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The Scott Jennings Podcast - California's $15 Billion Train Wreck No Tracks, No Train, No Accountability · Salem Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: The voice of free speech. The truth delivered.
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  Speaker 2: Common sense for the American people.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Scott Jennings Show.
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  Speaker 3: Scott Jennings here. I'm away today, but you are in
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  Speaker 3: the capable hands of Mark Davis.
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  Speaker 4: Mark, take it away. Thank you, my friend. Thank you, Scott.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks for all you do. Thanks for all you do
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  Speaker 4: on the radio. Thanks for all you do making liberals
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  Speaker 4: cry on CNN. I don't think I raised myself to
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  Speaker 4: that lofty goal, but did you catch me last night
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  Speaker 4: hanging out with Anderson Cooper and Paul Begala? I got
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  Speaker 4: a highlight or two from that. It was great. And
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  Speaker 4: people always ask, it's funny, when people ask me, why
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  Speaker 4: in the world would I venture into the lion's den
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  Speaker 4: at CNN or if MS Now would ever call, I'd
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  Speaker 4: beat a path to go talk to those people. Because
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  Speaker 4: in talking to them, I'm talking to a bunch of
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  Speaker 4: people who might have never heard conservative logic before, maybe
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  Speaker 4: in their lives. So a whole lot of conservative logic
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  Speaker 4: coming at you like a happy fire hose. And I
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  Speaker 4: your wish to hang out with us today while Scott
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  Speaker 4: you're here checking out the Scott Jennings show, here's some
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  Speaker 4: of what I want to do. We've got some wonderful people.
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  Speaker 4: We're going to talk to Kevin Roberts, uh, president of
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  Speaker 4: heritage is going to join us bottom of next hour.
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  Speaker 4: We're going to talk to one of the great city
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  Speaker 4: journal reporters about the, uh, the train to nowhere, uh,
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  Speaker 4: Anything that's about California, my wonderful wife Lisa and I
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  Speaker 4: just got back from Santa Barbara a few weeks ago.
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  Speaker 4: And we're in Texas where it's 114 degrees for about
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  Speaker 4: four months. So it's always nice to go somewhere where
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  Speaker 4: it's somewhat cooler. The Pacific Northwest is a lovely option,
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  Speaker 4: except so much of it is crazy. San Francisco breaks
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  Speaker 4: my heart. It is one of the most beautiful cities
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  Speaker 4: in the world. I just don't want to step over
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  Speaker 4: the syringes and vagrants and fecal matter to get from
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  Speaker 4: point A to point B. Can't do it. And I
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  Speaker 4: long for San Francisco to be run better. I long
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  Speaker 4: for California to be run better. I don't think Santa
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  Speaker 4: Barbara is a conservative city, kind of like San Diego
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  Speaker 4: is semi-conservative. Orange County is too. But it was so pleasant,
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  Speaker 4: and everybody was so nice. The beauty of California, what
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  Speaker 4: those people have been blessed with, What God has blessed
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  Speaker 4: us with to have a part of America that is
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  Speaker 4: the state of California from the north to the south
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  Speaker 4: and everything in between. It just makes me furious that
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  Speaker 4: it is so badly run. But here's the thing. It's
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  Speaker 4: not like aliens from space have landed and said, we
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  Speaker 4: are going to destroy California. You guys have done it
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  Speaker 4: to yourselves. And I probably don't mean you guys if
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  Speaker 4: you're listening in many of the California affiliates or watching
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  Speaker 4: on Salem News Channel from California. It's like, it wasn't me.
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  Speaker 4: I promise. I'm trying. I didn't do it. Well, not
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  Speaker 4: everybody is completing the Adam Carolla conversion where you just
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  Speaker 4: sort of look around and you go, no, these people
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  Speaker 4: are crazy. These people are not operating in our best interest.
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  Speaker 4: And so anyway, the ridiculous– failed train project is something
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  Speaker 4: we'll talk about at the bottom of this hour. But
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  Speaker 4: on the way to that, with failed states and successful states,
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  Speaker 4: I live in a successful state, Texas. You may live
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  Speaker 4: in a successful state like Florida, like any one of
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  Speaker 4: the red states versus the blue states. The track record
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  Speaker 4: is pretty obvious. And I'm going to make a point
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  Speaker 4: about affordability here in a moment. Ah, yes, affordability. They say, hey,
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  Speaker 4: the conservatives don't want to talk about affordability. I'll talk
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  Speaker 4: about it with you all day. In fact, I'll talk
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  Speaker 4: about anything with you here for the next couple of hours.
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  Speaker 4: So in between some of the guests we have and
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  Speaker 4: the clips we'll play and some of the yammering that
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  Speaker 4: I will do, we have a phone number that we
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  Speaker 4: can use. So let's do it. And Brian, my buddy
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  Speaker 4: Brian producing today is ready to take your calls. Here's
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  Speaker 4: the number. We can talk to each other about stuff.
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  Speaker 4: My general questions are five days out. Are you feeling it?
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  Speaker 4: Do you feel like we're going to engage in what
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  Speaker 4: I call Operation Prove Them Wrong? in which the media narratives,
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  Speaker 4: the Democrats, the pollsters, but oops, I repeat myself, are
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  Speaker 4: just going to be proven wrong because we're going to
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  Speaker 4: take history into our hands, put the little markers in
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  Speaker 4: our hands or our little fingers hitting the buttons or
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  Speaker 4: whatever the paper ballots or whatever voting device you have,
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  Speaker 4: and we're going to say no to the usual historical
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  Speaker 4: narrative that two years in to a freshly elected presidency,
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  Speaker 4: the other party does well and the president's party takes
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  Speaker 4: it on the chin. How about if that doesn't happen?
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  Speaker 4: I believe we're going to keep the Senate I believe
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  Speaker 4: here in Texas that Ken Paxton is absolutely going to
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  Speaker 4: beat James Tallarico. I mean, please. And I think that
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  Speaker 4: the House, where a majority, 435 seats in the House,
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  Speaker 4: so a majority is one more than half. It's half
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  Speaker 4: of the fraction. 218 is a majority in the House.
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  Speaker 4: Know what Republicans have right now?
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  Speaker 5: 218.
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  Speaker 4: Because we have two vacancies, one independent vacancy, Four calling birds,
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  Speaker 4: three French hens. So if we lose anything, any seats,
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  Speaker 4: it becomes Speaker Hakeem Jeffries, which should strike fear into
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  Speaker 4: every conservative voter's heart in all of these swing districts.
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  Speaker 4: So many districts, I mean, not many of them, 17, 20,
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  Speaker 4: are supposed to be sort of 50-50, kind of purple.
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  Speaker 4: you never can tell, flip a coin. How about if
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  Speaker 4: we show up and take these districts, every single one
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  Speaker 4: of them? I'm not talking about winning a district in
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  Speaker 4: San Francisco. I'm not talking about winning a district in Manhattan.
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  Speaker 4: These are purple districts, some of them in red states.
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  Speaker 4: And obviously, with the way districts have been drawn, most
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  Speaker 4: of our districts are really hard solid red or really
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  Speaker 4: hard solid blue. Okay, people seem to like that. And
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  Speaker 4: if we're going to have not even a couple of
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  Speaker 4: dozen districts that could determine which way the house goes,
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  Speaker 4: how about if we wake up, pull our heads out
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  Speaker 4: and vote? If early voting is in progress where you are,
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  Speaker 4: then do it. Now, many of you have listened to
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  Speaker 4: me for a long time, may recognize me as somebody
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  Speaker 4: who says we have way too much early voting. And
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  Speaker 4: we do. I like election day. I'm willing to play
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  Speaker 4: ball with you, give you a four day weekend, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday.
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  Speaker 4: How about that? Let's do that reform. But until we do,
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  Speaker 4: Early voting started in Texas on October 19th. I think
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  Speaker 4: it started in some states around Labor Day. It's so dumb.
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  Speaker 4: But if it exists, use it. If it's there, do it,
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  Speaker 4: especially here in Texas. We're looking at maybe some nasty
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  Speaker 4: weather on Tuesday. I told everybody, get out there today.
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  Speaker 4: Get out there tomorrow. Let's go. Because we can't have
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  Speaker 4: you not vote. And this is in our hands. The
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  Speaker 4: history to write is in our hands. So let's do this.
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  Speaker 4: Let's make sure that this happens, and let's see if
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  Speaker 4: maybe we can thwart this history, this usual historical trend
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  Speaker 4: that happens. Let's see if we can reach into our hearts,
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  Speaker 4: reach into our brains, and stand up for gender sanity. environmental, sanity.
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  Speaker 4: The whole Trump agenda, the Trump agenda hangs in the balance.
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  Speaker 4: And I think we are going to win the Senate
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  Speaker 4: because Tallarico ain't going to win here. Susan Collins is
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  Speaker 4: going to pull it out in Maine. Dare I dream
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  Speaker 4: it could Michelle Tafoya win in Minnesota? In fact, these
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  Speaker 4: are some of the questions I have for you wherever
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  Speaker 4: you live, wherever you're listening or watching, listening on the
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  Speaker 4: Salem Radio Network, watching on the Salem News Channel. Let
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  Speaker 4: me open up these phone lines for a portion of
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  Speaker 4: today's program. 844- 861-5537. That is 844-861-5537. Let's have a
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  Speaker 4: little chat on here. I'm going to be saying a
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  Speaker 4: lot of things. Agree, disagree, all good. I welcome all comers.
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  Speaker 4: Glad to have you here. And we'll see what we think,
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  Speaker 4: what we really, really believe is going to happen five
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  Speaker 4: days from now. Because the voting power that gave us
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  Speaker 4: a Republican Senate and a Republican House is and the voters'
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  Speaker 4: will that gave us the second, I know possibly the third,
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  Speaker 4: term of Donald Trump. Where'd y'all go? What are you
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  Speaker 4: going to do, sit on your hands? Are you going
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  Speaker 4: to sit around in Texas and let people like James
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  Speaker 4: Tallarico win? Are you going to sit around in Michigan
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  Speaker 4: and let Abdul Al-Sayed get access to sensitive national security secrets?
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  Speaker 4: Have you been watching that from Ted Cruz to Mike
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  Speaker 4: Rogers himself? Listen, taking a look at Abdul and saying,
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  Speaker 4: you know, this guy might be a little cozy. with
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  Speaker 4: the Muslim Brotherhood, or, you know, this guy might be
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  Speaker 4: a bit of an anti-Semite, both of which I believe
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  Speaker 4: to be true. It is a walk down a slightly
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  Speaker 4: longer pier to say that this guy may pose an
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  Speaker 4: actual danger to American national security the moment he is
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  Speaker 4: sworn in in the Senate. Because as Senator Cruz, as
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  Speaker 4: my senator here in Texas has pointed out, There's no
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  Speaker 4: security clearance in the Senate. You in the Senate, you're cleared.
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  Speaker 6: That's it.
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  Speaker 4: It's like, okay, people trust you. We're good to go.
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  Speaker 4: So Michiganders, please don't do this to us. Can you please?
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  Speaker 4: Can we please count on you to give us Mike Rogers?
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  Speaker 4: And if those things happen, we're solidly going to keep
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  Speaker 4: the Senate. If we lose the House, I think we're
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  Speaker 4: going to get impeachment like every week. And they know
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  Speaker 4: it's going nowhere, but they won't care because it'll be performative.
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  Speaker 4: It'll be a tantrum. Because that's all they've got. And
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  Speaker 4: on affordability, what's more affordable, red states or blue states?
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  Speaker 4: Let's run America like a red state. Who's with me?
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  Speaker 4: Glad you're with me. Mark Davison for Scott Jennings. Stay here.
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  Speaker 4: Call the show now at 844-861-5537. And people have done
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  Speaker 4: precisely that. And we're going to head to those phone
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  Speaker 4: calls in just a moment. Mark Davis in for Scott.
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  Speaker 1: 844-861-5537.
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  Speaker 4: How we feeling? Are you feeling it? Are you feeling
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  Speaker 4: the ability to prove them wrong? The pundits, the pollsters,
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  Speaker 4: these ridiculous polls. We can sit here all day and
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  Speaker 4: say the polls are phony. Polls are stupid. Polls are wrong.
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  Speaker 4: We have to make them wrong with the sheer will
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  Speaker 4: of our voting power. Let's talk about the power of
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  Speaker 4: part by Americans for Prosperity. Okay, I gave the phone number.
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  Speaker 4: Let's use the phone number. We're going to start out
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  Speaker 4: in the Garden State of New Jersey. Carol, Mark Davison
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  Speaker 4: for Scott. Good Thursday to you. How are you doing?
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  Speaker 7: I'm doing well, and let me tell you, New Jersey
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  Speaker 7: is a disaster over here. The Democrats have been running
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  Speaker 7: it for so long, and yet the idiots go to
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  Speaker 7: the polls, and they vote for more Democrats, and they
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  Speaker 7: wonder why their property taxes keep going up and their
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  Speaker 7: property value keeps going down. I worked the polls for
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  Speaker 7: 30 years. I'm now 80. I don't want to sound
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  Speaker 7: like an old, miserable lady. However, I saw so much
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  Speaker 7: corruption and reported every bit of the corruption. I mean,
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  Speaker 7: I'm talking about mayors of a town who would stand
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  Speaker 7: there all day long. They were not one of the
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  Speaker 7: poll watchers. They did not have a label on that
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  Speaker 7: said that they were there officially to check votes. as
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  Speaker 7: a trucker, and yet when I reported it, oh no,
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  Speaker 7: it's okay, he's there, he's there, he's there. Then the
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  Speaker 7: fraud is so rampant here in New Jersey that one
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  Speaker 7: lady takes a bus, oh, like a big minivan, and
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  Speaker 7: goes down to the mental institution at TMI, no, that's
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  Speaker 7: not what it's called, anyway, and.
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  Speaker 2: Picks up 10 or 12 people.
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  Speaker 7: Who come in and they're hooked to a rope, and
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  Speaker 7: they follow on this rope. The rope is around their wrists.
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  Speaker 7: And one by one, this woman, a Democrat, takes them
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  Speaker 7: into the polling booth and holds their hand and pushes
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  Speaker 7: their finger to push on all Democrat candidates.
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  Speaker 4: That stretches credulity a little bit. Have you witnessed this,
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  Speaker 4: or is this anecdotal if someone told you this?
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  Speaker 7: No, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 4: I have witnessed.
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  Speaker 8: It, and I have recorded it.
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  Speaker 1: Many, many times.
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  Speaker 4: I'm glad you have. And listen, keep at it until
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  Speaker 4: somebody listens and keep voting, guys, until something changes. God
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  Speaker 4: bless you, Carol. You're wonderful and a hero there in
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  Speaker 4: the state of New Jersey. Most states have pretty tight
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  Speaker 4: rules on what you can do with another person in
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  Speaker 4: a polling place. There's help available for people with disabilities
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  Speaker 4: or mental or physical. But as far as actually directing them,
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  Speaker 4: like putting their hand in your hand and and slapping
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  Speaker 4: it on a big Democrat straight-ticket voting button. That would
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  Speaker 4: be quite another matter. We are in Texas, online to Philip. Hey,
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  Speaker 4: Mark Davis in for Scott Jennings. How are you?
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  Speaker 9: Hey, Mark.
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  Speaker 10: Good to see you. Up in the CNN last night,
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  Speaker 10: you did a fantastic job.
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  Speaker 4: You're very kind. Thank you.
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  Speaker 10: Hey, longtime listener, big fan of yours. But I wanted
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  Speaker 10: to just throw this out there with the State of
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  Speaker 10: the Union. If you'll recall, Trump had a pretty good
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  Speaker 10: little maneuver there where he was saying, if you love
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  Speaker 10: our country, if you defend our borders and you believe
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  Speaker 10: in whatever, please stand. And then the camera panned and
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  Speaker 10: he caught every Democrat sitting on their butts.
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  Speaker 8: How come we.
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  Speaker 10: Can't use that in some ads? I mean, it's got
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  Speaker 10: to be happening.
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  Speaker 1: That people are sick of it.
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  Speaker 4: That would be such a strong visual. That's a masterstroke,
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  Speaker 4: because it's not like I forgot it, but you brought
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  Speaker 4: it up front of mind. There were things, and thanks, Phil.
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  Speaker 4: Appreciate your call, and God bless Texas. If you remember
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  Speaker 4: from the State of the Union, President Trump would say
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  Speaker 4: some things that weren't real conservative, real Republican, but they
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  Speaker 4: were real American and real about heroism. And in some cases,
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  Speaker 4: only the Republicans would stand up and cheer. He drew
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  Speaker 4: attention to it, said, these Democrats, I can't get them
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  Speaker 4: to rise even for anything that's good for America. You bet.
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  Speaker 4: I guess a room full of people shot at a
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  Speaker 4: wide angle lens might be hard to jump cut really quickly.
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  Speaker 4: But let's try to make sure more people remember that
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  Speaker 4: that did indeed happen. Mark Davison for Scott, and we
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  Speaker 4: will continue. Portions of the Scott Jennings Show are sponsored
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  Speaker 4: in part by Americans for Prosperity. On a Thursday, Mark
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  Speaker 4: Davis in for Scott, joining you from Texas, thinking about
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  Speaker 4: all the states. I was riffing on a bunch of
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  Speaker 4: states as we began, and I continue to bang my
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  Speaker 4: head against the wall about California, one of the most
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  Speaker 4: beautiful states in America, one of the most beautiful places
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  Speaker 4: in the world. so horrifically run. And I told you
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  Speaker 4: that one of the key bleeding examples of this is
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  Speaker 4: this California high-speed rail project, one of the most expensive
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  Speaker 4: government failures in American history. This is nearly a 20-year-old story.
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  Speaker 4: California voters were promised this bullet train connecting San Francisco
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  Speaker 4: And Los Angeles in less than three hours. Now, I'm
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  Speaker 4: a kind of a tech dork and a travel maven,
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  Speaker 4: so I mean, all right, that's kind of cool. I've
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  Speaker 4: always perceived that Europe is way more rail-friendly than we
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  Speaker 4: are because we like our cars. Lord knows they do
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  Speaker 4: in California. But they've spent more than $ 677 million just
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  Speaker 4: on the environmental reviews. Some of the contractors have donated
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  Speaker 4: to the politicians and political causes themselves. supporting the project
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  Speaker 4: what's going on what's not going on one of my
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  Speaker 4: favorite things to read out of the manhattan institute is
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  Speaker 4: the greatness of the city journal wonderful conservative policy publication
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  Speaker 4: and investigative reporter kenneth shrupp is with us kenneth welcome
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  Speaker 4: sir how you doing.
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  Speaker 5: I'm doing great today thanks for having me on.
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  Speaker 4: Let me get the quick bio on you how long
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  Speaker 4: you've been writing for city journal and how long you've
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  Speaker 4: been in california.
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  Speaker 5: You know, I've been in California most of my life
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  Speaker 5: writing for City Journal just since February. So we're just
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  Speaker 5: getting started here. And I got to say, California's been
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  Speaker 5: downhill since as long as I can remember, right? This
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  Speaker 5: high speed rail project come election day. will be old
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  Speaker 5: enough to vote and yet not a single mile.
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  Speaker 4: What a cruel, what a cruel way to put it.
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  Speaker 4: This project will be 18 and should know better. We
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  Speaker 4: should all know better. Californians should know better, but let's,
• 17:19
  Speaker 4: let's lay the groundwork. What have you found? You uncovered
• 17:22
  Speaker 4: a lot of findings. Everybody knows it's been a boondoggle
• 17:25
  Speaker 4: for a long time, but what specifically did you find
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: and did you put in your piece?
• 17:30
  Speaker 5: You know, I think what people are most upset about
• 17:32
  Speaker 5: is the fact that there would be over 130,000 pages
• 17:35
  Speaker 5: minimum of environmental paperwork that we found. That's just a
• 17:38
  Speaker 5: fraction of what's out there. And people were paid to
• 17:41
  Speaker 5: create all of this. They're paid hundreds of millions of
• 17:45
  Speaker 5: dollars to create paperwork. By the way, there's a new
• 17:47
  Speaker 5: CalMatters story out this morning about the supposed resignation of
• 17:52
  Speaker 5: the head of the high speed rail project. They're now
• 17:55
  Speaker 5: saying that this initial rum segment between Bakersfield and Merced,
• 17:58
  Speaker 5: two cities in California's Central Valley, Not anywhere near the coast.
• 18:03
  Speaker 5: It's going to cost over $ 40 billion. And yet we
• 18:06
  Speaker 5: haven't laid a single piece of high-speed track and we're
• 18:09
  Speaker 5: getting caught in all this environmental review for phase one.
• 18:12
  Speaker 5: That's not even done yet. So that's some of the
• 18:15
  Speaker 5: worst findings. But then we look at things like the
• 18:18
  Speaker 5: lizard scat dogs. We look at things like the counting
• 18:21
  Speaker 5: the bumblebees one by one. You have to do these
• 18:25
  Speaker 5: wood rat hut reconstructions and movements. It's a lot of
• 18:28
  Speaker 5: money that's going to be spent And we're not exactly
• 18:31
  Speaker 5: even going to get a train.
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: Out of it.
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: This is almost the stuff of satire. Counting bumblebees. The
• 18:40
  Speaker 4: environmental extremist excess of California has been an albatross around
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: its neck forever. Is there an appetite outside the small
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: conservative pockets of California? You can find a couple. But
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: from L.A. to San Francisco to across the wide swath
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: of California where most people continue to reelect these people–
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: Is there some awareness of this and some desire to
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: do something about it?
• 19:05
  Speaker 5: You know, favorability on the high-speed rail project is actually
• 19:08
  Speaker 5: higher now than it was when it was passed. So
• 19:12
  Speaker 5: voters are getting what they want. I'm not exactly sure.
• 19:15
  Speaker 5: I think it sounds like a nice idea of being
• 19:17
  Speaker 5: able to take the train from LA to SF in
• 19:19
  Speaker 5: two and a half hours. The problem is the train's
• 19:22
  Speaker 5: own projections are that that's never, ever going to happen.
• 19:25
  Speaker 5: There's not going to be an express train that will
• 19:28
  Speaker 5: actually take you From LA to SF with no stops
• 19:30
  Speaker 5: in two and a half hours. It's just not physically
• 19:32
  Speaker 5: possible based on what they're trying to do with this.
• 19:35
  Speaker 5: They're not even going to have it be high speed
• 19:37
  Speaker 5: the whole way through. So like in the Bay and
• 19:38
  Speaker 5: SoCal areas, it's not going to be on high speed rail.
• 19:42
  Speaker 5: So it's just not going to happen. It will make
• 19:44
  Speaker 5: more sense to just get in your cyber cab, roll
• 19:47
  Speaker 5: out of bed and wake up in San Francisco. in
• 19:50
  Speaker 5: a few hours and take a nap than it will
• 19:52
  Speaker 5: be to go to the train station. The train makes
• 19:55
  Speaker 5: a ton of stops. You might have to take a
• 19:56
  Speaker 5: bus from LA to Bakersfield. It's just not going to
• 20:00
  Speaker 5: be feasible. It's not going to be useful for most people.
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: What a superb story. futurist point you've made because if
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: the appeal of this is to avoid the pain in
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: the butt of getting on a plane or driving your
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: own car now all around us it seems like every
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: day there are more fully self-driving cars more cyber cabs
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: so that you can have indeed the experience of not
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: having to worry about piloting the vehicle and it will
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: get you there and it will actually get you there
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: so it's if it's not la to san francisco i've
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: i've paid peripheral attention to watching this project get scaled down.
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: What are the end points that they're sort of talking
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: about now?
• 20:40
  Speaker 5: Yeah, we're talking about Bakersfield and Merced, which are in
• 20:44
  Speaker 5: California's Central Valley. Bakersfield is an oil city. Merced is
• 20:49
  Speaker 5: a much smaller, I believe, mostly agricultural area. And I'm
• 20:54
  Speaker 5: not really sure who would take that train and whether it's.
• 20:57
  Speaker 10: Going to work.
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: That was my next question. What is the Bakersfield to
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: Merced appetite for high-speed rail travel?
• 21:05
  Speaker 5: Somewhere in the neighborhood of Xero. This project is only
• 21:07
  Speaker 5: useful if it actually connects SoCal to NorCal. If I
• 21:10
  Speaker 5: were doing this, I would have built up a train
• 21:13
  Speaker 5: line from LA to San Diego, maybe SF to Sacramento.
• 21:18
  Speaker 5: LA to San Diego train is already the number two
• 21:20
  Speaker 5: train corridor in the country after the Boston-Washington axis. So
• 21:24
  Speaker 5: it would make sense to build it where there's already
• 21:26
  Speaker 5: demand and then maybe connect them one day.
• 21:28
  Speaker 8: Then it's useful.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: But that's not what we did.
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: So being a Californian and writing about stuff like this,
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: I've been sort of scrolling through some of your stuff,
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: and it's quite the impressive litany of things. You've been
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: doing some stuff about water providers across Southern California, citing
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: water conservation as the reason they need to spike rates.
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: What's going on down there?
• 21:51
  Speaker 5: Yeah, so California, it's a semi-arid state. Sometimes we have
• 21:55
  Speaker 5: a lot of rain, sometimes we don't. That's how it's
• 21:57
  Speaker 5: always been. And when we don't have a lot of water,
• 22:00
  Speaker 5: sometimes they tell us to conserve water. But unfortunately, we
• 22:03
  Speaker 5: conserved too much water. So they're not selling enough water.
• 22:06
  Speaker 5: So they had to raise our water rates by 40%
• 22:09
  Speaker 5: to make up for the financial shortfall because they are
• 22:13
  Speaker 5: not good at managing their own resources. So we decided
• 22:17
  Speaker 5: to let our yards die, maybe take a two-minute shower,
• 22:20
  Speaker 5: a Navy shower. And because of that, we're now going
• 22:23
  Speaker 5: to have to pay more for water. It doesn't make
• 22:26
  Speaker 5: any sense. But think about it this way. The same
• 22:28
  Speaker 5: problems with California infrastructure that stopped the train from getting built,
• 22:31
  Speaker 5: the environmental impact review, same reason we haven't finished a
• 22:34
  Speaker 5: dam since 1979 when our population was half of what
• 22:38
  Speaker 5: it was. So we haven't built the infrastructure to keep
• 22:41
  Speaker 5: up with what our state has become, and our state
• 22:44
  Speaker 5: government doesn't seem like it wants to do anything to
• 22:46
  Speaker 5: put this to an end.
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: You've also weighed in on something I care about enormously,
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: and that's homeless. And Lord knows homelessness is something you
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: can see rampantly in the cities of California. You made
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: an observation on your ex account a few days ago
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: that more than half, if you go to L.A. and
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: see some homeless people, and you will, they didn't just
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: wander over from a nearby neighborhood. More than half of
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: them are not from L.A., brought into the city by
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: what are called body brokers. What in the world is
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: going on?
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so we've.
• 23:20
  Speaker 5: By the way, I was citing the results of a
• 23:22
  Speaker 5: survey that I did at City Journal of hundreds of
• 23:25
  Speaker 5: homeless people. I talked to them all across the city
• 23:28
  Speaker 5: to find out where they come from. And yes, the
• 23:30
  Speaker 5: vast majority of them are not from Los Angeles, mostly
• 23:34
  Speaker 5: from places where their drug addiction, their mental illness would
• 23:38
  Speaker 5: not be tolerated as such. Sometimes it means that city
• 23:42
  Speaker 5: or NGO might have bought them a Greyhound ticket to California.
• 23:45
  Speaker 5: It's a lot cheaper to do that than actually pay
• 23:47
  Speaker 5: for them to get treatment and care surrounded by their
• 23:51
  Speaker 5: friends and family in a place they actually know. It's
• 23:53
  Speaker 5: expensive to build that infrastructure and do it. May as
• 23:55
  Speaker 5: well just send them to California where there's plenty of services.
• 23:58
  Speaker 5: But there's a darker side of this as well. There's
• 24:00
  Speaker 5: such a giant industry of rehab, the NGOs, that just
• 24:05
  Speaker 5: now there's a federal indictment detailing how there are people
• 24:08
  Speaker 5: out there who try to find addicts across the country
• 24:11
  Speaker 5: and they bring them to California to get treatment. They
• 24:14
  Speaker 5: even apparently hook them up to drugs to keep them addicted,
• 24:17
  Speaker 5: to keep them from actually ever getting better. And they're
• 24:20
  Speaker 5: still billing insurance the whole time. And many of these people,
• 24:24
  Speaker 5: they get back out on the streets and they become homeless,
• 24:26
  Speaker 5: mentally ill, and they die. Six people die on the
• 24:29
  Speaker 5: streets of LA every single day who are homeless. And
• 24:31
  Speaker 5: it's a human tragedy that we've decided we're not going
• 24:34
  Speaker 5: to stop.
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: I am so grateful to have the chance to talk
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: to you in view of the experience you've had with
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: these suffering people. They are all children of God. I
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: think about them. I pray for them every day. Let
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: me give you a sentence that I've said my whole
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: professional life, and that is if you show me 100
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: homeless people, it tends not to be folks who are
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: just down on their luck or something bad happened and
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: the fragile economy did them wrong. These are people who
• 24:59
  Speaker 4: through drug abuse and mental illness could no more wake
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: up and go get a job than I could sprout
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: wings and fly to the moon. These are people in
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: serious need of help that we don't seem willing to give.
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: Have I been basically correct about that?
• 25:13
  Speaker 5: Yes, you have. These are people who need to be
• 25:15
  Speaker 5: put into forced sobriety. They need to be put and
• 25:18
  Speaker 5: forced into mental health treatment. And I don't know why
• 25:21
  Speaker 5: all of this has to be the burden of California,
• 25:23
  Speaker 5: of Los Angeles, of my city. It's not fair to
• 25:26
  Speaker 5: the people who live here, but it's most certainly not
• 25:28
  Speaker 5: fair to the people who come and die here.
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: 60 seconds. So what's the buzz? Can Steve Hilton win
• 25:34
  Speaker 4: and help fix this? Or is it California? No way.
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: Forget it.
• 25:39
  Speaker 5: I think California voters are going to continue to get
• 25:41
  Speaker 5: what they vote for. And I think Steve Hilton has
• 25:44
  Speaker 5: put up the best fight I've seen of any candidate
• 25:47
  Speaker 5: as long as I can remember. He's visited every single county.
• 25:50
  Speaker 5: He's put forward a real plan on how he's going
• 25:53
  Speaker 5: to help fix California. But the registration advantage for Democrats,
• 25:58
  Speaker 5: the idea that a lot of Democrats would vote for
• 26:01
  Speaker 5: a Republican when there's so much anti-Trump messaging, that could
• 26:05
  Speaker 5: be something too difficult for even his campaign to overcome.
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: That's a smart paragraph. And at least if California is
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: going to be this miserable, there are people chronicling it
• 26:16
  Speaker 4: and describing the reasons why. And I know just in fact,
• 26:20
  Speaker 4: do you feel do you feel a certain calling? It's
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: like shoveling sand against the tide. But if you and
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: the people there at City Journal, you're a California reporter,
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: that if you can keep telling people and informing them
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: that maybe at some point during your hopefully long life,
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: somebody will get a clue and try to change things.
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: California is my home.
• 26:38
  Speaker 5: I don't think it's a lost cause. But at the
• 26:40
  Speaker 5: very least, we can stop whatever is plaguing us here
• 26:42
  Speaker 5: from spreading to other states, because that's what happens. The
• 26:45
  Speaker 5: money that's raised here from government, from the NGOs, and yes,
• 26:49
  Speaker 5: even the public sector unions, that gets sent all throughout
• 26:52
  Speaker 5: the country. And all the ideas that they test out here,
• 26:54
  Speaker 5: they're coming for you and the rest of America. So
• 26:56
  Speaker 5: that's why we at City Journal have to chronicle it here.
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: Well, City Journal is awesome. Follow them on X at
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: City Journal and Kenneth Schrupp at Kenneth Schrupp. Great to
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: talk to you, sir. Congratulations, young man. Fine work. Thank
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: you so much for being with us. Thank you. That
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: is heroic work being done there by any journalist, especially
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: there in the gaping maw of failure that is California,
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: so that they can do something and lead better lives.
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: But it's up to them. Every election, I guess three
• 27:28
  Speaker 4: things happen every election. People who think like me are
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: conservatives or Republicans. We're going to get out there. I
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: just want more of us to get out there and vote, vote, vote, vote,
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: and bring 10 people to vote. On the other side
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: of the spectrum are, listen, if you're a diehard liberal,
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: free speech, freedom of thought, I value your views. We'll disagree.
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: That's the sound of free speech. But I do wonder
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: why there are people who think this way, who want
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: open borders, who want gender insanity. What is the matter
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: with you? I think about things like this. And the
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: third group, I think, are the swayable people in the
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: middle who maybe one day might get a clue and
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: come on over to what we're selling. I hope so.
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: Thanks for listening. Either way, Mark Davison for Scott. We'll
• 28:04
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  Speaker 4: drill down on the weirdness in Alaska. Alaska is one
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  Speaker 4: of the most beautiful places. We're talking about all the
• 29:56
  Speaker 4: most beautiful places in the world. California is badly run.
• 29:59
  Speaker 4: Alaska has been generally well run and well served by
• 30:03
  Speaker 4: many of its elected officials, Senator Dan Sullivan, Governor Sarah Palin.
• 30:08
  Speaker 4: What the heck is up with the other Dan Sullivan?
• 30:10
  Speaker 4: What is this weird story where it appears that Democrat
• 30:13
  Speaker 4: Mary Peltz-Hola knew 100% in her campaign and the Democrat
• 30:19
  Speaker 4: Senatorial Campaign Committee may well have gone and found this
• 30:23
  Speaker 4: other Dan Sullivan, some dude who lives in a fishing
• 30:26
  Speaker 4: village with the same name, to slap him onto the ballot,
• 30:29
  Speaker 4: paying to get him on the ballot, so that the
• 30:32
  Speaker 4: real Dan Sullivan votes could be atomized and diluted in
• 30:37
  Speaker 4: order to get into the, first of all, the top
• 30:39
  Speaker 4: four nonpartisan, top four advanced primary, and then the ridiculousness
• 30:43
  Speaker 4: now of what we have in this ranked choice voting. Now,
• 30:49
  Speaker 4: I rarely go to MSNOW for wisdom. Sometimes it's the
• 30:52
  Speaker 4: opposite of such, but this is cut 14. Get a
• 30:55
  Speaker 4: load of this moment of defense for the Peltola campaign
• 30:59
  Speaker 4: going out and recruiting Dan Sullivan number two.
• 31:02
  Speaker 11: Some of this stuff happens all the time. I mean,
• 31:04
  Speaker 11: let's not forget that RFK Jr. It's not illegal. It's
• 31:07
  Speaker 11: not illegal, but RFK Jr., when he ran against Joe Biden,
• 31:10
  Speaker 11: Republicans propped him up. A lot of Trump donors were
• 31:13
  Speaker 11: giving him money because they thought that he would dig
• 31:15
  Speaker 11: into some of Biden's supporters. And then he ran as
• 31:18
  Speaker 11: an independent. They thought he would draw away supporters from Biden.
• 31:21
  Speaker 11: It actually had the opposite effect. But the bottom line
• 31:23
  Speaker 11: is this stuff happens a lot. There are tactics that
• 31:25
  Speaker 11: both campaigns can use.
• 31:30
  Speaker 4: This stuff happens a lot? And then the example she
• 31:33
  Speaker 4: gave is a million miles away from anything that makes sense.
• 31:36
  Speaker 4: Imagine my surprise. Let's change networks. This is cut 15.
• 31:39
  Speaker 4: Here's a CNN burst of panel activity defending the Peltola campaign,
• 31:45
  Speaker 4: recruiting Dan number two.
• 31:47
  Speaker 12: Alaska is a state that votes by rank choice. So
• 31:52
  Speaker 12: this is not illegal. It is not new.
• 31:56
  Speaker 13: But what is new is that nowadays that you really
• 31:59
  Speaker 13: can't get away with doing these things. There's always going
• 32:00
  Speaker 13: to be some kind of trail, you know, and in
• 32:02
  Speaker 13: this case, these are text messages. And then, of course,
• 32:05
  Speaker 13: probably led to live interviews by The New York Times.
• 32:09
  Speaker 12: I use the term dirty tricks intentionally because it's not illegal.
• 32:14
  Speaker 12: This is something that is untoward. It is something that
• 32:20
  Speaker 12: Democrats have tried to do in races where they think
• 32:24
  Speaker 12: it could be to their advantage.
• 32:28
  Speaker 4: It's untoward. I guess that's one way of putting it.
• 32:31
  Speaker 4: Let's spend a moment on what is and is not illegal.
• 32:36
  Speaker 4: Dana there, you said she used the term dirty tricks
• 32:39
  Speaker 4: rather than crime because it does appear, I kind of looked,
• 32:44
  Speaker 4: it does appear that there's no law that says thou
• 32:47
  Speaker 4: shalt not find somebody with exactly the same name in
• 32:50
  Speaker 4: order to confuse voters and cheat an election. It doesn't
• 32:54
  Speaker 4: appear to be against the law. So what might accountability
• 32:57
  Speaker 4: look like? Well, the New York Times, by the way, hello,
• 33:01
  Speaker 4: New York Times, thank you, circle this day on the calendar,
• 33:05
  Speaker 4: going after a candidate whom they clearly favor. So appreciate that.
• 33:09
  Speaker 4: It's called real journalism. But you know what is against
• 33:11
  Speaker 4: the law? Lying to federal investigators who might have been
• 33:15
  Speaker 4: looking into this all along. Because there have been people
• 33:18
  Speaker 4: asking a lot of questions about what did Mary Peltola
• 33:21
  Speaker 4: know and when did she know it? What did the
• 33:23
  Speaker 4: Democrat Senatorial Campaign Committee know and when did they know it?
• 33:26
  Speaker 4: And what did you guys do to install this guy
• 33:29
  Speaker 4: and finance this guy? And what did you know? And
• 33:32
  Speaker 4: if they lied to investigators, guess what, kids? That's more
• 33:35
  Speaker 4: than untoward. It's illegal. Mark Davison for Scott. Be back
• 33:39
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  Speaker 4: much meaning. There's something people always say. It's the most
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  Speaker 4: meaningful midterm. It's the most important election of our lives. Oh,
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  Speaker 4: just in terms of where, because it's the last two
• 34:23
  Speaker 4: years of the most consequential presidency of my lifetime. And
• 34:32
  Speaker 4: that's about a quarter of American history. See, it's 250
• 34:37
  Speaker 4: divided by 68. Oh, good Lord, more like a quarter
• 34:42
  Speaker 4: of my lifetime. a quarter of the nation's lifetime. And
• 34:45
  Speaker 4: as I open up with a couple of thoughts off
• 34:47
  Speaker 4: the cuff, before we get to the bottom of the hour,
• 34:49
  Speaker 4: we're going to talk to the president of the Heritage Foundation,
• 34:52
  Speaker 4: Kevin Roberts. But we're interested in talking to you about
• 34:55
  Speaker 4: your thoughts in your gut about how you think this
• 34:57
  Speaker 4: is going to go. What's your crystal ball telling you?
• 35:00
  Speaker 4: Do we lose the House and keep the Senate? Do
• 35:02
  Speaker 4: we lose both? Is it a blue tsunami? Or are
• 35:06
  Speaker 4: we going to dig down deep and bring enough people
• 35:10
  Speaker 4: with us to the polls and gently cajole enough friends
• 35:14
  Speaker 4: and family members to thwart what history usually delivers, which
• 35:19
  Speaker 4: is kind of a tough day for the party in
• 35:22
  Speaker 4: power right after the party in power wins power in
• 35:25
  Speaker 4: the presidency and both houses of Congress in this particular case.
• 35:29
  Speaker 4: So phone number for that is 844-861-5537.
• 35:31
  Speaker 6: 844-861-5537.
• 35:38
  Speaker 4: I'm Mark Davis. You can follow me in the old
• 35:40
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• 35:43
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• 35:51
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• 36:01
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• 36:09
  Speaker 4: here's a little extra thought or two from me on
• 36:12
  Speaker 4: where this all may be going. And I'm going to
• 36:14
  Speaker 4: get some help from the president because it's always good
• 36:17
  Speaker 4: to have help from the president. This was the president
• 36:19
  Speaker 4: this past week on the campaign trail talking about fraud.
• 36:27
  Speaker 4: We welcomed this wonderful gentleman, Kenneth Shrupp, writing for the
• 36:33
  Speaker 4: City Journal, talking about the ridiculous amount of fraud in
• 36:36
  Speaker 4: California and the mismanagement. We're just better at this. I mean,
• 36:43
  Speaker 4: is there Republican corruption? Of course there is. Is there
• 36:45
  Speaker 4: Republican ineptitude? Of course it can be found. But man,
• 36:49
  Speaker 4: the Democrats have honed this into an art. And the
• 36:53
  Speaker 4: degree to which The Trump administration is going after real
• 37:02
  Speaker 4: fraud and real misuse of money and the real usurpation
• 37:10
  Speaker 4: of public funds is something that I would think ought
• 37:13
  Speaker 4: to count on November 3rd, along with, oh, by the way,
• 37:17
  Speaker 4: we fixed the border, along with, oh, by the way, crime.
• 37:21
  Speaker 4: You think crime is getting better by accident?
• 37:22
  Speaker 9: Yes.
• 37:23
  Speaker 4: Crime is getting better because we are deporting the people
• 37:26
  Speaker 4: who commit a lot of crime. Crime is getting better
• 37:30
  Speaker 4: because we are locking up for longer periods a lot
• 37:32
  Speaker 4: of the people who commit crime. Crime is getting better
• 37:35
  Speaker 4: because we are arresting people for actually committing crimes. We're
• 37:38
  Speaker 4: doing this in far greater degrees than ever happened during
• 37:43
  Speaker 4: the Biden administration. So it's not like somebody waved a
• 37:45
  Speaker 4: wand or local police are doing better. God bless local police,
• 37:49
  Speaker 4: and many of them are doing better.
• 37:50
  Speaker 8: But that ain't it.
• 37:51
  Speaker 4: It is a national crime. sense that it is. The
• 37:56
  Speaker 4: funny thing about criminals, their minds and hearts are twisted
• 38:00
  Speaker 4: toward a wrong direction, but they basically know what they're doing.
• 38:04
  Speaker 4: And they basically have a brainstem that enables them to recognize,
• 38:08
  Speaker 4: you know, a lot more people are being locked up
• 38:10
  Speaker 4: for stuff I'm planning on doing today. I might find
• 38:13
  Speaker 4: other plans. And as far as illegal immigrants, I was
• 38:16
  Speaker 4: talking to John Lott on my radio show today, John R.
• 38:18
  Speaker 4: Lott Jr. on X. His great book, More Guns, Less Crime.
• 38:26
  Speaker 4: Another one is Gun Myths, but he also knows a
• 38:28
  Speaker 4: lot about crime. And he said that even the illegal
• 38:31
  Speaker 4: immigrants who are here know that they're much more likely
• 38:36
  Speaker 4: to be nabbed for things that they have done and
• 38:42
  Speaker 4: as such are less likely to do additional law-breaking things.
• 38:46
  Speaker 4: So if you put all these things together, These are
• 38:49
  Speaker 4: Republican ideas, Republican things that have resulted in better lives,
• 38:59
  Speaker 4: better economic lives, better lives in terms of safety. And
• 39:03
  Speaker 4: Vivek Ramaswamy was on a stage in Ohio with the
• 39:05
  Speaker 4: president in Chillicothe, Ohio last evening and said, this boils
• 39:11
  Speaker 4: down kind of like it did in elections past. Who
• 39:14
  Speaker 4: do you think is going to make your life better?
• 39:16
  Speaker 4: I know Democrats will badger us all day about affordability
• 39:19
  Speaker 4: and the war. Okay. I understand there are frustrations on
• 39:22
  Speaker 4: both of those. You think Democrats are going to run
• 39:25
  Speaker 4: the Middle East better? You think they're going to keep
• 39:27
  Speaker 4: Iran as a non-nuclear, non-nuclear? which they are now, which
• 39:31
  Speaker 4: to me is worth expensive gas for a while? In
• 39:35
  Speaker 4: terms of affordability across the landscape of the economy, is
• 39:39
  Speaker 4: there anything any Democrat has done in any universe that
• 39:41
  Speaker 4: made things more affordable for you or for anyone? So,
• 39:46
  Speaker 4: and again, just the little handy cut and paste wisdom
• 39:51
  Speaker 4: i gave you last hour if there's a debate between
• 39:55
  Speaker 4: democrats and republicans over affordability take a look at the
• 39:59
  Speaker 4: states that are run by democrats take a look at
• 40:02
  Speaker 4: the states that are run by republicans which ones are
• 40:06
  Speaker 4: more affordable i rest my case President Trump was trying
• 40:12
  Speaker 4: to make the case about fraud and cut 18. He's
• 40:16
  Speaker 4: just been out on the trail for all these Republicans.
• 40:19
  Speaker 4: It has been tireless. It's absolutely been fantastic. No president
• 40:24
  Speaker 4: in history.
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: Has, and he's a lame duck.
• 40:26
  Speaker 4: He's not doing this for his next term or his
• 40:28
  Speaker 4: next election. He hasn't got any more terms, hasn't got
• 40:31
  Speaker 4: any more elections. One presumes. So this is cut 18.
• 40:37
  Speaker 4: President Trump talking about the fraud up in Minnesota.
• 40:40
  Speaker 9: Can you imagine if a Republican stole, as an example,
• 40:43
  Speaker 9: the money that Tim Walz stole from Minnesota? Billions and
• 40:47
  Speaker 9: billions of dollars. You know what would happen to the...
• 40:50
  Speaker 9: They'd give him the electric chair. This guy's going to retire.
• 40:55
  Speaker 8: Nothing happens.
• 40:56
  Speaker 9: Although, I must say, I understand there are lots of
• 40:59
  Speaker 9: investigations going on.
• 41:01
  Speaker 8: You know, lots of.
• 41:07
  Speaker 9: No, the money they stole, that crooked attorney general where
• 41:10
  Speaker 9: we have them all over the country, that crooked attorney
• 41:13
  Speaker 9: general that's up there, he didn't see anything. They stole
• 41:17
  Speaker 9: billions and billions of dollars. Many of them came from
• 41:21
  Speaker 9: the lovely country of Somalia.
• 41:26
  Speaker 4: Speaking of which, President Trump had a thing or two.
• 41:29
  Speaker 4: And people in Minnesota, can you all pull your heads
• 41:31
  Speaker 4: out and vote for Michelle Tafoya and just make this better?
• 41:34
  Speaker 4: This Peggy Flanagan is a lunatic, and I know some
• 41:36
  Speaker 4: of you all just have a taste for lunatics up
• 41:38
  Speaker 4: there in the land of 10,000 lakes. Here's cut 19,
• 41:41
  Speaker 4: President Trump on Ilhan Omar, or whatever her name actually is.
• 41:45
  Speaker 9: So just last week, it was also revealed that Ilhan
• 41:50
  Speaker 9: Omar's name is not Ilhan Omar, the one who she
• 41:54
  Speaker 9: used to get elected and sworn into Congress, but rather
• 41:58
  Speaker 9: it's an entirely different name, Ilhan Nur Saeed Almeid.
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: A lovely name. And that last.
• 42:06
  Speaker 9: Name is incredibly also the exact name of her wonderful brother,
• 42:11
  Speaker 9: Ahmed Noor, Saeed Albi, the person she married and had
• 42:16
  Speaker 9: beautiful children with.
• 42:17
  Speaker 4: It's such a lovely event.
• 42:20
  Speaker 9: When asked whether or not she married her brother, she said,
• 42:24
  Speaker 9: not to my knowledge. Which is a term a good
• 42:30
  Speaker 9: lawyer will tell you to use if you're going to lie.
• 42:34
  Speaker 9: They say if they ask you a certain question, just
• 42:36
  Speaker 9: say not to my knowledge, that way you don't get
• 42:38
  Speaker 9: in trouble.
• 42:39
  Speaker 4: You get in political trouble, you don't get in legal trouble.
• 42:43
  Speaker 9: Therefore, because she used a fake name to be sworn in,
• 42:47
  Speaker 9: I assume she must immediately resign from Congress.
• 42:53
  Speaker 4: So, is that going to happen? I presume not. Is
• 42:57
  Speaker 4: she going to be denaturalized and deported? Wouldn't that be something?
• 43:02
  Speaker 4: Every once in a while you'll hear people say, you
• 43:04
  Speaker 4: can't deport a sitting member of Congress. Well, she'd be
• 43:07
  Speaker 4: kicked out of Congress first, so she wouldn't be a
• 43:09
  Speaker 4: sitting member of Congress. Are these things going to happen?
• 43:12
  Speaker 4: Do we dare dream of such accountability? Well, at the
• 43:17
  Speaker 4: moment it's a dream, and maybe it'll become real right
• 43:19
  Speaker 4: in front of our faces. Mark Davison for Scott. Sit
• 43:22
  Speaker 4: tight and we'll be right back.
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: Common sense for the American people. This is the Scott
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: Jennings Show.
• 43:32
  Speaker 4: Dealing it every day. Mark Davis in for Scott Jennings.
• 43:36
  Speaker 4: Glad you are here. Follow me on the old Twitter
• 43:38
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• 43:42
  Speaker 4: And we've got some more thoughts from people. Kevin Roberts
• 43:45
  Speaker 4: has a wonderful new piece there at the Heritage Foundation about, hey, Republicans,
• 43:50
  Speaker 4: can we stop the sniping and the bitter infighting, or
• 43:53
  Speaker 4: at least crank it back up on the 4th of November?
• 43:56
  Speaker 4: Can we unite and unite to beat Democrats? It is
• 44:00
  Speaker 4: exactly the kind of call that is needed. I have
• 44:04
  Speaker 4: bad news, possible bad news for Kevin as to why
• 44:08
  Speaker 4: sometimes it's not going to happen. But the good news
• 44:10
  Speaker 4: is he'll be here, and I look forward to talking
• 44:12
  Speaker 4: to him. He's awesome. So there we are. So we've
• 44:14
  Speaker 4: got all kinds of other folks to talk to as
• 44:16
  Speaker 4: well on the phones. I'm giving the phone line 844-861-5537.
• 44:21
  Speaker 4: Let's dip in there as well on line one. Phil, welcome.
• 44:24
  Speaker 4: Good Thursday to you. How are you doing?
• 44:26
  Speaker 6: Okay, thanks, Mr.
• 44:27
  Speaker 14: Davis.
• 44:28
  Speaker 6: Hey, we the people can pass our own version of
• 44:31
  Speaker 6: the SAVE Act by overwhelming these polls. This is our
• 44:35
  Speaker 6: Declaration of Independence because John Soon is not going to
• 44:38
  Speaker 6: do it. And after we win by overwhelming these polls
• 44:42
  Speaker 6: and save this country, he's got to go as leader
• 44:45
  Speaker 6: of the Senate. And we need a vote on this.
• 44:48
  Speaker 6: We need to know who's against it. And we need
• 44:51
  Speaker 6: to get them out as well, either vote them out
• 44:54
  Speaker 6: or recalls or whatever.
• 44:56
  Speaker 4: Is there anybody, quick question, because first of all, absolutely,
• 45:00
  Speaker 4: our own little save act, our own big save act
• 45:03
  Speaker 4: here at the actual ballot box. Is there anybody whom
• 45:06
  Speaker 4: you would, presuming we are lucky and blessed enough to
• 45:09
  Speaker 4: keep the Senate in Republican hands, which I think we will,
• 45:12
  Speaker 4: is there anybody you have as a favorite for the
• 45:14
  Speaker 4: new Senate Majority Leader?
• 45:17
  Speaker 6: The gentleman from Florida.
• 45:20
  Speaker 4: Rick Scott?
• 45:21
  Speaker 6: Rick Scott, yes. He was up for it to begin with.
• 45:25
  Speaker 6: But I would love to see him in there.
• 45:28
  Speaker 4: I appreciate it greatly, Phil. Thank you. Very, very much.
• 45:31
  Speaker 4: Thank you. So, listen, who would you like to have?
• 45:37
  Speaker 4: Because I completely agree. John Thune is a snake. And
• 45:41
  Speaker 4: his style of leadership is the kind that is going
• 45:45
  Speaker 4: the way of the dinosaur, or should, into the world
• 45:48
  Speaker 4: of the Romney, McCain, Paul Ryan, John Cornyn, go-along-to-get-along quicksand.
• 45:58
  Speaker 4: There is a newer, more energetic, more MAGA-flavored style of
• 46:05
  Speaker 4: leadership that has risen to the forefront. There is a
• 46:07
  Speaker 4: reason for this, and it is because the voters have
• 46:11
  Speaker 4: demanded it. And my buddy Kurt Schlichter has said, no
• 46:14
  Speaker 4: matter what happens in these midterms, we have at least
• 46:17
  Speaker 4: purged ourselves of some of these weasels like Tom Tillis
• 46:21
  Speaker 4: in North Carolina, like Thomas Massey, these self-serving narcissistic crisis actors,
• 46:28
  Speaker 4: and at least we're done with them. So in these
• 46:31
  Speaker 4: remaining few days, and we'll talk about this with Kevin
• 46:33
  Speaker 4: Roberts here in the very next segment, what do you
• 46:35
  Speaker 4: think we're going to do? What do you envision that
• 46:39
  Speaker 4: lies ahead for us if we get The best case scenario,
• 46:43
  Speaker 4: which is not just keeping the Senate but keeping the House,
• 46:47
  Speaker 4: if there is a mixed bag under the Capitol Dome
• 46:51
  Speaker 4: where the Democrats keep the House but we maintain the Senate,
• 46:56
  Speaker 4: I still believe that the Democrats in the House will
• 46:59
  Speaker 4: be drunk on newfound power and will have articles of
• 47:03
  Speaker 4: impeachment maybe every other day. They will go precisely nowhere,
• 47:08
  Speaker 4: of course. They will go absolutely nowhere. precisely nowhere. But
• 47:15
  Speaker 4: when you take a look at what they have in
• 47:18
  Speaker 4: their bag, which is so very, very little, especially with
• 47:22
  Speaker 4: Trump still president and the Senate still Republican, which I
• 47:26
  Speaker 4: pray it will be, but they're going to do it anyway.
• 47:30
  Speaker 4: They're going to do it anyway. So what do you envision?
• 47:34
  Speaker 4: What And what do you envision after next Tuesday? Phone
• 47:39
  Speaker 4: number here on the Scott Jennings Show is 844-861-5537. 844-861-5537.
• 47:42
  Speaker 4: We're going to be talking with Kevin Roberts at Heritage next.
• 47:48
  Speaker 4: We'll have room to put some of y'all on before
• 47:51
  Speaker 4: we are done. And before you're done with your day,
• 47:55
  Speaker 4: wherever you may be living, if you have early voting
• 47:57
  Speaker 4: going on today, take advantage of it and do it.
• 48:00
  Speaker 4: Tomorrow's probably the last day of early voting in most
• 48:03
  Speaker 4: places that have early voting. And that might be a
• 48:06
  Speaker 4: little busy. Some friends of mine went and early voted
• 48:09
  Speaker 4: here in Texas. We've had some record-breaking high early voting numbers.
• 48:12
  Speaker 4: But yesterday was a pretty easy in and out, and
• 48:16
  Speaker 4: crowds were more sparse. I think that'll probably be the
• 48:18
  Speaker 4: case today as well. Tomorrow, people might kind of wake
• 48:23
  Speaker 4: up and go, you know, I'm busy Tuesday. Don't want
• 48:26
  Speaker 4: to risk some crisis averting my likelihood of voting. So
• 48:31
  Speaker 4: I might go ahead and vote on the last day
• 48:32
  Speaker 4: of early voting, which will be tomorrow in many states.
• 48:35
  Speaker 4: So that could be a little more crowded. So the
• 48:36
  Speaker 4: bottom line message here to you is let's get this
• 48:40
  Speaker 4: done today. Let's get out there and get the early
• 48:43
  Speaker 4: vote done so we can get those all tabulated and
• 48:46
  Speaker 4: see what we can actually achieve in thwarting the usual history.
• 48:49
  Speaker 4: Mark Davison for Scott, and we will continue. Call the
• 48:52
  Speaker 4: show now at 844-861-5537. And we will hop to some
• 49:00
  Speaker 4: of those calls as we have a chat with a
• 49:01
  Speaker 4: gentleman I've known of, known about for a long time.
• 49:04
  Speaker 4: He is Kevin Roberts, president of the Heritage Foundation. Let's
• 49:07
  Speaker 4: talk about some things going on. Just a few things.
• 49:09
  Speaker 4: They're up their elbows in at Heritage. It's great to
• 49:13
  Speaker 4: say hi to Kevin. Welcome, sir, and thanks for all
• 49:15
  Speaker 4: you do at the Heritage Foundation. How are things over
• 49:17
  Speaker 4: there at headquarters?
• 49:18
  Speaker 8: Well, at headquarters, things are... are awesome.
• 49:20
  Speaker 14: I work with the greatest colleagues who are the most
• 49:22
  Speaker 14: cheerful on the planet, certainly here in Washington. But I
• 49:25
  Speaker 14: have to say, Mark, it's not every day that I
• 49:27
  Speaker 14: get to be on.
• 49:28
  Speaker 8: With a broadcasting legend. It is a real treat to
• 49:31
  Speaker 8: be with you.
• 49:33
  Speaker 4: Well, you're literally more than kind. Thank you. And I
• 49:37
  Speaker 4: was expressing to you some deserved kindness as well about
• 49:40
  Speaker 4: the piece you just wrote. Let's summarize it. You understand
• 49:43
  Speaker 4: and recognize that there's kind of a pre-MAGA, old-school conservatism
• 49:49
  Speaker 4: that is not thrilled with the way things have gone.
• 49:53
  Speaker 4: And there is sort of a current-day MAGA-flavored conservatism that's
• 49:57
  Speaker 4: not thrilled with what they view as the dinosaurs of
• 50:00
  Speaker 4: the past. Describe for me the way in which you'd
• 50:02
  Speaker 4: like everybody to put a pin in that at least
• 50:05
  Speaker 4: until the election has come and gone.
• 50:08
  Speaker 6: Oh, my gosh.
• 50:09
  Speaker 14: I'm so grateful to be able to answer that question
• 50:11
  Speaker 14: because all of the work that we do at Heritage
• 50:14
  Speaker 14: is always in a coalition. Even though Heritage is the
• 50:17
  Speaker 14: largest conservative policy organization on the planet, although we don't
• 50:20
  Speaker 14: exist to be that large, there's just all of that
• 50:22
  Speaker 14: opportunity to fix policies, we always work in a coalition.
• 50:26
  Speaker 14: And therefore, being respectful of people in both of those camps,
• 50:30
  Speaker 14: although we're The latter camp is certainly the ascendant one
• 50:33
  Speaker 14: and has more people in it. What we're saying is
• 50:35
  Speaker 14: at least until the election results are counted next week,
• 50:38
  Speaker 14: let's call off all of the family infighting.
• 50:41
  Speaker 8: Let's call off the fratricide.
• 50:43
  Speaker 14: It isn't that there are not important questions like what
• 50:45
  Speaker 14: we do with economic policy and tariffs on questions like
• 50:49
  Speaker 14: national security. These are legitimate debates that conservatives have had
• 50:53
  Speaker 14: for decades, as you know so well, Mark. What we're
• 50:55
  Speaker 14: saying at Heritage is let's go win these elections. Let's
• 50:58
  Speaker 14: do what you were just doing in the previous segment.
• 51:01
  Speaker 14: and encourage people to go vote early and make sure
• 51:04
  Speaker 14: that they're getting their family and friends doing so. And
• 51:07
  Speaker 14: then when we hold the Senate and we hold the House,
• 51:10
  Speaker 14: which I think that we will do, believe it or not,
• 51:13
  Speaker 14: then we can have those conversations about what the future
• 51:16
  Speaker 14: of conservatism looks like.
• 51:18
  Speaker 4: What you've just shared is called earth logic, and I
• 51:21
  Speaker 4: respect it and try to practice it often. And I
• 51:23
  Speaker 4: think it will largely be successful. I think there are
• 51:26
  Speaker 4: some people who are still kind of wounded about the
• 51:28
  Speaker 4: way the primaries went. like here in Texas where Cornyn
• 51:31
  Speaker 4: didn't win, or people who really love Tom Tillis in
• 51:33
  Speaker 4: North Carolina. I can't imagine why, but they do. And
• 51:37
  Speaker 4: I think many of them and I've spoken to many
• 51:39
  Speaker 4: who have said, you know, I just don't know if
• 51:41
  Speaker 4: I can board this new way too spicy train for me.
• 51:45
  Speaker 4: And then when I described to them that that facilitates
• 51:47
  Speaker 4: Democrat victories, this helps Tallarico win in Texas. It helps
• 51:51
  Speaker 4: Abdul win in Michigan. Most of them come to their senses.
• 51:54
  Speaker 4: But let's take just one moment about a character type
• 51:57
  Speaker 4: that does exist. You know it. You probably talk to him.
• 51:59
  Speaker 4: I do, too. And that is the so-called Republican who
• 52:02
  Speaker 4: is so miffed. so frosted at the way things have gone,
• 52:05
  Speaker 4: so shackled to the old establishment ways that they actually
• 52:09
  Speaker 4: want Democrats to win so that those of us who
• 52:11
  Speaker 4: have turned the page on them can pay a price.
• 52:15
  Speaker 14: Yeah, that type of Republican does exist. Thankfully, it's a
• 52:18
  Speaker 14: very small minority in the conservative movement. And so what
• 52:22
  Speaker 14: I would say in trying to be persuasive to them
• 52:24
  Speaker 14: over the next few days so that they go out
• 52:27
  Speaker 14: and vote the right way is all you have to
• 52:29
  Speaker 14: do is think about one thing, and that is the
• 52:31
  Speaker 14: radical left. This is not the left when I was
• 52:34
  Speaker 14: growing up in the 1970s and 80s, where the Democratic
• 52:37
  Speaker 14: Party in the Deep South, where I was, was pro-gun
• 52:39
  Speaker 14: and pro-life.
• 52:40
  Speaker 8: You actually had a choice to make.
• 52:42
  Speaker 14: This is a left that actually believes that boys are
• 52:45
  Speaker 14: girls and girls are boys. This is a left that
• 52:47
  Speaker 14: is running a candidate in Texas who said explicitly many
• 52:50
  Speaker 14: times that God isn't just a man. He has six genders.
• 52:54
  Speaker 14: This is the kind of thing that is indefensible. I mean,
• 52:57
  Speaker 14: this is not the left, Mark, to make a reference
• 52:59
  Speaker 14: you're familiar with. of Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a real statesman
• 53:03
  Speaker 14: of the American left. This is the left that hates
• 53:06
  Speaker 14: this country. This is the left that is spreading the
• 53:09
  Speaker 14: Islamification of this great land. This is the left that
• 53:12
  Speaker 14: is implementing socialism and Marxism, the very things that these
• 53:17
  Speaker 14: same Republicans say causes them to be a Republican. They
• 53:20
  Speaker 14: often Refer to Ronald Reagan as their North Star. Obviously
• 53:23
  Speaker 14: very good. Reagan's a hero for you and me in
• 53:25
  Speaker 14: the audience. Reagan would say, guys, get off your rear ends.
• 53:29
  Speaker 14: Stop talking nonsense. Go vote for the people who believe
• 53:32
  Speaker 14: in common sense. And then you can have the family
• 53:35
  Speaker 14: conversation after Election Day. It's actually just common sense.
• 53:40
  Speaker 4: I would hope that people follow the Kevin Roberts wisdom
• 53:43
  Speaker 4: on that. Now, let me tap into the Kevin Roberts
• 53:45
  Speaker 4: optimism because you mentioned that we're not keeping the Senate. Listen,
• 53:48
  Speaker 4: Tallarico is not going to win. Susan Collins probably will
• 53:51
  Speaker 4: in Maine. We probably don't need Michelle Tafoya to win,
• 53:54
  Speaker 4: but I think she might in Minnesota. I don't know.
• 53:56
  Speaker 4: I know that's a that's a bit of a long shot.
• 53:58
  Speaker 4: In the House, though, most of the forecasts show us
• 54:02
  Speaker 4: losing an average of about 8 or 10. We can't
• 54:05
  Speaker 4: lose any. We're at 218 right now. By the way,
• 54:09
  Speaker 4: that doesn't necessarily have to be real. If that's from polling,
• 54:12
  Speaker 4: what kind of weird puff of smoke is that? Nothing
• 54:14
  Speaker 4: is real until people vote. So give me the source
• 54:17
  Speaker 4: of your optimism that we keep the House as well.
• 54:20
  Speaker 8: The source of my optimism is twofold. The first is
• 54:23
  Speaker 8: the data.
• 54:23
  Speaker 14: I mean, the data, when you go House district by
• 54:26
  Speaker 14: House district shows that this election is a jump ball. Look,
• 54:31
  Speaker 14: I ultimately don't have a vested interest in this. Even
• 54:34
  Speaker 14: at Heritage Action, which I lead, which is our political arm,
• 54:37
  Speaker 14: we're not so invested in these races that I'm trying
• 54:40
  Speaker 14: to preach this hollow optimism. This is something that we
• 54:42
  Speaker 14: at Heritage believe because we specialize in data. Is it
• 54:45
  Speaker 14: possible that the Democrats take the House?
• 54:47
  Speaker 8: Yes.
• 54:48
  Speaker 14: But is it also possible, equally possible, based on that data,
• 54:51
  Speaker 14: that the Republicans hold the majority?
• 54:53
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 54:54
  Speaker 14: And I am convinced that the Republicans will hold, if
• 54:56
  Speaker 14: not expand slightly, their majority in the Senate because there
• 55:00
  Speaker 14: are candidates like Michelle Tafofoy in Minnesota, Mike Rogers in Michigan,
• 55:04
  Speaker 14: John Sununu in New Hampshire, who might actually win pick-up seats.
• 55:08
  Speaker 14: But the second reason, Mark, is something that you will appreciate.
• 55:11
  Speaker 14: The vast majority of these polls are not just faulty
• 55:15
  Speaker 14: and flawed.
• 55:15
  Speaker 8: They're actually psyops. They are designed, they are intended to
• 55:19
  Speaker 8: depress conservative turnouts.
• 55:21
  Speaker 14: I made that statement a few weeks ago, and some
• 55:23
  Speaker 14: people said that I was crazy. And not more than
• 55:26
  Speaker 14: one week later, two of these so-called polling organizations had
• 55:30
  Speaker 14: to announce, they had to confess that they were fake,
• 55:33
  Speaker 14: and they were organized for what purpose? To depress conservative turnout.
• 55:38
  Speaker 14: And so I'm old enough to remember when the mainstream
• 55:40
  Speaker 14: media in 2004 promised us that in that night, John
• 55:45
  Speaker 14: Kerry was going to beat George W. Bush by two
• 55:48
  Speaker 14: or three points nationwide.
• 55:49
  Speaker 8: And he lost.
• 55:50
  Speaker 14: This is an organization, this is an industry, the polling industry,
• 55:53
  Speaker 14: that isn't just incompetent and bad. They actually have bad
• 55:58
  Speaker 14: intentions for the American people. We ought to ignore them
• 56:00
  Speaker 14: and bring out all our family and friends and.
• 56:03
  Speaker 8: Vote the right way.
• 56:05
  Speaker 4: I've always been fascinated by the degree to which polls,
• 56:08
  Speaker 4: which are, again, just an empty whiff of air where
• 56:12
  Speaker 4: a news story should be, but they get covered by
• 56:14
  Speaker 4: lazy journalists as if the horse race stories mean something
• 56:17
  Speaker 4: six and four and two months before an election. So
• 56:20
  Speaker 4: last thing on polling, though, do you recognize, as I do,
• 56:24
  Speaker 4: even if there's an honest pollster out there, and maybe
• 56:27
  Speaker 4: there are some up there probably are, their challenge is
• 56:30
  Speaker 4: getting Republicans to respond because Republicans just don't like pollsters
• 56:33
  Speaker 4: at all.
• 56:34
  Speaker 8: No, that's exactly right.
• 56:36
  Speaker 14: In fact, I was talking to Speaker Mike Johnson yesterday
• 56:38
  Speaker 14: about these things, and he related a story that he's
• 56:42
  Speaker 14: mentioned publicly, which is there's now a political science phrase
• 56:45
  Speaker 14: for describing what that phenomenon is, that conservatives aren't going
• 56:50
  Speaker 14: to pick up the phone, we're not going to respond
• 56:52
  Speaker 14: to an email. And of course, the pollsters, this goes
• 56:54
  Speaker 14: straight to the heart of the criticism you and I
• 56:56
  Speaker 14: are making of them. They don't say, well, let's figure
• 56:58
  Speaker 14: out a way to reach more conservatives. They actually assign
• 57:01
  Speaker 14: us some psychological term. The problem is ours, that we
• 57:05
  Speaker 14: don't trust them. Because of course, just like the K
• 57:08
  Speaker 14: Street lobbyists and mainstream media These people belong to the
• 57:11
  Speaker 14: pantheon of the gods.
• 57:12
  Speaker 8: I mean, we're supposed to believe what they say.
• 57:14
  Speaker 14: In fact, they would say we probably don't even have
• 57:16
  Speaker 14: to have Election Day.
• 57:18
  Speaker 8: They're so accurate.
• 57:19
  Speaker 14: What I'm saying is because I happen to spend my
• 57:21
  Speaker 14: time with great colleagues at Heritage and everyday Americans is
• 57:25
  Speaker 14: to the pollsters, go pound sand. We're going to turn
• 57:29
  Speaker 14: out our people on Election Day and before then, and
• 57:31
  Speaker 14: we're going to win these elections.
• 57:33
  Speaker 4: Speaking of places you've been and people you've spoken with,
• 57:35
  Speaker 4: I understand you are fairly fresh back from Jerusalem. How
• 57:39
  Speaker 4: did that go? Israel having elections. Well, you think our
• 57:41
  Speaker 4: elections are sloppy. Try that whole parliamentary thing. And you're
• 57:44
  Speaker 4: over there talking a lot about the growth of socialism
• 57:47
  Speaker 4: around the world. And in Israel, you're pretty close within
• 57:51
  Speaker 4: within earshot of the rioting in Europe. But give us
• 57:54
  Speaker 4: some thoughts of some of your world travels and what
• 57:56
  Speaker 4: those tell you.
• 57:58
  Speaker 14: Well, traveling to Israel, which is such a flourishing democracy,
• 58:01
  Speaker 14: in spite of some questions about the ongoing election now,
• 58:05
  Speaker 14: was a real treat. I was also able to do
• 58:07
  Speaker 14: with a couple of colleagues a really powerful spiritual pilgrimage,
• 58:10
  Speaker 14: which I think every person in the West, regardless of
• 58:12
  Speaker 14: our respective faiths, should do.
• 58:14
  Speaker 8: And this is what I came away with.
• 58:16
  Speaker 14: And it's something that I knew just in terms of
• 58:18
  Speaker 14: reading and working with colleagues. But until you see it
• 58:21
  Speaker 14: in person, you don't appreciate it. For us in the
• 58:23
  Speaker 14: United States— The courage of every person in Israel, regardless
• 58:29
  Speaker 14: of their background, their political affiliation, to stand against what
• 58:33
  Speaker 14: we're now seeing in the United States, the radical Islamification
• 58:36
  Speaker 14: of this country in France, is a real boon.
• 58:39
  Speaker 8: I mean, it's a real encouragement to us.
• 58:41
  Speaker 14: And it's a reminder to me, working at an organization, Heritage,
• 58:45
  Speaker 14: that does so much great work for American national security,
• 58:48
  Speaker 14: that when we talk about being America first, so that
• 58:51
  Speaker 14: our national security puts Americans' interests first, And the Israelis
• 58:55
  Speaker 14: talk about being Israel first, that those two things don't
• 58:59
  Speaker 14: have to.
• 58:59
  Speaker 8: Be mutually exclusive. They actually can fuel each other. We
• 59:02
  Speaker 8: can make our respective nation states stronger.
• 59:04
  Speaker 14: And I think the more we conservatives talk about that,
• 59:07
  Speaker 14: not just regarding Israel, but regarding Europe, regarding Japan, which
• 59:11
  Speaker 14: is a very underappreciated strong ally, regarding all of these
• 59:14
  Speaker 14: great new conservative governments in Latin America, the more Trump
• 59:18
  Speaker 14: will have a very long lasting legacy regarding the peace
• 59:22
  Speaker 14: in geopolitics and.
• 59:23
  Speaker 8: Around the world.
• 59:25
  Speaker 4: Kevin Roberts, Heritage. Hey, real quick, I've got about 60 seconds.
• 59:29
  Speaker 4: Is anybody working on the drafts of Project 2029? Can
• 59:32
  Speaker 4: I help to help that next, that 48th president? Every day, brother.
• 59:36
  Speaker 14: We've been doing that since 1980, so we're not going
• 59:38
  Speaker 14: to stop regardless of what.
• 59:40
  Speaker 4: The left says. That's what was so weird, everyone. Project 2025,
• 59:44
  Speaker 4: what is that? It's called What Heritage Has Done As
• 59:46
  Speaker 4: Long As There's Been Heritage, and good for you for
• 59:48
  Speaker 4: doing it. A good roadmap for good conservative presidencies. Kevin Roberts,
• 59:52
  Speaker 4: God bless, man. It's an honor to have you on.
• 59:54
  Speaker 4: Really appreciate everything you do.
• 59:56
  Speaker 8: Pleasure's mine, Mark. Take care.
• 59:58
  Speaker 4: That is Kevin Roberts, president of Heritage. You were familiar
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 4: with this, right? Project 2025 was written prior to the
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 4: 2024 election in an attempt to say, hey, this is
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 4: what we'd like to have happen under Republican leadership once
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 4: the 2024 election is done and the fresh Congress is
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 4: installed and the new president is freshly re-sworn in or
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 4: re-sworn in, as the case may be. This is what
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 4: they've done, again, for decades. So my reference to Project
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 4: 2029 might contain some chapters on what we would be
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 4: looking for from President J.D. Vance or President Marco Rubio
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 4: or President Ron DeSantis or whomever we might anoint. And
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 4: I think we should all welcome from all the conservative
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 4: think tanks and all the various people who engage in
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 4: the thinking and the intellect behind what should be a good,
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 4: strong Republican conservative agenda. And as far as healing the
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 4: rift between the dinosaurs and the true fighters, I think
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 4: you're just going to have to board the train. We're
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 4: not going back to the ways of McCain and Romney.
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 4: And Paul Ryan, we're just not. We're not going back
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 4: to the moderate squish leadership, the era of Bush. It's
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 4: just not going to happen. So you've got to realize that,
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 4: get with the program, and let's all walk in the
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 4: same direction. All right, let's walk into the final segment,
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 4: maybe a phone call or two. Be right back. Mark
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 4: Davis in for Scott.
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 1: If the leftists haven't had enough yet, there's more. This
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 1: is The Scott Jennings Show.
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 4: And that it is for a Thursday, the 29th day
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 4: of October. Mark Davis filling in from Texas. It has
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 4: been a blast. Going to dig a dip back into
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 4: the calling world and maybe another excerpt or two from
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 4: today's news as we wrap up today's proceedings. You know,
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 4: we were talking earlier about waste and fraud and abuse
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 4: and trying to find an end to that in Washington.
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 4: There's a lot of talk about getting rid of some
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 4: programs we need to get rid of. But there's one
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 4: program that deserves a closer look, the 340B drug pricing program.
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 4: This was created to help vulnerable patients get access to
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 4: affordable medications. It's a worthwhile goal, but there are growing
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 4: concerns that it's become kind of a hospital markup program,
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 4: allowing hospitals to generate significant markups on prescription drugs without
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 4: those savings necessarily reaching the patients who need them most.
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 4: That's not how the program was intended to work. So
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 4: as the Trump administration continues its efforts to bring greater
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 4: accountability to federal programs, congressional Republicans have a chance to
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 4: examine how 340B is operating and whether it's delivering on
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 4: its original promise. Health care costs are in everybody's head.
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 4: If lawmakers are looking for ways to reduce costs for
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 4: everyday Americans, this might be an idea. Greater transparency, meaningful oversight,
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 4: accountability that should be central to the discussion today. So
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 4: if this issue matters to you, contact your representatives in Congress,
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 4: including Republican lawmakers, and share your views on the future
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 4: of the 340B program. Portions of the Scott Jennings Show,
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 4: sponsored in part by Pfizer. All righty, 844-861-5537. Let's roll
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 4: to Michigan. A few eyes are on Michigan at the moment.
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 4: And Danny, we're glad to have you. Mark Davison for Scott.
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 4: Happy Thursday. How are you doing?
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 2: Greetings from the Wolverine State, and Mark, you have an
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 2: awesome show. And the leftists, they always talk about running
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 2: out of Social Security money, but they never talk about
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 2: running out of welfare checks. And do we want people,
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 2: these leftists, who raise out taxes, take out money, and
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 2: they fly third-worlders.
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 6: Into our neighborhood?
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 2: Folks, you've got to get your 18, 19, 20-year-old kids
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 2: out there who are Republican conservatives.
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 1: Get them out to vote.
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 2: You know, this is coming off holiday weekend.
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 4: You were 18 years old.
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 2: Get your kids out there to vote.
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 6: I'm doing it.
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 2: My neighbors are doing it. And we're going to win
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 2: this thing. Listen, El Slav is going to lose in Michigan,
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 2: all right? But that doesn't mean anybody can be relaxed.
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 1: We've got to win this thing.
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 2: And, folks, in New York City, I noticed that Ugandan mayor,
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 2: Mami Kame, he talks about Christopher Columbus, who was a
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 2: great explorer and a great man. But he's from Uganda.
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 2: Idi Amin was from Uganda. Folks, Idi Amin was the
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 2: galloping gourmet of cannibals.
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 6: Let Mami Kami in New York City, the mayor, explain
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 6: Idi Amin.
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 2: If we don't end the 1965 Immigration Act, we will
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 2: lose every election.
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 10: Folks, you've got to vote like there's no tomorrow.
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 2: Tuesday is a.
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 4: Call to action. A call to action. Danny, I appreciate it.
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 4: Thank you, sir. Appreciate it. Now, you mentioned young people.
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 4: Fox was in my town. There was a place called
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 4: Bubba's in Dallas. close to the SMU campus. And they
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 4: talked to a bunch of people and Ken Paxton was there. And, uh,
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 4: Peter Doocy was there from the, from the Fox morning show,
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 4: Fox and friends. And they, they asked a 19 year old,
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 4: a 19 year old sitting there in a booth. What's
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 4: an important issue to you? And he said, uh, school choice.
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 4: I said, wait a minute. You're like not in actual
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 4: public school anymore.
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 8: No.
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 4: He says, because as a future father, he said, I
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 4: want to know through accountability, what, kind of material is
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 4: on the shelves for my kids. I want to know
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 4: if there's indoctrination taking place that I don't approve of.
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 4: And if there is, I want the option to have
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 4: some choices as to someplace else to put my kid.
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 4: Here's a 19 year old delivering a doctoral dissertation on
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 4: school choice. It was great. It was the kind of thing.
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 4: that gave you some hope for the future with today's youth.
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 4: They're not all pasty, inert, and rotting in the glow
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 4: of gaming screens. Too many are, but they're not all. Now,
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 4: speaking of the young folks who are probably kind of
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 4: tied into the whole DSA thing, Democrat Socialist Alliance, this
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 4: is cut 22. This is Gavin Newsom on some hidden...
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 4: Video must be real well hidden because it's like pointing
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 4: up at him. And at one point, he looked straight
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 4: into the camera. Don't know where this was mounted. But
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 4: here he is. I guess people are asking him, what
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 4: do you think about the future of the DSA? Now,
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 4: the mainstream Democratic Party. It has to show some respect
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 4: for these lunatics because you don't want to hack them off.
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 4: But real old school people who care about the future
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 4: of the Democrat Party want this whole DSA thing to
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 4: go away because they're even crazier than they are. But
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 4: this will be interesting to hear the explanations that unravel
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 4: from this. This is cut 22. Gavin Newsom. caught speaking
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 4: some of his truths on the DSA. Give me about
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 4: the first 20 seconds.
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 9: No one is arguing to manage the status quo or
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 9: fail more efficiently. So I think that the.
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 10: But the DSA, the energy, and the desire and.
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 8: Demand for bold change.
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 4: Non-incremental change, is very much going to be dominant. That's him.
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 4: Let me have it back because I've got to get
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 4: out of here. That's him saying that. There it is,
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 4: and I welcome it. So, okay, buddy. Let's see how
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 4: that works out for you. Today has worked out great
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 4: for me. Thank you, Sean McConnell, Brian Ojima, for producing
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 4: the show. So appreciate it. Dustin and Barry here in
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 4: the Salem Radio Network, Salem.com. News Channel headquarters in Dallas.
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 4: Appreciate it very much. God bless this great country. See
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 4: you soon.