about modeling and what, who
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 6: you guess is going to turn out. And the theory
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 6: is that Republicans are not responding to polling, but all
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 6: these pollsters, they know all this too. So they are,
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 6: you know, I know some pollsters are modeling off of
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 6: the 2024 turnout so that it is more favorable to, uh, uh,
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 6: to Republicans. All of them are saying, The raw data
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 6: is coming in so heavily Democratic that they're weighing Democrats down.
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 6: So I don't, you know, that is a fear Democrats have.
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 6: There's no doubt that there is a fear that all
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 6: of this is not true and all these close races
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 6: will tip the other way.
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 2: Let's pick this up on the other side of the break.
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 2: David Axelrod here on the Scott Jennings Show.
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 3: Stay with us. Common sense for the American people. This
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 3: is the Scott Jennings Show.
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 2: All right, rounding out the week here, Friday, October the 9th,
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 2: David Axelrod from CNN is here.
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 3: Ax, let's talk about the Senate for the next five minutes.
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: First question is, how do you think it's going to land?
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 2: And then I think the second question revolves around a
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 2: couple of the more fascinating races out there. So we'll
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 2: start with your overview. Do you think Democrats have a
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 2: chance to pick up the majority here?
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 6: Oh, I do. I absolutely do. And You know, one
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 6: of the reasons is two of the races that we
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 6: thought were going to be on the board in in
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 6: 2026 were already off the board. Georgia and North Carolina
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 6: Republicans have basically evacuated those states, conceding that Ossoff is
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 6: going to win in in Georgia and Cooper is going
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 6: to win in North Carolina. So that is one development
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 6: that we didn't anticipate. And I think that there are states, Ohio, Iowa, Alaska,
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 6: and Texas that are in play that no one took
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 6: all that seriously six months ago. I think the thing
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 6: that's changed this, Scott, is the war. And particularly as
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 6: it's affected the middle of the country in terms of
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 6: diesel costs, fertilizer, you know, and gas. just the general
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 6: cost of things. People are very angry about that in
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 6: the middle of the country, in the heart of what
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 6: was Republican territory. And in the northern tier in states
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 6: like Maine and Michigan and New Hampshire and, you know, Ohio,
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 6: and there also is the issue of the Canada trade war,
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 6: which has had deleterious effects in those areas. So that is,
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 6: you know, and then we have you know, places like
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 6: Kansas that nobody ever thought was going to be competitive.
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 6: And now there is a rush of Republican money to
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 6: Kansas to try and save Senator Marshall, who has a
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 6: particular they have some of the same problems. They've been
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 6: deeply affected by the war and tariffs. But he has
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 6: particular problems that relate to his how he ran his
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 6: medical practice and went after medical debt. So, did you
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 6: know that, by the way, I heard that the guy, Hamilton,
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 6: Adam Hamilton's running there, the Democratic nominee, Methodist pastor, largest
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 6: Methodist congregation in the country. He is a descendant of
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 6: Alexander Hamilton. Did you know that?
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 4: Interesting.
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 6: And now he may end up in the room where
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 6: it happens. You never know.
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 3: I don't know. Kansas feels like an outer band thing.
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 3: to me.
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  Speaker 6: There's no doubt.
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  Speaker 2: They haven't elected a Democrat since 1932. But I grant
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 2: you that the other states you mentioned, they're all extremely close.
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 6: That's why this discussion– That's why this discussion we had
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 6: about how the polling is going is because this could
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 6: tip either way. If it's a real wave and the
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 6: Republican money isn't enough, you know, all these states could
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 6: break and you could have 52, 53, 54 Democrats. So, yeah,
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 6: go ahead. I'm sorry I interrupted you.
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm just ticking through the ones you mentioned.
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 2: I think Ashley Henson in Iowa actually is a pretty
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 2: good candidate.
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 3: She feels like she might be.
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 2: In shape to withstand a close or negative environment out there.
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 2: The Alaska situation is fascinating because it's ranked choice voting,
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 2: plus you've got this other Dan Sullivan shenanigans on the
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 2: ballot up there. And so that one, to me, polling Alaska,
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 2: always weird. Ranked choice voting, weird. Two Dan Sullivans, weird.
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 2: That one makes sort of election analysis strange.
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 3: Texas.
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 2: You know, Democrats have tried to pick off Texas one
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 2: way or the other for a lot of years now.
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 2: And obviously, Tallarico is benefiting from a better environment than
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 2: maybe some other people had. And Paxton's got baggage. I'll
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 2: believe it when I see it. But what are you
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 2: hearing on the Democratic side about that? And you've got
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 2: about 30 seconds here.
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I think people are very optimistic. They look every
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 6: day and check polling to see. I think 150 million
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 6: has already been spent in the last few weeks trying
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 6: to beat up Tallarico. And the numbers aren't changing. So and,
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 6: you know, Paxton keep all these leaks out of his
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 6: meetings and his observations. And, you know, I think what's
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 6: going to happen there, Scott, is going to be a
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 6: big undervote for the Senate race. Republicans will come out
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 6: and vote, but a bunch of them won't vote for.
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 10: Paxton.
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 6: And I think that Libertarian candidate is going to do.
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 6: He got 2.4 in the last Senate race. Same guy.
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 6: I think he'll do better than three in this race.
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 6: So you won't need 50 to win. And I think
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 6: Tallarico can clear that bar.
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 2: That's David Axelrod, famed Democrat political strategist. Obama advisor, author, podcaster,
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 2: and my friend and colleague at CNNX. I'm sure we'll
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 2: be together over the next few weeks, and we'll be
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 2: together on election night on CNN. I can't thank you
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 2: enough for spending a little time with us today. And
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 2: that does it for the week. I want to thank
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 2: the C-SPAN audience for being with us here this week,
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 2: and we'll see you again. I'm taking Monday off for
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 2: some travel. I'll be back in the chair Tuesday. It's
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 2: common sense for the American people. Scott Jennings, have a
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 2: great weekend.